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Author's Note: Eheheheh...How should I put this? I've made a stupid mistake and uploaded chapter 15 as chapter 14. Yeah, that's about what happened. This is the actual chapter 14. Sorry about the confusion. I hope this chapter answers some of the questions you had for the 'mistaken' chapter 14. Enjoy.

The rest of the afternoon was fairly quiet with the occasional 'ow' from, Naruto and Kiba echoing through the halls. The first years were to meet their squads' sensei at the front of the school. Unfortunately, it was quite a hot day.

"Ugh," Kiba complained, "I'm boiling."

"You wouldn't be if weren't wearing a f– truck goes by –ing fur coat, stupid," Ino snapped, in a bad mood.

Kiba whimpered and recoiled. The rest of the guys made a mental note to avoid Ino. Neji hung on the steps, once again meditating. Sasuke was skipping around picking flowers –um, I mean brooding on the steps– yeah, let's go with that. Naruto and Kiba were trying to fan themselves with their hands which only made them sweat more. Shino was checking out a ladybug (A/N: no pun intended). Shikamaru was lying on the grass, watching clouds. Chouji was munching chips and Lee was, well, being Lee.

The girls, however, were lounging under a big tree. It was cool and shady, much better than the front steps. Tenten was sharpening her kunai and metal senbon. Sakura was reading a medicinal journal. Ino was checking her complexion in a compact mirror. Hinata was twiddling her fingers while stealing glances at Naruto.

A sudden 'poof' alerted the hormonally-challenged teens of another presence; a few other presences to be exact. There was Kakashi from language class, Kurenai from history (also the Home Ec. teacher), Asuma, who taught math and a guy clad in green spandex that looked like Lee.

"HELLO YOUTHFUL STUDENTS," announced the green-spandex clad teacher, "IT IS I, MAITO GAI –"

"Gai," Kakashi commented lazily, "We're not filming some corny superhero movie."

"OH," Gai shouted, "YOU ARE VERY HIP MY ETERNAL RIVAL KAKASHI!"

"Ahem," Sakura cleared her throat.

"Oh," Kurenai said, "We are your squads' supervisors. Each of us will be assigned to a squad. Um, to make it fair, we'll pick names out of a hat and the Hyuuga aren't allowed to participate in the name drawing because they can see through the hat with their byakugan."

Asuma produced a hat out of no where and Gai handed him the paper. Sakura stepped up and drew Kakashi's name. Kiba had successfully managed to pick a name out of the hat (he was unsure of which piece of paper to pick, so he fumbled around until Kurenai smacked him on the head). Ino managed to draw Asuma's name, much to her relieve. But that meant that…

"NO," screamed Tenten, "One thick-browed freak is enough! I demand a re-draw!"

Neji silently agreed. Being stuck with Lee was bad enough; he didn't need another overly-enthusiastic youth-freak on his squad. He didn't know how long his sanity would last in this situation.

"Tough luck," Ino stuck her tongue out.

"Too bad," Sakura mimicked Ino's actions.

"Umm," Hinata stammered, looked at Kiba frantically shaking his head, "Gomen, Tenten-chan…"

With Hinata's apology, the other three groups bounded off; far away from the damned group. They all prayed for Tenten and Neji's sanity. Secretly, they were all glad to have the sensei they have.

Neji and Tenten took a mad dash for the woods that were surrounding the training grounds. What they didn't expect, though, was Gai's breakneck speed. Hell, his speed was even faster than 'breakneck'. The green clad man hopped in front of the two and grinned a blinding white smile.

"YOUR YOUTHFUL FIRE BURNS BRIGHT," Gai cheered, "LET US RUN AROUND CAMPUS 300 TIMES. AND IF WE CAN'T DO THAT, WE'LL DO 500 PUSHUPS."

"Gai-sensei," Lee, who had just jumped into the scene, "You are the greatest! I want to be just like you."

Woah…the other guy was so loud that Lee's talking seemed normal, thought Neji and Tenten simultaneously (A/N: freaky…).

Lee's already the near-to-exact replica of this man, thought Neji and Tenten, yet again, simultaneously (A/N: freakier…).

"YOU ARE A YOUTHFUL SOUL," Gai boomed, "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"

"Lee," said Lee cheerfully, "And that's Neji and Tenten."

"Alright Tenten," Gai told Neji, "You shall start off the run and we will follow your lead."

"I'm Neji," seethed Neji, "That girl's Tenten."

"OF COURSE," Gai resumed his booming, "THAT'S WHAT I MEANT –Ugh, what is your name again?"

"Neji," the prodigy nearly hissed.

"RIGHT," Gai laughed nervously, "I KNEW YOU WERE NEJI ALL ALONG! HAHAHAHA…"

Neji and Tenten sweat-dropped, what had they done to deserve this kind of torture? Sure, Neji had been intimidating Hinata all her life (since it started when Hinata was one year old and Neji was two) and Tenten's been breaking school rules (concerning weapons) since grade one, but nothing that horrible that could've condemned them to this hell. Woe is them…

"HURRY UP," called Gai who was already starting the laps with Lee, "THE POWER OF YOUTH WAITS FOR NO ONE!"

Tenten gathered up her thoughts and sighed. She shot a glance at Neji who nodded and they too sped off to join their…ahem…rather 'interesting' sensei.

"Ow," Tenten mumbled, "My legs are killing me…"

"Who knew campus was so big," agreed Neji.

Tenten looked at him as if he had purple polka-dots all over his face. Her mouth was slightly agape and her eyes were wide.

"What," Neji asked, quite irritated.

"That's the most you've ever said since you came here," Tenten laughed, "This was your first attempt at a conversation."

"Hn."

"Well, I guess this sort of thing happens once in a blue moon," Tenten sighed.

"THERE'S GOING TO BE A BLUE MOON TONIGHT?" asked Lee excitedly.

"Uh," Tenten tried hard not to sweat-drop, "It was just an expression."

"Oh," Lee said as he went back to beating up a log (where he gets his energy, we'll never know).

"I HAVE BAD NEWS MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS," Gai yelled, "I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRAIN YOU FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS BECAUSE OF A YOUTHFUL MISSION! BUT YOU MUST KEEP FAITH AND –"

"Gai-sensei," cried Lee, "WE'LL MISS YOU."

"LEE," cried Gai, streams of tears rolling down his cheeks, "I'LL MISS YOU TOO!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

They hugged and a sunset appeared in the background. Tenten and Neji face-faulted, oh the money people will give to see the Hyuuga prodigy face-fault.

That was a new development…so freaky, thought Tenten, her left eye twitching slightly.

I have to talk to father about this…maybe he can get me out of this nuthouse, thought Neji, his mouth in sort of a 'WTF?' fashion.

Then their brains registered what their sensei had said. He wasn't going to be here for the next to week. A smile bloomed on Tenten's face as she silently thanked god. Neji's mouth turned up to a slight smirk. The two of them left the training grounds quite happily; the saying was true, every cloud had a silver lining.

"HEY," Lee called, "WAIT FOR ME!"

Author's Note: I introduced Gai-sensei to put a little more comedy in this story (though I'm not sure that it worked). Please don't take thisas character bashing; I really do love Gai-sensei and Lee's insanity..er, enthusiasm.I gave a glimpse of Neji and Tenten'sinside thoughts in this chapter. I hoped you guys liked it. Please review and feel free to comment on my stupid mistake -smacks self-. I really hope that the out-of-order update didn't cause any confusions.