Hinata lived vicariously through her favourite romcom, watching from afar as life seemed to happen to everyone but her. Now in college, she still felt like notes in the margins of someone else's story was all she would ever be. Mostly when concerning one blonde quarterback she had known her whole life. But, maybe this year her book would stop being unwritten. NaruHina NT, SS, ST.
She was all the right kinds of twisted, and he adored it, to his better amusement and most shameful guilt. He didn't wish the kind of darkness he held on anyone else. Yet, she bore it so well. KakashixTenten. Nejiten centered. Rated T for mild sexual theme and language.
Tenten didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse. But here he was again, as perfectly perfect as he had always been. Every Christmas he was back, at her kitchen table, waiting for her. She didn't know what to make of it. Maybe, just this once, she could allow happiness to be a fickle illusion. One day a year, he was there and he was hers. For the Nejiten discord gift exchange!
Tenten did not hate Neji, she loathed him. So obviously, when he proposed they pretend to date so his uncle would let him breath and she wouldn't lose face at her ex's wedding this Christmas, she said no. Or at least she wished she had because she wouldn't have to deal with a drunken ex, his uncle's talk of babies and the urge to kiss this jerk under the mistletoe. NT & slight NH.
Tenten doesn't remember when she first met Neji because they have always been best friends. But she clearly remembers the day she met Neji's girlfriend. That was when her world fell apart. And maybe the universe had a twisted sense of humour, because, through everyone they met and everyone that met because of one of them, Neji and Tenten always seemed to find each other back. AU.