Hey, please read this before you start reading this fanfic

Hey, please read this before you start reading this fanfic.

This fanfic consists several smaller stories that take place in the same 'universe'. Reason is to give some of the characters some more development and such. You can choose for yourself if you read them. If you don't it won't mean you don't get the main storyline, but I recommend you to read them since they are very nice.

The story is as followed:

Prequel Father story 1 (Lee)

Prequel Father story 2 (Naruto, Hinata)

Father prologue

Interlude Father story 1 (Lee)

Interlude Father story 2 (Ino, Choji)

Interlude Father story 3 (Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke)

Interlude Father story 4 (Gai)

Interlude Father story 5 (Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura)

Interlude Father story 6 (Kiba, Shino)

Father

Father: Generations

It can happen that some of the stories are not yet available, this is because I mostly write the main storyline while my co-writers (spiderninja16 and Kamikashi) mostly work on the interlude. They gave me permission of submitting their parts. If you have questions then don't hesitate about asking me.

Now I won't hold you anymore. Enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do my cowriters! Father prequel first story is written by Kamikashi.

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'…' thinking

„…" radio talking

Father – prequel:

Wordless the path of

Or the art of drinking, fighting and… loving

First Story Rock Lee and Nekomata

Prologue: Being hit, get shot

Rock Lee, Maito Gai, Hyuga Neji and Tenten were hidden in the woods surrounding the village, waiting for the reappearance of their target. Thanks to the alliance with sand, they received information that the missing-nin from Hidden Mist village who tried to assassinate Kakashi and Godaime Hokage would meet here his customer. If they would stick to the plan, they would be able to catch him and his customer – if nothing went wrong…

Gai activated his radio. „Neji, can you see him already?"
Neji focused his Byakugan. „He is still in the tea house, Gai-sensei. Should not one of us get closer, silently?"
„That would be too dangerous by now, Neji. Is his customer with him?"
„Not yet…, wait, Gai-sensei. It seems the daimyo (ruler) of the Rain country is simply fed up with our Kage and your rival and decided to get rid of both."
„But why wouldn't he simply send a Rain-nin, Gai-sensei?", Tenten asked confused.
„Wouldn't it be a bit too obvious then, Tenten?" Gai was serious.
„Oh."
„It is so. Neji, stay watching please; Lee, go down there and do some eavesdropping," Gai ordered.
„Ossu, Gai-sensei." Lee dashed out of his hiding place and hid himself behind the trash of the tea house.
„Why him, Gai-sensei! I could have done that too!" Tenten protested.
„Who lost the last time in the hiding tech test against Lee, Tenten?" Gai grinned. He and his students had played the shinobi version of „hide-and-seek" a week ago, with Neji or him being the hunter/seeker. Lee was the only one to find a hiding place none of them thought of. His favourite student had clearly improved a lot. He simply bet them with cleverness, now knowing exactly when to change hiding.
"All right, all right, I get it." Tenten sighed.

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Lee kneeled down near the window-sill, hiding himself behind some boxes. By doing so, he could overhear everything, without the Kiri-Nuke-nin (missing-nin from the hidden mist) or daimyo noticing.

"You failed, Sasaki Mizurou!"

"He's just stronger then I expected he would be."

"I told you not to underestimate him. He's high rated in the bingo book and known as the copy ninja, able to use more that 1000 jutsu!"

"Like I don't know!"

"I want him dead, Sasaki! As soon as possible, he killed two of my ANBU squads on his own. He had become too dangerous, this stupid copy cat."

"What I hate about him is the fact he copies every technique I make. If you fight him you have to defeat him as soon as possible. Also that eye of his is rather annoying. If I don't watch out, I might end up as that Zabuza."

"How do you plan to take him on this time?" the daimyo said grumpy.

"I'm thinking, surprising him won't work I guess."

"Humph, just kill him so we can kill that damn Kage of the fire country. I hate it when women are in control."

"Women are annoying."

"Then kill this damn copycat and that stupid Kage!"

'Neji was right, they want to kill Gai-sensei's rival and Tsunade-sama,' Lee thought. As he just wanted to stand up and return to the others, a man opened a door he had not seen when he had hid himself. Lee turned around and was shocked to see him, with garbage in his left hand.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Kuso," Lee whispered angrily at himself.
"You-you're from Konoha!"

Lee heard the daimyo and missing-nin inside the tea house standing up quickly.
„Gai-sensei, I have a slight problem over here," Lee said, while a bodyguard of the daimyo had jumped through the window to wipe Lee out.
„What happened, Lee?" Gai asked, but Lee found no time to answer and blocked one of the kicks of the Ame-nin.
„Neji, tell me what happened!" Gai shouted in his radio.
Neji used Byakugan to see what Lee was doing.
"He's fighting with the bodyguards of the daimyo."
Not even a second after hearing that, Gai spurted towards the battle, followed by Neji and Tenten. He was just in time to kick the missing mist-nin.
"Dynamic Entry!" the taijutsu specialist shouted.

Meanwhile the other two bodyguards had joined the battle. Neji took on one, while Tenten took on the other. Neji used Juken and hit the Ame-nin he was fighting. Gai fought now the missing mist ninja. Lee had difficulties with his opponent. He was stronger than the other three. Lee ran away with his enormous speed as diversion, though the Ame-nin caught up faster then Lee thought he would.
"Damn it, what now…"

But soon he got an idea, stopped all of a sudden and turned around. The Ame-nin stopped a few meters behind him. Lee got his weights out and threw them away, causing to make the ground tremble when they hit the ground, leaving several big holes in the ground.

"Konoha Senpu!"
Gai gave the Kiri-nin a double kick; one on the head and one a bit lower, pushing a lot of force in his kick. The missing-nin fell down with a broken neck, already dead before hitting the ground.

Neji was breathing heavily and de-activated his Byakugan. His opponent was lying motionless on the ground. Tenten let her self fall on the ground and placed her hands in front of her, looking at the ground. The bodyguard she had been fighting was lying dead a meter away from her, with a big shuriken buried in his chest.
"Where's Lee?" Gai asked after he was sure he had killed the Kiri-nin.
"Don't know, he was here five minutes ago," Tenten said while looking around.
"Neji, search for him!"
Neji activated his Byakugan again and started looking around for his team-mate.
"He's still fighting that Ame-nin," Neji said and pointed in the direction Lee was.
The three of them dashed away.

Lee forced his chakra into the bô (battle stick) made out of his weights, causing it to extend into the Lotus chain. Running at high speed around his enemy, he wrapped him in the chains. With a spiralling movement, he threw the Ame-nin into the air and jumped up the chain's spiral. The Ame-nin, however, managed it to kick him twice at the left leg. Suddenly, Lee felt immense pain at two points in his left leg. Knowing that he would faint by now, Lee attacked his enemy with all the might of his Lotus-enhanced fists.
"Goken: Gorai Rensa (Strong Fist: Strong Thunder Lotus Chain)!"
He managed to crush the Ame-nin but then passed out and hit the ground.

Tenten ran to her friend and checked his pulse. She sighed, relieved that Lee was still alive and only unconscious.
"Let's go back to the village," Gai said.
"Hai," Tenten and Neji said in unison, carefully picking up their team-mate.
Gai used Lee's chains and wrapped them around the Nuke-nin. Pulling the dead body along, they went back to the village.

At the gate they met an ANBU squad that took care of their prisoner.
"Neji, Tenten, you two can go home. I will take Lee to the hospital."
"Hai, Gai-sensei," Neji and Tenten said.
Gai took Lee over and walked to the hospital, while Neji and Tenten went in another direction. Gai entered the hospital and Yakushi Yamato, who was standing at the bar with some papers in his hands, looked up.
"Yamato, could you please take a look at Lee?" Gai asked, almost begged.
"Yohei," Yamato said and a young man appeared out of a little room behind the bar.
"Yes, O-to-sama?"
"Take Gai and Lee to room 26 and make a complete check up, I'll be there in a minute."
"Ossu! Follow me, sir."
Yohei walked followed by Gai, who was holding his student in his arms. Yohei opened the door and Gai laid Lee on the bed. After first healing some little wounds, the youth activated his special eye technique: The Tengan, the heaven eye. The heaven eye is the main bloodline limit of the Yakushi clan and stands between the abilities of Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan. Not soon after Yohei started checking up the young man, his father joined him and also activated his heaven eye, using a medicine specialised technique: (snake, dragon, rat!) Do-jutsu: Eyes and hands of Yakushi (the medicine Buddha). After about five minutes they de-activated Tengan, but for Gai it was like two days.

Yamato shortly turned his head to his son, who took Gai with him to the hallway.
"And, is he going to be alright?" Gai asked very worried.
"He has two serious but clear fractures at his left leg, one at the lower shinbone, the other one at the middle of his thigh bone. He also has a more or less serious concussion; it will take at least three weeks for his full recover," Yohei explained.
"But he will still be able to be a ninja?" Gai asked, thinking about the event that happened a few years ago.
"Yes."
"Thank god," Gai sighed relieved.
"My father is now fixating the fractures and stabilising his mind, so don't worry."
"Thank you, Yohei-kun."
Yohei nodded. "You better go home now, Gai-sensei."
Gai nodded and left, knowing Lee was in good hands. Yohei went back to his father, who was just done with his job. Yamato told his son to bring Lee to the second floor, there was a room free. Yohei bowed and did like he was told. After he put Lee in bed, Yohei opened the curtains of the window which faced the gardens. "Sweet dreams, warrior," he whispered as he left.