A/N: Well, you're probably getting tired of these author's notes...well too bad XD. Just wanted to inform my readers that next chapter will be the last. Very slight hintings of NejiTen here and SasuSaku. Oh and...I told you guys I'd update soon! Just to make up for that short chapter and cliffhanger-type-thing. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Disclaimer: -sigh- for the fourth time, I don't own Naruto.
Chapter Four: Byakugan!
Recap:
"Yes?" The voice asked the Naruto before fully revealing who it was...
/recap
"You," the voice said coldly as a glare landed on the blond.
"Neji! I thought you'd be out training. Is Hinata home?" Naruto asked the white-eyed boy standing at the door.
"Gai had a mission and I'm waiting for Tenten to come by to train. Why do you need her?" Neji practically bore holes into Naruto's head.
"Uh, just wanted to talk to a moment, that's it," the other boy said nervously. Sakura was fidgeting nervously in the bush with a slightly pissed off Sasuke. It was a bush after all, and a bush meant lots and lots of twigs. Twigs which hurt like hell if you just jumped into it like they had done.
"Hey Sasuke-kun, I don't think it's going very well," Sakura whispered to her not-so-little 'partner-in-crime'.
"Hn," Sasuke replied, trying to get twigs out of his hair.
"We need to find a way to distract Neji," Sakura pointed out.
"Well, a distraction is on it's way," Sasuke said without breaking his concentration from his hair.
"What do you..." Sakura turned her head to see Tenten walking towards Neji and Naruto.
"Neji! Naruto! Hi, ready to go, Neji?" Tenten turned to her teammate.
"Yeah, just let me get rid of a pest," he said, looking at Naruto.
"Don't be a sourpuss and just call Hinata, I'm assuming that's why he's here," Tenten winked at Naruto knowingly and smiled – amused when he blushed slightly.
Neji looked at Tenten for a while and finally huffed out, "Fine." He turned back inside and soon came out with Hinata. The now long-haired girl spotted the Kyuubi-container and blushed a light pink.
"O-Ohayo Tenten, Na-Naruto-kun," the girl slightly stuttered. They both greeted her, Naruto a little louder than needed.
"Well we're off!" Tenten tugged Neji's long sleeves of his outfit.
"I'll be home before dinner," Neji said to Hinata as he was hauled off in the direction of the training grounds. After they left, Hinata and Naruto were left alone (except the two hiding in the bushes).
"So why did you come here today, Naruto?" Hinata asked shyly.
"Oh! That's right! Um...I just wanted to ask you to go...training! That's it!" Naruto blurted out nervously.
"Oh, um, sure," Hinata said, soundly a little disappointed.
"Argh, that idiot!" Sakura muttered.
"I agree," Sasuke said quietly not to be heard by the couple heading towards the forest.
"So how's everything going?" asked a voice behind them. Alarmed, Sakura jumped a bit from her crouching position and fell...right into Sasuke's lap. After a awkward cough from Sasuke and a few apologies from a blushing Sakura, she got off him. They turned around only to come face-to-face with Tenten and Neji.
"Tenten! Neji! Weren't you training?" Sakura asked as she looked from Tenten's happy face to Neji's annoyed one. He was obviously thinking the same thing. Sasuke just stayed quiet, seeing as Sakura had just voiced his thoughts.
"Well, we were but I decided to join in the fun, anyways, one day without training wont kill us," Tenten chirped happily.
"It might," Neji muttered underneath his breath. Tenten almost glared at him.
"What was that?" she said in a falsely-innocent tone.
"I said they're on the move," Neji replied. He wasn't in the arguing mood today – a day without training did that to the white-eyed prodigy - especially with Tenten. Her tongue was almost as sharp as her weapons.
"That's what I thought," Tenten smiled sweetly as Sakura sweat dropped at their behavior. While they were slowly creeping behind Naruto and Hinata, Sasuke decided to speak up.
"How'd you know we were there?" he asked suspiciously.
"You didn't mask your chakra," Neji pointed out bluntly.
"Oh." They decided it was safer to mask their presence. It would be awkward to explain why they were following the couple a little ways ahead.
They reached the forest and were now a little deeper into it, then hid behind the trees.
"A-are you re-ready, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked as she looked at the other boy. He nodded hesitantly.
While back in the trees...
"Hey you guys?" Sakura said softly.
"Yeah?" Tenten replied for the others.
"I think we're gonna get caught."
"Why's that?" Sasuke answered this time.
"For 2 geniuses and a weapon's master, you sure are slow. Tell me, what's Hinata doing right now?" Sakura turned to the three, now turning their attention to the girl in the middle of the clearing.
"She's activating her..." Neji started.
"Byakugan!" Tenten spat out as quiet as she was silenced by Neji's hand to her mouth. He soon let her go once she was calm.
"This doesn't look good, she'll see us for sure." Sakura stated.
Just then, Hinata put her hands in a familiar seal.
TBC.
...you know what I'm gonna say, right? Right.