20 Truths: Team Gai
Hyuuga Neji had two annoying habits. Firstly, he snored. Secondly, he whistled. Habitually. Tenten couldn't blame him for the snoring, after all, Lee and Gai-sensei snored much worse. But Tenten hated it when Neji whistled. Firstly, because he didn't know he was doing it. Secondly, because he was constantly attracting birds.
Rock Lee knew that Tenten had more annoying habits than Maito Gai, Hyuuga Neji and himself combined, but was much too afraid to call her on it… it wasn't that he was a coward, but that Tenten had more kunai than absolutely necessary for the purpose of silencing her teammates.
When Neji became a Jounin, Lee no longer saw him as a rival. It wasn't that he didn't believe that he didn't have the talent to match Neji; it was that he realized that the Neji he wanted to overcome didn't exist anymore.
Neji once considered letting Lee beat him in a spar. It was no surprise to Neji that Lee almost beat him without any help from Neji.
Tenten and Hyuuga Neji dated for about three months when they were fifteen, but found a relationship wasn't in their cards. Neji couldn't handle being molested by Tenten sisters… or mother. Tenten was allergic to bird feathers.
Consequently, Tenten and Rock Lee were equally incompatible. Lee had a thing for girls with unique shaped heads. Tenten found she couldn't take the constant threats of bodily harm done to Rock Lee, promised by Hyuuga Neji's eyes, should Lee be responsible for a broken heart on Tenten's part.
That same promise kept most of Konoha's male population distinctly off of Tenten's radar.
Why Tenten started dating Kankurou became apparent when the puppet king was witnessed withstanding the Hyuuga Glare ™.
When Kankurou broke up with Tenten, it turned out he wasn't impervious to Lee's passionate fists or Neji's new technique: Beat the Puppeteer who broke Tenten's heart within an inch of his life with the fury of Juuken and the dynamic art of Hakke while glaring menacingly no jutsu.
It turned out that that Jutsu had several variations which all looked suspiciously similar to the original. That Jutsu proved that there was good reason why Neji didn't name any of his techniques.
When Uchiha Sasuke returned to Konoha, team Gai was the second team to welcome him and challenge his intentions thoroughly. As a result of these challenges, Tenten did what all the girls a year younger than her were unable to do: capture Uchiha Sasuke's heart.
Though he wouldn't say so, Hyuuga Neji really was looking forward to unleashing his favorite technique: Beat the annoyingly cool guy who mimics his character, style, and attitude for several infractions against his honor code (including breaking Tenten's heart) within a millimeter of his life, bringing him back with great medical ninjutsu to beat him again with the fury of Juuken, the honor of the great Hyuuga clan and the superior attitude of number one cool guy while glaring self-satisfyingly no jutsu. He had been waiting for an opportunity to use that jutsu for years.
Giving Tenten away at her wedding to Uchiha Sasuke was the next best thing.
Team Gai along with Team Kakashi, Team Kurenai and Team Asuma became the hands, eyes and feet of the Rokudaime when he took the title of Hokage.
Hyuuga Neji was presented with three candidates for miai by his uncle consisting of three branch house women from his clan. He chose his third cousin Anzu and married her before his clan, his team and his genin team. When his wife gave birth to his first son, knowing that that child would never become a caged bird, he named him Naoto, after the Hokage that made it possible.
Tenten became a teacher at the academy and never took on a genin team of her own.
Lee's genin team became the third set of ninja classified as legendary Sannin. It was no surprise that the team consisted of a Hyuuga, an Uchiha, and an Uzumaki.
Though Hyuuga Naoto, Uchiha Fushichou, and Uzumaki Hogosha were proud to have Lee-sensei oversee their training, they couldn't help but be jealous of Inuzuka Inokawa, Nara Shikame, and Akimichi Choumari, the Ino-Shika-Chou formation whom had Hyuuga Neji as their sensei.
There were only three people completely impervious to the Hyuuga glare. It was Neji's poor fortune that all of them were in his genin squad; he really could have used the authority.
Tenten liked to flaunt the fact that she was older than Neji and Lee. When she turned thirty, she didn't find it funny anymore. Neji did. So did Lee.