@bloatedcrayon and I have a happy au where Lee had all four kids and gets to spend their early years in Suna with Gaara, his loving husband. we spend a tremendous amount of time discussing what a tiny snuggle prince Araya is, and also how he was a big baby with an extreme appetite. sometimes his quest for lunch grew so strong that he saw his sister as getting in the way of his meal. here’s a story about that.—–
“Metal, what’s wrong?”
“Papa, Araya is a…,” Metal’s sweet almost-three-year-old voice started to answer.
Gaara waited patiently for his darling child to finish that wholesome thought.
“…fat monster.”
Gaara blinked at his oldest son and shook his head.
“He’s a what?”


This has been an ongoing joke between us that Kankuro gets so stressed about Lee and Gaara having so many kids that it’s finally “Climb off Lee,”–It’s become a matter of national security that so many kids are running around

