I was thinking about this scene for the umpteenth time today and it occurred to me that Lee and Naruto both got really defensive when the other one challenged their genius rival and now I can’t believe it took me ~4 years to notice this glaringly ridiculously obvious parallel?? Naruto hasn’t outright defeated Sasuke yet I don’t think and Lee never got a chance to beat Neji (to our knowledge), but they’ve beaten each other’s respective genius rivals and that’s just something I thought was really interesting !
Art by tanakya123 & English translation by ANN
The 9 rookies.
Team 7 - Then and Now. Thank you for letting us grow alongside them.
We were alone and starved for love.
Kids that lived in a world full of hate.