Glass Scenery
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Summary: It's simple. Anyone can do it... if they have a partner to do it with. So, now I ask you, "May I have this dance?"
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-Standard Disclaimer Applies-
.By: Panda-chan.
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There comes a time,
.. when every lonely little boy ..
must learn to dance...
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A flip. A turn. An aspiring smile. Pale orbs watched in awe as a woman no more than sixteen spun in the air like a professional gymnast, the weapons in her hands shimmering with the suns bright rays.
Sweat trailed down her temple; eyes set on the unspoken goal she wished to accomplish. As she spun, her eyes caught his in a warm yet aggressive gaze.
She landed on her feet perfectly, the clean knifes' that was in her hand's hurling towards him now. Neji inclined his head, getting into his fighting position as he deflected all of her sharp projectiles with a swish of his chakra enhanced hands.
"You're faltering." Neji told her as he regained his superior posture. Tenten turned and smiled her heart-melting smile. The man stiffened for a moment, before accepting her kind gesture by softening his eyes.
"I guess! But it can't helped, neh?" She chirped happily.
"You should practice more." Tenten giggled and shook her head, her eye's reflecting some sort of serenity.
"No, this is like a dance, Neji." She turned to him, arms crossed behind her in a childish pose. "But in this dance, I can't practice in order to make it better." The chocolate haired woman earned a loud snort from her usually silent teammate.
"You can fix any errors with enough practice, Tenten." He informed smartly. Tenten simply closed her eyes, and smiled again.
"I don't think... you understand... right now." The Hyuuga male narrowed his eyes.
"Explain then." The girl kept her smiled.
"While dancing, you hold your partner hands and swerve around the other people around you, moving to the beat of the music." Neji stared on. "In this dance, I have no partner... how can I practice without someone to lead me?" She asked softly, her eyes showing some sadness.
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A man in a black suit stood under the large, sparkling chandelier; his hands fixing his rather tight tie slowly. He had his hair, for once, tied back in a low pony tail; bangs being pressed back securely with gel.
"Oi Neji!" He turned, only to find his blond friend running towards him with a big grin. "Have you seen Hinata-chan!?" Neji shrugged his shoulders casually.
"I haven't seen her all day." Neji stated, his eyes roaming the dance floor. "She's probably with Tenten." Naruto pouted for a moment, then cheered up again and slapped a hand onto Neji's broad shoulder.
"Soo..."
"No, I don't know where Tenten is."
Naruto puffed his cheeks, "How can you not know?! She's practically your wife!" Neji glared at him, his eyes narrowing into slits.
"She is not my wife." Naruto backed up and comically shrunk under his intense gaze.
"Oi! Oi! Don't bite my head off, geez!" Naruto shot insecurely. "I'm just pointing out the obvious! I mean, you're practically glued to hip with her!" He cried out dramatically before grabbing his shoulder blade once more and leaning on him comically.
"Now... how am I suppose to get close Hinata-chan!?" He shouted into his sensitive ear and silently sulked.
"... By talking to her you moron. Now get off me before I shred your hand."
"Eh?! You're so violent Neji..." Naruto sniffed loudly before walking depressingly towards the other end of the large ball room to bother his best friend, Sasuke, as he tried and, failed, to hug an over-excited Sakura.
"Yeah Neji! ... And you are so not attached at the hip with me!" Neji turned only to have the breath knocked out of him. There stood his teammate Tenten, in a beautiful corset-like dress; her hair put up in an elegant up-do.
Her nails had been manicured and dyed a deep red, along with her toenails. The crimson dress striped black showed off her curvaceous figure rather well; full lips colored an childish pink. Some very light eye shadow was dabbed over her eye lids, along with some light eye liner to finish it off.
All Neji knew was that, the room temperature had suddenly increased.
"Tenten...?" She hunched her shoulders with a pout and gave him an exasperated look.
"Ooh please! I might be a tomboy but even I can look pretty!" She yelled at his amused face while she turned to the side and sulked silently, mumbling out some incoherent phrases.
"More like sexy, now come." He quickly covered up his last comment by grabbing her hand, and leading her to away from the crowding exit. She gasped and grabbed her dress up, preventing her from stepping on it.
He glanced at her, "You'll be my dance partner." She furrowed her brows in a sheepish expression, her hand squeezing his tightly.
"Umm... I-I honestly... can't dance..." Neji smirked and spun her to him, his face awfully close to hers as he stared into her liquid honey eyes amusingly. He neared her ear; smirk still in-tact as she blushed furiously.
"Then, this is a dance, you must learn thoroughly, hmm?" Tenten's eyes widened at his words as he dragged her off to the empty dance floor, and placed his hand on her waist; other hand grasping on hers securely.
"Uhh..." He chuckled at her confused face and awkward posture as he slowly moved to the music.
"Follow me, I'm the leader." He murmured as they began to sway lightly to the soft music. After a couple of missteps and embarrassed laughter, mostly from Tenten, she eventually got the hang of it.
The music came to a stop, and they halted their dancing. "Ooh wow! I did it!" Neji smirked and shifted his eyes to all of the people around them that watched with awe. Tenten, taking notice of where he was looking at, flushed profoundly at what she saw.
"Ooh.. we didn't!" She whispered with a blush that could rival Hinata's.
Neji smirked wider, "We did. We're the audience's main attraction this evening." Tenten looked down to her exposed toes, a very large hue of red slowly decreasing as time passed. They had been the only one's who were dancing to the music.
You can say, Tenten was very embarrassed since she didn't know how to dance and it was probably evident to everyone who watched that she was a beginner.
Neji leaned down, "You did fine, for your first try." Tenten smiled shyly and looked back up as the music played again; couples coming up to dance also.
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Neji let out a huff-like laugh and neared the wondering girl. He grabbed her hand and smiled down at her surprised face, "Then I'll be your partner."
The girl grinned and neared him; his breath on her cheek. "Really?!" Neji looked away, a small blush forming on his face. He quickly reverted to his usual cold mask and looked back down to an euphoric Tenten, musing why she had become so happy from such a small offer.
"Yes. Really." Tenten smiled warmly and stretched her hands to her side, letting Neji watch her from the corner of his eye. She backed up two steps then broke into a seemingly never-ending assail of back-flips before jumping into the air once more.
He stared at her with awe once more as she spun, her hair bindings undoing themselves to unravel rich chocolate brown; silky hair swirled around her beautifully, giving her the impression of an angel gliding over the bright blue sky.
Neji quickly moved back, his hands in a fighting position once more. The girl brought her hands in, then stretched her fingers back, to reveal large daggers with an intent to hurt. She threw them, and this time.
"What...?"
She managed to knick him on his cheek as he stopped his Kaiten and stared at her with a quizzical expression.
She landed again, her hair cascading down the dip of her back as she let her stretched arms fall back to her side once more. She turned her head slightly, her cheeks flushed from the action; lips turned upward in a cheerful smile.
"I got you!" Neji smiled and wiped the trickle of blood away with his long sleeve. He neared her and crossed his arms at her mocking face.
"How did you do it?" He asked nonchalantly, honestly wanting to know how she managed to pierce through his ultimate defense, when she couldn't even do it all those other times.
"Well... Now I have a partner!" She giggled and backed up again. Neji smiled crookedly; attacking her again and having her gracefully dodge every move he made as she playfully laughed. Neji stopped and grabbed her arm, for she was about to fall to her side because of her laughing state.
"I suppose."
Tenten stuck her tongue at him childishly and softly removed her arm from his hand as she ran towards a tree and quickly hid in it, her voice the only clue to where she was.
"This is one dance, Hyuuga Neji, you must learn thoroughly!"
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A large smile appeared on Tenten's face as she looked up at him. She noticed that there were much more couples up by them now, swaying and swishing to the calming sound that came from the far corner.
The girl backed up and offered her hand to him, making him tilt his head in confusion. She giggled and kept her hand there, as he stared at it for a moment.
"May I have this dance?" She asked jokingly. Neji, for the first time in years, let out a small laugh, and grabbed her warm hand; cupping it in his own.
"You may."
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... -Breaks into a laughing fit- Oooh Gosh! It was much more funnier in my head then on paper! I have to thank I.Heart.Hatake.Kakashi for this one! She was the one who, actually, told me that a one-shot is a scene!
Not a story :P
I have always had trouble trying to come up with one-shots because I excel in multi-chaptered stories, not shots :D I actually wrote this in one sitting and it is now... 4:19 am. Dude's and Dudette's, I must retire for now because something tells me my mother is going to bang my head into a drum for staying up so damn late when I'm going to go to school in a couple of weeks!
... Wait... SCHOOL!? OH GOD! I DIDN'T FINISH THE VACATION HOMEWORK!! NUUUU! DAMN YOU SCHOOL BOARD!!
-dies-
R&R Please!