A/N: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 8

Neji put on a puppy dog face. "Aw, come on Tenten!"

She teased him, "No! Go dry my clothes first."

Neji picked up her wet clothes and put them in the washing machine to first wash off all the gross sea gunk. Neji was pretty decent at working around the house for a guy. Since his dad died, he had to be pretty independent.

Tenten lied on Neji's bed. She wanted at least some underclothes to wear. I wonder…

She rummaged through Neji's drawers. She found a big white t-shirt and a pair of silky black boxers. She grinned, better than nothing.

When Neji came back from the laundry room, he saw Tenten lying on his bed staring out the window, now wearing his t-shirt and his boxers. He pounced ontop of her, she screamed. He laughed, "You're so easy to scare. How are you supposed to be a great kunoichi?"

She stuck her tongue out at him and he took that opportunity to kiss her. His wongue wrestled with hers and he laid down next to her. She pushed him away gently and looked at him.

"What." He said.

"You know I used to think you had no emotion, and loved no one."

Neji looked at her and said, "No I've always loved you, since the first day I saw you."

She blushed and kissed him. This time it was his turn to gently push her away, "What about you?"

She hesitated, she didn't want to lie to Neji.

"Well, I didn't really have any feelings for you…"

Neji looked at her with a hurt expression.

"Until you held me that one day when I was poisoned. It felt good being in your arms."

He smiled and held her. She loved it when he did this to her. They fell asleep together for the second night in a row.

The alarm clock went off at 6 AM. Tenten and Neji woke up. Tenten slowly got off the futon and stretched her arms, and it dawned on her, "NEJI!! WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES?!"

Neji blinked the sleep out of his eyes and remembered he forgot to dry them, "Oh, I haven't dried them yet."

"WHAT?! WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR TO SCHOOL?!" Tenten screamed.

"My clothes," Neji said calmly.

She shook him, "I am NOT wearing your clothes to school! Do you need me to repeat that?"

Neji nodded. She just shook him harder. "Stop shaking me," he said.

"Why don't you just call Sakura?" Neji asked.

She stopped shaking him, "Neji! You're a genius!" she ran to his phone and dialed Sakura's number.

"No, I'm a prodigy."

"Same thing," Tenten said while she was dialing. Neji sighed.

"SAKURA!" she screamed into the phone when someone picked up.

The person on the other end said, "This is her mom, Sakura is training with Tsunade-sama."

"Oh…sorry…" Tenten said and hung up.

Neji cracked up. She threw him her nastiest look, "Shut up, Hyuuga."

Neji continued to laugh. She rolled her eyes, and dialed Ino's number. She had slept over at one of her other rich friend's house. She called Hinata, but Hinata was out training with Shino and Kiba.

She moaned, she would have to wear Neji's baggy white t-shirt, and silky black boexers to school.

"Do you have any other t-shirts…any that aren't white?" Tenten asked.

He got her point and looked through his drawers. He tossed her a baggy black shirt. She went in the bathroom to put her hair up and change into the shirt, she came out and Neji doubled over with laughter.

"Great…I'll just be an emo for the rest of the day…I might as well start cutting my wrists."

They walked to school and as soon as she walked in, Sakura and Sasuke both stared at her. Sasuke knew Neji's wardrobe pretty well because he used to go to his house a lot. Sasuke smirked and said when Tenten passed by him, "Are those Neji's boxers?"

Tenten glared at him, "Go screw yourself."

Sakura giggled and Sasuke continued to laugh uncontrollably. The fangirls eyed Tenten and giggled. She heard whispers of what they were saying.

"Look at her! She's so ugly today!"

Tenten sat down and buried her head in her arms on her desk. Neji sat next to her and put his hand on her head, "It doesn't matter."

Tenten wished now that Neji hadn't saved her, she wished that she had just drowned to death.

After a long day of school, Tenten was the first to run out of the classroom. She ran as quickly as she could back to her house to get a fresh change of clothes. Neji found no point in chasing after her, so he just walked by Sakura and Sasuke.

He looked for where they were, and found them. He caught up with them.

Sasuke laughed at Neji, "What's Tenten doing with your clothes?"

Neji rolled his eyes, "I forgot to dry her clothes and she was spending the night at my house."

"Ooh la la," Sakura teased.

Sasuke cracked up again. They walked silently for a while and then Sakura said, "Oh yeah Neji, I think you have some competition."

Neji raised his eyebrows, "What?"

"I was talking to Tenten a couple of days ago…the day when she wasn't sleeping with you," Sakura began.

Neji nodded for her to go on.

"And she told me she was in a sticky situation."

"How so?" Neji asked curiously.

"Well…I don't know if you can handle the truth…"

"Just tell me!" Neji said impatiently.

"Well…Tenten said she loves you…"

Neji nodded, "So?"

"But she also loves someone else too…"

Neji stopped, "WHAT?!" he shouted.

"Well she loves…"

"WHO?!"

"Lee…and she's loved him a lot longer than she's loved you."

Neji froze. He couldn't believe what he had just heard. Sakura wasn't the type of person to lie about these things. He walked past them and didn't say a word to anyone for the rest of the day.

He studied, trained, showered, and went back to sleep, avoiding the thought of Tenten. He never wanted to see her again.

The next day in school, Tenten walked into the class to find the seat next to Neji taken by one of the fangirls. She gave Neji a confused look, "Neji…what's…going on?"

Neji didn't look at her. One of the fangirls spoke for him, "Neji doesn't like sitting next to whores."

"What did you call me?!" Tenten said clenching her fists.

Neji still didn't look up at Tenten.

"NEJI! What's going on?!?!" Tenten yelled.

He simply responded, "Go sit next to Lee."

She looked at the empty seat next to Lee. She frowned and yelled, "NO! I don't want to sit with Lee, I WANT TO SIT WITH YOU!"

She was as jealous as ever, why had he let a fangirl sit next to him? Tenten was his girlfriend.

Sakura looked worriedly at the scene and asked Sasuke what was going on. Sasuke shrugged, "Who knows? Neji's probably just going through one of those phases."

Sakura knew there was something wrong. Neji wouldn't just ignore Tenten like that. Tenten started to cry. "Well whatever you're thinking, I don't care. I'll just go sit by Lee!"

"You do that," Neji replied smoothly.

She glared at him before stomping off to sit next to Lee.

Lee didn't like to see Tenten cry. Lee looked at her, "What is the matter, Tenten-chan?"

Tenten paused, "Neji's just being stupid."

"Oh." Lee didn't want to say anything else.

After the class was over, Sakura walked up to Neji. "What's up with you and Tenten?" she asked in a concerned voice.

"What are you talking about? She obviously loves Lee a whole lot more than me, so I won't get in the way of that."

Sakura looked so confused, she didn't know what to say. Neji just walked past her. A fangirl said yelled in a high pitched voice, "NEJI!!!"

Neji turned around and let her hug him, and he actually hugged her back!

She smiled, "Are you spending the night at my house tonight?" she said this loudly enough to make sure Tenten heard.

Neji also made sure Tenten heard his response loud and clear, "Yeah, I am."

A/N: Yeah, there it is! Chapter 8. Hope you liked it. Please comment/review! Thanks!