CHAPTER 7

Tenten! Where are you?

Neji is at the campsite hours after Tenten goes missing. Hinata and Naruto have logged out.

The Campsite

9:00 pm

Neji paced around the campsite. Visions flashed across his mind as he tried to recall the last few moments in his head.

FLASHBACK

She went outside and smelled the crisp morning air. She was so involved with the thoughts of Neji racing through her mind, that she didn't notice the Black Clouds enveloping her. When she did notice, a jolt of pain raced through her body. She screamed.

Neji woke up and heard Tenten's screaming. He raced outside and saw something that made his heart bleed…

Tenten was gone…………….

END FLASHBACK

Neji sat down at the mouth of the cave they had built camp in and sighed…… What could Tenten be doing?

Meanwhile………

Tenten's POV

'Where am I? Everything is so dark……'

Tenten noticed she was floating in an abyss of nothing. She saw a flash and winced. An orb of light floated toward her. Tenten could swear that she heard a humming noise emanating from its light. She stared at it for a few seconds and "Sat down." A cool voice said to her, "Where is my sister?"

Tenten stared at it.

The orb said again in a similar stoic tone, "Where is my sister; my twin?"

Tenten said to the orb,"I'm sorry, but, I really don't know……."

The orb turned into a beautiful girl with wavy, white hair. Her gown was the same color. Anything loosely attached to her floated; as if she was in a pool of water. She said calmly, "I am Tsuki."

End Tenten's POV

At the Campsite

10:45 pm

Neji looked out of the cave and sighed. It was raining again……. Neji listened to the pitter-patter of the raindrops…. He was so amazed at the person who made this game……. It seemed so real…….

Suddenly, the raindrops were interrupted by soft notes singing a low, melancholy tune.

Neji's eye's darted to the cave entrance. "Ten—?"

It wasn't Tenten.

It was a girl about their age with wavy, raven black hair, and deep, DEEP red eyes. She was about an inch shorter than Tenten, but just as intimidating. She looked into Neji's eyes and sat down. Soaked. Even so, she was still humming the tune under her breath.

Neji took this chance to look at the mysterious girl.

She had a black net top under a sleeveless black and red top. She had on a long black skirt and a matching cloak. In one hand, she held a long, ebony staff. It was decorated with gleaming gems and jewels. On the top however, a navy blue polished stone, about the size of her fist, floated; somehow defying gravity. That meant she was a skilled mage. Neji noticed that she stopped humming.

The silence seemed to last forever….

The somewhat wet girl (already halfway dried) broke the silence with a cough.

Neji looked up and said, "Umm…. Hello….. I'm Neji."

The girl looked up and said softly, "Hi. I'm Luna."

Tsuki's Dimension

11:00 pm

Tenten seemed confused.

She asked Tsuki, "What is this place?"

Tsuki replied with a frown. "You can say this is where are the remnants of the original 'Vworld' remain."

"The original?" inquired a still confused Tenten.

Tsuki stared at Tenten. "The original 'Vworld' was a real place. A somewhat 'Parallel Universe' to Earth. A ruler then somehow transferred our world into the Internet. He was a hex. A hex is a person with extraordinary powers that can control all of technology. This is a place of forgotten memories, and forgotten powers."

Tenten couldn't believe her ears! Vworld was a parallel universe to ours! It actually existed! Wait till Neji finds out!

She "lay down" and closed her eyes. New information flooded her brain, and in moments, she was asleep.

The Campsite

12:00 Midnight

Luna slumped at the back of the cave, yawned, and fell asleep. Neji had resorted back to pacing. He sighed to himself and cursed the Virus, The defective game pods, and most of all, he cursed at himself; for not being able to save Tenten. "Damn it, Damn it, DAMN IT!!"'

Apparently, that last remark turned out a bit loud, and Luna woke up with a groan… "Damn what exactly?"

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"Neji… I'm old enough to know, so don't give me any crap saying, 'You're too young to understand…' Or, 'Damn is a bad word… Now go to bed.'" Complained Luna, obviously stressed.

She muttered to herself, "I'm older than you think…"

Neji sighed and slumped down onto the eastern wall of the cave. "I've lost someone very important to me—"

Luna sat down beside him and rested her head on her palm. "Let me guess… You lost someone you really like…" She coughed, (A/N a cough that sounded like the word love, but Neji somehow didn't notice,) "And you feel a pain inside your heart, desperate to be unleashed… You want to rescue her… (Or him…. Although I don't really think you'd love a guy…. Eew…) But you know you can't because you don't know where to begin……"

Neji stared at her. "How did you know all that?"

"I read it in a book."

Neji sweat-dropped.

Luna: 'A little white lie won't hurt him…'

Neji: 'She quoted all that from a book?!'

Luna went back to her little area where she was sleeping, and started breathing deeply.

Neji stayed there for a while, thinking about what he should do. When he couldn't think of ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR, he sighed, and went to sleep. 'Tenten…'

3:00 AM

Luna noticed that Neji's eyes were closed, and snuck out of the cave.

She spoke her voice clearly, but not so loud, so as not to awaken Neji, "Moon. Aid and abet me and show me the way to where my twin; the second container of your aura, has been last."

Instantly, Luna's eyes became almost blank, sort of like Hinata and Neji's, except, they were a tint of red.

She saw a white light, or trail, and she followed it.

Neji was awakened by hearing something about the moon having AIDS, or something like that…

He looked around, and bolted upright when he noticed that Luna seemed to have wondered off. He exited the cave and searched around.

'Where could she have wondered off to? Maybe she sleepwalks or something...'

He saw her staff and its navy-blue stone, so he rushed toward it.

There, he saw Luna kneeling down in an all too familiar area. Neji thought for a second and inhaled sharply.

Neji's misery was back.

'It's where Tenten disappeared…'

"Luna……" said Neji, his voice almost breaking, "What are you doing here?"

"Neji, was Tenten's disappearance caused by a virus?"

Neji took a deep breath.

"Yes… Why?"

Luna looked up at him. "It wasn't a virus."

Neji raised an eyebrow, trying to look normal. Good thing he was used to being disappointed, because if he wasn't, (Like a certain Haruno Sakura,) then he would've burst into tears, there and then. (A/N Weird huh?)

Luna continued, "It wasn't a virus Neji….. It was my other self: my twin…."