Chap. 28: The Imposters of Lee and Gai

Lee and Gai had left the village on a mission that would take them a few days to complete. As they left, two rogue ninja who were less ninja and more just travelers with a habit of mischief, but their ninjutsu was terrible. Used a "Transformation jutsu" to transform themselves into Gai and Lee, they were spotted right away and Minato was informed, the man telling them to keep an eye on them. Naruto, Hinami, and Sasuke were busy training fuinjutsu with Kushina near the lake. 

"It's no use, aunt Kushina, this is literally more impossible than Naruto learning to tap dance." Hinami said as she fell back on the grass, she wore a maroon-purple sleeveless cropped top zipped up to her neck with a cropped sky blue jacket overtop, wearing black shorts with a skirt stopping mid thigh. Wearing her black hair in two braids with light blue ribbons at the base, a yellow strand going through the braid on the right side with a lilac purple strand going through the braid on the left side. Wearing her headband around her left thigh, her bangs falling over her face wearing black arm protectors on her forearms, wearing shinguards on her shins going over her black sandals. Attempting to push the girl off her, Naruto looking towards the twins in offense, 

"I c… I see you're point." Naruto said as he joined them on the ground, the four were trying to seal small amounts of water away, but it took precise chakra control, moreso than what the twins used with medical ninjutsu. His blonde hair spiked over the headband on his forehead He wore a blue to orange ninja outfit with his chunin vest overtop. Wearing his shuriken holster on his right thigh with his kunai pouch on his back waist. 

"This is hard…" Sasuke said from the otherside, his black hair spiked behind his head, with his headband around his forehead, wearing a shortsleeve blue shirt with tan shorts protectors on his forearms, with blue sandals on his feet, and Kushina sighed, looking at the three, who were layed on the ground, looking towards her a moment between breaths. Before Minato jumped down next to the woman, 

"Well then, I suppose it's a good thing I have a mission for your team. How would you three feel about playing some pranks on some imposters who've entered the village pretending to be Gai and Lee?" Minato questioned as he showed up on the field, Kushina looking over towards the man in confusion,

"We get to prank, without getting in trouble?" Naruto said and Minato nodded in response, the three kids looked to each other, a small smirk on Hinami's face as she looked towards the man,

"We're in." Hinami said looking towards him seriously, 

"Heck yeah we are! So who are these guys anyway?" Naruto asked in question to his dad, 

"Are we allowed to bring others into it?" Hinami asked right after, 

"Mondai and Potcha. And yes." Minato said 

"Alright, lets use masked plan." Hinami said looking towards the two, and Naruto grinned nodding in agreement as did Hinami, 

"Alright! This is going to be epic!" Naruto said before jumping off to find the imposters to distract them with training with him, or rather, get Kiba and Shino to help him distract them with training. 

"I'll go ask Kyoto and Itachi for help with this." Sasuke said as he jumped off, the three already had a plan put together, as Hinami jumped off towards the Hyuga compound.

"Hinami don't forget about…" Minato started but the girl was already out of earshot, he turned towards his wife in question, the woman wearing her shinobi attire

"Should I be worried that they have a plan for this exact circumstance?" Minato questioned after they left, 

"I think the plan was originally meant for me, sensei." Kakashi said walking up, and Minato hummed in response, thinking back, the three had been trying to get Kakashi to take his mask off just once but everytime they got close, something would always happen, usually the mans own making. 

"Wait, we're going to what?" Kiyoka asked as Hinami had come to the hyuga with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Grabbing Kiyoka along the way and pulling her alongside the girl, before also pulling Neji and Hinata aside. Kiyoka's red hair was shaved on the left side, the right side braided, reaching her shoulder. Wearing a pink headband around her forehead with her protector overtop. Wearing a pink jacket with purple outlines paired with black pants, paired with shuriken holster on the right thigh, wearing her kunai pouch on her back waist.

"Gai and Lee left on that mission right? Well there are apparently two people Mondai and Potcha, pretending to be them. Uncle Minato's cleared us to prank the everloving everything out of them. So, you guys wanna cause some chaos?" Hinami said in response and Neji hummed looking over towards her, wearing his black hair behind his head with a loose ponytail behind his head, wearing a shortsleeve hoodless tan hyuga jacket, paired with brown shorts, his shuriken holster on his right thigh with his kunai pouch on his back waist, wearing wrappings around his right arm and leg. His headband tied around his forehead

"I see. So, they're not that dangerous then." he said and Hinami shook her head

"Uncle said they were just some basic thugs. So not ones to worry about, besides, they uh… don't even look like Gai and Lee." Hinami said showing them the picture that Minato had shown her group of the two thugs that was captured by Izumo. 

"Oh my… I see. So they're not really ninja." Hinata said looking forward, her violet hair sat around her head, reaching the base of her neck, her bangs covering her forehead as two strands on either side of her face reached her chin, wearing a tan jacket with the hyuga symbol on the arms, wearing blue capris pants paired with her shuriken holster on her right thigh with her kunai pouch on her back waist. 

"I don't think so… So, wanna help with this? We're getting as much people involved as possible. Uncle Minato is setting up something in the forest." Hinami said in return,

"Sure. We could use the training anyway. But weren't you going to guide the sand siblings today?" Kiyoka said looking over at the girl who seemed to freeze a moment, remembering that it was indeed today that she was supposed to lead the sand around the village and be their guide. They'd be arriving at the gates in no time at all, 

"Oh crap! I totally forgot about that!" Hinami said in return, putting her hands on her cheeks, Neji just sighing as Hinata laughed behind her hand, 

"Alright! I've got it. I'll bring them in on it too. Alright, Naruto's gonna lead them over to the west training grounds with Kiba and Shino, disquising it as training. Then Sasuke's getting Kyoto and Itachi to help out too. 

"Got it." Neji said, the girl waving as she jumped away, going to meet the sand siblings at the gates before she was late. 

"Come on Gai sensei, you and Lee have just gotta train us." Naruto said, looking towards the imposter, Mondai, who wore the same outfit as Gai sensei, his black hair falling around his head in a similar way, though, his face was far too harshly shaped and his eyes were different. The other one, Potcha, acting like he was Lee was more of a heavy set man, as opposed to Lee's slim figure. 

"Yeah! You're the best at taijutsu, and we've gotta get better with it, right Shino." Kiba said from the otherside, his brown hair hidden inside his gray hood with the faux fur lining, wearing brown pants with his shuriken holster on his right thigh and kunai pouch on his back waist. Shino looked over 

"Indeed. Our taijutsu needs work. The reason is, a ninja should always be improving." He said, his brown hair curled over his head, wearing black sunglasses on his face with a gray jacket zipped up to his nose, with black pants, wearing his shuriken holster on his left thigh with a kunai pouch on his back waist. 

"U-uh but.." Mondai began, going to protest.

"Come on, you would never leave us hanging right, you promised." Kiba said looking over, with Akamaru barking in confirmation his head, the small white pup having brown markings on his ears

"Right! We have made a uh, promise after all!" Potcha said lifting his arm in the air in declaration, the three boys looked towards each other with small grins. 

"Great! Come on!" Kiba said as he and Naruto pulled the two behind them, the two imposters finding they had no choice

"Uncle Iroh! Is Kyoto here?" Sasuke asked as he ran into the Uchiha compound, looking towards the man who had his graying black hair in a japanese bun behind his head, secured with a red strap, wearing a red teeshirt with black pants, he had a long beard on his face. His black eyes met Sasuke's a moment, 

"Kyoto? No. I think he's training his shuriken, you look like you're in a hurry?" Iroh said in return looking towards Sasuke who tched in response, 

"Some imposters infiltrated the village, so we're going to prank them using our masked plan. But we need Kyoto and Itachi for it." Sasuke said in return, looking towards the man, they were in his tea shop 'Jaded Dragon' though at the moment, Iroh was taking a small break from making tea. 

"I see. Good luck to you." Iroh said in return and Sasuke nodded in thanks, before bowing as he left, heading for the training grounds, passing by Itachi on the way, getting the boy to join in the massive prank they had planned, Kyoto was also quick to agree, 

"Man, they're gonna be sorry they came to the leaf." He said as he laughed, the three Uchiha going over their part of the plan, heading over to the training grounds where Naruto, Kiba and Shino had the two goons sweating and panting, tired from the 'training' that they were undergoing. Naruto was having them 'help' with strength training, getting the two to lift up heavy weights in order to help one of the faming villagers, walking them up and down the field. right after, Kiba asked for their help with stamina, getting the thugs to run three laps around the field. Shino asking for help finding more bugs, successfully freaking them out completely. 

"Hinami, you're planning something." Temari said looking at the girl, who was never good at hiding when she was planning something like a prank of somesort. Temari's ash-blonde hair was in four ponytails, wearing a dark purple shirt with her sleeves reaching her forearms, holding a v-neck collar, wearing a light purple armor overtop with a red belt on her waist. A blue skirt stopping halfway down her thigh, wearing fishnetting on her left thigh and her right shin. Her fan on her back. Her protector sat on fabric tied loosely around her neck. Her green eyes met Hinami's pupiless pink for a moment and Hinami looked over, with a grin,

"Hey, you guys want in on a village-wide prank?" She asked, that caught their attention as they looked at her inquisitively. Touka and Sana turning in attention as well, intrigued. 

"Yes." Touka said immediately, wearing a shortsleeve light blue top with loose sleeves with matching shorts, a tan tunic that hung down to her knees. With a wide leather beltwearing off-white colored bracelets paired with the same ankles instead of shoes. Her ash-blonde hair was in a Nihogami bun style behind her head, paired with a light blue headband with the sand's metal in the middle, white puffs on either side, by her ears, her bangs falling over her face, falling , and mostly obscuring them. 

"We should probably know the details first, but I agree." Sana commented in return, looking over, her dark red hair was in two buns with her bangs framing her face, the buns, which went into ponytails, the buns were secured with green bows at the bases, with gold pins going through either, wearing a maroon, black, and gold colored dress with off shoulder short sleeves, wearing black fingerless gloves on her hands with black thigh-highs on her legs going into her maroon sandals. The black part of the dress made up most of the collar, and the shortsleeves, while the red part of the dress started with a sweetheart collar, going down into the skirt with was layered red and black. She had mesh armor covering her shoulders and thighs with her tan gord on her back. Kankuro looking forwards with an inquisitive look,

"What do you mean?" Kankuro questioned, he wore a black cat-eared hood on his head, his sands protector in the middle, wearing a black longsleeve shirt with the Kazekage symbol on the front paired with black pants, wearing fingerless black gloves on his hands with black sandals on his feet. 

"A village-wide prank? Is this Naruto's doing?" Gaara asked, his dark red hair parted over his 'love' tattoo wearing an entirely dark red outfit, wearing a brown strap going diagonally to the left over the top half of his body with the gord attached to his back, his protector sitting on the bottom half of the strap. The boy wore a white fabric going diagonally in the opposite direction. 

"Nope. Apparently two people are trying to infiltrate the village using Gai and Lee's names. Probably to gather intelligence. So, since they don't actually pose much of a threat, we've been cleared to prank the ever loving crap out of them. Come on come on come on, how often does a chance like this come along. I've already asked and cleared it with uncle if you were to join us with this." Hinami said clapping her hands together as she asked them, 

"Sure, why not. Sounds like fun." Temari said 

"Yes!" Hinami said before coughing, telling them what she was thinking, informing them of what she was planning as well, Kankuro liking the plan more and more, 

"So, the Salamander?" He questioned, and Hinami nodded quickly, 

"Yeah, Yeah exactly. They're all keeping them distracted for now, lets go." Hinami said with a grin and the sand ninja nodded, before jumping off, (Since the chunin exams, Sana, Touka, and their other teammate were promoted to chunin, with the teammate taking up a post in the satellite village). 

"Gai sensei! Lee! Oh thanks goodness you're here. I've been sent for you." Sakura said running up. Patcha and Mondai had been put through hell, between Naruto's strength training they kept going back to, Kiba's stamina, and helping Shino find bugs. Then doing fire jumps with the Uchiha, who 'needed help perfecting their aim.' Then with the hyuga running through, 'practicing gentle fist' and 'accidentally' slipping and hitting Mondai's arm once, which the two apologized for over and over, Kiyoka going to 'help them' before being 'reminded' that she wasn't a medical ninja. (She was, but the imposters didn't know that, and freaked out telling her not to that they were fine), Shikamaru and Choji getting in on the fun as well, alongside Lee and TenTen. they were ready to collapse when Sakura showed up. The two looked towards eachother, calling for a meeting between the two. 

"I don't know how much more of this I can take, Mondai." Patcha said looking towards the man with sharp features, he hummed in response, looking towards his companion, 

"Come on, if we get that information just imagine, we won't be jokes anymore." Mondai said in return, before looking towards Sakura 

"Alright…" he said, 

"Great! Lord Minato is over here." She said walking over towards the forest, rustling was heard behind them, causing the two to turn back, scratches of bark occurred just meters from them, as a creature ran in the woods to their right.

"Whe-where where are we going?" Mondai asked, clearly spooked, 

"To lord Minato, he's just ahead." Sakura said as she moved some shrubbery revealing Minato standing across from something in the clearing. 

"Ah, Sakura, perfect. Gai and Lee, perfect. I need your help." Minato said the sun beat down on them from above, the clouds making a few shady spots, Minato wore his blonde hair spiking around his head with his sideburns reaching under his chin wearing his headband around his forehead, wearing a dark blue jonin outfit with his jonin flak jacket overtop, wearing his hokage cloak on his shoulders. Gesturing to in front of him, where vines were holding Hinami 'prisioner'. 

"Come on! Help me out here!" Hinami said from the air, Kankuro's salamander puppet walking out from the underbrush, 

"We need to get through to the otherside, Jiraiya sensei left a scroll for us. However, when Hinami went to grab it, she activated a trap that was laid out. That should be no problem for you two though." Minato commented, Salamander opened it's mouth sending forwards a blast of air 'curtosy of Temari' that took down the trees to the left of Minato. 

"What?! Why do we.." Mondai started, 

"Are you refusing an order from the hokage?" Minato questioned, raising an eyebrow towards them, the two looking towards him more analytically for a moment. Before finding their resolve, 

"Hey! What about getting me down! Uncle! Come on! Don't leave me hanging!" Hinami yelled from the air, 

"Oh, right. I also need you to help my niece." Minato said, the two walking forwards on the grass, looking uncertain towards the puppet and the vines that were moving on the ground, waving about. As they got closer to the puppet it 'ran' away. 

"Hey, uh, Gai sensei, that creature ran away real fast like, what does that mean?" Lee said 

"Get me down!" Hinami said from the vines, she was held in what looked to be a cocoon, the girl herself was in no danger as Hinami was using her kekkei tota to hold her in the air. scratches were made behind her, by a seemingly large brown creature, which stood as tall as the trees themselves,claws ripping the bark from the trees, as it stepped behind Hinami, cracking the ground it stood on, Touka's doing, sand ripping up from the ground, Sana's doing. Mondai and Patcha paled before screaming hugging eachother, Hinami's eyes trailing behind her, before she also yelled out, 'struggling' in the vines

"Hey! Get me down! I don't wanna be food!" She yelled over, making an uncomfortable face as the creature came closer towards her, breathing in her face, before going towards Mondai and Patcha, lifting up a large claw that was the size of the clearing, going to step on the two, who turned tail to run from the leaf. 

"Gai sensei! Lee! Hey! Perfect! Neji and I need your help ya know." Naruto said as they ran back out, 

"Ah, yes. You two are the ideal partners after all." Neji said in return, 

"I still need some help with aiming my fire shots." Sasuke said 

"No! No! Never again! No!" The two yelled as they ran out of the village, 

"Man, that was wayy too easy. Kinda disappointing. Hehehe" Hinami said as she jumped down with the sand siblings. Her hands in front of her face as she grinned towards their retreating figures

"That was lame." Touka said standing next to Hinami, 

"They weren't ninja, that's for sure." Temari said 

"Indeed." Neji said in agreement as Sasuke and Naruto walked up to Hinami, the three fist-bumping before highfiving and pulling their hands away, before Hinami jumped behind Temari and Kankuro. Hugging them both despite Temari's enraged look, glancing back towards the girl

"Couldn't do it without all my favorite sand ninja." she said with a grin, 

"How many years do you think you have?" Temari questioned pushing her face away, the girl laughing it off looking over,

"At least five, but probably more." She said in response before Temari shoved her face away, the girl shrugging it off with a laugh, standing next to Touka a moment

"Seriously, that was fun." Sana commented, looping her arms over Hinami and Touka's shoulders, causing the two to nearly fall on their faces as they stood in the forest, 

"It was a good training exercise." Shino said as Naruto laughed the group dispersing, returning to their daily activities. Hinami returning to guiding the sand siblings before freezing at the sight of Lee walking through the gate with Gai. The boys movements very sloppy and almost… slurred and slow. 

"He's walking weird… is he drunk?" Sana commented, looking towards Lee as the others seemed to wince in sync with eachother, and Hinami shrugged, though, she had a feeling… that's exactly what was happening… but team Gai tried to keep Lee out of the alcoholic drinks. 

"Oh no…" Hinami said taking in the worried look on Gai's face, 

"Hinami! Oh perfect! You gotta help me. Lee ate parts of this plant here. And ever since, he's been… like this. Oh tell me, my precious student isn't going to die." Gai said, Lee looking at Kankuro, speaking in slurred speech, Hinami hummed a moment, looking at the plant, a long stem with small purple flowers near the top, with leaves sporadically on the bottom.

"Um… Lee looks… Odd." Temari commented, as he tried to attack Kankuro, 

"How much of this plant did he eat, exactly, and what parts?" Hinami asked Gai 

"There was a row of them near our campsite. He ate at least 50 leaves and 20 flowers." Gai said, Hinami hummed a moment looking over the plant before looking towards Gai a moment, nodding in understanding,

"Well yeah that makes sense if he a… Wait he ate HOW MANY?" Hinami started, freezing midsentence and looking towards Gai sensei with a shocked look on her face as he repeated the number,

"Tell me, is Lee going to be okay? Is this plant poisonous." Gai said and the girl looked over

"Yes and no. This is a plant called Salvia, ingesting the leaves, lead to slurred speech, incoordination, and mood and behavior changes. When it wears off, he'll be just fine physically." Hinami said 

"You mean he's drunk." Gaara said looking over and Hinami hummed, 

"Oh very much so. The amount of the plants he ingested is equivalent to two bottles of sake. It'll wear off, and he'll probably have a headache and feel sick when it does and he comes back down to earth." Hinami said in return, 

"Why can't he be a friendly drunk! Lee stop that!" Kankuro said as Lee swung out towards him, 

"Looks like your a target, Kankuro." Touka said laughing, looking over, Sana doing much of the same, as Gaara looked over in mild concern, 

"Heyyy…. What's your problem hic stop… moving" Lee said punching out towards him, sending his leg towards Kankuro in leaf hurricane, the boy jumping over the leg before being hit with the second wind. Hinami standing behind him standing in the 8triagrams technique, Lee turning and sending the girl flying before she could hit him with the technique hitting Kankuro's chest as the boy stood from the ground, the two crashing back to the ground with a groan. Gaara grabbing him with sand as the boy continued to try and fight, breaking Gaara's hold once. 

"How is he this strong?" he said in confusion, 

"It's called the drunken fist. Some shinobi when drunk maintain their ability to fight, however, that's all they can focus on. Their strength is increased with they drink too." Gai said 

"Alright, I was gonna hit his chakra points to limit his movements, but now I'm knocking him out. Gai sensei, are you alright with that?" Hinami asked and Gai nodded, 

"Gaara, Sana, block him from retreating down the street, Temari, Kankuro, Touka, block the sides, please." Hinami said continuing to outline her plan, before she jumped back after they nodded, Touka stomping her foot on the ground, bringing up walls of earth on either side, to block Lee's escape, Sana bringing up sand to block the exit heading towards the gate, Gaara grabbing the boy with sand, preventing his movements as Lee tried to move, 

"Hey hic let me go hic you kinda look familiar… Fight me." Lee said trying to get out of Gaara's sand, though found it impossible.

"Hey Lee! You wanna fight, come on then." Hinami said, the boy turning his attention towards her the girl had charged chakra in her right fist. The boy running towards her though, the way he did so made it difficult to predict his movements, Hinami moving her body as his leg came up, jumping between where Lee's body moved,

"Haii" She said before she hit him in two distinct spots in the middle of his forehead, sending the boy tumbling back towards Gaara the boy now completely passed out. 

"He'll be out for about an hour, but when he wakes up the Salvia plant will have worn off. He'll have a bit of a headache though." Hinami said, and Gai thanked her, grabbing his student. 

"Leaf is always eventful.." Kankuro said and Hinami laughed in response, 

"It's never boring." She said, they were in the village a few days for their mission and as such, Hinami's parents had offered to host them as Shikamaru's hosted them last time.