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Kakashi narrowly dodged Lee's fists. Could he just...want to practice his Tai Jutsu? Probably.

"Alright," Kakashi smirked, "I'm game."

He whipped out a kunai, and expertly swung it around his finger. Lee flew at him with another punch, which he ducked and Lee went hurdling over his head. The copy-nin spun around on his heels, and Lee couldn't be found anywhere.

"SHADOW OF THE DANCING LEAF!" Lee screamed.

"What?"

Kakashi dropped his kunai and was launched into the air. He quickly knew what was coming next.

"FRONT LOTUS!"

Kakashi felt Lee grab him from behind, and drill him right into the ground. Lee seemed to have done the technique with a bit more powerful edge – odd for training. In fact, odd he would use such a powerful technique while training. Kakashi thought nothing of it, and continued on.

He got up, and started quickly performing hand seals: Ram, horse, then bird.

"Water style; Tornado of Water!"

Lee was engulfed in a massive tornado of water, spinning and spinning, and spinning until he couldn't think straight. Just when Kakashi had thought Lee had enough, he burst out of the water, and came straight at Kakashi with a kunai.

Kakashi just barely dodged it; it had grazed his arm, and he was bleeding. Lee started moving faster, and faster – too fast to be normal.

"He must be opening the gates..." Kakashi whispered to himself. Something's not right. This isn't normal for regular training. When Rock Lee came at him faster and faster, and started hitting him harder and harder, he had to put an end to it. He reached up and tugged back his headband, revealing his sharingan. Using it to slow everything down, and track Lee's movements he used a familiar technique; Double Suicide Decapitation.

He went under the ground, and pulled Lee under so only his head was poking through.

Wiping his hands, he realized Lee had hit him more than he thought. He had cuts all up his left arm, and they were bleeding pretty badly. He went to walk towards Lee, but then realized his right ankle was broken. Slightly wincing at the pain, he spoke to Lee.

"Lee, what on earth was that all about?" he raised an eyebrow.

"You know what!" Lee yelled at him. He was furious, that much was obvious.

"Well, I actually don't. That would be why I'm asking you."

"You...you...you! You purposely took Sakura 'training', didn't you? I bet you two weren't even training at all."

The silver haired man was quite taken aback by Lee. Is that how it had appeared? Kakashi even started to question his own actions.

"Lee, that's not what it was like at all. I just..."

"See! Just like I thought."

"No, no! You don't understand! Something...happened the other night, and I wanted Sakura to feel better. I thought maybe some training would take her mind off things."

Lee immediately thought of when he left the club the other night. He felt awful. That was probably the cause of this whole thing. Damn, because of my incompetence, she's been drawn away from me. I cannot loose!

"Well," Lee said, "it was probably because I left a little early from out date last night."

Kakashi couldn't help but feel a little jealous. He cared for Sakura a lot; mainly because she was his student, and he had grown a bond to her. But, she has been gone for so long...he didn't want to admit it, but he missed her.

He took a deep breath, and calmly spoke.

"Oh. Don't think you kinda made an ass of yourself?"

Lee's mouth dropped. He did not expect Kakashi to be so calm. He had expected him to be more...jealous.

Kakashi smirked to himself once he saw Lee's reaction. That little twerp thinks he made Sakura upset! What a riot!

"Well...I...uh...no! I did not make an ass out of myself!"

"Oh, I think you did."

"Did not!"

"Do you have ANY manners Lee? Don't you know its rude to just walk out on a date?"

"Yes!"

"Then, why'd you do it? Sakura must not mean that much to you."

Lee's face was red with fury. It was all Kakashi had to not laugh at his naive little face.

Lee burst out of the ground, and sent a kunai straight into Kakashi's upper thigh, hitting a major blood vessel. Kakashi's leg starting bleeding very badly, and he wanted to retaliate, but he didn't. Lee was just a kid; he shouldn't beat down on him for one little incident. He's had worse, much worse.

Lee was furious that Kakashi wasn't fighting back. It wasn't like him! Lee took out his nunchuk's, and starting spinning them so fast you couldn't even see them. He whipped them at the side of Kakashi's face, shattering his jaw.

The copy nin started coughing up blood. Horrified at what Lee had done, he looked up and saw him, smiling.

"Lee..." Kakashi said, before passing out.


Sakura was busy taking care of a patient, when Hinata burst in the room, panting.

"Sakura..." she softly said.

Sakura whipped her head around.

"What's wrong Hinata?" she asked her, with a look of worry on her face.

"It's...Kakashi...he's hurt. We...need...your help."

Sakura's worried look immediately turned into one of horror. When did this happen? I only left a few hours ago!

"I-I'll be right there! What room is he in?"

"2...01..."

"Got it!"

Sakura ran down the hallway, and climbed 4 flights of stairs before she got to the right floor. She then frantically ran to the end of the hallway and opened his door. She saw him on the bed, and blood was soaking though his bandages. His mouth was crooked – he had probably broken his jaw. She had a hard time coping with her sensei being so wounded. She rushed to the side of his bed.

"Kaka-sensei!" she grabbed his hand. "What happened?"

She heard a slight mumble, and realized that he couldn't talk if his jaw was broken. She quickly focused her chakra on his jaw.

Kakashi felt completely at ease when he felt Sakura's chakra healing his jaw. Her chakra was like no other kunoichi – it took away absolutely all the pain. He let a sigh of relief escape his lips.

Once Sakura thought she was done healing him, she asked him what happened again.

"After you left..."

"Yes?"

"Lee...he...he lunged at me. We got into a fight. At first I thought he just wanted to train, but it turned into more than that. He started opening gates; so I pulled him into the ground. We started talking...and he burst out. He pulled out his nunchuk's, and then he broke my jaw."

The look on Sakura's face was awful. She was so shocked by what Kakashi just told her, she almost didn't believe it. But she trusted Kakashi; he was her teacher after all.

"But...why?"

Kakashi took a deep breath. He had no idea how she was going to take this.

"I'm pretty sure...he was jealous."

Sakura blushed.

"Uhm...of what?"

"Of me, having alone training time with you."

Her cheeks got even redder, and Kakashi grinned under his mask. Then, he flinched and silently swore to himself, because his jaw was still sore. He spoke again,

"But, I guess anyone would be jealous of that."

He saw her eyes grow wide, and immediately regretted what he said. Kakashi beat himself up on the inside, knowing that he shouldn't have said that.

"Sorry sensei...I uh...have to go..."

Sakura gave him a quick smile, and turned and walked out of the room.


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