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constellations
(flock of birds)
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He dresses like he's about to pack up and leave any moment. His clothes are made for travel, his home is spartan, and sometimes the way he looks at the gates is the way that she wishes he would look at her.
The years have taken and taken from him, and all that he's been left with is the faint smell of smoke and the propensity to spiral to the sky, float away.
It is something she cannot deny any longer: he does not belong here.
Things were good for them, in spite of it all. They were finally all back together, and the word family had never meant so much to her. Time had given her a dream that she'd thought impossible for so long.
It is some kind of bliss.
They train in the summery afternoons, lay in the long grass and watch the clouds and birds pass by as the days grow longer, and see stars at the bottoms of fizzy bottles by night.
He looks at her in wonderment. He looks at her, and she feels like this was where they're meant to be.
But even though he smirks at Naruto's antics and rolls his eyes at Kakashi's excuses and mountains of paperwork, even though he holds her hand in the moments when the air is quiet and sun glows golden, she knows.
It is only a matter of time. It is only a matter of time until he leaves.
And she does not know if she will stop him.
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notes: this is a series of ficlets with large gaps of time in between which I call wanderer!verse. another reposting from tumblr; there are more of these uploaded over there, but I'll release them slower here. I'm actually really happy with this verse, so I hope you will be too!
thank you for all the support! AND YES, I AM STILL INTERNALLY SCREAMING ABOUT BEING CANON. I CRIED BUCKETS. as a result, salad chan fics to follow soon. (I call her salad chan tongue in cheek, but she'll be sarada in all real writing.)
(and yes, I did change my username again. I'm fickle. just as a reminder I used to be seleneswan, then I was hermiones, and now I'm windsilk. this one is probably going to stick around for a long, long time.)