Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Christmas Love ❯ Jealousy Arises ( Chapter 4 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: hiei is mine forever 
Neji's getting a little ticked at Haru during the dinner party. The boy is pushing it... The dance has come, what may happen?
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 06.30.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 702 | Status: Completed
Neji's getting a little ticked at Haru during the dinner party. The boy is pushing it... The dance has come, what may happen?
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 06.30.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 702 | Status: Completed
Tenten ate her meal, every once in a while stopping to chat with Haru, her new found friend. She wondered if maybe he could help her get over Neji, possibly even fall in love with the silver-haired teen.
Haru was a nice, charming boy, but she didn't know him very well. However, he was handsome, or how the girls at the other side of the table mentioned as 'hot'. Tenten sighed, thinking about it was so troublesome.
He was the Neji she wished for. Someone to actually open up to her, be kind, and instead of anything but cold and heartless. She could actually talk to Neji without recieving a snide or sadistic remark.
She grinned at Haru who smiled in return. His smile was so sincere, as were his eyes. They were entrancing. He was a gentleman, and Neji was not. She pondered on how she had fallen for the Hyuuga.
"So, are you a ninja of Konoha?" Haru asked.
"Ah, yes I am. I master in weapons better than taijutsu or genjutsu," she replied truthfully. "Though I am working on improving in those two areas."
"Oh, I see. Interesting. I'm from the Thunder Country. Why haven't I seen you here the recent past years?" He wondered.
She blinked, laughing slightly. "Well, it's because I had never been invited to this event. Besides, my parents forced me to stay here with the Hyuugas while they went on a mission."
"Ah, I see. Don't you find it a bother that your teammate, Neji, can seem so cruel to you?"
"Not really." She looked down and twisted the chopsticks in her hand.
"Are you so sure?" He inquired.
"No," she mumbled.
Haru leaned over and whispered in her ear sending shivers down her spine. Tenten blushed at the sudden feeling and at what he was doing. How close they were almost seemed awkward and suspiscious to those around them.
"I'll show you the best time you'd ever have that the Hyuuga Prodigy never would. Be my date to the dance tomorrow night?" His breath tickled her ear.
This would be her only chance to get over Neji. It was now or never; and she couldn't decide. Forever live with unrequited love, or be loved? And it was a hard desicion. She glanced at Neji for a moment.
She hesistated when giving her answer, "I...I accept."
Haru gave her a peck on the cheek and then continued eating. Tenten stared at her half empty bowl. It was too late to turn back now. Still she couldn't help but wonder if maybe what she did was right.
Would she regret having to do this, or actually enjoy it? And then her teammate's words echoed in her mind, too clearly for her own liking. It was going to haunt her now, no matter how hard she'd try to escape it.
"I'm her teamate, comrade, friend or any of those other than that. I think of her no more than that."
She poked at her food thoughtfully and looked at the genius beside her who was calmy eating his meal. Did it not affect him on whether or not what he has said about her? Wasn't he the least bit sorry for what he said?
She turned her head to stare at Haru. She felt no excitement or sensation whatsoever when he lightly kissed her on the cheek. But when Neji and her kissed, even if it was accidently, she couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat.
Immediatly Tenten wished that she could once again kiss Neji, but she knew that it would never happen. It was a once in a lifetime kind of thing. If only she hadn't have pulled away, the bliss she was in could've lasted a bit longer.
Unconsciously touching her lips, she remembered how his felt on her own, how right it felt when they touched, how safe she felt with his arms wrapped around her waist, and how close they were together.
'Stop, Tenten. You're only dragging yourself further into loving Neji even more. Just stop...you must...cause it will never happen,' she convinced herself.
"Haru, are you part of the Hyuuga family?" She asked curiously.
"Well yes and no. As you see, I didn't inherit the Hyuuga bloodline limit. I was part of a different clan, Ishitakas. We don't have a bloodline however. My father died when I was younger, so my mother married another man, and he was part of the Hyuuga clan." He answered.
"Oh." The name Ishitakas was quite familiar to her, but she couldn't place om where she had heard it before. "I'm sorry about your father..."
"It's fine. I thought he was a bastard anyways."
Tenten said nothing more. Leaning back in her chair, she sighed inaudibly. She gazed at Neji longingly, ignoring Haru as he talked on about his father. 'If only things were different between us...'
Neji felt as if he were being watched by something, or more along the lines of someone. It was someone beside him, he just knew it was. He took a sideways glance at Hinata and found it wasn't her. It must have been Tenten then.
"Tenten, do you want something? Because if it's nothing, may I inquire why you are staring at me?"
Tenten was awakened from her trance and glared slightly. "No. Why would I want to stare at you?"
"For one, you were whether you object or not. There is nothing that my eyes cannot see."
'Oh, how wrong you are Hyuuga...if only you knew...' she seethed silently.
"And two, how could you not?" He playfully teased, even though it didn't seem that way. He couldn't help but to do add that.
"Ugh! You're such a cocky bastard, you know that?" Tenten rolled her eyes and tried to ignore him.
Neji took a bite of his food. "Isn't the food simply divine?"
"No." She gritted her teeth. "I never knew you could be this talkative."
"Only when I want to."
"Damn it! Nor did I ever know you could be so annoying when talking to me." Tenten had an urge to shove her chopsticks down his throat right now to make him shut up.
Haru intervined, "Is there a problem, Tenten? Is this Hyuuga bothering you?"
Tenten gave a frustrated sigh.. "Yes."
Neji glared at his now mortal enemy. "Mind your own business."
"Come, Tenten. I'll walk you back to your room." He ignored Neji's comment and glared back at him.
"Thank you, Haru," she said.
He stood up as well as her and they walked out of the dining room. His arm was wrapped around her waist pulling her closer to himself. The Hyuuga prodigy wanted to Haru to writher in pain and die by his hand by then.
Neji had a glint in his eyes that read, 'I'll kill you.'
A Hyuuga when angered isn't a pretty sight.
A Hyuuga Neji when angered is the death of you.
Neji wasn't stupid, he had seen when Haru kissed Tenten on the cheek. He saw when he asked her to the dance. But he couldn't understand why he felt this way. Why he was angered when Haru did that.
These feelings were new to him and he didn't know how to react about them. Whenever he heard his voice he had to resist from ripping out voice box and throwing it to the large hungry tigers outside the Konoha gates.
Whether he liked it or not, he was going to plan how to get rid of Haru and Tenten back on his side. He was going to do that tomorrow night at the ball. He was going to earn Tenten's heart again.
'No...she is a teammate and nothing more. Right? Right,' he thought silently.
Hiashi had seen all that was going on between Neji, Tenten, and Haru. The silver-haired teen posed as a threat to Neji and Tenten's developing relationship status. However, this could prove to be quite entertaining.
Hinata leaned over closer to her younger sister. "S-so, did you g-get t-the information I n-need?"
Hanabi grinned. "As a matter of fact, I did. Most of it, but not all."
"T-tell me w-what y-you have so f-far then."
Hanabi nodded. "Accordng to the girls over there, Haru is a complete playboy. Usually he'll pick up a girl who he thinks is pretty and charm his way into gaining their everlasting trust. I never liked him from the start."
"Is t-that all?"
"No. When he gains their trust that when he starts showing his true self or something like that. They say the clan he used to be in were artists, but they didn't do that kind of art you see now."
Hinata asked confused, "W-what would that h-have t-to do w-with Tenten?"
"From what I've heard, his clan took pretty girls and drawed them. Though the art may be well drawn, it's still porn. Usually girls are submissive when they hear of becoming models." She stated.
Her older sister looked shocked. "T-thats a-awefully odd for them t-to do s-such a t-thing."
"Yea, and get this! After that the girls they picked up suddenly disappear without a trace."
"W-w-what?" Hinata's eye widened. "Tenten i-is i-in much trouble!"
Hanabi nodded. "Don't tell Neji this though, I'm pretty sure he will figure it out soon."
"A-alright. B-but if he d-doesn't, w-were going to have t-to s-save Tenten."
"Right. Now act like we were just regulary conversing of something common, we're starting to get stares from Neji. We can't look suspiscious about this at all." Hanabi sat up straight and Hinata followed in suit.
As Neji was walking back to his room, he heard voices conversing in the hallway. Recognizing them, he quickly behind a large vase so as to not be seen. He didn't want to be caught eavesdropping on the two.
He peeked out from behind the vase after using a jutsu that diguised him. As he suspected, it was Tenten and that dispised Haru boy. They were just regulary talking to each other as normal friends would.
'As we usually would...' He immediately became jealous of his enemy.
Then suddenly Haru leaned in for a kiss. Tenten was staring wide-eyes at him. Slowly, he inched closer and closer to the kunoichi, almost pinning her against the wall where she couldn't escape.
"Get away from her," Neji said dangerously, stepping out and dropping the jutsu he was using.
Haru quickly pulled away and looked at the Hyuuga with hate filled in his eyes. "Why should I?"
Tenten, who was scared to death of what was about to happen, was relieved and looked at Neji as if he were her hero. She was saved from making intimate contact with Haru, and she was entirely happy about that fact.
"Because it's obvious Tenten doesn't want to make contact with someone like you," he sneered.
"Oh? And are you so sure? You think she'd rather kiss Branch Member such as yourself? Don't forget Hyuuga, I am of the Main House." Haru then turned and went on his merry way.
Tenten had long before went into her room and shut the door to close out the arguement that had occured just moments before. Neji took this as a statement for she wanted to go to bed instead.
The following night had come. Everything was in place and neatly in order. It was going to be a wonderful day to those who are single, and those who are not. Bachelors gladly stood, walked around, or talked to women. That is, except Neji.
He was still seething about how Haru asked Tenten to come with him here as his date. He couldn't get over it. He really hated the tux he was in at the moment, he kept having to adjust and re-adjust his bowtie which was quite a bother.
The Annual Ball was being held underground of the Hyuuga estate. It was beautifully decorated and looked like a palace ballroom. The immensely large room was filled with people from other countries, Hyuuga or not.
At the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Tenten's dress. She was beside Haru and just walking into the room. Onlookers commented on how cute or perfect they looked together, fangirls were disappointed, and Neji...he watched with disgust.
'What does he have that I don't? The damn bastard. Oh that's right, he's part of the Main House and they get everything they want.' He cursed silently.
Neji was about to walk over there to the two of them and give Haru a piece of his mind, or to put bluntly, a piece of his fist in his pretty-boy face. He was stopped by, of course, his fanclub that he didn't like.
He glared, but this time it hadn't affected them. They just squealed in utter delight at seeing him and crowded around the Hyuuga prodigy so he couldn't get away and was trapped within them.
"Oh, Neji! We knew you were just showing us affection when gave us that vicious look!" One said, obviously the leader of the lot.
They closed in on him, and being the gentleman that he was, he didn't hit the girls but almost yelled for someone to help him in any way possible to get away from them. Of course, everyone around him ignored his cries.
'Why isn't Tenten here when I need her most?'
Tenten on the other hand, was watching bemusedly at the scene from far away. Neji was finally getting a piece of his own medicine. She giggled as he tried to desperately escape from the evil clutches of his fangirls.
Even if Tenten looked as if she were enjoying it on the outside exterior of herself, inside she was getting jealous of the girls and quite angry. What stopped her from going over there was Haru.
'Poor Neji. I know I should help him...but...' She looked at Haru.
What a shame she couldn't do more for her comrade even if he had said pretty mean things to her, he did save her last night from Haru. There was some credit right then, right?
'Yea, right.'
Haru was a nice, charming boy, but she didn't know him very well. However, he was handsome, or how the girls at the other side of the table mentioned as 'hot'. Tenten sighed, thinking about it was so troublesome.
He was the Neji she wished for. Someone to actually open up to her, be kind, and instead of anything but cold and heartless. She could actually talk to Neji without recieving a snide or sadistic remark.
She grinned at Haru who smiled in return. His smile was so sincere, as were his eyes. They were entrancing. He was a gentleman, and Neji was not. She pondered on how she had fallen for the Hyuuga.
"So, are you a ninja of Konoha?" Haru asked.
"Ah, yes I am. I master in weapons better than taijutsu or genjutsu," she replied truthfully. "Though I am working on improving in those two areas."
"Oh, I see. Interesting. I'm from the Thunder Country. Why haven't I seen you here the recent past years?" He wondered.
She blinked, laughing slightly. "Well, it's because I had never been invited to this event. Besides, my parents forced me to stay here with the Hyuugas while they went on a mission."
"Ah, I see. Don't you find it a bother that your teammate, Neji, can seem so cruel to you?"
"Not really." She looked down and twisted the chopsticks in her hand.
"Are you so sure?" He inquired.
"No," she mumbled.
Haru leaned over and whispered in her ear sending shivers down her spine. Tenten blushed at the sudden feeling and at what he was doing. How close they were almost seemed awkward and suspiscious to those around them.
"I'll show you the best time you'd ever have that the Hyuuga Prodigy never would. Be my date to the dance tomorrow night?" His breath tickled her ear.
This would be her only chance to get over Neji. It was now or never; and she couldn't decide. Forever live with unrequited love, or be loved? And it was a hard desicion. She glanced at Neji for a moment.
She hesistated when giving her answer, "I...I accept."
Haru gave her a peck on the cheek and then continued eating. Tenten stared at her half empty bowl. It was too late to turn back now. Still she couldn't help but wonder if maybe what she did was right.
Would she regret having to do this, or actually enjoy it? And then her teammate's words echoed in her mind, too clearly for her own liking. It was going to haunt her now, no matter how hard she'd try to escape it.
"I'm her teamate, comrade, friend or any of those other than that. I think of her no more than that."
She poked at her food thoughtfully and looked at the genius beside her who was calmy eating his meal. Did it not affect him on whether or not what he has said about her? Wasn't he the least bit sorry for what he said?
She turned her head to stare at Haru. She felt no excitement or sensation whatsoever when he lightly kissed her on the cheek. But when Neji and her kissed, even if it was accidently, she couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat.
Immediatly Tenten wished that she could once again kiss Neji, but she knew that it would never happen. It was a once in a lifetime kind of thing. If only she hadn't have pulled away, the bliss she was in could've lasted a bit longer.
Unconsciously touching her lips, she remembered how his felt on her own, how right it felt when they touched, how safe she felt with his arms wrapped around her waist, and how close they were together.
'Stop, Tenten. You're only dragging yourself further into loving Neji even more. Just stop...you must...cause it will never happen,' she convinced herself.
"Haru, are you part of the Hyuuga family?" She asked curiously.
"Well yes and no. As you see, I didn't inherit the Hyuuga bloodline limit. I was part of a different clan, Ishitakas. We don't have a bloodline however. My father died when I was younger, so my mother married another man, and he was part of the Hyuuga clan." He answered.
"Oh." The name Ishitakas was quite familiar to her, but she couldn't place om where she had heard it before. "I'm sorry about your father..."
"It's fine. I thought he was a bastard anyways."
Tenten said nothing more. Leaning back in her chair, she sighed inaudibly. She gazed at Neji longingly, ignoring Haru as he talked on about his father. 'If only things were different between us...'
Neji felt as if he were being watched by something, or more along the lines of someone. It was someone beside him, he just knew it was. He took a sideways glance at Hinata and found it wasn't her. It must have been Tenten then.
"Tenten, do you want something? Because if it's nothing, may I inquire why you are staring at me?"
Tenten was awakened from her trance and glared slightly. "No. Why would I want to stare at you?"
"For one, you were whether you object or not. There is nothing that my eyes cannot see."
'Oh, how wrong you are Hyuuga...if only you knew...' she seethed silently.
"And two, how could you not?" He playfully teased, even though it didn't seem that way. He couldn't help but to do add that.
"Ugh! You're such a cocky bastard, you know that?" Tenten rolled her eyes and tried to ignore him.
Neji took a bite of his food. "Isn't the food simply divine?"
"No." She gritted her teeth. "I never knew you could be this talkative."
"Only when I want to."
"Damn it! Nor did I ever know you could be so annoying when talking to me." Tenten had an urge to shove her chopsticks down his throat right now to make him shut up.
Haru intervined, "Is there a problem, Tenten? Is this Hyuuga bothering you?"
Tenten gave a frustrated sigh.. "Yes."
Neji glared at his now mortal enemy. "Mind your own business."
"Come, Tenten. I'll walk you back to your room." He ignored Neji's comment and glared back at him.
"Thank you, Haru," she said.
He stood up as well as her and they walked out of the dining room. His arm was wrapped around her waist pulling her closer to himself. The Hyuuga prodigy wanted to Haru to writher in pain and die by his hand by then.
Neji had a glint in his eyes that read, 'I'll kill you.'
A Hyuuga when angered isn't a pretty sight.
A Hyuuga Neji when angered is the death of you.
Neji wasn't stupid, he had seen when Haru kissed Tenten on the cheek. He saw when he asked her to the dance. But he couldn't understand why he felt this way. Why he was angered when Haru did that.
These feelings were new to him and he didn't know how to react about them. Whenever he heard his voice he had to resist from ripping out voice box and throwing it to the large hungry tigers outside the Konoha gates.
Whether he liked it or not, he was going to plan how to get rid of Haru and Tenten back on his side. He was going to do that tomorrow night at the ball. He was going to earn Tenten's heart again.
'No...she is a teammate and nothing more. Right? Right,' he thought silently.
Hiashi had seen all that was going on between Neji, Tenten, and Haru. The silver-haired teen posed as a threat to Neji and Tenten's developing relationship status. However, this could prove to be quite entertaining.
Hinata leaned over closer to her younger sister. "S-so, did you g-get t-the information I n-need?"
Hanabi grinned. "As a matter of fact, I did. Most of it, but not all."
"T-tell me w-what y-you have so f-far then."
Hanabi nodded. "Accordng to the girls over there, Haru is a complete playboy. Usually he'll pick up a girl who he thinks is pretty and charm his way into gaining their everlasting trust. I never liked him from the start."
"Is t-that all?"
"No. When he gains their trust that when he starts showing his true self or something like that. They say the clan he used to be in were artists, but they didn't do that kind of art you see now."
Hinata asked confused, "W-what would that h-have t-to do w-with Tenten?"
"From what I've heard, his clan took pretty girls and drawed them. Though the art may be well drawn, it's still porn. Usually girls are submissive when they hear of becoming models." She stated.
Her older sister looked shocked. "T-thats a-awefully odd for them t-to do s-such a t-thing."
"Yea, and get this! After that the girls they picked up suddenly disappear without a trace."
"W-w-what?" Hinata's eye widened. "Tenten i-is i-in much trouble!"
Hanabi nodded. "Don't tell Neji this though, I'm pretty sure he will figure it out soon."
"A-alright. B-but if he d-doesn't, w-were going to have t-to s-save Tenten."
"Right. Now act like we were just regulary conversing of something common, we're starting to get stares from Neji. We can't look suspiscious about this at all." Hanabi sat up straight and Hinata followed in suit.
As Neji was walking back to his room, he heard voices conversing in the hallway. Recognizing them, he quickly behind a large vase so as to not be seen. He didn't want to be caught eavesdropping on the two.
He peeked out from behind the vase after using a jutsu that diguised him. As he suspected, it was Tenten and that dispised Haru boy. They were just regulary talking to each other as normal friends would.
'As we usually would...' He immediately became jealous of his enemy.
Then suddenly Haru leaned in for a kiss. Tenten was staring wide-eyes at him. Slowly, he inched closer and closer to the kunoichi, almost pinning her against the wall where she couldn't escape.
"Get away from her," Neji said dangerously, stepping out and dropping the jutsu he was using.
Haru quickly pulled away and looked at the Hyuuga with hate filled in his eyes. "Why should I?"
Tenten, who was scared to death of what was about to happen, was relieved and looked at Neji as if he were her hero. She was saved from making intimate contact with Haru, and she was entirely happy about that fact.
"Because it's obvious Tenten doesn't want to make contact with someone like you," he sneered.
"Oh? And are you so sure? You think she'd rather kiss Branch Member such as yourself? Don't forget Hyuuga, I am of the Main House." Haru then turned and went on his merry way.
Tenten had long before went into her room and shut the door to close out the arguement that had occured just moments before. Neji took this as a statement for she wanted to go to bed instead.
The following night had come. Everything was in place and neatly in order. It was going to be a wonderful day to those who are single, and those who are not. Bachelors gladly stood, walked around, or talked to women. That is, except Neji.
He was still seething about how Haru asked Tenten to come with him here as his date. He couldn't get over it. He really hated the tux he was in at the moment, he kept having to adjust and re-adjust his bowtie which was quite a bother.
The Annual Ball was being held underground of the Hyuuga estate. It was beautifully decorated and looked like a palace ballroom. The immensely large room was filled with people from other countries, Hyuuga or not.
At the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Tenten's dress. She was beside Haru and just walking into the room. Onlookers commented on how cute or perfect they looked together, fangirls were disappointed, and Neji...he watched with disgust.
'What does he have that I don't? The damn bastard. Oh that's right, he's part of the Main House and they get everything they want.' He cursed silently.
Neji was about to walk over there to the two of them and give Haru a piece of his mind, or to put bluntly, a piece of his fist in his pretty-boy face. He was stopped by, of course, his fanclub that he didn't like.
He glared, but this time it hadn't affected them. They just squealed in utter delight at seeing him and crowded around the Hyuuga prodigy so he couldn't get away and was trapped within them.
"Oh, Neji! We knew you were just showing us affection when gave us that vicious look!" One said, obviously the leader of the lot.
They closed in on him, and being the gentleman that he was, he didn't hit the girls but almost yelled for someone to help him in any way possible to get away from them. Of course, everyone around him ignored his cries.
'Why isn't Tenten here when I need her most?'
Tenten on the other hand, was watching bemusedly at the scene from far away. Neji was finally getting a piece of his own medicine. She giggled as he tried to desperately escape from the evil clutches of his fangirls.
Even if Tenten looked as if she were enjoying it on the outside exterior of herself, inside she was getting jealous of the girls and quite angry. What stopped her from going over there was Haru.
'Poor Neji. I know I should help him...but...' She looked at Haru.
What a shame she couldn't do more for her comrade even if he had said pretty mean things to her, he did save her last night from Haru. There was some credit right then, right?
'Yea, right.'