I lay their defeated, my life flashes before my eyes. "Guy Sensei I have failed you" I cry. Six gates could not save me seven would also fail, eight and I would not survive either way. What an un-splendid 21st birthday. I come up to my wobbly legs and reopen the 1st gate, the 2nd and 3rd the 4th 5th 6th and 7th. Finally "Gate of death open!!!" I cry.
My foe has fallen but no mater if I win I still lose. His allies surround me one was tough enough even all eight gates aren't enough to stop them all. Every thing goes blank.
Out of the darkness comes a voice my voice from when I was thirteen. The next thing I know I am face to face with my 13 year old self. A phoenix is soaring around us.
My younger self says "open all the gates to win to survive".
"I have" I state.
"No! there is one more the finale gate."
"What?"
"This is not your time, open the gate of immortality."
Stunned I am pulled back to my body to fined that it has continued fighting while I was out. I concentrate and find the ninth gate opposite the eighth. "GATE OF IMMORTALITY OPEN" I scream.
My energy crushes the charms holding Neji and Ten-Ten partners and the fifth. With in seconds my foes are gone and I collapse. My ANBU partners, and the fifth huddle around me. The fifth tries to heal me but can not. My body starts to dissolve.
Ten-Ten is crying The Fifth is cursing not even Neji's eyes are dry. Then I understand the ninth gate releases the bonds of the cells. I dissolve into pure energy and begin a new journey.
Its been a year since Lee/s death. When he died he looked so inhuman. I still cry though, I loved him he was like a brother. He saved the Fifth, our village, Neji and me. In Konohagakure the village hidden in the leaves Rock Lee is considered a S-Class Nin an unofficial rank of greatness, appropriate for someone who's goal in life was to prove he could be just as good as everyone else. On clear days like today I can almost see him in his fighting pose with those huge eye brows.
