121 Days: A taste of Freedom?
Konnichiwa Minna-san!
I felt like writing this story today, because I had the motivation to! Heehee. I really hope that you like it, dear reader! Smile!
-Tennie
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Tenten sighed in her messy white hospital bed. She looked over at the calender that she had asked her sisters to put on the bedside table yesterday.
'I have 114 days left...' She thought, closing her russet brown eyes, before opening them,and looking out of the window, at the garden. She looked at the blooming flowers in there, the people playing around, before looking at her legs, which were still wrapped up in bandages. She sighed once again, wanting very much to move her legs.
"Come in..." She muttered as she heard a knock on the door. "Ohaiyo." She smiled sweetly. "Neji."
"Ohaiyo. Hinata-sama couldn't come today because she went for a meeting with Hiashi-sama." He came in with a basket loaded with fruits in it. "So this is for you." He put it on her bedside table, before picking the calender up. "What's with the crosses?" He asked, his pupil-less white eyes turning to look at her.
"Huh? Oh!" She hesitated. "T-That's nothing!" She smiled a clumsy one. "It's just that I'm marking the days I... erm... The days that have passed before I can get out of here!" She lied.
"Then what's with this marking?" He flipped to a page where she had circled 'March 9'.
"T-That's my birthday!" She replied.
"Hn." He set it down and she heaved a sigh of relief. "Do you... hate being in here?"
"Yeah... I want to walk and all, go out, but I can't walk now..." She looked at her legs. "Eh! You're going now?" She said as she saw him leave the room.
"I'll be right back." He said, shutting the door behind him.
"Huh?" She looked at the door, confused.
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(A few minutes later)
Neji came back into her room, with a wheel chair.
"Eh! You took that wheel chair?!" Tenten's eyes widened.
"Yeah..." He said, holding out his hand to help her get on it.
"Arigatou..." She smiled widely, before taking his hand. "Oof!" Her butt fell onto the chair.
"Alright. Where do you want to go?" He asked Tenten, who was reaching out to tie her hair back up in it's trade mark buns. (A/n: She had let it down in her room!)
"The garden!!!" She giggled at him, but he still seemed indifferent. She sighed. "Dude. You really need to show more emotions." She looked at him with bored looking eyes.
"Hn." He replied.
"And a new vocabulary..."
"Hn."
"And more facial expressions..."
"Hn."
"Do you have a girl friend?"
He stopped pushing the chair and looked at her, raising an eyebrow.
"Finally you react!!!" She laughed.
"Hn." He started to push it again.
"But seriously. Do you have one?"
"No."
"Wow..."
"What?"
"It's interesting... to see somebody like you without a girlfriend..." She grinned.
"Hn."
"Ooh! I like this song!" Tenten listened to the song which was playing. "Frederic Chopin's Fantaisie, Impromptu! I love it!"
"It's interesting..."
"Huh?"
"To see somebody like you liking classical music..."
"Huh. Very funny Neji. Can't I like classical once in a while?" She gave a 'hmph' as Neji smirked.
"C'mon! Hurry up!" She grumbled.
"I am not your horse."
"C'mon!" She giggled. "Go on, horsy!"
Neji frowned a frown longer than what he'd normally do. "Hn."
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"Woah!" Tenten's eyes widened at the sight of a garden full with a variety of flowers.
"What's with you and flowers? You sound like a little kid." Neji looked down at the brunette, who looked back up at him.
"First off, they are pretty. Second, I am not a kid!" Tenten yelled.
"Hn. Then the accident must have made part of you into a child..." Neji teased as Tenten puffed her cheeks up.
"The accident didn't do anything, Neji!!!"
"Then you must have always been this childish."
"Damned it!" She waved her fists around.
"Here." Neji held out a flower he had picked for her.
"Arigatou!" She took it from his hands.
"Sudden change in attitude huh?"
"Screw you."
"Hn."
"But you know you aren't allowed to pick flowers from this garden right?"
"Hn. I'll take that risk."
"Man, Hyuugas have nothing to be afraid off huh?"
"Except my cousin."
"Oh yeah! Naruto..." Tenten sweat dropped. "Anyway, since you said to take the risk..." Tenten picked another flower.
"That applies to Hyuugas only."
Tenten's eye twitched. "You should have told me earlier..."
"Then let's go."
"Where?"
"You'll see."
"Huh?" Tenten looked at him with childlike innocence. "You Hyuugas really like to suprise us huh?"
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"Wow... how the hell do you know about all these places in the hospital, Neji?" Tenten looked at the city, which now looked sooo small. (A/n: The hospital is high up on a hill!)
"Map..." He held a pamplet up and she froze.
"E...heh...heh heh..." Her eye twitched. "It's beautiful anyway... but it'll be much nicer if it was the sight of a mountain or something... Some place with a better view than well... a city with smoke emitting from it."
"You like nature?" Neji raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah! It's nice... and relaxing..."
"Wow. Another interesting point."
"And... what is that?!" She glared.
"Most girls hate forests and all, screaming bout bugs."
"Yeah... And your point is...?"
"You don't."
"uh huh. Very observant..." She rolled her russet brown eyes.
"Hn."
"Thanks... anyway." She looked down for awhile, but tilted her head back up and smiled.
"Hm?" He asked. "You said something?"
"Thanks! For bringing me out her and all..." She gave a sad smile.
"Do you... want to go back now?"
"No... Just a while. A while more..." She sighed.
"Ok..."
"Eep!" Tenten sat up straight as her cell phone began to vibrate, then play 'Shooting Star'.
"Moshi moshi?" She answered. "Tenten here!"
"TENNIE! WHERE ARE YOU?!" A voice screamed from the phone so loud that even Neji could hear it.
"Sakura-chan? Chill..." Tenten spoke into the phone, covering the mouth piece.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHILL?! YOU AREN'T IN YOUR ROOM! WHERE ARE YOU?" Sakura asked with a really, really worried tone.
"I'm with somebody... We're coming back soon. Just wa-"
"Ooh! A boy?" Her tone changed and Tenten blushed.
"Yeah..." She replied, looking at Neji who was staring down at her.
"Yatta! For once in her life... Fuyuumi Tenten agrees to be out on a date with a boy!!!" Sakura announced through the phone.
"IT'S NOT A DATE!"Tenten yelled, Neji raised his eyebrows.
"Anyway, be back here soon, ok?" Sakura spoke.
"Sure! See you!" Tenten ended the call. "Well, should we go back now?"
"Hn." He started to push the wheel chair.
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"Ah Tennie! Oh my...Neji was the one with you?! Wow..." Sakura's emerald-green eyes widened in disbelief.
"Yeah..." Tenten was pushed near her bed.
"I'll be off now..." Neji told her.
"Alright! Ja ne, Neji!" Tenten smiled and waved good bye. "Thanks for everything again!!!"
"So anyway, how was it?" Sakura smirked.
"I had a taste of freedom there!" Tenten replied, leaving Sakura confused.
"Taste of... freedom?" Sakura repeated as Tenten nodded her head.
"My first taste..."
"Huh?" Sakura looked at the sily looking Tenten.
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Wah!
Gomen ne minna-san, I kind of rushed through with the ending so yeah... it didn't turn out that good!
(Slumps down onto my work desk)
I'm tired...
And I still have piano and tuition to come tomorrow...
How I hate this year...
(Sighs)
Anyway, Tenten was talking about her first taste of freedom since she entered the hospital, ok? Please don't get confused!!!
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'Goddesses aren't meant for humans? Think...again.'
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Oh! And I have this new Idea for a oneshot, so I'll write it before the rest, because I already have it all out on paper! Hee hee.
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Tenten: Hey Neji?
Neji: ...
Tenten: Do you think we should end it for her?
Neji: hn.
Tennie: Wait no!!! I want to continue first!!!
Tenten: But you'll most probably take up a lot of time right?
Tennie: No!!! Please let me continue!!!
Tenten: (Sigh) Fine...
Tennie: Alright! So where was I? Oh right. Manga... Neji... Imeem... Neji... My boy friend... Neji... My friends on Imeem... Neji...
Tenten: Done?
Tennie: Yeah...
Tenten: Alright!
Neji: Hn.
(Tenten and Tennie does the Hitachin twins bored eyes)
Neji: What?
Tennie: He seriously needs more vocabulary...
Tenten: Expressions...
Tennie:Oh, add in a love life.
Tenten: Aren't you going to give him one?
(Neji twitches)
Tennie: Yup!
Neji: With who?
Tenten: Yeah... who?
Tennie: Merissa! (Laughs maniacally)
Tenten / Neji: who's that?
Tennie: Somebody... (Still laughing)
Tenten: Ok... (Takes a kunai out)
Neji: Hn. (Goes into the Jyuuken stance)
Tennie: Just joking guys! Tenten! Put that beautiful kunai down! Neji! Don't do the Jyuuken!!!
Tenten/ Neji: Hn.
Tennie: (Sweat drops) Dudes? This is a NejiTen story.
Tenten: Oh yeah!
Neji: Hn.
(Tennie twitches)
Tennie: Alright! Ja ne Minna-san!
Tenten: Ja ne!
Neji: (does the Jyuuken on the digital camera)
Digital Camera: (Crys?) Bzzz...
Tennie/ Tenten: NEJIII!
Neji: Hn.
(Tape destryed by Hyuuga Neji)