The Love of a Perverted Ninja
ILI: yo
Sasuke: HI YA!
ILI: ok, this chapter is really long. like REALLY long. it's becasue i wenr to and looked up 'Gaara vs. Lee' and watched those 3 episodes and typed it so...ya. i added some stuff and took some stuff away but its A LOT like the show so...ya
Itachi: ...
Embouchure: me and spelling don't mix...hehe... hope you like the rest of the story
MikoHatome: thanks! hope you like the rest!
Alien26: i like takato! lol
Princess Shadowcat: yup jeri is weird and rika is going to kick ass! lol
tentenrox: this is a very serious fight :)
digitalcat17: oh my... ask julie for pretzel lol
Discalmer: ...
"Man that was scary," Sakura said as they rushed Takato to the hospital wing.
"I told you that exams where scary," Kakashi said as he read this book.
"YOUTHFUL KAKASHI! HOW ARE YOU THIS FINE DAY OF THESE WONDERFUL EXAMS!" Gai called as he walked towards them with Lee, Tenten, and Neji.
"Fine Gai, and yourself?"
"I FEEL EXTRA YOUTHFUL! BEING AROUND ALL THE YOUTH! YOUTHFUL NARUTO! IS YOUR YOUTHFUL EYE OK! IT'S ALL RED!" Naruto's right eye was slightly red and swollen and he kept rubbing it.
"No, no, no! It's alright, Gai-sensei," Naruto said.
"ALRIGHT YOUTHFUL NARUTO!" Hayate coughed slightly, to shut Gai up since he was feeling tired and didn't want to yell.
"We will now resume the matches," he said quietly. The names on the screen started to move again. 'Gaara vs. Rock Lee' it read.
"GOOD LUCK YOUTHFUL LEE!" Gai said.
"YES GAI-SENSEI!" Lee jumped down from the railing onto the arena floor and waited for Gaara.
"Um… good luck Gaara…" Temari said. Gaara said nothing. He started breathing heavily and started to shake slightly.
'He's in a dangerous mood,' Kankuro thought. 'The thrill of an upcoming battle against someone like Lee makes that demon within him bloodthirsty. Lee doesn't have a chance.'
A whirlwind of sand consumed Gaara. It moved down to the arena and then the sand subsided and Gaara stood there, facing Lee. "I am very happy I can fight you so early," Lee said to Gaara.
"Hurry up and start the match," Gaara said coldly to Hayate. The cork off the gourd popped off and flew towards Lee. He caught it and dropped it.
"Don't be so hasty," Lee said. Gaara only glared at the young green blast.
"Now, lets begin the third match…" Hayate said. "Begin."
Quickly, Lee ran towards Gaara, who just stood there with his arms crossed. Lee jumped up in the air.
"Kohoha Whirlwind!" he yelled as he spun in the air. He went to kick Gaara but a blast of sand shout up and blocked Lee from Gaara. The sand then shout up and formed a wave. The sand wave came crashing down, aiming for Lee but he jumped up, pulled his legs in, and spun backwards.
Sand was sprawled across the floor but then it started to fly back into the gourd. Lee ran towards Gaara again. As he advanced, sand came out again. Lee jumped up and tried to kick him but more sand shout up and blocked the attack.
He tried kicking and punching Gaara several times but each time he tried attacking, more sand shout up and put up a barrier between them. The whole time, Gaara stood still, with his arms crossed.
The sand then slid across the floor, towards Lee. He saw this and saw it coming. Lee quickly took out a kunai and twirled it around his finger for a moment before letting it rest in his hand.
The sand shout up and tried to cover Lee but he sliced through it with the kunai, trying to push it away. When there was an opening, Lee tried to kick Gaara again but the sand quickly stopped trying to get Lee and blocked the attack on Gaara.
The sand rolled towards Lee and he moved away from Gaara. Lee did some flips and moved away from the advancing sand. He jumped up and grabbed two shurikan. Then he tossed them at Gaara but the sand caught it.
Naruto gasped. "None of Lee's attacks are working!" he said.
"No duh," a voice behind him said. Naruto turned around and Kankuro was standing there. "You have faced Gaara before. You should know that physical attacks have no affect on him. You should also know that regardless of Gaara's will, the sand will shield and protect him…" Kankuro reminded. "Your slower then I thought."
"WHAT!" Naruto yelled.
"That is why, and you should also know this, no one has ever hurt Gaara," Kankuro continued, like he was never interrupted. "Gaara always had extra sand, incase something happened, but he ever thought he would need to use it, because he makes more sand from the blood and bones of his victims but Gaara believes that the original sand, contained the ashes of our mother, that's why it protect him. So Gaara kept a little of that sand to the side, so he could have extra.
"When you dumped his sand out and he had to re-fill it, the sand wasn't sure what to do, so when you two where fighting, the sand didn't know how to help him. So when you two where fighting, that was the most Gaara ever got hurt."
'Damn it! He hasn't even moved! I know that Gaara is strong and that creepy sand protect him but I thought I might at least touch him!' Lee thought.
"Is that it?" Gaara asked. "Let me enjoy this a little more…there isn't enough…blood!" The sand then darted towards Lee. He jumped up but the sand still caught Lee by the ankle. It pulled him back then flung him towards the wall. He hit the wall hard then slumped to the ground.
He groaned as he tried to get up but before he had that chance, the sand came back. Lee JUST got out of the way as the sand collided with the wall, right where he JUST was.
He quickly got up and ran towards Gaara. He tired to punch him but yet again, the sand protected him. He jumped up and tied to lick Gaara in the head but the sand covered Gaara's red top.
He continued to try and punch and kick Gaara but the sand was too fast and blocked everything. The sand advanced towards Lee but he did many back flips to get away. He was going good in running from the sand but when he put his foot down to kick off again, the sand slid under his foot and Lee slid and fell backwards.
Lee got up on his hands and looked over at Gaara. The sand then came in a wave and Lee's eyes winded as it came crashing down.
Sakura gasped, because she thought that Lee was under the pile of sand but Gai chuckled. Sakura looked up and Lee was spinning in the air. She let out a sigh of relief.
Lee landed on top of the fingers of the huge hand. Gaara glared at him.
"Lee! Take them off!" Gai called out, giving him a thumbs up. Lee looked over at Gai and saluted (sp?) him.
"But, Gai-sensei, I thought that was only permitted when protecting many important people," Lee called back. Gai gave another thumbs up.
"I don't care! I will allow it!" Lee took his hand away from his forehead and started laughing. He sat Indian style on the hand and tugged at his orange leg warmers.
The others looked intently at what Lee was going (except Neji and Tenten). In all the years they have known Lee, they never knew what was under his leg warmers, or if there WAS anything under there, but they thought that something was there.
Lee pulled off one leg warmer and reviled a weight that was wrapped around his lower leg. Sakura gasped.
"Are those…" Ino started.
"Weights?" Shikamaru finished.
"What an old-fashioned training method," Kakashi said.
"I see!" Naruto said happily.
"How stupid…" Kankuro mumbled.
Lee had now pulled off both weights and put on his leg warmers. He stood up and held a weight in each hand.
"All right!" Lee said. "I can move easier now!" He dropped the weights.
Temari chuckled. 'Taking off some weights won't enable you to catch up with Gaara's sand…' she thought.
Hayate had to jump back when the weights hit the ground. They where so heavy that the ground crumpled when the weights hit.
Temari gasped. So did Kankuro.
Naruto and Sakura looked totally shocked.
Kakashi put a hand over his face and gasped. He then said, "Isn't that too much, Gai?"
"Go, Lee!" Gai called out, ignoring Kakashi.
"Yes, sir!" Lee yelled. He jumped down and Gaara gasped at his increased speed. In a blink of an eye, Lee appeared behind Gaara. He went to punch him but again the sand shout up. The only difference now was, instead of the sand totally blocking Lee; it was able to break thought.
Gaara turned his head to look at Lee's bandaged hand. He looked a little freaked and scared and his eyes where wide.
Gaara turned when Lee fazed away. When his back was turned, Lee appeared behind and tried to kick him. Only a few whips of sand where able to protect Gaara and he felt the aftermath of the kick.
Lee tried to kick and punch Gaara and each time the sand struggled to keep up, so even though Lee wasn't hitting Gaara, he felt the aftermath each time.
Gaara gasped when Lee's fist broke through the sand was only a inch from his face.
"Close," Sakura said happily.
"He's fast!" Kakashi said. "Faster then I thought…"
"Wow…" Naruto mumbled, making sure not to miss a second of the action.
"Lee moved around Gaara, trying to kick thought the sand. Gaara kept moving his head, to try and see where Lee wound turn up next.
Lee ran around Gaara, then kick off and spun in the air, in a ball. He released a leg from the ball and was able to get Gaara's cheek!
Everyone gasped when they saw Gaara's head forced down from the pressure. As Gaara glared at Lee, some skin chipped off like a pot and a red line came on his face.
Lee smirked at Gaara's reaction.
'I can't believe it!' Temari thought, 'Gaara got wounded.'
"No way…" Kankuro mumbled.
"Fuzzy Eyebrows is faster then before! I never him go so fast!" Naruto said.
"THE EXPLOSION OF YOUTH!" Gai yelled proudly, his teeth pinging in the process.
"SIR!" Lee yelled, with fire in his eyes. Lee ran towards Gaara in a cloud of dust. Gaara waved a hand and the sand moved up. It tried to get Lee but he was going to fast. Now when Gaara tried to see Lee, he only saw little explosions of sand where Lee tried to attack.
"Over here!" Lee taunted. Out of nowhere, Lee came and punched Gaara in the face. Gaara went flying backwards.
"Ok!" Gai said.
'I know that hurt,' Lee thought.
"Wow! He's fast! The sand guard can't keep up! That was a direct hit!" Sakura said happily. That made Sasuke twitch.
"Incredible…" Shikamaru said.
"His attacks are too fast," Ino added.
"I can't keep up with him with my eyes," Choji said.
"And what are you going to try and keep up with Choji! Your feet! Of course your eyes!" Ino said.
Gaara slowly got up, sand pouring from the gourd. The sand formed a circle around him. "This isn't good…" he said to himself.
"Yeah, it's not good for that dark-eyed raccoon guy!" Naruto said happily to Kankuro. "He took a heavy hit!"
"That's not what I meant," Kankuro replied.
"Ha?"
Gaara's layer of sand coating begin to fall compactly off. Lee's eyes widened in shock. He'd seen some sand chip off, but not the whole thing.
"He's been…totally unharmed…" Shikamaru said in shock.
The sand moved up and started to cover Gaara.
'I felt that he had become more unstable since Naruto messed with Gaara over the summer,' Temari thought as the sand started to spread over Gaara's body. For a moment he looked like a sand figure, then it seemed that the sand dissolved into his body, or changed color to look like skin. 'Since Gaara was forced to redo the armor of sand, it means he's being pressured right now. That Lee guy is pretty strong. But the outcome of this match it clear, like all of Gaara's matches. He cannot defeat Gaara.'
Gaara stood there with his arms crossed. "Is that all you've got?" he asked. "Fighting that loser fox is harder then fighting you."
'What incredible guards,' Lee thought. 'Even if I can move fast, my attacks will not have any effect. I have no choice but to apply great damage from above the sand.' There was a little sparkle in Lee's eyes. 'Lotus will do the job.'
'Yes,' Gai thought. Lee smirked as he unraveled some of the tape from his hands.
"Prepare yourself!" Lee warned. With a great amount of speed, Lee ran around Gaara.
'Lee's Lotus, which will drop the enemy at high speed… should be able to nullify (sp?) that thin sand protection,' Gai thought as he watched his favorite student.
"Hurry up and come," Gaara said, clearly annoyed with Lee.
"As you wish!" Lee called. He kicked Gaara up and Gaara growled. "I'm not done!" Lee got on all fours and kicked up from the ground. He kicked Gaara in the stomach a few times, causing him to go higher in the air, the sand flowing up, trying to catch up.
"That's an incredible combo," Kakashi said. Gai clapped his hand in front of his face.
'Even the normal Lotus will cause a lot of strain to the body,' he thought. 'Finish it off with this move, Lee!'
Lee kicked Gaara one move time, before waving his hands up, making the tape fly up also. The tape turned into spirals and wrapped around Gaara. Lee grabbed Gaara and they started spinning, head first.
"Take this!" Lee yelled. They started spinning in an incredible speed; only a flash of black and red was noticeable. "Secondary Lotus!"
They crashed into the ground, causing pieces of the floor to explode. Sakura gasped and everyone looked closely to see what would happen next. Lee jumped out of the hole, breathing heavily. Gaara was mixed in the ruble, not moving at all. His whole body was chipped and he had a shocked expression on his unmoving face.
"That should've hurt," Lee said proudly.
"All right!" Gai yelled.
"H-he did it…" Naruto said in disbelief.
"No way, this can't be," Kankuro said.
"Yeah! Lee won!" Sakura yelled happily.
"Hey, did he die?" Shikamaru asked, noticing that Gaara wasn't moving at all.
Hayate walked up to where Gaara was and looked in. The sand started to cave in and it looked like Gaara was nothing but an empty shell as the pieces fell and turned into sand. Everyone gasped.
"What!" Lee said in total shock. "That's. A shell made of sand?" The mold begin to fill with sand as it crumbled.
"When did he switch…? That can't be!" Gai exclaimed.
"When you were closing your eyes and praying," Kakashi said in a matter-of-fact tone. Gai gasped. "Lee briefly paused from the pain. That's when."
Lee was breathing heavily when the sand rose behind him. He gasped and turned around. Gaara was standing there, with sand all around him. Gaara chuckled.
"That's…" Temari said.
"No doubt about it… Those eyes are…" Kankuro said. "It has awakened… The monster within him."
"WHAT!" Naruto said. "That's not possible! That never happened before! Even when he was super pissed off at me!"
Gaara did a hand seal and sand shout up in 5 long lines. Lee looked up as they combined then it came crashing down upon his body. He fell backwards then slowly tried to get up but he fell on his butt. His legs where shaking horribly. Lee turned around to look at Gaara.
A wave of sand formed behind Gaara.
"RUN!" Naruto screamed. The wave came towards Lee and the only thing he could do was protect himself as it came crashing down. It slammed him into a wall and he slid down.
More sand came and smashed him into the wall.
"Lee can barely move now," Kankuro stated. "Gaara is playing with him." Gaara licked his lips and waited for Lee.
"Why…? Why isn't Lee dodging them?" Sakura asked. "With Lee's speed, he should be able to dodge those attacks easily."
"It's not that he's not dodging them, but that he can't dodge them," Gai informed her.
"What do you mean?"
"That move he used, the Lotus, is a double edged sword," Kakashi said.
"What do you mean?"
"Why do you think the Lotus move is considered a forbidden technique?"
"Because…" she tried to think why a move like that would be forbidden.
"The Lotus is not a Ninjutsu or Genjutsu technique," Kakashi told her. "It's a Taijutsu move that requires the user to move at a high rate of speed. The amount of strain it causes on a body is unimaginable. His body hurts all over right now, so he can't move around."
'Wow. I can't believe you remembered that!' Inner-Kakashi said.
'Just because I have a hang-over doesn't mean I can't remember these things.'
"Right?" he asked Gai… just incase he was remembering wrong. "Gai."
"Oh, no!" Sakura said.
Lee's hands where up, ready to try and block more sand. Another blast of sand came his way and he was able to do a flip and get out of the way. Gaara smirked as he saw Lee breathing heavy.
Lee got ready for another attach as Gaara performed a hand seal.
"He can't use any Ninjutsu or Genjutsu…" Sakura said.
"And his only hope, Taijutsu…" Ino added.
"He can't win," Choji stated.
"At this rate, he's going to…" Shikamaru's voice trailed off.
"Lee…" Gai said.
(Flashback)
"Come on, do your best guys!" The instructor yelled. "I'm going to add an additional 200 laps!" A student chuckled.
"Baka!" he called as they ran laps. "You can't become a ninja!" a boy with black hair said to a young Lee.
"I can!" Lee replied.
"A guy who can't use Ninjutsu can't become a ninja!"
"I can!" Lee said again.
"Actually, it makes no sense why a guy like you is in this ninja academy…" a boy with purple hair said. "…when toy can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu and possess below average Taijutsu skill." The guy with black hair nudged Lee.
"Do you know what you're called around here?" he asked.
"Hot-blooded!" the two and another boy yelled. Lee covered his ears. "Hot-blooded! Hot-blooded drop…! He yelled and ran away.
"Hey, Lee, get in line!" the instructor yelled. "Hey, Lee!"
Two Jounin where watching from a classroom window in the school. Gai chucked.
"Is that the rumored hot-blooded dropout?" he asked his friend.
"He resembles someone, doesn't he?" Kakashi asked, with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Hum?" Gai asked and turned to his eternal rival. Kakashi shrugged.
"Especially his eyebrows…" Gai looked out the window again.
'Rock Lee…' he thought. 'A guy who can only use below average Taijutsu skills, ne?'
(Flashback)
A wave of sand formed and smashed into Lee. He cried out in pain.
'But you practiced those below average Taijutsu skill a lot,' Gai thought.
(Flashback…again)
"396, 397, 398, 399, 400," Lee counted. "401, 402, 403… if I can't finish kicking this log 500 times… I'll have to do 1,000 squats!" There was a small dent in the log that Lee was kicking. "413, 414, 415, 416…" Unaware to Lee, Gai coming. "417, 418, 419, 420…"
"Someone was here before me?" he asked himself.
"421, 422, 423, 424… 425, 426, 427…
'I guess I'll come back later,' Gai thought as he turned around.
"1,000 squats!" Lee said. "If I can't do them, I'll have to do 2,000 punches! 795, 796, 797, 798…" sweat was dripping from Lee's forehead.
That night, Lee was still training. Gai had come back and was watching Lee punch the log from the bushes. 'He's still at it?'
"2,000 punches! If I can't do them, I'll have to jump rope 2,000 times!" Lee said as he punched the log.
(Flashback)
'You frantically practiced Taijutsu, and finally…' Gai thought.
(ANOTHER DAMN FLASHBACK! DEAL WITH IT!)
"Ok, you three are now promoted to Genins today," Gai said. "I want to hear what you goals are."
"Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!" Tenten said happily.
"Ok, Tenten." Lee looked at wide-eyed as she spoke. Neji was sitting there with his eyes closed.
"I want to become a really strong ninja like Tsunade-same, the legendary female ninja!"
"What about you, Neji?" The other two looked at the Hyuuga prodigy.
"I don't want to answer," Neji replied, not looking at Gai. Lee raised his hand.
"Me! Me!" he said, since clearly Neji wasn't going to respond. With his hand still raised, he said, "Even if I can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu… I want to prove that I can still become an excellent ninja! That's everything to me!" Gai smiled.
'He has nice eyes,' Gai thought. (A/N: which I think is totally weird but that's what it says.) Neji chucked. Lee shout up from his seat and pointed at Neji.
"What's funny, you!" Lee yelled. "I'm serious! Even if I can only use Taijutsu, I will carry out my job as a ninja!"
(Flashback)
Lee ran as more shots of sand came his way. "He should just give up already," Temari said.
"At this rate, Gaara will just toy with him before he kills him, " Kankuro said.
"I can believe that," Naruto agreed.
'Lee…' Neji thought.
(WTF WITH FLASHBACKS!)
Lee was trying to get away from Neji. He tried to punch Lee but he moved out of the way. Neji was only able to get a few hits because Lee blocked almost everything. But then Neji was able to punch Lee. He was so shocked that he didn't see a leg aimed fro his stomach. He punched and kicked Lee so much that he fell to the ground, face down .
"Not yet…" Lee said as he tried to get up. "I'm not done yet…"
"Lee…" Tenten said in shock. "You really don't learn, do you? You can't beat him," she scolded. "Neji is a genius, unlike you."
"A genius?" Lee asked. "What is a genius!" he yelled. "Even if I have no talent, I will surpass a genius with hard work! That's everything to me! That is my way of the ninja!"
"It's useless Lee," Neji said. "No matter how much you try, you can't defeat me. This had already been decided."
"That's not true! That's not…"
(Flashback)
'But you never gave up,' Gai thought.
A huge blast of sand came and slammed in to Lee. He cried in pain as he hit the floor. Lee got up and crossed his arms in an 'x' form, waiting for Gaara's attack. He winced when he saw the sand rise.
"So useless…" Gaara said.
"Lee had bad luck, matching up with Gaara," Kankuro said.
"No, Lee is not a guy who will surrender to something like this," Gai said. Kankuro and Naruto looked over at him.
"What?" they said together.
"That is because Lee is…"
A hand of sand crashed down upon Lee. When he was down, another hand came. He yelled in pain.
'That is because you kept working hard, Lee,' Gai thought.
(I feel another flashback…)
"If I can't jump rope 1,2000 times in a row, I'll have to kick a log 2,000 times," Lee said as he jumped over the rope in his hands. "1,116, 1,117, 1,118…" Lee then lost his footing and tripped on the rope. From the bushes, Gai gasped. Lee stumbled forward and his head and the log collided. He then fell to the ground with a 'thump'.
He started crying as he tried to get up. He then fell back down to the ground.
"Lee, are you taking a break already?" Gai asked. Lee's tear-filled eyes winded. Lee got up, punched the log lightly, and wiped his eyes.
"Gai-sensei, what do you want?" he asked. He then started kicking the log. "If you want to talk to me about my failure in the last mission… I have apologized to you already."
"Lee, it is true toy are different then Neji," Gai started. "You cannot use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, nor are you a genius in Taijutsu." He smiled. "But, Lee…you are a genius that has the power and potential to exceed Neji."
"If you're trying to make me feel better out of pity, please stop," Lee said as he kicked the log.
"No, I'm not saying this out of pity at all. Because you are…" by now Lee had stopped kicking the log and was resting his forehead on it. "A genius of hard work." Lee's eyes widen in shock. He hugged the log.
"Is this really true?" he asked. His shoulders where shaking from his sobs. "I have come to this point believing that… if I train two or three times more then Neji, I can become stronger. But recently I started to think that maybe I can't match up with a real genius… wondering if hard work really pays off… I wanted to find out, and I challenged Neji to a fight many times, but the outcome has always been the same. I am no match for him at all! Even during missions… my legs still shake. I think that no matter how much I try, I can't become any stronger. I'm scared of that… What should I do…?"
"There is no point in working hard if you do not believe in yourself." Lee gasped.
"Lee, you are very similar to me," Gai said that night as the two sat on a rock.
"The eyebrows?" Lee asked.
"No, it's not only the eyebrows. To be honest, I was a dropout when I was young, too."
"You!" Lee asked in shock.
"But now, I am in the lead in my matches against the elite genius, Kakashi. It's because I worked hard. Even if you can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, you want to prove that you can still become an excellent ninja, right? That's what your way of the ninja is. It's a good goal," he said with a huge smile. "It's a good goal worth working hard for." That made Lee start to cry. "So all you have to do is believe in your path, and run through it. Become a strong man so that I can smile proudly when I watch you." Lee wasn't looking at Gai. He patted Lee on the head. "Got that, Lee?"
"Yes, sir!" Lee said proudly.
(Flashback)
Lee was breathing hard but suddenly he started to cry. 'Thank you…Gai-sensei,' he thought.
Sand started to spin in a big circle around Gaara.
"No, Lee! If you fight anymore, you'll die!" Sakura cried. Lee chuckled as a wave of sand came his way. He moved out of the way and appeared in front of the sand.
"What!" Kankuro said.
"Lee's movements…" Neji said.
"… is back to normal!" Naruto finished.
'Sensei is smiling for me,' Lee thought. 'That alone can revive me and make me stronger. Stronger…far stronger!'
"Lee is laughing, even when he's cornered?" Sakura asked.
Five blasts of sand came his way but he dodged them all. Every time sand came his way, he moved away with ease.
"No, we will corner him now," Gai said.
"What?"
"The Lotus in Konoha blooms twice."
"Blooms twice?"
"Gai, who did you…!" Kakashi said.
"It's just as you suspect."
"So Lee, a Genin… is capable of opening inner gates of the Eight Gates? And using Primary Lotus?" Neji's eyes narrowed.
'Primary Lotus?'
"That's correct," Gai said.
"What a disaster… Gai. Hoe many gates is Lee capable of opening?"
"Five…"
"What is this Eight Gates and Primary Lotus thing?" Sakura asked.
"The Eight Gates Manipulation is a preparation of taking limiters off to use Primary Lotus," Gai said.
"Taking limiters off?" Kakashi turned towards the match and lifted his headband to revile his Sharingan eye.
"That's correct," Gai said. "In the charka circulation system… there are gates in each part of the body. From the top, they are… Open Gate. Energy Gate. Life Gate. Wound Gate. Forest Gate. View Gate. Insanity Gate. And Death Gate. Those are the eight places in the body where charka holes are concentrated. These are known as the Eight Gates. These eight gates constantly control the charka that flows in your body. But Lotus unfastens those controls with force… and grants the user more then ten times more power. That is its power source. Secondary Lotus is a move that opens the first gate, the Open Gate… it unfastens the control of the brain, and enables a person to use his muscles at their limits."
"What about Primary Lotus?" Sakura asked.
"It opens gate, the Energy Gate, and increases one's strength forcefully… and after pening (sp?) the third gate, the Life Gate, the Primary Lotus is carried out."
A line of sand came towards Lee but he easily moved out of the way.
"But, the Secondary Lotus alone wares out his body," Sakura said. "If he tried to do something more straining than that…"
"By opening all eight gates, toy are able to gain temporary powers grater then a Hokage. But that person will…" Kakashi said. "Die." Sakura gasped. "I have no intention of prying into what that boy is to you, and I won't tell you to leave personal affairs out of this… but there's such thing as a limit. I've lost faith in you, Gai."
'Your mean when you have a hang-over!'
"Aww shut up!'
Gai glared at Kakashi. "What do you… know about him? He has something important that he must protect and prove to everyone, even if it means his own death."
'Even if I can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu…I want to prove that I can still become an excellent ninja!' Gai thought about what Lee said his goal was. 'That's everything to me!'
"That is why I wanted to make him into a man who could who could hold to those words. That is all."
(FOR THE LOVE OF GODS LET THIS BE THE LAST ONE!)
"Lee, I will now teach you a new move," Gai said,
"ALL RIGHT!" Lee yelled happily, jumping up and down.
"It is a move that will be your ace."
"ALL RIGHT! YEAH! YEAH! ALL RIGHT!" A vain popped out of Gai's forehead.
"LEE! LISTEN TO WHAT I'M SAYING SERIOUSLY!"
"YEAH! ALL RIGHT!" Then Gai punched Lee. He jumped up from the ground. "Yes, sir!"
"Let me warn you…this move is more forbidden the Lotus. And it will be your most special move." Lee's eyes winded.
"Special?"
"But to use this move, there is one strict condition. That is…"
(Flashback)
'That is…' Lee thought. A blast of air formed around Lee.
"What!" Sakura said.
"I don't know what you're trying to do but you're going to be finished here," Gaara said.
"Yes," Lee said. "Either way, the next move will end everything." He formed an 'x' with his arms over his face. 'Neji.' "I cannot lose here!" His black hair started to fly around his head and veins popped out of his forehead.
Gai-sensei, please acknowledge this… now is the time…" his skin turned red and a blue aura appeared around him as he uncrossed his arms. "To abide by and protect my way of the ninja! Third…Life Gate, open!" Everyone but Gai gasped.
"The color of his body…" Sakura said.
"Turned red…" Naruto finished.
A slight green glow engulfed Lee's body.
"What's happening to him?" Kankuro asked.
"He's opened the third gate, the Life Gate," Kakashi said. "He's going to make his move, now."
"No, not yet," Gai said.
"What?"
"Now for the fourth gate! The Wound Gate…open!" Lee shouted. Kakashi's eyes winded.
"What a guy…" 'This isn't something that can be achieved with hard work alone. Is he a genius after all?'
'Sometimes I wonder if you're a genius…'
'Ok SO not the time!'
Lee kicked off, the ground falling apart from the force. Lee kicked Gaara's chin and he flew upward. An explosion an air came and everyone watching he to cover their face.
"He's fast!" Kakashi said.
Kankuro looked around. "Gaara? Where did they go!"
"Up there!" Shikamaru yelled. Gaara emerged from the dust.
"But I can't see Lee anywhere!" Ino said.
"Where is he!" Choji said.
'The sand can't keep up at all anymore,' Sakura thought as she saw the sand try and get Gaara.
'Damn it…' Gaara thought.
"The armor of sand again?" Lee asked. "Then how about this?" Lee appeared in front of Gaara and punched him down. Then he came behind him and punched him up. He came to his side and the only thing that people could see was the gored being tossed all around.
'This armor of sand is…being penetrated,' Gaara thought as Lee continued to hit him. Lee ran on the roof then kicked off.
"You are tough," he said. He kicked him up again. Lee landed on the floor and went up again. "Then…! He flipped off the roof and went down.
'His muscles have ripped,' Kakashi thought.
'That's Lee?' Neji wondered, with his Byakugan activated. 'When did he become so…?
"This is the end!" Lee yelled. "FIFTH GATE, THE FOREST GATE! OPEN!" A flash of blue light quickly came and went.
'I can't guard myself.' Gaara thought. 'Is this really human movement?'
'Neji. This was a secret move to defeat you…but I will show it to win,' Lee thought. He started to punch Gaara in the stomach. As Gaara fell, Lee grabbed him by the white cloth he wears around his shoulder. Sand tried to get lee but he was going too fast.
'The shield of sand cannot catch up…' Temari thought.
'Most of his armor has been peeled off… Not good,' Kankuro thought.
'Primary Lotus…simply put, is a combo is high-speed Taijutsu moves where the enemy cannot even touch the user. The answer to defeating Neji lies within the high-speed combo,' Gai thought. There is no way the sand can keep up.'
'This will be the last move!' Lee thought. He tightened his grip of the cloth and pulled Gaara closer. His hand glowed. "PRIMARY LOTUS!" he yelled as he hit Gaara in the stomach.
The whole arena floor exploded when the two hit. Everyone covered their faces.
'It was too fast…I couldn't see what happened…' Shikamaru thought as he tried to see thought the dust and smoke.
Lee cried in pain as the leg and arm he used throbbed.
Something happened and sand came from Gaara. "No…" Kakashi said. 'The gourd turned into sand?'
Lee fell to the ground and rolled until he came to a stop.
'That should have finished him for good this time!" Naruto said happily.
"Gaara!" Kankuro called.
"Lee…" Sakura mumbled. Once the dust cleared Shikamaru gasped.
"What is that?" Ino asked.
Gaara was lying in a pile of sand, with it buzzing around him. He was breathing heavily and shaking.
'He guarded himself with the gourd!' Gai thought.
Gaara shakily raised a hand as Lee got up. The sand rose and moved towards Lee. Lee crawled away but it hurt too much. He looked behind him and the sand was coming. Lee tried to get up but he fell to his knees.
'No way… I used Primary Lotus on him, but he's still able to attack?' Lee thought. The sand got his left leg and arm. Lee screamed as he tried to get away. Gaara opened his hand and said,
"Desert Coffin!" as he closed his hand. The sand crushed his arm and leg. He cried out in pain.
'I can't lose here…I must protect my way of the ninja…' Lee was out cold but more sand came his way.
'This isn't good,' Hayate thought.
"Die!" Gaara said as the wave of sand came down on Lee's body. He got up in shock as the sand was pushed away by Gai. Gaara then had memories in his head about Temari, Kankuro, his father, and his uncle and it gave him a headache. "Why…? Why did you help him…?"
"He's…' 'I'm ok. I'm strong,' Gai remembered Lee saying.
'Gai-sensei, please watch me in the Chuunin exams with a smile.'
'Even if I can't use Ninjutsu… I want to prove that I can sill become an excellent ninja! That's everything to me!'
"He's… an important subordinate I love," Gai said.
'See! Other people can admit love! Why can't you!' Inner-Kakashi sobbed.
'I would admit love if I was IN love. But I'm not so shuty!'
"A subordinate you love?" Temari asked herself.
'Gaara would never understand those words,' Baki thought.
Gaara got up and walked away as the gored came back together.
"I quit," Gaara said.
"He quit?" Sakura asked.
"The moment Gai went down there, Lee lost," Kakashi explained.
"Winner, Gaa…" Hayate started. Then he and everyone else gasped. Gaara turned around to see what happened. Lee was standing up, with blood dripping down his arm.
"This can't be…" Gai said.
'He opened five gates, and had his arm and leg crushed… He shouldn't be able to stand up,' Kakashi thought. Gai walked over to Lee and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Lee, it's ok. It's over," he said. "You shouldn't stand up…" Gai then gasped and he started crying. "Lee…you… you're…" Lee's eyes where totally glazed over and dull looking. "Are you trying to prove your way of the ninja even after you have lost consciousness?"
'So he was no longer conscious,' Kakashi thought as he pulled his headband down.
"Lee…" Gai said. "You are…" he pulled Lee into a hug.
'I'm SO glad I'm getting this all on tape,' Naruto thought.
"…an excellent ninja already."
"Winner, Gaara," Hayate said quietly. Gaara glared at Gai and Lee. Gai placed Lee on the floor as Gaara walked away.
"Looks like he had a tougher battle then expected," Kankuro said.
"God Damnit Kankuro!" Temari snapped. "Sometimes your worse then Gaara." Naruto jumped down and ran towards Lee.
'Naruto…' Kakashi thought.
He glared at Gaara as they passed. 'I can't believe Lee lost to…that…that…guy.'
"Medical team, please hurry!" Hayate said.
"Lee…" Naruto said
'Lee,' Sakura thought.
One of the med-nins gasped as they checked Lee out. "Are you the Jounin in charge of him?" he asked.
"Yes…" Gai said.
"This way, please," he said before he walked away. Gai followed. "Place him on there carefully. Don't shake the stretcher."
The other two med-nins put Lee on as Naruto listened to what the other one had to say to Gai.
"He is breathing, but the bones in his entire body have suffered comminuted fractures, and his muscles have been torn up. I believe it will take a lot of time for him to recover. That alone would have been fine, but… but the damage to his left arm and leg is severe. Too severe. It is hard to say this… but his body will no longer allow him to love as a ninja." Gai and Naruto gasped as the med-nin bowed in respect and walked away.
"That's… that's got to be a lie…" Naruto said.
'Lee…I never wanted to imagine that you would lose…' Gai thought as his eyes filled up with tears. 'I wanted you to make your way of the ninja come true…'
'I DID IT!' Gai remembered Lee yell. 'I FINALLT MASTERED IT! YAHOO!'
'Only Lee was able to master this move in the end… Please forgive me…for not being able to stop you… Lee.'
"This can't be. Tell me it isn't…" Naruto sobbed. "WHAT'S LEE SUPPODED TO DO IF HE'S TOLD THAT? HE SAID THAT A DROPOUT WAS GOING TO DEFEAT A GENIUS THROUGH HARD WORK! CAN'T SOMETHING BE DONE!" Naruto was going to run towards the med-nins but Kakashi popped down there and grabbed Naruto and covered him mouth.
"Calm down, Naruto," he said. Naruto smacked his hand away.
"But… Kakashi-sensei… he wanted to fight Neji so badly! He told me so!"
(Last flashback)
"Oi! Naruto!" Lee called, running to catch up with the blonde boy.
"Hey Lee!" Naruto greeted. "Excited for exams?" A flame appeared in Lee's eyes.
"OF COURSE YOUTHFUL NARUTO!" he yelled happily. "Anyone you want to fight?"
"Well," Naruto thought about it, "Neji, Sasuke, and Gaara…maybe Kiba. You?"
"Neji! Definitely! Ever since we became Genin, I have been working hard to defeat him! To prove that a dropout can defeat a genius with hard work! That's everything to me!"
(Flashback)
"That may have caused this unfortunate incident…" Kakshi said. "To make that wish come true, he used a self-damaging, forbidden technique to try and win. And this is the result. He tried to abide by the wordless promise that he made with Neji. He desperately tried to head for the stage so he could fight him." He put a hand on Naruto's head. "Don't forget that."
'Is Lee ok?' Sakura thought as she watched Lee being carried off to the hospital wing.
'Lee…you didn't notice this until the end…one who can only gain a Pyrrhic victory…cannot move his piece forward. The heaves will not allow it.'
In a whip of sand, Gaara disappeared and appeared next to Temari.
"Welcome back…Gaara," she greeted.
Kakashi placed a hand on Naruto then turned to Gai. "Gai… I was kind of being preachy up there, but after thinking about it… if I where in your position… I would have done the same…" he looked over at Naruto. "Gai, you're in the way for the next match. Come on, let's go back up."
"Ok… it's weird how you can talk like that… after…" his voice trailed off, knowing that Kakashi might kill him for what he was thinking. "Um… never mind… lets go."