9Tenten was having a comfy, peaceful sleep when all of a sudden a bright light flickered on.
"Get up."a monotone voice commanded.
Tenten muttered something incoherent and just tried to go back asleep again. This time Neji pulled back the covers from here body, revealing the nightdress rad up a little revealing her long smooth legs. Her hair was also down, looking like a chocolate waterfall over the pillows. Neji couldn't help but think she was beautiful.
"Get up or you get no breakfast. We have a lot to do today and you'll need your energy." he states. Once Tenten wiped the sleep from her eyes, she smelt the food waiting downstairs.
"Fine, fine I'm up!" she says as she steps out of bed. She then stretches, bending her back and her arms reaching upwards. Neji had to get out quickly.
"I'll be waiting downstairs. Might wanna hurry before it gets cold." he says and walks out of the room.
Tenten sighs and gets dressed in her white shirt and chaos along with a red vest with gold tassels. She then looked at her hair and decided to put it in a braid, Neji did say she needed to change her hairstyle. Once she was done she walked downstairs.
Tenten seen Neji's plate filled with overland trout and crackleberries and one hot rock with a glass o Blue John. Tenten quickly sat herself down and started to eat. She took a bite of her bacon and loved the crunch it had.
"I thought you would have some table manners." Neji remarks with a amused smirk. Tenten just sends him a glare and drinks a sip of her milk before taking a bite of her eggs.
"Have any Tabasco sauce?" she asks. Neji gives her a confused look but goes to his pantry and hands her the bottle. She opens the cap and proceeds to put the Tabasco sauce on her eggs.
"I'm not sure if that will taste good." Neji says a little disgusted.
"It's delicious! Try some!" Tenten says holding out her fork with a piece of egg and tabasco on it.
"No thanks." Neji refuses. He then takes a bite of his biscuit.
"Are you afraid to try it?" Tenten challenges. She smirks when she sees Neji's hand freeze on the way to his milk. He then casts her a determined look.
"Heck no!" he growls as he takes his fork and takes one of her eggs. He shoves the piece in his mouth and chews and realizes it rates pretty good. To Tenten's amusement, he takes the bottle of Tabasco and puts it on his eggs. "Who taught you to eat eggs like this?" he asks taking another bite.
Tenten looks down. "My dad." she whispers out quietly. Neji's heart struck a chord with her. His dad wasn't here anymore with him, and judging by her actions neither is hers.
Neji gives a cough. "So..What has your mother taught you?" he asks a little awkwardly.
"S-she's not here anymore." Tenten mutters. She takes the last bite of her biscuit and drinks the last swig of milk, picks up her dishes and washes them in the sink.
"Sorry."
"What?" Tenten asks confused.
"I didn't mean to bring it up. Sorry." Neji says.
"It's fine, you didn't know." she rests a hand on his shoulder. "So what's first on the list today?!" she says excited,trying to brighten the atmosphere.
"First we go get you some more clothes." Neji says, smirking when he sees her face.
"What's wrong with the ones I have now?" she inquires, hands on her hips.
"Nothing. But if you're working here for a few months surely you want more clothes." he replies cockily.
"Fine. When do we leave?" she asks.
"Right now. Go saddle up one of the horses in the back." he tells her.
"Speaking of horses, where's mine?!" she yells.
"He's also in the back and no, you can't pick him to saddle." Neji says once he sees the mischievous light in her eyes.
Tenten goes to the stables in the back and finds four horses besides her own. The first one was a pure white. The second stable had a paint horse that was white and covered in big brown splotches. The third stable had a grayish horse with small black dots and the last stable had a pure black horse. She decided to go with the first one and started to saddle her up. She then took a lead and started to lead it out of the stables and by the door.
"So you chose Azami?" Neji asks a little bewildered. He could never get Azami out with ease and yet he didn't hear anything when she was bringing her out. "Did you have trouble bringing her out?" He inquiries.
"No, why?" Tenten asks.
"No reason." he then gets on the horse and holds out his hand to help Tenten up. Tenten looks and it and then decides to take it putting her foot through the stirrup and hoists herself up behind Neji.
"You might want to hold on. She can be pretty wild." Neji tells her.
"Yeah right, I'll be able to deal." she says confidently. Neji just smirks and uses the harness to steer Azami. Azami then thrashed about for a little bit before calming down and walking towards the city. During the thrashing, Neji felt a pair of arms wrap around his torso.
"I thought you could handle it?" he teases.
"Shut it Hyuga." she mumbles with a blush on her face wrapping her arms a little tighter.
It took them around 45 minutes to get to the clothes shop, and boy did Tenten have fun there. She ended up getting around ten shirts, five skirts pants, three boots, and 3 hats plus a few accessories. Tenten tries on her clothes as an outfit and comes out.
She was wearing a red shirt and bandana with a tan pancho like covering over it. She also had a tan hat, brown gloves and a steely grey boots. And her skirt was white with pink trimmings. She also tied her hair into twin braids.
"Bang bang." she points towards him, her fingers made into a gun and pulling her hat over her eyes. Neji couldn't help but give a slight smile. She then goes back and changes into her previous clothes but leaves the braids.
"Your total is 85.69." a woman with purple hair eating a dumpling tells them. Neji hands over the money and they both walk out.
"Neji! Buying your girlfriend clothes?" a voice calls out.
Oh no, not again.
- sorry for updating late. I had a super big camp I had to work but wow I got five chapters done! Crackleberries are eggs, overland trout is bacon Blue John is milk and hot rocks are buscuits! The eggs and Tabasco thing is how I hear my eggs and yes I did learn it from my dad. I really enjoyed writing this chapter and the clothes shopping one is one o was dying to write! Hope you guys like it so far!