Nejiten fanfictions.

NejiTen fanfiction: 6 Someday.

She woke up early and went to the Yamanaka flower shop to pick up some white, velvety roses.

"I'll take these please, Ino-chan.." The weapon yielder said, pointing out to a dozen roses, shyly with a gentle smile.
"Oh these are lovely. Freshly bloomed too! What's the occasion Tenten-chan?"

Ino said eagerly, gathering the bunch of flowers to the till with a friendly smile plastered on her flawless, pale face.
Tenten rummaged around for her purse in her side-attached handbag, responding to the blonde-haired kunoichi.

"I'm just.. I'm-" she said, struggling through her possessions.
Ino giggled "Need a little help?"
"I'm fine!" The bun-girl said with a sheepish smile.
Finally, she found her money.
"That's ¥1200." Ino replied with a steady tone.
Tenten handed the other girl what was owed, and replied coldly,
"I'm... well.."

She looked down to her feet and put her purse back in her little bag; Ino sensed intensity and distraught in her heart.
The Next Yamanaka leader looked at Tenten with concern until she finished her sentence.

"I'm going to visit a gravestone.."

Tenten finally managed to blink back a few tears and pulled up her head to face Ino, and slapped a fake smile across her face.
Without hesitation, Ino looked at her worryingly and frowned.

"Who are you going to visit...?" Ino said- her voice went from alive to lifeless.
"Neji."

Tenten said without emotion, as she looked down at her wrist. A bracelet was clutched to her small hand, with a bird and Neji's curse mark crocheted on it. The Byakugan specialist had given it to her, as a birthday present. It was as beautiful as a titanium ring, even though it was woven with a curse mark on it.
That bracelet has a story. One day after training, Tenten asked Neji why he always covered his curse mark with his head band, He didn't respond, the Hyūga only asked why she asked in the first place. She replied:

"Because I think it's beautiful..."

Neji denied her and explained why he thought it was a flaw. It was hideous. It was pure evil. To quote what he said to her, "it is the only thing separating a bird from its freedom. It's a chain, my cage, my fate- which my family shares the burden of. We all suffer the same ending- to sacrifice for one's life. It is my curse." She told him that he should accept his appearance because she thought it was the most beautiful imperfection she had ever laid her eyes on.
Ever since her 16th birthday, she couldn't pluck the courage to take it off. Whenever she went out somewhere, the bracelet had to be hugging her hand, not ever letting go. She couldn't manage to leave her house without it-her most valuable possession. She wouldn't trade it even for a thousand kunais, and even that was a huge temptation for the kunoichi.

Ino had gotten a flashback of memories of Tenten whenever she was around the Hyūga. She was always open. Always lively. Always loving.
Ino looked at Tenten with a heavy heart and asked,

"Will you be okay?..."

After what seemed like a moment lost in time, Tenten stopped gazing at her bracelet, caught back with reality and said "I'll be fine.." Taking the flowers, she left the flower shop and bowed in gratitude to her blonde companion.
A few minutes later, Tenten was walking down a path. She listened to the wind blow, the birds call to eachother, and crickets chattering between the reeds. Counting the birds fly above her head just like Neji, she smiled, finally reaching the cemetery.
Tenten stopped in her tracks and looked at the graveyard sign. It read "Rest in perfect peace to those we lost and loved. May they live and flourish in our hearts forever." Tenten gripped the flower stems tightly, took in a deep breath of the passing wind flowing through her bangs, and walked through and under the typical Japanese gate [found at Shinto shrines], greeting and bowing her head. She honoured all the graves around her.