Authors' note: Hey guys! Well this is my first ever GaaraxLee story. I've had to do so much revising and editing, but now I'm sure it's fine! Warning: there's going to be smut. And lots of it. Male on male etc. you get it. So anyway, review if you read please!
---------------------------------- Fate determined: Chapter one ------------------------------------------------
Lee looked up at the tall building; it looked dark and sort of gloomy to him. He had just transferred from his public school to this extravagant, sophisticated private one.
He looked around at all the students, their eyes questioning why someone like him would attend Riinaitsu high school.
He looked towards the cluster of tall trees; the sun's heat was scorching him. He strode over towards one of the thickest trees and sat down. He opened his book bag and took out his lunch. "Hey fish eyes! You thinkin' of eatin' that?" asked a rude voice.
Lee looked up and saw a tall boy sneering down at him. Lee glared up at him, hating him from this very moment on. "Yeah I am" he said defiantly. This seemed to bother the boy, for his bushy eye brows furrowed deeply, making him resemble an old lion.
"Give it to me and I won't break your fingers!" he said loudly, enough for a few students to hear. The students surrounded lee and the tall boy. One boy, a fiery red head, stood in the shadows, glaring at the tall boy while others looked on in admiration.
"Hey Hojji, back off from him. Go scrounge up some sewer rats and cook 'em" said the boy loudly, his voice challenging. The tall boy turned quickly, his eyes narrowed into tiny slits of anger. "Shut up! No one listens to pouty little shits like you! Especially if you're new around here!" he said, turning back to Lee.
"Give me your lunch dweeb!" he said angrily, getting impatient with the defiance he was getting from both boys. Lee glared at him and then sneered slightly as he opened his mouth, looking down at his sandwich as if contemplating whether to eat it or not.
"Nah, rather eat it….You look like you've had too many lunches anyways. Got a gut going on there? Better tell mommy to stop packing your leftovers" he said, his voice snide. Lee was being out of character, but he would rather act like a smart ass right now then a cocky little kid.
The tall boy bent down and gripped Lee's hair hard. He yanked him up, making Lee hiss in pain. The boy held him up to his face, his gross breath suffocating Lee. "You want to say that again you little puke?" he said menacingly.
He threw Lee back on the ground and punched him hard in the face. Lee felt his cheek swell. "You hit like a little school girl….well maybe you are a little school girl, can't tell just yet." his voice was louder now.
He drop kicked the boy to the ground and stood up and started to walk away. The tall boy got up quickly and ran towards lee.
Lee, not wanting to risk his new school record (His old one was at least four pages long from fighting) stood there, waiting for the blow.
The tall boy gave a few blows to Lee's face before someone pulled him off of Lee. Lee opened one eye, the other swelled shut.
He looked around to see who had done it but saw only one person in the middle of the thick circle of students.
It was the fiery red head, the boy who had stuck up for him before. "Leave him alone, he's new. And if you haven't realized by now the kid isn't going to give you his lunch Hojji" he was quite blunt when he said this.
Lee was surprised at how deep the boy's voice was because the boy was quite smaller then Lee was, and had a more feminine look to him.
Once the circle had separated, since this was the queue to leave, Lee stood up and brushed the dirt and leaves from his uniform.
He looked around and saw that the red haired boy had left. Lee sighed and dropped to the ground again, picking his lunch up and eating it. If he saw the boy again, he'd make sure to thank him.
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Gaara made his way up the marble steps to the school, sick of the annoying boys. His thoughts wandered to the new one, the one with the dark black hair and big fish like eyes.
He didn't know why he had stuck up for him; hell he didn't even like the kid. He thought he seemed the type that would pick a fight anytime and anywhere, and Gaara couldn't stand people like that (Ironically, most of his friends were exactly like this).
He opened the heavy wooden door with little effort. The door closed behind him with a muffled thud, blocking out the early fall sunlight.
The hall was dull; there was no sign of any encouraging or positive colors. Gaara glared around, staring at the place with distaste.
He spotted a tall blonde haired boy, they didn't talk a lot but the boy was Gaara's friend. Naruto Uzumaki was idiotically grinning as he made the two students standing beside him start a conversation.
Though Gaara was often annoyed of Naruto, he still admired him for his idiot ways of making friends and being confident.
Naruto was totally annoying and totally reliable to put anyone in a good mood. Gaara made his way over to Naruto, giving a little wave to the two students, Chouji and Shino.
"Hey…" Gaara mumbled quietly. Naruto turned, the grin still pasted on his face.
"Oh hey Gaara, what's up?" he asked, his voice bouncy and warm. Gaara shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno, alright I guess" he replied with an expression of boredom.
"Hey Naruto" said a voice behind Gaara. Gaara turned and saw Sasuke Uchiha. He flinched slightly as Sasuke pushed him out of the way.
"Naruto what are you doing?" Sasuke asked Naruto suspiciously, glancing towards Gaara. Naruto's eyes widened.
"N-nothing" came his lame reply. Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "Yeah? Sure doesn't seem like it but we need to talk…." Sasuke muttered furiously as he grabbed Naruto's wrist and dragged him away. Choji, Shino, and Gaara shrugged their shoulders. "In a fight again are they? They should make up their minds if they wanna stay together or not.
I'm pretty sure other guys around here would be ecstatic if they broke up…" mumbled Shino. Gaara nodded.
"Yeah…well I'm going to go outside again. It's too fucking depressing in this hallway" he said as he looked around again. Gaara made his way down the hallway and pulled the door open and walked out, the sun blinding him.
The heat was killing him so he walked over to the small cluster of trees, he remembered that this was the place where Hojji had tried to take the new boy's lunch.
Gaara looked around, it was seemingly empty. None of the students sat beneath the trees, so he picked the biggest one, right next to the trickling brook and sat down.
He spread his arms out, his fingers spread open to let the fresh grass caress them with the cold yet welcoming dew. He grasped the grass tightly, feeling the cold dew run down his fingers.
His hand touched something warm and soft, he looked down and saw another hand on the other side of the tree. "Ehh, your hand is cold, get it off of mine!" said a voice loudly.
Gaara leaned outwards, he got a good look at the boy on the other side of the tree. "Oh..you're the guy that tried to fight Hojji right?" He asked slowly, uncertain if he should bother the half asleep boy. The black haired boy turned to face Gaara, his eyes searching Gaara's with a quizzical stare that made Gaara waver.
"Yeah…and you're the one that kind of stood up for me…right?" The boy asked slowly. Gaara nodded and gave him a kind of small smirk. Lee smiled. "I'm Rock Lee. But you can call me Lee if you want" he said, holding out his hand for Gaara to shake it.
Gaara glared at him. "Did I say I wanted to know your name? You're pathetic. You can't even stick up for yourself, I had to, and I'm much smaller than you." He kept on glaring at Lee, wondering why he even bothered talking to him.
"I don't want a record. at my old school…well I had a long list" Lee told him as he fidgeted with the grass. Gaara sneered at him. "Yeah, doesn't mean you're strong.
You probably lost most of them, being weak and pathetic. If you EVER get in my way or stand between something I want, I'll kill you." Gaara simply told him the straight truth, he did not want anything to do with Lee, and he didn't even want to recognize him.
Lee got up and walked past him in a quick fashion that cleared told Gaara he had agitated Lee.
-00-
He slowly stood, picking up his bag and his homework he had been working on. He started to walk away when he decided to turn around. He looked at the tree with slight curiosity. His eyes lay upon the sleeping boy.
"It's that guy. The guy that stuck up for me…" he quietly told himself with disbelief. "He'll be late if he doesn't wake up" so Gaara walked over and gently nudged the boy with his foot. The sleeping boy's arm shot out, grabbing lees foot and twisting it harshly.
Gaara cried out in pain and kicked the boy's arm with his other foot. Lee got up and glared at Gaara. "Don't touch me" he growled and picked up his stuff and left.
Gaara looked at his paper to see what class he had. He had geography first. "Great" he muttered as he made his way to his class. He walked into the classroom; this room was actually brilliantly white and colorful. He felt the corners of his mouth twitch but stopped it.
There was one seat left, and it was the one behind the boy that had attacked him. "Fuck" he swore under his breath as he walked down the aisle, watching the glances of the perverted boys' eyes follow him.
He gritted his teeth just so he wouldn't attack them all. He sat down gingerly and took out his textbook and his writing book. A tap on the shoulder made him jump a little. "What?!" he said impatiently as he bent down to pick up his textbook. He turned around and glared into the boy's fishy eyes. "What the hell do you want? You attack me after I save your pitiful ass and then you annoy me by tapping my shoulder constantly!" he said angrily.
The boy frowned and shrugged. "I dunno, I just wanted to thank you for saving my pitiful ass and I didn't attack you" he simply told Gaara this as he leaned back and closed his eyes. "But it's okay if you want to admit that I'm a good fighter" he said with a smug smile on his face.
Gaara almost snapped, he couldn't stand people that tried to say they were better then him. He hated it. "Shut up, you wouldn't have lasted a second with Hojji" Gaara sneered at Lee before turning around. The teacher strode in quickly and closed the door. "Okay boys, get your chemist sets out!" said the young teacher brightly.
She had long brown hair and looked slightly Americanized. Her eyes were also brown, but giving her an exotic look anyways. Gaara took out a pen and started to copy down the notes, the teacher babbling on about physics and how sand turned to glass.
He already knew this stuff, he was from the sand village, did they think he was slow or something? Honestly. Gaara shook his head, thinking of other things such as the boy behind him. 'He's so stupid and cocky. I just want to turn around and crush his face in' he growled to himself in his mind. He felt a sharp jab in his back; he knew it was that annoying kid. "What?!" he hissed from the corner of his mouth.
He didn't turn around, just in case the teacher was watching. Lee's voice sounded awkward when he spoke, "What's your name?" he asked, still rotating the sharp pencil on Gaara's back. "Gaara, now leave me alone and stop poking my damn back!" he turned his head and went back to work.
Soon the bell rang, time for a break. All the students filed out of the door slowly, giving the teacher a satisfactory feeling.
Gaara looked over his shoulder at Lee, who was staring at a peculiar poster. Lee turned, sensing Gaara's eye on him. "So your name is Gaara huh?" he asked softly, his voice Husky, soft and sultry, sort of like a perverted old lady. Gaara nodded awkwardly and gave a slight grunt.
Lee smiled. Gaara, feeling a slight sense of pity, decided to introduce Lee to Naruto Shino and Choji and of course…Sasuke. Gaara let out a deep sigh. "Uh, I guess since you know, you have no friends…I guess I can introduce you to mine. Come with me and you can meet the guys" he said, grabbing lee's hand.
Gaara stopped abruptly. He let go of Lee's hand as if he were scalded by hot water. "Err. Just follow me" he mumbled. Lee smirked and followed Gaara as directed. They walked out the class door and into the flowing hallway. Students slammed lockers and chatted with their neighbors.
Gaara glanced at Lee from the corner of his eye. "Hurry up" he said flatly as he sped ahead. He spotted Naruto and the others at their lockers.
"Hey" he mumbled quietly, his voice muffled by his lips that barely parted. The others and Naruto stared past Gaara and to Lee. "Who's that?" asked Naruto with a wide grin.
He was always looking for a new, not yet corrupted boy. He was such a pervert when it came to these situations. "That's uh. That's Lee. Lee this is Naruto. The biggest idiot around" he kidded and managed a bleak smile as Naruto shook his head.
"Well, why don't I show Lee around?" Naruto said with a cocky grin, raising one eye brow towards Lee.
Gaara furrowed his brow, well where it was supposed to be. "Um, I'm pretty sure Sasuke would kill you" he told Naruto with a stern look.
Naruto suddenly lost all of his motor skills. His face went white and his eyes widened brilliantly. "Err, right. Ehehehe Sas-Sasuke would uh…yeah he'd, he'd kill me" Naruto looked over Gaara and Lee's shoulders, making the others turn in curiosity.
Sasuke strode down the hall with a look of calamity. Naruto shuddered because this was like the calm before the storm.
"Hey Naruto" said Sasuke as he walked up to him and enveloped him in a hug. Lee looked at Gaara with an awkward expression.
Gaara shrugged his shoulders to answer him."Okay, well I'm…I'm going to show Lee around" Gaara said as he backed away.
He and Naruto had a thing going while Naruto was still seeing Sasuke, and that was the reason why Gaara was kind of nervous every time Sasuke came up to him with that quizzical look. "Okay, see you later" Said the group.
Sasuke trailed Gaara severely with his piercing obsidian eyes. Gaara shuddered slightly. They walked down the hall; curious glances from other students followed them as well.
"So, what are you showing me?" Lee asked, his eyes gleamed with anticipation. Gaara shrugged again, this seemed to be the only kind of answer he had lately.
"I dunno I just didn't want to be around Sasuke" he told Lee, staring at his fishy eyes. Lee smirked at Gaara.
"How come? Did you lose in a fight?" he asked him with a stupid look across his face. Gaara glared at Lee deeply. His conscious mind told him to stop, stop being so angry or otherwise he'd go insane. "No…that isn't the reason"
"What is it then?"
"None of your business"
"Well if you're my friend, which you are or else I wouldn't be here, you would tell me"
"What…."
"Friend tell friends things"
"You're not making any sense. You're like an old demented circus monkey"
"What? I'm not the one with red clown hair"
"No but you have big fishy eyes and big bushy eye brows"
"So? Least I HAVE eye brows"
Gaara sent a hard blow to Lee's stomach. Lee collapsed to the floor and groaned. "Touché" he muttered as he slowly picked himself up from the ground.
Suddenly an angry voice erupted from down the hall. "Hey Gaara!" Gaara turned and saw Sasuke quickly walking up to him. He stood his stance, not afraid. "What do you want?" he asked, his tone bored and unaffected.
Sasuke came right up to him and glared deeply into Gaara's emerald green eyes. "so, been hanging around Naruto huh?" he growled as he pushed Gaara slightly. Gaara glared back, his eyes meeting Sasuke's. "Answer me" Sasuke pushed him again. Gaara gritted his teeth menacingly.
"Don't touch me" he told him. Gaara stepped up, only inches from Sasuke's face. Sasuke turned, finally noticing the larger, more built boy.
"Who is this?" he asked with sudden curiosity. Gaara, grateful of Lee, introduced them. "Sasuke-Lee, Lee- Sasuke" he mumbled.
He grabbed Lee's hand and pulled him away when Lee and Sasuke got lost in each others' eyes. Sasuke laughed. "What? Thinking that Lee might be stolen from you?" he jeered as he walked with them, grabbing Lee's hand. "Does that bother you?" he said as he wrapped his arm around Lee's waist.
Sasuke was annoying Gaara to no end right now. Gaara smirked, his eyes avoiding Sasuke's arm. "No, not at the least" he said stiffly, his posture just as stiff.
Lee looked awkward, like he wanted to rip free from both of them. Gaara still held on to Lee's hand absent mindedly. When Lee's fingers twitched Gaara let go quickly, hoping Lee wasn't as smart as he sounded in class. "I'll show Lee around Gaara, don't worry" he said, dragging Lee away and out of the tall wooden front doors.
Gaara just stood there, dumfounded greatly. Lee turned, giving Gaara a worthy apologetic smile. Gaara returned the smile with a kind of smirk and sneer.
Not really a smile. He turned and walked towards Naruto, Choji, and Shino. "Wow, nice to see you upset…" Gaara said to Naruto when he saw the dumbstruck look on his face. Naruto looked towards Sasuke and Lee his mouth barely parted when he spoke up.
"And he gets mad at me when I go and flirt with other guys?! Look at him! He's all over the new kid. God I'm not the only whore here" he mumbled as he looked down at his feet. Gaara laughed quietly under his breath while Chouji and Shino looked around, being quiet as possible so they didn't earn a smack in the head.
Gaara turned his head, trying to find a distraction. He let his gaze travel to his feet slowly, nothing else any interesting. "So uh, Shino…you found anyone yet?" Chouji suddenly spoke up. Gaara and Naruto raised their heads, almost snapping their neck in the process.
Choji never questioned anyone's dating status. Nor has he shown any interest in anyone. Shino turned his head towards them. "Sorry, what were you saying?" he asked, his eyes still looking down the hall. Chouji turned red and shook his head.
"Err, nothing" he mumbled and went back to fidgeting with his science papers. Shino shrugged and turned back towards the hall, observing some boys talking quite loudly to each other, though they seemed to try and hide what they were saying.
One boy with long dark hair was gazing intently at shino, but was talking to the other at the same time. "You know that shino kid right? Well…I've been thinking…about I dunno, talking to him more. He never notices me anyways" he mumbled to the other boy with a mask covering his mouth and his eyes covered with black sunglasses despite the shadiness in the hall.
"Are you even listening to me Yoroi?" he asked impatiently. Shino made an odd face when the boy named Yoroi glared at the other one. "Neji, seriously he'll never notice you, you're…ugh…not appealing to him. He likes that Chouji guy. They're always hanging out" he quipped lightly as he saw the disappointed expression on Neji's face. Gaara shook his head, his thoughts obsessing over Lee.
'What are they doing…what if he...I'm pathetic, why do I even bother with the kid?" he thought to himself as he raised his head. He met Naruto's blue eyes, their gaze locked together intently.
Gaara blushed and turned away to the other end of the hall. He spotted Sasuke and Lee walking down the hall, like a happy couple that just got back from the time of their lives. Lee had an awkward smile on his face, which was bright red and his eyes were glazed over.
He looked like he was sleeping, but Gaara stared at him with the oddest look on his face. Sasuke glared down at Gaara and brushed past him towards Naruto.
Hugging him and then letting go, only to grab his hand. Gaara felt his stomach churn. Seeing them together was as sick as the thought of Chouji and shino.
Gaara turned to Lee, giving him a dark look of disgust. "Have fun?" he asked coldly as he turned his back on Lee. Lee's face was etched with sad bewilderment. "I-….I guess I did kind of" he replied, his eyes not meeting Gaara's.
Gaara turned and turned his attention to the students shutting their lockers. Lee lightly tapped Gaara's shoulder timidly.
Gaara turned, his eyes flaming. "What?!" he asked loudly, angry at lee, well mostly Sasuke. Naruto turned, surprised by Gaara's unusual outburst.
"Gaara…Can...Can I talk to you for a second?" asked Naruto, his eyes glancing towards Sasuke. Sasuke glared but said nothing.
Gaara shrugged, whether he wanted to or not, he was sure Naruto would force him to talk anyways. "Okay, come here" Naruto said seriously grabbing Gaara's wrist tightly and dragging him down the hall and shoving him into the janitor's closet. "W-what?" Gaara asked impatiently, rubbing his arm where he had fallen into the broom sticks.
Naruto glowered at Gaara, his face for once serious, without the idiotic smile pasted across his face. "You like Lee don't you?" Naruto asked. his eyes deep with concern and worry. Gaara glared at him. "No, I don't"
"Well it sure looks like you do. You got mad when Sasuke took him away, and you never get mad at those small things." Naruto was determined to worm the answer out of Gaara no matter what.
"Just because it looks like it, it doesn't mean anything" he said flatly, not knowing what else to say. He stared at Naruto intensely, his green eyes piercing into Naruto's light blue ones.
"Well…if you don't like Lee…does that mean you still like…me?" Naruto asked hopefully.
"What?" Gaara's expression showed that he was embarrassed by such a question.
"Do you still like me?" Naruto asked quietly, looking at Gaara with a soft expression.
"Uhm, I really don't know…" he replied, he noticed how close they were…
"Oh…" came Naruto's soft voice. They were so close he could feel Naruto's breath…
The door opened quickly just as Naruto reclined his neck towards Gaara, about to embrace their lips together. It was Lee. Lee's eyes grew big, his face flushed.
He opened his mouth a few times and blinked his eyes rapidly, his dark lashes fluttering against his cheeks. "I-I-I- um. Oh…oh uh…I-I…ehhh" he couldn't find his tongue. Lee sounded like a skipping CD almost. Gaara and Naruto flew apart.
"Lee…GET IN THERE" Naruto hissed, pulling Lee's green shirt towards him. Lee flew into the closet with them. But Naruto looked around, deciding it'd be better if he just left. Gaara turned swiftly, his eyes widened significantly in an angry shock.
He knew the door locked from the outside, so no matter what they'd be stuck in here. If they broke it down, they'd be expelled and Gaara did not want to return to the hidden sand village. Lee looked at Gaara with fear. "I- I really…you you're…" he trailed off, but Gaara knew what he was getting at.
"Yeah…I am. What's your point?" Gaara asked angrily as Lee stared at him as if he was a strange and foreign disease. Lee blushed slightly as he turned his gaze towards the door.
"Uh. We better go" he mumbled lamely. Gaara nodded, not meeting Lee's eyes. He turned the knob, but only to find it locked.
Gaara let out a small whimper of despair. "Fuck" he swore under his breath as he kicked the door with fury. "what? What's wrong?" asked lee nervously, he wasn't sure if he should say anything.
Gaara turned, glaring at Lee with such intensity that made Lee feel like crumbling beneath his own weight. "It's locked" he told him, still giving him an angry glare. Lee blushed and furrowed his brow. "Why are you mad….what the hell did I do?" Lee was now frowning deeply at Gaara, hoping to intimidate him. Gaara's expression softened. He turned, his back facing Lee now. Gaara didn't want Lee to see his emotions, so he pretended to fumble with the lock.
"I…why do you care? I met you just today" he mumbled quietly. Lee shook his head, but Gaara of course, being turned around, didn't notice. "Uhm. I care because...I dunno. But it doesn't matter if I met you today…we're friends.
Well I think we are…unless you don't want to be friends…I…" He trailed off, not knowing what else to say.
Lee shuffled forwards and grabbed Gaara's shoulder tightly and spun him around. His dark eyes searched Gaara's emerald ones. Lee noticed the red hair that clung to his forehead.
He brushed it away, still looking into Gaara's eyes all the while. "What…" Gaara started to ask. Lee quickly moved in and embraced his lips with Gaara's. He didn't know what the hell had come over him, but he didn't care.
Those bright green eyes and Gaara's fiery red hair…Lee couldn't help it. He'd felt that way since he first saw Gaara. He admired Gaara for sticking up for a complete stranger, then gradually letting the stranger into his life.
Lee's eyes were closed as he kissed Gaara softly; lifting his hands to Gaara's hair and running his fingers through it, making Gaara shudder slightly. Lee pulled back and let his lips linger on Gaara's; barely touching, but just enough so Gaara could feel the warmth of his skin.
"…mhf..." Gaara let out a low sound from his throat. Lee opened his eyes and saw Gaara staring at the floor, his face almost as red as his hair.
Lee pulled away, staring and studying Gaara. He smirked; satisfied that he could get so close to someone that blocked out everyone. "…we really have to go" Gaara mumbled and kept fumbling with the lock.
Lee pinched Gaara's upper thigh, and smiled when Gaara's neck shot straight up. He didn't have to look at Gaara's face to tell he was blushing. A sharp sound filled the air, it was the bell. "Fuck, we'll get detention if we don't get out of here!" Lee hissed as Gaara kept fumbling with it. "Well we can't break it, we'll get suspended." Gaara replied impatiently. Lee's eyes brightened.
"We can shout though, there's got to be someone that will hear us" he told him with a bright smile. Gaara returned it with a kind of odd smirk. They started to shout, banging on the door for extra noise. After a minute and no one came, Gaara frowned. "No ones' coming" he told Lee with a negative expression. "Someone will" Lee assured him.
They kept banging the door and shouting loudly. Soon the door flew open, Gaara and Lee tumbled out. "Thanks" they both mumbled.
It was the dark haired boy that was talking about shino. "Hey, you're the one that likes shino aren't you?" Gaara asked as he stood up and brushed the dust from his uniform.
The boy glanced at him. "What...well no I….I. Yeah I guess I do" he muttered quietly. "Oh. Well thanks again for the door" Gaara quipped as he picked lee up off the ground and headed towards their next class.
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"Gaara! Hey! Gaara-kun!" cried a one of the idiotic girls from the school next to Gaara's. Gaara turned and stared at the running girl.
She was wearing a white top with a black blazer and a red tie. Her school skirt was also black, but her tights were a shear white.
He smiled slightly, laughing silently to himself as the girl ran towards him. '…Why? Why do girls have to be so damn pathetic? Can't they go and do something else with themselves other then chase boys and talk about each other? Why do I even know what they do?!' he argued with himself.
The girl had finally caught up, sending Gaara into another fit of hell. "Gaara-kun you look really good today! Well you look good everyday of course!" the girl said loudly in her annoying squeaky voice. She mauled him, sending them both to the ground.
Her leg landed on Gaara's mid abdomen, her knee sinking into Gaara's groin. Gaara hissed in pain, shoving the girl harshly off of him. "Gaara! I'm really sorry I didn't mean to hurt you-"the girl kept going on in a whiny tone that just made the bomb in Gaara's head explode.
"SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" He turned and started to walk away. The girl ran up to him and looked him in the eye.
Her eyes were gleaming with unshed tears, which made Gaara feel slightly worse then he had felt when she had hurt him.
"I'm sorry Gaara-kun…" She said softly, her voice barely above a whisper. Gaara simply glared at her and shook his head in disgust.
"You're so damn pathetic." He snarled, still standing before her, glaring darkly. The girl let out an odd noise, a squeaky hiccup. "Gaara…"
"Just go away! I don't like you. Especially if you're going to maul me every single time you see me.
You're the most pathetic being I have ever met and I don't want to see your sniveling face around me for a long time" he said darkly, he decided he would leave it at that and just make his way back to his home.
The girl was left standing there, shedding tears because the boy she liked so much had basically crushed her with one explanation.
She turned and started to run. Gaara looked back, seeing the girl flee from the spot where he had just been at.
He smiled cruelly. "Pity, she could've at least picked my bag up for me" he said, chuckling to himself while he lifted his book bag to his shoulder from the ground.
He turned, facing the winding road before him. He sighed and made his way towards his house, though it was more then a short walk away.
He watched the red and orange leaves fall silently onto the ground when the breeze picked up, he was almost home.
He finally made it into the town, the busy pedestrians browsed into the markets, looking for gifts, food, whatever they needed.
Gaara hated this, He hated all the people that went out of their way to buy presents for young children that would probably break them anyways.
The food he understood, though anyone would understand that. But he had never been recognized as a child, just a jinchuuriki that held an evil demon within his body.
That's why He and Naruto understood each other so much, maybe that's why…'Shut up!!!' his mind screamed to him, Gaara nodded in agreement and kept walking.
He turned the corner and bumped into a tall figure, he glared up at them, making them cringe in fear and quickly move away.
He shoved a small child out of his way, sending the child onto the busy street, "Hey! You don't go pushing smaller kids around!" yelled one of the male villagers.
Gaara glared at him. "Oh, Gaara. Nice to see you again" the man now whimpered fearfully. Gaara smiled and kept walking. He was feared by all and his Bijuu.
He finally came to face a dark alley. His eyes travelled to the dreary black door with a single rusted number on it.
He had to get the cheapest room so he could get to and from school easily. The school was in the hidden leaf village, Konoha.
His village, where he was supposed to kazeKage, was a long ways away. But his siblings decided it would be best if they sent him to a school, away from the village. His mental stability was worse then it was when he was a child.
Ever since the incident of sacrificing Chiyo, He was feeling rather sour and thought everyone distasteful in their own scum filled way.
He sighed, taking out his keys. "Temuri and Kankouro…you'll pay for this. Sticking me in a damn….ugggh" he groaned as a small spider scurried out of the doorway.
He walked inside, the living room, or what t was supposed to be, was actually quite warm. The old armchair sat in the corner with a dim over head lamp above it.
Half a dozen of open text books were sitting beside the chair on a small table, with an empty glass of water and a few orange peels.
He sighed and picked the empty glass and the orange peels up and brought them into the depressing kitchen, where cobwebs hung from the bare dim light bulb.
He threw the peels away and washed the cup. He was not really an unsanitary person; actually he really disliked untidy spaces.
He looked around at the white walls. They were supposed to be white, but they looked greyer, the paint peeling off in the corners and the cobwebs almost devoured the whiteness.
His thoughts slowly travelled towards the incident in the janitor's closet. He smirked, his hand absent-mindedly crawling up towards his lips.
He touched them softly, He almost felt as if it were happening all over again. His lungs twisted into a tight knot, while his heart sunk way down low to his stomach and started pulsing quickly there. He felt light headed as he thought of these senses.
He almost had to slap himself, for he was quickly stiffening at the thought of the sensation between him and Lee in the janitors' closet.
-00-
Lee had just entered his small campus apartment. The rain that had just started a minute ago had come down like a waterfall, flooding the sidewalk like a small river.
"God, who knew it rained more then in the Village" he mumbled as he pulled off his green turtle neck shirt. His lean muscles stood out clearly; Taijitsu had helped him gain this masculine form.
He glanced into his kitchen, it was a starchy white, everything except the black top counters, stainless steel furniture like the fridge and the microwave.
His apartment looked like it belonged to a neat freakish woman, but Lee, not being one to tolerate such messes, always had to keep his space clean.
He was a germ freak and didn't even like unwashed hands after handling his own kunai's. he peeled off his wet jeans and stood only in his boxers.
He jumped on the couch and grabbed the remote and switched it to the cartoon network. "Yeah! My show's on. Didn't miss one second" he said with enthusiasm.
He chuckled to himself as he watched the determined reckless boy try and fight off a crazed fan girl. He shook his head. "Man, Too bad the girls at my old school didn't do that to me" he said to himself, as if he was having a conversation with a good friend.
He thought about his old school and how so many kids had picked on him, trying to fight him every way he looked.
But his new school, there seemed to be only one bully, it was Hojji. And every seemed to be okay with him, but the smaller kids (like Lee) got pushed around.
But Lee had been toughened up by his former peers, so he didn't take shit from anyone. His thoughts travelled from the first incident with Hojji, to the last, very awkward incident with Gaara.
He furrowed his brow, a small bead of sweat forming in the crease of his forehead. 'Don't think about it, you can't like guys, there's no possible way. You just felt sorry for him…that's all' he assured himself with determination that he had no feelings what so ever for Gaara.
He sighed as he thought about how he moved in, embracing their lips together in a confused kiss. Lee didn't know what to think.
Gaara haunted his thoughts for over an hour, his light green eyes flashing through his mind. "…why did I kiss him? It was so random. But hey, he's got a hot body. I got to admit that" he said, blushing like crazy as he rocked back and forth like a fan girl.
Lee shook his head and started grinning stupidly. "His hair is so red! And his eyes are…oh my god his eyes are so hot. He even has a great body too.
He has that whole "tough exterior" but he's probably really sensitive and lonely on the inside…I CAN TELL!" he exclaimed loudly.
He then got control over himself and glared down at his feet. "What's wrong with me?" he asked himself. He tended to talk to himself a lot lately, ever since he started school.
Luckily he was from the hidden leaf village, where money was easily earned. He had just enough to rent this apartment.
It took a few odd jobs, a few begging techniques…maybe some occasional robbing…Lee shook his head. He didn't know what to think anymore.
He slumped down lower into the couch, fainting over Gaara and his exotic features. He covered his face with the small throw over. "Ugh….what's happening to me?" he whispered.
His eyes felt like cement, they were very heavy. He quickly fell asleep, Gaara's face wandering in and out of his dreams.
-00-
The sun beamed in through the mold covered window. Gaara lifted one eye lid with great effort.
He was curled up on the small dusty chair and the sun was beating down on him relentlessly.
He looked around groggily, unsure whether or not it was a school day. He had stayed up till the early hours of the morning; he finally got some rest when he drank some whiskey that he had left in the refrigerator.
Gaara sat up, rubbing the back of his head slowly. "Shouldn't have drunk that….ugh, what time is it?" he asked aloud.
He glanced over at the dusty grand father clock in the corner of the room. It was just barely nine 'o' clock. His eyes shot wide open.
It was only Tuesday! He stood up quickly and pulled on his pants and shirt. His muscles were chiseled enough to see the fine shape of his biceps.
He panted, catching his breath as he ran around the room collecting his belongings. Shoving his school papers carelessly into his book bag, he flung the door open and slammed it shut, racing off to school.
'I'm positive I'll get detention!' he moaned inside his head. He had never got a detention at this school before, and he wasn't enthusiastic about it now.
He raced down the busy market boardwalks, the villagers gasping and glaring at him. "It's the demon" a little girl whispered to her brother.
Gaara shot her a look of hatred and disgust, he'd be glad to stop and hit her but he was very late.
The girl shrunk back and cowered behind her equally small brother. He smiled and kept on running.
He finally got to the big hill where his school stood. He wasn't even close to tired from running, but instead, he was tired from waking up.
He groaned as he opened the tall wooden door, expecting to be scorned right away. His shoulders immediately slumped as he made his way to his first class.
He opened the door quietly, hoping the class had already begun working and the teacher wouldn't notice him.
Unfortunately, the teacher was in the middle of talking about physics. She turned, the meter stick held tightly in her hand.
Her eyes narrowed as Gaara skulked into the room. His eyes averted away from her piercing stare and went to the kid in the back row.
Lee stared right back at Gaara of course, their eyes locked like a heavily secured vault. The teacher slapped the stick on the desk beside her, making the students flinch.
"Sabaku no Gaara….you're late. And WHAT do late students get?" she said in a cold voice of hatred. She also feared him, but she converted that fear into hatred so deep that she could not resist belittling him all the time.
Gaara glanced over at the students. A wonderful thought came to Gaara's mind. "Uhh. They wouldn't want detention…" he said brightly, though his head was stuffed up from the hammering pulse in his brain.
The teacher glared at him. "You're lucky you can even go to this school Gaara, don't smart mouth me or you'll be out of here in a second" she said menacingly
He quirked an eyebrow bone at the teacher, he turned his face into a look of boredom and complete dullness.
The teacher was irked by his body language, and she slapped the stick on the desk again. "Take a seat…after school wait here.
You have a detention" she said dismissively, basically telling him to go away now. He nodded and gave her a smug little smile.
She just glared at him, furious. He dragged his book bag and his feet towards his desk, right in front of Lee. Lee looked up at him and gave him a smile.
Gaara faintly returned it but made sure it was barely noticeable. Lee looked down, his cheeks turning a pretty shade of pink.
Gaara smirked and took out his text books and his note book. His pencil scratched away on the paper as he took glances up at the notes up on the head projector.
"Physics is the science of matter and its motion. As well as space and time, the science that deals with concepts of force, energy, mass, and charge…." The teacher bored Gaara greatly.
He couldn't pay any attention to her. He decided to do something different, neglecting his notes and the assignment she had juts given out.
He smiled when he thought of Lee, his comical big eyes and thick eye brows. He started to draw a neat pair of circular eyes, marking them with three tiny lines for eye lashes.
After about a half an hour Gaara was finished, his sketching of Lee was almost identical to the real one.
The teacher glanced down the aisles towards Gaara. Gaara quickly covered the drawing and pretended to scribble down the notes on the projector.
She smiled, a satisfactory expression written lightly across her face. All Gaara could do from chuckling was bite his tongue.
' He would never give her the satisfaction of control, nor would he give her any kind. He went back to finishing the sketch, hoping Lee would coincidentally look over Gaara's shoulder and see it.
Gaara felt light headed all of a sudden. His eyes went in and out of focus; his sketch was wavering back and forth in his vision.
He shook his head, trying to make it go back to normal. "What the fuck…" he muttered under his breath.
He didn't realize he had just sworn until the meter stick him in the mouth. "Gaara I will not tolerate that kind of language in my class room! You understand me? I won't put up with filthy behavior from a worthless 'Kazekage' "she said furiously.
Her eyes were dilated and her pupils almost took up the color in her eyes. A few beads of sweat clung above her lip; she almost looked as if she had a nervous break down.
Her brown hair was frazzled slightly, giving her an eccentric look. Gaara felt his cheek slice open as his own teeth dug into it.
The metallic taste was odd and unwanted. He simply glared up at her, wishing to stand up and crush her with Sabaku Kyuu, but of course, that would be kind of harsh.
He simply stood up and glared at her. She glared right back. "Go" she ordered with a high tone voice.
He lazily glanced around the room, his facial expression told everyone that he had this under control; he was going to stay in the class room.
He simply stood before the teacher, staring at her with blank expressionless eyes. She gritted her teeth and her eyes turned into tiny angry slits.
"How dare you defy me you pathetic demon child" she was so close to hitting him. He laughed a soft calm laugh that would put anyone to sleep. "No. I think you're the pathetic one" he said. And as he said this, he slowly bent down, still keeping his eyes on hers, and picked up his belongings.
He strode quietly but gracefully out of the room. The teacher stood there, jaw hanging open as if someone had dislocated it.
-00-
Gaara walked down the deserted hall with a calm expression. He didn't mind leaving, but he knew he'd have to pay the detention or either go to the office.
(The office would be a worse choice...he'd been there before and in his case of carrying a demon that could destroy basically everything, he got a far worse punishment- the strap.
He didn't mind the pain, but he had to hold back every urge to kill the principal, maybe just crush him like he did others.
The desert funeral was one of his signature moves, or so he would call them. He made quick easy steps down the hall and towards the tall heavy wooden doors.
The light shined through the dusty windows, the ones that were barred with heavy set metal. "Hmph and this is a school? More like a damn penitentiary" he grumbled beneath his breath.
He could feel the warm autumn breeze rustle his hair lightly. The windows were all closed except the very top one; the big bay window was wide open, tiny birds and a small squirrel looked in, observing; afraid to actually explore the school.
Gaara glanced up without a caring nerve inside of him. "Sabaku Kyuu" he whispered under his breath as he gazed lazily at the small animals.
Quickly, not even a second later, the animals were suffocating in sand. Gaara smiled cruelly and watched as the bodies fell to the hallway floor, lifeless and limp.
He smiled and kept walking. 'Today feels like a good day' he said cheerfully in his head. Although, it wasn't very cheery, there was nothing "cheery" about killing, but to Gaara, it was living.
He had vowed to himself the day that he would love only himself. He branded the Kanji 'love' on his forehead-oh how ironic it was.
His thoughts burrowed deeply into his locked away memories, the things he would never forget, nor would he ever want to.
e remembered hearing the last pathetic pleas of his former opponents before he had ordered the Sabaku Sousou onto their bodies.
He remembered almost feeling them writhe beneath the heavy sand, which crushed their bones into shattered pieces.
He once levitated an opponent; and to his cruel delight, the clear blue sky was now showering with blood.
It was such a wonderful sight; Gaara loved the energy flowing through him. He gazed blankly as he reminisced about the "good old days", lost in his horrible thoughts of murderous delight.
-00-
Lee shot his hand in the air, hoping the teacher would let him go to the bathroom. The teacher looked at him for a moment before her lips parted. "Yes…?" she asked him slowly, as if dragging her words out by a thin line of thread. Lee smiled sweetly at her.
"May I please go to the bathroom please Ms. Rotsousai?" he asked, his voice almost dripping with honey. She smiled brightly at him.
He was one of her favored students; the brightest and exceptionally good looking, who couldn't resist him? "Yes Lee, you may" she said deeply, her voice sultry and seducing. He gave her a look of oddity as he stood up.
"Thanks" he said clearly as he passed her desk and walked out the door. Once out in the hallway, instead of turning right, where the bathroom was located, he turned left.
Something deep in the back of his mind told him to go this way instead of the other way. He furrowed his bushy brows as he made his way down the hall.
Surely nothing surprising was this way? Lee looked around the dismal hallway, sure that the staff wanted them to feel like they were in jail.
If they just gave the building a sheer white look like his apartment, the school would have a much cheerier look to it; maybe lee would even start to like the school.
He turned around the corner, heading towards the two large wooden doors, hoping to catch some fresh air while he had the time.
He was looking at his feet until he sensed another student in the halls. He lifted his head cautiously, hoping it wasn't that fat ass Hojji.
His eyes lay upon a sitting figure surrounded by sand. At first he though he was just sleep deprived, but when he rubbed his eyes and blinked for a couple of minutes he knew what he was seeing was real.
The figure, hidden in the shadows, was leaning against the wall with a crazed smile on his face. His eyes were glazed over; lee had seen this kind of eye before. His sensei called it the "panic eye", Lee had seen it on many faces of konoha when it was attacked a couple of years ago.
Since Lee, his team mates, and a couple of others went on a mission, he could not remember anything at all that had happened in the past unless someone told it to him.
He vaguely remembered the chuunin exams; whom he had battled; whom he had lost to. He just remembered two light green eyes that could kill you in an instant.
He stopped thinking about it and went towards the figure leaning against the wall. "Excuse me? But who are you?" he asked slowly.
He wasn't sure if he wanted to find it out, but the shadows that were cast upon his company's face was making the natural curiosity rise up inside of him.
The figure turned his head, his crazed smile and panic eyes slightly disoriented. The panic eyes were light green, lee could tell. "Are you okay?" he asked.
The figure laughed, lee did not like it. He had heard such a laugh before blacking out on one of his missions with his teammates.
He backed away, and the figure followed. Lee stared at the receding shadows; he would now get to see his company's face.
His eyes widened when he saw the fiery red hair. "Gaara!" he cried with happiness and surprise.
Gaara stopped and his crazy smile and panic eyes disappeared. He shook his head, grabbing hold of the hair that grew out of his temples and started to pull it with frustration.
"Gaara! Gaara what's wrong?" Lee asked as he placed his hand on Gaara's raised shoulder. "Nothing…I was having flashbacks and I- I don't want to be this way!" he cried as his knees buckled and collapsed.
Lee bent down and sat beside Gaara. "What do you mean? You know you can tell me" he said soothingly, his voice soft and calm.
This was out of character, but he had no choice to be soothing if Gaara didn't calm down. "I don't know if I can Lee" he said quietly.
Lee looked at Gaara, whose head was bowed, the red hair falling over his eyes. Lee lifted Gaara's head by his chin, making Gaara look into his eyes.
He saw small unshed, frustrated tears in Gaara's eyes. He smiled and laughed softly. "I guess that tough exterior doesn't do you much good does it" it was more of a statement then a question.
Gaara shrugged and bowed his head again. Lee picked it up, and caressed Gaara's cheek with his bandaged hand. He didn't speak this time, but instead kissed Gaara softly where his Kanji was placed.
"I better go, the teacher would be expecting me back by now, I'll see you at lunch Gaara" he said as he stood.
He looked back and gave Gaara his best smile. Gaara surprisingly smiled back. He knew what love felt like, but this was different, way different. He hoped to see Lee soon.
-00-
"Lee you're late!" the teacher barked as lee pulled open the door. He smiled apologetically, "Sorry Ms. Rotsousai" he said, giving her his best smile.
She smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "You know what happens to late students Lee" she gave him a flirtatious smirk. Lee glanced at the door quickly, as if planning to escape.
"Y-yes Ms. Rotsousai…." He stuttered slightly, uncomfortable with the look in his sensei's eyes.
"Detention after school today" she told him as she passed by him towards her desk. All the students were working, so none of them noticed when the teacher lightly tapped Lee on the rear with the meter stick.
Lee felt his face grow hot, he felt like fainting. 'Teachers don't do that…they aren't supposed to do that, that's…that's…that's...uh…what is it called again? Sexual intentions? No what the hell that's not it. OH! It's uh, uh, uh…SEXUAL HARRASMENT! Yeah! That isn't right, they can get fired or something for doing that' he kept this debate going in his head for the rest of his morning classes.
Physics and Biology were his strongest subjects; the two morning classes were his only salvation from Math and English and History.
He sighed when the lunch bell rang; His mind had been going for the past four hours of classes. He stood up, stretching his legs slowly and then his arms. His first priority was to find Gaara and then Naruto and the others.
He wondered why he felt so at home with them, like he knew them from a long time ago. But of course this was just ridiculous, how could Lee know the most popular guys in both schools of boys and girls? Lee thought about how they would get a lot of the girls from the neighboring school through the thick forest path and up the hill.
He laughed as he made his way out of the class room, daydreaming about how he, Gaara, Naruto, and the other guys (he totally forgot their names) would go up to the school and talk to the girls.
How they'd get caught and probably have detention with the perverted lady teachers. This he shuddered to.
The hallways were cramped; he could barely push past the smaller freshman boys. He was looking down when he suddenly fell to the floor.
He looked up and saw Hojji. Hojji turned, his face flaring with anger. "Oh so you want to try my patience again do you?" he asked menacingly.
Lee shook his head, laughing as he stared up at the tall beefy boy standing before him. "You really think you can take me? Haha oh wow. That is funny" he said, slapping his knee as if mocking Hojji.
Hojji gritted his teeth together, making a horrible grinding sound. "Oh you really shouldn't have said that" he bent down and went to pick Lee up off the floor.
Lee quickly jumped up and away from him; his body was flexible enough to do some of the most complex moves.
Lee took his stance, waiting for Hojji to make the first move.
End of chapter one