HELP! I'M DROWNING IN HOMEWORK! GAH!!! Ok I'll stop now. Sorry about that and not writing for so long… I have just had the worst case of writers block… and also as seen above, I am officially drowning in homework. And oh yes: I DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

Here to Stay

Chapter Six: Green, Goldfish and More Green to be Seen

Neji stared with his mouth open… Tenten was alive and standing in front of him… He tried to say something but apparently in the end looked like he was trying to imitate a goldfish.

"I suggest you apologize to Cynara before it's too late…"

Again Neji imitated the great legendary goldfish from Konoha River. (A/N I don't know where that came from…)

Tenten looked at Neji, not amused. "What are you waiting for me to do? Punch a few teeth out of your mouth? Because I will if you leave your mouth open like that."

With that Neji regained some sense as he weakly asked, "What do you mean 'before it's too late'?"

"Uh… you haven't noticed yet have you? We're in a wooden shack."

Neji paled and instantly lost his normal calm exterior as he remembered his current situation. "OMG!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?"

For those of you who don't know what is going on. The evil plants that want to toast Neji include trees… wood trees.

"First of all calm down. Second of all go apologize to Cynara and than everything will be okay."

"Go to Cynara to apologize? I'm sorry but if you haven't noticed yet there's a WALL of plants out there that want to devour me!"

"Is it just me or is it that the great Hyuga Neji is afraid of a couple of plants?"

"…Hn" Neji regained some of his superior stance.

"Okay if you're going to start ignoring me than I'll just push you out of this little hovel. Alone."

"Don't. Even. Think. About. It. You have been warned."

"Okay than on the count of three we charge straight to Cynara's caravan… fast."

Neji stared at her as if there was something wrong with her but seeing as he did not have any other choice he agreed.

"One…"

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Cynara wrung her hands… "WhatamIgonnado? It's been at least an hour and I don't think he's alive… You know what I'm going to look through the trunk Aunt Thorn left me." Note: It has only been fifteen minutes but seeing that Cynara has no sense of time…

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"Three." Tenten flung open the door and they followed the plan which was to run to Cynara's caravan. If that didn't work there was always plan B… which was to run for their lives… And there was no plan C…

Fifteen minutes later

As Neji and Tenten neared the caravan Neji suddenly asked. "Is this a good time?"

"I don't care what time it is!" Tenten panted back.

Suddenly the caravan rocked as something exploded inside.

"I ask again. Is this a good time?"

"I reply again… I DON'T CARE!!!" Tenten pounded on the door.

And again something exploded. But bigger and louder this time.

"Sounds like someone' having a temper tantrum inside… And it is not a good time for that…" Neji stated as he watched at the nearing mob of green.

A disheveled Cynara answered the door. "WHADDAYA WANT?"

"CALL OFF YOUR PLANTS!!!" Neji and Tenten yelled back.

Cynara stared at Neji. "You're still alive? Unbelievable. Sorry can't help you."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T HELP US?"

" Well you see I kind of lost control of them a while back so…" She let the sentence trail.

Tenten looked as if she was going to hurl herself at Cynara. "CALL. THEM. OFF. NOW."

"Tenten you're scaring me and I told you… I can't!"

"You don't want me angry…" Tenten responded with a murderous glint in her eyes.

"Okay, okay. Geeze… But if I get eaten remember… IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"

"It's called survivors guilt…"

"Whatever just stand back."

"I'm trusting you…"

Cynara shook her head as she stepped toward the mass of plants in front of her. She glared at them. They stopped their ongoing march forward and seemed to glare back. " I don't care if I just cheated you of a free meal… Back off." The plants decided to ignore Cynara and began to proceed again. It seemed as if Cynara just turned very mad. Cynara clenched her fists.

Neji raised an eyebrow. "She's going to do exactly what?"

"I think she's going to fight the plants…"

"So she was the source of this mess in the first place?"

"Yeah pretty much."

"Oh I see… Do you think she has some tea in her caravan? I suddenly have a craving for tea."

"I don't know. Let's go check."

And they went inside the caravan to find some tea. What greeted them was a scene of utter chaos. There was shattered glass all over the place and there seemed to be an unsettling purple vapor in the air…

"AYE!!! Nice friends you are! Leaving me alone to do your dirty work! I should get paid for this… Honestly…" Cynara enter the caravan. "Sorry about the mess… I had an… encounter with a … wild beast…"

Tenten looked up from her tea. "What kind of wild beast? And would you like to have some tea?"

"… First you leave me to kill plants and than you raid my caravan? Nice… But yes I would like some tea."

Neji looked up as well. "Well? What kind of wild beast was in here?"

"The worst kind available…"

"And that would be?"

"A little kid…" Cynara shuddered. "Wild little things…"

Neji and Tenten just stared at Cynara. The only sounds that could be heard was Cynara calmly sipping tea. Finally Tenten decided to speak, "Uh… okay. So what exactly happened?"

"Nothing much. A few things exploded and that's probably it. I trust that everything's settled between you and Neji?"

Tenten stared at Cynara. "What do you mean settled?"

"You're telling me he wasn't the least bit curious about you magically reappearing after disappearing?"

"I'm right here you know." Neji told them not liking to be ignored.

Cynara gave him the hand. "But you're not in this conversation."

Tenten ignoring the little conversation decided to answer Cynara's question. "He hasn't mentioned the subject yet so I don't think he's interested…"

"I didn't mention the subject because we were being chased by killer plants!"

Cynara still giving Neji the hand looked at Neji. "You have been excluded from this conversation. Remember?"

She turned to face Tenten who had started to talk again. "And he was imitating a fish earlier on so…"

"I see… hmm…"

Neji now almost giving up all hope just noticed something. "Cynara?"

"WHAT?"

"You look a bit… green."

It was true Cynara's hands were turning a brilliant shade of emerald green and so were her eyes. The blue tips of her hair had faded in to a pale green as well. Cynara staring at her hands quite oddly started muttering to herself. "Must have been something in the trunk… or else I'm suddenly getting an allergic reaction to little kids…" She then turned to the two former teammates. "I suggest you leave, this might be catching…"

I finally overcame the wall… BWAHAHAHA to you writers block!!! This chapter I think was a bit of a filler. (That's what's going through my head right now.) I hate little kids too… Cynara shares my pain… ARRGH!!! Unhappy memories of little kids…- Shadoom