Chapter 1: The Bite
Lee was crushed, literally and figuratively. After his battle with Gaara and having his left leg and arm crushed, he was immediately taken to emergency where he would heal. However, his injuries seemed permanent, and even Lady Tsunade, the greatest medic in the world, had just told him his career as a ninja was essentially over. His spirit, his soul, his body, everything just went black for him, he was devastated. His mentor and teamates tried to cheer him up but he just wanted to be alone at the moment. He was standing in front of the tree log that he would always used to practice his punches and kicks. He spent his whole life training himself, pushing past his limitations just so he could prove all those people wrong that called him a failure. All his hard work and ethic, gone in an instant.
"I guess they were right...I really am a failure." Lee whispered to himself while crying silently
"OW!" He suddenly screamed before swatting off the spider that just bit him.
Lee stayed in that spot for a while before whipping off his tears.
"Guess I should head home now." He said to himself.
As he was walking he suddenly felt the sense of danger and flipped backwards as a giant tree branch fell on the spot he was just at.
"Whew, that was close. How...how did I know that was coming? And how in the hell did I flip like that and land perfectly on a broken leg?" Lee asked himself
He then checked and started kicking and punching the air, to his shock, he was fine. His injuries were completely healed and not only that he suddenly felt stronger, a lot stronger. Lee then punched a large tree with his previously broken hand, and with one punch the giant tree collapsed crashing into other trees. Lee stood in disbelief.
"This...This is...A MIRACLE!" Lee shouted with joy throwing his arms in the air. Suddenly webs shot from his arms
"W-What?" Lee yet again stood shocked
He then pointed at a tree and webs once again shot from his arms and attached on to the tree. Curious, he jumped up and then started swinging. He quickly used his other hand to shoot at another tree, and another, and another, so on and before he knew it he was slinging through the forest doing all kinds of flips and tricks.
"AAAWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEE!" Lee shouted swinging through the air
He eventually landed once he got back into the streets and ran to find Gai-Sensei. It started to get dark, so he gave up and went home. Once home, he practiced with his new powers a little more.
"Amazing, it seems I have somehow developed spider powers. It must be from that spider that bit me!" Lee deduced
"This...This is truly a blessing." Lee said before he heard someone yelling outside
It was a shopowner screaming at the two guys who just robbed his store and made a run for it. Lee knew what he had to do, he swung through the night sky, quickly catching up to the robbers kicked one crashing him into a nearby building. The other guy tried to punch him but he easily dodged and then Lee kicked him in the air webbing him to a lightpost. The other guy came out and Lee webbed him to the wall.
"I'll be taking this." Lee said as he took the money back to the storeowner
"Oh thank you so much! Hey, who are you anyway?" The man asked as it was really dark out and couldn't really make much of Lee's face.
"Just...A friendly neighbor." Lee responded as he webbed away.
"Wow..." The guy said in awe, he'd never seen any type of jutsu like that.
While swinging, Lee heard another cry for help, a kid around his age getting beat up by a few older kids. One thing Lee hated most, bullies. Lee swung down and kicked one in the jaw knocking him out, ducking the other and punching him in the stomach, then blocking the last guy and hitting him square in the face.
"T-Thanks mister..." The teary eyed kid said
"No problem kid, now you should probably run home to your parents." Lee said swinging away
"Cool..." the kid whispered
Lee then heard a girl crying and went to go check
"Hey, what's wrong little girl?" Lee asked concerned
"M-My kitten is stuck in the tree!" She said
"I'll get him down" Lee said as he jumped on the branch and reached out his arms for the cat to crawl in, and he landed safely handing the girl back her cat.
"Kitty! Thank you so much mister!" The girl said hugging Lee before running back to her parents
Lee just smiled as he swung back to his house.
"Man what a day. I could do so much with these new powers, not just in Konoha but throughout the Elemental Nations. I just wish Konoha didn't limit me so much, maybe...maybe I could use a disguise and go by an alias. How about...Spider-Lee! No, that's too obvious. Spider-Man? Yeah, that'll definently work. Now I just meed a costume, Let's see." Lee said as he began working on a suit. He wasn't done until the sun rose and he was finally ready to sleep, satisfied with his costume. A/N: It's basically just the classic Spiderman suit only it's green and white and has the Leaf symbol on the back.
Later That Day
Lee was walking through the streets, with his crutches and casts on his left arm and leg. How come if he is healed? Lee figured if he was suddenly healed and suddenly Spider-Man showed up, people could easily put two and two together. Especially geniuses like Shikamaru, his dad, and Kakashi to name a few. So his best decision was to pretend as if he was still crippled.
"Hey Lee, how are you feeling?" Tenten asked
"Better, actually. I've gotten over the fact I won't be a ninja anymore, it's fine really. I'm just trying to go about my day to day life." He responded
"Don't give up Lee, you'll recover soon. I know you will." She said
"Thanks Tenten, means a lot." He said as he continued on his path.
He then went into an alleyway and pulled out a scroll to unveal his costume, hew put it on while sealing his clothes and crutches in the scroll. He then swung around the village, making his presence known to all of Konoha. While swinging he saw a guy running off with a bag of money, as he swung by he wbbed him up and threw the money bag back to the store owner. He then saw an old lady carrying a lot of bags, so he stopped to help her carry them all the way to her home before swinging away. He then saw through a window a man beating a woman, seemingly his wife or girlfriend. He burst threw the window kicked him in the chest then webbed him to the wall.
"Here, sorry for the damages!" He said as he swung away leaving a few ryo for the lady to get her window fixed. He then saw someone planting a bomb on the side of the hokage tower and webbed him to the wall.
"This thing, pretty dangerous. Be careful next time alright." Lee said sarcastically before swinging away and crushing the detonation remote. He knocked out teo burglars trying to break into a house and webbed them up as well. He spent hours just swinging around, doing superhero stuff and he never felt more alive. He then swung to the top of the Hokage monument to look down at the rest of the village.
"Hey, aren't you that guy who's been swinging around the village?" Lee heard a recognizeable voice, it was none other than Naruto Uzumaki
"Huh...yeah that's Me!" Lee said hoping Naruto didn't recognize his voice
"Cool! What kind of jutsu is that?" Naruto asked curiously
"It's uh...not exactly a jutsu. Just...powers." He responded
"Woah, so you're like, some type of superhero?"
"Yeah, you could say that."
"AWESOME!" The boy shouted, "Well catcha later spider guy, gotta run!" Naruto said leaping off the monument
"IT'S SPIDER-MAN!" Lee shouted after him. He then took off his mask
"Yeah...I'm Spider-Man." Lee said again looking at the village.
Meanwhile...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm sure you've heard of this unknown vigilant ramping throughout the village." The Hokage, Lady Tsunade started. "I want him captured and brought to interrogation."
"Lady Hokage, with all due respect, whoever this guy is doesn't seem so bad. He's been doing nothing but helping people all over the village, even last night he seemed to have captured two robbers and saved a little boy from a beating." One of the Anbu spoke up
"I understand that, but you must understand this. First off, why wear a mask? He's clearly not an anbu and only they wear masks. None of the Leaf ninja possess any type of webbing jutsu, and our village has just been through an attack so we are weakened right now. We can't afford to let our guard down, he may be a spy pretending to be on our side, who knows. I want him brought in for questioning so we can know his true intentions, that is an order." Tsunade stated
"Yes Ma'am" all the Anbu said in unision as they set off to find this masked vigilante.
Elsewhere...
"I want this masked man brought to me, dead or alive but I prefer him to be alive." Danzo stated
"Yes Lord Danzo." A group of Root soldiers said in unision as they set off.