Secret

Part 6

The girls plus one boy was looking at Tenten strangely when she started muttered 'OH SHIT!' to herself. Unable to understand what could have caused her to panic so suddenly.

"Ano Tenten chan are you okay?" Hinata asked unsure looking at her panicking friend.
"Hehehe, remember when I told you guys that I might have pissed off some guy at the mall last week" Tenten answered nervously looking around.
"Yeah, it sounded hilarious" Ino added non phased.
Hikaru sensing that something must have really bothered Tenten asked;
"Tenie, is there something wrong right now?"
"Hikaru, that guy was kinda mad at me for calling him a girl and I just ran off afterwards." Tenten whined.
"So what is the problem Tenten chan?" Hinata questioned.
"The problem is that guy is walking right here, like right now" Tenten answered pointing discreetly in the direction of the fuming boy.
They all looked at the direction and sure enough a guy with a serious pissed off expression was walking towards them followed by a couple of other boys behind.
"I am done for, what do I do?" Tenten panicked.
"Relax, Tenten, just act like you don't remember him at ALL" Ino advised sagely.
"Yeah, pretend" Tenten agreed.
Hinata and Hikaru just watched as Tenten took Ino's advice and started calming down.

Just as Tenten had calmed down, a stern voice was heard.

"Hello there" Neji stated after reaching them.
"Hey!" Hikaru replied.
Neji stared down at Hikaru while he kept staring at him. The boys had come to a standstill and were watching the staring competition between the two. Neither of them looked away from each other. The girls held their breath, hoping that he realize that Hikaru is a girl. While the boys just watched when suddenly Naruto noticed the violet haired girl sitting on the bench.
"Hey there, remember me. We met at the café" Naruto hollered at the shy girl effectively breaking the other two from there staring contest.
"H.Hello" Hinata stuttered.
"Hinata! What are you doing here?" Neji questioned directing his attention to his cousin.
"I.I was h.here with m.my f.friends." Hinata stuttered.
"I see" Neji replied getting irritated with all her stuttering.

Everybody just watched the exchange trying to figure out how they know each other.
"Oye Neji! How did you know her name?" Naruto yelled at Neji while pointing his finger at him.
"Shut up idiot, Hinata san is my cousin." Neji replied distastefully staring at the girl.

Everybody just stared at Hinata and Neji finding the obvious traits common between them, being their pale eyes.
"SO wait, Hinata chan you are related to this person?" Hikaru asked pointing at the mentioned cousin.
"Yes, Hikaru kun, Neji ni-san is my cousin." Hinata answered back.

Ino and Tenten kept looking at everyone while Tenten was internally panicking and Ino just raised her brow when suddenly a cunning scheme came into her head.
"Wow, hina chan I didn't know that you could be related to someone with such feminine beauty." Ino drawled out wickedly.

Everyone become silent and only the sound of faint cricket chirping could be heard. Tenten just looked at Ino thinking 'What is wrong with her, it's bad enough I thought that he was a girl and now she is pointing it out sooooo easily. That guy was fuming. I don't want to die so young'.
Hinata just looked at Ino like she was crazy; Neji would not take kindly to that statement.
Similarly, the boys were thunderstruck that the blonde girl just called their friend a feminine beauty. Naruto wanted to laugh so bad that tears were starting to form in his eyes but he kept quiet not wanting to incur any wrath from Neji on to himself. Shikamaru and Sasuke just watched the whole scene with concealed amusement. Neji was livid 'How dare she call me that. Twice in one week, first I get called a girl now, I have feminine beauty.'
Neji was just about to yell at the blondie when the sound of laughing permeated the air. Only one thought ran through everyone's head 'What the hell!'