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Fire Country, in the forest, 5 kilometres from Konoha
Tenten ran towards Konoha in her ninja speed increase realising suddenly that someone was running after her. She frowned slightly. 'Shit… I began to be empty…'
"YOU BITCH! WHAT DID YOU DO TO LORD GUSHIJ!"
'Is she trying to provoke us? KICK HER!'
She turned around violently and kicked Kaede on the head sending her straight towards the ground. She jumped from the branch where she was standing a minute ago. Dizzy the woman stood up looking at her with narrowed eyes.
"I'm surprised you didn't sleep with him before killing him!"
Tenten made her way towards the woman and gripped her neck lifting her.
"There are 2 fundamental rules when you stepped in Konoha's territory. 1: Don't try to attack the Hyuuga clan or else. 2: Don't ever mess up with a Jurinai. Too bad you do the 2 by kidnapping Lady Hyuuga. Don't worry you will burn freely in hell with Lord Gushij."
A dark kunai dug in her chest but she didn't feel anything until Tenten built up her chakra. She dropped Kaede's body on the ground. She closed her eyes feeling empty. Her now hazel eyes looked up at the sky while she signed heavily. 'This is all over…'
"Another troublesome woman…"
"Listen, kid…"
"Tennie!"
"..."
"TENTEN!!!"
She widened eye turning slowly around. 'They are lucky I'm back to normal…'
"My lady… What about you calm down and then we could talk…"
She frowned looking at him.
"Haku-sensei, this is pathetic! You look like I would jump on you."
They rubbed the back of their neck looking at the ground except for Neji who smirked. 'She seems to be back to normal… But anyway, we need to talk.'
"We found the other cadaver."
"Yeah but I'm perfectly…"
"Tennie you don't leave us the choice."
She opened her mouth to shout a 'stop-calling-me-Tennie-and-as-I-said-I-am-perfectly-fine!'
"Kiba, hold your horses!"
'Yeah that would be a good idea because I'm tired of screaming: Who the hell teach you how to fight!' She thought rolling her eyes and folding her arms over her chest.
"Yeah! It's already troublesome to have to try to catch her in my jutsu since she can get rid of it with her insane force."
'HAKU YOU TOLD THEM ABOUT THE SECRETS OF THE HIRUSKI STYLE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?' She saw red but everybody was too busy to yell to notice.
"Lazy-ass! Me, I think it's better if we just talk to her! She will become herself again if we show that we care!"
'Oh… and you want to do that before I break your bones or after?' She thought sarcastically.
"Ino, this isn't a love novel!"
'EXACTLY!'
"Come again, doggie boy!"
"Yaff!" Akamaru yapped growling slightly.
"Yeah Akamaru you are right, we will Gatsungan your ass!"
"Hold your ho-…"
"Shut up purple head!"
'Ouch… bad move Kiba! Really bad move…'
"I have just purple hair, okay?!?!"
Tenten sweat dropped. 'What kind of mess is that? Anyway, I'm off…' She shivered as she sensed his moon eyes staring at her. She gulped as she looked away from him. 'You are not running away…'
'Damn…'
'I'M GOING DEAF WITH THEIR YELLS! MOVE YOUR ASS FROM THIS MESS!!!!'
'Shut up! I'm trying to think.'
'Keyword: trying… You are just drooling over him!'
'NO! Anyway, I don't care if he followed me. Replacement technique!'
She ran off and as she expected Neji was straight behind her. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes and to pin him to the nearest tree.
'Smart-ass! After that, how are you going to run away with him on your heels? And are you seriously thinking about…'
She turned around brutally stopping him. He cocked his brows looking down at her. The compound with 2 dragons as his symbol was in front of them.
"I… euh… Just don't say to anybody that you have been there. Generally, men aren't allowed to enter. In fact, it's a law… so I'm counting on you to keep your mouth shut about that because if Haku-sensei knew that you had entered he would kill me or maybe you…"
Not even waiting for an answer she just entered the compound putting her shoes away in front of the door.
She looked around. Everything was still at the same place but she was certain that her mother's jewelleries had disappeared. She tried to open the lights but the electricity seemed to have been cut.
She signed as she moved inside heading for the back of the house. She remembered some happy memories she had here running in these halls to escape from the maids' surveillance or just to run. Tenten ran her fingers in a corner table. There was no dust. 'The old man had probably taken care of all this all those years…' She mused.
The Weapons Mistress stopped in front of a wall and pressed a little on it. It didn't even budge from a millimetre. Neji cocked his brows at her actions while she tried to make it move by pushing it harder. Not even a flinch. Her eyes narrowed dangerously. 'That's it! This wall is going down!' She punched it and it moved revealing a passage. She entered the place and moved downward the stairs soon followed by a speechless King. She stopped at the end of the stairs looking around. The graves of her Sisters were still there along with her mother. She turned around to face Neji.
"Can you wait? After you will have all the time you want to yell at me…"
She lowered her gaze at the ground while he nodded slightly climbing up the stairs. Tenten smiled weakly and walked towards the biggest grave representing an angle with open wings. She kneed in front of the grave and bowed her head.
Tayuga Jurinai
Leader of the Jurinai clan
Beloved mother and wife
Great defender of Konoha
She couldn't contain her laughter when she read the wife part. She had only met her husband once and it was at her arranged marriage. They had their honeymoon and then they never met again.
"Rest in peace… To be like you may be a good thing after all …"
She took off the headband from her forehead and put it besides the now brown flowers. She took the flowers and stood up bowing her head a last time in respect. She climbed up the stairs closing the fake wall behind her. She snapped back to reality when she saw the emotionless pearl eyes of the Hyuuga. She signed this was going to be a long day.
"Follow me."
His eyebrows twitched in annoyance. He hated to be ordered around and she knew it but he doesn't know where to go in this compound. He followed her passing in front of many rooms before reaching a sliding door. She opened it revealing a big room which seemed to be a kitchen. He sat down around the table but she didn't sit in front of him. She just couldn't face him. She moved towards the counter and sat down lifting slightly herself. He raised a brow at her action.
"If you are here or there I will tell you the same thing…"
"I know, but every time my mother was yelling at me I was sitting on this counter…"
'Not listening at all of what she was yelling at me…' She added mentally.
"Do you know what did you do, My Lady?"
She bit her below lip as he stood up to face. 'Crap… He used the honorific this must be bad.'
"Euhh…"
"You put Konoha in great danger along with Suna."
"I…"
"My sister was kidnapped along with Gaara's sister! Lord Kazekage's sister!!! This freak was searching for you! Why didn't you tell me?! He blew up 2 compounds because you didn't tell me anything! I almost lost my kingdom to him! Gaara almost lost his kingdom too to him! You even destroyed the half of my forest by punching the trees!!! And can you tell me why on Earth you use a forbidden jutsu?! You even killed by yourself the man who caused all this mess! You even kill his sidekick AGAIN by yourself without the King's agreement! Damn Tenten do you know how much damage you caused all by yourself, hun?!"
"First of all, Lord Hyuuga, I was on my right to kill Lord Gushij and Kaede Gushij!"
"To avenge your mother and your Sisters?! Is that so?!"
"NO!"
He was caught off guards by her shout.
"I killed him because he tried to destroy in MY village! Because he had killed a clan! Because he had killed Hana Inuzuka! Because he had blown up 2 compounds! Because he killed 18 persons! Because he had wounded Iruki Uzumaki! Because this man was recognized to be guilty of betrayal towards his Kazekage by attacking the Fire Country without his agreement! Because he kidnapped his Kazekage's sister! Because he had under key two ninjas of this village! Because he dared to attack the Hyuuga clan! Because he took your throne and the Kazekage's too! Becau-…"
"Enough! You can judge people like that! I am the King here!!! Not you!"
She glared at him.
"You should go review Konoha's laws, because it stated that a clan leader can kill a man who menaced the King by his own."
"I didn't need you to do it! I was perfectly able to do it…"
"I WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP YOU!"
"BY THROWING YOUR LIFE AWAY?! WHAT AN INTERESTING WAY TO HELP SOMEONE WHO JUST TURNED OUT TO BE THE ONE WHO YOU JUST FOOLED!"
"I DIDN'T FOOL YOU! I DIDN'T REMEMBER!"
"SINCE WHEN, HUN? SINCE WHEN DID YOU GET THE STUPID IDEA TO SEAL THE MARK OF YOUR CLAN?!"
"STUPID IDEA? DID YOU WANT ME TO KILL AMAYA BY BREAKING HER NECK?!"
"WELL IF YOU COULD CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS…"
"CONTROL MY EMOTIONS?!?! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! IT'S NERALY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME!"
"BECAUSE YOU DON'T CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS!"
"SHUT UP! YOU ARE THE ONE YELLING AT ME! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE TO BE ALWAYS CALM AND COLD NOT SHOUTING AT ME."
He exhaled deeply looking in her hazel eyes.
"That's not a reason to lie."
"I was supposed to say what? 'Hello! I'm Tenten Jurinai!' Hun? How in the world was I supposed to know that a freak was chasing me?! Maybe he publishes a notice in the newspaper about searching me or maybe he put posters everywhere!"
His eyes flashed with anger at her sarcastic tone.
"Why were you running away, then?"
"It was all because of different kind of reason each time!"
"Fine but you lied to a Hyuuga, to Lord Hyuuga… Should I add that I'm the King of the Fire Country or you get the idea or how much it's outrageous?"
"What was I supposed to do?"
"To tell me why you were crying in your sleep! To tell me whom you were! To tell me why you didn't want to stay here! Why didn't you do it?"
She was taken back. He had seen her cry in her sleep…? 'Maybe he does deserve the truth after all…
"Do you know what it looks like when you turned back to look at your past and to see nothing but blood? Do you know how much it's painful to have unsealed one-by-one the members of your clan and to have seen then one-by-one die in front of your eyes without even being able to do a thing?"
Her voice started shaking as she bit her lip to keep her from crying in front of the King.
"Do you have any idea of what it looks like when you have to take sleeping pills to be able to sleep even if it means not to dream? Anyway you didn't have the right to blackmail me and less to oblige me to act as your fiancée!"
She tried to bury the subject but failed miserably when tears began to fall on her cheeks.
"What happen, Tenten?"
He said her name… It felt good. She closed her eyes and leaned her back on the wall. His voice wasn't stoical like always... Maybe she just imagined something but his tone was almost gentle...
"I was punished because I have broke someone nose. Don't ask okay? As punishment, she sent me in town to buy bread. My mother gave me 1 hour so I stopped to talk with Kiba. When I came back everyone was lying on the floor with a black mark on the chest. I shook over and over my mother but she didn't wake up. Lady Tsume pulled me back by the waist as other Lords arrived. They took the bodies even my mother's but they realised that they were still alive… Lord Hiaishi found a jutsu to unseal them but they required the blood of one of the victim. Since I was the only one left, I had to unseal them… Lord Nara, Lord Uzumaki, Lord Hiaishi and Lord Aburame helped me and it took us 3 days to unseal them all. After, they fought over and over to know who will take me. I stayed with Haku all this time and I never came back here after that. I trained harder than ever mastering more and more jutsus every day. Finally, Lord Hiaishi announced that I will live with him and that's when I realised that he only wanted to use me for his own purpose. Everyone wanted the last Deadly Weapon on their side and everyone knew that I was the prodigy of my clan. Lord Hiaishi would probably have married me to you to give him strong heirs. I ran away. I ran because I wanted to be free, to do my own choices in life like Mother had thought me."
She laughed.
"What a fool I have been! Outside, things were worse. The Mizu family doesn't respect women at all! They treated them like shit except when they are pregnant. Even then, it's only for the baby that the men. I learned to never raised a word louder than a man but even, then I never listened and I ended up being slapped more times than you can count. I didn't care I just wanted to make them shut up for a while. I began to think about running away so I walked down the river to think deeper about this possibility. I saw a body in the river. It's was Zabuza, my mother's sensei."
She lowered her head to hide her teary cheeks but he forced her chin up.
"Continue."
"I felt like my past was still there, always ready to torture me. It had months since I last had nightmares, since I had been sick. I sent the body back to Konoha since Zabuza was dead. I sent a letter to Haku-sensei to explain him how I had found him. Then, I ran away. I went to the Mist and met Purple-sensei, I mean Hirou. I had changed and she had to beat the crap out of me each morning to make me laugh or at least to obtain a reaction from me. I killed only criminals, I swear! I said to her that I would never touch a ninja even if it means to die."
"Why?"
"I was supposed to become a ninja. I was supposed to go to the Ninja Academy to graduate the first year and to become an ANBU like my mother…"
"Why did you run away from the Mist?"
"I became their killer machine after 2 months but they wanted me to kill shinoibi and kinoichi. I refused and Purple-sensei helped me to run away. After that, I changed of Country every time I just felt like it. When I turned 15 years old I wished to enter the Army of the Nano Country. I knew it was only for men but I wanted to do it however so I banded my chest and acted like a man for years until someone insane decided that he needed information on the Earth Country."
His eyebrows twitched as she smirked wiping her tears with her sleeve.
"This man was a total asshole! He dared to blackmail me but I met friends and at the end, I fell in love with him…"
He smirked as she blushed.
"Because he was awesome?"
"Nah… I told you he was a total asshole!"
'How come 'no'?! He's a total HOTTIE!!'
'Like hell I would ever admit it out loud!'
He frowned.
"Than why?"
"Because he was the only man to not treat me like shit just because I was a woman and because for months it was the only time I smiled for real to someone. He kicked my ass in a spar match but I was happy around him even then. Still, he's the only man who is still alive after sleeping with me because it felt good. I swear he's so comfortable!"
She had forgotten to who she was talking to until she saw his smirk grew wider.
"I have met an interesting woman too."
"Oh?"
"Yeah… She crushed down in my office and began to order me around. I nearly killed her on the spot but the elders were there so I let her live."
"How was she?"
"I admit she was beautiful but I prefer her with her hair down…"
He brushed her hair away from her face causing her to flinch at his touch.
"Even if I was trying really hard not let her win, each time she opened her mouth she was able to corner me easily. I almost felt happy with her around because she was the only one woman not to run away after five minutes with me. Even if I was cold or even mean she would just turned me down."
He smirked as he leaned down towards Tenten.
"And I love her…"
She caressed his cheek approaching her lips from his.
"Hum… A Hyuuga showing emotion? She must worth for…"
"I was mad against her…"
"Why?"
"She lied to me and she swore she would stay with me but I could feel that she wanted to run away…"
"What would she stay with you?"
"Because… I want her to be my wife."
He took her lips on his own, kissing her gently but passionately. He sneaked his arms around her waist pulling her closer to his chest while she ran her fingers in his hair. He broke apart kissing her neck.
"Is that a 'yes'?"
"No, it's a 'kiss me again or else'"
He smirked as he sealed again his lips with hers moving his tongue in her mouth. She moaned holding him tighter. She quit his lips to kiss his neck as he moved his hands on her back making her shiver under his touch.
"Yes…" She breathed in his neck wrapping her arms around his neck to hug him.
He nuzzled her hair inhaling her delicate her scent as he closed his eyes.
"Good, because, then I would have had to blackmail you again…"
The King smirked.
"Neji!"