Sorry I didn't put anything at the top of the last chapter...my computer messed up. Oh well. I was tired from spending the night at a friends house and barely getting any sleep, so sorry it took a while.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 10: Issues Among a Team

Lee woke up and yawned. After stretching, he jumped to his feet and got dressed. It was 4:00 in the morning, but Lee was as energetic as a puppy. Or a deranged old lady who thought she was still 5.

He crept down the hall and down the stairs. If the house hadn't been remodeled, it might have creaked.

Once outside, he started on his stretches and after those, his daily training. Waking up early trained the body. Somehow. Gai-Sensei had said so.

While beating up a dead log and pretending it was an enemy ninja, the moon shone brightly over the clearing. He continued to beat up the dead wood while shouting things at it like, "Take this!" and "Take that!".

Suddenly, a huge shadow slowly fell over Lee. He squeaked like a mouse with surprise and slowly turned his head to look behind him. He could make out the shape of a bear (he was unable to see it because it's back was facing the moon), and he could see its fangs white despite the moonlight to its back.

He screamed like a four-year-old girl and ran into the house, feeling faint.

The moon was starting to sink behind the horizon.

Kakashi awoke when he heard a little girl screaming outside the window. The first thing that popped into his mind was that the enemy ninja had somehow escaped. He sat up with a start - and yelped in surprise. Someone was in the bed too, but the covers were over them so he couldn't make out who it was.

He shook the figure and the person underneath stirred slightly. Confused, he removed the covers from whoever was under them. When he saw who it was, he screamed in surprise and fell off the bed. His head hit the floor and he blacked out.

At 8:00 in the morning, Gai woke up and stretched his arms. He had gotten back from taking the rain ninja to Leaf in the middle of the night, so he was too tired to change into pajamas and slept in his uniform.

He looked outside. The sun was shining brightly through the trees. He glanced around the room. It looked different.

He threw his legs over the side of the bed and was about to step onto the floor when he saw that Pakkun was there. That was odd. What was Pakkun doing in his room? And who had changed it?

He went to the other side of the bed and jumped off that side.

When his feet hit the floor he heard a sound like someone getting the breath knocked out of them. Looking down, he saw Kakashi there staring back up at him with a mixture of pain and anger in his eyes.

Gai took the hint and got off of him.

"YOU IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!" Kakashi yelled at him so loudly that everyone else in the house started to gather around the door.

"It was dark and all the rooms look alike. I had no idea this was your room since it's right next to mine," Gai was trying not to sound as frustrated as he felt.

The two continued to argue, and the others continued to watch with blank faces and sweat drops, while Pakkun came behind Gai. Gai was in the worst place he could be at that moment. Right by the window.

Pakkun pushed Gai from behind and Gai fell, headfirst, out the window.

Out of instinct, Kakashi grabbed Gai's ankles, but then decided to "accidentally" let go.

Gai continued the fall from the two story window.

"Well, if he didn't have such a hard head, he probably would have died," the doctor said cheerfully.

The doctor was a fat, senile, bald old man. So what was he doing in a hospital?

Gai lay in a bed in the left corner of a large hospital room. He was unconscious at the moment and for the most part, unfortunately, unharmed.

Gai's team, Kakashi's team, and Tazuna were there too.

Gai's team was huddled around the bed, with Naruto who was constantly poking the unconscious man's arm. Sakura and Sasuke were by the door. Kakashi was on the other end of the room, angry because Gai hadn't died. Tazuna was by the window, half asleep.

The doctor said they could return home after Gai woke up. They could just look around the hospital until then or stay where they were.

The hospital was small, because they were on a small island that didn't have enough money for a bigger one, but Naruto was full of it all the same. He acted as if he had never been to a hospital before. Several times he was chased by doctors and nurses for being "curious".

Finally, Gai woke up. And hit his head on a shelf above the bed. He fell back on the bed, unconscious again.

Kakashi sighed. "Looks like we're gonna be here a while." Outside the door, Naruto was running back and forth while being chased by nurses and doctors again. Plus, some elderly patients. The idiot had stolen their pudding.

"We wouldn't even be here if you had just pulled him through the window," Neji retorted bitterly.

Lee was crying by Gai's side. "Get better, Gai-Sensei."

Sasuke was getting fed up with Naruto and walked into the hall to try to stop him as he ran by. Instead, he ran into him and the pudding spilled all over the floor. As he hit the floor face first, he got a mouth-full of it.

Immediately, he was hyper.

He grabbed the remaining pudding in Naruto's arms that hadn't spilled out of the containers, and ran.

"My pudding! It's all mine!" Sasuke shouted over his shoulder at the nurses, doctors, and patients that had their hands on their knees and panting.

"Go, Sasuke, go!" Naruto shouted, encouraging the Uchiha.

"Not so fast." Sasuke choked as his shirt collar came up to meet his throat, then turned around. Kakashi had a tight grip on his shirt.

"You really are a pain when you have sugar, you know that?" Kakashi replied tonelessly. He took the pudding from his arms and returned it to the patients, dragging Sasuke with him.

He grabbed Naruto and drug both boys into Gai's room. He plopped them each onto a chair and tied Sasuke to his with wire. The Uchiha bounced his leg up and down and looked around frantically with wide eyes while whispering repeatedly, "Sugar, sugar, sugar."

Everyone was spread throughout the room, lounging around and trying to ignore Sasuke.

The time seemed to go by slowly.

Ah, the joys of sugar. And pudding. Ha ha! Oh well. Please review!