So yeah, I finally caved and decided to do this because why the hell not?

I obviously don't own any characters, because let's be real i'm not that talented. In case you couldn't tell this is going to be a BL story, so hella gay with Lee at it's centre.

Lee was desperate.

Okay, so maybe desperate was too kind a word; despairing, or even completely and utterly hopeless, was much more fitting.

He needed rent money and he needed it…oh, about three weeks ago. That's how totally beyond desperate his situation was.

Now, Lee hadn't always been so financially unstable or, rather, he had never had any finances to be responsible for. Thus, the current lack of both funds and resources could be attributed to his sudden move from a small country orphanage to an even smaller one room apartment in an overwhelmingly large city.

However, Lee didn't regret his choice to leave his previous home. In fact, the only thing Lee had ever really wanted regardless of every obstacle he'd come upon in his short life, was to be able to support himself. So despite his wretched financial state, and the absolute zero prospect of making rent for the fourth week in a row, Lee kept a blindingly white smile on his soft, cherubic face and worked even harder to find any job that would take him.

Which, after being rejected twenty-six times in the two months he had been on his own, was much harder then his endless optimism kept insisting. Despite his positive outlook, Lee knew that there was no way he would go back to the orphanage; he just couldn't, not after Mother Tsunade had finally allowed him to move out and stop continually wasting their time and resources that the younger kids, who actually had the chance to be adopted, deserved. He would make this, whatever this small piece of independence amounted to, work.

That was why, with the help wanted flyer clenched in his fist and his thick eyebrows set in determination, Lee found himself outside of "Paradise", the most notorious gay club in all of Konoha.

Being raised in an orphanage Lee had always known that, despite what he did or how much time he volunteered to giving back to the people who had given him so much, he was still reliant on the angelic Sisters that ran the house. This, in itself, was not what ate away at Lee day and night, making him curl into himself when he was alone (which he found was often) and berate his every waking moment. He knew, in the more rational part of his mind, that it wasn't his fault that his alcoholic father drank himself dead and that his poor, underaged mother only left him on the steps of the orphanage because she couldn't afford to care for herself and a young child. He really did understand that he was not to blame for what transpired that fateful day, and he could have forgiven himself if he hadn't been such an overwhelming burden to the Saint Kage's home for underprivileged youths.

Really short first chapter because it's more of a brief introduction than anything.

Comments would be nice but honestly I don't expect much so no worries.