Jikan Yo Tomare

Author's Note: Hello, hello! It's me! Anyways, I got inspired to write this fiction based on Itazura Na Kiss by Kaoru Tada. I love this story way too much, and I wanted to experiment on a different pairing, rather than SasuSaku. So, all you SasuSaku fans, I'll continue my other two stories later on, but I'm busy! So just be patient...

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"I don't want it."

Hands were shaking, as a letter addressed to a young man was gripped lightly. Chocolate brown eyes battered wildly, as a girl's head tilted to the side in light confusion. In front of the whole school, the long haired genius gazed into the bewildered eyes of the girl. This young lady was in total shock, she couldn't believe that he didn't think twice about accepting a letter, more or less even hesitate to reject it. As he turned and wandered away, making her slump to her knees, gazing at the people who gossiped about her embarassment.

"Didja hear? Tenten of Class 3-F got rejected by Hyuuga-san!" "I know! How could Hyuuga-san would show interest in someone in a stupid class like 3-F?!" "Seriously, she's not even close to his league."

A body swayed down the hallway, as the brunette young woman by the name of Tenten was trying to get over her sudden rejection. The news spreaded around like a plauge, as people turned and stared at the girl with the buns in her hair. As her hand grabbed the door leading into the Class 3-F class, Tenten walked to her desk, and immediately slammed her head against the table in dispair. On the verge of crying two girls wandered up to the heartbroken teen, as one of them petted her hair.

"Tenten. You should've gone for someone normal at least." a blond haired girl sighed looking at Tenten oddly.

"Y-yes! Don't worry about my cousin, he's seventeen and he's not really interested in dating in the moment." a raven haired girl added battering her familiar looking eyes at Tenten.

"Hinata, Ino..."Tenten groaned as she was crying.

"TENTEN!" a voice shouted as the three girls were literally pushed back by his voice. "Why did you confess to that nerdy guy?! Who loves a guy with long hair?! You have me don't you?!"

Rock Lee was the boy shouting his lungs off. His obession with Tenten was scary enough as it is, making her think he was her stalker from time to time, despite being good friends. The pair always sat next to each other for the past two years, and Lee kept pursuing the uninterested Tenten for the period. The two girls sighed, knowing that Lee had a nearly impossible chance of going out with her, and had a suspicion that Tenten was going to stick with her crush Neji until he's on the point of annoyance.

"Maybe..I should give up on him.."

"So are you finish moving into your new house?"

The three girls, along with Lee was walking home after school. The sun was slowly beginning to set, as the four of them along with a few other boys were walking with them. As Tenten nodded with a light blush across her face, Ino formed a plan to have a housewarming party. Tenten closed her eyes for a brief moment, before hearing a familiar voice from afar. Her eyes quickly shot open, as she glanced back, seeing Neji talking to a raven haired young man, who seemingly shared the same cold attitude that he had.

"Hn. That girl who confessed to you earlier.." the raven haired young man muttered glancing at the lightly dispaired Tenten.

"Forget her." Neji stated as the raven haired boy followed with him.

"You! Why did you rejected Tenten's letter?" Lee shouted recklessly as he approached the pair.

"It's because I do not like idiots." Neji muttered as he kept wandering forward.

Tenten's eyes widened knowing his attitude was so ice cold, that she felt chills going up her spine. She stood there as she felt her heart slowly torn into shreads as Ino and Hinata looked at her with light concern, knowing it wasn't going anywhere. Lee looked down in thought as he glanced at Ino who had a light grin on her face. Ino pressed her palms into Tenten's back shoving her towards her house.

"Hey! What the..." Tenten shouted as Ino formed a grin on her face.

"You know, you should relax. Celebrate your new house with us!" Ino smiled as Tenten glanced into Ino's eyes, having a feeling that something was going wrong.

Tenten's chocolate colored eyes glanced at Ino's determined look to make her feel better. A smile formed upon Tenten's face, as she glanced down in light concern. The whole confession from earlier kept re-playing in her head, like a video tape. She felt her heart tightening after seeing Neji again, and she didn't even like Lee, despite his ways of making her fall for him. Strangely, he didn't seem to follow her and Ino home, and just wandered home with Hinata.

"Huh?" Tenten muttered pulling out her cell phone, seeing her dad's number on it. "Hello?"

"Tenten! Did you feel that earthquake?" her father shouted as Tenten pulled her cell phone away from her ear.

"What earthquake?" Tenten questioned.

"Oh...damn. Well, it's sad for me to say it, but our house collapsed." her father sighed.

"Wait! How?!" Tenten screamed as Ino backed up.

"Poor worksmanship. I can cook, but I suck at building houses. Well, then Tenten, fortunately we still didn't unpack yet, so come to where our new home used to be. My friend heard about the news, and has offered us to stay in his house."

Tenten nearly dropped her phone into the floor. Could her day get any worse? First, Neji rejects her to a point where she wants to commit suicide. Second, the whole school gossips about it. Finally, her house collapses. Was this going to be the end? Not exactly.. After Ino had wandered home, Tenten sat in the taxi cab, while her eyes glanced onto the floor of the car, as the car sped to a house. Her father was looking as relaxed as ever, and he carried a tablet that had her mother's name on there.

Already..I'm moving to another house. I don't even feel good... Tenten thought grimly as she formed a sickly frown of disgust.

"Welcome!"

A thin man, with long black hair grinned at Tenten and her father. Tenten politely bowed, as she stood in the doorway of the seemingly huge mansion. Her father filled her in while they rode inside of the taxi. His best friend from high school was living close by them, and he had a son who was around Tenten's age, who goes to the same school. He currently serves as Vice President of a company, while his older twin brother was the CEO.

"It's been a long time, Hizashi." her father stated with a smile.

"It's a good thing you're doing good. I heard about it when they broadcasted it on the news." Hizashi stated with a light smile. "So, this is your daughter. You must be Tenten, right?" Hizashi questioned as Tenten nodded.

"This must be your son, Neji?" her father stated.

Tenten froze up hearing that name. She quickly snapped out of her trance, as she looked at Neji who stood in front of her from afar. Her body froze up, as her face was in total shock. Her eyes battered mildly as she looked down and cringed. Was Neji going to be his total asshole-self? Her eyes slowly looked up seeing Neji eyeing her oddly. He gave a smirk as he nodded towards her father, showing a bit of friendliness towards the other man, making Tenten think she was dreaming.

"Hello. I'm Hizashi's son, Neji."