A/N: Another note! you know the cover!? KakaIru made it for this story! I squealed so hard when I saw it! She is one of the most AWESOMELY WONDERFUL people I know!
Also, I just found out the extent of Lee's chakra powers. I am ashamed of not realizing or remembering it earlier.
AND! I watched an episode that was focused on Lee in Shippuden! Lee is such a friggen CUTIE! He is so adorable when on his knee's asking for forgiveness! His body all small looking and eyes closed as if about to get scolded~ I wanted Gaara to show up in the episode and just take him!
On another note, I really hate being sick...
Disclaimer: Is Lee getting chased by Seme's that want him as their Uke? No? Then I don't own Naruto.
Title: Save your Sorrow
Many months passed by before Lee really noticed. One day he just looked at his calender after getting dressed and realized that his birthday was coming up in a few days. His first thought was that he needed to find a birthday present for Gaara as his was next month...Gaara will be sixteen then.
Lee felt himself blush and cupped his own cheeks as he thought to himself, 'Gaara-koi said...He said that he wanted to marry, when he turned sixteen...'
A loud knocking on his front door woke him from his imagination and he quickly went to it. Lee opened the door the smiled and stepped aside to let Naruto in.
"Naruto-kun! What are you doing here?" Lee tilted his head, still smiling.
"We got another mission together! We gotta go!" Naruto grinned then looked around, "Where's No Brows?"
"He is not here today. Gaara-koi said that he would not be able to come by for a few days as he will be very busy." Lee answered then asked, "What is the mission?"
"I don't know yet! We gotta go and see! So hurry!" Naruto began rushing Lee. Naruto ran around, actually grabbing Lee's pouch and orange leg warmers. He tried to get the weights but gave that up immediately and grabbed his shoes instead.
Lee laughed at Naruto's actions and put on his weights as Naruto ran to get his shoes. He put on his leg warmers, pouch, and shoes, then said, "Alright Naruto-kun. Let's go!"
"Yea!" Naruto shouted, grinning, and began running.
They made it to Tsunade's office and Lee saw Sakura and Gai-sensei there. They were told that it was a B-rank escort mission as their client was a prince named Suran. They were told that they had to make sure not to piss him off. At that point, she looked right at Naruto before continuing.
They were told more about the mission then they were giving the official mission scroll. After that, they left to pack for the journey then met up again at the front gate.
Lee looked at Sakura and Naruto and said, "Do you think the Prince will be kind?"
"Doubt it. Most are assholes." Naruto grumbled
"Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst." Sakura said, playing with her glove
"Wonderful advise!" Lee said then they all walked towards Gai and the Prince.
The prince was a tanned skinned man who stood at maybe six foot three. He looked regal in his royal traveling clothes, but not only that, his stance screamed of his royal status. Lee held back an uncomfortable look as he saw the prince assess them with a pretty bad expression.
Prince Suran looked the team up and down with an unimpressed expression. His eyes traveled from Naruto to Sakura then to Lee, mentally judging them.
'Uhg. The blond one looks daft, pinky's not my gender, and that green thing is just not my type. Why couldn't I have gotten a cute boy to stare at...' He sighed in self-pity 'Even their leader is just plain ugly...'
"Alright my youthful team! Let's go on our journey!" Gai exclaimed, pumping his fist into the air.
"Yosh!" Lee exclaimed for the nostalgia of old times. Then he laughed as Naruto suddenly pushed his head down, ruffling his hair.
"Come on BB, let's go deliver Princy" Naruto said with a grin then walked forward first.
Sakura rolled her eyes but secretly agreed with Naruto's distaste. She had seen that look that the prince gave them.
Before long, they had formed a diamond around the prince's fancy carriage and were moving through the forest.
The journey would take the better part of three day's, if they were not detoured to badly. The first day and night went by smoothly, with the prince ignoring them completely when they had to stop to eat.
Then day two came.
As soon as Lee woke up, there was something wrong. He looked at Gai who looked relaxed against the tree, but as soon as he looked, Gai gave him the code for surrounded.
Lee yawned and and got up, moving around in a lazy manner. He tapped Sakura's shoulder and gave her a calm smile as she woke. He knew that she could sense the ninja surrounding them but asked her if she could wake Naruto.
If he were with his original team, he would have asked Tenten to start breakfast and she would know to secretly take out her weapons as she got the food ready. Then Neji would have been woken and he would talk in code to tell her where they all were. Lee would help if need be, but most of the time it wasn't needed and instead, he would actually cook as Tenten couldn't.
Lee went to Prince Suran's tent and tapped on the side, saying "Hello? It is time to wake up now."
He heard a slight groan from inside the tent then the flap opened. Suran glared at Lee and said, "I'm sure it's an ungodly hour! Why are you-"
"Sakura! We're surrounded!" Naruto said loud enough for them to hear.
Lee winced and grabbed Suran quickly. He picked the prince up and ran to the carriage, putting him in it quickly. Gai was already in the front, making the horses go into a straight gallop.
Lee took out a kunai and slashed at a ninja that hopped down from a tree.
"Sakura-chan! Stay with Suran!" Lee said the princes name, just in case the ninja actually weren't there because of Suran. Then he said, "Naruto-kun and I will catch up later!"
"Right!" Sakura dashed off, running after Gai.
Lee dashed over to Naruto and put his back to the blond. He looked at the amount of ninka faling from the trees and nodded to himself, there weren't to many. There seemed to be a dozen, so he said, "Six for you, six for me?"
"Yea!" Naruto grinned then said a little sheepishly "Sorry I gave it away..."
"It is alright!" Lee smiled, "Let us just finish this quickly and get back to the others."
"Right!" Naruto said then shouted his shadow clone jutsu, creating multiple of himself.
Lee lunged at their enemies and fought for his life. Time passed in a flurry of motion. One by one, the rouge ninja fell and some tried to run but they were dispatched as well. Blood stained the ground and Lee looked away from his sixth kill to see Naruto having a little trouble with his last.
Lee ran to Naruto's side and paved the way for Naruto to deliver the kill. He smiled afterwards as Naruto jumped up and down in pride and excitement. Lee shook his head fondly and said, "Let us go now, my hyper friend."
"Yea-hey!" Naruto grumbled slightly but grinned at Lee.
Lee laughed and grabbed the prince's tent, folding it up quickly. Naruto grabbed his pack, the only thing left behind as he had used it as a pillow despite the things inside. Then they ran off in the direction the carraige went, following the wheel tracks.
They ran for a while before suddenly coming to a cliff where the horses were, but no carriage. Lee looked around for a hint if Gai and Sakura were on the cliff side or if they were on the ground.
"I think we will have to jump down." Lee said, gazing down the cliff side.
"I hope Sakura-chan's okay..." Naruto said, almost quietly.
"Not Gai-sensei?" Lee teased
"Nah, I know bushier brow is okay." Naruto grinned at Lee and Lee laughed, nodding.
"And I know that Sakura-chan is alright! She has been training with Tsunade-sama after all!" Lee gave Naruto a thumbs up then ran off the edge of the cliff. He heard Naruto shout 'Ya-hoo!' as he followed and had to laugh again.
Finally, Lee twisted in the air and shot his chakra down to his feet. His feet attached to the cliff side and he ran down. As soon as he feet touched the actual ground, he stopped and looked around for any marks to lead them to their friends. What he saw, was the carriage smashed around them, all the food rendered uneatable on the dirt. Lee then noticed that the bags were gone and took that as a good sign.
"BB, can you see them?" Naruto just barely got his own feet on the ground before he noticed the disaster around them as well. He frowned hard and Lee quickly set out to comfort him.
"The bags are missing. I think Gai-sensei and Sakura-chan took them before running." Lee said then looked around again. He suddenly spotted a small mark and grinned, "This way!" he said, running quickly.
They ran for what felt like a long time before they suddenly heard a large crack and the sound of a tree falling over not to far away. Lee and Naruto glanced at each other and Naruto was the one to speak first.
"Sakura's angry..." He sounded a little scared.
Lee nodded quickly, suddenly having less of an urge to find their friend and his sensei. Even he knew not to be around Sakura when she was angry...
"W-We must carry on!" Lee said, mustering up some courage.
Naruto only gave a hesitant nod.
The scene they came upon, not five minutes later, was one of Sakura holding up a small tree, looking as if she were about to throw it at Prince Suran who stood with his back turned to her. He was completely unaware of the danger.
Gai was the only thing holding her back, literally. He kept one arm around her raised arms and his other, wrapped around the tree. He was laughing uproariously, claiming that Sakura had the bright fire's of youth within her.
"Sakura!" Naruto called out and suddenly Sakura let go of the tree, letting Gai hold it.
"Naruto!" She said brightly then her bright smile quickly turned into an angry expression, "You moron! Why the hell did you have to give away our position! They didn't know that we knew!" She hit him over the head harshly.
"What would you have done if you got hurt! I wouldn't have been able to help you! Idiot!" Sakura continued to yell.
Naruto looked at her with wide eyes then grinned a big dopey grin, "Aw! Sakura! I knew you cared for me!" he tried to hug her and was punched again.
Lee noticed something though, something that made him smile happily. Sakura was blushing as she yelled, "Hardly!"
Lee couldn't help but to laugh, then someone cleared their throat in a rude way. Sakura, Naruto, and Lee turned their heads to the Prince to see him looking down his nose at them.
"My carriage is gone, surely you do not expect me to walk the rest of the way."
"Unless you want one of us to carry you on our back, I'm afraid so." Gai was the one to answer him.
The look that Suran gained was one of pure disgust.
Lee sighed and stepped forward. His need to be kind urging him to say, "I can go back and bring a horse. Me and Naruto saw them still on the cliff."
Though Suran was saying to go and be quick about it, Lee kept his eyes on Gai. When Gai sighed and nodded, Lee gave a nod in return and said, "I will meet up with you all again later." then took off.
Lee ran as fast as he could back to the cliff. He ran up the side and looked to see if the horses were still there. He saw one and sighed in relief. Lee walked over to it slowly, making comforting noises.
The horse nickered and moved backwards before slowly taking a few steps forward. She shook her head then sniffed Lee's hand then pushed her head against the warm palm.
"Alright beautiful. I am going to pick you up now, we must get gown the cliff." Lee spoke gently then did as he said.
Lee picked the horse up and slowly walked down the cliff side. The horse panicked for a few minutes but Lee's constant gently tones calmed her down. He set her down on the ground afterwards then smiled
"That was wonderful! You are very brave!" Lee praised the horse, stroking her long face and body. She nickered happily and Lee smiled.
"Alright, let us go. We must get back to the others." He said, already leading the horse back to the others.
By the time he caught up with the others, the sun was setting, and with that, dinner time.
The prince sneered at the food placed in front of him, "Common food? I am not a peasant!" He pushed the ramen away as if it were filled with mold.
Lee quickly covered Naruto's mouth along with Sakura, though the pink haired girl also looked as if she were holding back her own anger. Lee looked at Sakura and slowly pushed Naruto closer to her before quickly making his way to the prince.
"I am sorry." Lee began, trying to ignore the sneer now directed at him. Instead, he got to his knee's and slightly closed his eyes as he gave the prince a bright smile.
"This is all we have at the moment, but I promise to give you a better meal when we stop again." Lee's smile grew as he bowed low to the prince, his braided hair falling over his shoulder and touching the ground.
"F-Fine. I will hold you to that promise." Suran stuttered, turning his head away from Lee. He glanced back at the black haired boy and blushed at the actually adorable smile on Lee's face and rather appealing position he was in.
'Maybe...maybe I was to harsh with my earlier judgment. This one just might be my type after all...'
Lee sighed in quiet relief before standing and walking back to Naruto. He smiled at his friend then tilted his head at Naruto's uncertain look.
"What is wrong my friend?" Lee asked, causing Sakura to look at Naruto with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know...but..." Naruto tilted his own head as if to see something better, then continued, "I think he's staring at your butt." He said bluntly.
"W-What!? Who!" Lee whispered, blushing. He refrained from covering his backside even though he suddenly felt the urge to, but surely Naruto was only joking.
"Princy over there. Yea, he's staring right at your ass." Naruto nodded, sounding to sure for Lee's comfort, then he continued, saying, "You should stay near me. Just in case."
"Please Naruto-kun. I very much doubt that Prince Suran is actually staring at my..." Lee blushed but made himself continue, "...backside. He does not seem to like ninja's anyway." Lee nodded, beliving that he proved his point.
"Hey Sakura. Doesn't it look like Princy is staring at Lee's ass?" Naruto had enough sense to whisper as he looked at his team mate, putting his hands behind his head.
"Naruto/Naruto-kun!" Both Sakura and Lee whispered almost to loudly.
Lee blushed darkly and decided to prove Naruto wrong himself, by looking. He turned around and looked at Suran. Lee's eyes widened as he saw where Suran's eyes were. He shuddered unpleasantly as those eyes slowly raked up his body. Their eyes met and Lee panicked into turning around quickly. Looking back at Naruto, he realised that his backside was avalible for Suran's sight again. He almost blanched but smiled uneasily at Naruto and Sakura instead.
"Oh my god!" Sakura whispered, "He is! He actually is! That stinkin two faced pervert!"
Sakura felt anger for Lee and quickly decided that she wouldn't just let that snooty prince eye up her friend like that. She moved until she was blocking most of Lee's body from Suran. Sakura didn't like the look the prince had at all. She knew that type of lecherous look, granted, she never thought she'd ever see anyone give Lee that look, but it didn't matter. Lee was a friend, and she would not let that prince ogle him like that! Especially not when Lee had a fiance! She knew Lee was just to nice to say anything to the prince too.
Sakura looked at Lee and smiled back at him when she received a thankful smile.
"Yea, I don't trust princy. Stay close to us, kay." Naruto looked at Lee with squinty eyes and Sakura actually nodded, agreeing with Naruto.
Lee nodded with a sigh, knowing that Naruto was just fulfilling the promise he made to Gaara. Though, another part of Lee felt happy that Naruto and Sakura cared so much for him. The other part of him felt like he was being taken care of to often though. He really was happy that his friends cared so much for him but he felt a little useless.
Lee mentally shook his head. He wasn't useless, he just couldn't do much besides ignoring it! Suran was a prince after all and this was an escort mission. If they failed then it would count against Konoha and they would have another unneeded enemy.
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