Tenten's Troubles

Chapter 1
No Hair Ties?

Tenten woke up to a beautiful day. Like every other day, she ate breakfest, took a shower, got dressed, blow dried her hair, and then put it up... or did she? Tenten did not put her hair up, why? Because she had no hair ties. As she looked through the heap of junk and clothes AKA her room, she still couldn't find anything. At last, Tenten kneeled down in the middle of the hallway, threw her hands up and shouted.

" (Cough Cough) OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

Five Minutes Later-

"-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Screamed Tenten. She would've screamed longer, but the neighbors started yelling at her to shut up.

"Tenten, what the hell is going on?" Snapped Tenten's mother, peeking her head out of her bedroom.

"Oh! Mom, do you have any hair ties?" Asked Tenten hopefully. Tenten's mother pointed to her short hair.

"Do I need any?" She asked. Tenten proceeded her NO! scream.

"TENTEN!" Snapped her mother.

"Yeah?" Asked Tenten.

"Did you ever think of just going to training without your hair up?" Her mother asked.

"...Is that a trick question?" Asked Tenten, her mother huffed. "I'm just kidding. It's just that no one ever saw me with my hair down before."

"But your hair looks so nice down..." The older woman said.

"Yeah, but it gets in the way!" Said Tenten. "I don't want it in the way!"

"Oh get over it Tenten! I'll just buy you some hair ties, one day with your hair down, how bad could it be?"

Later-

Very bad. Tenten vowed herself to not throw kunais at the perverted men who were checking her out.

"Hey baby!" Said a guy. Tenten threw a shuriken at him which whizzed past the guy's head. She never said anything about shuriken...

Tenten made it to her training grounds where Lee and Neji were sparring. Okay, they weren't sparring, but Lee was trying to get Neji to spar with him.

"Come on Neji! Just one spar! I challenge you!" Said Lee.

"No." Was all Neji said.

"Is the great Hyuuga Neji afraid?" Said Lee.

"No."

"Five minutes!"

"No."

"Then you are afraid!"

Tenten sighed. The only thing smaller then Lee's fashion sense was his brain.

"Yo." She said, walking up to her two teammates. Lee and Neji both turned around to their teammate, but, of course, they didn't recognize her.

"Eh? Are you lost?" Asked Neji. Tenten looked confused. Didn't they recognize her.

"Uhm..." She started, but was interuppted when Lee started talking wierd.

"Ah! A beautiful flower! Surely you are the most beautiful creature to walk the planet!" Lee said. Tenten wasn't sure if it was a pick up line or an attempt to make her barf.

"Er... Lee? It's me, Tenten..." She said.

"WHAT! TENTEN!" Shouted Lee, as if Tenten was poison Ivy instead of a beautiful flower, even Neji was shocked. Lee ran across the training grounds and came back with a water bottle in his hands, he drank his water and then spat it all over Neji's face. Neji slowly turned his head to give Lee a scowl.

"GOOD MORNING MY STUDENTS OF YOUTH AND..." Gai trailed off. "Who are you?"

Tenten slapped her forehead.

"It's me Gai Sensei, it's Tenten..." She told. Gai gasped, he ran over to Lee and grabbed his water bottle, he took a drink and spat it all over Neji's face.

"...Are you guys going to do that all morning?" Asked Neji, wiping the mixture of water and saliva off his face.

"It can't be you! We haven't seen Tenten with her hair down since..." Gai stopped to start thinking. Neji sniffed the air.

"Do you smell smoke?" Neji asked in a puzzled voice.

"EVER!" Gai concluded.

"Well my hair's down! Get used to it! Let's just train!" Said Tenten.

"Tenten is right! Let's get down to business! We will spar!" Said Gai. "Lee will spar with Tenten and Neji will spar with me, alright?"

"Yes." Everyone answered, and they went to work.

While Tenten and Lee were sparring, Tenten couldn't help but think Lee was being distracted. But when Lee just stopped dodging her weapons to just stand there and gaze at her, she knew something was wrong.

"Lee! Stop obsessing over my hair!" Tenten shouted, which caused Lee to snap out of his daze.

"I'm not obsessing!" He defended.

"Lee!"

Gai and Neji stopped their spar to look at the two. Gai sighed.

"Okay, Lee and Neji will switch spots okay?" He said. They did as told and continued their sparring rituals.

Tenten was okay now because she knew Neji wouldn't do anything... well... she thought she knew. When they were doing close up combat, she could've sworn Neji stroked her hair.

"EW! Don't do that!" Said Tenten, backing up away from Neji.

"Do what?" He asked, looking confused. Tenten sighed.

"Never mind..." She said. What was she thinking? This was Hyuuga Neji.

They continued their spar without any interupptions, that is... until her hair got stroked again.

"EEP! GAI SENSEI, CAN I SPAR WITH YOU?" Asked Tenten, backing away from Neji. She could've sworn Neji murmer something like 'aw man' or something similar.

"Eh? What's going on?" Asked Gai, looking at Tenten, then Neji, then Tenten again.

"NEJI'S BEING A JERK!" She said.

"What did I do?" Asked Neji.

"You stroked my hair!" Snapped Tenten.

"Why would I do that?" Asked Neji, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't know!" Said Tenten. Gai sighed.

"Let's just take a break..." He said.

"No wait-" Started Tenten.

"Don't worry, it's all right! We could all use a break to enjoy our youths! Let's go take a walk around Konoha!" Said Gai.

"All right Gai Sensei!" Said Lee obediantly.

"Whatever..." Said Tenten.

The walk would've been normal but guys kept staring at Tenten, one guy even walked right into a pole because he was so preoccupied.

"Just kill me now..." Tenten grumbled under her breath.

"HEY LEE!" Shouted a voice, the 4 turned around and saw Naruto run up to them. The rest of team 7 caught up later.

"KAKASHI!" Shouted Gai, running up to his rival.

"Hi guys..." Naruto's voice trailed off. Tenten suppressed a groan. "Whoa... you guys got an upgrade..." Said Naruto, eyeing Tenten.

"Excuse me? I'm Tenten!" She yelled.

"Wha... seriously? Well in that case, you want to get some ramen with me?" Asked Naruto.

"No!" Snapped Tenten.

"You're Tenten?" Sasuke said questioningly, pointing at the weapons master.

"DUH! I just said that!" Said Tenten, getting really annoyed.

"Do you guys want to join us? We were going to get some ramen!" Said Sakura.

"Whatever..." Said Neji. The group ditched their rivaling teachers to walk to the ramen place. Sasuke was sort of slugging along in the back while the rest were ahead of him.

Tenten was happy that everyone else were just chattering like idiots so no one noticed her... well... ALMOST no one.

"I like girls with long hair..." Sasuke whispered in her ear causing her to jump.

"EW! YOU PERVERT!" Shouted Tenten, causing the whole group to turn around and look at Sasuke.

"What?" He said confused.

"You just whispered 'I like girls with long hair' in my ear you jackass!" Yelled Tenten.

"Number one, that was just some stupid rumor, and number two, I didn't whisper anything in your ear..." Said Sasuke.

"LIAR!" She screamed, pointing at him.

"Tenten, I don't think he said anything..." Said Naruto, putting his hand on Tenten's shoulder, which made Tenten even MORE uncomfortable, she shrugged Naruto's hand off. The group ignored what happened and continued walking. The others continues their conversation while Tenten crossed her arms. She KNEW Sasuke whispered in her ear.

"I wouldn't stand so close to Neji, he could use his byakugan to look down your shirt, can't blame him though..." Sasuke whispered.

"THAT'S THE FINAL STRAW!" Shrieked Tenten running off. Everyone looked at Sasuke.

"Wasn't me..." He lied.