A/N: Okay guys sorry for the delay. My thumb is feeling a whole lot better thanks to icing it for like three days in a row. Lol. Anyways today's Memorial Day so no school and no dance HURRAY! Chapter writing time. I just wanted to let you guys know that this "Jail scene" is not really part of the story line. It's more like a filler because there were people who wanted me to write more chapters after the climax before the end and so that's what this is. If you've already read the beginning skip to where I marked the last half of the chapter okay? Thanks for putting up with my late updates. However, during the summer I used to update everyday with loooong chapters, so let's hope that I can keep that up eh? Please enjoy!

~*~*~*~*Dance Partners*~*~*~*~

~A NejiTen Fanfic~

Tenten's POV:

It was bright and early when I woke the next morning. There was no light it the cell, and I was curled up on the cold floor . . . freezing and more sore than ever.

Where the hell were my parents to bail me out? This was really odd. Normally Hannah and Drew would be screaming and swearing at the police (despite their kind nature).

I sighed, slowly getting up so I could lean against the wood bench.

Before I even noticed, the girl with black hair seated herself next to me.

"Hey," she said.

My eyes widened. Why wasn't she all pissed?

"Sorry about yesterday," she apologized, hardly making eye contact. "I often misjudge people."

"It's okay," I chuckled, not returning the eye contact though. "I do that too," immediately in my mind, Neji flashed. I shook my head though, trying (and failing) not to think about the Hyuuga.

"Mind if I ask why you're in here?" I questioned.

She shrugged. "Nope. Fucking snakelike Orochimaru . . . know him?"

I instantly shivered at the name and nodded.

"Yeah," she continued. "Tried to fuckin' rape me. So what do I do? Defend myself! But I get sent to the clink!" she sighed, drawing a breath before moving on. "That's why your story kinda hit a soft spot,"

I laughed a little. "Would you believe me if I said Orochimaru was the same bastard that tried to rape me?" this time I looked at the onyx haired girl.

"No. Fuckin. Way." she stated. "But I believe it."

I sighed once more, leaning my head back and gazing upwards at the bland ceiling. "The police in this town must be rigged . . ."

"Is that even possible?"

I looked over to the side at my new '"friend". "Well, I never even thought what happened to me me over the past few days was even human so, hell yeah."

"Possibilities, possibilities," (no Cambel's Chicken Noodle Soup)


Third Person POV

Neji Hyuuga glared at his other inmates, scaring the freakin hell out of them. He had been up all night, contemplating the strange acts of the Konoha Police. It was rather odd and slightly intriguing to him that they had not investigated yet and had jumped to false accusations without an interrogation. There was no doubt that something had gone wrong in their agency or there was a possibility of a dirty agent. But however, there were so many possible combinations as to why the hell the police were being so stupid.

Glancing around, Neji concluded that it wasn't the best place to think, due to the loud and bombastic voices of the other men. Neji had also been placed in a cell, separate from his other companions. To put it frankly, Neji didn't even know that they had that many cells to fit their entire gang into an individual one.

Finally, a bell rang, signaling breakfast, Neji assumed.

He stood up stiffly, pretending not to be bother by the immense soreness his body was feeling, and decided to check if they had anything edible.

Neji scoffed when he looked at the tray. Ramen. How typical. Ramen was though, very cheap so it was logical to conclude that as the reason for serving it.

Tenten would be happy about this . . .


"This is the cheapest Ramen I have EVER seen!" Tenten cried, attempting to pry her cheap wooden chopsticks apart.

Though the brunette was pissed, she still ate it in silence, about ready to start a riot.

Then she suddenly jumped up. A riot!


Ino Yamanaka sighed as she slept on the bench of her cell. She was also pissed, but tried not to show it, obviously thinking that it would mess up her face if she frowned too much.

She knew that the guards had tried to separate their little gang into all different cells but Temari was in the one behind her.

"Temari!" the blonde hissed one more time, trying to get the girls attention.

Temari however didn't notice. There was a wall in between, a brick one. And the only reason Ino knew Temari was there because the quadruple pigtailed, maniac was ranting the night before very loudly! Ino laughed to herself, thinking about it.

Flashback:

"What the fuck is your problem . . ."

and so on.

"Oi pretty girl,"

Ino groaned, squinting as she got up. "What?" it was the same redheaded girl that was giving her shit last night.

Before Ino's rival could even state her "issue" Ino grumbled, "You're even bitchier that Karin!" Ino chuckled. "And your both redheads. Must be a bloodline or something . . ."

Ino trailed off, suddenly hearing something . . . Tenten.

"Oh. My. Effin Kami." Ino muttered. "She's starting a fight over food,"


Tenten's POV

"Okay," I growled. "Here's the deal. First, you take me (and my friends) for no legitimate reason, aight? We clear on that? Then you feed us this God awful food . . . do you have anything to say for yourself?" My hands were on my hips and I was leaning against the bars. "Hmm?"

The guard laughed to himself. "That's cute," he said. "I didn't know you knew how to argue,"

My eye twitched. "I'm not one of those slums you pick up off the streets; I'm smart," then I turned behind me. "No offense guys," they all shrugged so I shot back at the guard. "What's the square root of pi?"

"Who gives a damn?" he remarked, raising an eyebrow.

"Good point," I realized. "To random . . .What's another word for the maximum or minimum of a parabola?"

Ha. Try to get that one sucker. I stared him down.

"What's a parabola?" the guard asked cluelessly.

I guffawed to myself, evilly, smirking, wittingly. Then I coughed. "The parabola is the shape of a line for a quadratic function. The form for the quadratic function is ax2 + bx + c = 0 where a ≠ 0! The vertex can be either a maximum or a minimum. If your not looking at a graph though you'll know that the parabola is maximum if a is negative and a minimum if a is positive. Weird huh? You'd think it'd be the opposite."

He didn't do anything. Screw this!

Last half of chapter (new part)

To me, I don't think screaming at the cops over food was really gonna do anything. If it did, the only chance of something happening would be putting us in more serious shit. Yeah. Mayyybe I was a little bit pissed off because I was extremely sore and our police were kind of ridiculous.

"Fuck this," I murmured, sitting down and giving up on our little riot. What was the point? It's not like they were gonna listen to us anyways.

I was about to fall asleep on that unpleasant note (Yes at about 12 in the afternoon), but the sound of knuckles cracking made me sit straight up. I perked my ears and listened.

"M-Ma'am you need to calm down," A voice stuttered.

I squinted, sitting up now. No. Fuckin. Way. It was Shizune . . . hey that rhymes. Cough cough. Sorry off topic.

"Shizune," I managed, trying to keep my mouth from gaping.

Shizune stared the guard down. "I don't suppose you know why Tenten is here?" she interrogated, quite evilly if you asked me.

I smirked. I'd never known the sweet and kind Shizune good get this pissed.

"Hmm," she pondered. "Guess not,"

I watched the little scene. Shizune was really hammering the guard with questions. Like really really hard. It was actually funny to watch, let alone entertaining.

"Shizune!" A familiar voice barked. My favorite blonde teacher came up from behind Shizune.

I raised an eyebrow. "How'd you get out?"

Tsunade shrugged. "A few wise words of wisdom. They're letting us go,"

Relief swept over me, but before I did a victory dance I sweat dropped. "Shizune." I said. "Then why are you harassing the guard?"

The scared, timid man cowered back, he fidgeted with the keys for like 10 minutes before he released me.

Shizune shrugged and smiled.

The other girls stared at me with jealousy as I walked out of the cell . . . I got one last glimpse of my "friend" before I left jail for good.


The rest of my buddies were waiting in the lobby. They were all giving people who worked at the police station evil and intimidating glares.

I chuckled. "Wow."

"Took long enough," Ino said, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.

I shrugged, glancing at the one and only Shizune. "Someone was having fun,"

Sakura waved her hand in dismissal. "You should've seen the bitches I had to room with,"

I nearly gagged. "You should've seen mine!"

We bickered over who had the worst inmates when Shikamaru yawned saying, "I wouldn't know because I was sleeping the whole time,"

Temari sweat dropped. "How is that even possible."

Ino raised an eyebrow. "Trust me. For Shikamaru it is."

"Yeah yeah yeah." The hyperactive blonde chatted. "I was with a bunch of buff dudes that threatened to beat me up . . . bunch of LOSERS!"

No one however was listening and Sasuke decided to point that out. "No ones paying attention to you, dobe," he said, crossing his arms in annoyance.

Tsunade looked like she would slap both of them, and she hardly even knew them too. Haha. She never gets old.

"You're starting to piss me off," she informed Naruto.

"Oh yeah, Granny?" Naruto challenged.

"Okay!" I intervened, knowing that this would get ugly. "Can we just all go and get ice cream. Savvy?

Everyone agreed. Sweet. I've never made and all around decision before. Legit.


"Can't you just TELL me what you want. Not shout it?" Tsunade demanded at all of us.

We were at a nice, outdoor ice cream parlor in Konoha. The sun was beautiful, it was hot and summer was on its way . . . YES!

Finally, we all sat down and ordered.

I got strawberry ice cream with strawberry in it . . .yum. Sakura got regular vanilla with chopped cherry's. Temari got cake batter ice cream. Ino got the low fat sweet cream. Karin got butter scotch along with Suigetsu. Sasuke got regular chocolate. Kiba got cookie dough. Shikamaru got mint with chocolate chunks. Naruto got . . . I don't even know because it was pretty much all of the ice creams mixed together with all the toppings. Hinata got regular sweet cream and my lovely, bastard-like, cold demeanor, dance partner, got vanilla people. Plain vanilla. Tsunade and Shizune shared frozen yogurt.

(Whew. All of those 'gots'.)

"Geez Neji," I complained to my partner who was sitting next to me. "Could you get anymore plainer?"

Neji glanced at me but didn't answer.

Oh I see how it is Mr.-I'm-too-cool-to-talk-to-you-just-cuz-I'm-a-total-egotistic-bastard-who's-as-boring-as-vanilla.

I practically devoured my ice cream though. It'd been a while since I'd tasted real food. Okay maybe only two days but the food obsessed person I am . . . I'm surprised I'm not obese. I think I eat to much. I'm extremely lucky to have a high metabolism.

"You should eat slower." Neji advised. "It'll help prevent getting a-"

"BRAIN FREEZE!" I cried, holding my head and rolling back and forth on the concrete. Good thing it only lasted about twenty seconds.

I coughed getting back onto my chair. That wasn't embarrassing at all. Neji gave me the I-told-you-so looks that I just pouted off.


Back at the dance center, it was only me and the people who actually danced on the Moonstones.

Tsunade cleared her throat. "Good work at Nationals," she announced, we were all sitting against the mirror and our teacher was pacing the room while giving her speech. "Now I know during the awards there were some, ahem, complications but nonetheless, all dances were awarded platinum-" we all cheered in chorus. "-and so did our partner dances." More cheering as people patted Neji and me on the backs. "And," Tsunade pondered as she searched through a closet by the stereo. She pulled out a very large box. "Trophies,"

Now when I say huge. I don't mean, OMG those are so big. I mean OMFG those go up to my neck!

They were ginormous!

Tsunade smiled obviously noticing our gaping jaws. She handed each one to us.

"We've never done this well at Nationals before," Tsunade declared, beaming with pride. "I'm so proud of you guys!"

We were all handed a gigantic trophy reading platinum.

"Now," Tsunade continued. "Normally, we wouldn't all get a trophy but however, since your line placed FIRST everyone gets one!"

More cheering. More clapping. More singing. More yelling but finally...

"Also, we only have one but it goes to Neji and Tenten's duet!" Tsunade smiled pulling another trophy out. Now this one only went up to my waist but it totally looked sweet!

I was beaming inside and out.

Neji obviously noticed this because he said, "You can keep it."

"Huh?" I asked. Neji wanted me to keep it. Was he being nice?

"It'll be more use to you than me," Neji admitted. "Besides," he smirked. "I'm not gay so I don't need it,"

I tried my best to hide my smile but failed. Grinning from ear to ear, I received the trophy from Tsunade.

"So," Tsunade added. "As much as I want to hang out with all of you guys, I think your parents might want to see you.

That's when it struck me. Drew and Hannah! How could I have forgotten?

Everyone else seemed the same way and chatter filled the room but Tsunade hushed them. "When they ask," she said, with a slight mischievous look in her eye. "You were never in jail,"


Don't ask how. Don't ask why. Don't comment . . . Neji is walking me home. Hehe. Maybe he had a soft side because he was the one who offered.

"So . . ." I whistled. "How do you think Hiashi is gonna handle your homecoming?"

Neji's back stiffened but relaxed. "I don't really care,"

I perked up, slapping him in that shoulder. "That's the spirit!" I announced cheerfully.

Neji tried to hide his awe.

I smiled stupidly like always. "I like the way you're thinking. Don't let him bother you,"

Neji was still gaping at me outburst but kept silent for a while. "What about your parents?" He asked me.

I drooped. "Oh God, I don't even wanna think about it."

And you will never believe what happened on the face of the earth in the town of konoha on my street walking me home *takes breath* Neji laughed.

Hiding my excitement, I sighed. "I hope it goes well,"

Neji didn't say anything but I knew he understood.

So . . .

Oh hell no.

How's it goin'?

Go away.

Come on you're fricken walking home with each other, he laughed at your joke-

It wasn't a joke. It was a comment.

Even better. C'mon. At least kiss him good night.

You kiss him good night.

Maybe I will.

Dammit. I didn't mean that!

I don't really think you were kidding!

. . . Yeah you do.

Okay maybe I do.

Yeah. Can you just go away so I can deal with my parents?

Sure.

When we arrived at my house, Neji turned around and I waved goodbye. He waved too. Aww such a nice buddy . . . wait! What the hell am I saying? This is Neji Hyuuga an icicle.

God. I'm going crazy.

I drew a breath, then opened the door.

"Tenten. Where. The hell. Have. You BEEN?" My mother screamed at the top of her lungs. "And why are you covered in bruises?"

"I got hit by a car," I moaned. Hannah immediately put her hand on my forehead.

"Do you need a hospital . . . police?"

"No!" I argued. "Definitely not police."

"What do you want?" She repeated.

"Food," I moaned slumping against a wall.

Wow. This was going better than I thought. Normally my mom would get all pissed and try to kill me and chase me around the house until I cleaned dirty dishes etc. etc. but now I'll have to remember the 'got hit by a car' excuse.

Lying down on a couch, waiting for my meal, I heard my mom ask from the kitchen, "By the way . . . how did Nationals go?"

A/N Kay, sorry about my random half chapter update, add this one to it aight? Hehe. I decided to screw riot because I was pissed off about writing a jail scene and decided to to turn my filler into ice cream (what I'm craving right now) and trophies. Plus some NejiTen fluff. Thanks for reading please review . . . we're coming to the end! Luv ya~!