A New Beginning

Title: Lucky

Pairing: NejiTen

Summary: Part of my 'New Beginnings Series'. Fic written to go along with the song 'Lucky' by Jason Mraz duet with Colbi Caillat

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and while this was written for a contest the most I'll get is somebody drawing me a picture so really not gonna make money off of it.

A/N: I think this is a very pretty song for them and since Bkoo.dA suggested it this is dedicated to him.



Tenten leaned back against the tree, smiled, and rubbed her hand over her growing belly. The leaves and grass that rustled around her matched the sound of the edges of the papers fluttering against her fingers. A month apart seemed so much longer than it was when you were used to going with them. She was too far along now and she knew that. The last letter had been written over a week ago, but had only arrived that morning. 



By the time you're reading this we should be home. It's a very lucky thing too because if I have to sit through one more of Gai and Lee's 'Ballad's to the Sea' I will throw one of them over.



She giggled thinking about it again, his sigh almost audible in the written words. It was easy to imagine the amused-- if slightly irritated look that Neji got whenever the two of them started. In some ways he had it harder than she did right then. Gai and Lee loved them but their idea of cheering Neji up was likely to drive him absolutely insane. It was easier when they were together to deal with their team mates.



At the same time she missed Gai and Lee so much it seemed unfair that he got to be with their team while she was stuck behind, alone. Tenten looked down at her stomach and smiled. Not quite alone.



"I miss you, Neji." She whispered the words on a sigh, impatient to have him home and wishing he hadn't had to leave in the first place. There was a hard push against her fingers and she laughed. "Kotori, misses you too."



He was on his way though, she could feel it, likely sailing through the trees on his way there. He would come there first because it was where they always met whenever one of them had a mission the other didn't. This was their quiet little spot. Nothing particular made it stand out it was just one tree among hundreds of others just outside the walls, but... it was special. 



It had been there that she'd first kissed him and there that he'd first told her he loved her and there that they'd both rushed to after the fight with Pein just to make sure the tree still stood. It did. It was there, that very spot that he would find her and neither of them ever had to tell the other because behind every ounce of love was the simple fact that they were best friends and knew each other better than anyone else.



Tenten smiled and lifted the letters again so she could read them for what had to be the hundredth time.