Moment 7

Man, you know I've been on a one-shot writing spree.

Ok, this idea came up when I had the hiccups... five times in one day. Like it started, stopped, started, etc.

So yeah.

Enjoy!

Hiccups

-Hiccup-

"Tenten, are you alright?" Neji asked quietly.

"Yeah, just a small bout of the -hic- hiccups," Tenten replied.

"I think we should stop. Sparring while having the hiccups may cause unnecessary injuries.

"What's a few injuries compared to -hic- what we usually have?"

"You cut yourself two times within three minutes with the same kunai."

"Don't blame my hic -hic- ups."

"Shouldn't you try to get rid of them if you want to spar so much?"

'Maybe I don't want to spar so much?' "Yeah, I should -hic- shouldn't I? They're becoming quite a hassle."

"Mmh."

"Know any cures?"

"I can scare you."

"Che, like that'll work. It's so cliched that it -hic- never worked once on me. Anyway, I bet you couldn't even scare -hic- Ino or Sakura."

"Easy, get a dead cockroach and shove it in their faces."

"No, that's not scaring. That's tormenting. Tormenting, but not quite killing."

"That's what tormenting means, Tenten."

"ANYWAY! What other cures do you -hic- know?"

"Standing on your head while not breathing for ten seconds?"

"Really?"

"Yeah." (A/N: Dammit, I got the hiccups again. I swear, cures don't work anymore.)

"Alright then."

-A few minutes later-

"Neji?"

"Hn?"

"How long have I been on my head for now?"

"One second."

"Only?!"

"I was joking, Tenten."

"How long?"

"3 minutes."

"How long was I meant to?"

"10 minutes."

"Damn."

-7 minutes later-

"Neji?"

"What?"

"Can I get up now? The blood's rushing to my -hic- face."

"No."

"Why not?"

"You haven't stopped breathing for ten seconds."

"Well goddamn that."

"...-3... 2... 1... ok."

Tenten let out a big gust of air, "Thank God!"

"You know, you stood on your head for 9 minutes and 50 seconds longer than what you were supposed to. Now, you look like you have a fever."

"You said that I was meant to stay on my head for 10 minutes!"

"Sorry, I meant 10 seconds."

"DAMN YOU TO HELL, NEJI!"

"That's beside the point. Did you get rid of the hiccups?"

"Maybe. I think so... -hic-."

"Seems like you haven't."

"Thanks for tellin' me, Cap'in Obvious."

Neji smirked in response, "Another cure is to drink a cup of water while holding your left earlobe."

"Who the hell makes up these weird cures?"

"No idea but try it anyway."

"Neji -hic-."

"Hn?"

"Be a sweetie and get me a -hic- cup of water please."

"I'm not a sweetie, nor am I your man-servant."

"Fine."

-After downing a bottle of water-

"Any better?"

"Nope. -Hic- If anything, they got -hic- wrose -hic-.

Neji sighed, "The last cure I know is to eat a spider."

"... are you for real?"

"I was hoping you didn't have to do it. But if you want to get rid of them..."

"I will -hic- not eat -hic- a damn -hic- spider!"

"Fine, spend the rest of your days hiccuping. Not my problem."

"Give that stupid spider.

-Tic toc-

"You ready, Tenten?"

"Mhm..." Tenten's eye started twitching. There was a huge, hopefully not poisonous, spider hanging from her fingers. Freshly killed, its legs were twitching from the dying nerve endings.

"On a count of three. One... two.. three."

Tenten, with a disgusted look on her face, popped the spider in her mouth and chewed.

There was a sickening crunch.

"So, how was it, Tenten?"

"Gross, I can taste its guts. And it's hairy..."

Neji suddenly started cracking up, "I can't! I can't believe! You actually did that!" He said between guffaws.

"... what?"

"You! You actually believed! That it would..." Neji trailed off, still laughing uncontrollably.

"Neji..."

Neji continued to chortle slightly before his senses detected a deadly aura.

"COME BACK HERE, NEJI! YOU OWE ME YOUR FACE AFTER EATING A HUGE FAT -hic- SPIDER!"

The two of them ran a mad goose chase around the streets of Konoha. Neji suddenly stopped running and faced Tenten.

Stunned by his sudden pause, Tenten stopped as well.

Neji then suddenly bounded up to Tenten like a happy dog and planted a kiss on her lips before backtracking slightly.

Tenten's eyes were as round as plates.

"N-N-Neji... y-y-you," Tenten spluttered.

"What about me?"

"Y-y-you..." a thought suddenly crossed Tenten's mind.

"C'mere."

She pulled Neji by the collar of his shirt so that his mouth clashed into hers. Neji was so startled by her sudden move, he was petrified like Mrs. Norris in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. (A/N: Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter, not me.)

Tenten lightly pushed her tongue against Neji's open mouth, making him jump back quite a few metres.

"Tenten... you just..."

"That's right. Your tongue should feel spider hair on it right now."

And indeed there was.

Rushing back to his home, Neji quickly rinsed his mouth out with detergent and downed a whole tube of toothpaste.

-In Neji's bedroom-

"Neji... why'd you kiss me in the first place?"

"Two reasons."

"Ok, what's the first?"

"I love you."

"Alrig- wait, what?"

"The second reason, was to scare you."

"Eh?" Tenten immediately forgot his confession.

"Your hiccups are gone, aren't they? And you say that scaring doesn't work."

"Ok, maybe I was wrong..."

"Well, it's a good thing that you don't have the hiccups anymore. We can spar again now."

"Yeah."

"-Hic-"

"Was that you, Neji?"

"I think I -hic- got your hiccups."

"So hiccups are really contagious."

"Damn, and I don't get scared easily."

"Neji."

"Hm?"

"I love you too."

"What?!"

"See, your hiccups are gone."

Yay, my hiccups are gone as well.

Ok, Happy New Year to everyone.

Review as a present please. :D

Peace.

Sky~