Scraps and Scribbles V
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laleiaTitle: Revelations
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: G
Summary: Short detailing of #13 from Twenty Things
It was while Naruto was gone, while Team Ten (sans Asuma) were cloud-watching together, Ino quiet for one of the only times of her life, when Shikamaru sat up and said, “Alright, I've decided.” A pause, then the customary sotto voce “Troublesome.”
“Well?” Ino wanted to know. “What have you decided.”
“Get all the genin – our class – together,” Shikamaru said. “I know they're not on missions right now. I want to meet them at the bridge in an hour.”
“Why?” Ino demanded. “All the genin?”
“And Neji, Lee, and Tenten,” Shikmaru added, almost as an afterthought.
And no matter how much Ino grumbled, she and Chouji knew that Shikamaru never did things without a reason; if he was willing to risk the troublesome responsibility of organizing an unofficial meeting (he had warned them in no uncertain words not to tell any adults, or not to let any adults know), then it must be important. When they were all assembled, it was certainly a sight to behold. Lee was trying to woo Sakura, who was trying to hold a polite conversation with Ino (although their conversations never remained polite for long). Neji and Hinata were standing next to each other, even while they had two entirely separate conversations, Neji with Tenten and Hinata with Shino. Kiba and Akamaru seemed to be trying to be twice as obnoxious as normal, as if to make up for Naruto's absence, and Chouji was standing by his side.
“Alright,” Shikamaru said and everyone listened, because Shikamaru was usually worth listening to. “I've been mulling this over for several weeks now, and I think you all really should know. Better now then later.”
And then he explained about Naruto and the Kyuubi and the Deep, Dark Secret their parents had been keeping from them. He avoided the Akatsuki bits (might be information overload), and skirted around the topic of the villagers' prejudice. After all, their parents were generally among the prejudiced villagers, for the most part.
He ended by reminding them that this information was still top-secret, and he could get in a good deal of trouble for revealing it to them.
“Then how did you find out?” Kiba asked, even while Ino asked, “Then why did you tell us?”
“I observed and noticed,” Shikamaru said dryly, “as I'm sure others have done.”
He inclined his head towards Neji and Shino, who both nodded agreement. Both specialized in seeing chakra, so of course they would know.
Sakura seemed particularly shocked, but that made sense. She had been doing some independent research, it was true, and had come close to finding this out anyways ... A lot of things certainly seemed to fall into place now. But that didn't change the shock that one of her team members (both of whom had come close to abandoning her, leaving her in Konoha by herself) had kept such an important secret from her ...
The others were reacting with varying degrees of surprise. Lee was waxing enthusiastic, but then again, when wasn't he?
“Is this why you didn't want any adult to know?” Ino asked quietly. “Because it's classified information?”
Well, maybe he couldn't avoid the topic of prejudice after all ...
So troublesome
Untitled Neji/Tenten
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Umm ... PG-13?
Summary: Tenten was not pretty ... elaboration of part of #9 from Twenty Things
Tenten was not pretty. Not in the conventional sense of the word. She knew this. She was too flat, and too muscular. This was why she was never sent on Special Kunoichi missions. She specialized in weapons, which meant taijutsu, which meant muscles were necessary. She'd never pass for a normal civilian, so she'd never have to sleep her way through an assassination, so she'd never bothered to get a boyfriend early and lose her virginity, like she knew some other genins and chuunins had done. Ino, in particular, was in high demand for Special Kunoichi missions because she didn't have to actually sleep with them, what with her mind jutsus. But there was always a chance that a mission would need her to go that extra step, so Tenten knew that Ino had taken care to lose her virginity with a nice, gentle civilian boy mere days after turning chuunin. (Tenten was wrong, but she couldn't know that. Ino would never, never admit to losing her virginity to Kiba, and Kiba really was too much of a gentleman to tell.) But Ino could shoot a come-hither look, beckon, and a dozen nice, gentle civilian boys would fall into her lap. She could pass for a civilian girl long enough for them to find her attractive as opposed to intimidating.
Tenten had never expected to be sent a Special Kunoichi mission, but she was leaving in three days. And Tsunade had told her to take precautionary measures and lose her virginity (although granted, Tsunade had told her that when she first made chuunin, told her to get it over with because she never knew what would happen in this world, but at least she wouldn't die a virgin that way – Tsunade had just received news that recently-promoted chuunins sent on a C-ranked mission turned A-rank had died and was in a morbid mood), and now she had two days, and she had nobody to do it for her.
So Tenten talked to Sakura, who was kind enough about things like this and as the resident medic-nin of their year knew a lot more than one would expect her to about sex. (This was before the whole semi-disastrous relationship between Sakura and Lee, back when Tenten was still talking to Sakura.) Tenten asked her for recommendations in terms of boys and sex. Because medic-nins hear all the gossip.
Sakura, with carefully not-pitying eyes, told her that Kiba had learned quite a lot over the years, it seemed, and had seemed to do well for Hinata and for Misaki, another recent chuunin who had done the smart thing and gotten the virginity thing done with as soon as possible. As well as other civilians, Sakura added dryly, at the end. Kiba seemed to be quite the playboy.
But although Kiba seemed quite the go-to guy for this business, Sakura added, Neji probably knew quite a lot, too. Sakura gave Tenten a sly, sidelong glance. Sakura had in fact caught him perusing a book about ... it. So he would be well-versed in theory, if not necessarily practice.
Tenten did not blush, because she hadn't blushed in a long time. But it was a close thing. And then there was the indignation. She had been worried about this for a whole day, and it turned out the solution had been right underneath her nose all along!
Tenten distractedly thanked Sakura, not noticing her now-laughing eyes, and stalked off to find her teammate.
She came across her teammate almost immediately, but not quite the right one. Lee, with his enthusiasm and bouquet of flowers, appeared to have arrived for Sakura. He attributed the idea to bring flowers both to the Passion of his Youth (TM), the Teachings of the Illustrious Gai-Sensei, and a self-help book on impressing girls that Ino had given to him in annoyance. No, he didn't know where Neji was, but he was sure she would find him training with utmost diligence.
Tenten did check the training grounds, but no sign of Neji. She asked Hinata whether Neji had returned to the Hyuuga compound yet. Apparently not.
She found him, finally, at the ramen stand. The last place she looked because it was the last place she thought he'd be.
“Why are you here?” she demanded.
“Gai,” he explained, “wants to give me a lecture on the Passage into Adulthood and how to Curb my Passions once they ave been Enflamed. I ran away after that. I'm hiding from him.”
Tenten blinked. “A birds and the bees lecture? From Gai?” she asked incredulously.
“Thus the hiding.”
“Well, according to Sakura ....” Tenten trailed off. Perhaps a sneak ambush might be the best way to approach the subject.
“According to Sakura what?” Neji asked, slightly suspicious.
“Never mind. I need to talk to you tonight. Meet me at my place at seven.” And then Tenten turned around and left. She had to get ready. This would be like a mission. She and Neji had been dancing around each other for long enough – even Lee had noticed (although he was far too gentlemanly to tease either of them about it), and now she just happened to need a ... a.... a..... deflowerer (she winced internally at the outdated word) and Neji appeared to have quite a bit of theoretical skill under his belt and now was really as good a time as any to jump his bones.
Mission: Jump Neji's Bones commenced with preparations in her house. She took a contraceptive brew weekly already (the hormones not only ensured contraception but limited her menstrual cycle so that kunoichi were rarely incapacitated by their monthlies), so that was taken care of. She did need to ensure a clear path from the door to the bedroom. And brush up on some of that theoretical reading of her own. And – she glanced at the clock – cook some sort of dinner.
Neji showed up promptly at seven and waited outside of her door, not knocking. She kept him waiting for five minutes (to make him uneasy) and then opened the door. She was clad in a silk qi-pao, and her hair was up in her traditional two buns.
“You look ... nice,” Neji said hesitantly and confusedly.
Tenten spared a brief moment regretting the fact that Neji never wore anything that would incorporate a tie (not that anybody she knew really did on a regular basis), grabbed his collar and dragged him inside. Once inside, she kicked the door shut.
“Tenten?” he queried. An eyebrow raised.
“I have two days to lose my virginity, and you are going to help me,” Tenten said firmly. That line she'd rehearsed several times, looking in the mirror. After that, she was at a loss. According to her calculations, the chance that Neji would laugh at her or run out and politely refuse with a pitying look were slim to none, but her dread of those situations increased.
Especially at the awkward silence that immediately followed.
“If, however,” she jumped in again, jumbling over the word she had also rehearsed, “you feel like this would be detrimental to our relationship as teammates or is too awkward, then-”
She was cut off by his mouth. On hers. In a kiss. (But, they'd kissed before. That night they went out to drink with Lee, after Lee got rip-roaring drunk and they finally managed to subdue him and both she and Neji had been more than a little tipsy and punch-drunk with relief, there had been a few kisses of exhilaration that were, in the interests of fostering amity, “forgotten” by the next day.)
When they surfaced for air (although they really hadn't been kissing that long – both could hold their breaths for longer, being ninja-trained and all), Neji asked, quietly, “Where's the bedroom?”
He didn't ask her why she needed to lose her virginity. He didn't ask if she was sure, or if she was ready. He trusted that she knew her own mind, and for that she loved him.
Afternote: Tenten didn't have to even come close to sleeping with the client after all, the client having a remarkably low tolerance for alcohol and spilling all after only a single dose of Special Secret Stealer. Neji also never managed to successfully avoid a lecture from Gai-sensei. To Tenten's utmost disappointment, said birds-and-bees lectures managed to successfully put Neji off sex. For a week.
Note. Both of these were just ideas spawned by my 20 Things that I wanted to get out. Neither actually function well as fics, having no real beginning, middle, and end. Or plot. Ficlets, more like.
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: G
Summary: Short detailing of #13 from Twenty Things
It was while Naruto was gone, while Team Ten (sans Asuma) were cloud-watching together, Ino quiet for one of the only times of her life, when Shikamaru sat up and said, “Alright, I've decided.” A pause, then the customary sotto voce “Troublesome.”
“Well?” Ino wanted to know. “What have you decided.”
“Get all the genin – our class – together,” Shikamaru said. “I know they're not on missions right now. I want to meet them at the bridge in an hour.”
“Why?” Ino demanded. “All the genin?”
“And Neji, Lee, and Tenten,” Shikmaru added, almost as an afterthought.
And no matter how much Ino grumbled, she and Chouji knew that Shikamaru never did things without a reason; if he was willing to risk the troublesome responsibility of organizing an unofficial meeting (he had warned them in no uncertain words not to tell any adults, or not to let any adults know), then it must be important. When they were all assembled, it was certainly a sight to behold. Lee was trying to woo Sakura, who was trying to hold a polite conversation with Ino (although their conversations never remained polite for long). Neji and Hinata were standing next to each other, even while they had two entirely separate conversations, Neji with Tenten and Hinata with Shino. Kiba and Akamaru seemed to be trying to be twice as obnoxious as normal, as if to make up for Naruto's absence, and Chouji was standing by his side.
“Alright,” Shikamaru said and everyone listened, because Shikamaru was usually worth listening to. “I've been mulling this over for several weeks now, and I think you all really should know. Better now then later.”
And then he explained about Naruto and the Kyuubi and the Deep, Dark Secret their parents had been keeping from them. He avoided the Akatsuki bits (might be information overload), and skirted around the topic of the villagers' prejudice. After all, their parents were generally among the prejudiced villagers, for the most part.
He ended by reminding them that this information was still top-secret, and he could get in a good deal of trouble for revealing it to them.
“Then how did you find out?” Kiba asked, even while Ino asked, “Then why did you tell us?”
“I observed and noticed,” Shikamaru said dryly, “as I'm sure others have done.”
He inclined his head towards Neji and Shino, who both nodded agreement. Both specialized in seeing chakra, so of course they would know.
Sakura seemed particularly shocked, but that made sense. She had been doing some independent research, it was true, and had come close to finding this out anyways ... A lot of things certainly seemed to fall into place now. But that didn't change the shock that one of her team members (both of whom had come close to abandoning her, leaving her in Konoha by herself) had kept such an important secret from her ...
The others were reacting with varying degrees of surprise. Lee was waxing enthusiastic, but then again, when wasn't he?
“Is this why you didn't want any adult to know?” Ino asked quietly. “Because it's classified information?”
Well, maybe he couldn't avoid the topic of prejudice after all ...
So troublesome
Untitled Neji/Tenten
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Umm ... PG-13?
Summary: Tenten was not pretty ... elaboration of part of #9 from Twenty Things
Tenten was not pretty. Not in the conventional sense of the word. She knew this. She was too flat, and too muscular. This was why she was never sent on Special Kunoichi missions. She specialized in weapons, which meant taijutsu, which meant muscles were necessary. She'd never pass for a normal civilian, so she'd never have to sleep her way through an assassination, so she'd never bothered to get a boyfriend early and lose her virginity, like she knew some other genins and chuunins had done. Ino, in particular, was in high demand for Special Kunoichi missions because she didn't have to actually sleep with them, what with her mind jutsus. But there was always a chance that a mission would need her to go that extra step, so Tenten knew that Ino had taken care to lose her virginity with a nice, gentle civilian boy mere days after turning chuunin. (Tenten was wrong, but she couldn't know that. Ino would never, never admit to losing her virginity to Kiba, and Kiba really was too much of a gentleman to tell.) But Ino could shoot a come-hither look, beckon, and a dozen nice, gentle civilian boys would fall into her lap. She could pass for a civilian girl long enough for them to find her attractive as opposed to intimidating.
Tenten had never expected to be sent a Special Kunoichi mission, but she was leaving in three days. And Tsunade had told her to take precautionary measures and lose her virginity (although granted, Tsunade had told her that when she first made chuunin, told her to get it over with because she never knew what would happen in this world, but at least she wouldn't die a virgin that way – Tsunade had just received news that recently-promoted chuunins sent on a C-ranked mission turned A-rank had died and was in a morbid mood), and now she had two days, and she had nobody to do it for her.
So Tenten talked to Sakura, who was kind enough about things like this and as the resident medic-nin of their year knew a lot more than one would expect her to about sex. (This was before the whole semi-disastrous relationship between Sakura and Lee, back when Tenten was still talking to Sakura.) Tenten asked her for recommendations in terms of boys and sex. Because medic-nins hear all the gossip.
Sakura, with carefully not-pitying eyes, told her that Kiba had learned quite a lot over the years, it seemed, and had seemed to do well for Hinata and for Misaki, another recent chuunin who had done the smart thing and gotten the virginity thing done with as soon as possible. As well as other civilians, Sakura added dryly, at the end. Kiba seemed to be quite the playboy.
But although Kiba seemed quite the go-to guy for this business, Sakura added, Neji probably knew quite a lot, too. Sakura gave Tenten a sly, sidelong glance. Sakura had in fact caught him perusing a book about ... it. So he would be well-versed in theory, if not necessarily practice.
Tenten did not blush, because she hadn't blushed in a long time. But it was a close thing. And then there was the indignation. She had been worried about this for a whole day, and it turned out the solution had been right underneath her nose all along!
Tenten distractedly thanked Sakura, not noticing her now-laughing eyes, and stalked off to find her teammate.
She came across her teammate almost immediately, but not quite the right one. Lee, with his enthusiasm and bouquet of flowers, appeared to have arrived for Sakura. He attributed the idea to bring flowers both to the Passion of his Youth (TM), the Teachings of the Illustrious Gai-Sensei, and a self-help book on impressing girls that Ino had given to him in annoyance. No, he didn't know where Neji was, but he was sure she would find him training with utmost diligence.
Tenten did check the training grounds, but no sign of Neji. She asked Hinata whether Neji had returned to the Hyuuga compound yet. Apparently not.
She found him, finally, at the ramen stand. The last place she looked because it was the last place she thought he'd be.
“Why are you here?” she demanded.
“Gai,” he explained, “wants to give me a lecture on the Passage into Adulthood and how to Curb my Passions once they ave been Enflamed. I ran away after that. I'm hiding from him.”
Tenten blinked. “A birds and the bees lecture? From Gai?” she asked incredulously.
“Thus the hiding.”
“Well, according to Sakura ....” Tenten trailed off. Perhaps a sneak ambush might be the best way to approach the subject.
“According to Sakura what?” Neji asked, slightly suspicious.
“Never mind. I need to talk to you tonight. Meet me at my place at seven.” And then Tenten turned around and left. She had to get ready. This would be like a mission. She and Neji had been dancing around each other for long enough – even Lee had noticed (although he was far too gentlemanly to tease either of them about it), and now she just happened to need a ... a.... a..... deflowerer (she winced internally at the outdated word) and Neji appeared to have quite a bit of theoretical skill under his belt and now was really as good a time as any to jump his bones.
Mission: Jump Neji's Bones commenced with preparations in her house. She took a contraceptive brew weekly already (the hormones not only ensured contraception but limited her menstrual cycle so that kunoichi were rarely incapacitated by their monthlies), so that was taken care of. She did need to ensure a clear path from the door to the bedroom. And brush up on some of that theoretical reading of her own. And – she glanced at the clock – cook some sort of dinner.
Neji showed up promptly at seven and waited outside of her door, not knocking. She kept him waiting for five minutes (to make him uneasy) and then opened the door. She was clad in a silk qi-pao, and her hair was up in her traditional two buns.
“You look ... nice,” Neji said hesitantly and confusedly.
Tenten spared a brief moment regretting the fact that Neji never wore anything that would incorporate a tie (not that anybody she knew really did on a regular basis), grabbed his collar and dragged him inside. Once inside, she kicked the door shut.
“Tenten?” he queried. An eyebrow raised.
“I have two days to lose my virginity, and you are going to help me,” Tenten said firmly. That line she'd rehearsed several times, looking in the mirror. After that, she was at a loss. According to her calculations, the chance that Neji would laugh at her or run out and politely refuse with a pitying look were slim to none, but her dread of those situations increased.
Especially at the awkward silence that immediately followed.
“If, however,” she jumped in again, jumbling over the word she had also rehearsed, “you feel like this would be detrimental to our relationship as teammates or is too awkward, then-”
She was cut off by his mouth. On hers. In a kiss. (But, they'd kissed before. That night they went out to drink with Lee, after Lee got rip-roaring drunk and they finally managed to subdue him and both she and Neji had been more than a little tipsy and punch-drunk with relief, there had been a few kisses of exhilaration that were, in the interests of fostering amity, “forgotten” by the next day.)
When they surfaced for air (although they really hadn't been kissing that long – both could hold their breaths for longer, being ninja-trained and all), Neji asked, quietly, “Where's the bedroom?”
He didn't ask her why she needed to lose her virginity. He didn't ask if she was sure, or if she was ready. He trusted that she knew her own mind, and for that she loved him.
Afternote: Tenten didn't have to even come close to sleeping with the client after all, the client having a remarkably low tolerance for alcohol and spilling all after only a single dose of Special Secret Stealer. Neji also never managed to successfully avoid a lecture from Gai-sensei. To Tenten's utmost disappointment, said birds-and-bees lectures managed to successfully put Neji off sex. For a week.
Note. Both of these were just ideas spawned by my 20 Things that I wanted to get out. Neither actually function well as fics, having no real beginning, middle, and end. Or plot. Ficlets, more like.
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