Author's Notes: OMG I'm back!!! Hahaha been busy about school and now summer's here! Yay! I can't believe how time flies, gee I'm turning 19 -yeah, I'm getting old...- in a matter of a few hours. Well this is just a little drabble that I though would suit as a chappie on this story since it has the best friend thingy between Tenten and Neji. Oh well, I still don't know if I will continue with a good plot on this story. Enjoy you guys!! And before I forget, thanks to the people who added this story to their favorites, story alerts, and to fascinating people who reviewed. Hehehe hope you like this one, though I find it a bit angsty.
Disclaimer: If I did, there'd be a lot of Nejiten moments in the anime.
Can't Best Friends be Best Lovers Too?
by: LiL sPoIlEd BrAt
Chapter 2
"Look, there's nothing to be bothered about, damn it Tenten, what's wrong with you? You don't have any right to tell me who to be with!" Tenten watch as her bestfriend, Hyuuga Neji, maneuvered himself around the spacious unit he had. It had been like this whenever he sees Tenten, she would start a fight about Neji's fiancee, Yuki, and goes on saying that she's not right for her.
If anything, he'd always knew that everyone preferred Tenten over Yuki. And deep inside, Neji knew that she would want to settle down with Tenten. But he knew better than to risk their platonic relationship, thus giving up hope on his small crush back in high school. He started to move on, and forget her he did. There were times when he would look back and contemplate on his feelings for Tenten, and when he gets frustrated, all he does is deny. It was the easiest way possible, right? But honestly, it wasn't easy. He'd had a quite a few, okay just one serious relationship back in college but it turned out that his ex girlfriend, Izumi, had fallen out of love from him, saying that he wasn't that 'mature' enough for her. Then he swore he'd never enter another serious relationship if it's not with Tenten. He had to endure one night stands and flirty flings that gave no assurance of lifetime happiness just to set aside that nagging feeling.
That is until he met Yuki.
Admittedly, Yuki isn't the typical good girl around the block. So what if he met her at some club when the gang went out to party? She's just wonderful and daring and sometimes flirty, but he knew she has a good heart. And his friends and family just couldn't see it. Heck even his cousin, being trained as a polite Hyuuga she was, who always looked at the positive side of a person dislikes Yuki, saying she's 'quite unethical and disrespectful'.
At first he didn't mind all the rantings and complains about Yuki, but lately, even Tenten whom he thinks doesn't give a damn to whom he had one night stands before, acts like a bitch towards his fiancee. He can even feel the cold demeanor of his friends, his cousins and his cousins in law, which freaked him out cause even Naruto felt uncomfortable with her, and finally Tenten, towards Yuki. Why oh why did they stop him to find the utter solution to his dilemma that he was looking for his entire life?
If he didn't knew Tenten better, he would've come up to a conclusion that she likes him. The way Yuki concludes that's why she wanted him to stay away from Tenten as possible. But he knew better. He knew better that she wasn't interested, the reason he had jumped into an impulsive decision to marry Tenten.
"And you expect me to watch the bitch create havoc in your life? Neji you're blind not to see that she's cheating on you!" Tenten yelled equally, making Neji ran his hands furiously on his dark hair.
"What do you care? For all I know, you've been sabotaging her along with Ino and Sakura! And I'm not liking it one bit when she bitches me with the god damned acts you and your friends do to her!" Neji slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, Tenten remaining unfazed by the action.
"Don't you see! Even Hinata doesn't want her in the family! You have just met her a few months ago and now you want to marry her? Damn it, everyone knows she's just after your money and fame! She's not best for you!"
"What do you care, huh? So what if I just met her a few months? Heck Naruto and my cousin got married 6 months after they hooked up! And who are you to tell me what's best for me? You're just a best friend, Tenten! You should know what you're limitations are!" Neji spit the words before he can stop himself. He backed off a little as he looked at Tenten's shocked expression.
"I'm so-" Before Neji could apologize, Tenten's hand made contact with his cheek, slapping him hard that he felt the pain stinging on his cheek.
"Damn it, yeah to you I'm just your best friend, the nosy girl who can't mind her own business and meddles with her friend's life. I know I am and will always be the damned friend to you." Tenten paused to momentarily scoffed, her cheeks entertaining streams of tears flowing.
It had been years since she knew she had fallen hard for his best friend. It all started at the academy back in their high school days when they would both hang out on the music room and practice good music together, Neji with the grand piano and she...well she just listens. There she unraveled the warm and friendly personality of the cold and distant Hyuuga. But nevertheless she kept it a secret to everyone. She hated how Neji kept playing with girls and using his fame to get in their pants when he could settle down with her. They were 24 years old, for goodness' sake, they're not growing younger! There were a lot of times when she almost risked their friendship when she almost blurted out her secret to Neji himself. Though it was kept a secret to Neji himself, it eventually came out to their other friends when Tenten confided to Hinata and she 'accidentally' told Sakura. And hence, being Tenten's so called 'bestfriends', Sakura, too, 'accidentally' blurted the secret to Ino...and the rest is history. So much for best friends.
"Tenten, just...please stop. Don't do this..." Neji sighed exhaustedly, clearly tired of the argument they were having.
"No let me finish first. Good thing you just see me as your sister, because if my dreams come true and we become a couple I don't think I can handle this. I don't want to be the only one caring." Neji looked up at her with wide milky eyes, shocked with what she just said. He almost got his hopes up, but the nagging voice inside him repeatedly chants a mantra that made him more confused than ever.
But it's too late now. It's too late...
"Yeah, Neji, I love you. Damn it, everyone but you knows it! You're god damned densed!"
So Yuki's hunch was true.
Tenten watch Neji's blank expression, knowing fully well that her feelings will never be reciprocated. She knew all along that it was a battle she lost long ago though it hadn't even started.
"There I've said everything I want to say, I'll leave you and your fiancee alone, or rather I'll leave you alone. Nice having you as a best friend." Tenten said, giving emphasis on the word friend. Before Neji could stop her, Tenten ran towards the door with tears flowing freely out of her eyes. Neji once again ran his hand on his hair in frustration before he once again slammed his fist on the counter.
"God damn it Tenten. Why now, why when I almost forgot you!" Neji let out a yell before he thrashed the innocent plates resting on the counter he had been pounding his frustrations to.
A/N: What do you think?? Review pls:)