Quote:Well, it depends on the precise nature of his handicap. Or rather, what you interprit the problem as being. We just know he can't do ninjutsu or genjutsu. The anime and manga says he can't. But it doesn't really tell us why he can't. At least...I don't remember any. I might be wrong, it's been a while since I viewed the relevant scenes.
But, the point of them is that they take very, very small amounts, and he could at least raise a shimmer in the various Young Lee Meets Gai scenes where he's desperately trying to pull up enoguh chackra to do the Academy level jutsu. It might be all the power he can muster, but I do kind of think he could pull them off.
Most fanfics I've read assume that there's something physically wrong with Lee. Like, there's something with his body...stopping him from being able to project chakra like most other ninja. Or he has less chakra. Others I've seen claim that Lee simply doesn't have any aptitude in that area - an issue of skill, or lack thereof.
Does canon actually say? I dunno.
The way I read it was...he can't do any ninjutsu or genjutsu. To me, if you're sending chakra out of your body, and it achieves some useful effect...then that's at least ninjutsu, however minor. So by my definition, water walking is ninjutsu. And we're told Lee cannot do ninjutsu, so...QED.
But...y'know, that's just my personal take, your milage may vary. Again, just what Lee can or cannot do...would depend on what you consider his problem to really be, and how you define stuff. Do you consider water walking to be a jutsu? If not, well. It all depends, yeah?
Quote:Kakashi? He's Gai's eternal rival, of course, so Lee'd probably at least listen to 'im... 'cause, y'know, clearly GAI thinks that Kakashi's good.
Who would Lee even consider listening to, if not Gai?
But Kakashi's, well, Kakashi. 's unlikely he'd be inclined to give Lee advice. Unlikely isn't impossible, though, plausible circumstances could be found. In canon, Kakashi did kinda squint at Gai and pretty much go 'you taught him that? What were you thinking?' when the whole Lotus thing came out, so. There could be enough basis to build a scene on it. It need not be a terribly long verbal exchange.
Ero-Sennin, maybe, if toadboy's around to watch the exams in the TXY world.
-- Acyl