Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I never will.

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Not too long ago, Rock Lee decided to head towards Ichibawa, a booming city with its own beach port. From many unreliable sources he had come across, there seemed to be a retired jounin residing in that area, living as a fisherman among civilians. But in his prime, the man's skill had rivaled that of the Anbu captain in that region. Well, according to his sources anyway.

"And he's able to perform over 1000s of jutsus!"

"Ohhhh!" Rock Lee exclaimed as he listened intently to the bumbling old man resting in the forest temple. The old man took another drag of his pipe and blew out an impressive ring of smoke as he continued his story.

"But he's dead now. I don't even know where you got the idea of meeting this person." The old man laid on his back on the temple floor. Rock Lee sat cross legged, few feet away from him. He tried to keep quiet, but decided to break the silence.

"I…want to meet him because I need to know how I measure out there in the world," the thick browed boy said, a bit uncharacteristically timid. The man opened one eye and tilted his head to get a clear look at the boy. Rock Lee met his eyes, but quickly jerked his head away from him. The man chuckled to himself and drew out an old piece of rolled up parchment from within his shirt.

"There's the map. You might as well visit that place," he told him, throwing the dirty looking paper at him. Rock Lee caught the scroll and looked at the old man.

"There are still some useful bodies up there. You might be interested in meeting them," he said, coughing and turning away from Rock Lee's view. The boy grasped the scroll tightly in his hand and smiled.

"Thank you, old man!" he shouted in joy as he jumped out of the building and began dashing across the woods. The old man laid back and stared into the wooden ceiling with a grin on his face.

"Heh, that's the wrong way…"

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Chapter 2: Double Vision

Rock Lee continued to run through the woods as he navigated his path with his new found map. But as he continued to do so, it only seemed to lead him further back into the woods. The situation seemed vaguely familiar with him, so he decided to stop since he couldn't afford to be lost again.

"I'm…lost…" he whimpered as he check the map. When he carefully read the pin points on the paper, a sudden emotion took over him.

"That old man gave me the wrong map!" he yelled, getting up from the giant rock he had been resting on. He shredded his map into pieces and kicked the boulder behind him, which shattered into a pile of pebbles. He's been extremely frustrated since the beginning of his journey because of his lack of sense of direction. He knelt to the floor dejectedly and sighed when he figured that there was no use in unleashing his anger. Listening to the chirping of the birds, it helped him calm down and think of things to do in the meanwhile.

"Hmm…sensei did pack me a few scrolls…" he whispered, unpacking his bags to take out several scrolls. He carefully laid them out on the floor and stacked them by their width. Rolling one of the thickest one out, he began to read the characters and studied the demonstration sketches on the paper.

"This is a totally different style…A style where rational thoughts and human emotions are discarded and you rely heavily on instincts alone," he read out loud as he held up the parchment.

"Which means…I need to be unconscious in order to perform this taijutsu style," he ended with a big gulp. He wasn't so sure about learning this ability when he came to the section where it taught the user where the target pressure points were located. They were to be pressed hard in order to somehow stop the mind from emitting rational thoughts. It seemed like a double edge sword for Rock Lee.

'There is too much at stake when using this form…There is absolutely no way I can control myself and there is no way of knowing when I will regain my consciousness!'

After few minutes or so, he rolled back the parchment and placed it back in his back pack.

"I can't use that technique ever. It is too dangerous…" he shook his head at the possibility of actually causing more harm than necessary. He kept calm for hours just sitting there and watching the clouds, but eventually became a victim of his own boredom.

"I might as well go find a water fall to continue my training!" he yelled impatiently. He took his things and followed his ears to a river nearby. Then he continued to travel up the river to find a waterfall to practice some intense meditation. Just then, he caught a glimpse of a beautiful dark haired girl being carried away by the swift current.

"Wow, that girl is almost as pretty as Sakura…What!?" His mouth opened wide and he had to do a double take to make sure what he had seen was real.

He then used his heels as breaks to stop himself instantly and revert his path down the river. It only took him a few second, thanks to his incredible speed, but he had no idea how he was going to fish out the helpless girl. Once he was jogging at a steady pace, it occurred to him that in any moment, they will eventually meet a water fall. Rock Lee loosened the bandages around his arms and leaped over the girl. Once he was air born, he used it to quickly tie it around her waist and landed on the opposite side of the river. Then using his upper body strength, he pulled her out of the water and into his arms, which knocked him out on his back from the impact.

He sat up straight, groaning, and rubbed his back to reduce the pain. The girl laid beside him, coughing up the river water. Since he had no luck with woman ever, Lee didn't exactly know how to approach her. So he crawled even further away from her and watched her as she finally calmed down. He admired her cute face as she turned around to look at her surroundings. When their eyes locked with one another, Rock Lee let out a tiny yelp and his body became rigid as a stone. She stared him with her azure eyes and frowned at his reaction.

"You know, you don't have to be afraid of me…" she said. Rock Lee gulped and slowly moved his arm and reached inside his back pack. Then he formed a clean towel and gently tossed it in her direction. She briefly looked at the white towel on the ground, then took it and began to cleanse her hair of moisture. Rock Lee crawled closer to her and sat there cross legged under the tree's shade.

"Um…"

The girl opened one eye and looked towards his direction.

"Say, you seem pretty strong," she commented, turning her head back to continue washing her hair. Lee blushed a little at her praise and remained silent. He looked down at the floor so he won't be caught lost in her looks, but then a damp material landed on his head and covered his vision. The scent left on his towel was strangely intoxicating and he wanted to leave it on himself, but decided against it because he didn't want to appear weird or stupid in front of the girl. Then again, it was probably what the girl already induced from his behavior.

"So, you're a shinobi?" she asked crouching near where he sat.

"N..not, not exactly. I'm a, a…A Genin! But I'm aiming to be a chuunin, once I um, get back to my village!" Rock Lee was having a hard time pursuing conversations that was actually started by a girl. He was stuttering and losing total control over the volume of his voice.

Then she flashed him a genuine smile.

"So you're saying that you're only a beginner," she said, being able to decipher his babbling.

"Um, yeah.". Then not being able to take just talking about himself, he came up with a question of his own.

"Say, um…What exactly were you doing that ended up in you nearly dying?" he asked bluntly. This ticked the girl off a little since she thought he made her out to be a bumbling idiot. Her eye brows twitched, but she was able to subdue her anger.

"Well, I was just walking by the river to see the water fall and…things happened," she explained, trying to brush it off with a weak giggle. It seemed a little too vague for Rock Lee, but it created the perfect chance for him.

"Would you…like to go and see the water fall?"

She glanced at him and formed a victory sign.

"I'd like that."

They walked together up the river, but Lee made sure he was about 20 steps away from her side. It was an awkward walk, but she didn't make any attempt to draw him closer. Instead, she listened to the sound of the river flowing while Rock Lee just stared at the trees with mild interest. When they finally reached the water fall, Rock Lee was mesmerized by the beauty of the scenery before him. The clear water fall glistening under the sun to cause an illusion of a stream of diamonds rushing and swishing on the giant boulders beneath, carving them little by little to form what it was now today. It was a piece of paradise that Lee had always dreamed of in the back of his head. He shouted in joy and nearly stripped naked and dived into the water. Before it was too late, he realized that he was in the presence of an opposite sex and pulled his shirt back down, a bit embarrassed at his own enthusiasm. She giggled behind him and climbed down the rocky hills to reach the large amount of river water collected like a basin under the fall. Sitting down, she dipped her legs inside the cool water and relaxed. Lee jumped off the hill and landed underneath the water fall.

'If I concentrated on my meditation, then her presence won't bother me too much,' he figured, while he sat in his 'self-search' position. As he took the pain of the stinging river water falling over his entire body, he was somehow able to clear his mind of thoughts and searched for inner peace. But his mind began to cloud with thoughts of the girl he had just met. His eyes were closed, yet they trembled uncontrollably as he tried to clear his thoughts of the girl.

'This…is a bit difficult.'

He sneaked a peak on impulse to see what the girl was doing, but she was nowhere in sight. He blinked and wondered where she went, eventually getting up from his position to get a better view. He looked around, but she seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

"That's weird…Ah!"

He shrieked as he felt himself being pushed over the edge and into the cold water. Shortly after his dive, he came back up to the surface water and sputtered. He looked up where he was standing a minute ago to find the girl smiling down at him menacingly.

"What's the big idea?!" he yelled. She didn't respond and merely smiled down at him. Then her smile turned into a stern look as she shouted her order.

"Do it now, sister!"

He looked around to find another girl behind him, performing a complicated combination of hand seals. Puzzled, he looked back at the girl who was now standing on top of the water fall, concentrating on her own hand seals. They both shared the same face and the same garments.

'Is…is this a copy technique?' he wondered. A mass of strange velvet color transmitted from both figures and connected together to create a semi sphere around the water fall. Rock Lee immediately realized that it was an entrapment jutsu, but there was no time to react. The cage had been completed.

"This barrier allows us to battle you without being noticed by outsiders."

"It also allows us to unleash our hidden power."

It didn't really matter to him exactly what abilities that their seal had.

"Just who the hell are you two!?"

The girls leaped into the air and landed, back to back in front of Rock Lee.

"We're the Takeyama Twins!" they shouted, stomping the water and holding a mirror image of the crane form.

The boy's eyes twitched from the cheesy pose, but he didn't let his guard down. He took one foot out of the water and stood on the surface of the water. Then he took out the other one and did the same thing. He assumed his attack position, one hand tightened behind his back and one palm extending outward towards his opponent, and opened his mouth to speak.

"So everything up until now was a deception to put my guard down," he stated.

"What is it that you two want from me?"

The twins looked at one another and smirked. Then they broke out into a frenzy of laughter. One of them continued to giggle as the other one calmed down to answer his question.

"No, listen. Everything up until now was to measure the extent of your ability. From what we analyzed of your heroic duty before, you seemed unable to use ninjutsus and rely heavily on your strength alone."

Her accurate profile of himself made him twitch.

"Judging from your dorky looks, we assumed that you had something more going for you. But it is really disappointing."

This made his eyes burn with intense flames.

"You still haven't answered my question. What is it that you want from me?" he repeated.

No longer laughing, the two girls placed one hand on opposite sides and pointed at his waist in perfect sync.

"We want your head band with the engraving of your village symbol."

Rock Lee didn't understand what they were saying and analyzed his own head band that was tied around his waist.

"Why do you want it?" he looked up, confused. The twins were growing weary of his questions, but decided to answer it anyway.

"We are on a quest to defeat 100 ninjas and in order to prove our victories, we'll need their village head band," one of them spoke. This made Lee's lip to curl up in one corner. He had set out to do the similar thing when he started this journey, but all he wanted were new refreshing challenges in every corner of the world. He didn't care for any existing proof of his victory, except in his memory.

"Hmph, I think that's the wrong way to go about things, but I will place my head band on this match." He took off the said object and threw it on a safe ground at the edge of the running water. "But I think you both need to make your wagers, too!"

They were both flabbergasted because nobody had ever dared to ask them something in return. Thinking maybe he had a perverted request in his mind, they made an unsure face at one another, but shook it off instantly. There was no way that they'll actually lose to someone who can't even do half of what other ninjas could do.

"And what would you like?"

"That…," the boy began, "I will tell you after this match!" He ran on top of the water and took out his supply of shurikens. He held four in between his fingers in both fists and attempted a jump kick on the twins. Once he hit the sister to the left squarely in the jaw, she transformed into a tree stump and splashed into the water. Quickly catching on, he threw his shurikens at the retreating sister, but failed to nail her. He landed in the shallow water and threw the other set of shurikens which skipped off the water and flew across the river towards her. She stopped in her path and performed a hand seal which caused a giant solidified mud to erode and build a wall in front of her. The shurikens bounced off the wall and it quickly disappeared back into the river. Rock Lee gritted his teeth in excitement and ran across to meet her. When he was half way there, the second sister rose from the water and caught him in a head lock.

"Shit, so you transformed into a block of wood instead of evading my jump kick," he spoke, realizing the truth behind their first tactic.

She grinned and threw him across to the other side of the shore. He bounced off the soft mound and rolled back on his feet. He shook his head to dry his hair off and dived back into the water. The sisters looked around their perimeter, not wanting to be caught off guard by the missing boy. Under water, Rock Lee took off the weights on his legs and swam around the entire river to cause a huge whirlpool. When the girls began to panic due to the changing currents, he approached them quietly and hooked his weights on each girl. Then he quickly swam away from them and rose back into the air. When he was back in their visual, they tried to move into a synchronized attack, but found themselves unable to move their ankles. In fact, they seemed to be sinking deeper into the mud and the girls panicked again.

"It's my turn!" Rock Lee approached them with an incredible speed that was only possible without his weights. He turned around and spun upward to deliver an overhead kick against one of the sister. She flew off the water and bounced off the velvet barrier they have created themselves. Then not giving the other sister another moment to react, he disappeared into thin air and appeared right in front of her to knock her off her feet with his upper cut. She was sent flying upwards until she hit face first into the velvet barrier. Then she made a giant splash as she came back down.

"Had enough?" he asked, his fists extended in front of his face. The sister in the far corner had already recovered and chuckled to herself. She swung her hair back and glared at her enemy.

"That wasn't bad at all. Using that whirlpool to sneak weights onto our ankles and attacking us with your taijutsu…" She wiped the blood from her lips and stood up on her shaking knees.

"Well, we've got a long day ahead of us because we also have a few things to show you!"

The sisters regrouped then circled around Rock Lee. He read their movements carefully and opened himself up on purpose to further study their pattern. Immediately, one of them took the bait and swung her fist at his face, but missed him by a paper thin margin. Then one of the sister climbed her sibling and assumed the totem pole formation. They threw a barrage of sickles and kunais at the leaf's proud azure beast, but he easily dodged the flying objects. When he was ready to attack them, the top totem pole spread curse sheets all around them and escaped his peripheral vision. He charged at the sheets and was sent flying back from the impact. The stacks of paper were solid as titanium and had built a tower around the twins.

"Absolute defense," he mumbled, remembering his battle with Gaara. His eyes opened wide when sets of metal chain links escaped from the corner of the paper tower and wrapped itself around his ankles. It began to toss him up and down and smash his figure on to large stone hills. It lifted him up high in the air and swung him down back into the water. When the chain links slid back up in mid-air, he was no longer tied to the end. The sisters peered through the corners to see where he had gone to and felt light foot steps running up the tower.

"Shit, we shouldn't have lifted him so high in the air!"

"He found the opening on the top!"

Right after they have completed their sentences, a large shadow had cast over their head. Lee jumped inside the tower and landed within the confines. The sisters both flashed each other a sly grin and let go of their chakra control over the papers. It immediately crumbled into mere sheets and they escaped from Lee's confrontation. When they were out of his reach, they each formed the tiger seals and shot large streams of flame from their mouths. Lee ducked into the river and was immediately burned by the boiling water. When he got back up, he was blinded by the steam and was beaten from every angle. He managed to assume his defense position, but it was too late as he felt two different feet knock the wind out of him and send him flying underneath the water fall. He crashed into the surface of the hill and left a huge impression of his physique. He slid into a spot where he regained his consciousness immediately after feeling the stinging water fall on his face. Standing up, he gazed over the scenery and saw how much damage it had received. It didn't feel quite right for him to fight them in a place he thought of as his own piece of paradise. He should've preserved the place for others to observe, but he had been too caught up in his own quarrel to do so.

The girls stood next to one another and watched Lee as he approached them, stumbling and nursing his right arm.

"Hmph, are you giving up now?"

Rock Lee couldn't seem to stop himself from shaking, but he stuck out his palm and made a gesture for them to continue.

"I won't go down so easily. Not after I have gone through so much trouble deflowering this place…" he claimed.

The girls recognized his persistence and found it to be admirable. However, they weren't about to forfeit the match. They gathered their hands together and collected a large amount of chakra within their body.

Suddenly, their eyes rolled back in their skull. Only the whites of their eyes remained and they seemed to have no trouble with their vision. Rock Lee pounced on one of the girl and threw a fist over her head. He dodged her knee by stepping to his side and crouched down a millisecond before getting hammered on the head by the other sister. He tried to keep both sisters in his sight and not lose track of them, but the task was much easier said than done. He was growing awfully tired from trying to handle both of them at the same time.

'What is it with them? They don't seem to show any blind spots,' he thought as he pulled off a back flip away from their attacks. As if they could read his mind, the girls paused their battle for a quick chat.

"Our Double Vision is a blood line technique which allows the users to see what the other is seeing. This is most effect when it comes to covering each other's blind spot during battles. Also, our vision induces sleep from the target, so feeling really tired right now isn't out of the ordinary."

Their explanation made Lee quiver. There was absolutely no way for him to defeat them in his current state. He was able to dodge and block most of their attacks, but eventually, he'll be caught up with his exhaustion and won't even be able to stand up.

Unfortunately, he was so caught up on his own thoughts that he didn't realize that he was being held up from behind. Then the other sister ran towards him.

"This one is for your reckless attack before!" She turned and spun in the air to deliver an overhead kick to his face. He was starting to not like splashing in the water at all. He tumbled over and got back on his knees.

"You guys are really pushy!" he yelled.

'But then again, I couldn't lose just now…The head band means much to me. I represent the village of Konoha and if it was to be taken away from me, I…'

Lee stood up and regained his composure.

'Opening the first gate is as far as I'll go.'

The vein in his forehead became visible as he unleashed the first gate. The rush of excessive chakra had overwhelmed his body and pumped him up to prepare for his hidden technique. He circled around the girl and created a giant gust that nearly blinded them. Then he ran in within the circle and slid towards one of the sister.

'If I crush one of them, then they'll no longer be effective!' he figured, as he kicked upward and met her chin.

"Initial lotus!" he yelled, kicking her up into the air higher and higher. Just then, he felt the other sister grip his arms and smash his abdomen with her drop kick. He felt his breath being forced to leave his lungs. He fell head first into the middle of the water and remained there as he felt the excruciating pain from having garnered an excessive amount of chakra without success. His vision dimmed and his breath became harder. His hands shook and it didn't even feel like they were his limbs anymore.

'I won't lose, no matter the cost…' he repeated in his mind. Then a little light bulb had turned on, inside his head.

'There is only one thing I can do now.'

Rock Lee dragged himself up and pressed the necessary pressure points behind his neck and on his face and he immediately felt his thoughts washing away in his mind.

'Now I leave everything to fate,' he thought as the last bit of human emotions had drained away from him. His body limped and his face fell forward, away from the sister's view. They found it to be strange when the boy kept coming back with new found strength, but they were able to handle his attacks. However, the boy was being even weirder now, just sitting there in the water.

"Is he unconscious?" one of the sibling asked the other. She merely shrugged and suggested that they check on the boy. The sister agreed and they both approached him and knelt down in front of him to check his status. When they got a bit closer, his hands shot out and held their necks tight. His eyes opened wide and he let out an inhuman screech. The sisters tried to force their way out of his grasp, but found themselves air born. The boy thrashed about his area and growled loud enough for the entire forest to shake.

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The sun began to set and the woods became quiet, aside from the noises of the crickets. The loud discord in the forest had ceased not too long ago, but the remnants of the battle remained. Rock Lee woke up in cold sweat and found himself inside a familiar temple. The sisters were long gone and the old man he had been acquainted with previously was smoking outside. He tried to get up, but his body refused to listen.

"Don't strain yourself, boy," the old man told him without even look towards his direction. Lee grumbled and remained quiet. Then he became curious as to how he ended up back in the temple.

"How did I get back here?" he tilted his head and asked him. The old man shook his pipe and got rid of the collected ashes within.

"I carried you back here after I put you to sleep," he answered. Rock Lee nodded his head knowingly. Then his eye ball rolled out of his skull and his jaw hit the floor.

"You…You did?!"

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Author's Note: Hooray for plot development. Originally, it was supposed to be self-contained, but the chapter got a bit too long for my taste. So be sure to read the next one. Ciao.