A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry that the last chapter was so short, I was exhausted from school, track, and such (stupid migraines!) By the way, did you see the latest episode for Young Justice? I loved the ending, it was so cute… They SOOO belong together for many reasons ;) The fighting was awesome too, it made me laugh when it was mentor VS. sidekick…..

Give me some ideas where I can type them and make you happy! Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Warriors' themes, cats, or battle techniques; I don't own any characters from Naruto, or ninjutus…

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Tenten's head snapped up in surprise, and looked around her. Why did Neji and Lee scream her name? Did they need her help? Was one of them hurt? Was it a badger of fox helping call? A bird (a robin) shrieked in surprise and flew away from the branch it once was perched.

"Neji? Lee? Is that you? What's wrong?" she yowled into the never-ending green and brambles, and it echoed off in the long distance.

This was getting strange, it almost sounded as if they were SCARED for her. But from what, what could possibly be horrifying?

*SNAP!* a twig in the woods was stepped on. It wasn't a mouse, or a squirrel either; this was a cat.

Tenten span around in a clockwise circle to the sound of the intruder, and let out a vicious hiss.

"SHOW YOURSELF!" She crouched in a fighting position expecting the cat to jump out at her in offensively. She scanned the forest floor slowly and carefully, wondering where it would strike her.

The intruder didn't come out, not in the way Tenten thought anyway, to attack. The cat came out slowly and jauntily, as if it thought it was superior and she was no match. This cat was dark, with a large scar on its face; its eyes were…

THE BLUE AND RED ONES THAT WERE IN THE FERN!

Now Tenten really was ticked, why was this FOX DUNG here anyways? He wasn't familiar, from any Clan for that matter. She hissed and snakingly circled this stranger. Was he a rogue or kittypet perhaps? He watched with amusement on his face, twitching his whiskers. This only made Tenten angrier. She finally lunged at him from the back, trying to get on his back; her claws unsheathed with a yowl of attack and fury.

He merely kicked his hind legs and got her in the face. The blow knocked her on her back, the air being knocked out of her. She hopped up again, her pelt puffed out twice as big as she lunged at the strange tom cat again with her claws. First, she aimed for his face, but he ducked and quickly unbalanced her by twisting her body around by the paw she used to attack him with. She fell on her back again, seeing StarClan itself dance before her eyes.

Before she could get back up, a very large paw was brought to her chest, making it hard to breathe; also making it impossible to stand up. The tom just stared her with a mocking look on his screwed up face. She didn't give up though; she hissed and spat at his face, kicking her hind legs at the same time.

"Now is that anyway to treat an old Clan Mate?" he meowed quietly in a deep, grounding purr.

"Old CLAN mate? I've never seen you before, you ugly crow-food eater!" Tenten hisses, still trying to get free.

The tom continues to purr in amusement. He gets right by her ear and whispers deathly quiet, "I could just kill you in one bite at the neck, do you know that? I could kill you before you found out who you REALLY are".

Tenten stops squirming and kicking to look into his eyes, was he telling her lies? She hisses angrily, "How do YOU know who I am?" She was angry at this cat, but at the same time…..curious. He looked so familiar, but yet so different. Could he really be telling the truth?

"I have known who were since the day you were born; right under an acorn tree, in the middle of a warm, autumn day." (A/N: stalkerish much, right?) Tenten paused, and looked at his paw and then lifted her gaze to his.

She asked quietly, almost painfully, "Where did I come from?" The tom lifted his paw from her chest, allowing her to jump up on all for paws. She stared into his blue and red eyes, as he did to her doe brown ones. Was he studying her, expecting to run away, to fight?

She sat down on her haunches, her tail just swishing back and forth slowly. "Is there more? Why did you come for me now, and not sooner?"

He sat down himself, and began to tell her, "Aren't you just sick of them?" he snarled.

"Sick of what?"
"Your new Clanmates, pphhhhh, if you can call them THAT even," he replied, still snarling.

"Why would I be sick of them? They actually took care of me instead of leaving me in the middle of nowhere!" Tenten returned the snarl, as well as a stare.

"WE DIDN'T LEAVE YOU!" He yowled, standing up quickly, and stomped to her face, "you were taken from us," he whispered quietly.

"Y-you didn't?" Tenten asked surprised.

"No," he said gentler, "we never wanted you to go, you were STOLEN from us, Tenten."

Tenten leaned over, and lay down on all four paws in the muddy earth. She was so confused, why didn't the Leader tell her? Or Neji's Uncle? Was it to keep her safe? She looked up to the tom again, and then asked, "I still don't understand why I should be sick of my NEW Clanmates? She questioned.

Anger flared back into his eyes, "Aren't you sick of being treated like a, a, a HALF-BREED? LIKE A STRANGER TO YOUR OWN KIND?" Tenten thought about that for a second, sure it was true that her Clanmates were very cautious around her; from the beginning of being introduced to the Clan, to this day even still. Was there a reason for this?

"Do they…..HATE me?" Tenten whispered, "Do they think that I will betray them?" She didn't cry, she just was curious about this cat. Besides, she wasn't the type to cry anyway.

"I don't know, do they? Do you get mistreated because you were not Clan born, but adopted into their Clan instead? Hmm?" He prompted her with his nose on her muzzle.

"I don't-" she was cut off by a yowl in the distance. She knew that voice!

"NEJI!" she shouted, jumping up toward the noise. She then swung her head toward the tom again and hissed, "What have you done to my friends?" she demanded, "TELL ME, TELL ME RIGHT NOW!"

The tom got up calmly and told her in a no-nonsense meow, "They were in the way, and needed to be disposed of. Now, come with me."

"NO!" Tenten snarled, "I knew I couldn't trust you!" She turned around, and started running toward the battle cries of her team mates. I'm coming Neji! She thought. And Lee, she briefly added while dodging branches and falling trees.

The tom merely started to calmly walk in the direction she was headed, snarling quietly to himself.

"Sir!" the blue she-cat was back to tell him news.

"What do you want, Isis?" He hissed at her. Isis flinched, but stood stiffly to him, "The white and black cat are fighting back, driving our group to the river," she reported. The tom snarled at her bravery to come tell him BAD news.

"Can they swim?" he inquired. The she-cat thought about it, "I'm not sure, Sir I-"she was cut off with a blow to the head from the top. She landed at the overgrown roots of a sycamore.

"THEN GO FIND OUT!" he hissed at his fallen comrade. She shakily stood, shocked from the blow and let out a uncharacteristic snarl. The tom was taken aback; Isis never retaliated, not even in battle.

She snarled out to him before she ran off into the trees, "I would have noticed if WE had some leadership instead of you sitting here like a kit in catnip!" She abruptly turned around, still dizzy, and ran off before she could hear a reply from her fearless leader.

The tom sighed tiredly, "What have we come down to?" he muttered to himself. He began to follow Isis to the battle of claim. That claim-Tenten.

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IN THE BATTLE

Neji jumped from rock to rock, confusing the enemy she-cat. She strokes his left, his right, but just kept missing. She let out a frustrated yowl and just lunged at the next rock ahead of Neji. He smirked and jumped back, he knew that rock was slick with ice frozen from the freezing water in the current. She landed on the rock…but then was soon in the water from clumsiness with a cry of shock.

He smirked at his enemy as he saw the she-cat run away toward the marsh. His victory smirk didn't last long, though. He was soon countered with four different toms, all with a different ability. The speedy jumped onto his back, claws digging into his flank. He hissed as he tried to buck him off.

The largest one rose one of its large paws to strike a blow to his head, he merely ducked and instead hit his own team mate, knocking him unconscious into the river. The tom was shocked that he hit his team mate, but then took the chance to try to hit Neji with both paws. The other two cats circled him, running in opposite directions, trying to confuse him with a nin-jutsu. He activated his eyes, and saw through the poorly disguised jutsu.

He jumped up and down, trying to get the big ones' attention. That's when Lee joined him in his fight, just finishing his own. His enemies were running off toward the same place the she-cat headed to. Lee nipped at the big tom's hind legs, jumping out of the way when the cat tried to crush him. Lee unsheathed his claws, gave out his battle cry, and landed on his back. Lee then looked at Neji, and then the twins, and nodded his head. Neji knew what to do after this.

Neji got the big one unbalanced as he swung around from rock to rock, trying to knock off Lee from his back. He fell toward the twin cats, making them crash into each other, being crushed by the rather large cat. They all fell into the river, then floating farther toward the bank.

"NEJI! LEE!" they heard a voice yowl. Tenten then leapt onto a blonde, striped she-cat that was blending into the horse-tails, trying to sneak up on them. Her claws were clung to the she-cat back as she flipped her in the air, and into the river. Of course, this made Tenten fall in as well.

"Tenten!" Neji yowled to his teammate. She was bobbing up and down in the river, with paws flailing, trying to grab onto something to keep her from drowning. He chased down rock over rock until he was farther than Tenten onto a larger trunk that had fallen there ages ago.

"NEJI!" Tenten screeched.

Neji leaned over as far as he could to the water, mouth open. Tenten finally was about to come under, he snatched her by the scruff of her neck, pulling with all his strength to get her to the top. She landed on top of him with an Umph! They both began panting loud and heavy, and them realized they were still stuck together.

Tenten then jumped off of him, shaking the water from her now dark brown pelt. She looked at Neji, and helped him up saying, "Thanks for your help, Neji."

Neji then felt a little lighter, and cleared his throat, saying, "You're welcome, Tenten".

They shared a silent stare at each other before Lee came along. "YOSH! YOU ARE BOTH OKAY!" Lee shouted happily. He walked across the trunk to where they were.

"Are you two injured?" Lee asked as they jumped away from each other. Neji answered, "No, just shocked, and wet." He said indicating to Tenten.

"Where did they go?" Tenten suddenly asked.

"They ran off with their tail between their legs after you guys left. All of them" Lee answered proudly.

"Oh, alright, then we should be going back and reporting ourselves in, shouldn't we?" Tenten asked.

"YOSH! LET US GO!" Lee screeched as he began to speed trot back to the Clan. When he was out of ear-shot Neji asked her," Tenten, are you sure you're alright?" He sounded and looked very concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine Neji, just a bit of water logged," Tenten joked nudging him in the shoulder. Neji sighed with relief, Thank StarClan, he thought.

"Let's follow Lee, shall we?" Neji inquired as he started off the log.

"Yeah, let's go home," Tenten's voice sounded hollow at home. Neji didn't seem to notice. Right before she got off the log, she turned around to where the cats had retreated. Sure enough, there was that strange tom that had talked to her earlier, his eyes piercing her pelt.

She shook her head, and turned to follow Neji; hoping things would just go back to normal again. Sadly, somewhere inside her deep, spiritual self, she knew that this wasn't over yet. Not for all the prey in the forest.