Yes. When your father...it's alright to think of him that way...worked for me. Hinata and Neji were my younger siblings. And Kakashi was my brother in law. Now I am the last of our family.

[Saori's expression flickers from neutrality to sadness briefly, wisps of memory floating through the back of her mind. Brother. Sister. Faces and false remembrances...]

I imagine he felt the same way about you. A brother. Because some relationships are made, not born.