A Life that Never Was.
Summory: When Lee looses his MOST Important person, something unexpected breaks loose and the imposible happenes. Lee finds himself in a situation he never imagened happening, in a time and place he never was. Thing is does Lee realy mind? What happens now? How will it change the world he knew?
Disclamer Naruto is not mine.
Implied Yaoi, and yaoi in latter chapters. If you don't like you don't have to read.
Lee/Gaara some hints of Gai/Kakashi later.
Chapter 1 Then all is lost.
Rock Lee; bushy browed, taijutsu specialist, spandex clad, youthful, good natured, Green Beast, and Lotus of the Hidden Leaf Village was mad. No, mad failed to cover it, seething in absolute and utter hatred might more accurately describe the feeling that was nestled firmly in his chest. The fact that this feeling could was shocking enough, that it existed in an individual who's very definition seemed to be the polar opposite of it was nearly beyond comprehension.
Lee's normally large, open, kind eyes were narrowed into slivers from, which shot forth a gaze of pure malice as he looked towards the cause of his furry. There clad in the garb of their village stood ten Sound-nin all flashing the sign of their village for any with eyes to see. None of them seemed the least worried about the Leaf-nin that had survived their little trap. Their main, and as they thought, most dangerous target lay rapidly bleeding to death on the unforgiving stone floor of the cave. They seemed almost amused at the ease of which their mission was going, not that they realized the size of their mistake in assuming which was the more dangerous of the two Nin who they had entrapped.
Lee shoved their presence to the back of his awareness and the bitter hatred and rage he felt welling in his chest as he scooped his most precious person into his arms, gently cradling the one he loved as he watched helplessly as they slipped away from him.
Tears streamed down the Leaf-nin's face as he muttered soothing words and did his best to make his love comfortable. For a while nothing besides the one in his arms existed; not the other Nin in the cave, not the pain in his own body, not the cavern itself, not even the idea that with his concentration elsewhere he was an easy target, nothing. Lee clung to his lover's body holding it close to him feeling as the last breath rattled it's way free of his loved one's chest. Sobbing brokenly he brushed aside his loved ones hair to kiss tenderly the mark of 'Ai' that adorned his beloved's brow.
Gently, tenderly Rock Lee lay the body of his beloved onto the floor, shedding his jonin vest to pillow his lover's head. Seeing that his lover looked at peace and comfortable, Lee straitened. Tears still wetting his face Lee lifted his chin to see those Nin responsible for this. They hadn't moved they seemed to be laughing at the strange sight, a man with no-brows and a man with an excess of brows as lovers. They laughed they looked at him and saw nothing that could compare in their eyes to the dangerous Gaara of the Sand who now lay dead.
Lee felt something with in him snap, the rage he had felt earlier seemed to be a mere shadow of the feeling now flowing through him. It no longer mattered what they said; their words became meaningless sounds to his ears. The taijutsu masters' eyes narrowed once more as one thought echoed and reverberated in his mind and one thought alone. 'They Killed Gaara!'
A voice rang in the cavern, causing the meaningless noise the Sound-nin were making to stop; it took Lee a long moment to realize it was his voice that sounded in his ears. "You killed him. You killed Gaara." The voice whispered cold and calm as it stated the truth. "You killed him, you took him away from me. He was my joy. My love. My life..." The voice trailed off for a moment as Lee found his hand drawing his hold out kunai from his infamous orange leg warmers, before the voice returned. This time it was cold, colder than ice and darker than the bowls of the abyss. "When I'm done, hell will seem like heaven to you." The voice promised, and in that moment the Sound-nin realized that their assumptions of the danger around them had been fatally flawed.
They found out soon enough that when the Beautiful Green Beast of Kohona made a promise, he kept it. As they fell some with ninjutsu on their lips, others as they were chased down before they even had a chance to escape the main room of the cavern; they all felt the truth of the Leaf-nin's dark promise.
Sagging Lee made his way towards his lover's body, remarkably it remained undisturbed through the brutally violent end of the Hidden Sound Shinobi. The dark rage slowly pushed into the background being replaced by grief just as deep and profound as the emotion in replaced in the taijutsu master's soul. Lee looked on in dumb shock as he watched his hands move in the signs. Blankly he wondered why his hands even bothered since genjustu and ninjutsu were always beyond him. This time he felt something happening, his emotions his grief, his anger, his pain, everything seemed to be draining away into these signs. Part of him welcomed this numbness and continued on ignoring the small part of his brain that was protesting this action. The small part of Lee's mind that told him this was wrong, that it was dangerous, that this should not be, that this could not be, that he should run and never come back to this place. Perhaps that small part of him was right, and perhaps he should have listened to it, but he refused to knowing that even if nothing came of this, if these signs were just random movements of his hands, and even if the numbness he felt would be soon replaced by his emotions again he wouldn't stop. Because for this moment at least Rock Lee felt numb and this lack of feeling was much preferred to the agony that it had replaced.
When darkness began creeping in on his vision, Lee pushed his hands to move faster, wishing to bring the soothing oblivion unto himself all the faster. As his vision and his mind sunk into reliving darkness, Lee felt an out-surge of power as the last hand sign was completed.
And blissfully Lee knew and felt no more.