"Tenten, are you feeling okay?" asked Neji.

Usually, Tenten would be very surprised (and suspicious) of him actually showing concern, and would have asked him if he was sick. Today, however, she was far too concerned about the homicidal, crazy red-head who was going to completely…going to…God, she didn't know what the hell Gaara was going to do, but she knew it was bad and she knew it would freaking hurt!

"I'm fine Neji," she said, but of course, she wasn't fine, she wasn't fine at all! She didn't understand how Neji and Lee could be so calm about the whole thing!

She yelped as a fist came her way and smacked against her shoulder. Tenten back flipped and came to land a foot way from where Neji had struck her. Thank GOD he hadn't had any chakra flowing, or…

"I think we should perhaps stop sparring for now," Neji said with a frown, "you don't seem to be paying attention."

Tenten turned back to Neji, feeling guilty, "Gomenasai, Neji…I'm a little distracted today."

Neji frowned. "I noticed."

He walked towards her as she picked herself up from her kneeling position, touching her shoulder lightly and inspecting her bruise (which damn well hurt, she might add!), "It's not serious, luckily." He looked back at her, and Tenten swears she actually sees worry in his eyes, "Usually, you would have blocked that with ease."

Tenten nodded, but to be perfectly honest, she wasn't paying attention. Instead, she was staring at the boy with red hair, as he tried to knock her escentric, green-clad teammate off his feet with his murderous sand.

Lee seemed blissfully unaware of the fact that the boy was trying to kill him. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying the ordeal of having to kick, punch, and try to get past that destructive wall of sand. Tenten glanced at Gaara, and felt her mouth come open – the boy was smiling.

Gaara of the sand, the Kasekage and renowned psychopath was smiling a genuine smile. He looked completely happy, completely relaxed, and completely and utterly fantastic. Watching him, Tenten couldn't help but blush. Goddamn, He looked hot when he smiled!

"Tenten?"

Neji's voice brought her back to the real world. She turned her head to look at him, "Ah, sorry Neji, I didn't hear you…"

"Gaara came here to escape the fangirls, you know, Tenten-san." He said, interrupting her. Tenten gulped – Tenten-san? He was using a suffix?

Tenten knew he was angry at her now!

"Sorry, Neji, really, I –" Tenten's apology was interrupted by a shout to her left. Lee and Gaara stopped sparring, and herself and Neji turned to see Yakamana Ino walking towards them. Tenten glowered – it wasn't fair that Ino got that gorgeous blonde long hair, and that beautiful figure. None of her team mates would mistake her for a guy…then again, Tenten suspected that if they did, they'd be pummelled into the ground.

"Hey!" she said, with her usually perky smile. Neji stiffened beside Tenten, and once again she found herself wondering exactly what it was about Ino that made Neji hate her so much.

"Ino-san, hello!" Said Lee, grinning back at her, "what are you here for?"

"Tsunade-sama wants you and Neji for a mission," she said.

Lee looked agast, "But I am sparring with Gaara-san! And so is Neji! And so is Tenten! And then we were to go out and get cecream and ramen, and take part in youthful activities on Gaara-san's day off! I promised!"

Tenten looked at Lee surprised – it was Gaara's day off from his Kazekage duties? She didn't know you could even do that. And besides, who would spend their one day off in God knows how long with them?

The boy really must have no friends. She felt a little sorry for him. She looked at him...he looked...well, he didn't look like anything. She couldn't tell what he felt now. The smile was gone and the usual angry look was still there. Tenten bit her lip - evil Gaara was back and lusting for blood.

Then, she realised what Ino had said – they had a mission! Tenten breathed a sigh – she was saved from a painful, grain-filled death, all thanks to Tsunade-sama.

"Maa…Tsunade-sama only asked for you and Neji, Lee-san," Ino continued, "so Tenten could stay here with Gaara and show him around…"

Tenten stared at her. Wait – what? She had to stay? Alone? With a crazy murderous psychopath!?

Tenten caught Ino's eye and attempted to give her the mental message 'please, God, don't leave me with him! Please! Please!' but unfortunately, Ino seemed to have issues with reading people and their emotions – instead of understanding what Tenten said, she winked at her and mouthed, 'I hope you two have fun alone!'

On the bright side, Tenten now knew why Neji hated Ino.

Lee turned to Gaara, "is that okay with you, Gaara-san?"

He glanced at Tenten, then back at Lee, "Hai – that will be fine. I do not mind – we can arrange a dinner ourselves at some other point. I will enjoy spending time with Tenten-san."

Tenten seemed to be the only one who knew the hidden meaning to his word – I will be happy to spend time with Tenten…so I can kill and murder her dead!

"Maa…I guess it's okay then," said Lee, forlorn. Tenten hoped for a moment that, perhaps, he would change his mind and decide to stay, but alas, fate was determined to work against her today.

"Come on Lee," said Neji, walking quickly away from Tenten and grabbing Lee by the arm, pulling him in the direction of Ino. Tenten winced, not even a goodbye! Man, Neji was really taking it hard. The two reached Ino, and she was filled with a strange unstoppable urge to run at them screaming.

"Neji! Lee!" Tenten almost yelled, in a voice that was abnormally high. She felt everyone's eyes on her, and immediately felt self conscious.

"…have…fun…" she finished lamely.

"Hai! Enjoy your time with Gaara-san, Tenten! Remember to make him try passionfruit icecream - it is youthful, and he has never tried it before!" Lee yelled back, and then, in a flash of purple, white and green, the three were gone.

Gaara and Tenten stood in awkward silence. One minute passed. Then two. Then three.

Tenten tried to think of a way to subtly hint that they should go somewhere public, so it would he harder for him to kill her. Unfortunately, subtlety wasn't her forte, "So, how about we go into a public place and do something with a large group of peop—" Tenten began to say, but was interrupted.

"Let's spar now." Gaara said. He gave her that same look he gave her when they first made eye contact, and in the unlikely case she had misread the gaze, she now knew for sure that he had something nasty in store for her.

Tenten felt her blood pressure rise.

She was going to die, and she hadn't even organised a will yet.

AN: sorry about the long time it took to update, but if you read my profile, you'll get it. Here we are - another chapter. Now the plot starts, hurrray! Prepare for fluff in the future...actually, that's probably a little distant, but anyway, it's there xD

Also, it'll probably be a threesome pic! as in NejiTenGaa! Hurray - the agnst! The love! The drama! The boy-fights! xD! Do you all like that idea, or should it be scrapped? I don't mind either way. It could also be KankTenGaa, but that's a bit cruel. So I'll only do that if I get 15 reviews telling me it's a awesome idea. NejiTenGaa I'll do if I get more then one xD!! Unless there's strong oposition. So - which is it/is it a good idea?

I hoped you liked it! YAY!