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Gaara x Lee
Romance\drama\some angst
Rating is M
There is some abuse, be warned~!
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CHAPTER ONE

Lee glared at his red-haired abuser and was rewarded with another blow to the side. Lee bent forward, trying to save his stomach from getting any more punches but this only seemed to amuse the other boy.

Gaara, that boy was called. Gaara no Sabaku, his abuser. His skin was in the colour of pure snow, his hair blood red and eyes light teal. Beautiful some would call him, but only on the outside. For Gaara was not a kind person, far from it. The only physical flaws appeared to be the dark circles around his eyes, caused by lack of sleep and the red tattoo with the kanji for love. But even that didn't mellow the beauty of the boy, the dark rings only enchanted his eyes, making them seem bigger and more intense while the tattoo was like a part of him, as if he had been borne with it, though that was not the case.

The demonic teal eyes narrowed to slits, a hissing sound of pleasure escaping his lips when he pushed Lee down on the hard ground and kicked, once, twice, until Lee finally let out a pained scream. The beating stopped.

"See, Lee." The smirking boy purred at him. "All you have to do is make that beautiful noise for me. And I will go easy on you, have I not promised?"

Lee whimpered at the pain, but emitted nothing more, said not a word. It was not that bad, he had suffered worse and Gaara always liked to talk and taunt him with his words more than with his fists, it was tolerable he told himself, he was not going to give Gaara the pleasure and beg him to stop. Lee never begged.

Lee wasn't as good-looking as Gaara, not even close. People usually thought he was a freak actually. He was slim and lithe, but not weak. His hair was black as well as his eyes and his eyebrows were quite big, but he liked them that way, they reminded him of Gai-sensei, a teacher from his previous school. Green was his favourite colour and he could be seen dressed in that colour most of the time. There really wasn't anything wrong with him and his looks and after years of being made fun of for it the insults didn't bother him much any-more.

Gaara's face gradually slipped into the stoic look he always wore apart from the time he spent taunting Lee or bullying somebody else. He spared another look at the form in his feet. He kicked Lee again, angered with the lack of response, then - with one last warning growl - walked away. He had spent far too much time on Lee this day and he had gotten nothing from the boy except for a few whimpers and a lousy scream. Damn that boy, why couldn't he react like everybody else? Everybody else would have begged him to stop, but not Lee. Lee never gave in. About an year ago Gaara had been so brutal he had broken Lee's left arm. Yet, Lee still didn't give in and it was driving Gaara mad.

Lee carefully rose to his feed, placing hands on his body to feel how badly beaten up he was. Not much damage, Lee realised with surprise, Gaara had been strangely distracted today. The raven-head sighed with relief, glad that after school he would be able to go home by foot without feeling too much pain. He felt disgusted with himself every time this happened. Gaara would corner him at least once a week at school and Lee would be unable to escape. Sometimes he didn't even try. He didn't know what it was that made him take it, all the abuse and cruel words, even when he could avoid it.

It was probably the fact that once upon a time he had had feelings for the red-head. He had seen him years ago, looking lonely and dejected, eyes filled with sadness. Lee had suddenly felt the need to talk to him, to cheer him up and tell him that he didn't have to be alone. He had been too scared then, of rejection. Lee always offered his friendship to people and always faced the same fate, they looked at him in a strange way and never took his offer no matter how sincere it was. He sighed and headed into the school. He still needed to attend classes no matter how badly he hurt.

Gaara growled at some scared kouhai as he passed by with his friend Naruto, the poor kouhai almost fainting at the sight of the redhead. Great, another easily scared student. It wouldn't be fun to break him even, it would be too fast, not satisfying at all. Which led him to think of Rock Lee again. That Lee really wasn't smart, was he? If only he would break as everyone else did, Gaara would lose interest quite qiuckly and would leave him alone. He had started "playing" with Lee almost two years ago, everybody else in his torture list would remain there for a month, tops. While that damn boy-

"Thinking about Lee again?" Naruto's teasing voice interrupted his thought and he stared at the other in surprise for a second. How did Naruto know? The surprise was wiped off quickly though and he regained his stoic expression again.

"What makes you think that?" he asked in a deep, monotonous voice before walking to the science classroom, Naruto next to him.

"Hehe, lying doesn't suit you." His friend pointed out cheekily, blue eyes twinkling mischievously. Gaara glanced at him briefly as he walked into the room and to his chair. Naruto sat next to him without asking for permission. Gaara sometimes wondered how he could have such an annoying friend.

"I did not lie. I never denied it." Gaara reminded him, voice as calm and collected as ever. He didn't see the point in lying, he had just been surprised at Naruto's accurate guess, after all the guy wasn't observant at all. That was all. He saw nothing out of the ordinary with thinking of how to break Lee mentally.

Naruto's eyes widened before he grinned again.

"So any new victims yet?" He changed the subject. He didn't particularly approve of Gaara's ways and had stopped him a few times from injuring students too badly, but otherwise he didn't interfere. He knew Gaara had went through some bad things and somehow understood why he was doing this. And Gaara wasn't as bad as he used to be.

"There was that guy just now, cowered like a chicken." Gaara admitted distractedly while serching for his notebook.

Naruto grinned yet again, showing perfect white teeth. " I saw him. You didn't spare him a glance."

Gaara nodded before opening the notebook he had taken out and starting to look through it. "Hmm, it was too easy." he admitted.

"Unlike with Lee." Naturo's eyes twinkled knowingly.

Gaara almost crushed the notebook in his hands before turning to look at his annoying, noisy friend. "What are you hinting at, Naruto?"

The blond put his hands up in mock-surrender, not wanting to get into a fight with Gaara so he mumbled a "nothing" and put his head on the desk, ready to fall asleep. Class was staring after all, he usually slept since it was too boring, besides Hinata would let him borrow her notes. Gaara stared at him coldly before turning back to his notebook. He didn't understand what Naruto was getting at, but frankly didn't care as well.

After school he and Naturo waited outside the gates for Neji and Shino. Both Neji and Shino didn't talk much and that was why Gaara could tolerate them. It was a wonder that Naruto liked being around them, the blond boy never stopped talking. It balanced things out. While waiting he observed the other students. One group of 'cool kids' were gathered near them, talking loudly and laughing. They disgusted him. So loud, so noisy, so... huh, then again why wasn't Naruto in their company? He'd suit them. Even if he thought that he knew the answer, Naruto wasn't like them at all even if at first glance they had similarities. Naruto was nothing like them. And that's why Gaara had him as a friend.

Some wanna-be bully was leaning against a wall, picking up at the seemingly weak students that passed by, losers, nerds and the like. Most of them hurried pass him, eyes uneasy and worried while others didn't even spare him a glance. If Gaara had even looked at them the wrong way they would had run away. He smirked and his smirked got even wider and scarier when he saw who was approaching. He suddenly didn't mind having to wait for Neji and Shino. Not if his reward was Lee.

Lee was looking at the ground when he felt a heated gaze upon his flesh. He looked up and halted all movements for all but a second before his steps quickened. His gaze met Gaara's, the redhead was smirking at him, daring him to come closer. Lee did, he needed to go home and the only way was through the gates. Gaara didn't make a move to stop him, neither with words not actions and Lee felt relief wash over him.

"Hey, the freak with the ugly eyebrows!" Lee halted once more, for a horrifying second thinking that Gaara had indeed decided to corner him again, but the voice was not Gaara's. Lee spared the boy who had insulted him a glance. Nothing much. Lee almost snorted, a barely amused smirk on his face as he continued without a worry. As if that silly guy could scare him.

"You little fuck, did you just smirk at me?" He yelled at Lee's back, enraged, but Lee continued to walk away. "Ha! I'll find you tomorrow! We'll see who'll be the one laughing then!" He promised darkly.

Naruto, who had watched the entire thing slightly amused rolled his eyes and turned to his red-haired friend.

"Hey, Gaara, do you think-" he cut himself off as he saw the furious bloodthirsty glare Gaara was sending the boy who had just threatened Lee. Gaara growled lowly, eyes shifting to Naruto for barely a second.

"Sorry, Naruto. I just found myself a new victim." His voice was so low and dangerous that it sent a shiver even down the blond's body. "I'll catch you and the others later."

With that a vicious smirk overcame his features, he cracked his knuckles and headed for the unsuspecting student. The guy wanted to be a bad-ass bully? Well then, Gaara would show him just how it was done.

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