Drabble 4: Embarrassment
Ninjas of the Fire country usually rise at dawn to avoid the smouldering heat of the afternoon sun. Tenten, a kunoichi of Konoha, also adopts this practice. Everyday, without fail, she ignores the soreness of her muscles and the comfort of her bed in favor of being punctual to her early morning engagements.
Today she has training with Neji at five and, even if sleeping in sounds very tempting with the chilly weather, she has no plan to skip the arrangement. Thus, shivering, she faced the biting coldness of pre-dawn and headed towards the training grounds.
Neji is not yet there. Mumbling about tardiness and what-not, Tenten started to mark targets while waiting. Her partner is never late, but it astounds her that she actually arrived in the meeting place before he did.
She is even more astounded when five in the morning passed by without a Neji in sight. Something is terribly, terribly, off. Hesitatingly, she trudged to his residence, the Hyuuga compound...
...and found herself in an extremely serious debate on whether to laugh, croon, or just be exasperated. Tangled in pristine white sheets, his hair spread out untidily, mouth parted slightly in an almost infant-like way, Neji sleeps; and not even the shifting of his mattress, the rearranging of his bed covers, nor the finger gently prodding his cheeks are able to wake him.
For the very first time, Neji Hyuuga overslept; and this moment his teammate took perfect advantage of. He woke on the cold floor with smarting cheeks - both anterior and posterior - and his sleepwear full of flower prints under the mercy of a smirking Tenten holding a camera.
Thus Neji Hyuuga finally learned how to blush.
Author Note: And now I'm afraid that my drabbles would not be drabbles anymore. They're starting to get longer. *Sigh.*