~*~*~*~*Dance Partners*~*~*~*~
~A NejiTen Fanfic~
Tenten's POV:
I had a hard time standing without clinging to my dance partner, who to my surprise kept me. Just like always. He never dropped me. I was trying to hide my uneasiness from him so he wouldn't have to lift me any higher than he already was no, keeping me up,
Nervously, I kept glancing at Neji, expecting him to say: "Oh hell with this, bye,"
It was very hard to comprehend how nice he was being. Before, he said that he cared what happened to me. Is that also part of this little act he's pulling? It wasn't long ago that he said he regretted meeting me, but around that same time he had told me that he didn't regret saving me . . . I'm so confused.
Neji Hyuuga squinted through the darkness.
"It's started," he murmured.
"What?" I demanded completely terrified.
He gave me a sideways glanced, on eyebrow raised.
"What happened to all your confidence?" He questioned.
I rubbed the back of my neck. Damn, detective-like Hyuuga.
"Just tell me what you meant," I insisted.
Neji rolled his eyes. "Orochimaru is not our main enemy here," he said.
"N-Nani?" I asked. (A/N means what in Japanese)
Neji sighed. "I thought you were smarter than this,"
I slapped him lightly on the arm. "I'm just in shock right now okay!"
Neji was unfazed by my hit but slightly smirked. "I know, I'm just messing with you,"
I sniffed, straightening my back. "Good,"
"What I meant was," Neji explained. "Remember in the alleyway?"
It took me a moment to process then-
"Shit," I muttered. "Raipo, Yopi, and Drazen,"
Neji clicked his tongue. "Exactly, we have them to deal with and . . . someone else."
"Dammit," I growled. "I thought we just had to save our friends from . . . who are we saving them from again?"
Neji looked nowhere in particular while he was in thought. "Kimmimaru, Deidara, Kabuto, a guy with a scythe, Hidan . . ."
So far no names that I recognized-
"And Tayuya." Neji ended.
My eyes grew wide. No way. She was on our competition line.
"You serious?" I asked.
Neji nodded. "Yes. I saw it."
"Dammit," I repeated. "Fuck this makes me mad. Actually it pisses me off and you know what? We are so gonna beat the shit outta him!"
Neji smirked slightly once more. "I suppose you're ready."
"Hell yes," I grumbled, rolling up my sleeve and crackling my knuckles. "Let's do this!"
Neji and I followed the sound of explosions.
They were very loud and booming. Intimidating.
We arrived and faced a blonde with a ponytail. He was smiling at Tsunade.
I looked at my teacher and gasped. He body was covered in blood, she was panting heavily as if she'd run a marathon. Which I would rather do times infinity than get the shit beaten out of me like that. It looked extremely painful and did not help my mood which was already making my blood boil.
"What the hell is your problem?" I demanded. "Why would you hurt someone so much?!"
Deidara smiled. "I see Hyuuga helped you escape Orochimaru. Didn't think it was possible but you proved me wrong."
"Deidara," Neji muttered. "This pisses me off,"
"We're gonna murder you," I added, looking up. "PREPARE YOURSELF!"
Deidara raised an eyebrow. "This should be fun," he smirked. "Give me all you got kids!"
Neji lunged from the left, and I attacked from the right.
"WATCH OUT!" my partner cried as I narrowly dodge and explosive.
Neji also moved just in time from another. Using this, I kneed Deidara in the gut. He reacted quick though, picking me up and throwing me pretty damn far for weighing 120 lbs.
Deidara was about to chuck a bomb at me but Neji impaired his sight by shoving him to the ground, also ruining his aim.
I breathed heavily as Deidara was again maneuvered to attack me.
"I've had enough of this violence," I muttered.
Deidara raised the bomb.
I drew a shaky breath. "FUCK NO!"
Gathering my strength I leaped forward and attacked!
Deidara smiled, moving slightly to the side, he aimed for Tsunade.
"Watch out!" Neji and I cried out in unison towards the beaten instructor.
The bomb barely missed Tsunade as she ducked.
The women was pissed. The raised her gun and shot five bullets towards the blonde, who dodged them.
The three of us, backed into each other, facing Deidara.
"This is bad," Neji hissed.
"We can't attack from anywhere to the side of him," I stated.
"Otherwise he'll bomb us," Tsunade finished.
"There's no possible way to attack from below," Neji added.
I narrowed my eyes. "Because this stone is too thick."
Sweat beaded down my forehead.
"We'll have to find a way to attack from above," I whispered.
"Yes," Neji breathed.
"How though?" I questioned as out suitor raised another bomb, smiling insanely.
"We're glued into an impossible situation," Tsunade stated. "And we're supposed to have out numbered him."
"The first one who makes the move will definitely have the disadvantage," Neji advised.
"And he knows that," I put it.
"So what do we do?" Tsunade asked both of us.
Suddenly something hit me. My eyes widened.
"Guys!" I hissed. "I know what to do."
"What?" Neji asked impatiently.
I smirked. "We dance,"
It took them a moment to process this but finally my two companions and Dance Partners understood.
"Let's do this," I muttered, starting a pika turn. Then I ran forward.
Deidara chucked a bomb at me but I gracefully leaped over the bomb, Neji catching me. Instead of pushing me into my splits though, he tossed me at Deidara, I spun three times in the air, like in ice skating a triple axel, then kicked Deidara in the face.
He stumbled back into Tsunade, who did two bottmas then a side one went to Deidara's ribs.
"What the hell," He spat.
Neji then spun into a twelve turns pirouette turn, kicking Deidara numerous times with his knees.
Deidara stumbled into a wall. His eyes squeezed shut, tried to open.
Tsunade never gave him the chance before she shot him in the leg.
The blonde moaned in pain, rolling over against the wall.
"Uncle,"
"Good," I breathed. "That felt good."
"Let's go," Neji rubbed his nose.
Tsunade and I followed him out.
"One down, a lot more to go,"
"Hina-chan!" Naruto cried in the distance.
"DON'T TOUCH HER! I'LL KILL YOU YA BASTARD!"
I gasped Hinata.
When we arrived we saw Naruto clinging to what-Neji-told-me Hidan's leg.
"Shut up you damn brat!" Hidan hissed.
Just then Hinata bit him.
Hidan dropped her. Naruto caught the timid girl, holding her very close to him, which made her blush a deep red..
I narrowed my eyes. Something was weird in this situation.
Hidan didn't have one scratch and it seemed it wasn't giving his all into the fight, more like he was doing it for pleasure. The more he yelled the more I became concerned about the atmosphere of the battle and how different it was from when we were battling Deidara.
I raised an arm into a fighting stance but the aura of this battle was scaring me. Hidan seemed good and it looked hard to hurt him.
"Neji," I murmured. "What do we do?"
He shook his head. "I don't know,"
Then suddenly . . .
"YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET EVER PISSING OFF NARUTO UZUMAKI YOU SON OF A BITCH, TERRIBLE EXCUSE OF A MAN THAT DARED TOUCH HINATA!"
Naruto lunged at his opponent, viciously. He punched several times, then took Hidan's head and ran it into a wall . . . completely knocking him out.
I was speechless. "Well that was easy,"
"Not hardly," Neji muttered.
"Heh?" I asked in question.
"Never mind, let's go." Neji said.
Naruto picked up the blushing Hinata from the floor and demanded, "Are you okay?!"
"I-I'm fine, N-Naruto-kun,"
"Good," Naruto gave her a thumbs up. Then set her down gently and followed the rest of us out into the darkness.
The next scene we saw was not very pretty.
Suigetsu was standing in front of Karin protectively, his blade was on the other side of the room, and the dude with the scythe was advancing on them.
"WATCH OUT!" We cried, running towards them.
I chassed then leaped, kicking the guy with a scythe into a wall, also knocking him out.
But I was more concerned about Karin than how totally awesome my kick was.
"Karin," I whispered. "What happened?"
Suigetsu looked down guiltily. "She was cut in the leg with the scythe."
My eyes widened.
Before I could respond though, Tsunade pushed past me.
"Here," the big chested women said, pulling something from out of her pocket.
It was a mix of herbs. They were all different kinds of leaves.
Tsunade plucked one of its stem and crushed it between her fingers, then slowly spread it across the gash on Karin's leg. In a couple of minutes the bleeding stopped, and Karin came around.
"I always keep it safe just in case one of my dancers gets hurt on a competition and we need a quick fix," Tsunade explained, wiping her hands of the chlorophyll.
I nodded. "Sweet. Now let's go on ahead. We need to kick some more Kohona Gang ass."
We stopped abruptly and faced the traitor dancer. Tayuya.
Shikamaru and Ino were both fighting her and looked pretty even.
They had both obviously from watching them, came up with the same strategy I did. Using dance moves to help them. Of course Ino was the one dancing but Shikamaru acted as the base. Catching and tossing her.
I wondered what Temari would think.
Ino was suddenly thrown onto the ground. It looked pretty painful.
Shikamaru immediately retrieved her.
"God watch out troublesome women," he muttered angry but concerned.
"Tayuya!" I called. "What the hell?!"
Tayuya shrugged. "It's not like I want to. I practically bound to this fate."
I rolled my eyes. "Stop being such a Neji,"
Ignoring Neji's evil glare I continued. "You can do whatever you want,"
Tayuya chuckled. "I want to do this. I get food,"
My eye twitched. "God damn women! Just live with me and eat food,"
Tayuya sighed. "Hell no,"
"Hmm, we've got no choice then." I said.
"Let's get em,"
I collapsed once. Our dance method was not going to work on Tayuya. She knew every move we were making. All the right spins to pirouette turns because of our preparations and how fast we were gonna leap. . . I could on.
"Tenten," Neji muttered.
"What?" I asked in frustration.
"This is bad,"
"No shit Sherlock."
Neji sighed at my stubbornness.
"So what do we do?" I finally inquired.
Neji smirked. "What we didn't do with Deidara. Fight for real. That's Shikamaru and Ino hadn't won because Tayuya was able to catch on,"
I nodded. "Alright,"
"Be unexpected," Tsunade added.
"Don't let them know until you attack," Karin put in.
"Never let em no it's coming," Naruto joined.
"U-Unpredictable,"
"Fabulously different,"
"In a cool fish-like way,"
"Being non-troublesome,"
"In a totally awesome way," I put on top.
We all attacked from different places, scaring Tayuya, who tried hitting us with her little flute.
"Nice try," I muttered, swiveling around so it looked like I was attacking from the right, but when I landed on the right of Tayuya, bouncing of the ground, landing on the right, and punching Tayuya square in the jaw. Then I panted and let them take care of the rest.
I scoffed. "Easy."
I heard growling sounds.
Akamaru.
Kiba cracked his knuckles, along side with Temari. They glared at their opponent. Obviously clueless about what to do.
Kimmimaru, rose a bone, preparing an attack, but Temari chucked Kiba forward with all her might.
Kiba, holding Akamaru, then threw his dog on Kimmimaru.
"Get 'em boy!" He cried.
Akamaru lunged forward biting the white haired man with all his might.
Kimmimaru effortlessly threw Akamaru aside, and landed a blow on Kiba with his fricken stupid bone.
Temari caught Akamaru, before he hit the will.
"DAMMIT DOG BOY!" She cried. "I told you you shouldn't have taken Akamaru with,"
The dog, nonetheless growled intensely at his opponent with the boy.
"Dance?" I asked Neji.
He nodded. "Yes,"
"Well bone-dude," I announced. "Let's dance!"
I chassed and did one spin, landing with my left and pushing off the same foot, lunging towards the man with the bone, who hit me, but I ignored the pain and shoved him into the wall while Ino delivered a final blow to the chest with one high kick.
"One left," Neji muttered.
We arrived at a very bloody scene.
Both Sasuke and Sakura were covered in the red liquid.
Sakura was panting hard and it took me a moment to realize they were holding hands.
Sasuke was slightly in front of her, making sure a blow wouldn't hit her when Kabuto decided to attack again.
The son of a bitch.
Sakura's right hand was shaking. "Sasuke," She murmured. "Let's get him hard,"
"Are you sure you can?" Sasuke asked, staring at her condition while Kabuto waited for them to attack.
"Yes, I believe I can. I leap you catch me and throw me," Sakura explained.
Sasuke nodded.
Sakura ran with all her might, did a chasse and leapt into the air. Sasuke caught her, using he leap for momentum and chucked her at the clueless Kabuto, who stumbled backwards.
Then we all delivered the final blow to his head, giving him a concussion.
"Dry up and die," I muttered.
Tsunade fixed Sasuke's and Sakura's cuts with some of her herbs.
That's when I realized we all looks like shit . . . especially me.
We were all now leaning against a wall trying to figure out what to do.
"Hello," a voice rumbled.
I cowered in terror. It was him. Raipo.
"Tenten, long time no see," he said.
I shook with fear. "How do you know my name, or who I am?" I demanded.
He chuckled. "Don't think I didn't see that day in the alley,"
Neji's eyes were squeezed shut in frustration. "I told you they had to of seen you." He grumbled.
"And Hyuuga," Raipo turned to him. "Why aren't you dead yet?"
"I don't know," Neji replied with his smart mouth. "Why aren't I?"
I sweat dropped. "Nice alliance you got there,"
Suddenly I was grabbed from behind. A familiar voice spoke, "Kill yourself or I kill her,"
It was Drazen.
Raipo laughed. "Brother don't be so rash. I wanted to have fun with th-"
"NO YOU WON'T!" I screamed, remembering the terror that Orochimaru brought to. "I already dealt with Orochimaru's shit and-"
Raipo rolled his eyes. "That's not what I meant." he explained. "I was actually talking about fighting,"
"Oh," I shrugged under Drazen's grip. "That's fine,"
Raipo raised an eyebrow. "Is she for real?"
"Cut the chit-chat and let her go," Sakura spoke up boldly.
Yopi appeared behind the corner and snatched Sakura. "What chit-chat?" He muttered in her ear.
Sasuke and Neji now were both on edge, and pissed.
"Oi!" Yopi called. "Jugonna! Whattya want us to do with the rest?"
A man with silver hair stepped out from with darkness and looked up. "Kill them all,"
I narrowed my eyes. He was so pissing me off.
"Hyuuga," Jugonna stated. "You make me mad. It's a shame your father died when he didn't have to,"
Neji was shaking with anger.
"I guess," Jugonna continued. "It's just destiny,"
"What the hell," Neji lectured. "Do you know about destiny,"
"Enough,"
"No you don't," Neji's fist shook. "YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY!"
Jugonna smirked. "Such strong words for a fourteen year old,"
Neji stared blankly. "I may be fourteen . . . but, I have seen a lot with these eyes,"
"Of course," Jugonna complied. "I still want you dead,"
"Guys," I muttered. "What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know," Temari remarked.
"But this destiny talk," Said Sasuke.
"Pisses me off," Naruto continued.
"And makes you," Ino added.
"Want to hurt someone," Sakura put in.
"And make sure," Kiba said,
"Th-They don't,"
"Get out," Shikamaru said.
"Alive," Suigetsu and Karin joined in unison.
"Then we'll take on all of them," Tsunade announced. "IN THE NAME OF KONOHA DANCE STUDIO!"
Kiba coughed. "And their friends."
"And their friends,"
So it began . . .
I ran directly into Sakura, knocking her to the ground while we both took on Raipo, but he kept hitting us hard.
My body was dripping with blood as I tried to retaliate but it wasn't working.
In fact it wasn't long until we were all laying motionlessly on the floor. Raipo, Yopi, Drazen, and Jugonna staring at us.
I was shaking on the floor. These guys pissed me off, but there was nothing I could do. They were just too strong. A girl, especially one my age, could not take on a full grown man. It just wasn't possible. And now with these four guys keeping us captive . . . we had no more options.
Use your instinct girl!
What instinct?
C'mon! Come up with something!
Like what?!
DO IT NOW!
I thought hard, but there was nothing left to do. . . attack and give it all my might.
I lunged foreward off the floor and raised my fist behind my head, couragously, I punched but Raipo skillfully dodged it, but that was just a distraction for my real punch which I sent right into the left side of his ribs.
Neji joined from behind me and took a leap at Jugonna while everyone took on the others.
We were tired, hungry, cold, in pain. But we still fought for our lives like we were in a dance.
Neji and I in fact mostly fought together. I actually fought with this bastard who saved my life numerous times. We were a really good team. Dance partners once, partners forever.
Still though, even though we out numbered them, it still wasn't an even match. An all out fight though, filled with terror.
I'd never felt so much adrenaline in my life. Never felt so alive. So scared. It felt kinda good to just to let it all out.
After taking another punch from Raipo, Neji caught me. He put himself beside me as we fought this fight. Just like always.
"What do we do?" I asked, dodging a punch from behind me, coming from Yopi.
Neji shrugged. "We really shouldn't have brought any of the girls," he said, looking icily towards the men beating on Sakura, Ino, Temari, and Karin.
"I know," I answered, ducking a kick from Raipo.
"That includes you too," Neji added, pushing me out of the way of another punch.
"Yeah well I really didn't have a choice," I remarked, jumping over a foot that almost kicked my legs.
"Still," Neji insisted, shoving Drazen in a wall.
I panted, Neji's back touching mine.
"Is this how it's going to end?" I asked no one in particular.
"Shut up and stop thinking so negatively," Neji ordered, kicking some person that I couldn't see.
There's my nice stoic bastard that I love but this was getting us nowhere.
Suddenly out of nowhere, Jugonna grabbed my by the hair.
I shrieked loudly and didn't even notice the word, "NEJI!" came out of my mouth . . . so automatic.
He turned and was about to retaliate when Jugonna put a gun to my head.
"I'll end this one quickly,"
BAM! A shot fired.
Is this how it ends . . .?
There was tons of screaming. I waited for the light that never came and wondered why I wasn't feeling dead.
Finally when the smoke that clouded my vision disappeared, I saw Jugonna, shot right in the head.
I searched frantically around and finally saw it. The rest of our dance team all lined up and they looked pissed. The Moonstones cracked their knuckles.
"Looks like you've been messing with our teammates," One of my friends muttered.
"We can't have that," Another added.
I smirked. Raipo, Drazen and Yopi were sooo dead.
:P
"FUCK YOU!"
Then they charged with all their might towards our enemies and completely annihilated them. Raipo and the rest were so stunned at the moment of the charging girls he was taken direct hits out of surprise . . . then the rest of us joined in.
It was as if all Hell broke loose and we changed from the innocent angels to the devils.
"Haha," I muttered wiping my hands. "Suckers,"
A/N DAMN! That was a long chapter over 4,000 words without the authors note. BAM totally awesome. Did you guys like that part? I hope so. There aren't many chapters left and yes there is a good ending. Hehe so a couple more. I was in a writers mood today and wrote a lot. Two and a half more hours of work today of writing, good thing I got some exercise by walking around a three mile lake but my dad seriously just walked in fifteen minutes ago asking if I wanted to go running and I was like "HELL NO!" Okay no I said, "No thanks," but yes. Quite awesome chapter eh? I updated in a day. HURRAY! So I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to vote if you haven't:) Pwease review . . . I'd give you a cookie if I had one!
