notes: i posted this originally on my tumblr only but may as well post it here too
notes2: probably another piece i want to elaborate on when the time is allotted
notes3: dumb Sauce fawning over his new baby (〜￣▽￣)〜
the mamas & the papas but mostly the papas
*･゜ﾟ･*
"If you're holding her all the time, she'll never learn how to walk,"
The baby is two months old already and Sasuke feels time quickly slipping through the fingers of his only hand that cradles the precious new addition to his life. It's a baby girl with sparse dark hair and watery, shining eyes that sparkle like her mother's, and she has ten tiny fingers that Sasuke has hardly let go of since the day they brought her home.
Two months already and it's still almost inconceivable that this baby is his and Sakura's; this small, soft, wiggling being that is their biological concoction, whose heart is pumping brand new Uchiha blood since he himself was brought into this foul world so long ago.
It's the second time he's fallen in love.
"That's fine; she won't be able to leave me then,"
Sasuke bounces baby Sarada gently when she begins to throw a fit and paces around the kitchen, cooing quiet things fathers say to their daughters in hopes of quelling their unhappiness. Sakura sits at the table with a cup of tea, watching on affectionately. She had never thought it possible to be so overwhelmingly in love—at twelve years old she believed it—but the reality is so much sweeter.
"I think she's hungry," Sakura offers as she crosses the kitchen, reaching her arms out. Sasuke is reluctant to relinquish Sarada, but gives her a final squeeze and nuzzle before surrendering her to his wife who is ultimately the only one between them capable of breastfeeding.
"Sakura," he says just as she's leaving for the bedroom.
"Hm?" she turns around expectantly.
He places his hand on her shoulder gently, leaning forward to kiss the seal on her forehead. "Just remember to bring her back to me as soon as you're finished."