Tenten ran out of the theatre and outside. She leaned her head on the brick wall and began to cry. 'What had just happened?' she thought. Tears uncontrollably ran down her face as she began to hyperventilate.
About thirty seconds later, Neji came out running. Tenten saw him look around and lack enough sense to turn to his left. "Tenten?" he asked. Tenten wanted to answer him, but could not speak while hyperventilating.
Luckily, Neji could hear Tenten's rapid breathing. He turned to his left to see her leaning up against the wall, paler then a ghost. "Tenten!" he yelled. Neji ran over to her as fast as his legs could carry him.
He stopped in front of the girl and looked down at her. "Are you ok? What happened?" he asked her.
'Oh, now he has feelings.' Tenten thought. She opened her mouth to speak, only to find that more gasps came out as she struggled for air. She felt Neji set a hand on her shoulder.
"Tenten, I need you to calm down so I can understand you." he told her in a worried tone. Tenten nodded and took as many slow and deep breaths as she could. When she was finally calmed down enough, she looked back up at Neji.
"I-I need t-tell y-you something." she told him. She was studdering more than Hinata usually did. She grabbed Neji's hand and led him to the training grounds.
When they arrived, they sat under the tree that they had fought under about three years ago. "Well, what happened?" asked Neji. He looked at Tenten with the utmost worrie in his eyes. Tenten sighed and looked up into his pearl white eyes.
"When I left to train with Koneko, she told me what happened to my village. It was destroyed by a weapon demon, one sealed in my mother. It destroyed everything, leaving only me left." she let out more sobs.
"Is that why you ran out of the theatre?" Neji asked. He was worried for Tenten. Now was his chance to show her that he wasn't really a heartless block of stone.
"N-No, not exactly." Tenten told him. "When I was in the theatre, something weird happened. In the movie, when the monster knocked the head off of the Statue of Liberty, I had a flashback."
"It was just like the movie, only I was a baby and it took place in my village. A statue of our Hokage had its head blown off by my mother's demon." Tenten told Neji. She bowed her head down and wept again.
Neji looked down at the sobbing girl next to him. They were both sitting on the ground. He laid a hand on her shoulder and guided her head onto his shoulder. He let her cry there.
"Where the heck are Neji and Tenten?!?!" asked Ino. It had been ten minutes sense the group noticed that the two were missing. All of them were confused.
"I hope t-there b-both ok." said Hinata. She currently was hiding her face in Naruto's shoulder as small monsters invaded a subway tunnel with civilians in it. Naruto was taking full advantage of the situation.
"Ah, don't worry, Hinata. I'm sure they just wanted to apologize to each other." he said to the fragile girl. He was very happy, knowing that Neji would kill him if he knew that he had his arm around Hinata.
Neji realized that Tenten had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He smiled a bit on the inside. He had to admit, she looked very cute when she was sleeping.
Neji thought he should carry her home, but then realized that she and all of her stuff were currently staying at Sakura's house for a slumber party. He thought about how he would explain things to everyone. Sighing he picked Tenten up.
Neji brought Tenten to Sakura's house. He easily found an unlocked window leading to Sakura's room and laid Tenten on the sleeping bag with a bobbed wire symbol on it. He then went back to his own home.
"OMG!" Temari shouted. "That was the creepiest movie I've ever seen." she said to Shikamaru. The two went on and on about the movie.
"That was kind of scary." Sakura said to Sasuke. "Do you think it could happen in real life?" she asked the raven-haired boy. She could only hope to get a reply.
"You're a sponge." he told her. Sasuke patted Sakura on the head. She was flabbergasted that he had even answered her.
"What's that mean?" she asked him. He looked down at her with a apathetic face. It softened to a kind shocked Sakura.
"It means that you beleive in anything you see and do exactly what you hear on television or in movies. Sometimes the internet is involved." Sasuke wrapped his arm around her and began to walk her back to her own house.
When all the girls came back to Sakura's house, they found Tenten asleep on the floor. "So that's where she was!" said Hinata. Yes, she didn't stutter.