like tethers, like anchors, like wings

Tenten knew, of course, that normal children had a father and a mother, and other relatives. She learned about clans, and what they meant. Most people talked about power and influence in the same breath; later she would learn about lines of heritage going back a hundred generations and kekkei genkai borne in the blood, would know the darker sides of forced familial loyalties and very old traditions.But Tenten’s four-year-old heart could find nothing but one meaning in the word: Belonging.It meant you had a home.