10 Days Arrangement

Blue fire... even the strongest fire bender did not have such color of their flame. My fire and Tenten's fire collided, but the former thoroughly defeated the latter, shattering it to pieces then shot out toward Tenten without obstruction.

"Ah!" Tenten shouted in panic, she already could feel the heat even before the fire arrived and it instantly made her pale, I sobered in an instant, I extended my hand and controlled the flame, sending it up to the sky until it finally disappeared into the dark.

I ran toward her and held her shoulder, said, "I am sorry, Tenten, I don't even know I have such fire before."

"Y-you don't? I thought you are about to kill me..." Tenten bitterly said, they might have fought at the moment, but neither had the intention to hurt the opposite party, let alone killing them.

"Please, believe me, I don't, the amount of fire I let out should have just canceled your fire technique, but I never expect it was a blue fire that came out instead..." I extended my hand and summoned my fire, it was indeed the blue color that came out, strange, how come it suddenly changed like this?

"I believe you," Tenten nodded firmly, perhaps she understood I truly care about her, so there was no way I wanted to hurt her in any kind of way. She also saw me battled against Deidara before, and I did use fire bending several times, it was a normal red fire at that time. Of course, I could have been hiding it, but wasn't that too troublesome?

"Then do you know what happened?" she looked at the blue fire of mine, slightly took a step back, probably because of the heat.

"I only read it in a book before, when a fire bender's Yang coexisted with his or her Yin, then the blue fire will reborn," I said in dazed, remembered what I had learned in the previous lives.

"What is that mean?" Tenten looked at me with a confused expression.

"A person always have Yang and Yin in their bodies, but only one of them would be dominant than the other, it was determined since they were born, it could be a random result, or they inherited it from their parent; if both parents were dominant in the Yang or Ying."

"This Yang and Yin... you could compare their relationship akin to a strong man and a weak man lived in the same cell, can you guess what happened?"

Tenten thought for a while, then said, "The strong bully the weak?"

"Clever," I rose my other hand and pinched her cheek, resulting in her puffing her mouth, then I said, "whether it is Yang or Yin, the one who is stronger will suppress the other, the concept of what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine are applied here, for example, the source of Yang is Heat, the strongest resource is the sun, as long as there is a sun, my Yang will never be exhausted and I can cast fire all the day, but let's say that my Yin is stronger than my Yang, then even if my Yang absorbed the energy from the sun, the Yin will swallow that energy instead, letting my Yang completely starve and weak the entire time."

"Wait, if the Yin could rob the Heat that is supposedly for Yang, isn't that mean Yang can also feed on Yin's energy? Then you don't really need heat?" Tenten asked.

"Do you know what happens if a carnivore ate vegetables?" I said with a smile.

"Um... they throw it out?" Tenten doubtfully said.

"That or they'll die because they can't digest vegetables and get their nutrients, and if they didn't eat meat, they'll die slowly from hunger. It's the case with Yang and Yin, both have different resources to take and each doesn't benefit from the opposite parties', so even if Yang swallow Yin's energy and vice versa, they will not grow any stronger."

"So then what happens with your Yang... is that it no longer bully your Yin?" Tenten said with understanding in her tone, seemed to have received the conclusion.

I nodded in response, then summoned the blue fire again, said, "Not just no longer bully one another, they cooperate, it's like my Yang carried a tea and my Yin carried a sugar, then they mixed it together. But this kind of case is very rare, almost impossible, in the book I read, there is only one person has ever possessed this kind of fire, but it wasn't really entirely fact either because there is no clear method how he got it."

"So, what is this mean? Your fire gets stronger?"

"Naturally, if the original tea is plain without sweet, it will change the taste after you add sugar, it's the same with my fire, regardless of how it is, it will never surpass the heat like magma or something, but now it had the contribution of the Yin, you can say my fire is upgraded."

I looked for rock and shoot out the blue fire from the tip of my fingers, it wasn't long before the rock started melting, then I looked at Tenten, said, "Normally, it will take a longer time for my fire to be able to do this."

Tenten seemed to look happy also, she had considered me as her man, which woman would be depressed when their man got stronger?

"So, we can assume this change happened at the same time as my change?"

We both sat on the ground, sitting beside the pond and watched slowly the sky grew brighter. inhaled the fresh of the early morning air.

"This further proves my guess that the reason is our intercourse," I summoned my fire and played with it, I also noticed it was rather quite difficult to manipulate and control this flame of mine than before.

"Then, you don't have to sleep with other women, right? Now that you have more evidence to prove your theory," Tenten said with a bit hopeful eyes.

"..." I extinguished my flame and turned around to look at her, I also made her face me, our eyes stared for a while, she time to time would look to the side, appeared a little shy.

"Tenten, forgive me..."

"Um?" she wrinkled my eyebrows, curious why I apologized.

"Your man is perverted and greedy, I look at one beauty and I also want to have her, so about my dream and all of the other things are just pitiful attempt to excuse my selfish desire," I said seriously, Tenten stared at me then she closed her eyes, tears poured out from the corner of her eyes.

"Even only me... it's not enough?" she whispered gently, then said with a bitter smile, "I know I am not attractive, that's why I understand if you look for other women."

"You are wrong," I wiped the tears from her eyes, but it just kept pouring out, then I pulled her into my embrace, didn't know how to comfort this pitiful woman, "loving someone merely from their physical appearance is the lowest form of love, I like you for what you are, no matter thousand women are more beautiful than you, you will always be my first woman and the number one spot in my heart, that's why I will give you a choice."

"A choice?" she glanced at me doubtfully.

"In 10 days, I will leave Konoha for a while, I want you to train hard these days, and when I came back, let's have a fight, whoever wins, must obey with the winner's demand, sounds fair?"

"10 days? Where are you going? Is it a dangerous place? With who?" hearing my departure, Tenten rose from my bosom and enthusiastically asked for the detail, I could see the concern in her eyes, and it was a lie if I said it didn't touch me. I lifted my hand and caressed her head.

"Somewhere far, the place you cannot follow, but I promise I'll be fine, so practice hard to defeat me, okay?"

Tenten looked depressed for a bit, but she wasn't a helpless little girl, she nodded her head, then said, "What is the condition of defeat?"

"If you can touch me, you win," I simply said.

Tenten went silent for a while, then she extended her hand and prod my cheek with her forefinger, she spat her tongue and said, "Hehe, I win!"

I was stunned immediately, never expected she would behave this cute, with a bad smile, I pulled her back to my bosom and spun her body to lay on the ground, a wolf-like grin appeared on my lips, "You naughty girl, think can provoke a wolf without expecting the retaliation?"

"Ah, big bad wolf, let me go!" Tenten struggled to break free, but she didn't really put any effort into it, the bad smile on my face transformed to a gentle one, then I leaned down and kissed her on the lips. She let out a hum of protest before finally closing her eyes and accepted the kiss, for the remaining time, along with the tranquilness before the dawn, we felt each other presence through our lips.