NejiTen Oneshots And Drabbles

Hair

"Oh come on Neji, I'm bored!"

When she didn't get a response, Tenten scowled, crossing her arms across her chest. The weapons mistress didn't take too well to being ignored, especially when it was by her best friend.

"Neji!"

She heard him sigh, but he didn't move otherwise. Neji Hyuga appeared to be the personification of 'cool, calm, and collected," as he sat in the grass, legs crossed and eyes closed, back ramrod straight. Not much provoked a response from the Jonin, much to Tenten's annoyance, but she was used to it. They'd been partners forever after all, and they were closer to each other than they were to anyone else in all of Konoha.

"But Neji!" she groaned, dropping to her knees beside him. "I'm bored!"

"Then do something else," he said finally, his voice still as calm as ever.

"But I don't want to do something else!"

"Dammit Tenten," he snapped finally, and she almost smiled at succeeding in provoking the man. "I am sure you can find something other than playing with my hair to entertain you."

"But Neji!" she whined again. She was watching his usually stoic face carefully. Most people would say that he wasn't going to budge, but she knew him better than that. She could see that his resolve was beginning to crack. Victory was near. "Please?"

"…"

"Pretty please?"

"…"

"Pretty, pretty please?"

"Fine."

Tenten could barely hold back a happy squeal as she shuffled behind him, tugging out the tie in his long brown hair. Neji was grumbling something under his breath, back stiffening, but she didn't pay him any mind. She had gotten her way.

Then again, she usually did where the Hyuga was involved.

"What was that Neji?" she asked, a smile in her voice as she sat up on her knees to run her fingers through his long tresses. If she had been paying more attention to the man in front of her, she would have noticed the slight shiver that ran through his body, or the way his eyes drifted shut for a moment.

When she slid her hands into his hair to gently rub against his scalp, she could have sworn that Neji leaned back into her hands. But that couldn't be. The Neji Hyuga didn't do things like that. It was probably just her imagination.

"Neji?"

"Hn."

"I asked you what you said," she repeated, starting to gather his hair back into the beginnings of a French braid. Frowning slightly, she wondered why the man seemed so…distracted.

He hadn't been that way earlier when they had first set out on their mission. Team Gai was dispatched to a little village near the outskirts of Konoha to gather some information about a local gang leader. They had reached the town sooner than expected, and located the man they were sent to track down, thanks to Lee and Gai's 'motivation' and Neji's Byakugan.

They had gathered all the Intel they needed, and they should have been on their way home, but night fell and Gai suggested that they rest here for the night before heading out in the morning. Despite his suggestion to 'rest', Gai soon managed to rope Lee into another one of his ridiculous training exercises. So now the two of them were out in the forest somewhere, doing Kami knows what. Probably running laps on their fingertips.