Roommates

Chapter 13: A day at the mall

walked out of the bathroom just in time to hear someone knock on the door. I raised an eyebrow. Who could it be this early? I glanced at the clock.

13:14. What?! It's even earlier than I thought! I mean, it's Saturday! Who on Earth is awake at this time?

I walked over to the door and opened it, just to be tackled to the ground by something.

"Oh Tenten, honey, we heard everything, we're so sorry, are you fine?!" one frantic voice screamed into my ear.

"Of course she isn't fine, you idiot!" another just as panicked voice responded. "Oh, Tennie-chan, we're sorry, how are you feeling?!"

"Ten-chan, are you okay, honey?!" A third voice had joined the choir.

"I was okay", my half-muffled voice responded from under the pile of worrying females, "until you decided to come and suffocate me."

"SORRY!" they screamed and hurried to get off of me. I groaned and sat up, glaring at them. In front of me stood Anko, Temari, Hinata, Sakura and Ino, all with similar masks of worry and apologies on their faces.

"So, what made you decide to come and take my life this beautiful morning?" I asked sarcastically.

What? I don't like being tackled to the ground this early!

But six o'clock in the evening is another matter entirely.

"We heard about everything, Ten-chan!" Ino said with big, worried eyes while putting her hands over her mouth, making her next words quite muffled. "We're so sorry, honey, how are you feeling?"

I muttered incoherent things and tried to get up.
Keyword: tried.

I winced when the effort hurt my leg, and sat back down on the floor, frowning and glowering at my leg.

Suddenly someone grabbed my upper arms in a firm – yet not uncomfortable – grasp and lifted me to my feet. I blinked in surprise.

"You should really take it easy with that leg of yours", Neji's voice said from behind me, before he let go of my arms and walked past me, out of the room.

I stared after him for about seven minutes straight before Hinata's voice interrupted me.

"Um... Ten-chan? Are you alright?" I jumped and nodded quickly before hurrying over to the window so they wouldn't see my face.
Coz I think I might have been blushing. My cheeks felt hot, anyway.

Oh, and, by the way, Neji had changed clothes while I was in the bathroom, so he had been properly dressed when he left.

Pity...'

'No one's asked for your opinion, I.T.!'

'Aww, how cute. You're blushing!'

'Wha- No, I am not blushing!'

'But you just... Oh, whatever, I don't care.'

think I just imagined a tiny me in a black, slutty dress, fishnets and stilettos, lying on a big, black leather couch in a dark room (also known as my brain) with a drink in one of her hands and just taking a blow from the cigarette in the other one.

Well, that was disturbing.

"Ten, are you okay?" Anko asked hesitantly. I jumped again. I had forgotten all about my morning-murderesses.

"Yeah, I'm fine!" I said, grinning, and twirled around to face them. They all nodded once, slowly.

I shrugged and walked over to my bed, jumping down on it. Heh, I bounced once!