Why I ship Rock Lee x TenTen (āShortā answer)
LeeTen is my favourite Naruto pairing, and for some reason people tend to ask me why quite often. I donāt feel like writing a super long post today with ALL the manga panels that show the bond, and character development linked to it, of Rock Lee and TenTenā¦ so Iāll try to sum it up for you.
First of all, I donāt really care if LeeTen ends up being just a platonic bond (unlike other morons who need āXā f%cking āYā to be happy), because what I like about thir relationship is the way both character canonically understand, support and care about each other: Rock Lee being the idealistic hot-blooded fool who is always taking unnecesary risks, and TenTen the straight-minded caring girl with mother complex who wants to keep him in line no matter what (but deep inside she is exactly like Lee and admires him in the distanceā¦ this is canon, save your OOC versions of TenTen for your depressive hate-fanfics).
Also, theyāre really funny and remind me to those good old comedy duos. Even Kishimoto and his assistants focused on portraying them that way everytime they were on-panel together (even if that means making jokes out of Nejiās deathā¦ too soon, man Ā¬Ā¬)
Also, TenTenās ONLY canon development and improvement in the story is related to Rock Lee. Even if you donāt want to take the novels as canon (I do, and so does Japan), in which she grows up to accept her hot-blooded and trouble-maker personality to become Female Lee 2.0, the first part of the manga concludes with her changing her mind towards geniuses and hard-working peopleā¦ accepting herself in the process.
At the beginning, she praises Neji for being a genius as she sadly believes neither Lee or her have a chance to be like him or defeat him. She assumes a role of support and tries desperately to protect Lee from his own competitive personality, as he might get hurt (both physically and psychologically).
But in the end, after she noticed Rock Lee was the only one who defended her honor during the Chuunin Exams, after realizing how a hard-working dork like Naruto could defeat Neji (the genius), and after Lee had kept his faith alive and finally abandoned the hospital (and also returned for Sasukeās rescue mission) as a new shinobiā¦Ā guess who TenTen started drolling for?Ā (pic very related)
Some might complain about TenTen having only a few moments in the manga, but I think Kishi made her grew a lot with such little panel-time.
He only focused on her relationship with Rock Lee (would have been great for her to also have positive interactions like these with other characters), from being worried about him 24/7 because he might get hurt, to admiring his personality and guts. Their closure panels in part 1 is an example of a bond and character being developed with precission and touch.
In part 2, we go back to the comedy duo thingy and TenTen caring and being worried about Lee, to a point she even ignored Nejiās corpse in front of her (again Kishiā¦ thatās not a good moment, man XD). I wonāt deny I would have liked to see their bond being developed a little more in part II and that I still pray for a canon LeeTen next-gen kid in the Boruto mangaā¦ but as far as their relationship goes, they are simply flawless. Ā
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