This is turning out to be one of my favorite fics I wrote so far. )

Disclaimer: I own nothing but these words. Done while listening to "Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon.

Pure Children – Heartbeat Four
Dedicated to my fans.

A thousand years ago, a fable of many expeditions and exposes was told as though it had been real. A grand and wondrous fable of protection, loyalty, hurt and love. It was told as the following:

Inside the ocean's powerful currents lay a soul untouched by the human. Deep towards the bottom of the waves of pure azure floats a diamond of a small size – as big as about a pea. Its mournful wisps slap against the greedy of sea creatures and it camouflages against the dreadful of pushes and pulls of the water.

One day, the soul reached up towards the earth's surface and floated a top the water, as if begging to go back down, but it refused.

A couple saw the floating soul and quickly jumped out of their boat into the treacherous waters, whirling past each whisper the ocean gave. "Don't touch it…You will be cursed…"

Finally, the woman and man reached the soul and grasped it in their palms, amazed by its lively powers once absorbed warmth.

The man gave a touch to its tip, and the blue soul shattered. The water disappeared into tiny square bits as the two grasped each other for help. The sky, the boat, the fish – everything shattered and fell, towards immense white. They tried to scream but nothing came out.

The soul fells towards the nothingness before the woman started to cry. The man grasped the woman's shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes. She gazed back.

He nodded slowly and she chocked back her bawling – but the tears still fell. He let her go and she him.

They kept on falling – in the immense blankness. The soul urged them to follow, and they did – without a choice.

It took a couple hours before they finally reached a new light. The bright intensity of the light burned holes in their eyes though they still watched. Their bodies swiveled into the new found glow and with it, escaped the whiteness.

They reappeared back in the ocean, where the soul was located before. They weren't protecting the soul. They were the soul.

The soul was untouchable – because it was the heart of the human. And only one person can enter your heart.

Your true love. But when you have to loves at once, your heart will be shattered as the sea and sky were.

The only place where you could be is hidden in the depths of your heart – away from hurt and pain.

And that is where Tenten felt she was. Deep in the corners of her heart protecting herself as she watched the sunset immerge into the blue plaid patches of the night.

Her two comrades finished up their spar before Neji smirked and walked up to her, where she was leaning against a tree. Lee followed the prodigy and both, simultaneously, asked, "May I walk you home?"

Her heart, shall never be at peace.
TBC