Being a dad means having high expectations for your kids
Gaara didn't consider him to be a perfectionist dad. He wanted his kids to be happy and not weapons of war. But every father wants their kids to be something important. Only a few children out of the many in the world give their fathers that satisfaction but Gaara knew his kids would be one of the lucky few.
He had rounded up all his children and sat them down in his office. Tomo(AKA Zen), Seiko, and Unmei sat down and shared WTF expressions on their faces. Their father was usually busy and on workdays had no time to devote to his children. The kids barely saw him, if he even left the office or meeting room.
"Now, I'm happy to hear that all of you graduated from the academy or in Unmei's case will graduate in about two weeks, sorry I can't make it sweetie." Gaara said from his chair behind the desk.
Unmei rolled her pretty eyes and played with the split ends in her brown hair. "Why are we here? I have to study you know."
"I know but can you spend one moment with your family. I know you can't stand any of us and we're all going to experience hell on Earth when you reach fourteen but Unmei, is it too much to ask?" Gaara shuffled some papers around on his desk. How can Neji say that Unmei was exactly like him?
"Fine." Unmei huffed and crossed her legs.
"I want one of you to follow in my footsteps and become Kazekage."
Seiko raised her hand. "Is that an option?"
"No. It's a requirement one of you will have to be Kazekage."
"That's not fair." Seiko whined kicking invisible dust bunnies.
"Do you think I wanted to become Kazekage?"
"Dad, you tell us the story of how happy you were when you became Kazekage all the time and I counted 2,330 times before Zen was eight." Seiko said serious.
"Zen do you have anything to say?" Gaara asked wanting to bang his head against the desk.
Zen looked down at the floor and chewed the inside of his lip. "Yeah, can I go now? I need to train with my team."
Gaara looked at his children, tilting his head side to side making the occasional whimper. Out of the blue he smiled and let out the loudest laugh his children have ever heard.
"Guys, I think Dad lost it." Seiko turned side to side to look at her older and younger sibling.
"Dad had sanity?"
"Unmei don't be mean." Zen chided.
"I'm just stating a fact of life."
"You guys can go now. I'll see you at dinner on Saturday. Leave." Gaara was now on the floor rolling around laughing and clutching his stomach.
His children left silently trying to remember the phone number of their father's therapist.
Author's Note: What have I done?
I love the Subaku No-Hyuga family. Mostly because Gaara gets all the bad dad things in the book. I think that matches up with him quite well. Falling in love with Neji was a whirlwind for Gaara and then becoming a father three times in a row?
That's screwed up his already fragile mentality. But I did get to include all the apathetic sarcastic Subaku No-Hyuga children. I think they're my favorite to write about. They're all so alike and really remind me of the Sand Siblings.
Told ya I'd fail at making these drabbles longer!