Title: Blood Thirst

Author: Moonlight Music Mistress

Pairing: Hyuuga Neji x Tenten

Summary: A wrist bite leads to a real-life horror movie.

Neji and Tenten are at age sixteen, thus being teammates for four years.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Neji and Tenten would be a couple on the show in two point five seven six nine seconds. But, since I don't, the two are FOR NOW, ONLY really close friends. Crap.

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His kind of night. The night that showed the stars a bit more shining, sparkling, and beautiful than most other nights. The night in which the full moon shone brightly down on him and his companion. The night in which the cricket's chirps were the sole noise in the midst of the air, meaning mostly quietness and peace for the two of them as they casually chat, one of them eventually drifting off into a sleep. The night in which his comrade for four years, her being his closest friend for the whole 1460 days they'd been teammates, by his side with the two being impossible to get any closer without their shoulders meeting. Yes, tonight was Hyuuga Neji's kind of night, and as stoic as he was, even he couldn't suppress a small smile.

Him and Tenten were becoming more intimate throughout the years, being incredibly comfortable with each other, more so than anyone else. They were so extremely close that it was nearly impossible to not have, even if slight, romantic feelings for one another. And at this moment, this second, they are recovering from a gruesome duo mission, receiving cuts and bruises on arms, legs, faces, and numerous other places of their bodies. As they are recovering, they are walking to where they will, solely the two of them, be spending the night, which was at a beautiful lake in the rear of Konoha, the lake water sparkling as the two sleep on a field shimmering with brightly colored green grass. They are walking, they are talking, however, they are not expecting...

"Alright, here we are Neji," Tenten stated, pulling her pack off of her shoulders and pulling out a sleeping bag and placing it gently on the green grass as Neji did the same, smiling. He was never one to smile, but with Tenten around, he couldn't help but sometimes let that inner happiness show. The two placed their sleeping bags very close to each others- that was one of the numerous ways of protectiveness they had towards one another. If either of them were struck into danger, the other would simply leap up and protect the other.

"Yep," Neji replied, crawling into his sleeping bag as Tenten copied his movement with her own sleeping bag, their heads pointed towards each other. "It's beautiful out here, isn't it?"

Tenten smiled warmly, gently, but happily as she took the twin buns out of her head for a comfier head positioning in her sleep. "Yeah," she breathed before yawning, stretching her arms above her head showing that she was ready to relax and sleep soon. "And no Gai-sensei or Lee to scream annoyingly about 'youth' and other crap."

Neji couldn't fight a chuckle. "Yeah." The two continued talking quietly in soothing voices that would put one another to sleep. And, right when Tenten moaned a "Good night, Neji," he drifted off as if this was his cue. Tenten, right after smiling subtly, faded into sleep.

The birds were still chirping as Neji dug his face into his pillow, slightly mumbling words in his sleep. Tenten, being a heavy sleeper, was oblivious to this, and she kicked around slightly.

As the two slept quietly, neither was aware of the shadowed figure creeping over towards them at a pace so slow, yet chilling to the mind in an uncomfortable way. The figure was slowly stalking the two bodies in sleep, it's eye primely on one of the two targets. The time was currently right. The time was now. The figure wickedly licked it's lips, rubbed it's palms together vilely, and chuckled at such a low, quiet tone that not even Neji, an incredibly light sleeper, could hear it. Right now. The figure made it's move towards the girl with the unbound brunette hair. It's mouth opened, it's brows evilly cocked down as it leaned in. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The Hyuuga immediately sprung out of bed to his teammate's hurting, piercing scream. It was a yell of utter pain that was so incredibly loud that he wouldn't be shocked if Hiashi, Hinata, and Hanabi woke up back at his home. He looked over pityingly, yet at the same time with complete rage, at whoever...or whatever...was causing his teammate to be in such pain. As his head turned in his teammate's direction, he noticed her screaming in pain, sulking down on her knees and gripping her left wrist with her right hand with such a squeeze that her hand was turning white. Neji looked down at her left wrist and gasped, clenching his fist. A figure, gender unknown, in a long black cape had long, evil fangs dipped violently into his teammate's wrist, blood pouring everywhere, the figure licking it with pleasure. The figure's bite was so angry that Neji could almost see the white fangs breaking into Tenten's wrist, and then out the other way. And his teammate screamed in a tone that wouldn't change pitch or volume, the loudest scream he'd heard in his life.

"LET GO OF HER RIGHT NOW!!" Neji yelled at whoever...or whatever...was biting his teammate's wrist with such intensity, the figure's mouth smirking upwards into an evil smile as Tenten's eyes welled up. "NEJI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Neji's Byakugan activated as he scanned the figure's body, going to attempt to hit him with his Jyuuken down to the underworld for hurting Tenten. His shock was widened when he noticed the figure's oddity. The figure lacked chakra points. There was no such ninja who lacked chakra points. Or maybe it wasn't a ninja...

"YOU LET GO OF TENTEN RIGHT NOW!!!" Neji hollered at the figure.

"Why?" the figure monosyllabically mumbled. "Her blood...it's so delicious..."

Neji's eyes widened in horror as he witnessed the situation before him. His teammate's blood was being sucked into this...thing's mouth, with him struggling to decide what to do. Tenten's eyes were pierced shut, her bottom lip trembling, and her right hand still holding her wrist, trying to shake off the intruder. "NEJI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"TENTEN!!" the Hyuuga hollered, pulling out a kunai and attempting to target the enemy. "LET MY TEAMMATE GO RIGHT NOW!!!" he screamed at a volume almost identical to Tenten's.

And, to his surprise, the enemy's teeth dug their way out of Tenten's skin and bones, licking it's lips from the blood it found addicting and gazing at Neji evilly. "Her blood was absolutely thrilling to taste. It's such a pity you took the delectableness away. Oh well. And you, my dear..." The figure's head snapped towards Tenten faster than a snap of the fingers. "Don't think you'll get away without side effects. Your blood was incredible. I hope we can meet again." With this, the figure flitted off into the darkness, cackling an evil laugh as Neji rushed over to Tenten and grabbed her wrist.

"NEJI!!!" Tenten hollered. "IT HURTS!!!" Neji fiercely store at his friend's wrist, which was currently soaked in red blood. I swear, whoever you are...the next time I see you...I will definitely kill you...

The Hyuuga gasped as he noticed the blood draining out. He squeezed her right hand so tightly that it was the color of his eyes. "Tenten!!" he hollered to let her know he was there.

"Neji..." Tenten mumbled quietly. "It...hurts..." With this, Tenten fell over onto her sleeping bag, into another sleep. Actually, Neji couldn't tell if it was sleep...or unconciousness.

"TENTEN!!!" he hollered, hugging her and shaking her fiercely as his embrace was tightly locked. He gently pulled away and swiftly yet carefully wiped the blood away with the back of his palm...and that's when he noticed it...

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Me: So, you two, what did you think?

Tenten: You're mean, MMM-chan!! You made me scream in pain from a bite from the so-called "figure!!"

Neji: And what's up with me and OOC? I've seen Moments in Leaf, High School in Konoha, and I'm OOC TOTALLY in those two! Slightly in Doujutsu, too!!

Tenten: BTW thanks for the kekki genkai in that one!!

Neji: LET ME FINISH!! But in this one, I'm really OOC too!! I mean, sure Tenten and I are really close like you said, MMM-chan, but I don't smile every SECOND I'm with her!!

Me: Hey. If I made you your stoic self, your crush on Tenten wouldn't show as much.

Neji: (flushing slightly) I don't have a crush on Tenten!!

Tenten: (eating popcorn, amused)

Neji: (grabs popcorn, waves finger at Tenten, then points to popcorn) No.

Me: Well, you two don't like it because you're in it!! Hopefully my nice fans will like it!! Rolling the end A/N!!

N+T: What about our rant? Don't we get a chance to expre-

Ooh! This is a very cliffy story!! I read some Naruto vampire fics and I thought, "OMG!! I SHOULD MAKE A VAMPIRE NARUTO FIC WITH NEJITEN!!" I LOVE H/C NejiTen, with Tenten as the H and Neji as the C lol!! You gotta love, in Naruto fics, the guys as the C and the girls as the H!! Well, I hope you LUFFLE this fic and hug it and print it and hang the printed copy on your fridge!! (lol about that part.) Anyway, I need feedback about this, plus tell me which couple I should do next for my drabble collection! ShikaIno or SasuSaku? So far SasuSaku is winning by 2. So vote please!! Arigato!!