Cherry blossom in the rain

By,

Naruto4life

Sakura leaned on the railing at the bridge where team seven use to meet. She stared down at the moon's reflection in the water. She was alone, she was always alone now a days. Sasuke had left, left her, left Naruto, left Kohona, left everybody and everything.

Naruto was out searching for him with the Sanin, Jiriya. Ino was still her rival, and was always to busy to fight with her. Tsunade didn't have much time to teach her anything new. So she was mostly alone.

Sakura gave a soft sign as she stared deeply at the water. It was…calming.

Then she heard foot steps bringing her back to the real world.

"Sakura?" Sakura turned around to see rock lee. "Oh Hi Lee" she said quietly. Lee came up and leaned on the railing next to her. "What are you doing out this late?" He asked.

"Oh nothing" She said as she rested her head on her arms. Sakura averted her gaze to the water again. She kept thinking about them. Sakura felt her eyes start to get watery.

"Lee…" She said looking up at him. "Yeah?" Sakura felt her tears start to gather in her eyes. "Do you think…that everything is going to be okay?" Sakura said starting to sniffle.

"Do you think Sasuke is going to come back? Do you think Naruto will be okay? Do you Ino will be my friend again? Do you think…do you think…?" Sakura felt the tears spill out and her soft sobs escaped.

"Sakura…" She felt arms wrapped around her. She looked up and Lee had his arms around her. "Please stop crying, Sakura" He whispered. Sakura wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

Lee loosened his arms around her, so he could see her face. "Everything is going to be okay" I looked up at him again; my eyes still a bit watery. "How…do you know?"

He smiled and did a good guy pose. "My youth depend on it!" I gave a small giggle.

Then I closed my eyes and leaned against him. I felt him stiffen at my touch, but he soon calm down a bit.

I guess I'm not alone, I always have rock lee

Then a crack of thunder interrupted the scene. I opened my eyes and looked up at the dark sky. I saw another flash of lighting followed by a huge crack of thunder. Then a rain dropped on my face, then another, then another.

Lee dropped his arms and looked up at the sky also. The rain began to come down harder. "Come on Sakura, I'll walk you home!" I heard him yell through the rain. We both rain through the thundering rain to the porch of my house.

We stood there and looked out at the gloomy landscape. At the moment I found my situation quite humorous. I thought I was alone, but the green beast of kohona ended up saving me.

I gave a small giggle. Lee smiled. "Hey sakura, I know this might not be the right time to ask this. But tomorrow I was wondering if you wanted to go out somewhere or something…" I smiled for the first in a long time.

"yes, sure lee" Lee's smiled got bigger and he jumped into the air. "Yessss!" he shouted. I giggled. "Well Sakura I see you tomorrow at um…that bridge you were on at um…noon!" He said as he ran off into the thunder storm.

I signed, same old lee. But he was my lee.