A couple years later they are now age 18. (This is about the year they all get married so about 3 years seeing as my math indicated they were 15 during the war. because math idk don't judge me! I'm only going on assumptions here now as far as I know this information isn't public or doesn't exist… I feel like the kage meeting in the last chapter of the manga is when Naruto is the new Hokage and it's relatively new at that point. Also everyone has older kids that are in school. And everywhere I looked it said age 10 for school and 12 to graduate to Genin. This is how I've been basing my timeline. So if they all get married at 18 then when they become to age 30 their kids should be about 10… assuming they waited 2 years to have kids after they got married.)
Gaara rolled over in bed his arm flopped on Kiku who opened her eyes. She looked at Gaara who was sleeping peacefully and had been ever since the war ended. She almost didn't want to wake him but today was important. "Gaara get up… its Naruto wedding tomorrow we have to go to the leaf… come on." He grumbled and rolled over again. "One more hour…" she grinned. "Come on lazy bones!" he sat up. "Alright fine I'm up…" he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "The great Kazekage can't even get himself out of bed to go to his friend's wedding." She teased. He grinned. "I said I'm up I'm awake see." He points at his face but makes a really sleepy face. They both start laughing.
Gaara gets out of bed and looks out the window. "It's so nice… he's finally getting with Hinata. I wondered if he'd ever notice how much she cared about him." Kikumari nodded. "Yeah and I'm glad Sasuke came back too… I just can't believe that after all this time he and Sakura got together." Gaara laughed. "Yeah… and it wasn't that long ago my sister decided to move to the leaf village with Shikamaru." Kiku stood up and began to fix her hair. "Yes even Ino and Choji found someone for them."
They head out to the front room where Kankuro is leaning up against the wall at the bottom of the steps. "I wondered if you two were going to get up anytime today. Come on we're going to be late." He opened the door to reveal two men standing holding the ropes of three horses. "Horses? I don't think I can do this Kankuro…" Gaara said staring at the horses. "Well I'm not getting on your sand thingy again not after last time… come on you chicken." Kiku grinned. "Ok Gaara I'll drive… just don't fall off k." she jumped onto the horse. Gaara climbed up more slowly. "Are you sure it's safe…" she helps him up. "Of course it's safe…" suddenly the horse takes off. Gaara startled by the movement screams and grabs Kiku.
Kankuro is keeping pace and laughing at Gaara. "Hey Kankuro you want to race?" he grins "sure Kiku let me know when you're ready I'll kick your but just like before!" Gaara's eye widen. "You're not serious…" Kiku grins. "Consider this pay back for that time you went fast on the cloud my first time riding. GO!" she flips the ropes and the horse bolts forward. Kankuro starts to catch up but stays behind for most of the race just when he's about to catch up Kiku stops. Kankuro stops to. "What wrong Kiku?"
Gaara is staring forward eye wide open hugging Kiku so tight she can't breathe. "You're hurting me Gaara." He lets go quickly. "Sorry… I…" she adjusted her belt and fixed her dress. "Bout squeezed me to death what wrong?" he jumps down on to the ground. "I think I'll walk…" he took a few steps forward his brain still locked up. "Are you… scared of horses?" Kankuro was confused until Kiku asked this question then suddenly it made since. Kiku used her sand to pick up Gaara who was still in shock. "Guess I'll have to carry him to the leaf…"
"I didn't know he didn't like horses… must be that he's never been on one." Kankuro shrugged. "Can you make the cloud keep up with our horses?" Kiku nodded. "It goes where I go." He nodded. "Well then GO!" he yelled then got a head start. "Oh no fair! I wasn't ready!" she shouted then sped after him. They raced the rest of the way to the leaf at the entrance they ended up in a tie. "Your riding skills have improved Kiku. Good job." She smiled. Gaara looked over the edge of the cloud. "Is it safe to come down now?"
She lowered the cloud so he could jump off. "I don't like those… I'm sticking to my sand from now on." She jumped down and handed the rope to Kankuro. "I'll walk too then." Kiku walked beside Gaara until they got to the Hokage's hut. Next door to the kage hut is a small building of faith were just last month Temari had married Shikamaru. In fact everyone they know had gotten married here. Everyone that is except Kiku and Gaara.
They waited for Kankuro to tie the horses up and then the three of them walked inside the hut. "I'll just have a quick word with the Hokage and then we'll go visit Temari." Inside the chair is spun around facing out the window. "Lord Hokage… how are you today." The chair spins around to reveal kakashi. "Great thank you for asking." "Kakashi sensei? Hokage?" he nodded "I've been elected only for a short while don't tell Tsunade but it's because she's a little… old. So what brings you three to town?"
"Naruto's wedding." Gaara crossed his arms. "Oh yeah that is tomorrow isn't it… well then I suppose I should get my suit tailored… Kiku haven't heard from you in a while… how have you been?" Kiku nodded. "Great. The sand village is awesome." Gaara snickered. "Well it's great if you like sand…" he laughed a little to himself. "For the first time it seems like the villagers are finally at peace…" Gaara said looking out the window. Kakashi nods.
"These times of peace seem too good to be true. I'm thankful though because that means less work for me." He kicked back in the chair and put his feet on the table. "The sand is still piling up paperwork, how is it you don't have any at all?" he laughs. "I've been sending it to the sand village." She said laughing. Gaara frowned "are you serious?" he shook his head. "Of course not… Tsunade's been doing the papers…"
They both laughed for a bit then Kankuro cleared his throat. "That's right we were going to go see Temari…" Gaara said nodding to kakashi. "See you tomorrow." They shook hands and then Gaara walked out the door. Kiku and Kankuro followed behind Gaara as he walked down the street. "Temari is going to be surprised to see us." Kankuro laughed. They are walking up the sidewalk when Shikamaru opens the door. They wait on the side walk as Temari and Shikamaru step outside.
"Gaara, Kankuro, Kiku… how are you?" Temari put her left hand on her hip. "Pretty good… actually I need to talk to you… and Kankuro just real quick…" she raised here eyebrow. "You came all the way here to tell me? You couldn't have just sent me a scroll?" Gaara shakes his head. "No… it's important though…" he walks past Shikamaru and whispers something in his ear. Shikamaru nods. "Yeah I'll wait out here you guys go inside." They go inside and close the door. Kiku tried to follow them but she can't move.
"Oh no you don't Kiku it's a surprise… you stay put." Shikamaru leans up against the post near his front door. "Why can't I move?" she looks down. "Oh no fair Shikamaru! Using your shadow to hold me way over here!" he shrugs "don't be a drag Kiku. He doesn't want you to hear him." Shikamaru just continued to mind his own business until they walked back out. As soon as the door was opened he moved his shadow and let Kiku go. The three siblings looked very happy about whatever it was they had just talked about. "See you at Naruto's wedding tomorrow Temari." Kankuro said waving goodbye as they walked away.
"Where to now?" Kiku said looking around. Suddenly rock lee came running down the street. "I hear you were in town and now I challenge you to a fight!" he points at Gaara. Gaara takes a step back surprised. "Me? Why do you want to fight me?" lee laughed. "Because I never got to have our rematch! Come on my tijutsu vs your sand!"
"He's really excited… besides what could happen." Kiku shrugged. Without waiting for Gaara to reply lee jumped into the air and spun at Gaara. "Leaf hurricane!" even though nobody was expecting it Gaara blocked the kick. They started into an all-out tijutsu fight. Matching each other almost blow for blow. "Gaara's training has come a long way." Kiku looked at Kankuro. "Yeah he's been working just as hard as lee when it comes to learning tijutsu… but lee's been training longer then Gaara…" they watched them counter each other's attacks.
"Why isn't Gaara using his sand?" Kankuro put his hand on his chin. "Hey guys…" Tenten came up from behind them. Kiku turned to see her. "Hey Tenten I see you and lee are doing well." She sighs. "As well as one over excited person can be." (here I'm going with Tenten and lee are a couple because I know rock lee has a kid in the future… and right after that they show Tenten in the manga… she's the only girl to understand lee therefore I could see them together.)
Suddenly Gaara pushes lee off using his sand. "My sand is a lot faster now lee… it's going to end the same way it did last time." Lee grinned. "Then let's not hold back!" lee opens his chakra gates and the battle begins again. As they watch Kiku gets a dejavu feeling. "This fight looks exactly like it did 6 years ago." Kiku laughed she noticed he was leaving sand on the ground and she wondered what it was for until lee stepped on it. "Got you!" Gaara rushed the sand up lee's arm and leg just like he had done 6 years ago. Gaara then held it there grinning. "Got you lee I win!" he let lee go.
"Darn I was so close this time… well then it appears you have won this match but I will maybe challenge you to a rematch again another time!" he jumped up onto the roof of the nearby house and started jumping away. "Lee!" Tenten screamed running after him.
Gaara laughed. "Same old lee… nothing about that guy is ever going to change." Kiku laughed. "Yeah he's going to be the only one of all of my friends in the nursing home trying to train." They laughed.
-At Naruto's wedding-
"You may now kiss the bride." They kiss and everyone cheers. Music starts playing and everyone heads to the next room for food. Naruto says something to Hinata and then runs off to eat. She walks over to Gaara and Kiku. "Hinata hey." She nods. "This is the happiest day of my life… I um… I noticed that you two were the only couple who hasn't… anyway… since you're the only one I don't need to throw the flowers… and Naruto said I should give them to you…" she hands the bundle of flowers to Kiku. "Oh these are lovely thank you…"
Kankuro noticed that Kiku was now holding the flowers. He grinned. "Time for action." He went over to Naruto who nodded. "Attention everyone attention please." Gaara suddenly became aware that his plan was unfolding he started to get nervous. Everyone quieted down and looked at Naruto "Gaara has something he would like to say." Suddenly all eyes were on Gaara. He turned to Kiku. "These past years with you… have made me… happier then you can ever imagine…" he reached into his pocket and pulled out a little black box.
Everyone knew what was coming next but they waited quietly. Kiku's eyes widened when she saw the box. Gaara started to shake a little as he tried to remember what he was going to say next. Kankuro walked over and whispered in his ear. Gaara nodded. "Right…" slowly down on his knee he opened the box. "Kikumari will you take my hand and walk forever with me as my wife." Everyone was waiting to hear her answer. Now she was nervous everyone she knew was watching her. "Yes… I will." She helped him up while everyone cheered. He was still shaking from being nervous when he removed the ring from the box and placed it on her finger.
Tears filled Kiku's eyes. "Were you planning this the whole time?" he nodded. "Yes… I was… I wanted to surprise you… and I knew the only time all your friends would be in one place was right now." Kankuro and Temari both smiled from behind Gaara. "He was so nervous he didn't know if he could do it… that why he needed us to help him." Temari said picking food off her plate. "And he asked me to get everyone's attention for him so he wouldn't have to." Naruto said over a bowl of ramen. "You were all in on it?" everyone who she had met since getting to the leaf village nodded.
"Kakashi sensei?" he nodded. "Talking to me was to distract Gaara from his nervousness so he wouldn't show it around you." "Lee?" he nodded also. "A fake fight to distract Gaara from his nervousness." "I've been planning this for a month… Shikamaru helped me by thinking up things that could possibly go wrong. And then when I needed to talk to Temari he kept you out of ear shot."
Kiku hugged Gaara. "You're so thoughtful." Naruto smiled. "Now who wants cake?"