A/N: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter 6
After a few minutes of clapping and happiness, Tenten and Neji blushed and thanked them, and continued to walk back to Tenten's house. As soon as they reached Tenten's house, Tenten immediately ran upstairs, got changed into normal clothes, and tied her hair up into two buns. Tenten walked downstairs holding the white dress and heels and said, "Who did this to me?"
Sakura tried to keep a straight face but couldn't. She cracked up and started laughing loudly.
Tenten pointed at her, "Sakura! What were you thinking?!"
Sakura smiled, "Hey, you can't just blame me, Sasuke helped too!"
Tenten glared at Sasuke, "What were you guys thinking?!'
Sakura grinned, "It was just a joke, here," Sakura took out of her bag all of Tenten's clothes and her ninja sandals, "here are your normal clothes, happy?"
Tenten smiled, "Yeah." Tenten took them and threw them on her bed upstairs. She walked back downstairs and asked what they were going to do for the rest of the day.
Sakura and Sasuke had already left. Neji was standing alone, waiting for her.
"Where did Sakura and Sasuke go?" Tenten asked.
"They went to go train with Naruto and Kakashi," Neji said, "and we have to go meet Lee and Gai Sensei soon."
Tenten just nodded. It had been a while since she trained with her teammates. Neji started to walk towards the door. Tenten followed him.
They all met up in the forest where they normally trained with their team. Gai Sensei and Lee looked identical, as always. Gai and Lee greeted them in unison.
Neji and Tenten bowed in respect. Gai Sensei suggested that Lee and Neji spar first.
Neji and Lee took their stances. Gai Sensei yelled, "Begin!" and thrust his arm in the air.
Lee immediately started with Strong Fist, attempting to break a few of Neji's bones. Neji dodged all of the attacks without breaking a sweat. Neji was able to dodge all of Lee's attacks with his eyes closed and hands behind his back.
Tenten watched in awe. How can Neji have such good footwork?
Lee was getting a bit discouraged that none of his attacks were working, but he wouldn't let that stop him, "I will not lose again to you Hyuuga Neji!"
Neji ended it quickly. He thrust his palm at Lee, which expelled a large amount of chakra at him. Lee was violently pushed backwards and it was strong enough to keep him from moving.
Tenten had never seen Neji use this move so powerfully. She had expected Lee to get back up and fight, but Lee was way too worn out from having all his earlier attacks being dodged by Neji. Gai Sensei looked at the ground sadly and slowly raised his hand saying, "This match is once again won by Hyuuga Neji."
Lee closed his eyes and stayed lying on the floor. Gai Sensei looked at Tenten, "So Tenten, would you like a shot at beating Neji?"
Tenten blushed. If Lee couldn't beat Neji, what made Gai Sensei think she could? But Tenten didn't like to back out of challenges, so she nodded. She measured her distance carefully from Neji and took her stance. Neji lightened his guard, which made Tenten a bit frustrated, "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't beat you, Hyuuga!"
Neji smirked and took a slightly stronger stance. Gai Sensei stuck his arm in the air and shouted, "Begin!" Tenten normally would've ran straight to attack Neji directly, but she decided to take a different apporach. She bit her thumb, took out three scrolls, and marked all of them. She jumped up high into the air and summoned up about a thousand kunais, swords, and knives. She hurtled all of them at Neji from different angles at full speed. Neji smirked, he had already encountered an experience like this and already knew how to counter this attack.
Neji spun slowly at first, but then gained speed and made chakra come out of his palms, creating a shield of chakra and making all of the weapons drop to the floor. Tenten continued to resummon the weapons and hurtle them at Neji's shield but nothing seemed to work. Tenten knew Neji had let his guard down, so she would have to be more clever. She pretended like she ran out of weapons and waited for Neji to spin slower. When Neji almost came to a stop, Tenten hurtled one last kunai at one of Neji's chakra points.
Good thing Tenten was paying attention in class, so she knew where a lot of the body's chakra points were. The kunai landed right smack in the middle of Neji's upper abdomen. Neji cringed when he felt the weapon pierce his skin. He couldn't believe that Tenten had done that to him. Now I know I can never let my guard down around her anymore. Tenten smirked and hurtled another thousand weapons at him. Neji tried to make another chakra shield, but the one chakra point Tenten had hit, stopped a lot of chakra circulation. Neji's chakra shield was therefore weaker.
A lot of her weapons pierced through his shield and hit him. Neji sighed and stopped spinning, weapons stuck in his skin. He didn't seem to be in pain, but he didn't want to continue to fight Tenten. He raised his hand, "I forfeit." Tenten's eyes widened.
"That's not fair Neji! I was about to win fair and square!" Tenten complained.
Neji smirked, "If I kept my guard up, you would've been dead within the first minute."
Tenten glared at him, "Whatever."
Gai Sensei looked at both of them, "Good job…all three of you!"
Tenten went up to Neji and hugged him. Neji smiled and held onto her. She helped him pull out all the weapons stuck in his skin and bandaged them up. Minor cuts like those would be healed by tomorrow, and even quicker if Sakura were here to aid him.
Gai Sensei clapped his hands together, "So…who's up for a jog around Konoha? Only 50 laps today!"
Tenten moaned, Neji sighed, and Lee started crying tears of joy.
"Yes Sensei, please! Make it 100 laps!" Lee said happily.
Tenten threw a kunai at Lee that landed right next to his foot. He looked up at Tenten with a confused look on his face, "What was that for, Tenten-chan? Does jogging not bring you great joy?"
Tenten sighed, and they all set off to run 100 laps around Konoha. Tenten was exhausted like never before on lap 76. It was already really dark and there was school tomorrow. The four of them still had to run 24 laps. "Stupid Lee, 'Make it 100 laps!', baka!" Tenten muttered under her breath.
There was a staircase they had to run down every single lap. It was a long, steep staircase. Tenten hated it. This lap, she accidently tripped and went tumbling down the stairs. She screamed in pain once she reached the bottom, but her body was out of strength. The world went black, and she laid there at the bottom of the steps, helpless.
She felt herself being rocked up and down. She slowly opened her eyes a little. Through her slightly opened eyes, she saw Neji. He was walking. He was carrying her somewhere. Tenten forgot what had happened for a while and didn't really care, the rocking of Neji's footsteps were so comfortable. She closed her eyes again.
Tenten woke up to the smell of soup. She opened her eyes and was surprised to find that she wasn't inside her room on her comfortable futon. She was in someone else's room…it was a plain old room, no posters or anything. It was also neat and tidy.
Tenten thought about it for a while. The only logical answer she could think of was that she was in Neji's house. He was always neat and simple. Am I lying on Neji's bed? Neji had one of those Asian sliding doors that led into his room. Neji slid it open and was carrying a tray of hot soup. He looked at Tenten, "So you're finally awake."
She nodded, and he set the tray of soup on a small desk next to the futon she was laying on.
"You should work on your footwork more," Neji commented.
"Well, sorry I'm not as skilled on my feet as you," Tenten replied.
Tenten smiled. He fed her the soup while she was laying on his bed. When she was finished, she smiled.
"That was good! I didn't know you were such a good cook!" Tenten remarked.
Neji blushed, "I'm not. Hinata made it."
"Oh, is Hinata here right now?"
Neji shook his head, "She made it for you a few hours ago, and then left. I just heated it up."
"Oh," Tenten said quietly.
Tenten's gaze met Neji's and she motioned for him to get on the bed with her. She hugged him and kissed him, while he was on top of her. While they were in the middle of this, Naruto and Hinata walked in unnoticably.
Naruto grinned slyly. He sneaked up to Neji and slowly lifted his fist. Naruto attempted to punch Neji while he wasn't looking, but Neji sensed it long ago already. Neji turned around and grabbed Naruto's extended fist. He smirked, from this position, he could've broken Naruto's wrist if he wanted to.
There was now fear in Naruto's eyes, "Uh…hey Neji…I was just playing around…you know that, don't you…?"
Neji smirked and let go, "You're not worth injuring, Naruto."
The fear in Naruto's eyes turned into anger, "What's that supposed to mean?!"
Neji shrugged, "Nothing."
"Oh, so you want to fight?!" Naruto yelled.
Hinata grabbed Naruto and dragged him out. She stuttered, "Uh…s-s-sorry for disturbing you. And s-s-sorry for N-n-naruto's rudeness…" and with that they left Neji's house, closing the room's door behind them.
Neji made sure they were out before turning back to Tenten. "Sorry, where were we?" Neji asked before kissing her down her neck. She got hold of the white t-shirt he was wearing and slid it off. She felt around his shoulders and chest, feeling all of his hard-earned muscles. Neji had slid her shirt and pants off, and Tenten was left only in her underclothes. And Neji ended up in nothing but his black boxers.
After they had settled down a little, Neji was under the same blanket as Tenten, and they were soon sleeping together, Neji holding her as usual. Tenten was glad Neji was yet again by her side.
The next morning, Tenten woke up when a ray of sunlight shined on her face. She looked at the clock by Neji's bedside to see what time it was. The clock read 10:00 AM. Tenten cursed loudly, waking Neji up. Neji blinked a few times to get the sleep out of his eyes, "Huh?"
"NEJI! WHY DIDN'T YOU SET THE ALARM?! WE'RE SO LATE FOR SCHOOL!" Tenten yelled.
Neji jumped out of bed, remembering they had school and pulled all his scattered clothes on. Tenten did the same, and they both sprinted as fast as they could to school. While they were running, Tenten thought, oh man, what's the teacher going to do to me? This is the second time I've been tardy. Neji stayed a bit calmer, what's the worst he could do to me? I can take him anyday.
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