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Chapter 5

I wake up on my bed with a huge headache. I look around and my eyes land on my digital watch.

10:00 flashes in my face.

OH MY GOOOOD. 10am?!?

Hinata, Ino ad Sakura must have already left for work! I get up and walk quickly to my door. On it a see a blue note.

Tenten,

You were asleep when we went out so you HAVE HAVE HAVE to tell us what happened last night when we come home later. Plus, don't forget about the balloons you were meant to get! (Unless you got them already of course.) See you at 3. Hinata is gonna make a diversion to get Sakura to come home. GIGGLE!

INO :)

Oops...I completely forgot about the balloons...fucking balloons.

I walk out to make coffee when I see the phone has a message. I press on the messages button and I freeze. It's Neji's voice.

Tenten, are you okay? It's already 8 and you're still not here. If you don't come to work soon, I won't come to the party today.

Then it beeps.

Bastard, that's...that's...BLACK MAIL!

Suddenly, the door bell rings.

"Who is it?" I call out stupidly.

"Neji."

SHIIIIIITTT.

Wait, I have a plan that might just work.

"Oh..Neji." I make my voice sound deep and a cough.

"Are you okay?" he sounds alarmed.

"No...I have the...achoo! Cold..."

"Oh. Can I come in?"

Great...now what do I do.

"No." I say, "I think it's contagious."

"I can still come in. I've had an injection and I have a strong immune system."

Damn him. Now I have to say fine.

"Fine, just one second." I tell him.

Okay, plan Pretend-to-be-sick has to work or else I'll lose my job for sure...

I'm running around frantically, throwing peices of tishoo on the table. I grab a shawl and wrap it around my shoulders. Then I go open the door.

"Hi Neji...achoo!" I greet him. I'm so good at acting sick!

I'm laughing gleefully inside. MUAHAHAHA!

"Tenten, you don't sound so good." his eyes fall onto my hair and they widen.

SHIT. My hair is down.

I quickly grab my usual hairties from around my wrist and make them into buns.

"You look beautiful with your hair down." Neji says absent mindedly.

"What!?" I say, did he just say I was beautiful?!

He looks down and pink tints his cheeks.

Haha! I let my hair down, stare at him and put my hands on my hips.

"So...are you gonna go or are you going to stay here and help a sick person?" I say.

"Um.. I'll stay here." he says.

WHAT?!

SERIOUSLY!?.

I was kidding.

OH MY GOD. I just remembered that we kissed last night! How can I forget?!

"Okay.." I say, feeling hot, " I'll just get changed."

I turn around to go back to my room and slam right into a door.

OWWWWWWWWWW.

FUCK THAT DOOR. WHAT IS IT MADE OUT OF?! METAL?

Neji comes running over, " Are you alright Tenten?"

"Yeah..." I groan, getting back up.

Reminder, slamming into doors-HURT!

I open the door and quickly put on dark jeans and a white shirt with a panda on it.

"Okay..." I get out and face Neji, " Wanna help me get balloons?" I ask him.

He stares with at me with a "how did the subject of balloons come up" look and says, " Sure."

"Okay!" I say, suddenly energetic, " Lets use my car!"

I run out of the door, grabbing my handbag while Neji walks after me.

I go to the parking lot and I get into my black Mercedes, then I drive out to get Neji.

"Nice car." Neji comments as he sits down next to me, " Are you sure you can drive when you're sick?"

How dare he question my driving skills!

"Of course I can!" I say indignantly. Then, I backed into a tree.

Hehe...that was an accident...

Neji sighed as he got out of the car to inspect the damage. Luckily, there wasn't even a scratch!

Ha.Take that Neji.

He comes back and shoves me out of the driver's seat.

"What are you doing!" I yelp as I fall onto the seat next to him.

"Driving." he said as he started the engine.

Fuck him.

15 minutes later

"YAY! they got green balloons!" I squeal as a grab a whole bag of green balloons.

Neji's face is deadpan as he gets pink, blue and purple balloons.

"I think we should get more pink. it's Sakura's favourite colour." I point out.

"Okay." Neji grabs 6 packs of pink balloons.

I giggle and say, " That should be enough. I'll go pay."

"No. I'll pay."

Before I can stop him, Neji goes up to the counter and pay for me.

Well, what can I say? $15.78 off for me!

We're back at my house now and Neji is blowing up balloons while I watch Friends.

"Neji, are you sure you can do them by yourself?" I ask, looking around at all the balloons we bought.

"Yes." Neji says as he reaches out to grab another balloon.

According to him, sick people shouldn't blow balloons. Heehee...good for me.

Neji POV

Damn balloons.

Fucking balloons.

Okay, lets see. In every packet there are 10 balloons.

I only have the 6 packs of pink balloons left.

Fuck. I have to blow 60 balloons.

Damn balloons.

Tenten POV

Heh? He looks grouchy all of a sudden.

Maybe he realized how many balloons that he still has to blow.

Ah well, like he said. Sick people shouldn't blow balloons.

Finally, after half an hour, Neji finishes all the balloons.

"Wheee!" I say, playing with a green balloon.

Neji looks at the balloons with a death glare.

"Jeez, Neji." I say, " They're just balloons. Give them a break!"

He glares at me.

"Hehe, just a joke! Go back to glaring at balloons!" I say, giggling nervously.

Neji gets up and says, " It's 2, I have to go get Sakura's present and everything. See you at 3." then he waltzes out.

Great timing too, cause Ino and Hinata bust in 5 minutes later.

"WOW! GREAT JOB WITH THE BALLOONS TENTEN!" Ino shouts.

Hinata just gaped.

Hehe. I don't want to tell them that Neji did it. I don't need to tell them about the pretending to be sick plan as well...

Now they're running around, sticking the ballons on the wall and ceiling while I get a nice big plate for the vanilla cake.

"Who did you invite?" I ask Hinata.

"Sasuke, Naruto and Shikamaru!" Hinata answers.

"Oh that's good." I say, " I invited Neji."

"You invited Nii san?!"

"Yup."

"I invited Kiba, Lee and Shino." Ino says matter of factly.

"WHAT!" I scream, " I HATE BUGS!"

"Calm down," Ino says, " Not like he's gonna let them all free!"

I stare at her angrily for a few minutes then go back to my own job. Sticking balloons of the doors and writing a happy birthday banner.

It's almost 3 now and Neji and Sasuke come through the door.

"Uchiha." Neji greets Sasuke coldly.

"Hyuuga." Sasuke greets Neji just as coldly.

They put their presents on the present table that Hinata prepared and sit down on the sofa.

Next, Shino and Kiba came in.

Lee and Naruto come in next and Lee greets us, " HELLO YOUTHFUL FLOWERS AND YOUTHFUL..." he looks down at the guys who are sitting, " BUDS!"

I sigh and organize the present table so it looks nicer.

"Okay so is everyone here?!" Ino asks, " Well come on then! Hide!"

Hinata turns off the light when everybody finds a suitable hiding spot. I'm hiding on the window seat, behind the curtain.

Ingenius, I know.

When I hear foot steps and we the door opens, the lights turn on and we all jump up and yell "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAKURA!"

She looks at us and faints.

Huh? That was not supposed to happen.

Ino looks at me and Hinata and we burst out laughing.

Sasuke is splashing Sakura's face with water and Neji is smiling.

Shino is shaking, not like he's going to laugh and Naruto is shaking Sakura.

Akamaru is sniffing around her while Lee is shouting, " MY YOUTHFUL FLOWER, WAKE UP!"

Finally, after 10 minutes she wake up and says, " That was the greatest surprise ever!" her eyes are shining.

Um...okay. That sooo explains why she fainted.

We just finished eating the cake and now Sakura is opening her presents.

She gets mine first.

Smile smile

She opens the present and gasps, " A pink stethoscope! Thanks Tenten!" she comes over to me and hugs me.

Then she grabs a green present. Probably Lee's.

She opens it and it's a...green spandex suit.

"It would really show off your curves!" Lee says with his good guy pose.

Sasuke glares at him and asked in a death tone, " Are you hitting on my girlfriend?"

"Of course! Why would she want you!?" Lee slapped his mouth right after he said it.

Ooooh...he's dead for taking to Sasuke like that.

Sasuke is cracking his knuckles and Lee is inching closer and closer to the door.

"I'LL GET YOU LEE!"

"AHHHHHH!" Lee ran out screaming.

Chapter 6 comin soon!

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