dandelions symbolize everything i want to be in life. unapologetic. hard to kill. β½ feral β , filled with sunlight, bold, BEAUTIFUL IN A WAY THE CONVENTIONAL AND CONTROLLING HATE but cannot ever fully destroy. stubborn. happy. bastardous. full of wishes that will be carried far after i die.
#MAITIESTS. an independent, private portrayal of β½ MAITO LEE β & β½ MAITO GAI β . canon divergent and very au based. established 2020. re-established 2025. penned by kaddy.
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this blog follows a canon where gai adopted lee when he was five years old. with thirteen years old lee involuntarily becomes the nijuu's jinchΕ«riku during the assault on konoha. read more here.
MEMES. OPENS. WISHLIST.
rules under read more until the carrd is up:
β½ 001 β heya <3 i'm kaddy, formerly found on @/maitiest and way formerly found on @/fistsbled. i've been rping the green fam for a long time, so please do not expect a take that follows canon strictly. if any of my canon divergences go against your blog canon, hmu! let's plot smth out.
β½ 002 β this blog only operate in the naruto world, i am currently not looking for crossovers; nor do i plan on making AUs for different fandoms.
β½ 003 β i work full time, monday - friday, so activity will be highest on the weekends. i thank my sweet mutuals for their patience.
β½ 004 β gai and lee are my main muses of this blog. maito dai, maito "metal" dai and matalee (matatabi possessing lee's body) are requestable sidemuses.
β½ 005 β i will not interact with genderbent characters; i will not interact with muns who engage inΒ racist; lgbtq+ / transphobia.
β½ 006 β please do not assume i ship popular ships such as g.aalee or k.akagai. i ship my two boys with YOUTH. no but srsly, i ship chemistry, if it happens, it happens. but shipping is literally at the bottom of my priority list.
β½ 007 β fight threads need to be plotted out. gai and lee are beasts, they will fold a bitch.
β½ 008 β please cut your posts, it's 2026.
β½ 009 β idk what boruto is. idc much abt the story. i have a low key next gen oc, though. plotting is required.
β½ 010 β i use small font and colored text, but accessability >>> aesthetics, message me if you need me to change my editing style for our stuff!
breathing had become an arduous effort, accompanied with terrible pain each time his chest lifted. covered in vein like scars from head to toe, gai had yet to get a good look of himself in a mirror; proof of what he had done, proof of what he had, miracolously, survived. a blessing, he reminds himself through the agony, as tired eyes gaze outside his window, occasionally one or the other bird flew past. the distant sounds of konoha's busy main strees had long since become white noise.
tsunade-sama personally told him of what gai had done, who he had killed; the ghost of the uchiha, the newborn god of chakra -- gai had greatly contributed to saving the world. the jΓ΄nin had yet to process everything, the praise, the world still turning. he had done it to protect the next generation, to not have neij's death be in vain, to protect tenten, but most of all, JUST LIKE DAI HAD DONE BACK THEN, he subjected himself to a death most painful to protect his boy.
and, oh, the smile that seemed to appear on it's own accord the moment lee stepped in his room. relief washed over him like a tidal wave, despite already knowing his son was safe. β [ . . . ] my boy -- β his voice lacked the usual strength, LOUD, unabashed and unashamed, but the warmth remained. he faced madara uchiha thinking he'd never see his darling son ever again, but now there he stands, and gai cannot help but grow emotional over how much lee grew.
gai knows well the horror of watching your father open the gate of death, it pains him that he put his own son through this neccessary anguish. his hand lifts, the movement was slow, and he heardly surpressed a grunt of pain -- but that hardly matters now. β more precious -- than the air in my lungs. come here? β
i know the fanon take is that gai fucking hates obito, and i can see where these people come from. (my) gai doesn't, though, he considered obito a dear friend, he mourned for obito even years after his "death". gai is a man of second and third chances, even if no one will. he will extend his hand in friendship torwards obito.
he would very much like his pair nunchakus back, though, they should be somewhere in the kamui dimension.
sakumo was a well respected shinobi, until he sacrificed the mission's success to save a comrade's life, after which he fell from grace hard. sakumo was scorned and shunned, something he obviously took hard, and at the very end, he committed s.uicide. leaving the son he raised by himself behind.
dai was the laughing stock of the entire village, people didn't even bother to gossip behind his back, they ridiculed him to his face, "the eternal genin" was just one of many cruel nicknames. dai laughed it off, thanking everyone for cheering him on. ( acting strong and cheerful in front of gai )
UNTIL he opened the gate of death to protect his son, and gai's team mates, from the seven swordsmen of the mist. dai did not open the eight gate for konohagakure, or for glory's sake, he did it to protect his son, someone he'd gladly lay down his life for. not that the leaf cared, they celebrated maito dai as a war hero, removing kirigakure's most elite troup from the third great war entirely, weakening the hidden mist greatly.
sakumo was once respected, but lost it all which caused him to end his life. dai was ridiculed all his life, until he died protecting gai which caused him to be praised and celebrated.
team gai + their class did not have iruka as their teacher. I REFUSE. they had, uuh, what's his name, that unnamed guy.
why? because lee said not a single adult in his life, before gai, had ever been kind to him. and i refuse to believe iruka would have been cruel to lee.
would he have tried to gently persuade lee to stop being a shinobi, for his own safety because it's so much more dangerous for someone without acess to nin - and genjutsu to survive as a shinobi. or maybe to save lee from later disappointment because he wouldn't reach his goals. probably, maybe, idk. would that still be wrong of him. absolutely.
but iruka was not one of the adults who told lee he was worthless.
the sinking feeling in his guts when tsunade told him she had an urgent mission, gai asking timidly if there wasn't any substitude for him, tsunade assuring him there wasn't, she knows his situation and she wouldn't ask this of him if there was anyone else.
gai having to tell lee he won't be there for his operation, lee pretending to be brave, but obviously his dad sees right through him. they spend the day close together, lee is oddly quiet, gai leaves at night, telling lee that this is not goodbye, that they will see each other again. one way or another.
gai being out of his head all day, opening at least five gates to get the mission over as soon as possible, and then he keeps the gates open to rush back, in his own words, "as fast as possible", he's exhausted, can barely walk straight, runs into the door frame. but that doesn't matter, HOW IS LEE?
and the relief that hits him like a tidal wave when tsunade told him lee survived -- and then he spontaneously ages ten years when the staff told them lee was missing.
