A/N: Dedicated to starrgirl93 for giving me the quote. I know you don't like Saku/Lee, but I couldn't help myself… I'll have to make a Saku/Sasu one for you later. And also I'd like to thank JusticeDream for being honest with me, it's good to know other people's opinions. I tried my best for this one- it might seem too literal at points- but it certainly has its deeper meaning (I think).


"Goals can be deceiving; an un-aimed arrow never misses its target."


Rock Lee is a simple guy, really. He doesn't understand the way the world works, but he knows that maybe he's not supposed to understand. It would be too complicated he decides- the world is not the most sensible place.

All his life Lee strived for perfection in all aspects- hard work, ninjutsu, taijutsu, and everything his sensei had to teach him. It didn't take him long to find out that he was not, in fact, capable of being good at everything. He focus's solely on Taijutsu- it's what he's best at- only to find that the basics pretty much came in a package. The more hand-to-hand fighting he learned the better he became at the other parts of being a ninja.

Lee is especially good at the hard work part. He practices all the time, he's even practicing right now. The one thing he could never get right was aiming shuriken- as simple as that may seem. They always seemed to go in the opposite direction he wants them to go, and honestly, it's getting frustrating. He picks up a shuriken and throws it at his targeted tree and misses completely.

Was he not practicing enough? He wondered to himself. Gai-sensei says that hard work will make you good at everything, so that must mean that he needs to work harder, right? That would only be logical, but Rock Lee knows the world doesn't always make sense. Some things, or people rather, are particularly confusing. To be specific- Sakura. Why is it that she goes after one of the few men that don't like her? Was there something especially appealing about Sasuke that he doesn't understand? It's like the more he ignores her the more she clings to him, and it's confusing. Why have a guy that doesn't notice you exist when you can have a guy like Lee, or even Naruto?

Lee decides that he needs to try harder to win her over- he needs to work more to gain her attention. It hasn't worked yet, but he knows if he keeps at it long enough she might start to think of him differently. That would only make sense, right?

He's been working for hours and he's starting to get distracted. Sighing, he decides to call it a day- this was going nowhere. He looks at the shuriken littering the forest floor and the last one left in his hand. He can pick them up later he decides. Turning away, he tosses his last weapon behind him; it wasn't worth the time- he knows he's going to miss. But as Lee walks away, he could have sworn he heard it hit.

A/N: Hope it wasn't too bad. I was trying to say that things often come to you when you aren't thinking about them and I don't think it was too horribly awful.