Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Price of a Dream ❯ Unsinkable Ships Sink ( Chapter 1 )
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By: Nine Tailed Vixen 
What price is too high to help someone accomplish their dreams? Is it worth a life?
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.2K | Visits: 730 | Status: Completed
What price is too high to help someone accomplish their dreams? Is it worth a life?
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.2K | Visits: 730 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto, I just borrow the characters.
A/N: This story could easily be turned into a one-shot but I’m going to make it a chapter story for now. The main couple will be Sakura and Rock Lee. I don’t think that there is enough of those out there…
I really hope you like it, even if it is a bit out of character.
I got inspired to write this from a country song that I heard at my grandmother’s…I think that it’s called "The Impossible" I don’t know who it’s by…
Enjoy!
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The Blood Salve
Chapter 1- Unsinkable Ships Sink
By Nine Tailed Vixen
Sakura was in shock. What had just happened? Lee…he was so still. What did that bastard do to him? Sakura felt tears spring to her eyes as Kakashi told her the truth…Lee would never fight again. His hopes, his dreams, they were all shattered in the blink of an eye. He didn’t deserve this, this pain.
Naruto, she had never seen him so shaken. Even before Kakashi told her, Naruto’s eyes told all. He was trembling with anger. Gai, as strange as that man was, she never wanted to see him cry like this. It was just so wrong.
Sakura was on her way to Ino’s flower shop. Lee needed to know that Sakura was there for him. A bell over the door sang Sakura’s entrance into the fragrant flower shop. Ino looked up from behind the counter.
"Hello, Sakura," she said, she wasn’t angry with Sakura anymore, although their friendship was far from the way it used to be.
"Hello, Ino…" Sakura’s emerald eyes scanned the store before coming to rest on a white lily. "I want one of them," She said pointing to it. Ino nodded and wrapped it in paper before turning her head to the money Sakura offered her.
"No, Sakura, the flower is for your Lee friend, right? This one is on the house." Ino smiles a soft smile and Sakura nodded her thanks, before leaving for hospital.
When she reached the white and sterile building she approached the front desk. An old portly nurse was there to greet her.
"Hello, dear. How may I help you?" The nurse smiled at this young woman, still fresh from childhood.
"Yes…um…I’d like to see Rock Lee, please. Where is his room?" Sakura told her.
"Ah, yes, Gai’s student. Now all you have to do is go straight down this hall and turn left at the first hallway, then go straight to the end. His room is on the right." The portly woman smiled.
Sakura thanked the woman before she made her way to Lee’s room. Sakura trembled slightly as her footsteps echo in her ears. The clean, hospital smell almost too much for her to bear.
Finally, she saw him, deep in thought and looking out the window. The sun’s rays did nothing to hide the misery on his face and in his eyes. Sakura almost crushed the flower in her hand. He knew. He knew that all of his hard work was for nothing and that his way of the ninja would never be realized. It killed something inside of her to see him like this.
"Lee…are you alright?" Sakura asked as the boy in the bed jumped slightly then winced.
"Sakura, you…came to visit me?" Lee looked surprised to see her. He grinned when she nodded.
"I-I brought you this flower." Sakura said as she handed it to him. He took it with his good hand, smelled it, and then placed it over his heart.
"Thank you…but seeing you here is even better then receiving your flower." Lee said with a sad smile. She had those eyes. The same eyes that everyone that had visited him had. The eyes that said that they were looking at a bird that could not fly, at a fish that could not swim, at a horse that could not run anymore.
"Lee, I wanted to know that I’m here for you if you ever need to talk or…" Lee cut her off.
"No Sakura. I appreciate your concern. I’m glad that you came to see me as I recover fully." Lee said, "I will soon get out of here so that I may continue to perfect my Tai-jutsu. Just watch!"
Sakura could not stop the tears that escaped down her cheeks, " Lee, don’t… just don’t. You know as well as I do that…" Sakura gently wrapped her arms around him as she sobbed onto his shoulder. "…that you can’t fight anymore…accept that now, and save yourself the pain…"
"No!" Lee’s voice was sharp but the arm around Sakura’s waist was gently holding her to him. "Sakura, you’ve heard of Beethoven, haven’t you?"
Sakura nodded into his neck, ignoring the true intimacy of the moment.
Lee smiled as he smelled the floral scent of her shampoo and continued, "…he wrote some of the most beautiful music in history, and he was deaf. And…and I’ve also read that somewhere there was a huge ship called the Titanic. It was as big as a city! It was called unsinkable and it sank on the first night of its maiden voyage! And there was this huge wall that divided a country, it was called unbreakable, and when people had enough they tore it down! "
Sakura looked at him, "What are you trying to say?"
Lee sighed, "More impossible things have happened, and they happen everyday. I’m going to fight again, just you wait and see!"
Sakura smiled, then she chuckled, and then she laughed. Lee was scared, was she laughing at him? "Oh, Lee, you’re right! I’m so sorry!" Sakura hugged him close and then pulled away, "I was foolish to give up so easily! You will fight again, and I’ll help you if it’s the last thing I do!" Sakura said as she went to the door. "I’ll be back!"
She didn’t see Lee’s smile fall, she didn’t see him turn toward the window, and she most certainly didn’t see the tear run down his cheek.
On her way out she bumped into a girl in the street, spreading the girl’s belongings all over the ground. "Oh…I’m so sorry! I didn’t see you! I mean of course I saw you but I just wasn’t paying attention…"
"Do you want to help your friend?" The girl, no older then sixteen, said.
"W-what?" Sakura looked shocked, how did…
"I can help you help him heal fully…for a price." The girl said, her blue-brown eyes looking into Sakura’s emerald one’s.
Sakura took one look into those eyes and said, "I’m listening."
To be continued…
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A/N: This story could easily be turned into a one-shot but I’m going to make it a chapter story for now. The main couple will be Sakura and Rock Lee. I don’t think that there is enough of those out there…
I really hope you like it, even if it is a bit out of character.
I got inspired to write this from a country song that I heard at my grandmother’s…I think that it’s called "The Impossible" I don’t know who it’s by…
Enjoy!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The Blood Salve
Chapter 1- Unsinkable Ships Sink
By Nine Tailed Vixen
Sakura was in shock. What had just happened? Lee…he was so still. What did that bastard do to him? Sakura felt tears spring to her eyes as Kakashi told her the truth…Lee would never fight again. His hopes, his dreams, they were all shattered in the blink of an eye. He didn’t deserve this, this pain.
Naruto, she had never seen him so shaken. Even before Kakashi told her, Naruto’s eyes told all. He was trembling with anger. Gai, as strange as that man was, she never wanted to see him cry like this. It was just so wrong.
Sakura was on her way to Ino’s flower shop. Lee needed to know that Sakura was there for him. A bell over the door sang Sakura’s entrance into the fragrant flower shop. Ino looked up from behind the counter.
"Hello, Sakura," she said, she wasn’t angry with Sakura anymore, although their friendship was far from the way it used to be.
"Hello, Ino…" Sakura’s emerald eyes scanned the store before coming to rest on a white lily. "I want one of them," She said pointing to it. Ino nodded and wrapped it in paper before turning her head to the money Sakura offered her.
"No, Sakura, the flower is for your Lee friend, right? This one is on the house." Ino smiles a soft smile and Sakura nodded her thanks, before leaving for hospital.
When she reached the white and sterile building she approached the front desk. An old portly nurse was there to greet her.
"Hello, dear. How may I help you?" The nurse smiled at this young woman, still fresh from childhood.
"Yes…um…I’d like to see Rock Lee, please. Where is his room?" Sakura told her.
"Ah, yes, Gai’s student. Now all you have to do is go straight down this hall and turn left at the first hallway, then go straight to the end. His room is on the right." The portly woman smiled.
Sakura thanked the woman before she made her way to Lee’s room. Sakura trembled slightly as her footsteps echo in her ears. The clean, hospital smell almost too much for her to bear.
Finally, she saw him, deep in thought and looking out the window. The sun’s rays did nothing to hide the misery on his face and in his eyes. Sakura almost crushed the flower in her hand. He knew. He knew that all of his hard work was for nothing and that his way of the ninja would never be realized. It killed something inside of her to see him like this.
"Lee…are you alright?" Sakura asked as the boy in the bed jumped slightly then winced.
"Sakura, you…came to visit me?" Lee looked surprised to see her. He grinned when she nodded.
"I-I brought you this flower." Sakura said as she handed it to him. He took it with his good hand, smelled it, and then placed it over his heart.
"Thank you…but seeing you here is even better then receiving your flower." Lee said with a sad smile. She had those eyes. The same eyes that everyone that had visited him had. The eyes that said that they were looking at a bird that could not fly, at a fish that could not swim, at a horse that could not run anymore.
"Lee, I wanted to know that I’m here for you if you ever need to talk or…" Lee cut her off.
"No Sakura. I appreciate your concern. I’m glad that you came to see me as I recover fully." Lee said, "I will soon get out of here so that I may continue to perfect my Tai-jutsu. Just watch!"
Sakura could not stop the tears that escaped down her cheeks, " Lee, don’t… just don’t. You know as well as I do that…" Sakura gently wrapped her arms around him as she sobbed onto his shoulder. "…that you can’t fight anymore…accept that now, and save yourself the pain…"
"No!" Lee’s voice was sharp but the arm around Sakura’s waist was gently holding her to him. "Sakura, you’ve heard of Beethoven, haven’t you?"
Sakura nodded into his neck, ignoring the true intimacy of the moment.
Lee smiled as he smelled the floral scent of her shampoo and continued, "…he wrote some of the most beautiful music in history, and he was deaf. And…and I’ve also read that somewhere there was a huge ship called the Titanic. It was as big as a city! It was called unsinkable and it sank on the first night of its maiden voyage! And there was this huge wall that divided a country, it was called unbreakable, and when people had enough they tore it down! "
Sakura looked at him, "What are you trying to say?"
Lee sighed, "More impossible things have happened, and they happen everyday. I’m going to fight again, just you wait and see!"
Sakura smiled, then she chuckled, and then she laughed. Lee was scared, was she laughing at him? "Oh, Lee, you’re right! I’m so sorry!" Sakura hugged him close and then pulled away, "I was foolish to give up so easily! You will fight again, and I’ll help you if it’s the last thing I do!" Sakura said as she went to the door. "I’ll be back!"
She didn’t see Lee’s smile fall, she didn’t see him turn toward the window, and she most certainly didn’t see the tear run down his cheek.
On her way out she bumped into a girl in the street, spreading the girl’s belongings all over the ground. "Oh…I’m so sorry! I didn’t see you! I mean of course I saw you but I just wasn’t paying attention…"
"Do you want to help your friend?" The girl, no older then sixteen, said.
"W-what?" Sakura looked shocked, how did…
"I can help you help him heal fully…for a price." The girl said, her blue-brown eyes looking into Sakura’s emerald one’s.
Sakura took one look into those eyes and said, "I’m listening."
To be continued…
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