Her Everything

"Neji… I'm so fricken' in love with you that I'm not going to let you go without telling you this…"

Neji turned around, "Hm?"

Tenten shifted her knee slightly, and looked up at him, "You're my everything,, and if you don't come back alive, I'm going to die."

He smiled slightly, "You're my everything, and I'll die to protect you," he said, gently kissing her one last time before he left.

It was an S-ranked mission.

Sixty percent chance of death.

It had taken three years, but it was completed.

The ANBU team sent on this mission had been separated. It had consisted of me, Uzumaki, Uchiha, and Inuzuka.

The four of us had separated just last month to chase after the enemy. Apparently they were from Orochimaru.

Out of the four of us, everyone knew that I was the most desperate to stay alive and get back home. Back to her.

Tenten.

The village had known of our relationship the minute I asked her out. If I asked her out in a private place, where Yamanaka wasn't there, the village might've known by next week. It wasn't all bad though. At least those damn perverts stopped staring at her. She was mine, and everyone knew it.

Before I left, she told me I was her everything.

"Neji… you're my everything."

She was my everything.

I loved her. The first thing that caught my attention was her hair. It was always held up in that fashion, so it wouldn't get in her eyes. Of course her bangs did, but then she'd pin them up. I had known her as the bun-haired-girl-who-had-scarily-good-accuracy-and-was-really-cute girl who was just in my cell.

As time passed, I got to know her better. How her parents died, but she put on that cheerful face so no one would waste time worrying over her. She'd mask her pain and illnesses, and if it was really that horrible, she would go to Sakura. She never missed a spar, but if I could see she was suffering, it meant she was too ill to cover it, and then I let her go home. Or rather, I had to drag her back. She was constantly saying how she didn't want to disappoint anyone, or let them down.

I didn't realize I had fallen in love with her until she was bandaging one of my wounds. Her delicate fingers were tracing the wounded area gently, and she handled the bandages like her own weapons. Most people had difficulty with bandages. I remembered for my birthday, Hinata-sama had tried to dress up like me. She did fine overall, but she couldn't get the bandages.

Uzumaki tried to bandage my arm once, and messed up before he even started.

Uchiha glared at the bandages to make them move, but obviously, no avail.

Yamanaka apparently had her mother bandage her.

And then Tenten. She had a set of bandages around her stomach and waist area. She had muttered something about 'rapists' and 'kill'. She put thin weapons between them, such as shuriken, so they were hidden, but easy to reach if there was a sudden enemy.

It amazed me how she never pricked herself.

When she had finished bandaging my wound, I don't know what came over me, but I spun around abruptly and kissed her.

We were both shocked at first. I never imagined I would be kissing her, and she told me afterwards that she didn't think I had enough emotion to kiss anyone.

That just makes me feel so much better.

I loved her so much it was enough to drive me insane. It was almost like a paradox, she was enough to drive me insane, yet she was enough to keep me from going insane.

I hated paradoxes. Those were Tenten's things. Not mine.

Uzumaki and Uchiha didn't really have a girlfriend. At this point they were now competing over Haruno. Apparently Uzumaki's crush developed into a love, and Uchiha finally came to his senses. Now they were rivals in love.

Inuzuka didn't have a girlfriend. Yet. That's what he said. Hinata was always disappointed how Naruto didn't notice her love, and eventually she stopped loving him. She secretly loves Inuzuka, and he's loved her ever since Academy days, but both of them are too shy to admit it.

Three years since I've seen her.

Three years without her touch, her voice, her love.

It's enough for me to go mad.

I stop abruptly and stare. Konohagakure. I've made it back.

I glance up at the sky. All these years, and she's still my everything.

She's still my everything.

I just hope… I'm still her everything.

XxOoOoOoOxX Tenten's P.O.V.

I sighed as I walked towards the Konoha gate. Three years. Damnit. Damn that Hyuuga. I don't know if he's alive or not, damnit damnit damnit!

I still love him. Sakura's been debating over who to go with, Naruto or Sasuke. Hinata's now in love with Kiba, and vice versa, but they're too shy to admit it. Shikamaru got together with Temari, and Ino… well Ino is still Ino, flirting with every single man there is.

He's my everything. He still is.

…I just hope I'm still his.

XxOoOoOoOxX Normal P.O.V.

Neji slowly walked towards Konoha, hardly believing he made it alive. An S-ranked mission, sixty percent chance of death. No idea if the rest of his team is alive, but he's alive.

He stopped abruptly as he caught sight of a familiar brunette.

"…Tenten."

Tenten jerked her head up and dropped the fan she was holding, "Ne… ji…"

She bit her lip as she walked towards him, pausing every few steps, "Is it… are you…"

He smiled slightly and stepped forward catching her in his arms, "I'm alive."

Hot tears spilled out of her brown eyes as she held on to him tightly, "Neji… I really hate you. You made me worry a lot, you know?"

"I know."

"…But I still love you."

"I do too."

I just know…

We're still each other's everything.