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Previous chapter: "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY NEE-CHAN!!!"
Chapter 10
THWACK!!!
Izaki crashed to a tree so hard that the tree itself collapsed.
"Naruto…"
Tenten looked at him, astounded.
"You…"
A kagebunshin1 appeared. He took the two katanas that stabbed Tenten carefully and helped her to sit and rest. Naruto himself still glowered to the direction of Izaki. He was furious… No, he was MORE than furious.
"Eating my flesh is bad enough…" growled Naruto, his chakra began to grow again. "But making Nee-chan cried… is UNFORGIVABLE!!"
Fwoooossshhh!! A Rasengan was formed on his palm, no help by kagebunshin. He ran towards Izaki, who finally could stand up. Seeing Naruto stormed at him, the man quickly made his hand seal and shouted, "Doton: Doryuuheki2!"
A huge protective wall formed in front of Izaki. Naruto kept running, ignoring the wall. His previous kagebunshin joined his side, offering him another spiraling chakra, creating a huge Rasengan…
"OODAMA RASENGAN3!!"
CRACK!! The wall crumbled and Naruto blasted through. Izaki froze by fear when he saw Naruto's other hand wielding another Rasengan—huge, with Kyuubi's chakra infused in it…
"KYUUBI RASENGAN!!!"
BOOOM!!!
Izaki was sent flying a good twenty meters away, crushing any trees on the way. When he stopped by crashing on the seventeenth tree, he wasn't breathing anymore. A loud howl was heard, echoing in the night sky. A silhouette of a big black dog blasted to the night sky, sending chakra waves to the entire forest.
Izaki you fool… You can't fight a Kyuubi… damn… it…
The howl finally disappeared to the night, along with the huge dog figure. Naruto straightened his stance and raised his fist.
"That's what happened when you make Nee-chan cried, you asshole!!!"
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Full moon…
Neji folded his arm and watched the moon silently. The sky at night reminded him about Tenten. At times like these, he and she usually out at the field, sparring. At the end of the session they will lie down and face the sky. Sometimes they talk, but sometimes they just stay close to each other. Neji closed his eyes. Those times… are irreplaceable. Neji wouldn't even think about exchanging it any other thing in the whole world, not even the triangle hat of the Godaime or The Shodaime's Necklace. Yes, he won't trade it with anything else in the…
"NEJI-KUUUUUNNNNN!!!! MY YOUTHFUL TEAMMATE AND ETERNAL RIVALS!!!! THERE YOU AREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"
Especially not this one. Neji could feel a vein popped on his head when Rock Lee jumped to his windowsill vigorously. His hands were outstretched and no way Neji will get himself inside those…
"I MIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU—"
"Don't go near me!!"
"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU—"
"Jyuuken!!"
THWACK!
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"Can you move, Nee-chan?" Naruto kneeled beside her. He looked very worried. He had bandaged the wound but he still concerned about her. Tenten smiled gently.
"Of course I can, Naruto," She made her seal and touched her backbone by the bottom. The minor crack finally healed. "Ah… now I can walk too. Instead of worrying about me, you better take Shikamaru here. His wound's fatal."
"Ma, I'm glad Nee-chan's Ok," Naruto grinned, stood up. "I… I was worried sick when I saw Nee-chan crying… Nee-chan seldom cries… But anyway, everything is alright now."
"Not if we're still here," Kiba walked toward Tenten, Shikamaru was leaning to him for support. "I could feel the guards' chakra. Those chickens ran away when we fight and go back after it's over. If they caught us like this… we'll be in trouble. We better withdraw for now… We're heavily wounded. Anyway… ya've killed their leaders, Naruto. We're done. Let's go home."
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"Well… I guess we're a little overboard here, aren't we?"
Sakura placed her hands on her hip. Neji looked away and said, "Hn."
"Oh, geez… you'll never change," The pink-haired Kunoichi said. She turned to face Lee. "Oh, Lee… you better be careful next time. You'll be dead someday if Neji-san keep hitting you like that."
"Ah, Sakura-san!!" Lee went into his usual youthful speeches. "How could you think of Neji-kun like that? All our eternal rivalry and youthful energy will never clashed and created an incident like that! Isn't our friendship is like a golden thread of youthful spirit that connected our burning youth into…"
"Ah… hai, hai," Sakura covered her face with her hand exasperatedly. "There goes your youthful crap again… I'm amazed, Neji-san. You still haven't kill him after all these years."
Neji nodded silently and said, "I have a hard time to hold back."
"That's how I see it too," Sakura grinned. "Now, Lee, stop crying. Why are you here anyway?"
"Can't I have a nice and cherished chat with my eternal youthful rivals after my long and dangerous journey?" said Lee with a very pitiful voice. Neji flinched at the saying. Eternal… youthful rivals? "By the way… where is the blooming youthful flower?"
"Tenten go on an S-Rank mission with Shikamaru, Kiba, and Naruto," said Sakura, sat down beside Neji. "I think they'll go back home tomorrow. Right, Neji-san?"
"Hn."
Lee turned his gaze to Sakura again.
"And… why are you here, Sakura-san?"
Sakura grinned widely.
"Well, Hinata called me just a few moments ago, saying that our Neji-san here needs help about his 'personal issue' so… well, here I am," Sakura clasped her hand together as if saying 'the end'. "Hm… a personal issue about the blooming youthful flower…"
This last sentence brought something to Lee's eyes. Something that Neji cursed a lot.
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Tenten broke down, panting. Shikamaru opened his eyes and said weakly, "You shouldn't… overextended yourself…"
"Well… I can't leave you dying from blood lost, now can I?" Tenten grinned. "Shut up. You'll open your wounds again. My Shosen no Jutsu's not as good as Sakura's… but at least I've stopped the major bleeding… And it looks like my potion worked too… I guess… Ugh!"
Tenten scowled a little when her spine ached again. Shikamaru sighed.
"You should've heal yourself first…" He said rather accusingly. "Now you have no more chakra to do that."
"Does it matter?" She answered uninterestedly. "Ah… I need to rest… Shosen no Jutsu really is a waste of chakra."
She suddenly smiled toward Shikamaru. The latter raised his eyebrow, especially when she patted his head affectionately.
"You rest too. Don't push yourself."
Shikamaru watched her back when she turned around and approached Kiba. He smiled secretly. Nee-chan… eh?
"Ma, Kiba! You almost have no scratch, ne?" Tenten sat beside the dog user. Kiba rubbed his neck and said, "Well… I'm in the Water Prison for quite a while… Come to think of it… I get caught twice. The first one is when on the tower and the second one is on the river. I… I have no use… all those times."
Kiba looked at Tenten. His eyes were full of regret.
"I… I'm sorry. I can't help ya at all…" said the dog user slowly. "I let that Izaki-yarou… do that to ya. I can't even save Shikamaru… Gee… I'm such a worthless mate."
"Are you?"
Kiba stared at her again. His eyes searching for answer, for resolution. Her simple 'Are you' saying made something inside his heart hardened.
"Shikamaru won't be here if you didn't attack Izaki, won't he?" Tenten closed her eyes for a while. Kiba quickly saying, "But I…"
"So quit blaming yourself about everything that really isn't there," Tenten opened her eyes slowly. Her cocoa brown eyes were soft, and reassuring. Somehow Kiba found tranquility inside it, along with warmth and comfort that he never seen before. "No such thing as worthless teammate… Gee, what's happening with you? Cheer up, Boy. Nobody blame you so why should you?"
Kiba looked down to the grass, his hand silently twirled the twig.
"I wish… I could be stronger…"
Tenten opened her eyes. Kiba continued his statement.
"If I could… this kinda thing will never happen again… We will never get beaten up like this again… And I won't… I won't lose anyone… Nobody will get harm… But… But look at how weak I am… I can protect no one… Akamaru's injured… Shikamaru's injured… and you… you're injured too… If I just… I just…"
"Then do it," Tenten closed her eyes. Kiba quickly stared at her. "You want to get stronger, right? Do it. Train. That ends the matter… You're not living for the past, Kiba. You're living for the future. The past existed to make us remember our fault, not to be regretted but to be learned. It can't be helped… What's the point of blaming yourself of something you can't change? We can only moved the future… so focus on that rather than budging with unchangeable matter. It's pointless anyway."
Tenten's weapon calloused hand suddenly messed up Kiba's brown hair. Kiba quickly jerked backward, touching his hair and shouted, "What was that for?!"
"To get rid of those pointless things in your head!" The Weapon Mistress replied matter-of-factly. "Really, what's wrong with you? Getting depressed so suddenly… and you pick quite a hell of a time to do so."
Kiba stared at Tenten for a while; his hands combed his messy hair slowly. The woman herself already back to her former position: Leaning against the tree and looked up at the sky. There was silence, a comfortable silence. It was until Tenten broke it.
"You know… It is hard… not to blame yourself… or your past," she said suddenly. Kiba slowly turned his head. "But we can't change it no matter what… And the past is a part of us that make us who we are… When we blame ourselves of what we have done… when we blame our past and regretting everything… We'll ended up hating ourselves. We hate the inevitable part of ourselves and that leads us hating everything… hating life. You'll get tired of yourself, tired of being alive and be what you are… It'll get so hurt that you choose to die rather than living in hatred…"
Tenten closed her eyes wearily.
"But you have to realize that the future is your coming past… Your future will someday be the past that makes you who you are… So… why don't we look ahead? When the future finally become your past… that time the previous past will be covered… Covered until it can't be seen anymore. It will remains there… but now what you see is the new you, the new present… There's no point to regret what already piled up beneath the new layer because we're not going back… So look ahead…"
Tenten touched Kiba's cheek gently.
"So… Kiba… don't regret anything, just look ahead… If you're not strong enough now, then be stronger. That's all that matter. Don't sulk anymore… Ok?"
Kiba grinned and said, "I must be looked quite depressed if it makes ya lecturin' me this long."
Tenten only smiled. She leaned to the tree again, her eyes observed the sky.
"Naruto…" she said slowly. "How… is he? Is he alright now?"
"Yep, thanks to yer potion and his Kyuubi Chakra," Kiba's eyes flew to the image of the sleeping Kyuubi container not so far away. His shoulder was bandaged and already began to heal itself. "He's sleepin' like a baby now… His wound healed itself…"
"Good…" Tenten slowly closed her eyes. It was cleared to Kiba that she was exhausted and she was on her limit. "I guess… I can't hold it much longer… I'm glad he's Ok… Now… I can rest…"
"You must…" Kiba trailed off. His eyes softened when he remembered that word. "… Nee-chan."
A gentle smile crept up her face. Softly she said, "That word… sounds nice…"
And she fell asleep. Kiba watched her sleeping figure and grinned.
"I believe it is."
To be continued...
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1 Shadow clone
2 Earth Release: Earth Style Wall
3 Great Ball Spiraling Sphere
Author's Note: Sorry... too much babling. Just wait for the next chapter... but BEWARE!!! I have a really REALLY have bad BAD BAAADD intention here. Anyway, any reviews is welcome, even about how boring this story is. Feel free to flame or even explode (?). I need it to convince my parent. Oh yeah, again, BEWARE!!!! But don't stop reading, please! Hehehe... Jane!