Suffering to protect (naruhina, sasusaku, saiIno, Nejiten)

Chapter 9

Tenten POV

Neji and I made it to our house quickly. We did not live in the Hyuga manor. Neji put me down and opened the door. I walked inside for the first time in 3 years, I began tearing up. I'm finally home. I then walked through the whole house with our bedroom being the last place. Nothing to drastically had changed. I walked over to the pictures that were in our room.

The first one was when we started dating. Surprisingly, I was the one who made the first move of asking him out. Thanks to the girls encouragement and support of course. The second one was of our wedding day. In this photo, you could see Neji was really happy because he was glowing like crazy. It was said that the girl was supposed to glow, but it was the other way around here. The next one was of Neji and me being pregnant of 7 months. It looked like I was about to go in labor of how my face looked in this one. The third one was when Hiro was just born with me being a sweaty mess. I looked over at the last one. It was a photo of me, Neji and a 2 year old Hiro playing. I started bawling once more. Man I have been crying a lot these day's. Neji came running.

"Tenten, what happened?" asked Neji. I turned around to face him with my tears still flowing, and he quickly rushed over to my side. "Hey. What's wrong?"

"I-I-I saw t-he ph-oto's an-d it re-mind-ed m-e of a-ll th-e hap-py ti-mes w-e h-ad wi-th ea-ch oth-er. B-ut th-en I ju-st ru-in-ed a-ll fo-r yo-u an-d Hi-ro." He pulled me into a hug.

"Shhh. It's Ok Tenten. No on is blaming you." "B-b-but, I st-ole you-rs an-d Hiro's happ-iness by no-t be-ing he-re."

"I admit I was really sad and depressed when you weren't here. I was sad and mad that I couldn't protect you. I would always blame myself because of it. Whenever I looked at Hiro, I would always be reminded of you. You guy's have the same weird habits. I would always get sad when Hiro would ask where his mommy was. It took a while but eventually I somehow learned how to live with the memories we shared. But when you came back, I was so happy you don't even know. It felt like things were looking good for me now that you were back in my life again. If you think I blame you for this, I don't. I don't resent you in any way Tenten. Tenten Hyuga you make me the happiest man alive and I will forever and always love you no matter what. So I ask you Tenten. Will you do me the honor of continuing being my wife again?" I cried even harder by what he said and without skipping beat, I immediately said yes. "Yes. Yes. I will be your wife again. And thank you for everything you said. It really means a lot." "No problem Tenten. Just wanted to remind you that you are the only one I will love."

I parted from Neji and looked him dead in the eyes. "Neji." I said in a dark tone. "Yes honey?" I could tell he was getting uneasy.

"What is for dinner. Cause I'm starving. And having all that hospital food was not good either." Neji didn't answer. "Neji honey?" All of a sudden he started laughing. All he does is smirk. "Oh, honey. I thought it was going to be something serious with the way your face looked like." "Well. Sorry that my face looks funny to you. I can't help that the hospital food didn't fill me." I began walking to the walk in closet to get some comfy clothes when suddenly I felt a presence behind me. I turned around and it was Neji. "Goodness Neji you almost scared me." I was heading to the bathroom when suddenly something held my wrist and turned me around and pushed me to the wall with my arms behind my back. "Ah. What the hell." I looked up and saw it was Neji. "What are you doing. Let me go Neji. I have to change and make food before Hiro comes back from spending time with the kids." No response.

Suddenly he began coming closer. "Neji. Really stop. I need you to let me go now." He didn't listen and before I knew it his lips were on my forehead and going down to my cheek and neck. "Neji. Please don't do this. Leave me." He wasn't listening. At this point I was having a panic attack. I still had a no touch policy after what happened to me and the girls. Same with the girls. I guess Neji felt me trembling and sweating uncontrollable cause he released his hold on my wrists and backed up a bit. I got a little bit of control and pushed him away. I went right out of there and into the kitchen to clear my head and calm down.