#sabaku no rasa

[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.

[askaarii]

while i do understand that Rasa did give Gaara a traumatic childhood, as a history student i cant really help but feel for Rasa as well. This man had the pressure of a whole economically drained terrain on his shoulders, his wife died at childbirth when he was what? 27 barely? his council deemed his son as a failure, his son was going on rampage and killing his village, and the fate of his village was hanging by a thread

and i don't even want to think about the nights he might have spent mourning his wife and blaming himself for being a failure, a failed husband, a failed father, a failed ruler, because he was obviously tortured by guilt when he was reincarnated

did he commit mistakes? yes. did he make his children's childhood traumatic? yes. but do i understand why he did what he did? obviously yes. he had so few choices at hand, none feasible enough to sustain the barren desert economy. moreover, the kazekage clan is so much like a historical royal clan you can't really judge it according to modern parameters.

Rasa's character is also so tragic, i love the depth and complexity of it and also the dilemmas and duties a king had to face, duties as a single father of three children, duties as a ruler of a barren economy, you can't really just label him as "he was an asshole father" as a shallow statement

[thesandyfreak]

Crack fic idea: Gaara from the future pops in Rasa's office, says "I like gardening", and disappears.

Rasa, who's just lost three ambus that week because of Gaara, decides to try out a method he hasn't ever tried before: befriend his son. The two of them 'bound' over how weird it is that every single plant Rasa touches dies in the next day, while Gaara can grow a tree out of cement.

Bonus 1: You know how sometimes you're talking to a person, and then they say something so utterly horrible it edges breaking the acceptable metric? Well, Gaara and Rasa would take turns being the psychopath™ in the room.

Bonus 2: The old lady who cares for the gardening put a 'no killing' rule on the door, and Gaara... is trying.

[rosalinesurvived]

Another one of my toxic traits is that i thoroughly believe Karura, had she lived, would’ve been the most desi-toxic mother to mother. No more ‘Soft sweet womanly mother-love would’ve saved them all 🥺” the Suna family in my mind pass on mental health disorders through bloodlines like their kekkei genkai.

EDIT I wanna elaborate on this actually. I think she would’ve raised her kids up to be militant Suna shinobi like literally everyone in the family. I think she was stubborn and authoritarian and prideful and fiery and jaded like Rasa. They loved each other fiercely for a reason. I think they both had serious mental health issues and just a bad idea in general on how to be People as you would yknow, in a generation-long culture of child soldiers. Just because two people love each other doesnt mean they have a sunshine and rainbows nuclear family relationship, especially in their culture where those emotions were probably frowned upon.

[jaguarys]

I really wish Gaara's arc had been a little more involved because I truly don't think the sheer horror of it all is delved into enough. In the end it's sort of like he just. Snaps out of it. But then you start thinking about it and you're like. Oh. This kid literally could not sleep for years. Oh this kid was being tormented by Ichibi 24/7. Oh this kid had everyone trying to assassinate him when he was tiny. Oh this kid trusted one single person and they tried to kill him too and then died in front of him. Oh this kid was told everyone including his family hated him and that he was a monster and should die. Oh ok. Like sure murder was not the answer but also considering the circumstances he should've been even more out of it than he was

[atoriv-art]

simpler days

[nyooome]

gaara childhood sketches from twitter

[vote-gaara]

What are you hoping to see if Gaara wins the Narutop99 contest?

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[chinesefirethorn]

The Eternal Genin and Yondaime Kazekage

For @narutorarepaireventhub & Mature Love Week

Prompt: Starting Out

(crack) Ship: Maito Dai x Rasa

R: An enemy Konoha shinobi and a genin at that. You dare challenge me?

D: AH! And you must be Suna’s treasure, the Yondaime Kazekage himself!

R: I’ll crush you where you stand.

D: Give it your best shot! opens the gates

[the-moss-project]

Illustrations for Chapter 30 of The Moss!

[gaaraisbbg]

Pushing short Rasa agenda

Ik that it officially says he’s 5’9 ft (176 cm) but who cares abt canon height?! Not me lmao

He’s definitely where Gaara got his shortness from, Kankuro and Temari absolutely got their height from their mother.

Karura and Yashamaru would use Rasa as an arm rest from time to time when they were younger just to piss him off, and Karura would always put Rasa’s favorite mug (everyone does and I know it) on the highest self so he’d have to climb up the counter to get it. Over time he finally realized he could just use the Golden Dust to grab it (he was embarrassed at how long it took him to realize it).

Karura would definitely stand in the doorways of their house just to creep tf out of him at night after a long day of work at the kazekage office. When they wondered the village together Baki and Yashamaru (the ANBU who protected them) would be laughing their asses off at the major height difference between the two.

Just a lil headcanon lol 

[maagicmushies]

Ok, on this episode of thinking about Naruto mechanics harder than anyone was ever meant to, I recently came to an epiphany around magnet release.

It is SO fucking weird. Instead of converting chakra into matter, this just changes the basic physical properties that your chakra has. Something like this is totally logical in a world like Hunter x Hunter but in Naruto, this doesn’t really happen. It is also up in the air if it should even be called “Kekkei” Genkai, because both the Third Kazekage and Rasa “learned” it. From watching Shukaku.

This all seems confusing until you remember the non-nature release Kekkei Genkai like the Byakugan or Shikotsumyaku (always showing up for some reason). The Byakugan helps you see real good and Shikotsumyaku allows you to spontaneously stimulate bone growth. However, neither have really obvious combat applications and had to have entire martial arts crafted around them. Ao has a Byakugan, but without a Hyuga tutor he’ll never learn gentle fist. Kimimaro doesn’t just fight by growing bones, he has a series of “Dances” to make effective use of them. Those don’t change the property of chakra, but they do change how your body works and thus opens a space for extended techniques. Anyways, I believe this is the secret to magnet release. People like the Third Kazekage and Rasa are born with it, but needed to study Shukaku to actually use it in any meaningful way. Probably why you see such drastic differences between the people in the sand who learned from Shukaku vs Toroi and Naruto just sorta winging it.

[spoiled-bat13]

𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐚'𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: 𝐀 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭

A Naruto Fanfic - canon heavy, by me.

Tw: rated M for trauma/themes. Please read tags.

❤️⏳️🌵🏺

[atoriv-art]

out with family

[shikadai-sama]

Sleep well, Husband.

[miartesuanimacion]

Rasa y Karura ❤️