Well, here's another SakuLee fic I'm writing! Oh, and Gaara's in it too, and he helps Lee try to impress Sakura. Yeah… Gaara is definitely OOC. Sorry. You see, I'm kinda basing this story off of something my friend and I were doing. We were outside, and she was pretending to be Gaara and I was pretending to be Lee. We both LOVE the SakuraxLee pairing, and she was helping me do things to win Sakura's heart, and we were doing a whole bunch of crazy stuff… but yeah. It isn't EXACTLY like what we were doing, since I'm just basing this story off of that… so yeah. You shouldn't really expect that much out of me since I'm just a kid… (I'm 13 years old). So please don't flame! Only Sasuke likes flames!

Sasuke: Fire-ball Jutsu!! burns himself and is running around the room screaming

Enough said.

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Sakura. Just hearing her name makes me go weak in the knees and flushed in the face. I love her… she's my friend, but she hardly thinks of me more than that… Oh, what can I do to make my angel notice me…? What can I

"Lee…" A cold voice said, snapping him out of his daydream. Lee turned around and noticed Gaara, his best friend, had an annoyed look on his face. Yes, I know, back up, right? Gaara and Lee… friends?? Well, it's true, and Gaara's still as cold as ever, but they decided to put aside their differences and well… be friends!

"Yeah?" Lee replied.

"What are you doing?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you're blushing like crazy and your scribbling random writing all over that piece of paper." Lee looked his chicken scratches. He had been writing about Sakura… again.

"Oh! I'm, uh…" He sighed and put away the piece of paper in his pocket. "Gaara," He said, while picking a small flower from the ground, "Have you ever… been in love…?"

"What are you saying…?" Lee started picking petals from the flower.

"Well, it's just that… I am. Very much so." Gaara stared at him. Love… he never knew what it was. And apparently, Lee never knew that.

"Oh… no, I don't even know what love is."

"Oh. It's a shame… love is such a wonderful feeling… but of course, it's also very painful. Especially if the person you love doesn't love you back."

"Who is the one you… love?"

"Her name is Sakura… she's so lovely." Gaara snorted.

"That girl? I've met her… I didn't know anyone could be so ugly." Lee turned to face him with a glare.

"Hey!! Please don't say such things!! Sakura is one of, no, the most beautiful girl in the world!! There isn't a thing I wouldn't do for her!!"

"Well then, tell her that." Lee chuckled.

"I already tried. She turned me down. I asked her out the very first day I met her. I couldn't help myself…"

"Well that's stupid. You hardly knew one thing about that girl."

"Of course I knew something about her! I knew she was beautiful!" Gaara shook his head. Arguing with Lee always proved to be futile, it seemed…

"Ok then… how about you try to impress her?"

"I tried that, too. I tried to impress her when we were fighting during the Chunin exams, and it probably would've worked if I didn't LOSE!!" He said, turning to face Gaara, reminding him that he was the one that had broken his arm and leg. Gaara rolled his eyes.

"Well, you hang out with her, right?" Lee nodded. "Ok, then just think of something that impresses her, and do it!!" Lee thought about this.

"Hmm…" He said, rubbing his chin. Then he snapped his fingers. "Sakura told me that she likes basketball!!" Gaara scrunched his face in a quizzical look.

"Basketball?? But we're ninja, we don't play basketball!!"

"Well, Sakura likes it, so I'm going to try it!!!" Lee said, grabbing a random basketball that came from no where.

"This should be interesting…" Gaara said to himself.

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"Ok, Lee… why did you want me to- OH MY…" Sakura stopped midsentence to see Lee, wearing tennis shoes, a basketball jersey complete with shorts, and spinning a basketball on his finger.

"You came!" He exclaimed. "Ready to see my mad basketball skills, Sakura?" He asked smoothly (or at least he tried to sound smooth), and flashing a shiny, toothy smile. Gaara rolled his eyes and slapped his forehead. Sakura sweat dropped.

"Umm…" She said, unsure of what she wanted to say.

"Great!" Lee ran around the basketball court area and tried to make a ridiculously far shot. Of course, he missed. It didn't even hit the rim. Lee laughed nervously. "Um, that was practice!!" Lee tried until what it seemed like the MILLIONTH time, he finally made it.

"YES YES!!! I MADE IT!! Did you see that, Sakura??" Lee looked around. The only person there was Gaara, and he would be sleeping right now if was actually allowed to. "Hey, Gaara, where's Sakura?? Did she see my MAD skills??" Lee said, shooting the ball.

"No. She left about the tenth time you missed. Which was a LONG time ago!!" Lee's eyes widened in shock.

"Huh??" Apparently, Lee had thrown the basketball a little too hard, and it bounced off the backboard and hit him in the face, knocking him down.

"Sometimes… I wonder why I have such an idiot for a friend…" Gaara said to himself.

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And that's the end of chapter one!

MK-chan