Because of You

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, because I'm bad at story plots and it would turn out to be a disaster manga.

Attention: More characters will be together with Lee and Sakura so the story will change a little just to make the chapter a little bit longer and enjoyable.

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It was a nice, sunny day which is a perfect day to go on missions or to train. Sakura went to the training field where Lee was busy doing his 1000 pushups. As she approached, Lee looked up heart pounding with excitement. Sakura smiled, "Hello Lee, I want to have a word with you." Lee stopped what he was doing and stood up to face her, "What is it Sakura?" "I was thinking about what you said the other day, and…" Sakura paused for a moment. Lee held his breath. "Well Lee, I was wondering if I could join training with you." Sakura implied. Lee just stood there doing nothing until he finally stuttered, "A-…Are you sure you want to?" Sakura just smiled and nodded and then said, "You must be hungry Lee! Want to go get lunch from Ichiraku before we start?" "Sure!" Lee almost shouted out loud. "Oh boy, this day just gets better!"

As they walked towards Ichiraku, Lee's thoughts were jumbled with Sakura's newfound attitude towards him. "Does this mean that she's interested towards me? Maybe she'll…" His thoughts were cut off when Sakura said, "Here we are, do you want to share a bowl or eat separately?" Lee pondered on that, "I sure am hungry, but then again, this is Sakura I'm with!" "Why don't we share the bowl? I don't really have an appetite anyways." Lee exclaimed. Sakura giggled, "What a coincidence, I'm not really that hungry either!" Sakura gave the order, "One bowl of vegetable ramen please." "Coming right up!"

As they waited for their order to arrive, Lee said aloud, "Do you still like Sasuke?" He panicked a little, why did just slipped out of his mouth? Sakura's expression showed anger and sadness. "Oh man, what have I done?" Lee thought sadly, he didn't want to hurt the flower of his life. Sakura replied, "Lee, I don't know if I still have feelings towards Sasuke… I m-mean he just left us, you know? I think that if he ever comes back I probably wouldn't really think of Sasuke as my lifelong crush. I probably would think of him as is just a friend." Now Lee was really panicking, but because Sakura showed her true feelings towards Sasuke and he is wondering if she is directing her feelings towards HIM.

They looked at different things, but they somehow managed to look at each other. They just stared and leaned towards each other. "D- Do I really like Lee?" Sakura thought as she closed her eyes. Then, their order interrupted the moment. "One order of vegetable ramen!" the voice boomed. Sakura and Lee looked away, blushing madly. Sakura said thank you to the chef and he smiled at the both of them. "Well, uh, shall we dig in?" Lee stammered. They ate their ramen in silence. After paying and thanking him one last time, Lee and Sakura left to go back to the training grounds where Lee was doing his pushups.

"I guess we'll have to wait half an hour before we do something, I wouldn't want to throw up in the middle of training." Sakura assured. Lee shuddered at the thought of people exercising right after eating ramen and were throwing up. Before that half hour was over, the sunny sky became cloudy, not a good sign. "Oh shit, it's going to rain." Sakura noted. At cue it rained hard drenching both teenagers to the skin. "We've got to get to your house Lee! It's the closest shelter!" Sakura yelled over the thunder.

Inside, Sakura and Lee looked out of the window. "It's terrible that we didn't get to train today." Lee replied sadly. "Well, it's a good thing your house was close to the training grounds Lee," Sakura reassured, "it could've been worse." She looked at the state of their clothing, "Perhaps we should get out of these wet clothes?" Lee blushed at the thought of Sakura without her clothes, but then mentally slapped himself. Lee then grabbed some clothes for himself and gave Sakura black sleeping pants with a black and gray shirt that reached to her thigh. After drying and dressing, they decided to do something to pass the time.

They were in the middle of rock, paper, scissors when someone knocked on the door. Lee looked outside of the window to see who it was, but he could only see dark figures. "Sakura, I want you to open the door so that I can fight off whoever these people are." Lee said getting into his fighting stance. Sakura gripped the doorknob, "Ready?" She opened the door and one of the 4 shadowy figures yelled, "Wait! Lee! It's Tenten!" The figures stepped into view. Naruto, Hinata, Neji, and Tenten were drenched and had unhappy expressions.

They were ushered inside, dried off, and changed into new clothing. "What were you guys doing out in the rain?" Sakura asked. Naruto spoke first, "Hinata and I were on a date and we were going to Ichiraku to get ramen when all of a sudden it just… rained. We rushed to Lee's place because it was the closest one and we already saw Tenten and Neji standing by the doorway." "I'm guessing it's the same for you and Neji?" Sakura added. Tenten shook her head, "We we're supposed to be on a date, but Neji insisted that we go to the training grounds."

The four of them were hungry, so they had instant ramen. Sakura looked out of the window. "I wonder when the rain is going to stop?" she thought. Then she looked over her shoulder to a smiling Lee and hungry visitors. "Lee do you think we can stay for the night if it doesn't stop raining?" Hinata asked hopefully. Everybody looked at Lee. "Of course you can! I haven't had visitors to my house in a while anyway!" Lee replied happily.

When it got close to bedtime, each pair were assigned to different rooms. Neji and Tenten slept in the living room, Hinata and Naruto slept in the guest room and Sakura and Lee slept in his room. "Good-night everyone!" Naruto yelled rather loudly. "Good-night Lee." Sakura said sleepily. Lee stifled a yawn, "Good-night Sakura." Both of them slept back to back and with something in mind. "Sakura is in bed with me… I feel so awkward right now." Lee thought. Sakura however, was thinking about something different. Sakura looked back to when they were at Ichiraku and they almost kissed. "I'm thinking about Lee even when I don't want to think about him. I think I do like Lee, he's always there for me and he has such a sweet personality. Plus he's cute when he isn't acting "youthful"." She looked over her shoulder to see that Lee is fast asleep. "Tomorrow, I'll tell him my true feelings." Sakura smiled to herself as she drifted off to sleep.

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How did you all enjoy this chapter? If you're smart enough, you'll know that I'm not done with this story just yet. This chapter is quite fluffy so I hope that those who were hoping for a fluffy chapter were satisfied. Please review, it encourages me to expand my ideas for the story. Thanks!