A/ N: This is more fluff and lime than anything else. Hahaha. Thank you for reviewing the previous chapter. :)

Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto

Warning: Contains mild adult scenes and language. Read at your own discretion.

Chapter 3: A lover who has such long hair.

Perks: In times of passion, it's very handy when you desperately need something to hold on to.

Tenten's mind was a hazy, cloudy place as his lips brushed tantalizingly against hers. He slowly traced her bottom lip, licking it before suckling, asking for entrance. She parted her lips the slightest bit when Neji's tongue came in and explored her mouth, tracing every cavern, every crevice he could reach, before brushing against her elusive tongue and engaged her in a battle of dominance.

She moaned as his hands travelled up and down the sides of her body, finally resting on her stomach where he lazily traced random patterns along her navel, making her quiver in anticipation. For a moment that hand stilled, and then it moved up. He went higher and higher as he kept touching her in places he shouldn't but Oh God it just feels so good.

With one hand resting on her hip to keep her in place and one firmly playing with the mounds of flesh on her bare chest, his lips left hers as he trailed kisses down to her chin, across her jaw to her ear where he gave it a tentative lick that made her shiver in delight. Then he started to descend, alternating between licking and kissing down the column of her throat.

She gave a gasp of surprise when she felt his teeth sink on the skin at the crook of her neck. Shortly after she gave a most wanton moan when he traced the raw area with his tongue. One of her hands found the nape of his neck and the other tangled in his hair as she kept him in place, she could feel him smirk at her shoulder.

The hand that was playing with her brown pebbles snaked their way up to the back of her head. With a hand fisted tightly on her brown tresses, Neji kissed her with such bruising force that promised something even more pleasurable.

It turned out to be a great evening.

Pains: When both of you have long hair, it tends to get messy in the morning.

Tenten shifted on the bed feeling slightly uncomfortable with the sunlight bathing her bare back.

She felt an arm drape itself on her waist and a different heat settle on her bare back. Tenten tried to suppress the shiver of delight that fought to race down her spine when his fingers traced lazy circles on her lower abdomen as his morning voice whispered in her ear, "Slept well, Mrs Hyuga?"

Tenten hummed in response before turning around to face him and gave him a light kiss. "Yes, I did. Good morning to you too," she said, her voice hoarse from their nightly activities. She felt him smile against her lips which made her smile too.

She thought the both of them must have looked stupid right then - lying there on their birthday suits, just smiling like idiots against each other's lips. But it's not like anyone could see them, she reasoned. Tenten was alright looking stupid like that, in his arms, surrounded by their scent. She was in bliss.

The moment was broken though, when Neji sighed. Tenten opened her eyes to peer up at him, asking -whining- why?

Neji's eyes softened and offered her a gentle smile.

She felt the hand that was on her waist trace up her spine before resting at the nape of her neck, gently massaging the area before pressing her against him as he gave her a passionate kiss.

As they broke away for air, Neji sat up. "Come on, let's go get breakfast," he said looking at her again with those eyes that made her feel like she was the most blessed woman on earth to have married Neji Hyuga.

She sat up, albeit somewhat reluctantly, and groggily stretched her arms. She was snapped to wakefulness however, when she felt a sharp tug on her scalp.

"What the hell?"

She looked at Neji, confused.

He was looking at her with his eyebrows raised, expectant.

"What?" She asked, lightly massaging her scalp.

"Did you want something?" He asked, the morning voice diverting back to its usual monotone that Tenten had encountered for many years. She felt somewhat disappointed.

Her eyebrows shot up across her forehead in surprise. "What?" She asked again, her confusion going up a notch.

"You tugged on my hair, I thought you were trying to get my attention."

If it were possible for her eyebrows to go even higher, it would have because Tenten was even more at a loss. It did not actually help that her husband was standing upright in front of her, brandishing all his goods (and they were good).

There was a pause in which Tenten's eyes was trained on her husband's everything but his face.

When she finally did find face, she saw his eyes snap up to meet hers as well. She felt her mouth twitch as she tried point out, "I didn't. You were the one that pulled on my hair."

"I think we may have a problem," he said. Tenten saw his eyes stray towards her right and she followed his line of sight, her mouth gave a small gap.

Apparently, it was not only the red string of fate that connected them. How she missed a long lock of brown hair in between them, she didn't know.

She began tugging to free her hair from the knot that it had formed with Neji's. Said male was silently observing her.

Tugging didn't seem to work. Without warning, she yanked on her hair, willing it to break free. She kept yanking and yanking and did not notice her husband gritting his teeth from what must be the sting on his scalp.

"Well, that's no good." Tenten paused, thinking.

After a while, she looked up to Neji with an idea in mind. "How about we walk on different directions at the same time?" She waited as he weighed the idea.

After a while, he shrugged and said, "It's worth a shot."

Tenten grinned at him and stood up. Together, they walked on opposite directions, Neji towards the door and her to the windows.

Not more than three steps, Tenten already felt the sharp tug on her scalp. Despite the promises of pain, Tenten continued to walk forward. Or tried to.

Already, the hair between them was stretched thin yet it would not come loose. Neji gritted his teeth, saying "This won't work," before abruptly stopping.

Due to the sudden loss of struggle, Tenten's momentum caused her to trip on her two feet and stumble carelessly on the ground with a noisy THUMP, dragging Neji with her, lock of hair still attached.

Next thing she knew she was on the floor, Neji on top of her in all his naked glory and they laid there for quite a while.

...

"Are you gonna get off anytime now?" asked Tenten, amused.

"I might, in this position," Neji admitted, smirk in place. Tenten's face flushed, what he meant dawning on her.

And then they were kissing.

Fifteen minutes later...

Neji rolled to the side and laid down, panting. They were on the floor, shoulder to shoulder.

"Wow," Tenten managed to gasp out, wide eyed and breathless.

Neji chuckled beside her and shifted to his side so he could lean and give her a chaste kiss on the nose. She scrunched it up in response as he sat up.

"Well, the problem seems to have gotten worse," she heard him mutter. Tenten sat up as well only to see, on Neji's hands, what looked to be a even bigger knot of their hair.

She gave a sharp breath in annoyance. "What now?"

Without replying, Tenten saw him form familiar hand seals and soon enough, the expected mutter of "Byakugan," was heard.

Tenten tried to follow the movements of his fingers as they tried to untangle the locks of hair with lightning speed.

'His fingers are...fast.' Her eyes widened and heat crept up her face as her thoughts went to the gutter.

She pretended that she was paying attention when Neji suddenly cleared his throat, his eyebrows twitching.

"What's wrong?"

"I-" Neji started, a light pink staining his cheeks.

Tenten looked at him, eyebrows raised.

"Err," he mumbled something under his breath.

"What?" Tenten asked with a whip-like ring to it, impatient.

"I might have made it worse," he uttered aloud, not looking at her and his face carefully blank.

It took a while for the thought to register inside her head. "What?" Tenten roared, snatching the enlarged knot from Neji's now dubbed useless fingers.

"Aww hell."

The once lint-sized knot had now turned into a marble-sized one. And it seemed that more strands had joined in the tangle that lay six centimeters from the ends of their hair. After thoroughly examining the knot from every possible angle, "What if you pour chakra into the strands of your hair, straighten out yours and freeing mine? You can expel chakra into every tenketsu point, right?"

Neji pondered the thought. "I'm not sure if I can expel them straight through the strands. Hair is not exactly the same as chakra strings you know?"

"Oh."

Honestly, Tenten was running out of ideas.

"What if go again on opposite directions but instead of walking, we run."

Neji looked at her as if her eyebrows suddenly became thicker.

"Oh fine! Do you have a better idea?" She snapped at him, frustration already setting her on edge.

"Let's try combing through it."

oOo

"Well that was dumb," said Tenten wryly, not even five minutes later. On the bed was Neji's useless comb snapped in half.

With a lack of anything better to do, Tenten tossed two halves of the comb out the window.

"That was unnecessary," Neji said, peering down the window for his combs.

She merely rolled her eyes at him before roughly jerking her head, appreciating Neji's hiss of pain when he bonked his head on the window frame.

They were back to sitting on the bed a few moments later.

"We could always just-"

"No," Neji didn't even let her finish her sentence.

"But-"

"No."

"Oh come on!" Tenten exclaimed, "It's the fastest way of solvi-!"

"We are not going to cut my hair," Neji's voice rang with finality. Tenten took a sharp intake of breath.

oOo

"How 'bout we just burn the knot?"

"That's worse than cutting it, Ten."

"Oh fuck you." Neji snorted in response.

oOo

"Ask Yamanaka for help?"

"Fuck no. Why the hell would you even suggest that?"

Neji shrugged his shoulders in response, "Worth a try."

"No."

A pause.

Ring! Ring! Ring!

"Hello Ino?"

"Tenten? What's up? Thought you'd be busy with your new hubby? It's your honeymoon after all." Tenten could feel the blonde's perverted smile from across the country.

"Yeah?" She said, conversational before going into business mode. "Listen, how do you untangle a knot on your hair?"

"What?"

A vein was now throbbing on Tenten's forehead, a clear sign of her patience running thin. "How do you untangle a knot on your hair?" She said through gritted teeth.

"Aww Tenny darling, that's so funny. My hair doesn't get knots," she could hear Ino giggle, "Listen dear, I'm about to talk a very handsome customer now into buying a wonderful bouquet of roses. Not everyone is bound to another like you are." She has no idea. "Have fun, ciao!" Click.

Tenten almost threw the cellphone against wall in frustration. She opted to throw it straight to her 'New hubby's' forehead instead.

"You're becoming unreasonably violent," Neji said as he caught the phone in his hand.

"No," she grabbed a pillow and threw it across the room, "I'm fucking not!"

"You have such a potty mouth too," he added, following the pillow with his eyes.

"Bullshit."

"You know you're just proving everything I say, right?"

Tenten felt herself shake in anger and frustration. She felt her eye twitch, the telltale sign that she was about to erupt like a volcano.

Seeing red, she opened her mouth, only to have Neji engage her in a tongue battle.

"You look beautiful when you're angry," he whispered in her ear.

Tenten pulled away and stared at him, all traces of anger kissed away and what remained was a blank face.

"I hate you so much."

A peck on the lips.

"I love you too."

Tenten sighed and not for the first time that morning, they were lying on the bed, in their birthday suits and staring at each other. Only, this time Neji was smirking at her and she was trying so hard not to punch him in the gut.

An idea suddenly flicked on inside Tenten's mind. Careful not to smile too widely, Tenten leaned in for another passionate kiss. When it seemed that Neji was caught up in the heat of the moment, a hand started to move underneath one of the pillows that she hadn't managed to throw.

She felt it, cold metal against her skin. She gripped the familiar object in her hand and carefully dragged it out of its hiding spot, inching it towards the large knot just above their heads.

Muscles tensed, she swiped at it. Almost succeeded too, if not for the hand that snatched her wrist in a white knuckled grip, pinning it above her head. Next thing she knew, instead of lying on her side, she was now on her back, Neji towering over her, the haughtiest of his smirks in place.

"Nice try," he gloated, easing the kunai off her hand with his other.

Tenten struggled from her position, his legs was pinning her other arm, along with her legs, close to her sides. Neji seemed unbothered though. Instead he examined the kunai in his hand, looking at it almost in wonder, before his eyes snapped towards hers, an almost manical glint to it. She gulped.

Slowly, he brushed the blunt side of the kunai deliciously down her naked chest. She shivered at the unfamiliar feeling of cold metal against parts of her body that were not her two hands. Still, she tried to keep the fight burning inside her. Neji looked at her in amazement.

"This is kinda hot though," he whispered in her ear. "Dominating you like this and seeing you struggle when I know you're getting so turned on right now." He softly bit her lobe. She moaned when he licked the offended flesh.

And just like that they were lost once again in the throes of passion.

After what seemed like hours...

Tenten groaned. "It's still tangled? Seriously?!"

"You just had mind blowing sex and the first thing you noticed was a knot of hair?"

"Oh shut up," said Tenten, suddenly exhausted as she lied down on her back. Her eyes were only half open when a glint of light was trying to catch her eye.

She craned her neck to the left, where a dresser lay with one of its doors slightly ajar. She remembered that they had tossed their luggage inside said dresser in their haste to do certain activities.

"Neji get up," she nudged him, seeing as she can't walk without him trailing behind, literally.

"Hm?"

"There's something in the dresser, I wanna check it out." She explained, gesturing towards the telltale glint of a light reflecting on a flat surface.

They walked towards the dresser in companiable silence and crouched down as Tenten opened the dresser and grabbed their bags.

The flat surface was actually a bottle and the light was bouncing off of the crystal-like cork perched on top.

"What in the world is that?" Neji asked, aghast.

The logo read 'Silk.' It was a bottle of conditioner, nothing special really. What made Neji so appalled was the model that was displayed across the container. They sported shiny bob-cuts reminiscent of their teammates own bowl-cuts.

"It's one of Lee's gifts," Tenten recalled. "I must've packed it by accident."

Together they read the tag line, "Keeps your hair silky smooth and tangle free! Absolutely Youthful!"

The two of them looked at each other, a mental conversation going on between them.

The strange connection was broken when Tenten looked catiously at the bottle again, uncorked it and gave it a whiff. She needn't to, because the smell of strong chemicals wafted out of the bottle like smoke. The newly-weds coughed at the foul smell.

When they both have calmed down, Neji was the first to ask, "What now?"

After hastily placing the cork back, she answered, "Should we try it?"

Neji grabbed the bottle and read the back part, reading the ingredients, expecting something like "Sweat of burning passion and hard work!" listed amongst it.

Still reading, he asked, "What are the likely chances that we both would end up with bowl-cuts the moment we step out of the shower?"

Tenten rolled her eyes at his paranoia, "Oh come on, it's just conditioner, how bad could it be?"

oOo

She started having second thoughts though, when it was time to actually use it.

She kept staring at the models. Shiny, shiny bob-cuts. Sparkly (twitch) white teeth in a perky (twitch) wide smile. Oh my god, is that spandex they're wearing? No, no. They're wearing rash guards.

...Which are spandex! Holy mother of god.

"Are we really using a hair product that Lee and Gai-sensei use?" Neji asked, doubt and caution coating his words.

Tenten proceeded to surprise not only Neji, but herself as well when she nodded her head with resolve. "Yes, it's either this or cutting it all off."

Frowning, Neji squeezed an ample amount of the foul smelling chemical into his and Tenten's palm

He massaged it onto his head before working his way down his long hair and unto the knot.

oOo

"I can't believe it actually worked," exclaimed Tenten, pleasantly surprised as they finally began to dress themselves up.

"Hn."

"Oh come on, it worked! And you're hair looks great!" Indeed it was, his hair is now the slightest bit straighter than usual and when Tenten ran her fingers through it, it was smoother than usual too. The most obvious improvement however, was how absolutely shiny it became.

"Too shiny," he refused to acknowledge the bottle created out of what looked to be Gai and Lee's youthful energy.

He can appreciate the look it gave his wife though. Now, Neji loved his wife's hair. When not in her buns, they were usually wavy, and slightest bit messy, which made her all the more sexier. At present though, her hair was pin straight and it looked even longer. It framed her face just as well, she looked classy and sexy that he didn't know which look he liked her in.

"Don't be so uptight, Neji. It's not like those two would know that we actually used it."

Back in Konoha...

Lee slammed open the door to his sensei's home.

"Gai-sensei!" He exclaimed, his eyes burning. "Did you feel it too?!" He yelled in excitement, combing through his hair with a hand.

Gai gravely nodded, tears flowing down his cheeks. "Hai! Our feiry teammates have used the concoction for youthful hair!"

Lee nodded, overwhelmed with joy as well as river of tears made their way down his own cheeks.

"I'll go prepare all the spare spandex!"

A/N: I think this could have gone better. The intimate scenes were horrible, in my opinion. I'm probably not gonna write any type of lime or lemon any time soon. Lol. Nonetheless, should I bump up the rating?

EDIT: I just re-read everything and I CAN'T BELIEVE I WROTE BROWN PEBBLES. LOL.

Reviews are welcome!