Chapter 5
Disclaimer: Honestly, does anyone even look after those disclaimers? Okay, just in case someone does: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I only came up with this storyline.
Summary: Well, this should be the last but one chapter. Nothing more to add.
A/N: So, let's see… this isn't gonna be the last chapter of MYK, but I'm truly sad that it comes to an end. But on the other hand this is gonna be my first completed multi-chapter-fic and it makes me happy. Because I normally tend to leave my longer fanfics incomplete. Very bad habit of mine. Oh, to the pairings of the chapter: mostly NejiTen (who would have guessed?), slight SasuSaku, NaruHina, ShikaIno. Now the chapter.
"You think she tells him?" Ino asked the other girls after Tenten left the apartment and her friends alone. Sakura took a sip of her coke before answering. "Don't worry, Ino-pig, Tenten isn't the girl to break a promise. By the way, you threatened her to do so." "T-that wasn't very nice, Ino-chan." Hinata added. The Yamanaka grabbed a dango and examined it. "A good friend has to help. Believe me, it was with good intention that I did this." She stated somehow thoughtfully. "Oh, yeah, threating Tenten to make her confess her love sure makes everything better. Great idea, Ino-pig, why don't you look for Tenten's diary, read it and tell Neji everything, maybe they have a better base for their relationship then." Sakura lectured her best friend. "Unfortunately, Tenten has none." The blonde answered. Hinata fainted from the shock which made Sakura glaring at Ino. "What? I was just joking! It's not my fault that Hinata is that highly sensitive!" The kunoichi defended herself. "Shikamaru, I never understood you more than now… honestly, Ino you're really troublesome at the moment, just go get some cold water, we need to wake Hinata-chan up." The pink-haired ninja ordered.
Meanwhile Tenten had arrived at the usual training ground their team met at. She looked around and wondered where her comrade was. Then it hit her. 'Damn it, I forgot he's at Lee's! Geez, Tenten, where has your good memory gone?' She was about to dash off to the youthist's dojo when she suddenly heard a familiar phrase behind her. "Hn." She turned round, slightly shocked. 'Oh no! Neji! I thought I still got time to think of how I'm going to confess. I need a good idea. I need to come up with something!' "Good evening, Neji. I thought you'd be with Lee." Neji sent her a surprised look. "Hinata-chan told me that." 'Hopefully I was allowed to tell this… why did I give in to confess again? Oh, right, Ino would've used Mind transfer on him.' Neji seemed to be okay with Tenten's statement, but had another thing to ask: "Did you want to train? At this time?" The kunoichi was caught off-guard, she didn't expect this question from the white-eyed shinobi. "I didn't want to train. Actually, I had to be at home." She explained. "Why so?" Neji didn't really care, he just wanted to get more time to think of the right way to confess his as he called them 'embarrassing feelings' to Tenten. A Hyuuga didn't believe in things like love. "Hinata, Sakura and Ino are there. I am not there because I need to go to Lee." The Hyuuga twitched. 'What does Tenten need to do at the idiot's dojo at like nine p.m.? She is a girl. Nine p.m. isn't a time for them to be out alone!' Don't get his thoughts wrong, the brunette Jounin wasn't jealous. He was just worrying about the health of his female comrade. It was all for the team, Hyuuga Neji didn't know more than the pronunciation of jealous, how could he be jealous then?
"Why do you need to go there?" The male ninja's voice was slightly shaking. "I… uhm… you know, that is a bit hard to tell… I wanted to talk to someone there." The hazel-eyed girl uttered. The prodigy raised an eye-brow. "Who is it you wanted to talk to? You know, there is only Lee." Neji didn't quite catch Tenten's subtle message. Speaking of her, she was desperately trying to gather the courage and tell him the whole thing as cool as possible, but she failed. Neji's denseness didn't help her either. Finally it hit the weapon fanatic. She would just lead them to another topic. "Basically, yes, you're right, but still… why are you here?" She queried innocently. Now it was the young man's turn to be caught off-guard. 'Very well Neji, it's time and you don't have any idea how to tell her.' "I was going to go to your apartment." He managed to say. "Oh, so you were going to collect Hinata-chan? That's nice." His team-mate retorted smiling. "No, not really, I didn't even no she was there, I actually came to…" 'Great, now you made a complete idiot out of yourself.' "Neji? Are you okay? You didn't finish your sentence." Tenten remarked. 'Oh, screw it, she won't kill me, right? I'm still stronger than her. And I could still act like this never happened. I'm a Hyuuga and I can do this. If Uchiha couldn't do this, I can do it all the more.' He cleared his throat, then began to speak: "Gomenasai – as I tried to say, I came to tell you something." "Which is?" Tenten questioned wide-eyed. "I have feelings for you." The Hyuuga said in his monotone. Tenten blinked. Once, twice, but it seemed that was all the shinobi had to say. "Oh, that's nice, Neji, really. I'm just wondering… what kind of feelings?" Neji looked at his comrade's warm eyes. They seemed… 'Longing?' He thought amazed.
So amazed that he forgot to answer. Tenten took his glance at her as an order to speak or rather to explain herself. "You know, though I don't really get your statement, I have to tell you something, too. I was going to Lee to talk to you. Now that you're here… well, even if I'm going to destroy every kind of bond we had in the past, I want to let you know. I have feelings for you, too. I felt more than friendship for you recently or rather since the beginning of us being on the same team. By more than friendship I mean… I mean…" The kunoichi tried so hard to finish the sentence, but failed. Her mouth won't let those words come out. The brunette looked at the floor, felt Neji's eyes on her small figure. Neither he nor she spoke a word, until Tenten's voice made two bitter conclusions: "I guess I'm a dreamer. Thinking you would really feel the same. I'm the tomboy after all. Who tends to have a girly side at the wrong moments. You know, I'm not mad. Not at you, I mean." She turned round and began to walk away, when she heard Neji. "I may chose the wrong words. I wanted to say… I love you. Though I don't know anything about love or romance." The Jounin's usual monotone wasn't different to every other time, but he avoided Tenten's eyes. Therefore he was surprised as he felt something warm wrapped around him. "I love you, too." He heard the girl whisper. And for the first time in life, the famous "Hn.", of Hyuuga Neji really had no meaning. "You know what? I knew you won't be romantic, Neji. That might be the only thing where Lee is able to beat you." Although Tenten was laughing at him, Neji didn't care. He smirked and looked at the girl beside him.
They had sat down by now, leaning against a tree. All of a sudden, Tenten asked: "Neji, I know this goes a bit fast, but wouldyoumindtokissme?" She was so red she would've competed a tomato. "I would like to hear the last part again, slowly." The Hyuuga prodigy ordered. The hazel-eyed ninja calmed herself down before she repeated as the boy wished: "Would you mind to kiss me?" By now they were both blushing madly. "I wouldn't. Do you want me to kiss you, then?" Tenten began to chuckle. "Of course I want, ba-." The weapon mistress was interrupted by a certain young man's lips crashing on hers, awkward at first, but the kiss got more and more passionately. After they broke the kiss due to need of air, Tenten addressed her boyfriend. "If that was our first kiss, I don't want to know how our fist make out will be." The Hyuuga smirked.
"We could test it." He mused grinning.
"Hey! I'm back!" Tenten greeted when she opened the door to her apartment. "Girls?" "We're in your bed room!" She heard out of the said room. She waved Neji after herself: "Come on. Or did you bring your pyjama to stand here tonight?" "Girls? I've someone with me, do you mind?" "Nope, we've got a surprise for you, too." Ino replied. Tenten opened the bed room door. In there were her futon, together with seven others. And not only Sakura, Ino and Hinata, but also Sasuke, Shikamaru and Naruto. "We have invited the boys over, do you mind?" The girls gave their friend their best puppy-dog eyes. "I bet it was more an Ino invited the boys other, ne? I know I shouldn't allow you that, but well, why not?" "And who is your someone-with-you?" Sakura queried. "Hn." Neji appeared in the doorstep and Tenten looked at him questioningly. When he nodded, she smiled. "My boyfriend Hyuuga Neji." Before anyone could react, Hinata insisted: "Neji-nii-san is… Kami-sama!" After that she fainted, hell knows why now. "Congratulations." Sakura, Ino and Naruto cheered and Naruto even gave a thumbs-up. Sasuke just nodded and looked thoughtful at Sakura which no-one noticed. "You're whipped." Shikamaru commented which made him get hit on the head by Ino. "I guess we'll get much sleep tonight, won't we?" Sakura asked. "We're just changing, okay? Wait before you do anything!" Tenten ordered and dragged Neji out of the room.
Meanwhile the whole group was discussing. "You owe me thirty bucks, Ino-pig!" Sakura announced triumphantly. "Yeah, no need to let the whole world know it! How could I know that Tenten was so fast in relationships?" "C-come on, it's not the first t-time, Neji sleeps here." Hinata mentioned. "Oh, you're awake again?" Shikamaru noticed while resting his head onto the other arm. "What exactly did you bet?" The Uchiha asked. "If they would be as fast as Temari was with that one Mist-guy or more like me and Sai. What did you say Hinata-chan? Neji tends to stay here overnight often? Really? Interesting." Sakura's answer let the Uchiha fell deep in thought. 'She was together with that weird smiling guy? She needs to tell me that sometime.'
If only Sasuke knew that Sakura and Sai had a fake relationship… if only Sasuke knew.
Okay, it was not the last chapter, but the next one should be. Anyways, how did u like this one? Good? Bad? OOC? I'm going to use the pairings at the Spring ball next chapter, therefore I needed to introduce them here.
Bye for now,
Miyu