That had been a week ago. It had been 2 weeks since Tenten and told Lady Tsunade that she was already engaged. They had only 2 weeks before she was to bring her "fiancé" to see her. Tenten hadn't seen Neji since that day at Hinata's. she felt sure that he would have done something when he found the picture missing, but he'd not done anything.

"Tenten, me and Hinata are here to help you get ready for your date with Gaara" Sakura called through the door. Tenten cursed she forgot that she had a date with Gaara tonight. That was a reason that Ino wouldn't be there, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro had turned up 2 days before and no one had seen Ino or Kankuro since.

Tenten let the 2 girls in and they began to dress her.

"I know why you've not seen Neji" Hinata told Tenten

"Why?" Tenten asked

"He was sent on a mission, he should be getting back today" Hinata said pulling Tenten's hair up into a loose bun.

Sakura smiled as she put the make up on Tenten "So he won't be happy to see you on a date with the Kazekage" Sakura muttered.

After Tenten was dressed and ready there came a knock on the door, going over she saw Gaara standing there, a plain white button down shirt and black dress pants.

"Hello, are you ready?" Gaara asked

"Yeah, let's go" Tenten smiled at him before turning to look at they other 2 girls. "You know the rules" and then they left.

They got to the restaurant and took their seats

"So how've you been?" Tenten asked taking a sip of her glass of wine

"I've been well, I can't sleep in the house though" Gaara told her

"I thought that since they one tailed beast was removed from you that you could sleep" Tenten said

"Normally I can, but Ino has been around since we got here and the sounds that she and my idiot brother make could wake the dead" Gaara said a small smile on his face

"oh are they really that loud?" Tenten chuckled

"Yes" Gaara smiled back at her

They ate and joked about things while they did, once they were finished they went to the dance floor that was on the other side and danced for a while. Tenten's cheeks hurt from smiling so much and he stomach hurt from laughing. After a bit they went for a walk around the village and sat on the ground near the Hokages up on the mountain. They talked about things, some funny, some sad. They looked at the skies for a bit watching the stars

"Tenten" Gaara quietly spoke

"Yeah?" She asked

"Why are you doing this?" He asked looking at her

"Because of Neji, do you know the full story?" Tenten asked looking at him

"No, Ino just said that you wished to make Neji jealous and set us up on a date" Gaara told her

"Well, on my birthday last year we had sex. Neji blocked my memory the next morning so I couldn't remember. And Lady Tsunade's playing match maker with the ninja of the village. I don't want to marry the person she's chosen so I said that I was already engaged. She told me to bring him with me to meet her at the end of the month. I did ask Neji, but then I found out. And Sakura told me to make him jealous so that's what I'm doing" Tenten told him

"That sounds" Gaara said

"Childish? I know" Tenten smiled turning to look at the stars again. Gaara looked up too. They watched the stars for a while before they decided to go back to Tenten's. Then they could talk to Hinata and Sakura on how it had gone. And to see if Ino or Kankuro had shown up at all.

Neji hadn't been able to make Tenten pay for taking back the photo. The next morning he'd been summoned to see Lady Tsunade and had been sent on a mission, it would take a week and he had to go on his own. So he'd gone back, packed and left for his mission. On the mission Neji found that he couldn't sleep, images of Tenten played across his eyes if he tried to sleep. Or the memory of holding her close while they'd made love was too fresh, it wouldn't leave him alone.

Walking through the gates he was back in the Village. He knew who he would see once he handed in the mission report to Lady Tsunade.

Neji walked up the stairs to her office. Pulling out the scroll as he went. He knocked on the door and heard enter so he did.

"Ah, Neji your back and a little early too. Do you have your report for me?" Tsunade asked hiding the bottle of Sake.

"Yes, My lady here it is" Neji stepped forwards placing the scroll on the desk

"Right, right, you'd um better be going then" Tsunade said casting longing looks at the Sake bottle

"Understood, my lady" Neji bowed and left the building. He walked down the busy streets back towards his house. He was thinking of wonderful ways to make Tenten pay when he was stopped by Naruto

"Hey you're back" Naruto greeted

"Yes" Neji said

"Have you heard about Tenten?" Naruto was in on the plan and he was to tip of Neji when he'd come back

"No what about Tenten?" Neji asked, he felt the blood in his veins freeze, what if something had happened to her while he'd been gone?

"She'd got a date with Gaara, they're really into each other. It might get serious" Naruto grinned placing his arms behind his head "I mean who would have thought it Neji?" "Neji?" Naruto looked around but Neji was gone and the remaining parts of smoke

"well looked it worked" Naruto said to himself as he walked over to Ichiraku Rarmen

Neji appeared in his room, threw his sweaty clothes off and grabbed a quick shower before getting dressed. Before he poofed out of his room and into the village again. He needed to find Tenten, he had to see if Naruto was right about them being serious.

He found himself outside one of the restaurants that was in the village. Looking in he didn't see Tenten so he ran to the next one. He wasn't acting like he normally did, but when things involved Tenten he could be a proper psycho. When he reached the next restaurants he looked in again, but this time he saw Tenten on the dance floor at the back, she was in the arms of that red haired bastard Gaara, normally Neji liked him, but he was touching Tenten, and all Neji wanted to do was rip his arms off. He saw them leave the dance floor and quickly hid while they went past. Neji followed them, reducing his chakra so that they couldn't feel it. He was a very good shinobi when It came to following and things like that. So they didn't know he was behind them. They sat on the ground near the mountainside pictures, he was too far away to hear what they were saying, but he could hear Tenten laugh, he wished that it was him who had made her laugh. Neji waited for them to move and when he saw them start to stand up he hid again, he couldn't see them anymore. He was waiting for them to walk past his hiding place when he heard a thud and Tenten giggle. Looking around to them he saw them on the floor, Gaara laying on top of Tenten, one hand clutching her breast and his shirt un tooked from his pants. That was the last thing Neji really saw apart from red. Jumping up from where he'd been hiding he ran towards them. When he reached them he pulled Gaara off her and punched him in the face. Tenten screamed at him "NEJI STOP IT" but he couldn't really hear her, he just had to deal with Gaara. Gaara jumped back to avoid the punches that Neji was throwing at him. Gaara started manipulating his sand trying to stop Neji from throwing punches. Neji preformed his rotation move to block the sand and went at him a kunai in his hand. Tenten had, had enough. Pulling her skirt up she tied it around her waist covering her delicate bits but leaving it out of the way. Pulling out a scroll that she always kept with her. Activating it a kunai out of the scroll, she leapt where the two lads were and blocked one of the blows Neji threw to try and stab Gaara with his kunai with her own.

"Neji will you calm down" Tenten shouted but Neji couldn't hear her still, lucky for Tenten Naruto popped up at that moment, he'd heard the shouting and came to see what was happening.

"Tenten what happened?" Naruto asked as he grabbed hold of Neji

"I don't know" Tenten said putting the kunai back in the scroll before she went to check on Gaara, his cheek was swelling but other than that he would be okay

"So then why is Neji acting like a mad man" Naruto asked

"I really don't know. Me and Gaara were standing up when I lost my balance and fell, I grabbed Gaara trying to balance myself but it didn't work and we both fell down, next thing I know Neji was here trying to kill Gaara" Tenten said

"Neji is this true?" Naruto asked the man he was holding back

"He was, they were." Neji snarled

"He was what Neji?" Naruto asked him

"He was touching her, they were going to have sex" Neji snarled back at him he was nothing like he normally was

"No we weren't" Tenten said "I fell and pulled Gaara down with me, then you turned up" Tenten said

"You weren't?" Neji asked sagging in Naruto's arms

"No, we were just going to go back to mine and talk with Hinata and Sakura" Tenten said a sad look in her eyes

Neji quickly performed hand signs and poofed out of there, he'd made an idiot out of himself.

The 3 that were left on the mountain side images looked at each other

"What do you think that was about" Naruto said

"Neji's very protective of Tenten and jealous of men near her." Gaara said rubbing his swollen cheek

"I'm so sorry about this Gaara, I really didn't think that he would do something like his" Tenten said to Gaara

The three of them walked back down to the village, Naruto went back to his place, Gaara to his and Tenten to try and bury her head under her bed and never come out again.

Unlocking the front door Tenten saw the 2 girls passed out on the couch. Shaking her head slightly Tenten got blankets out of the cupboard and spread them over the 2 sleeping girls before she went to her room, closing the door Tenten fell onto her bed, she didn't even bother to get undressed. Images of what had happened on the mountain flashed through her mind, she'd never seen Neji act like that before.

Buried face first in a pillow Tenten heard a knock on her door, one of the girls must have woken up, she was too tired to sense the chakra so she just called out "Come in" before planting her face in the pillow again. She felt the bed dip as someone sat on it, and someone brush the hair that was loose.

"I'm sorry Tenten" She heard Neji say, Tenten jerked back to look at him

"Neji?" Tenten asked, she must have fallen asleep

"Yes it's me Tenten, I'm sorry about what happened on the mountainside, I thought I was going to loose you and I can't loose you Tenten" Neji said

"You wouldn't have lost me" Tenten whispered

"But I made you hate me, I shouldn't have blocked your memory, but you were so distressed in the morning that I didn't know what else to do." Neji closed his eyes "I shouldn't have done it, I shouldn't have took your diary and kept it from you, I should have told you from the start and then I made you hate me. I was helping you with Lady Tsunade and now I don't know what your going to do with that. Threw all this I've realised that I love you" Neji told her

"What?" Tenten whispered

"I'm in love with you Tenten, I have been for a while now it's just only recently that I've realised it." Neji took her hands in his stroking the back of her hand with his thumb "It killed me when I saw you going on dates with other lads, or when Naruto told me that it might be getting serious between you and Gaara I lost it I just lost it. Especially when I saw him on top of you, his hand on your breast" Neji closed his eyes. Tenten leaned back slightly, she didn't know what to do. Yes she loved Neji, he was more important in her life than air, she couldn't live with out him moving her hands she pulled off Neji's forehead protector and kissed the curse mark he bore. Neji's eyes snapped open Tenten was kissing his cure mark? Had she forgiven him?

"Neji I love you too, I thought that you hated me and that was why you did what you did" Tenten told him looking into his eyes

"Have you forgiven me?" Neji asked

"There's nothing really to forgive" Tenten smiled

They kissed, all the sadness from the last few days in the kiss. But they were both tired so they crawled under Tenten's covers holding each other as they fell asleep