◊ (20: She was happy) ◊
∆ (Hyuuga Estate) ∆ - VP: Neji
I felt the small tiny body beside me moving. It was about to stop me but as nature would have it, I caught it's hand. "Ah!" I clamped my hand on the person in questions mouth and opened my eye, to find a quite annoyed Tenten waking up.
"Morning Tenten," I said.
She sighed and I took my hand off her mouth and sat up, leaning against the bedpost and pulling Tenten up next to me. "Neji, of course."
"You expected someone else?" I asked just to get on her nerves, which was to be honest quite easy.
"No, but it's still unusual for me to wake up in your arms but it is comfortable. When I sleep with you there the best nights I've had." She said smiling. I smiled back.
"Whatever makes you happy Tenten," I said relaxing.
"Do you know what today is?" I shook my head.
"No, I don't but I know you're going to tell me, so go ahead."
"It's Kaydin's birthday." She said.
"This interests me why?" I asked. She smacked me hard on the head.
"He's our friend and he's in the hospital, that's why." She said pouting.
"What do want me to do about this Tenten?" I asked.
"I want to stay here for a while, until, well, until it's later." She said.
"Then let's go to sleep."
"When did you start being lazy?" She asked.
"Right after I realized that transporting a lot of people takes a lot of chakra and to regain said lost chakra you have to be lazy, or sleep."
"Alright, I guess you saved me, you can sleep." She said kissing my forehead. "I plan to find Hinata."
"You're on the wrong side of the complex." I told her with my eyes closed.
"Really?" She asked.
"Yes, this is the male branch house housing building; you would have to walk to the female main housing building." I said.
"Wait a second, what am I doing in the male branch house building Neji?" Tenten asked.
"You were sleeping here with me, now go find Hinata and what not, I'm tired." I said trying to sleep.
"Nope, you need to help me find her. I want to make sure she's alright." Tenten said pouting.
"I told you where to go." I responded.
"Hyuuga Neji, I don't live here and I could get loss. You're going to help me." I sighed; she was extremely full of energy. I guess she did sleep well. Tenten pulled me out of the bed and I stumbled to my feet as she pulled me out the door.
"Hello Neji, Hello Tenten, where are you going this morning?" Lord Hiashi asked.
"I have to find Hinata." Tenten yelled. I sighed, I grabbed Tenten's arm back and planted my feet causing her to fling back toward me. I side stepped causing her to halt.
"Morning Lord Hiashi, how are you doing this morning?" I asked.
"I'm doing fine." I replied. "Tenten?" I asked.
"Yeah, Neji and I had the best night ever." I smacked myself on the inside, not a good move Tenten. I sighed. "Hey it's Hinata." Tenten said trying to pull me off.
"Neji…" He said suspicious.
"Hiashi-san, have you seen Hinata?" Tenten asked.
"I'm sure I have not but I need to find Neji not Hinata and seeing as they are opposite directions from another I wouldn't expect to see her." Tenten sighed. "What do you need with my daughter?" He asked.
"I need to talk to her about our plans for Kaydin's birthday." Tenten said sadly.
"Ah, well then you and Neji would not be available for a mission in the next few days?"
"I guess." I said. "Is this an official mission?" I asked.
"Yes, Tsunade needs you two to locate two people in the Rain Village."
"Really, names?" Tenten asked.
"I don't have that information, but I was to ask you two to handle this first before anyone else." Hiashi said.
"So it's just a simple retrieval mission?" Tenten asked leaning against the wall.
"No, you are supposed to bring them back."
"Yeah, that's generally what retrieval means." Tenten said.
"Tenten, be polite." I said sighing.
"Oh, sorry Lord Hiashi, I'm just bored and I feel like training." Training, great. I want to sleep and she can't even sit still for a moment. I should have just told her to knock on every door nearby.
"Then I recommend that you and I have a training session while Neji sleeps. He seems quite bent on sleeping while you seem to want to work off your new found energy."
"Can I?" Tenten begged.
"Knock yourself out, just be careful." I said.
"Who were you talking about?" Hiashi asked.
"Either one, Tenten's ability if using it at full strength is extremely dangerous and seeing as she immune to the Jyuuken and she knows the Byakugan's every weakness, as well as her style is completely opposite of ours, it is more dangerous to her."
"Then I should be more worried about myself, then her." Hiashi said.
"Probably," I said. "If she goes full force, and depending on how much of her supplies she has on her, how she feels and how much of her chakra she has recovered since yesterday."
"Well then of course we well make sure she has everything she needs, I would like to see her abilities for myself. I expect you to come for a match of sorts at around noon today after she and you have collected everything you need."
"Alright," I said.
"Good, then see you at noon." He said. Tenten smiled.
"I get to go against the head Hyuuga, Neji. That means that I'm really good doesn't it?" She asked.
"No one ever said you weren't, but I would suggest that you don't take to the same exact strategy you use on me, because I made a lot of my moves up. He uses traditional style, much as some of Hinata's are. It's different, protect yourself." She smiled and nodded.
"I'm hungry, aren't you?" She asked.
"Whatever, food is good for humans no matter if they're hungry or not." I said.
"Good, then what do you want?" She asked.
"Breakfast is already been served." She was confused; I sighed and escorted her to the kitchen. I was surprised that my Byakugan could map out everything for me, so much so that I couldn't be lost.
"Neji-nii-san?" I turned around in the kitchen to see Hinata walking in.
"It's Hinata." Tenten said. I just nodded and watched as Tenten ran to Hinata and started talking. Tenten came back in a depressed mode. "Kaydin's not doing well; we can't do anything for him for his birthday."
"That's not good at all." I said.
"I know, it's depressing being in a hospital all the time. Even if you're a med Nin, right Hinata?" Tenten asked.
"Hai, so what are your plans for today then?"
"I need to buy some summoning scrolls, check my chakra levels, sleep, train with Neji, and then I get to have a match against your dad." She listed.
"Ah… my dad?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah, you know Lord Hiashi, your dad. Him." Tenten said. I needed to really smack her to help her be aware of what she was saying.
"Whatever for Tenten?"
"Because I feel like training but Neji wants to sleep," She stuck her tongue out at me.
"Remind me next time I save you to keep you under the influence of chakra for a long time." I replied.
"That isn't nice Neji," Tenten said pouting.
"Can you not see that yesterday's events took a lot of Neji's chakra reserves Tenten, it's best if he sleep so that he maintains healthy for whatever else you two plan to do." Tenten sighed.
"I guess but that's not exciting." Tenten said.
"Sleeping isn't fun Tenten, but as human we do need to." I said.
"Fine, you sleep while I prepare for today's events. Just make sure you show up for the match at noon, you should come too Hinata." She nodded.
"I'm going to bed Tenten. Bye Tenten, Bye Hinata." Hinata nodded and Tenten pouted. "Stop pouting Tenten, I'm tired." I said. I kissed her cheek and returned to bed.
¤ (11: 40) ¤
"Neji!" Tenten yelled jumping on the bed. I sighed. It's time to get up, can't she ever let me rest. Remind me to get her back for this one day.
"Yeah Tenten?" I asked.
"You need to get up."
"Out of the room,"
"Whatever for,"
"Because I need to change, and I'd prefer you out of the room while I'm doing that." I said trying to politely kick her out of my room to change.
"Fine." I sighed and let her pout this time. She'd get over in with the way she's acting today. I changed my clothes and walked out of my bedroom.
"Okay, ready?" She asked.
"Patience Tenten, Patience." She pouted.
"What am I waiting for?"
"I have no clue but you're in a hurry to wait for an even that will happen when it happens, so take your time." I said.
"Fine," She said. I wrapped my arm around her and I escorted her to the practice field. "This is an arena Neji, not a field." She said.
"We call it a field, you can call it what you want. Take a look at your surroundings, it's no advantage since Lord Hiashi has seen and measured every inch of it since he was 3 himself."
"Did you train here?" I nodded. "So this is like a place where all the Hyuugas Train." I nodded. She smiled and looked around. There weren't many trees; it was like the arena we used during the second stage of the Chuunin exams, where I fought Naruto.
"I haven't met a lot of Hyuugas, I think I'm going to through you a birthday party."
"That made no sense." I said.
"No it does, I want to meet all the Hyuugas and I'm sure all of them will be glad to come to your party." I sighed. Tenten your one crazy girl. "Have you ever had a birthday party?"
"We don't throw parties, we have celebrations every 10 some years or so, when an heir to the clan is born, and on their major birthdays."
"Boring, Hyuugas need to be more fun loving. You guys are too serious." She took my hands and danced around crazily while holding on to my arms. Does she know she should be preparing for her match?
"A hem," A voice called.
"It's Lord Hiashi, hi." Tenten said. Someone stop her now.
"Tenten, be polite." I said sighing.
"I said Lord…" She defended herself.
"Hello Tenten, Neji, Neji will you take a seat up there." I nodded and went in the upper decks of the stadium to watch.
"Hey Neji," Tenten said waving. I sighed and waved back. Someone, save me.
"Tenten, do you have everything you need? And are you prepared?" He asked.
"Yes, I am." Now she's polite!
"Very well, let's begin." Tenten nodded. She flipped back a few steps.
Tenten analyzed Hiashi's movements as he dashed toward me, which was the same level and speed as me, but an unusual pose. He planned to catch her within the confines of the field of the 8 trigrams. I was about to warn her but stopped myself knowing that this was like the exams. She could handle it.
"Head on, how different." Tenten said. She jumped up straight up into the air. Tenten, you can't avoid the 8 trigrams like that.
Tenten stopped midair and dropped to the ground. "What are you doing now, young one." She smirked and pulled out a scroll. It was a tiny small one, she wouldn't plan on using that. He told her not to hold back, I didn't think she'd go that far though.
She bit her thumb and rubbed her thumb across the scroll and a small dart appeared in her hand as she dropped the scroll. She did some hand signs. "Perfection Divination," She called. Hiashi jumped up and the dart hit the byakugan's weak point. It was perfect. His Byakugan was disrupted and it returned his eyesight to normal.
"8 trigrams, 128 strikes." He said. Tenten smiled and knew what to expect. She had sometime in the past been in my body, she memorized the basics of it, and matched her weaponry to hit those points, she knew where he'd target. He moved extremely fast and jumped across the field at her but she didn't move. He kept hitting all her chakra points until she was pushed to the ground, and that should have been it, if it was anyone else. But this is Tenten we're talking about.
She pulled out 20 kunai and 30 shuriken and smiled. She tossed them up equaling distributing them around her body, it was as if… she was attacking my kaiten. No, she was recreating it from watching me do it, this was impressive. Tenten learned a few new tricks from me.
"Is she alright?" Hinata asked sitting next to me.
"Tenten, she's more than fine. If she's on guard then no chakra can infiltrate her body, but once she's relaxed she's done for but Tenten is always on guard unless she's asleep." I explained.
"Isn't that the reverse effect of your kaiten?" She asked.
"Yeah, she learned how to reverse it back on me." I said.
"So while it takes a month for you to master a new skill, in minutes she can alter any skill, to work for her. It's like she's…"
"Perfect?" I asked.
"Exactly, Tenten learned from watching me. She can take down any Hyuuga in minutes, it's been 2, she should be able to finish up in 3 more." Hinata was surprised.
Tenten redirected her body where every kunai and shuriken was, she spun around and kicked the kunai and shuriken around and hit the major tenketsu points. She fell to the ground and was about to cough up blood. It was over. 3 minutes, exact.
"I hail to your superior ability young one, you are the better warrior." Tenten smiled and removed her kunai and shuriken and the dart.
"No, I just know your every move. It's very similar to Neji's movements except different in that yours are, like one swift movement, a single transaction which Neji allows himself to recover between transactions before using more chakra. It's where you're most vulnerable."
"Your analytical skills are impressive, did you figure the blind spot, or did he tell you." She smiled and looked up at the sky.
"Birds,"
"What about them?" He asked.
"Neji like birds, they remind him of himself. He counts them every morning before practice. I take note of where birds are throughout a 50 meter radius and Neji locates them but he always misses one, it's located at 180 N around and 110 up." She said.
"So by watching Neji count birds you discovered his weakness?" He asked.
"Yes, it bothered Neji that there were always 8 birds, he could only see 7." She answered him.
"But how did you know the tenketsu points? They are visible only to our eyes." He said.
"You get hit in the same points by Neji every day and you can figure out anyone's, especially how equally formulated your body is to Neji's."
"What?"
"I inferred that because I know where Neji's tenketsu are, because your are an identical copy of what Neji's father would be the chance was 50 that their placement was the same, but the arrangement of tenketsu in all humans only is differential by .5." She informed him.
"Amazing, simply amazing," He said. I jumped down beside Neji.
"How'd I do?" She asked.
"Beyond Perfect Tenten, I didn't know you knew how to do any of that." She stuck out her tongue.
"I don't share my main ways to defeat you with you. Duh." She said pushing me.
"Whatever, Hinata, where are you?" I asked being too lazy to activate my Byakugan to find my own cousin. It could also be considered treason to use it against another Hyuuga of higher rank within our clan.
"I'm here brother," She said walking down the stairs. "Tenten, it was amazing to see your match with father. I was glad I witnessed it." Hinata said.
"Thanks but I think that I could have done better if I didn't absorb so… much chakra." Tenten collapsed and I caught her.
"Tenten?" Hinata asked scared.
"This isn't good; she's been immune to chakra blows for a few years now."
"Or you just haven't put enough in them to do damage." Hiashi said.
I smacked myself on the inside; I never have gone against her full force like this. She couldn't take all those blows, so she isn't as immune as I thought. "Hello?" Tenten asked.
"Tenten are you alright?" I asked. She nodded and I helped her sit up.
"I actually absorbed the chakra, it's amazing."
"What?"
"When you fight me, I don't usually use scrolls because I know you're fighting me using exporting chakra so I use my chakra to stop yours but to be able to run my strategy I had to take the blows which was surprisingly harsh on my body." She said.
"I haven't gone easy on you, have I?" I asked.
"Nope, I wouldn't let you. You always said that we can't become stronger if we aren't serious, we always went at each other with 100, except me because a lot of the stuff it would take to take you down in allotted time would cost a lot of money so I just take the basics. I actually made a few mistakes myself."
"What?" I asked.
"In the rotation I forgot that he sealed my tenketsu stopping me from using chakra to send out the kunai and shuriken. Check my feet." I looked at her feet and there were shuriken cuts up her leg. "Good thing they weren't poisoned or anything."
I sighed, "Tenten." I looked at her.
"You mind unsealing my tenketsu so I can send out all this excess chakra?" She asked smiling. I laid her flat on the ground and told everyone to back off. I assumed the position. She closed her eyes, "8 trigrams, 128 strikes." I carefully moved to each of her tenketsu as she lay on the ground and absorbed the chakra in each of those points quickly and as painfully but it was extremely painful and she'd be hurt for a while.
"May I talk to her alone?" Hiashi asked.
"She's asleep." I said. He blinked and looked at her. I picked up her limp body and absorbed a lot of excess chakra. "I'll make sure she gets the message you want to talk to her later." I said carrying her off.
"Neji," He called.
"Yes?"
"She is exactly the kind of wife you need, just as talented and genius as you are."
"Yeah, I know she is."
"You are just as good as your father at picking strong talented women who will do well to the family."
"What happened to my mother?"
"She's dead."
"How?" I asked.
"She like the one you hold in your arms saved him one too many times, and her life was the cost of him."
"I don't remember her, no where in my Byakugan memories or even distant memories Tenten recaptured are they there."
"Is she able to see the tenketsu because she has seen through your brain these images?"
"I don't think so, none of the things in my memory I can hold on to are like that, I think as she said was from memorizing my hits."
"Nevertheless, I have only been beaten 3 xs since I became the head here."
"Who?" I asked.
"Her, your father, and you," He said walking off. "It wasn't amazing that she won, it was expected but impressive none the less. She has no worries of not being worthy of the clan. She has saved them, can defeat them, and considers herself one of them. I have no problem with you marrying her."
"Was that what this was about?" I asked.
"Not exactly, I wanted to see how strong she really is and in the process she proved herself." He said. "Your father would be extremely proud of you."
"Thank you, Uncle." I said smiling.
"Take care of her for she would do the same for you." He said.
"Trust me, I will." I said carrying away Tenten to the room that she is being given to sleep in.
I walked into her room and laid her down. I sat next to her and thought about what he was saying. My mom died saving my father, so I would have been alive, I should be able to remember her.
"I know her." Tenten said. "Your mom, I saw her. Not only in your memory but in a photo I was given of my mom at your mom's wedding, it looked like."
"How do you know?"
"Because she was the only women who I've ever seen with a Hyuuga, the man, was your father, he wore his headband where yours is, to cover the seal. I know it's her because she had the same smile."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"When you smile you relax your muscles, sigh and smile after tilting the head. I could see that pose; I knew it had been so familiar. I'll show you sometime." I kissed her head. "All Hyuuga eyes aren't the same Neji, think about that."
"Thanks." Tenten and my family have had a connection before Tenten was with me; I wonder if that's what Hiashi had to tell her, something about her mother and mine. Well I'm sure Tenten will share whatever it is with me. I need to see if I have memories of my mom.
I couldn't remember her, no matter how hard I tried. I guess it was meant for me to remember. I guess this would become something I needed her to show me. I was fine with relying on her. I mean she's my fiancée, she's always been there for me, she has protected me and she cares about me, just as I care about her. Why should I rely on her for this? In all honestly, I'm able to remember what I do because of her and I'm alive because of her. I owe her my life, and this made it fine.
After a few hours, Tenten began to store. I expected her to freak out again but she didn't. She smiled and curled up in my arms. "I don't remember your mom either."
"I wouldn't expect you too Tenten." I said.
"I guess you're right it's not like I have the Byakugan to memorize every face I met when I was less then a year old."
"Explain please," She nodded.
"In September of the year 1729 your parents got married which is 10 months before you were born, which was July 3rd of the following year. My mom was a maid of honor at your mom's wedding, and my mom was pregnant with me, to be exact 3 month."
"So our parents were friends?"
"I guess, I'm not exactly sure on their relationship. I have some questions for your uncle about my mom too. The Hoshi Clan is Social Clan of Konoha. They are very famous for coming up with a lot of very well rounded Kunoichi. The kunoichi they train are very keen in analyzing everything about a person, and… surprisingly enough, many of the women married into the Hyuuga Clan were from the Hoshi Clan a few centuries ago."
"But there are no members here of the Hoshi Clan," I told her.
"Not here, they're native home is in Rain. My grandparents moved her and my aunt moved back to rain but my grandmother died long ago from records of my family and my mom stayed. My mom is the older sister of the head of the Hoshi Clan in the Rain Village."
"So technically you should be the heir there, right?" I nodded.
"Yeah, but that doesn't matter to me in the least. I know I'm stronger then them, so it doesn't matter. I'd like to meet them though. I figure my mom would have gone there, to be protected."
"Ah, what else did you realize?" He asked.
"Members of the Hoshi Clan have trained themselves to be able to memorize anything they look at and write it again. Photographic Memory. I should be able to draw a picture of your mom. If the Hoshi Clan actually had a kekkei genkai of her own. Every Clan has a special trait or ability unique to them."
"It's true, especially high ranking ones do have them."
"The Hoshi had the ability to memorize anything they see. I saw your tenketsu when I was in your body for that time, and I was able to remember where they were, and map them out and alter the differential percentage to match your uncle, so I knew where to strike." I said.
"That's amazing Tenten, so that's why the Hoshi Clan was taught to use weapons because they could see a basic layout and use analytical skills to predict where the tenketsu were attack them. This is probably why they work best with the Hyuuga Clan."
"Exactly, that's why we were put on a team."
"Huh, Gai-sensei when he picked out a team surprisingly knew what he was doing, he took someone who he could personally train himself and two people who have traits that best compliment the other, so they could train themselves. It was his plan all along." What Tenten discovered was a lot of amazing facts. She was happy about it.
We lied there for a while but Hinata ran into the room. I smacked myself for once again, not locking the door. I should remember that. "Tenten, Neji, Kaydin is dying." Tenten was scared. I know that. I sat up and Tenten and I walked to the hospital. I wanted to talk to Kaydin before the others came. Hinata ran off to find the others, she had to talk to them.
The Reason Why… She was Happy.
she slept comfortably in his arms it was the best nights she's had it's Kaydin's Birthday get official mission she's bored and feel's like training Match with Lord Hyuuga, Hiashi Kaydin's not doing well there was no party compliments from Lord Hiashi She defeated Lord Hiashi she should be heir to the Hoshi Clan she had a kekkei genkai of sorts Gai had meant to pair Neji and up this was because they could train themselves compliment each other's abilities Kaydin's dying