Naruto Fanfiction

chapter 11

chapter 11

(3rd p.o.v)

Lee darted forward again, leaping into the air and throwing a kick at Gaara. The sand hit his foot, spinning him. Lee landed on his feet and spun again, again the sand blocking it. Lee continued trying, nothing getting past the sand.

The sand suddenly shot toward him but he drew a kunai and slashed it, forcing it to separate. This happened for several minutes before Lee dove aside from a wall of sand then rolled along the ground before leaping into the ground and hurling several shuriken at Gaara, the sand blocking it.

"He's shielding himself with the sand!" Naruto gasped.

"He's not doing it," the Sand ninja with the bandaged object on his back, Kankuro, snorted. "The sand protects him of its own accord. That's why he's never been hurt. No one can touch him."

"Is that all?" Gaara suddenly spoke up making everyone freeze. "I hope you're not done entertaining me yet. We haven't had enough blood."

The sand suddenly shot away from Gaara, toward Lee and he leapt into the air only for the sand to catch his foot and swing him around before hurling him into the wall. Lee rolled out of the way of some of the sand and sprinted forward, attacking Gaara again with a series of punches and kicks but nothing made it past the sand.

Suddenly, the Sand shot up at him. He began to do successive back flips. Just as he began to get away, he landed on sand and slipped. Instantly, a massive sand hand formed over him and fell. At the last second, Lee leapt out of the way, landing on top of the fingers of the stature in front of the wall with the screen in it.

"Alright Lee, take 'em off!" Guy called out holding up a thumbs up and Ryuu grinned.

"But Sensei, you said that it was only a last resort," Lee called back. When the lives of very important people were at stake!"

"That's right I did," Guy stated. "But this is an exception."

Lee instantly switched to a seated position, pulling his leg warmers down off, exposing his leg weights and standing, one in each hand.

"Leg weights?" Sakura questioned.

"Watch," Ryuu smirked as Lee let go of the weights.

Everyone in the room was either looking at Lee in confusion or mockingly. The looks all faded to shock as the weights crashed down, sending debris flying and forming a crater each.

"Alright, now go!" Guy ordered.

"Yes sir!" Lee shouted.

He knelt down and then was gone. Gaara looked around in shock before Lee appeared behind Gaara, fist smashing straight through the sand and stopping just short of Gaara before Lee vanished again. He appeared on the opposite side and his foot smashed through the sand.

Then a fist in front of him, a foot behind him, another foot to his left, and so on and so forth with Gaara looking around, unable to keep up, much like the others around the room, besides Ryuu, who had his Sharingan active. Ryuu could track him but definitely wouldn't be able to keep up now that Lee wasn't being weakened due to proximity to the Brothers' armor.

Lee's fist suddenly smashed through the sand and past Gaara's head, missing by less than an inch making Gaara freeze. Lee continued in this fashion, smashing sand and nearly hitting Gaara for several minutes before finally jumping over the sand around Gaara and smashing his feet into Gaara's head on the way down. The strike was so fast that the corner of his sandal left a shallow cut on Gaara's cheek.

"Yes Lee!" Guy shouted. "Let the power of youth explode!"

"Right!" Lee shouted sprinting forward again.

Gaara held his hand up, sending out a wave of sand at Lee but he vanished. Reappearing behind Gaara and punching a hole in the sand before almost instantly smashing more on the opposite side.

As Gaara turned toward it just in time for Lee's fist to crash into his jaw, launching him away. Gaara stood as pieces of his face began to fall away as sand. He looked up at Lee, grinning and Lee's eyes widened.

His body was covered in cracked sand, almost like armor, which several people realized, it was. Sand rose from the ground, restoring his armor which blended with his body flawlessly, leaving no indication that he had it and leaving no injuries at all.

"Well?" Gaara questioned. "Is that all?"

I cannot touch him, Lee thought. My speed will not be enough. But maybe if I can get him off the ground, away from the sand, then hit him hard from above, with the Lotus...

Lee began to unwrap the bandages around his arms and everyone watched with rapt attention. After a moment, Lee began to blur around Gaara, kicking up a ring of dust.

"What are you waiting for?" Gaara questioned.

"Okay, you asked for it," Lee stated before appearing below him and smashing his foot into the underside of his jaw.

Then, Lee leapt after him, smashing his feet into Gaara's stomach again and again as the two of them moved higher and higher into the air. Finally, he swung his arms forward, the bandages wrapping around Gaara before Lee grabbed on and flipped over, beginning to spin. They quickly turned into a blur as they fell.

"Take this!" Lee shouted. "Primary Lotus!"

The impact creates a massive crater in the ground and Lee landed a ways away, re-wrapping his bandages and breathing hard while Gaara simply lay there. cracks now spiderwebbed across his body and his eyes stared unblinkingly at the ceiling.

"It is over, I got him," Lee stated smiling tiredly.

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