Quote:*shrug* He's just on one of that year's other teams that we never see onscreen. We've got the Hinata connection if we want to bring him into things later.
Nathan: Okay, that works, but where is Neji?
Hmm. Personally, I wouldn't do this by starting things off when Lee and Naruto meet, or even when they pass the Academy - I'd say, spend a couple of scenes establishing the 'new' Team 7, then toss them into the Chuunin Exam.
Re: Rikou's Outfit - So, she looks like Raven from Teen Titans, in a miniskirt. Only -louder-. Cool.
Oh, and, while I'll grant that Naruto's... impressionable enough to pick up Gai's worse habits, he's also got a serious orange fixation, normal eyebrows, and absolutely uncontrollable hair. So he won't be able to make himself look -too- much like him... And, given his life goals, all it'd take would be a -single- person observing his resemblance to a certain historical figure to give him an entirely different idol... which, personally, I think Gai would approve of.
Also, while Naruto's pretty dense, sometimes, he can also be a lot more sensible than the Spandex Twins - of course, it says something about that team that he'd be the -sane- one, but...
Ja, -n
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