Here it is: Chapter 6! :) (Finally xD) Sorry for the year-long writer's block.

Warning: There is some language in this chapter.

Oh, btw, I edited all the other chapters. It's just minor things that I fixed; nothing major.

I've actually had this chapter on my computer for like two weeks, but I kinda forgot about putting it up. v___v

I kept running until I didn't know where I was.

Crap.

I looked around, trying to find something I recognized. Nothing. I scratched my head. I figured I would be able to find my way home as soon as I left the nurse's office, but I didn't realize that this school was so huge.

That's what I get for not thinking ahead.

I looked at all the buildings surrounding me, but I couldn't figure out how to find my building.

I felt the presence of someone behind me. It was another gift I had; besides weapons, I was able to tell when someone was nearby. Unless I wasn't paying attention: that was the only way people could surprise me.

I heard footsteps approaching. I gulped. Don't turn around! I told myself. But, of course, my body didn't listen. As soon I was about to turn, I felt a knife pressed against my throat. My eyes widened, and I gulped.

This is the end! My life -- about to be ended. I closed my eyes. My knees felt weak beneath me. I didn't even finish high school, didn't even have my first kiss, didn't even do anything with my life.

Oh, God.

I don't want to die! Someone save me! I don't care who!

I felt tears threatening to spill out of my eyes. And I rarely cried.

I looked at my soon-to-be murderer. He had silver hair, which was slicked back, and light-colored eyes that glinted in the moonlight. He was taller than me, and was staring deep into my eyes. He had a smirk on his face. Evil bast --

I was about to finish my thought when he started laughing. Laughing! I looked at him, utterly confused.

He still hadn't moved the knife away from my throat.

"What's so funny?" I demanded.

He wiped his eye. "Your face! Fuckin' priceless!" He sighed. "Like hell I would kill somebody. I'm not that frickin' stupid."

So many questions popped into my head, so I started with the simplest one. "Who are you?"

"My name's Hidan." He took the knife away from my throat and slipped it in his pocket. "And you?"

"Tenten. What are you doing here?"

"What is this? Fuckin' twenty questions? How about you just thank me for not slashing you with this thing." He motioned to the knife, and then licked the blade.

"THANK YOU?" I screamed, incredulously, my voice suddenly getting higher.

"You're welcome," he murmured, with a smirk on his face.

"Ugh!" I groaned. "What are you doing here?" I repeated.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Going for a walk. I saw you escape from the nurse's office -- remembered you from yesterday -- so I figured it would be frickin' hilarious to scare the shit out of you!" He began laughing again. "It was worth it!"

A light bulb went off in my head. "How do you know me?"

"I'm in the same gang as Itachi. How else?" He continued looking at me. "I beat those fuckers up yesterday for you. You should thank me again."

I groaned. "Thanks."

He winked at me. "You're welcome. Sorry for scaring you, but you have to admit it was funny." He looked up at the sky. I was about to make some comment when he quickly said, "I better go. Later." He waved goodbye, and I quickly thought of something.

"Hidan!"

He turned around. "Hm?"

"How do I get to the park?" I realized I could probably get back to my room from there.

"Park? Oh yeah. Keep going this way --" He pointed in the direction he was going. "--And then take a left when you get to a big sign that says 'Konoha Academy Park -- Turn left.' And there you are," he said. "It doesn't take a frickin' rocket scientist."

"Thanks!"

And then he disappeared. I sighed, and kept walking. I heard a rustle in the bushes beside me, and a figure walked out. I was about to beat the figure unconscious when he said,

"Tenten! It's me, Neji."

I paused. "Neji? What are you doing here?"

He kicked a fallen tree branch out of the way and walked over to me. "What am I doing here? Don't you mean what are you doing here?"

"I escaped from the nurse's office," I explained calmly. "You?"

He snatched a shiny object out of his pocket, which I recognized as the knife that I had took with me -- what, yesterday? I rolled my eyes. "That again? You have serious knife issues."

Wordlessly, he threw the weapon as far as he could -- deep into the forest, lost forever.

"What. The. Hell?" I said. "That was mine!" I knew I had told Neji I was going to get rid of it, but I didn't actually plan on doing that.

"It's against school policies."

I scoffed. "Goody two-shoes."

Neji turned and walked away.

"Hey!" I exclaimed, running up behind him. "You're just going to leave me?"

He nodded his head.

"You're not worried that someone will try to attack me again?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "No. It is your fault for running away."

I groaned. "Well . . ." I looked Neji straight in the eyes. "It's good to know that people care about me," I murmured sarcastically.

"HEH?!" I screamed loudly. "Midterms! Why didn't anyone tell me?"

I slammed my head on the desk. I should have stayed in the nurse's office.

It was school, on Friday, and I had just discovered that it was midterms for all of the classes.

I lifted my head from my desk. Shikamaru, who was sitting in front of me, leaned back in his chair. "Midterms? Oh. Ino told me to tell you. We have midterms." He scratched his head. "Guess I forgot."

FORGOT! FORGOT! How the hell can you forget that?

"Heh. Thanks." My eye twitched.

He shrugged his shoulders, and sat up straight in his chair.

I hadn't been in this school from the beginning of the year, so I didn't know anything.

It was Math first . . . well, specifically, Geometry.

I closed my eyes, relaxing for a moment, and then looked at the paper in front of me. I breathed out loudly.

Okay. Let's begin.

Number 1 . . .

My mouth dropped open. I'm doomed!

Sai, who sat to my left, was watching me closely. Neji was on my right and his pencil was circling answers so fast that I didn't know if he even read the question.

Stupid geniuses.

I looked up at Sai, who, after noticing me looking at him, smiled.

I twirled my pencil in my hand. How was I supposed to concentrate with him staring at me?

I tried to put on a face that said 'What the heck are you looking at?' and he must have realized. He shifted his paper towards me.

Now I understood.

I gulped, and looked up at Kurenai. She was busy with other things, her eyes glued to the computer. I looked to Sai, then to Kurenai. Then Kurenai to Sai. Then Sai to Kurenai again. And this continued for a few more seconds.

She won't catch me cheating . . . right? (A/N: I am not promoting cheating! Okaayy? xD)

I thought Sai was pretty smart, but after thinking why he was doing this, I was at a total loss.

No, no. I can't cheat. It's wrong. It's not like me. I beat people up. I break rules. But one rule I don't break is cheating. I-I'm not good with these types of things. I'm not a very good liar either.

I looked back to my paper. Then back to Sai's.

A was the answer to the first question. Shoot! I didn't mean to look!

I looked to Neji. He was just holding his pencil in his hand, staring at his paper. I could see him staring at me through his peripheral vision. He was waiting to see what I would do.

I circled A on my paper.

Did you ever feel like your heart was about to jump out of your chest?

I did. Right now.

Next is C. Then C again. D, B, A, D.

I noticed that the last three answers spelled the word 'bad'. How ironic.

By this time I felt as if it were five-thousand degrees in the room.

I was about to circle the next answer when the phone rang, and Kurenai went to pick it up.

B.

"Tenten!" Kurenai yelled, after she had already put the phone back.

The blood drained from my face. She caught me! What do I do?

"Please come here."

I abruptly stood up, and walked over to Kurenai. My knees nearly gave out as I made the long (or at least it seemed that way) walk up to her desk. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Neji smirking. Grrr. . .

"The guidance counselor wishes to speak to you regarding your adjustment to this school," she whispered to me.

I let out a sigh of relief, which she noticed.

"Are you okay?"

"Yep," I replied happily, before leaving the classroom.

I failed my Math midterm, obviously. I had completed less than half of the test before I had to leave, and when I had completed it, Sai wasn't there. So I failed. I was almost happy; cheating felt so wrong.

Science midterm, as Shikamaru would say it, was troublesome. Orochimaru is just, I don't know, a weird guy overall. He has snakes in his classroom. Poisonous snakes. History was okay. My best subject is history, so I'm pretty sure I passed.

Right now it's lunch, and there's nothing out-of-the-ordinary happening. It was nice to be back to school. It felt strange thinking that -- any normal person would want to stay home from school, unless they hate nurse's offices. Like me.

Ino and Sakura were sitting on either side of me. Usually, they would be sitting together, but they were in an argument (or disagreement, as Sakura called it) over who Sasuke liked better.

Flashback

"He likes me better, piggy! It's so OBVIOUS!" Sakura was yelling at Ino, and Ino stomped her foot.

"No! Have you seen the way he looks at me?" Ino knocked on Sakura's forehead. "For having such a large forehead, there sure is nothing going on in there, huh?"

Sakura growled. "Pig!"

"Forehead!" Ino spat.

Before this argument escalated, I decided to stop it. I stood in the middle of both of them. "Stop arguing! Listen, why don't you just ask him?"

Even though I knew the answer -- neither. Sasuke was completely devoid of emotions. Along with Neji. Although Sasuke probably has more of a heart than Neji, I thought, remembering when Neji said he would just leave me alone yesterday.

"We were not arguing," Sakura stated. "We were disagreeing."

Ino frowned. "No, we were arguing."

"Disagreeing."

"Arguing!"

"Disag--!"

"I'm going to go ahead of you guys. See ya at lunch." I did not want to hear their feud of whether earlier was a disagreement or an argument.

Which brings us to the present.

"We can't just ask Sasuke," Ino grumbled. "Sasuke's like -- what? -- the hottest guy in school. Unless . . ."

Sakura grinned. "Unless . . . you ask him . . . for us?" It was more of a question than a statement, in my opinion. I sighed. I hate when someone asks their friend to ask a guy if he likes her.

"No." I closed my eyes, folded my arms, and leaned back in my chair.

"Why not?" Ino asked.

"Because I won't."

Sakura frowned. "Why won't you -- oh, by the way, Neji's staring at you."

"That's nice," I said calmly. But inside, I was thinking, Why is Neji staring at me??

"You don't care?" Ino said slowly.

"Not at all. Neji's a creep -- didn't I tell you that when I first met you? So it's nothing unusual."

"Wow, I'm exhausted!" I collapsed on my bed. This had been the longest week of my life. I had nearly been killed like five times, hadn't had much sleep lately, been bored to death in a nurse's office for about twenty-four hours, and to top it all off, I had midterms, which I FAILED.

And, of course, the usual: Having Neji and Sasuke as roommates, but I was getting used to that now. I have been here for what, two weeks?

I hugged my pillow, and eventually drifted off to sleep.

I looked behind me -- three large guys were chasing after me. One of them had a gun. I gulped and ran faster.

No matter how fast I ran, they seemed to be coming closer each time I looked back.

It began raining. Very hard. I nearly slipped in a puddle of water. There was lightning striking in the distance, and every few seconds, thunder would rumble.

I was beginning to panic. Then I heard gun shots, and I realized that one of the guys had pulled the trigger.

"Stop!" I yelled at them. "Stop it! Just stop it!"

They didn't reply, so I closed my eyes, waiting for one of them to shoot me this time. I stumbled over a rock, and opened my eyes. In front of me was a cliff. I looked down, and realized I couldn't see the ground.

Shoot.

What should I do?

I looked behind me -- the three guys were coming even closer.

I looked down again, and I jumped.

I immediately shot up in my bed. I was panting. That seemed so . . . realistic. I wonder why, maybe because something similar happened before? What was that called? Post-Traumatic Stress? Nah. It was probably just some normal nightmare, maybe slightly similar to the little incident.

I glanced over at the clock. 2:08 AM.

Tomorrow -- well today, but I was too tired to be technical about things -- was Saturday, and I planned to sleep very late, but now I couldn't fall asleep again! I glanced over at Neji and Sasuke, who, as far as I could tell, were asleep.

I stood up, and opened the door leading to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. I definitely looked tired. I frowned. Maybe someone was awake still?

I carefully left the room, gently closing the door, and looked down the hall. First, I leaned my ear against Ino, Sakura, and Hinata's door. I heard soft snoring. Nope.

Naruto, Kiba, and Sai? Nope. I could hear Naruto snoring.

I neared Lee, Gaara, and Kankuro's door.

"If I want to maintain my youth, I must get some sleep! Please stop messing with your puppets!" I rolled my eyes. Lee.

"Why don't you just go sleep somewhere else then? I'm busy fixing my puppets. Go see Gai-sensei or something." Kankuro. He was disturbing.

"Silence. Both of you." Gaara. He . . . scared me.

I groaned. Why were they the only ones awake?

I would have rather dealt with Naruto, Sai, and Kiba than them. Even Shikamaru, Choji, or Shino.

Anybody but Lee, Gaara, and Kankuro!

Wait, scratch that.

Fangirls are worse than them. Way worse.

So . . . I sighed, eventually giving up. I knocked on the door.

I hoped and prayed that somehow they wouldn't creep me out like they usually did.

I was . . . wrong. Could anything ever go my way, just once? Of course not!

There was Lee, standing there in his green, tight pajamas. He had one of those sleep masks on, pushed up onto his head so he could see me. The blindfold had a picture of Gai-sensei on it, and he was wearing fluffy green slippers with -- shocker here -- Gai sensei on them. I put on a disgusted face. Obsessive, much?

Looking past Lee, I could see Kankuro working with puppets on a table, a small lamp placed next to him. He was looking up at me, paint all over his face. Did he sleep with paint on?

Standing next to Kankuro, arms folded, was Gaara. He was glaring at me, those eyes of his looking as if he was just in the process of murdering someone. I just hope that wouldn't be me.

"U-um, sorry for interrupting." I noticed the tension in the room, even Lee not being his usual self.

Lee seemed to snap out of it. "That is okay, Tenten!" He clapped his hands together, and motioned for me to come in. "What are you doing up at this unyouthful hour?"

"I . . . I can't sleep. What are you guys doing?"

Kankuro returned to his work, while Gaara began watching him, but you could tell that he was listening to me.

"I need to get my sleep! And I'm never going to be able to get up at six in the morning to run my daily one-hundred laps around the school if I go to bed at two o'clock!" Lee seemed to be really upset about this. He's usually hyper, but right now, he was sad.

"Oh, I see," I murmured, trying to devise a solution to this problem. "Why don't you work somewhere else, Kankuro? That way Gaara and Lee can get some sleep."

"Gaara never sleeps," Kankuro answered, putting his tools on the table for a moment. "Maybe you should just go back to your room, and mind your own business."

My mouth opened, and I clenched my fists. "You know what you can do? You can just take your puppets and --"

"Kankuro, let's go," Gaara said. I looked over at him. Why? Why would Gaara help me?

"Whatever," Kankuro mumbled. "I'll just go somewhere else, seeing that this argument will take the whole night if I put up a fight." He stood up, grabbed his puppet and tools, and opened the door. "Coming, Gaara?"

Gaara nodded his head, and walked out the door along with Kankuro.

Lee was smiling. "Thank you, lovely Tenten!"

I blushed from embarrassment. "You're welcome." That had been surprisingly easy.

I walked out of the room, and my tiredness seemed to hit me right then and there.

I leaned against the wall for support, but I began to slide down the wall, eventually falling onto the carpeted floor, falling into a deep sleep.

When I woke up a few hours later, I noticed that the carpet was surprisingly comfortable. Wait . . . this wasn't the carpet. I had returned to my bed. How?

My roommates were still asleep, but I noticed that Neji's shoes weren't next to his bed like before. They were farther away. Maybe I just didn't realize before that they were over there earlier. It didn't necessarily mean Neji carried me.

I mean, Neji? Carry me? Nah.

But maybe . . .

I never finished that last thought, since I fell asleep once again.

THE END

Ooh. xD Who carried Tenten to her bed? I figured I should add some NejiTen in here since you guys deserve it. Thanks, guys!

*is happy*

I know the things in this chapter are sorta random (I'm trying to get used to writing fanfiction again D:), but something interesting will happen (hopefully!) in the next chapter!