FurikoMaru
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[X] Not remotely appropriate, but very festive
"Lee's not hurt," you say. "He seems to be in good spirits, actually; Haku must be fast enough to be fun."
Temari blinks. "You can sense his emotional state?"
You wink. "I'm a Yamanaka; it's what we do. 'Positive love' is our motto."
"'Groovy'," murmurs Kankuro. "What about the Mist guy?"
"He's in stalling-mode. Has been since the fight started. It's hard to get a lock on him physically, but all things considered, I think he might have a broken rib or something. It isn't slowing him down, whatever it is - after all, the fog's still hanging around."
"What're they holding back for?" Temari says with a roll of her eyes. "I get that if that's Zabuza over there, his students probably know something about Silent Killing, so we wouldn't hear what he's doing, but you'd think we'd have heard at least one jutsu from bowlcut there."
"Nori-sempai doesn't need jutsu," Ami declares with a snort, and everyone turns to look at her. "That guy's terrifying enough without them."
=
"Ah, you are my adorable student's kouhai Ino-chan, are you not?"
Maito "Fuckin' Sunset, Seriously, What The Shit Is That?" Gai has a reputation, even among jounin, for outbursts of craziness. Given your own rep, you thought that would mean the two of you would get on like a house on fire.
It's a little different when you see him in person.
"Y-yes," you say, leaning away from him slightly. The pressure from the man's sheer presence is overwhelming; you wouldn't usually notice someone's Yang chakra as distinct from their Yin, but Gai's is in fucking Dolby. It's like an enormous shaggy dog that's just so gosh-darned happy to see you and wants to give you all kinds of kisses, nevermind that you just saw it cleaning its balls a minute ago. "You must be his jounin-sensei. How do you do?"
"Ino-chan," Gai says, in a slightly quieter tone of voice that you would in no way term a whisper, "I have an urgent matter I would discuss with you! Lee, may I speak with your dear underclassman?"
Lee fires off a salute. "Of course, sensei! I shall proceed with my training alone. Ino-chan, when you catch up with me we'll move on to aerial redirection!"
"See ya then, sempai."
After Lee takes off, Gai says in an actual whisper, "Lee tells me it was you who taught him elemental meditation."
"He remembers that?" you ask, blinking. "Man, that was ages ago. He said he was going to practise, but I never saw him make any big gains in ninjutsu or genjutsu, so I thought..."
"It's true," Gai says stoutly, "Lee has absolutely no talent for genjutsu or ninjutsu whatsoever. However!" He points a finger in your face, making you flinch. "Though you may doubt it, he has practised diligently for many years, and can now achieve a connection to any of the elements with just ninety seconds of meditation!"
"Ninety seconds?!"
"Of course!" Gai lets out a hearty laugh, and slaps you on the back so hard you almost tip right over. "You should be proud of our mutual student, Ino-sensei! He has gloriously persevered and made wonderful progress!"
"Well, yeah, I should say so!" Son of a bitch, it still takes you like an hour every time - not that you do it all that often. Which leads you to your next question: "But usually people stop practising the meditation once they make the first connection. Why has he kept it up so long?"
"That is what I wished to discuss with you." And suddenly, Gai's all business.
=
"Behind you!" Hinata blurts out.
"Rikugame-ryu: Caressing Claw!"
With a cry and the speed of a rocket, Haku is thrown up and backward out of the cloud, coming to a stop seemingly in mid-air, spread-eagled.
The mist clears.
Haku struggles, caught high in the web of sticky-wire left behind from your match with Tenten. His clothes are torn in several places in a manner that would strike you as rather appealing under different circumstances.
Lee stands below, arms crossed, brown splotches on his face and neck, green and yellow lines around his eyes, his slight overbite much more pronounced than normal, almost resembling a beak.
Hundreds of senbon lie scattered across the floor.
Two stick out of the armour above his kidneys.
Gaara whistles. "Hero in a halfshell, huh?"
"Do you yield, Haku-san?" he calls.
Haku hangs his head, and falls still. "... I yield."
"Winner, Rock Lee."
As the ecstatic smile rushes up from Lee's chakra and across his face, the lines and splotches retreat, and he falls to the ground.
"Medic," the proctor calls, "we need two stretchers!"
"Congratulations, Gai-sensei," you call, wiping away a fake tear. "Our little Lee is all grown up."
Whoa. If chakra music could kill, Haku would already be digging your grave. And yet his face remains as blank as a doll's. Supercreepy.
"... indeed, this is so."
Your attention turns back to Gai, and you see his fingers gripping the railing tightly. To your slight embarrassment on his behalf, entirely genuine rivers of tears are flowing down his face.
"But even still..." he says, "... discipline must be observed."
... uh oh.
"Leeeeee!" Gai hollers, leaping into a flying kick. "Did I not specifically order you not to make use of senjutsu in this stage?!"
"His punishment will have to wait," the chief medic nin says, not even looking up from his examination, "you can kick him in the face in a week."
Gai's body swings around and he lands casually next to the medical team like nothing happened. "Very well! Lee, when you have recovered, you will drag yourself across the diameter of Konoha using only your fingertips."
"He can't hear you, Gai-sensei, he's unconscious. Stop yelling at my patient."
"Of course, medic-san!"
-_- "Now stop yelling at me, please."
"Well," Kankuro says, voice calm, chakra anxiously jangling. "You've certainly got some interesting guys here in Konoha."
"Shit, can I defect?"
"Do you have to say that everywhere nice we visit?!"
You call down to the floor, "Hey, medic-san! How's Kiba?"
The chief medic ignores you, but one of the underlings says, "The Inuzuka boy? He'll be fine."
You pout. 'Fine' is a lot vaguer than you wanted to hear, but you suppose they didn't want to be more specific in the hearing of foreign villages. Can't blame them; bullet wounds aren't something you necessarily want your enemies getting tips on, either.
"So who're you hoping to fight first in the finals?" Temari asks you.
A standard kunoichi icebreaker if ever there was one. This could be a good sign.
[X] "Anyone who isn't your little brother, more or less. No offence, Gaara, but you're a scary bastard."
[X] "Hm. Not sure yet. I'd have to see everyone in action before I decide."
[X] Lee (Why?)
[X] Hyuuga Neji (Why?)
[X] Hyuuga Hinata (Why?)
[X] Nara Shikamaru (Why?)
[X] Akimichi Chouji (Why?)
[X] Haruno Sakura (Why?)
[X] Sayuri (Why?)
[X] Kuwabara Ami (Why?)
[X] Houzuki Suigetsu (Why?)
[X] Kuyo (Why?)
[X] Ira (Why?)
[X] Kibi (Why?)
[X] Kankuro (Why?)
[X] Gaara (For the love of god, why?)
[X] "You, of course." (Why?)
[X] "Honestly? No one." (Why?)
"Lee's not hurt," you say. "He seems to be in good spirits, actually; Haku must be fast enough to be fun."
Temari blinks. "You can sense his emotional state?"
You wink. "I'm a Yamanaka; it's what we do. 'Positive love' is our motto."
"'Groovy'," murmurs Kankuro. "What about the Mist guy?"
"He's in stalling-mode. Has been since the fight started. It's hard to get a lock on him physically, but all things considered, I think he might have a broken rib or something. It isn't slowing him down, whatever it is - after all, the fog's still hanging around."
"What're they holding back for?" Temari says with a roll of her eyes. "I get that if that's Zabuza over there, his students probably know something about Silent Killing, so we wouldn't hear what he's doing, but you'd think we'd have heard at least one jutsu from bowlcut there."
"Nori-sempai doesn't need jutsu," Ami declares with a snort, and everyone turns to look at her. "That guy's terrifying enough without them."
=
"Ah, you are my adorable student's kouhai Ino-chan, are you not?"
Maito "Fuckin' Sunset, Seriously, What The Shit Is That?" Gai has a reputation, even among jounin, for outbursts of craziness. Given your own rep, you thought that would mean the two of you would get on like a house on fire.
It's a little different when you see him in person.
"Y-yes," you say, leaning away from him slightly. The pressure from the man's sheer presence is overwhelming; you wouldn't usually notice someone's Yang chakra as distinct from their Yin, but Gai's is in fucking Dolby. It's like an enormous shaggy dog that's just so gosh-darned happy to see you and wants to give you all kinds of kisses, nevermind that you just saw it cleaning its balls a minute ago. "You must be his jounin-sensei. How do you do?"
"Ino-chan," Gai says, in a slightly quieter tone of voice that you would in no way term a whisper, "I have an urgent matter I would discuss with you! Lee, may I speak with your dear underclassman?"
Lee fires off a salute. "Of course, sensei! I shall proceed with my training alone. Ino-chan, when you catch up with me we'll move on to aerial redirection!"
"See ya then, sempai."
After Lee takes off, Gai says in an actual whisper, "Lee tells me it was you who taught him elemental meditation."
"He remembers that?" you ask, blinking. "Man, that was ages ago. He said he was going to practise, but I never saw him make any big gains in ninjutsu or genjutsu, so I thought..."
"It's true," Gai says stoutly, "Lee has absolutely no talent for genjutsu or ninjutsu whatsoever. However!" He points a finger in your face, making you flinch. "Though you may doubt it, he has practised diligently for many years, and can now achieve a connection to any of the elements with just ninety seconds of meditation!"
"Ninety seconds?!"
"Of course!" Gai lets out a hearty laugh, and slaps you on the back so hard you almost tip right over. "You should be proud of our mutual student, Ino-sensei! He has gloriously persevered and made wonderful progress!"
"Well, yeah, I should say so!" Son of a bitch, it still takes you like an hour every time - not that you do it all that often. Which leads you to your next question: "But usually people stop practising the meditation once they make the first connection. Why has he kept it up so long?"
"That is what I wished to discuss with you." And suddenly, Gai's all business.
=
"Behind you!" Hinata blurts out.
"Rikugame-ryu: Caressing Claw!"
With a cry and the speed of a rocket, Haku is thrown up and backward out of the cloud, coming to a stop seemingly in mid-air, spread-eagled.
The mist clears.
Haku struggles, caught high in the web of sticky-wire left behind from your match with Tenten. His clothes are torn in several places in a manner that would strike you as rather appealing under different circumstances.
Lee stands below, arms crossed, brown splotches on his face and neck, green and yellow lines around his eyes, his slight overbite much more pronounced than normal, almost resembling a beak.
Hundreds of senbon lie scattered across the floor.
Two stick out of the armour above his kidneys.
Gaara whistles. "Hero in a halfshell, huh?"
"Do you yield, Haku-san?" he calls.
Haku hangs his head, and falls still. "... I yield."
"Winner, Rock Lee."
As the ecstatic smile rushes up from Lee's chakra and across his face, the lines and splotches retreat, and he falls to the ground.
"Medic," the proctor calls, "we need two stretchers!"
"Congratulations, Gai-sensei," you call, wiping away a fake tear. "Our little Lee is all grown up."
Whoa. If chakra music could kill, Haku would already be digging your grave. And yet his face remains as blank as a doll's. Supercreepy.
"... indeed, this is so."
Your attention turns back to Gai, and you see his fingers gripping the railing tightly. To your slight embarrassment on his behalf, entirely genuine rivers of tears are flowing down his face.
"But even still..." he says, "... discipline must be observed."
... uh oh.
"Leeeeee!" Gai hollers, leaping into a flying kick. "Did I not specifically order you not to make use of senjutsu in this stage?!"
"His punishment will have to wait," the chief medic nin says, not even looking up from his examination, "you can kick him in the face in a week."
Gai's body swings around and he lands casually next to the medical team like nothing happened. "Very well! Lee, when you have recovered, you will drag yourself across the diameter of Konoha using only your fingertips."
"He can't hear you, Gai-sensei, he's unconscious. Stop yelling at my patient."
"Of course, medic-san!"
-_- "Now stop yelling at me, please."
"Well," Kankuro says, voice calm, chakra anxiously jangling. "You've certainly got some interesting guys here in Konoha."
"Shit, can I defect?"
"Do you have to say that everywhere nice we visit?!"
You call down to the floor, "Hey, medic-san! How's Kiba?"
The chief medic ignores you, but one of the underlings says, "The Inuzuka boy? He'll be fine."
You pout. 'Fine' is a lot vaguer than you wanted to hear, but you suppose they didn't want to be more specific in the hearing of foreign villages. Can't blame them; bullet wounds aren't something you necessarily want your enemies getting tips on, either.
"So who're you hoping to fight first in the finals?" Temari asks you.
A standard kunoichi icebreaker if ever there was one. This could be a good sign.
[X] "Anyone who isn't your little brother, more or less. No offence, Gaara, but you're a scary bastard."
[X] "Hm. Not sure yet. I'd have to see everyone in action before I decide."
[X] Lee (Why?)
[X] Hyuuga Neji (Why?)
[X] Hyuuga Hinata (Why?)
[X] Nara Shikamaru (Why?)
[X] Akimichi Chouji (Why?)
[X] Haruno Sakura (Why?)
[X] Sayuri (Why?)
[X] Kuwabara Ami (Why?)
[X] Houzuki Suigetsu (Why?)
[X] Kuyo (Why?)
[X] Ira (Why?)
[X] Kibi (Why?)
[X] Kankuro (Why?)
[X] Gaara (For the love of god, why?)
[X] "You, of course." (Why?)
[X] "Honestly? No one." (Why?)