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Punching with nothing but the raw energy he was taking from the oxygen, the fighter tried to stop himself, but no matter how much he wanted to stop and crawl into a ball, his pride wouldn't let him, and so his fist continued the pounding it had been doing for the past hour.

His fists felt heavy, his skin wet from the sweat that dripped from his skin and onto the floor, he'd run around the village more times than he cared to count, that didn't do it, he practiced his skills as much as he could in throwing his weapons, but that had only enraged him more. Then he went back to what he knew wouldn't fail him, his own body, the only weapon he ever needed and everyone knew he was a master with it, and no matter what weapon or technique was used, his body would see that he was victorious no matter what.

There was just one problem with this time, it wasn't an obstacle he could train himself to bypass, it wasn't some fight he could try again with later and eventual become the victor in, it wasn't an injury that would heal over time. This time, it was a problem with his emotions, something that, if you knew the ninja that well wouldn't have ever guessed would become a problem.

Something had snapped him, and nothing ever snapped him, not to the point he had gone, he had moved on from hitting the punch bags inside the gym, especially since he had put every single one of them from one side to the other and burst the bags. From that he began attacking the wooden statues, the only ones left were the two that had been damaged previously and were currently waiting repairs, and that was only because they were back inside the village with the carpenters. Now, whoever wished to find him would stumble upon him inside one of the many training areas that dotted the outskirts of the village, attacking one of the few remaining boulders that were left unscathed.

Blood covering the area he was constantly hitting, not caring that his knuckles were possibly broken, not even caring about the fact that the amount of blood currently plastering the wall would have been enough to make any other man drop to the floor, the pain not even stopping him, even though he could feel it in every minute movement he made.

His mind wasn't even comprehending anything else apart from the pounding of his knuckle on the rock, eventually he began to slow, to allow his body to rest and tell him about how much he had overdone it, until the voice he heard sent another wave of anger through his veins, starting to blood pumping all over again.

"LEE!"

She had found him, right at the moment he thought he could have handled anyone turning up, she had stumbled on him, roaring to the heavens, the usually green clad teenager sent a final terrifying right hook to the rock, causing what was a small rock to split in two. His energy restored by the adrenaline that now pumped around his veins, he heard her voice again, this time louder and closer, almost as if she had spotted the blood and seen his body.

"LEE! WAIT!"

He wouldn't, not anymore, he would run as far as his body would take him, if it meant being away from his home, then he would find a new place to call home, if it meant giving up his job then he would find another job, something that wouldn't bring him back to his home village, wouldn't bring him back to her.

Tearing the weights he kept on his legs from his body and throwing them with the rest of his energy to the ground, he used the smoke around himself as a cover to jump to the closest tree, only to trip from its branch and fall to the floor. His body refused to comply with what his brain wanted it to do, laying there, he decided he would accept the inevitable, for now at the least.

"SAKURA! HAVE YOU FOUND HIM!"

"YES" the pink haired teen shouted, coughing through the smoke as she walked out of it and waved some of it away from her, "HE'S BY THE SMO… Oh my god, LEE!" she ran over to him when she noticed his lifeless body on the floor, skidding to a halt, the medic nin dropped to her knees and pushed the taijutsu expert onto his back, gasping at the sight of his hands, she went straight to work to heal them as much as she could.

Struggling to open his eyes, he caught sight of a tear forming in the corner of her eye before he blacked out. Sakura carried on, using as much of her chakra as she could to heal his destroyed hands, trying not to think about the destruction she had followed to find him, at first she thought he was drunk, but there was no inn that had been destroyed, in actual fact, the last time she saw Lee was when she was told Sasuke had been spotted near the village and that was when he had disappeared.

Naruto and the others appeared only to stop and take in the destruction that had been caused, they all knew of Lee's strength, they had all even seen him after he had taken a drop of sake, but no one had ever seen him do anything close to image that was running through their brains at that moment. "GUY'S I NEED HELP!" Sakura shouted, bringing the group out of their shocked states only to have them run towards their comrade who was on the floor, some of them gasped when they reached him and saw his hands, the rest returned to their shocked expressions, "He needs surgery, NOW!" Sakura shouted, her tears now beginning to flow freely as Naruto and Neji quickly picked up Lee and began their fast pace towards the hospital where, hopefully, Tsunade would be waiting for them.

Waking slowly to the sounds of the heart monitor beeping nearby to inform anyone close that he was still alive, Lee began to slowly open his eyes and found himself staring at the white ceiling of the hospital room he had been admitted to, sighing to himself, he allowed for a moment of recollection of the events before waking and finding himself in the hospital yet again. That was when it came back, the anger, a feeling he had never felt in his entire life, at least not this level of hatred, he had been angry whilst as a child about not being able to do anything, yet Guy sensei had shown him a way past it, but this, this was something entirely different and it was coming back to him like the tide coming back in after another day of being away from the beach head.

That was when she walked in, the trigger to set everything off all over again, Sakura Haruno. Moving to lift himself to a sitting position, the taijutsu expert stopped when he found his hands to be encased, just like they had been after Gaara had crushed his arm in the chunnin exams, dropping back to a lying position, he resorted to the only thing he could do, turn to face the window. He had caught a glimpse of her face before turning and saw that she was happy, happy about what? He was just a friend, just that and nothing more, although it seemed they had been getting closer and closer together and he had thought they were in a position to call whatever it was they had, a relationship, he was an idiot.

"Leave"

"Lee! You're awake, thank goodness, everyone was so worried"

"Leave"

Hearing the second request, Sakura began to get worried, this was Rock Lee, the energetic and happy taijutsu expert of Konoha, he was never openly hostile towards anyone, not even his enemies. Did something happen, what had caused him to turn his hands into the wreckage she had seen before trying to give first aid to him on the training area, had something happened to Guy sensei? Something to do with his training? What on earth could push him to go so far over the edge that he would be openly hostile to anyone, especially her.

"Lee what's wro-"

"I SAID GET OUT!"

Naruto and Hinata stopped as they came around the corner in the corridor, staying rooted to the spot for a moment, the couple looked to each other with the same question in mind, was that Lee? No one had ever heard him shout, not in the tone they had just heard, for all they knew, he didn't know how to shout in that way. Looking back down towards their destination, they witnessed Sakura moving backwards with a hand reaching up to her chest.

Lee watched her move back out of the room, not caring for the tears that began to well up in the corner of her eyes, or at least wishing he didn't care, turning back to the window when he saw that she was outside of the room and in the corridor. Hinata and Naruto watched as the pink haired kunoichi ran past them, Hinata in tow calling out for her friend to stop, leaving Naruto to walk into the room where the ninja they had followed a pathway of destruction to find was now facing the window. Closing the door slowly, he waited for a few moments after shutting the room off before taking a chair and sitting near the door, remaining quiet for a few moment's longer before watching his friend turn around to find out who else was in the room.

"Hey"

"... Hi"

Lee turned back to the window once both males had said hello, waiting for the questions to begin coming, until he got what he wanted, silence, for once Naruto Uzumaki was quiet, and the taijutsu expert wasn't going to waste the peace for anything right now, he would answer the questions in his own time.

Lee sighed, neither of the two had spoken a word since they said acknoledged each other's presence within the four walls, and Naruto wasn't the most patient people, then again neither was he.

"Did she tell you about Sasuke"

"Yeah, he's been found, he's gone now, escaped"

"She still loves him"

Naruto didn't respond to the comment, instead waiting for Lee to continue before putting his own message across. Lee turned to look to the ceiling before breathing out a breath he didn't realise he had held in.

"I thought we could have worked out, maybe even called it a relationship"

He turned to face Naruto with a mock of a grin, as if this was a personal joke. "Guess I was just kidding myself" he stated before turning back to the ceiling and listening to the beep of the monitor next to him.

"She's always going to love him, or at least part of her is" Naruto began, looking out of the window as he was speaking. "But she doesn't want him, she wants you" he finished before looking to Lee who laughed.

"Enough to want to leave me behind when she could be in danger"

"Enough to not want you getting involved in our mess, Sasuke is our problem, we'll finish it, she doesn't want you getting killed. He won't hesitate in battle, with you there, she will" Naruto stated before getting up and moving the chair back to the side. "She loves you, she's not just using you as a back up, but remember, he was her first love, she'll never get over that" the future hokage said before leaving the room, allowing Lee to think about everything that had been said, and wonder whether he could make up this mess that he had made.

"I love her too" he whispered before looking back to the window.

This was done as a way to get something out of my system, not supposed to be about anything in particular, apart from what would happen if Lee did snap. Like I said somewhere in there, he's the one character in the anime or manga that has never snapped the way everyone else does, so imagine the destruction if he does.
If anyone wants a few more chapters added onto it, then review and let me know, thinking of adding a few now but will see where it goes.