Second chapter... I tried to make it longer than the first and hopefully I succeeded!

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"Lee." Gaara said back, looking at the boy. He seemed different, not dressed in his normal green unitard. Gaara's gaze was undisrupted as he still controlled the sand to climb up the side of the bed and slither around on the bed spread.

"Why are you here?" Lee demanded. Gaara was probably the person he wanted to see least right now. Gaara didn't have a scratch anywhere on him, which made Lee angry, considering it looked like he hadn't even been touched.

Gaara shrugged. "Visiting." Lee was taken aback. Was Gaara really that coldhearted to almost kill someone and then come visit him in the hospital like he had done nothing?

Pretty much.

But then again Lee did try to kill him with his Primary Lotus…..

"I doubt that you're really here to visit, Gaara. You don't seem like the type of person to give their sympathy," Lee said defiantly.

"Who said I was here out of sympathy?" the other boy asked. Lee could feel the sand still crawling up him, now making its way towards his neck. He tried to show no signs of panic, but he didn't want to get killed, let alone injured again. Lee looked at him, waiting for him to continue. "I want to know something."

The boy in the bed was confused. He wanted to know something? What could this redhead possibly learn from him? Gaara seemed to be troubled by finding his next words. His eyes widened and he took a long moment, as if to think about something. Lee could see the slightest hint of Gaara's arms shaking. "I… would like to know… how it is…

…you are loved."

The sand clasped around Lee's neck, forcing his body to lay flat on the bed and not move an inch. He closed his eyes and tried to think of something to do, how to get out of this. But his arm and leg hurt too much. "Gaa-!" Lee stopped his sentence for when he opened his eyes, Gaara was less than an inch from his face, his blue eyes staring straight into his black ones.

"Tell me." Gaara demanded in a low tone. He was shaking badly now. "Or I will kill you and your sensei." Shukaku was starting to take control… Lee closed his eyes again and struggled to move but couldn't find any strength within his body. He could feel the sand slithering into his mouth now. But wait…. I didn't feel like sand… It was wet and wasn't grainy like sand should be….

It was Gaara.

Gaara had used the sand to hold Lee down as he kissed him, exploring his mouth with his tongue. Lee realized this and struggled even more, feeling pain shoot through his limbs. He had become exhausted and finally gave up and stopped struggling. Gaara pulled his head back and looked at the boy. "You are lucky, Lee."

Lee could feel relief as the sand crawled back into the gourd on Gaara's back. He laid on his bed, unmoving except for his short breaths. "W-why am I lucky…?" he asked softly.

"Because you have so many people to care for you." With that, Gaara left, using his ninjutsu to disappear. Lee was stunned. Why had Gaara kissed him? Would he be back anytime soon? He had too many questions going through his mind all at once. But he did know one thing.

Gaara wanted to be loved.

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Tsunade pulled back Lee's curtain, exposing Lee's bed to the rest of the room he was in. She was glad to find an empty bottle of medicine on his nightstand and a sleeping Lee in the bed. She smiled and turned to the girl with pink hair who stood beside her. "Here you are, Sakura-chan." The girl with green eyes nodded and thanked the Fifth.

"Lee-san…" she said after Tsunade left, " I hope you're feeling better…." In her arms she had a daffodil, especially picked for Lee. She placed it into the vase on the nightstand. Next to the vase was Lee's red headband. Sakura picked it up and studied the fabric, wondering why it was red and not blue like the rest.

She smiled and put the headband back, now turning her attention to the sleeping Lee. "I'm sorry, Lee-san, but I promised Naruto I would help him with his training today." She bowed her head in acknowledgement before leaving the room.

Sakura had a strange, sinister feeling as she walked to the lobby of the hospital. Several times she turned her head and was disappointed to find nothing there. As she exited the building, she could have sworn she heard something being whispered , but she assumed it was the wind and went on her way.

The noise she heard was this:

"Don't visit him again, or I'll kill you."

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Uh-oh... Gaara is succumbing to... TEEN LOVE! dies