Yo Everybody! I actually wrote another chapter for this! w00t! Thanks to greenbean1 whose a doll and thinks I'm funny, and to Leenad who has now been indoctrinated by the Bulge. The Bulge welcomes you Leenad, for it loves us all... It just loves Gaara more.

Water Logic Chapter 2

By ISMA

"If I can't do five hundred pushups in the next half an hour," Rock Lee challanged himself, "Then I will run around Kohona until dinner." The determind shinobi began his regimine just as the sun was begining to peak over the horizon. He began, pushing himself to go faster for each one. Sweat dripped down his face and landed like raindrops on the dusty ground under his nose.

Raindrops made Lee think of Gaara, Gaara who had told him just last week that 'rain is more precious than diamonds'. Just thinking of the Kazekage's choice of words made Lee shiver, although he told himself it was from his cold-morning training. He remembered having Okonomiyaki with Gaara just a few days before, and seeing his new... friend glaring daggers at the falling rain. It had been funny. He had laughed. Gaara had punched him.

Good times.

Lee gave a little huff as he passed the two hundred mark. His mind still wrapped up in thoughts of the past few weeks. The Kazekage had joined him for lunch three days out of five, and they had ranged across the vast globe of Kohona's culinary landmarks. First it had been ramen, then okonomiyaki, then udon, then tempura. Lee learned that Gaara did not like fish. Gaara learned that fish did not like him.

Now it had been nearly three days and not a word had come from the Kazekage. Lee told himself he didn't mind, often in fact. It didn't make sense for him to miss Gaara after just three days, Lee told himself. He never missed his other friends, and he sometimes didn't see them for weeks on end. At the same time, Lee could easily admit that his other friends just weren't as...friendly as Gaara.

Gaara was friendly. He had good ideas, a bizzare fasion sense, and a vicious sense of humor buried under years of dementia and a thick layer of sand. He liked food almost as much as Naruto, and was always willing to try new things. He could fight like a beast and sing like an aged cow with a cold.

Lee had not even considered what an honor it was to have been the only person to have ever heard Sabaku no Gaara sing. He hadn't considered that he had known the sand nin for all of two weeks and was already closer to the introverted insomniac than anyone before him. He had considered that it had been three days without a single word from his new best friend.

The five-hundreth push up came with the same force as the first only fifteen minutes after Lee had begun. There was a moment on confusion as Lee realized that he had completed his goal and did not, in fact, have to run around Kohona until dinner.

He blinked. And then looked at his watch. And then blinked again. Lee never finished his challange, that was the whole point of his self-training regimine. Now he was left with a completed goal, and no idea what to do next.

"Huh." he said. This was a first.

"What is it?" A voice asked from behind him. Lee turned around, forgetting to be surprised at Gaara's sudden appearance.

"I'm finished." he said, his thick brows once again creasing in confusion.

"..." Gaara said. Lee nodded in acknowledgement, it was certainly an odd occurance. There was another long silece before Lee gave up on his confusion and Gaara forgot what they had been quiet about.

"It has been three days." Lee told him, hoping to get an explination.

"..." Gaara told him. Lee understood his position, and told him so. After all, he was the Kazekage and he had responsibilities.

"..." Gaara complained, his eyebrow twitching. Lee laughed.

"If you don't like it, quit." He told Gaara, chuckling at the slightly perturbed look on the Kazekage's face.

"...?" Lee grinned at Gaara's suggestion and grabed the sand nin by the sleeve.

"We shall have BARBEQUE!" Lee shouted, flashing Gaara the good-guy-grin and pulling him from the training yard. A questioning, and hairless, eyebrow was raised in the direction of the exuberant Shinobi.

"Training can wait." He anwered, probably for the first time in his life. The eyebrow rose higher, if anything.

"I said it can wait!" Lee said, pulling Gaara into the restaurant and forcebly sitting him down at a table.

"Fine." Gaara grunted, the first actually word he had said in quite some time. They ordered and ate, enjoying thier food the way only two teenage boys can. There was nothing more than a little light convorsation, when Gaara suddenly locked eyes with his enthusiastic friend.

"I am leaving tomorrow." He said, out of the blue. Lee choked for a moment, Gaara simply kept eye contact and searched for signs of anger from his new friend. People got angry when you left them right? He new Temari got angry a lot when he left...

Instead of anger however, Gaara blunt statement brought about another reaction from the leaf nin. Large drops of water began to pool in Lee's eyes and stream down his cheeks. Gaara became alarmed. Lee was wasting water, and Gaara didn't know how to make him stop.

"I... Stop..." He let out a slight huff, not knowing the right words to convey what he felt.

"Okay." Lee said, as always reading the silences better than the actual words. He took up a napkin and wiped away his, for once, genuine tears. It was so fast... so sudden...

The look in Gaara's black-rimmed eyes said; "I'll miss you." Lee smiled through his tears. Before he could ealize what had happened he had clasped Gaara's hands in his own. The sand nin looked down at them as if they belonged to someone else, shocked at the level of contact he was comfortable with after only a few weeks. He could feel Lee's hands on his own, and he suddenly realized that he would miss more than just Lee.

He would miss Lee's hands, the rough feeling of cloth bandages on his arm as Lee dragged him to a new attraction. He would miss Lee's voice, saying the things he didn't have words for and responding to the thoughts he didn't even know he had. He would miss saying hello to the Bulge every morning.

"Gaara?" said the voice across from him. His head tilted in response, needing nothing else to tell Lee that he was listening.

"Why are you staring at my lap?"

It was at that moment that Gaara knew he was in love. The Kazekage looked Lee seriously in the eyes, and answered in a deep and mournfull voice,

"I am saying goodbye."

"To my lap?"

"...Yes." Once again Lee's massive eyesbrows creased in confusion, Gaara took that moment to lean in a plant a soft kiss on Lee's cheek.

The leaf nin's eyes grew wide, wider than normal, and a bright red blush flashed across his face. It wasn't a very romantic kiss, or even an unromantic one. It was... cute. Adorable actually. The sort of kiss one receives in gradeschool from a small and unsure admirer. It was the sort of kiss they take pictures of to put in cheesy calenders that you then give to your grandma.

It was very nice but now that they had gotten that out of the way...

Lee leaned forward and gave Gaara another kiss, this time on the lips. Past the lips even. On to the tonsils. Gaara's tonsils did a dance for joy. Hell, Gaara's tonsils were doing the electric slide.

It was nearly five minutes before Lee pulled away from a shell-shocked Gaara and told him quite forcibly; "I don't want you to go."

There was a moment of mournful silence.

"We could have been doing this all week." Gaara said, in a full sentance no less.

"I don't want you to go."

"... so much time wasted."

"I don't want you to go!" the tears resurfaced, and Gaara was once again at a loss to stop the complete waste of water that was occuring. Although licking away the excess liquid sounded like a good idea...

"You can visit." He said, not noticing how his hands had become entwind with Lee's over the course of thier tearful conversation, "I can visit."

"...Yosh..." Lee said, sounding like someone had raped his turtle.

Gaara, feeling even slightly more comfortable with the whole touching thing, brought his lips to Lee's forehead, and then to his nose, and then... Lee's tonsils were dancing too.

"..." Gaara said finally.

"Hai," Lee agreed, "We can visit."

Temari watched in awe as her little brother thouroughly kissed the annoying leaf nin goodbye. She coffed gently, looked over at her equally shocked middle brother, and then back at the youngest.

"When did that happen?" She demanded once both boys had finished tongue-tango-ing.

"..." Gaara shrugged.

"It just..." Lee shrugged too.

Temari shrugged back, shrugging was contagous, and turned away with a "whatever."

"...Just so long as you use protection." Kankuro chimed in. Gaara glared, Kankuro felt himself cower a little.

"Bye." Lee said, stars in his eyes and completly oblivious his love's siblings.

"Bye." Gaara said, eyes locked with Lee's. He turned to go, walking a few feet with Temari and Kankuro on either side. He turned, quickly, and muttered one more "Goodbye" before dissapearing into the leaves with his siblings.

"Gaara?" Temari asked, breaking a very romantic brooding session.

"...?" responded Gaara.

"Did you just say goodbye to his crotch?"

"..." Gaara would definitly miss Lee.

A/N: Well, this chapter sprang from a few springs...of youth... that came to my mind. First, people wanted another chapter. Thats a good reason right there.

Also I wanted to play with the idea of "what would happen if Lee finished his challange to himself?" I imagine he would be at a loss for what to do. I really love writing this pairing, and I hope I get across that this is a relationship, not sex, not just friendship. It may be cutesy and a little unrealistic but thats just because I'm a hopeless romantic. I tried to make it seem as if Lee and Gaara just "fell in love" in that it happened without them noticing. I love the idea of two people being so close that they don't even notice when it goes from friendship into something more... Well, there you go folks! tell me what you think .

Once again, unedited and unspellchecked. Sorry.