When Tenten and Neji had reached the training grounds Neji noticed a few things. Tenten had a bit more color to her skin today, unlike yesterday when she was pale. He didn't like her pale, it just didn't work with Tenten. He knew she was felling better by her peachy skin color.
Another thing he noticed was that she wasn't cranky today. Well, besides the entire waking up to your teammate thing, she had a better attitude today. He almost cried out in relief, almost.
It was then that he noticed what gaining one night of sleep does for people. He knew that Tenten had missed many nights of a full sleep, and he saw how it affected her. Now he could see how it affected her when she got one night of sleep.
When they had reached the training grounds, Gai and his younger clone were already there. When they saw Tenten and Neji walk to them they smiled that blinding smile they always had.
"Tenten-chan, Neji-kun what youthful missions do you think we will have today?" Lee asked his two teammates, all while bouncing on his feet.
"How would we know Lee-kun. We just got here." Tenten replied with her hand on her hips. She looked like she was scolding Lee for asking stupid questions, well she kind of was.
"Awwww… Tenten-chan I thought you might have known." Lee said whining, his waterfall tears were leaving trails on his face. Tenten shook her head at Lee's child-like actions. Neji scoffed, Lee was being an idiot again.
"Lee stop acting like an idiotic child." Neji told Lee in monotone. Lee stopped crying and gave that crazy glare of his. "You think I'm acting like a child, Neji-kun." Lee challenged.
"Hai, I think you're acting like a child and it's quite annoying." Neji said not taking Lee seriously at the moment. Tenten shook her head again.
'Here they go again. Why do I even put up with these two.' Tenten thought to herself. She watched her teammates with a board expression.
"If you think that I'm a child, then how can I beat you in a challenge." Lee said puffing his chest out in a way that would be to intimidate people, but with Lee it's just funny. 'There's Lee challenges Neji.' Tenten thought going over their routine.
Neji rolled his eyes at Lee's remark. Lee saw this and was getting angry at Neji, well not to angry. "What you think I am joking, don't you?" Lee said pointing his index finger at Neji. 'And there's the part where Neji rolls his eyes and Lee gets angry' Tenten thought again walking over to the nearest tree and sitting under it.
She knew that they would start in a spar for a moment. A way they would prove who was stronger, better, and everything else that was important to their pride. 'What's with guys and their pride? Oh now they started on their warm up spar.' Tenten thought watching her teammates closely.
Every morning when Lee and Neji would fight they would settle their differences by having a spar. Of coarse they didn't warm up before, so this was like their warm up for the day.
Tenten left the boy to finish up their spar and went to the field she and Neji usually train in. When she arrived in the field she saw all of her targets still hanging on the tree. She began the basic kunai throwing and then when she was finished she began working on harder forms with different weapons.
She tried working with her charka-enhanced weapons. Neji had given her first charka-enhanced weapon for 15th birthday. Neji had told her that sometimes in battle you need to be able to cut through the enemy's charka in order to free yourself or to get to the enemy. Of coarse Tenten knew he was referring to his fight with Kidomaru on the Sasuke Retrieval mission.
Tenten had thanked Neji, he had been right, she used them a few times and they helped her keep her life. Not long after she got a few more charka-enhanced weapons, thanking Neji for giving her that one weapon and how it saved her life.
Tenten turned when she knew Neji was close. Neji appeared a few moments later. He nodded to Tenten, she gave a light smile in return.
"Ready to spar Neji?" Tenten asked the prodigy. "Give me a few minutes. Lee wouldn't stop today, he got me in the shoulder." Neji said sitting down. Tenten walked over to Neji and saw his shoulder looking a bit off.
She looked at his shoulder, her eyes calculating what she could do. Neji looked up at Tenten with a confused look. 'Why is she looking at my shoulder like that?' Neji thought to himself. As he was thinking he didn't notice Tenten grab his shoulder. But he did notice when she flicked her wrist, the motion putting his shoulder in place with a 'pop'.
"Sense when can you do that?" Neji asked moving his shoulder a bit to get used to it. "I don't know, I just did." Tenten replied with a confused look. Neji nodded, not really caring.
"So, ready to spar now?" Tenten asked him hopefully. Neji looked at her from his place on the ground. "Alright, I'm ready." Neji said getting up.
"Good, I have a few things I want to try out." Tenten said getting ready. Neji could only wonder what Tenten would have in store for him. But he wasn't sure he wanted to know either.
Neji nodded and Tenten leapt into the trees overhead. His eyes pulsed with his Byakugan. He saw Tenten set many traps with in seconds. Just because he could see the traps didn't make it any easier to avoid the traps.
A few seconds later one of the traps were set off. Large amounts of kunai were heading at Neji from his left. He jumped opposite of the on coming kunai. The second he landed, another barge of kunai flew at him. Again he jumped away from the weapons.
A few more times this happened, by the fifth time, the barge of weapons stopped. When Neji moved into a stance he realized that there was a thin wire there. He looked at the wire in confusion. When he looked closer he noticed all of the weapons littered across the field were connected together with wires.
His eyes widened when he realized what the wires were for. They were to limit his movement across the field. He smirked, Tenten was thinking ahead.
I hope you liked this chapter... I personally think this was my best for this story.
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