Disclaimer: Naruto is still not my property. Santa was being mean.
Being a dad takes balls-baseballs,footballs,soccer balls,dodge balls,basketballs,tennis balls, and other spherical or semispherical objects.
Gaara cursed whoever invented sports. He was physically fit, after all he was the Kazekage, but when it came down to regular sports he was a skinny emo kid who always got picked last and spent most of the time on the bleachers cutting himself. But by some horrible chance Temari introduced the kids to the wonderful world of sports. When it came down to regular sports, Temari was the most likely lesbian jock that all the guys wanted to be like.
Zen took a particular liking to baseball. Gaara got hit in the eyes roughly fifty times per game. End of baseball with Daddy. Neji,despite his meticulous care for his hair, was a much better match.
Gaara wasn't sure if he wanted to know where Seiko learned how to play American football. She was so good at it that her skill brought Temari to tears. After a game of touch football the only one playing American football with Seiko was Temari and people who had extreme, extreme death wishes.
Football or as those Americans called it soccer. Unmei's favorite sport. Gaara hadn't seen anything wrong with the sport and even followed the Japanese team himself. It wasn't until a football/soccer ball hit him too many times in the fact, that the World Cup stopped being important.
It went this way with every other sport. Dodge ball(Gaara still had the bruise), basketball(Let's not even go there), tennis(Who came up with the idea that every rich person liked to play it?), Gaara hated them.
But now he had the scars of a father.
Author's Note: This is sort of my post of Naruto high schools AU. AU high school is so overused and sometimes people get them wrong. Unless the Naruto characters attend an American high school there can't be four years. Japanese high schools only have three years. The first year of high school here in America is the last year of middle school in Japan.
But I'll admit that I do enjoy reading them. I probably will never write one but I like a few of them. I agree that Gaara is a whiny emo kid but no one ever makes Temari a soft butch lesbian which I can totally see her as!
What is your opinion on high school AU's? Overdone and the same or like a fairytale, a classic meant to be told again and again?