"OWOWOWOW!!"
Rock Lee clutched his head as a bump instantly swelled up on it, tears springing to his eyes.
Then a tall man in a green jumpsuit, sporting a bowl cut and eyebrows even thicker than Rock Lee's, appeared behind him.
His stance was as broad as a mountain, his back straighter than a flagpole, and he flashed a huge grin full of gleaming white teeth.
Might Guy.
Konoha's Azure Beast, the Jōnin leading Team Guy.
"Guy-sensei, what are you doing here?!"
Rock Lee held his bump, looking utterly aggrieved.
"LEE!!"
Guy's voice shook dust from the corridor walls.
He did not answer Rock Lee's question. Instead, he swept Rock Lee into a hug, his two thick arms clamping around him like iron bands until Rock Lee's face turned bright red and tears gushed from his eyes.
"This is youth!!"
Guy threw back his head and roared, loud enough to send several birds at the end of the corridor fluttering off the windowsill.
"Guy-sensei!!"
Rock Lee was crying too. Struggling, he stretched his right hand out from Guy's embrace and used the last of his strength to bump fists with him.
"Rock Lee!!"
"Guy-sensei!!"
Watching the master and disciple perform their annual "This Is Youth" drama, Naruto's mouth twitched slightly, but his mind was on something entirely different.
Guy's Eight Inner Gates.
Rock Lee's speed had been built on the training system of the Eight Inner Gates.
He had seen this technique countless times in his previous life's Naruto. With all eight gates open, Guy could practically go head-to-head with Six Paths Madara, and one kick had nearly kicked the story to its ending.
As for how close he had come, that was hard to say.
Could he learn this taijutsu?
Nine-Tails Chakra possessed extremely strong regenerative abilities. The backlash