Tatiana Hime - hey guys. Are you enjoying the story so far? So many things happen in this story that I didn't plan to happen at all, but it's fun when the characters take over and write the story themselves.
eyes0nme19- Lee is my one of my fave characters. He's such a sweety. I hope your enjoying your first Lee based stary
AngelEyes-Shika- Neji is mean. I started this story and as way to bug my friend. She likes to pair of Neji and Gaara and I like to pair off Lee and Gaara. We tease eachother all the time, but it's all in good fun. Neji is her fave character but in stead of bugging her with this story she ended up loving it. lol. Which I'm happy about. lol. I'll but sure to write another story with Kankuro next time
Chapter 5 - Training
Lee woke early the next day. So early in fact that the sun wasn't even out. His body was telling him that he needed to rest more. His arms and legs did not want to move. But he ignored his aching body and got up. He washed his face to help wake himself up and bit before grabbing all of his things and heading back to the training ground. Since he was up so early he figured he might as well use this time to train. He walked down the empty street on Kohana. It was very quite. Lee always liked the early morning when the town was so silent. He usually liked being left alone with he's thought, but not recently. His mind kept wandering to Neji and it hurt him to think of Neji. He hated that it hurt. It made him so angry. Hate filled him about the whole situation. But no matter how much he hated what happened he couldn't bring himself to hate Neji. As he walked deep in thought the sun started to rise and just ahead he noticed someone sitting on a stone wall. As he got closer he realized who it was. Gaara was sitting there looking off into the distance. Lee blushed remembering the last thing Gaara had said to him. "What, no good night kiss? Maybe next time then." He blushed a little remembering this. He hadn't figured out if Gaara had been kidding or not. He was thinking about taking another way when Gaara turn and spotted him. He couldn't just walk away not so he stepped forward and stop not far from where Gaara sat. "Hey Gaara, you up early. I'm not use to seeing other people up this early." Gaara looked down at him from the wall and smiled at him.
"I'm not up early, I'm up late." Gaara said.
"You mean you haven't slept yet?" there was a hint of concern in Lee's voice that he didn't internally put there when saying this but Gaara had noticed it.
"No need to worry about me. Sleep is not something I need much of." Gaara jumped down from the wall landing next to Lee.
"Well I wasn't really worried or anything. I mean you have the right to do what ever you want. It's not like I can tell you what you should do." Lee was rambling. Gaara smiled at him again.
"You're cute when you're flustered." Lee blushed and fell silent. Gaara turned and walked away. "See you in school." And with that Gaara was gone. Lee couldn't figure out why he kept running into that guy or what intentions he really had but he didn't want to think about it right now. He walked on planning to go to the training ground but could no longer find the motivation to train this morning. Instead he just continued to walk aimlessly around Kohana. The sun was slowly rising into the sky, casting a dim glow upon the village. Lee had made his way to the Hokage mountain that overcast the village. Carved into the mountain were the heads of all the Hokages of the village. Lee sat on the edge just looking down at the town, still not able to shake this saddened feeling that had seemed to settle itself in the pit of his stomach. Well sitting there Lee hear footsteps and turned to see Naruto walking towards him hold 3 cans of paint hand humming to himself. Naruto spotted Lee.
"Hey, fuzzy eyebrow" Naruto said smiling as he saw his classmate sitting there. "Not training today?" Naruto walked right up to Lee setting the paint cans down and looking over the cliff at the stone heads.
"Naruto, what are you planning to do with those paint cans?" Lee said ignoring Naruto's question. Lee had remember a time when Naruto had vandalized the Hokage heads with paint once before.
"This town has been to quite lately so I've grown bored and thought of something to do is all." Naruto tossed a paint brush to Lee expecting him to help.
"Oh no you don't" Lee said tossing the paint brush back. If you're going to cause trouble I don't want to be part of it. Besides, didn't you do this same thing last year. Can't you at least think of something new." Lee was not one to get in trouble and was not about to help Naruto do something so disrespectful to the village. Naruto gave a little laugh.
"Oh please. I never repeat a prank. I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm training." Naruto had opened on of the paint can and Lee saw red paint inside.
"Training?" Lee was suddenly very interested in what Naruto was doing. "Do you need some help?" When it came to training Lee could not pass up the chance. Naruto threw the paint brush back at him. Lee didn't know what to do with it so he waited and watch Naruto open the other 2 paint cans. Blue and Green. Then he made a hand seal.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu" 3 exact copies of Naruto appeared. Each of them took off there jackets and turned there backs to Lee. "Now what I want you to do is paint a mark on each of there backs in a different color." Lee wasn't sure he understood but he got to his feet and dipped the brush into a closest paint can and then smeared in of the back on the first Naruto Clone. Then he dipped in the next color and continued. After marking the 3 clones the put there jacket back on covering the paint marks. Naruto smiled and Lee continued to look confused. "This will work better with an extra person, you'll get some good training out of this as well. Now turn around for a moment fuzzy eyebrow." Lee rolled his eyes as Naruto still calling him fuzzy eyebrow. Naruto had never actually called him by his name before. "Alright." Lee turned back around to see the 4 Naruto's standing there and just to confuse him more the all spoke at the same time. Now you have attack only the red marked Naruto" The Naruto's smiled at him and Lee actually smiled back. This actually sounded like fun. As if the smile was a sign to start the Naruto's all jumped in different direction. Lee was impressively fast and was found it easy to keep up with them but he couldn't attack the Naruto's. Only the one marked with red, but that didn't stop them from attacking him. They played this little training game until the sun was well into the sky. Both fell to the ground breathing heavy but smiling from ear to ear. Lee had found it hard to find the right one at first but after a few times he got the hang of finding ways to determine the one he was looking for. Naruto had use a lot of energy having to make a new clone every time Lee was successful. "Not bad fuzzy eyebrow." Lee shook his head at him and got to his feet. He held out his hand to Naruto to help him up and Naruto accepted the help.
"We better head back. school will be starting soon" they gathers the paint cans and Lee carried one and the paint brush well Naruto carried the other 2 cans. They were walking down the mountain together, Naruto placing a paint can on his head and balancing it there well he walked. Since he didn't drop the first one he placed the second on his head and was paying so much attention on not dropping them that he wasn't looking where he was going and was about to walk right off the cliff. "NARUTO!" Lee yelled dropping the can he was holding and jumping out to catch Naruto. Lee had Naruto in one hand and was hanging over the cliff with the other. "It's never a normal day with you is it." Naruto gave and relived laugh as Lee pulled them back up onto the cliff with on hand. Once he had his feet on the ground again he pulled Naruto up with a little too much strength and Naruto landed on top of him and they fell to the ground. Lee felt Naruto on top of him but took a moment to realize that something had come into contact with his lips. He opened his eyes to see Naruto face. There lips touching and the same shocked look on Naruto's face as Lee's. Naruto jumped back and both boys had turned a fine shade of red. Lee sat up and Naruto looked at the ground. There was an awkward silence and Lee got to his feet. "ah, we better get to school." Naruto nodded and got to his feet and they start to walk again. it wasn't until they were at the bottom of the mountain that they realized they no longer had the paint cans with them. They turned around and looked back up the mountain and both there jaws dropped. The paint cans had tipped over in the confusion and had run over the cliff and down the stone faces of the Hokages. Both just stared at the mess they had made for a few moments and then Lee spoke. "What happens on the mountain, stays on the mountain." Naruto nodded in agreement, then both boys looked at each other bursting into a fit of laughter and hurried off to school.