"Did they ever find out what that gunman was doing in the club?" Tenten asked as she and Neji went into the living room, both with glasses of water. Neji shrugged.
"It was in the paper or something. Apparently he was a terrorist, assigned to assassinate one of the other club members. He must have had really poor aim; his shot shouldn't have shattered your glass."
"How long were we under that table?" Tenten asked.
"We stayed there until the police got him," Neji recalled. "Then we got up and went to the club across the street and danced all night long."
Tenten sighed. "Such romantic memories." She dug something out of a cabinet and crossed to the couch where Neji was reclining. She tucked her legs underneath her and spread the photo album across both of their knees. Neji glanced at the cover- their wedding album. Tenten opened the crinkly pages. She flipped a few in silence, then laughed.
"Ha! The photographer caught you at just the right moment!"
Neji leaned over to see a picture of himself glaring at his foot, while Tenten blushed behind the veil that he had only half pulled back. Naruto and Lee were doubled up laughing in the corner of the picture. He grinned.
"Oh yeah, that little prank they pulled at our wedding. Yeah, that involved broken glass, too."
Neji brushed an invisible speck of dirt off his tuxedo and sighed nervously. The organ was playing the processional, and the bridesmaids and groomsmen were coming up the aisle. His cousin Hinata was on Lee's arm. Hinata was the maid of honor, and Lee the best man. Rock Lee was another senior in Neji's year; Neji's roommate, in fact. Neji's heart raced as the organ played the bridal processional.
And there she was- his living angel.
She came to the front on the arm of Lee's father, Maito Gai. She smiled at him as she took her place beside him. And the wedding began.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered together…"
They exchanged vows, rings, hands. Finally, the priest finished the blessing and nodded to Neji.
"You may kiss the bride."
Neji turned to Tenten and took a deep breath. He reached out for her veil, taking a step closer to her…
CRUNCH.
Neji looked down as he heard Naruto and Lee behind him start to snigger. He saw a small white linen bag with the remains of what must have been a crystal glass inside it. Slowly, the congregation began to laugh along with the men who had pulled the prank. Neji realized that Lee, when he was handing Neji his ring, must have nudged the bag between them with his foot. He finished pulling back Tenten's veil and kissed her deeply, to the combined cheers and laughs of the onlookers.
"Neji, what was the whole glass-in-a-bag thing about?" Tenten asked as they stood in the reception room. Neji grinned nastily.
"Don't worry about it, I have a SURPRISE for the guys who pulled it."
"A toast! A toast!" Megumi was standing on her chair, her eyes sparkling with unshed tears of delight.
"To the newlyweds!" a boy with a barking laugh cried. Megumi turned to the boy who had stolen her toast. His eyes twinkled at her as he laughed.
Neji stopped Tenten as she was about to sip from her flute. He interlocked his arm with hers. Tenten smiled as she caught on. With their arms intertwined, Neji and Tenten drank the first toast.
Naruto cheered along with everyone else. He came up to the groom.
"Hey, Neji, you want me to take that for you?"
"Hnn, dobe, he still has toasts to go." It was Sasuke. He looked at Neji, who nodded. It was time. He looked across the crowd for the person he wanted and motioned at her.
"Oh, yeah. Well, do ya want me to…"
Hinata appeared next to Naruto's side, looking at Neji innocently.
"Neji-kun? Did you want me?"
"Yes, I did."
Hinata gasped as Sasuke nudged her as he passed, knocking her into Naruto. At the same time, Neji placed his glass at their feet. Naruto's foot knocked into it as he staggered back under Hinata's weight his arm around her waist to keep her from falling. It shattered. Neji and Sasuke started laughing, along with those who had been around at the moment.
Naruto was confused. "Um, Neji, what was that all about?"
Hinata was looking at Naruto and blushing as deeply as it was possible to blush. Then Naruto caught on to Neji's prank. He grinned shiftily at Neji.
"Oh, right. Well, if I've stepped on the glass…"
Hinata gasped as Naruto swept her up in his arms and kissed her!
Lee appeared, laughing heartily.
"Alright, Neji-san, I give up," he said jovially. "That was a good prank. And Naruto-san, great comeback!"
"I still don't get it," Tenten said, confused. Neji laughed, along with Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee.
"Don't worry, dear heart," Neji said, pressing her against his chest. "It's not important. Time to cut the cake!"
Tenten pointed at the next picture. It was one of Tenten opening wide as Neji's fingers poked the first bite of wedding cake into her mouth. At the same time, she was placing another bite of cake on Neji's tongue. They were smiling and everyone in the background was laughing.
"Such good memories," she sighed. Neji wrapped his arm around her shoulders and took a sip of his ice water.
"Remember when you first told me you were pregnant with Linh?"
Tenten laughed. "You dropped your reading glasses on the floor, you were so excited and surprised."
Neji flipped through the wedding photo album, smiling at memories gone by.
"I'm so glad Naruto and Hinata did get married," Tenten said absently. "They're such a happy couple."
"You've said that already." Neji was frowning at a picture of himself and Tenten kneeling at the bar in the church. It looked like someone had written something on the bottoms of his shoes in whiteout…
"And Megumi met Kiba at our wedding," Tenten mused. "She's got a girl of her own now, a little younger than Linh, I think."
Neji had just discovered what Naruto and Lee must have written on the bottoms of his shoes.
Save me!
He scowled and slammed the book shut. Tenten looked over at him.
"Neji-kun? What's wrong?"
Neji frowned. "Oh, just another prank I discovered. I'm going to have to take it up with Naruto next time we have them over for dinner."
"What was it?" Tenten asked, taking a sip of her water.
"Nothing." Neji was so distracted that he missed Tenten laying her glass on the coffee table and saying something. He picked up his own but stayed leaned forward, thinking about nothing in particular.
"Neji-kun? I have some news from earlier today," Tenten said yet again. Neji was still distracted.
"What news?"
Tenten took his free hand and laid it over her stomach.
"I'm pregnant again."
Neji dropped his glass.
The End.