Update: Changed the names

Kotaro - Jun

Torino - Nakai

Jun was walking through the street of Konoha, his eyes almost closed. Oh, how he loved the warm climate of the fire country and the sun rays that now warmed his cheeks. It was peaceful in the village today, but he knew that couldn't last too long. He didn't know ruckus was part of the village, or if fate just liked to toy with him and make drama deliberately search for him.

The other day, Jun had returned from a short two day mission with his team. It had gone smooth enough, considering how their missions normally went. The hokage's assistant had even complimented them on the fact that there hadn't been any complains from people yet. He guessed that said enough about the way their team operated.

Now, after two days full of teammates that always managed to push his buttons, he was finally getting his deserved rest. No training today, and the three hadn't planned to meet up for something else either. Today, he was on his own. And that meant he could finally return to his stoic self, the image he had worked so hard on to achieve in the past. He used to be a force to be reckoned with on his school. Everybody kept his distance from that dark boy that was Jun. But said image had been quickly shattered within weeks when he was put on team Anko in his genin days. He sighed at the memory. His days of solitude had been shattered.

Suddenly, his keen senses picked up an incoming object, and he quickly sprang out of the way. Before he could fully see what it had been, it was coming at him again. He cursed his bad chakra control, for he could never detect to what a chakra signal exactly belonged. Usually Kao and Nakai made up for that, but now he really was on his own. Grabbing a kunai out of his holster, he prepared to counter attack whatever it was that was coming for him. But then the object began to speak.

"Do my eyes detect a wilting sprout?" An overly enthusiastic voice asked.

Jun groaned.

"Fear not," the voice continued, "I, the mighty green beast of Konoha, will help you! Let's do a hundreds laps around the village on our hands to lift that youthful spirit!"

"Please not now, I'm tired." Jun responded and he put his weapon away again, quickly checking if he still had those smoke bombs on him and if he could use those to escape this situation.

"My, how come? Sprouts shouldn't be tired, they are yet to come at the peak of their youthful existence! They should-"

"Yeah yeah, go away already." Jun muttered. It was the wrong thing to say however, as he was soon pulled into a bone breaking hug.

"And that after I haven't seen you for a whole week! How can this sprout be so unyouthful!" the man cried.

"Let go of me." Jun demanded, but he couldn't defy the strength of this man just yet. This man with a green jumpsuit and bowl shaped hair. The legendary Rock Lee, student of the honored Might Guy himself.

"But a boy as yourself-" said green beast tried, but he was interrupted.

"He's hardly a boy anymore Lee." a feminine voice piped up.

Jun luckily got released and he quickly took a few steps away from the whirlwind of a man.

"My beautiful wife!" Lee shouted ecstatic, before he began to cry again. "Lately he has been so busy with training and he didn't even came by to say hi after the mission, even though I was waiting and-"

"Oh Lee, leave him alone." Tenten said, walking up towards Jun and doing a quick once over.

"No injuries, I see. I take it that the mission went well?" she asked.

Jun nodded.

"Good. Before he there will begin to cry again, I'm inviting you to dinner, and you better come. You're not leaving me alone with Lee another day." she teased, nudging him with her elbow. Lee immediately began babbling about something again and Tenten shook her head with a smile on her lips, looking at her husband.

"So, are you coming?" she whispered to Jun, her eyes not leaving Lee.

"Fine." Jun answered. It wasn't like 'no' was an option anyway.

"That's my boy." Tenten said, punching him on his shoulder. "Oh, and don't forget to invite Kao and Nakai too when you see them. And I'm sure you'll run into them before dinner."

Jun nodded somewhat reluctantly.

"Now, take good care of those new weapons I gave you, will you?" Tenten continued. "And don't forget to take good care of your Tessen. You have to treasure those, they were quite rare and-."

"Yeah, you always say that, I get it already. They may have been treasures of your family, but now they are treasures for me too. I'll always take care of them. Anyway, see you there, mom."

Tenten nodded satisfied."OK, See you there!"

Jun gave a slight nod in return and walked away, leaving his parents behind. Even though he was one of the few ninja's that made chuunin without a proper clan backing him up, not many were surprised. He was, after all, the son of two of the strongest ninja Konoha had known

Lee, a ninja that couldn't use his chakra, but had made up for it with his amazing taijutsu talent, was his enthusiastic dad. Jun luckily hadn't gotten that personality from him. The things he did got, however, was his dad's bad chakra system. Even though he could use chakra, unlike Lee, he had a harder time using it then the average ninja.

So Jun too, had to make up for it.

Something he had also gotten from his dad, however, were two things he actually took a lot of pride in. One being determination. The other his black hair, which was cut differently than the bowl shape of his dad. With two teammates who most likely had the messiest hair of the whole village, he quickly began to appreciate his long black locks that almost reached the ground. He tried to keep this a secret, but his teammates had in time found out his slight obsession with his own hair. They never stopped teasing him about it.

From his mother, he had inherited the Chinese culture of her family. He had been wearing Chinese clothes since birth, and he still thanked his mother for forbidding Lee to let his son wear that green spandex. The weapons too, were something he all too often used and was quite good with, thanks to his mom.

So even though he acted like he hated his dad behavior and found his mothers never ending concerns and teasing unbearable, he owed the world to those two. And they certainly were his precious people.

Talking about precious people, he saw his two teammates in the distance. His mother had been right.

Kao was wildly pointing around her and was positively beaming. She was probably telling some story she thought was highly important, though they usually were about her dogs or about what animal she had seen that day. Nakai was staring at the sun and nodding ever so often, giving the impression that he was listening, although Jun doubted it.

He bet that Kao had found Nakai roaming in the streets of Konoha and had kidnapped him to take him to the shop they were now browsing items in.

Nakai looked up when Jun had come close. "Ah, my savior." he muttered half sarcastically. Kao whipped around and began to beam even harder.

"Jun, Jun! You never guess what happened to me today. So, I was walking-" she began. Jun let her chatter away while he leaned in to talk to Nakai. "Dinner at my place, my mom invited you." he said. He would tell Kao when she was done talking, if that ever happened. Nakai nodded and Jun joined him in looking at some of the scrolls that were stacked up.

There was no escaping those two now anyway. And he wasn't sure if he minded that at all.