Downfall (A Rock Lee fanfic)

Family Bonding

Chapter 10: Family Bonding

(A/N: Hey guys, Child here. I'm sick as a dog so i just wrote a lot today. This chapter is mostly filler, but I hope you enjoy all the same. Thank you and bye bye.)

(Narrator POV)

Rock Lee groaned loudly, trudging through the forest after his new partner. "Sasuke-kun, this is such a slow pace!" The bushy eyebrowed boy whined, rolling his head back to pout at the sky. Sasuke growled irritably. "I told you, I'm not getting on your back!!"

Lee groaned again, now bending his spine to sag backwards, yet still keeping his balance to walk. Traveling with Sasuke was boring! Lee had been trying to make small talk all morning, but Sasuke either ignored him or answered with his trade mark 'Hn'. It was driving Lee crazy. And when he deemed the current pace too slow and offered a piggyback ride, Sasuke had reacted the same way Neji had way back after they had saved Gaara. Except Sasuke had hit him over the head after declining angerily and stormed off, spouting about manly pride.

Lee stood straight and rubbed his aching head at the memory of just minutes earlier.

"Where are we going anyways?" Lee attempted again, he was trying his hardest to get anything out of the raven haired Uchiha. Sasuke groaned again, annoyed out of his mind. "We're headed to the border near the Sound and I swear to Kami if I have to tell you one more time I will abandon you!!" Sasuke threatened irritably.

Rock Lee pouted and looked away, folding his arms against his chest. "Jeez, sorry... I keep forgetting..." It remained quiet after that, and Sasuke was almost about to decide that Lee had finally shut up when the youthful spirit opened his mouth again.

"So Sasuke, who were those people you were traveling with?"

Sasuke grabbed his face and tried to count to ten. "Why couldn't you have inherited the Uchiha's love for silence!!??!" Did this boy ever shut up?!

"Sasuke-kun, I am just trying to make this journey less boring and--." "Well you're just making it unbareble!!!" "attempt to form a bond with my cousin..."

Sasuke stopped as he heared that last part and turned to look at his clanmate. Lee was rubbing his arm and watching the ground with a sad 'tossed aside' look. Sasuke Uchiha usually wasn't one to consider anyone's feelings, like ever, but in that moment he thought about how Lee must feel. Having just found out he was adopted, that his real parents had left him for dead, and that he was part of an endangered clan with only two others, and both were not the nicest people. Sasuke immediatly regretted telling the boy he'd abandon him, considering that's exactly what his parents did.

Sasuke stopped and let out a defeated sigh. Lee halted a few paces ahead and looked back curiously. "Sasuke-kun?"

"If... If I answer your questions... will you shut up?" The raven asked, looking up at the canopy, and anywhere but at Lee. That was about as kind as Sasuke Uchiha got.

Rock Lee's smile beamed joyfully and he nodded, rustling his jet black hair. "Yes I will, I promise!!"

Sasuke nodded and resumed walking. "Alright. Shoot."

"Who were those people you were traveling with?" Lee repeated, practically skipping alongside his somber cousin.

"The white haired one with a sword obsession is Suigetsu, the useless and annoying red head is Karin, and the big orange haired one is Jugo. I saved them all from Orochimaru and we became a team."

Lee paused to think for a moment. "But Sasuke-kun, if you chose them then why would you call Karin-san useless? She had to serve some use to you to bring her along, right?"