Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Team Gai
Autumn
"I HATE D-rank missions!" said Tenten to Gai.
"But the Hokage personally asked us to rake these leaves!" said Gai.
Gai, Tenten, Lee and Neji were currently raking a large area of the village that had many a tree and many a leaf. After all, it IS the Village of the LEAF! Oh, that was a good one.
None of them were too thrilled to be there, but Lee wasn't about to voice his opinion against Gai and Neji wasn't about to loudly voice his opinion like Tenten had.
"As long as we're doing our part for the village!" said Lee, putting his hand over his heart.
"Keep raking." Said Neji, hitting Lee with his rake.
"There has to be a faster way of doing this!" complained Tenten. "The leaves just keep falling!"
"Well, I suppose you are not discouraged from using your ninja abilities to aid you in this raking clean up!" said Gai. "In fact, you are encouraged to do so!!"
"All right!" cheered Lee. "This is good because I thought up an idea while we were raking!"
"Here we go…" said Tenten, not even wanting to hear.
"Neji, you have to use your little spinning move and spin around and around and then all the leaves will be blown up into the air and land in a nice little pile in the hole you created with your chakra!" said Lee.
"Little spinning move?" said Neji.
"You know what I'm talking about!" said Lee.
"Lee, that will never EVER work in a MILLION years!" said Tenten.
"Say…that's just crazy enough to work!" said Gai.
"No, it WON'T work!" said Tenten. "It's ridiculous! It will just blow them all randomly around!"
"You know what that attack is called, there's no reason to say 'little spinning move'." Neji said, not stopping his raking activity.
"Come on!" said Lee. "It'll make our jobs easier! Besides, if it DOESN'T work then we'll be no worse off than we were before!"
"Uh…yes we will!" said Tenten, sounding annoyed. "Because then all the leaves we've already raked will be blown around again!"
"I vote YES!" said Gai.
"ME TOO!" said Lee.
"Well, I vote no." said Tenten, crossing her arms. "And Neji probably does too."
"I MIGHT have done it if he had called it by the right name." Said Neji even though it was obviously a lie.
"Well, my vote counts as TWO so we win!!" cheered Gai as he grabbed hands with Lee and the two of them spun in circles like knaves.
"…No." said Neji because he knew the plan was doomed to failure from the very beginning.
"Then I think the only way to settle this dispute is a fight!" said Lee. "If I win, you must comply to my demands! If YOU win, I'll do the rest of this raking by myself!!"
"Do it!" said Tenten. It was a good deal for her because she didn't have to rake anymore since she knew Neji would win.
"NO Lee!" said Gai. "That is a wager too large!!"
"Gai, I MUST!" said Lee as he dramatically threw his rake to the ground. "I must stand by what I believe in!"
"Oh Lee!" said Gai as tears fell from his eyes like waterfalls.
"Are you serious?" said Neji. "You'll rake all of this by yourself?"
"Not by himself!" said Gai. "I will be helping!"
"GAI!!" exclaimed Lee.
"LEE!!" Gai yelled back as they both leapt into each other's arms.
"Just do it!" said Tenten.
"Fine." Said Neji since he didn't want to rake anyway. "Hold my scarf."
He tossed his scarf to Tenten.
"Wow, this is a nice scarf!" she said. "Where did you buy it?"
"At the…uh…store." Neji answered.
"Oh!" said Tenten. "I want one just like this! What store?"
"Um…I don't remember." Neji said.
"No, this is OBVIOUSLY a new scarf." Said Tenten. "You can't tell me you've already forgotten where you got it."
"Someone gave it to me." Neji lied.
Tenten looked at him skeptically. "Who?" she said.
"Um." Said Neji. "My father. Before the Main House killed him."
Tenten didn't want to go further than that, but she couldn't help it. "This is a NEW SCARF." She pointed out. "You only said that so I wouldn't challenge you again! Now if you don't tell me then I'm just going to accuse you of making it!"
"Why would you accuse me of something like that?" Neji said ALL too quickly. "Why would I… NEJI, make a scarf?"
"Then tell me where you bought it!" Tenten said.
"NEJI!!" yelled Lee suddenly. "FIGHT ME!!"
"Okay." Said Neji, turning his back to Tenten.
"GO LEE!!" said Gai, grabbing his Lee flag and foam finger with Lee's face on it.
"Gai, now there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that your favorite is Lee!" said Tenten. "You're openly cheering for him! You even have a flag and a foam finger with his face on them!"
"I love all my students equally!" said Gai. Then he looked at the flag and foam finger and quickly hid them behind his back.
"A fight…TO THE DEATH!!!" said Lee.
"How about until I beat you to the point in which you realize that you are no match for me?" Neji suggested.
"How about…the faster person wins!!" said Lee.
"…That's not a fight." Said Neji.
"Fine!" said Lee. "Just a fight until the other person can't fight back!"
"You said it." said Neji.
"Ready?" said Gai. "GO!!"
Lee charged at Neji and threw some punches. Neji easily dodged them all and used the Gentle Fist once right in Lee's chest, sending him flying up into the air and landing him hard on the ground.
"DON'T LOOK AT ME!!" Lee cried as he covered his face and curled up into the fetal position.
"Lee, did you ever think that maybe you can't beat Neji because you've convinced yourself that it's impossible?" said Tenten.
"That's my line." Said Gai, sliding in front of Tenten. "Lee, if you don't believe in yourself then you cannot believe in…uh… Neji!"
"Gai!" said Lee. "That makes so much sense!"
Tenten slapped her forehead.
"I'm going home." Said Neji as he swiped the scarf from Tenten. "Have fun raking."
"If I can't rake all this then I will rake the whole village!" said Lee.
"Not alone you won't!" said Gai.
"Neji, wait!" said Tenten, chasing after Neji. "You have to tell me where you got that scarf!"