Warnings: None really, but just for the people who haven't watched the massive amount of filler episode, Lee actually does sleepwalk. (Well, sleeptrain, but close enough.)
Pairing: Lee/Naruto
Summary: Lee has a tendency to sleepwalk, and Naruto's having a bought of insomnia, so what does he do when someone's knocking on his door in the middle of the night? Open it of course!
Genre: Romance, homor
Rating: PG
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When he had first heard the knocking on his door in the middle of the night, Naruto was sure he was just hearing things. After all, why the hell would anyone want to visit him when all the sane people were sleeping? That and the knocks were slow and didn't sound the least bit urgent. He must have been hearing things.
But when the knocking didn't stop, Naruto found himself to be quiet annoyed. So what if he wasn't actually going to get any sleep, that knocking was really starting grate his nerves.
"Damn whoever is knocking straight to hell and back." He muttered to himself as he walked stiffly towards the door, still clothed in his orange jumpsuit. He grasped the knob tightly and yanked the door open, mouth already opening to scream at whoever was on the other side, but upon seeing who it was his mouth clenched shut and his eyes bulged.
"What the- Lee!"
And indeed, Rock Lee stood in front of him, his arms limp at his sides, his head lolled over to the right, in a pair of green pajamas, snoring. Naruto sweatdropped and carefully poked Lee's nose, the other boy muttered something under his breath, but that was the only reaction he got.
'He must be sleepwalking! What am I supposed to do with him, I can't wake him up because then he'll go into shock, but-'
As Naruto was thinking things over, he didn't notice Lee making his way into his house until the other boy was already inside and wondering around blindly, knocking random empty ramen cups over and generally messing Naruto's apartment up.
"Damn it! I was going to clean up tonight to!" Naruto quickly rushed over to the dark haired boy and grabbed onto his arm, dragging him into the hallway and pushing him into his room before quickly locking the door.
"I just hope he can't open knobs in his sleep, I really wanted to clean up tonight." He muttered to himself, frowning as he heard a dull knocking from inside his bedroom. "I guess I'll have to do my room last, I just hope he doesn't do too much damage in there."
An hour later, the faint knocking from inside his room still hadn't stopped and although Naruto could easily tune it out, he had to wonder why the hell Lee was softly hitting his stuff.
'I just hope he doesn't get into some intense dream about training and then proceed to trash my room.' Naruto gripped the feather duster in his hand and threw a glance over to his bedroom door. 'I swear to god if that happens I'll wake him up, going into to shock or not, he's not going to make my room worse!' He turned around and went back to cleaning, unaware that the knocking had stopped and not hearing the low creak of his bedroom door opening.
"Naruto-kun." Naruto whirled around and snickered when he saw Lee hugging a potted plant. "Lee, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but that definitely isn't me." He said while walking forward and trying to pry the plant out of Lee's hands.
"Lee! Let go! Grrr." Naruto ground his teeth together, braced himself and pulled the plant as hard as he could. 'Why the hell is he holding it so tight!' "DAMN IT! LET GO!"
Lee let go… And Naruto went flying backwards. "GAHH!" 'This is what I get for not waking him up and telling him to go home! It's not worth it!' "Owww." He glared at Lee angrily and stood up, placing his plant carefully on his living room table. 'Damn it, I'm not going to let him mess up my apartment, I've gotta wake him up.' He threw a glance over to Lee, who seemed to be trying to grasp the air, and sweatdropped. 'But how do I wake him up?'
"Naruto-kun? Where did you go?" Lee held out his arms and began walking forward, blindly searching.
"Ah! What are you talking about fuzzy brows? I'm right here!" Naruto threw one clenched fist forward, but didn't expect it to be caught by the sleeping boy in front of him.
"Nani!" Lee pulled Naruto into a hug. "There you are Naruto-kun, I was wondering where you'd gone." "Oi! Let me go!" Naruto demanded, stomping onto Lee's foot angrily. 'Dammit, why the hell won't you wake up?'
They were suddenly nose to nose and Naruto leaned back to reclaim some of his personal space. "Naruto-kun, aishiteru." 'WHAT!' The arms around him went limp and Naruto fell back, staring up at Lee with wide eyes as the other boy swayed unsteadily and then fell on his side, sound asleep.
'This had better not be some sort of sick trick.' Naruto crouched over Lee a small blush covering his face. 'Fuzzy brows likes me? I though he liked Sakura-chan!' He went tense as Lee muttered something in his sleep, but relaxed again when he made no movements.
'Gah, this is far to confusing, I think I'd better catch some zs before my sleep deprived mind think about this stuff anymore.' He threw a look over to Lee who was sleeping peacefully on his floor and sighed. 'I guess I could get him a blanket or something.'
Lee could feel the sun on his face slowly waking him up and vaguely wondered when his bed had gotten so firm. 'Now is no time to be thinking such things, now you must begin training with your power of-' He sat up. "YOUTH!" CRACK! "OW!"
Naruto rushed out of his room, sleepily holding a kunai. 'What the-' He caught sight of Lee, hands on his forehead, and his now broken living room table. 'Oh, and for a moment I thought something important was going on.' He began walking back to his room.
"Naruto-kun, where am I?" Naruto didn't even bother to stop and turn around when he answered. "My house." And he sluggishly made his way into his room while Lee sat on the floor, blushing.
'How did I get here… Did I… Sleep walk?' Lee nervously looked around. 'That's the only way I could have gotten here, unless Naruto decided to kidnap me during the night. But if I sleepwalked then there a good chance that I…I…' Lee blushed and sighed. 'I suppose it doesn't matter what I could have done while I was asleep, nothing I could ever do or say would make him stray from Sakura-san's side.' Lee dully toyed with the faded red blanket that covered his legs. 'I'd better thank Naruto-kun for letting me stay overnight.'
Lee stood up and went towards Naruto bedroom, peeking inside from the doorway and smiling at Naruto's sleeping form. 'Kawaii.' He made his way into the room and stood beside Naruto's bed. "You sure do fall asleep fast Naruto-kun, but I suppose it's because you probably spend half the night keeping me out of trouble. Anyways, thanks for caring." Lee finished monotonously as he it his lip, his eyes glancing around the room nervously.
And he left Naruto with a soft kiss of the cheek.
Blue eyes slowly opened and Naruto yawned tiredly. 'Well, I guess he doesn't know the difference between being asleep and being half asleep.' He glanced at his alarm clock and groaned, he had to be at the bridge in fifteen minutes. 'And I'll probably be thinking about Lee's ki- what Lee said all during training.' Naruto sighed, his face pink as he began to change.
Ands indeed Lee's 'words' had distracted him all throughout training, he was finding hard to block and evade Sakura's attacks and even found himself being sliced every once in a while by her shuriken or kunai. He had finally managed to win after twenty minutes of one on one combat, but as soon as he brought his kunai away from Sakura's throat he suddenly became aware of his own injuries.
'I must have been pretty spaced out for Sakura to have hit me this many times.' Naruto grimaced, sure he'd be completely healed in thirty minutes at the most, but that didn't help his wounded pride.
"Alright, training's over today." "What! Why?" Naruto and Sakura demanded angrily, Kakashi just flipped through his book lazily. "Because I said so."
Sakura spun on her heel and stomped into the direction of her house while Naruto casually turned to walk away, before his sensei's voice stopped him.
"I don't know what had you so distracted today Naruto, but you'd better get things cleared up before tomorrow's mission." Naruto nodded wordlessly and walked away, constantly aware of the dull stings coming from his small wounds. 'I can't believe Sakura got me that many times, at least I didn't get hit too bad, I'd never live it down."
"Naruto-kun! Are you alright!" Naruto stiffened and turned towards Lee. "Of course I'm alright! I'm right as rain and fit as a fiddle!" He began stretching as if to prove his point, it wasn't working.
"Naruto-kun, you've got cuts all over, were you training with Sasuke-kun?"
There had never been a blow to his pride quite as strong as the one that question had produced.
"Uh, not exactly…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Oh, were you training with Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto squinted and looked away. "Yeah, that's it, but he was going pretty easy on me…" 'Speaking of Kakashi-sensei, I'm supposed to clear things up between me and Lee now. How does one go about doing that?' Only one thought came to mind.
"Hey Lee?" "Yes?" Naruto gave Lee a quick peck on the cheek. "Thanks for caring."
