Chapter 3

Lee and Naruto made their way through the village, battered, bruised and still pretty much hung over from their little escapade last night,

"So what did Tsunade drag out of your head then" asked Lee

Naruto shot back a stare that said 'If I told you I'd kill you' Lee took this to heart and shut his mouth. They walked on for a while with nothing returning to their heads except that same pain they got when they tried to remember something, a horrible event then occurred which Naruto wished hadn't, Saskue appeared out of nowhere and pounced on Naruto,

"Hey lover what a crazy night I had last night, you wanna come back to my place?"

His hand then caressed Naruto's thigh and he ran his finger up and down his prey's chest,

"Saskue…there's something I need to tell you"

Naruto grimaced, despite how much Naruto had against his rival he didn't want to hurt him anymore then he was (with a family dead and not that many people to relate to Saskue didn't have many people in his life, go figure) Saskue however was still smiling,

"Aww I should've guessed, it was just a drunken one night stand, that's ok it won't stop me from having you once in a while"

He then planted a quick firm kiss on his teammates lips and left, Naruto got up, dusted himself off, looked at Lee and kept walking, Lee was speechless but followed nonetheless. They reached yet another neighbourhood and went up to another door

"Why are we here, how the hell is he going to help us of all people",

The house they were outside of belonged to one of the more laid back shinobi in the village, Naruto rapped on the door, nothing happened, he tried again, still nothing,

"Looks like no ones home, let's try some place else"

Lee started to walk away until Naruto grabbed his shoulder and turned him around,

"There's one method we haven't yet tried Lee",

A grin spread across Naruto's face and Lee's face was drained of what little colour it had left,

"A penny for your thoughts?"

Inside the house the owner had woken up, it was three in the afternoon but he was very lazy and ever so slightly tired, he had barely reached the door when it flew out of it's frame, (fortunately Shikamaru had flung himself out of the way by now) hit his wall and broke in two,

"WHY THE HELL DID YOU TWO DO THAT TO MY DOOR?" Shikamaru threw off his dressing gown, under which he wore a small t-shirt and a pair of grey boxers,

"One, because you didn't answer the door and two, don't hold it against Lee he was just the battering ram "

Shikamaru then saw that Lee's head had been what penetrated his front door, his head was battered, bruised and it seemed like he had lost a tooth,

"Wait…that's my waffle" Lee said, ever so slightly delirious,

Shikamaru rubbed his eyes,

"Well so long as you're both here what do you want?"

Naruto dropped Lee and allowed him to recover on the floor,

"We wanna borrow your map of the village"

"What, why?"

"Why should you care man it's just a map"

"This is no ordinary map, my dad gave this to me, it shows the whole of the village including secret passages in AND out, complete with key, small mail boxes, temple icons and…"

His mouth closed as soon as he realised he had said too much and because Naruto had a grin on his face larger then when he had used Lee to smash through the door, Shikamaru went into the living room and came back with a small scroll which he threw to Naruto,

"Oh whatever just bring it back when you're done…AND GET MY BLOODY DOOR FIXED"

Naruto took the map and made his exit, Lee was conscious again and followed suite.

The two companions walked through town with Naruto looking at the map and Lee with an ice pack on his head,

"Why do we need the map Naruto, I have a migraine thanks to last night and you just so happened TO HAVE MADE IT WORSE!!!"

Naruto looked up from the map and began to explain,

"Tsunade found a lot more in my mind then I first thought, this symbol on the map is more familiar to me now then it was when I woke up at your place"

He then pointed to a symbol in an area of the map and kept walking with Lee (through a gate which led through to a fenced off area) the two stopped and looked around, they were in a field; they looked back down at the map and found they were at the symbol that Naruto had pointed out,

"So what does that mushroom symbol mean?" asked Lee

"It means mine"

"So Shikamaru owns this map"

"No…it means minefield" the truth then dawned upon Naruto

"Oh…so he owns the field as well"

Naruto would've hit his dumb companion over his soup bowled hair cut head but decided moving at all was out of the question,

"This is the villages minefield on the outskirts, we're standing in a minefield Lee"

"What are we going to do? If we move we're dead but if we stay here we're dead…that's great odds"

A voice then yelled at them from across the field, a very familiar voice,

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING IN THIS MINEFIELD?"

The boys looked to see Kakashi Hatake, Naruto's sensei, on the side of the field with Sakura, the two friends rolled their eyes, hadn't she caused them enough headaches already,

"We're just takin' a stroll…here…in the minefield…we're fine though"

Kakashi was behind them in a split second, he picked them up and leapt to the outside the minefield with one ninja in each hand,

"Sakura was walking near here and alerted me to your…predicament…now tell me what you were doing here"

Lee decided to fess up; this was all partly his doing,

"I think Gai sensei is mad at me for some reason, so after a small meal with Tenten yesterday I went home, had a small sleep but didn't feel any better, so after looking at the ceiling I went out and woke up with Naruto on my floor, a traffic cone under my covers and Sakura in my bath with a bottle of vodka"

Lee took a deep breath and then Naruto added in his small part,

"…and I found Sakura's skirt and underclothes next to me on the floor"

"Thank you Naruto for that…incredibly irrelevant piece of information…but what are you doing here?"

Kakashi raised his one visible eyebrow,

"We ended up in Tsunade's back garden, she then went into my mind to see what she could dig up about last night"

Naruto however didn't want to talk about what he had found out though; he cut across his teacher before he could speak though,

"The symbol that means "mine" meant something though so we went over to Shikamaru's place to borrow his map of the village, which we did, it lead us here and then you and Sakura came along"

Lee then clapped a hand to his head in pain,

"Dammit that hurts wait…wait somethin's comin back"

He closed his eyes and tried to remember, the others were listening intently to see if he came up with anything relevant, the images came flooding back to him.

(Cut back to last night)

Lee, Naruto and Sakura stumbled through the minefield, hurling kunai and shuriken at the ground, setting off numerous mines, some which detonated dangerously close to the three drunken shinobi, the three then separately broke into song,

"Ramen, Ramen fill up your face, the thicker the noodle, the better the taste"

This was Naruto of course with a song he had written on the spot,

"I'm a wanker, I'm a wanker and it does me good like it bloody well should"

Lee had always wondered what the next verse was,

"Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows my sorrow"

Sakura's singing sounded like a tribe of banshees on a train with rusty brakes, Naruto continued to rock the night away whilst Lee and Sakura enjoyed some quiet time in a large crater left by a mine.

(cut back to current day)

The pain in Lee's head died away and he opened his eyes, Naruto, Kakashi and Sakura were looking at him still,

"What do you remember?" asked Sakura

"We were over there, in the middle of the field, you had the sake and vodka Sakura and Naruto was singing, we must've detonated half the minefield last night"

"So you three were all blind drunk last night, you went to the minefield and just went wild to put it bluntly"

Lee knew that voice better then any other, he turned around to see Gai Sensei standing in the trees he had heard the whole thing,

"GAI SENSEI!"

Lee ran to his teacher and got on his hands and knees,

"I am eternally sorry for my wrongdoings, I will do whatever task you ask of me, I know you are mad at me for this as well as the other reasons"

"Other reasons?" Gai looked puzzled,

Lee looked up,

"You mean all the exercises you have been me through lately weren't punishments?" Lee was confused,

"Of course they weren't, I was preparing you"

"Preparing me for what?"

"For the all you can drink buffet at the sushi bar, but that was last night"

Lee's face dropped and became very limp; all that had happened then became very clear,

"You came to the sushi bar but arrived too early as well as bringing two of your friends, you three drank the whole place dry, had a scuffle with the owner and stumbled off together, later that night we heard explosions coming from the minefield, myself and Iruka went to investigate but by the time we got here you had gone"

Lee then remembered something else,

"But how did I end up with this leot…"

Lee then recalled what had happened in the crater with Sakura, he quickly ran though the minefield to the crater, found his green leotard and came back,

"Well that wraps everything up nicely"

Kakashi smiled, although noone noticed as his face was almost completely covered by his mask,

"Not everything…"

Everyone looked at Sakura,

"What exactly happened to me last night?"

Lee quickly whispered into Gai's ear and looked slightly scared,

"Lee…what happened"

Lee then whispered the events into Sakura's ear…she froze solid for about two minutes flat, her face reddened………………and Lee was in traction for two weeks after Sakura was through him.

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