His twin brother is the Genin Brock Lee. This only convinces him that dumbbells were a great idea and he seeks out Tenten to make sure she won't be getting Naruto and Hinata the same present. He spars with Tenten, who is upset over being the only member of the Konoha 11 left out of the mission despite having a mission at the time, and notes that in order to be able to face Naruto when he returns, they too must become stronger. Despite his passionate nature, Lee has also shown strong instincts, staying focused at the task at hand and rarely losing his composure. A year later, when he came to the village with his teammates and Naruto to defeat the Kurosuki family, he finds that Karashi has joined, and is upset that Karashi has sought strength in this way. Under Guy's leadership, Lee has acquired a number of his sensei's personality traits: he is energetic, optimistic, and hot-blooded, and shows the epitome of a "nice guy". Rock Lee is a genin -level shinobi of Konohagakure and a member of Team Guy. Meanwhile the impostor transformed into Lee, but met the real Guy while trying to leave, and was easily defeated by him. While Lee is recovering, Guy takes the new student with him on a mission, causing Lee to believe that he has abandoned him. Shocked when he was enveloped by Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode mantle, Lee was apprehensive about their strategy at first but ultimately launched an attack on Obito and was able to overwhelm his defence giving Naruto and Sasuke the opportunity to attack Obito directly. Metal Lee is a member of Team 5, led by none other than Udon. He believes that one cannot dislike food and shows strong dedication to his promises; when this promise is broken, just barely, he assigns himself arduous training to prevent it from happening again. His options running out if he was to win and prove himself, Guy allowed him to use the Over the coming weeks, Guy tried a number of his own remedies to heal Lee, though none of his efforts worked. As part of the first stage, all teams were randomly split into different rooms to take the written test. Les autres enfants se moquaient sans cesse de lui, persuadés qu'avec de telles lacunes il ne parviendrait jamais à devenir ninja. Even though Gaara's new techniques completely buried Kimimaro, Kimimaro counters by turning the battlefield into a forest of bones, which Lee and Gaara escaped by hanging onto In the anime, Lee revealed that he once ran a marathon with Guy near the village of Katabami Kinzan shortly after being assigned to his team, and when he collapsed from exhaustion near the In the anime, Lee, seeing that he had little time to train with other people due to the many missions that must be done, sought a new means of training.
Neji used his Byakugan to find the seals keeping the barrier in place and directed the locations of them to the rest of the team. Lee's dedication caused Karashi to become enthusiastic, and he later left. The curry, however, accidentally contains wine, and Lee is intoxicated. Lee was placed in room 2 with Ultimately, his team were among the first 30 teams to make it. He says that he wants to prove that even with his inabilities to perform Meanwhile, Naruto, who tapped in the Demon Fox chakra, is fighting At first they are both evenly matched, but after Lee drinks some sake that he had mistaken for his medicine, he outclasses Kimimaro.
This was shown by his befriending of One of Lee's recurring themes throughout the series is his drive to succeed, believing with enough hard work and perseverance, he can surpass a natural genius. Though they protested this action, Naruto firmly states that he would be the one to take care of Sasuke. When Naruto stumbles upon the dojo, Lee asks that he fight, but Naruto hastily leaves, late for reporting back to Tsunade.