Chapter 1
Transfer
Lee's muscles were constricting and expanding from the constant speed he had to keep. Gaara's sand was keeping up with him just fine and Lee had to find an opening. He punched, kicked, jumped and swept at Gaara, but to no avail. The sand surround him like an invisible orb of protection. Lee narrowed his eyes trying to figure out what to do, he kept attacking. While fighting and keeping Gaara occupied, Lee was running simulations in his head. Surely there is some sort of crack in his impregnable defense, thought Lee. Lee punched the sand shield for the umpteenth time, but something made him pause for just a half second as he was pulling back his fist. When his fist hit the sand it felt like the sand was tightening around him, but he was too quick, and figuring out what Gaara's intentions were he darted back farther and farther as a sand hand slithered after him. Lee jumped up onto the statue of the hands clasped together to form a jutsu and stood there watching Gaara's sand hand slither back.
"Lee! Take them off!" yelled Guy as his thumb was extended and his smile shined through the lighted arena.
Lee was shocked by this news, Guy-sensei is actually proposing to do something like that? Lee couldn't believe it. Gaara stood there with his emotionless face as he mentally prepared himself for whatever unexpected attack was about to come, while Sakura was just confused. Take it off, questioned inner-Sakura, what could Lee possibly take off? The only thing he's wearing is his clothes—WHAT! No way Guy-Sensei is a total perv like Kakashi!
"B…But Master Guy! You said never to do that unless I was defending the lives of the people who are precious to me!"
"It's alright!" yelled Guy giving another huge thumbs up with teeth sparkling brighter than the sun, "I'll allow it!"
Lee just stared at his sensei, trying to take in what he just heard, and when he finally understood he let out a big grin as he began to roll up his leggings.
NOOOOO! Screamed inner-Sakura, he is a perv!
Lee rustled a bit more before holding up two ugly looking weights that wrapped around his legs. Both that encouraging words to fuel his youthful spirit into action, and without further ado Lee dropped them off the statue. The spectators stared in awe and confusion as the weights dropped. Some were expecting something awesome to happen next, while others sneered and just threw it off as something meaningless, how something like weights could affect the fight where he was losing. But everybody was shocked when the weights hit the floor of the arena and a massive dust cloud exploded as the weights crushed and cracked the stone floor below. Everyone in the stands had bug eyes and mouths open as Lee jumped and practically vanished from their vision.
Gaara waited for Lee to move, having his arms folded in front of his chest and his sand shield shifting all around him. His eyes didn't change at all when Lee leapt off the statue and disappeared. His sand deflected his punch from behind, but still something was different; Lee had gotten faster. In fact Lee was fading in and out of Gaara's field of vision, making it almost impossible to predict where he would end up next, but Gaara's naturally forming sand shield always protected him which irritated Lee.
Lee stopped and stood, resting for a few seconds as he and Gaara had a stare off. Each one not budging, just looking in each other's eyes as if it turned into a staring competition. Then, Lee darted out of vision again, this time getting faster as he punched and kicked at Gaara's sand. In fact it seemed that the sand was having a difficult time keeping up with Lee until he jumped and bicycle kicked Gaara's head to the ground. The arena went silent as Kankuro cursed silently and the Konoha kids were smiling with hope, but that didn't last. Gaara's head shot up as he started laughing maniacally. Everyone saw his face shedding sand. The rest of his sand was slowly coming towards his body, covering it up to create a sand encased Gaara.
The other Gaara, thought Kankuro, is totally awake now.
Lee looked up to his master in the stands. Guy looked down at his protégé and gave him a nod. Lee smirked as he started to unwrap a bit of his wrappings around his wrists. It's time, he thought, to kick it up a level with the Lotus. Lee bent his body as he readied himself to charge, and Gaara was preparing to defend with that evil smile on his face, his eyes wide with murdering intent. Then, Lee dashed toward him, even faster than ever before making him completely invisible to the other Konoha ninja kids. Gaara jumped and attacked Lee as he was nearing, both in the air trying to get to the other first when a bright white light illuminated around them, blinding everybody in the arena. A low hum could be heard as the light shined more and more, before dissipating leaving nothing but a broken, cracked arena that does not have Gaara or Lee anymore.
Lee made the first strike and punched Gaara across his sand encrusted face, barely making a dent. Gaara giggled as his sand grabbed onto Lee's fist and tried to squeeze it, breaking it as blood spurted out of the sand. Lee cried out in agony. He quickly shot his leg up and knocked Gaara's head back, freeing his broken hand, and moving away from him. Gaara gave out an annoyed growl as his fist turned into spikes, from the sand, and tried to slice Lee, but Lee was too quick and from behind shot Gaara up into the air with a powerful kick, and within a millisecond was underneath Gaara's floating body and wrapped his wrappings around Gaara's entire body, plummeting toward the ground with his body cushioning Lee's fall.
Lee got up ready to fight back when he finally noticed his surroundings. He saw that he and Gaara were not in the chunin arena anymore, but were in a metal room. It was similar to the chunin arena in that it had balconies for spectators, but there was a loud buzzing, or was it humming, near the back of the place. Confusion set in as Lee began to worry about his precious Guy-sensei, but before he could let out a question Gaara smacked him into a wall from a powerful sand fist. Lee could feel his body hurting, he was pretty sure that at least three parts of his body broke, but he couldn't be sure what broke.
"Over here!" someone shouted, rousing the attention of not only Lee but Gaara too.
A woman in a very boring gray uniform arrived at the scene of the fight. Lee couldn't hear what she was saying, but it sounded like she was telling them to stop. Whatever she said it didn't seem like Gaara was happy about it, because almost immediately after her sentence sand shot up and encased her whole body. Lee saw Gaara's hand close into a tight fist and heard at the same time the woman screaming, and just like that her scream stopped and the sand encasing her turned an ugly rusted color. Lee was angry, that woman did nothing and Gaara just killed her for no reason! In a flash Lee was on Gaara again, but this time a blind fury guided his fighting. Gaara swatted Lee's futile kicks and leaps as his sand was slowly but surely cutting his opponent and hurting him, weakening him. He couldn't help but smile as his sand was destroying the green imp.
They heard more voices in the distance, and soon three men and two women were appeared where the first woman was. They stared in horror, a woman's scream rang out, as they stopped to see the two fighting down below, and their comrade dead and bloody up where they were. Gaara's sand had dissipated and gathered back to him so the other people were able to look dead on the woman's corpse and what Gaara really did to her. One of the men flew into a rage and screamed bloody murder at Gaara. He whipped out his blaster and started shooting, not caring who he hit. The laser blasts decimated the sand barrier and nicked Gaara's arm. His eyes widened as a new sense of pain spread through his body and turned to see who would dare challenge him. The man kept shooting, and this time Gaara was evading every blast as his sand drew him up and up until he was at their level just a few feet from them. The man with the blaster was shaking in his boots as his cohorts slowly receded behind him. Gaara's eyes looked dead, as if he was a monster, but what scared the man the most was that this monster was a mere boy, just a child, and already he was as cold as any infamous serial killer in galactic history.
Lee was panting down below, his fight with Gaara had really wrecked him and he wasn't sure what he could possibly do now. He did have an idea, but with Guy-sensei gone he wasn't sure he should use it. However, Gaara was getting closer and closer to the man who held a blaster at him point blank. The man yelped a most unmanly yelp as he fired once more at Gaara and while once again evading the laser blast Gaara sent his sand through the air and into the man's skin. The man reacted violently as he dropped his blaster and started scratching at his skin, swatting at it as if ants were crawling up them. Gaara just stared at him, his face dead and expressionless as his sand crawled through his cuts and orifices, making their way through his blood stream and gathering on his heart. The man's heart was pounding fast, nearing heart attack levels, but he felt the things in his body move up his blood stream sending shivers throughout his body. His heart grew heavy and his eyes were open so wide they could pop out. Gaara showed the man his hand, and with a quick tightening of his fist the man dropped dead with blood pouring from his mouth.
One of the women who appeared with the man came back with tears in her eyes. She threw a heavy objects at Gaara's head, hitting him and breaking his natural sand shield. Gaara closed his eyes and his sand lost its power as he fell toward the ground. Lee watched in horror as Gaara landed with a cloud of sand bowing up into the air. Lee hobbled closer to Gaara to see how alright he was. When he was standing over him he sighed in relief as he saw that he was alive and was only unconscious. Gaara's breathing becoming slower as his chest went up and down, so slow that Lee thought that Gaara was sleeping…
