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Tenten – the mission
day one, 9:17am

"So..." I say trying to start some sort of conversation "Where exactly are we taking you, Mr..." Oops. Forgot his name. Nice one Tenten!

"Shirakawa. And we are going to Kumo. Didn't your Hokage inform you of this?" He looked at me and Neji as if we were stupid. True, Tsunade-sama did tell us where we were to take him. But she never said where exactly, just wherever he wanted to go. I don't get why this old man couldn't of walked by himself. But I guess he has a lot of enemies, and Tsunade wants to play it safe rather than gamble a life. Ha. That's funny.

I looked over towards Neji, for a brief second. His head was hung rather low, and his eyes looked bitter. It's weird to see him like that. But in a strange way, I liked seeing him vulnerable like that. It's actually kinda cute...dammit...so much for not thinking of him like that anymore...whatever. I've lost enough self respect as it is. A little more couldn't hurt. Could it?

"Is that where you are from Shirakawa-san?" I asked trying to keep this "conversation" going. If you could call it one.

He chuckled a bit. I don't know why he did that. I wasn't being funny. "Why yes I am. I actually moved around a lot when I was younger, but that's where I started. For a short period of time, I actually resided in your very village."

Is that how he knows Tsunade-sama? "Stop me if I'm getting a little too personal, but, why do you move around so much?"

He chuckled again, but this time it seemed nervous. I wonder why. "I don't mind. Part of it was because of family, and we never felt safe where we were. Then, once I got older, I tried settling down, but I just couldn't after I found out that my family had died. After that, I started traveling because that was all I knew how to do. It was what I did to cope with the loss. I got in trouble in a lot of the towns, until I ended back in Konoha. Now I feel like its the right time to go back to my roots to see if any of my family survived."

I was kinda shocked. No one, in my entire life had ever spilled that much to me in the first hour of me knowing them. It made me feel sorry for the guy. Just a little. I'm not that sappy.

"Oh wow...I'm sorry." I honestly didn't know what to say. But he gave me a weak smile as thanks. I realized though, those 4 words are all I can say when a tragedy occurs. Like that one time when Hinata's pet mouse died. All I could say was "oh wow. I'm sorry." I'm great with words, right? But it's all good, cause even though Hinata's my best friend she had Ino and Sakura to cheer her up. They're good for that kind of stuff. Maybe it's because they are girly, and they understand emotional pain much more than I do.

Hinata was feeling all nostalgic that night and remembered all the times she spent with Mr. Salty. I couldn't do much to help out cause I personally hated that little albino chew toy. But Sakura and Ino were crying with Hinata and adding to the nostalgia.

Those two have helped me out with the emotional pain too. I usually wouldn't allow that kind of thing to happen. But times were hard for me. Neji had just broken up with me, and an old friend of mine was trying to get into my life again...as more than a friend.

If you must know, his name is Yamato. I've known him since the early academy days, we were best friends from the start. Until the last year of ninja academy, that is. He dropped out because of some new friends he made, and we just stopped talking. I'm sure theres more to that, but I just think hes incapable of being friends with a girl. When we were little, I don't think he had a problem with it because I was just like one of the guys. But around the lovely age of 11 I started...ahem...developing.

So Yamato showed up at my apartment the same night Neji broke up with me and just wanted to talk. To catch up. We ended up talking until the sun started coming up over the horizon. It was really weird for me, to just be friends again after almost 7 years. But it also seemed natural. Then when we were saying our goodbyes, I kissed him.

Yea thats right. And im not gonna lie. I've wanted to do that my entire life of knowing the guy.

The funny part was, he kissed back. And it turned into this full on make-out session. When he left, it was the first time in 3 years that I have cried. It turns out that:

1. Making out with Yamato wasn't at all what I expected.

2. I should have made out with him sooner. Maybe then I would have gotten over him sooner.

3. Turns out, the best way to get over someone is not to get a rebound guy. Because after Yamato left, I missed Neji more than ever.

Anyway, that next day was a complete blur. All I remember is having a girls day, and me spilling my guts to my 3 friends. Hinata stuck by the fact that her cousin wasn't worth it and that I'll find a guy ten times better. Sakura kept saying that he'll get whats coming to him. And Ino wouldn't shut up about how I should just date around, trying to get that one "jerk" out of my system. Geez, they suck at advice. Almost as much as I suck at feeling sorry for people.

I hate getting their advice too. Not only because they make me agree with them but they make me do what their advice tells me. I hate their advice almost as much as I hate the idea of going on a mission with the only boy that was able to get inside me and rip my heart out for no reason.

Theres chapter 4! hope you liked it! ...i didn't really like it...i rushed it a bit. But what I think doesn't matter!
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