Quest of the Green Beast:
The Impossible Challenge
Disclaimer: Naruto is the copyrighted property of its creator, whom is in no way me.
Summary: A brilliant idea, shining like the most glorious of stars, descends from the heavens and crosses paths with the ever so beautiful Green Beast of Konoha, or rather, Maito Gai to his friends and rivals. Sometimes, to be a Shinobi, means that there are times when you must socialize with others and there are also times where you must speak more than three words in each sentence. Gai-sensei and his dazzling thumbs-up signs now must tackle the largest challenge in his lifetime: to turn Aburame Shino, Hyuga Neji, and Uchiha Sasuke, into happy, smiling, socializing citizens of the Hidden Leaf Village. Will Gai succeed? Or will his quest be in vain? Read on to find out... or not...
Pairings: There probably will not be outright pairings in this fanfic, although there may be many small hints, just to keep readers content.
Also featured in this story: All the other Leaf Genins and their teachers (with similar missions)
Warning: Mild character bashing once in a while, a bit of Gai bashing (but nothing very severe), mild OOCness and mediocre not following the Naruto timeline.
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(Review Responses)
EmptySanity: I'm glad you like my summary. The original one that I wrote was too long to fit... so I had to make do with a condensed version. And with Gai after them, the poor guys better watch out!
Blargh: I think that hints are the only way that you won't be flamed for certain pairings. And I'll take your advice about continuing! Thank you for your time.
Lobsmick: . Is sorta... er... it's supposed to me the expression on my face... ; I think that's the only way to describe it....
Drake Azathoth: Thank you very much for your review. I'm glad that you think it has potential... since it lacks real talent...
Silverdust-Aestis: I'm glad their personalities aren't that exaggerated. And I'll keep your suggestions in mind. And Sasuneji is actually one of my favourites!
Hikariko: Thanks for the very amusing review! Gai and Lee are great for comic relief, aren't they?
Lob: Thank you! And Sasuke rocks!
Sequ3stered: Thank you for putting this on your favourites! Wow, and that was the first review! Thanks for the ego boost!
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(Key :)
"................." talking
'.................' thinking
--- Beginning/End of Chapter/Change of Scene
(End of Key)
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Chapter 1: Data Gathering and The Approval: The plan is set in motion
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A slight tremor within the bush caused one of the miniature branches to tremble slightly, rustling its leaves. The figure's face was in shadow and he lay crouched in its leafy shelter glanced wearily at the back of its target, who was innocently consuming his breakfast, hoping that its earlier actions were not noticed. But to his displeasure, his objective had now tensed up somewhat, staring around at his surroundings, searching for the source of the sound.
The target's narrowed; calculating eyes lingered a bit on the figure's hiding spot a little longer than he would have liked, before he turned away, as if dismissing the cause of the noise as a small mammal.
Beady black eyes opened in relief as the figure sighed, mentally wiping the imaginary perspiration off his thick brows. Suddenly, a sharp object whistled through the air and imbedded itself where the figure's hand had been, just a mere second before.
The target stared back at the bush with a calm, thoughtful expression, before turning away, and heading back to his team's meeting place. Whoever had been stalking him, would realize that he wasn't someone to mess with.
Although the target was merely a Genin, the spy could not help but be afraid for those few seconds. Perching safely on top of a branch, he pulled out his clipboard.
Uchiha Susake:
- Paranoid
- Attacks without caring of consequences or who he hits
- Dangerous
- Approach with caution
- Do not anger him by following him around
- Do not hide in bushes when following him around
- Is antisocial
- Has deadly accuracy with a kunai
The figure stared at his paper in satisfaction, before adding another point as an afterthought.
- Likes rice balls
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Aburame Shino
- Likes bugs
- Not very friendly
- Is antisocial
- Hard to sneak up on
Here, he crossed out the above line.
- Very hard to sneak up on
- Bugs will tell him if someone is hiding inside a garbage can with a pair of binoculars
- Will send bugs out to attack
He chewed the eraser of his pencil thoughtfully, while scratching furiously at his arms, legs, back, shoulders, and stomach, before adding:
- Bugs are poisonous: may cause itching
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Hyuga Neji
- Has white eyes
- Is antisocial
- Can see you through the back of his head
- Can also see you when appearing to look in the opposite direction
- Can see through trees
- Doesn't like stalkers
- Doesn't like the main house
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The shadows lifted off the figure's mysterious face, revealing that it was none other than...
Rock Lee! (1) His wicked dark eyes sparkled with malicious triumph.
"Gai-sensei will be very pleased!" he announced dramatically, giving the air a 'thumbs-up' sign for success and the miniature Gai's teeth went: 'Ping!'. "Mission: completed!" He then gave his neck a good scratch.
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Gai spotted his 'inferior' rival heading towards Team 7's meeting grounds, five hours after Lee had seen Sasuke arrive. Hurrying forward, Gai called out to him.
"Good morning, Kakashi, my eternal rival! I would take this chance to gloat about the victory that I had achieved the day before that now turns the score 52:49, but I have other important matters to speak to you about! Now, do not take that as a sign of weakness, for I am merely speaking to you about it, since it concerns one of your students, Kakashi! And might I add that if you do not let me do something about it, then your pupil may be in great dilemma in the future..."
Gai broke off his one-sided conversation to witness Kakashi's retreating back, still reading his book, the Icha Icha Paradise. Gai fumed, the fire in his eyes, shining so bright that they had literally become fireballs.
"Kakashi! How dare you walk away! You're indifference is astounding and admirable, but you shall not best me!" Gai hollered.
Kakashi paused in his steps, but his eyes never left the pages of his book.
"You said something, Gai?" he asked, sounding mildly interested. Gai seethed.
"Kakashi. I. Have. To. Speak. To. You. About. Your. Student. Susake." Gai tried to make himself sound calm and collected by speaking slowly, but only managed to sound like that he was broken.
"Susake?" came the expected answer. "Who's Susake?"
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Kakashi strolled leisurely into the clearing. The blond Kitsune was sitting cross-legged on the grass facing his team yelling obscenities at his teacher, while the cotton-candy-haired kunoichi was busy trying to bend the metal of her shuriken, to display what she was going to do to her sensei. The dark-haired avenger on the other hand, leaned against the trunk of a tree, staring impassively in the opposite direction from his teammates. He may have looked calm, but he was impatiently tapping his foot against the bark.
"Yo." His less than happy students, spun around, eyes bloodshot and foaming at the mouth... well, not literally.
"YOU'RE LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!" shrieked Sakura and Naruto. Sasuke instead stared calmly at his teacher... well; it would have seemed calm if it weren't for that constant twitch of his eyebrow.
"Well, I was going to be on time, but then I was assaulted by a guy in a green bodysuit, who launched into a long one-sided conversation about beating me at something and that one of my students had a serious disorder that should be treated, but when I tried to get away, he started raving about a "Susake" or something, before I reminded him that he also had a class to teach and he ran off yelling that I may have beaten him this time, next time I won't be so lucky." Kakashi finished. But his efforts were in vain.
"LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" came the automatic reply.
'Kakashi-sensei is such a liar! That story was the most unbelievable one yet!' Sakura thought angrily.
'Yeah, like we would fall for that one!' thought Naruto.
Kakashi sighed as his own eyebrow had started to twitch. 'So much for telling the truth,' he thought humorlessly. 'Maybe I should have told them that I was grocery shopping for the Hokage?'
Sasuke, on the other hand was deep in thought about Kakashi's "lie". 'Susake?' he thought, deeply disturbed. 'Now, why does that sound familiar?'
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Gai barged into the classroom where he had told his poor team to wait. 'No!' he thought, despairingly.
'I am later than Kakashi! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING! I SIMPLY CANNOT BE LATER THAN KAKASHI! That... that... SNEAK! He did it on purpose! He cunningly baited me into his trap! He LURED me into being late! THAT FIEND! Kakashi, my rival, you have outsmarted me this time, but mark my words! I WILL emerge the victor of this dispute in the end!'
Score: 50:52
Gai turned to his three students. One furious, one murderous and one delighted that he had finally shown up.
"GAI-SENSEI!" cried Lee, "I was so worried that something happened to you!" Gai embraced his student.
"You do not have to worry about me, Lee! I was delayed because of an important mission!"
'Liar,' thought Neji, 'you were yelling at Kakashi.'
"Neji said that you had probably died!" Lee sobbed harder, "He was also so worried about you!"
"..."
'I don't know about that...' mused Ten-ten, 'he sounded more hopeful than worried... poor guy...' She secretly wanted to hug the poor boy...
Gai gave Neji the honor of being the target of his "good-guy" pose. "Thank you very much for your concern, my dear boy! But do not be alarmed! I can take very good care of myself!" Neji groaned and turned as he tore his tainted eyes from the pose.
'My eyes... they are blinded...' Neji thought, one of his first stabs at humor. Not even the Byakugan could save him from that... monstrosity. Ten- ten covered her eyes as politely as she could.
Gai, not noticing his students'... allergy to his thumbs-up signs and 'pinging' teeth, thought about his next move.
'I will have to speak to Kurenai later on about Shino...'
And the plot thickens...
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Announcer: And so... the plan has been set into motion! What will this evil entity concoct? Join us and find out next time on... this... fic...
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(1) A/N I bet NO ONE saw THIS coming!
Meeeheeeeheeeheeheehee!
Remember folks, keep voting!
--------------------------------------------
Please leave your Name/Nickname/Penname/Screen name, e-mail (optional) and a comment in the review box.
Flames will be accepted graciously and will be considered, if logical and be thrown out if illogical: "You suck!", "F u... R u on dRuGs?", "U rEtArD!" are examples of pointless flames and are a waste of time. Please don't waste your time.
Criticism will be welcomed happily, if they are constructive.
Complaints will be filed in order.
Complements will be happily accepted.
Ranting may be overlooked.
Questions will be answered.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Frontier of Darkness
The Impossible Challenge
Disclaimer: Naruto is the copyrighted property of its creator, whom is in no way me.
Summary: A brilliant idea, shining like the most glorious of stars, descends from the heavens and crosses paths with the ever so beautiful Green Beast of Konoha, or rather, Maito Gai to his friends and rivals. Sometimes, to be a Shinobi, means that there are times when you must socialize with others and there are also times where you must speak more than three words in each sentence. Gai-sensei and his dazzling thumbs-up signs now must tackle the largest challenge in his lifetime: to turn Aburame Shino, Hyuga Neji, and Uchiha Sasuke, into happy, smiling, socializing citizens of the Hidden Leaf Village. Will Gai succeed? Or will his quest be in vain? Read on to find out... or not...
Pairings: There probably will not be outright pairings in this fanfic, although there may be many small hints, just to keep readers content.
Also featured in this story: All the other Leaf Genins and their teachers (with similar missions)
Warning: Mild character bashing once in a while, a bit of Gai bashing (but nothing very severe), mild OOCness and mediocre not following the Naruto timeline.
--------------------------------------------
(Review Responses)
EmptySanity: I'm glad you like my summary. The original one that I wrote was too long to fit... so I had to make do with a condensed version. And with Gai after them, the poor guys better watch out!
Blargh: I think that hints are the only way that you won't be flamed for certain pairings. And I'll take your advice about continuing! Thank you for your time.
Lobsmick: . Is sorta... er... it's supposed to me the expression on my face... ; I think that's the only way to describe it....
Drake Azathoth: Thank you very much for your review. I'm glad that you think it has potential... since it lacks real talent...
Silverdust-Aestis: I'm glad their personalities aren't that exaggerated. And I'll keep your suggestions in mind. And Sasuneji is actually one of my favourites!
Hikariko: Thanks for the very amusing review! Gai and Lee are great for comic relief, aren't they?
Lob: Thank you! And Sasuke rocks!
Sequ3stered: Thank you for putting this on your favourites! Wow, and that was the first review! Thanks for the ego boost!
--------------------------------------------
(Key :)
"................." talking
'.................' thinking
--- Beginning/End of Chapter/Change of Scene
(End of Key)
--------------------------------------------
Chapter 1: Data Gathering and The Approval: The plan is set in motion
--------------------------------------------
A slight tremor within the bush caused one of the miniature branches to tremble slightly, rustling its leaves. The figure's face was in shadow and he lay crouched in its leafy shelter glanced wearily at the back of its target, who was innocently consuming his breakfast, hoping that its earlier actions were not noticed. But to his displeasure, his objective had now tensed up somewhat, staring around at his surroundings, searching for the source of the sound.
The target's narrowed; calculating eyes lingered a bit on the figure's hiding spot a little longer than he would have liked, before he turned away, as if dismissing the cause of the noise as a small mammal.
Beady black eyes opened in relief as the figure sighed, mentally wiping the imaginary perspiration off his thick brows. Suddenly, a sharp object whistled through the air and imbedded itself where the figure's hand had been, just a mere second before.
The target stared back at the bush with a calm, thoughtful expression, before turning away, and heading back to his team's meeting place. Whoever had been stalking him, would realize that he wasn't someone to mess with.
Although the target was merely a Genin, the spy could not help but be afraid for those few seconds. Perching safely on top of a branch, he pulled out his clipboard.
Uchiha Susake:
- Paranoid
- Attacks without caring of consequences or who he hits
- Dangerous
- Approach with caution
- Do not anger him by following him around
- Do not hide in bushes when following him around
- Is antisocial
- Has deadly accuracy with a kunai
The figure stared at his paper in satisfaction, before adding another point as an afterthought.
- Likes rice balls
--------------------------------------------
Aburame Shino
- Likes bugs
- Not very friendly
- Is antisocial
- Hard to sneak up on
Here, he crossed out the above line.
- Very hard to sneak up on
- Bugs will tell him if someone is hiding inside a garbage can with a pair of binoculars
- Will send bugs out to attack
He chewed the eraser of his pencil thoughtfully, while scratching furiously at his arms, legs, back, shoulders, and stomach, before adding:
- Bugs are poisonous: may cause itching
--------------------------------------------
Hyuga Neji
- Has white eyes
- Is antisocial
- Can see you through the back of his head
- Can also see you when appearing to look in the opposite direction
- Can see through trees
- Doesn't like stalkers
- Doesn't like the main house
--------------------------------------------
The shadows lifted off the figure's mysterious face, revealing that it was none other than...
Rock Lee! (1) His wicked dark eyes sparkled with malicious triumph.
"Gai-sensei will be very pleased!" he announced dramatically, giving the air a 'thumbs-up' sign for success and the miniature Gai's teeth went: 'Ping!'. "Mission: completed!" He then gave his neck a good scratch.
--------------------------------------------
Gai spotted his 'inferior' rival heading towards Team 7's meeting grounds, five hours after Lee had seen Sasuke arrive. Hurrying forward, Gai called out to him.
"Good morning, Kakashi, my eternal rival! I would take this chance to gloat about the victory that I had achieved the day before that now turns the score 52:49, but I have other important matters to speak to you about! Now, do not take that as a sign of weakness, for I am merely speaking to you about it, since it concerns one of your students, Kakashi! And might I add that if you do not let me do something about it, then your pupil may be in great dilemma in the future..."
Gai broke off his one-sided conversation to witness Kakashi's retreating back, still reading his book, the Icha Icha Paradise. Gai fumed, the fire in his eyes, shining so bright that they had literally become fireballs.
"Kakashi! How dare you walk away! You're indifference is astounding and admirable, but you shall not best me!" Gai hollered.
Kakashi paused in his steps, but his eyes never left the pages of his book.
"You said something, Gai?" he asked, sounding mildly interested. Gai seethed.
"Kakashi. I. Have. To. Speak. To. You. About. Your. Student. Susake." Gai tried to make himself sound calm and collected by speaking slowly, but only managed to sound like that he was broken.
"Susake?" came the expected answer. "Who's Susake?"
--------------------------------------------
Kakashi strolled leisurely into the clearing. The blond Kitsune was sitting cross-legged on the grass facing his team yelling obscenities at his teacher, while the cotton-candy-haired kunoichi was busy trying to bend the metal of her shuriken, to display what she was going to do to her sensei. The dark-haired avenger on the other hand, leaned against the trunk of a tree, staring impassively in the opposite direction from his teammates. He may have looked calm, but he was impatiently tapping his foot against the bark.
"Yo." His less than happy students, spun around, eyes bloodshot and foaming at the mouth... well, not literally.
"YOU'RE LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!" shrieked Sakura and Naruto. Sasuke instead stared calmly at his teacher... well; it would have seemed calm if it weren't for that constant twitch of his eyebrow.
"Well, I was going to be on time, but then I was assaulted by a guy in a green bodysuit, who launched into a long one-sided conversation about beating me at something and that one of my students had a serious disorder that should be treated, but when I tried to get away, he started raving about a "Susake" or something, before I reminded him that he also had a class to teach and he ran off yelling that I may have beaten him this time, next time I won't be so lucky." Kakashi finished. But his efforts were in vain.
"LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" came the automatic reply.
'Kakashi-sensei is such a liar! That story was the most unbelievable one yet!' Sakura thought angrily.
'Yeah, like we would fall for that one!' thought Naruto.
Kakashi sighed as his own eyebrow had started to twitch. 'So much for telling the truth,' he thought humorlessly. 'Maybe I should have told them that I was grocery shopping for the Hokage?'
Sasuke, on the other hand was deep in thought about Kakashi's "lie". 'Susake?' he thought, deeply disturbed. 'Now, why does that sound familiar?'
--------------------------------------------
Gai barged into the classroom where he had told his poor team to wait. 'No!' he thought, despairingly.
'I am later than Kakashi! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING! I SIMPLY CANNOT BE LATER THAN KAKASHI! That... that... SNEAK! He did it on purpose! He cunningly baited me into his trap! He LURED me into being late! THAT FIEND! Kakashi, my rival, you have outsmarted me this time, but mark my words! I WILL emerge the victor of this dispute in the end!'
Score: 50:52
Gai turned to his three students. One furious, one murderous and one delighted that he had finally shown up.
"GAI-SENSEI!" cried Lee, "I was so worried that something happened to you!" Gai embraced his student.
"You do not have to worry about me, Lee! I was delayed because of an important mission!"
'Liar,' thought Neji, 'you were yelling at Kakashi.'
"Neji said that you had probably died!" Lee sobbed harder, "He was also so worried about you!"
"..."
'I don't know about that...' mused Ten-ten, 'he sounded more hopeful than worried... poor guy...' She secretly wanted to hug the poor boy...
Gai gave Neji the honor of being the target of his "good-guy" pose. "Thank you very much for your concern, my dear boy! But do not be alarmed! I can take very good care of myself!" Neji groaned and turned as he tore his tainted eyes from the pose.
'My eyes... they are blinded...' Neji thought, one of his first stabs at humor. Not even the Byakugan could save him from that... monstrosity. Ten- ten covered her eyes as politely as she could.
Gai, not noticing his students'... allergy to his thumbs-up signs and 'pinging' teeth, thought about his next move.
'I will have to speak to Kurenai later on about Shino...'
And the plot thickens...
--------------------------------------------
Announcer: And so... the plan has been set into motion! What will this evil entity concoct? Join us and find out next time on... this... fic...
--------------------------------------------
(1) A/N I bet NO ONE saw THIS coming!
Meeeheeeeheeeheeheehee!
Remember folks, keep voting!
--------------------------------------------
Please leave your Name/Nickname/Penname/Screen name, e-mail (optional) and a comment in the review box.
Flames will be accepted graciously and will be considered, if logical and be thrown out if illogical: "You suck!", "F u... R u on dRuGs?", "U rEtArD!" are examples of pointless flames and are a waste of time. Please don't waste your time.
Criticism will be welcomed happily, if they are constructive.
Complaints will be filed in order.
Complements will be happily accepted.
Ranting may be overlooked.
Questions will be answered.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Frontier of Darkness