Ok, ok. So this was meant to be a continuous multi-chap story, but I've been so undecided with so many aspects of this 'story', I've decided to just turn it into a collection of short oneshots. This will be a good place for me to put up some of the random ideas I have which are too short to be a story of their own. Sorry for any disappointment caused. But from now on, "Half Full" is officially a oneshot collection! Yay!

"When I come to your apartment, I expect you to be here!"

That was probably the worse thing he could have said at the moment. He had not meant for it to sound that way – in fact, that statement was not even directed at her, it was more of an enlightenment of his own foolish thoughts. Of course, Tenten did not, and would not have known that.

"What's that supposed to mean!?" she was suddenly cross. "What am I? Your slave girl? I don't come at your command, Hyuuga Neji! I go wherever I want, whenever I want! If you want to talk to me, you call me beforehand to see if I'm home, like everyone else does! Don't you dare talk to me like that! Why are you always so selfish? I don't…"

"You left this at the training field" Neji said, holding her kunai towards her.

She was silent for a moment as she stared at the glistening piece of metal on his rough palms.

"Oh…" she said quietly, taking it slowly from his hand. "Thank you."

"I should go now." he said, and with a flick of a heel, he turned quickly and was gone in an instant.

That was the first time he ever went to her apartment. He had stood there and waited for five full hours before she returned home from the supermarket.

*****

"Hyuuga Neji, why are you," he watched as Tenten checked her watch. "7 hours late to training? It's 12 in the afternoon!"

He wasn't looking at her, but he could still see her, thanks to his Byakugan.

"I don't know." He shrugged. "Maybe it's because I'm selfish."

She heaved a huge sigh.

"Neji." Her tone sounded as if she were speaking to a three year old. "I'm sorry, ok? I should not have said you were selfish. I just… just didn't expect… you shouldn't have said…"

"I waited five hours for you." He said quietly. Of course he was taking advantage. Who wouldn't?

"Neji…" she almost whimpered. "I'm sorry! Really! It just… just wasn't something I'd expect from you, you know?"

"What isn't?" he turned to look at her.

"Y…you know. Couldn't you have just went in and left it on my table or something? Or given it to me the next time we trained?"

"You know as well as I do you can't sleep without counting all 146 of your kunai." He told her. "So, no. And to answer your first question." He walked over to her.

"You want me to break into your house?"

"Well not exactly break in." she said. "I wouldn't call it that. You are a ninja though, so I wouldn't have thought breaking into a simple lock like mine would be much trouble for you."

She had no idea how ironic that sounded.

"Maybe." He said.

"What do you mean maybe? You're an expert at breaking locks. You…"

"Maybe I just wanted to see you." He shrugged.

*****

He rang the doorbell again, but still, nobody answered.

"Come pick me up at 7." She had said.

Well, 7 was now, and said girl was not where she was supposed to be.

Somehow, he felt this had happened before.

It was their date. Their very first one, to be exact. He was keen on not repeating his previous mistake, and promptly began the lock breaking procedure he had learnt at the academy.

Ah, the miracles of a hair pin.

As he fumbled around the lock with the thin piece of metal, the door of the apartment next to Tenten's slowly opened, and an old, wispy man walked out. He caught Neji in his act.

"Oi!" he said in his crackly voice. "Whatcha think yer doin?"

*****

Neji was going to kill her. Damn Gai sensei and Lee, she was now officially an hour late for her date with Neji. She ran through the streets, easily dodging the people walking past.

"Another thing for him to nag me about." She rolled her eyes.

As she neared her apartment, she heard two male voices arguing over something.

"You don't understand! I'm her boyfriend!" one said.

"Yer all say tha' yer all does. It aint' foolin' me, yer yob. Tenten's a good lass, you aint' takin' her stuff, you aint…'"

"What do you mean they all say that? How many guys, exactly, come to her apartment claiming to be her boyfriend?"

"Too many, she's high in demand yer know…"

"Neji?" Tenten almost laughed at the scene.

Neji Hyuuga was at the mercy of her 89 year old neighbour.

"What was I supposed to do? Punch him?" he said later on that night, as Tenten recalled the look on his face when she found him.

*****

For Neji's 18th, he received all sorts of expensive presents, all in huge boxes of different shapes and sizes. However, his favorite was also the smallest – tied carefully in a small white box with a red ribbon.

It was from Tenten, and she had finally decided it was time he got a key.

A/N: Weeeeeelll… I suppose you could say this is a prequel of one of my other stories, "Leftovers". I certainly got the idea from that story anyway. It came from one sentence, guess which.