Chapter Three: Heartbreak and Chaos

Tenten was indeed very extremely happy, with Neji back in Konohagakure, and soon she would get married right after she had recovered from the delivery of her child. That was what the plan would be; hopefully nothing bad would happen during the rest of her pregnancy that is. Tenten was also happy because she had been right all along; she was carrying a little boy.

Though she kept this from Neji, not wanting to ruin the surprise for him, she had asked Hinata secretly one day while Neji was out with the boys having a guy's day out, to see if the baby was doing alright, and by accident Hinata had revealed to her by using the Byakugan the sex of the child. Tenten was at first angry at Hinata, but then extremely happy. She had her days too though, when it came to her mood swings.

Neji had become accustomed to them, which Tenten always wondered how he could put up with her angry and depressed moods. He probably knew they were just being caused by the fluctuations of her hormones coursing through her body, as he had told her in one of the arguments that had broken out.

Tenten was at the training grounds, even though she wasn't supposed to be straining herself, practicing her kunai throwing. What sort of strain would just throwing a few kunai blades at targets do to harm the baby? It was good exercise in her eyes, she didn't want to really allow her legendary '100 deadly accuracy' to go to waste with being rusty for the entire 9 months of carrying her son.

She knew Sakura was going to give her hell for her throwing kunai blades and shuriken exercises. Sakura had told her though to do 'light' exercise, and not to go on any missions, which was making Tenten bored out of her mind and driving her crazy. That was why she was practicing her kunai throwing, without Sakura knowing. 'Bah what she doesn't know, won't freak her out, right?'' She thought to herself as she continued throwing kunai blades for awhile.

"I simply recall, Haruno telling you to take it easy, did I not?" said a voice behind her as Tenten practiced. Tenten froze and turned her head to see a slightly pissed Neji standing there with his arms crossed at chest level. Tenten almost eeked out loud, 'Man, I'm busted now…' She thought as she tried to come up with something to tell Neji.

"Neji, this is light exercise, it's not like I'm asking to spar with someone." Said Tenten, trying to be stubborn at the moment. She knew she could not resist that look he was giving her. He always did this whenever they had an argument about her eating habits or something or other.

Neji smirked a little and started walking over towards her, and said, "Yes, but still, she said no training, and that meant what you're doing is off limits, Tenten…do I have to tie you to the bed at home, just so I know you are safe and not risking the baby's health?" He was now beside her, his breath could be felt on the side of her neck.

Tenten shivered, and blushed at the thought of him doing that to her. That had certainly been a kinky thought. She would have to think about using that idea once she was able to have sex with Neji again, after the baby was born of course. Another thing she was not allowed to do while being pregnant, though she was at times constantly horny, and the only thing that she was allowed to do with Neji was pretty much using her fingers or his to please herself.

Tenten then said, "But…Neji…" She began to pout and tried to be stubborn again. She crossed her arms above her swollen stomach, barely wincing when she felt their son do a drop kick inside of her.

"No buts, Tenten, I will not have you risk loosing our child…" Said Neji sternly, he was only being concerned for her well being after all. He grabbed her and pulled her into his arms giving her arms a tight squeeze as he stared hard into her eyes, making her wish he hadn't had those damning beautiful ivory eyes, that made her heart melt and her knees weaken whenever she looked into them.

He then spoke, "Do you understand me? Haruno told the both of us, this pregnancy could be high risk if we aren't careful, I just don't want to loose you both…" He sounded like he was in pain. He had been having nightmares for the past week and a half since returning from the Mission to Kumogakure, nightmares of Tenten being covered in blood, lying dead on the ground.

Tenten frowned, and said softly, "What's wrong Neji, please tell me, usually you don't mind me doing some of my kunai throwing training…" She wanted to know what was really bothering him, throwing kunai blades wasn't exactly stressing her body; she was just exercising mostly her arms and fingers as well as her mind. She waited for him to respond to her.

Neji sighed and ran a hand tiredly through his long dark brown locks as he tried to form the words to say to her, "I'm just concerned, the mission I was on all this time, has made me worried about yours and our child's safety," He then placed both his hands lovingly on Tenten's stomach to emphasize what he meant as he continued,

"Tenten what if I was to tell you, I uncovered something that could bring about another war to this already torn world?" Tenten could see he was really scared, mostly and undoubtedly for the baby. Tenten frowned and said,

"What do you mean Neji-Kun, if you think there's a threat we should warn Naruto-sama." Neji quickly grabbed her roughly by the shoulders, and said, "I've already done that, Naruto thinks it's nothing to be a concern about, but he said that if it becomes more of a problem, he might have to call in the Konoha 11 to help deal with all of this."

Tenten was definitely worried now, she was apart of that group that had been formed long ago, when they had been young, but she couldn't do much with being pregnant at this moment. She then said softly,

"Neji, I want to help, if it is a problem, I'm apart of this group too…" Neji smiled a little as he heard her say this and said softly to her as he kissed her cheeks, "I Know you do, my koi, but not in your condition right now, right now myself and you have to worry about the little one coming, once our child is born, then you can fight to your heart's content. But right now, I will protect you and our child both from whatever this new threat is for the time being, I made this vow to you the moment I pledged my undying love to you Tenten."

Tenten smiled sadly at him, tears welling in the corners of her eyes, she didn't want to loose Neji, and she just couldn't bear to have to raise their son alone without him. She then said,

"Neji, there's something I want to tell you; I found out a few days ago, the baby's going to be a boy. I know this was supposed to be a surprise…" Suddenly she felt him hugging her as tightly as he possibly can without harming the baby, and then felt him giving her light kisses all over her face.

"This is even greater news, Tenten; it will indeed help my mind at ease a little, I had been putting much thought into names, since you told me you were pregnant." Said Neji, giving her a small grin. Tenten hugged him back carefully and nuzzled into his neck, breathing his scent, he smelt so good sometimes and also felt so lucky to have him in her arms as well as around to always be at her side. Whenever she needed him to be there for her, and she would always be there for him whenever he needed her in return.

"Neji can you take me home please, I think I need to have a nap soon, plus its getting late in the day." Asked Tenten in a whisper as she kissed his forehead. Neji complied and helping her carefully, he walked with her to their home, not even noticing or sensing that the entire time, the happy soon to be parents were being watched by a maroon eyed white haired kunoichi that certainly did not belong here in Konohagakure.

Meidia felt disgusted at how cutesy the happy couple was being, she wondered if this was the ANBU captain that her lord and Master, Kiran wanted to kidnap his girlfriend from. Meidia noticed the girl was the only 23 year old that was pregnant in the village, since her spying mission had begun here in Konohagakure. A small smirk played on the girl's lips as she watched them leave.

How was she supposed to though; get to the girl, with him always sticking around beside her? She would have to try and separate them both, which were the only logical conclusion. And a plan already was in her head, she would appear as a simple woman and attempt to make it look like Neji had cheated on Tenten while he had been away. That was an easy way to get the two of them to separate and of course to make her the most vulnerable.

First thing to do was send a secret message to Lord Kiran, then start orchestrating a perfect exact plan, the man was a Hyuuga. Meidia knew that he probably could see through deceptions with those freaky eyes she had heard so much about, so a transformation jutsu probably would be out of the question. She would probably just have to remove everything that marked her as an enemy ninja, probably also have to dye her hair with a temporary hair dye that could wash out as soon as she was away from him.

A small chuckle came out of the woman's delicate throat as she spoke to herself,

"Maybe I'll keep the Hyuuga as a little pet once I have gotten her out of the picture; he's certainly a handsome specimen. I'll wait and see what Lord Kiran wants to do with him first…maybe I'll have my way with him first before I let Lord Kiran kill him." "This plan has to come into careful timing also. I might have to wait at least a month or two to do this, I'll see…"

Meidia did some planning and then quickly pulled out a scroll and a bottle of ink and a paint brush and began to write a letter on the scroll, using the special ink to hide the message after the words were printed onto the also special chakra infused paper. Only Kiran's chakra could dispel the secret ink and paper to reveal the message. Kiran had been the one to create the ink and had the paper especially made.

Meidia finished what she had wanted to say to Kiran and began placing the ink and brush away and rolled up the scroll, tying it with a special maroon colored ribbon, so he knew who it was from, she then placed it down. She nipped her thumb and started making handseals, real quick ones.

She then called out, "Art of Summoning: Lightning Style: Dance of the Thunderhawk!" She then slammed her palm down and a poof of smoke came out of nowhere, to be replaced by a purple feathered, white eyed, demonic looking bird, which let out a shrill cry as it made its appearance. The bird flapped its wings as it waited for its master's command.

Meidia held out the scroll and pointed in a direction, "Take this to Master Kiran in the Land of Waves, and once you do bring this to him, you may go back to the Summoning World whence you came from, do not fail me my pet…" The bird immediately flew over towards Meidia and snatched the scroll between its taloned feet, and took off with a shrieking cry; leaving sparks everywhere in its wake as it flew off towards the Land of Waves.

A small evil like laugh bursted from Meidia's lips, soon her plan would bare fruit, she had a deep feeling about this would indeed work, and she would be very rewarded for succeeding. She was an evil mastermind just like her Master was, that was perhaps one of the reasons she had been chosen over so many other women in Kumogakure to be Kiran's concubine, his own little personal Concubine.

Quickly Meidia headed off to bring forth the start of a possible bloody battle that would ensue after this. Darkness and Doom would surround the Shinobi world, and crush all those that had opposed and dared to foil the plans of the Dark Oracle Society; she could feel it deep within her blood. Nothing would stop her Lord from achieving this, not even her victims that she was about to tear apart could.

Another month and a half passes by for the couple, everything seemed so far good, and Neji had gone on at least one or two small missions, which Naruto had no choice but to send him on. Neji had insisted that he be allowed to stay in the Village with the impending birth of his son drawing closer and closer. Naruto knew this but he also knew that he needed one of his top ANBU captains on these missions of importance, with a possible threat appearing from the murky depths of what some had called the Criminal Underworld.

Naruto had listened to Neji's concerns of the problem that had appeared in Kumogakure while Neji had been in that land to help the current Raikage to quell down a few rebels. Neji could not help but worry though, that something was about to happen, some of his friends agreed with him, including Temari. Konohagakure wasn't the only one having problems, Sunagakure and apparently also the Land of Mist was having similar problems with rebel ninja appearing out of nowhere, wanting the current Kage of the land's to step down as Leaders.

Naruto had decided to call a small private meeting with Neji, Tenten, Hinata and a few of the other Konoha 11 that managed to make it. Even though Tenten was not allowed to fight if a battle did break out, Naruto had wanted her to be there, as did Neji, so that she knew what was going on.

"Thanks for coming here guys…" Said a much more mature and older Naruto Uzumaki, he gave all his friends a sheepish grin. Kiba Inuzuka, Sakura, Sasuke, of course his fiancée Hinata, Rock Lee and Shikamaru had also come at his summons. The others were on missions to other places at the moment. Naruto was dressed in an orange and red flame Hokage robe, his blonde spiky hair that he had for ages, had grown out longer over the years.

"Okay, basically I called you here because there's a small problem that's been starting to arise in some of our Allies lands at the moment, I've been getting way too many requests for people from this Village to go and give them aid in quelling down all these stupid rebellions that are going on." Said Naruto as he scratched his head and sighed as he looked at a piece of paper as he tried to continue speaking,

"This apparently all started when I sent Neji on a mission to the Land of Lightning to help the Raikage there, deal with a simple problem, which has become a majorly bogus one now." "I want your guys' opinions before I decide to take a course of action." He had always valued all of his friend's opinions.

The Uchiha heir hmphed for a moment and said finally, as the others turned to look at him, "It's definitely starting to sound like there might be one big civil war happening in all of the Shinobi Nations pretty much if you ask me Rokudaime-sama." "I'd have to agree with Sasuke-Kun." Said Sakura who was standing next to Sasuke, her once big crush, and now just a good friend of hers.

"Man, what a drag, this is just a huge pain in the ass, we shouldn't have to help these guys all the time whenever there's a small problem like a rebellion, what can someone like us do?" said a certainly lazy older Shikamaru as he looked at the others before looking up at the ceiling.

Some of the others couldn't help but laugh at Shikamaru's statement, yet he held some truth to it in a way. Neji snorted a little to himself, he opened his eyes, having had them closed as he listened to the others talk,

"If it's such a pain in the ass, Shikamaru, then why did you bother to come to this meeting? This is a very serious threat, which could break out into a war of a very large quantity, if the current leaders are over thrown, peace will be no more, and we are already spread thin enough, we haven't fully recovered from our war with the Akatsuki and Sound Village, even if it has been 5 years."

Tenten was listening quietly to her beloved and agreed with him silently; she then heard Kiba and Lee speak up, Kiba first,

"For once I have to agree with the Hyuuga, he's got a very big point, I don't think we can afford to have to fight off a whole bunch of other Villages, especially if we loose our Alliance with the Sand if for some reason Gaara gets overthrown, which I doubt would happen, but it could…" The dog using Nin was being the smart one for once, instead of being loud and overbearing like he once had been in his youth.

"I agree with my once eternal rival, and I also agree with Kiba-San, my fiancée's homeland will be also in danger of a revolt, even though she vowed she would never return there, I fear she might have no choice but to take control of Iwagakure as the Tsuchikage. We can not afford to loose allies left, right and center, by letting whoever is orchestrating these revolts to simply go free. The big problem also, is that Konohagakure is stretched thin at this very moment." Said Lee as he stuck his pointing finger out in emphasize as he spoke.

Naruto, Neji and now even Tenten were shocked at Lee's speech; he never spoke so passionately about something like this. He had matured greatly over the years. Naruto spoke up,

"Bushy Brows, I never knew you could say something smart like that…" He was teasing his friend even at a stressful moment like this. This brought a chuckle from everyone, even though they were stressed. Rock Lee grumbled and said,

"I wish you would cease calling me that, Rokudaime-Sama. I merely am looking out for the safety of not just my fiancée but for everyone's as well, not to mention my future God child." Neji had agreed to let Lee be the god father of his son after Tenten had told him her promise to Lee. Neji and Tenten both chuckled or shook their heads as Lee and Naruto got into an argument.

The argument went on until Hinata chimed in, trying to get her future husband's attention,

"Um, the bottom line should be this, what do we plan on doing if a civil war does break out in Konohagakure? If we can not save our alliances from outside of the Land of Fire…?" said Hinata softly as she looked at all her friends.

"We won't let that happen, Hinata-Sama." Shouted Neji almost loudly, he would never let something like that happen here. He didn't care at this moment if he called Hinata by her title as the Head of his Clan. Tenten felt scared, she felt this was fate's way of punishing her and everyone that she cared and loved around her, for getting pregnant or something else. She could very well loose Neji if a civil war did break out.

Tenten listened as another argument ensued between all her friends and her fiancée. Tenten felt so stressed at this moment, she winced as she felt her son kicking her hard. She immediately placed her hand on her now 7 and a half month swollen stomach and began rubbing gently, trying to soothe her child. 'I know my little one, you don't want to loose daddy either, I don't know what to do, and I feel so helpless…I want to help but I just don't know how, not in my condition.' She thought to her unborn child.

She then suddenly shouted, "GUYS! ENOUGH WITH THE ARGUING!" She couldn't take seeing her friends always arguing. The entire room became quiet; all eyes peered towards her, including those of her beloved Neji's. Tenten took a cleansing breath,

"This fighting is stressing me out, I can't take this seeing you fighting, and this is exactly what is going on probably out there!!" She said passionately as she pointed a finger out at the window, everyone remained quiet as she continued to speak. No one dared to say anything while a very upset and hormonal pregnant Tenten was trying to talk,

"This is probably why the Akatsuki tried to wipe us all out long ago, haven't we been taught a lesson by that war? We lost a lot of people we cared about, Naruto-Sama, you lost your sensei Jiraiya, Shikamaru you and your team lost your sensei also to the Akatsuki, Hinata, and Kiba your sensei lost her beloved one and the father of her child."

"I almost lost my life to one of them also when we had to go save Gaara, if it hadn't been for Neji saving me from that Water Prison Technique, I wouldn't be standing here 7 and a half months pregnant, none of us would if we hadn't stuck together through that war, it's friendship and compassion we have to show to our allies' people, they probably hate the way their leaders are treating them, we have to tell their Leaders, that only through compassion and a love for their people can they get Loyalty I guess from them, like we have here in Konohagakure." "It's not just the Hokage's duty to want to care and love all the people of the village, it's all of the Shinobi also who have to have a love for the people, I think the third Hokage has taught us this long ago."

Tenten finished what she had to say and decided to walk out of the office, without another word, she probably had made herself look stupid, but she didn't care, she wondered if her words had struck home. 'I hope I got through to them, little one, because I feel like I made an ass out of myself in that room.' She thought inwardly to her unborn one who had managed to settle down on the kicking and moving. Tenten waited outside for everyone to come out of the room after the meeting was done.

The entire room was almost in shocked silence, only to be broken by Naruto speaking,

"Whoa, that was some very huge speech, I mean, some of her words, they really struck home." Everyone agreed with their own sounds of agreement. Neji spoke up as he crossed his arms,

"She knows as much as everyone probably knows that this will turn into another war like the one with Akatsuki if we don't help the other Shinobi Nations, she is tired of having to fight wars that can simply be stopped by making peace with their people and with others." "Even if she is my fiancée, I agree with her wholeheartedly. I grow weary of having to fight all the time, even if we were born to be shinobi, wars can take too much of a toll on the soul as well as on a person's physical body."

Kiba scratched his chin with one of his long fingernails as he spoke, "Yeah, so I guess it's up to Rokudaime-sama what we do then, we should try to give the other villages advice on how to prevent these revolts, and if it doesn't help, then we give what aid we can right? It's in the alliance treaties we signed the day we managed to wipe Akatsuki off the face of the Earth."

Hinata walked over to Naruto and rested her head on his own and waited for Naruto to speak, who at the moment was having a conflict with his inner self it seemed, either that or with the Kyuubi locked inside of him. Naruto then sighed,

"I guess we have no choice, I'll have to wait for the others to show up, but we have to do what we can to prevent the entire Shinobi world from going up in a puff of smoke, I may not have cared a whole lot for some of the other Villages, but I can't allow Gaara's Village nor this one to end up in a huge war either."

"Neji, Sasuke, Sakura, Kiba, Rock Lee, and Shikamaru, I know this will put a strain on your personal lives, but I have to ask you to work twice as hard on the missions ahead. I'm going to have to grant aid to at least the Land of Lightning, Wind and Water for now, those Lands can not fall, they are apart of the 5 Great ones ttebyo!" "I'll send some Chuunin and other Jounins to deal with the other nations if they start getting trouble there too."

All of the others nodded as Naruto finished his speech. Neji knew Tenten was going to be upset with him having to leave probably on very important missions; he would have to make a compromise with Naruto about him staying close to the Land of Fire in case Tenten went into labour while he was away. Naruto then spoke up again after a few more minutes of silence,

"Your dismissed guys, Neji I want to talk to you before you go." Neji bowed his head and waited for the others to leave, all of them giving bows to their Hokage. Hinata took this moment to give her cousin and her beloved Naruto some time alone. Naruto let out a grunt of tiredness as he rubbed both sides of his forehead, as a headache started forming there apparently.

"Neji, I know Tenten's due in another month and a half, but I'm going to have to do my damnest to keep you here in the Land of Fire, but if I must, then I have no choice but to send you and your squad." "Sakura's already told me her pregnancy is almost becoming a high risk one, with the stress of you having to leave all the time, plus these damn fucking Villages… so I'm going to have to put you on reserves in case an emergency pops up and I have no choice but to send you…is this okay?" "Another thing, I want you to make sure you keep an eye on her, they might come after you for killing that guy of theirs…by targeting Tenten."

Neji nodded, "Hai, Hokage-sama, it is fine thank you, I pray we can put this to an end fast." Said Neji with a curt nod again to him. Naruto nodded and waved him off in dismissal. Neji quickly bowed his head and walked out of the office. Neji sighed as he rubbed his sore neck as he came out of the office.

Tenten was waiting for him against the wall. Neji immediately walked over and pressed a kiss to her cheek, showing the stress that was going through him at this very moment by that kiss. Tenten looked at him and said, "I heard everything since I left the room, Naruto-sama is trying to keep you here as best as he can because of the baby?"

Neji nodded quietly, "Hai, not just that though Tenten, he's worried that they might target you and our son to get to me, so that is why he's keeping me here, to guard you, and to protect me." "Though I really I should be out there more to deal with this threat. I am the one that discovered and figured out the source of the problem in the Land of Lightning, in the first place."

Tenten nodded as they began walking down the hallway and then outside. She grabbed Neji's hand and held it in hers as they walked. She gave him a smile, "I love you Neji…" she said, trying to relieve his stress by saying those three precious words to him.

Some of his stress did indeed melt as he pulled her into an embrace and murmured back to her, "I Love you too Tenten, both of you." He then pulled her into a passionate kiss for a few minutes before pulling away and continued to walk. Suddenly a voice shouted as they started walking back to their apartment after talking quietly about the entire ordeal and other non stressful things,

"DARLING there you are!" the voice came from behind Neji and Tenten, and the voice was female. Tenten and Neji both turned in confusion to see a dark haired woman with what looked to be maroon eyes walking over to Neji.

Tenten blinked and was shocked when suddenly the estranged woman pushed Tenten aside and practically glomped Neji right in front of Tenten. Tenten couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"Oh Neji, my koi, I missed you so much, you can not believe how hard it was to find you 'ere…" said the woman as she suddenly kissed Neji straight on the mouth. Neji couldn't do anything, he was totally shocked and frozen to the spot, he had no clue to whom this woman was, and he didn't know her. He tried to speak, as he had no idea Tenten was starting to become upset at the entire scene.

"I don't know who you are Miss, but you have 5 seconds to get your hands off me…" hissed an angry Neji. "Oh come now, you can't remember someone who you shared a night with while being in the Land of Lightning?" said the woman with a slight pout to her lips.

This was indeed pissing off Tenten; suddenly she began storming off, tears pouring down her cheeks. Neji had cheated on her, this was the only obvious conclusion, all he had said to her was a lie, and he didn't love her truly. Suddenly she heard Neji's voice, "Tenten! Wait…!"

"No Neji…don't bother, you can stay with your little whore, as far as I'm concerned we are through!" shouted Tenten between soft sobs as she quickly took off from the scene, leaving a very upset and pissed off Neji and a satisfied Meidia in disguise.