A/N: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 7

Neji and Tenten entered the classroom panting at the same time and everyone stared at them. The teacher glared at them for a while, "Why are you guys so tardy?" Tenten still had a few cuts and bruises on herself, so she took advantage of this point.

"Well you see, I was walking to school, and I saw a gang fight. I walked past them and one of them threw something at me and tried to beat me up. I fought for my life, but they were uh…too strong for me. So uh…Neji came along and helped me. That's why we're so late," Tenten lied fairly smoothly.

Neji nodded in agreement. The teacher looked at them again skeptically, "You guys have been fighting off a gang for about 3 and a half hours now?"

Neji thought quickly, "Tenten got hurt really badly and a lot of her chakra points were closed up, so I took her to my house and I tried healing her cuts and reopening her chakra points." The story Neji told was pretty much true. Tenten did get hurt badly falling down a steep staircase, and Neji did take care of her at his house, so Neji felt less guilty about lying.

The teacher wasn't fully buying it, but seeing Tenten in her condition, decided to let it slide. The teacher still felt bad for Tenten about the whole Daichi incident, so he tried to be extra reasonable when dealing with her.

Neji and Tenten took their seats next to eachother and the teacher continued with his lecture about shadow replication. While the teacher wasn't looking, Sakura got Tenten's attention and mouthed the words, what happened?

Tenten looked at Sakura and mouthed, I got hurt and Neji took care of me.

Why are you guys late? Sakura mouthed with a concerned look on her face.

Tenten blushed, we slept in…

Sakura's eyes widened, together? In the same bed?

Tenten got redder, yeah…

Sakura giggled and whispered something to Sasuke. She must've told Sasuke why Neji and Tenten were late, and Sasuke smirked at Neji.

Tenten wasn't paying attention the whole day until she heard the words "field trip." She perked up immediately and she tuned her ears in to what the teacher was saying.

"So tomorrow, we will be taking a brief trip to the Land of Waves. We will be taking a big boat there, so dress warmly. We will be back by the end of the day. You all are to meet here in the classroom before we leave at 6 AM sharp!" the teacher said as he eyed Neji and Tenten.

Tenten raised her hand. The teacher gave her permission to speak. She said in her nicest voice, "Do our parents need to sign anything?"

The teacher looked at Sasuke briefly and back at Tenten, "No, that will not be necessary." Although the glance at Sasuke had been quick, everyone saw it and knew that the only reason their parents did need to sign anything was because he didn't want to make Sasuke feel bad about his parents dying.

The bell rang and the students filed out of the classroom, buzzing with excitement about tomorrow's trip.

The next morning, Tenten woke up early at 5:30 AM. She dressed into a warm, gray sweatshirt with matching sweatpants and decided to keep her hair down. Her hair would keep her ears warm. She got ready in the bathroom, and grabbed a bagel from her kitchen pantry. She stuffed it in her mouth and ran to the academy into the classroom.

She had made it in time with 5 minutes to spare. Neji, Sakura, and Sasuke were already there, so she walked over to them.

She hugged Neji and he hugged her back. She noticed the five fangirls glaring at her and she grinned slyly and pointed them out to Neji. Neji also grinned, and he held her tight against him and they liplocked right there for all the fangirls to see. Sakura and Sasuke were trying to keep themselves from bursting out with laughter when they saw the expression on the fangirls's faces. They looked in jealousy as Neji was kissing Tenten.

The fangirls had not forgotten about Sasuke and looked at Sasuke, who was currently holding hands with Sakura. Sasuke and Sakura immediately noticed when the fangirls's attentions were turned to Sasuke, and Sakura kissed his lips. From there, Sasuke held onto Sakura tightly around her waist and continually kissed her neck. She giggled as she held onto him.

The fangirls were officially pissed off for the day and they stomped off to the other side of the room where they wouldn't have to watch all of this. As soon as the girls left, the two couples broke apart and started laughing.

The teacher cleared his throat loudly to get all the students to quiet down, "Ahem! We are now to go to the dock and get onboard to boat."

So the students walked all the way to the dock and got on the boat.

When they got to the Land of Mist, they didn't really do anything interesting. They basically just got lectured by a local about the history of the Land of Waves. Tenten almost fell asleep.

"We are a relatively poor nation, and so we do not have a hidden village," the local went on and on about their economy. Finally he spoke of something interesting, "I'm sure you have all heard of how Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke have saved our village and helped it prosper."

The guide went in detail of what happened during that period of time. They walked over to the huge bridge and he declared proudly, "This is the Great Naruto Bridge! We named it this because Naruto has inspired so many of our citizens and we greatly appreciate that!"

Tenten stole a glance at Naruto. He was smiling proudly and telling Hinata about how he saved everyone. Tenten rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the speaker.

The speaker spent another 3 hours talking about their government, customs, and goals. Tenten was resting her head on Neji's shoulder, she wanted to close her eyes. She would've if her stupid teacher wasn't so strict. What was he thinking? Making them stand outside for so many hours just to listen to some local speak about something they could learn about in a textbook? Neji's hand was behind her, playing with her long wavy hair.

The speaker came to a conclusion, "And that, is the end of my explanation of how our nation came to be where it is today. Thank you."

A few students clapped lifelessly to make it seem like they were listening.

It's FINALLY over! Tenten thought.

They boarded the boat and headed back out to Konoha.

Tenten looked into the water on the side of the boat. She wondered what it would be like if she could control water.

Naruto and Lee were sparring on the boat. Lee had taken Naruto's challenge very seriously, so he took out the weights in his legs and set them next to Tenten. Naruto hadn't pulled a prank all day, so he decided to have some fun. While no one was looking, he tied the weights to the back of Tenten's shoes, he wondered how long it would take before Tenten started wondering why her legs felt so heavy. Naruto kept himself from cracking up at his own cleverness. Naruto wasn't really fighting, he was just making fun on Lee's appearance to get him heated up.

"Why are you eyebrows so bushy, like your freaky sensei?" Naruto teased. Now, Naruto had great respect for Gai Sensei, but he couldn't resist getting Lee mad.

Lee charged at Naruto who was standing right in front of Tenten with his fist extended. Naruto smirked, and quickly moved to the side, causing Lee to punch Tenten off the edge of the boat.

Tenten screamed as she fell off, she wasn't scared though, she was just really pissed off and she would beat Lee up as soon as she got back on the boat. Tenten knew how to swim well, but she felt something was wrong…she was sinking!

Tenten felt something weighing her down, her face was already halfway under water by the time she realized she had weights tied on the backs of her shoes. Neji looked over at the side of the boat. Neji sighed, why is Tenten always falling off the edge of things? Tenten tried to hold her breath, but she ran out of breath, and she was already really deep down into the water. She swallowed a bunch of water and couldn't breath (obviously). She was drowning. There was no use trying to scream, she would just be wasting whatever form of oxygen she had. She closed her eyes and her mind went dizzy.

Neji jumped off the boat and scanned the water with his Byakuugan for Tenten. He quickly found her and dove for her. Dang, she's really down there! I thought she knew how to swim!

He swam quickly and picked her up from under her arms. He noticed she was significantly heavier. He looked down, searching for what could be the cause of this weight. He noticed Lee's weights tied to her shoes. He was upset, he knew only Naruto would do something like that. When he got on the boat, the second thing he would do is beat up Naruto. The first thing he had to worry about was performing CPR on Tenten.

He swam back to the surface and caught up with the boat. He sent some chakra to his feet and walked up the side of the boat, back to the top where they had originally been. Sakura ran over to Tenten's wet body looking worried. Sakura preferred Neji to do the CPR because he was her boyfriend (or husband if you prefer) after all, and Sakura was a girl…

Neji detached the weights from her shoes. Neji checked for her breathing, she wasn't breathing. He checked for her pulse, she did have a pulse. He tilted her jaw upwards and wrapped his mouth around hers. He plugged her nose and breathed two breaths into her. He pumped 30 times at her heart and breathed into her twice again. He did this for about a minute and Tenten coughed. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Neji. Neji smiled and held her up close to him. She was too weak to hug him back, but she smiled weakly.

Sakura ran to the teacher and told him what happened. He frowned and called Lee and Naruto up and yelled at them. He told them to stay after school to help the janitor clean up, and Naruto groaned. Lee wasn't happy with the idea either, but he didn't want to be disrespectful.

Lee put his wet weights back into his bright orange leg warmers. And the boat ride continued from there.

When they got to the classroom, the teacher dismissed all of them except Naruto and Lee. Neji was carrying Tenten because she was still extremely dizzy. She was a bit heavier because she was so wet. She was shivering too. I wish I had a towel, Neji thought.

Neji said bye to Sakura and Sasuke and walked back to his house. Neji found a towel in his bathroom and dried Tenten's hair and face. He would leave the rest to her when she woke up. When she woke up, Neji had already taken a shower and was dressed in dry clothes, his hair was still a bit damp, and not in a ponytail. Tenten stood up and asked him if she could take a bath.

Neji raised his eyebrow, "A bath? What are you, a princess?"

Her eyes widened, "Pleeeeeaseeeee."

He sighed, and said, "Of course."

She stripped inside his bathroom and took a bath. She dried herself with a towel, and then realized she didn't have a dry change of clothes. She sighed and wrapped the towel around her body, barely covering her feminine features.

She walked outside with a towel and Neji raised his eyebrow when he saw Tenten. He went up to her and hugged her, he tried to loosen the towel. She slapped his hand. "You can wait until we're officially married."

A/N: Haha, sorry I have Tenten falling off everything. Likes, dislikes? Review please! Thanks!