Ch.1
Blood sprayed, carried by the wind and a young girl fell to her knees. "Why are you attacking me?" she asked her assailants.
The three ninja laughed and the tallest spoke, "Because, your father betrayed our village and he's dead so you are all that left to take revenge on."
The world began to go blurry for the girl and she fell the rest of the way to the ground. 'Please help me, someone, anyone' the girl thought before her world went black.
Around a mile away
Lee suddenly stopped mid sentence and stood stock still, turning his head to the left. The rest of the team stopped as well and looked at their teammate.
"Oi Lee! What's up, why are you stopping?" Neji asked.
"I have this strange feeling and I can't explain it, but I think something is going on over there." Lee looked at Neji then to his sensei, "May I go take a look?"
Gai knew that when Lee felt something, however rare it was, he was right. "All right, but take your radio incase something turns up."
"Hai!" and with that Lee sprang off through the trees. As he went Lee noticed increase signs of battle and blood splatter everywhere. 'I don't like the looks of this' Lee's senses suddenly went into overdrive and he went more cautiously, careful not to make a sound. He knew why when he stopped above a group of four people, one of which was lying in a puddle of blood. "What the hell?" Lee whispered to himself but then he noticed the three conscious people's headbands, they were from the hidden cloud village.
"State your business here," Lee ordered as he jumped down to stand in front of the three.
The ninja stared at him and then one who Lee presumed to be the leader stepped forward, "Our business is our business so get lost leaf brat."
"Unless I have a good reason for you being here you are not welcome."
The leader sighed and took a fighting stance, "You should have stayed out of it brat, but if you'd rather fight, come on!"
The other two of the group took their stances as well and all three came at him at once. This of course was no problem for Lee and he Konoha senpuud their buts till they were running away screaming like girls. Now that he had a chance Lee knelt down and rolled the girl over only two find multiple bleeding gashes from her neck all the way to her upper leg and all over her arms. "Tenten," He called on the radio.
"Hai Lee," came her reply.
"I'm in need of your assistance, now."
Minutes later Tenten, Gai and Neji all arrived.
"What's going on Lee, why do you need my help?" Tenten asked.
Lee pointed to the girl on the ground. Everyone turned to look at her and Tenten became confused, "Why do you need my help, you know how to bandage wounds."
Lee blushed, "Well I would have except for the placing of a few of these gashes."
Tenten sighed and signaled for the three men to turn around. Lee felt the presence of her healing chakra and relaxed a bit.
"All right," came Tenten's voice, "I've done all I can for her but we need to get her to a hospital right away."
Lee turned and saw Tenten beginning to lift the girl onto her back and for some unknown reason Lee didn't like it, "I'll take her Tenten."
The rest of his team looked at him, but unlike the rest of them Gai just smiled knowingly.
"Okay Lee if you're sure," Tenten carefully positioned the girl on Lee's back and they sprang off.
They ran atop the tree branches for around ten minutes before Lee felt the girl shift and moan behind him, "Oh you're awake."
She looked at him and then the oddest question came out of her mouth, "Where are you taking me?"
"To the village," When she heard this, the girl began to yell 'let me go' and hit Lee's back while squirming, all of this combined made Lee lose his grip and the girl began to fall. Lee pushed himself off the branch he was on and caught the girl right before she hit the ground.
"Nice catch Lee." Gai shouted while doing his good guy pose. Lee for once was paying absolutely no attention to his sensei and looked at the girl now once again on the ground.
"Why are you so afraid of us?" he asked.
The girl noticed their headbands and relaxed, "Oh, I'm sorry I thought you were cloud ninja."
"Yeah speaking of cloud ninja could you tell me why they were chasing you."
"If I must," She took a big breath and began her story, "Many years ago when I was just a little girl my father betrayed our village, the hidden cloud. He ran Leaving my mother and I alone and not more than a month after he left, my mother committed suicide because she couldn't love with the shame. The villages hated me for being the 'betrayers' daughter and were awful to me, I eventually left the village and went out to find my father. When I found him he let me travel with him and he trained me as a ninja. We traveled into the rice country and met up with a man by the name of Sasuke Uchiha. He murdered my father and I ran back to the land of lightning. The cloud found out about it and have been chasing me since."
Lee and Gai both had tears in their eyes and were staring at her intently, "That is the saddest story I've ever heard," Lee whimpered.
Tenten cleared her throat, "I'm very sorry that those things happened to you and I don't want to seem insensitive but we really need to know your name."
The girl smiled and nodded, "My name is Kurisuchin Benoi but you can call me Kuri, it's a pleasure to meet you all."
"I'm Rock Lee!"
"Hyuuga Neji"
"Tenten"
"Maito Gai"
Lee held out his hand to help Kuri up. She gladly took it but when she went to get up she doubled over, holding her hand to her stomach.
"Are you all right?" Lee asked.
Kuri pulled her hand away only to find it blood covered.
"Shit! Lets go guys, she needs to see a medical ninja now." Lee lifted her back up and they all began to run, no longer bothering to go into the trees.
"Lee, keep her awake, if she passes out now it could mean serious trouble." Neji said as he activated his byakugan to look ahead. 'Why do I even care?' he thought.
"Hai, Kuri I want you to name all of the countries you've been to."
She nodded, "Lightning, Fire, Earth, Waves, Wind, Rice, that's it."
"Good, now tell me about your mother." Lee couldn't think of anything else so he brought up what he knew to be a sensitive subject.
"She was beautiful (gasp) she was kind and was pregnant with my brother when she committed suicide." Kuri began to cry.
"All right, it's ok, just tell me about anything you want."
"I- I don't know what to…" Kuri lost consciousness at that moment.
Lee put on an extra burst of speed and went through the gates with the guards wondering what was going on and why there was blood on the ground now. The doors to the hospital flew open and everyone jumped, "I need a medical ninja right away." He stated as he came in.
A man in white appeared with a bed and took Kuri into a room. Now that he didn't have to worry Lee sank to the ground with exhaustion and out of breath. Neji walked in to see his teammate on his knees and noticed his labored breathing.
"Here Lee," Neji held out his hand to Lee.
Lee didn't say anything, just let himself be pulled up and led to a chair. Once he sat for a moment and caught his breath, Lee spoke, "This is pathetic, that little run and I'm falling to my knees in exhaustion."
Neji looked at his friend critically, "It's not pathetic when you're carrying an extra hundred thirty pounds on your back."
Lee looked up in shock, "Do you really think she weighs that much?"
"Yeah, you might not have noticed it but her muscles were well toned and she was easily 5' 5'."
"I guess I didn't notice because I was so worried that she was going to die." Lee chuckled at this.
Neji smiled, "Yeah, I've only seen you like that once before and it was when Sakura was in danger."
The doctor who took Kuri came out, "She'll be all right now, she's lucky, if you had gotten her here a minute later she'd be dead."
"C-Can I see her?" Lee asked.
The doctor contemplated this for a moment before smiling, "Ok but only for 5 minutes, and only one visitor at a time."