Welcome Home.
Sometimes parenthood was easy, but more often than not it was hard, hellish, more when Sarada was too young to understand why Daddy needed to go for weeks and Mommy had to left her with her grandparents every other day.
Sarada was not a difficult child, she was quite most of the time but she had a bit of temper just like her parents, so the first times that they needed to drop her with others was horrible.
Sasuke swear that his daughter hated him when he returned home from a 3 months mission, it was the first long mission he took after the born of Sarada, and his little girl did not talk to him.
The girl knew about Daddy being a shinobi, and she understood when he had to go to missions, but she missed him and Mommy didn't scare the monsters under her bed well enough. So instead of going to greet his father after three months of not seeing him, she went to her room and refused to go out.
Sasuke had to bear the cold shoulder his daughter gave him for days.
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The next times were easier, but Sasuke had to ask Kakashi for shorter missions.
His father was always occupied with the Police Force when he was a child, though both were in the same town they rarely interact. Itachi had a lot missions since he was ANBU and couldn't spend all his free time with him. Mikoto was the only one that spent time with him, she left the shinobi life when she was pregnant of Itachi, and therefore, besides her responsibilities as wife of the Head Clan, she had time for him.
Sakura didn't have the same fortune, she wanted to remain as medical ninja and he respected her decisions. She had to split her time between the hospital and Sarada.
Sasuke didn't want Sarada felt that they left her out, he wanted her feel happy and had good memories of her childhood.
If that meant shorter and boring missions, he would accept them without a second thought.
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It was until Sarada was seven years old that he could return to the ANBU force.
"Okaerinasai!" a happy voice greeted him when he came home from a two months mission.
"Tadaima"
Once upon a time he would come to an empty house. Now a days he had a daughter that waited to welcome him.
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He still doesn't regret to reject longer, more exciting, missions.