Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Hello everyone, this is my first fanfic ever on my favorite pairing in the anime Naruto.

Sakura and Lee.

I used some of the events that happened in the Anime and Manga, but I altered Sakura a bit.. So I guess you could say she's a bit OOC for beginning to like her protector.

In this story we mostly follow Sakura as she begins to feel more towards the boy who had protected her during the second exam, and less towards the boy of the Uchiha clan who had always been so cold towards her.

So hmm.. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I really hope I'm doing a good job on writing a fanfic since it's my first time.

So please don't be too harsh on me since I've never done this before ;

Chapter 1

She was shocked, shocked over the fact that someone could do something this horrible to another human…

But she knew the demonish boy named Gaara only loved himself and the death of others, and that he would do this to anyone who stood in his way...

After all, Gaara had threatened his own siblings for being so rude back when she had first encountered them, Kankuro had tried to beat up Konohamaru but got hit by a pebble that Sasuke had flinged at him.

Sakura stared at the unconcious body of the boy she had come to respect so much, the one who had tried so hard to protect her, tears welled up in her eyes as she thought what he had said to her during the second exam in the forest of Death.

Flashback

She activated the last trap, hoping that it would knock the enemy ninja's out and give her the time to escape with her two unconcious comrades.

But the one called Dosu somehow managed to break the huge log that was swinging towards him and his team as they tried to make their way to Sakura in order to fight the weak and not to mention unconcious Sasuke.

Tears appeared in her eyes as the idea that she wouldn't be able to protect her friends from the Sound ninja's crossed her mind.

She closed her eyes, thinking it was over for her when she heard someone shouting...

"Leaf Hurricane!"

Someone kicked the Sound ninja's away in a spinning kick and then appeared infront of Sakura, standing infront of her in order to protect her.

"Huh.. Who.. L-.. Lee..?" She thought, clearly amazed that the boy with the bowlcut hair and large eyebrows had come to protect her, even if it costed him his own life...

"W- What are you doing here Lee...?" She had asked hesitantly, but in the back of her head she already knew the answer.

"I will always appear, anywhere and anytime that you are in trouble, Sakura" He had answered, smiling charmingly and reassuringly at her before turning back to the enemy ninja's, falling into his battle stance.

She felt warm, he really cared about her and had come to protect her..

End Flashback

After that she hadn't been sure about her feelings for Sasuke anymore, though she still cared for the Uchiha, but not like she used to.. She felt a bond more like friendship between her and the raven haired boy. But she was still worried about him because of the odd bruise that he had gotten in his neck during the second exam.

It caused him alot of pain and it hurt her aswell to see anyone close to her be in pain.

Now again, Lee had been heavily injured by the boy who named himself Gaara of the Desert.

Gaara had had an maniacal look on his face when he had ordered his sand to break Lee's body, though lucky for Lee the sand had only gotten his left arm and leg as he had hastily attempted to get away.

The red-haired boy had then performed his Desert Funeral Jutsu on the limbs his sand had managed to get a hold on, causing poor Lee to scream in pain and fall, his leg and arm bleeding heavily.

Kiba, Shino and Hinata had already seen how ruthless the boy could be, and they thought Lee was lucky to get away with only a broken left leg and left arm.

"I can not lose here.. I must protect my way of the ninja.." Lee was heavily injured but he still wanted to try and win, in order to protect his nindo.

Gaara had then attempted to finish Lee off, trying to kill him, bursting all of his sand towards his heavily injured opponent.

But he was shocked and amazed at the same time as he saw that the boy's sensei had come to deflect his attack, in order to rescue his student...

"Why...?" He had asked Gai, staring at him intently, wondering how someone could love another person... "Why did you help him..?"

His mind was racing, not able to understand why that man had saved that fool, was he really that important?

"Because he is an important Sub-ordinate... that I love.." Gai had stated simply.

The red-haired boy had gotten up, his sand flowing back into the shape of the gourd on his back. "I quit."

"He quit...?" Sakura asked.

"The moment Gai went down there to save Lee, Lee had lost the fight."

Sakura felt shocked once again, she knew that winning was everything to Lee because he wanted to prove to everyone that he was a great ninja, even though he wasn't able to use Nin- or Genjutsu.

She continued staring down at the battle arena, her eyes never leaving Lee's broken body.

The examinator was about to announce Gaara as the winner, when he stopped in the middle of his sentence.

Gai turned around, finding Lee standing up again, falling into his battle stance and ready to continue the fight.

His arm and leg bleeding heavily, undoubtedly hurting him awfully, but he stood and wanted to continue the fight nevertheless.

Gai froze "This can't be" he muttered, staring at his precious student who was shaking heavily from all the injuries his body had to endure.

"He opened five gates, and had his arm and leg crushed, he shouldn't be able to stand up..." Kakashi stated fairly calm, though the emotion in his eyes were clear.

Gai ran towards Lee "Lee, it's okay.. It's over... You shouldn't stand up" He said, obviously worried about his student's condition.

Another shock came to him as he discovered that the boy had no longer been concious.

Tears began welling up in Gai's eyes "Lee.." he muttered, sniffing softly "Are you still trying to prove your way of the ninja, still trying to protect your nindo.. Even after you lost conciousness..?" He asked even though he knew that the boy couldn't hear him..

The sensei then grabbed his student, hugging him closely and muttering "You are already an excellent ninja.." he said, a slight whimper was heard in his voice as he spoke, clearly overcome by the emotion he was feeling at that moment.

She was about to cry, but she managed to hide her tears from the others around her and shouted "Lee-san!"

Sakura wanted to go down to help her friend, to cheer him up, to just.. Be there for him..

She felt it was her duty to protect the boy who had protected her, he needed her now..

The pink-haired kunoichi jumped on the railing, ready to jump off when her own sensei held her back.

"Even if you go down there, what can you do?" he had asked her.

It was very hard for her to do, to stay back and watch her protector being taken care of by the medical ninja's, not being able to do anything for him..

She wasn't quite sure why but she longed to be with him right now.

But she stayed back.. like her sensei had told her to do, it was probably the hardest thing she had ever done.

"It's only going to be tougher for him if you try to cheer him up" Her sensei stated.

She frowned and bit her lip, thinking.

"But why.." she thought, her green eyes drifting back to Lee "Why.. I want to be with him.. I want to show him that I care about him.. That I'm there for him.." She sighed and went back behind the railing, ignoring Inner-Sakura's screams about her thought that she cared about the boy with the bushy eyebrows.

She saw Gai talking to one of the medical ninja's, horror was written all over the man's face and she didn't have a good feeling about whatever it was that the medic was telling Gai.

This made her feel even more depressed...

But she didn't really care about what the medical ninja had told Lee's sensei, the only thing she cared about right now was Lee's wellbeing...

A/N:

So there you have it, the first chapter.

In this chapter Sakura doesn't appear to have that much feelings towards Lee.. Yet.. :P

But that'll change soon enough..

Anyway, If you have some ideas I'm always open for suggestions :3

Not sure when I'll post the new chapter, I guess I want to know what people think first before I continue.. Though I have a vague idea of how the story will be..

Thanks to everyone who reads this and reviews!

Sambers