Sorry for the long wait but

I was never happy with the result of this chapter.

I rewrite it 2 times. I swear it was soooo lame!

And after I thought it was along time that Lord Gushij didn't appear

in this story. It was just too much calm for my tastes and for a while

so I ended up throwing another rough copy fo this chapter in the garbage!

This time I hope it's good and for making you wait

for 2 days I did it much longer. Usually I only write 2500 words per chapter

but here I write 5280 words. So it's like the 11th and the 12th chapter together!

Hope you like it!

Enjoy!

Please leave a review!

-Red-

Tenten ran towards the gates of the castle. She knew that she had only several minutes before they would come chasing after but she didn't care. She just needed time to clear her mind. This jerk! How could he have thought only a second that she was a traitor? She ran faster. The worse was certainly the fact that she had given him her first kiss. The Weapons Mistress gritted her teeth angrily. If he wanted to survive he better not show up before a thousand years. She jumped in from of a compound. She frowned trying to remember what the hell she was doing here. It was a bad idea to let her legs take her anywhere. Her gaze stopped on the sign. It was a black dragon with a red dragon in circle, eating each other's tail. She frowned touching my left shoulder. That sign… The bun-head woman approached the estate but a hand on my shoulder stopped her from going any further.

"What are you doing here, Miss? This compound is forbidden. You should return where you come from!"

Tenten turned around to see an old man looking at her with cold brown eyes. He seemed angry.

"I… I'm sorry, sir, I wasn't supposed to be here but why is it forbidden?" She asked innocently looking up at the gates of the compound where the 2 dragons where looking at me.

"It's damned, go away!"

She frowned turning her gaze towards the old man.

"How could it be damned? It's just an empty compound!"

His eyes flashed with anger looking at her menacingly

"That's the reason why it's damn! You have nothing to do here! There's nothing left, anyway for you to steal! Leave before I call someone to chase you!"

It was useless to argue with him anyway even if she wanted to pin him to a tree to teach him some respect. She wasn't a thief and she surely wasn't here to steal anything!

"I was supposed to leave anyway…" She whispered.

She turned around running towards the gates of the city passing through the forest again. Tenten ended up in a glade. She frowned but it was better than nothing. She was supposed to head towards of the city but for some reason she just couldn't. All her life she had ran away for a reason she didn't remember but she knew it was stupid. From the age of 13 she didn't stop running away. Was she considered like a traitor for all those countries? She laughed sarcastically. Of course she had told them it was only temporally but they never listened. They nodded not believing a word of what she had told them even if it was the truth… From the moment she stepped on the city, she knew the exact moment she would have to run away… again. Then, she had hid. This time she remembered why. The world is cruel and a woman is never considered like a good soldier. She's always accepted when she's a ninja but you never would see a woman in the army. It's two different and very distinctive worlds. The Ninjas are meant to protect the people, to receive missions and to complete them even if it means to put their lives on the line but the Army is to kill senseless the enemies of the Country. That's it. She had chosen the Army. She had chosen to kill. In this point of view you can say she's a traitor but again she had the right to kill the persons that were in her territory. It was a law. The moment you stepped in a country and you don't have any papers of authorisation from the Kage or the King there you can't enter the country. If you persisted then you are considered as an enemy and the Army or the ANBU had the right to kill you if you don't cooperate. Even with the laws she knew it was cold-blooded to kill a human but she never had that choice. An order is an order and the officers who executed them are not the responsible of what they do. The ones who gave orders are. Anyway, who in this world didn't kill once?

Run, hide, run, hide, run… That was her life. You can also insert kill between them because she had refused to stay armed crossed in whichever Country she had stepped in, except the first time she had been in the Lighting Country. She had been adopted by the Mizu family because she had been lucky.

To have hide, run and kill he had the right to call her a traitor but still… it hurt because he was the one to think it and this jerk was going down!

She thought that she could trust him! She thought… ARGH! Even if he was cold with her he was softer. For once, maybe, Purple-sensei was right! Men are jerks! She had given him her first kiss. Tears of rage fell down her cheeks as she threw more and more kunais on the trunk of the trees around. Wiping away her tears with her sleeve, she pulled out her shurikens and began to throw them one by one on the trees. It was a good thing she had a perfect aim because she would have killed all the animals of this forest.

She cursed slightly as she realised someone was watching her. The guards had already found her. Or was it just now that they were revealing their presence because she was low in chakra?

"Come out! I'm low in chakra and my weapons are all on the ground!" She yelled annoyed.

She was busted. She had nowhere to run, her chakra was dangerously low and her weapons were all on the ground or in the trunks of the trees. The Weapons Mistress was vulnerable. Soon, a killer aura surrounded her. The bushed moved and a man came out arms crossed.

"Finally, you shouldn't have come out, Neji!"

She picked up some weapons throwing them at Neji. He sweat dropped dodging the weapons. His plan was to wait until she was low in chakra and to talk to her. Then, she would have listened to him but he had underestimated her stubbornness.

"Tenten…"

"Don't 'Tenten' me, you jerk!"

At the end, maybe she had a lot of energy left…

"We need to talk…" He said slowly dodging another bunch of shurikens.

She laughed sarcastically stopping a second from throwing another shuriken. She knew anyway that she won't be able to wound him. Her aim was becoming less and less precise.

"Like when you will execute me for being a traitor?"

Her harsh tone hurt him. Normally she would never be so harsh. She was always cheerful. It hurt to know it was his fault if she was like that now. He was the one who hurt her after all. He felt even guiltier.

"Tenten! You are stubborn! Would you please put your weapons down?"

"Fine…"

She dropped her weapons on the ground. Her aim was off anyway. The King raised a brow. The hell? Was she drunk or something? Or maybe…

BAAM!

He backed off a little holding his burning cheek. She had punched the King straight in the face. He glared at her. That was enough. He can understand she was mad but not at the point to hurt him that much. But maybe he deserved it after all… No, he was going to apology. His pride was already crushed. She didn't need to push him to his bottom.

"Do you know you just hit your King?" He hissed.

She grabbed his collar looking at him in the eyes. Their noses were almost touching. He watched her lips but he knew she was going to kiss him.

"My King? Ha! I don't have any King. You are just a low life with a big pride that's all. However, you should be thankful I was going to knee my King in the nuts."

Tenten let go his collar walking away from him but being the stubborn King he was he grabbed her wrist. She tried to punch him but he grabbed her other wrist as well pinning her down to the ground. He was on top of her but she didn't seem to enjoy the position they were in at all.

"GET OFF OF ME!"

"Not until you listen to me!"

"I don't want to listen to you, bastard!" Tenten snapped trying to break free.

Neji smirked down at her. She wasn't able to move her legs because of his knees and her wrists were still encircled by his hands.

"I hate you." She said finally calming down a little.

His smirk grew wider as he activated his Byukugan.

"No you don't. You are lying."

She huffed looking away.

"I can see your blush…"

He was apparently amused by the situation.

"Shut up!"

He stopped to smirk looking down at through his Byukugan. She was still mad.

"Anyway, Tenten, I…"

"Shut up! I don't want to listen to you! Get off of me. I want leave so get off."

"My eyes see that…"

"Your eyes see nothing! You are blind even with your Buykugan!"

"I…"

"Let me go!"

"No. Listen to me."

She shook her head.

"No. Go away and let me go."

"Tenten, stop being so stubborn and listen to me 2 minutes."

"Let me go and then I will listen to you."

Neji narrowed his eyes. Did she really think he was that stupid?

"Tenten, are you trying to lie to my Byukugan?"

She glared at him fiercely even if his image was buried. He was so going down when she would be up in chakra.

"I don't want to listen to your pathetic words, Neji. Let me leave like I had thought of it in the first place."

He smirked. Her head became strangely heavy.

"Are you still trying to lie to me or are you trying to make you believe you really wanted to leave? You see… If you wanted to leave you wouldn't have lose your time here at throwing all your weapons on the trunks of the trees. Is that correct?"

Tenten closed her eyes and Neji smirked in victory. He frowned after 45 seconds.

"Hey, wake up!" He shouted while shaking her shoulders.

His frown deepened. Was she faking or was she really asleep because of her low chakra. He cursed under his breath. He didn't even have the time to apologize! He had to debate with his inner self about when he would apology to her for 2 hours. Damn woman! She didn't let him talk she even punched him. He let go one of her wrist to touch his still burning cheek. He had to admit she punched pretty hard. He was lucky to have all his teeth in the right place. Damn woman! She was the only one able to cut him off and to punch him. Why did he have to apology to someone like that? She had that pride of hers and he had his. She was stubborn and he was just as worse as her.

He stood up brushing the dust from his honorific robs. The young King signed as he picked her up bridal style. She would be madder than ever. He had thought she was traitor and now he was carrying her back to the castle. Man, she would have his head. The only good point here is that he had all her weapons. He smirked. Perfect blackmail material! Tenten will never be able to survive more than a day without her weapons. That's when the lines of 'please listen to me and you will have them back…' enter in the conversation. Besides, he wasn't mad that he wouldn't be pin to any wall now. His smirk faded. 'She still has her scrolls…' A chibi Devil appeared at his left.

'What are you waiting for? Take them too! We want to live in an advanced age!'

A chibi Angel appeared at his right shaking his head.

'No, Neji, don't do it. She will be madder! Besides you already have her weapons. It should be enough…'

'What are you saying? It won't be enough! This woman is not like the others. Besides do you want to be pin to the wall with an arrow again?!'

'But… You have better manners than that Neji! Would you really be able to search for them on her? A gentleman would never do that!'

'Of course he would be able to do it! Go for it man! Don't forget to check her out a little… Hehehehehe.'

'Neji! You want to apology to her not to create a second reason to apology to her! Don't do it!'

'It's already a miracle if he can say the words 'I'm sorry' once! Go back in your hole, stupid pathetic Angel!'

'But…! She deserves better than that! Do you really think she would be able to forgive you if you had taken all of her weapons?!'

'Of course she would! Neji is a total hottie! She can't stay mad eternally to him! Do it man before you lost the guts to do it!'

'Like a Lady would ever forgive you! She would immediately think that you take advantage of her while she was sleeping. Neji, if you do it Tenten would never talk to you again!'

'Don't listen to the Angel! Listen to me!'

'Don't listen to the Devil! Listen to me!'

'So what are you going to do?'

'So what are you going to do?'

Neji shook his head. They were helping in anything. He rolled his eyes. The King gulped taking his decision. Tenten was so going to scream.

50 kilometres from the gates of Konoha

After the painful death of his dear niece that he loved so much, Lord Gushij decided it was time to send some warnings to the King of the Fire Country. He smirked caressing his bear. First, he thought about killing a whole clan but his counsellors said that the King won't take him seriously since he can't do worse than that. No… He had to make him wonder if one of his clan would be destroyed. A new idea popped in his head. He will blow up a compound while the majority of the clan members would be doing their duties. Like that, the Leader of the Hyuuga clan will fear to lose one of his precious clan and he will probably take seriously his little advices. He thought about the Inuzuka clan a clan of dog users since they were well known but the Uzumaki clan will have more impact on the King since his sister is married to Lord Uzumaki. Then, judging he had been too much generous for the day, he chose to destroy the 2 clans.

His men looked at him wide eyes. He raised a brow looking at them.

"But… But we can't! The Uzumaki clan is too much for us. We can't beat them!"

Lord Gushij rolled his eyes and grabbed his Captain by the collar.

"I didn't say we would kill them like for the Jurinai clan! I said we would destroy them."

His Captain began to shake under his intense stare. He enjoyed his fear for a few moments then let it go.

"Prepare the explosive tags. Is that alright with you, Captain?" He added sarcastically looking at the still shaking man. "It's just a little piece of advice for the King."

He turned his attention towards his other men smirking.

"But if you can kill some Uzumaki I won't reprimand you…"

Some of them laughed as the other just stay stoic bored from the inactive situation.

"Oh… and I hope you won't get caught because all our clan will go down. Remember that and if we go down I will personally kill you with my Soul Torture jutsu. Go luck guys and make sure I can hear the explosion."

"Hai!"

They ran towards the city with their ninja speed. At 10 kilometres from the city they split up in two groups of 15 men each. The first team headed towards the North where the Inuzuka compound was. They waited hiding in the bushed around of the estate for the signal from the other team.

As for the team B they headed as fast as they could towards the center of the city by passing under ground where the Uzumaki compound was. Nobody was using those tunnels unless they were a big emergency. It hadn't happened for the pass 10 years so they were no risk about crossing in front of a guard. The map turned out to be more than useful…Arriving under the compound they installed the big explosive tag under it. Calculating where the middle was supposed to be. The Leader of the squad looked at his watch lighting his cigarette.

"Not yet, guys… But get ready to run away as fast as you could. I don't care if one of you exploded but if they find your corpse they will know who we are so be careful. I don't want to be obliged to run with a dead body in the arms."

He took out the cigarette of his mouth looking at his men. They made a circle around him ready to run away in different directions. He smirked as he looked again at his watch. He extinguished his cigarette under his boot nodding towards his men who took out chakra pills to go faster.

"Let's go guys!"

The Leader made quick hand signs and the explosive tags became red. The 15 men ran off in different direction leaving nothing behind.

Team A had installed the explosive as fast as they could to be in time with the other team. If they were late Lord Gushij will probably kill them with his own hands so they hurried up. Their leader looked at them bored. He was the one to make the compound blow up but he certainly wasn't going to install the whole thing.

"Hurry up, would you sissies! We don't have all freaking day!" He snarled like a drunk man.

They rolled their eyes used to his behaviour. When they were done, they stood up and did a line in front of the forest. He spitted on the ground from his tree. He looked towards the city waiting for the first detonation. He growled. It was just too long for his tastes.

"And I thought you were slow, kiddies." He laughed.

The men tried to ignore his comments looking straight of them.

"What are you waiting for? Take the damn pills. I can sense it! It will blow up in a couple of instant."

They rolled their eyes. Sometimes, they really wonder if he's always drunk or if it is just the way he is. Anyway, they were lucky he didn't insult them for once. They swallowed the pills while their Leader growled excitingly.

Lord Gushij hadn't moved a muscle. He was scanning the city arms crossed and a smirk on his lips from his perch on a tree. Suddenly the center of the village exploded. His smirk grew wider. Everybody was running in every direction panicking and screaming their heads off. He stared amused as the estate continued to burn reducing the big mini-village in an amount of smoke and dust. He turned his head towards the North of the city just in time to see the Inuzuka compound blow up at his turn. He chuckled lightly seeing that the dogs were yapping loudly and once again the people present in the compound and around started screaming. Team B appeared bowing at the bottom of the tree where he was standing.

"It's done, My Lord, and nobody is missing from my team."

He nodded still looking at the village. Maybe he enjoyed a little too much other's pain but he couldn't help it. He had to see…

"We will wait for the other team. Then, we will go."

"There's no need, My Lord, We are here and these sissies are all still alive!"

Team B bowed their heads at the sign of the Lord. He crossed his arms and jumped from the tree to face them.

"We will be back in 5 days to blow up another compound but this time we will leave a nice little message with the condition to stop from blowing up every single clan. He would have to give us the control of his dear city…"

He chuckled sadistically while his men just smirked. Then, they ran off behind Team A and Lord Gushij. 'The third time I will come here, it will be for you My Lady…'

Dining room in the Hyuuga castle

"So what happen with Haku, Nara?"

The King asked looking straight the leader of the Nara clan.

"Nothing really… It was too troublesome to push him to answer anyway. This kid is stubborn and deeply attached to Tenten. What about with the Informer?"

"We learned plenty of things…"

He resumed all his information with Hirou. At the end, the lazy genius was in his thinking position, Ino was rolling her eyes, Naruto was yawning and Hinata looked straight at her brother.

"Brother! Tell me you apology to Tenten." Hinata said breaking the silence of the piece.

He turned to face her with a smirk.

"No, I didn't."

Ino and Hinata looked at each other while Naruto shook his head and Shikamaru muttered a 'so troublesome…'. Kankuro raised a brow.

"I'm not an expert with girls but trust me you should apologize."

Temari nodded.

"This baka is right for once."

The smirk of the King grew wider while the Sand siblings glared at each other.

"I didn't apologize because she didn't let me so I will have to force her to listen to me."

Naruto grinned looking at his brother-in-law.

"So you apologized after all!"

Neji rolled his eyes. Didn't he just listen to what he just said?

"No. I didn't."

"Hyuuga, get straight to the point! What did you do?" Temari yelled annoyed.

Neji smirked.

"You will see in a couple of minutes…"

"If she's mad after can I comfort her?" Kankuro grinned.

The King glared at him.

"Just try, Kankuro, and you will end up in the hospital."

The puppet master scratched the back of his head laughing sheepishly while Naruto poked Neji on the arm.

"I knew it! You like her, hun, hun?"

"Naruto, don't touch me."

The loudmouth jumped away sensing, for once, the dark aura surrounding the young Leader of the Hyuuga clan.

"It's troublesome, Neji. How can you be sure she will listen to you this time? She's pretty stubborn."

He opened his mouth to say another 'wait and watch' but Tenten entered the room with the darker aura they have ever seen.

"NEJI HYUUGA YOU BETTER GIVE THEM BACK NOW OR ELSE!"

The King smirked looking at her. She was mad, no she was pissed.

"Or else what Tenten? I took every single weapon you had."

The girls gasped in shock. 'No he didn't!' The guys smirked. 'Nice going! Now she doesn't have a choice! Besides you surely had time to check her out!'

"STOP JOKING AROUND YOU JERK! GIVE THEM BACK!"

"Tenten, calm down and listen closely…"

"YOU THINK YOU CAN ORDER ME AROUND, KING OF MY ASS!"

"…If you want to have them back in one piece." He finished trying to ignore her insults.

She calmed down instantly but her eyes still flashed with anger. 'The nerve! He's again blackmailing me! ARGH! I want his head!'

"Everybody leave."

"But we wanted to see you…"

"Naruto if you aren't out in the next ten seconds you will never see the sun set tomorrow."

They ran out without another word. He reminded them of Hiaishi sometimes…Tenten wanted to whip away his annoying little smirk. She almost felt naked without her weapons and he knew it. It was the perfect blackmail material.

"What do you want?" She asked finally looking away from him.

She still can't believe he had all her weapons. He had even dared to take her scrolls. She was for the first time in her life unarmed. She gritted her teeth. He had searched on her for her scrolls.

"I…" He whispered the last part crossing his arms.

"Sorry talk louder Neji I didn't hear that!"

She had him. She smirked approaching him until she was straight in front of him.

"You were saying?" Tenten asked innocently smirking ear-to-ear.

He moved his hand to grab her but she moved away. 'I will play his game… Besides he won't touch me before he apology!'

"If you have nothing to say then give my weapons back."

"I'm sorry."

She raised a brow amused. 'THE Hyuuga Neji is apologizing! A Hyuuga is apologizing! Hahahahaha!'

"I didn't catch that. Really Neji! You should talk louder."

He gritted his teeth.

'Why do I want her forgiveness again?'

'Are kidding me? You said she was a traitor! It's the worse insult ever to a woman when she is not. Apologize again!'

"I'm sorry for saying that you were a traitor."

She stopped smirking and looked at him wide eyes. It wasn't funny anymore because he meant it. She frowned. 'Snap out girl! Even if he had to crush his pride he thought you were a traitor.' She turned around showing him her back.

"You took my weapons…"

Lord Hyuuga rubbed his temples. It had already crossed too many unspoken rules of the Hyuuga clan with this woman. He had shown emotion. He had lied to the Hyuuga council. He had screamed. He had been pinned to a wall. He had been cornered by her. He had offended a woman. Finally, he had said sorry.

"And you did worse! You took my scrolls while I was sleeping. I hope you didn't check me out because you will lose a lot of your anatomy."

He grimaced a little. Why everyone kept saying the thing about checking her out? He wasn't that perverted! Erase that thought! Damn another rule broken! He had seen her breasts and just smirked. His farther would probably die another time if he heard of it.

"I didn't check you out." He replied slowly moving towards her but she moved away.

Neji gritted his teeth. She was still stubborn like no tomorrow. Why does life have to be so cruel? Not even able to touch her. He closed his eyes. 'I need a way to make her forgive me!' She only had a weakness that he knew. He took out the 2 scrolls Hirou had given him from his robs.

"Here…"

He handed the scrolls. Tenten frowned slightly looking at the scrolls in his hands. She didn't remember the scrolls but once they were important for her. One had a black dragon designed on it and the other one had a red one. She picked the red one unrolling it to read it. She closed it frowning. The dialects were unreadable but she had signed with her blood so they were hers. 'It's like…'

"Where do you have found them?"

The Weapons Mistress picked up the other one. It was also signed with her blood. 'When did I sign them?'

"Your Hirou gave them to me." He replied simply searching for any signs of madness in her features.

She looked up at him frowning.

"My weapons."

He sweat dropped. She still hadn't forgotten. Plan B then… He grabbed her hand and put a chain on it. Her eyes widened as she realised that the motif was a kunai with the Kanji, the symbol of love, on it. He smirked at her reaction. While he was debating his inner self about how he was supposed to apologize to her. He had the idea of a plan B if she didn't want to forgive him. He knew she probably hate jewellery but it was a kunai with the Kanji and he was a Hyuuga. A Hyuuga never love. It was a miracle he even gave her something like that but in the other hand it was worth for… Another broken rule but he didn't care much about it. He waited until she jumped in his arms. He smirked before wrapping her arms around her waist.

'Score!'

'Shut up I'm busy!'

"I'm sorry…" He breathed on her neck holding her tighter.

She laughed.

"A Hyuuga had said sorry twice in a day! I'm lucky!"

Neji could almost see her smirk. Someone cleared his throat interrupting them. He frowned looking towards the door. Naruto was dead serious with the others. Wait... Naruto was serious? The hell? Tenten pulled away looking towards Haku and blushing a little. She mouthed a 'what is going on?' and he mouthed a 'where the hell did you find these scrolls?'

"What's going on?"

"The Uzumaki compound had been destroyed along with the Inuzuka's."

The King widened eyes. 'What? Someone had destroyed these compounds?!'

"Neji, this too troublesome! We have to go the Cloud Country! There are the two possible clans able to do such things. We can that way erase these 2 names if they aren't the ones who did this and we would attack the Gushij clan. Besides, they blew them up when almost nobody was inside! It looks like a piece of advice nothing more nothing less. This is bad, Neji. We have to catch them now or they will use the map more and more until the village would be completly destroyed!"

"Makes sense…" Neji said slowly still not believing it. "How many deceased?"

Naruto clenched his fists.

"10 from my clan and 8 from the Inuzuka clan. Kiba is about to kill someone I swear… His sister is dead in the explosion. He's the new leader of the Inuzuka clan."

He nodded shortly. 'Shit... We are in deep trouble!'

"We are leaving… Naruto, Hinata, you stay here in my absence and govern this kingdom intelligently. Make sure it doesn't happen again. I trust you, Hinata, to check on him if he does anything stupid and put all the ninjas under alerted. Nara, Yamanaka call Inuzuka we are going. Tenten, pack your things. Your weapons are in my room. Temari, Kankuro, return to your village and ask for help. Bring Lee and Shino with you. Try to see if it was the Gushij clan that attacked us meanwhile. Haku, return at your duties and don't tell anyone about that."

That was bad. Someone had penetrated Konoha without anybody noticing it and had blown up 2 compounds. 18 persons dead… Neji gritted his teeth. It was too much. Around him his men disappeared in a pouf of smoke. He hoped there was still time left to save Konoha.