Author's Note: Can you not see this in your mind? You can't? Try.

K+ rating for mention of man-breasts.


"Sensei, why do you have pointy boops?"

The addressed Jounin freezes in place, his hand still arcing towards the sink. He is washing his and Lee's pair of dishes and sauce-stained take-out chopsticks in a comfortable pair of black sweatpants, and nothing else. The ventilation in this small dorm bothers Gai, so he tends to wander around shirtless when home.

Little Lee is seated at the miniscule 'breakfast bar', on top of a box of bodybuilding magazines with his head tilted adorably, questioningly. After his mentor fails to reply, the boy repeats his inquiry.

"I heard you… " the man says slickly, making a belated face. "What do you mean?"

"Those." Lee prompts, and points with a sticky finger to the aforementioned features on his sensei's bare chest. "Your pointy boops."

Oh, no. Red sirens were firing behind Gai's thick bangs; danger, danger, abandon topic...

"Um, Lee…boys don't have 'boops'." the man finally settled, uneasily.

Lee's face folded, blanched. "Gai-sensei is a woman?"

Dead. Quiet. Gai drilled his fingers on the gray countertop for a second, and then found a dish towel. Drawing this quickly over his exposed skin, the elder laughed falsely. "No, no- Lee, only girls have to cover their boops. You're not even supposed to notice boy boops."

"I thought boys didn't have boops?" the boy parroted, tilting his head again.

"No, they don't- I mean, we've got different boops. Boys don't have to cover their boops. It's socially accepted. Understand?"

"No."

"Good," the man said, wiping down the counter between them with a hairy sponge. "You need to go brush those shiny teeth, now. We're going to the grocery store."

"Okay," the little child smiled, sliding down from his perch and leaving Gai standing in the miniscule kitchen. After blinking dubiously for a few moments, the man craned his head around the wall. "Lee, do you even know what 'boops' are?"

"No," was the boy's foamy reply, followed by a deep-throated expungence of toothpaste. The sounds of vigorous gargling drowned out Gai's tiptoeing towards his chest of drawers. Time to buy some T-shirts.


A/N: XD