It was a Saturday in the middle of April. The weather was gloomy; raining on and off, the clouds were all gray. But Lee liked it that way.

Being the kind person he was, he could appreciate all the seasons. The smell of the rainfall and the flower it brought, the gorgeous heat, the leaves falling and the glorious colours, the trees and houses all glistened with shimmering snow.

But today, he was training with his uncle,Gai, in the middle of their backyard, in the rain. Both of them were Sensei's in Karate. Lee was just beginning, but Gai had been for as long as he could remember.

His uncle was such a marvelous man. He had raised him from infancy after his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Taught him all he knew in self defense and Karate, helped him with his homework, taught him how to cook, showed him how to build his own computer. Gai couldn't be any more amazing.

His uncle was also a high school teacher. He was qualified in math and technology, but God help him, he was the Physical Education and Sex Education teacher.

Which Lee had taken all years of high school.

Gai's classes were always educational and a tad bit funny and inappropriate at times.

When Lee had time off of college, training, and Soccer Practice/games, he'd sit in and help Gai grade some of the classwork during the week..

Lee's role model was definitely Gai, and he was following in his footsteps to becoming a teacher. But Lee was majoring for Elementary schools. Preferably he'd like to be able to work with children aged 3-7, but anything would be great. He wanted to be able to help kids and to help make them happy and comfortable with themselves. Being teased as a kid for not having parents and for his looks and the way he talked fueled his drive to help children in similar situations.

"Well, Lee. Exceptional work as always. Unfortunately due to the weather the classes tonight are cancelled, but to my understanding, you've got previous engagements?" Shaking his soaked black hair, Gai couldn't help but give the 22 year old male a grin, knowing that he had plans to watch a movie with his lady friend down south.

Lee smiled and saluted his higher up and frowned a little bit. "It is such a shame that the rain must prevent our students to come out for their sessions. I like seeing the little ones."

At the mention of his 'engagements', red spread across Lee's face,his eyes averting the gaze of his uncle. "I-it is just a movie. She knows that I may be late. But she hardly sleeps, so she will be awake no matter the time I get back."

Gai slapped a hand on Lee's shoulder as they both began to walk towards the house. They were both in swim trunks, so they didn't really have many soaked clothes to worry about.

Hours later, after they had both eaten and showered, Lee excused himself to go downstairs into his 'apartment'. Gai owned a large 3 bedroom house with a basement that could be used as an apartment. Lee slept upstairs, but he had his own lounge in the basement. His computer and desk were there, his school things. There was a futon with a large TV where Lee had his PS3. He had a mini fridge, along with several jerseys, medals, trophies, and pictures of all the sports he had participated in. He also had a 50 Gallon tank in the basement, which had guppies, mollies, platys, several tetras, danios. All sorts of smaller fish.

He had the room for big fish, but having so many small fish filled him with joy.

Quickly feeding the fish, Lee headed over to his desk and booted up his computer. Stretching his arms and back as he waited for the thing to power up, he couldn't help but smile at the framed picture on his desk: A graduation picture of his girlfriend.

The whole graduation had been live streamed due to how many family members weren't able to go, and because there was so many people that it was still hard to fit the people who could go into the gymnasium. Lee had taken the time off of school to watch the whole thing.

Automatically the computer went to the homepage and Skype booted up. Lee didn't bother putting a password lock on his computer because he trusted Gai. Not like he had much on his computer. His phone, on the other hand…

His girlfriend wasn't afraid of pictures...without clothing….

Speaking of girlfriend, he immediately got a 'bloop' from Skype.
[2015-04-18 4:52:02 PM] Sand Angel : You're on early

Lee chuckled as he began to type back to her, wondering how her day was. Before he could even begin to ask her, a Skype call notification was coming up. He clicked 'accept' and waited for the cameras to boot up.

A/N: Hello, everyone! I use to go by ShoulderDevil/DeadXombie, but I made a new account (for one, my stories make me cringe, but then again some people actually liked the stories...Plus i forgot the email and password e.e) This is my first try at writing a fanfic in about 3 years (although the last one i worked on was not uploaded here or on my old account. Strictly to DA). I hope thus far its...decent. These first two chapters are only going to be introductions to Lee and Gaara in this AU, but "Chapter 1" will get into the two of them. I will try to have a chapter up once or twice a week, depending on how much time I actually get to myself. These first two intro chapters will be uploaded today, and the first actual chapter also will be provided I finish it today.
Thank you all so much for reading. Any feedback I could get would be greatly appreciated. Ciao, Bellas~