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Chp.1

The Stupid joke

It was a rainy evening in Konoha, everyone took to there homes for shelter and warmth. Everyone except for a young man in a green jumpsuit. Rock Lee was at it again, hitting and kicking a post, going on for three hours strait. Lee was angry, not at himself as he usually put his blame. No, today his anger was directed to the people he thought were his friends.

Earlier that morning lee woke up with a smile on his face and a great deal of pride. Today he and his fellow genine were to meet for lunch at Naruto's favorite ramen shop. It was also the time he would ask Sakura out again. His first order of business however was to run around Konoha…Twice.

After lee's morning run, he quickly went back to his apartment to shower. When he was refreshed he bolted to Ino's flower shop.

*DING* "Welcome!" Ino exclaimed before looking at who came through her door. "Oh, its just you" Ino no longer smiling at her rather large visitor name Choji. "aww, come on Ino. Why do you always act like that towards me? All I want is to ask if your busy later, maybe you and I can …" "Choji Stop!!! I'm only going to say it one more time. I don't want to go out with you!" Ino yelled. Chouji looked down at his feet, a sad frown on his face.

As Chouji turned around to leave Lee entered. "Ino!!! I need a bouquet of your most beautiful flowers!" Lee yelled. Ino smiled and got the order ready, she knew they were meant for Sakura and she also knew that they would either be thrown back to his face or on the ground. An evil smirk went across her lips when she pictured it. "Here you go Lee" Ino putting on a fake smile. "so are you going to have lunch with the rest of us at noon?". Lee smiled and gave his thumbs up before saying "of course I am, that is why I am buying these flowers so that I can ask Sakura out when I see her." Ino smiled again, "this is going to be interesting' she thought while Lee ran out the door followed by Choji.

Later at Ichiraku's ramen shop, Naruto along with the rest of the rookies were all enjoying conversation. Of all of them, the most surprising person in there was Hinata, who was sitting next to Naruto, holding his hand. Earlier that day she had finally told Naruto how she felt for him and his response was to ask her to go to lunch with him and everone as his date. Now all Hinata did was smile and listen to Naruto as he talked of his past missions and his training with Juraiya.

As they were talking with each other Sakura came walking up to Ichiraku with a smile on her face. Just as everyone turned to see Sakura coming in, a green blur stopped right in front of her. Lee was on his knee with one of his trademark girns. Sakura was still a little dazed but looked down and saw Lee holding the most beautiful bouquet of flowers she or any of the girls there had ever seen and also knew what was coming next. "Sakura, my beautiful cherry blossom, please go out with me" Lee asked confident that Sakura would not say no this time.

Everyone looked and waited on the edge of there seats for her answer, all why not noticing Naruto make a couple of hand signs.

Just as Sakura was about to give her answer she saw a new figure in the room, and she just froze. "No, it can't be" she thought. His raven hair, his cold eyes and that little smirk of his, it was, it was Sasuke. Everyone tuned in to face Sasuke in complete shock. Sakura started to walk past Lee, not noticing that she knocked the flowers out of his hands on caused them to scatter on the floor. Lee was to shocked to do or say anything. First Sakura just walks past him and makes him drop his flowers, and second, Sakura and everyone else are staring at Sasuke. Lee himself must admit that he to is shocked to see Sasuke back, but what happened next caused his heart to break. Sakura lunged at Sasuke and began to weep in his shoulders while wispering "oh Sasuke, I knew you would come back to me".

Everyone began to tense, ready to make a move if Sasuke tried anything funny. Sakura was still holding on to him when she felt two arms go around her waist, she turned her head and discovered Sasuke was holding her. This caused Sakura to smile and blush, and everyone was at ease a little, not fully but just a little.

While everyone watched as the two former teammates embraced one another, only Hinata took noticed Lee walk out the ramen shop. She felt a swell of pity for her friend Lee. He was so patient and always did the nicest things for people, especially Sakura. She couldn't understand why he would waste his time and energy on her. Just then a thought occurred to her. Why wasn't Naruto trying to talk to Sasuke? He had been trying for years to bring the rouge nin back to Konoha.

Just as she was about to ask something, Ino ran from her chair and leaped on Sasuke like a crazy girl. "Sasuke!!" Ino yelled. Just as she did that, Sakura, Sasuke and now Ino lost balance and fell to the ground. Just when the two girls fell on Sasuke, he disappeared in a poof of smoke. Everyone shot out of there seats to find out what happened.

As Naruto looked around trying to play innocent, he failed to notice Hinata looking strait at him with a surprise look on her face. "he actually tried to stop Lee from asking Sakura out. Why would he do that…unless…". Hinata stood strait up from her chair and looked at Naruto with a surprisingly disappointed stare. Everyone turned there attention to Hinata and Naruto who was visibly nervous about something. "I can't believe you would do that Naruto! You actually stopped Lee from asking Sakura out. Why!? Lee never did anything to deserve that, and also to Sakura! Your own teammate! Why would you do that?".

Now if they didn't have everyone's attention, they had it now. Sakura and Ino looked from the floor trying to understand what was going down. Naruto was shaking at this point, he crossed a line this time and was trying to come up with an excuse that would get him out of trouble. "uhh…you see…" Naruto trying to find the words while everyone listened in. "the reason I did that…..was….well, maybe Sakura was going to say no again and I did this to keep him from bothering her again?" Naruto more like asking then explaining. Everyone stood there dumbfounded, they knew Naruto was slow but not just stupid.

As he stood there Sakura got to her feet and walked over to Naruto. Everyone was waiting to see Naruto get killed for pulling a stupid stunt on Sakura like this, especially using a shadow clone of Sasuke. As Naruto waited for the pain he closed his eyes tightly and hoped to Kami he was going to a better place when he died. Still, all he felt was a hand on his shoulder and everyone gasp. When Naruto opened his eyes he saw Sakura looking a him with a fake smile and tears coming from her eyes. "Thanks for that, Naruto" was all she said, and she dropped her hand and walked out of the shop.

As if a on cue Ino, Ten-Ten, and even Hinata quickly filed out after Sakura. They knew something was really wrong, to bad not all the boys had enough smarts to realize it. "Man Naruto, you dodged a bullet, who knew she would thank you for stopping that bushy brow freak from asking her out anymore?" Kiba yelled. "Yeah, I thought for sure she was going to kill me for pulling that little stunt?" Naruto agreed.

Just as Chouji, Shikamaru and especially Neji (who wanted to kill Naruto for destroying his teammates feelings) were about to beat some sense into the two, Asuma coughed to get there attention. Asuma looked at the boys but called on only the three most important ones. "Shikamaru, Chouji, and Neji Hyuuga. The Hokage has an important mission for you three and needs each of your special qualities for this job" the older Jonin announced with a smirk and a fresh smoke in his mouth. "Asuma sensei, this is really a bad time, we need to find Rock Lee and straiten out a huge misunderstan…."Shikamaru was cut off by his Sensei. "No can do, this is an urgent mission, it seems there are some farm villages that have been robbed by bandits. that's not the worse part, innocent people have been killed as a result. Besides, whatever problem there might be, I'm sure Naruto and Kiba will be able to handle it. Now if there isn't anything else, gather your supplies and meet me at the front gate now."

With that, Asuma was gone, leaving Shikamaru, Chouji, and Neji standing there disappointed that they couldn't explain everything to Lee themselves. Neji was the one to speak up, "Naruto and Kiba. The both of you better find Lee and explain to him it was Naruto that was behind it all or I swear I will tear the both of you apart!". With that said Shikamaru and Chouji both nodded in agreement before leaving to gather there equipment. As Neji turned to leave, he sent one last death glare to both Naruto and Kibe who at this point were more scared then they ever had been in there lives.

When Neji finally left, the two regained their composure and sat back on there stools.

"Man can you believe Neji? Of all the people I would expect to yell at us, he was the last person I would have thought of." Kiba said trying to straighten himself and Akamaru out.

"Yeah, I didn't think Neji would explode like that, especially for Lee. Still, I kinda feel bad for doing that to both Sakura and Lee" Naruto saying with a sad expression. "Why did you do that in the first place Naruto?" Kiba asked trying to get to the bottom of this. "Honestly? I don't know why, I mean Lee has always been nice to Sakura and even put his life on the line for her. Maybe… some part of me still wants to be with her." "ARE YOU INSANE!?" Kiba yelled "you have Hinata, do you know how long she's liked you? Honestly! I don't know how you can be so dumb that you can't see Hinata in front of you, willing to do anything you want." Naruto thought about this and an evil smirk crept up his face. "Do you like Hinata?" Naruto asked waiting for Kiba's response, but all Kiba could do was look at him with a surprised look on his face along with a dark blush. Naruto just smiled even bigger before asking, "listen, if I had a plan to get you with Hinata and I get Sakura would you be in?".

Kiba was both surprised and appalled with the idea, sure he wanted to get with Hinata for a long time but all she ever saw in him was a brother and friend, he was also disturbed by the way Naruto was willing to break her heart to get Sakura. Still, the wet dreams Kiba's been having about Hinata were temptation enough.

It was a hard decision, well actually it wasn't on the count that Kiba was horny enough to get into Hinata's pants anyway he could, but Kiba smiled at Naruto and that was all the answer Naruto needed but then a thought occurred to him. "But first, we have to make sure Lee doesn't try anything funny. I hate to do this to him, he's such a nice guy, but anything to get with Sakura. We have to break his heart even more to make sure he doesn't go look for Sakura and try to talk to her. Here's the plan."

As Naruto and Kiba went about planning how they could drive Lee away more, they both failed to notice the last of their rookie friends sitting in the corner listening in on the conversation thanks to one of his bugs. Shino sat and listened, his insides shaking with fury at Naruto, and most of all Kiba. Kiba was a dear friend to Hinata, how dare he do something like this just to try and get her in bed. He wanted to beat the both of them right on the spot but he waited. He wanted to find out the plan and notify Hinata and the rest of the girls about this.

As Naruto and Kiba finished making there master plan to drive Lee away they both looked at each other with a pleased grin and made there way to the only place they knew Lee would be, in the training grounds without paying there tab.

Just as Shino got up to leave the old man that ran the ramen shop and his daughter stopped him and asked for there money. Shino was caught off guard, he only brought enough for his order. In the chaos, everyone else left without paying leaving only Shino to pay. Shino knew he was screwed. There was no talking or explaining out of this. He had to pay or wash dishes till he paid the tab off. So with no option left, Shino was put in the back and began doing dishes. "I have to finish as fast as possible, I have to warn the girls…and mostly, I have to warn Lee."

End chapter one

So that was chapter one. The next chapter should be up to. The third and so on will take awhile. I'm breaking Lee down so I could rebuild him with a new attitude. It may drag on a bit so please remember that this is my first fanfic. Please read and review, it would be appreciated.