"OOooooh." Lee held onto his swollen abdomen , face twisted into a mask of discomfort. Leaning over the toilet, he was just reminded of the downfall of all pregnancies: morning sickness, which, ironically, happened all through the day and not just morning.

"Chichi, you've been in their for 3 hours! Get out!" Lee weakly shook his head, feeling the familiar rise of vomit that, a moment later, abated without actually throwing it up.

"My blossoming lotus, I have yet to throw up!"

"If it's not going to happen now, then try later… after I don't have to go!"

"Kanaye! Be nice to mommy, he's pregnant and having morning sickness!" Minamaru's voice sounded from outside the door with Kanaye. Lee groaned again and rested his head against the toilet seat.

"It's 5 in the afternoon. Why is it called morning sickness if it's not even morning?"

"You're the older one, you tell me!"

"Hush, please! I must concentrate if I am to leave behind this bodily torture!" Determined, Lee gripped the toilet between two hands and then stared focused into the water it held. "If I do not clear myself of these things that displeasure my unborn child, I shall subject myself to eating only asparagus as a snack!" He gave himself the 'good guy pose', even as he shuddered, his stomach bottoming out. Ever since he had became pregnant with this child, asparagus had became it's own nightmare.

"Hey, is this the new gathering place? Seems popular…" "Bark!" Lee whimpered, dropping his head hopelessly at the voices of Amaya and Oki. He loved children, he adored them… but he was having difficulty standing, much less making sure that the second generation of their combined families did not destroy the Kage's temporarily home while in Konoha…again. Lady Tsunade was becoming extremely impatient with the number of damages she had had to repair on their behalf.

Why, oh why, had he agreed to watch over the children for the day? The full day? At 15 years of age, Amaya and Jun were capable of keeping an eye out for themselves, Kanaye at 14 was more than capable, and Minamaru at 12 was… a questionable case, but still left on his own at some points. Sadly, those four children placed into the same room did not make for a stable building.

There was a crunching sound from outside of the door. "Why's everyone here?"

"Didn't you know?" Amaya's teasing voice came. "This is the place to be!" A bark of agreement accompanied his words.

"…Why?"

"I have to take a piss."

Lee choked around the nausea he was feeling. "Kanaye! Do not curse, it is unyouthful!" He managed to croak, holding his bulging womb.

"Oh, if that's all, why the hell are we all hanging around here?" There was a 'thunk' as Lee's head met toilet seat. He knew Amaya had done that on purpose: swearing.

"Aya, didn't you hear Kanaye's and Arun's daddy? Don't swear!" There was a noise of plastic bag meeting a solid object, and then a 'hey!' from the victim of being hit with a bag of chips.

"Just call him 'green daddy'! It makes everything easier… you evil little fawn…" A gasp of insult and Minamaru's loud 'oh!'. Lee's head met the toilet seat a second time. "Yeah, you heard me!"

"Flea-bitten pup!"

"You did not just go there!"

"Oh, he just went there."

"All of you, grow up!"

Outside of the door, Lee listened to the war commence. His face green, he dropped it into the ring of the seat, and let it loose. It helped that he could see Lady Tsunade's expression and reaction when she saw yet another destroyed home.

Around the front of the temporary home, the door opened slowly. Stepping through the opened doorway, the redhead looked about, and did nothing but stare for a whole two minutes. He should have known from the outside, he should have foreseen such a thing as this. Unfortunately, he had not seen this, and had suffered the consequences. It was shocking, really, that he had not seen it from outside, the destruction that had occurred.

Either a wall had a hole in it, or was the hole. There was no furniture left, there were sticks and stuffing tossed carelessly about the place. Stairs that led to the second floor, he learned as he finally stepped fully within and begun to explore in detail, were missing steps, or were broken in. The stair rail had been forcefully pulled out of the wall, as could be told by it's missing appearance and the random pieces of plaster strewn across the stairs and upper floor.

"Aya-chan, hold still." He tilted his head towards the soft, exasperated voice, and then followed it up to the restroom.

"Mino, you bastard… You hit Oki." There was an animalistic whine, and then a 'humph'.

"He jumped me!"

"He did no such thing!"

"There shall be no more destruction within this household!… I doubt it can take much more…" There was a snapping sound, and a loud exclamation of alarm.

"Holy Guacamole!" Came the shocked voice of the shadow-user.

"The floor gave in!" Minamaru said in horror.

"No shit, Sherlock." Kanaye's voice could be heard with dry annoyance. "I'm the one who fell through it."

There was a pause in conversation.

"…Gaara, please help me." Lee's voice traveled to the redhead who stood at the top step. With no complaint, he walked calmly into a room that had once had a toilet, but now had a stump of thick, white glass and water-soaked floors. Clustered around the sink, Jun and Amaya were being bandaged, Kanaye was half-way through the floor and using his own sand to assist him back to a standing position, and Minamaru was pouting, sporting a few bruises and scrapes himself.

Upon his entrance, the grass-green of Amaya's eyes glared at him, as if he had some terrible connection to all of this; Kanaye's obsidian eyes closed as he shook his head in a 'don't ask' fashion; finally lending him a hand, Minamaru helped Kanaye out of the hole in the ground and waved animatedly to Gaara, a wide smile on his face. Out of all of this, Jun was the only one who was looking down at the floor with a 'why does this happen?' look about his face. Lee, body tense with weariness and eyes drooped with lack of sleep, turned to Gaara with a small smile and a chuckle.

"Can you not hear Hokage-sama screaming already?" With no change of expression, Gaara grabbed some medical wrap from Lee, and then wound it around a long, deep cut along Jun's arm after disinfecting it. Washing the rag Lee handed him, he washed away the grime and dirt upon a wicked looking cut on Minamaru's back. After three minutes of slowly repairing the children, he stood and stared down at all of them. Lee looked up expectantly, finishing up splinting the large paw of Oki that had landed in glass and splinters.

"If this house does not clear of all of you in 32 seconds, I will use force." Five pairs of eyes blinked up at him until, Jun having turned right around and dashed down the hall and out of the door, when Minamaru raised his hand.

"Does that include me, red, and mommy?" 17 seconds later, he, as well as one dog and two other children were tossed carelessly out of the window.

"Gaara! How dare you, I was trusted with them, to keep them safe and sound! How dare you… How dare you… throw them out of the window!" The last part was wailed, Lee burying his head into his hands. "Lady Tsunade is going to punish us because I again failed to keep the children from destroying another home! Gai-Sensei is going to be so displeased with me and how I was not capable of even babysitting! You must be so… disgusted with me!"

Gaara sighed, and then petted Lee's black hair, putting Lee's head against his stomach so that the pregnant man could have something to lean against. "Lee, don't let hormones speak for you; it's unbecoming of you."

The raven-haired boy sobbed. "I- I know! But I ca-can not stop!"

Gaara continued to stroke his hair. "That's alright, Lee; just try to do it less often…" Against his hip, Lee hiccupped, and then nodded.

"Y-Yosh!" He leaned just far enough to wipe at his face with the sleeve of the same green maternity sweater he had worn with kanaye, and then smiled watery. "If I can not hold my tears unless it is truly necessary, I shall eat nothing but Jun-kun's chips as a snack!" He even gave the thumbs up to enforce the new rule.

Gaara nodded, pushing Lee's head back into his robe so that the other could snuggle into him again. "As long as you keep your punishments as such, you may attempt to carry that out." Gaara knew it wasn't going to happen; this was the third time Lee had cried today… And, not only would he be living off of Jun's chips, he would also be living off of Amaya's bacon treats, and was not permitted to step 115 feet of any source of curry… He knew how this went.

Tomorrow, he would have to coerce Lee into forming some other form of punishment other than what food he would eat.