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My first drawing after months (and a certain amount of self sabotage). Baby Lee and all his Christmas spirit.

Kakagai Family ¼

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So, it's either.

"Yes sir, I'll bring him home at 7pm"

Or "Your son calls me daddy too"

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behold Shiro meets a grumpy little devil

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Jackie Lee huehueheue

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So according to Naruto SD, Gai’s a masochist/into bondage… uhhh kakagai fanfic writers where you at

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Hello! Welcome to the official account for kakagai week 2019 - A week to celebrate the Kakashi Hatake/Maito Gai pairing!

The week will run from December 25th 2019 to January 1st 2020! It’s a busy time of year, but that’s when Gai’s birthday falls! We wanted to get the notice out with plenty of time to spare, to make up for it!

The Rules!

We accept fanart, fanfiction, edits, graphics, gifs, videos, AMVs, headcanons, etc., whatever you like! Any medium of content is great!

Please put NSFW under a readmore and tag properly!

Please tag your work with #kakagai week or #kakagaiweek2019 so we can see it and reblog it!

The prompts are just guidelines, please feel free to participate even if you don’t adhere to them!

Posting every day is optional!

Late submissions are accepted!

Have fun!

Now for the Prompts!

Day 1 (12.25) - Dads / Teams

Day 2 (12.26) - Rivals / Combat

Day 3 (12.27) - Mask / Fashion

Day 4 (12.28) - Trust / Secrets

Day 5 (12.29) - Peace / War

Day 6 (12.30) - Chunin / Jonin

Day 7 (12.31) - Future / Youth

Day 8 (1.01) - Gai’s Birthday

We would really appreciate it if people could reblog this post so more people are aware of the week! We look forward to collaborating with everyone!

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so yagi doesn’t wear gloves for some dumb reason so a babe has to warm them up

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Kurenai: I can’t believe you and Kakashi broke the bed.

Asuma: You two must have gotten wild.

Gai: Haha, yeah…

(The night before)

Gai: I bet you can’t jump high enough to touch the ceiling!

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This year the gifts will only be for the children who worked hard

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just scribbling without any intention of doing anything perfect

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Long post warning for Gai’s new backstory. Honestly this AU began with that one image of Gai with his katana above in the trees and then I kept trying to bend canon to fit that image

I kept wondering why Gai might leave, and then I thought honestly the village sucks. Why wouldn’t he? But what might drive him to that point? Maybe seeing people he knows should be respected treated like dirt?

At this point I hc that the villagers are influenced by certain shinobi who slander the Maitos, and the Hatake clan. But why would villagers even dare to stand up to powerful ninja??? I hc this as a guerilla campaign by Danzo to “strengthen” the village. Here’s why: undermine the weaker clans like the Maitos, so that they leave. And ostracize people like Sakumo (old clans capable of rallying against/fighting ROOT). And isolate powerful, socially unfit shinobi (like certain sannin) so they can be used “properly” by ROOT…

Except the script flips here for me. Orochimaru, still only on the cusp of becoming ROOT sees this ostracised kid defending everybody (even those outside of his family) the village hates - Hatake Sakumo (hated in death even), his son,  and sometimes - even Orochimaru himself? Kakashi tries to warn Gai away from Orochimaru (bc he’s a Rules boy now), but Gai has had enough people warn him away from Kakashi at this point, so he doesn’t listen.

Orochimaru is not entirely pleased by this. I hc that Orochimaru is also contemplating leaving the village at this point, but is being held back by hazy promises of Danzo offering him knowledge. And by a small boy dogging his heels in admiration. Kakashi also hangs back but at a respectful distance, mostly bc he thinks Orochimaru will eat Gai or sthg.

The final blow comes when Maito Dai passes (also I have no idea where that is in the timeline, but Kishi didn’t  care so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

Gai can’t believe this, his father who gave his life for the village - who was so powerful - is still not respected even in death. You know Dai wouldn’t even be a footnote in history for Konoha. To that, add Kakashi’s own ostracisation, people calling him Cold blooded Kakashi. Gai wants to believe in the village, but he really can’t anymore can he? They won’t even let him learn his father’s legacy, the suicide jutsu - bc it’s “forbidden”.

Orochimaru finds him in the dead of the night, trying ineffectually to escape while Kakashi’s on an ANBU mission. Gai forestalls what he thinks might be a lecture, telling Oro that the village sucks, that it has stripped all the nobility of being a protector of the village. That all they do is fight for money and power. Orochimaru, who has confirmed that Danzo wants to use him, but also that the Sandaime is as bad as Danzo is - had been thinking of running for Hokage to change the village to be more open to clans like his. (You know the village basically hates his clan bc they’re snakey okay).

But he looks at this teenaged boy, and he knows that (a) the boy is right, and the village won’t change. Won’t even accept him as hokage, even Sarutobi sensei doesn’t believe in him. And (b) this foolish boy will die in the forest.

SO. Guess who gets a new sensei with Orochimaru studying in a forest lab?

I’m not saying Orochimaru becomes GOOD MAN, he doesn’t. But the experiments on children don’t happen, bc training a genin is time consuming, and Orochimaru has someone who might judge his actions (like Jiraiya & Tsunade used to, when they weren’t being drunk or absent). Someone who might be a moral compass. Two people who are the last of their clans, clans hated or ridiculed by Konoha.

The 8 Gates fascinates Orochimaru though, and he does go on to become a snake sage. And Gai? Gai becomes a fierce swordsman, and a terrifying shinobi. He never scratches the leaf symbol on his headband (which he hides behind his scarf) though, because he believes in the idea of the headband. Not what the headband has come to be. (more rambling in tags)

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After bad times, the cuteness comes ...

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After months without picking up a pencil...

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