A/N: Sonar, thanks for all the reviews! We are planning on doing the Sand Sibs, but they are later in the list so you'll just have to wait. For today, it's Rock Lee!
For Lee, even the awesome power of youth could not hide his irritation. Every night, both Neji and Tenten kept mumbling about 'avoiding doom' and 'oh, no, it's gotten me!' Lee was pretty patient with the two normally, but this was definitely beyond normal. This was insane.
So, through some rather dubious interrogation tactics, Lee discovered that Neji really despised the color lilac now, and that Tenten was seriously ticked at this one girl at the orphanage because she was always hogging the computer. These facts really were not useful to Lee, so he decided to hand Neji and Tenten over to Morino Ibiki.
A few days and much terror later, the two walked up to Lee, both looking traumatized. They punched him in the jaw at the exact same time, and down Lee went. Neji and Tenten didn't really care what happened to Lee now, so they just left him there. Gai found him a several days later, surrounded by pigeons.
When Gai shouted, "Lee, the spring of our youth is upon us," everyone in the neighborhood stuck their heads out of their windows and glared at Gai, but Lee still didn't get up. Gai started to poke Lee to see if he was still even alive. Somewhere between the third and fourth poke, Lee shot up, eyes wide, lashes even wider.
After he saw Gai, he immediately hugged Gai hard around the middle and started sobbing, mumbling something incoherent. When Lee was calmer, Gai was finally able to ask Lee what he was crying about. He sniffled a few times, but otherwise continued with his tale.
"It was Neji and Tenten," Lee eked out in between tears. Of course, the only thing Gai heard was 'it was Neji.' "They knocked me out, and cast some sort of genjutsu on me. They trapped me in this horrible dream. I imagined I was a small dinosaur that was trying to outrun the apocalypse. The apocalypse cloud kept eating me, but I always had to start over whenever I died. It was horrible."
This all sounded horrible to Gai, too, since he had actually played the game that Lee was talking about. So, he rushed Lee back to Team Gai's communal house, and immediately locked himself up inside his room to keep out the crazy Dino Run lunatics.
Ah, and this is just the beginning, Gai thought.