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'No, obsessed wouldn't be the right word. Nor would addicted-god, that makes me sound like some drug addict. No, I think enamored is the best way to put it. But she really is irresistible.'

To straight out say it, Neji liked Tenten. Like-like. Not just like. Maybe even love. Or maybe, it was just an obsession. Of course, he would never admit that.

That would be too much of a blow to his pride. After all, who ever heard of the Neji Hyuuga liking someone? That was unheard of. Possibly, the only people who knew were Hinata (who'd sworn not to tell until Neji allowed her to), and Lee (who'd began babbling something about how youthful Neji and Tenten were, especially since Tenten was a "youth-filled blossom" until Neji began Jyuukening Lee until he'd sworn he'd never tell either.).

Neji watched Tenten all day long, scrutinizing every dip and crook of her face, every strand of hair.

She was the perfect image, the epitome of beauty. Or so Neji thought. Sparkling brown eyes, a childish and pouty mouth (Neji sincerely hoped that no one noticed his lingering looks on them), a little button nose (that he restrained from poking sometimes), for god's sake, even the buns on her head had some kind of allure to it (He often wondered what they would look like down.).

Then, she did something so Tenten-like, so...so annoying that the image disappeared. Neji shook his head in irritation.

"Tenten, did you really have to do that?" Neji irascible attitude sparked at the disappearance of the image. He stormed off, leaving Tenten to wonder what she had done.

"Sheesh, what's wrong with Neji today? Yesterday because I sneezed, the day before yesterday because I scratched my head…and today? Even weirder. Aha! I'll go confront him," Tenten snapped her fingers.

Tenten caught up to Neji and said, "What's your problem?"

Neji grumbled, "Hn."

"Don't go monosyllabic on me. You know I understand what you mean anyways. Your problem is certainly not nothing," Tenten snapped. Tenten planted her hands on her hips assertively and said, "You're just jealous because I don't have a reputation and can rub my nose without losing my pride!" She sniffed cutely.

"Tenten…" Neji warned. His eyebrows twitched. He seriously wanted to smack the closest thing right now. However, that happened to be Tenten, and something told him it wasn't a good idea. Besides, that sniff kinda put him over the edge. He turned around and took deep breaths. When he turned around, Tenten was still there, waiting.

'Dang...' Neji thought. 'I can't really get away with this, can I?' Neji replied, "That is not the case. When you rub your nose, you imply that you have a cold, which will disrupt practice."

"Awwwww!" Tenten cried and threw her arms around his neck. "Neji! You worry about me, don't you?"

On second thought, maybe this wasn't such a bad day.

Neji decided to make it even better, "Tenten. Get off me. Now." It wasn't like he didn't like the feeling. It's just that he might suddenly get a nosebleed, and it wouldn't be good for his reputation.

"You're so mean, Neji! I'm not talking to you anymore!" Tenten cried and stomped away. Neji blinked after her.

'Women...' he thought, not understanding Tenten's train of thought. He sighed. 'When will this whole thing end?'

No one knew exactly why, the next day, Neji and Tenten weren't speaking to one another. It had to be something, everyone speculated, but, again, no one knew what.

Lee, finally bored of his teammates' "un-youthfulness" (as he put it) devised a plan with his beloved sensei.

It failed. Here is how it went:

"Neji! My eternal rival! And Tenten! The blossom of youth! I command you in the name of youth! Speak to each other!"

...

*Silence*

"What are you talking about, Lee? We're perfectly fine. See?" Tenten faked a smile and put a reluctant arm around Neji's shoulders.

Neji nodded sullenly - anything to get Lee off his back. Lee immediately pranced off to tell Gai-sensei of his success.

The next day, they weren't speaking to each other again. The rest of Konoha wondered what was with Lee and Gai to make them run laps around Konoha on their hands for 5 hours straight before falling into a set of pushups without rest for 3 hours, finally ending the days with a 3 hour spar. When asked, the only coherent words were, "youthful", "plan", "youth", and "failed".

Sasuke, ever the quiet and grouchy one, didn't really even care about this predicament. It didn't have anything to do with him, Itachi, or power, so why should he do anything about it?

His thoughts were quickly rectified by the one and only Uzumaki Naruto.

"Teme, teme!"

"...dobe..."

"You should get Neji and Tenten to talk again!"

"Hn." Naruto construed that as a, 'Why should I?' comment and countered.

"Tenten won't get ramen with me anymore, because she's sulking all the time! And no one else will except Chouji, who eats almost as much and me and makes me pay more money than I have! C'mon bastard!"

"No, dead-last."

"If Neji stops sulking you can spar with him and get more power," Naruto whispered in Sasuke's ear, grinning, hoping Sasuke would take the bait. And he did.

"...fine, dumbass."

So, Sasuke used a conventional method of persuasion. Violence.

Here is how it went:

"Hyuuga."

"Uchiha. What do you want?"

"Speak to Tenten again then fight me."

"No."

Sasuke put his hands in his pockets, and strode towards Neji, who was on guard, glaring suspiciously at Sasuke. Sasuke gave a rare smile, then kicked Neji into a tree.

"Do it."

"Bluurgh."

Needless to say, Neji didn't comply to Sasuke's wishes, not after Sasuke had kicked him into a tree. Plan failed. Whereas the talk of Konoha was Gai and Lee before, now it was about why Sasuke kept wearing that dark malevolent glare and also why Naruto kept giggling behind his hand whenever Sasuke wasn't looking. When asked, all Naruto said between his giggles were, "Teme...can't even...convince...Neji...to talk...so useless!"

Now, this had been going on for a few days already, and when I say the people of Konoha wanted Neji and Tenten to be on speaking terms again, I meant it.

They were restless, trying to get the two ninja of the Rookie 12 to be friendly again.

And now for the grand finale...the final plan...the one that was sure to work (and it did, in the end)...was Sakura's and Ino's.

Surprisingly, they didn't plan at all.

Surprisingly, it was very simple.

And surprisingly, it not only got Neji and Tenten speaking terms, but even further. Yeah. They were dating.

Now, what could this miraculous plan be?

Here is how it went:

"Piggy, you grab Tenten, I'll grab Neji, ok?"

"Whatever, Forehead."

"1...2...3."

Ino, who had grabbed Tenten by the collar, and Sakura, who had grabbed Neji's arms, shoved them together on the count of three.

Their lips met, and Ino and Sakura left the scene smirking victoriously.

Sakura and Ino, to celebrate their success, went on a shopping spree with the rest of their teams, and forced them to carry their bags. All in all, it was a wonderful day.

The gossip in all of Konoha the next day was definitely how Neji and Tenten spent the rest of the day yesterday chasing pink haired and blonde haired girls around the mall.

No one noticed how Tenten stopped rubbing her nose. (A/N If you are confused look back to the previous chapter.)

Yay! I liked the edited version way better than the original, ne? Wasn't it some stupid crap about how Team 7 hid behind a bush and watched the way overused excuse of blowing dust out of people's eyes?

Well, at any rate, I liked it, so I hope you guys do too.

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