Author's Note: So I decided that this little fiction will be my dumping ground for all family SasuSaku moments.
Pairing: SasuSaku
Summary: Sasuke rarely indulges in good weather but sometimes, the right company can change his habits.
When Mother is Away
When mother is away the children will play.
It is a lazy Saturday afternoon and the sun streams in through the open window leaving patterned patches of light on the floor. Outside, the flush leaves of a young tree flutter sporadically in the gentle breeze.
Sasuke sits at his desk as he quietly finishes up some paperwork, occasionally glancing up to look out the window at the blue sky. He muses that today is a rare day of good weather in monsoon season and that it would be waste to spend it indoors completing paperwork.
The scuffling of small feet outside his door breaks his concentration as he turns to catch the verdant eyes of his three year old daughter. She peeks at him from behind the door frame, hesitant to go in. She knows not to bother her father when he is busy working. But today, the house is still and silent with her mother away on an extended mission and the small Uchiha is lonely.
"Daddy?" questions the young child with innocent eyes.
Are you busy, hangs unspoken in the soft silence.
Sasuke glances back at his half-filled paperwork before turning to look at his daughter as his face softens into something of an almost-smile.
"No, I'm not busy," states Sasuke with a gentleness that he would not have thought he was capable of in the past. He pushes back his office chair and stands, stretching the tired muscles in his back, before extending an open hand to his child. And this is all the permission the small Uchiha needs as her eyes widen with sunlit joy. She scampers over to her father and places a small soft hand in his large calloused one as he closes his fingers protectively over hers. Liquid eyes gaze up at him adoringly, in the way that only children can, before she begins tugging him toward the door.
It would be a waste to not enjoy this weather, Sasuke inwardly reasons, as he willingly lets himself be led away by small guiding hands.
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