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Living Stone	By : Resting-Madness Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Rock Lee/Gaara Views: 2359 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Kerai's eyes crept open after some time had passed since the fight in the hallway, and through a blur he was startled to see a red haired panda hovering over him, but when his vision cleared he saw it was the Kazekage, looking down at something he's holding, and not a deformed breed of animal. He tried to move, to lash out at the young man and pick up where their violent encounter had left off, but his arms are pinned to his sides. Now that he noticed it, his entire body was pinned down! Teeth bared Kerai struggled to get free of the strong leather bindings attached to the flatbed in his lab.
"Has anyone ever successfully escaped once strapped to the table, Mr. Elective?" asked Gaara circling around the bed with a tube in his hand. "If not, I suggest you cease your movements so I can find a vein."
Kerai tried to speak but his words didn't make it out of his mouth, they were held captive just as Kerai they're bound inside of his mouth beyond the guard of duct tape. The man's agitated breathing huffed and puffed the tape outward but the sticky barrier didn't budge.
"It'll be messy if you don't settle down," Gaara mentioned seeing that the bound and gagged preferred to struggle. "It makes no difference to me, if I miss, of course... I'll just keep stabbing until I've found where I need it."
Kerai looked around the room as far as his vision could; he cried out when something pinched his arm, and casting his vision down he sees a tube sticking out of his arm.
"You look worried," Gaara was saying as he crossed the room to the lever that would activate the machine, "I thought this was safe? Is there a difference between compressed and liquid form? Guess we'll find out..." Smiling over the man's protests, he threw the lever down and the machine groaned to life, but before the liquid could finish its trail through the tube it was turned off. "Sorry, I didn't hear you? Did you say something?" the Kazekage approaching the elective.
Kerai groaned and whimpered through the tape; Gaara reached over and tore it off. The man took an unrestricted moment to breathe in and out, in and out. "You're the kazekage, right? You need power, I can help you get that power?" Pleaded the sick man; it would seem he was still singing the same tune as he'd preached up on stage outside to the villagers. "D-.. don't you want it that way? To be on top, and no longer needing to alliance yourself with others just to create peace."
"Peace can only be created through compromise and change, there is no peace in fear." Restoring the tape over the man's chomping, pleading mouth, Gaara walked back over to the machine's power source then turned it on.
Kerai, with tears in his eyes, tensed as the liquid ran through the tube and into his body. Had it simply been a stone, had it been just a small shot he wouldn't have worried. But he's never tested the stones in their purest form and this teenaged village leader had plans to pump the entire tank of solvent into his body. He shook and gagged as the contents filled him from the tip of his toes to the top of his head. It leaked from his mouth, his ears, nose, and eyes. He couldn't tell if he'd used the bathroom on himself from both ends or if the chakra liquid were leaking from his body even there.
Gaara watched with interest and a thoughtful expression over how much he'd changed. His younger years would have enjoyed this man's suffering. Would have furthered it, lavished in torturing this man for hurting, Lee, who'd braved himself up to give him love and receive his odd offering of it back. But Gaara at present only appreciated the vengeance of giving the man a pain he'd dealt with others. However short the list was of people truly hurt by people who'd only benefited from the stones, this was for them. All those refugees Kerai had used when working on his experiment, his means of testing an idea in order to see how well the gimmick would work on himself- Gaara knew that was the man's 'end game'. Scientists and chemists need test subjects and they almost always need test subjects.
His cool green gaze left the elective's writhing body when the open doors filled with movement. He was glad to see his guards standing there. They first saw Kerai then they turned their heads and saw Gaara at the other end of the room.
"Kazekage..." They said in unison as they approached their leader.
"I'm glad you're here," a hill of sand moved from the corner of the room. "I need you to take this man home for me, follow my sand clone to the address. When you get there, help Lee and the young boy living there leave with the others."
"Shall one of us stay, sir?" asked a guard dutifully.
Gaara looked at his guard then to Kerai's shaking form. "I've got this handled. Go. And be careful with him."
"Yes, sir!"
The four men vanished with Tetsu Kino. The young man was found floating near-lifelessly inside the large bulbous container of diluted red fluid. Nothing but the skin on bones, Gaara expected to have to tell the young boy the bad news, at best produce a body to bury. But the corpse unexpectedly grabbed a hold of Gaara's coat when he'd fished him out of the tub. His breaths were faint and wispy. It was, fortunately, unfortunate that Tetsu had to be kept alive in order for the formula to work because the man clearly wanted death.
Gaara had no medical supplies on him that could help the older man at that stage of degradation, but he could give him a protein juice that Lee had packed alongside his weapons. It wasn't food but it was, at least, something he could get down and keep down- hopefully.
Kerai's body was only wriggling because of the liquid moving him, not because he was still alive and feeling pain. Gaara was draining the entire tank into him. That had been the plan, the man's death didn't matter in the situation. He wanted the solvent gone, he wanted the factory that made it gone. Nothing needed to remain in this horrible place.
A barrier of sand arched over Gaara's head enclosing half way around his body, the Kazekage opened his arms and concentrated. The building began shaking with light tremors that almost wouldn't have been felt at all had it not reached the floor you were standing on. Each cement block turned to dust, granulates of sand that expanded and destroyed as it rose and rose.
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Lee was brought back into the house just as Neji came through the door. Tenten set her drained teammate down on the sofa then addressed the other. "We need to leave."
"Mm," intoned the Hyuuga in agreement, "can we get out through the back?" It was wondered because there was a chance the town's people were on their way to the house.
"There's an alley and the ravine," she pointed to where she'd just come from. "I think it's polluted."
Neji hadn't had diving in mind, but that was good to know should he have taken an unexpected plunge. "We can scale the wall, it might not be electrocuted."
The three people inside the home who are alert got startled by the door bursting open; Neji and Tenten's position for battle eased when they saw it was Gaara's men.
"Tetsu!" Miyamoto broke into tears running to his brother's side. He cried outright when seeing the wrinkled pale form, held limply in one of the guards arms. "Is he...?" The boy didn't have the stomach to finish those words. Not directed at his brother.
"He's alive, but we need to get him help in order for it to stay that way." One of the nameless guards replied.
Another looked at the Konoha allies. "We've been instructed to assist in your departure."
One of the four were already holding Lee in his arms. They followed Neji and Tenten through the back door of the small home after one of the other guards grabbed Sawada to bring with them. There was no sense in him staying behind since everyone else was leaving.
The village was in an uproar but not because they were looking for the upstarts who've invaded their sanctuary, they were upset over the factory crumpling down to rubble. The building has been there for some time, and the structure was considered sturdy. Why now would it choose to fall apart?
Everyone, man, woman, child who were indoors or outdoors all stood by watching the spectacle with disbelief; and panicked cries scattered from their mouths when something sprang out from the ruins. It was the Kazekage! He was standing on a geyser of sand high above their heads, but he wasn't alone. Something else had come from the destroyed building, something long and gray. It looked like a centipede or millipede, but whatever it was it was running on the sand after the young man at top speed and when it reached the peak of the gushing sand it bashed into the Kazekage knocking him from his perch.
Gaara's fall wasn't a long trip as a clump of sand caught him before he was anywhere near the ground. It remained to hover above the onlookers while Gaara's confused expression addressed what just hit him. 'Kerai?' He wondered as he watched the bug wriggle and snake through the air before it came his way.
Large, but paper thin sand shuriken flew from Gaara's hand aimed at the mutated elective; his thick skin felt the sting but it remained on the attack and swung its tail at the insect-sized village leader. The hovering sand moved and dodged but the wild flails were too erratic for him to get out of the way every time and the Sand-nin was knocked from his perch in the sky only to be caught again from another clump of automatic sand.
Gaara sneered at Kerai's ugly face as it swayed in the distance, protected by its tail. He was going to have to do this carefully. He can't tell if the man has mutated into a summon or if he's simply mutated into a new breed of monster. Did it matter either or? Not exactly. But this new Kerai might have some interesting tricks up his sleeves from all the solvent in his system.
"Kazekage-sama..." One of Gaara's guards watched from the distance of Sawada's house. "We should help him-"
Cutting the man off Neji said. "No. You get Lee and the others out of here, Tenten and I will help Gaara."
The two had a moments staredown, but the guard relented and continued to exit over the wall with Tetsu and his brother.
"Neji, does that thing have any weak points?" Tenten asked removing a scroll from her weapons pouch. She followed behind Neji in his approach towards the large insect.
"The tenth column on his body looks to be more erratic than the rest of the chakra paneling," he leaped over a cement fence then picked up speed. "It must be where his body hasn't finished changing."
"The Tenth panel," Tenten noted, then began counting as the large bug grew closer to her. "Okay."
Jumping into the air, she unwrapped a scroll. Spinning in circles the long spools of paper and fabric spun around her body like a rhythmic dance. But unlike normal dancing where beauty emerges this dance produced blunt objects and sharp weaponry in a hail over the summon.
Kerai cried out when sharp kunai and senbon slammed into his new body, along with the blunt weapons pushing the sharper ones in whenever one came into contact with it. He looked to where the attack had come from then swung his tail over that way to push them back.
Gaara watched his back-up as they gave it their best to damage Kerai. He noticed their aim wasn't exactly aimless. Looking to where the two were throwing their attacks, he then created a morning star with his sand growing it bigger and bigger from the sand created by the crumpled building. And while Neji worked on closing the chakra channels, Gaara spun the mace around and around by a chain made of sand. It gained length with each whirl around his head until it was long enough to slam into Kerai's face knocking him out of focus and pinning his head to the ground with the mace weighing on him.
Tenten worked to clear the ogling villagers out of the way; she'd heard someone crying out when her spray of weapons landed with some having gone past their mark. It was a young woman who looked like she was aiming at Gaara, planning to help the man she recognized within the monster.
"None of you can be here!" she shouted as she ushered them away.
"He gave us hope! You don't understand what Kerai means to us!" She fought Tenten when the young woman put her hands on her.
"He's sick! He hurt my friend,"
"That's his problem!" The red haired woman inhaled a breath then shot a fireball at the Leaf-nin.
"Aah!" Tenten smacked at her burning clothing as she scrambled back. But she wasn't gonna back off if this woman wanted a fight she'd get one.
Kerai still thrashed about hoping to do as much damage as he could while trying to free himself. Trees came up through the ground like a porcupine raising its quills and the thick lumber removed the heavy mace from Kerai's head.
"Gaara, aim for the tenth bulge! That's where he's most vulnerable!" Neji shouted up to the Kazekage. "I'll take the front!"
"No! I need you out of the way!" Gaara called down to his ally.
Neji looked for a place that was quickly out of the way, with Kerai being so large it was hard to find a place to take cover from whatever it was Gaara had planned to do. Seeing movement ahead of him, he sees Tenten going after a red haired woman hopped up on fire power.
Kerai let out a roar and in a strategic maneuver he used his hundreds of legs as spikes and he spun himself like a tornado around and around aiming for Gaara. The Sand-nin had a plan of his own. All the sand he'd been using against the man had burrowed into the wounds Tenten and Neji made, and with his focus honed he used his sand in the same way as Kerai. The tornado coated the man in an imprisonment of sand, and it took great concentration to lift the massive bug but Gaara got him up in the air.
"Sabaku Kyu!" Squeezing his hands shut he crushed the millipede within the enclosure then he began to shrink it.
His means of floating lowered him to the ground; it took a lot of chakra to work with that much sand and he didn't need to expend anymore on hovering. Neji, who hadn't gotten out of the way, walked over to Gaara when he landed.
"Can you break the shell?"
"Just a little more..." Replied the Kazekage. He continued shrinking the ball of sand using Kerai's steal-like body against him in order to break his barrier. "Something's wrong..."
"What?"
Neji got his answer when a purple mist drifted from the sand. Sand and Leaf watched as the sand lowered to the ground spreading out to reveal what was causing the mist. It happened in the blink of an eye, A hard slimy man was standing there then he wasn't. The Leaf-nin was going to say something when Gaara went sailing past him.
Neji looked around as Kerai zipped about him taking cheap shots at Gaara and himself. His Byakugan darted this way and that trying to get a land on his position but he was too fast. Whirlwinds of sand burst here and there trying to stop Kerai but they weren't quick enough and the two suffered blow after blow.
"What's the matter Kazekage?" Kerai stopped moving long enough to gloat. "You run out of clever things to say?" He approached the child, leering with a smug look on his face over the failing sand barrier. "You're not so brave when I can move, are you?"
Neji moved in behind Kerai just to be knocked away by a bolt of electricity. How're they going to get close to him this way? Removing two kunai from his weapons pouch he hurled them at Kerai's back and when he'd moved to dodge it, Gaara made his move slinging sand tentacles at the elective catching him around the ankle where he slung him violently into a wall. If only that were enough to stop him or, at least, slow him down.
"Neji," Gaara called him to action; maybe he could have moved in on him.
But Kerai was too fast. If only they had someone who could match him...
The elective began weaving signs for something big. It would have to be because both teens were sure they'd never seen the weaving before, but as the last sign was about to be cast Kerai went flying.
"Lee!" Gaara and Neji said in unison, wearing the same baffled expression.
Last he'd seen of his teammate he was on his way to safety anywhere but here. So how? "What are you doing here? You should be heading to Konoha." Neji declared standing beside his friend who's posing as a crane.
"I couldn't let you face him alone, and you need my help..." Lee looked beside him and gave both Neji and Gaara a thumbs up and a smile. "I'm gonna slow him down, you just get ready to finish him once he's immobile."
Gaara wanted to knock Lee out and have him sent home through an expressway, but he knew there was no stopping the green beast once his mind was made up. You'd have a better chance of getting a five-year-old to lift a statue right up over their head on their own strength.
"For harming Miyamoto and his brother Tetsu, I will not go easy on you." Lee decreed. "For force feeding me something that I was only curious about I will not go easy on you. And for making the people of this village suffer in your abuse, I will not go easy on you. And you should also know this,"
Kerai's cold golden eyes stared at the bob-cut teen with malice.
"I will not use your ill-gotten tricks to destroy you, I'll beat you as I am." His back straight, forearm poised like a blade before him, Lee smiled with delighted determination to brandish his shinobi way.
"You think you can stop me? I control all the elements including kekkei genkai... Come on, show me what you've got."
Lee's smile widened as he lowered the legwarmers about his calfs, where he then removed the weights hidden beneath them. "I don't think I have to go this far, but why not show you true speed and agility that's been worked for." The weights banged into the cement with damaging pounds.
It was like something out of a horror film when the pair were reduced to nothing but a blur. Lee used his senpu big and small, his taijutsu attacks landed every hit; Kerai used a few blasts of water then mud, but they missed each time. He did, however, punch Lee in the jaw, but it didn't stop the green tornado. His nimble legs bashed the elective on the head dropping him to the cold hard cement where he had little time to recuperate because Lee's bandages wrapped around him like being hugged by a group of people. He was then jerked roughly into the air by the leaping shinobi where he was then pressed to his body before a nauseating spin began.
He wasn't really going to do it? Was he? The question couldn't be considered answered when after a dizzying blind spin he got his lights put out by his head slamming into cement. He created such a dent that he tasted dirt in his mouth, smelled it up his nose before he blacked out.
It was touch and go for the three victims of the Kekkei Genkai chakra stones. Tetsu was too far gone, even for the best medical ninjas and four days after his rescue he passed away. Chouji Sawada had a little more luck. His body had degraded a lot, but he was able to withstand the medical procedures due to Miyamoto helping the man after he'd initially been burned by the stones. He would need a personal nurse to help him during the long months it would take to become a normal person again, but he would survive.
Lee hadn't had the stone in his system long enough for him to be in any real danger that was irreversible. His recovery time would be considerably less than Sawada's, but he still needed time in the hospital. Miyamoto agreed to live with Sawada and the live-in nurse. He had the option of adoption in Konoha or Suna, or he could simply return to Rain with Sawada once he was better.
And a month later Miyamoto Kino was adopted by a loving family in the hidden leaf village.
Kerai was supposed to serve time for his crimes on the people of Rain, but when his cell was checked the next day after his arrest, the police found nothing but a mess from a small explosion of the unstable contents of the liquid that was used to make a solution that created the stones. They didn't know if that were a better answer to their problem or if it were a shame the man was released without systematic punishment.
Rock Lee recovered with no side effects, but psychologically he was scarred. He couldn't get past the fact that he'd wanted the stones. That a part of him had really thought he'd finally get his wish, just to find out it was all a lie. Sort of... Because sometimes, at night... when he's laying in bed, he'll whisper 'Henge'... And turn into the person he held dearest... Himself.
The End.
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