Naruto Primer: Future Lee
How Much Longer?
Lee was staring at his watch and bouncing up and down while riding an escalator. He appeared to be in a hurry but he wasn't about to WALK up an escalator.
"I KNEW I should have taken the stairs!" he said, waiting anxiously to reach the top. Lee had been out training his three students when he had received the call. The call that would change his LIFE! At the age of twenty-five, Lee thought that the best day of his life was the day he passed the Jounin test. But then he got married and decided that that was the best day of his life. Now, after receiving THAT CALL, he thought maybe this would be the best day of his life.
If you haven't already concluded it, Lee was a father-to-be.
He reached the top of the escalator and immediately sprinted down the halls on his way to the delivery room where he would be reunited with his wife. He reached the waiting room where he was confronted by a doctor.
"I have to get in there!" he yelled.
"Are you the father?" asked the doctor.
"Yes!" said Lee. "Let me in there!"
"I'm sorry sir, but you appear to be far too frazzled to enter." Said the doctor. "Your anxiety will only make things worse in there."
"Make things worse?" gasped Lee. "Is something bad happening?!"
"No, no." said the doctor. "Just gather yourself and then you're welcome to come in."
The doctor then entered the emergency room. Lee stood there for a moment and then started pacing. What was it going to be? A boy? A girl? Was it going to look like him or her? What were they going to name it? All these pressing questions raced around his head but most importantly of all, "Why isn't it born yet?!" Lee yelled.
"Sir!" said the secretary. "Please keep your voice down! You have to calm down."
"I'm sorry." Said Lee. "I am calm. I'm very calm. I'm Jounin calm."
The secretary went back to her business and Lee went back to his.
Lee has never once stopped loving being alive. He only had to try twice before acquiring his jounin vest at age twenty-two. Already he went on many important missions, including the destruction of Uchiha Itachi, and was one of the most trusted jounins of the sixth Hokage. He could handle anything, even having a kid!
"HOW MUCH LONGER?!" Lee yelled, slamming his hands down on the secretary's desk.
"Sir!" said the secretary again. "Please! You have to calm down or I'm going to have to ask you to leave!"
"Right!" said Lee, giving her the thumbs up. "No problem!"
Lee knew he would be a good father, he was good with kids. After he turned twenty-four and finally married, he decided to go into teaching just like his hero, Gai. So he took on the first three students he was assigned. He performed the same strategy that Gai did by not allowing them to enter the chuunin exam until a year later. That day was approaching soon and he would love to have a kid to watch his success in his teaching…
Speaking of his kid, how much longer would it be?!
"How much longer?!" Lee demanded of the secretary.
"These things could take all day." The secretary replied, looking slightly annoyed.
"ALL NIGHT?!" yelled Lee. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT ALL DAY?!"
That's when the door of the emergency room swung open and the doctor was standing there with a bundle of blue blankets. "It's a boy!" he announced.
"A BOY?!" gasped Lee, slapping his cheeks. He then proceeded to dance around foolishly out of sheer happiness of his first child being born before he realized that he wanted to hold the baby so he ran over to the doctor and outstretched his arms.
Even though the doctor was a little worried about what was going to happen if he handed over the little boy, he had no right to keep him from Lee. So he gave the baby to Lee.
"Aww!" said Lee. "He's so cute! …Hm…he doesn't really look like me…"
"In your case, it might be for the best." Said the doctor quietly.