A/n: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS! It's good to know there are other people out there who like Lee. HE'S THE SHIT! I lurv him to no end…even if his eyebrow are huge..He's still fuzzy on the inside! (No pun intended) Anyways, here's the next chapter hope you guys like it! Sorry I went over my deadline I got grounded…''

Title: A Cold Day in Hell
Chapter 2: Youthful Chicken for the Shinobi Soul

At 7:30am Rock Lee was making his way to the usual training spot in the clearing. The spring to his step seemed to have lost its spoing, and the glitter in his eyes had dulled considerably, but this was all a bodily thing. 'THIS COLD WON'T GE THE BEST OF ME! FOR I AM FULL OF YOUTH AND ANTI-BODIES!' was what he'd tell himself now and then whenever his body told him. 'sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep' Yes it was fight between mind and body. Good and evil….or good and a tired version of good. He waved wearily at a few passer-bys on his way over, some rather thankful he hadn't glomped them, as was the norm, and others figured 'ah well, the world had to end at one point or another.'

He looked down at the box in his hand; he read it over again, and again, and again. It was the same warning label every time! Nowhere did it say 'may cause your stomach to knot up and make you feel like you're gagging on…on…' oh come on lee think of something nasty, you can do it! 'Gai-sensei's socks!' He paused for a moment. Did Gai-sensei even wear socks…..? Oh well. Back to the subject at hand! He sighed slipping the tin foil covered slip out of the box grimacing at the thought of having to take this without spitting it out.

He ripped open the top of the packet cringing as if the slight crinkling sound it made was nails being dragged on a chalk board. He grabbed the small cherry red film between his pointer finger and thumb and slid it out. Alright! The moment of truth! The poor shinobi, so inexperienced in the battle field of cold medicine placed it on his tongue. He relaxed once he realized that it wasn't so bad. I mean he could barley taste I- GAAAAAAH!

Oh, he tasted it now alright! 'DON'T SPIT IT OUT! DON'T SPIT IT OUT! DON'T SPIT IT OUT OR SKAURA-CHAN WILL NEVER LOVE YOU!' He waited for the rest to dissolve before narrowing his eyes at that cursed box. He'd figure out away around this! There had to be some way to…aha! As he made the rest of his way to the training field he had a spring to his step, that wasn't there before. He had a plan to get around this cold strip stuff, and he knew it was going to work!

Ten Ten had just stepped into the training grounds when she spotted a blob of green, and orange lying on the ground surrounded by what looked like wrinkled tin foil and…a box. She approached Lee an eyebrow arched high upon her forehead, stepping around the fallen wrapping. "Lee….?"

"mmmm'yeaaaahh?" He sounded…odd to say the least. Bubbly, more so than his normal self, and somewhat spacey. She looked down at the empty box dangling limply from her teammates fingers. 'Cold Strips.' Ten Ten tried her best to understand why Lee would (one) Have this box in the first place, and (two) how many did he take? She knelt down taking the box and reading over it.

"Lee? How many did you take? It says one every couple of hours! Not…" she blinked reading the contents of the box. "THERE WERE TWELVE OF THESE?" Ten Ten exclaimed flipping the box over again. "For god-sake Rock Lee there are THREE panels of drug facts in on this box!"

"It daste naaaasty…..two at a time dasted worse…so I took all of them ad once. The same amount of medicines……right Ten Ten-chan?" He waved his hands elaborately in the air, disorientated a bit.

"I don't care if your sorry…what if you overdose or something! I don't even know if we have a…poison control? In Konoha!"

"Whad poison control?"

"My point exactly!"

The two fell silent, Ten Ten, flipping over the box reading over every Drug Fact panel carefully, Lee starring at the clouds muttering to himself about a stomach ache and if there were tummy ache strips….

"Ten Ten-chan?" Lee muttered breaking the silence. She looked up from the box at him to show she heard and that he could continue. "Whad's…titanium dioxide?" She blinked tapping her chin with her pointer finger scanning over the box.

"Uuuuhh….it on here under inactive ingredients….maybe it's…uhhh. Isn't Titanium a kind of metal?" She sat down running her fingers through her bangs muttering about them trying to poison poor ninja's with colds by making them ingest metal! "It says there's alcohol in this too! And…pregentialila starch? Pregalin…pregelatam….pre-"

"Pregelatinized starch." A certain Hyuuga interrupted as he made his way over to his fellow gennin. Ten Ten and Lee exchanged a look and in unison asked,

"What's that?"

Neji rolled his eyes. "Break it down. Pre. Before hand. Gelatinized. Turned into gel."

"oooooooh!" They both nodded in understanding. Le being the first to speak now got to his feet and pointed dramatically at Neji.

"So what does dhat make it?"

"and why does it say there's alcohol in it?" Ten Ten voiced wanting an answer to her question as well." And titanium? Isn't that metal?" She and Lee were both on there feet now standing right in front of Neji who was feeling rather intimidated at the moment. And why the hell did Ten Ten smell so good today?

"First off. Why do you two have an empty box of cold strips?" Neji backed away eyeing to two suspiciously.

''m sick…real sick…I keep coughing…." Lee sniffled itching his nose with the back of his hand. "Annn I think I had too many…..of dose strip dings? So now we need to find poison control….and"

"Poison control?"

Ten Ten jumped. "EXACTLY!"