Title: Memory
Author: Anorexia
Pairing: Neji Hyuuga x Tenten
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: # 23: Candy
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, and never will.

It was another hot day in Konoha. The sun baked on us while we trained long and hard, making us exhausted within minutes of arriving to train. Of course my teammates, didn't see this as a problem, but more of a challenge. Lee went straight ahead and began practicing his Taijutsu directly under the sun, never taking a small break for water until he finished what he started. Neji did his usual routine of training that Gai-Sensei instructed, thankfully he didn't push himself and took drinks of cool water when it was needed. By the time it hit noon we were all drained. The sun was directly above us, taking away all of our energy and will to move.

When Gai-Sensei arrived with our lunches shortly after we sat down with exhaustion, I noticed he was not only carrying out lunch boxes but a brown paper bag.

"Gai-Sensei, what's in the brown bag?." Lee asked, standing up and rushing over to him.

Our Sensei set our lunch boxes down on the ground next to mysterious brown bag. "Well, I noticed how hot and tiring today was for you guys so." He reached his hand into the brown bag "...I bought you all a carton of ice-cream." Sure enough, there, in his hand was a carton of plain Vanilla ice-cream.

"Oh Gai-Sensei, you are so good to us!." Lee said immediately, admiring both the Gai-Sensei and the ice-cream. Sensei reached back into the bag and pulled out four bowls and spoons. "You all deserve it anyway for your awesome power of youth!." With one of the spoons still in his right hand, he formed a 'thumbs-up' hand sign and did his usual smile.

Lee and I were ecstatic, we quickly engulfed our lunch and lined up to get the ice-cream before the heat made it melt. Turning my head I noticed that Neji was under the nearest tree alone with no bowl of ice-cream. Typical Neji, alone with no one to bother him. Getting an idea, I grabbed the extra spoon that was for Neji, took my bowl of ice-cream and happily walked over to him. "Neji, do you want some ice-cream?" I said, holding the small bowl of plain Vanilla ice-cream in front of his face, only hoping he'd say yes.

"No..."

"Oh..." I huffed out. "Are you sure? It'll taste good compared to the hot and dry feeling in your mouth."

His eyes narrowed slightly. "I'm sure."

I frowned and leaned my body against the same tree he was against. "You're no fun Neji..." I dipped my spoon in the sweet and picked up a small amount of it and slipped it into my mouth, enjoying the new cool Vanilla flavor. "Mmm...so good." I said, hoping that my enjoyment would push him to get the ice-cream. One small spoonful at a time I ate the ice-cream, making small noises or comments of enjoyment. I was soon at the point where there was only a few spoonfuls left. The ice-cream was quickly melting due to the heat and I knew that the ice-cream in the container that Gai-Sensei had wouldn't be any better then my bowl.
"Neji, will you have at least one spoon of ice-cream?." I sweetly asked, holding the spoon in front of him like I did with the bowl.

He eyed my spoon with it's contents of melting ice-cream. "I suppose...if it will make you happy..."

I happily nodded my head and moved the spoon closer to his face. "Open up..." Reluctantly, Neji opened his mouth, just enough for my barely get my spoon in. He quickly swallowed the ice-cream as though it was murder for him to intake.

"So?" I ask. "What do you think?."

"It's good I suppose..." He lightly licked his lips to intake more of the Vanilla.

I got another spoonful ready. "Do you want another?"

He nodded yes.

Once again I placed the spoon in his mouth and then pulled it back out. Accidently getting a bit on the edge of his mouth.

"Neji you have..." Using myself as an example I pointed to the area of his mouth where the ice-cream was.

Mirroring me, he went to the opposite side of his mouth and whipped the wrong side of his mouth.

"No...here..." I leaned closer to Neji's mouth and pressed my mouth upon his own and whipped the ice-cream off with my lips. I was stunned of my action, I could have just used my finger to remove the ice-cream, but instead it had to be my mouth. It was the same as kissing him. I quickly pulled my mouth away from his and blushed.

"Sorry...I know I could've used my finger...I-I don't know what came over me..." I panicked. How was he going to react? What would he say? What would he do?

"Tenten..." He started. My heart started beating faster - this was it.

"Do you have anymore ice-cream?."

Author's note - I'm sorry this chapter wasn't as good as the last. I promise in the next one I'll make it up big time. Okay...now that last part was OOC. Also when he said "if it will make you happy." I'm using it in the tone of irritation for example when someone is asking for you to do something and keep asking you until you break, you'd say "Fine, if it will make you happy." I just wanted to clear that up in case it was mistaken for other meanings. (It was actually was really hard to tie candy into a kiss yet keep in some-what in character.)

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