A/N: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 4

She looked at his wounds. She thought about how painful they must be. Some of the gashes he had gotten from her were huge.

Tenten never touched his wounds. She knew Neji would not be happy with her if she did. So she decided to keep him happy by not helping him.

Neji was too proud to be helped in anyway. It's a Hyuuga thing. He made it clear to everyone that knew him not to asisst him, if someone tried, he would treat them cruelly.

He was after all, a Hyuuga, strong, calm, and better than the rest. Tenten wondered why she was so in love with him sometimes. Oh yeah, that's right, he's hot.

Tenten remembered when Neji came back to Konoha from the failed attempt on bringing Sasuke back. It was a sad day for Konoha. Tenten gasped when she saw Neji though.

Tenten found him with most of bones broken, his muscles torn, and just about half dead. She would've screamed, but she knew not to scream in a hospital. She could not believe Neji had done so much to try to pursue Sasuke.

Tenten was scared he would never be the same. She was scared he would be like Lee when Gaara injured him during the Chuunin exams. She was scared he would never be able to be a shinobi again and be by her side.

She brought herbs that he never touched. She had brought them so that they would ease his pain. He flat out refused to let some girl help him with his pain.

She brought flowers that he never glanced at. Even though they wouldn't help him anyways, he didn't need charity. So he never looked at them, and he let them wither without caring.

She brought sweets that he never ate. Again, he didn't need charity. Espcially from a girl, he was so sexist, but then again, he was a Hyuuga, so he always thought of himself as better than everyone else.

"I don't need these Tenten," he had said cruelly. He pushed Tenten aside like she was nothing but a nuisance to him. The way Sasuke had once done to Sakura.

It hurt Tenten inside. Tenten loved Neji so much. But he didn't care about anyone but himself.

She had another flashback.

When Tenten was 13 years old and absolutely crazy with Neji, she always tried to impress him. But of course we all already know that.

On Valentines Day that year she had bought him every romantic thing she could think of. A card, a huge box of heart shaped chocolates, a bouquet of roses, and a teddy bear.

She had used her own savings to try to impress him. When she handed him all the gifts, Neji just blankly stared at her, not even smiling.

She was a bit discouraged but tried to smile, "Neji, these are for you! Happy Valentines Day!"

Neji kept staring at her, not even looking at the gifts and said coldly, "I don't need charity," and turned around and started walking away.

Tenten was left standing there all alone with a load of untouched gifts. Neji didn't even look at them. Tenten looked at him, frozen, until he disappeared in the distance. A few tears rolled down her face and she turned around to walk home, dragging her feet slowly.

Well, Neji's unconscious... either he's going to be happy I'm healing him or he'll get infected by some bacteria and die. Tenten weighed to possible outcomes. She decided although he had always treated her cruelly, she would help him, even if it was against his will, she loved him too much for him to die.

Her hands glowed green and she traced some small wounds on his arms and legs. She did this with great accuracy. She was pretty good at it.

Tenten wasn't a full medical ninja... she just knew some basics, trying to get the attention of her idol, Tsunade-sama. The Fifth never really noticed Tenten. She was too preoccupied training her apprentice, Haruno Sakura.

With the larger cuts Tenten ripped some bandages and wrapped around it. Wow, I gave him some pretty large cuts. Tenten felt guilty for a while but then thought, well it's his own fault for not going fast enough.

Hesitantly, Tenten reached over. She would have to do this. Just do it, Tenten!

Shutting her eyes tightly, she shakily undid his jacket. She did this slowly, trying to make sure Neji did not wake up. Don't wake up…don't wake up…don't wake up…

Tenten, don't freak out... you've seen shirtless boys... and shirtless men... this isn't different! But this WAS different. This was Neji, the guy she's loved since she was 13!

Tenten slowly opened her eyes. She was really reluctant. I shouldn't even be doing this!

There were cuts on his chest and stomach and a huge scar across his stomach. Her eyes widened. What was Neji's problem?

"How the hell did that happen... gods Neji just get medical help! You're going to die of a disease someday!" Tenten pouted. She wanted to shake him, but she didn't want to risk waking him up. Neji, you're arrogance is going to kill you one day.

Tenten pulled out more bandages. Good thing I packed several. She worked quickly.

She had to put disinfectant on it. She had actually done this several times before with smaller cuts. She babysat for her neighbor several times, but she stopped because the kids were so bratty and troublesome, as Shikamaru would say.

Neji may be a Hyuuga, but he was still a boy. In Tenten's eyes at least. He was tough and hardened, but Tenten knew that deep down there was a soft part of Neji that she loved.

This will sting... he better not wake up to find me touching his stomach. Tenten didn't even want to imagine the outcome of that. He'd probably slay me.

Putting some on her finger she traced the scar. Don't wake up, don't wake up, don't wake up. She worked as time efficiently as possible.

Neji winced but didn't wake up. Whew! I'm so glad he can endure pain, this must be nothing compared to his normal everyday training.

Flashback.

Tenten had been relaxing all day and was bored to death in her teen years before Neji left. She decided to go check out what the other members of her team were doing.

She first walked over to Lee's house. She peaked into his window. He was doing heavy training. The usual. He was doing pushups. She could hear him counting out loud, "596…5967…598…599…"

He was struggling like he always did right before he hit a number ending in more than one zero. He was pushing himself halfway up, but he couldn't make it all the way up, he was struggling like crazy. She felt bad, Lee tried so hard and he was so determined to beat Neji.

She heard him talking aloud again, "If I cannot reach 600 pushups, then I shall do 1200 squats."

Sheezus, no Lee, Tenten thought.

Too late. Lee collapsed, not able to reach 600 pushups. He got up quickly in a squatting position and started to count all over again, "One, two, three, four…" Tenten decided she didn't want to watch Lee kill himself. But then again he did this every single day.

She decided to check out what Neji was doing. She ran over to his house and heard some noises in his backyard. She slowly tiptoed to his backyard to find him sparring with Sasuke. They locked eyes in their stances. Neither of them were making a move. They were analyzing the situation and figuring out what to do. Sasuke made the first move and started it off slowly.

Neji quickly picked up the pace and used 64 palms. Sasuke dodged all of his strikes skillfully. They were killing eachother. But they were both amazingly speedy. Tenten thought, my training is nothing compared to theirs…and for a while she felt so inferior…

Tenten couldn't help thinking how strong his stomach was. God, he's hot. She was working dreamily staring at Neji's body.

There were faint lines of his ab muscles. Wow. Yeah, I'm not even going to try to catch up with him anymore, Tenten thought.

Neji was never broad and big, like Inuzuka Kiba, but rather lean yet still intimidating. Tenten loved this. She preferred him not to be like Inuzuka Kiba.

Tenten! Tenten forced herself to get focused. Slap!

Stop thinking that! Tenten suddenly got back to her senses. Neji was the guy that didn't even care about her, why should she care about him?

Now she had to put bandages on him. Fun. She had to make sure she was very gentle with him, fearing even the smallest movement of his body would cause him to wake up and beat her to a pulp for touching him.

This was going to be hard. It had to go around his whole chest. Tenten calmed herself. I HAVE to remain calm to do this.

I have to do it now... now or never...Tenten thought. She took a deep breath like she was getting ready to perform a surgery.

She had a random flashback.

Neji had gotten back from a mission. Not the one he returned from half dead trying to pursue Sasuke, but a different one. His condition was about the same. Not good at all. She had watched him in the hospital.

He had been put in the hospital by force. She was glad, he really needed some medical attention. Neji had been asleep and Sakura had been closing up some of his fresh gashes. Neji woke up in the middle of the process and slapped her hand away. He said bitterly, "Don't EVER help me again."

Tenten saw all this as she popped her head inside his room. Seeing this hurt her. Sakura was only trying to HELP, goodness.

After that experience, both Tenten and Sakura knew not to help Neji whatsoever. Sakura never did again. She had been in his room once again when he came back from another mission unconcious, but she dared not touch him. She just watched him rest.

Although Tenten knew that Neji would murder her if he woke up at the moment, Tenten still cared about him way too much, whether he felt the same way or not, she was going to save him and be there for him.

Tenten leaned closer and pulled the bandages out. She placed it on his stomach. Taking another deep breath she leaned closer as she wound the bandage around his stomach. She was actually doing pretty good so far. She was almost done. Just a little bit more…

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