"Lee! Lee! C'mon we have a special assignment! Get up already!" Naruto was shaking Rock Lee awake. Lee looked up dazed with sleep in his eyes; he hadn't gotten much sleep, there was always a mission now, it had never been like this before. He pushed Naruto off and nodded telling Naruto that he would be there shortly.
He remembered the old days. He was really little, got teased all the time for his eyebrows and never had any luck with making friends. Over the years he grew closer with some of his fellow ninjas in his class. He and Gai were still very close and he had gotten to know Kakashi and Jiraiya better as well. Jiraiya had decided to move to Konoha when Naruto had turned about eighteen. Lee and everyone had gotten used to him and he was always entertaining. Lee had seen people come and go and had stayed in Konoha for all his life and never left unless on assignment. All of his friends had been abroad one time or another but Lee never paid any mind to them. Lee was twenty-one now and owned his own dojo where he taught students like him who couldn't use genjitsu or ninjitsu. He was doing very well and had five very accomplished students who had all gone abroad and now he was looking for recruits.
In the love department however he had much to be desired. Sasuke and Sakura were married as well as Naruto and Hinata. Shikamaru and Temari were engaged and everyone else dated like crazy. Lee had kissed one girl, Sakura under a tree when he was seventeen and didn't know any better. She had promptly punched him and called him a loser. That had been his first and last kiss so far.
Things had been buzzing about in Konoha lately. A mystery enemy who whenever caught would kill themselves before leaking any information about themselves. Jiraiya had been visited by a young woman named Sae and told news about a woman named Yuri who seemed to be the only woman he hated. Sae had left about an hour after she arrived and was never seen or heard from again. Orochimaru had also visited Jiraiya and Tsunade for a peaceful conference about someone named Yoko and if Jiraiya had seen or heard from her. Everyone noticed that as soon as Orochimaru had left Jiraiya walked around the city looking at the ground on the brink of crying. Tsunade had not leaked a word of the conversation except that Jiraiya was suffering from the repercussion of a broken heart; this no one believed and thought that he was to far in debt with the ladies at a bar.
Lee stopped reminiscing and went outside to see Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Neji, Tenten, Kankuro, Temari, Garra, Gai, Kakashi, Iruka and Jiraiya waiting for him. Lee blushed knowing he had slowed them down and silently followed them out of the village.
"How's life?" Jiraiya asked Lee and hung to the back of the pack with him. Jiraiya had been trying to save Lee from his virginity.
"The same, no girls," Lee responded and sighed.
"Could it be the eyebrows?" asked Jiraiya actually concerned
"I think it's just me in general." Lee said back and smiled. He appreciated what Jiraiya was trying to do but knew it wouldn't work. He wasn't the type girls liked. Iruka, Kakashi, Gai and Jiraiya had tried once to help Lee along by taking him to a strip-club and got him a girl but when faced with the girl had bowed and said "Do you like me?" the girl had laughed and gone with Jiraiya instead. Lee had run out and went to a sushi bar next door until the others had finished. "What is this mission anyway?" Lee asked. Jiraiya sighed.
"Apparently the people we have been fighting are the Kawasaki's. A vicious clan and they are killing another clan as we speak." Jiraiya said, he looked at Lee who seemed confused of why this mission was so special, clans attacked others everyday so why was this so big? "The clan they are attacking is the clan of that woman I told you about, Yoko…" Jiraiya started and trailed off. Naruto being himself had overheard this and asked loud enough so everyone could hear.
"Why is this Yoko so important to you and Orochimaru?" Jiraiya looked up and started to sweat seeing that everyone was looking at him wanting an answer.
"We'll see when we get there." He said and was completely silent the rest of the journey.
They all arrived as the sun was setting and looked unto the disaster zone they had found. Buildings were burned down, stores, houses even people all burned and lying on the ground their faces frozen in horror. Jiraiya looked at the debris and walked into the scene everyone else following him solemnly.
"Everyone split up and look for survivors or traces of the enemy." Kakashi said breaking the silence. They nodded in agreement and started their search. Lee and Garra decided to check out the far regions of the village and walked along looking for anyone or anything alive. Suddenly they both heard a noise and ran towards it. They saw a girl trying as hard as she could to lift a piece of wall off of another girl. The one under the wall unconscious with blood down her arm; the one pulling looked at Garra and Lee and smiled.
"Please help, my half-sister is stuck…" she couldn't finish her sentence and fainted. Garra and Lee picked up the one girl moved her away and then got the other one out from underneath the wall. They both took a girl and carried them back to the meeting spot where everyone else was having found nothing. They carried the girls to the others; Jiraiya looked at one and the other and almost cried right there but turned away and muttered.
"We need to get them to Konoha's hospital now." He then turned to the rest and looked at them and from that look they all knew he meant now.
They all hurried back to Konoha and put the girls into intensive care. Lee and Garra stayed with Jiraiya in the waiting room until the doctor emerged.
"Both of them will be fine, one has a deep cut and the other another deep wound but with a little bandaging both will be fine." The doctor smiled and Jiraiya sighed with relief. "You can see them if you'd like." The doctor added and showed them into the room. Garra and Lee had never really looked at the girls until now. The first one who had tried to free her half-sister was tan with long black hair that reached the hospital floor from the bed. She had been trying to sleep but awoke and flashed her dark blue eyes at them. When she sat up you could see she was a little shorter than the other one and less developed in the chest department. She looked to Jiraiya and looked to the girl next to her.
"She has been waiting to meet you, you know." She said. Jiraiya nodded and walked over to the other girl as the first continued. "Yoko said she has just as much power as you, she knows your jitsu techniques too." She finished. She looked to Rock Lee and then Garra. "My name is Momoko Horibuchi; Yoko is my mother and my father…Orochimaru." She finished. Lee stared not knowing what to say but Garra sat on her bed.
"Don't you hate it when your parents are evil?" he asked and Momoko smiled. Lee saw that he was out of his league and went by Jiraiya. The girl he was looking at was still unconscious. She was pale but peachy in skin tone and tall. She had brown hair to the middle of her back and was very well developed in all departments.
"That's Sirachi, she's yours." Momoko added and Jiraiya nodded.
"Where is Yoko?" he asked turning away form Sirachi.
"She died when we were twelve, sorry." Momoko said. She remained almost emotionless like she was trying to hide the pain but seeing her distress Jiraiya nodded again and walked out of the hospital to avoid upsetting her. "What are your names?" she asked looking at Lee and Garra.
"Rock Lee and this is Garra of the Sand." Lee said and smiled.
"I'm Momoko and that is Sirachi." Momoko said introducing herself for the second time. The boys nodded and walked out of the hospital in silence. Instantly as they exited Naruto jumped onto Lee with impressive volume of voice and speed.
"WHY IS JIRAIYA SAD AND WHY IS HE NOT IN THE BAR!?" he asked loud and obnoxiously. Lee pushed him off exasperated and tired. He didn't feel like dealing with Naruto now.
"That one girl is Jiraiya's half-daughter and the other is his daughter, happy?" he said on the brink of agitation and walked off. Naruto looked around and found Hinata; he ran over to her hugged her tightly and smiled.
"This could be interesting; I've never seen Lee so serious." He said. Hinata nodded and blushed in agreement. Naruto kissed her on the cheek and walked with her back into the ramen bar.