It is two years before Uchiha Sasuke returns to Konohagakure.
Two years, and probably would've been more, had the village not been in mortal peril, Sasuke thinks, and he tears his gaze away from from the colossal, rocky mass before him, shattered into thousands of electrified pieces by the force of his Raikiri.
His repentance is far from complete, his journey far from over.
He has not yet earned the right to return.
Sasuke's cloak whips past the gate before the first dust begins to settle.