I Am You?! (NejiTen)

9- I care about you too

"Neji!" Tenten clumsily pushed the buttons of her house lock pad and barged inside the place. Her eyes searched frantically for Neji and when she did not see him in the living room, she surmised that he was in her room or bathroom.

Tenten climbed the stairs taking three at a time to the top. She opened the door to her room and saw a horrible scene live out of a horror movie. Neji was sprawled out on the floor and there was blood!

"NEJI!"

Neji groaned at how loud Tenten was. He didn't think his larynx could handle the new volumes Tenten was taking his voice to. "Tenten I am not dead or dying, don't make me feel like the Rapture is here already."

Tenten released a sigh of relief. "You scared me!" She complained.

"My respect to women has taken on a whole new level. I am only happy that I was not stuck in a woman in labour." Neji groaned again when a wave of backache, headache and stomachache hit him.

"Dah..." Tenten was short of words for a while. "Have you used some ibuprofen?" She managed.

"It doesn't work!"

"Yeah...I know. I am sorry I didn't warn you about my menses but my menstrual period was held back for two months so I wasn't sure if it would come this month." Tenten admitted sheepishly. Her menstrual cramps were always on a whole different level, aching so much that pain killers didn't work.

"You eat too much sugar!" Neji complained/diagnosed. "That is why you have terrible cramps and an irregular cycles. Gah!" Neji groaned again as his stomach churned. "Where on earth are the tampons?!"

"Oh right!" Tenten ran to the bathroom for the tampons only to find out that she had none. "Wow, I was really happy that my period didn't come so I didn't stock up on tampons. I actually thought I hit menopause." Tenten mused to herself.

She had been strangely happy when her period didn't come for the first month because the pain that came with it was unbearable. Oh well. At least Neji's bearing the pain for her now. Ha! He was paying for his generational sins.

"Er...I don't have any tampons." Tenten poked her head inside the room to make her announcement. "So I am going to get some now. Try not to get more blood on the carpet and don't lie on your stomach or back or you'll regret it. I'll be back!"

Tenten vaguely wondered why she was given strange looks at the convenience store when she went to the sanitary pad aisle. Okay, she was a man now but who cared?! She was buying it for her...boyfriend? Girlfriend? What would she refer to Neji in her body as? Why was she even thinking thoughts like that?

Her disguise was on point too so nobody could recognize her as Neji. Why then were they looking at her as though she had blue skin?!

"Neji, I'm back." Tenten announced as she entered the room.

"Goodness gracious!" Neji jumped back with a start when he saw her 'disguise'. "Tenten seriously? What happened to facemasks?" He asked dryly, well as dryly as a man having menstrual cramps could speak.

Tenten literally wrapped a scarf around her face like the typical cartoon description of a ninja and wore shades over her eyes. She looked like a martian if they even existed. Picture the image.

The woman removed her disguise with a pout. "I was rushing okay? Come now, can you stand on your own?" Tenten asked.

"I'll try?" Neji grunted and tried to lift himself up. The journey to the bathroom was excruciating and blood dripped enough to leave a trail but they finally got there.