-Chapter 2

I walked briskly to the docks, fingering my new kunai knife. A few merchandise people were yelling, "Oranges! Fresh shipped oranges straight from Florida!" or "Old rags! 20 cents each old rag! Good for shining your furniture!"

As I walked there, I bought myself a couple of new knives.

The dock was huge. There was no other word for it. I could see what Tsunade meant by, "You'll know the ship when you get there." A huge, magnificent ship was docked onto land with the words "Tsunade Treasure" carved clearly in the side.

"Tenten! Here you are!" Tsunade shouted, running over to me. "We have to leave! Come on!"

"Sure, coming!" I shouted back, breaking into a sprint towards the beautiful ship.

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"All right, guys, settle down! This is Tenten! She's joining us today!" Tsunade called.

On the ship were a bunch of children my age: A pink haired girl and a blonde were shooting arrows at a target. A blonde haired boy was fighting (and apparently losing) a dummy while a blushing girl was watching him. Chicken butt hair was glaring at everyone. Then there was a green guy who was running around the pinkette in circles, apparently making her very annoyed. A creepy guy with dark hair and glasses was hunched in a corner, studying bugs (weirdo!) There was also a boy with a dog next to him practicing using a spear. And… there was that weird guy who got into a fight in the market place. He was the stuck up brat I saw at the market.

At Tsunade's yell, everyone fell silent and all eyes turned to me.

"Sakura! You'll show this girl around. I'm going to my room." Tsunade yelled. She turned heel and stalked off up the stairs.

Sakura and the others turned to me. "Hey! I'm Sakura. The pig next to me"- she pointed at the blonde girl- "is Ino."

"Hey! I'm not a pig, forehead!"

"Pig!"

"Forehead!"

"Pig!"

"Billboard!"

"Argh! Anyways, the blonde haired boy is Naruto." Sakura told me, pointing at the extremely bad fighter.

"Hey!" He yelled to me, while he stabbed the dummy again so hard that it bounced back and made him tumble to the floor. (A/N: Lol, Kung Fu Panda.)

"That's"- point – "Hinata. She's always kind of shy, but she actually a really good healer." Sakura announced, while Hinata began to blush. Seriously, girl, what's with all the blushing?

"That's Shino and Lee. Shino is the guy who is in the corner, studying bugs. Lee is the guy who keeps running around me in circles." Sakura pointed to each one as she spoke.

When Shino heard his name, he raised his hand as a greeting but did not turn his eyes off the bugs.

"HELLO YOUNG AND YOUTHFUL BLOSSOM TENTEN!" Lee shouted practically in my air. "I AM VERY EXCITED TO HAVE YOU ON MY SHIP NOW!"

"Um… thanks?" I muttered back to him, glancing at Sakura to look whether I should laugh or look sincere. Sakura smirked.

"That's Kiba. He loves his dog Akamaru, so Tsunade let him have a dog as a pet instead of something bigger." Sakura shrugged. "I haven't gotten my animal yet. But you should ask Ino for her pet." She smirked.

Ino blushed slightly. "I have a, er, pig as my pet. Sakura loves to tease me about it- but then again, she's the one who got it to me. Well, technically Kiba gave her the money to buy him."

Sakura smirked again at the sound of her name, while Ino blushed at Kiba's.

"My pig is a really good healer. Very cute too. Not so fat either, like some pigs are."

"Oink?" I hadn't noticed the little pig at my heels, but it WAS really cute. And I could swear it winked at me. I smiled down at it.

"I had to beg Tsunade multiple times not to kill it for breakfast. Or lunch and dinner. But now Tsunade likes having him around to keep her company, especially after it saved her life." Ino bent down and scratched the pig behind the ears, and the pig seemed to enjoy that.

"Really? How?" I asked.

"Well, there was this one time where I accidentally pushed her off the ship. It was really shallow, but Tsunade kind of freaked out. Then Doggy here-"

"Doggy? You named your pig DOGGY?" I almost shouted.

"Well, yeah. I named it after Akamaru-"

Here Sakura got a devilish smirk on her face while Ino blushed.

"-and he's really cute too. Anyways, Doggy jumped off too. And this pig can swim. Like swim in the Olympics type of swim. He jumped off and grabbed her my her jacket and kept her up until we threw a net down and hauled them back up."

I nodded, fascinated about the story about Doggy.

"Oh. And that's Neji. He's very antisocial, so you should keep away from him." Sakura said, pointing at the guy at the marketplace.

"I heard that." Neji said.

Sakura blushed.

A sudden, lurching movement took me by surprise. I looked around wildly, crying, "What the hell is going on?"

Sakura and Ino giggled at my surprised expression while Hinata answered me. "That… That's the s-ship setting sail."

Right then Naruto sneaked up behind her and captured her in a bear hug. "HEY HINATA!" He yelled. Poor Hinata. She looked like she was going to faint.

Ino cleared her throat. "Er… We should go up and help Lee, Shino, and Kiba-" Here she blushed at his name "-with the sails. Umm… Coming Tenten?"

I didn't notice that Lee, Kiba, and Shino weren't here until I looked closer. "Sure."

Sakura muttered, "What happened to ME?"

Hinata blushed.

Neji looked at me and said darkly just loud enough for me to hear, "She's not going to be able to catch up with our fighting skills. Her balance isn't good, and she doesn't look very fast or strong."

I glared at him. "Shut. Up. My balance is better than yours."

He smirked at me. "Yeah?"

Ino pulled me away before I could say anything. "Come on, Tenten! Let's go!"

I muttured darkly and shot him a death glare while he stared at me with a 'who-does-she-think-she-is' look.

When I reached the top deck, Ino told me, "You do NOT want to mess around with Neji. Sakura and I tried it once. Don't think about it."

I nodded, but muttered, "How am I supposed to with he being such a big dork?"

Ino shrugged. "Just cope." The ship gave another big lurch and I ran over to the edge and waved farewell to the people at deck while Ino rolled her eyes at me. "You're acting like a little kid."

Then I saw him.

My dad. And he was looking straight at me.

:) Well, that's it for my second chapter. I would really appreciate it if you reviewed. :D

~StormWolf