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Tenten awoke with a pounding headache, and vomit rising in her throat. She kicked off the covers and quickly made her way to bathroom.
Tenten crashed to her knees, her hand gripping the toilet bowl at each side, her knuckles white. Her breath came in forced, even gasps. She felt the telltale sign of her mouth producing more saliva, and the dreaded tightening of the stomach muscles.
Tenten felt her stomach contract. A second later she was heaving into the toilet bowl. She coughed, and gasped for air as her stomach contracted again.
As she leant forward to vomit once more, she felt someone pulling her hair back, out of harms way. The person held her hair until she had finished throwing up her insides, all the while rubbing small soothing circles between her shoulder blades.
Tenten coughed weakly, and slumped back against the sink. She looked up to find Neji looking down at her, an amused look on his face.
She sighed, and held back a small smile. "Don't say a word."
"Here." He shoved two asprin and a glass of water into her hands. She gulped them down gladly.
"Thanks, Neji."
Neji didn't reply, instead he calmly dropped the lid on the toilet and flushed away its contents, before offering hand to Tenten, who was still slouched on the floor.
"I hope you don't expect to be let off todays planning, because of your hangover." Neji smirked.
Tenten rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't expect anything of the sort, Hyuuga."
It was midday, and quite frankly Tenten felt like death warmed up. The asprin had worn off about an hour ago, and her pounding headache had returned. The extreme nausea didn't help by making her grimace everytime she moved, either.
"I was informed last night that the leader of this movement is Teucha Kinomi." Sasuke was saying.
"We met him last night, and the nin from the Fang Village referred to their leader as Kinomi-sama." Tenten said, massaing her temples in an effort to rid her head of the throbbing pain.
Sasuke nodded at her. "I found out he usually spends his evenings at a bar I visited last night. Seishu. I propose that we take him on tonight, before they have time to move the girl."
Neji arched his eyebrow. "You do realise that we have no idea where they are keeping her , don't you? We also have no idea how many men he has at hand."
Sasuke glared at Neji.
Tenten held up her hand. "We have an idea of where they're keeping her. One of the nin last night mentioned something about how the smell of the water was disgutsting, and how they wouldn't get the money if she caught a disease. I think we can safely say they're keeping her at the docks."
Neji nodded.
"Tenten could seduce him, and lead us to his house, where we attack him and force him to lead us to the girl."
Neji's eyes darkened momentarily, but the look was gone so fast Tenten wondered if she imagined it.
"Seduce!?" Tenten spluttered. She hated seduction missions, they always made her feel so cheap.
"But... what if he guesses and takes Tenten-chan hostage also?" Naruto put his first point into the discussion.
"I am perfectly able to look after myself." Tenten shot Naruto a nasty look. "I'm not handi-capped."
Naruto gave a sheepish smile. "I know, I know but what if you're outnumbered?"
Sasuke hit Naruto upside the head. "Dobe. She's not going to be alone. We're going to be tailing them."
"Ohh!" Naruto grinned. "How?"
Neji, Sasuke and Tenten all groaned simultaneously.
Tenten didn't feel comfortable. Not at all. She was wearing a black ra-ra skirt that stopped mid thigh, and a grey v-neck vest top that was adorned with lace around the top and bottom. Two small sliver hoop earrings dangled from her ear lobe, and Tenten's simple black stilettos accentuated her long, slender legs. Her hair was loose, her eyes made up with smoky grey eye shadow and black kohl. Her cheeks held a rose tint, her lips glossed. Of course masses of poisoned senbon, mini kunai and shuriken were expertly hidden throughout her outfit.
She may not feel comfortable, Tenten mused, but she didn't look half bad.
"Tenten!" Naruto had yelled, even though she was in the same room. "He'll get down on his knees for you!!"
"It should work." Had been Sasuke's short answer.
Neji hadn't said anything. But as they were approaching their destination, he had quickly pulled her aside and whispered:
"Be careful."
Tenten had stood their for a moment, doubting her hold on reality, before she pulled herself together and nodded at him.
Tenten took a breath to keep her calm, ran her hand through her glossy tresses one last time and entered the bar.
A booming bassline cut through the bars smoky atmosphere. The scent of alcohol, cigarettes and sweat all mingled together, making Tenten wrinkle her nose. People too wasted to care writhed on the dancer floor, grinding against eachother. More people socialized around the edge of the dancefloor, seated at tables ,sipping cocktails and every other drink under the sun.
Tenten's trained eyes quickly scanned the room once, she mentally noted down all the possible esacpe routes. Another quick glance of the room, and she had found her target.
Kinomi Teucha was seated at the bar, sake clutched in hand, eyeing up the scantily clad women in a manner that reminded Tenten of a lion watching its prey. It made Tenten shudder at what she was about to do.
The brown haired beauty that Kinomi had noticed enter earlier, sauntered over to the bar, accidentally brushing his arm as she ordered sake. Her face struck a chord in him. He was sure he had seen her somewhere before.
"That'll be 4,000(1) yen." The bartender was saying to her, Kinomi smiled at him, and handed him the money before the girl had a chance to protest.
The girl flipped her hair over her shoulder, and smiled sexily at him. He felt his own lips curve slightly.
"So whats your name? I'm Teucha Kinomi. I don't usually see girls as pretty as you in places like this."
The girl smiled coyly at him, twirling her hair with her index finger. " I'm Yoko, Nobuyuki Yoko. You met my husband and I at the hotel opening."
Something clicked in Kinomi's head. Ah, so this was the elusive Yoko? He had noticed her when he had been introduced to her by her bumbling idiot of a husband. He had then spent the rest of the night searching for her.
"Where's your husband?" Kinomi found himself asking, smirking when the woman seemed to look away. "He doesn't know you're here?"
"I'm sure your wife isn't too certain of your whereabouts either." Yoko purred. Kinomi's smiled widened.
So a little more NejiTenten-ness this time around. Hopefully I'll add the twist next chapter, which will either be up later today, or tomorrow :-) Please revew!
(1) Oh I have no idea of how much sake costs, so forgive me if I'm wrong!