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Rock Lee is a very spirited taijutsu specialist and is the paragon of hard work. Incapable of using ninjutsu (ninja techniques) or genjutsu (illusion techniques) when he was an academy student and teased for his inability, he spent all his time and concentration on taijutsu (hand-to-hand combat) under the guidance of his sensei, Maito Gai. Through practice, he has become so overcompensatingly strong in the taijutsu discipline that he was allowed to graduate the ninja academy. He is able to open five of the eight "chakra gates" inside a ninja's body (being able to open all eight gates results in a temporarily and dramatically increased power surpassing even Kage level at the cost of said ninja's life) and equal the strength of opponents skilled in Genjutsu and Ninjutsu. It is because of his determination and hard working ethic that Lee has become an outstanding ninja, to the point of making Chūnin during Uzumaki Naruto's absence from the village. With Lee, no matter who the opponent, he shows respect towards them (He is one of the few genin who call Naruto, "Naruto-kun"), never attempting to demean them (Totally opposite from his teammate, Hyūga Neji).


Rock Lee. Lee almost always keeps a pair of very heavy weights on his legs and has trained himself to be amazingly fast despite this hindrance. The possibility of taking off the weights is a huge trump card for him, his speed increases drastically beyond its already impressive normal level when free of them (to the point that he moves faster than the blink of an eye). Gai has restricted him to only taking them off in a situation when protecting people who are important to him but made an exception during Lee's battle with Gaara.

Lee has manifested a natural predisposition towards the Suiken (Drunken Fist); when he drinks as little as one drop of alcohol, he becomes a force of destruction and chaos (during one particular incident, he drank sake accidentally and proceeded to thrash a pub completely. It took both his sensei and teammates to merely hold him down). When drunk, his moves have an extra edge of unpredictability to them (much like the actual Drunken Fist style in real-world martial arts).

Also, Lee, is actually pretty intelligent. He has a near textbook knowledge of the Hyūga family (As shown before the fight with Hinata and Neji), and is able to understand the strategies of his comrades by watching them.

Kishimoto Masashi says: "Lee's theme is hard work. People think that hard work is lame these days but that's not the case. I wanted to express that hard work pays off."

Chūnin Exam Arc
Lee is portrayed as somewhat of a ridiculous character from the get-go, particularly his relationship with Gai; their emotional hugging, overstated posing and odd mannerisms weird out Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura and even Uchiha Sasuke to the point of blankly staring with disbelief when they witness them for the first time. Lee's bond with Gai is by far the strongest student-teacher bond described in the series; Lee owes a large part of his character to Gai's guidance, including his dedication to hard work, taijutsu prowess, outfit, and haircut (contrary to popular belief, Lee already had his monstrously large eyebrows so that was not due to Gai's influence). Gai himself believes that Lee has "beautiful eyes," and also calls him his "cute student."

Lee is first introduced during the very beginning of the Chūnin exam arc, posing as a weak ninja in order not to draw attention to himself and his two teammates, Hyūga Neji and Tenten. Soon enough, however, he is revealed as far stronger than he made himself out to be; he appears before Team Kakashi, proclaims his undying love for Sakura minutes after seeing her for the first time and challenges Sasuke to a battle. When Naruto gets annoyed with all the attention Sasuke is getting and insists on challenging Lee himself, Lee easily deflects his attack and sends him spinning straight into a nearby wall with his whirlwind kick.

After seeing this, Sasuke decides to accept the challenge and is defeated as well, though to his credit it took longer. Through his defeat Sasuke discovers one of the weaknesses of the Sharingan for the first time: It is useless to have enhanced perception of the opponent's movements if your own body cannot keep up with them. At that point Lee gets too carried away and almost uses one of his trump card techniques, Omote Renge (Front Lotus), to secure his win, but Gai interferes and berates Lee for doing so. After a moment of theatrical punching, hugging and crying, they bid team Kakashi farewell, leaving them mightily dumbfounded.


Rock Lee in attack position.Lee appears again later during the second stage of the exam, set in the Forest of Death. He wanders off from his two teammates and encounters a desperate Sakura, hopelessly trying to fend off Sound-nin attacking her and her two unconscious teammates (knocked out during their encounter with Orochimaru earlier). He does his best to help her, but fails as there are three of the Oto-nin and he has no experience fighting against sound-based attacks. Ultimately it is the dark form of Sasuke, completely engulfed by Orochimaru's curse seal, which awakens and drives them away (almost killing them in the process).

In the third stage preliminaries, Lee finds himself having to fight Gaara, clearly the most difficult opponent for him to have been matched against. During this fight we find out the extent of Lee's plight; In flashbacks he kept trying to beat his rival, Hyūga Neji, but lost again and again until he almost lost faith in himself completely (and he would have, if it were not for Gai's intervention). In the battle, trump card after trump card is pulled out only to be nullified against Gaara's various defenses, and in the end Gaara just barely wins the fight when Rock Lee is unable to defend himself and Gai steps in to save him (disqualifying Lee). Before he did this, Gaara avenged his wounds by crushing Lee's arm and leg, crippling him and (according to the medics) destroying his career as a ninja. In the aftermath of this regrettable battle, Lee is hospitalised but insists on training anyway, sneaking out of the hospital and doing one-armed push-ups and one-legged squats with a broken arm and leg. Even despite his loss his fight against Gaara was inspiring: Lee was the first person to ever physically hurt Gaara, demonstrating his extreme potential.

The greatest of Lee's "trump cards" are five of the Hachimon Tonku (eight chakra gates). He is the only known person below Jounin capable of opening any of these gates. Using this technique is forbidden and Lee was taught to open these by Maito Gai Sensei, which Kakashi disapproved of. The gates are the endogenous chakra limits. The gates, in order, are: Initial, Heal, Life, Harm, Limit, View, Wonder (also translated as Insanity, implying that the user could possibly lose his/her mental stability if the gate is opened), and Death. By opening these gates one can release the mind's limits on chakra use at the expense of the body. Lee can open the first five gates, and has done so when performing Ura Renge, the final and most powerful of Lee's "trump cards". Gai Sensei and Kakashi Sensei are the only other known characters that can open Hachimon Tonku; Gai opens them to what looks like primary lotus in the manga, and Kakashi opens the first during his rock climbing training.

The basis for the idea of Hachimon Tonku may come from Yoga practice where there are seven states of consciousness: Root (red, instinct, survival, security, earth), Sacrum (hara, orange, emotion, sexual energy, creativity, water), Solar Plexus (yellow, mental functioning, power, control, fire), Heart/Lung (emerald green or pink, devotion, love, compassion, healing, air), Throat (blue, speech, self-expression, life), Third Eye (indigo, intuition, extra-sensory perception, time), and Crown (violet, may assume color of dominant chakra, connection to the divine, space).

The main difference is the 8th gate, Death gate. The practice of Yoga is not to bring death, but to achieve Nirvana; however, once Nirvana is achieved, the body is not needed anymore. Thus, it could be said that the 8th gate is simply the mind forcing entering the state of Nirvana to totally expend the body. As stated in the manga and anime, opening all gates is certain death, though, acceptance of death is probably the criteria to open the last gate - similar to the 4th's Shiki Fuuin Jutsu where the user binds his soul to the Death God in order to seal another soul(s).

Sasuke Retrieval Arc
After Naruto and Jiraiya bring Tsunade back into Konohagakure and convince her to become the fifth Hokage, Gai, who has heard of Tsunade's legendary medical abilities, asks her whether there is anything than can be done about Lee's condition. Tsunade looks into it and concludes that an operation that would mend his bones is possible in theory, but would be very risky; he has bone fragments scattered near vital nerves, and the slightest wrong movement would mean his death. She estimates the chance of success at about 50% and Lee almost experiences a mental breakdown when presented with the morbid choice of whether to undergo the operation or not. On the one hand, his life is meaningless without his ability to prove his nindo ("path of endurance", refers to one's chosen path in life) - that he can become a great ninja even without ability to use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. On the other hand, the only method to recover his nindo is to risk death.


Rock Lee attacking.Eventually, after a heartfelt conversation with Gai, Lee decides to take the operation (The anime has Tsunade doing a bit of research and raising the success chance to 58%, but this does not happen in the original manga). Naruto learns that the operation was a success when, during the expedition to retrieve Sasuke, Lee jumps in to take over his fight against Kimimaro, thus allowing him to continue pursuing Sasuke himself. Lee was actually not supposed to even leave the hospital, but given his character, it is not surprising that he did so when he heard his friends could use his help.

After a few exchanged hits, Lee briefly seizes the advantage over Kimimaro when he drinks what he thinks is his medicine but is actually a bottle of sake he took by mistake, revealing for the first time in the series Rock Lee's natural abilities in the powerful Suiken (Drunken Fist) style. Drunken Lee's power and unpredictability soon becomes too much for Kimimaro to handle on his own and he is forced to tap power from the Cursed seal, reversing the situation as he is now able to counter and stop Lee's attacks with his bones alone. Lee attempts the Lotus attack, but, having just left the care of the hospital, it was a vain effort. When his death seems inevitable, however, a cloud of sand powerfully blasts and knocks him and Kimimaro away from each other, some more sand rising up to allow Lee a soft landing. Gaara, now Konoha's ally and his attitude changed by his earlier battle with Naruto, has come to Lee's aid and essentially saved his life. He and Gaara fend off Kimimaro until his sickness finally catches up to him and he dies moments before murdering them both.

Having just been saved by him, Lee tells Gaara that he doesn't hold a grudge, and they have a friendly conversation about the ideals that fueled Kimimaro before they go back to Konoha to meet up with everybody else and see how the mission played out. In the epilogue to the first part of the manga, he is shown much more muscular, training with Gai, who can't seem to keep up, while Tenten watches him, apparently very proud.

Naruto II Arc

Lee two and a half years later.Two and a half years later, Team Gai - including Lee - is sent as backup for Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi on a mission to rescue Gaara from the hands of the criminal organization Akatsuki. Lee has clearly improved in power, as he has become a Chūnin during this time; he has, however, yet to display any major new techniques. In terms of his appearance, he now sports a ninja vest like Gai (further increasing Lee's comical resemblance to him).


Trivia
1) Rock Lee resembles Bruce Lee and shares his birthday of November 27.
2) Rock Lee's haircut is the same as his sensei, Maito Gai's, and like his sensei, the shine on his hair reads "Nin," repeatedly, all around his head.
3) Lee's habit of wearing his Konoha symbol around his waist bears an odd resemblance to the belt Kamen Rider wears.
4) According to the official databook Rock Lee's favourite food is medium-spicy curry rice and curry udon. Like his sensei, his least favorite food is "There is no such thing!"
5) His hobby is hard work. He has been called a genius at hard work.
6) Rock Lee's weighted clothing is a training method which allows him to move faster once it is removed, a common concept in martial arts shōnen manga. Such methods are also practiced among some martial artists, although the practice is dangerous and controversial.
7) In an episode of Attack of the Show!, a fan sent a picture of Rock Lee to Kevin Rose, the host of the show, claiming Lee resembled him.
Lee, who speaks in formal Japanese even to his friends, is one of the characters with a unique style of speech.
Similarly, in the dubbed English version, Lee never uses contractions.
In Volume 5 of the Viz English adaptation of the manga, the preface incorrectly states that Rock Lee is "one of the many students from foreign villages who have travelled to Konohagakure for the Junior Ninja Selection Exams," while he is in fact a native of the village.
8 ) In a recent interview on U.S. Shōnen Jump Magazine, Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of the manga series, stated Sakura and Rock Lee were meant to symbolize human weakness (at least in the beginning
9) He is also one of the few Konoha ninja that didn't see Naruto use the Kyūbi power in the fight against Neji.

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Yeah, Lee's insane. It's not even funny how much he looks like guy after that absence.

But then again, he should've beaten Gaara. >_<

He deserved it god damnit.

Yay Wikipedia^^

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i luv lee!!! hes mine!!! i have 6 lee keychains, a lee pin, a lee cosplay outfit, a lee poster, and a whole chunk of my heart goes to lee!!!! w00t!!! luv you!!!!