Disclaimer: I Do not own Naruto

I want to apologize if you guys think this fic is complete crap. Usually my stories are a lot more serious and tragic, so this complete randomness, as well as writing about fictional characters, is in a completely different ballpark for me. So, sorry x Hopefully my next fic will be better…? (though it's not like I know what anyone thinks of it, yet. Still haven't read any reviews ;D)

Fluff to come, I promise. (for those fluffy fans)

The trip home wasn't nearly as fun as the trip there. For one, Hanabi was going seriously slow on purpose. Secondly, she was constantly kicking rocks at Tenten's heels and legs (which only added to the growing list of bruises she had received within the last three days). Thirdly, Tenten had nothing to look forward to. Not only was she shopping, but she was shopping with Neji's demon cousin. And after shopping there was more Hanabi babysitting. Fun…

Five seconds into the apartment and Hanabi was complaining about what crap it was, how much it sucked compared to the Hyuuga compound and how she couldn't stand to stay in such a rat hole for an afternoon.

"If you want rated R horror movies and mature violent video games, you'll deal," Tenten hissed. Hanabi glared at her from under her bangs.

Tenten proceeded to drag out her xbox and wad of cords and controllers. Once untangled, she plugged it in, stuck in the three prong things and tossed her game pouch to Hanabi.

"Choose whatever. I really don't care if you get nightmares"

"As if" The girl spent about five minutes staring down intently while flipping the pages of games. Tenten thought she heard her muttering things like 'crap' and 'double crap'. This girl was seriously starting to piss her off.

"Pick one unless you'd rather us bake sugar cookies"

Hanabi quickly flipped through the rest, picked one and tossed it at Tenten's head.

"Halo 2. Nice," she commented, setting the disc in and turning the Xbox on (a/n: best game. Ever. xD). "Do you want to play by yourself or two player?"

"…what do you think?" Tenten scowled and threw the controller towards Hanabi. Soon children's choir music started (a/n: that's totally what it sounds like, too!) and she laid back to watch the Hyuuga girl play.

Sakura arrived two minutes before nine. Tenten sprinted to the door. She never thought she'd see the day when she actually wanted to shop. But she would do anything to escape the hours of continuous verbal abuse.

"Looking hot today, Tenten! And you said makeup wasn't your thing," Sakura laughed, then winked. Tenten put her arms behind her head and shrugged.

" Ooh! Who's this?" Sakura cooed, stooping down in front of Hanabi. "Hi there, sweetie pie. Aren't you adorable?"

"Sakura. Nooo-!" Tenten began, but Hanabi had already set down her controller and looked Sakura in the face.

"I am not a sweetie pie, and I am not adorable. I suggest you get out of my face and let me playing this freaking game before I Jyuuken you to hell, bitch"

"…don't" Tenten finished, covering her face with a hand. She couldn't see Sakura's face but guessed it looked pretty p.o.ed.

"What did you call me, freak?!"

"Oh, so you're deaf and ugly?"

Sakura was shaking. Hanabi was smirking.

"Uhm. Okay guys. Let's go shopping. Now," Tenten insisted, grabbing Sakura's collar and dragging her backwards and out the door. "Hanabi, you too" Hanabi ignored her and continued playing Halo.

"Hanabi, come or I'll….take you there on a leash," Tenten threatened. Hanabi stopped playing again and looked at her.

"You…wouldn't…dare" Her eyes were scary. Tenten gulped.

"Watch me" Running into her room, she emerged with a leather leash.

"Sakura, hold her down" Sakura grinned, approaching Hanabi.

"Stay back you witch!" Sakura grabbed Hanabi's arms and held her down on the floor. The girl wriggled on the floor.

"Think of this as revenge" Tenten said, hooking the leash onto the belt hoop on her capris. "Now if you want to keep your pants and your pride, I suggest you shut up and walk"

If looks could kill, Tenten and Sakura would be dead. The Hyuuga girl rose silently, arms crossed, and began to walk out the door. The teens behind her gave each other a success smile, then grabbed the other end of the leash and started towards the mall.

"Here. This is the store I wanted to go to," Sakura told Tenten, stopping in front of a small shop. The display window was filled with fake cobwebs, rubber spiders, broomsticks and fake cauldrons.

"…I guess. I'll unleash you if you promise not to run away or attack anyone in that store, including us, kid. If you do, I won't hesitate to do something with my very sharp kunai"

Hanabi only glared, then nodded slightly. Tenten unhooked the leash.

"Aw, Tenten, you're no fun. We could've kept her like that in there," Sakura whined, still extremely insulted from earlier.

"Honestly, Sakura. I think it falls under cruel and unusual punishment…though I'm not saying she doesn't deserve it"

Inside there were rows upon rows of costumes. Some of them were already put together, but there were also various dresses, jackets, tops, pants, wigs, and hats that could be used to create and original costume. Tenten decided that she lacked any creativity to make her own costume like that and instead headed towards the completed ones.

Some of the costumes were quite frankly the stupidest she'd every seen. Who honestly wanted to be Captain Crunch or the Hamburglar? She browsed the clothes quickly, not truly caring if she found any or not. Hanabi followed dutifully behind, silent. This scared Tenten. She knew that the girl had to be plotting.

"Ooh! Tenten!" Sakura squealed a few rows over. "You have to try these on" Sakura found Tenten and handed her a pile of costumes.

How the heck does she do that in like 2 minutes? Tenten asked herself.

"Er…do I have to?" Sakura's glare answered her question.

Grumbling, she trudged over to the changing rooms leaving Hanabi with Sakura. The first costume was a devil. It was, in Tenten's opinion, extremely sluttish, but she had to show it to her friend anyways. It consisted of a small, tight red halter top and a just as small and tight red miniskirt with thin black devil tail protruding from her butt. The shirt and skirt seemed to be made of leather and crinkled when she moved. Atop her head went a headband with two horns and a plastic red pitchfork was held in her hand.

Tenten emerged from the changing room, completely embarrassed. "Sakura. There is no way I'm wearing this thing. It's way too tight and I'm feeling breezes in places I shouldn't"

Sakura eyed her up and down. "Well if you ask me, you look sexy, but whatever"

Tenten looked at Hanabi who was still silent.

That's funny, she thought, I thought for sure she'd take this chance to insult how I look. I wonder if she's still mad.

Apparently she was. A small smirk crossed the girl's face as something seemed to click in her mind. She opened her mouth.

"Oh my god Tenten," Hanabi yelled loudly across the store. At first Tenten thought something was wrong with her and twisted around to see if she missed a zipper or a bug or something. "There's a lump on your boob! Do you have breast cancer?" Hanabi continued to yell, if not louder than before. All twenty employees turned to stare at her, and some of them were guys.

Oh god. That kid was going to get it. Tenten dashed back into the changing room and sat down, holding her face in her hands. If only she could beat that girl within an inch of her life. But there was such a thing as Child Protective Services…

"Get it together, Tenten. You're letting a seven-year-old dictate your afternoon. Ignore her. Just ignore her," she told herself calmly, slipping off the halter and skirt. She decided to avoid any 'breast cancer' exposure, she'd go with something less revealing. She emerged from the changing room a second time.

The costume was a bit cliché. She was dressed as a witch garbed in a long black cloak with green satin inner lining. Fish net stockings ran up her legs and met a knee length black skirt. Her middle had a small section of fish net as well, but in a modest proportion, and went on to a semi-tight green strapless top with black ties running down the middle in a criss-cross fashion. On her feet we two large pairs of black boots, but despite their size they were very streamlined and perhaps a bit more elegant than what a real witch would wear. A black choker went around her neck and, of course, on her head was the typical pointed witch hat with a green ribbon tied around its middle.

"Fab-u-lous" Sakura exclaimed, stressing each syllable.

"You think?" Tenten twirled, her cape flying. It was certainly less…sluttish than the devil outfit.

"Ooh, Tenten. You finally brought out your true self. I must say you'll look better with that wart, though. Maybe you should wear the costume all the time?" Hanabi giggled, then quietly stepped on a corner of the cape while Tenten was moving. She crashed to the ground.

"God dammit! Seriously! How many times do I have to fall for this effin curse thing to be over?" She stood, lifted up her cape carefully to make sure not to trip again, then marched back into the dressing room to change into her regular clothes.

"I'm getting this just so I don't have to try on anything else. No breast cancer. No staring employees. No tripping. Nada," she hissed, draping the costume across her arm and approaching the counter. She handed the clothes to the girl at the register while keeping her eyes on the floor. She had to be laughing at her.

The process went rather smoothly. Clothes wer rung up, money was paid, change was given…and it all happened silently. Tenten thought she was going to get off scott free. With her luck she should have known. While handing the bag and receipt over, the girl spoke.

"I'm sorry about your boob" Tenten's mouth dropped. Whether she was joking or was seriously stupid enough to think she actually had breast cancer, she didn't know. But that was just…

"My boob is just fine, thank you," she snarled, snatching the bag and stalking out of the store.

"Wait, Tenten!" Sakura yelled, running to catch up. She had already paid for her costume while Tenten was changing. Hanabi was back on her leash and was being pulled roughly behind.

"Look, that was totally embarrassing back there. I'm sorry," her best friend tried to apologize.

"Forget it. I just wanted to get home and tie up that little monster until I get to bring her home"

Eight hours later, a knock came at Tenten's apartment door.

"Go away, Sakura. I don't care what it is you need. It can wait until tomorrow," she yelled.

"Well I thought it'd be a good idea to pick up my cousin, but if you want to keep her…." A voice said on the other side of the door. Tenten flew up from the couch and yanked the door open. Neji was there. At her apartment. Her crappy apartment.

"W-what are you d-doing here?" she stuttered. "I t-thought I was supposed to take h-her home. H-how did you k-know where I l-live?"

"What are you now, Hinata? It's called the magic of a school directory, Tenten. You should try it"

Damn, she cursed, I knew I should've left my address unlisted!

Neji shifted his head to peek inside. Tenten blushed deeper.

"Has she been like that all day?" He laughed quietly, apparently extremely amused. It was then that Tenten remember Hanabi, who she had leashed to a lamp the moment they came home from shopping.

"Er. Yea," she laughed nervously, putting an arm behind her head. "But she was a demon, just like you said! She…she flipped me off and insulted me and Sakura, then she refused to shop to I had to drag her there on a leash and then we let her off to look at costumes for Sakura's party and then she yelled that I had a lump on my boob and everyone stared at me and then the cashier felt sorry for me and well…" Tenten took a breath, "she totally deserved it"

She nearly died when Neji glanced down for a brief second as if to check if she really did have a lump.

"Relax. I agree that she pretty much deserves anything bad that comes her way. The leash idea really wasn't half bad. I'll gave to try it". Tenten was surprised her took her side. She was sure with his personality he'd be extremely protective of his cousin.

"Well, er, I'll go unhook her…now…" she walked back in and took the leash off Hanabi. The girl jumped up and quickly ran to her cousin.

"So…maybe I'll leave her with you again?" Neji prodded.

"NO!!" Both Tenten and Hanabi yelled together. Neji chuckled.

"Fine. Hanabi, go home. I want to talk to Tenten. Alone," he commanded. Hanabi looked up at him, face displaying how peeved she was.

"I've taken enough orders today. I'm not going to take them from you, too"

"Go or I'll kiss you"

She was gone in a flash. Tenten's jaw dropped.

"I can't believe it was that easy…" she murmured, amazed.

"Yea, well, until I figured that out it wasn't very easy for me either. Your debt is paid now. Just so you know"

"My debt was paid a thousand times over, Hyuuga," she poked him in the chest, "and if I'd known I was going to go through hell like that, I wouldn't have done your favor"

His eyes sparkled with amusement. " Hm. Would ramen make up for it?"

Tenten's eyebrows soared upwards. Was he…?

"Yes, it would. But Hyuuga Neji, are you asking me out on a date?"

"Hn. Not really. But I think anyone who has to go through lump accusations deserves a bowl of Ramen"

Tenten chose to look past his insult. Free ramen and time with Neji. She hit the jackpot.

"A bowl? I hope you have a lot of money with you because I eat way more than a bowl!"

Neji shrugged, then grinned. "I'm sure I can afford it"

"Showoff"

No offense to anyone about the breast cancer crack. I'm not trying to offend those thousands of women who are struggling with this cancer right now. I actually have a deep respect for them and their determination 8

Sorry if things seemed a bit rushed, but it was getting extremely boring writing so many unimportant details. I figured they'd be just as boring to read. Obviously next chapter will be a bit more fluffy x3 Until then!

Quick Note: I will be on vacation from the 5th-13th of July. We're staying in the country so I highly doubt I'll get any signals and be able to post any chapters during that time. However, I will write them (most likely, unless I have absolutely no free time) and post them when I get back. Sorry! ;