Author's Note: Woo! I'm back with the next chapter! Some long lasting things get cleared up this chapter. For soem reason I feel the crowd is cheering this one. Although I will say that things are revealed a bit differently then one might think. Oh, and this chapter is a testament to the fact that although Neji might not say it, he still cares for Lee. Alrighty, so other then that, see all of you next chapter!

The sun cast its dying light on the glade within the woods. The bright light lit upon five boys, all sitting in a circle. The voices used were hushed, almost as if they were afraid of being heard by an unseen foe.

"I can't believe it." one voice mumbled.

"Aw man! You're taking all my cash!" muttered another.

A quiet voice cut in, "Shikamaru, you figured this out with no more hints then being fat and having some anger issues. How did you figure it out? How did this happen? "

Shikamaru blew a hair out of his face and whispered 'troublesome' before starting. "Think about it real hard you guys. Gaara is already quite far along. And what major event happened around four and a half months ago? Lee had sex."

Kiba snarled at him, "But that doesn't explain how Gaara got pregnant! He's still a guy!"

Shikamaru sighed. "All of you know that there are nine tailed demons correct? Okay, well, demons, when sealed within a person have a great influence on that person's body and how they act and grow; depending of course on the demon. So, a demon could manipulate the insides of a person. In Gaara's case, to create a whole new anatomy."

Kiba looked puzzled. "So what, Gaara has a demon…"

"Back at the Chunnin exams, Naruto and I found out that Gaara is connected to-"

Neji came in, "To a one-tailed sand demon. Yeah, yeah, I heard." Kiba and Shino, who hadn't known were quite shocked to hear this. But neither of them were nearly as shocked as the group was when they heard a voice cut across the clearing.

"His name's Shukaku."

The group turned to see a pissed Kankuro and Temari walking out from the tree line. Naruto stood up and pointed a finger at them. "What the hell are you two doing here?"

Kankuro glared and Temari bit out, "Shut up."

Shikamaru calmly looked at them. "This is so troublesome. Really, why are you here?"

Temari took the floor, "After we found out about this little meeting we decided to drop in for two reasons."

Neji spoke up, "Wait, how did you find out? Who told you?"

"That doesn't matter, what does matter is what we have to tell you boys. One: we want to warn you that if any of you should say anything about this to anyone, we'll skin you alive and feed your carcasses to the dogs…"

Kiba yelled out an offended, "Hey!"

"And two: we wanted to see if any of you knew who did this to Gaara, but since we know now I'd like to ask you a question. Where is Lee?"

Neji gave them a suspicious look. "Why do you want to know?"

"Well, considering what he did he must be punished at some point."

Kankuro looked at her. "But I wanted to kill him."

Temari grinned. "But I'm the oldest and it's my responsibility to take care of stuff like this. So, I get to go first. I promise that if there's anything left you can have him."

Neji jumped up. "What do you mean, kill? He didn't do anything wrong!"

Both siblings gave him a death stare. Temari growled, "I think rape is one of the vilest things anyone can do. As of result of his act, my brother spent weeks recovering from a severe wound and now he has to deal with pregnancy. Lee sure as hell deserves punishment!"

"Rape! What the fuck are you talking about! Lee would never do something like that! Your brother agreed to it!"

"You have got to be kidding me! Consensual? That's laughable!"

The group erupted into an argument. Naruto had decided to argue in Lee's defense and Kankuro had joined the battle. Their voices got louder and louder until…

"WOULD ALL OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP?"

Everyone fell silent. Walking out of the shadows was a very irritated Gaara. He walked over to the group and stared at them all. Temari gave him a worried look. "Gaara you should be resting!" He glowered at her.

"All of you are fucking stupid. Temari, Kankuro, when the hell did I ever say it was consensual or nonconsensual? When did either of you bother to fucking ask? And all the rest of you; yes, Lee hurt me badly, so don't get it in your minds that I had some happy glowing aftermath. You all are fucking delusional. Now, I'm going back to bed and all of you are going to forget this ever happened. None of you are going to mention this to anybody. If you do…I'll kill you and whoever you told." Gaara turned and started walking away.

Neji glared at him and yelled out, "So what? We're just supposed to not tell Lee that you're going to be giving birth to his child?"

Gaara went rigid and turned around. "This is my problem. It's none of his fucking business." With that, Gaara disappeared in a whirl of sand, leaving the others to stand around in an awkward silence.

Break-

Lee had just returned home from a long, excruciating training trip with Gai-sensei. They had trained, talked, laughed, and just had a good time. In fact, Lee even confessed to Gai-sensei about his night spent with Gaara. Gai had just laughed and remarked about how he was finding his youth through the passion of another person…or something like that anyways.

Lee threw himself down on his couch with a soda. He was about to take a sip when he heard three curt knocks. Standing up, he jumped over his couch and into the entranceway. Opening the wooden door, Lee found his teammate standing in the doorway with a hard expression on his face. Looking into Lee's black eyes the boy said, "We need to talk."