Naruto: NejiTenSasu [Lonely by Your Side, part 1]
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Title: Lonely by Your Side, part 1
Author: namistai8
Character/Pairing/Group: Neji/Tenten/Sasuke, with sides of Neji/Tenten and Sasuke/Tenten
Rating: PG-13 for language and talk about sex,
Disclaimer/Notes/Whatever: AU. I've altered the canon a bit, and while Sasuke is slightly cracktastic (meaning he's pimp!Sasuke in this), I'm still trying to keep him as Sasuke, more or less. This is basically if Sasuke was never sealed by Orochimaru and Neji got taken instead. That's probably the only major change. This is a 3 part story, so you have been warned.
I wouldn't want you to want to be wanted by me. / I wouldn't want you to worry you'd be drowned within my sea. / I only wanted to be wonderful and wonderful is true. / In truth, I only really wanted to be wanted by you.
~Damien Rice
When she was told, Tenten didn't cry, didn't rage, didn't grit her teeth. She didn't raise her voice when she petitioned the Godaime, alongside Rock Lee, whose passionate plea stood in sharp relief against the calmness of her voice.
But her eyes betrayed her. They burned brightly with supressed emotions, but they were too fleeting in the face of her unwavering determination.
Tsunade-sama let them go, accompanied by their leader Maito Gai. She let them search until even Lee gave up. It was the least she could do. Some would call it cruelty, to let their hopes be dashed so mercilessly. Others called it wisdom, to expose them to the harsh reality of it all.
The Hyuuga clan also went in search of him. However, nobody knew if it was really to save him or to activate the seal they had placed on him to preserve their precious family secrets. Neither Team Gai nor the Hyuuga clan offered to work together because both of them thought to take care of their own.
In the end, both parties had to stop. There was only so much leniency that the Godaime could afford either party.
In the end, the report simply read:
Missing Shinobi Report
Name: Hyuuga Neji
Registration No.: 011568
Age: 17
Rank: Jounin
Status: MIA
Notes: Subject was returning from A-class solo mission (see Appendix C, mission form), from Kirikagure, Water Country (see Appendix D, maps) when it is believed that subject encountered S-Class missing-nin Orochimaru and A-Class missing-nin Yakushi Kabuto on his way back to Konoha. (see Appendix B, mission report). It is believed a battle ensued, based on physical evidence. (See Appendix A, photographs) Subject was captured and/or killed - if so, the body was hidden. It is possible subject is now imprisoned within Sound Village.
Both Team 12 and the Hyuuga clan have conducted separate, extensive searches for the Subject with no positive results.
***
For Tenten, her life patterns shifted. She would spend obsessive amounts in the library researching. She got special permission from the Hokage to read up on Orochimaru's old treatises and experiments. She pored over scrolls on the Hyuuga clan. She researched in-depth about the nature of seals and seal transmutation.
When she wasn't researching or off on missions, she trained. Alone.
She stopped socializing so much. Her life became positively ascetic. She went on missions, she trained, she researched, she ate, she slept.
She brushed away concerns about herself, saying that she need to focus on her research. She refused to talk about Neji. In fact, she would walk away from the speaker if his name was brought up. Both Gai and Lee worried that it was too much for Tenten to handle alone, but she rebuffed all of their efforts to comfort her. Gai had even thought about approaching the Hokage to order Tenten to go talk to a psychologist but decided against it. Tenten could be as stubborn as Neji when it came to talking about feelings.
***
Uchiha Sasuke went off to train. It wasn't like he was particularly fond of training, but it was really the only time the girls left him alone. He had managed to do that through a STRICT admonishment and enforcement of said warning. Any girl, not previously invited, that was caught spying or intruding on his training was given the cold shoulder. After he had even given Ino the cold shoulder over this, the rest of his fanclub had gotten the message.
He liked women. Liked their soft curves and softer sighs. He liked the variety of them, and their differences - tall, short, long legged, busty, red hair, blonde, etc. He liked the fact that they liked him.
According to the rest of the villagers, until he hit puberty, he had been consummed with the idea of revenge. That was incorrect. What he had wanted was to have his clan back. To have his parents back. To have his brother back. But he was keenly aware that wasn't possible. He was the last of the Uchiha (his brother didn't count). The last one. It weighed heavily upon him because he didn't know what it meant for him to survive. He didn't know what to do with his life. He was the last one. He had an obligation to make his clan survive.
And then puberty hit and he noticed the girls, watching him from the corner of their eyes, their giggles and their preening. He lost his virginity at the tender age of thirteen, barely a young man and more of a child to an older girl who wanted.... he didn't know what she had wanted at that moment. She taught him.
It changed him. What they had done. At the beginning, he had been like a lovesick puppy, overwhelmed with lust, and had followed her around for two weeks. She let him touch her any time he wanted. And he came to understand that she wanted him, the last of the Uchiha. She wanted to marry him.
But at thirteen, he was too young to marry. Not too young to fuck, but young enough to confuse the notions of lust and love together. She had hoped that the potent combination would bind him to her.
It didn't. It did make Sasuke appreciate sex, however. And he realized that he didn't have to be faithful. In fact, it was best if he wasn't. He was the last Uchiha and it was his duty to see his clan survive.
That meant he needed to have as much sex with as many women as possible so that they could conceive as many of his bastards as possible.
However, things didn't turn out as planned. One girl had an abortion. The other did carry it to term, but it was born a still-born. After that harrowing day in the hospital, Sasuke that he had been reckless. He had chosen girls that weren't strong enough to carry his blood in them. He needed a strong and capable kunoichi to carry a child with such a potent kekkei genkai.
Also, the Sandaime had given him a stern talking to and told him in no uncertain terms that he understood the importance of preserving the Sharingan, but he was not running a brothel for Sasuke. His gimlet eyes pierced Sasuke and Sasuke felt the belated stirrings of his honor answer. The Sandaime informed him that he couldn't control what happened behind closed doors, but that he didn't appreciate the results. Either Sasuke was more careful, or he was going to have to support every bastard he spawned. And given his financial situation, he better be careful.
Sasuke became careful. Girls still wanted him and he still bedded them. He just made sure that they didn't conceive. He neither desired abortions or still-borns. He wanted healthy babies born to the Uchiha line. He understood that perhaps it was because was a little too precocious in this matter and children should best be attempted later. It would also help if he became a jounin, because if he ever died in battle, the village would then take care of what children he had managed to father.
Despite what had happened to two girls, they still flocked to him. Some of them wanted him because he was the last Uchiha. Others because he was a cute guy. Others, because he was experienced and they wanted to at least lose their virginity to a guy they knew instead of a faceless stranger if they got captured in the battlefield. Sasuke obliged them all.
On his way to his usual training ground, he came upon Tenten. He took a minute to study her lean form in a casual but practiced manner. He noticed all his features and knew her for a pretty and capable kunoichi. And as one of the few that had never worshiped as his altar. Not that he was piqued. He had enough devoted followers. And it was a well-known fact that Tenten and Hyuuga Neji were more or less an item, even if neither of them had made some sort of official declaration or confession. Some things simply were.
Sasuke was lost in contemplation when a kunai came dangerously close to grazing his left cheek, embedding itself on the tree next to him. He found that he was staring at the fiery eyes of the kunoichi and bit back his irritation at the thought that she could have actually harmed his face.
"Is there something you need?" Tenten asked with a sardonic lift of an eyebrow.
Sasuke shook his head. While it might have been amusing to bed someone like Tenten, and she obviously needed a good fuck because she was tenser than a bowstring, he didn't have to go looking for sex. It came to him.
"Good. I do," Tenten said in a clipped tone.
It was Sasuke's turn to raise an eyebrow. It wouldn't be the first time that a woman had approached him with an offer. And he thought about it. Tenten was a pretty girl, taut muscles and a lean form. She wasn't beautiful the way Ino was, but then again, few girls were. She would do. Besides, a fuck was a fuck.
"Get your head out of the gutter. I need you to train with me," Tenten said with a scowl.
Sasuke cocked his head. "Oh?" he said, disinterestedly.
"I'm used to training with someone with a kekkai genkai. And you could use a sparring partner," she said.
"Not interested," Sasuke said sweetly. Honestly, Tenten could use a few classes in politeness. She didn't know how to approach a man. Didn't know how to simper and wheedle things out of them. She couldn't just demand what she wanted. He would just withhold whatever it was from her.
"So the rumors are true. All you're good for is fucking," Tenten said scornfully.
It was a hard and vicious slap to his honor. Yes, he was good for fucking. But that wasn't the only thing he was good for. He was still a shinobi. Hell, he was a damn fine shinobi. He was one-of-a-kind. He'd be damned if he let Tenten slight him. He had skills, and it extended beyond the bedroom.
"You're on," Sasuke spat out, reaching for his own kunai. He'd be damned if he let his reputation slip away from him. He was still a shinobi.
Sasuke was angry enough at Tenten to miss the slight smirk on her lips.
Comments, criticisms and questions welcome. Some things will be answered later in the fic. Fear not. And if you like this, leave me some love!
Crossposted in nejiten, ten_squared, narufanfic and tensasutema
Title: Lonely by Your Side, part 1
Author: namistai8
Character/Pairing/Group: Neji/Tenten/Sasuke, with sides of Neji/Tenten and Sasuke/Tenten
Rating: PG-13 for language and talk about sex,
Disclaimer/Notes/Whatever: AU. I've altered the canon a bit, and while Sasuke is slightly cracktastic (meaning he's pimp!Sasuke in this), I'm still trying to keep him as Sasuke, more or less. This is basically if Sasuke was never sealed by Orochimaru and Neji got taken instead. That's probably the only major change. This is a 3 part story, so you have been warned.
I wouldn't want you to want to be wanted by me. / I wouldn't want you to worry you'd be drowned within my sea. / I only wanted to be wonderful and wonderful is true. / In truth, I only really wanted to be wanted by you.
~Damien Rice
When she was told, Tenten didn't cry, didn't rage, didn't grit her teeth. She didn't raise her voice when she petitioned the Godaime, alongside Rock Lee, whose passionate plea stood in sharp relief against the calmness of her voice.
But her eyes betrayed her. They burned brightly with supressed emotions, but they were too fleeting in the face of her unwavering determination.
Tsunade-sama let them go, accompanied by their leader Maito Gai. She let them search until even Lee gave up. It was the least she could do. Some would call it cruelty, to let their hopes be dashed so mercilessly. Others called it wisdom, to expose them to the harsh reality of it all.
The Hyuuga clan also went in search of him. However, nobody knew if it was really to save him or to activate the seal they had placed on him to preserve their precious family secrets. Neither Team Gai nor the Hyuuga clan offered to work together because both of them thought to take care of their own.
In the end, both parties had to stop. There was only so much leniency that the Godaime could afford either party.
In the end, the report simply read:
Missing Shinobi Report
Name: Hyuuga Neji
Registration No.: 011568
Age: 17
Rank: Jounin
Status: MIA
Notes: Subject was returning from A-class solo mission (see Appendix C, mission form), from Kirikagure, Water Country (see Appendix D, maps) when it is believed that subject encountered S-Class missing-nin Orochimaru and A-Class missing-nin Yakushi Kabuto on his way back to Konoha. (see Appendix B, mission report). It is believed a battle ensued, based on physical evidence. (See Appendix A, photographs) Subject was captured and/or killed - if so, the body was hidden. It is possible subject is now imprisoned within Sound Village.
Both Team 12 and the Hyuuga clan have conducted separate, extensive searches for the Subject with no positive results.
***
For Tenten, her life patterns shifted. She would spend obsessive amounts in the library researching. She got special permission from the Hokage to read up on Orochimaru's old treatises and experiments. She pored over scrolls on the Hyuuga clan. She researched in-depth about the nature of seals and seal transmutation.
When she wasn't researching or off on missions, she trained. Alone.
She stopped socializing so much. Her life became positively ascetic. She went on missions, she trained, she researched, she ate, she slept.
She brushed away concerns about herself, saying that she need to focus on her research. She refused to talk about Neji. In fact, she would walk away from the speaker if his name was brought up. Both Gai and Lee worried that it was too much for Tenten to handle alone, but she rebuffed all of their efforts to comfort her. Gai had even thought about approaching the Hokage to order Tenten to go talk to a psychologist but decided against it. Tenten could be as stubborn as Neji when it came to talking about feelings.
***
Uchiha Sasuke went off to train. It wasn't like he was particularly fond of training, but it was really the only time the girls left him alone. He had managed to do that through a STRICT admonishment and enforcement of said warning. Any girl, not previously invited, that was caught spying or intruding on his training was given the cold shoulder. After he had even given Ino the cold shoulder over this, the rest of his fanclub had gotten the message.
He liked women. Liked their soft curves and softer sighs. He liked the variety of them, and their differences - tall, short, long legged, busty, red hair, blonde, etc. He liked the fact that they liked him.
According to the rest of the villagers, until he hit puberty, he had been consummed with the idea of revenge. That was incorrect. What he had wanted was to have his clan back. To have his parents back. To have his brother back. But he was keenly aware that wasn't possible. He was the last of the Uchiha (his brother didn't count). The last one. It weighed heavily upon him because he didn't know what it meant for him to survive. He didn't know what to do with his life. He was the last one. He had an obligation to make his clan survive.
And then puberty hit and he noticed the girls, watching him from the corner of their eyes, their giggles and their preening. He lost his virginity at the tender age of thirteen, barely a young man and more of a child to an older girl who wanted.... he didn't know what she had wanted at that moment. She taught him.
It changed him. What they had done. At the beginning, he had been like a lovesick puppy, overwhelmed with lust, and had followed her around for two weeks. She let him touch her any time he wanted. And he came to understand that she wanted him, the last of the Uchiha. She wanted to marry him.
But at thirteen, he was too young to marry. Not too young to fuck, but young enough to confuse the notions of lust and love together. She had hoped that the potent combination would bind him to her.
It didn't. It did make Sasuke appreciate sex, however. And he realized that he didn't have to be faithful. In fact, it was best if he wasn't. He was the last Uchiha and it was his duty to see his clan survive.
That meant he needed to have as much sex with as many women as possible so that they could conceive as many of his bastards as possible.
However, things didn't turn out as planned. One girl had an abortion. The other did carry it to term, but it was born a still-born. After that harrowing day in the hospital, Sasuke that he had been reckless. He had chosen girls that weren't strong enough to carry his blood in them. He needed a strong and capable kunoichi to carry a child with such a potent kekkei genkai.
Also, the Sandaime had given him a stern talking to and told him in no uncertain terms that he understood the importance of preserving the Sharingan, but he was not running a brothel for Sasuke. His gimlet eyes pierced Sasuke and Sasuke felt the belated stirrings of his honor answer. The Sandaime informed him that he couldn't control what happened behind closed doors, but that he didn't appreciate the results. Either Sasuke was more careful, or he was going to have to support every bastard he spawned. And given his financial situation, he better be careful.
Sasuke became careful. Girls still wanted him and he still bedded them. He just made sure that they didn't conceive. He neither desired abortions or still-borns. He wanted healthy babies born to the Uchiha line. He understood that perhaps it was because was a little too precocious in this matter and children should best be attempted later. It would also help if he became a jounin, because if he ever died in battle, the village would then take care of what children he had managed to father.
Despite what had happened to two girls, they still flocked to him. Some of them wanted him because he was the last Uchiha. Others because he was a cute guy. Others, because he was experienced and they wanted to at least lose their virginity to a guy they knew instead of a faceless stranger if they got captured in the battlefield. Sasuke obliged them all.
On his way to his usual training ground, he came upon Tenten. He took a minute to study her lean form in a casual but practiced manner. He noticed all his features and knew her for a pretty and capable kunoichi. And as one of the few that had never worshiped as his altar. Not that he was piqued. He had enough devoted followers. And it was a well-known fact that Tenten and Hyuuga Neji were more or less an item, even if neither of them had made some sort of official declaration or confession. Some things simply were.
Sasuke was lost in contemplation when a kunai came dangerously close to grazing his left cheek, embedding itself on the tree next to him. He found that he was staring at the fiery eyes of the kunoichi and bit back his irritation at the thought that she could have actually harmed his face.
"Is there something you need?" Tenten asked with a sardonic lift of an eyebrow.
Sasuke shook his head. While it might have been amusing to bed someone like Tenten, and she obviously needed a good fuck because she was tenser than a bowstring, he didn't have to go looking for sex. It came to him.
"Good. I do," Tenten said in a clipped tone.
It was Sasuke's turn to raise an eyebrow. It wouldn't be the first time that a woman had approached him with an offer. And he thought about it. Tenten was a pretty girl, taut muscles and a lean form. She wasn't beautiful the way Ino was, but then again, few girls were. She would do. Besides, a fuck was a fuck.
"Get your head out of the gutter. I need you to train with me," Tenten said with a scowl.
Sasuke cocked his head. "Oh?" he said, disinterestedly.
"I'm used to training with someone with a kekkai genkai. And you could use a sparring partner," she said.
"Not interested," Sasuke said sweetly. Honestly, Tenten could use a few classes in politeness. She didn't know how to approach a man. Didn't know how to simper and wheedle things out of them. She couldn't just demand what she wanted. He would just withhold whatever it was from her.
"So the rumors are true. All you're good for is fucking," Tenten said scornfully.
It was a hard and vicious slap to his honor. Yes, he was good for fucking. But that wasn't the only thing he was good for. He was still a shinobi. Hell, he was a damn fine shinobi. He was one-of-a-kind. He'd be damned if he let Tenten slight him. He had skills, and it extended beyond the bedroom.
"You're on," Sasuke spat out, reaching for his own kunai. He'd be damned if he let his reputation slip away from him. He was still a shinobi.
Sasuke was angry enough at Tenten to miss the slight smirk on her lips.
Comments, criticisms and questions welcome. Some things will be answered later in the fic. Fear not. And if you like this, leave me some love!
Crossposted in nejiten, ten_squared, narufanfic and tensasutema