A/N: I have this fascination with the fic "Kakashi's Kid" by Silimaira. Wakana is great, really, and it's a lot of fun to read about her and her brother. So yeah, I got permission to put this little thing here, for that, and actually there was a bit of back and forth messaging so this got better than it used to be between sending it in a review and posting it now, too.
I'm just going to name Silimaira as the Beta, because, well, that's really what it was.
Hope ya'll enjoy their fic, and this omake for it, as much as I do. Join us as the world falls pray to the- Err, well, you know the drill.
"You promised!"
It makes her smile to hear him shout that, and, "You remembered," she calls back. He looks almost insulted to hear that - no, actually, he really does look insulted. But it seems to fade quickly to give room for what she can only call fear.
"Stupid," he insults her, but he sounds so scared, that she doesn't take offense. And they're siblings, they're allowed to insult each other like that, anyway, so it doesn't matter in the slightest. "Of course I remembered, how could I forget? You didn't forget, did you? Your promise?"
His need to clarify is actually more insulting than any other possible insults, because it laughs in her face and tells her she's been a horrible sister, way worse than Itachi had been in the original world, no matter what he would have said to defend himself. There are some things you just don't do to your siblings regardless of how much it might protect them, and forcing them to watch their family get murdered over and over again is one of those things. She wouldn't be that sibling. She couldn't hurt him that way, too. She'd done enough already.
"Relax, just sit tight and wait there for me, okay? I'll be home before you know it."
He didn't look too convinced but with the situation as it was, it wasn't as if he could just grab her hand and drag her along back home. For that matter, it wasn't all that safe for her, either, without some major explaining. Who knew what could happen if she wandered back into Konoha and the wrong people spotted her first. Technically, she'd left. Maybe she hadn't meant for it to happen that way, but all the same.
...So maybe it was for the best, that she took a leaf out of Itachi's book of breaking promises to a sibling when it came to spending time with them. She'd already done it with other situations that Itachi'd been supposed to go through instead of her, so this last thing was another one she didn't mind following through.
She wasn't scared of death, anyhow- she'd already been proven that there was life after. Intricate sealing work for a teenager did, surprisingly, very good work, so everyone else would be safe enough to fix the rest. And maybe she'd get to live in this world again, next life. It was a possibility she could hope for.
But oh, if it wouldn't be weird to be a little kid in the company of adults she'd seen as children, though... She might struggle with that.
"Wakana!" A second, deeper voice joined her brother's. She paused. Her father had never once sounded worse to her. She wasn't going to stop what she was doing now, though, it was too late. And even if it wasn't, it was a small price to pay. Not half as searing a price as the terror she heard in the voice of the man she'd wanted to impress the most.
He was probably going to blame himself a lot, he had that problem. He'd have to snap out of it for 'Kato's sake, however, or she was gonna haunt him for all of eternity.