Declaration: I don't own Naruto!

Rivals

A rival by definition is a:

1. One who attempts to equal or surpass another, or who pursues the same object as another; a competitor

2. One that equals or almost equals another in a particular respect.

3. Obsolete a companion or an associate in a particular duty.

However if you some people their answer might be a little different…

Rock Lee might say that it is his youthful duty to show Neji that hard work can make him a great ninja! A beat him someday…

Neji will just say "Hn" and glare at you-but he never denies that Rock Lee is his rival (in some bizarre way)

For TenTen a rivalry is something she thought only mindless girls (like Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka who are best friends but let some stupid boy come between them) or a guy thing; that is until Temari crashed her down at the Chunin primaries-afterward she declared her as her rival. She been training with Neji to help her get stronger and hopefully defeat Temari in rematch. They never get to that…over the years both of them every time they meet they are either too tired from training or to busy bounding over their one common ground -dating a genius.

As for Temari while she never considered TenTen as her rival, she does however consider Shikamaru ass one of her rivals. She has two main goals: the first one is to prove to him that she is in fact better than him in battle situation (which she achieved by saving his ass from Tayuya). The second goal is to beat him in Shogi-she haven't succeeded yet; but takes great pleasure watching his dad beating him in Shogi (and latter on ask him for tips).

Shikamaru biggest rival will always be his laziness-a fact his brilliant mind is very aware of. His second rival will be whoever blocking his view from cloud watching-that role usually belongs to Temari; this result in a fifteen minutes banter in which in the end Temari lie next to him telling him who idiotic watching clouds is while he call her "troublesome women". In his mind he knows that he "won" in some kind of way but than in the end of the day when Shikamaru walk Temari to her apartment (because that's what men do) while Temari complain the whole way calling him "chauvinist pig" among other things; at the end the only thing Shikamaru can think about when he goes home is Temari's goodnight kiss she gave him and how one day he'll ask her to be his wife-so in the end it's Temari that is the winner.

So what is a rival? To some it is like the definition says-a person to compete with, an equal but mainly a rival means friendship and sometimes even love.

So who was it? This is a little thing that came to me and I had to write down!!!

Also the definition for rival is taken from this site: case you didn't notice I'm a huge Neji/TenTen and Shikamaru/Temari fan and so I had to include them in!

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