Section 10: Damn You, Sasuke!

Rock Lee sat in the tree branch staring up to the sky in bedazzlement of what happened earlier that night. He didn't know what to think of it really. He felt like he had ruined things between him and Sakura though.

"Why... I wish she never liked Sasuke..." His brillo-pad eyebrows dipped down in anger. "Who does he think he is to trample her delicate heart like that!?" Interrupting his thought process, he heard someone walking below. He peered down from the branch, without making a noise, to see Sasuke walking along with his hands buried in his pockets.

Lee looked at him long, and his eyes widened as he gritted his teeth. "That Sasuke..." He watched him as he was walking underneath the branch Lee was perched upon. "Get him! Do it now!" He gripped the bark of the tree, to hold himself back from his anger.

Sasuke stopped in his tracks and twitching his head upward a little, "Are you going to attack me, or what..." Looking up the branch,"...Lee." Lee recoiled, and reacted by dropping down.

Pointing towards Sasuke with his palm toward his face, "You... have hurt the person I care about most. It is... unforgivable!"

"Humph," Looking away from Lee, "...you mean that annoyance, Sakura?" Lee cringed in anger. "What makes you think I care how I made her feel? I just want her to leave me alone."

"How..." Clinching his fists, looking down to the dirt, and leaking tears from her eyes. "...how could you take her love... for GRANTED?!"

"I never asked for her love, I never even asked for her friendship. She just started bugging me. You could blame me for her being hurt all you want, but the only idiot... is her."

"You... you don't deserve her!"

"I don't want anyone anyways... now get lost." Sasuke saunters off with his arms shoved back into his pockets. Lee stood there in shock, and couldn't say anything to him.

"It's... it's not fair... why does Sakura-chan love someone so mean to her... and she doesn't love me. If she likes him more than me, she must think I'm a terrible guy." Holding back his tears, "You're no man, Lee... you're just a crying, ugly... loser." He turned away from the departing Sasuke, and walked in the opposite direction.

As he was walking, he kept imagining Sakura, as she would be if she was with Sasuke. Following were images of how upset she would be if she was with him.

"I wish I wasn't so... ugly..."

Flashbacks:

Naruto pops up saying, "Hey, thick brows!"

Tenten pops up saying, "Oh c'mon Lee, you'll find a girl who will overlook your... appearance... heh."

Sakura pops up saying, "Ugh, what's with the hair?! It's so lame!"

Lee continued running distraughtly through the forest, he never wanted to stop though. Never...

"I'll always be ugly! Always!"