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A/N: Sorry about the long time updating. Frankly, the fact that I have no confidence writing an extended fight scene has something to do with it. I wouldn't be surprised if I got my first flame for this chapter. Also, I will continue to be long in updating this story sidesteps shuriken because I'm going to begin another fic with a few OC's in it. Basically, it will be about the Chuunin exams that occured while Naruto was training with Jiraiya possible with other stuff in between. It will be entitled, While You Were Away. Now without further ado, let's see what happens with Lee and Sasuke now, shall we?
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Recap
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Lee jumped backward, falling into his signature fighting stance. "Come, Sasuke-kun. Your training begins now."
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Chapter 3 continued: Lee
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The size of Sasuke's smirk increased. "If you think of this as training, you're going to end up dead. This is the real deal."
"Very well, Sasuke-kun. We shall begin." Lee jumped into the air, planting his hands onto the bottom of a tree branch to push himself straight at Sasuke. He landed with an axe kick that left a crater in the ground about a meter deep.
Surprise, I expected him to pause to remove those weights. But they actually make his kicks deadly when he jumps like that, Sasuke thought, noting the impression on the ground. Still it doesn't matter how powerful that kick is if he can't hit me with it. And with my Sharingan combined with speed that matches his, he won't even come close.
Lee attacked with three more axe kicks, all of which Sasuke sidestepped with little trouble. "Is that all you've got, Lee?" He appeared behind Lee and hit him with a spin kick.
When Lee turned around to face Sasuke, he took another hit from behind, this one knocking him to the ground. No sooner had he flipped up onto his feet than Sasuke hit him with a one-two combo in the face. "I'm running rings around you, Lee. I expected you to try to do this to me."
Lee jumped for another tree branch, but Sasuke was ready this time. "Katon! Goukakyuu no jutsu!" Sasuke breathed a stream of fire upward toward the tree branches, and the one Lee had intended to use was burned almost completely through by the time Lee got to it. While Lee sprawled in the air, Sasuke drilled him with a pair of kunai and watched with astonishment as they bounced off him with no effect. Good thing I used the weights on my legs to block them, Lee thought. I would be in trouble otherwise.
"This isn't even worth my time, Lee. Take off those weights and let's go at it for real."
Lee picked himself off the ground, dusting himself off. "Even now, you have a lot to learn, Sasuke-kun. The very first rule Gai-sensei taught me, and the most important rule to my training, is never to take the easy way out."
Sasuke's face showed little expression. "Have it your way. It's your funeral."
"If you think I will be defeated this easily, you have another thing coming, Sasuke-kun." If I know Sasuke-kun, he will be very willing to use the technique he learned from his sensei.
At that moment, Lee was answered with a distinct crackling sound that could only mean one thing. As the sound became louder, Sasuke's hand began to emanate a bluish glow that gradually grew into a ball of lightning.
Lee closed his eyes to concentrate, knowing the Sasuke was approaching him with Chidori. First Gate, gate of opening...OPEN!!! Lee's eyes flew open just in time to see Sasuke charging in for the kill.
"It's over! Prepare to die!" Sasuke closed in all the way and Lee immediately felt pain and he was nearly blinded by the light coming from Sasuke's glowing chakra. When the light faded, Lee was holding Sasuke's wrist with his left hand. Sasuke looked up from the pool of Lee's blood on the ground, following it up to his right hand, which he had used to hold off Sasuke's attack just long enough to stop it completely.
"Now do you understand that nothing will stop me from keeping you in this village, Sasuke-kun? Even if it means immense pain. Now it is my turn to attack, and when I do, you will be defeated."
I don't think I can hold on to Sasuke-kun with just my left hand, Lee thought as he grabbed Sasuke's wrist with his nearly shredded right. The tears welling in his eyes bore mute testiment to the pain he was in.
Impossible! I just shoved a Chidori halfway up that arm! He shouldn't be able to use it! Sasuke was too shocked to resist as Lee lifted him off the ground by his wrists and spun him around. By sheer force of will, he's making his body do things it shouldn't be able to do! Maybe I can learn something useful from this weirdo after all...
After three or four spins, Lee threw Sasuke back into the village gate. By the time Sasuke landed, Lee was on him again, and he noticed the bandages around Lee's arms loosening. I don't like the look of this, he thought, remembering the time Lee had intended to use that move on him, only the be interrupted by the turtle summoned by his sensei.
The bandages, seemingly of their own will, wrapped tightly around Sasuke, stopping his movement. Lee knelt down on top of him, wearing something like a smirk on his face.
"Alright, Lee, alright," Sasuke grumbled, deactivating his Sharingan. "I admit that I could get a lot stronger by training with you. As soon as you get out of the hospital, we'll begin."
Lee shook his head. "We will continue your training as soon as I finish untying you," he said, undoing the bandages.
"But..." Sasuke said in a low voice, eyeing Lee's wounded arm.
"You have much to learn, Sasuke-kun. Pain tolerance is key to youthful fighting spirit, and we will only miss training for missions which have higher priority." He removed the last bloody bandage from Sasuke, wrapping it around his own arm. "We will run ten laps around Konoha. Our goal is to finish by sunrise. If we cannot, then we will spar again."
Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows. "Lee?"
"Yes, Sasuke-kun?" Lee responded as he began to run and motioned for Sasuke to follow him.
"Why is it that you add some nutso condition onto everything you do?"
"It helps me to make sure that I hold nothing back in my training."
Sasuke made no reply, but followed Lee as they began their ten laps around Konoha. Getting strong enough to defeat his brother would be a lot harder than he had thought.
The End
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Alternate Ending (continues on after the ending you just read)
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Halfway through their run, Lee noticed that he was no longer hearing Sasuke's labored breathing behind him. When he turned around, he noticed that Sasuke wasn't even in sight, and he turned around without hesitation. By the time he completed a lap around Konoha in the opposite direction, the light of realization had dawned upon him and he cursed himself for a fool.
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Flashback (Sasuke's POV)
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After the second of ten laps, Sasuke wondered how this maniac could run this hard for this long. Crud, you'd think I was the one injured here. I can't take much more of this...
Just then, he passed the village gate. He passed it and continued running for about fifteen seconds before he realized what this meant and what he could do. Making sure nobody was watching, he stopped, backpedaled, and slipped outside the gate. Heh heh, sayonara, sucker. Hope you didn't actually think I was going to stay and knock myself out. He continued walking toward the Sound village, certain that it would be at least an hour before Lee realized what had happened.
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End Flashback
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At this realization, Lee began to feel so sick that even he could no longer train. The next time his course took him by the hospital, he took the opportunity to check into it, oblivious the the fact that he hadn't finished his training.
The End
A/N: Honestly, did I make a decent fight scene? I really don't know. Look for the first chapter of While You Were Away to show up in about a week. I couldn't tell whether to end this one in success or failure, so I wrote both endings. Please take the time to spare me a review. I'd greatly appreciate it. And thanks for 200 hits.