Here is a little fluff for all you fluff lovers! Sorry if their a bit out of character!
~BloodRedRoad
Just a crush?
"Will you at least try a little?" Kumato grunted as she easily blocked a sloppy kick.
"I am trying. You know taijutsu isn't my thing." Rin smirked as she let her defense drop, "and who needs taijutsu anyway when you can make people think their eyeballs are melting." Rin pulled the skin from under her icy-blue eyes down and recreated a face of agony.
"Rin," Kumato sighed. "I'm trying to train here. Will you take it seriously for once in your life?"
"Maybe when I'm dead and I realise that if I knew more taijutsu, it would have saved my life… so never." Rin smirked. "And if you're so adamant 'bout training, why not ask bushy brow over there?" Rin said, pointing to the bowl haired kid who was in the middle of doing five thousand sit ups.
Kumato sighed and muttered, "you know I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Well...Uhh.." A faint blush crawled into Kumato's cheeks. Giving color to her tained face.
"Because?..." Rin pressed.
Throwing a glare over at the short, brown haired girl, Kumato said, "you very well know why, so don't make me say it."
"Okay," Rin smirked. "But, if you're not going to ask him, then I will." Before Kumato could process what Rin had said, her partner was halfway across the training field; heading straight to Lee.
"Hey! Wait, Rin!" Kumato took off, racing after her short legged friend. Her own long legs eating up the ground between them. She got there just as Rin said, "Hey Lee, so you know my best friend? Yeah well Kumato likes-"
Clamping a hand around Rin's mouth, Kumato smiled at Lee, who gave a confused look at the two girls. "Tomatoes! Yeah I like tomatoes! Cause that's what I'm named after and that's what my good friend," Rin grunted as Kumato punched her shoulder with more force than necessary. "Rin here was going to say." Kumato rambled nervously. "Right Rin?" Kumato turned to her friend, who stood half a head shorter than her and glared daggers as she removed her hand from her friend's mouth.
"Pft," Rin muttered.
Lee stood there, looking confused as ever as the two girls bickered. His round, black eyes flickered between the two, trying to understand the situation.
"Anyway," Rin said, turning, once again, to the green jumpsuit clad boy in front of her. "What I was going to say," Rin said, "was that Kumato here would like to train with you because someone," shooting a quick glare at her partner, she continued. "thinks I'm not good enough." She huffed and crossed her arms around her full bust.
"Well," Kumato turned to Rin. "If you would take taijutsu seriously, like Lee, then I would be willing to train with you."
"So you want me to take it seriously?" Rin laughed. "I'll take it seriously when I find a point to it." She turned to Lee. "Sorry bushy brows."
Lee nodded, "It is alright. Taijutsu is not for everyone."
"See!" Rin gestured to Lee as she met Kumato's mossy-brown eyes. "He gets it." Kumato sighed and ran a hand through her short brown hair.
"Okay, well I'm off. You two lovebirds have a fun time!" Kumato's eyes snapped to Rin's back in a glare well Lee frowned in confusion.
~Time skip~
"465…466…467…If I cannot do five hundred push-ups, I will do one thousand crunches!" Lee exclaimed, pushing himself harder.
Kumato grunted, her arms shaking as she continued to her training next to Lee. They had been training all day together and, as the sun dipped lower in the sky, Kumato smiled as she pushed herself as well.
"492…493…494…495…"
"Come on," Kumato muttered to herself, "only five more."
496…
497…
498…
499…
Kumato stopped, her arms shaking so bad it hurt. Sweat rolled and dripped off her face. Lee stood beside her, having already finished his workout, and watching her as she talked to herself. "Only one more, come on! You can do it." She bend herself down, her arms vibrating with the strain then, slowly, tried to straighten her arms again.
But she couldn't.
She was stuck, her face inches from the dirt, fire running through her arms. She was about to give up right there and then but then, from above her, Lee exclaimed, "come on Kumato! One more!"
Laboring her breathing, Kumato took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the much needed air and, with the little energy she had left, pushed herself. Her arms straightened with a crack and everything was silent for a split second as a dorky smile stretched Kumato's lips.
"Yeah Kumato! Woo!" Lee yelled, jumping around with energy Kumato envied.
Collapsing to the ground, she rolled into her back, facing the golden sky above her. "See," she muttered to the heavens. "I am strong enough."
A strong hand wrapped in white tape appeared above her. Looking over, she caught Lee's brilliant smile.
Bruised, sore and tired, Kumato grasped Lee's hand and let him help her up. Wrapping an arm around her waist, she wrapped one around his shoulders, remembering and smiling at all the silly memories the two had created.
Racing each other through the village on their hands.
Snaking around the training posts.
Jumping from roof to roof, making the distances bigger and bigger till one of them fell on their face.
Seeing who can tree jump faster.
Pulling silly pranks on an oblivious Naruto, and getting him every time.
Then having to run away from said Naruto.
And then the hand to hand combat. They had been so close, knee to knee, chest to chest and, at times, face to face. All throughout their training, Kumato's heart had been pounding, and not from the exercise.
He gave her a challenge, something new, fun and exciting.
And she wanted to do it again.
"Lee," She whispered. Lee turned and rested his coal black eyes on hers.
He's so close.
"Thanks for today. I had a lot of fun." Giving a tentative smile, she let her gaze drop to the dirt path as heat rushed to her cheeks.
"It is no problem. I enjoy helping a fellow shinobi." It was silent for the rest of the way to her house. Lee's arm never leaving her waist.
He helped her up the steps to her door then they both just stood there, unsure of what to do.
Clearing her throat, Kumato said, "I hope we can do it again. Maybe not too soon because I have a feeling I won't be able to walk for a while…" Giving a shaky laugh, she glanced up at Lee.
"I very much enjoyed it as well." He smiled down at her. "You will be a strong shinobi, and when that day comes, I wish to fight."
Kumato didn't respond, instead she gathered her courage and pulled slightly away from Lee. His eyes caught hers with a clash. They stood, staring at each other with intense eyes. Letting her eyes wonder, she scanned his face. His high, black bushy brows. His sharp, defined jaw line and, of course, his small pale pink lips. Her breath caught as she realised she was staring and quickly brought her own mossy brown eyes back up to his.
"Lee... " She whispered her hand coming up to rest on his cheek, her thumb brushing, softly, against his cheek bone.
Lee leaned against her hand and tightened his arm around her waist, bring her body impossibly closer.
Slowly, she raised upward on her toes as Lee slowly bent himself to her level. Breath mingled as noses brushed. With her heart pounding a thousand beats per minute, she closed her eyes and waited.
But it never came.
"Lee!" A voice cried.
The moment broken, Kumato jumped backwards, hitting her head on the door as a man came into view.
"Guy Sensei!" Lee jumped forward into the arms of the man that looked exactly like him. Tears and snot running down both their faces.
It almost looked like a scene from a romantic book or movie.
All that was missing was a beach and a setting sun.
"Lee, I thought we were going to train together!" The man, Guy sensei, cried.
Lee sobered up as a faint tint of red crept up his neck. "I am sorry Guy sensei but…"
"What is it Lee?" Guy pulled back from their hug.
"I was helping a fellow shinobi train." Lee's coal black eyes locked on hers. Kumato's heart swelled as she smiled faintly at Lee.
Who smiled back.
Guy looked down at Lee in bewilderment. "Who Lee?" Guy sensei paused, as he regarded an almost starstruck Lee.
"Someone special." He mumbled.
Heat swelled up her neck as her breath quickened. Butterflies erupted in her stomach as she cheered. In her head of course.
Turning around to face the door so Lee couldn't see her face, even though she was pretty sure he already had, she heard a faint noise come from the window beside her.
"Aw, didn't get your kiss did you?" Turning to the voice, she saw Rin leaning out the window beside the door she was currently trying to open.
"Shut up." Kumato muttered as she cast one last look at the identical men before finally opening her door and flying in. She knew Rin would make every second a living Hell, but at this moment, with her stomach fluttering with butterflies and warmth flooding every part of her body, making her feel light and airy, she didn't care. "I wasn't going to kiss him."
Rin's laugh echoed into the night.
~Fin~
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~BloodRedRoad