'Tenten'- Demons, Inner selves etc.
'Tenten'- Thoughts
Chapter 3: Houses and fireballs! Part 1
Itachi and Kisame reached the gates of Konoha by dawn the next day. Knocking out the guards, they entered the village looking for the bun-haired weapon mistress. According to Zetsu, she lived alone somewhere in the outskirts of Konoha to the west, in a small townhouse with three kunai slashes marking the door.( Why they were there, well let's just say when she became a ninja at age twelve, the training grounds weren't the only place she had target practise, that poor messenger is still traumatized to this day...) Thinking that was the best place to start, they headed over to her house...
Meanwhile, Tenten just left for her early-morning training when she got this funny feeling in the pit of her stomach while walking to the training grounds.
' Did you feel that?' Tenten asked.
' Feel what?' Cai zhi wondered.
' It's...It's nothing I just have a strange feeling that something exciting will happen today' she replied.
'Are you sure it's not just a certain emotion towards a certain Hyuga?' Cai zhi teased.
She could feel the heat rising up to her cheeks.'Wh-What? I don't know what your talking about' answered Tenten.
' Please, spare me the details! I know your infatuated with Neji-kun, and I must say, your taste in men is great.' Cai zhi retorted.
' Shut up!' shrieked a very red Tenten.
' Your only denying yourself Ten, everyone knows you love that boy, except himself of course. Besides we're here, so you might want to get rid of your blush' Cai zhi advised.
Tenten cooled her face off, making her return to her normal skin tone. Even though she was training was by herself, she would never hear the end of it if Gai or Lee saw her and started talking about her ' blossoming love'. Taking out her weapons, she warmed up with weapon throwing, each one hitting the target in the center as usual. After around 15 minutes, she put her weapons away and took out her summoning scroll while making hand signs except this time, she summoned only one of the eight dragons. This one, had brilliant red scales with diamonds embedded into each one, its eyes were a dark yellow and had a scar running from the left ear to the snout.
"Are you ready?" Tenten asked. The dragon nodded." Very well, let's begin" she replied.
The dragon took flight into the air, opened its mouth and released several fist-sized fireballs aimed at Tenten. Whipping out a kunai, she did a series of acrobatics, slicing each fieball in half, making them disappear. Next, the dragon unleashed a few more in different directions, each destroyed by Tenten Nodding its head, it inhaled and breathed out several hundred more at a rapid pace. Summoning two kanatas, Tenten took each fireball out at a much faster rate eliminating each one before they hit the ground. Once she finished, the dragon blew over a thousand of these fireballs at her. Tenten took out two scrolls and preformed Rising Twin Dragons throwing an array of weapons aimed at the falling fireballs hitting five at a time. Once those disappeared, the dragon landed, gave a toothy grin to Tenten and 'poofed' away. Looking up into the sky, she saw that she had roughly three hours to restore her chakra before training. So jumping to the highest branch of her favourite tree, Tenten sat down and nodded off to catch up on a few hours of sleep.
Reaching the girl's house, Itachi and Kisame opened the unlocked door. Bad idea. At that instant, a dozen kunai flew from inside with explosive tags. The only way to dodge them was to either step to the side or fall down the steps behind them, either way, if they didn't move fast, well, let's just say that wouldn't be very nice. So, they side-stepped to the left, both paleing at the ominous clicking sound heard when moving there. Ducking down, to avoid being decapitated by a swinging sythe, they bolted inside towards the stairs, dodging senbons, kanatas, shirukins and other weapons of mass destruction flung their way. Jumping into what seems to be Tenten's room, Itachi collasped on the bed while Kisame just plain collasped from exhaustion.
" Man -pant- what -pant- is with this kid? She's -pant- insane! I mean who booby traps their entire house anyways!?" Kisame wheezed, "She's only what?15?"
" We should definitely train more if these traps wear us out so much," Itachi panted," if that girl does join us, it definitely would be interesting, especially with Deidara around. It's a good thing that our headquarters can easily be repaired because they'll destroy it faster than you can say missing-nin"
"Agreed, That kid better be in here or we' ve just wasted quite a bit of energy for nothing." Kisame replied.
Itachi got up, "Well that seems to be the case, or she would have shown up already from the rukus." he said,
"Damn, I guess we have to go to spot number two: the training grounds now..." Kisame muttered, "But let's rest a bit before we go". With those words they fell back down and took a small nap...
2 hours later...
Feeling fully energized, Itachi and Kisame exited the townhouse and headed north, towards the training grounds while trying to sense some unusual chakra, signaling the demons presence(1). Looking around, they sensed that particular chakra nearby, somewhere probably in a tree. Nodding to each other, they lept into the trees only to find a sleeping Tenten. Itachi smirked triumphantly at Kisame, thinking their mission was going easier than planned. Unknown to them, a pair of white eyes were watching their every move.
Flashback:
Yawning, Neji woke up an hour earlier than usual, so, since going back to sleep would be close to impossible, he decided to head over to Team Gai's training grounds to meditate for a while. As he was walking there, he was having an argument with his inner self.
' Just tell her already, I mean what harm could it do?' Neji's inner self inquired.
' Hn' Neji 'replied'.
' Argh! Don't you know 'hn' is not a word? Besides, everyone knows you like Tenten already, just tell her!'
'Well?' 'his inner asked hopefully.
'...Hn'
' I hate you'
Neji smirked,' So I've been told.'
' Well, at least I don't say '...' or 'hn' all the time.' Inner Neji smirked.
'Ha! See what I me-'
' Shut up, something's not right here' Neji interupted,' look.'
About four yard's distances away, two figures lept across the field, both wearing the same black with red cloud coats. Hiding his chakra, Neji snuck behind them and darted into the trees to see what they were doing. Seeing them smirk set off alarms in his head. Even more so to see that they were approaching the tree where Tenten always hung out at. But it wasn't the tree that Neji was worried about, it was the girl sleeping in it.
A/N: I'm going to split this chapter into two pieces because 1. I want to think about how to improve, well, you'll see and 2. Today is my birthday and to celebrate this chapter is to come out!
(1) The Atatsuki are specialized in locating demon containers. Almost anyone wouldn't be able to figure the difference unless they looked really hard.
Thanks to reviewers:
Yuri Muroku
Princess-Daisy0
Paralizing-Ninja