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Well, my first story here on . I wrote most of this in class - getting inspired by different people in my class actually. I really hop you'll like it.
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Thanks a lot to Lightning Bee for beta'ing on this story.
His favorite blossom
He was watching her from behind. She couldn't see it, but felt it in every part of her body. She didn't like him watchingher like that. Without even noticing what she was doing, she suddenly started to walk faster. "Sakura-chan!" She ignored him. "Wait up, Sakura-chan!" Without warning her shoulder was grabbed from behind. She instantly turned around to face the boy. Lee seemed kind of nervous.
"What's the matter, Sakura-chan?" He asked. Trying not to answer the wrong way, she took a deep breath.
"Nothing, everything is fine." His fuzzy eyebrows lifted at her unconvincing reply.
"I don't believe you. You know you can talk to me about everything!"Sakura smiled at him.
"Yes, I know, but this is different. You wouldn't understand". Lee grabbed her hand.
"Please give me a chance. I won't laugh or make fun of you, I promise on my youth!" He looked down at their joinedhands and blushed.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to..." He quickly letgo of her hand. Sakura couldn't hold back the laughter when she saw the bewildered expression on Lee's face.
"It's alright Lee-san, you don't have to worry about it at all…" He lowered his shoulders.
"Well, if there's anything bothering you, please come see me, ok?"
He turned around, and started to walk away from her, buta feeling deep inside her made her change her opinion. "Okay, Lee-san, we can talk about it…" A big smile spread acrosshis face.
They sat down on a bench in the park. The bright glare of sun made Sakura keep her eyes closed. Lee looked at the pink haired girlthoughtfully. What could make her so miserable? He placed his hand on her shoulder.
"What's wrong Sakura-chan?" Sakura hawked.
"You see," Sakura folded her hands. "There is this boy I know…" Lee blinkedat her in surprise, was a boy the source of her problems?
"Has he bullied you? Should I have a word with him?" Sakura jumped up and waved her hands in front of herself frantically.
"No! I didn't mean it like that!" Her bright green eyes looked so desperate; it was like they begged him.
"Ok, ok…" He stood up and put Sakura back on the bench before sitting back down next to her. "So… What has this boy got to do with your problems?" Her cheeks became light red. Lee suddenly understood. She was in love. "Oh, I see." He felt like his heart had justbroken. The only girl he had ever loved was in love with someone else!
"Who's the lucky guy?" Her face turned even darker and she shook her head.
"Sorry, Lee-san, but I can't say it, it would be wrong if he knew how I really felt." Lee stood up from the bench.
"How could it be wrong to let him know? I mean, every guy in the whole village would feel privileged to know that the one and only Sakura-chan hasfeelings for him." Lee silently walked around the streets of Konoha, thinking about Sakura.
"Are you serious?" Lee took Sakura's hands and helped her toher feet.
"Sure! Trust me." The smile Sakura then gave him made him melt inside. For a moment he felt totally happy. They walked around the park for a bit just talking untilSakura stopped.
"I'm thirsty. Can we go over to that drink fountain?" Lee nodded.
"Sure, go onyou; I'll be with you in a second". As Sakura walked away, Lee walked in the opposite direction. He stopped beside a cherry tree, and picked one of the beautiful flowers.
Sakura waited by the fountain. Lee hid the beautiful flower inside one of his orange legwarmers, before he went back to Sakura. When Sakura noticed Lee, she started to wave her hands over her head.
"Where were you?" she asked. Lee looked at her nervously.
"Oh, nowhere…" He offered her his left arm, and they walked arm-in-arm through the alley. Suddenly Sakura began to talk.
"The real reason...The real reason why I can't tell him, is that I've turned him down so many times. It would be wrong if I just told him that I like him..." Lee stroked her arm.
"It wouldn't. Just tell him what you feel; I'm sure he'll understand!" Sakura stopped walking.
"It's been a while since he asked me out. In the meantime we have become good friends, and I'm not willing to ruin our friendship because of some stupid feeling of mine!" Lee understood exactly how she felt. He wouldn't lose Sakura as a friend for the world. Then, without warning Sakura started to cry.
"What is it?" Lee laid his arm around her to comfort her. Sakura laid her head against his green cladshoulder, and cried even more. Lee, who didn't know what to do, started to walk. When they came to the same white bench as before, he helped her sit downand, as she continued to cry, he got the fresh cherry blossom from his orange legwarmer.
"Sakura-chan?" Hearing the concern in hisvoice made Sakura stop crying, and she looked at him.
"Yes?" He held the flower out in front of him. "This flower is loved and respected by everyone. It looks beautiful wherever it is, and whatever happens to it, it still stands tall." Sakura's eyes got teary.
"Lee…" He placed the flower in her short pink hair. "It's just like you, Sakura. After all, you got named after it." He wiped the tears away from her jade green eyes. "Please don't cry Sakura. I hate to see one of my best friends in grief. So… Find that guy and ask him. Good luck!" With these words Lee turned around, and walked away. Sakura started to cry again, not loud, but it hurt more than last time.
Lee silently walked around the streets of Konoha, thinking about Sakura. Had he done the right thing? Or had he only made things worse? Outside the popular Ichiraku Ramen shop he met his two teammates Tenten and Neji Hyuuga.
"You can't answer a girl like that!" Tenten boxed Neji's shoulder. An irritated Neji looked back at her angrily butTenten just put her elegant hands on her hips looking unimpressed. "Don't give me that look, it doesn't work on me!" Then, noticing Lee, she waved at him cheerfully."Hey! What's up, Lee?" Lee lifted a hand to reply the greeting.
"Nothing special… What's up with you guys?" It was Neji who answered.
"Nothing." He opened his mouth to say more, but Tenten interrupted him.
"Neji just turned down a very cute girl in a very rude way!" Lee couldn't believe his teammate. He was popular among the girls. But every time a girl talked to him he seemed uninterested and just walked away.
SecretlyLee was en vious of Neji for many reasons:
He was good looking. Lee wasn't.
He was from a noble family. Lee didn't have one.
He stayed calm no matter what. Lee was very emotional.
He was a Jōnin. Lee was a Chūnin.
"Lee? Are you alright?" Tenten's worried voice woke him up from his deep thoughts.
"Sure… actually, I dohave a headache. I'll go home now…" As he walked away he said. "And Neji… Don't be so harsh… You're a lucky guy…" Then he walked away.
As he was about to round the corner, he heard Sakura's sweet laughter and stopped. He carefully looked around the corner, and saw Sakura playing with someone. That someone was Naruto. Sakura's cherry-colored hair waved in the slight breeze. She looked totally happy, and so did Naruto… It was likethe last piece of a puzzle, Lee thought. Sakura's crush was Naruto Uzumaki!
Lee walked off. His heart was torn apart. The tears of broken youth flowed, and made the ground wet. When he got home, he laid down on his bed, and cried himself to sleep.
The next morning Lee woke up with a strange but comforting feeling that something special would happen today. Something that would change his life for eternity.
After getting ready for the day ahead, he walked out of his home, and started to go down the main street of Konoha. As he passed the Ichiraku Ramen shop, he bumped intoNaruto.
"Hi, Lee! What're you doing up so early?" The orange outfit he was wearing had a hole on its right knee.
"Oh… Hello Naruto-kun! Well, I just woke up early. What happen to your outfit?" Naruto looked down at his trousers.
"Oh, that." He gave Leehis biggest grin. "That was an accident. I fell down a cliff." He looked at his watch. "Two minutes late," he mumbled.
"Are you supposed to meet someone?" Naruto nodded.
"Yeah. I was supposed to meet Sakura-chan at this spot two minutes ago…" Lee's heart stopped for a second.
"So you guys are teaming up for training?" He hoped it was yes, but deep inside he knew it…
"No" Naruto said. "We are going to my place for a few hours before meeting up with Kakashi-sensei." Then he lifted his arm and scratched his yellow hair. The familliar action madeLee feel like he was gettingcloser to knowing what would be special about this day.
"Good luck Naruto-kun. You are one lucky guy. Take good care of your youth - and Sakura-Chan's too. It has been a pleasure to know two youthful persons as Sakura-chan and yourself." Naruto looked slightly confused, smiling at Lee as thoughthe was something between a freak and a friend.
"Okay…" Lee turned his eyes up to look at the blue sky.
"Please say thanks to Neji-san for me. Ask Tenten to take care of it, and that she is the best of friends. Please tell her to go for it, and to be careful in battle. A last; tell Guy-sensei that he is the greatest sensei I've ever had. He was kind of like a father to me." Lee left quickly, knowing what he had to do now.
"What was that about?" Naruto shouted after him. Lee brieflylooked back at the boy with three stripes on each cheek.
"Don't think about it Naruto-kun. Just remember it, okay?" Naruto nodded. Lee lifted his left foot, but stopped the movement when he thought of something else he needed to say. "One last thing, Naruto. Tell Sakura that my favorite blossom is the cherry blossom, and it always will be. Okay?" Naruto nodded again, not sure why Lee was saying such weird stuff. Lee blinked, and walked around the nearest corner.
As he walked down this new road it surprised him that he knew so easily what he was going to do. Was that really how it was supposed to be? He walked around another corner, and bumped into Sakura.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! Please forgive me Sakura-chan." Without another word, he ran off in direction of the forest. Sakura's heart beat faster. Everywhere and every time she saw him, heard about him or simply thought about him; her heart went mad inside her.
"Sakura-chan!" A voice made her turn around. Right behind her stood Naruto.
"Hi, I was… Did you see Lee-san a minute ago?" Naruto, who was expecting Sakura to excuse herself for being late, just blinked.
"Lee-san? Yeah, I just talked with him… but he said some pretty weird stuff…" He scratched his neck. Sakura started to walk towardsNaruto's residence.
"Oh?" Sakura asked, trying not to seem interested. "What did he say?" Naruto thought for a second.
"I know it sounds weird, but he asked me to thank people and give some messages…" Sakura stopped without warning. For some reason a deeling of dread filling her heart. Naruto yawned. "He wanted me to tell you that: His favorite blossom was the cherry blossom, and it always would be like that…" Sakura gasped. "Sakura-chan? Are you alright? Do you know what he meant?" Sakura turned around with a grave look on her face.
"Sorry Naruto, I have to do something!" Then she ran intothe forest she had seen Lee go into.
Lee sat under a dark green tree. In his hand he held a bloody kunai. Everything in the forest was quiet - nothing moved. Then a movement from the 14-year old boy scared the birds, and they flewaway. Lee pulled the knife out of his body, and stabbed again. A puddle of blood had started to gatherbeneath him. For the fourth time he lifted the kunai, this time ready to strike right through his heart…
"Lee!" Sakura's tears fell to the ground as she ranand made a trace behind her. Where could he be? "Lee!" Again and again Sakura shouted, but there was no response… She sat down, still crying helplessly.
"Oh, Lee… I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you before…" She looked up atthe sky. Puffy white clodswere moving across the very blue sky. All was silent, not a single bird singing. Then suddenlybirds rose and flew away. Sakura stood up and ran towards the place the birds were flying away from.
Lee was about to stab himself in the heart when Sakura reached him.
"Lee! Don't!" Her voice stopped him, and he looked upat the pretty girl.
"What are you doing!?" Sakura shook him andLee started to laugh… Sakura, who had stopped crying, couldn't help but getangry. "You're laughing!?" He covered up his mouth with his emptyleft hand.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan. You just reminded me about Tenten… You know, she always shakes me like that…" The strange comparison of Tenten and herself made Sakura laugh too and she carefully pulled the kunai away from him before setting about bandaging his self inflicted wounds with the medical kit she kept on her at all times.
"Why did you do it Lee-san?" she asked when se had bit his lip before giving her a sad smile.
"There are many reasons why, Sakura-chan…" He turned around so he didn't have to face her as he continniued."I'm a failure as a ninja. I can doneither gen-jutsu nor nin-jutsu; I don't have any family; everyone tells me that I look like a freak; and the girl I love the most, loves my good friend Naruto-kun." He sighed. "I can't even take my own life…"
Sakura instantly understood what he meant. "Why do you think I love Naruto?" She asked. He turned back to look at her in confusion.
"Because those things you said back at the bench… About the boy that you turned down and now is your friend." Sakura remembered and shook her head.
"Oh, Lee… Try thinking about yourself for a second." Lee did as he was told with a small frown.
"That means…" Sakura embraced him and whispered.
"You're the one, Lee. You're the one and only reason that I have been acting strange the last fewdays." Lee's eyes got teary as he tightly embraced her back.
"I love you Sakura, I always have. You are the world to me!" Two green eyes looked up, and met his.
"I love you too Lee." She leaned towards him, and kissed him softly. Lee blushed an extremely bright red at the broke the kiss, and looked at him. "Is anything wrong Lee-kun?" Lee was about to respond when he noticed that Sakura had called him –kun.
"Well… It's a little embarrassing, but I've never been kissed before…" he admitted shyly. Sakura looked surprised. Then she kissed him again, deeper this time…
"Have you never had a girlfriend before?" Lee blushed even harder.
"No…" Sakura looked at him a little while.
"Well now you have one!" she said sweetly and kissed him again.
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