"No thank you Tsunade Sama. I think Lee should know too." Sakura sounded nervous. The beeping of Lee's heart monitor speed up and perspiration formed on his forehead. Why did she want him to know? "Sakura, I understand if you don't want to tell me." Lee could feel her eyes on him and if it was possible the beeping increased. "I want you to know Lee."

Tsunade smiled, "Well apparently Sasuke has an extremely low sperm count, you're not going to give birth to an Uchiha anytime soon." Sakura released a breath she did not know she had been holding. Lee's pulse slowed back to normal.


"Well I guess Sasuke doesn't think ahead for everything." Lee muttered under his breath, he took it back as soon as the words left his mouth and hoped nobody had heard it. He felt Sakura's eyes on him and tensed with the awkwardness.

"W-Why did you say that Lee?" Sakura stuttered the words out. Lee tried to act natural, tried to calm himself down. His face started to get hot, why would he say that? How could he have been so stupid? Sakura didn't know what he had experienced while trapped in Sasuke's sharinggan and he had hoped she never would. She was still looking at him; he had to say something.

Nothing came to his mind. He didn't have the willpower to lie to Sakura either. The monitor's beeping increased and he wanted to rip the wire off of his body. Beep. Beep. Beep. The noise was wiped out by his real heartbeat loud in his ears. Damn it! Say something already! Anything!

"Say what?" Lee had tried his best to keep his voice relaxed. Sakura's response was quiet, but so was everything else in the room, "How did you know he said that?"

Lee panicked; the only way out was to tell the truth. He took a deep breath and began explaining himself.

"-Then I woke up here." Somewhere along the story Sakura had clenched her fists. He could tell she wanted to strangle somebody. Lee waited for her to begin shouting at him… but she never did. "That bastard! How could anyone be so sick!" She said mostly to herself.

Lee wished he could go back in time and have another chance at fighting Sasuke. He wouldn't have rushed so much; he should've come up with a plan. He inhaled slowly, he was going to kill Sasuke or die trying. His thoughts went back to Sakura. She was so gorgeous. She probably would never want to talk to him again after this, he felt sick to his stomach.

" I'm sorry Lee, I'm not mad at you at all, it's just-" Sakura didn't know how to finish her sentence, "I need to go."

Lee heard Sakura's footsteps and knew she was leaving the room, he had to strain his ears; he was sure she used to step louder. Tsunade sighed; Lee just remembered she was still there.

"Lee, about your loss of vision, you hit a certain part of your brain that controls your sight. I already fixed that problem. However, your brain was jumbled by extensive use of the sharinggan. How long exactly were you in the trance?" Tsunade's chair squeaked and Lee knew she was leaning back. How could she be acting so calm? This was a serious subject.

"About fifteen minuets." Tsunade was stunned. Only fifteen minuets? Something triggered in her mind and she let out a small chuckle, "Sorry, I meant how long your mind was in the trance." Lee told her, "About a year." His answer must have shocked Tsunade because she gasped so sharply you could have pierced steel.

"A year! An entire year?" Tsunade exclaimed. Lee wore a puzzled expression. "What's so strange about that?" Tsunade just sat there and stared in awe until Lee felt uneasy, "Something tells me you're unaware that nobody has ever survived the sharinggan for more than four months and three days. No Uchiha has even attempted more than seven!"

Lee groaned and sat up to lean against the wall, "Great, I'm glad I could help set a new record." He felt tired again but he didn't want to sleep. He wanted to train and get stronger. He needed to train and get stronger.

"This missing ninja, Sasuke, must be extremely strong, possibly the strongest ever to be born into the Uchiha clan. I may need to send multiple teams to take him down." Lee started to get excited, "I want to be on one of those teams. Please." He tried to look as tough as possible.

Tsunade just sighed and said, "Lee look at you, you're injured and you should know by now what happens to people who only think about revenge."

A look of rage marred Lee's features so intensely Tsunade almost fell out of her chair. Lee's voice was low and grainy, "I will never become like him!" His jaws were locked tightly together, a muscle twitched in his cheek. Normally Tsunade would have hit him upside the head quite hard but since he had just experienced one of the cruelest tortures existing in the world today, she let it slide. Instead she changed the conversation to one that might actually help him.

"I've already informed your sensei, Gai, that you can no longer accept missions until you regain your vision." Tsunade waited for Lee to say something, but he didn't.

"Listen, the only thing stopping your sight now is you. Sometimes when people are scarred deeply their mind shuts itself off as a defense mechanism, in your case it only shut off the vision area. In other words you have to have an extremely strong urge to regain your vision in order for it to kick itself back on."

Lee took it all in. He really did want to see again. Was he really the only thing stopping himself? He knew Tsunade wouldn't lie to him but he already wanted to see again, how much more could it take?

"Try to think of regaining your sight as training." Tsunade left and Lee hoped she was going to comfort Sakura, she had sounded furious.


After being released from the hospital, Lee sat alone in his room for hours. He focused on trying to see his bedroom wall clearly. Sometimes it flashed a blurred whitened outline, but even that lasted no longer then a minuet. Sakura hasn't even tried to talk to him since.

His vision wasn't the only thing dark, it felt like his entire outlook on life was dark, like a shadow hung over every one of his thoughts. When he wasn't thinking about Sakura he was thinking he should be out training.


Okay so this chapter was a bit boring... sorry 'bout that. In the next chapter Lee's going to get an expert psychologist with extraordinary vision (A.K.A. Hyuuga) to help him with his training... reveiws keep me working by the way :p...