Lee's Island, Part 7

(The first part of my oldest fan fiction can be found here.)

In which exclamation points cannot possibly be overused and Naruto thinks he's really funny.

Also, happy (American) Pi Day!

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Sakura yawned. It was morning at last, and she had just now woken up. It didn't take long for her to notice that Lee wasn't there. She got out of the tent and stared at what Lee had worked on all night.

It was another hut, though nowhere near as shabby. Lee had cut down a lot of trees and made a log cabin! Sakura walked up to it and looked inside. It had a main room and four lofts for sleeping. The ground was covered up with strips of bark that were somehow connected. There were a couple of wooden chairs covered with cushy leaves. There was even a pile of firewood, neatly stacked into a pyramid, to use to cook meals. Sakura was amazed. She then looked more carefully at the lofts and saw Lee sleeping on his leaf, which he had brought with him. Sakura was about to say, "Wow, Lee, this is amazing!", but she thought he had done all this hard work and should have some rest. She went back outside, where the sun was shining brightly, and kunaied some fish for breakfast. 

"Time for breakfast, everyone!" she said. The fish were completely finished, and Sakura had even added some spices, edible of course, to their meal. "I'm up, I'm up," Naruto mumbled. He was still on his leaf. Finally, he got up. He walked out of the tent and gaped at the cabin.

"What the heck is this?!" He walked over to the leafy door where Sakura was with the fish. "Neat, isn't it?" she said. "Lee made it overnight." Naruto's jaw nearly dropped to the ground. "Seriously?!"

"That's what it looks like. He's still asleep, on that loft right there." Naruto bended over and grabbed a fish. "Huh. Hey, this is good fish! What'd you do?" Naruto grabbed another when he finished.

"I put some spices I made in it. Hey, leave some for Lee!"

"Hey, you snooze, you lose!" Naruto rolled around laughing. "Get it? Snooze? Because he's asleep?" Naruto kept on laughing. "Come on! Get it? Get it? Get it? Get it get it get it?" Sakura sighed. "I get it perfectly well, Naruto. It's just not very funny." Naruto stopped laughing and moaned. TenTen arrived. "Wow, who did all this?"

"Lee. He's asleep up there now."

"Huh." TenTen sat down and started eating her breakfast. "Hey, Sakura," she said, munching, "what'd you put in here? It's better than the ones I made."

"Oh, nothing really. I just thought to make some spices for it, and I found suitable materials on the island."

Eventually, Rock Lee woke up. "Hey, everybody," he said drowsily. "Do you like it?"

"Like it, no. I love it! It's so much better than that poor excuse for a hut we slept in last night!"

"Thanks," Lee said. "Time for breakfast, I guess?"

"If you want some," Sakura said. 

"I am pretty hungry," he replied. "Why not?" He grabbed a fish and chomped down on it. "These are the best yet! Sakura, did you cook these?"

"What do you mean by that?!" TenTen yelled. 

"Uh, nothing?"

"You'd better mean nothing!" Sakura and Naruto started laughing, and eventually, so did TenTen and Lee. 

"Ugh. I do not feel so good all of a sudden," Lee said, sitting down.

"Must not be the fish. I feel fine."

"Maybe you should go back to sleep. You did stay up all night building this."

"It did not take all night, but I do feel a little sleepy. Why not?" Jaws dropped. "It didn't even take you all night?!"

"No," Lee said, climbing up to his loft, "It was still dark when I finished. I am going to go ahead and take a nap." He set himself down on his leaf and was soon snoring. You'd think he would wake himself up snoring that loud! Cha! Sakura thought.

"Okay, I'm finished. How about you guys?"

"I'm pretty much done, too. How about you, Naruto?"

"Well, we ran out of fish." Sakura stared dumbfounded at the now-empty bark bowl. "So, yeah, I guess I'm good."

"What should we do now?"

"How about target practice?" TenTen replied. "No way!" Naruto yelled. "That's boring!"

"Naruto! Shush! Lee's asleep, remember?"

"It's hard to forget," Naruto mumbled, "when he snores that loud."

"Grrrrr..." Sakura growled. "Wait a sec. Did anyone else hear something?"

"I didn't," TenTen replied. Suddenly, a figure rushed out of the brush, pouncing on Sakura.

"Sakura!"

It was the leopard. Sakura, along with the big cat, was tumbling across the grassier area of the island. TenTen and Naruto sprinted after them. Sakura's shrieks of pain were somehow not enough to wake Lee up. Soon, the cat and Sakura stopped rolling. Naruto ran and yanked the leopard off of Sakura. He gaped at the many claw wounds Sakura now had. Without premonition, the cat turned in Naruto's grasp and pounced on him. The boy screamed, claws digging into his skin. Naruto struggled, attempting to pull the leopard off of him, when suddenly, it fell limp. Panting, he looked at the cat. A kunai had struck it in the heart. Naruto threw its body to the ocean.

"What happened?"

"It attacked you, so I threw a kunai at it."

"Oh, okay. Thanks, TenTen."

"No problem. Is Sakura okay?"

"I don't know." TenTen sighed. "Here, I'll check her pulse." TenTen knelt down and did so. "She's fine," TenTen said, "but we need to doctor her so she won't get an infection. Do you have any bandages?"

"Nope. You?"

"None here. Do you think Lee might have some to spare?"

"Yeah, if we can wake him up!" Naruto started laughing.

"Okay, help me carry her back to camp." TenTen and Naruto picked Sakura up and headed to the cabin.