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"Yes she's moving in with me that should cover whatever extra bills that may require" he replied calmly.
NEJI SAY WHAT?
I stared at him, mouth hanging open like a fish.
"N-Neji!" I stuttered, unable to say anything else.
He turned his gaze to me, his face expressionless but his eyes held determination, which kind of scared me.
"Alright she'll have to be out of here within the week." The landlord sneered, turning and leaving, slamming the door behind him.
I looked down at my feet, too ashamed to meet his gaze.
Neji placed a hand on my shoulder. "You ok?"
"Yeah…" my voice came out quiet.
Neji tilted my head upward, forcing me to look into his white eyed gaze. "Pack up some clothes and whatever else you'll need. I'll be waiting outside."
Glad I have a say in this.
He walked out the door and closed it giving me some privacy.
I sighed and went to find a different bag, seconds later I found last year's book bag.
I stuffed clothes, a couple of books and my personal hygiene items inside.
Taking one last look around the room, I remembered something.
That damn pocket knife.
Diving onto my bed and reaching underneath the pillow and grabbed the knife running into the bathroom.
I pulled up my sleeve and slashed my wrist twice with the sharp knife, letting the blood flow down from the cuts to my open hand and drip into the sink.
I watched it, strangely disgusted with it. Weird, usually this helps and makes me feel happier.
Ignoring it I stopped the bleeding, wrapping my wrist with bandages.
Something black on the floor caught my eye.
Wristbands.
I eyed it a bit before putting them on both wrists.
Throwing the damned knife in my bag, I grabbed both my bags (school bag and clothes bag) and left without taking a glance at the place that I've called home for the past few years.
Neji was waiting for me outside, leaning against the wall opposite to my (old) apartment. "Ready to go?"
I nodded and together we left the piece of crap apartment complex.
"Hey I need to get something to eat before I go home okay?" Neji said as we walk into a more populated area of town.
Saying nothing, I nodded.
We reached a café on a corner, a large sign above it said: Cherry Blossom Café.
We both walked in, Neji immediately walking over to the register.
I followed him, not having anything better to do.
A blue eyed pale blonde, who I recognized as Ino was standing behind the counter, sky blue eyes searched their surroundings for something interesting.
She seemed too really light up when she saw Neji and me. "Hey Neji! Hey Tennie what's up?" she smiled brightly.
"Not much, how about yourself?" Neji replied, taking a seat on a barstool in front of the counter while letting his book bag slide to the floor.
I followed suit nodding a greeting to Ino.
The pale blonde sighed "Oh I'm just standing here being bored out of my mind" she pouted, blowing some stray hair from her bang out of her face, then sighing "There's absolutely nothing to do here! No new gossip! Nothing! I swear I'm going to die of boredom if something interesting doesn't happen soon!" she whined.
I kind of scared of her now.
"You'll be fine Ino" Neji sighed. "Cinnamon roll and a medium black coffee please"
The pale blonde rolled her eyes and wrote his order on a notepad that she got from nowhere "Yeah, sure" she replied dryly, then her attention turned to me "So what would you like?" she smiled.
"U-um…" I looked at the large menu board on the wall behind her. "I would like tea and um a chocolate chip cookie…" I spoke quietly
"Mmmhmm…" she nodded, writing it down then walking to a door behind the counter "be right back!"
I watched as she left, finding nothing else interesting to look at I stared at my worn out sneakers, once bright and clean now dull and torn.
A hand on my shoulder made me tense up "Tenten…" I relaxed a little bit.
"Yeah…" I looked up nervously at him, almost scared.
He smiled gently at me "You'll be fine Tenten" he said softly, his hand now rubbing soothing circles in my shoulder "Lee and I won't hurt you. I promise"
I felt my cheek heat up a little as I gave him a small smile "Thank you …" I whispered.
We just stared into each other's eyes for a few short moments until Ino came back with our food "Here ya go guys!" she chirped.
Neji's hand left my shoulder quickly and went to grab his coffee.
I picked my tea cup and took a sip; I closed my eyes happy to drink something other than water.
"So Tenten did Neji ask you out yet?" Ino asked mischievously.
I choked on my tea and I heard Neji growl; "Ino…"
"Jesus guys! I was just kidding! Geez!" she held her hands up in surrender/ defense from Neji's icy glare.
"Ino are there any job positions left here…?" I managed to get out without coughing.
"Umm… yeah! Sakura quit last week so there's a waitress job up for grabs" she smiled "You want it? 'Cause Sakura's mom owns the shop I could ask her for you?"
I smiled, becoming less afraid of her now "Yeah! Sure!"
"Awesome! Lee works here too so you'll get to know him a little more" she beamed.
I chuckled quietly and began to drink my tea again.
Ino then started to talk up a storm, while I nodded and commented when necessary.
I was about to reach for my cookie when Neji's voice rang out; "Could we have our food to go?"
WHAT?
"Sure! No problem!" Ino chirped.
I sat frozen with shock, and maybe denial, as Ino put my cookie in a brown paper bag. She held it out me. I almost got to take it when Neji snatched it from her.
"Grab your bags" Neji mumbled while reaching to grab his own.
I did as I was instructed to do and Neji did something that made really tense.
He grabbed my wrist.
My bad wrist.
He started to drag me to and out the door while I managed to call out a 'goodbye' to Ino.
After a while, I wasn't being dragged by Neji, instead we were walking right next to each-other, but he was still holding on to my wrist.
I was lost in thought while staring at the cars passing by but I was startled when I felt Neji's hand and fingers lace themselves with my own.
I turned a deep red and gaped at him, only to see that he was lost in his own thoughts "N-Neji"
He seemed to be a little bit startled, then he looked at me and then down to our connected hands and let go immediately while muttering an apology.
I nodded and looked away, kind of missing the feeling of his hand on my own.
About five minutes later, we ended up at a park. A few kids were still running around laughing and squealing happily.
We walked up a small hill and sat down on a park bench and pulled out our food (I also pulled out the bento box he gave me earlier) and started to eat in silence.
It felt like I was done in seconds and when I looked at him, Neji was staring at me like I had ten heads, which would be freaking cool; "What?" I asked.
"You ate all that in less than five minutes…"
I felt myself blush "O-Oh?"
"Yeah…"
He finished his food, a short while after that. As we sat together on the park bench, watching the deserted playground, I couldn't help but want to break the silence, which was weird because I'm a really quiet person.
I had just opened my mouth when Neji opened his; "Tenten…"
"Y-Yes…?"
"How did you end up living like that?" his expression showed a lot of emotion, worry, confusion, hurt and… something else.
"It's a long story…" I mumbled looking down and gripping the fabric of my jeans.
He put his hand on mine; "I am willing to listen" he gave me a sympathetic smile.
I looked at him for a moment and then I looked back down to my hands and sighed; "Alright… But it starts really early in my life…"
"That's fine"
I gulped, trying to find the right words to start; "Well… My parents were in an arranged marriage and my dad was a little bit abusive and, well one night he raped my mom and she ended up getting pregnant…"
I looked at Neji, who seemed stunned by this new found information, before continuing.
"…She gave birth to me even though she hated my dad; she took care of me, loved me and protected me from my dad, who would try to hurt me like he did to mom and I learned very early to stay away from him. We were fine until one night…"
A young Tenten sat at the kitchen table, drawing a picture for her mother who was somewhere else in the house.
She hummed happily dragging her orange crayon across the piece of paper. She froze as she heard the front door slam open and shut "TENTEN YOU LITTLE BITCH! WHERE ARE YOU?" her father's slurred yelling tore through the once quiet air of the house.
"He came home drunk and looking for me for some reason. But that wasn't all…"
He appeared in the entrance way to the kitchen a shiny metal object glinting dangerously in his hand.
"… He had a knife…"
Tenten's eyes widened in both shock and fear. She jumped down from her seat and tried to escape only to be grabbed on the arm by a large hand. She screamed in terror as the knife was raised for a fatal blow.
"… He raised the k-knife to hit me but…"
Tenten closed her eyes and waited for the impact.
"… H-he missed…"
Instead she heard a yelp of pain and warm liquid splattered on her face.
She opened her eyes and saw that he hadn't hit her.
He hit her mother.
A deep gash was sliced into her mother's perfect face.
"… H-he hit m-mom…" I choked out
"MOM!" Tenten screamed.
"TENTEN RUN!" her mother yelled back at her as she fought with her husband for the knife
Tenten ran away, wanting to listen to her mother's words ran and locked herself in the bathroom. Drowning out her mother's screams for the rest of the night
"I got out of the bathroom at about noon the next day but…" I clenched my teeth and gripped my jeans tighter
"Mom no!"
"… She was D-dead" I was holding back tears now.
I'm so pathetic. Iscreamed at myself, as I felt myself start to shake.
"Dad beat me 'til I was 8 and he got arrested" I gulped "I was handed from foster family to foster family, none of them treated me well, they didn't hurt me or anything they just verbally abused me."
I glanced at Neji; he was glaring down at his own clenched fists.
"I started to save up money for awhile and after I earned enough I ran away from my current foster family and bought that apartment and I was able to afford rent but I lost my job awhile ago and…"
I couldn't hold back the tears that had been welling up in my eyes. They started to fall as I shook and sobbed.
"Tenten…" I felt strong arms wrap themselves around me. Neji's arms.
I hugged him, gripping tightly to the back of his jacket and sobbing into his chest.
I'm not sure what happened afterwards, all I know is that Neji picked me up bridal style and carried me to his house. I'm not sure how long it took because I was drifting in and out of sleep.
The next thing I knew, I was being laid down gently on a bed and a comforting warmth was leaving me "… noo" I whined.
The warmth came back and seemed to wrap itself around me.
I smiled in my half asleep dazed and snuggled closer to the warmth around me.
"Don't worry Tenten I'll protect you. I promise I'll never hurt you…" was the last thing I heard before finally falling into unconsciousness.
…
I woke up, surrounded by a soothing warmth.
I sighed contently trying to get a far into the warmth as possible.
Ba-dump.
Ba-dump.
What's that?
Ba-dump.
Ba-dump.
Is that someone's heart?
Ba-dump.
Ba-dump.
Is it mine?
Ba-dump.
Ba-dump.
No… Then whose is it?
Ba-dump.
I cracked an eye open.
Oh. My. God.
Ba-dump.
Is that…?
Ba-dump.
I looked up.
Ba-dump.
Neji.
I had just slept with Neji Hyuga.
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