WARNING: Contains OOC characters (mainly in Rock Lee). If you don't like that, you'd probably better stay away although you are free to have a look if you'd like.

Before I begin, I'm really curious about something. You know that fight between Gaara and Lee and Lee ended up getting hurt pretty bad? Did Gaara ever apologize for this? I'm really curious. I read somewhere that he felt bad or something, but I couldn't find anywhere that he straight up apologized for it.

Lee wanted the bastard dead. He nearly ended his hopes and dreams for good. Thankfully Tsunade had managed to save his legs through a risky surgery which he was eternally grateful for. However Gaara never did apologize or at least express he felt wrong for what he had done. To add more salt to the wound, it felt like nobody remembered that fateful day. Well except him and Gai. He hated how nobody seemed to remember and if they did, it wasn't brought up. Lee worked his ass off to get where he was and it had nearly been snatched away by Gaara, the red headed bastard! Lee wasn't the type to keep grudges according to other, but that was a damn lie.

Lee did bare grudges, although secretly. His biggest one was against Gaara of course and a slightly smaller one against Neji. He wanted revenge, but how would he get his plot of revenge acted out? Lee tried coming up with various plans on how to get back at the red headed menace only to toss them all away the moment he started. Nothing was good and any that were, he ended up tossing them away due to the fact that they involved using jutsus he couldn't use, getting him back to the village on his own, or the major factor of his sand. He wished he could ask for help, but knew that wouldn't end well. Naruto was now friends with the guy, everyone would be pretty quick to tell him to take the high road or say they wouldn't want him hurt, and Gai would surely ring his neck and lecture him. No, Lee had to come up with a plan of destroying Gaara on his own even if it took up time he could be spending training.

Now years later when Lee finally had the perfect plan all set up, Gaara became Kazekage. Lee wanted to flip when he heard the news. Now his plans had become obselete and new plans had to be drawn up. How had he even achieved this, he wondered as he crumpled a piece of paper and tossed it into a trashcan. He figured it had something to do with wanting to keep a much closer eye on the young man. Now it was time to bring in the big guns. As much as he didn't want to do this, he had to. Lee had a large inheritance from his decreased parents that guaranteed it would get the job done. Even with large amounts of money being offered by a disguised Lee, many refused. Those brave enough were quick to fail. Lee was pissed. What did it take to get revenge around here?

Then a miracle happened. Lee found out that Gaara had been taken by the Akatsuki. Lee threw himself a little party. Gaara was dead! Well he soon was. The one tail would be extracted, killing Gaara instantly much to Lee's delight. Lee never wanted him dead, just to hurt as much as he did. Whatever though. As long as he suffered, Lee didn't gave a shit. The raven partied himself silly, taking a whole day off from training and treating himself to a nice hot bubble bath and dancing the whole day away at the fact that Gaara was getting what was coming to him. Then his world came crashing down. He was in the middle of dancing his butt off, shaking maracas and pulling party poppers and blowing on blowouts when he heard someone clearing their throat. He turned and found Tenten standing there with a amused look on her face.

"Sorry, am I interrupting?" she said trying not to laugh.

"Uh n-no!" said Lee blushing and rubbing the back of his head. "Wait how did you get in here?"

"I knocked at your door, but you wouldn't answer." she said as Lee put away his things. "I got in through your bedroom window."

"Did you want something?" he rubbed the back of his head still embarrassed.

"Oh right. We're supposed to be going on a mission with Team Seven." said Tenten. "The Kazekage got kidnapped by the Akatsuki and we're going to be their backup."

"Oh! Well give me a second to get ready." said Lee.

"Alright. By the way Lee..."

"Yes?"

"Nice dance moves." she giggled before leaving.

Lee couldn't believe they were actually going after that bastard. It ruined Lee's day completely. After packing up his things, he set out with Tenten to meet back up with the rest of their team. As they headed out, Lee hoped that it was too late. If it wasn't, he was going to try his hardest to make Gaara wished they'd let the Akatsuki keep him.