A/N: I messed up on the name its Maeve Orianna Long. Anyway onwards to the story.
A blinding light surrounded Tenten's hospital room. Neji, Lee and Gai who had been watching over her waiting for her to wake up shielded their eyes in surprise. When the light faded they looked towards Tenten's bed. She didn't look anything like she had before. Her once brown hair was now brunette in a shade that could only be described as a rich wine color that flowed down past her butt. Her once tanned skin turned to a pale creamy ivory color that looked as soft as cashmere. Those were the most noticeable changes. She was still short as ever much to her later chagrin. They couldn't tell if her eye color had changed at all since she had yet to open them. Unknown to them however she had a few surprises for herself next time she was naked and alone in front of the mirror.
Maeve groaned in her sleep and stiffly sat up, opening her eyes to the sight of her teammates. As soon as she fully sat up she was glomped back to the bed by Lee who yelled, "My youthful flower you have no idea how much joy it brings me to see you awake!"
"Lee," gasped Maeve. "Can't… breathe, your crushing me."
"Sorry Ten-chan in my youthful exuberance to see you were well I got ahead of myself, to make up for it I will run one-thousand laps around Konoha!" Lee exclaimed as he climbed off the bed and allowed her to get much needed air.
Neji rolled his eyes at Lee and looked at Tenten. He's the first one who noticed her golden eyes.
"Tenten what happened to you? Not only do you look totally different but we found lying in the forest beaten up." inquired Neji.
"Hmm… She was right about my appearance changing then. Do any of you have a mirror so that I can see myself?"
Gai speaking for the first time since she had awoken said, "Lee."
"On it Gai-sensei." he said as he scrambled off to the bathroom to acquire a mirror for her. In less than twenty seconds he came back and handed her a medium sized hand mirror. Maeve took it and appraised herself quietly she happily noted that she took after her mother and smiled softly.
"Thank you, Lee. For starters I have my memory from before I came to the village back. My name isn't Tenten it's Maeve Orianna Long. As for why I was attacked it's because of the blood I have within me and what it and I can do. However at the time it wasn't activated because of the seal that was placed upon me when I was six to protect me. The seal hid away my powers and my true appearance in hope of me surviving and it worked. I would tell you the rest right now but the Hokage will probably want to know also since almost everything about me in her file is wrong. Besides the look difference I'm still the same person though, you don't have to worry about that." she said smiling.
Gai was the first to speak, "Of course you're still the same you will always be our youthful flower of Team Guy. Isn't that right?" he asked the other two teenagers.
Neji nodded and Lee exclaimed, "Yosh!" Maeve chuckled and took that as a yes.
Gai nodded in approval, "Your wounds healed a lot faster than expected considering how badly you were injured and that it hasn't even been a full day since you collapsed. Before you awoke the nurse approved of you leaving once you awoke. Beside your bed there is change of clothes for you that Ino brought for you. Lee offered to go but she refused. She said that a girl's room is a sacred place that men should not trespass unless granted permission. I don't fully understand it and when I questioned her on it she rolled her eyes at me, sighed, and she said would get you your clothes. We will wait outside while you change." Gai said as he and her team walked out.
She rolled her eyes at Lee and Gai. Only those two would think it would be okay to go into her house and look through her clothes, undergarments and all. She sighed as her muscles creaked a bit as she stumbled out of bed and into the bathroom with her change of clothes. She shed the hospital gown and gasped. She did not remember having a tattoo. She looked closely at the mirror to see that is was a dragon. It's head started at her left breast nipple and wound down around her waist until its tail ended wrapping halfway around her thigh. 'Well, I always did want a tattoo…'
She shrugged happily and started to get dressed, only then she noticed nothing was fitting right. At all. Things that had been baggy on her only a day ago. Hell, she nearly killed herself getting on her bra because it was so tight it hurt. Her shirt and pants went tight too but not as bad. She wondered if Ino had gotten clothes from a younger time in her life but when she checked the size tag it read true-- it was the right size. It used to be the right size anyway. She finished getting dressed and uncomfortably shifted in her clothes and blushed. Her shirt was like a second skin and the pants weren't much better. It's not like she had anything bigger and she was pretty sure her team was waiting for her so they could all go to the Hokage together and hear the rest of her story. She mentally cursed and shifted again. Maybe they wouldn't notice… yeah, she thought, if I'm lucky. She naively clung to that hope knowing it was useless and without being able to do anything further to help the situation she walked out to meet her teammates.
Neji was the first to see her and raised his eyebrows curiously, she blushed and muttered, "Its not my fault." while quickly walking away from them.
"I knew I should have gotten your clothes! Ino was clearly incapable--"
"Who are you calling a incapable you green monkey! That is her size. Isn't that right Ten--huh?"
Maeve shook her head and sighed. Well she knew it was hoping for too much for them not to notice her clothes. "Hi Yama-chan, it's me Tenten or rather Maeve, that's my real name. I got my memories back. If you come with us I'll tell you the whole story. As for the clothes I guess I grew a little bit when the seal was removed."
Neji and Ino raised their eyebrows when she said she grew 'a little bit'. That was bullshit on her part, her clothes were baggy enough that if she grew 'a little bit' they would not be a second skin on her now.
Ino hugged her and then pulled back and said, "Of course I'll come with you, and you grew more than 'a little bit' but we will save that for later." she started cackling, looking Maeve up and down.
Maeve, alarmed, stepped back away from her some. "What's wrong with you Yama-chan your kind of scaring me here."
"Oh nothing except you can't escape me now! Nothing you have will fit you. After you've told me your story we are going shopping for you. An entire new fitting wardrobe!" Ino exclaimed sighing happily.
"S-Shopping? Now, now Ino lets not get ahead of ourselves here." she said retreating back slowly and then breaking out into a full out sprint when Ino's maniacal look didn't leave her eyes.
Ino ran after her. "Tenten get your ass back here! NOW! You can't escape me, you know damn well none and I mean none of your clothes will fit you!"
"No! I remember the last time you took me shopping!" she said running faster.
"It was not that bad we only went for eight hours straight! Come back!"
"Worry not my youthful teammate I will protect you from the evils of shopping with Ino Yamanaka!" Lee exclaimed and ran after them.
"Evil? I'll show you evil you green monkey wait till I get my hands on you after I have my way with Eve-chan! I'll redefine evil and when I'm done with you I'll make Gaara breaking your legs look like child's play!" Ino yelled, running about the hospital chasing after Maeve.
"I fear nothing for I have the power of youth and it will shield me against your evils!" Lee yelled running out too.
"Wait, Lee! Your youth may not be enough against her fierce rage! Let your sensei protect you!" Gai yelled running out.
Neji stood still watching after them and for once was at a loss for words. What the hell was that? He thought. Slowly a smirk appeared on his face and he chuckled a bit. He had never seen Tenten, no, Maeve, run so fast in her entire life. He chuckled and ran after them. Why miss free entertainment?
This was not what she had planned. Making a scene in much too tight clothes that she wanted to go unnoticed in until she could get more and in a bigger size. But noooo… enter her best friend who had to chase her all the way to the Hokage's office making a big scene all the while. How would a big scene not be caused with her strange new look even though no one knew who she was yet and a trail of screaming people following her? Well, everyone except for Neji, but still. She slowed before she entered the building but not much since Ino was still hot on her heels. Running past a shocked Shizune she knocked on Tsunade's office door and waited till she heard a faint, "Come in."
Not needing any more of a welcome she hurried in and took the seat closest to the window. She would jump of the window to escape Ino if need be. Tsunade who had not looked up from her mountain of paperwork until now gasped.
"Who are you?" she asked. Maeve was about to respond when the rest of her party ran in. Ino slowed and gave a look that promised she would get her way and sat next to her. Too close. The rest came and sat around Tsunade's desk.
"Two questions which I expect to be answered immediately: Who is she and what are all of you doing here?" she asked.
"Well first off it's me, Tenten, or would be if that was my true name. My real name is Maeve Orianna Long. I came here to tell you I regained my memories and I now remember whom I truly am." Taking in a long breath she began to tell her friends her tale, leaving out the detailed description of her powers and just giving them the basics. A girl's gotta have something up her sleeve, right?
Tsunade said nothing for a while, and then said, "I'm glad you got your memories back. Your clan once left here to try and protect the village from invasions over their powers. You have clan estate on the outskirts of the town. You also have an inheritance left for you, they left it for whoever came back should they be killed or loose to the enemy. This is the first time I have even heard of their powers when they were here, the records say they never mentioned their powers so this is the first time I've heard about it."
She got up and went to the side closet that was neatly organized, pertaining assets of different clans and such, no doubt Shizune's doing since Tsunade was lacking in the organization department. She pulled out a sealed scroll, map, and a set of keys and handed them to Maeve. "Everything in that sealed scroll is yours and the map will lead you to your house. Thank you for coming and telling me, I have your profile up to date now. Though, might I suggest clothes shopping?"
"See! I told you Eve-chan, we are going shopping right now! Its only nine so there's plenty of time!" Ino yelled, dragging her from the room. Plenty of time to Ino equals all day.
"Wait Ino, I want to see my house and organize and move first before going shopping!"
"If I let you and help you promise you wont try to escape me?"
"If I don't feel threatened sure, just don't go overboard. Last time we had more bags then we could carry and you had to threaten Shikamaru to get him to help us carry it all."
Ino looked away, "I have no idea what your talking about. Anyway lets go to your apartment and pack we can finish by ten if we hurry and then dedicated the rest of the day to shopping!"
Maeve shook her head and walked to her apartment with Ino in tow.
Her apartment was a small one bedroom with scarce belongings. She hadn't owned much being that she didn't have a lot of money. How could you when you were an orphan? She hummed to herself as she started packing all her weapons in scrolls. Ino went over to the closet and started packing her clothes. When she looked she was throwing all her clothes undergarments and even socks in the trash.
"Ino... what are you doing?" she asked cautiously.
"You can't fit any of these so there's no point in keeping any of these. Well, I guess you could fit the socks but eh. This may be the only time I'll get to have my way with you so I plan on taking full advantage of it. You can afford it anyway check that scroll and look at your assets."
Shaking her head in exasperation she went over to where she left the scroll and opened it. Sealed in the scroll was the monetary part of her inheritance and a necklace she assumed was her family crest. The pendent consisted of a silver dragon encircling a ruby the size of a large gumball. She apparently had enough to live comfortably the rest of her life give or take. She felt relieved because if Ino was throwing away her whole entire wardrobe as meager as it was it was going to be expensive. She unsealed a good portion of the money to shopping with Ino and put it in her purse.
They finished packing in forty-five minutes. They sealed what she was keeping, threw away the rest and they were on their way to her new home. On the outside it was painted and nice shade of silver. The house had four bedrooms, a dojo, basement and a garden. The master bedroom had a bathroom in it while there were two public bathrooms on each floor. The kitchen was spacious enough that there could be a family and three other people in there without it being crowded. Which was good since she had always hated her small kitchen back at her apartment. The walls favored rich red, cream, and black colors. Upon looking she found a study that was fairly large with two large bookcases. She'd have to check that out later, she thought. She put down her things in the master bedroom, grabbed her purse and went downstairs where Ino was waiting.
"Let's go shopping for undergarments then ninja gear, then wherever." said Maeve.
Ino said nothing and smiled, dragging her off to the nearest mall.
They got to the lingerie store in no time. Maeve started out picking practical sports bras for training before Ino dragged her off to the riskier sections.
"Those are too boring. Here, try these." she said, holding up a partially see through black lace set and a gold lace and satin set.
"They weren't boring they were practical for training. I like them, I went a size up so I think I'm a thirty-six double D." Maeve said nonchalantly, grabbing two ten packs of silky underwear and socks.
"I'm surprised. I expected much more resistance than that from you."
"I may be a bit of a tomboy but I do enjoy shopping, just not to the point of shopping till we have looked at every clothing store in town in one day."
"I can't believe your still mad about that it was only eight hours, a little more than we could carry, and in my defense there were great sales going on that day."
Ino got a deadpan stare as they paid for their purchases and left. She decided to change her look to match her new appearance. She changed her plain buns to braided ones held together with decorative dragon hair sticks. She now wore a golden Chinese style dress with white accents and cherry blossom petals on it, two slits went up on her legs five inches above her knee. She wore a short pair of shorts under for safety and finished off the look with a pair of white tie up style ballerina-like shoes.
Ino nodded approvingly and dragged her off to the next set of stores. It was safe to say that by the time they finished she had an abundance of clothes, accessories, shoes and makeup.
The pair headed to Ichiraku to get some dinner. Maeve shifted uncomfortably as she noticed people staring at her. She nudged Ino, who turned to look at her.
"Do I really look that different?"
"You need to ask? Yes, you do. You went from a house cat to a royal Persian cat." Ino said lightly then in a louder voice said, "Come on, Tenten."
Maeve looked up at her in surprise, and whispered, "What was that for?" as she and Ino sat down in a booth.
"Well, there are going to be ton's of question's about who I was with so you only have to tell them two things. One, your real name and two, that the seal on you was broken. I think things will go comparatively well this way and faster."
Around them they heard whispers sounding like: That's Tenten? No way? What the hell happened to her! She used to be as plain as a dog.
She frowned as she heard the dog comment and the person who said it mysteriously ended up with a kunai piercing his noodle bowl and his hot noodles and broth fell all over his crotch. She smiled pleasantly as she heard him yowl in pain.
Ino said nothing more and simply raised her eyebrows and waited for their food to come. Before it could come however Lee ran over to Maeve.
"My youthful teammate Maeve I have finally found you! I am happy to see you have gotten new clothes but am saddened that I could not save you from Ino's fiendish plot to drag you away to shop all day."
Maeve chuckled and Ino glared at him. "Don't test me you monkey, call me fiendish or evil one more time and see how many of your precious green spandex jumpsuit's you have when you wake up tomorrow."
Lee gasped and jumped back, the horror evident on his face. "Such cruel word's, you are truly fiendish! Only one who is truly evil could say such things with a smile on their face! I do not fear you for my undying youth shall protect me and Gai-sensei has more jumpsuit's should some insidious person ever harm them!"
"Oh yeah, will your 'undying' youth feed you when I dislocate your jaw?"
"Yes! Youth is what feeds me! Youth burns within me to strengthen my body! Youth warms and cleans me! Youth heals my wounds and--"
"Enough!" growled Ino.
Maeve, who had been valiantly holding in her laughter, couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing. Naruto who had been listening to their entire exchange joined her.
Ino glared at her and kept muttering something about burned jumpsuit's and death to youth.
"Lee, thanks for the laugh I really needed it." said Naruto.
"What are you talking about I was protecting my youthful teammate?"
That sent him and Maeve into another round of laughter. Naruto had to admit to himself though that Tenten's new look was exotic and foreign.
"Hey Tenten what happened to you?" Naruto asked.
"My real name is Maeve, I got my memories back and the seal that was on me for my safety was broken."
He nodded though still puzzled. He figured it wasn't his place to ask any further yet. He turned to finish his food and nodded at Lee when he joined him for a bowl.
Maeve and Ino's food had finally came and they ate while chatting amiably before splitting ways to go home.
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A/N: OK there's the second chapter! I've decided to either make it Naruto or Neji that she's going to be paired up with and comparatively I will go through each of their pros and cons. In the next chapter she will learn how to use some of her powers and you'll find out how Ino and Maeve came to be such good friends. Reviews keep me motivated so review more and I'll write more. ^_^ Happy Author=More chappies. Thanks to PissedxOffxPrincessx18 for correcting this chapter.