A/N: Ok here it is.. the last tale. I know I'm updating this quickly but I had this done at the same time as the previous one and I think the prev one needed further explanation. Now enjoy!!

Chapter 8: The tale of Ten Ten

"Yosh! Another successful mission to add to Team Gai records!" cried Gai as he walked back to Konoha with Ten Ten.

"But sensei, we don't even have Lee or Neji to be considered this a team mission" pointed her.

"Oh but we have our team spirit! They are supporting us wherever they are!" cried Gai in his nice guy pose earning a sweatdrop from Ten Ten.

"Hai. Hai. Just return as fast as we can" added her rushing her pace. It was weird enough to have spent a mission alone with him for her to endure the come back.

Unluckily for her, her problems were just starting.

"Shhh. Ten Ten, look who's there" she heard her sensei, indicating to stop.

"Oh It's Shikamaru-kun, from Asuma sensei team" pointed her.

"Hmm. I remember him. He was the only one who passed the Chuunin Exams last year" added Gai and Ten Ten nodded. "But what is he doing there hiding in that tree?"

"You think he's in a mission?" wondered her looking at her sensei.

"It's most likely... wait! Someone else's coming" cried Gai pointing now at Temari. "She's the one who beat you at those same Chuunin Exams"

"Yeah. I remember her too. She fought Shikamaru-kun at the third round. I've heard they got quite close since that time when her team was sent to help Konoha"

"Oh I see. How youthful for them to be having a date in a place like this!"

"Wait... What?! You can't assume things that carelessly!" cried Ten Ten nervously.

"Oh, don't be so oblivious my cute pupil. It's obvious they are meeting here for a date!" pointed Gai happily. "Makes me wonder why are they doing it on the sly" added him rubbing his chin. "Could it be that their parents are against their relationship? Oh how unyouthful for them!"

"Hey stop making up wrong deductions!" Ten Ten cried trying to stop her sensei from doing some stupid thing. "Look, they don't seem to be dating or so, they are just walking!"

"Oh, shyness! How cute!"

"Hey no! That's not what I meant!"

"Yosh! Let's help them with their problem!"

"Wait no!"

"Come on Ten Ten, we have some arrangements to do"

"Oh geez!" sighed her in defeat.

"You finished with yours?" asked Gai to Ten Ten who was setting some traps in the floor.

"Hai! But why are we doing this?"

"You'll see that in time! Now come here, they are getting closer" said and both of them left the road.

Moments later, Shikamaru was using his Kagemane no jutsu on Temari for avoiding her steping into Ten Ten's trap.

"You see? I told you that wasn't going to work" pointed Ten Ten. "What's the point in setting all those traps?"

"Ok Here it comes the best part!" cried him with excitement. "You see Ten Ten, those traps I made you set up wasn't the real ones"

"Huh?"

"I've mastered a better plan. When Shikamaru releases her cute girlfriend from the jutsu, he's going to step into my trap"

"You thought all that?" asked her sceptically.

"Look intently" advised him.

And just as Gai predicted, Shikamaru stepped in his trap making him and Temari hang up in a net.

"Just look at them Ten Ten, if that doesn't break the tension then..."

"Well it's not the tension what they've broken" added her making Gai look at her confused. "Look, they've scaped"

"Hm I should have used stronger ropes"

"Can we leave now?" requested Ten Ten, not like she was going to convice her sensei but she didn't lose anything for trying.

"Not just yet! I'm not going anywhere until those two lovebirds learn how to express their youthful love!"

"Wait, Gai sensei!" cried Ten Ten all flushed. "Stop yelling those things. Someone could hear you"

"Huh? Why are you all red all of a suden?" asked Gai surprised. "Could it be... that you..."

"Eh... I-It's nothing" replied her with a sweatdrop. "Hey look, they are moving again." added her changing the topic.

"Oh ok. We'll talk about your love life later. It'd be so unyouthful for you not to have a correspondend love"

"I don't have an uncorresponded love!"

"They are separating, sensei" informed Ten Ten who was told to watch the path while Gai was setting his trap.

"Hm Then I have to use a bigger one"

"Wha... what?! Don't you think you are overdoing it?" asked a nervous Ten Ten when she saw the magnitude of his newest trap. "You don't plan to kill them, do you?"

"Of course not, my cute Ten Ten. When I release this trap, Shikamaru-kun would not have another choice but to jump and protect his girlfriend. He'll then hold her in an all lovey dovey hug!" explained him. "I'm a genius, right?" added him in his nice guy pose.

"Lovey... Dovey..." repeated her dumbly. "Do you even know the meaning of that word?"

"Don't try to correct your sensei, Ten Ten. And come and hide with me"

3... 2... 1... Gai sensei released the rope he was pulling and the big trunk began falling straight into Shikmaru and Temari. Ten Ten watched nervously.

"Great now they think they are under attack" sighed her.

"Hum... I don't get it. It was supposed to be romantic and something that would join them" pouted Gai.

"Well, what you say doesn't make sense at all. What would you think if you're in a mission and then you see that trunk falling straight to you? Of course they'd think there must be some enemy setting traps for them!" reasoned her.

"Oh you must be right. That's why I love having you in my team, Ten Ten!" cried him patting her in the head.

"Hey stop that!" complaint her. "Look there's nothing we can do to join them. Can we just leave them alone, please?"

"That's it! Some alone time would do it! Come on Ten Ten!" commanded him and she could do nothing but follow.

"I won't be helping you this time either?" asked Ten Ten who watched her sensei dig a big hole in the ground and then cover it... well, not so well.

"Even a normal person could tell that's a trap" pointed her sceptically.

"Oh that's what I'm planning. With that genius in command it would be usless to try and hide it better"

"Then what's your plan now?"

"Oh just look at that ground" said him. "If you were in their place what'd you do?"

"Well I'll first throw something at that to test the ground and then travel by the trees"

"Correct! That's exactly what they'd do but then... bang! They're gonna fall anyways as I'm cutting the branches too"

"Oh I'm surprised you thought that" added her sarcastically.

"Of course! Your sensei thinks about everything! And I must assure I pass on my habilities to my cute pupils as well"

"I-I appreciate it a lot but... I don't think I agree with your methods" said her with a sweatdrop.

"Oh don't be ashamed Ten Ten. I'd also help you with your love problems"

"L-Love problems?" asked her a bit shocked. So far she knew, she had not that sort of problems.

"Don't think I don't know how you've been looking to a certain teammate lately"

"Wha-What? I don't know what you're saying" replied her all flushed. Now she remembered, but she didn't considered that to be a problem. Was her sensei that much as an observer?

"Don't worry Ten Ten, he might seem that oblivious but I'm sure he's a good kid. I'm sure he'll notice you sooner or later. Well now they are coming, let's hide"

"Just don't do anything like this, sensei" added her hiding her face and sweating nervously.

Moments later Gai sensei was screaming. "It worked!!"

"I'm amazed at how you predicted what they were going to do" commented Ten Ten earning a proud nice guy pose from her sensei. "Too bad you didn't dig deep enough" added her leaving her sensei dumbfounded.

"That wasn't supposed to be like that!" cried Gai with teary eyes. "What was wrong Ten Ten? Didn't those kids like to be near each other?"

"Look Gai sensei, I don't think they were on date in the first place" explained her but looking at her sensei's face made her change what she was saying. "Well if they were, I don't think being in constant attack would make them enjoy themselves"

"You think so? When I was young I loved protecting those who I loved" explained him.

"Well yeah... but that doesn't work with everyone. Now if you really want those two to get closer then let's leave them alone. I'm sure things will get better if they aren't falling into traps"

"Oh you may be right, Ten Ten. Asuma sensei's students have no youthful spirit!"

"Eh?!"

"I must have some words with him" added him with a hand under his chin.

"L-Let's leave it like it is, sensei. Look, we've moved away from our road. At this rate we're gonna arrive home later than expected" suggested her.

"Yosh! Then let's make the way home in half the time!" cried him.

"Hey wait, that's impossible!"

"If we're not able to do that then we're running 200 laps around Konoha, yosh!" yelled him starting his way back leaving an angry Ten Ten.

'Geez. It wasn't my fault to be that late. He was the one who slowed us in the first place' complaint her. "Hey that's not fair, sensei! I'm not Lee!"

A/N: hehe you didn't expected them to be behind all that, right :P I'm not quite sure if this would be called the tale of Ten Ten or the tale of Gai sensei LOL. Just some cute moments between sensei and pupil... and only if you're not familiar with me... I must clear this: the teammate Gai sensei was talking about was NOT Neji (cough Neji is mine, k?)

Thank you for reading!!