#so no nejiten

[naturecalls111]

Rock Lee grew but his waist didn’t

[ralucus]

the whole world in my hands

[rikustarlight]

Red; because yes. How stylish they are! Neji is usually depicted in white or blue but I think a nice deep red compliments him

andtentenbutyaknowsheberockingthatredhellaniceaswellsowhybotmakethemmatch

My other head cannon is that all members of Team Gai got a simplified quote of their motto:

Stronger than we were yesterday —-> stronger than yesterday

It’s on their collarbones to keep close to their hearts.

[erumai-maadu]

rewatching the chunin exams 2 for my tenten post and lemme rant about nejiten here real quick.

he’s literally standing there in the setting sun looking at scrolls that read “Ten Ten” in his hands. And this is also the way Tenten actually writes her name, with the two characters for heaven.

this character is associated with the sky, obviously, and Neji is always seen looking at birds flying in the sky, seeing it as the ultimate freedom.

A lot of Tenten’s attacks are also aerial, and I think there’s something really cool about Neji, who’s attacks are primarily done with his feet on the ground, and Tenten, who’s always flying in the sky above him, much like the birds he’s always looking at.

[theylovevenus]

Fuck it…UR ALL GETTING HIT W THE GUMMY RAY‼️🔊🔊

[pamelaiscrying]

I don’t follow boruto but holy shit i read that basically it is confirmed that multiple timelines exist in time and basically anything can happen?? So that means that so called “crackships” can be canon??? This is so so great

[drainthecity]

[tentensgiantfan]

[chaosnojutsu]

the lovely @banbansparkly made this fantastic Reliance artwork, and (with permission to post) i thought today would be the perfect time to share it since one of the illustrated scenes from chapter 12 fits a nejiten month prompt! thank you so much again for making this <3

Nejiten Month 2024, Day 14: Déjà Vu

Then Tenten walks toward her bedroom — toward him first; Neji’s heart can hardly handle it — and she stops in front of him. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

If she only knew. She’s one to be asking; she’s giving him a peculiar look, too, so Neji returns the question. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Tenten stares for a beat longer, then shakes her head. “Fucking weirdo.”

She rises to her tiptoes, her hands landing on his shoulders to brace herself, and before Neji can process what’s about to happen, Tenten presses a tender kiss right in the center of his forehead.

“G’night,” she says, lowering back to her feet in full.

Neji does not move from that spot for quite some time, reveling in the ghost of her lips on his skin. He can’t decide whether he wants her to remember this in the morning or not.

[…]

Her expression pitches into something even stranger when she rounds the bar and approaches Neji due to him being in her path. She stops and meets his eyes, perplexed.

Neji humors himself. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Tenten stares for a second longer, and Neji thinks she might remember after all. He’ll know she does if she returns the question like he did last night. And then…

And then what? He’ll kiss her forehead in turn?

It’s out of the question. Isn’t it? People don’t kiss other people without a specific reason in mind. Is simply wanting to kiss Tenten a valid reason to do so? Has it been all along?

Oh no. Neji does want to kiss Tenten.

Then Tenten shakes her head as if to clear her thoughts. “Déjà vu,” she says, and she walks right past him again.

[kvohru]

in a text convo between neji & tenten ˚ ༘♡

tenten: hi i have a question

neji: yes i’d still love you if you were a worm.

neji: yes i’d cry if you died.

neji: yes i still love you.

neji: no i don’t want to break up.

tenten: thank you :) <3

[lotusfartstwice]

Who could it be now??

[vancocked]

who should i design next ?

[ralucus]

festival talk ~

[rikustarlight]

Enjoy from a quick sketching session this morning on procreate

I’m just….UGH NEJI WOULD’VE BEEN THE IDEAL FATHER AND BORUTO WOULD’VE LOOKED UP TO NEJI AS A FATHER FIGURE WHILE NARUTO WAS BUSY…KISHI COPPED OUT WITH THIS ONE….there I said it with my whole chest.

As you can see, Meiten can be a bit stabby-hotheaded-pants like her mother sometimes… Their kids may mostly look like Neji but their personalities are definitely Tenten. They have their work cut out for them for sure!

Just some quick sketches of the kids. I’m missing ChouChou and Inojin but they would’ve made up the squad.

More sketches

Nejiten Kids head cannons | Nejiten Kids Designs | Nejiten head cannons

[erumai-maadu]

I've never heard about aromantic Tenten before today but now that you've brought it up I feel like my world has expanded. Do you think she's asexual too, or is it just aro? Is she in a QPR with Neji or is she demi and does end up liking him romantically? Lesbian Tenten could also work... but I kind of like the idea of her being aro :) Very big brained of you.

Oooh yes hi anon thank you! Aro Tenten is an idea that i’ve played with back and forth through the years but she’s always had that kinda vibe to me. I think I was introduced to the idea by someone in the tenten tags a while back talking about it and i was like OOH. yes.

Tenten being aromantic to me is also closely tied to my own aro identity and the more i’ve accepted that i’m aro recently, the more i’ve really started to like the idea that Tenten is also aromantic.

It's kind of interesting to me that almost every woman that Kishi's written has some kind of love interest one way or another, especially the konoha 12's girls, except for Tenten. Like she doesn't even have a romance set up for her. I'm a nejiten shipper through and through but even I have to admit that every MomentTM that I talk about with them are scenes from filler (so not canon) or they're scenes interpreted to hell and back through shipper glasses and aren't truly indicative of any romantic bond. Even the filler scenes aren't truly romantic if you look at them without the shipping glasses LOL.

But Tenten is the only girl in the k12 that this happens to. Kishimoto just set up aro Tenten so cleanly, even though I doubt he really intended to.

In one of the light novels (which I believe were directed by kishimoto), the one about naruto and hinata’s wedding, it’s stated that Tenten has never really cared about/wanted romance or marriage, she was always too interested in weapons. This is really the most direct statement about romance that we get from Tenten.

“Marriage, huh…well it’s a nice thing…” Tenten exhaled, leaning against one of the stakes. Her hands silently played with one of the kunai she’d collected. This was what had been bothering her. Naruto and Hinata were getting married. It was a happy occasion. Tenten herself had always been getting caught up in thinking about shuriken or kunai or flying guillotines, so she’d never had a boyfriend. She lived her life without any thoughts for romance or femininity. Hearing about someone close to her getting married suddenly made one disturbing thought fly into Tenten’s mind and refuse to leave: Was it really okay for her to be like this? From morning until night, it was always Ninja Weaponry, Ninja Weaponry, Ninja Weaponry… Was it really okay for a young woman to be like that?”

The weapons aren't really the point here though. What she's questioning when she says "is it okay for me to be like this" is referring to her lack of romantic interest. She’s not disinterested in romance because of the weapons, but it seems to feel that way to her because all the passion and effort others seem to put toward romance, she puts toward her interests. That's definitely a feeling I've had before about my aromanticism.

there’s definitely a Gender thing going on here with all of this too that I am not in the right mindset to unpack rn but it’s definitely there.

anyway onto some shippy sort of stuff.

I think she’s aromantic and bisexual. While Tenten being a lesbian absolutely works, her being bisexual is important to me because I'm bisexual and like to assign all of my blorbos "bi unless i say otherwise", so I will always consider her to to bi. This has no basis in any kind of canon, of course, I just know it in my heart.

Her thing with Neji is weird and complicated but they’ve got Something Going On, to me. Given that i’m new to my own aromantic identity, I’m not quite sure what to call it, but I think a QPR sounds right? They’re just together, like they always have been. They’re Neji and Tenten.

They don’t get married but they do live together, journey together, etc.

Quick dip into the nsfw side, they absolutely do fuck, to me at least. I usually hc Neji as demisexual/demiromantic, and Tenten’s always been one of his best friends, so it’s easy and comfortable for him to be with her like that. From Tenten’s side, she just likes to fuck lol. and with Neji she knows that he won’t expect her to have or reciprocate any FeelingsTM, so she feels comfortable having that kind of relationship with him.

There’s definitely an argument to be made for her being ace and obviously anyone can headcanon whatever they want, but to me it’s important that she is aro but not ace.

I still have to Think abt aro Tenten a lot more bc i also coming into this identity myself and have to do more research for sure, so this is all i’ve got for now!!

[bitchnojutsu]

tw naruto english dub (with subtitles)

now why was tenten so concerned about and surprised by this “big [hyuga] clan meeting” like she was supposed to be there or something