11: She Continued On.
∆ (Michael's Room) ∆ (VP: Tenten)
I'm scared; I guess this is how it ends. I never thought it would end like this. I really have now forgotten how I feel. Either I'm too sad to move on or too sad to look back. Either way, it's over. I will probably die, no matter what.
In 10 months I'll be holding a baby child sitting in a hospital and Tsunade and the whole world looking at me like I'm a horrible witch. I don't think I can handle. Maybe they'll kill me before the child is born, then it will save me suffering for no reason.
I should save myself a lot of suffering. "6 hour blind jutsu," I whispered and touched my fingers to my side and I went blind. I smiled now I wouldn't have to see my own suffering, or him every again. I saved myself but there was nothing more I could do.
I wondered if now was the best time to remember the good days of my short life, I'm not even 16; they can't do this to me, help. "Help," I whispered in my weakened form.
I thought about the last few months, they were my happiest for sure. I had Neji to thank for that. I wish I could have seen him one more time before I died. I remember my last words to him.
Flashback
"I need your help, I can't find Tamari and I've scouted the area twice. He got up and activated his Byakugan and searched around, he shook his head.
"She's not here, Tenten." She's lost, great! He put a hand on my shoulder and we went to see Gaara.
"Gaara, we can't find Tamari." I said, taking the blame. He nodded.
"She's not here, they took her."
"Who," Neji asked.
"The Legions, they're the family that we are against, who want to become Kazekage, her being the oldest child and daughter of the Kazekage makes her the one in charge of the country, so whoever marries her will become Kazekage, since she can't take it over. He's been trying to marry her for years; we need to stop before she's married."
"This is serious." Tenten jumped into a tree. "Neji guard Kankuro and Gaara, I'm going after Tamari, that's an order." Neji smirked knowing that he'd be in trouble if he disobeyed, so he obeyed and protected. He was, however; worried. Tenten had been kidnapped, and Tenten had to handle this alone.
Flashback Over
Order was the last word I said to him, I wish it was you. I wish I would have said 'I love you.'
I tried to send a mental message to Neji.
"Neji, Good-bye, I love you."
∆ (Camp) ∆
"Neji, Good-bye, I love you." Neji heard something in his mind, it was Tenten. She needs help, she's going to die. He needed to help her, he was moving as fast as he could, speed wasn't his specialty; well speed filled attacks were but not agility. He was quite slow compared to his fiancée.
'I need to move faster but I can't go faster, I'm sending all my chakra to my feet and moving as fast as I can, I pushing as fast as I can. If I push myself any faster I'll run out of chakra and will be unable to fight.' He stopped when he reached his city and collapsed to his feet. He used his normal speed to run to the building. 'Lee or Gai would be helpful at this moment.'
'I need to get close enough that I can transport to the city; I think this should be good.' He stopped and did some signs and landed himself in the inner city.
∆ (Michael's Room) ∆
Tenten was tied to the bed and not comfortable at all, her hands and feet were tied to the bed with chains and her hands were beginning to bleed, and she was suspended above the actual bed. She knew what would happen when he came in.
The door opened which she could hear but she hoped it wasn't him but he couldn't tell she was blind. "Who are you?" She asked.
"You're blind?" He asked smirking, which she couldn't see.
"Yes, I've been for a while now." She answered smartly.
"So that's why I caught you because you could see me coming up on you, right?" She shook her head.
"I saw you coming; I thought I could make it. I couldn't simply. I mean I did hit all your points' accurately without seeing, didn't I?"
"Yes you did, so your fiancé must be a ninja as well?" She nodded and smiled.
"He and I are the top two ninjas in our ranks. I'm the top female besides my hokage of course, and he's the top male ninja."
"His name?"
"Hyuuga Neji," He gasped and she smiled. "You've heard of him, good." She said.
"I don't care, it's not like he's coming, and you did tell that girl as an order not to send anyone to save you; like anyone will stop us." She nodded sadly wiping the smile of her face.
He took of his big jacket and threw it to the other side of the bed. She heard something hit the wall, she didn't know what it was but when she felt something close to her arm breathing on she scared and struggled but with no avail she couldn't move.
He ran examining her arms and legs, her chest and her face. "You're a pretty girl, you know that? Your eyes tell me a lot about you."
"What do they say?"
"They look like those of a sad puppy dog, caring, caring, gentle, kind; not those traits of a ninja. Those more of a kunoichi, you are one correct?"
"Yes,"
"You're the one who stole the child aren't you?"
"Huh, what child?"
"Two teenagers one a girl who matches your description and the other they found to be Hyuuga Neji stole the child of the Kazekage, which caused the war when he was killed a night later. The person he was with was a girl, one who he described to be very talented, smart, skilled, beautiful and very convincing with her stories. A true kunoichi; it's a shame Konoha will have to kill one of its top kunoichi, huh?" He asked.
"I really don't remember that mission, I was in the hospital for the last few months, and I don't remember where I was." She answered sadly.
"You must have been hurt on the mission and it sent you to the hospital." He said pulling off his shirt and throwing it on the floor.
He took out a kunai and cut the large jacket she was wearing right off of her. She was scared, and uncomfortable. She really wished she couldn't feel anything, hear anything or sense anything. She wished truly to be dead.
∆ (City) ∆
Neji ran through the street into the castle fighting of hundreds of many guards and others from the city fought him but he used the technique, 80 trigrams: 64 palms. This is the hardest technique he had learned with Tenten and he now could use it to defend her.
He ran up the stars fought off more guards and finally all the guards were down, hospitalized, paralyzed, and some died. He saw a large room and hoped that was not where Tenten and burst into the room and he saw a man jump out of the window and run away.
He walked over to a seemingly lifeless figure that he knew as well as he knew himself. He looked away. "Who's here?" Neji was confused, did she not know it was him.
"It's Neji." He announced. She closed her eyes and looked away in shame. He saw her face which tears rolled out of her face silently. He really didn't want to see this site, not now. Maybe in many years after he was married but not now, not on a mission, not with her crying and tied up.
He took a kunai that lie on the floor and cut the roped that held her on the bed. She curled up into a ball and cried. He wanted to look away, and excuse himself but he knew that he couldn't leave her, not for awhile, 'til she was ready.
He didn't know what to do. He was lost as to what to do. What would you have done? Your fiancée was rapped by the evil dictator of Sunagakure. She was tied to a bed and all that she had on her was her undergarments. He suspected that he had just come in time or it could have been worst but from the way Tenten was acting, he thought otherwise.
He grabbed a blanket off the floor and wrapped Tenten in. He had her sit up and he sat next to her on the bed. She lunged at him and he smiled wrapping his arms around the girl. "It's okay Tenten, its okay. You're safe now, no one will hurt you, no one will. It's okay." Neji whispered to her as she tears continually went down her face. She remembered someone else saying something like that to her.
"Neji," Was all she said. It was a statement that made her feel secure. "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault, Tenten. It's not your fault, it's his. These wrong people, he's at least 3 probably four years older than you. He was evil; it's not your fault. You'll be okay, I promise."
She shook her head. "I don't… think I will." He frowned at the girl's sadness. He walked to the dresser and saw a pair of pants and a normal netted ninja shirt and he took off his extra jacket and handed these things to Tenten.
"Are you blind?"
"For 6 hours, yes,"
"How,"
"I wanted to save myself from internal torment; I didn't want to see in Neji. I just couldn't see myself being tortured; it was too much to bear." She said leaning to Neji. He understood it was why he blinded himself, to escape from the pain of seeing the truth with his eyes as well.
"I understand can you put those on please?" He asked so he would be able to easier help Tenten. He felt extremely holding a girl who was practically naked in his arms with only a blanket wrapped around her.
She slipped them on and looked toward the ground and was still sad. She was defiled in her own eyes. She was still pure but defiled none the less. She would have been seen by many as disgraceful, she knew it and she cried more. He sat there on the bed and held his fiancée's body in his arms as she sat on her knees crying in his shoulder.
"I'm disgraceful, aren't I? I'm displeasing and I've been defiled and I'm impure." He started laughing that he tried to stop. She just looked up at him, she knew where he was without her eyes and she looked as though his laughter meant he agreed. She looked down again.
He put his finger under her chin and lifted it up to his level. "Never say that about you again Tenten, I mean it. Or I'll have to hurt you. Promise me that."
"But…" He looked at her very forceful but forgetting she was blind.
"No, I want you to promise me. It happens to kunoichi. Your fine, you were saved and nothing happened, right?" She nodded, which he was extremely happy about. He knew that if she was pregnant or defiled, she'd be killed since she wasn't a licensed Kunoichi yet and they were allowed to if it happened accidentally on a mission. You were married at 16 and most started being a kunoichi so they had support of a husband if they were. It happened many times, to kunoichi that's why they needed the test.
"But…"
"Tenten, you're just a pure and divine as you were when we left for the mission. I promise you that Tsunade won't kill you, neither will the people. I won't let them for one thing. Nothing happens; there is nothing they can accuse you of."
"I just feel so horrible." She said being depressed again.
"I'm sure that it's a horrible feeling to be in that position without any control over your life. I can see how you feel in your eyes, and I can read your senses with my Byakugan. You fear rejection, that you'll be killed, that you aren't acceptable, that you're defiled, impure and disgraceful. But what surprises me is the fact that you're afraid that I'd leave you." She looked down again. He hugged her close to himself.
"I am not up to your standards Neji, I couldn't defend myself, I lost and if it wasn't for you then…" He kissed her and then as he finished he held her.
"I don't care Tenten, I love you. You know what; even if you were pregnant I wouldn't have left you."
"Huh… but," Was all she said.
"I love you Tenten, no matter who breaks you. I'll be here to piece you back together and take care of you. It's my job as your friend and as your future husband. I will never leave you alone especially when you need me. You understand?" She nodded and she was crying but this time he saw that she was happy.
He took his hand and put them on her cheeks and they kissed for a while and she was now breathing hard and he was calmly sitting with his arms crossed and she was resting gently in his chest and thinking about what he had said earlier. It's okay Tenten, its okay. You're safe now, no one will hurt you, no one will. It's okay."
She remembered someone in the past saying that.
Flashback
"I can't believe that this happened!" A young girl around the age of 15 said holding a child said.
"It's going to be over soon." A man said smiling evilly in the background.
"It wasn't my fault it's the mission that I was sent on, it was an ambush that happened. I couldn't defend myself and I was away from my teammates, I was kidnapped and rapped." The girl said scared holding a baby in her arms.
"I don't care, there were a lot of things you shouldn't have done during that mission, you should have brought support but no, you were stupid because it was your kunoichi mission. I'll handle it on my own you thought, that's what you get. That child has to die." The child began to cry.
"No, don't hurt her. She deserves to live."
"If you would have decided to get married you would have been safe, when your 16 and married you could have been a kunoichi and would have been safe but you didn't. The one you loved one except you know, you witch. Bye." He shot the girl and walked off.
The girl screamed and fell to the ground holding the child next to herself. "It's okay heaven's point, its okay. You're safe now, no one will hurt you, no one will. It's okay." The girl walked to her house and crawled bleeding to a scroll that was used for holding kunai and shuriken and wrote on it. "Protect her; her name shall be Heaven's Point."
A man ran up to her and picked the dying girl off the ground and healed her and ran off with the dying girl and went away leaving the baby on the floor with the scroll.
Flashback Over
It was her mother. That's where she got the scroll, her name and her talent. Her pinpoint accuracy was a gift from Heaven and her pinpoint accuracy came from her name and what her mom left. That must have been the man her mom loved who ran off with her to save her.
Neji looked at her smiling face and she was super happy snuggling in his chest. He couldn't believe that she doubt his love of her. Hadn't she done more than that for him? Nothing happened so what could he have against her, all she needed was the security and that's where he came in.
"Don't worry Tenten; I know you'll be okay. You have nothing to fear no matter what." He answered.
He knew know that since she had his support she would continue on with her life, with loving people, without fear, with heart and caring. He would be there for her for the rest of the way. He wouldn't let her give up on her life, her dreams because she couldn't. She had no reason to.
He picked up Tenten and carried her to the nearest hotel and left her in the bed and he sat next to her because she wouldn't let go of him, he smiled with the girl resting on his lap. He was fine with this. He was surprised that she'd be trusting toward guys. From what Hinata and Sakura said about the patients that had been rapped came in they didn't want anyone to touch them, they were lost and hated all people.
Tenten was very affectionate toward him. She was protected and happy with me, she had shown no signs of being afraid. She was totally back to normal and she was just more comfortable with him; if not more than normal than any other day.
The Reasons Why… She Continued On.
1. Tenten needed to be reassured she was okay.
2. It wasn't her fault.
3. She became temporarily blind for 6 hours.
4. She did it to save herself from internal torment.
5. Didn't care about the wrongs done to her; she could be pregnant and he wouldn't leave her.
6. He pieced her back together.
7. He took care of her.
8. He'd never leave her alone again.
9. He was there.
10. His support.
11. She was still very affectionate toward him.
12. She was protected and happy.
13. She had no signs of being afraid.
14. She was back to normal.
15. She was more comfortable with him; if not more than normal.
16. She was okay.
