20 Truths: Team Gai

One. Neji knew that Tenten was the best kunoichi of their graduating class before he knew anything about her. He hadn't even met her until the day of their graduation. He was retrieving his forehead protector when he overhead Tenten's conversation with a group of female ninja. They were discussing how they were going to wear their forehead protectors and when asked how Tenten was going to wear hers she responded "Where it belongs, on my forehead".

Two. To the popular estimate of the members of her team, had Tenten fought any other kunoichi but that Temari at the preliminary battle at the Chuunin exam, she would have won. Neji estimated there were more than a few of the male fighters that Tenten would have emasculated with her superior talent. Once, just once, Neji hinted that Lee was one of them.

Three. Neji has to keep his hair tied back the way he does for two reasons: Firstly to serve as a physical reminder of his dear father's memory, secondly to keep people from stroking it obsessively… and not just Tenten, Lee and Gai, but even random strangers. His loose hair during his first few weeks at the Academy made his attempt at not making any friends extremely difficult.

Four. Lee honestly doesn't know Tenten's last name. He is the only person on his team that doesn't. However, even Neji doesn't know that their kunoichi's real first name isn't Tenten.

Five. Meikou Tokushukou is one fifth of the Amazing Meikou sisters, daughters of Meikou Kouchikawa, Konoha's top weaponsmith. Tenten was simply a nickname her father assigned to her for when he worked with anyone outside of their tiny clan.

Six. Neji would have married Tenten, he really would have, if his clan didn't assign him a bride when he was twenty one. He had been willing to fight it, but Tenten hadn't been willing to let him. She loved Neji, she truly did, but loved Inuzuka Kiba just a bit more.

Seven. Neji was the Jounin trainer for Rock Nagao and found that the wide eyed Taijutsu ninja was just as spirited, and hopelessly annoying, as his father. Hyuuga Hikari and her twin sister, Hyuuga Hikaru, honestly didn't understand how their father tolerated Lee-sensei's passion. Neither did Inuzuka Tenosuke. It usually took all of them, and sometimes the new Ino-Shika-Chou formation to persuade their sensei that running 500 laps around Konoha wasn't the only was to fan the fire of their youth.

Eight. Every member on Team Gai did something that got on Tenten's nerves: Neji snored (loudly), Lee sang (horribly), and Gai-sensei never once called her the Genius of Tobidougu Kuchiyose no Jutsu (unjustly).

Nine. It surprised everyone when Orochimaru made a second attack on Konoha and sent Yakushi Kabuto to retrieve Neji. Kabuto, one to talk and leave no secrets with those younger than him, told Neji in no uncertain terms that Neji would be his next container and the reason was simple: Hyuuga Neji was half Uchiha. His mother, Sango, was from the Uchiha Clan and had died long before the Uchiha genocide, and Uchiha Itachi hadn't even known that Neji existed.

Ten. Lee, Gai, Tenten and Neji would spend the rest of their lives defending and training Hyuuga Hikaru, the first of Neji's children to display the descendent Sharingan ability.

Eleven. Hikaru was the reason why Uchiha Sasuke returned to Konoha. He made it clear that his entire purpose in Konoha was to protect Hikaru and Hikari from Itachi, who would kill them if he found out about them.

Twelve. Itachi did find out and when he went to retrieve his Jinchuuriki, he made a specific detour to claim the Hyuuga Twins. He was met by the thieving hands of Orochimaru and the two clashed on the grounds of the Hyuuga compound. When they locked their bodies together, Uchiha Sasuke pierced them both on his Kusangi sword while all the other weapons of Konoha: Juuken, Renge, Tobidougu Kuchiyose no Jutsu, Rasengan, and the will of fire that spread through Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya and the Godaime, landed the destroying blows. Though Neji knew that Kakashi, Jiraiya, Tsunade-sama, and that Naruto were acting for the sake of Konoha, he knew that Lee and Tenten were protecting his daughters, the way he would protect their sons.

Thirteen. Once when they were seventeen, Tenten and Lee had forced Neji to use his "rampant sexiness" to get them out of trouble with the Godaime. Neji never held the incident against them, but he secretly never forgave him.

Fourteen. Tenten is, and has always been, secretly jealous of how cool a name Rock Lee has.

Fifteen. So has Neji, but he's better at hiding it. When Lee found out Tenten thought his name was cool, he started sending her messages by paper just so he could write his name out. Neji was not envious of Tenten at all.

Sixteen. Tenten's favorite word was Heal. Or Heel depending on who was listening. She used both terms quite often. The former for when dealing with her teammates, the latter when dealing with her husband, son, and their ninken.

Seventeen. Lee's daughter, Renge, admitted to her sensei that she wanted to be a kunoichi greater than her ka-san, Sakura, and even greater than her Jounin trainer, Tenten. Tenten would give the girl all that she had, to make sure that while the genjutsu genin surpassed her ka-san, passing her trainer would be impossible. Tenten would learn that when it came to the daughter of Rock Lee, nothing is impossible.

Eighteen. The reason why Neji had six children – Hikari, Hikaru, Yuukan, Naoto, Seirou and Mai – was firstly, because his wife let him, and second because the Rokudaime made it so that his children wore their forehead protectors on their foreheads because they wanted to, not to cover a cursed seal.

Nineteen. Tenten had only one son because she honestly didn't think she could handle having any more dogs in her house. Kiba's Akamaru was huge and Tenosuke's kasshoku yontsui ninken (Brown Set of Four Ninja Dogs) insisted on using her Tobidougu scrolls for chew toys. Lee had two children – Renge and Nagao – but wanted seven (even as a Jounin he hated losing to Neji). Sakura stopped him solidly from winning that battle.

Twenty. Team Gai was on record as a perfect team: Neji the Chakra, Tenten the Weapons, and Lee the Will of Fire – all three together making the elements of a true shinobi.