Hey Maggie! Hope you're feeling okay from having your … wiseman … teeth removed :P Hope you like it!

Anxiety

Hinata and Tenten sat in the shade, sipping at their iced tea after a day of standard D ranked missions like babysitting and community service-like tasks.

"I love weather like this…" Hinata sighed dreamily.

"I hate weather like this!" Tenten retorted. "I hate the humidity… I can stand dry heat, but this is completely beyond me. Give me winters and snows…" she sighed.

"No!" Hinata laughed. "I hate winter!"

There was a rustling of leaves behind them, and a young boy jumped out, attempting to scare them. Tenten held out her arm and grabbed a fistful of shirt from his chest, leaving him to dangle a few centimetres from the ground.

"Konohamaru." She sighed. "What do you want? Why aren't you hanging around Naruto with Moegi and Udon?"

"Our Leader is on a mission, and Moegi and Udon have caught a cold," he sighed.

Tenten dropped him, not bothering to give him a hand up when he tripped. Chouji walked past on the other side of the street, and gazed almost longingly at the Hyuuga before walking off again.

"Was that Chouji-san?" Konohamaru said for a moment, as if thinking. "I heard something about him from Ino-san…"

"What did she say?" Hinata asked.

"Well something about him writing a love letter to this girl…" His eyes widened as he realised what he'd said. He clamped a hand over his mouth. "I shouldn't have told you that!" He squeaked. He made to run off, but Tenten grabbed the hem of his shirt with ease.

"Come right back here." She said ominously. "What did you say?"

"Che… troublesome devil-lady…" Konohamaru struggled against her in vain. "You're never going to get a boyfriend like this…"
Tenten released his shirt, and he fell forward.

"What did you just say?" Tenten shouted, and without wait for a reply, Konohamaru sped off.

"Oh… My… God!" Hinata said, a blue cloud hanging over her as her face fell dramatically. "He wrote me a love letter! I can't believe it! Is he working up the courage to give it to me? Oh my god- is he going to ask me out? Tenten… what do I do?"

"I don't think Konohamaru is a reliable source." Tenten replied, cracking her knuckles. "On the other hand, I think you should just wait til it blows over. I think Chouji's the kind of guy who's too shy to start something…"

"But what if he gives it to me? What if he comes up to me and waits to see if I will read it? What if-?" Hinata began to talk gibberish while hyperventilating. Tenten knew her heart rate was picking up, and had to calm her down.

"Hinata!" Tenten smiled and put her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Stop. You don't have to have an anxiety attack over this. Why don't you just calm down, and drink some tea… like that, yes," Tenten said as Hinata numbly sipped at the tea, "And then you can just forget about it- it'll happen if it does, so you don't need to get so worked up about it all, okay? You'll be just fine." She paused and looked at the Hyuuga. "So are you okay?"

Hinata nodded.

"Are you sure?" Tenten asked.

"Yes, I'm fine now." She said, taking deep breaths.

"Okay." Tenten smiled. "You'll be fine; you don't have to worry."

In that instant, a piece of paper fluttered down from the boughs of the tree above the restaurant, and Tenten stilled, snatching it in her fingers. Hinata noticed her movement.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Nothing," Tenten lied breezily, tucking the note into her pocket. "It was just a bug, that's all."

"Oh," Hinata said, guiltily relieved. "That's okay then."

"So," Tenten said after a moment. "Hey I was thinking maybe we could have a movie night tonight! Do you want to come over?" she asked.

"Um… Okay," Hinata replied, leaving the drink on the table.

She stood, and Neji suddenly appeared in front of her.

Hinata shrieked, her hand moving automatically to the glass and she flung its contents at him, decorative umbrella and all, unaware of whom he was.

Tenten stifled a giggle.

"Neji… nii… san?" Hinata opened her eyes. Tenten reached over and plucked the hot pink umbrella from his locks.

"Hinata-sama," he said, wiping the tea from his eyes. "I heard you sounding distressed, and thought that you were in trouble. It appears that you were simply-"

"Having a crisis." Tenten finished. "But it's all been fixed now." She said hastily, handing him the umbrella. Neji sighed before taking it, and left the small café.

When he was gone, Tenten collapsed back on her chair, laughing. After a moment, so did Hinata.

"I can't believe I just did that!" Hinata gasped after laughing. "I feel like I'm in the middle of a soap opera now, throwing drinks at everyone!"

Tenten massaged her cramped sides.

"More than you know, I guess." Tenten said cryptically. "That was precious- I want to remember that, years on, when I'll tell my grandkids about how the famous Hyuuga Neji got covered in iced tea."

"Yeah, I guess." Hinata finished, and they lapsed into a sudden, awkward silence.

"Where were we going again?" Hinata asked.

"Um… your house to pick up some stuff!" Tenten said. "I suggested we have a movie night, remember?"

"Okay then," Hinata said, frowning.

Later, when Hinata was changing into pyjamas, Tenten dug around in her clothes and found the note in her pocket.

She unfolded it, and saw Hyuuga Hinata's name neatly written on the front, and the kanji for love on the inside, much like Gaara's tattoo.

Tenten contemplated many things in a few moments, and, with hesitation, she threw it into the fire, watching the sudden flames crackle and die just abruptly.

"Tenten?" Hinata said, coming out of the bathroom in her nightie. Tenten turned around "Bathroom's free." She said, opening the door and coming into the apartment's lounge room.

"Okay thanks." Tenten said, feeling slightly guilty for what she'd done. It wasn't like it'd get any worse, right?

The next day, after Hinata returned home, Tenten's phone rang. It was, to her surprise, Hinata.

"TENTEN!" She half shrieked. "HE LEFT HUNDREDS OF THEM IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT! AND MY FATHER READ THEM ALL!"

Tenten tried not to drop the phone.

"Do you want me to come over?" She asked.

"Um… that would be great, yeah." Hinata replied, sounding faint.

"Okay." Tenten said, "I'll be over in a few minutes."

She quickly ran out the door with her keys and wallet in hand, plaiting her long hair as she went.

True to her word, she arrived at the Hyuuga estate five minutes later, almost crashing into Neji in the process. She spun and avoided crashing into him by millimetres.

"Tenten?" Neji said, grabbing her arm. "Where are you going?"

"Oh. It turns out that the social crisis of yesterday isn't as solved as we thought." Tenten said, smiling and walking off in the other direction, briskly.

"What social crisis?" Neji asked, wheeling around and following her.

"The one where…" Tenten approached Hinata's door and knocked on the frame before sliding open the panel.

"Hey Hinata…" Tenten said softly. Hinata was looking rather lost in a few large mountains of love letters.

"Hi Tenten… Neji-nii-san." She replied weakly.

"So I'm guessing this social crisis is…"Neji prompted.

"Go away." Tenten waved her hand. "You don't need to hear any of this."

Neji left the room after glaring at her.

"So…" Tenten said, searching for words. "What did your father say?"

"Nothing much… He just said something about telling the servants to stop bringing the mail to my room." She sighed.

Tenten picked one up, and read it.

"Dearest Hinata," it said, "I love you more than the air that I breathe."

She soon found out they went along the same lines.

"Tenten- what do I do? What do I say to him?"

"It's not Chouji you have to worry about," Tenten said dismissively. "All of these are from other people… Not Chouji."

Tenten realised a moment later it was the wrong thing to say.

Hinata almost fainted.

"Why don't I just get someone to pose as my boyfriend to make them all stop?" Hinata sighed. "It's so annoying!" she slammed her hand onto the floor, only it was muffled because of the papers.

"Why don't we go for a walk?" Tenten suggested. "I'm sure someone will clean everything up by the time we get back, and we'll think of what to do next."

"Okay, sure…" Hinata said faintly. The pair got up and walked out of the room, and missed Hanabi- Hinata's little sister- sneak into her sister's room.