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JULY THIRD

Thump Thump Thump

Neji opened his eyes, turned over, and ignored the irritating noise from the side of his bed.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The noise seemed to be louder, and why was his bed creaking?

Thump. Thump. THUMPTHUMPTHUMP

"Tenten..."

The figure beside him finally stopped jumping (invading his peace, he tells himself). And with that he immediately figures out what day is was today.

"Happy Birthday Neji!" she exclaims. Her buns are lopsided, but he sees the brown eyes and the dark shadows framing her face and heck, he's calm now.

He turns over to check his clock. It's 12:03 am, and it's awfully early, and his teammate is in his room.

Then he turns back to her with a worried face.

"I'm the first one, aren't I?" she asks. Her eyes are pleading and he doesn't know what to say, but he assumes she's right because she's the only one who visited him after 12 am this morning.

Neji croaks and rubs her head. "Yeah, you are"

And with that said Tenten is squealing in delight and Neji is watching her with careful eyes.

It had always been like this. Tenten going into his room, one way or another, with the sole purpose to be the first one to greet the Hyuga on his birthday. And that was a record that she kept, unbreakable.

But suddenly he gets suspicious because how the heck did Tenten get in my room in 12:03 in the morning?

He sighed, as the girl on top of him got off and started to act shy.

"Tenten?" he called her.

"Yes?" she replied.

"How did you get in here?" he asks. Maybe by some magical force his teammate was able to evade tens of dozens or byakugan users surrounding his house.

But that was Tenten in that matter, and she probably could have.

"Hiashi-sama let me in," she says.

That came unexpected.

"Hiashi-sama let you in?" he repeats, and his tone is so questioning that Tenten laughs.

"Yeah"

She eyed his room happily.

"But how?" he inquires.

"Well..."

The girl beside him puts her legs up to her chest and hugs them. "Easy," she continues.

"I told him I wanted to be the first one to greet you happy birthday"

She's blushing, but he doesn't know why, but takes this as an opportunity to thank her.

And suddenly it's peaceful in his room, with the faint light of the moon illuminating though his windowsill, while Tenten lay down in his bed, sighing.

Then she turned to him again. "Happy Birthday, Neji" she sighs.

Neji is smiling, and It's because after all these years she was the one who greets him on his birthday.

It was always Tenten.

"You said that already," he says.

Tenten likes repeating herself, he says in his mind.

Then she looks at him with a small smile plastered on his face and suddenly Neji feels happy and contempt and whatnot because Tenten is just so damn cute.

"I know that," she replies.

"It's just that..."

He is waiting for her answer, because out of pure curiosity, he needs to know what this helluva cute girl has to say.

Then he is shocked because Tenten pounced on his back, her slender arms snaking around his chest, and suddenly he's so happy and confused and...

"I-I just miss you so much, Neji," she wails, because she doesn't know what the heck why either.

He pats her on the back calmly while she buries her face onto his shoulders.

And it feels so nice because Tenten, his Tenten, is hugging him right now simply because she misses him

"But Tenten, we just trained yesterday" he tells her, but she whimpers and tightens her grip even more.

"I know, Neji, but I miss you"

It's light and confusing but extremely comfy because he could feel her hot breath and her wet face in his shoulder.

"I miss you"

He smiles.

"I really, really miss you Neji. I just miss you"

Tenten is confused too, but she keeps one thing in mind and it's that this charming fellow she calls her teammate is someone who she genuinely cares for and not someone she is willing to lose. And yet her standards are extremely high.

Maybe it's just coincidence, but all in all Neji is just happy that there is a female presence who he loves and cares for clutching into his broad shoulders, and it's extremely calming.

Charming, even.

And they stayed put in silence, with the sweet humming of the wind as he hugged him tightly.

Neji examined the girl on his shoulder, the brown locks in her head which were carefully parted in the two sides of her head, the baggy clothing that she always chose to wear, and that amazing scent of cinnamon and chocolate filled his senses.

And it all becomes clear to him because somehow he always knew he would end up with her, no matter how much time it took.

It even appealed to him that on every year's July Third this lovely girl would be the first one who greets him a happy birthday.

Neji shoved off the fact that he hates birthdays.

He carefully lays her down on his bed with a small smirk on his face, where he lay down as well.

Days like this had always been appealing to the Hyuga.

When the kunoichi he called his best friend would come to visit him in the middle of the night, the girl who became his first friend, who he was able to open up, who sparred with her, who had been with him to hell and back.

Then he closed his eyes, sighing softly. Then he recieved a small tug his shoulder, as he turned around to the sleeping girl.

"Neji?"

"Yes?"

"Happy Birthay, okay?"

Neji Hyuga decides that July Third is a special day.

END

Short for a first fic, eh? To be continued with more stories, in which some I extract from my other one shots-which is totally NOT cheating, because they're still my fics, right?