Author's Note: Helloooooo Readers! If you're familiar with this fic, you'll know that it has a total of six chapters so far. Also, you'll have noticed that it's as if a retarded monkey wrote it. yes, this is a project I started over two and a half years ago (coincidentally, the same as the Naruto time-skip) and due to laziness and continual lack of interest, I have not updated in forever. However, I have sparked once again, and instead of making another chapter, I have completely re-wrote Cold Days. I think those of you who have read it before will find a dramatic improvement! With that, I don't own Naruto, and now, without further ado...

Cold Days

It was a cold summer day in the Village Hidden Within the Leaves. Lee, Tenten, and Neji were all left in the usual training field and completely alone, the loud exuberant jabbering of their sensei was nowhere to be heard. A quick burst of wind blew by and nipped at their bones. Rock Lee, at first, practiced some of his taijutsu, while Neji and Tenten sat and watched him blankly, because they felt no real reason to begin training until they were told to. Plus, it was one of the moments where they were able to be with each other, without having obligations of a sort. It became unbearable to Lee. Things were not right and if things were not right, Lee was not right. And Lee was never right.

"WHERE IS GAI-SENSEI? HE IS LATE!" The boy with the horrible fashion taste said, his two teammates flinching from the very loud shouting. It appeared that the bowl-headed boy truly had no common sense. Obviously, Gai hadn't shown up yet, and so he's late. And Gai-sensei is never late. Always on-time.

"Lee," said the only female in the group. "There's no reason to shout. We're standing right next to you."

"I KNOW!" He clenched a fist as the girl sighed, the Hyuuga stayed completely emotionless.

"You really are an idiot."

"What did you say Neji?"

"...You're an idiot..."

"Okay, that's it!" Lee gazed at him with big fat beady black eyes. "I WILL DEFEAT YOU NOW, OR DO TWO-HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO PUSHUPS WITH CHOUJI ON MY BACK!" The boy had made the other two practically def, and now, suddenly, the boy was looking very serious. Honestly, Lee was quite possibly one of the most obnoxious Genins in the village.

All three were silent, and it seemed that if a pin dropped, it would be as loud as a nuclear bomb exploding in your ear. That's loud, if you've never had a nuclear bomb go off in your ear you'd know. The silence was long. Icy. Like a very cold ice cube that is so icy that even ice would say that ice is icy.

"Let's go Neji..." croaked Lee as he got in his "I'm-gonna-kick-your-ass-if-it-kills-me" pose and split the silence in half, just as he intended to do with Neji.

Again, all were silent. The challenger stood there, completely focused, with his stance solid as rock. A gust of ice-nip wind flew by and tossed his hair, making it very overly dramatic.

Dead silence.

The young woman with both chocolate hair, and eyes was the next to speak. She now obliterated the silence. However, her voice seemed to tame it, while Lee's did the opposite. And provoked it.

"Lee," she said with a sigh. "Let's try to go today without rushing you self to the hospital...You've suffered enough internal damage from Neji as it is, your going to regret doing this so much any day now..."

"BUT I NEED TO BEAT HIM!"

Neji smiled—or rather, smirked at him. He simply stood his ground, the trees overhead seemed to sway along with his hair as it was blown.

"Don't try, Lee. Not today anyway," said Tenten

A very dark silence followed. Neji looking at Lee with his infamous death glare as Tenten stepped off to the side. Lee hadn't move from his stance. The only thing to move around him, was his hideous hair and outfit.

Again to break the silence, Tenten.

"Please...Can't we just find Gai-sensei?" She looked disturbed. Looking at her teammates with a wide-eyed, "why me?" look, and getting between the two, she was able to get Lee to back down. Then Neji. The great savior Tenten had just stopped another duel between the two, though she very well knew that there would be many more.

"Fine," Lee said. Though obnoxious, Lee was a smart and good person. Occasionally anyway.

"Good." She said it with I giant sigh of relief. The three of them continued walking around the forest, not necessarily looking for Gai, but wasting time in order for Gai to get his butt to the training field. They would definitely hear his loud voice screaming their names when he got there, so now they just need to wait. Wait, and make sure nobody gets the crap beat out of them. It should be noted that Gai usually trains with Lee, and Tenten with Neji. It was like that nearly every day. But Gai made it his "duty" to tell the three of them to get off to it. It had to be approved of before it even started.

They walked for awhile, but nothing. It was so quiet...except for Lee talking with the squirrels every time one passed by. Another freezing cold burst of wind came across them, nipping away at their flesh. The brutal temperature seemed to be dropping all the time; or at least it seemed that way. But it wasn't the temperature itself, it was the wind that seemed so freezing. Each little breeze, no matter how small, was like having icy water being poured on you when you least expect it.

"I'm so cold. Why is it this cold in the middle of summer?" Tenten asked as she hugged herself for warmth. Her bare shoulders were freezing, and she rubbed them just to try and get some kind of warmth. ANY kind of warmth.

"I don't know Tenten," Lee, surprisingly soft (for him, of course) announced.

"What I want to know is where Gai is..." A good comment from the light-eyed genius. He walked with an upright posture, his arms crossed as he went along. Though he was cold, he was the least to show it, as his face was stern and filled with thoughts. Tenten began to say something, only to be cut off by a shouting Lee.

"I DON'T KNOW WHERE GAI-SENSEI IS!" Obvious of course, but that was Lee. Always pointing out the obvious, and truly unpredictable. Tenten then had her turn to speak, looking annoyed from the interruption from her comrade.

"He better get here quick...I hate waiting..."

Neji stayed quiet. Of course he would, as he's not the talkative type. The genius just continued keeping pace with the others, staring straight ahead, thinking his Neji-ish thoughts. He didn't notice Tenten looking at him out of the corner of her eye…

Elsewhere

Tsunade hit her head with her hand. She was so sick and fed up with this. Why Gai had to make this all a big deal and bring out her old board, she didn't know. And she didn't want to know. She just wanted them out, and it was plain as hell obvious too. Kakashi and Gai were in her office, playing darts. To say that they both sucked would be an understatement. Throw after throw after throw completely missed the target, and a few nearly killed a frightened Shizune. It was amazing to see how the two of them could easily hit the center of the board with a kunai or shuriken, but with a simple playing dart the closest they got was two feet to the center.

"Hey you two! You both have Genins to train; you can't be here playing! Idiots!" Tsunade put on her mad face, wailing with terrific force at them both. The room rumbled, as Kakashi hurled a dart at the target. The dart missed the board completely and hit the wall about three feet above where the target was hanging. Tsunade looked pissed. Super really ultra pissed.

"I MUST BEAT MY ETERNAL RIVAL AT DARTS!" Gai threw a dart, but the course of the projectile went far left and hit the wall. Kakashi simply stood there, not reading his book because he was really trying. That's how bad the two of them were.

"Kakashi, you're usually late like this, but Gai? What will Lee think?" They continued to ignore her as they created hole after hole in the wall. There must have been over a thousand at the moment. And now there were a thousand and one.

BAM! A revamped, completely edited Chapter one of Cold Days! Now maybe it won't look like a kindergartner wrote it! R&R! Thanks for reading!

-Nejiandtenten