High School Love & Rivals
Uchihas1010hyuuga

A/N: Thanks so much for the reviews! ^w^ This chapter is just a little NejiTen moment. :3 Hope you'll like it! :D

Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto & Shounen Jump

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'Italics are thoughts'

'Normal is normal :3'

'Bold is text messages and other things the characters are reading'

Chapter 4: Ice cream and crush

By the time Tenten woke up, it was 5 minutes until class and the rest of the class is just chattering away while the teacher is screaming into his phone again.

She looked around sleepily at her table and see that Neji was staring at her. They both still have the earpieces in. She guessed his stare means 'give me back my beats', so she took it off and hand it to him.

"What a troublesome day," Shikamaru said after the bell rang.

Everybody bid each other farewells and went on their way. The girls grabbed Tenten by her arm and swept her off. "Yay! Now, let's go eat ice cream!" Sakura punched a fist into the air.

They went to Ice Cream Bar and ordered. Sakura got a strawberry sundae, Temari mocha blast, Hinata Oreo cookie blast, Tenten a milo storm, and Ino a lime slush. The girls droned in about the school's gossips into Tenten's ears and by the time their orders came, Tenten already felt like she knows the people.

"So let's talk about elementary school, maybe we know each other too!" Sakura beamed.

"I remember being in Lee's class," she stared into space trying to recall more things. "I think I remember a blond kid always in orange jackets, I think it's Naruto." She smiled and frowned. "That's all I can recall for now."

"Yes, you just forgot, the people that you just ate lunch with today were all in your class! It's just because when you were little you only played with the boys." Ino told her. 'I'm surprised you couldn't remember Neji.' Ino thought and kept it to herself. 'It's better that way.'

"Ooh wow, like Lee said, I better make 20 laps around memory lane!" Tenten joked and the girls break into laughter.

"So you see any guys you think you're cute yet?" Ino asked, placing her chin on her palm.

"Well, I just came here! Too many faces to remember just in one day," Tenten announced and took a large gulp on her milo storm.

"How about you guys?" Temari asked. "Because I want some secrets to start spilling from Hina-chan," she turned to look at Hinata with a sly smile.

The poor shy girl shrieked. "N-nani?" She stuttered.

"Come on! We just need you to confirm your feelings to Naruto now! It's very obvious you are so very into him!" Sakura encouraged.

Hinata's cheeks turned into a scarlet red and she started playing with her fingers. "I-I…" she sighed and nodded.

"Ahaha! That moment should have been captured." Ino giggled and took a picture of Hinata's blushing face with her Motorola Blackberry.

"Aaah," Hinata flushed even redder.

"Well, what about you Tema?" Ino shifted the questioning to another.

"You guys won't believe me anyways," she said with a firm voice.

"Just shoot!" Tenten said.

"It's Shikamaru." The tall blonde girl quickly blurted out.

Ino and Sakura stared straight at her in a blank face then burst out laughing in another second. "See, I told you, you guys wouldn't believe me." She punched the two lightly on the shoulders.

"No, it's not that, it's just we never guessed you would like him!" the two girls cried in unison. Then in a minute their laughing ceased.

"You guys except Tennie knows ours," Sakura said.

Then Temari turned to face Tenten and started to explain. "Hmm, where do I begin? Ino is the most popular girl in our grade and Sakura is too, and you already know Neji and Sasuke are the most popular guys in our grade. So these two idiots said it's a perfect match and picked one to love."

Tenten 'oh-ed' and decided to keep her mouth shut about her thinking Neji's profile picture looked nice.

(The next day!)

The next day in homeroom Tenten brought Neji's iphone with her. She entered the classroom and immediately walked up to where Neji was and handed him his phone. "Here."

He took it in silently. "So how do I get my thank yous?" She smiled.

His lips formed a small, very tiny, slight smile. "Frolick," he replied.

"Hmm okay, looking forward to it." She replied and took a seat next to him. Then 5 minutes before homeroom was over, the girls entered the room. The brunette rushed over to them. "Where did you girls go and in a flock?"

"We were in the bathroom, you know, doing girl stuff," Ino shrugged.

"She means Ino and Sakura-chan were applying make up," Hinata whispered to Tenten.

Then the bell rung and they all went to their next class. Hinata, Tenten, and Shikamaru had economics.

"Um, erm, uh, Tenten-san, I'll walk you to your next class," she smiled softly. "I'm also in economics."

When their class ended, Neji and Sasuke entered for AP Economics. "Hey guys!" Tenten greeted.

To Neji's surprise, the Uchiha prodigy stood and attempted to make conversation. "How was it?" He asked in his cold voice.

She laughed. "I'm not really sure if so-so would be the right word to describe it. Plus! It's still first day of class, things could change later on."

The Uchiha prodigy chuckled softly, to Neji's surprise. "What class you have next?"

"Physics," she frowned. "Wish me luck to survive there!" She punched Neji's shoulder. Sasuke looked at the Hyuuga prodigy then back to the girl.

"Anyway, bye now, we'll see you at the end of the day at PE," he said and walked to a desk. "Hn."

"How'd you know I have PE?" She asked over.

"Common sense," he yelled back.

"Well guess you're wrong then, I'm going to see you guys in AP Psych!" She did a salute sign and Sasuke smirked.

"I better go too," said Neji and walked over and sat beside Sasuke.

"Me too, good luck!" And she ran off the hallways.

After half a block of Physics was done, they had lunch. And as usual, the gang sat together. "You guys would not believe it, Anko is the meanest teacher of them all!" Naruto complained. "I demand a study hall!"

Tenten nodded in agreement. "She gave us a 100 pages of homework to read!"

"And not just that! She wants us to answer the questions at the end of each section too!" Sakura added.

"Troublesome stuff," Shikamaru concluded.

"Oh my god," Tenten frowned. "I'm going to fail this Physics this year," she shuffled her hair in frustration.

Neji looked over her and decided to tell her something later.

"Well I had fun in Design class," Ino boasted and Sakura punched her shoulder.

"Shannaro! Pig! Don't rub it in!"

Ino smirked. "That's why you should have took AP Environmental Science with me when I told you. It's less stress since Yamato-sensei is nice and you get your science credit done." The blonde smiled and popped her cherry tomato in her mouth.

"The only thing that will cheer me up now is PE, I'm looking forward to it!" Tenten lightened up.

"Hell yeah!" Temari punched a fist in the air in agreement.

Then they finished eating lunch and went off on their separate ways to hang at their usual spots. While walking, Neji pulled Tenten over and told her something. "How about instead of frolick, I'll guide you in Physics sometimes, just give me a call whenever you need help. I'll explain over the phone if you want." He said in a strictly business kind of tone.

A group of girls walking by gasped in fangirl-ness. "Oh my gosh! Neji spoke so many words all at once!"

"Eeep!" Another squealed and listened in.

"Really? That would be great!" Tenten exclaimed happily and looked over to the crowding girls. "Do you want to do frolick some other time though? It's getting kind of crowded now," she sweatdropped.

"Nah, don't care about them," Neji walked over to the counter. Tenten followed him with light steps as if sneaking away from the girls.

"You really don't like owing people debts do you?" Tenten asked.

He smiled at her and turned back to the counter and ordered. "Original flavor, 2 Cup As, choco pops topping," he ordered.

"Make mine a size bigger, please, and I'll have chocolate syrup as well, and oh um, an extra topping. I'll get the, erm, peach." Neji looked over at her in a 'really?' face.

"What?" Tenten gave a soft 'duh' look. "Might as well order this much when someone else is paying right? Plus, I was thinking of getting a home take pack but maybe it's too much."

"Give me your number," Neji casually asked.

A fangirl that was spying over said. "Ooh, Neji is asking for that girl's number!"

"Omgs! Who is that girl?"

"Dunno."

"Must stalk!"

"Yesh!"

"I know her!"

"Who?"

"Tenten."

"Huh?"

"The post of the girl that Sasuke commented yesterday of."

"Oh." … "WHAT?!"

"Why do I have a feeling that they're talking about me?" Tenten looked over her shoulder at the girls with an irritated face.

"Don't mind them." Neji assured her again.

"What do you normally do at lunch?" She asked. The ladies hand them their orders.

"Sit and listen to music in a corner of the balcony." He replied as he paid.

"Ooh, with Sasuke?"

He nodded. 'Why is she bringing up that name now?'

"Thanks for the treat, and don't think that I'm going to let go of that offer of Physics because I won't think it as a deed of courtesy from you. I'm really going to give you a call even when it's like 2 in the morning if I have questions." She warned and flipped open her pink Chinese flip phone. It made a water drop sound as the cover lights up.

Neji stared at it for a moment. He's never seen any of the girls in their school uses this kind of phone before. The girls all buy only expensive phones with fancy casings to live up to their so-called reputations. She was a first.

"So shoot your number," she said while pressing away on her phone.

He read out his number and she pressed away and his phone vibrated. "There's my number." She smiled and shut her phone. Again with the water drop sound and flashy light. Neji was fascinated. He was considering buying something like that too, but thinking twice because it looked too girly for a guy to use.

"What did you name me as?" He asked.

"It's a secret, what did you name me as?" She stood on her toes, trying to steal glances at his screen. He turned away. "Not telling if you're not." And he put his iphone back in his pocket.

"Almost forgot," Neji said and took his phone out again and held it up against Tenten's confused face and a shutter sound was made.

"You took an unauthorized photo!" She yelled. The fangirls turned to their direction in jealousy. Their Neji-kun took a photo of that girl!

"Relax, it was just a photo for your contact, so that I'll even bother to pick up knowing it's you."

She mouthed an 'oh' and calmed. Her eyes wander around the walls trying to avoid the current awkward silence and she saw the time. 5 minutes until class resumes.

"Hey we gotta run now!" And pulled Neji by the wrist and ran to the lift.

The two were the only ones in the elevator. Neji dropped her off on the fifth floor and he went up to the seven floor for AP Econ. Tenten smiled in happiness. She didn't even know she was smiling. Then suddenly she shook her head. "What am I thinking?!" And shook the chills off her body and rushed to class.

End of Chapter 4

A/N: Hehe ^^; I know more talks! Bleh! But it was fun writing thissssh! So I hope you'll like it too :3 The actions will come in the next 2 chapter or so.