Seems my new story is okay? So I'll carry on. When I said last time it would be 3 chapters it'll probably be more at the way I've been getting ideas for this story. I should be updating some of my other stories this weekend. I have a really bad habit of writing new stories and forgetting the older ones. Hopefully I'll correct that this weekend. Maybe not on Sunday though because it's one of those family reunion things where I'll see cousins I ain't seen in months or my wicked aunt who I don't really like yah and the rest…you know the drill, you review I write. I also changed a little of the first chapter, you don't have to reread it but you may have to in case you get a little confused, it's just instead of her father hitting Tenten it suppose to be her mother, her father was the one who was killed by Gaara.

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Recap: Neji had left Tenten to do the jobs around the house he was suppose to but never did, so clearing out the shed she came across the old bikes her and Neji used to ride before they married. This stirred some memories within Tenten and we get to see a little of her past.

Story start: (This is just carrying on in the past now.)

But the dreams they promised one another hadn't lasted forever like they planned and there were no children. Tenten had to be decommissioned from working in ANBU for abandoning the mission to protect a person she didn't even know, after all the work she had put into getting into ANBU had gone to waste. Neji could do nothing as she locked herself away while Hinata kept her company in the nights. He was away on missions while she started to take up drinking sake. This was the time they started to drift apart, when Neji was told of Tenten's addiction, he was really angry with himself for letting her get into that state.

The moment he'd heard the news Neji stormed around to the bar where the biggest horror sat before his eyes. Tenten was kissing Shikamaru. The whole world so to almost freeze around him, every second passing like it was an hour.

This was the woman that supposedly loves him.

This was the woman he agreed to spend the rest of his life with.

This was the woman that just broke his heart.

Not being able to take it anymore he ran out of there to get as far away as possible, he tried to stop the tears but they seemed to have no end. Running to the forestry nearby Neji just let it all out as he flung himself against a tree, he couldn't control his emotions as they took over him, his only love was now gone.

"N-N-Neji-nii-s-san?" a voice stuttered nearby

Looking up it was his two younger cousins. Hinata and Hanabi.

"H-Hinata-sama, Hanabi-sama, is there something I can assist you with?"

"H-Hanabi g-go home now p-please" Hinata stuttered.

"Nani? Make me" Hanabi, said having a strop, crossing her arms. She knew what Hinata was doing, trying to make her get away so she didn't have to know the reason why Neji was upset.

"N-now!" Hinata shouted just enough to be heard.

"Why should I be the one who gets sent away while you don't? I mean Neji is just as much as your cousin as he is mine, stop acting like you're superior all of a sudde-"

Neji saw nothing but heard a sound that was all too familiar.

Hinata had clouted Hanabi across her cheek.

Neji was shocked more than anything, his gentle relative who wouldn't harm a flower had just hit her younger sister.

"G-go home now Hanabi" Hinata commanded shocked at her own actions.

"You are so in trouble with Father for this, you hear me Hyuuga Hinata" Hanabi screamed almost on the edge of tears running off into the night.

Neji was almost amused at the sight in front of him but the thought of Tenten and Shikamaru once passed through his minds' eye making the tears run again.

"N-Neji-nii-s-san are y-you o-okay? Y-you look a l-little shaken", Hinata muttered to nothing in particular. This was the first time the hesitant woman had ever seen him cry but he wasn't crying, he was more sorrowing, as if he done something wrong and was frightened of the consequences.

"I-It's nothing Hinata-sama" he replied getting to his feet trying to wipe the tears away unnoticeably.

"I-is it b-because T-Tenten-san is…w-well…s-s-spirituous?" stuttered Hinata choosing her words carefully.

"Tenten is not an alcoholic!" he shouted angry for her to know what shouldn't have been known to anyone in the Hyuuga family. "How long have you known!?"

"I-er-I" Hinata stuttered getting frightened at Neji's abrupt change of mood.

"HOW LONG?!" he shouted getting louder grabbing her shoulders and pinning her against a tree.

Not being able to hold it in any longer, Hinata burst into tears.

"You really think that crying is going to change this situation? How long have you known Hinata? If you don't tell me, I swear to Kami that you will regret this so much!" He roared setting off his Byakugan.

Right now he didn't care if he killed Hinata to get the truth, he was going to find out one way or another.

"Jyuuken!" Neji yelled aiming for her heart, after all Hyuuga Neji was no liar and he did stick to his word.

He couldn't move.

It was like if he was in some sort of a trance, trying he finish the job he started Neji tried moving his hand again.

But to no avail.

"I believe that's quite enough of that"

His body was defying what his mind wanted; Neji turned around.

"Sh-Shikamaru-kun!" Hinata cried.

She was right, the Nara was there and he had the pissed Hyuuga caught in his Kagemane.

"You were so focused on Hinata, you didn't realise I'd slipped behind you" Shikamaru explained more to Hinata than Neji. "Come here Hinata, I don't think you should be there"

Hinata scrambled from where she was cornered to behind Shikamaru who was a safe distance away from her temperamental relative.

"Why the hell are you getting involved with my family affairs?" Neji spat.

"Family affairs? If that is the family affairs of the Hyuuga Clan then I do pity Hinata and Tenten" Shikamaru affirmed.

"How dare you! How dare you say such things about the Hyuuga, you know nothing of my family so do not get involved where you are not wanted!" Neji shouted, he was getting angrier by the minute.

"If you aren't careful Nara then there may be two deaths tonight"

Neji went silent, he needed to calm down, calm down real quickly. If he killed Hinata then it would be his funeral too. The Hyuuga may not care what happened to Hinata but they wouldn't be pleased with him breaking the family tradition of the Branch protecting the Head.

"Let me ask you something Shikamaru, if you are happily married to that woman from the Sand then why do you seek Tenten?" Neji stated more than asked.

"Seek her? I have no desire for Tenten, she is a wonderful woman but lately she has gone downhill, I was only there to do the job YOU are suppose to be doing, and that "woman" has a name and it's Temari." Shikamaru replied, he was treading on thin ice here, he may have trapped the Hyuuga for now but sooner or later the Kagemane would release him, he was hoping later rather than sooner. More importantly he needed to get him and Hinata out of there and quick.

Neji chuckled quietly.

Shikamaru didn't like this one bit.

"Don't you dare ever tell me how to treat my marriage for it is none of your concern and what "job" am I meant to be doing?" Neji claimed.

"Comforting her, she loves you more than you think and if you're not careful you're going to lose her. You may have seen that sight in the bar but I believe she may have delved for comfort more than that simple chaste kiss with me." Shikamaru smiled as him.

"More?" Neji raised an eyebrow. 'Tenten wouldn't cheat on me would she?'

"Believe me, the way you have ignored her needs have forced her to look for amenity in someone else" Shikamaru said, he felt sorry for Neji than anything but the truth needed to be told. He believed it had to come from him after all, Tenten's affair was with no one but his brother-in-law.

"W-who is it?" Neji coughed, the tears were coming back, and he could feel their familiar sting.

"I apologise Neji but it isn't my place to tell you who it is, you must find that out for yourself."

Feeling it was safe to release the Jutsu, Shikamaru walked off into the night.

Hinata didn't know what to do. Whether to comfort Neji or to follow Shikamaru. Deciding to stay with Neji she was about to sit alongside him when Shikamaru called out to her.

"Hinata…Hinata! Come along, it may be troublesome but I'll walk you back to the Hyuuga estate" Shikamaru called.

"C-coming!" Hinata called.

Taking one last glance at her pitiful accomplice, Hinata ran off to the sound of Shikamaru's voice.

The walk back to the Hyuuga was rather an uncomfortable silence.

"Sh-Shikamaru-kun? D-do you know who T-Tenten-san's other boyfriend is?" Hinata muttered quietly to the floor.

"I have my suspicious but it isn't my place to say if it is true or not. Neither of us should intervene Hinata, as Neji rightly said, is it his and Tenten's marriage not ours, we can offer words of assurance and comfort but not take the matter into our own hands" Shikamaru said looking into the night sky.

"H-hai…b-but you w-weren't the one who had to hold T-Tenten-san while she was c-crying Shikamaru-k-kun and I-I cannot o-offer words of w-wisdom like y-you" Hinata shyly replied.

"Do you're best is all I can really say." Shikamaru answered. "Well we're here, Goodnight Hinata"

"G-goodnight" she responded in a state of confusion and shock.

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I don't usually write a chappie this long but I felt inspirational and it would have reeaaalllly been confusing if I put into two chapters. And this rate it's going to be loads of chappies.

Okies this is gonna confused you but I'm going to be switching back and forth between the past and present in this story so you understand what is happening. If you don't like it then review or message and I'll stay in the present tense and explain everything when I come to the end, or would you prefer to stay the way I'm writing now? Help me to help you okies : R&R please,

Kryssie xx