Marksmanship

"Hey," round dark eyes flicked up, "Lee?"

"Yes, Tenten?"

"Exactly how good," the whir of the kunai was consistent as ever, "do you think my aim is?" Glossy bangs covered his face as Lee returned his attention to his lunch and resumed eating.

"Very good, Tenten." Silence, save for the mechanic buzz of the blade slicing through the air at the dip of its endless rotations around practiced fingers. Lee looked up, mid-bite, eyebrows slanting and then slanting further at the grin on his teammate's face. He followed her gaze slowly across the training field and his eyebrows leapt under his bangs. "Tenten!!!" A sheet of hair covering a pale shirt gleamed as the third member of their team shifted while unpacking his lunch. "What are you planning?" he turned back to the grinning kunoichi, eyes still on her target.

"How good do you think my aim is?"

"I-I-" He looked frantically between his two comrades, "oh!" and then hung his head in despair. Miserably, the round eyes gazed across the field, "I bet you could pin his lunch sack to the tree." The whirring paused, as she allowed to kunai to pause in mid-spin.

"Think I could get closer?" Lee sighed and examined the passage of rice to Neji's mouth.

"You could definitely skewer a chopstick, Tenten."

"Too easy," she tossed the knife in the air and caught it on her left finger, "but that's not too bad." Lee thought hard and inspiration struck.

"Tenten, you could get the metal at the end of the head band string. Get the tip directly through it and stick it to the tree." He started as Tenten bounced to her feet and the knife flew inches from his face, zooming across the training field at an alarming rate. Time slowed as they watched the shine the knife had become eat inch after inch from the distance between it and the curtain of soft brown hair, and then time jerked into action with the flash of a pale hand. Neji stood up and flashed a veined pair of opaque eyes their way. "Oh," Lee moaned, "he's mad."

"Dang," snapped Tenten. "No fair, Neji!" she shouted. "Who just sits around with their Byukugan activated?" Neji closed his eyes and smiled as he leisurely approached them,

"I do when you're sitting within thirty feet of me with a weapon out. Good thing I do, too," the knife thudded into the ground. "You were going to miss."

"I-" Neji turned and began walking back. Furiously, she turned to Lee, "I was not!" Lee shook his head in agreement and smiled slightly.

"On both accounts."

"Huh?" Neji was coming back towards them with his lunch. "I think you hit something else as well."