A/N: Thanks for waiting, I posted this the fastest I could. It helps that I had this entire thing written down on paper already. Well, here's the long-anticipated second part of 'Houses and fireballs':

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

'Tenten'- Demons, Inner selves etc.

'Tenten' – Thoughts

Houses and Fireballs part 2

'Tenten' Cai zhi said.

'…'

'Tenten!'

'…zzz…'

'TENTEN WAKE UP!!'

Tenten woke with a start, but she didn't open her eyes, 'Huh? What's going on?'

'We have guests, two of them, one that looks like a giant fish and one that looks like an Uchiha' she informed.

'An Uchiha and a fish man…OMG! Itachi and Kisame from the Atatsuki!' Tenten tensed up upon realization.

'You mean that group that captures demons and removes them from their container?' Cai zhi asked.

'Yeah, we better brace ourselves, things will probably get really ugly really soon.' Tenten advised.

'Agreed, but they don't know you're awake yet. We have the element of surprise on our side.'

'Yeah. Hey, do you know what they're doing now?'

'It seems that they are approaching you right now'

'Okay, Operation: Take down Itachi and Kisame has begun!'

Meanwhile…

'What are we going to do!? If we don't do something soon they'll get to her!' panicked Inner Neji.

'Simple, we get Tenten away from them.'

'Easy for you to say, these are S-ranked criminals we're dealing with here.'

'Hn'

'Whatever it's your funeral.'

Neji made a clone of himself and made him step out into the open. While Kisame dealt with the clone, Neji snuck beside Tenten but Itachi didn't notice because of his bad eyesight. However, Neji didn't expect to see Tenten already awake looking at him.

"What are you doing here!?" She harshly whispered.

"I came to help you now let's get out of here," He replied.

"Not so fast! Tenten, be a good little kunoichi come with us." Itachi demanded, Kisame had finished with the clone a while back and came over.

"Not with the likes of you fiends!" Tenten retorted.

"I guess it's the hard way then." Kisame sighed.

Tenten leapt to another tree and began to throw her many weapons at the pair, who dodged easily. Neji began hand-to-hand combat with Itachi, using his Byakugan so he didn't have to look in his sharingan.

"Water Release: Water Shark Missile Jutsu!" Kisame yelled.

A large body of water appeared in the form of a shark. Tenten threw a kunai with an explosive tag into the beast's mouth, making it explode. Kisame used this distraction to sneak up behind her and throw her at the tree beside it. Landing on her side, Tenten figured that she broke a rib or two upon impact.

'We have to end this soon.'

'Let me take over, it will only take a few minutes'

'Sure, be careful though.'

Tenten's form hunched over, Kisame, Itachi and Neji tensed up. Something strange was going on. At that, Tenten's hands became clawed and her form had a slight tinge of deep forest green. Her ears sharpened and a long, scaly tail appeared. Her normal chocolate brown eyes became reptilian like and coloured a deep gold and her teeth sharpened and lengthened to have her two canines sticking out. Finally, Tenten gained a muzzle with two almost feathery whiskers at the end on each side of her snout. She let out a deep- throated growl and lunged at Kisame. That seemed to snap everyone out of it, because as this happened, Itachi and Neji began to attack each other again, as Kisame began to dodge Tenten's strikes.

Itachi realized that he had to finish this soon, time was running out! So rapidly making hand seals he yelled:

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

A large fireball erupted from his mouth, scorching everything in sight. Neji was forced to jump to another tree so he wouldn't get hit. Using this to his advantage Itachi threw a kunai at Neji in midair giving him no room to avoid it. It hit Neji's arm at a joint, making his taijutsu impossible and rendering him temporarily useless. He used this temporary paralysis to capture Neji in one of his stronger genjutsus, but not as powerful as his Mangekyo Sharingan because he was getting weary and he had to go help out his struggling partner.

Kisame, on the other hand was having a lot more trouble with the transformed Tenten. Dodging left, right and center, he made rapid hand signs once more.

"Water Release: Aquatic Shockwave Jutsu!" he hollered.

Kisame opened his mouth and water came rushing out, turning their formerly dry battlefield into a massive lake. Tenten took out her favourite scroll and proceeded to summon and throw some of her many sharp and pointy objects of destruction at him. Taking out Samehada (1), he blocked all of the weapons thrown and swung his own sword at Tenten, only slightly grazing her but taking out a good portion of her chakra with it. Growling once more, Tenten's arms glowed with a constantly changing coloured aura as she ran again at Kisame finally managing a powerful blow strong enough to blow him back and knock him out which would have to have been really strong. Itachi then appeared beside the now unconscious Kisame and slung his huge arm around his shoulder.

"We'll be leaving for now, but rest assured we will be back. Until then I will inform you that the Atatsuki is looking for a new member to join our ranks. We can help you master your demon powers and make you more powerful than any other kunoichi in this village. Consider this offer as this could help you gain respect and power throughout the entire five nations. If you do accept we will contact you for further details." Itachi declared. With that, the Atatsuki partners disappeared with a 'poof'.

'It is safe now, you can come control your body now' Cai zhi announced.

'Yeah, okay…' Tenten was in deep thought about their offer and what it may mean.

When she became her normal self again, she summoned the fire-breathing dragon once more to quickly dry the grounds before anyone noticed it was wet. After the grounds were somewhat back to normal, she noticed that Neji was still missing. Finding him in one of the trees under a genjutsus, she released him from the illusion and treated his wounded arm. Once Tenten was finished, they went to the grounds and sat down, Neji facing Tenten.

"Okay Tenten," Neji started, "you have a lot of explaining to do."

A/N: Well? I hoped you liked it!

(1): It's that giant sword thing that Kisame always carries called "shark-skin" or something.

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