Pictures of You
Yosh!
March 3rd - "your heaving chest"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
A resounding cry of "Yosh!" roused Tenten from her slumber. She opened her eyes slowly and instantly noticed a fast moving green blur in her peripheral vision.
She reached up and rubbed them and the green blurs slowly sharpened into straight lines and bright colours. Then they became solids - black bowl haircut, black bushy eyebrows and green spandex. Lee and Gai were running laps around the clearing.
Tenten sat up and stretched to throw off her drowsiness, feeling a little frustrated with herself for falling asleep. It was especially hot today and she assumed that it was the heat that had caused her to doze off but really that was no excuse.
Frowning, Tenten rose to her feet and focused her gaze on her sensei and his favourite student.
"Very good, Lee. Only twenty more laps to go!" Gai yelled (despite the fact that Lee was no more than two feet away from him).
"Hai, Gai-sensei. After this, we should do two hundred push-ups to cool down," Lee responded, easily matching both Gai's volume and exuberance.
"Only two hundred, Lee? That's not very youthful," his beloved tutor said, faltering a little as disappointment took hold of him.
Lee's already large eyes widened in realization, "You're right, Gai-sensei. We'll do four hundred push-ups instead - one handed ones!"
"That's more like it - feel the flame of youth burning within you! Now let's go faster, Lee!" Gai shouted, putting on a burst of speed.
Lee sped up as well and the two continued around the track created by their daily work-out, occasionally shouting words of encouragement to each other.
Tenten watched this exchange with a small, bemused smile on her face. She could still remember how worried she used to be in the early days of Team Gai when she was just learning of Gai-sensei's rigorous training methods. She was so afraid that he would just collapse of exhaustion one day - how could he not when he constantly pushed his body to unheard of limits?
Soon though, she realized that Gai (and Lee-kun too, apparently) weren't built like regular people or even regular ninja and their levels of stamina were higher than she could fathom, let alone muster so she put her worries to rest and simply learned to tune the two out when they worked themselves into a frenzy similar to the one that they were now experiencing.
Still smiling, Tenten turned away from the duo and headed into the forest, intending to find their other teammate and challenge him to a long overdue spar.
A/N: So my friend suggested I stop spamming w/ all these short stories and just make a collection so here it is - my 31 days collection. I can't promise updates every day - just whenever I write something. Feel free to drop me a line.