I Am You?! (NejiTen)

22- Various jumbled emotions

Neji's eyes widened to the size of saucers at what Sasame was saying. His head spun and he felt dizzy. She was pregnant, with his child and she had a sonogram to prove it. Two weeks along. The words were jumbled up in his brain with shock but it was not enough shock as the one he felt when Tenten's voice suddenly sounded from behind Sasame.

He and Tenten's relationship had been rocky lately so he least expected her to come to his house. She had impeccable timing, Neji sneered at himself mentally. He had done it. They were over.

"So this is why you have been acting weird lately." Tenten's words did little to hide the spite that radiated off her in waves. She was angry. No, she was...betrayed. "You're a sick piece of shit, Neji." And Tenten left with those parting words.

"Tenten!" Neji brushed past Sesame to catch her by her arm. The way the woman shrugged his hand off like he was a disgusting insect hurt a lot but he still spoke. "I- I wasn't cheating on you." Real smooth, brain. Neji scolded the wayward clump of spaghetti in his cranium that he called a brain for providing him with words that only ignited Tenten's anger.

Tenten's mouth was left open in speechlessness. She caught herself and started counting backwards from 1000 minus 7. "You slept with her, did you not?"

1000, 993, 986

"I- yes but I swear it was unintentional-"

"There you have it. You slept with her and you cheated." Tenten cut his rambling short. She needed to get out of there as soon as possible otherwise she would do something she regrets. She wasted no time in spinning on her heels.

979, 972, 965...

"Tenten..." She was not listening. She walked to her car and promptly drove off, leaving Neji with a miserable feeling welling in his chest.

-

Tenten pulled over at her garage but did not get out of the car. She stared numbly at the steering wheel as she reminisced the day's event. Her body moved on auto pilot so she did not realise that she had called a number on her phone until a voice wafted through the car's speakers.

"Hello? Hello? Tenten-san?"

"Oh." Was the only thing Tenten could say.

"Is something wrong? Are you okay?"

"C-can we meet?"

Tenten felt rather than heard somebody taking the barstool next to hers and collecting her drink from her hand. She turned around to scowl at the person but was met with Gaara's expressionless stare. An effing mannequin, that was what the dude was.

"You have had a lot to drink." Gaara said as he pulled the almost empty bottle of tequila away from Tenten's hand. She had taken the bottle to drink from it instead.

"Why did I call you again? You are a very mean bunny goat." Tenten pouted. Her words sounded articulate at first but her choice of insults was what alerted Gaara to her drunkenness.

"You're drunk." Gaara stated.

"No. I am lightly buzzed. When I start stripping and dancing Mackerena, that's when you know I'm drunk. Now hand it over." Tenten reached for the bottle but Gaara raised it high above his head. Damn women and their curse to be shorter than men.

"You would not like yourself in the morning." The redhead warned and at the same evaded Tenten's attempts to jump and snatch the bottle. They probably looked silly but neither cared. Something was clearly up with Tenten today.

Gaara was sure about that last fact when Tenten suddenly started leaning closer to him rather than attempt to take the alcohol bottle. His free hand moved on its own accord and came in between his lips and Tenten's. Gaara's green eyes were wide with surprise at what Tenten just attempted.