Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Christmas Love ❯ Dance With Me? ( Chapter 5 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Neji jumped out of the crowd of his fangirls and ran towards the nearest exit only to be stopped by his uncle unfortunately to his luck.

"And where do you think you're going?" Hiashi inquired.

"Out for a bit."

Hiashi glared and turned him around to face the fangirls that were currently running towards him. "No you're not. You have to choose someone to dance with."

Neji grunted in responce. He didn't want to choose either of those girls. He thought he would rather die by a resurrected spider freak, Kidoumaru, who would gladly sick his incredibly large spider friends and shoot sharp kunais into his blind spot again, then dance with any of those fangirls.

"And if I don't?"

"Let's just say you won't be very happy for the next few days."

'Damn the Main House! It's all their fault I have to do this. To be more specific, it's Hiashi-sama's!' He thought angrily.

"Can't I dance with someone else more....sane?"

"You could try Tenten over there, but she's with Haru. If you can get her away from him, then maybe you can dance with her. If not," he glanced at the girls eyeing Neji with interest. "You suffer with them."

Neji growled out, "Fine."

When Hiashi left him there to contemplate the girls immediately rushed over to him again. This time they started tugging his clothes in all different directions towards them. This only seemed to anger the Hyuuga even more than he already was.

"Dance with me, Neji-kun," said one.

"No dance with me! I love you more than that girl," said another.

"Nobody loves him as much as me!" One argued.

All of them started fuss over him, saying how they were better for him than others. Neji who once again tried to escape couldn't as there were many of them tugging on him, keeping him right in the center of the crowd.

Tenten noticed how desperate Neji looked to get away from them and decided it was time for her to interfere. She was going to take away their precious Hyuuga Prodigy and claim him as her own so they would leave him alone.

She ignored Haru's calls when she left him to walk over to where Neji was. She wondered how he could get himself into such troublesome situations.

"Move aside!" She shoved random girls out of the way and finally got to the center where all their attention was focused. "Neji!"

Neji was surprised, even though he didn't show it, that she actually came to help him this time. "Tenten..."

"Don't just stand there. Come on!" She grabbed Neji's hand in her own and tried to make a route through the large crowd untill someone stopped her.

"Just where do you think you're going with 'our' Neji-kun?" Asked one of the girls, obviously annoyed.

Tenten just growled. "None of your business. Keep your hands off of him too."

The girl made a snotty expression. "You think you can just barge in and steal him away? I think not!"

Other girls began to murmur amongst themselves, agreeing on what their fellow crazy fangirl member was saying. Before they could do anything to get Neji back, Tenten had pinned the girl to a wall with several shurikan.

"Since you didn't move, I made you." With a satisfied snort, she walked through the obviously freaked out bunch of girls who soon scattered away like rats.

She let go of her friend's hand and smiled at him over her shoulder. "Never knew the actual Hyuuga Neji would need to be saved from a pathetic crowd girls." She snickered quietly.

Neji gave her a blank stare. "Shut up. I didn't need your help."

She frowned. "That isn't any way to thank someone."

"It wasn't meant to be."

Her blood boiled. "Ugh! You are such a bastard sometimes, you know that?" With that she left to go back next to Haru, who was smirking at him.

Neji glared at him menacingly. He was going on his kill list definately and was going to do something drastic such as start a riot with the boy sooner or later. Perhaps he could do that right now.

Then he saw Haru leading Tenten to the dance floor. He was not going to let him dance with her, not at all. Over his dead body. He strolled calmly over towards the couple, careful not to be suspiscious of anything.

Neji was pissed on the inside.

Tenten got herself a drink and hastily drank it down with one gulp. Neji could just be so...so...she couldn't think of the word, but it was somewhat a word to insult him. Haru looked at her oddly.

"Drinking a little too fast there with the champaine aren't you, Tenten?" He asked, lightly chuckling.

"Of course not. What gave you that idea?" She gulped down another glass, the alchohol burning her throat as it went down.

"Oh, nothing."

They stood in silence for a moment as Tenten continued to drink. She could feel Neji's eyes boring at the figures of her and Haru. Mostly Haru though. Then the silence was broken by the silver-haired teen.

"Care to dance, Tenten?" Haru held out his hand as an invitation for her to take it.

Classical music began to play all around them and other people had begun to wander in the middle of the room with their partners, as well as other companions to have fun and dance with.

Tenten grinned and placed her hand in his. "I would be delighted to dance with you."

To be honest, Tenten really didn't know how to dance to this kind of music. In fact, she had never danced in her life. Even if she wanted to, she was too busy sparring with Neji to have a chance to learn and if she did, she was tired and just wanted to sleep without any interruptions.

Haru led her to the dance floor and she laughed nervously, looking around at the other people who were already dancing to see if she could somehow copy their moves to know. This proved hopeless though because it seemed complicated to her.

'Someone please save me from this!' She screamed mentally.

And of course, she was saved. By the person she least expected it to be, Hyuuga Neji. Yes. Saved by the cold-hearted bastard she trained with. 'The' Hyuuga Neji. At least he didn't owe her anything now for when she saved him.

Neji tapped Haru's shoulder, making the teen turn around to face him. "I doubt she really wants to dance with you, Haru," He sneered.

"Oh, I think she does. She did agree, if you didn't hear, Hyuuga." Haru turned back around, ignoring Neji.

"We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way." He said coldly, cracking his knuckles.

Tenten looked back and forth between them. This was going to turn ugly if she didn't do something. She didn't feel like doing anything though, she was enjoying the fact that Neji wanted to beat up Haru for wanting to dance with her.

"I should be the one saying that to you," Haru stated.

He didn't expect Neji to appear in front of him. All he saw was a blur and a painful blow you his cheek. With that, he fell to the ground and touched the spot he was hit. Neji had punched him, of all people.

"Haru, meet my fist. Fist, meet Haru." Neji said triumphantly.

"Now you've done it bastard!"

Haru stood up and charged at him, his fist held back readying for an attack. Neji got into his usual fighting stance, a smirk playing upon his face. Just as Haru was a mere foot away, he was going to use Jyuuken on him. But he stopped in the middle of his assault when Hiashi appeared in front of him.

"Neji! You are not to cause problems among guests or harm them in any way," Hiashi stated fiercly, staring down at his nephew.

Neji grumbled and went to stand beside Tenten. He looked at Haru with hate filled in his pupil-less eyes.

"You are lucky my uncle saved you from being severely injured by me."

"I should say the same for you."

Haru was led away by a servent to have a look at his face to see if any real serious damage was done at all. Neji turned to face Tenten who was smiling at him, her brown eyes twinkling with awe.

"Thanks, Neji. I didn't really want to dance anyways."

"Why?"

She blushed in embarrassment and mumbled, "Because I don't know how..."

"I can teach you." Those words came out before he could stop them.

"I doubt you really want to. I would be wasting your time."

"No you wouldn't." Neji was going to remember to slap himself for being nice and suggesting such things. 'Might as well go along with it now.'

She blinked in surprise. "Really?"

"Yes. Save the last dance for me?"

This time his eyes softened from their constant penatrating gaze and he smiled gently at her. Not smirked, but smiled. Tenten was shocked at how odd he was acting. It was rare for him to ever smile. Correction, she had never even seen him smile once. At it was nice to. He looked even more handsome when he did.

"Of course I would," she barely managed to say, still unable to recover from her sudden shock.

"Alright then. First we bow." He bowed and Tenten did as well. "Now," he took her hand and held it out, he guided her hand to his shoulder, then rested his other hand on her waist pulling her closer to him. "We can begin. Follow my lead, Tenten."

Tenten was blushing furiously at how close they were as she let Neji show her how to dance. She did as told and followed his lead. She soon started to get the hang of it.

Naruto looked around for a large water pipe up in the attic of the Hyuuga manor as he was told to do. His companion, Shikamaru, was behind him and was also doing the same. He then saw a large cylindrical long pipe leading from the end of the mansion to the front.

"Hey, Naruto, I think I found it!" He yelled to his blonde friend.

"Alright! Now all we have to do is find where it's above Tenten's room." Naruto said.

The boy walked along the trailing pipe and stopped, peeking down a hole to find a girl's bedroom which he considered was Tenten's because it was filled with weapons along side the walls.

"Shikamaru, do you think this could be the spot?"

Shikamaru went over to where Naruto stood. "Yup. Seems like it." He searched for an electrical power box and quickly found it. "Now when you bust the pipe, the power will go out and I'll have to fix it. Tell me when you're ready."

Naruto did a performed a few seals before a replica of him was bside him. "Right."

He held out his hand and began to concentrate his chakra into the palm of his hand. His replica stabilized the chakra ball forming by hitting it in all places so as not to let it loose control. Then it disappeared and Naruto grinned.

"I'm ready."

"Okay." Shikamaru nodded.

"Rasengan!" Naruto plunged his hand into the metal pipe.

A large boom was heard as the pipe broke and water began to leak out everywhere. Soon afterwards the electricity went off just as Shikamaru had said and he soon began to rewire their connections to return the power.

"Mission accomplished!" They both smiled at each other and left the Hyuuga manor, a job well done.

"See? It's not so hard," Neji spoke.

"Yeah, it isn't as bad as I thought it would be." She grinned sheepishly.

She gazed up at Neji and their eyes locked. She swore she could have stared at his eyes all night and just drown in them. She noticed the distance between them was starting to close. Then the lights went out unexpectedly.

Men gasped and girls screamed with horror. Then they turned back on and people wondered what had happened. Neji and Tenten looked at eachother with confused expession etched on their faces. Their little moment was ruined.

Tenten cursed inwardly. 'I was so close! Damnit!'

"It's okay everybody," Hiashi's voice boomed, echoing all over the quieted ballroom. "Do not worry, you may return to your activities."

The music continued to play and everyone acted as if nothing happened.

Day 5

Tenten woke up in her bed, soaking wet.

"Oh my fucking god!" She screamed.