The next day Konohamaru got up early and packed plenty of supplies. He'd need them to get Rock Lee today. Heading out of his house, he ran around on the village rooftops trying to locate the green spandex wearing ninja. "Where is he..."
A few hours later, an excited Rock Lee was exiting the Yamanaka flower shop, holding a sizable bouquet. "Oh, I just know Sakura-chan will love these! Today will finally be the day that I win her heart! I just know it!" Lee said to himself. True, every other attempt he'd made had been met with instant rejection, he had a good feeling about this day in particular.
He checked the position of the sun in the sky. "But the festival will not start for at least another hour yet . . . What should I do until then?" He mulled it over, then beamed as an idea struck him. "I'll take a brief jog around the village, and then freshen up!"
And so, first stopping off at his home to store the flowers until later, Lee prepared to set out in his typical green spandex and leg-warmers for one of his typical exercise of running a perimeter around the whole village.
Konohamaru spotted Lee just as he was getting home. "Perfect, I can get him before he leaves for the festival!" He quickly set up what he would need and then ran over to the door and knocked quickly, drawing the other boy from the safety of his house. "Lee! Lee! You home?!" he called out, knowing he was, but he didn't want to give away he had been following him.
"Eh? Who could that be?" Lee said to himself when he heard the knocking. He opened it up and looked around in confusion, not realizing Konohamaru was there until he looked down.
"Ah! Konohamaru-kun! What can I do for you this bright and cheery day?" he asked, smiling brightly. "Would you like to go on a jog with me? I can tell the springtime of youth is flowering greatly within you!"
Konohamaru was taken back slightly, not knowing how to respond to such a...unique greeting. "Oh hello Lee, yes it is a nice day... a jog, huh? Well I might be up for one in a bit but first I was wondering if you could help me with something." He put on his best helpless innocent face. "Unless you're busy that is..."
"Me? Too busy to help a friend? NEVER!" Lee cried staunchly. He rose to his full height and his chest puffed out. "I would be glad to help you in any way possible, Konohamaru-kun, and to the best of my abilities! Just name what you need done!" Lee always put his full effort into whatever task was set before him. That was why he was a 'genius of hard work'. It didn't even occur to him that it was odd that Konohamaru should come to him specifically. Lee was just happy to help a fellow villager in need.
Konohamaru grinned, glad this was going so well for him. "Great! Just follow me! I need help moving some stuff." He ran off in the direction on an alleyway where he had laid some traps to start Lee's embarrassment. He sidestepped a trip wire near a fence, hoping Lee would fall for it, literally. Next to the trip wire was a hook that would catch on Lee's spandex suit and rip the bottoms off.
"Of course!" Lee beamed and followed close behind. He didn't know what the boy could need moved in a dirty alley, but they must certainly be heavy if he needed the 'Blue Beast' of Konoha's help. This was what Lee loved best. Putting his skills to the test, and helping out for the common good!
He was so lost in the bliss felt from doing a good deed, Lee didn't notice Konohamaru suddenly swerve to the side as he ran. Before he could change direction, he felt something catch around his foot. "Wha-? Oh!" Lee was suddenly tripping over an exposed wire. He flailed his arms to catch himself, but his momentum was too great. As he fell, the hook caught on his suit just as planned, and there was suddenly a loud tearing of spandex.
"O-oh dear!" Lee blushed as he looked down at what had been done to his pants.
Konohamaru heard the loud rip and turned quickly on his heel to face Lee, trying to hide his glee. "Lee! What happened, are you okay?" He ran over to the other boy, knowing he wasn't. He glanced down at Lee's torn suit and giggled. "Seems you had a bit of an accident... how did that happen?" He couldn't believe how lucky he got with Lee. The other ninja was making this too easy, not that Konohamaru was complaining in the slightest.
"I must have gotten snagged on something," Lee said, blushing again. He looked around for whatever it was he'd tripped on, but Konohamaru had already hidden the trap out of sight. He was left trying to stretch his top down to cover up his underwear. All he wore underneath his pants was a pair of green bikini-briefs. He wore them so that underwear lines wouldn't show through his spandex, but now the revealing undergarment just made things even more embarrassing.
"Konohamaru-kun, could you run back to my house and bring me back a change of pants?" Lee asked, nervously looking up and down the alley. "I'd hate for anyone to see me like this!"
Konohamaru was doing his best trying not to laugh, he didn't want to blow his cover. "Oh, but Lee... I really have to get your help with my thing NOW. I don't know if we have time." He acted innocent and worried, hoping to appeal to Lee's nice guy side. He wondered how far he could get Lee to go without bottoms for his tights. Surely Naruto would be pleased with Lee giving the town a show.
"Well . . . " Lee looked torn. He didn't want to go on, but at the same time he couldn't let down someone in need. " . . . is it much further?" he finally asked.
Konohamaru grinned. "No, not much farther at all! I bet no one will even see you!" He knew Lee was too nice to think he was lying. He would have felt bad if it weren't so funny.
"Well, in that case . . . " Lee thought it over carefully, then gave a firm nod of his head. "Very well! I will help you first, Konohamaru-kun, then fetch my pants afterwards! I just hope you're right that no one will see me or it will be very . . . well, embarrassing!" Rock Lee was a trusting sort, always believing that others possessed as little guile as he himself did. While endearing to most, on this occasion it would be his undoing.
Konohamaru gave him a firm nod and started walking down the alleyway. At the end it opened up onto a busy street. Lee was a few steps behind him still so Konohamaru smirked, then signaled him to be quick and ran around the corner hoping Lee would run out without looking.
"Ah!" Lee did exactly as Konohamaru figured he would and ran right into the road. Trusting that the boy ahead of him would be aware of his nervousness about being exposed and thus lead him only down roads free of traffic, he was surprised and dismayed when he instead found himself face-to-face with several academy kids let out of school early for the festival, and other villagers all on their way to places busily preparing for the event.
"Mommy, look! That boy is in just his underwear!" one little boy cried loudly. The woman holding him let out a gasp. Several of the academy students, on the other hand, started to snicker.
"What's he wearing?"
"Looks like a THONG!"
Lee's face immediately colored. Never having faced this sort of situation and not knowing what to do, Lee fell back on his second nature as an unfailingly polite young man. "G-gomen! Gomennasai!" he said loudly in apology, and bowed several times to the woman holding a hand over her son's eyes. Of course, since his spandex top didn't fall low enough to cover anything, that action only exposed his barely-clad bottom to the boys behind him, who were now outright laughing.
"Er . . . excuse me!" Lee finally said, red-faced, and looked around for where Konohamaru had gone.
Konohamaru however had used Lee's surprise to his advantage, and used a transformation jutsu to change into one of the mothers of the academy kids. He grinned at how big a fool Lee was making of himself, but he decided to make it even worse for him. "Such a rude display! People, I don't know about you but I think this young man needed to be taught proper manners!" He tried to get the others to agree with him.
"Eh? N-no, you have me all wrong!" Lee tried to defend himself. "I tripped, you see, and there was this hook . . . " But several other villagers had taken up the call and drowned him out.
"Parading yourself in front of others like that in just your underwear! It's shameful!"
"I am normally an upright young man! Truly! This is just an . . . unfortunate incident!" Lee said as he backed away, unaware that some of the boys were grinning and approaching him from behind.
One of the boys in the group gave a nod to his friends before reaching out and grabbing the back of Lee's bikini briefs, yanking them upward to stop the fleeing Ninja. "I got him! I won't let him get away!" He gave the back of the bikinis several hard yanks.
Konohamaru disguised as one of the mothers laughed, "Very good, keep him still." He pulled out a wooden ping-pong paddle from his bag. "There is only one way to handle a pervert like this. The old fashion way."
"Ahh! Hey! Let me go!" Lee as one of the bright young futures of Konoha did something quite ungentlemanly and grabbed him by the back of his underwear. His face turned even redder as the lad actually did even more than that and started yanking it up his crack! "Ooh! This is not what the springtime of youth is all about!" he lectured the miscreant.
But if he thought the wedgie was bad, he didn't know yet what was really in store for him. His eyes widened as one of the women took out a ping-pong paddle. "N-now wait just a moment!" he called out plaintively. Being a healthy and hot-blooded young man, Lee was naturally no stranger to such disciplines. But it was always at the hands of his beloved sensei, Gai, and done in private. This was right out on the street where everybody could see. And he didn't even know this woman!
Konohamaru took no time and paid him no attention quickly bring Lee over his knee. "The time for words is over you little pervert, time to learn some respect and decency." He started raining down blows on Lee's unprotected backside, making sure people on the street got a good view of the ninja's bottom. "Maybe this will teach you to run around in your underpants young man."
"Oooh, no, please stooop!" Lee wailed as the woman started to spank him quite hard with the paddle. It was difficult to believe this was happening. Only minutes ago he'd been happily helping out a friend, and now he was getting a mortifying public spanking in front of a growing crowd! Speaking of his friend, where was Konohamaru? Lee scanned up and down the street, hoping the boy would come back and rescue him from this predicament. Of course, since Lee had only taijutsu to rely on, he had no way of knowing that under the illusion it was actually Konohamaru himself wailing away on his butt.
Since his wedgied bikini-briefs covered so little, many of the villagers were soon laughing at how red Lee's poor squirming bottom was becoming.
Konohamaru was impressed by how fast the crowd to watch Lee's spanking was growing. He hadn't planned on the whole thing working out so well, but that only encouraged him to make it worse for Lee. He didn't stop paddling Lee's butt until the cheeks were practically glowing red, "Now stand up young man. I want you to think about what you've done. Now tell everyone how sorry you are."
Lee sniffled slightly as he got gingerly to his feet, rubbing his bottom slightly. "I-I'm deeply sorry, everyone!" he said, bowing as low as he could, though personally he felt his treatment had been extremely unfair. But what choice did he have? Gai-sensei always told him to obey his elders. "I'll never do it again!"
Turning around, hoping to slink off and escape somewhere, he was surprised to see Konohamaru directly behind him. "K-Konohamaru-kun! Where have you been all this time?!"
Konohamaru loved the look of surprise on Lee's face, how did he have no idea what was going on? While the bowl-cut ninja had been busy bowing and apologising, Konohamaru had simply changed back to normal. "I have been looking for you everywhere... you seem to be having a good time here." The boy laughed at how red Lee's bottom was, and that it was now facing the crowd barely covered.
Lee blushed bright red so his face was almost the same color as his bottom. "I have not been having a good time at all!" he corrected the lad. Several of the academy boys ran by snickering, each leaving a teasing slap to his backside as they passed. Lee jumped and grabbed his stinging rear. "Oh!"
Konohamaru laughed as the boys ran by, enjoying the little dance Lee did with each smack. "Well sorry, I must have turned down the wrong street." He still played it innocent, loving how gullible the other boy was.
"Please, Konohamaru. If you still wish me to help I will, but let us at least get out of sight somewhere!" Lee said miserably.
Konohamaru nodded, "Oh, of course. In fact, why don't you just go home and change now. I'm sorry for making you go out like this. It was a silly idea." The boy smiled, knowing what he had in store for him. He pointed the way for his 'friend'. "Here take these back alleys and you should get home in a few minutes." In reality it would take about 30 minutes, giving Konohamaru plenty of time.
"Right! Thank you, Konohamaru-kun!" Lee beamed through his humiliated blush. Though he hated to leave his friend in the lurch, there wasn't much he could do in his present condition anyway, and he was glad that Konohamaru understood. He followed Konohamaru's directions with absolute faith, knowing that the young lad spent more time in these alleys than he so he would know his way around better.
Unfortunately, he must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, as it took Lee much longer to get home than Konohamaru had said it would. He also had several close calls of people almost seeing him. It took all of his training to stay out of sight and prevent further incidents like the last one.
Of course, Lee didn't suspect at all what he would find when he got there.
Konohamaru waited a minute after Lee ran off, then proceeded to go directly to the ninja's house. Since he didn't need to take any winding back alleys, he arrived in a much shorter time than Lee. Konohamaru easily picked the lock and got inside the place, and after looking around a bit be found the guy's room and his clothing. He made quick work of any pants Lee might put on, taking them all out. He then went to the boys underwear drawer and took any pair that wasn't bikini style.
"There! Lee should have some fun finding these..." He left the house with the clothing and found a great hiding place for it nearby.
When Lee finally did make it home, he slipped in gratefully, glad he was safe from anyone else seeing him. He immediately walked to his room to get changed, and also to get ready for the festival later that day which he still planned on attending to woo Sakura.
When he opened his drawers however, he was stunned. Gaping, he opened the rest thinking he must have made some mistake. But no, their emptiness spoke for themselves. His pants . . . they were all gone!
Much of his underwear was missing, too. In fact, the only type still present were the bikini-style like the ones he was wearing now.
Lee wracked his brains, trying to come up with some explanation for where his clothes had gone. But as much as he tried, it was still unclear to the naive leaf-nin how this could have happened . . . or who had done it. Eventually, the effort tired him out and he decided to cut his losses for the day and simply remain inside until nightfall where he could investigate under the cover of darkness. He couldn't leave now after all-not without pants, and certainly not in such small underwear which would reveal how recently he'd been spanked like a bad little boy!
"Sorry, Sakura-chan . . . " he groaned as he realized he wouldn't be able to see her that day after all.
