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HIGH SCHOOL LOVE TRIANGLES

Chapter Eight

There were moments in life when Gaara truly hated fate. He hated life. But right now, as he was still holding onto Lucy and she had just said Itachi's name yet again when they were kissing…he hated fate. Fate had brought Itachi here when he was about to make up with Lucy. What he hated more than fate was Itachi himself. He was going to rip the man in two.

"You know I love touching scenes Lucy," Itachi said.

"What do you want?" Lucy asked.

Gaara looked at her in shock. Her voice was calm and he heard the deadly power in her voice. He knew that she could take this man on because they were on the same power level. They were a match. He could hear all of that in her voice. It scared him. Why was she being so stupid! This man almost killed her the last time they had faced off.

"I've come for you," Itachi said. Itachi walked up the steps and Gaara took a step back up towards Naruto's apartment but Lucy stood her ground. She was not going to show Itachi fear. The sick fuck fed off it. She would not give him the satisfaction.

"I can kill you Itachi," Lucy swore.

"Come with me and there will be no destruction to your friends," Itachi reasoned.

"Liar!" Lucy hissed. She took a step forward and Gaara felt a great loss from not touching her. This was going to get out of hand rather quickly.

"Kisame will kill your friends," Itachi promised. Gaara panicked for his friends and sister. He wouldn't let that happen.

"What you think that just because Kisame is upstairs that my friends can't handle themselves?" Lucy laughed. "What a joke."

"None of them can face him," Itachi warned.

"But all together…I'm pretty sure that they can do some damage," Lucy teased.

"Why is that?" Itachi asked.

"Kisame doesn't have his sword," Lucy reminded him. "I made sure of that, remember?"

Gaara was starting to feel frustrated. The two of them were exchanging banter like he wasn't even present. He hated the fact that they had this past, they had history and substance. It annoyed him. What annoyed him more was that he was jealous over those things when Lucy and Itachi were mortal enemies and nothing romantic. He felt as if his head were going to explode.

"Lucy," Gaara whispered.

"Ah…the boy…you love him?" Itachi mocked.

Lucy opened and closed her mouth to try to find an answer. She knew she loved Gaara. Of course she did. It was the fact that she shouldn't love him that bothered her. She was dating Lee. She liked Lee. Lee didn't set her skin on fire but he was nice. He had always kept her safe. He didn't know when to say the right thing sometimes but that was a different story.

"NO SHE DOES NOT!" a voice bellowed.

Ah…no! Lee…

"And who are you?" Itachi asked.

"I AM ROCK LEE," Lee answered.

"And who are you to Lucy?" Itachi asked.

DO NOT SAY IT! Lucy thought frantically.

"I AM HER BOYFRIEND!" Lee said.

"What?" Itachi and Gaara both hissed.

"You want me Itachi?" Lucy asked. Desperate to distract him from her idiot boyfriend. Why would he say that? That was just so stupid…so Lee.

"I want to destroy you," Itachi answered.

Lucy closed her eyes and clenched her fits. This had to end. And it would never end well. Everything always ended badly. If she used it, she would hurt herself severely. She had to do it though. She had to save Gaara and Naruto. She had to save everyone. She had to risk it all.

"What? Do you think you have yet another surprise for me?" Itachi laughed.

"Why yes I do," Lucy hissed.

She stretched her arms before her and wove her fingers together. Then touched her pinkies and thumbs together. Itachi's eyes went wide and he remembered that move. That move had set her free. This couldn't be happening…had she mastered that move?

"You wouldn't…" Itachi hissed.

The last time she had done that move she had been in a coma for a week. When she performed it…it was only for a couple of seconds. Now it would be for longer. Who knows what would happen.

"Let the lightening be my guide," she said.

Itachi, Lee, and Gaara back away as they saw Lucy's Kekki Genki activated. Chakra that looked like lightening burst through her fingertips. The pure white color left all three men in a daze. The lightening chakra crackled and left holes in the floor and walls were it touched.

"You have mastered your Kekki Genki," Itachi sneered.

"You wanna play now?" Lucy whispered.

"Yes I do," Itachi laughed.

"Where?" Lucy asked.

"The roof is big enough for me to kill you," Itachi hissed.

"Fine by me," Lucy jeered.

Itachi ran up the stairs and Lucy knew she had to follow. She had to kill him.

"Don't follow him," Lee begged.

"I have to," Lucy told him. "Now move."

"No," Lee said. He stood his ground and knew that he didn't want Lucy to face that man.

"Lee! Move!" Lucy yelled.

"NO!" Lee yelled back.

Gaara pushed Lee against the wall and nodded to Lucy to give her the okay. She told him to go help Naruto and the others. He dragged Lee to the apartment and prayed that they could help. He prayed that Lucy would win and he prayed that he would get to hear the answer to the question she never answered. After all…he would like to know if she loved him.
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Neji stood in front of an unconscious Iruka and knew he had to protect him. Naruto had explained to Neji that the ninja they were facing, Kisame, was only one-half of the Akatsuki duos. Itachi was probably attacking Lucy, who had Gaara and Lee there to help her.

"You protect the small blonde!" Kisame laughed.

"Shut up fish face!" Naruto yelled.

"Tell me white-eyes do you love him?" Kisame asked.

Neji clenched his fists and tried to make a plan. He couldn't think of anything. Iruka was on the floor bleeding, Temari was knocked unconscious. He and Naruto were the only ones left. But he couldn't see how they would survive this.

Suddenly Neji was standing in front of a sand covered Kisame. Gaara and Lee walked in looking confident as ever. Neji felt relief flood his body.

"Sand Coffin…" Gaara whispered.

Kisame shrieked and he fell to the floor. His body was covered in cuts and blood pumped heavily from each wound. He hissed as he set eyes on the boy.

"I know all about coffins boy," Kisame said. He made a few hand seals and Gaara was covered in water.

"Water coffin," Kisame coughed.

Gaara was drowning. He felts water burn his throat and close his lungs. He felt it push against his chest and arms, making his body grow heavy. Is this what my sand coffin does to others? Gaara wondered. He couldn't see anything but the blurred colors through the water that surrounded his body. He saw dark rings try to close around his vision but he fought it.

Naruto stood up and cloned himself. Kisame laughed in his face as he saw that the blonde kit was trying to fight him.

"What are you and you're double going to do?" Kisame laughed.

Naruto made a ball of chakra and focused all of his energy. This had to work. They had to beat Kisame. While Kisame had focused all of his attention on Naruto, Lee had snuck up behind him and began to beat him to a pulp. He did the Hidden Lotus and Kisame fell to his knees. Naruto ran into him and landed the Rasengan ball right into his stomach. The ball pushed the blue-skinned man all the way outside the window and he fell twelve stories down.

Naruto turned to look at Neji and he was terrified. Neji looked truly and royally pissed off at the blonde. Neji was kneeling beside Gaara, making sure that nothing was wrong with the redhead but he was just coughing, other than that he was perfectly fine. Naruto kneeled down and patted Lee on the back. They had done an amazing job.

"What the hell were you thinking?!" Iruka yelled.

Naruto turned around to see Iruka holding a towel to his bleeding head and to see Temari coming to. Temari looked at her bother and ran to him, she was fluttering around him, making sure he was truly fine like a mother hen and Gaara just batted her away with his hand.

"Whatcha mean Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"Taking on that man! That was dangerous Naruto!" Iruka yelled.

"Aw, come on! It wasn't the first time I've face that fish face and–" Naruto whined.

"What?" Neji hissed out.

Naruto froze and turned around to see that Neji in fact had another level up for anger. It was amazing how royally pissed could turn into murderous rage in less than two seconds.

"I've faced him before," Naruto grumbled.

"Where's Lucy?" Temari asked.

Everyone looked at Lee and Gaara. Lee shot Gaara a very evil glare that made the very angry Neji proud and worried Naruto but Gaara was unfazed by the glare, he had received worse. Gaara pointed up and everyone turned to look up.

"They're fighting above us," Lee answered.

"They?" Neji asked.

"Itachi…" Naruto hissed.

"How did you know?" Gaara wondered.

"He was with Kisame the last time I faced them," Naruto explained.

There was a large cracking noise and everyone looked up at the ceiling and they all saw a large crack forming right in the middle of the ceiling. It made them all nervous. Suddenly ceiling broke and a person fell through and landed on top of the coffee table that was in the middle of the living room. Everyone looked up and there was a battered Itachi being held up by a redhead, who was wearing a black cape with red clouds on it. The stranger shook his head and ran away. Neji ran to the window to see if Kisame was still there and sure enough… he wasn't. Neji hissed out in frustration.

Naruto cried out as he crawled to Lucy. Her bottom lip was cut in the middle and her top lip was cut on the side. A bone was sticking out of her wrist and her foot was turned towards her other leg and there were lightening shaped burns all over her body. Naruto didn't know he was crying until Neji came beside him and wiped a tear away from his face.

Two ANBU teams showed up and started questioning everyone. Lee, Iruka, Temari, and Neji took care of telling the story of what had happened. Gaara pushed the hair out of Lucy's pale face. Tsunade had shown up and was trying to heal her. Sakura was helping and Hinata stood by Shizune as they watched the purple-haired ninja slowly die.

"Save her," Gaara growled.

"Well gee I hadn't thought of that," Tsunade growled back.

"Listen-" Gaara sneered.

"NO! YOU LISTEN! YOU BROKE HER! GET AWAY FROM HER!" Shizune yelled. "HOW DARE YOU! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SHE CRIED! OR HOW LONG IT TOOK US TO MAKE HER EAT? YOU KNOW NOTHING OF THAT WONDERFUL GIRL WHO IS DYING!"

"You should back away Gaara," Naruto warned.

"Why?" Gaara asked.

"Because Shizune is right," Naruto whispered.

The room was quiet. Gaara stood up and walked towards the broken window, and jumped out, landing gracefully on the ground. He knew that they were right. He had hurt Lucy in the worst possible way. Why did he deserve to be by her side? There was no reason. None at all and that honestly killed him. He loved her. There was no doubt about that but…how could he have hurt her so badly when he claimed to love her? Maybe, just maybe it was for the best that he left.
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I know what it feels like to almost die. It's happened so many times in the past that it was almost scary. Two times and with this time it would be three. I could hear voices around me. There was Gaara.

My sweet Gaara. You know how people who almost die appreciate things in their lives more? Well I think that I love Gaara even more than I did before. I love him. There is no denying that. He has consumed me body and soul. I love him.

I love the way he's cold to everyone else but when we're alone, he has this uncontrolled passion around him. He never gave up on trying to get with me even though I tried to push him away. He came back. He always came back to me. I love him. He is my other half and as much as I would like to stay with Lee, I can't.

Lee deserves a girl who loves him and I cannot do that. I can't love him even though part of knows that I should. I know Lee can take care of me and will be so cautious with me that he would never hurt me but I don't want that. I want what Gaara gives me. I love how Gaara makes me sexy and confident. I never felt this way before but now that I do, I don't want to let it go.

There's Shizune…protective as always…wait NO! Shizune stop! I can't tell her to stop! My voice has left me in this dark place. I want to tell her not to tell Gaara that. Yes, Gaara hurt me but love isn't perfect! I know that! Look at me! In love with Gaara but always too afraid to tell him that! STOP Shizune!

There's Naruto. He'll make it all better…no! No! Don't listen to them Gaara! Can you hear me? Please oh please hear me! Listen to my heart Gaara…do you hear it beating? The only reason it's doing that is because it wants to live for you. I want to live for you and as soon as I get the strength enough to do so, I will tell you all that! Please Gaara don't walk away.

Where did his heat go?

Oh, god…I can't feel him anymore. I can't feel anything anymore. Heat and strength has left my body. I want to die. Gaara has truly left. Those cruel words that were flung at him so carelessly…they have broken him and he no longer wants to be with me. I want to be with him though! I…my body feels heavy.

I can feel an odd darkness taking me over. What is this? I haven't felt anything like this before. It feels like I'm dying. The heaviness presses against my chest and I can't breathe. Make it stop.

Oh, god…Gaara! Don't leave me…and darkness finally wins and I feel nothing but pain. I can't focus on anything else. There's just too much pain. Someone save me.

Tsunade…what are you talking about? Who's dying? Wait…is that me? Am I dying? It doesn't feel that way. It just feels like I'm breaking. Tsunade…if I am dying…try not to save me okay? Cause I have this dreadful feeling that if you do save me, the first thing I'm gonna want to see is Gaara and the dreadful thing is that I don't think that he'll be there. I need him to be there so that I have a reason to stay alive. If he isn't, there…I will never get out of this darkness. Do me a favor Tsunade and go get him would you please? I…I…I really can't breath. I wonder what will happen if I just let go?
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Tsunade was trying her best. Surrounded by her crying best friend and a crying blonde kid, who she had grown very fond of was not the most stable environment. But its what she had to deal with. Lucy was falling into darkness and Tsunade had no idea how to get her out of it.

"Naruto!" Tsunade barked

"What?" Naruto asked.

"She's falling. What the hell will take her out of it?" Tsunade asked.

"I…I…I don't know," Naruto cried.

"Gaara," Neji answered.

Everyone turned to look at Neji and he shrugged his shoulders. The answer was obvious and Neji was quiet annoyed that no one else had seen the answer before. Lucy remembered Gaara over everyone else. She was nervous and different around Gaara.

"No," Lee sneered.

"Yes," Naruto agreed. "She remembered him. She loves him."

Tsunade yelled at the ANBU to go find Gaara and take him to the hospital and to inform Shizune when he arrived. Tsunade looked down at Lucy and felt the life slipping out of the girl. As everyone looked down at Lucy's pale face, she opened her eyes and gasped for breath.

"Gaara," she groaned.

Everyone gasped and waited for more but she closed her eyes and Tsunade carried her to the hospital. She knew that Lucy would be in a coma. She would awaken but that was a huge maybe. There was no telling if Lucy would ever wake up and if she didn't…than she would slowly continue to die. This continued sleep and the battering of Lucy's body was more than the average ninja expected.

Tsunade looked down and saw the blue shadow around each burn mark. As her medical team was setting up Lucy's bed she wrinkled her brow. Lucy wouldn't have been stupid enough to…she wasn't that much of a martyr…she WOULD NOT have disobeyed…GOD DAMNIT!

"GOD DAMNIT!!" Tsunade yelled. Her entire medical team jumped up and she ran from the room into the waiting room.

"ROCK LEE!" she yelled.

"Yes?" Lee asked.

"WHY THE HELL WOULD ANY OF YOU LET HER DO THAT STUPID MOVE? ARE YOU INSANE OR DO YOU WANT ME TO KILL YOU DEAD?" Tsunade demanded.

"What are you…?" Lee asked.

"I'm TALKING ABOUT Lucy's KEKKI GENKI!" Tsunade roared.

"The lightening?" Lee whispered.

"What's the problem Lady Tsunade?" Neji asked.

"The problem is that Lucy's Kekki Genki is different from others. The chakra control needed is immense. If she doesn't have total control of the chakra it begins to burn her from the inside out," Tsunade hissed.

"Well I'm sure Lucy-"Neji started to say.

"The burn marks," Naruto whispered.

"Exactly," Tsunade sighed.

"What does it mean?" Lee demanded.

"It means that her body is dissolving from the inside and if we don't stop it she dies," Tsunade yelled as she ran back to the room.

The ANBU team reported in to Shizune that they had not been able to find Gaara and Temari was getting worried. This was getting out of hand. This was supposed to be a nice vacation for her; she would see Shikamaru who was getting trained by Iruka in order to be a teacher and her brother would make up with the love of his life. Now the love of her brother's life was dying, Shikamaru was nowhere to be seen and Kakashi was molesting Iruka in the middle of the waiting room.

"She'll be okay Iruka," Kakashi murmured in Iruka's ear.

"Kakashi," Iruka sighed.

Kakashi hugged the younger ninja closer and knew that once all this drama was settled, he would marry the ninja. He wouldn't let him out of his sight and he would protect him forever. Temari rolled her eyes. Some love stories worked out better than others.

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Naruto: GOD DAMNIT!!

Gaara: What is it now Uzumaki?

Naruto: How many times is Lucy gonna almost die?

Author: Who said it was an almost time this time? (Laughing evilly)

Gaara: What did you just say?

Neji: SHE SAID THAT Lucy IS GOING TO DIE! (muttering) slow ass…

Naruto: Play nice

Gaara: Bring it Hyuga.

Neji: Maybe I will

Author: Would the two of you shut it?

Alright kitties! Listen up! This story is getting good but it is coming to an end! TWO THINGS THE RED HEAD THAT SAVED ITACHI IS SASORI and there is a question of if Lucy lives or dies and honestly I'm having a hard time keeping the girl alive! Lol. So as my readers tell me if I should give in to the happy ending that's been dancing around in it's underwear for the past week in front of me or should I listen to the sad ending that keeps beating up the happy ending?