The Girl With Two Buns. A NejiTen Fanfic

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All the anger Tenten felt earlier started to melt away and get replaced with self rebuking as she walked further away from the palace. She tugged at her hair and scolded herself for not being able to control her temper.

"Why are the heavens against me? Why?!" She screamed facing the sunny sky. The sun seemed to be mocking her with a bright Cheshire grin. "Stupid sun." Tenten cursed. "Stupid prince. Stupid mouth. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Tenten repeated remorsefully as she pulled at her hair.

"Why is my beautiful flower repeating the word 'stupid'?" A voice sounded from behind her. She needed not turn around to know who it was.

"Lee! I messed up at the interview!" Tenten groaned in complaint to her best friend, turning around to face him.

“That is awful news. Lee sympathized. “Don't you worry, the Hidden Leaf's lotus blossoms twice, you shall find another opportunity! If you do not, I shall run fifty hundred laps around the Konoha– on my hands!" He proclaimed loudly.

Tenten sighed. Her best friend would actually do according to his proclamation but his words served to inspire. "Thank you, Lee. What are you doing away from the shop?" She asked noticing the basket he carried on his back.

"I was on a delivery assignment." Lee informed as they got into a walking pace to the village. They talked on the way before parting ways as Tenten needed to get to her other workplace at the Inuzuka farm. By the time the day was over, Tenten was tired and weary. She sauntered homewards in need of a bath and sleep as her experience at the palace was stressful.

"Are you Miss Tenten?" A voice asked her from nowhere. Tenten jumped and whipped out a small knife from underneath her clothes before swiftly turning and pointing the blade at the man's neck, who had snuck up on her. "Calm down!" The man yelled, raising his hands above his head. "This is bothersome." He mumbled with a sigh.

Tenten could vaguely recognize the way he packed his hair from somewhere but where? Ah! He was behind the man she ran into at the palace. She had been so angry that she did not stop to apologize or even take a proper look at him. Tenten took a proper look at the man's attire in front of her and paled at the red swirl crest on them.

That symbol belonged to the royal family of the Whirlpool Kingdom. Unwittingly, Tenten remembered the colour of the clothes the man she bumped into was wearing; black and orange. Tenten froze. Black! She groaned internally. Black was royal colour along with purple and white. She yelled at two royal people in one day!

"Are you just realizing it? Your actions could put you in the dungeons for treason." The man burst her thoughts as if he had read her mind and Tenten visibly shuddered.

"A-are you here to capture m-me?" She asked shakily.

"I am not here for that. You must have lucky stars or something because my prince seems to like you. That or he just wants to annoy the hell out of Neji-sama." The man murmured the last part to himself but Tenten still heard it. "You, Tenten, have been hired as Prince Neji of the Kingdom Hidden in the Leaf's personal assistant under the orders of Prince Naruto of the country of Whirlpools, Princess Hinata's...this is such a drag." Shikamaru groaned and rolled up the ridiculously long scroll he had rolled open without completing the message in it.

Tenten blinked. Did she just hear correctly?

"Yes, you heard correctly. You are Prince Neji's personal assistant as of today and are in for a lot of headache. What a drag. Be early to the palace tomorrow, there would be a lot of drama." Shikamaru yawned as he walked away from Tenten. The knife holding hand she had extended remained outstretched. Along with the knife, was a stamped envelope which Shikamaru had placed there and she assumed was a palace pass.