A/N: SORRY! I'M SO SORRY! I took so long to update! I got caught up in homework and deviantart… Now I'm going to shut up so you'll know what would happen! (I hope she survives! …Wait I know what's going to happen).

And even though it's sound five, I'm making it sound four! Why? …I don't know it'll just seem weird if there were five people in a three people thing and four is closer to three.

"Text": talking

'Text': thinking

Text: Ten-ten's memories and in Ten-Ten's POV

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 12

You Don't Need To Show To Love

"Damn," I heard Neji curse under his breath, grabbing his bruised arm.

He said it indifferently, but I knew he was hurt and mad. He won the fight, but the bruised the guy gave him still hurt. I knew it was hurting, even if he didn't show it.

"Do you want me to get an ice bag or something?" I offered my boyfriend since he was hurt and all.

I grabbed a nearby ice pack as I heard Neji say the line he always said:

"No, I'm okay."

I knew he wasn't.

"You don't always have to be strong," I said, as I pushed his hand aside and replaced it with the ice pack.

"Yes, I do."

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"How did this all happen, Neji-san?" Hinata asked her cousin, with a voice of fright, scared, and sorrow.

Right now it was 4am. Team Gai and Hinata were in the emergency room lobby that Ten-Ten was in because she's been badly wounded. It's been only 2 hours. But it felt like a lifetime. They let them stay because of how badly Ten-Ten's condition was and Hinata just got there from Kohana. Neji called Sakura and the nurse talked to Sakura for a while. And Sakura informed Neji that she'll call Ino.

Gai and Lee were crying and saying something about youth and Ten-Ten. Neji just stared at the floor with his arms crossed. He didn't want to cry… he couldn't cry. He was Neji! He just stared at the floor as he opened his mouth to speak.

"It all started when Ten-Ten and I got together," Neji said, staring at the floor intently, his face and voice as a rock: emotionless. "Everything was going great. We kept on winning and—"

"Wait, if you were all happy then why is it starting from there?" Hinata asked, confused.

"—Everyone else was losing," Neji continued, ignoring Hinata's question. "I overheard people talking on theories of why we got so much better. Some very far-fetched, some that was somewhat realistic. But there was one team that hated to loose: the sound four. The only team allowed to have four people since one extra guy came.

Since they hated losing, they hated us. Soon they found out that Ten-Ten and I was dating and they figured out that we were stronger. So they decided to take matters in their own hands since we just won on a battle against them."

Neji stopped for a moment. It was to make a dramatic pause but anyone would have been fooled because he started to breath heavily like he was going to have a heart attack or go into hysteric tears. But his face remained indifferent.

"Our training went until midnight," Neji said, still not showing an inch of emotion. "After Lee and I were done in the bathroom, Ten-Ten went alone to take wash up and get ready for bed." His breath went harder and into a face pace. "Since she was really dirty, Lee and I figured that she would have taken a long time in the bathroom. But when it was around one thirty we went outside to look for her… we found her on the floor wounded and beaten up."

"…Neji-san," Hinata whimpered softly to her cousin as she tried to put her hand to his shoulder to show it was okay to show emotion but he turned the other way and stood up.

"I'm going for a walk," Neji said, as she headed towards the door.

Hinata nodded, trying hard to make it look like she was okay with it but as he left Hinata turned to Gai and Lee.

"Is that how he acted when he found Ten-Ten?" Hinata asked the two.

"He always acts like that no matter what," Gai said, which weirdly was the first sentence Hinata ever heard Gai say without the word 'youth' being in it.

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"Ten-Ten, right?" A female voice asked behind me while I was walking towards the bathroom.

"Yeah," I said, turning around. My eyes widen in shock. "Tayuya."

Tayuya was the one that I fought today. I won, which made her miffed as heck. Tayuya always looked mad and mean, but now she didn't look like that. She looked… malice. But what made me shock was that she wasn't with her team members. Other then a battle, the Sound Four always stuck together… well probably not the bathroom too, but other then that: always together.

"You made my team loose. Now we're below. If I kill you, then your teammate with the girlish look will be sad and then you'll team will loose," Tayuya said. Her voice sounded so malice with a deep hatred of me in every word she spoke.

"Tayuya," I said, trying to reason with her as I took a step back and secretly grabbed a kunai that was in my back pocket. "It's just a battle. You're team will get back."

"Not unless you're dead," Tayuya said, grabbing her flute (which was her weapon). Her voice. It still sounded like she wanted to kill me.

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"How could this happen?" Neji said to himself, looking at the cement ground.

Neji was outside, running around the hospital. He didn't want to talk to Hinata or anyone for that matter. He didn't want them to see him… his pain.

Now was human, he had emotions but just never showed it. When he felt a strong emotion though, he always ran. No matter where he was, he ran. When his father died, he ran to Naruto's house (they were best friends even though opposites). When he saw Ten-Ten dating a guy: he ran someplace away from Ten-Ten.

And now he's here, running.

'Those stupid sound four! They just had to hate to loose and beat up Ten-Ten just to make them feel safe!' Neji yelled furiously in his mind.

Neji stopped and took a breather for a while; he put his hand on a wall for support. The place he stopped was in the outskirts of the hospital and it was dark but Neji didn't care. His eyes had already gotten used to the darkness of the night.

"What are you doing here, so late at night?" A mysterious male voice said from the darkness, which wasn't easy to say since it was dark everywhere.

"Who's there?" Neji said, looking around everywhere.

"Come on. Even the great Neji can't even see us?" An other voice said, sounding dark and mysterious still.

"Reveal yourself!" Neji exclaimed, getting angry. Although Neji was known for not showing his feelings, the only one thing he sometimes shows is anger. That and approval, but only sometimes.

"Don't you know?" A different voice said.

Neji did know that there were people. Although he heard three people, he sensed four. He raised his hands up and got ready to fight. He didn't need any weapon. He could just fight with his fist.

"Now, why are you gonna raise your fist at us?" A female voice asked. It was taunting him.

…He knew that voice.

"Tayuya," Neji murmured under his breath, turning to where he heard the voice.

"Hello," Tayuya said, as she walked towards Neji. Her malice smile shone by the moonlight.

Neji looked around him. He saw the rest of the sound four walking near him.

"What the hell do you want?" Neji asked, narrowing his eyes. They took away his girlfriend, what else could they take away from him.

"Nothing, it's just that it's funny," a guy with white hair and purple lips (Neji always forgot his name. But he thought that the guy was too repulsive to remember the name of) said. His voice was also taunting Neji. "On how you could claim your affection towards that one guy that Tayuya beat up when you don't even show it."

"Why would I need to show my love towards someone?"

"Could you really say you love her though?" Some other sound four guy said (Neji didn't know any names of the Sound Four actually. He had actually learned Tayuya's name just recently because of Ten-Ten).

"Yes, I could. I would do anything to help her," Neji said, grabbing a knife he had in his pocket. "Even if that means avenging her injuries with killing you bastards."

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"Neji… know that even if I die. I love you!"

"You're not going to die Ten-Ten!"

"I said if!"

"But you're not! I won't let you!"

"Everyone has to die sooner or later, if my time is now then I just want you to know I love you."

"I love you too…"

"Ha, that's the first time you showed an emotion other then anger. Show more emotion… for me. Do that ple---"

"TEN-TEN!"

"…"

"Ten-ten…"

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"Ten-Ten is going to be alright," the nurse said to Hinata.

"IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF YOUTH!" Gai yelled with a pose.

"YOU'RE SO RIGHT GAI-SENSEI!" Lee agreed.

"C-can I see her?" Hinata asked, still a bit shock about her best friend being okay.

"Yes, that would be fine," The nurse nodded.

"Th-thank you!" Hinata said, as she rushed off to the room Ten-Ten was in.

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"Is Ten-Ten okay?" Neji asked.

"YEAH!" Gai yelled, as he was going to turn to his student. "SHE'S OKAY BY THE POWER OF YOU---WHAT HAPPEN TO YOU?"

"Oh?" Neji said, putting his hand on the back of his neck. "I just had to take care of some stuff. I'm going to clean up and then I'll see Ten-Ten."

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"Ten-Ten, are you okay?" Hinata asked, truly worried about her friend.

Right now Ten-Ten was lying in a hospital bed. She had a black eye and looked pretty beat up. Her hair was messy and dirty. But she was giving a reassuring smile.

"Yeah, I'm just tired," Ten-Ten said. "And it hurts to move but other then that I'm okay."

"That's good to know," Hinata said, smiling a bit.

"Where's Neji?" Ten-Ten asked, trying to look around the room with her eyes and not turning.

"…I'm not so sure."

"Oh."

"But I'm sure here's somewhere in the hospital so you shouldn't worry."

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(Neji's POV)

"How bad did I beat them up?" I asked myself as I put cold water on my face and noticing all the blood dripping down my face and into the sink.

I examined myself in the mirror. Aside from the blood and water dripping down his chin, I didn't look that beat up. A few minor cuts and a small bruise here and there but nothing that will be gone in about a week.

I hurt them… bad. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't come back tomorrow or even up to the next month but I didn't care. They won't die. I mean I beat them outside a hospital, when some person finds them they won't need to go to far for help unless they were an idiot and didn't know this was a hospital. But they hurt Ten-Ten. So I hurt them.

Revenge was sweet. Whoever said it wasn't well who cares about them. They probably didn't have someone they cared about. They didn't have someone that would make them feel better after having a bad day. They didn't have someone that when you close your eyes, you'll see them.

They didn't love someone.

And if you love someone, you would get revenge if someone hurts them. And you would enjoy every moment of punching the crap out of them.

A tear came out of my eye. Or was that just the water sliding down my cheek?

I bet it was a tear. Even a stoical man like me has to show emotion because of the one they love.

A/N: …That was a very crappy ending… SORRY! …How come I feel like I'm saying that way to much? And the last part of Ten-Ten's thing is suppose to be like a nightmare or maybe it's Neji's nightmare, who really knows and I'm the one who wrote it.

Anyways, the next one will be Sakura and Sasuke chapter. I already said what would happen in the last two chapters (chapter 10) so check there! I don't know what else to add to what I wrote before and I'm too lazy to copy and paste!

So hopefully, I'll update sooner then what I did with this chapter. Actually I will! I promise! …But I have broken promises before… BUT I'll try to keep this promise!

So please review but no flames!