Behind the Scenes
Chapter 2: Training
"…and that's all we found out so far. All in all it was very successful for only one day." Neji finished giving his report to the Hokage. Lee and Gai were behind him.
"Alright." Tsunade said taking in all they said and looking over their written report, "You'll return again tonight and will continue to report your findings to me. I'm not exactly sure how much of this information is accurate and it doesn't all seem to add up to me."
"Hai Tsunade." Team Gai said as they left. They were late for training.
"Tenten's going to kill us." Lee said.
"She's going to become suspicious pretty soon. We'll have to be more careful to make sure this doesn't happen again." Gai said as they reached the training grounds.
"Wow I never thought I'd see the day." Tenten said, dropping in front of them. She was slightly panting, showing that she had already started her training in their absence. "The GREAT Hyuuga protégée and the two 'youthful green beasts' of Konoha are actually 1 hour late for a training session. Care to explain? Do you guys have a mission? Tenten asked, joking when she used their titles.
"These two got into another one of their 'challenges'." Neji stated simply. Tenten stared at him then quickly stole a glance at the two men in green.
"Did you guys reach your goals?" she asked Lee and Gai.
"Of course we did! YOUTH ALWAYS PREVAILS!!!" Gai yelled and he and Lee did 'good guy pose number 21'. Tenten and Neji sweat dropped and then they started their usual training.
After a good 4 hours of nonstop training Gai called his team and said that they would be doing a new training exercise. "You will have to try and beat ME! No holding back!" Gai said and Lee cheered while Neji just raised an eyebrow.
"You want us to try and kill you? Gai-sensei not that I don't believe in your abilities but seriously?! There are easier ways to die!" Tenten said with slight humor and slight worry in her voice.
"I would like you to CAPTURE me and if necessary knock me out. But no I would like to keep my YOUTH alive!" Gai said. Tenten and Neji just shrugged while Lee cheered in the background.
"Begin!" Gai said and disappeared and the game of cat and mouse began. They used the surrounding forests as well as the clearing.
Their teamwork was flawless, as expected. Neji would spot Gai using his Byakugan. Tenten would set traps and use her long-range attacks to force him into close combat with Lee and Neji, who would attack simultaneously, never missing a beat and never getting in the other's way. No words were spoken and few signals were given throughout the whole two hours.
Everything was going perfectly according to plan, until Tenten suddenly gasped for an unknown reason to the guys and got hit by one of her own traps that she had just purposely set off before getting distracted. She was in the middle of dodging when she dropped her guard, the easily avoidable trap hit Tenten and she dropped to the ground at the edge of the forest with a kunai in her right arm and a senbon in her left thigh. While it wasn't anything serious, it was still an avoidable injury.
"Tenten-chan, what happened?!" Lee and Gai shouted as they ran up to her with Neji close behind taking his usual confident strides. But Tenten wasn't holding her arm or leg in pain. It was like she wasn't even aware of her injuries. She was looking off into the distance back into the forest with fear and confusion in her eyes. Her left hand reached up and grabbed her head as if she had a headache. She snapped out f her little trance when Lee came in a 3 foot radius of her.
"Y-yea… I'm fine. I'm not sure what happened. Gomen guys lets just get back to training." Tenten said a little uneasily shaking her head as if to rid herself of whatever had just happened. As she attended her wounds she kept glancing nervously towards the woods where she had been looking before.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Gai asked, but she simply dropped into her fighting stance and, with a quick nod of her head, she disappeared back into the trees. They continued their spar.
After about 10 minutes they almost had Gai trapped. Lee, Gai, and Neji were fighting head on in the clearing that was their training grounds with Tenten hiding in the nearby forest, ready to deal the final blow. She had set up more traps too so if she missed and Gai fled into the wood to avoid Lee and Neji, they would still have a chance at rebounding him.
It was a great plan. Until a little girl around the age a 7 ran out from the woods, setting ooff one of Tenten's traps.
"Kaaaaaaaa…!" the girl screamed as she dropped to the ground with her hands over her head protectively when she saw all the weapons headed towards her.
"SUKI!!!" the screamed echoed throughout the area, followed by dead silence.
Luckily right before the weapons hit the girl, Lee had managed to use his speed to grab her and jump out of the way of the oncoming weapons just in time. Team Gai immediately ran to where Lee was leaning over to put the now crying girl down when Tenten jumped down from the trees and grabbed the girl from him.
She set her down and after seeing that she was uninjured she slapped her across the face. The sound of her hand hitting the girls check rang in their ears. Let's just say the guys of Team Gai were shocked. Sure Tenten wasn't always the most gentle person (coughcough like with Lee in the forest of death coughcough), but she had always been so kind to kids. Needless to say they had never seen her hit anyone, never mind a child like that before.
Lee was about to yell at Tenten for being so unyouthfully cruel to a small child when Tenten suddenly embraced the girl.
"Suki!" Tenten cried out again shakily, the guys realizing that she must know the girl, "Kami don't ever scare me like that again! I told you not to come here when I'm training! You could have been killed!!! What where you thinking?!' Tenten yelled in a very motherly tone. Now the guys were just looking at the scene before them in confusion. "Who is this girl? How does Tenten know her?"
"G-g-gomen!" Suki cried as Tenten broke their embrace in order to look at her face, "b-but we didn't know what else to do! It's Chichi…" Suki cried.
"Get on my back. NOW!" Tenten demanded as she knelt and turned her back towards Suki for her to get on. Suki, who had managed to stop crying, immediately got on.
"Gomen guys, I got to go take care of this." Tenten said as she faced her team as she stood up. "Don't follow me, I can take care of it, it my business." Tenten said. As she turned and ran off into the forest where Suki had come from she called over her shoulder, "But hey, now we're even!"
"Should we follow her? She still has an injury and we've been training for a while, she's probably close to exhaustion." Lee asked as Tenten disappeared from sight using her remaining chakra.
"No. It's her business, not ours. She's our teammate and we have to trust her. She's not a weak little flower, Lee. She'll be fine. Besides we should stop now and get ready to go to the bar again tonight." Neji said and with that he swiftly turned on his heel to leave and get ready.
Lee looked at Gai who just nodded and after looking back at where Tenten had gone with a frown, Gai turned and followed Neji. "I hope that what ever it is, it turns out alright, Tenten-chan." Lee thought as he turned and followed Gai and Neji.
"Chichi! Chichi, are you ok?!"
"Tennie…? What…? Damn it!" Chichi groaned in pain on the floor.
"Don't worry. I'm here. I'm bringing you to the hospital now…"
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