What was a home?

Not like Katsu knew anything about homes. She only knew about her safe places and they weren't the same as homes.

Plenty of people tell her that her home is the house she and her father live in.

It was not.

Some say it was the places you felt most safest in and secure.

Again. It was not.

So now Katsu was stuck. What was a home. Did she even have one. Why were people so confident on where their homes were except her?

All these questions spiraled from a singular question on her homework. It was an assignment passed around to both the academy and the civilian school to somehow show unity between ninja and civilians. It asked topics and toddler could answer. Like:

What is your hobbies?

Who is your family?

And the single question Katsu debates on:

Describe your home.

If Katsu could answer math problems more complicated than what she should be learning, why couldn't she answer this single question?! Her hand shook every time she tried to write an answer.

Why couldn't she answer?!

The next day, Katsu ended up having a missing assignment she would never turn in.

Itachi walked down the streets, taking his time to get home. The eyes of the people didn't bother him anymore. It was a normal daily thing.

Even with all the civilians looking at him, he felt excitement. He had recently learned he would have a little brother in no time. Something about that made him excited.

Being a single child wasn't all it was meant out to be. All the focus and attention was put on you. You were the one everyone is looking at. But now with his new sibling arriving, some of that will be lifted from his chest.

Although, most of it would still be put on him. He was the older sibling. The one that was going to succeed. He was the prodigy.

But for now, he could spend his time as an only child.

"Yo! Itachi!" Shisui came bouncing up to his friend, eyes glimmering, "Heard about the baby!"

Itachi stopped in his footsteps to face his friend. He gave a little nod, conforming the news.

"Cool! You'll have to be changing diapers and feeding a baby soon!" Shisui laughed, nudging itachi with his elbow.

Itachi nodded, "Of course I will. A baby can't do it all on his own."

Shisui lifted a hand to his heart in a dramatic gesture. "Itachi, are you sure you want to go through the hardships of being a older brother."

It's not like Shisui had any siblings but he had to go through babysitting missions. They weren't fun.

"It's not like you had any experience, Shisui-San." Itachi spoke back.

Shisui grinned, putting his arm around itachi, "Aw, always stateing the obvious. Huh."

The two continued their way down the street.

"Wait no!"

Katsu ran down the streets, chasing after a small machine with wheels. It moved quickly, even dodging things in its path.

"Come back here!"

Katsu had been spending some time playing around with her objects. She currently was making a machine that would be able to navigate on its own. Let's say, this was her first prototype.

"Watch out-!"

CRASH!

Katsu crashes into Shisui, knocking him onto a nearby trash can. The machine Katsu was chasing after was caught by itachi, the wheels still whirling.

"Ow. Hey Katsu-Chan!" Shisui cries out.

Katsu was on the ground, scratches on her legs and arms.

"Ahh! Your bleeding!"

She was lifted off the ground by Shisui who checked over the girl in worry. Katsu wasn't amused.

"Let me down you good for nothing Uchiha."

She was let down quickly by Shisui.

"Katsu." Itachi greeted, "I'm assuming this is yours." He handed over the machine which was still moving.

"Ah! Thank god!" Katsu snatched the machine off of itachi's hands, turning the battery off. "Thanks a lot."

"No problem."

Shisui looked between the two confused. "Wait. Hold on, have you two been having hangouts without me or something?"

Shisui didn't remember the two being this talkative towards each other. The last time he saw them, they barely said a word.

"Yea. You weren't invited cuz nobody wanted to see your ugly face." Katsu stuck her tongue out, mocking Shisui.

Shisui gasped dramatically, "I see now!" He pointed at the two, "you've been having some sort of secret romance!"

"EW! NO!" "NO!"

Katsu and itachi both cried out. Shisui let out a evil grin.

"You've been having secret meetings, declaring your love for each other-"

Before Shisui could finish, Katsu had kicked his legs, causing him to stumble to the ground.

"Hey! So not cool Katsu-Chan!"

Katsu couldn't find her prototype from earlier. She had left it on her bed but it went missing once she came back from eating.

She had to find it in order to improve it but she had no clue where it could be.

At least until she looked through the garbage.

There it was in all its glory. The gently crafted device she had worked on crushed and thrown away into the trash. Maybe Katsu was being childish but she wanted to cry.

She had spent weeks on that single machine and it was thrown away like nothing. Who had even thrown it away!? She had an idea of who it was but it didn't matter anyway.

Nothing mattered after all. Her stupid machines were useless. Who would want a robot like that anyway. She should throw all her devices she made away.

Katsu shook her head, years beginning to form. There was no way she was going to throw them all away! Why was she even thinking this way! Her mind was a mess and she had no clue of fixing it.

Katsu left her broken work and went to her room, staying up all night to work on another project.

A/N- Sorry for not posting in a long while. I got extremely sick and afterwards, had no drive to write anything. Anyways! Katsu is a spiraling into a complete mess so this is supposed to show that. Also along how she's begining to overthink things and hide under a mask and all that. This chapter took a lot of rewrites and I'm not too happy with the end result and there might be some errors in writing but this is what I can do for now.

Also! Thanks to Jazzmeene and again, Seshaddict for leaving reviews! I'm so happy you both enjoy my story!