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Chapter 12

The normally stoic face twitched. His mouth, which was normally, a straight line twitched into a smirk and gradually a smile. A low rumble of a chuckle was heard and something happened that very rarely occurred…Hyuuga Neji laughed. A full belly laugh. Tears formed in his eyes but he made no effort to wipe them away.

Tenten colored angrily and she stood up, tears glittering in her eyes. When Neji saw this he made an attempt to stop laughing but the damage had been done and Tenten was ticked off. "You promised you wouldn't laugh Hyuuga," she hissed, the tears in her eyes threatening to spill over. "Forget it, I never should've told you!" Her brown hair whipped her face as she turned and stalked away.

"Wai…Tenten wait!" The indignant brown haired girl had gotten three aisles over before Neji was able to catch up with her. She refused to look at him, instead focusing on the sheets in front of her. "Tenten, wait…Tenten!" Neji, finally in an effort to make her stop took her hand and forced her to turn around to look at him.

Her brown eyes were filled completely with tears but Neji couldn't determine whether or not they were hurt tears or angry tears for her face wore an expression of anger. "Why do you think I didn't tell anyone all these years that I was jealous about my lack of surname? Everyone would laugh at me. Just like you did!" Neji sighed and laid a hand on Tenten's shoulder, pulling away reluctantly when she shook it off.

"Look Tenten I'm sorry I laughed. Really, I am. I…what I was laughing at, really, wasn't the fact that you don't have a last name." When Tenten gave him a dubious look he held up his hands, palms out in front of him. "Really. I'm serious."

Tenten sighed, defeated. "Then why did you laugh?" They had wound up in the bedding section and as such both sat down, sinking into the pillow display. Neji looked at her intently. "Because. While everyone else has something complicated that they need to fix…yours is the easiest thing in the world."

"How am I going to get a last name Neji?" Tenten asked, rather annoyed. "Do you expect to just make one up? You can't do that!" Neji chucked again, this time rather dryly. "I can think of a solution that is much less complicated than that. I've actually been meaning to do this for a while."

Chibi Neji struggled to his feet from the pillows. Turning around so that he faced Tenten, he picked up her hand in his own and knelt on the floor. "You're missing a last name…then become a Hyuuga. Marry me Tenten."

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"So…what are we going to do? About Neji and them I mean," asked Ino as she lay on the couch. "I don't know?" exclaimed Sakura. "That place…okay. It has a laser jutsu in place, a laser powerful enough to cut through diamond. The door is rigged so that if you touch it you get a giant electrical shock. Don't even get me started on the surveillance system…"

"That entire system…" said a lazy voice from the couch. "Is based on smoke, mirrors and word of mouth. And that's exactly what the manager is counting on. The only thing that's real is the jutsu with the electric shock and even then, it's not that bad." The two girls looked over at Shikamaru. "I was bored one day and sitting on the bench outside the department store…I watched the manager activate the system. It's only one jutsu."

The two girls waited impatiently. "Well are you going to tell us how we can break through it."

"It'd be too troublesome." Ino threw a pillow at Shikamaru's head and yelled "Tell us you lazy bum," in an angry voice.

"Fine fine," he pushed the pillow to the ground and put his hands behind his head. "We can't break the jutsu. It's time activated-turns itself off at the same time each morning, at around 8. At that same time the manager is coming towards the store. What we need to do is you two need to cause a distraction and, as soon as the jutsu is broken for the day, I'll open the door and let them out. It's 12 AM now… Sakura do you have an alarm that will wake us up at around 7:30 AM so that we can actually get there on time and still get some sleep?"

Sakura nodded dumfounded and went upstairs, returning with her little pink alarm clock. She set it for 7:15 and the three of them curled up to sleep.

Except Ino didn't. She stared at Shikamaru and remembered what he had said he was missing.

Flashback

"Praise." She turned to look at him, an odd look on her face.

End Flashback

She went on to remember about how he had told her no one had praised him as a child. 'I'll make a mental note to praise him about his plan tomorrow,' she thought as she drifted off to sleep.

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Tenten stared at Neji; brown eyes wide open with shock. Her hand, the one in his, trembled like a leaf. "Are…. you serious Neji?" she squeaked. "Because if you're just making fun of my situation it's not funny… And I highly doubt that the little weddings that children preform for each other will count to reverse this potion..."

"Believe me, making fun of the fact that you don't have a last name is the farthest thing from my mind right now Tenten. As I said, I've wanted to do this for awhile. And please don't dismiss it as just a little kids thing. I truly do want to marry you. And if all goes as planned, when we get married as children...it will be for real. And it will count." "But…but…" Tenten sputtered, "We've never even dated…and you've told me numerous times that…"

"…I think dating is stupid. And I still do…. but look at it this way. It is, if you've already found the person that you are absolutely sure you're going to spend the rest of your life with." Tenten's eyes opened to an almost impossible width. "How long…"

"For about a year," he said. "That's when dating became pointless to me." A blush and a smile spread over Tenten's face but it was soon quelled when she thought of something. "For me to turn back I'd actually have to get the last name. No one is going to marry a pair of six year olds. We could go to Tsunade but then she would find out that Sakura gave us the tripped out potion and…"

"Again, it's not so complicated because, as I said, I have a way that would make it official without going to Tsunade. Since I'm a Hyuuga and Hinata is the heir of the Hyuuga bloodline she can perform the wedding in the ceremonial Hyuuga fashion. We could get married right now and all we would have to get is Hiashi-Sama's permission to make it legal, once we turn back of course."

Tenten had run out of arguments. That left only for her to say… "Yes. Yes, Neji I will marry you…thank you." Neji stood up and leaned in, taking his fiancée into his arms. Their faces were leaning closer and closer until….

"Hey guys, I need a hand. Hinata fainted." The two looked to where a full-grown Naruto was carrying Hinata bridal style. "Oh, hang on I have some smelling salts in my pocket," sighed Neji.

He pulled out a small white stick and waved it under his cousin's nose. "Why do you have those?" enquired Tenten softly as Hinata's eyelids fluttered. "Because," Explained Neji patiently, "Hinata always faints at least once around Naruto I didn't think that today would be an exception."

It took a few minutes but eventually they got the Hyuuga heir back up and conscious.

Only to have her almost pass out again when she heard what Neji and Tenten had planned. "Bu-but Neji, if I marry you without father's consent…"

"Hinata-Sama, Hiashi-Sama is not long for this world. I know that, you know that, even Hiashi knows that. I know he's already begun training you on the tasks of the Hyuuga leader. This will be a good training exercise."

"We-well then, I will ask the traditional q-question…H-Hyuuga Neji, why do you want this woman as your wife?"

"For two reasons." Neji had been rehearsing this in his head for when Hinata asked him. "Because I have fallen for her and have been wanting to ask her for awhile. Secondly, a situation has become apparent to me that calls for the marriage to be preformed immediately."

Hinata nodded slowly. "A-a-are you sure you want this Tenten?" she asked, turning to her friend. "I'm sure Hinata." "O-okay, I agree to perform this match. Neji, go off with Naruto to prepare yourself and I will help Tenten prepare. B-because this will b-be as close as we can get to a real ceremony and i-it will be official…y-you might want to pick a nice dress to wear Tenten…come on I'll help you. Plus I-I need to find appropriate robes."

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