#because it's common knowledge that Temari is a chick and guy magnet wherever she goes

[bright-hope-spot-19]

All right, so there's this Kankuro hc I have that I wanted to share. It kinda has to do with him having lower self-esteem in regards to his looks and physical appearance. Like, he's proud and confident in everything except his looks, and no, it's not a "because he looks like his dad" situation.

So, we know that most girls in Suna are cray-cray for Gaara. Girls love him, think he's dreamy, and sigh longingly when they see him. They think he's the ideal man (not knowing Gaara is not attracted to women. And absolutely in love with Naruto, btw). So, Kankuro grows up used to that adoration his brother receives from the female populace. He's made up peace with the fact that people love Gaara, and he's proud of him for it! He's fine with just being the 'mysterious black clad figure' constantly watching Gaara's back in the background. After all, Kankuro is also a very private person.

That is, until one day, he decides to go run an errand. Idk what it could be. Maybe he's just quickly going grocery shopping or going to get some parts for his puppet's limbs, or Temari asked him to go get her something (Maybe she's on her period, so being the good brother he is, Kankuro goes buy her favorite candy). The core of the matter is he's in a hurry, so he goes out completely bare-faced and in a t-shirt. The moment he steps foot into the street, all eyes are on him. Initially, the people don't recognize him cause they're not used to their young prince going out like that. But oh boy, the moment they do.

They're whispering about him and how good-looking he is, girls immediately start drooling for him cause 'dayum, look at Lord Kankuro's biceps." Some girls are even reported fainting and suffering nosebleeds cause Kankuro smiled their way. Kankuro is, of course, unaware of all this. Simply cause he's not used to people reacting that way to him. These reactions are usually reserved only for Gaara. So, the whole time he's out, he's thinking like "damn, wonder what everyone is whispering about. It must be a really hot day for people to literally start fainting out of the blue."

Until he gets home, and he tells his siblings and their reactions are pure gold. Gaara just sighs cause yeah, he's kinda bad at understanding human relationships, but not even he is that dense. While Temari just rubs her temples and finally speaks up: "Kankuro, they were all taken aback by you and your appearance. They're not used to seeing you showing so much skin, so it vaporized their minds the moment you did." And he's like,"Yeah, no way. We know people simp for Gaara. But me? Never happened before." So she goes and simply holds up a mirror up to him so that he'll see himself like "Yeah, you were expecting to go out like that and get 0 reactions? Kankuro open your fucking eyes, the people love you just as much as they love Gaara." And at that sudden moment that realization dawns on him, he's just like 😮😯😧 cause it's the first time he's experienced something like that.

Needless to say that after that, Kankuro starts going out bare-faced a lot more often, paying more attention to the way people do indeed stare at him. I even like to hc that when she sees him, Matsuri's friend Sari (the girl with the long dark hair who's always hanging out with Matsuri) immediately becomes infatuated with Kankuro, jumping camps from the Gaara fangirls club to start her own club for Kank fangirls. That club would quickly gain lots of fans and members, especially from younger girls who not only find him attractive but would also like to become puppet users themselves, but were too scared and intimidated cause puppetry is a very male dominated field. The moment Kankuro finds out about them, he gives a public speech about puppetry being a field for everyone and that he's very happy to see so many girls interested in the field now, and that he was willing to start giving puppetry lessons if it made more people pick up puppets as a fighting style.

His popularity would skyrocket after that, to the point that Temari would kinda start complaining cause there's a ridiculous uptick in puppet users compared to tessen users or people in any other shinobi fields, and that could end up becoming a problem. To the point Kankuro has to once again go and give another speech encouraging young aspiring Suna kunoichi to pick up other fields than puppetry cause "holy shit guys, don't just do this for me or just to be closer to me. That ain't helping anyone."

I just think that'd be neat.