"It's finally over…" Tenten said, looking down at the resting teammates, grabbing onto her shirt as she looked over at the shinobi, carrying Guy sensei's body towards the memorial grounds where the deceased shinobi of Konohakagure were buried when they were killed in action. Looking down, she saw Neji laying there, a severe wound in his abdomen that Ino and Hinata tried to patch up, though they said he may not make it.
Lee, who was basically the spitting image of Guy sensei, laid there…and for once in his life, he was actually tired and unable to go on. It was unusual for her to be the one out of the team left standing, but here she was. Looking at Lee…looking at Neji, who probably was going to die…and watching Guy sensei be carried off to be buried.
This wasn't the way she wanted her team to be left, but it wasn't her call. Between Guy sensei using the forbidden 8th Gate on Madara, Lee going up to the 7th Gate and pushing himself past his limits, then Neji jumping in the way to protect Naruto from the 10 Tails' attack, the three of them had put up more fight than they probably had in them.
And here she was…sitting there while she looked at them. Why? Why was it that they always showed more fight in them than she could? Why it that she was always was forced to watch them all pushing themselves past their limits and going above and beyond for others and yet she always ended up stopping not even a fourth of the way they'd gone?
It wasn't fair…how they push themselves so far that they were at the brink of death and she was always left having to wait for them to recover. She leaned forward and removed Neji's headband, placing a cloth of his forehead as she looked over at Lee who hadn't moved at all since the battle.
"Excuse me" a voice said from behind her, four medical ninja with two stretcher beds ready for Neji and Lee. "We're here to retrieved Neji Hyuga and Rock Lee of the Leaf Village" one of them said, watching Tenten stand up and step over to the side as they hoisted them up and placed them both on the separate stretcher beds.
Watching them be carried away, Tenten looked at her friends…then over at her sensei as they were carried off, away from her…leaving her to stand there alone.
Why? Why am I always the only one left able to stand…