Disclaimer- I don't own the title of this story, the song the title came from, or Naruto. I do own, however, my dignity, imagination, and my OC's.
a/n: alright, so the second chapter is here, I'm going to try and get this story done as fast as I can, and I will be working on chapter 6 of WHH in between this chapter, and others, until I am finished. Oh yes and to clear something up, Ino is not jealous of Tenten because she is roommates with Neji, in fact Ino doesn't even know that Tenten is Neji's roommate.
Chapter 2: spilled lunch
I woke up at 6 in the morning, I know sort of early, but I always wake up at this time. I got out of my bed and walked to my dresser and got out some clothes. I walked into the bathroom and took a shower. After my shower I dried off with my towel, and got dressed. I looked all over the counter for my two hair-ties, and then I remembered that I left them on my dresser.
"Damnit." I cussed. I don't like going anywhere where there are people who could see her with her hair down, especially when the person that could see you is a male. I snuck out of the bathroom very quiet, but the light was on and Neji was awake. Damn him, he has seen me with my hair down. I hate this. I snatch my hair-ties off of my dresser and walk back into the bathroom.
I started to put my hair up in it's normal twin buns, when my hair-tie, the one that I had in my hair already, snapped. So after that I tries to put my hair in a ponytail and you know what the other one snapped too. Damnit, it looks like I'm going to have to go down to Ryu's Dorm and see if DaniLynn has a hair-tie. I walk out of the bathroom and Neji was staring at me.
"What you looking at." I stated, it was not a question.
"Your hair, it looks good down." Neji stated looking away, I could've sworn I saw a tint of pink on his face, but I waved it off and walked out of the dorm room with my key, and walked down to Ryu's and DaniLynn's dorm. I knocked on the door, and I heard footsteps to the door, and they seem to have tripped a couple of times, because I heard a couple of thumps.
DaniLynn answered the door, she didn't have her glasses on, and her hair was down like mine. She squinted, trying to get a clearer look at me.
"Hey there Tenten, What's up?" DaniLynn asked.
"Do you have any hair-ties?" I asked DaniLynn. She nodded and invited me into the room. "Well your room is cleaner than it was yesterday."
"Thanks." DaniLynn said. I looked at her, and the instant I did she tripped.
"Would you like me to get your glasses for you?" I asked her when she started to get up.
"Yes, that would be nice, but the thing is, is that Ryu stole my glasses last night, and he won't let me have them until I put my contacts in, which I hate contacts, they make my eyes all itchy." DaniLynn said feeling around for the bathroom door.
"Well, I'll make him give them back." I said. I walked over to Ryu's bed, and sat on him.
"Get off of me." Ryu said in a murmured voice.
"Not until you give me DaniLynn's glasses." I said.
"Tenten, why are you in here?" he asked even though his voice was muffled I could still here his question.
"My bands broke, so I came to ask DaniLynn if she had any hair-ties, and she told me that you stole her glasses. So give them back."
"Fine, just get off of me." Ryu said. I got off of him and he got DaniLynn's glasses out from his dresser. "Here you go DaniLynn."
"Thanks Ryu, thank you Tenten." She said as she put on her glasses. She entered her bathroom and came out with 6 bands. "Here, this will last you a while, right?"
"It should." I said. Ryu looked at me.
"I like your hair down." Ryu said.
"Well it doesn't matter what you like now does it," I stated, I started to walk over to DaniLynn to get the bands, when Ryu picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, he grabbed the bands from DaniLynn. "Let me go Ryu, and give me those hair-ties."
"I don't think so, the only way that you are going to get these hair-ties is that you have to wear your hair down till lunch." Ryu said, he stated walking out the door with me over his shoulder, I think he was bringing me back to my dorm, and I was right.
"Fine, but the instant lunch starts you have to give me the bands." I said while he was walking down the hall with me over his shoulder.
"Deal." he said. Ryu knocked on my dorm door, and Neji answered. "Here's your roommate back." Ryu said throwing me to Neji, lucky for me Neji caught me.
"Ryu, you evil whore." I said getting out of Neji's arms.
"Tenten honey, I'm not a whore, I'm a bastard." Ryu said. I spit at him and hit him right between the eyes. He wiped the spit off. "Just for that I'm not going to give you all the hair-ties during lunch, you only get one until after school."
"Toad lord." I said under my breath. "Fine. Go back to your dorm brother dear." I said in an acidly sweet voice.
I turned around and Neji was there staring at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing." He said and turned away. I looked at the clock it was now 7 in the morning. Breakfast is starting. Then after breakfast there is homeroom that starts at 8:10. I didn't want to go to breakfast with my hair down, but I had no choice. I walked out of the room at about 7:20, Neji was already gone, but I really didn't care.
I walked into the cafeteria, grabbed my food, and sat with my brother, DaniLynn, Faye, Hinata, and Sakura.
"Hey guys." I said. As I sat down by Faye.
"Hey." Hinata and Sakura said in unison, Faye just waved and DaniLynn smiled.
I ate my food listening to everyone talk, and only talked when I was spoken to. The bell rang and I went to my homeroom. Everyone was staring at me, and you know what, to make everything better Ino is in my class. I sat down in the only empty desk, which just so happens to be 2 rows in front of Ino's seat.
"Hey, I'm Kiba, what's your name?" The guy next to me asked.
"Tenten." I stated simply. The guy kept on checking me out throughout the whole homeroom period, it sort of freaked me out. I had my hand under the desk in a fist, I wanted to kill him right then and there.
The bell rang, and I hurried out of the door to find my next class, Ino was following me the whole way, you want to know how I know, I know because she was glaring at me the whole time and I could feel her glare as if it was piercing through me. I found my second class, and sat in an empty seat, and yet again people(mostly guys) were staring at me, I felt like a piece of meat everyone wanted. I couldn't wait until lunch to get on of those hair-ties.
-----time skip-----
I sat in all of my classes paying attention, but I couldn't help but want the bell to ring for lunch. It was finally the last period before lunch, and I was still getting that glare from Ino. All the guys were staring at me and introducing themselves to me and asking me out. Of coarse I refused them all. But during the time where all the guys were introducing themselves to me and stuff, I could've sworn the glare on my back intensified.
The bell rang for lunch and I was on my way to the lunch room, Ino was in front of me, so I finally got that intense glare off my back. I went to the ladies room, before I entered the cafeteria and got lunch. I started to head over to where DaniLynn, Ryu and everyone else was sitting. Ino stepped in front of me before I could take another step to the table.
"Uhm, excuse me." I said politely, trying to get by Ino, but she just stepped in front of me again. Everyone's eyes were on me and Ino, and I saw Ryu, DaniLynn, Faye, Hinata, and Sakura all stand up. "Could you please move?"
Ino didn't say anything, but she flipped her hand up and knocked my tray up, all the food on my plate went on my shirt. I looked at her with the blankest expression, and then started laughing.
"Haha, looks like you accidentally spilled my food on me." I said stretching the word accidentally out. Ino grabbed the collar of my shirt and pulled me up close to her.
"You would quit drawing attention to yourself, that is if you know what's good for you, you would." She said in a low angry voice. After she was done with her statement to me she let go of my collar and turned around and left to her group of friends.
I took my tray and threw away the rest of the food that was left on my tray. Everyone's eyes were still on me. I walked out of the cafeteria, on the way to the bathroom, when a hand grabbed my shoulder. I looked behind me, and Ryu was standing there, and DaniLynn was behind him, and so was everyone else.
"...Ryu." I said, my eyes filling up with tears. Ryu pulled me into a tight brotherly hug. I cried into his shirt for a little bit, but finally stopped.
"Come on Tenten, lets go get you some clean clothes." DaniLynn said. I nodded, Sakura, Hinata, and Faye followed me and DaniLynn into the dorm room, and into my dorm room. When we were in the dorm room Faye came up to me and gave me a hug. I hugged her back.
"Why does Ino hate me so much?" I asked after me and Faye were done hugging. I got clean clothes out of my dresser and set them in the bathroom.
"She doesn't like you because you draw attention from others, something she can never accomplish to do, what she did today in the cafeteria was to draw attention to herself, she thinks that picking on the new girl will give her the attention that she wants." Sakura said. I walked into the bathroom and changed after Sakura's explanation.
I came out in fresh clean clothes. DaniLynn handed me 2 hair-ties. I smiled at her and put my hair up in it's signature style.
"Thank you." I said to DaniLynn. She smiled. Sakura glomped me.
"Panda, you have literature next period with Kakashi, right?" Sakura said smiling, apparently my new nickname was Panda. I nodded. "Yay, we have the same class, come on lets go." Sakura said as she practically dragged me out of my dorm. I laughed at Sakura's excitement.
"Hold on, I got to lock my dorm room." I said, when everyone was in the corridor waiting for me. I locked the door and Sakura grabbed my hand again and started walking down the hall with a huge smile plastered on her face.
"You want to go shopping once school is finished?" She asked walking backwards. "I'll invite Faye, Hinata, and DaniLynn."
"Sure, that'd be fun." I said smiling.
"Cool, meet us out in front of the dorm building after school." Sakura said as we entered the classroom. I nodded, we sat next to each other and chatted , the teacher didn't show up till there was only 10 minutes until the class was over. A blonde kid stood up and yelled at the teacher, telling him that he was late. The teacher said an excuse saying something about getting lost in the path of life, and the blonde, which later I found out his name was Naruto, yelled at him again, calling him a lyer. Kakashi-sensei wrote down the assignment and said it was due on his desk the instant class started.
The bell rang and it was time for the next period. Sakura and I split ways. I walked into the next class, and my roommate was in this class, the coldhearted bastard with no life. To make everything worse the only free seat was next to him, so I set down my stuff on the desk and plopped down in the seat he looked over at me, and then kept his attention to the front.(A/N: SEXUAL TENTION!!)
During the class I heard whispers about me, such things as: "Did you hear, the new girl right there got her lunch dumped on her by Ino." and "Isn't that the new girl that Ino threatened, I wonder why she threatened her, it's not like she's pretty or anything.". The latter one hurt me more than what happened, actually they both hurt me, I hated that someone hated me for no apparent reason, and I hated that people judged me by the way I looked.
I looked down to the top of the desk, my hands under the desk balled into fists. I was holding back my tears. All of a sudden there was a piece of folded paper in front of me. I unfolded the piece of paper. It read:
Don't worry about what they're saying, don't let it get you down. You are pretty, and that Ino chick is just jealous because people are introducing themselves to you and not her.
Neji Hyuuga
I looked over at Neji and smiled at him and mouthed the words thank you to him and he nodded as if saying no problem.
The rest of the class went by, and I didn't pay attention to what the other people around me were saying. I felt so much better thanks to Neji, I really didn't care what kind of rumors were going around the school anymore.
A/N: ALRIGHT!!!!! I am finished with this chapter, it only took me 6 hours of thinking, typing, and listening to There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey. You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet. Over and over again to get this chapter done. Hehe, I also worked a little bit on WHH chapter 6, I got a couple more paragraphs done. Tell me if there is anything wrong in this chapter. Well I am going to go to bed now, I'm tired, It's 12 in the morning, so I'm going to bed night minna (minna means everyone in Japanese, just in case you didn't know)
Ja ne (see you)
Cheez Plz