Promise
Moments like these she hoped she would never have to witness.
"Makoto! Makoto-kun? Do you know where Kotone-chan is?"
Silence met Yukari Takeba's question as she tried to fight back her tears.
Today was the day he had passed away, precisely two years since the event, and she couldn't find her twins anywhere. She was supposed to get them dressed for their annual visit to their father's graveyard - she couldn't keep Mitsuru-senpai waiting much longer - but the children decided to play hide-and-seek with her during the last couple of minutes.
It was then that she heard sniffling coming from the twins' room and she froze. Were her worst fears coming true?
"Makoto-kun... Kotone-chan... we must go now... you don't want to keep Aunt Mitsuru waiting, do you?"
Once again, silence was her only answer. As frustration boiled over her worry - they could tease her on any other day and she would be fine it, on any other than this one - the young mother slowly walked up the stairs of her two bedroom apartment in the heart of Tokyo (it payed off to be a part-time model and actress while trying to juggle kids and college) intent on finding her beloved children and getting them ready, knowing that their reluctance to go couldn't measure to her own.
Having finally reached their room, she stood outside and watched while holding back the waterworks again as Makoto gently wrapped his small arms around his sister (younger by five minutes, precisely, Yukari would never forget their long, complicated birth) and spoke to her in a tiny voice.
"K-Koto-chan... we n-need to go..."
"B-But I don't wanna se-see d-daddy like that!" the little girl who looked so much like her mother (but with her father's nose and eye-shape) whimpered, relaxing in her brother's loose hold. "A-Aunt Aigis promised t-that she would b-bring him b-back one day... h-he still isn't back."
Makoto shook his head and hugged her harder, putting his small head onto her fragile shoulder.
"It's alright, sister... it's alright. All we can do is trust in our Aunt Aigis. She never let us down! Remember?"
"Y-Yes..."
Their voices leveled down to whispers as the brunette slid down the wall beside their bedroom and closed her eyes, trying to collect herself, as the front door downstairs opened and a voice rang out.
"Yukari-san?"
AN: So this drabble was more about the twins than Minato and Yukari but as, for the tense and purposes of this drabble collection, they are the pair's children, I believe they should be equally as important.
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