I'm back. With another chapter. Sorry for the delay. Writer's Block. Hope that doesn't happen again, atleast not that much. Review!

Chapter 3

Arrival and Conflicts

"Lee!"

The both darted away as Lee appeared with a handful of chopped wood pieces. "Hi guys, sorry I took so long." Lee placed the wood on the ground, sat between the two, grabbed a fruit and began to eat.

Looking from side to side he saw that Neji had his arms crossed, looking the other way, a frown on his face and a blush in it too. Tenten had her hands at her knees, looking down with her face red as well.

'What's with these two?'

Since night fell, each Shinobi had gotten their sleeping backs ready and got prepared to sleep, they agreed to each three hours one of them would guard so the could at least get six hours of sleep each. Tenten was the first to guard because indirectly both Neji and Lee though that the first guard was the easiest. Neji would follow her and Lee would be the last one.

Tenten just sat on a tree branch so she would be out of sight as both Neji and Lee drifted to sleep. Even if she was supposed to be on guard, her mind was elsewhere. 'Darn it Neji, why are you like that. Like if you were the damn last guy on Earth. Its hard enough to even get him to blush. And when we would have… Lee, I'll kill you.'

Even if she was a bit mad she knew it wasn't Lee's fault. He was just being Lee. Tenten smiled as she shook all thoughts from her head and kept watch. Like she was told to.

After her shift ended she got down and walked towards Neji. Before she got there she felt a hand cover her mouth and another lift her from her feet and onto his back. Before she knew it she was being held captive. She tried to scream, but couldn't.

Her captor was a big guy, and behind him were three others. Two me and a kunoichi. "I'll hold her, kill the other two." He spoke.

Tenten's eyes widened. 'Neji! Lee!'

As one of the men walked towards Neji and the other towards Lee, each with a kunai in hand. Tenten tried her hardest to escape, but was being held in a tight grip. As one of them was about to stab Neji Tenten's captor fell to the ground. Tenten looked back and saw Neji standing behind her, Byakugan activated, having juts knocked out her captor.

As the Shinobi looked at Neji's sleeping bag he saw nothing but wood in it. 'Substitution.'

Tenten quickly shot ten kunai, five at each of the two men. The one near Lee Could not avoid and was instantly killed, but the other jumped and avoided the kunai, much to Tenten's surprise.

"Take care of her." Neji spoke to Tenten pointing towards the kunoichi, I'll deal with him. Neji jumped and landed near him and took his stance. Taking a good look at him the Shinobi's eyes widened. 'Is he?'

At the same time Tenten quickly took out three small staffs and converted them into one. The Kunoichi rushed at her with a sword at hand. She swung the blade sideways which Tenten evaded and swung her staff directly at her face. The kunoichi pushed the staff away and swung at Tenten through her feet. Big mistake. Tenten had managed to jump up with two familiar scrolls in the air.

Before the kunoichi could react she heard Tenten shout. "Twin Rising Dragons." A flurry of kunai, shuriken, you-name-it, came towards her. And she could avoid them. She was killed instantly.

Neji wasn't having such luck. Not only was his opponent good at hand-to-hand, but at the same level as he was. The Gentle Fist style gave him no advantage whatsoever. He couldn't understand why.

Slowly, but surely, his opponent was gaining the upper hand. So he did what her could. He began to spin. "Rotation!"

Pushing his opponent away gave him an advantage. Neji them quickly did his only far-ranged attack. "Eight Trigam Empty Palm." Before Neji could even do the attack his opponent shoved his hand back, stopping the jutsu. Neji feel back and onto his knees. Tenten quickly grabbed three kunai and threw them at her opponent, who caught them with ease. 'No way.' She thought.

Before he could attack Neji he was sent back, by a certain 'Leaf Hurricane'. As he feel back Lee took his usual stance and smiled. "Hi there."

The Shinobi frowned. Lee was standing ready to fight, Tenten quickly walked there and stood next to him, and Neji had stood up and back to his stance. Three against one. Not very good odds. So the Shinobi signed. "This is not the end."

And in a puff, he was gone.

Tenten signed. "Man that was scary."

"Yeah, why didn't you wake me?"

"Lee! Your supposed to be a ninja, your should have woken up by yourself."

"But I…"

"Whatever Lee, I just glad you woke up anyway." Lee smiled as Tenten did also. They both however turned to Neji, who was looking at his hand with a worried expression. "Neji? Are you ok?"

Neji looked at her and gave a faint smile. "Don't worry about me. You to get some rest, I'll keep watch." Tenten would have tried to see if something was wrong but decided that it could wait until tomorrow. Lee just said Ok as he yawned and walked back to his sleeping bag, Tenten soon followed to hers.

Neji walked towards the Shinobi he ha knocked out earlier at tied him up, he might be useful later. But now he just went atop a tree, one different from where Tenten had gone to, because he didn't want to lose the element of surprise. On the tree he took another look at his hand. The one he had tried to use the Empty Palm on, and had been stopped.

"My chakra points, there blocked. Was my own jutsu that backfired, or…"

Neji couldn't come up with an answer so he let it rest. He needed to be focused to be able to keep watch.

Before anyone tells me, I know. A real ninja squad would change locations once they were ambushed like that. Forget that little detail okay. Just enjoy the story. Later.