Author's Note: NejiTen. Response to the "First Kiss" challenge on naruto100 on LJ.
What's Mine
The day he learned that Kiba had tried to kiss her was the day he kicked open the door to her apartment, wind-blown and silver eyes flashing as she lifted her head from the book in her lap, a shocked expression on her face.
"Neji…what...?"
He strode towards her, determined to do what he had wanted to do for weeks now. He had thought that it had been only hormones, that his awakening feelings for his kunoichi teammate had been the product of too much time training and too little time doing the things most teenage boys do. Now he knew that it didn't matter. No one was going to take what was rightfully his. She was his partner, and no one else's.
Looming over her, he bent down, caught her head between his hands, and kissed her fiercely, a fairly distant part of him slightly surprised when she opened beneath his lips like a flower to sunlight. When he was finished, he broke away, his breath coming quick and fast, pleased with the way she was panting, tendrils of disheveled hair framing her face.
"This," he said, placing his fingers over her mouth, "is mine."
Then he pivoted on his foot and marched out her door, irrationally satisfied that he had made his point.
Tenten watched him go with a small, secret smile on her face, still feeling the burning touch of his fingertips on her lips. It looked like the Hyuuga's arrogance was useful after all.
She would have to thank Kiba in the morning.
THE END.