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SasuSaku Month 2017
Day 10: Photograph

It’s one of those rare occasions when Sasuke stays longer
than a week in one place during his travels. As he returns one afternoon to the
inn the innkeeper calls out to him before he can head to his room. “This
arrived earlier for you, sir.” He takes the package and nods a thanks before he
retires to his quarters.

He places the box in the table, it’s a medium sized wrapped
in gift paper more fit for a baby shower than anything else. It is baby blue
with small ducklings, the same they had used to wrap Boruto’s first birthday
present.

He sets the navy blue ribbon aside and opens the box. It
contains an assortment of snacks, the tomato flavored potato chips he’ll never
admit he loves, the sweet cherry chocolate Sakura loves and forces him to eat,
and Sarada’s favorite the sour candy shaped in the form of little toads.

It’s a taste of home and he smiles at the small message on
the snacks. Eat this and think of us.

There are a bunch of letters wrapped in a yellow ribbon and Sarada written on them in messy
handwriting.

And then there’s a single letter, apart from the rest. Sakura, it reads in her elegant writing
that she uses on reports. He opens her letter and two pieces of paper fall out.
Just a little something to keep us with
you always.

There’s a photograph of those he loves most in the world.
Sarada smiles brightly hugging her panda bear to her so tightly that the bears
head looks as if it were about to explode. She sits in her mother’s lap, Sakura
looks tired but yet she smiles.

Sasuke wants nothing more than to be back home.