Rock Of Sand

A/N: I fixed the little Hokage gender probelm...not that it was big. I never specified if i wanted it to be the Sandaime hokage in here or the godaime hokage....but now its godaime....which is a girl...i knew that... my mistake. I was thinking of Sandaime and accidentally wrote that.
I play around with Japanese words in here a lot....sorry. I get bored often.
Um...also...have fun reading i guess...nothing really left to say.

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Chapter I
The First Big Problem


The Kazekage walked through the Konoha Hokage Administrative quarters waiting for the discussion of his alliance to be agreed upon. He walked stiffly through the halls keeping eye contact with none of the leaf villages Jounin, Chunnin or passing Genin. He walked passed the conference room where he noticed the announcement for the Chunnin Selection Exam on the wall. His eyes shared a great deal of white as his pupils began to shrink as he remembered his experience during his Chunnin Exam. He shuttered at the thought and was about to walk away when he momentarily spotted Naruto walking with his head high and making a great deal of noise in the hall.

"MISSION COMPLETE DATTEBAYO!" Naruto slammed the papers down on the receptionist's desk and smiled making a sound of satisfaction. Lee stumbled in after him with his own smile of self-gratification.

"The Same Goes For Me! Naruto and I have completed our A-Rank Mission two days early!" Lee held up two fingers and showed the woman behind the counter. It was obvious to everyone that the two had been drinking sake and were overly drunk and hanging on each other...unless they...wait it was Naruto and Lee and they were equally just weird altogether.

"OI! Gaara! When did you get here?" Naruto ran over still waving while Lee lingered behind. He caught up and punched Naruto in the shoulder. Lee and everyone in the village had been present when the Hokage herself announced that Sunagakure had a new Kazekage and he was none other then Sabaku No Gaara.

"BAKA! That is no way to address him. He is a Kazekage now remember?" Lee sort of bowed while Naruto rubbed his shoulder not knowing why he couldn't just continue calling Gaara by his given name. Lee lifted his body and made sure to keep a close and strong eye contact with the redhead.

"Lee-san please, you don't have to refer to me-"

"Kazekage-sama please forgive Naruto-kun for being so stupid in your presence." Lee bowed again and Gaara was about to object when Lee finally busted out laughing as loud as possible. He fell on the floor holding his stomach even. Gaara stood there with his eyes narrowed.

"Me call you Kazekage-sama!" Lee finally stopped laughing and looked up at Gaara as Naruto jumped away to hide under a couch in the waiting room they were in. Gaara's eye twitched and he flat out punch Lee in the face.

"Gaara-sama the Hokage is ready to sit down with you." A young Jounin escorted the sand dweller beyond two big double doors. Naruto walked over to Lee's limp body and poked him. Lee made and exasperated sound and passed out.

"Baka." Naruto exclaimed and walked away.

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Gaara sat up in his bed that he'd been laying in, not sleeping. He'd been dreaming but a loud sound from downstairs was all too real. He pulled the covers back and hurried down the stairs of his home, looking at his gourd and remembering the pain that fell on it. He instead grabbed a kunai on the way down, hoping he wouldn't need to fight. He walked to the kitchen shaking, thinking a Ninja was there to assassinate him, but why were they being so noisy? He flipped on the light and found Lee trying desperately trying to pick up a broken dish.

"O...OI! Gaara." He said freezing when he knew he was caught. Gaara crossed him arms.

"Explain." Gaara stood with a blank stare on his face. Wondering how Lee had made it to Sunagakure in such a short time. He was all too glad to see Lee but he'd hoped the Jounin hadn't done anything to injure his body just to see him.

"Gaara there is no need to be cross. I mean it is only a plate." Lee walked over to him and placed his hands on the Suna ruler’s shoulders. He hoped that Gaara wouldn't be too upset and would overlook this situation as Lee coming to see him and be with him for a few weeks.

"Lee-"

"Gaara please just let me explain myself before you-"

"Lee!" Gaara forced, throwing his arms around the Jounin's neck and embracing him. "I'm not cross with Lee, I wanted to know what you were doing here. You're weeks earlier than I expected you." Gaara could finally feel Lee wrapped his arms around his waist and they shared an intense hug not saying anything to each other for quite a few minutes. Gaara smiled and bathed in the Jounin scent of fresh green trees and springs. He didn't have that luxury in Suna and so Lee would calm him with just and embrace.

"As I expected, I finished my mission ahead of time and I only thought of coming to see you." Lee said pulling away to look down at his secret love. Gaara smiled and wanted to lean up and kiss him until all the lights in the house flashed and Temari and Kankurou came running in, late.

"Gaara!"

He could hear them coming and he increased the space between him and his Jounin lover. The two siblings busted in the door, weapons in hand and alert but settled when they saw the Leaf Shinobi in their kitchen.

"Lee what are you doing here?!?" Temari seemed utterly confused as to why Lee was all the way in Suna in the middle of the night. She saw a blush cross Lee's face and he scratched his head.

"Well, I...uh." He had nothing to say.

"I asked him to stay with me for awhile." Gaara said bluntly not seeing the point in hiding their relationship anymore. Lee glared at him half embarrassed. He wanted to keep what they had private and Gaara always agreed because he didn't want to upset Lee but now was the time to reveal all things to his family.

"Hmm, are you two-" Kankurou couldn't finish his sentence. He turned his head to look behind him as if to see if anybody had been listening though he knew no one else resided in the house.

"Yes." Gaara said and at the same time Lee had said, "No."

"They are my family and were bound to find out sooner or later." Gaara pushed trying hard to persuade Lee to just admit their love instead of further digging himself in a hole. There was no point in hiding it and there was no better excuse for why he had arrived at midnight all the way from Konoha which was a three-day journey for a normal person-which Lee wasn't.

Lee pulled a chair from the table and sat down, too ashamed to even deny the truth of the matter. Temari and Kankurou just stared. Lee was waiting for some kind of yelling or objection but none came his way.

"I knew it!" Temari pointed at Lee and glared at him. He gulped and looked terrified. She was already a devil to him and every other person who crossed her path. Now that she knew he was seeing her brother, Lee prayed for his life.

“Tch…” Kankurou rolled his eyes. “I’m going back to bed where I can pretend this shit never happened.” He stalked off, leaving the kitchen. Temari just smirked and crossed her arms. Gaara imitated her and Lee put his head in his hands. Who would have guessed that six years after the horrible experience that Lee and Gaara had in the Chuunin exams that they would be together?

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Lee sat up in his bed and thought about the night that happen five years ago when he and Gaara had finally told Temari and Kankurou. Well they’d actually guessed but whatever. Why was he dreaming about an event from such a long time ago? Why had he been remembering about revealing his love to Gaara for the last week? He rubbed one of his eyes and yawned looking down at the bed's other occupant. No longer a medium for Shukaku, Gaara slept peaceful near him. Well virtually peaceful aside from the haunting night terrors he would have weekly like clockwork, it never failed.

Back and forth between Konoha and Suna Lee wasn't with Gaara enough for him to reveal what kept him awake the nights Lee wasn't there. Lee threw his legs off the side off the bed and stood up stretching in the dead night.

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‘YOSH! TIME TO TRAIN!’ Lee thought and a smiled crossed his face. He took a step and heard Gaara stir. ‘If he wakes he will not let me go anywhere. I must move fast to get away.’ He took another step then another and was at the door in a second until he heard Gaara fully sit up and clear his throat.

"Ohayo Gozaimasu!" Lee smiled into the dark room knowing it wasn't even daylight and he probably wouldn't be going anywhere now.

"It's three in the morning Lee. You've been here for three days and you're leaving the day after tomorrow for a mission that might be a month long. Won't you stay in bed with me at least until dawn." Gaara usually didn't like to beg but he was beginning to feel like Lee was drifting away from him, like maybe he didn't want him anymore. The space between Lee's visits had grown tremendously and Gaara didn't know why.

Lee slowly walked back to the bed removing his clothes and laying down. He didn't bother looking at Gaara and he could feel as the Kazekage's eyes stared at his back. Gaara's need to sleep simply left and he stood himself, leaving the room. Lee didn't follow and he didn't see Gaara until later that evening.

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Gaara hung his coat on the rack as he entered the house and saw Lee sitting on the stairs blocking his path to his room. Standing in front of the Jounin Gaara narrowed his eyes and glared, daring the man to say a word to him.

"Move." Gaara finally said, angrily.

"Can I apologize first?" Lee looked sincerely apologetic and wanted to make up for his frustrations earlier.

"No." Gaara examined the stair railing and stepped to the side and over Lee not caring to hear anything from him. Lee got up and followed close behind and as Gaara entered his room he quickly slammed the door in Lee's face.

Gaara sat on his bed and fell back. He was having a million problems with being the Kazekage, he didn't need his lover acting strange right now. Then he realized something. All Lee had been doing was making up excuses so he wouldn't have to spend time with Gaara. ‘He doesn't love me anymore.’ Gaara felt a sudden rush of tears but forced them back.

‘I'm losing everything. My powers, my love, my sanity.’ Gaara sat up and rubbed his forehead where he'd once made a promise to himself.

Lee then knocked on the door and Gaara flashed his hating eyes towards it. "I can leave back to Konoha now if that is what you want."

The words stung in Gaara's ears as he slowly watched his darkness start to take over. No longer able to wield sand nor have any type of defense or use Taijutsu in any way he counted on Lee to protect him. He picked up and kunai and threw it at the door. It stuck out the other side just inches from Lee's face.

"Leave then." Gaara growled.

"But I-"

"I said leave." Gaara was quiet but still heard. Lee stepped back in shock. He didn't expect Gaara to act that way. His voice was even a bit darker than Lee liked to hear from him. Lee gathered the things he had outside of 'their' room and left with his head down. He didn't even run back to Konoha. A long three day walk would give him time to think over their potential 'breakup' or at least contemplate writing Gaara when he returned home from his mission.


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(End Chapter)

I hope you all liked the story...i re-did it because it sucked first, though it must still a little...give me some time to heat it up okay....please review...thanks- Nik.

i did take a trait from Lee in the English Anime by having him speak without any contrations. LOL....i think he's cute that way ^_^
I cleaned this chapter up as much as possible but i read fast and see what i wanna see so i'm absolutely sure there are mistakkes....you'll live...LOL LaterZ