All Tangled Up

"9,997……9,998……9,999…….10,000!" Rock Lee thought to himself as he finished his morning pushups.

He picked himself up from the ground and began his tree kicks.

"1…2…3," he started counting to himself.

The intensity of his workout was legendary. He knew that if anyone else tried them they could very well kill themselves. But he also knew that he had to keep them up. Becoming a great ninja through hard work alone was a difficult road, but he fully planned on doing it.

He had just passed 600 tree kicks when he heard the sound of someone approaching.

He turned around and saw Haruno Sakura walking down the path near where he was training. She was wearing her usual red dress. Her pink hair was flowing in the breeze. He noticed that she was carrying a bouquet of lilies in her hands. It took a moment before Lee realized that he was staring, he quickly blushed and resumed his tree kicks.

He often thought about Sakura. It was no secret that he had a crush on her. He had been trying to impress her since he had first laid eyes on her.

Of course she would never think of him the way he thought of her. He knew that she was too preoccupied with Uchiha Sasuke. Lee felt a wave of rage come over him as he thought about that black haired ninja.

He didn't know what she saw in him. Sasuke didn't even seem to pay attention to Sakura. He increased the pressure of his tree kicks to let off some steam.

Suddenly, Lee noticed that Sakura was now right beside him. He paused his tree kicks and turned to her.

"Hello Sakura-Chan," he exclaimed flashing his trademark smile.

Sakura seemed somewhat shocked and she looked all around before spotting Lee. When she saw him she smiled back.

"Oh, I didn't see you there Lee-San," she said, "I was just thinking about something."

She frowned slightly as she saw that he had been training.

"Lee-San, should you be training this hard this soon? You recently had major surgery," she said.

Lee was slightly annoyed, did she think he wasn't strong enough to be training.

"I'm fine Sakura-Chan, I promise," he said flashing his smile.

Lee once again noticed the flowers.

"Who are the flowers for Sakura-Chan?" he asked.

"I can't tell you, it's a secret," Sakura giggled.

Lee felt another bout of anger come over him. He wished that she thought enough of him to bring him flowers.

Suddenly he had an idea. Sakura didn't seem to be in any hurry, maybe she would go for it.

"Uhhh….Sakura-Chan…. Would you like to … watch me do tree kicks?" he finally managed to stutter.

"Oh… well that sounds nice, but I really have to be going now," Sakura responded.

As she walked away she turned back for a moment, "Your green spandex looks nice today," she said. "Well, I'll see you later Lee-San." With that, she turned and continued walking away.

Lee felt the anger roll off of him in waves. He tried to control it, but it seemed to be a losing battle. She didn't even want to spend time with him.

"Why won't Sakura-Chan ever acknowledge me?" he thought angrily. "I'm better than any of those other ninjas in the village, I'm Rock Lee for God's Sake!"

He had never been this angry in his life; he didn't know what to do.

Suddenly Lee knew what he had to do. If Sakura-Chan didn't want to be with him, he'd just have to make her see things his way by any means possible.

Sakura jumped backwards when Lee suddenly appeared in front of her.

"What is it Lee-San?" Sakura asked thinking something must be wrong.

Lee just smiled back at her, though this time the smile held none of its earlier warmth.

Sakura took a few steps backwards. Suddenly she backed into something very solid. Spinning around she found that Lee had somehow gotten behind her.

"What's wrong Sakura-Chan?" Lee asked as he advanced towards her.

"Why don't you come here and give daddy some sugar?" he asked grinning wildly.

"Lee, what the hell are you doing?" Sakura asked as she again tried to get away.

Lee easily reappeared in front of her.

"Where do you think you are going?" Lee asked.

"I'm leaving, I don't know what's going on here, but I don't like it," she said as she started to run away.

Lee was once again in front of her.

"I think you know what I'm doing," he said as he advanced on her, a crazy smile on his face.

"Lee!" she yelled. You don't want to do this!"

"You are nothing but a dirty whore!" Lee yelled, and smacked her across the face.

Sakura fell to the ground, and started crying.

"What's wrong Sakura? Am I not good enough for you?" he asked as he picked her up by the front of her dress.

"It….it's not that Lee it's just….," Sakura trailed off still crying.

Lee couldn't stand it anymore. He roughly threw Sakura into a nearby tree. Her back collided with the tree and she collapsed into a bed of leaves underneath it still crying her eyes out.

Sakura struggled to get to her feet but was roughly pushed back down by Lee.

Lee started to laugh. "Leaving so soon?" he asked. "You haven't even had a chance to see my new Jutsu."

Sakura looked up, tears streaked down her face. Her hair had leaves and twigs stuck in it from where she hit the ground. Her lips trembled as she started to speak.

"But…. I didn't think you could do any ninjutsu," she whimpered.

Lee leaned down and wiped the tears off her cheeks. She flinched at his touch.

She tried to push herself backwards, but the tree had her trapped there.

"Well, Guy-Sensei taught me a forbidden jutsu," he laughed. "Would you like to see it?" he asked.

Sakura didn't look capable of speaking; she shivered violently as she looked up at Lee.

Lee had a particularly malicious look on his face.

"Well, I'll just show it to you anyway," he said as he descended towards her.

"You don't have to do this," she sobbed.

"Yes I do," said Lee.


Please R&R :D. I have big things planned for this story so hopefully you guys like it.