Balancing Act (Obi-Wan Kenobi x Reader)

🪐Chapter Thirty-Four🪐

"Time together as a family is a gift"

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Chapter Thirty-Four

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Translations

Mando'a

Buir - Parent

Vode - Preferred name for clones

Vode Ketin - Council of Vode

Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad - Mandalorian adoption vow - lit. "I Know your name as my child"

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Your family was visiting Mandalore for the first time as a group. You'd been Mand'alor for nearly six months and hadn't been able to find a time that worked for all of you. The war was still dragging on, and with it, all of you had been kept separated for terribly long periods of time. At this point it was hard to ignore the feeling that it felt purposeful - all of you being on different ends of the galaxy at any given time. With what you had slowly been learning about the war, the clones, and the Sith, you were almost certain such things were on purpose.

But now, Anakin and Obi-Wan were fresh off a mission that led them to team up with the infamous Bad Batch. You'd met them a couple of times before, and found them to be an odd but enjoyable bunch. Cody was incredibly close with them and Drifter was by extension, so you knew them well. Apparently, on this last mission, they had located Echo, Fives' batchmate who had supposedly died on an old mission. Because of the discovery, the 501st was given a short period of leave time for their injured member to reacclimate and decide what he wanted to do with his newfound freedom. You'd welcomed him to Mandalore a day ago, along with the Bad Batch, Cody, and Rex, so he could reunite with Fives. His new modifications were slightly offputting, but you were happier to see him alive than anything.

The 501st's leave time just so happened to line up with the 212th's leave as well, allowing Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka to come to Mandalore for a week before returning to the war. Even more coincidentally, Senator Padme Amidala - one of your favorite women in the universe - was staying planetside on Senate business. The Senate was worried about your plans for the future of Mandalore and sent her in hopes of either pulling you into the Republic or at least having you remain neutral.

Their timing in this situation couldn't have been better, as you were about to introduce a new member into the family.

At this point, it was a bit difficult to keep track of all your relations. From mysterious old grandmasters to clones you had adopted to keep safe, your family tree was most certainly one of the most interesting out there. Every time you added a new person your sister called from Othan to yell at you for putting so much stress on the Royal Recordkeeper. You could admit you had a bit of a problem. Obi-Wan often grumbled about how you had Qui-Gon's habit of "picking up strays" but it just couldn't be helped at this point. You did as the Force guided and clearly, it wanted you to have a large family made up of all sorts of people, and who were you to argue with such a thing?

This new member was a bit more normal than fully grown clones, however. A month ago, the Separatists had attacked a town full of civilians and although you sent in your commandos to protect them, it was too late for a young boy's parents. The boy, Din Djarin, had been slow to open up to you and even slower to accept your offer of adoption, but you moved entirely at his pace to make sure that he was comfortable and emphasized that you weren't attempting to replace his birth parents.