AN: Originally a companion piece to Green Spandex, but now the second part. You know who's awesome? Might Gai! That's who :D This is Gai's memories of Lee.
Disclaimer: I can only dream of owning Naruto…

Passing On the Power (of Youth!)

Gai had spotted him one day, back when he had just become a jounin. He was passing by the Academy, when he'd seen the boy with the long black plait. The boy was facing a group of other children, who appeared to be teasing him.

"You'll never be a ninja! You can't do anything!" said one of the children at the front of the group.

The lone boy stood firm, not wavering He was a small boy, with notably thick eyebrows, much like his own. Gai admired his spirit. It reminded him of himself in a way.

He had heard the boy's voice, calling from the Academy, rebutting what the other children were saying.

"I will become a ninja, even if I cannot perform ninjutsu or genjutsu! My name is Rock Lee, and I will become a powerful ninja!"

So his name was Lee… It seemed the rumours had been true. There was a student at the Academy who could not perform any ninjutsu of genjutsu at all, but was still determined to become a ninja.

At that moment, Lee's most passionate outburst had set something off inside Konoha's Sublime Green Beast. Gai promised himself that he would help this boy, who was as youthful and passionate as himself! If he could not get that boy on his genin team, then he would do 1000 laps around the Ninja Academy, and climb Hokage Mountain 100 times!

Lee had indeed been placed on Gai's team, after a visit to the Hokage. Gai had also received the Hyuuga prodigy, and a weapons specialist. It was a most youthful and powerful team.

At first, the Hyuuga prodigy (Neji) and the talentless boy (Lee) had gotten along terribly. It reminded Gai of his own rivalry with Kakashi Hatake.

Thus Gai had deigned it his duty to personally train Lee in the art of taijutsu. Lee was not a natural talent, like Neji or that Uchiha boy, but he worked hard.

Slowly, Lee had blossomed into a very powerful taijutsu specialist, and modeled himself after Gai.

The day Lee had cut his hair like Gai's, had been one of the best days of Gai's life. His adorable, beloved student, wished to be like him? It was most magnificent!

He had presented Lee with his most prized creation soon after that.

It was the green spandex suit. It was breathable, comfortable, flexible and at the height of style. He had created it specially for performing the Lotus technique in, as it was skin-tight and didn't flop around everywhere when he was performing the technique.

Now, he was handing it down to Lee, in the hope that it would inspire him. Lee deserved it. He was ready.

"With this," he had said, holding the precious jumpsuit out towards the excited boy "you will be able to do many things! Let the suit help you achieve your dream of becoming a splendid ninja! Do not let anyone extinguish the youth in your heart! Truly, you are on the path of the great shinobi!"

Lee had been overjoyed. They had hugged most youthfully, emotion flowing out from them, under a most beautiful sunset. Gai swore he heard the crash of waves, but since they had been in the middle of a training field at the time… well even Gai didn't think that was possible.

Seeing Lee with the suit at their next training session brought a tear to Gai's eye. He looked so… confident, and happy! Now there were two Green Beasts in Konoha.

Gai was proud of his most favourite student, the boy who was like the son he never had.

He was glad to pass on the Power of Youth to someone such as Lee.

A bit of a rambling story from me. Please leave a review!