#MODERN GAALEE!!!

[eliddz]

"you shouldn't make out with your son's school principal, lee"

[l0gitex]

the 1 redeeming quality to any sort of modern au's -- the endless outfit possibilities.

[shukakumoodboard]

do you have any fun/silly headcanons for the boys?

GAARA'S TICKLISH

[gaaleeceo]

ur friendly neighborhood spider lee!

[lawyeryuri]

too many gaalee modern aus have their meet-cute be "ohh they met at the gym or whatever" WRONG gaara hit lee with his car

[chinesefirethorn]

THE KAGES AND THEIR GREEN BEASTS

But a modern day AU take with the whole family and the ninken! Ningame is chilling at home, thank you very much. :) This thing took much longer to sketch and color than I anticipated. Hahhhh hahahaha.

Headcanons and easter eggs after the cut

RasaDai: Is it crack? Yes. Is it impossible? Yes, yes, they’re both dead. Do I still ship them? HELL YES. My old old man yaoi (crack) rarepair. Rasa inherits the nearly bankrupt firm from his deceased bastard of a father, and had to devote his whole life to work. He loses Karura after she gives birth to Gaara, and now he’s a single dad whose grown up kids hate his guts. Can this old man still find love with an older DILF? Except he’s definitely not going to wear that green tracksuit. (also that’s Suna designer wear on Rasa and Pakkun’s carrier)

KakaGai: These boys. These men. Husbands, rivals, friends, eternal loves. Kakashi with his jorts and baby pink crocs 😂 (thanks @urieskooki for the color pick) with ANBU gibbets. Gai with Daytime Tiger-inspired shoes! I love having Bisuke perching on Gai and adopting his sparkles ✨. Kakashi giving Gai the ‘I’m pinning you down later’ look. Also, if you really want to know what Kakashi’s reading, check the tags. ;)

GaaLee: My loves, my babies 🥰 Okay I gave Gaara his Shippuden pants bands and his shoes are gourd inspired. He’s excited to finally get to hold a puppy and promptly carries the meanest-looking one (Urushi, surprised, gives a tentative tail wag). In the meantime, Lee has their snacks and drinks ready ❤️ The man is smitten with Gaara. He is composing love songs for him as we speak. He’s also rocking dragon-print kicks (I used my own dragon design from the CNY card).

The Ninken: Ok some headcanons. All the dogs were adopted by Kakashi, except for Pakkun who was his dad’s pet before he died. Pakkun prefers to ride in his carrier than to walk in his older years. Akino, being partially blind, sticks close to his emotional support dog (Pakkun). Shiba is giving puppy eyes to Rasa in case he can get pets. Guruko being a naughty baby running between people’s legs. Bull is just chilling with his new collar—Kakashi replaced the spikes with pompoms for comfort. Uhei likes Lee best and stays close to him.

This image wouldn’t have been completed without encouragement and feedback from @egregiousderp @bayheart @urieskooki Glugchat and the good people who enable me at the KakaGai discord. Mwah love you all.

[muuurder]

I’m coming here after your gf’s propaganda, hi >:D

Could I ask about Modern AU (Gaalee)? *O*

(also while looking for your AO3 account in your carrd, I found out that the link is not working!! Just so you know è_é (there is just the “s” missing gbizeubguebgz))

Hehehehe You mayyy. Also thank you!! I'll be real honest I am pretty sure I have one fic on my AO3 Account.

Okay so this specific Au I have plans on writing a fic about but I do not have it written out just a loose plot with elements in my noggin.

But essentially it focuses on trans! Gaara raised in modern day with a conservative cop father.

After the death of his mother, things proved to get harder and his father began to dive deep into his work. Only time he's present is when he's home usually drinking. He's not exactly a good cop by any means. He has a temper and he has his stern beliefs and he quite literally hates his fucking kids, but he especially hates gaara who has always been tomboyish, always the reminder of his failures, and ever the stubborn mule even when he is trying to stay out of Rasa's way. Gaara was never one to listen, he always marched to the beat of his own drum anyways.

After a particularly nasty incident where Rasa went a little too far on the job, Rasa picked up the three kids moved them closer to the city (coughcough Konoha.) Gaara ended up getting involved with drugs, and between the dangerous mix of everything he becomes a spiralling mess as per usual, targeting anyone who breathes at him wrong or he percieves as a threat of sorts. On one ocassion, Our beloved Rock Lee (star track runner, i'm debating on making i'm former head of boy scouts or just a kid who goes to a dojo that Gai totally owns.) ends up getting involved for justice reasons (He's autistic your honor.) and it ends with Gaara beating him with a lead pipe. Obviously charges are pressed and Gaara is sent to a psychward and given community service instead of going to juvie (I do not know if this is even fucking possible tbh but I like it.) While Gaara is in the psychward ( I am so sure there is another reason why he got sent there but w/e I can't remember rn), His father dies in a shoot out with a notorious criminal in the area (wonder who that could be.) Leaving these kids slapped into foster care while things are figured out as Temari isn't old enough to care for her three brothers. Yashamaru works to get custody of these kids in time but in the meantime, it's rough and Gaara is picked up from the psychward not by family. He is picked up by a foster care agent (social worker???) and he is made to serve out his community service. There he meets Naruto, who is also doing customer service for vandalism and they do fight and Gaara forms a baby crush. There is alot that happens around here and then there is a time skip essentially where things change once Yashamaru gets custody of these kids and they find a new normal with a crusty white dog. Gaara gets a safe space to heal and explore who he is.

The plot really begins picking up down the line where essentially gaara post moving away from the city with yashamaru back in their home town, He decides to move back to pursue college. he wants to get into therapy to try to reach others like him and Naruto integrates him into his friend group (or tries rather Gaara is pretty stand offish even if kankuro and temari have done so easily) and Gaara keeps fucking running into Rock lee against his will. Lots of healing, lots of forced proximity for healing reasons. Slow burn. It's a very loose plot I'm still fleshing out. We may see nods to the Moss because I wish I was joking here, That fic altered my fucking brain chemistry. I am still figuring it out. I do know that the main relationships i plan on showing/mentioning are: Gaalee, kakagai ofc, shikatem, kankiba, the polycule themselves narusakusasu, nejiten, hinata is a lesbian idc, and so is ino also perhaps past sakuino I am really excited for this fic ngl but I want to like do everything justice so I don't want to publish till i finish rewatching naruto and refreshing everything so I can figure out what elements I want to bring in and the like. Ngl y'all can ask more about this fic I have thoughts of scenes that would be so cute. HEHEHEHEH THANK YOU FOR ASKING!!!

[darkyukifr]

HIII AGAIN but this time it’s not a random ship I swear (I’m still in my Shinolee era, Gaalee who? (I’m joking (AM I??)))

For a long time I wanted to make a fanart of the GaaLee fanfic “a fireside waltz” by @winterberryholly, I finally did it!! Temari and Lee dancing together haunted my mind and I wanted to immortalise the scene *O*

I gave them more modern clothes for the waltz but I tried to follow the descriptions, I hope I respected your vision of them!

Thank you again for writing this duo (they are siblings-in-law but they just don’t know it yet 👁️🫦👁️)

[gaaraisbbg]

What is your favorite fanfic trope? Have you ever written/drawn this trope?

Uhmmm, honestly I’d have to say car rides, Ik it’s boring but fics with car rides just hit differently 🤭

This Fic is one of my favs it’s Gaalee modern Au and it centres around Lee driving Gaara home and everytime I read it I love it even more 😭

I’ve planned out some fics with this trope but I don’t think I’ll ever actually do anything with them

[edai-crplpnk]

[link to the WIP game]

@darkyukifr asked about If You Could Leave a Light On Please, thank you!

This one is my nemesis fic. It's almost entirely posted (here) and I have only one scene left to write!! (This month, hopefully.)

I started it in fall 2021 as the third increment to my first modern AU. It's a KankuKiba fic about psychotic + chronically ill Kankurou joining the Team 8 polycule and learning to build community with other disabled people. With lots of Sand Sibling bonding (it's the same AU as the GaaLee fic, it's set shortly after) and a tiny bit of SasoKisa in the background.

Don't get me wrong, I like it by many aspects. But it's also the last fic I started before realising I was much more comfortable writing my multi-chapter fics entirely before starting posting them. It makes me feel less stress and pressured, it lets me take more time and take breaks when I need to air my brains out and come back to my work with fresh and rested eyes. It's been very beneficial to my writing and I feel like I have made a lot of progress in various matters since then.

And so... I like this fic, but it's also made in a way that I don't make my fics anymore, and it's hard to reconnect with it in the way that I would want to. But I like this AU, I have other fics I want to do in it, and I like this fic and I want to finish it! I've decided to make it an exercise of "the important thing is to write, and it's okay if the end product is not perfect, what matters is that you did it" and it's an important skill too.

I don't know if I sell this fic very well but, that's how writing is sometimes 😆

[sagemoderocklee]

(sorry if youve answered this before)

What do you think gaalee's wedding would look like? Could be canonverse, one of your fics, modern au or anything else you could like of.

<3

so like... years and years ago... god 6 years ago... i answered this ask about Suna wedding customs that is uh... extremely messy now imo but its the original foundation for Pomegranate Sun, which I'm co-writing with @ghoste-catte (though it's def been on the back burner for us). that's probably the most elaborate amount of thought ive put into what their wedding would be like in canon or an AU in all honesty, however i do have ideas for RtS if anyone wants to help sponsor that particular unplanned sequel by donating to Maryam's family in Gaza.

outside of all this, my idea of their wedding would be highly dependent on the story itself. a modern AU would be a lot less to consider and think about beyond some easy enough research, whereas a canon set fic is going to hinge on a variety of things from the political and cultural climate to at what age they'd get married and so on.

i think gaara is like expected to have like the big traditional Kazekage family wedding, but absolutely doesn't want to. he has a great love and respect, of course, for the traditions and his culture itself but he's not like big on the whole spectacle of it exactly. whereas Lee definitely wants a big wedding, but again politics do impact whether or not they can have a legal and public wedding at all.

it's hard for me to give like a super definitive answer, but i do think that at the very least they would follow a mix of traditions from Konoha and Suna for canon, and Chinese, Japanese, and Indian for a modern AU (Lee is Chinese and i headcanon that Karura is Indian and base a large chunk of Wind country on India, making the Sand Sibs half Japanese/half Indian). i think it would def be a compromise of big wedding and small--like definitely fewer people than Lee would probably invite because if he could he'd invite like strangers probably, but still with some of the grand romance Lee wants like i dunno they set off fireworks or something kinda thing. Lee definitely has like the most long-winded overly flowery and romantic vows--like he unrolls the page he wrote them on and it's just a gag where the page just... unrolls to the floor... except he cant actually get through more than a few lines cause he's sobbing and too overcome with emotion. gaara's vows are like super short and sweet and to the point--he picks like his fave line of poetry or osmething and it just reduces Lee (and Gai) to a puddle.

i cant think of what else but i think overall their wedding would be very romantic and very unique.

[matznothere]

me omw to go read my bedtime stories (multiple modern au gaalee fics)

[rose-lalondde]

Naruto Fic Recs Friday

Learn to Lean On The People Who Love You

Chapters: 8 /?

Rating: T

Summary:

After the Boys(TM) leave Konoha, Sakura is left all alone. Luckily, Kakashi doesn't abandon his teammates and takes it upon himself to make Sakura his apprentice, much to Lady Tsunade's frustration. This is a position that comes with plenty of encounters with her sensei's weird rival, Might Guy, and Guy's own students: Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee.

Comments: Love a good sakura fic, especially when they bring up the parallels between sakura and kakashi. It's very cute and funny, devoured it in one sitting.

Close the Distance

Chapters: 17/17 - Completed

Rating: T

Summary:

Rock Lee and his friends love playing Ninja, it’s the worlds most popular online fighting game. You can play alone or in a squad of three. When Tenten post a video of Rock Lee’s match against the famous player known as Quicksand it goes viral! It leads Lee and his friends to streaming and making deeper connections in Ninja’s professional gaming community at a weekend tournament.

Comments: This is such a sweet fic and I loved the integration of the naruto world to the modern world through streaming & gaming. Even though gaalee is the focus, we still get to see interactions with the rest of the konoha kids & gaara's relationship with his siblings.

Reflections

Chapters: 4/?

Rating: T

Summary:

Naruto has been gone from his home town for years, now hes coming back in the middle of high school, hoping nobody remembers him. ...Who could forget a kid like him?

Sasuke is just trying to make it through the year without being hassled. Turns out this year is about to get a lot more interesting.

Sakura spends all of her time working for her future, college in her sights already and her goals clenched tightly in her fists. She can't keep pushing herself like this, something is going to have to give.

Comments: I need y'all to invest in this fic right now, like pls give it a chance. Yes, I am saying this because I love Sakura SAT prep all AP classes ACT score 31 Haruno, and would like to see more of her. So far it's also a lighter modern au fic, which I love & im asking you all to read this with me.

[we-return-in-waves]

What stories are you writing right now? (Hi I adore you and would like to talk)

dkjgdhgkd you are always welcome to talk to me everyone who knows me also knows i simply cannot shut the fuck up amen

i hop around in my wips constantly but i can sort them into two categories:

actively being written (2): one is a fluffy little oneshot about dancing set shortly after the war, and the other is the most deranged omegaverse peen i've ever written that's been a background task for six months courtesy of a very unhinged discord conversation back in like... may lmao. the former is half done and i think it will be 7-10k, the latter is sitting at 27k and counting although the draft is nearly done. can't believe i'm gonna have to chapter my pwp, who am i lmao

plotted but unwritten (6): a modern AU pwp where gaara's a lawyer and lee's the hot client from hell, a canonverse fluff fic told from tons of POVs where i casually shit on almost all the canon endgame relationships ay lmao, another self-indulgent metal origin theory fic, a comedy 5+1 things about drunken shenanigans, a fluffy 5+1 things about sleep, and the rest of from these bones, untethered which was/is my gaalee horrorfest 2022 fic

i am also slowly putting together the worldbuilding and character information for an enemies to lovers sort-of-political-longfic based around the plot of my favourite video game!

and then there's 10 other ideas that i've done nothing with yet sjdbgkdfhgbfdg

[shadowstrangle]

LAST BOUT OF HOMEWORK DONE AND FINALS (almost) DONE AND I’M STILL UNEMPLOYED SO GUESS WHO’S JUST GONNA WRITE A SHIT TON OF FANFICTION HAAAAHAHAHAH

[chinesefirethorn]

Summary:

Panic spreads across the desert city of Suna as the first outbreak hits the streets. Caught in the city's commercial district, Lee and Tenten have to rely on guts, determination and the sheer survival skills of a man who says kill or be killed.

Zombie apocalypse modern AU with multiple pairings, but primarily focused on LeeGaa/GaaLee. Co-written with LucklessMallory

Notes:

This one is my magnum opus fic co-written with my writing partner and one of the best RP players I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with. I miss you, Mallory! Thanks for all the good fic we wrote together even the unposted ones. You played an excellently youthful Lee to my taciturn Gaara, and a deliciously villainous Gaara to my pure-hearted hot-blooded Lee.

Both of us are fans of zombie horror and really wanted this fic to be believably within a horror setting. We also love Queen, hence the tongue-in-cheek title.

There’s actually a Part 2 of Rot that’s 100,000+ words long too, but we never got around to rewriting/editing it. Just know the boys get a happy ending :)