Author's Note: Meh, nothing to say here really. Enjoy.
DISCLAIMER RENEWAL: I do NOT own Naruto, any of the songs used, or plays and movies they came from!
The two cops stood and left, leaving me in the room by myself. I took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, laying my head down on the table. "God. Jesus! SHIT!" I stood up and pushed the table away from me. A soft handed landed on my shoulder.
I gasped and turned to another cop, his face sympathetic. "I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself, Lee."
"How do you know my name?" I cursed under my breath, they shared it. How stupid am I going to look in a matter of five minutes?
The man smiled softly. "Asuma and Kurenai have told me that you need to be sensitized to the modern world."
"I'm not sheltered." I insisted.
"My name is Might Gai." He held out his hand. I stared at the hand then looked back up at him. I pinched the bridge of my nose and gently shook my head. This was Gai? This was the man that was going to, supposedly, teach me the ways of the modern world? Eventually, he lowered his hand. "I suppose we will be living together until you're modernized." I groaned and followed him out to his car.
XxX
"And you will be sleeping here, Lee." I looked in and bit my lip, I wasn't used to a bed to myself in strange houses like this. "What is the matter, Lee? Too used to cages?"
I put my head in my hand. "You don't get it!" I shouted, Gai took a step back. "I wasn't Gaara's slave!"
He meekly held up a piece of paper. "But- The Akatsuki's paperwork says-"
"Of course he bought me!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, tackling Gai to the floor. "That's how we met! But I was, in no way, his slave!" I started to pummel Gai with the sides of my fists, hoping to do damage, but not enough to get arrested for assaulting a police officer.
"You are pretty youthful..." He muttered, taking hold of my wrists.
I pulled my arms away from him and stood up. "You shall take me to see Gaara." I demanded.
"No, I am not allowed." I growled at him and stomped into the room, slamming the door shut behind me. "Lee, can we at least talk?"
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I was trying to sleep, I really was, but since I hadn't let Gai in awhile ago to put sheets on the mattress, I was itchy and uncomfortable. My arms were still crossed over my chest, and I was staring at the ceiling. Part of me wanted to ask Gai for a clock, so I could at least keep track of time, but I didn't want to break and talk to him.
I heard a noise like nails gently scratching over wood and look over at the door. A sliver of light shone from the crack under the door, illuminating a piece of paper with messy handwriting on it. I stood up and quietly walked over to it, picking it up. I looked down at it, furrowing my brow. I finally crumpled it up and opened the door, tossing the wad at Gai.
"I can't read very well, Gai."
"You can not read?"
"I said I can't read well! I've got about a fourth grade reading level."
"Would you like me to teach you?" I could hear the sincerity in his voice, but I wasn't willing to take his offer unless something was in it for me.
"Will you take me to Gaara?"
"Lee, I have told you. I can not take you to where Gaara is. I am a low ranking officer, due to my... unconventional. Methods. I do not even know where he is."
I crossed my arms and huffed, unwilling-ly reliving that day when Gaara and I had had the luck to meet, how scared I was, how I already had a fearful respect for him, I just knew he was going to buy me, I knew he was a man of power and that he would be a ruthless master. I never knew, or even fathomed, that, against Sakura's warnings and Pain's words, I would fall in love with him.
Suddenly, I was crying, the tears streaming down my face unbridled. I stepped back, taking the door in one hand and covering my face with the other. I went to close the door on Gai for the second time that night, slamming it with all my force, but I found that the door wouldn't close. I uncovered my face and stared down at the door jam through teary eyes. Gai's sandaled foot was between the door and it's destination. "Stop it!" I shouted. "Stop caring!"
I watched Gai's feet as he took a step forward and then another. He wrapped his arms around me carefully. "It is okay to cry." He whispered in my ear. "It shows that you care for the world and yourself. It is okay to cry because it shows that you are living."
I pulled away and looked at him, tears were silently streaming down his face too.
"I'll never see him again, Gai."
"Shh, you do not know that, Lee."