Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Neji/Gai
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Gai was happy as a clam. There was no reason for him to be sad during this time and great peace and wonderful youthfulness. In fact, it was all the more reason to be EXCITED to meet with his students for training!
You see, we call it NEJI'S favorite training area because he likes hanging out there the most, but it was originally the entire team's favorite training area. But that's irrelevant. Gai went to Neji's favorite training area to find, unsurprisingly enough, Neji!
But he wasn't training.
He looked more like he was sitting there waiting.
And, upon Gai's arrival, Neji sprung up out of his seat, went to Gai with ninja stealth and grabbed Gai's collar, pulling him down to his shorter level.
"GAI!" Neji yelled.
"Yes, Neji?" Gai said.
"Kurenai said that this braid would come out eventually!" Neji said, pointing to the French braid that was still in perfect condition. "It's been three days and still it doesn't show any signs of coming undone! Do something to fix it!"
Then Neji let Gai go.
Gai straightened his collar and cleared his throat. "I apologize, Neji." Said Gai, looking despaired. "But I know about feminine hair braiding jutsus about to the extent YOU do! Have you tried asking Kurenai to help you?"
"No." Neji said, crossing his arms. "She would be too stubborn."
Gai was about to point out that Neji was being the stubborn one and Kurenai had probably forgotten all about why she did it to him in the first place, but he valued his life a lot more than that. "Have you asked any of the other girls to help you?"
"I would NEVER ask one of the girls to help me." Said Neji, looking SO enraged that there was no adjective to describe it. "I don't want to ask ANYONE for help."
"Neji, you're asking ME to help!" Gai pointed out.
"No, I'm TELLING you to help." Neji said with a glare.
"Very well." Said Gai. "What do you suggest I do?"
"I don't know." Said Neji. "YOU'RE the jounin."
"Hm…I don't know." Said Gai. "If I were you, I suppose I would just ask a female to help me."
"No you wouldn't." said Neji. "Because I would never ask a female to help me."
"Why are you acting as though this is MY fault?" said Gai, looking offended.
"Because it is!" said Neji. "You're probably the one who SUGGESTED we all get haircuts!"
"But you're the one who provoked Kurenai!" Gai reminded him.
"I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do as such if you hadn't made the suggestion of cutting our hair." Neji said.
"Well, you should have cut your hair a long time ago and then all this would have never happened!" Gai said.
Neji closed his eyes and took a few hoot breaths in order to calm down. "Okay." He said. "This isn't getting my anywhere OR fixing my problem. So stop trying to start an argument with me and help me undo this."
"ME?" said Gai. "Starting an argument with YOU?!"
Neji glared his evil glare. I swear he does more glaring than anyone else combined. Times ten.
"Aren't you going to do anything?" Neji said after a moment's pause. "You have no idea what I have to go through at home. Everyone's always STARING at me and they all probably think that I styled my hair like this myself and that I like it." He paused. "Which I don't." he quickly added.
"Why don't you just TELL them that someone else did it to you?" Gai suggested. "And then one of the girls of your family is likely to say, 'Hey! I know how to fix that in a jiffy!' and then fix it. That way, you wouldn't be ASKING for help, but you'd still get it!!"
"Apparently you don't know about the Hyuuga family's Branch House and Main House system and the hatred passed down in the generations!" said Neji.
"…I meant explain it to someone in the BRANCH House." Said Gai, wanting to role his eyes but knowing that would probably just get him further punishment and ranting.
"You have to be more specific." Said Neji.
"I thought it was obvious." Gai said.
"No, when someone talks about the Hyuuga family, they're ALWAYS talking about the Main Family so whenever you want to talk about the Branch Family, you have to specify that you're talking about them." Neji said.
"Whoa." was all Gai was able to respond with.
"But now that I think about it, that idea doesn't sound too bad." Neji said, rubbing his chin.
"OR!" said Gai, getting another idea. "I could ask Tenten to fix your problem!"
"You could." Said Neji. "As long as you don't tell her that I told you to tell her."
"That won't even come up!" said Gai. "Because you didn't tell me to tell her."
"But I told you to do something, so it's the same as me telling you to tell her since you came up with idea."
"That's exactly it. I came up with idea so you didn't tell me to tell her."
"Good, exactly. She doesn't need to know."
"Know what?! It was MY idea!"
"Okay!" said Neji, sounding annoyed. "Fine! It was your idea! Just don't tell her that I needed help!"
"So what should I tell her?" Gai asked. "That you really like your new hairstyle?"
Neji gave Gai a look. "Why would you tell her that?" he said. "Then she wouldn't undo it."
"She might do it just to annoy you." Said Gai.
Neji slapped his forehead. "Obviously you have some experience in this theory." He said.
"I might." Said Gai. "But you can't say that you DON'T!"
"I don't." said Neji.
"Sure, sure." Said Gai.
"Gai…" started Neji. But then he stopped, took a few MORE hoot breaths and chose his battles. "Okay, fine, whatever. Just go and ask Tenten if she'll fix my hair. Tell her that… it's offending you."
"Okay." Said Gai with a shrug as he frolicked off to find Tenten.
Seconds later, Tenten and Lee came walking over from the other direction.
"Where's Gai going?" Lee asked.
"Tenten, Gai's looking for you." Said Neji immediately, pointing at the direction in which Gai frolicked off to.
"He'll be back, I'll just wait." Said Tenten with a shrug.
Neji WOULD have glared at her, but he's done enough glaring in this chapter so he'll just, instead, stand there foolishly.