Tenten shifted in her bed. It was two thirty AM and she couldn't go back to sleep. Her room was too hot, there were too pillows, the blanket was too big...

She sighed as she sat out on the extended roof, which could double as her own private balcony even her parents didn't know about. The breeze was cool and there were hardly any clouds at all. Staring up at the moon, Tenten began to think.

- - - -

Yawning slightly, Tenten leaned forward in her desk, resting her head on her arms before the bell was about to ring to start classes.

Sakura walked in, wearing bright pink pointy-toed heels, a white and pink pleated skirt and a grey knitted sweater. Sakura looked around the room, finally spotting Tenten.

"Hiya Tenten! Ino told me that you were in the same art class as me." Came Sakura's bright, cheery voice as she sat into the seat beside Tenten on the table for four. "Although, I was talking to Hinata in the hallway, before her and Ino left to their class, she said, oh never mind, you'll found out soon enough." Sakura gossiped as she was fishing through her purse.

Seeming to finally realize how tired Tenten was, Sakura stopped to stare at her most recent friend. "Tenten? Are you okay?" she asked quietly, leaning toward the brunette.

"I had a hard time sleeping last night. And now that I'm at school, all I want to do is sleep." Tenten explained as she sat up straight, twisting her neck of the knots.

Sakura's emerald green eyes smiled, but then focussed on something behind Tenten.

"Hey Sakura, Tenten."

Tenten looked over in time to see Neji taking the seat across from Sakura.

"Hi, Neji." Both girls said in unison.

Sakura then went back to fishing through her purse. "What kept you awake last night Tenten?" she asked, one hand emerging with a small mirror and the other with mascara.

"I don't know." Tenten answered, going back to laying her head on her arms, yawning again.

"Will you be too tired for a movie with the Bee's tonight?" Sakura asked, now applying her mascara.

"I'll come. I'm just dead tired. What movie are we going to go see?"

"Oh, we're not going to the theatre. We're going to Ino's house. We each get to choose a different movie. Ino's place has like, a lot of movies to choose from too."

Tenten raised an eyebrow, raising her head too. "Ino's house? Why didn't Ino say anything about it in bio?" she asked, vaguely noticing a boy clad, in almost completely green sat down at their table, across from her.

"She said she did, but you were just falling in and out of sleep the whole period." Sakura smirked, and then blew herself a kiss in her mirror.

"Hello Sakura! How are you today? Youthful and beautiful as always!"

Sakura and Tenten both snapped to look at the speaker, seeing a bowl shaped haircut boy with bug-eyes and a green, long sleeved shirt.

Sakura glared and slightly scooted her chair toward Tenten. "Do I know you?" she asked.

The boy didn't at all look insulted or upset. He just smiled wider and blew a kiss toward Sakura.

"I have a boyfriend." Sakura stated, and fully turned to Tenten.

Tenten shook her head, smiling slightly but then turned her head toward Neji. "I'm sorry I said you were acting like an ass. And called you a jerk. I also implied that you're a bad boyfriend. Oh, and this morning, I called you a man-whore. Four times..." Tenten said, smiling as Neji's eyebrows furrowed together.

"I only remember the being called an ass..." he said dryly as he stared at her. "What makes you assume I'm a bad boyfriend?" Neji leaned a bit toward Tenten, only to recoil and laugh loudly, throwing his head back. "You think I'm a man-whore?"

Tenten narrowed her eyes. "I can take back that apology."

"No, I'm sorry! I'm just, confused." He smiled a bit as the two stared at each other for a moment.

"Whoa! Hold on you two! Back up, back up, back up! You said nothing happened last night in the bathroom." Sakura dove in, looking for some juicy material.

"Because nothing did. At least, not the things I assumed you three were asking." Tenten said, breaking eye contact with Neji, meeting Sakura's green ones.

"You guys' gossip about me? How touching." Neji chuckled.

"Don't act like it's a good thing." Tenten laughed.

"Oh, but it's a very good thing. I'm on your mind, when I'm not even around you. I call that a good thing."

"It's a good thing that I came to the conclusion that you'd be a bad boyfriend?"

"Well, why were you even thinking about me being a boyfriend at all? Tenten, whatever-your-last-name-is, I think you like me!"

Tenten struggled on coming up with anything at all to say to that. She didn't want to lie, but she wasn't going to admit it. She hardly even knew him.

Sakura giggled. "Wow, can I do the honours of hooking you two up? I mean, you two are just like a TV show! Like Meredith and Derek on Grey's Anatomy!! Ooh I love that show!" she squealed as she clapped her hands together, leaning more on the table, staring at the two of them.

Tenten felt her face heat up as she stared directly down at the table. "Sakura!" she whined, bringing her hands up to hide her face.

"Alright class! Today, I want you to draw the person to your left at your table, as an animal you feel would suit them. You have the entire class, afterward, I will collect the drawings, left on each table." The teacher at the front of the class said loudly, smiling as she made the assignment for the day.

"Okay Sakura, what kind of animal do you want to be?" Tenten asked as she opened the sketchbook in front of her with her name on it.

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Why are you asking me?"

"Because the only pink animal that comes to my mind is a- Never mind! Sakura, you are a flamingo." Tenten said matter-of-factly.

Neji chuckled, already sketching out a good animal for Tenten.

"Why am I a flamingo?" Sakura protested.

"Why not a flamingo? You're both pink." Tenten clarified as she too, started her drawing.

The majority of the trio's art class was spent with bickering; questioning how the other saw them as the animal they were being drawn as.

"What class do you have next?" Sakura asked, closing her drawing of a green fish.

"Nothing. I have a spare, lunch and then another spare." Tenten explained as she too, closed her book, leaning back into her chair.

"Really? I have a spare too." Neji said as he leaned a bit toward her. "Have any plans?"

"Why?" Tenten asked, looking at him suspiciously.

"I'd like to ask you to have a lunch date with me." He smirked, watching Tenten's eyes widen slightly.

"She'd love to go with you Neji." Sakura said, smiling brightly as she batted her eyelashes at Tenten.

Neji nodded slightly, but kept looking at Tenten questioningly. Waiting for her to answer herself.

"Okay. Fine. A lunch date with Neji Hyuga. Where do you plan on taking me?" Tenten asked, moving her bangs out of her eyes, she needed to get them trimmed...

Neji smirked. "It's a surprise."

- - - -

Tenten sat in the passenger seat, switching the radio station to her personal preference.

"Why won't you tell me where we're going? I think I should be allowed to know the destination." Tenten explained as she looked at Neji, beside her as he was driving them off the school campus.

"What's your last name?" Neji asked once they had stopped at an intersection.

"Miyamoto. Why?" Tenten asked, leaning back as he looked to check for any cars on her side.

"Trying to get to know you. Isn't that what you do on first dates?" he asked, giving her an amused look.

"Okay, I vote, that we alternate between who gets to ask the next question." Tenten said, smiling at her own genius plan.

Neji chuckled. "And I don't suppose you have a tie-breaker for that if I vote against that."

"Actually, I do. It happens anyway. Excellent. Why do you live with your uncle and cousins?" she asked, folding her hands on her lap.

"My parents died when I was a kid." He said, making Tenten feel bad for asking. Taking a left turn, he asked, "Why do you wear your hair like that?"

Tenten lifted a hand to her hair, in their usual buns. "I like it like that. It's more me than most other things. Do you have a job?"

Neji gave a look. One that she had a very hard time explaining what it probably meant. "What?" she asked.

"Do I look like I need a job?" he asked, taking another left turn.

"It was just a question. Some rich kids still like to earn their own money." Tenten pointed out. "By the way, there's a bird flying at us."

"What?"

"Haha! Made you look."

Neji rolled his but chuckled a bit. "Rich kids like who?"

"Rich kids like me."

"Why did you have to earn your own money? Daddy refused to pay for something?"

"Jerk. I don't ask for a lot of things from my Dad, so I always get what I ask for. I earned my own money because then, I had my own money. Not Mr. Miyamoto's money." Tenten explained, crossing her arms.

"That's sweet. You're not at all like the other girls." Neji said, taking a right turn rather quickly. "So Tenten, you ever plan on answering the sports question?"

"That's not something I like talking about." She said as they came to a stop at a Boston Pizza.

Neji nodded, "well, let's continue this inside." He said, turning off the car.

Tenten quickly undid her seat belt and jumped out of the truck. "Actually, here's a question, what's your all time favourite song?" she asked as she hurried to his side as they walked toward the building.

Neji opened the door, gesturing with his hand for her to go inside. "I'd have to think on that one. But when I figure it out, I'll let you know." He said, smiling at her as a girl at the front desk greeted them. "A table for two please." He said, smiling at her.

"Right this way please." The girl smiled, grabbing two menus and walking toward a back, where she stopped at a booth. "What can I get you two to drink?" she asked as she handed them the menus.

"I'll have a Coke." Tenten smiled.

"Make that two." Neji said, looking directly at Tenten.

"Are you going to look at your menu?" he asked when Tenten hadn't even opened her menu.

Tenten made a show of looking at the thing. "I already know I'm getting."

"And what is that?"

"Pepperoni pizza. My favourite."

Neji nodded as he flipped to the next page of his own menu.

"What's your favourite flavour of chips?" Tenten asked, leaning forward a bit.

"All dressed." He answered, setting his menu to the edge of the table too. "Why did you move to Konoha?"

"My Dad was tired of our last place, he wanted newer people. He's a lawyer. So he told my Mom, and my Mom found our house and now, we live here." Tenten explained, playing with her napkin.

"Hi there, I'm Julie, are you two ready to order?" a blonde asked, setting the Coke's down in front of them.

"I'll have a small pepperoni pizza." Tenten said, taking a sip of her Coke.

"I'll have a Hawaiian pizza, thank you." Neji said as he slid his drink to the inside of the table.

The blonde waitress nodded and walked away.

"Why are you so against my friendship with Ino, Sakura and Hinata?" Tenten asked, genuinely curious.

"I know my cousin, and I know her friends. They've been friends since elementary. And I know that Ino and Sakura are both pretty catty. They gossip a lot and start a lot of cat fights. Even those fights where everything is really quiet, and sneaky. It's annoying and weird. You seem like a really nice kid, and I guess I just don't like the idea of them... corrupting you."

Tenten laughed. "What am I, a damsel in distress? You're my knight in shining armour? How sweet."

Neji rolled his eyes, shaking his head. "So, why do you think I'm a wannabe?" he toke a sip of his drink, waiting for Tenten to answer.

"You wanted to be popular right? You wanted to have a high profile in high school so you didn't have to worry about being a low class nerd. A wannabe." Tenten explained, feeling a bit uncomfortable under his gaze, the way he always looked at her, gave her butterflies.

"I was already friends with those guys."

"You had the same initiation, though, right? Just like a fraternity."

"Well yeah, but," he paused, staring at her. "Okay. Maybe I am." He said, half smiling as he leaned back.

"Neji, I don't mean to get too personal, but I'm seriously curious." Tenten said, folding her hands on the table.

Neji gestured for her to continue.

"I know how this sounds, but, does this mean we're going out now?"

There was a few moments of silence between the two before Neji started to laugh, covering his eyes with his hand as he leaned toward her.

"Well, that depends. Do you want to be my girlfriend?" he asked once his laughter had subsided.

Tenten had started forming an answer when Julie arrived with their food. "Here you go. Please, enjoy!" she said cheerily before slipping away to a different table.

Tenten quickly toke a bite. 'Hinata did say she had no problem with that. Right?' Tenten asked herself as she chewed.

Once she swallowed, Tenten toke a drink of her Coke and finally, nodded her head at Neji. "Yes, I think I do."

Neji smiled. "Great."

- - - -

"Hinata, you promise not to be mad, right?" Tenten asked in math with Hinata.

Hinata nodded, curious as to what her friend was about to ask.

"I'm dating Neji."

Hinata's curiosity turned to happiness. "That's great Tenten! I knew you liked him! Was this decided during your lunch date?" she asked, copy equations from the board.

"Yes. Thank you so much for not being upset!" Tenten practically worshipped Hinata now.

"No problem. But, you have to tell me all about the date!" Hinata laughed.

Tenten nodded, copying down equations too, while telling Hinata about her three hours with just her and Neji.

- - - -

At Ino's house, the girl's mostly just talked about boys, abandoning the movie and laying on Ino's bed, sharing past relationships, and all their firsts.

"Obviously, Sasuke was mine. We've been dating since like, the eighth grade." Sakura explained as she brushed her hair slowly. "Who was yours Tenten?"

Tenten felt a bit uneasy, but went ahead with the truth. "I haven't done it with anyone."

"What?" Sakura and Ino both asked, giving Tenten a look of confusion.

"I mean, you're so pretty. Didn't guys at your old school notice that?" Ino explained as she stood up to go sit in front of her computer.

"Well yeah, but, I just never liked anyone enough to go that far." Tenten said, her face turning a bit pink.

"Wow. Anyway, what's Neji's birthday?" Ino said, typing something into the search bar of Google.

"July 3rd." Tenten and Hinata said at the same time.

"And Tenten's birthday is..."

"March 9." Tenten said, coming up behind Ino, checking out what she was looking at.

"Congrats Tenten. says you two can do great together." Ino giggled, gesturing toward the screen.

Tenten rolled her eyes. 'I wonder if these things are actually real...' Tenten thought, finding, and deep inside, that she truly did want it to be true. 'Neji Hyuga, I'm your girlfriend. And I really like it.'

A/N: Sorry I kinda rushed the girls' get together, I just really wanted to move on to something new. Anyway, I heart flamingos 3