Hey, back again with chapter 4. I like the way the stories going, and I hope some others like it as well. Today im sick, so im not allowed to go to work, and school is out for the day. Did I mention I'm a senior now, how awesome is that, going to be taking college entrance exams soon. Anyway, enough about me, this is about tenten. Enjoy!

Warning to readers: I suck at doing fighting scenes. :p

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Chapter 4

Tenten threw a kunai and hit the target. "Very good tenten" said a woman with long brown hair, her eyes as chocolate as her hair. "Thank you mommy, daddy will be happy" tenten cheered as she jumped into her mothers arms. "Daddy will be back soon, how about we fill that little tummy of yours" she said as she poked tenten in the stomach, sending giggles from her mouth. Tenten's mother carried her in to town on her back. "So, what does my little warrior want?" her mother asked. "I want…..ramen" she cheered. Her mother giggled. "Ok then." she said stopping at the ramen show. "Welcome" spoke the ramenshop owners daughter, she was still young herself, about 10 or 11. "Beef Ramen please" Tenten cheered clapping her hands. The young girl smiled to tenten as she turned to her father, telling the order. She returned with two bowls of ramen, sitting them in front of tenten and her mother. "Warriors have to eat to get big and strong" her mother replied. Tenten nodded as she started eating her ramen.

"May I have a bit of your ramen?" tenten looked up to see her father standing above her. "No daddy, if you eat my ramen, I wont become a big strong ninja like you" she smiled up to him. He petted tenten on the head. "Alright then, I guess you wont get to see my new kunai" He said sighing. "Here you go daddy" tenten said pushing the bowl to him, her face bright. He pulled out the kunai and sat it on the table. Tenten picked it up. "Don't go too far" her mother called to her as tenten ran off. Her mother and father talked as she went off to play. The kunai was custom made, with her fathers name carved on it. Tenten went to a nearby target arena, throwing the kunai at the target. Of course she made it.

"That's a nice kunai, mind if I borrow it?" said a older boy, he looked to be around the age of 12, he had three older kids with him, a girl and two boys, all looked the same age as he. "it's not my, my daddy's letting me play with it" tenten looked up to the other kids with her little eyes. "Little kids shouldn't play with ninja tools, you might get hurt" said the girl as she reached for the kunai, tenten jumped back. "I said it's my daddy's, so you cant see it" tenten stuck her tongue out at them. The girl glared as she slapped tenten. She feel back holding her face, tears welling up in her eyes. "go ahead, cry, cry like a baby" the girl yelled. The boys laughed as the girl smirked in triumph Tenten didn't cry, instead she stood up and kicked the girl in the leg. The girl grabbed her leg, wincing. "I'm going to kill you little brat. Hold her down" said the girl as the boys grabbed tenten. The girl held a stick in her hand, she was about to swing it but someone caught it, and kicked her. It was a boy, his hair tied back into a ponytail. He wore a shirt with the uchiha symbol on the back. He kicked all of them away, holding a kunai in his hand.

"Picking on kids smaller than you is something a coward would do" spoke the boy. He looked to be around the age of 10. "Who do you think you are kid" said one of the boys. "He's wearing a uchiha symbol" shrieked the girl. "My father says uchiha are scum who think they are better than everyone" said one of the boys. A smaller boy came to tenten, wrapping her leg. "Your bleeding" said he little boy, he seemed closer to her age. "My name is sasuke, that's my big brother Itachi. He's going to beat up those mean kids that hurt you" sasuke smiled. Tenten sniffed, whipping her watery eyes. The boy known as Itachi stared down at tenten with red eyes, it frightened her. "That's called the shariagan, my brother is cool, he learned it when he was 8" sasuke smiled. "Whats going on here?" Said a stern voice. All of the kids turned to look at tenten's parents as they came over. "Tenten, I told you not to go too far" her mother said as she picked her up. "Im ok mommy" tenten said smiling. "You've been crying, your eyes are red" her mother said.

"What happened?" her father asked as he looked at all of the faces of the kids. His eyes landed on Itachi. "Itachi?" he said. "I brought my brother here to help him with his shuriken, and caught these older kids picking on your daughter" Itachi answered, he deactivated his shariagan. Itachi bowed to her father before turning, his eyes glanced up to meet tenten's. "Lets go sasuke" Itachi said as he started walking. "Goodbye, I hope your knee gets better" sasuke said as he waved following after Itachi. "Tenten, am I doing this right?" Tenten blinked to her mom.

"Hello in there, am I doing this right?" Yuki asked as she held a kunai in her hand. Tenten nodded. "Tighten your grip then release when you swing" Tenten instructed. They had been training for almost two hours. It had been days since her meeting with moku and the council and she still couldn't figure out the key to opening the chest. "I did it!" Yuriko yelled as she jumped up and down. "Did you see, I hit the target" she pointed. "That's good Yuriko" Tenten smiled. "Do it again some more, till you get better" Tenten replied as she put her attention back on yuki. "I think I'm getting the hang of this as well" Yuki smiled happily. Tenten nodded in agreement. "Can we take a break. I brought us something to eat" Yuki said as she went over to a bag she brought with them. They had traveled to the forest to do their training, so nothing in the would be broken.

"I made enough incase we had visitors, I kind of hoped for Deidara to come, or " "Itachi-sama Yuriko finished yuki's sentence. "Don't worry, they are here, along with Kinshin" Tenten said as she looked to the trees. "where?" yuki asked. "Here" tenten said as the three appeared in front of them. "Figured we could help with your training, yeah" Deidara said. Yuki smiled to him. "Hungry?" she asked. He nodded and walked, sitting beside her, watching what food she pulled out. Tenten glanced up to see Itachi's cold eyes, she gritted her teeth. It seemed she never thanked him for that day. "Thank you for saving me long ago" she said. Itachi rose an eyebrow. "Back when my parents were alive. You saved me in the park from the older kids" she said. "I don't recall that happening" Itachi said as he crossed his arms. Deidara blinked up at him as well.

Kinshin sighed out of boredom. "Tenten, lets spare" He said. "Yea, I wonna see how good tenten is in a match against Kinshin" Yuriko said bouncing up and down. "Sure, why not" tenten said as she stood. She grabbed her scrolls, she had been given her weapons back. "You don't have to hold back, give me all you got" Kinshin said as he pulled out a katana. Itachi turned his attention to the battle, while yuki and Deidara watched the two get ready. "Ready?" Tenten asked as her hand moved to her kunai pouch, reaching for a weapon.

Kinshin got ready, running straight at her. He got close, drawing his sword down, she easily dodged to the side. She had a good dodging capability, something she gained avoiding Neji's palm strikes in sparing matches.

Kinshin spent on his heels, swinging his sword again, this time it barely made contact, slicing the front of her shirt. She grabbed her chest, looking at her ripped shirt. She didn't own many cloths. "Tenten!" yuki shouted, tenten looked up in time to see Kinshin jumping down at her, sword in hand. She twisted her body and jumped on his sword, flipping over him. She jumped back, giving a great distance between them. She smirked as she crouched down to the ground, neither of them had seen this attack. She sat two scrolls out in front of her, equally apart. She did a few hand signs. "Rising Twin Dragons!" she chanted as the scrolls flew upward, forming as smoke dragons than appearing as the scrolls. Everyone's eye's watched as tenten as she jumped up to the top of the scroll, twirling in the air. "Here it comes" she said as her hand brushed across a marking on the scroll, as so, a weapon appeared. She grabbed it, throwing it at him, her hand motions got quicker as she speed grew.

Kinshin deflected the weapons with his sword, he knew he wouldn't be able to dodge them all. He took a step back as a kunai sliced through his shoulder, he winced. He pushed his weight forward as he ran, getting closer to her. He knew the closer he got the easier it would be for him to deflect the weapons. He got directly underneath her and jumped up, using the walls off the scrolls to jump up. Tenten looked down shocked as he got closer, bring up his blade. His blade sliced upward through her shoulder. "Gah!" tenten spit out blood as she flew out of her own jutsu and to the ground. She winced, gabbing her shoulder. Kinshin stood over her. "That was an interesting jutsu, but I easily found a way to break it" He said. She glared up at him, standing up. "That's enough, it's clear I'm the winner." he said.

"No, I'm not d-done yet" She said glaring hard. "No, it's enough, your wounded" Kinshin said putting down his sword. "He's right tenten, your bleeding pretty badly" Yuki said with a worried face. "I'm fine" tenten winced. "I'm not fighting you anymore, I said the match is over so it's over" Kinshin said. Tenten ignored them, punching at him, but he dodged. She then turned around, kicking, which he caught. "were not done" she said as she swung her fist at him. He caught it with his hand. Deidara watched, smirking. "She is and interesting girl, with that kind of wound I would have stopped." he said. Itachi watched quietly, he then walked out to them. "What do you want?" she asked glaring at him, she was still in a lock hold with Kinshin. She didn't know why she wouldn't back down, maybe because she was so eager to hurt them all for her 3 years of prison time.

She pulled herself away from kinshin and turned on Itachi, punching him. She glared down at red eyes, Itachi grabbed tenten from behind, twisting her arm behind her back, she winced at the pain. She looked back down to see no one there. "Let me go!" she said as she bit down on his hand. He let her go and she jumped from his grip. "Deidara!" Itachi yelled. Tenten ran, Deidara tried jumping in front of her, but a kunai grazed his face. She hopped over him. She was tired of this, tired of them being nice, tired of being nice, tired of feeling like she belonged. Tenten headed straight for the trees, Kinshin raced after. Itachi wasn't far behind Kinshin and tenten. She ran, and kept running, her mind clearly on her escape, she paid no attention to the stinging coming from her wound as her Adrenaline pumped.

"Tenten, stop. You don't know this landscape, you can get hurt" Kinshin yelled from behind, he was running as fast as he could to catch up to her. Tenten ignored his yelling as she kept going, pushing her legs to go as fast as she could, she could hear the sound of a water fall, she knew she could try and get away from there. "Stop!" Kinshin yelled again, she turned to glance back at him, then back in front, but it was too late. She tripped over a tree root, stumbling over hitting her head. They had been on a slanted landscape once they got closer to the waterfall, her unconscious body rolled off into the water. "Grab her!" Kinshin heard Itachi scream.

Hot tears ran from the small girls face, followed by muffled sniffs. She stood still, wearing black, holding a small rose. She listened to people come by and bless her and her parents. She listened to all the great things her parents did. The 3rd Hokage stood at her side, his arm around her small body. "Your parents were very loyal tenten, I will make sure you grow up to be as great as them" He spoke. A man made his way through the crowd over to her, with a box in his hand He stopped in front of her bowing, then bowing to the Hokage. He held out the box to her. "Open it child, this is the key to your future." the man said, he was familiar. She glanced up at the Hokage, who nodded down to her. She opened the box, inside was her fathers favorite kunai. She looked around for the man, he had already started walking. "Thank you Moku-Oji-San" she said.

Tenten jumped up gasping, she winced from the pain in her shoulder. "Easy, you don't want to reopen it" Kinshin said sitting at her side. "Were are we?" she asked. "A cave" Itachi answered, he was off in the corner. She winced more from the pain, a bandage wrapped tight around her chest, her shirt being hung over the fire. She stared at them both, wondering which one wrapped her bandage. Her cheeks became hot and went away quickly. "Why did you run off back there?" Kinshin asked in a irritated tone. "I want to go home" she said as she laid back down. "I'm a Shinobi from Konoha. Not a rouge ninja." she said glancing at Itachi with her last words. He stayed quiet, looking out at the rain.

"Why are we in this cave?" tenten asked. "Someone went on a little swim that she couldn't handle, so we had to drag you out and this cave was closest." Itachi said. "You got pretty banged up and we didn't want to chance re opening your wounds" Kinshin said. Tenten sighed. "Thank you" she replied. "No problem" Kinshin said "I do get tired of saving you" Itachi said as he stood up, she could see his hand wrapped, it must have been from her biting him. Did she really bit him that hard? She ignored his comment. "I think I know how to open the chest" she replied. "But need to get back to my room." She said. They both turned to look at her. "Take me back" she said sitting up again. "It's not that easy, your wounds might re-open-" Kinshin started. "She wants to go back so we should take her" Itachi said as he walked over to her. Kinshin gave Itachi a glare. "If her wounds reopen, it could become infected" Kinshin hissed at Itachi. "She obviously doesn't care about her wounds, it's what she wants" Itachi said picking her up gently. "If she doesn't care about her well being then maybe someone should" Kinshin said, he never really liked Itachi since they were forced to work together. They were both given the mission by Moku to watch and protect tenten, helping her figure out her destiny without giving hints.

Itachi ignore Kinshin as he got to the end of the cave. "If the wounds open we can treat them again" Itachi said as he jumped from the cave with tenten in her arms. Tenten stayed quiet through Itachi and Kinshin's petty argument, she was focused and now more determined to open the chest. Kinshin wasn't so far behind them, running as the water dropped down on his face. He knew what would happen as soon as the chest was opened, something he never wanted to happen. They made it back to their house in no time at all. Yuki and Yuriko jumping up as soon as the door opened. "Tenten, are you ok?" the asked in union, She nodded. "which room is yours?" Itachi asked, as if he didn't know. She pointed and he jumped, skipping the stairs. He walked in, setting tenten down. "Deidara, let no one enter" Itachi said as he shut the door, his eyes locked on kinshin's as he did so.

Tenten went to her pouch, scrambling through it for her fathers kunai. This is the key to your future. She remembered. She examined the kunai, at the bottom was a hole. She grabbed a sai needled and pried the hole open. Itachi watched over her shoulder. Once it was opened a small key and a small note fell out. The note was addressed to her, from her parents

Dear Tenten,

By reading this, it must mean our time has come and we have passed. It should also mean you are of age. It is only traditional that we pass this deed down to you and your chosen partner, by know you should know who he is, if not, then you should ask your uncle to clue you in. As you should know, Konoha is not them most trustworthy place to live, a lot of revolution going on. It was only contrary for us to join the right side, the Uchihas, to fight against the council, which may have ended with our lives being taken. Konoha is not to be trusted. Please open the chest and follow the destiny that lies ahead of you. We are counting on you, to finish what we have started.

Will all the love,

Your parents.

Tenten stared down at the words on the paper, on the back of the note was a picture of her in her mothers arms, along with her father standing over them. Her eyes started to water. Itachi was so quiet she almost forgot he was there. She couldn't believe what was going on. Her parents were part of the revolution in Konoha, and that is why their lives were taken. "Your parents speak the truth" Itachi said from her side. "How would you know, you murdered your whole family" She said. "don't speak of something you don't truly understand. My families demolish was ordered." Itachi said. Tenten looked down to the chest in front her. She whipped her eyes as she held the key in hand. She stuck the key in the chest and tried twisting it, it didn't budge. Itachi put his hand over hers, twisting it. She looked up at him, slightly surprised but figured he wanted to know what was in the chest. The lock clicked and opened, her eyes wide as she saw what was inside.

Hm…im guessing this is the lonest chapter I've ever written. I usually try keeping them the same length, but guess I went a little overboard. If I've lost someone in the story, please tell me and I would easily clue you in . The next chapter you find out what lies in the chest, and also find out more about Kinshin and Itachi. Sorry for grammar and spelling errors. Review Please!