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*It Was Snowing*
Chapter 2
As Tenten proceeded to prepare her bag,she could not think of how much she was going to miss the 2 green freaks,and most of all the Hyuuga ice-cube.
'To be thruthful',she thought while shoving scrolls,little weapons and comfortable clothing into the bag,'Neji now is a lot more friendly and kind.I wonder why...'.
She knew already she liked him a lot;of course she kept telling herself that it couldn't be love,first they were too young for such a strong feeling,and second, she had always admired him,plus there was their good friendship.'Nah,absolutely not!'.
This skeptical self-discussion was interrupted by a timid "meow?".
Tenten kneeled down to pick up her pet,a beautiful white cat with blue eyes.
"Hachi,sweetie,I was forgetting about you...I'll be away for a while,you know?I got to decide with who it's better for you to stay!"
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Yukimichi was already at the village gate. He was placidly waiting.
The other Chunins,the Senseis,Tsunade and Shizune had greeted Tenten the night before,and now she was coming towards her new sensei with her cat in her arms,follower by a saddened Lee and a totally inexpressive Neji.
Lee was happy for his team mate,not jealous,also because he thought afterwards that being so much time away from Gai-sensei,Sakura and the others would've been hard.
Neji hadn't slept at all that night:too much thinking,too much self-commiseration,too much depression.
He was terribly anguished at the idea of not seeing his Tenten for at least a year.
He was perfectly aware of his strong affection to her,and he had started to panick,during the last months,about how much strongly he often started to think of her bright smile,her simple and beautiful face,and so on,even during solo missions,trainings,and -most scary of all- meetings with the rest of his family.'Obviously,the reason of this all is our friendship...',he kept repeating himself.
But he couldn't explain the physical attraction,prodigy or not. He only acknowledged the fact that hormones existed for everyone.
Suddenly Tenten turned backwards,with a shy smile on her lips.
"Neji,I was wondering if you could keep Hachi -my cat- for the time I'll be away. I'd be a lot more serene knowing that she's with you"
Lee had never had a pet: "Can I help!!??"
A terrified glimpse appeared in Tenten's eyes,to disappear as quickly as it came,and she shrugged,"of...course...you can,Lee...".
"What does she like to eat?" asked Neji,carefully taking the cat from Tenten smiling. Of course he would've kept her cat.
Lee was already caressing the poor thing on the head as if he wanted to tear it away;
"She is capable of finding her own food,just leave her out free at morning,she's usually back at lunch time with her own meal".Tenten smiled at the thought of her clockwork cat.
"And anyway,don't worry if you don't see her for a while".
"That's fine,but I'll watch over" "You don't have to..."
"This cat is so youthful,I am gonna train it!" "...Meoow..."
"..." "...Don't worry Tenten,I promise she'll be fine" whispered Neji.
Lee was hyper with everything,and a cat isn't a punchingball.
"Awesome,thank you so much..This is very kind of you...Mhh...Both,yes." Still smiling,she hugged them,kissed the pet and recommended to greet Gai-sensei and explain everything to him.
Then,she went by Yukimichi,and they left Konoha.
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"Neji,can I keep Hachi today?" "Ask this again and I'll rip your stomach out to feed her" "...Meew" "That was gross and unyouthful,Neji,really" "Hn".
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NOW I resolved the missing words problem! The last word before a full stop and the first right after it automatically disappeared O_O Why that? Well NOW I rewrote everything correctly,so excuse me for the previous errors ^^"
Way shorter than the first chapter...
I hope it isn't all too boring.
It's weird how i was sure there weren't too many erorrs when I updates this chapter,but when I published it,well,some words were missing in some points,and no matter how much i edited and corrected this -__- so, I'm sorry for that.I'll see what I can possibly do again.
