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Here's the next chapter, a little shorter than the last, but I still like it, hope you do too.
Disclaimer---- I do not own Naruto!!!! Just the Story plot!!!
Summary- Tenten had a normal, boring life, till she met Neji and was thrown into the world of the gangs. It was a shock how quickly her life could change.
Pairings- Main-Neji X Tenten Minor- Naruto X Hinata, Ino X Sai, Temari X Itachi and Sakura X Sasuke
How Quickly Life Can Change!!
Chapter Twenty-one!!
Sai closed the door behind him and Tenten, chucking the keys of his car on the side, wandering into the living room and slumping down on the sofa. Tenten had ran upstairs the moment she was through the door to remove her dress. Now she ran down them, wearing a baggy t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms. She ran and jumped onto the sofa next to Sai.
"So you obviously had fun tonight," Sai chuckled running his hands through his hair.
"Yep," Tenten said, smiling brighter then she had in a long time.
"Well, I'll have to have a talk with Neji before I allow it," Sai said going all big brother on her.
"Even if you don't allow it we're still going to go out," Tenten said, smirking at her big brother. "I'm not a baby."
Sai just nodded in reply as the phone started to ring so he didn't bother saying anything. Tenten jumped up and ran over to the phone.
"Hello," she said happily. Sai yawed loudly, listening to the one side of the conversation he could hear. "What.......I don't understand.......speak slower......WHAT......sure......yeah, we'll be right there." She huge up the phone and didn't even wait for Sai to say anything before she grabbed her coat and made her way to the door. "Can I borrow your car?" Tenten asked a slight desperation in her voice.
"No, you can't drive. What's up?" Sai, who'd followed he sister curiously, asked.
"No time to explain," she said, hurriedly grabbing her trainers and shoving them on.
"Well I'm drive you, just tell me where to," Sai said, stuffing on his own shoes and grabbing his own jacket to cover his Halloween outfit he was still wearing as there seemed to be no time to change.
"Temari's," Tenten instructed, before walking out the door, closely followed by a curious Sai.
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It seemed to be a blur for Tenten, the car drive to Temari's. She was worried. The urgency in Temari's voice was unreal, even though Tenten wasn't clear on what she had been talking about. Sai drove round the corner of her street and the moment her house was in view, Tenten understood what was wrong. Flames covering the whole of Temari's house. Dozens of police car, ambulance's and fire trucks all parked outside. The whole scene was chaotic. Tenten glance sideways at Sai, her eyes full of worry. His face was hard, unreadable, which meant one thing to him. Business.
So he parked in the green near Temari's house as there was no possible way to get any closer, both Tenten and Sai exited the car and made their way over to the mayhem. There were tons of people, probably neighbours, some might just be nosy passersby but there wasn't any way to be sure. Then Tenten saw Temari, leaning against an ambulance, head hung low. She made her way over to her, pushing past police, fire fighters and doctors, just trying to reach her friend.
"Temari!" she called and at the sound of her name the blonds head snapped up and she glanced around. Tenten could see her face was tearstained, but she didn't know why. What was going on? When Temari caught sight of Tenten, she ran over to her flinging her arms around Tenten's neck.
"Thank god your here," she muttered a fresh batch of tears streaming down her face.
"Temari, what the hell's going on," Tenten asked, rubbing the older teens back as she sobbed onto her shoulder.
"Got home.....fire," she muttered, barely audible with her sobs and the noise that everyone around them was making.
"I don't unde.." Tenten stopped mid-sentence her eye's catching something that made her whole stomach sink. A body bag being brought out of Temari's house. "That isn't?" she asked, meaning one of Temari's brothers but then Tenten saw them talking to a police officer a little way off from them. Then who? She thought looking around at the mayhem that was everything around her.
"Baki," Temari sobbed, bringing her face up to look into Tenten's eyes. "Not an accident though, look," she pointed back to her house and Tenten's eyes followed her finger. She was pointing to the remains of what used to be her front door. Tenten squinted, looking closely. On the front of the door was something spray painted, but Tenten couldn't make out what it read.
"We warned you," Sai muttered from behind her as if reading her mind. Tenten turned to look at him and saw the serious expression on his face. Before she could even ask the question she was dying to know, he answered it for her, again as if reading her mind. "Orochimaru's gang."
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"Why would they target Temari?" Ino asked for what must have been the 12th time in a row. It was early Saturday morning after the school dance and after Baki's death. Tenten and let Temari and her brothers stay with them, Temari in Tenten's room and the boys in the spare room. Gaara and Kankuro had both gone out this morning, insisting they have to find jobs so they can start paying their way. Temari was still asleep.
"Well, it's because she's involved with Itachi," Sai said, yawning. Him and Tenten hadn't gotten much sleep last night.
"Does that mean they'll target me?" Sakura asked, looking at Sasuke for some sort of reassurance.
"Perhaps, but I'm not too sure," Sasuke replied uncertainly.
"Well, they might not know about your relationship," Sai said. "And they would probably give some sort of warning if they did. If a warning happens, we break it off. Me and you too Ino." he turned to her and smiled, somewhat half heartedly.
"What about me and Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked. Hinata and Neji weren't there yet as their grandparents where round for breakfast, but were coming straight after. Naruto had also told the boys about Hinata's arm.
"No, Hinata's already too involved as it is. Orochimaru would still go after her. And Tenten must pretend to be Neji's girlfriend, which isn't so pretend anymore, as that will keep him from knowing that I'm her brother." Tenten half smiled, thinking about Neji. She actually had a boyfriend, which sounded really weird to her.
"Where's Itachi, now I think of it?" Sai asked, knocking Tenten out of her thoughts.
"He said he had something to sort out before he came over," Sasuke said.
"Well, I think Temari we'll want to see him when she wakes up, she cried quite a lot last night and when she got to sleep I think she was having nightmares. Itachi might be able to comfort her." Tenten said, feeling concern for her older friend.
"I thought she didn't even like Baki," Ino asked curiously. That was half true, Temari used to always moan about Baki, saying how annoying he was and stuff but in truth she loved him a lot. Way more then she showed. Baki had risked everything taking the three of them in, even his life as many people had hated Temari's father and tried to kill the kids as an act of revenge. He also had loads of dept that he'd taken out while caring for them, he was the closest thing to a father Teamari ever had and she loved him for it. Tenten was about to explain this to the others but the door bell rung, cutting her off.
"I'll get it," she said getting to her feet and making her way into the kitchen to the front door. It was Neji and Hinata and Tenten felt a huge amount of nerves appear out of nowhere. How would she act? Should she kiss him or wait for him to make the first move? It was all so complicated.
"How is she?" Hinata asked, giving Tenten a quick hug as she entered, Neji behind her.
"Still asleep. The others are in the living room," Tenten replied and Hinata walked into living room.
"Morning," Neji greeted, smiling and bending down to give Tenten a light kiss on the check, which made her blush.
"Morning," She replied, looking at her hands instead of Neji.
"You look tired," Neji said, bringing his hand to Tenten faces and making her face him, looking into her eyes
"Well, I didn't get a great sleep," Tenten muttered, feeling her face go red. Why was she so shy right now? It was just Neji, her brother's friend, her best friend's cousin and now her boyfriend. This thought brought a smile to Tenten's face.
"What you smiling about?" Neji asked curiously, gentle running his hand over Tenten's cheek.
"Just thinking how weird it is that we're together," Tenten replied, leaning into Neji's touch. She saw he face look confused, so she continued. "A good weird, like you being Sai's friend and Hinata's cousin, it's just a little bit weird."
"But a good weird," Neji repeated, bending down and capturing Tenten's lips in light kiss.
"Oh come on, I don't want to be walking in seeing that," Sai said as he walked into the room, going over to the fridge to get drinks.
"But it's ok for me to walk in on you and Ino practically doing it on the couch." Tenten replied, leaning her head on Neji's shoulder as he wrapped his arm around her waist.
"That's different," was his only reply before he walked back into the living room. Neji and Tenten followed, still with Neji's arm wrapped around Tenten's waist.
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"How could you kill him?!" Itachi yelled, slamming his hands down on the table in front of Orochimaru.
"Why not?" Orochimaru asked calmly, gazing over the other male with an amused eye.
"I thought you trusted me, so what's was the need?" Itachi asked, trying to clam himself down. He couldn't get angry with Orochimaru that would only make situations worse.
"Well, it was a warning to you and her. I was just showing you what I was capable of. And anyway, why would it bother you if you didn't really care for that woman?" Itachi blinked, stuck. He did care for Temari, he was falling in love with her, but he shouldn't be and Orochimaru wouldn't accept that.
"I don't care for her, I was just curious, I mean now they're going to come at you, strong and hard." That was most likely true. Even though Itachi hadn't spoken to Sai much about what they'll do, he knew that Sai meant business now.
"As will we, now you should be getting to Temari, before she starts getting curious of where you are. We don't want them suspecting you. And have a fun day, because starting tomorrow we're not holding back either. I want to cruse every member of their gang. Make every member suffer until I am completely satisfied. Until I get my hands on him and make him wish he's never been born." Orochimaru sneered.
"And by him, who do mean?" Itachi asked, even though he was very sure of the answer.
"Sai."
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Chapter 22.........Coming Soon.............