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i.don'tMiSS
Author of 3 Stories

Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - & Tenten - Reviews: 44 - Updated: 02-20-07 - Published: 05-24-06 - id:2954746

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto and never will…. I only own the…uhm…the plot or the story….

Summary: How will you feel if the person you love betrayed you? How will your life change? Sometimes, it’s hard to believe in love, especially when you have experienced it already. One story that revolves around three people as they struggle to find their way out...

Tenten, betrayed by her ex-lover Hyuuga Neji, plans her choices: Wait or Move; and she chose to move. Move on with her life and forget about the past. That is when Uchiha Sasuke comes in. And everything went upside down.

Main Pairings: SasuTenNeji, SasuTen, NejiTen

Included Pairings: ShikaIno, NaruHina, and GaaSaku?

Keys: “talking”, ‘thoughts’

Warnings: possible OOC-ness, may have OC, triangular love, and AU.


Upside Down

Chapter Two: The Plan

Tenten froze. She can’t believe that she will ever see this day. He had betrayed her. What her friends told her were all real.

She saw Hyuuga Neji and another girl hugging each other lovingly and most expectantly, she saw her boyfriend hugging another girl in a way he had never hugged her before.

With all the courage she got, she walked near to them. Her eyes showing full determination, but deep inside…

“N-Neji…who is she?” began Tenten.

Neji looked at Tenten and her friends blankly.

“Do you know who they are, Neji?” asked the girl.

Neji loosened his arms around her, “Hmm…I know the two over there, they’re somebody from my school,” he said pointing at Sakura and Ino as he continued, “But the one here, no. I have no idea who she is. Never seen her before actually….” he said emotionlessly indicating Tenten.

Tenten was shocked and she can’t even move. She recognized the girl as Takano Mikage; one of the students in Konoha High; their school. Mikage is one year younger than her and Neji (so it appears that she is in the same age as Sakura and Ino).

She tried her hardest best to prevent the tears that want to come out from her eyes. She felt herself; her heart shatters in more than million pieces again. However, this time it was even worse.

“I-You-you….You…love…you told…me…. I-you told me you…lo-love…me….” Tenten tried to calm her voice as possible as she can.

Neji raised a brow, “Hn…you must be one of the annoying Fangirls I have. Too bad I have my own girl here…..”

He smirked as he pecked Mikage lightly in…public. It was only a peck; a very simple and really quick peck, but it hurts...

Sakura and Ino fumed and clenched their fists, but the next thing that happened really surprised all of them.

As soon as Neji pulled away from Mikage (which was not even a second), Tenten took a step forward him and slapped him really hard on the right cheek and ran away.

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“YOU-YOU…YOU BASTARD!” Ino screamed in anger. She was already crying. She knows what the pain Tenten will have on. She felt it…but she knows that Tenten felt worse….

“How dare you! How dare you do such thing! Especially to her!” continued Ino.

Neji was silent, for he knows what he had done was wrong, but it was for the sake of the girl he loves…Takano Mikage. He’ll do anything just to have her….

Sakura was also silent. She was clenching her fists really tight that her knuckles were turning white. Her best friend was hurt in front of her. When it comes to herself, she doesn’t mind if it hurts her, but when it comes to any of her friends, NO. A big fat NO is the answer. She’ll never allow even a single insult. She was really burning in anger; she can feel it! She can feel the pain Tenten is feeling, but she knows how really hard it is to overcome.

She wants to kill Neji; she doesn’t care if he’s older or not. She just wants to KILL him! She will never ever forgive him for doing such things. She knows she can’t hurt him because it will even cause a lot of troubles for Tenten. Tenten had already warned the two of them, Ino and her, not to hurt or do anything bad to Neji. Of course Ino and she want to grant their best friend’s simple request. But why? Why of all people did Hyuuga Neji hurt Tenten? Tenten is a very tolerable person. She is the one who always helped her and Ino with almost everything, so it is time to repay her…but how….?

Neji tightened his jaw and regained his composure as he smirked and turned to Mikage who has a very anxious face, “Will you please wait for me, over there?” he asked indicating somewhere, “I just have some things to deal with….”

Mikage nodded and smiled reassuringly before walking away.

Neji turned to Ino and Sakura as soon as Mikage left, “You know…I really didn’t love that friend of yours…maybe I just plain hate her. She’s nothing but a normal, simple High School girl there, isn’t she? Like you two. She’s not even worth playing with and nothing to Mikage. That friend of yours is not even good-looking; she’s annoying to tell the truth….” Neji said coldly.

He continued as he started smirking, “But perhaps if she turns to be a better one and change her personal attire in terms of being even prettier, I might go back to her…. I just can’t do anything right now.”

Ino had it all. She can’t take every second—every word he says to Tenten. It was too much to bear with. So what did she do? She hit Neji for the second time on the right cheek…hard. She was already crying! She’s crying because she can feel the exact pain that her friend is having. Ino swallowed hard…her best friend fell in love with a…bastard, a jerk!

Then it hit her…she took a step forward and slapped Neji’s right cheek (where Tenten hit him) again, “THIS! IS FOR USING HER!

Another slap, “THIS! IS FOR EMBARASSING HER!”

Another slap, “THIS! IS FOR MAKING HER CRY!”

Last slap, “AND THIS! THIS IS FOR HURTING HER!”

Neji’s right cheek was now really red and if you look closer, it was already bleeding. Every slap Ino did was getting harder. Sakura held her back as Ino struggled.

“INO! Stop this! STOP!” Sakura screamed.

Ino stopped struggling as angry and sad tears ran down her cheeks, “B-But….”

Neji glared hard as he touched his right cheek.

Sakura looked away from Ino and stared at Neji angrily as she took as step forward unable to control her emotions anymore, “You…!”

She took out a knife from her pocket, “Do you know how much I hate you right now—we hate you right now?!”

Neji remained emotionless. Ino held a gasp.

“I can kill you right here in instant! I do not care whether you are older or not! But I can’t! I just can’t…why? You want to know why! Because I’m afraid to do so! It’s just that simple! She warned us! I promised her not to hurt you! Ino and I promised her! If only, if only…she didn’t want to hurt you, then I could be a murderer right now! I don’t care as long as I can kill you! I don’t care if ever I’ll become a monster, be executed, and be feared! I don’t care if I’ll be remembered as a mad murderer! All I care is that I don’t want to be dead BREAKING MY PROMISE TO MY BEST FRIEND! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?” Sakura screamed with anger.

She continued, “Tenten-chan wanted you SAFE! SAFE! Can you even believe that! She wants a BASTARD to be safe! But that is because she LOVES YOU, and YOU KNOW IT! Whatever and no matter what happens, she wants you safe! I can understand her! We ALL understand her! Except you! You don’t know how much it will hurt! You are the total OPPOSITE of her! Of course opposites attract, but things don’t need to be all the same with words! Because…you know what? ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! My god, you are even worse than animals! Whoever dares to call you genius, they are very wrong!”

Ino tried to calm Sakura down, “Sa-Sakura! Stop this…you—”

“SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH!” Sakura screamed with more anger.

Neji remained emotionless and still as if nothing is happening.

People were already panicking, and some are insisting calling the police, but Sakura can only care less.

“Do you even know who left those expensive medicines for your cousin when she was sick and no parents, even though you’re damn family could’ve afford them? Do you even know who helped your cousin improve her damn studies? Do you even know who helped your cousin and that dumb-asshole to be together? Do you know who helped them with their feelings? It was SHE! Tenten-chan! She did all of that! She had done many for your family, your cousin! And do you even know why you never get any detentions whenever you do something DISRESPECTFUL! Do you even know who did all the work that was meant for you to be done! It was all because of her! She had done a lot, for you and your family!” Sakura, this time, shouted as angry and sorrowful tears unstoppably flowed down her eyes, "For you... She did all those things...for you..."

She continued, “You were clueless, yet what did you repay her? ALL THIS MESS!”

Neji didn’t move and remained stoic, but he could not understand the pang that hit his chest; his heart.

“We really do wish you realize what you have done…..” said Sakura coldly as Ino held her back, "Realize them."

“And one more thing….” said Ino. “Leave her—us the fuck alone. You should know better…get LOST. We pray to never see that own hell face of yours. Goodbye and we hope you live a happy life…..” the last sentence, she said sarcastically.

Ino and Sakura left without any words, but without glancing at Neji with a death glare for one last time.

Neji, on the other hand, could only stand motionless. But the pain that was running throughout his body was irresistable.

'What have I done?'


Tenten ran and ran. Even though she doesn’t know where she was going, she just wanted to get away from everything, everyone. She can feel herself shattered into pieces, but especially her heart. It really hurt like hell; even more painful than dying or killing yourself as a suicide. She can’t take it anymore. It was too much!

She wanted to find a suitable place for her to stay ALONE with no one except her. She just wanted to get away from everything! Everyone! They were right all the way. Why didn’t she just listen to them?

To her friends…. Ino and Sakura.

Why? How? Why can she make a fool of herself? Why did she love HIM! Why! Why did she have to be stupid no to trust her friends? Why did she have to agree! TRUST…the word…that word is such a strong word. How, then, it all happened? How did she agree? How did she love HIM? How can she not trust her friends!

The answer leads to one thing; she loved Neji too much…Neji was her life…. But now…

She just had to run! She was in great pain. She could really feel her heart break into pieces. It hurt. She was crying and some people that she passed were looking at her but she didn’t care…..

She, somehow, reached a place where she could be alone. It was in the forest. The Forest was so big but she had no worry about getting lost or something. She ran and ran until she reached the middle of the forest. In that middle, there was a river; the calmness color of blue reminded her of Neji.

She walked towards the river. The water was so clear with blue and it looked like a beautiful mirror. She bent down and looked at herself in the water and then started crying. It suddenly rained as if the sky was crying with her. It was so sunny a while ago and now it was raining very hard.

Minutes later, Tenten regained her composure and stared blankly at the water.

“What did I do that was wrong?” she whispered softly to herself. “All I did was loving him…”

“…he was my life…” Tenten said while standing up. “And I lost him…so what is there to live for…?”

She took out the knife in her pocket and opened it up. She was about to stab herself when words of comfort and wisdom from her friend… a teacher…repeated in her head.

There are a lot of things worth living for…’ Tenten remembered.

“That’s a lie…that’s a lie…. Everything is such lies…” Tenten whispered to herself.

However, faces of the people she loved and cared so much suddenly flashed in her head. She can’t kill herself now…no, not now…she still had some work to do…and she’s not dying until she achieves them. That was what Tenten was thinking. So instead of killing herself, she just gave herself a few cuts here and there not really caring about anything. She couldn’t even feel the pain that knife was causing…all she felt was the pain Neji caused. She was numb from everything except from him—his pain….

She knows she was being too emotional. She knows she was overreacting, but she also knows that those feelings will be gone. Gone like they are just pieces of dust cleaned away.

Though, from now, she knows what she needs to be, to do. She needs to move on; no matter how hard it will be, she is certain…she will move on...!


Author’s Note: Oh no! What will happen? Will Tenten be able to move on? Can she move on? Is she really certain of being able to move on? Find out in later chapters!

I really, really hope you like this chapter. Sorry for my wrong grammars or wrong spellings, also sorry for stopping the preview of next chapters. I can't believe this. I know it is too dramatic, but I swear I had to be inside every character and I really feel bad for them TT. LOL.

Thank you to those who read and reviewed! And also to those who only read. I hope I get more reviews! I need more! Reviews make A LOT of people HAPPY! Pretty please? And yes, you are permissible to sue me whoever doesn’t like the pairings and guess what? I’m certain I’m going to write/type a sequel whenever I finish this…which is rather a long time! Oh, and sorry for the late update! I’m not sure when I’m going to update though….So yeah as always…

Don’t Forget To REVIEW Please! Keep on READING!


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