[Gai may be many things--absurd, ridiculous, and overwhelming, to name just a few--but first and foremost, he always has been and always will be a well-trained soldier, honed from decades of work and shaped from enforcing such discipline at an early age. And he can recognize royalty when he sees it; he drops to one knee in a formal bow to acknowledge Ashura as such. While he's certainly seen far stranger things than an Ashura--Gaara, Kyuubi, Kisame, and wise old toads included--, he knows better than to not give a person of authority their due.]