I know it looks like i'll be updating regularly, having posted this chapter right after the previous, but it's not true.

I do have plans to keep going with this but i'm not sure how regular these updates will be.

Please bear with me.

Again, I don't own anything that isn't my bad writing.

From a young age he had been noticeably different, which was not what a child hoping to be adopted wanted to be. Regretfully and without choice, Lee had been exactly such earning him a thick black smudge across the chance of ever having a normal life.

While he had the chubby childish body of most children paired with a gentle nature and loving disposition, it was his strange facial features that sealed his fate. His overly large eyes of pitch so dark that there was no obvious definition from iris to pupil (a clear mark of the devil Mrs. Smith had whispered while her husband nodded disapprovingly marking yet another couple that would not be adopting Lee) accompanied with his small pouty mouth, shiny raven hair he kept pulled in a small braid, and thick set eyebrows, Lee made an odd sight for an otherwise cherubic child.

While the Nuns had doted on Lee, constantly indulging his overly enthusiastic curiosity and encouraging his harmless tendency to trail behind the Sisters in their duties, the perspective parents found these behaviours to be an obvious ploy for attention and an obnoxious need for answers; nothing but an eyesore, a high maintenance wreck.

Any childish longing for a caring family that would maybe love him (when even his real parents couldn't) were crushed unsympathetically when all the parents arrived to just as quickly brush him off as worthless. He learned quickly after that to stand at the back of the large playroom when perspective parents came, or, if he was very lucky, escape outside to the garden where he could hide amongst the rose bushes whose thorns stung less than their disgusted eyes.

Despite it all, Lee had been happy and immensely grateful. While he hadn't acquired a family in the traditional sense, he had found family amongst the loving Sisters and his two best friends whom had also, through their own difficult circumstances, found themselves in Saint Kage.

Tenten, the courageous tomboy whom had leapt to Lee's defence after some of the other kids had gotten a little too violent with the docile Lee, was the first to arrive at Saint Kage. Lee had been eight and had never had a friend before, but Tenten had stuck to him like glue keeping the others from being too harsh while turning Lee's life upside-down. Tenten taught Lee how to smile again.

She was gone not even a year after she had come, quickly charming the nice looking parents that just couldn't resist adopting the lovely, sunny girl that had nothing but kind smiles for everyone. Lee saw Tenten cry for the first time that night as she promised to write him everyday and that "if they ever get too mean just call me, i'll come running back and make them sorry, I swear!". Surprisingly (for Lee had stopped believing in promises when he was five and Sister Lisa had promised him that the next family would be the one) she kept her promise and sealed their lifelong friendship when Lee received the first of many letters the following week.

The overly energetic boy that chattered on endlessly to anyone who would, or wouldn't listen, crash landed into his life next.

Naruto, as he introduced himself after he had spent the whole day with Lee, had taken one look at the scrawny, gawky eleven year old Lee, having just gone through another awkward growth spurt, and instantly declared them brothers for life. Lee could do nothing but gape at the blonde ball of energy as he was dragged to the small rusted play set and forced to hop on the swing so that Naruto could show him his awesome pushing skills.

Not even a month (filled with more smiles and laughter than Lee had ever thought he was capable of since Ten Ten had left) had passed before Naruto was being adopted by a wealthy family looking for a sibling for their youngest son. Naruto had protested so forcefully Lee had feared the parents would never come back. Luckily, on the second visit (which Lee had never seen happen in all his years at the orphanage) the family brought their youngest son who turned out to be a hard to approach, prideful hothead that Naruto instantly found a rival in.

He left on their third visit but not without announcing to all of the other kids that if they so much as touched a hair on Lee's head they would have to answer to him. No one bothered Lee after that (Naruto was a bigger menace then even Tenten had been). Naruto called Lee almost every weekend, and that, combined with Ten Ten's constant letter's, made Lee feel that maybe, just maybe, he did have a family after all.

Nevertheless, Lee, now at the not so tender age of seventeen, without a single chance of ever being adopted, found himself still an unsightly burden upon the serene Saint Kage and it's loving staff.

Although his friends had helped him regain his optimism and slowly, with the constant affection from the Nuns and support of his new family, he had come to love himself despite everything that had happened in his past, he still felt like a disease that plagued the orphanage; taking all their kindness, food, clothing, love and devouring it without compensation.

It was with this blackness weighing on his heart that Lee had approached Mother Tsunade. As the head of the orphanage, Mother Tsunade ran Saint Kage with a firm but gentle hand. She would not hesitate to reprimand (either very loudly with many curses or psychically throwing any object within reach) anyone doing wrong and was unapologetic about her decisions but was just as swift to praise or offer a hand in kindness. Tsunade, having raised Lee alongside the other Sisters, had a soft spot for the raven haired boy which Lee hoped would sway her decision slightly.

After hearing Lee through (while he practically begged to no longer be such a burden on them all) she had not been pleased, but understood his personal struggle. Seeing as Lee had received a scholarship to attend school in the city starting the coming fall and that he had proven time and again that he was more than capable of being an exemplary student, Tsunade had reluctantly agreed on the condition that Lee allowed her to provide him with an allowance until he could provide for himself.

The victory tasted bitter sweet in Lee's mouth, but he left only two days after he had been given permission and, after unpacking the little items he had in constricting one bedroom apartment in Konoha city, had felt oddly and overwhelmingly proud of his new tiny life. What he had ("most definitely not on purpose Mother Tsunade, of course not I swear on my vibrant youth!") failed to mention in his agreement was that he had no intentions of using the allowance he was being provided with longer than the first month he adjusted to city life.

Now, as Lee pushed through the front doors of Paradise, large eyes transfixed in complete awe at the garishly glowing sign above the club, he hoped he could keep his new life going and finally repay the family that gave him so much.

And there we have it, a little more backstory for Lee.

Yeah, I know it's a bit dramatic but whatever, sad orphan Lee gives me life.