No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? - Albert Einstein
Uchiha Sasuke wasn't a sentimental person but there was something about this certain keepsake that he couldn't get himself to throw away. He was currently cleaning out the Uchiha compound as his wife Sakura was quickly nearing her due date. He had to make sure everything was ready before the baby came.
Said woman made her way down the staircase, hand on her back as she sported a healthy pregnant glow. She seemed to grow even more beautiful as the years went on. Sasuke gingerly smiled at the woman he had found himself loving more and more every day. Seeing that her gaze was on his most treasured item he looked up at her with a cautious gaze. He had known her to be excessively emotional; even more so, during the past eight and a half months. Surprisingly she gave him a gentle smile and placed the item back into the box.
"I understand." She smiled at him, although he could see a bit of sorrow in her normally vibrant jade eyes.
He knew she blamed only herself for a small part of him not being able to love her fully, but it definitely wasn't her fault, no matter how much she thought it was. There was only one person to blame. He had gotten softer over the years he silently mused as he looked at her stomach and lightly kissed it; letting her know he was in it until the end.
He liked his life now; it was everything he had thought it would be, albeit with a few changes. There were times when he wondered how differently things would have been had she been with him instead, but for the most part he could not complain.
Although he did reckon it's true what they say.
First loves do last a lifetime.