NejiTen Oneshots And Drabbles

Past Death Do Us Part

This is a oneshot in which Neji and Tenten, as kids, having a pretend wedding. Enjoy!

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The world was bigger than they first thought. If an attic seemed like a new country, a new dimension, what more would the rest be?

A sneeze erupted from Tenten's tiny nose, making her wipe the back of her hand against her face. Dust has always done that to her. Early years allergies. The doctor says it'll be gone in a few years' time, so she didn't need to worry. An inhaler works, though. As for Neji, he could feel his eyes water terribly, with his cheeks nearly sodden from the invading grime. Having big, beautiful eyes had its drawback…

"I don't like it in here," she honestly told Neji, who was too busy to even feel her tap his shoulder. When she saw that he was too engrossed in finding whatever he was scouring for, she simply shrugged and took note of her surroundings, taking great notice of the unusual atmosphere: Attics didn't have flowers positioned in every corner. Why was it that the Hyugas' attic had handpicked baby's breath even between the floorboards?

Pretty as it seemed, the minute petals hung in the musky darkness of the attic. The windows draped away the sunshine outside with only an air vent slashed with jalousies to permit fresh air to enter the mysterious chamber. Tenten had a feeling Neji was here to play with her. Hearing the creaks of the pull-down stairs descending to the fourth-story corridor, Neji called for Tenten's attention, telling her, "Stay here. I have to find them…"

"Find what?!" Tenten nearly squeaked, hearing Neji's terminology, "Don't tell me you caught a bug!" Truthfully, the sight of a ladybug or a black widow excites Tenten's senses. But to have an insect crawling through her arms in such a venue wasn't her idea of hair-raising fun. After all, she was still a girl. She hated it when bugs entered her shirt. Only Neji was the one who'd pour honey onto his belly button, lie on the lawn and wait for ants to tickle him.

Finally, Neji shut the trunk he was searching in and turned to Tenten, explaining, "No bugs today, Tenten. I have something more important to do with you," Walking towards the skeptical playmate he has always had, Neji held out his clenched hand, taunting her, "Go on. Close your eyes! It's a surprise! You like surprises."

"Not if it's going to hurt me," Tenten argued, pouting and slipping her arms into a fold across her flat chest, "The last time I closed my eyes, you slipped three dog biscuits into my sweater. That wasn't a good surprise for me," She couldn't forget that incident. The three dog biscuits in her sweater didn't hurt, but when Kiba's dogs started chasing them, things got out of hand.

At her stubborn personality, Neji rolled his eyes and mumbled, "Do you think I'd want to hurt you, Ten? Come on! Just close your eyes. Okay, how about one eye? Fair enough?" He smiled weakly at her as she eyed him intently. He groaned when she turned to leave, "Isn't there enough justice in what I just said? Please?"

She stopped in her tracks, rolling her eyes. He was confusing her with those vocabulary words of his again. Only because she gets mediocre education in the public day care… "Alright," she gave in, facing Neji once again and his eagerly closed fist, "What's your surprise? But if you do something nasty again, I'm going home and never going to give you cookies again."

"I swear it's not going to hurt you!" Neji defended, placing his hands on his hips in a manly stance, "If I wanted to hurt you, I'd just push you down the stairs! Now, close your eyes. Or one, at least. So I can already give you the ultimate surprise," The mellow glow in his cheeks made Tenten trust him infinitely for that one moment.