Ch2: The first pluck
The next day, Lee marched proudly to the spot Tenten had said they would meet. When he arrived there, she was already waiting as she twirled a kunai around her finger.
"You're late" she said as Lee approached.
"Ehe…sorry." He replied scratching his head. (The hair on it looked as thick and odd as ever.)
"Well, never mind, take a seat." Tenten said gesturing to a large chair.
How'd she get this out here? Lee thought. Hey…it's one of those twirly ones…
He sat down in the black leather chair. It looked quite out of place in the middle of the forest, what with the trees and the birds.
Lee thinking Wow…this is REALLY comfortable…I could just drift away in it…
His head was how drooping heavily to the left as the chair began to lull him into a deep sleep.
"Lee!' snapped Tenten.
"Yes! I'm awake…I'm not sleeping..." said Lee, saluting her to show he was awake and that he had his undivided attention.
Tenten pulled out a pair of silver tweezers. They shone as bright as Gai-sensei and Lee's creepy giant smiles when they did the nice-guy pose. (The tweezers that is)
"This could hurt a bit Lee…" Tenten warned.
"I am a great Shinobi." Lee declared. "And I will defeat those tweezers and emerge unscathed! He crossed his arms to show he had proved his point.
"OK then…" said Tenten. She looked as if Lee was a bit crazed…after all he did say he would defeat the tweezers. It sounded like he was trying to fight them.
A drop of sweat trickled down Lee's forehead as he realized what he had just said. "ehe I was in mission mode…sorry. I meant to say those tweezers won't hurt me a bit."
Tenten's face relaxed. Whew! She didn't have a moronic mentally disabled team mate after all.
(Tenten thinking): Oh my god! Eww! I can't believe I agreed to pluck THOSE eyebrows. I knew I should've refused…eww…gross, gross, GROSS!
With a trembling hand she reached over to one single hair, (each one was probably thick enough to be a quarter of an eyebrow) she squeezed her eyes shut and yanked it as hard as she could.
There was a short silence…suddenly Lee (who appeared to have been biting his lower lip) screeched "Aiee!" Pained tears fell in buckets as he rubbed his eyebrow sorely. A flock of 8 birds had fled from a nearby tree having heard this high-pitched wail.
"I thought you said it wouldn't hurt!" said Tenten with the slightest hint of a smile.
