Feeling a little melancholy today so it's a sad story. DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS.

I feel the letter slip out of my shaking hands. This is just a dream, only a dream. This letter doesn't say he's never coming home. He told me he was coming home to stay, so home he will come. That's what I tell myself so I feel better. The lies morph into truth the more I tell them. He's okay, he's coming home. He is going to watch our baby be born and grow up and we will have more. But deep inside I know this isn't true. Our unborn child will never meet his father, and his face will haunt me. I will see Sasuke in him as a boy, a teenager, and adult. I could never escape him if I wanted to. Time cannot heal what has happened. Time won't make the pain any less. Time will not bring my Sasuke-kun back. No, the only thing time will bring me is pain.