Tenten (2)

After finished our dishes, we were readied to go in our separate way.

"So... is there a chance for the second time? But I prefer it more... you know, official," my eyes gave away the hint for her; if she said yes with casual expression, it meant my impression in her was still shallow. If she said yes with flustered expression, then I had left a deep impression in her mind. If she said no, it means I had meant something for her, but she either still confused or didn't like it.

"I think about it..." Tenten said after a long pause, eyes slightly dodged my stare, the tone was low, pinkness appeared on her cheeks.

Oh, yes, my effort succeeded, hum, all the books and skills I learned was truly meant for picking up women. Wait, wait, I must not waste this opportunity, struck the iron while it still hot!

"You know what's best after lunch? Training!" my eyes lit with vitality.

"I agree," Tenten nodded with a small smile.

"Would you care to spar with me?" I grinned one side of the lips.

"Spar? Well, you bet I am!" I could see an excitement popped on her small face.

Soon, we arrived at a clearing in the middle of the forest or maybe some kind of national park since it was still inside the village, it seemed the area we stood now was indeed prepared for training, I could see a straw puppet stuck on a pole, and there were also several target practices on a tree. There was a small lake on the distance, making me daydreamed about bathing together with Tenten, we would be sweating a lot after all.

"Be careful, I am pretty strong, you know," I flashed a confidence smile, now I was thinking what sort of fighting I should have done, I had no doubt that I could overpower her, forget about Qi and Firebending, let alone my spells, even only with martial arts, I could take her down.

But what sort of outcome if I was to overpower her? Although it might earn her respect, I don't want it, I wanted to win her affection, that meant I must do it conservatively, showing I was slightly only better than her, giving the impression I was reachable, not some kind of experts above the cloud, besides, it would also rouse the competitive spirit in her heart, when two people tried to outdo one another, in a healthy way, of course, it could close the distance between them, so I decided to take easy on her but pretended also struggle.

That means ooze sweat, heaving chest, and slightly trembled legs later, showmanship was also important to earn women's heart.

"I make sure go all out on you," Tenten said with a hint of teasing, was this flirting before fight? It was a flirting right?

With that said, I took out a kunai from my small bag, I was an expert of using knife and dagger, but I never used a kunai before, the blade was rather smaller than Bayonet but still longer than Karambit.

"Come, you strike first, my lady," I reverse the grip of the kunai and brought it up in line with my chest.

"I accept your politeness!" then tenten threw several shurikens at me, I also ran to the side, avoiding them, we drew close with one another, she took out her kunai, and we started clashing them together. Her movement was nimble and she knew how to handle her weapon, I realized now even if I fully utilized the aspect of my martial arts, I only at most one grade above her, but this was good, the stronger she was, the less bothersome for me to lower my skill.

Tenten jumped back several times then she opened her scroll, immediately various weapons emerged from it, that was such a handy tool, but my 'expand' magic could do better as the scroll she brought was quite large after all, while I could just enlarge the space of my small bag.

Tenten grabbed a long katana and started brandishing it toward me, I deflected what I could while kept retreating backward, then an opening presented before me, she swung her katana, and I managed to block the blade with my kunai while I spun on my feet, then smashed her sword hand with a clenched fist, as she yelped at the burst of pain, my left hand seized the handle of her katana and stole her weapon away.

She retreated immediately, grasping her arm while heavily breathing, said, "You are good."

"So are you," I stored my kunai and replaced with the katana instead.

Tenten placed two scrolls on her either side while in an upright position, her hands quickly formed several gestures then the scrolls rose up and spun around each other, cloaked in a smoke akin to a dragon.

"Twin Rising Dragons!" When the smoke disperses, she jumped in between the scrolls and started to unseal, in my shocked vision, dozens of weapons emerged all of the sudden, and she sent them all toward me with the movement of her hands, I deflected some of them with the katana while dodged to the right and left, some of the weapons even sliced my shoulder, arm, and thigh, boy, this woman was merciless.

I gasped for some air after the intense workout, Tenten dropped onto the ground and smirked at me, said, "You lost!"

"Hm?" I didn't know what she means by that, I obviously still standing and although I was not left unharmed, I could still continue fighting. I saw her pointing her two fingers upward, then she signaled her eyes to look down, I saw on the graveyard of weapons, there was some sort of paper stuck on them, they wrote 'Explosive Paper'.

Welp, although I wasn't really sure, I knew explosive meant bad, but I didn't show fear, instead, I smirked confidently, said, "Go on, how do you know I lost if I still standing?"

"You sure about that, I don't want your handsome face got ruined after all," Tenten wrinkled her eyebrows.

"Hey, so you admit I am handsome?" I grinned.

"Ah, shut up!" she blushed heavily, then with firmness in her eyes, she said, "explode!"

*Kaboom!*

The small area engulfed in a flame, but before the explosion hit me, I said, "Travel." My body was sucked by a black hole, and I suddenly appeared in front of Tenten, she was surprised by it and before she could react, I stumbled her legs and made her slip, then my both hands hugged her body as we spun so I would land on the ground while she landed on the top of me.

A small thud appeared, she opened her eyes, only to realize she was embraced by me, our heigh was quite the same so when she turned to look, our face appeared so close, we could even sense each other breaths.

In a situation like this, moving in for the kiss definitely a killing move, but I only looked at her eyes instead, then I took out a kunai from my bag and poked the tip on her waist, said, "You lost."

"..." she widened her eyes and let out a sigh, our bodies were hot after the sparring, especially me who already overbearing with Yang energy, I was like a burning furnace, make Tenten more blushing and nervous hint appeared on her breath.

"So, what's the prize for the winner?" I smirked in a teasing manner.

"No... we don't agree on anything before..." Tenten's voice was low.

"But if we do, will you still agree to spar with me?"

"Hmm... maybe," she surprisingly let out a cute snort.

"So, if I won next time, how about a kiss?"

She went silent for a while, her hand rested above my chest, it's like she was cupping the feel of my muscles' chest, ah, please feel me more...

"Okay!"

Afterward, we stood up, Tenten still had a blush on her face, she glanced at me and said, "I have to meet my friends now."

"Un, you go," I finally sent her away.

"Also, regarding the next treat... I agree," after saying that, she immediately ran away from the training ground, I couldn't help but laugh at the escaping rabbit, it thought it could get away from the wolf's claw.

I was left alone on the training ground, using the Qi, I restored my vigor after several breaths, I took out of my phone, there was a strange thing happened.

"Add Tenten into the chat?"

The fuck, what was this? Did Tenten also have this program? Wait, did she even has a phone?

I clicked 'Yes' and the open the window chat of Tenten, there were several dialogues that appeared.

Tenten: God, why my heart beating so fast?

Tenten: it must be because of the sparring, un, I move a lot.

Tenten: But he is so warm, and also handsome...

Tenten: Ah, Tenten, what are you thinking, NONONO, don't get so flustered easily.

I was surprised, was this a thought, was that how she thought of me?

There was no function to write a message, but there were two options; detail and summon. The summon option somewhat remained dark, so I could only press the detail.

"Tenten

Rank: Chunin

Specialty: Bukitjutsu, Fuinjutsu.

Hobby: Fortune Telling

Favorite food: [blank]

Favorite item: [blank]

Affection: 30%

Rival in love: none."

Her affection for me was 30% huh... not bad, at least I didn't have a rival which means I could pursue her without obstacle.

I close the chat and looked at the plot, 'Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi are leaving Konoha to rescue Gaara from Akatsuki.'

although I knew this seemed to be important, I had no idea what should I do with it, if this Naruto was the protagonist, shouldn't he ought to succeed anyway? Did it really matter for me to meddle with it? Well, at least for now, I was going to continue my hunt for the girls, and the next target was: Ino Yamanaka.