Originally Posted by
Empire
1. No one died to kuma, they were just spread out.
2. Rock Lee is the symbol for hard work. Unfortunately in the narutoverse genetics/born genius are always superior. That was neji's entire point to naruto in his fight(during the exam), and at the time Naruto beat him which kind of proved neji wrong.........for awhile until you find out naruto was the son of the 2 greatest shinobi, trained by one of the greatest, and even his team leader(Kikashi) outranks the other team leaders.(not to mention the "win-button" kyubi that has won several of his fights for him.)
3. I doubt they'd kill lee. Unlike neji, lee and guy provide some of the only comedy in the series.(unless you count bee's crappy rhymes). Though I don't doubt Guy would die, I'd find it hard to see Lee dying as he can be used as filler content because of his comedic effect.