Sasuke seems to have attracted the attention of Rock Lee, who challenges him to a fight. Rock Lee is not only interested in seeing how his skills match up against a descendent of the Uchiha clan, but he also has a mad crush on Sakura, much to her dismay. Feeling neglected in his teammates’ shadows, Naruto offers to fight in Sasuke’s place. Without wasting time, he charges, but is easily stopped by Rock Lee. Rock Lee explains that they cannot beat him because he is the strongest of the Konoha Genins right now. Now interested, Sasuke accepts his challenge.
Sasuke attacks and is met by the Konoha Whirlwind and knocked backwards. As he gets back up, he prepares to use his Sharingan moves to figure out Rock Lee’s technique. He again charges Rock Lee, but again, Rock Lee is able to hit him. He senses that his moves are neither ninja or illusory - just straight hand to hand fighting. Unfortunately, with hand to hand fighting, the Sasuke’s Sharingan isn’t helpful because even if he can see the techniques, his body can’t move fast enough to react. Rock Lee does Shadow Dance to finish off Sasuke, but a large turtle stops his attack before it hits.
The turtle reprimands Rock Lee for using his forbidden technique. Gai-sensei then appears on top of the turtle and punches Rock Lee hard in the face as punishment. The two then cry and make up. As Kakashi’s three ninjas stare at this ridiculous scene in complete shock, Gai-sensei asks how his eternal rival, Kakashi is doing. He’s ahead in the match record, which stands at 50 wins and 49 losses.
Rock Lee then confesses that he is not the strongest of his team - Hyuga Neji is. Naruto comments to Sasuke that they have a lot of training to do to compete, but they all agree that the Chuunin exam will be interesting.