POSSIBLE AKATSUKI AU I WAS THINKING ABT.
gai gets killed, tenten && neji most likely, as well; seeing as they’re the only ones who could sucessfully talk lee out of it.
the akatsuki recruit the broken lee with the prospect of living in a perfect world, lee sees the benefits of living in a fake world without bloodshed && war, he agrees on capturing the tailed beasts.
lee cannot use matatabi’s chakra cloak ( the glowy mode ) in this au. after gai died lee became so emotionally shut off from the nekomata that they can no longer harmonize. but even though he can no longer use his greatest ace, he still is a force to be reconed with.
lee doesn’t expect, nor wants, to be part of the perfect world, seeing as akatsuki eventually still need to extract matatabi from his body. lee doesn’t mind this as he’d prefer to be joined with the real gai in the afterlife once his job is done ‘ and he can look into his father’s face without feeling shame. ‘