Word Count: 98
Warning: Sasuke-in-a-bucket arc
Characters: Naruto, Sakura, hints of Sasuke and Gai
Pairings: none
Other: Sister fic to Regrets
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Every day Naruto glanced at a forehead protector that was not his and remembered a promise that he had made, and broken, but still intended to keep.
Uchiha Sasuke, the boy he had failed to save.
Every day that they were both in Konoha Naruto and Sakura exchanged smiles and pleasantries. Every day Naruto felt like he had let her down. (He hadn't but he thought he had)
The old picture of the first ever Team Kakashi lay in a draw full of regrets. Sasuke's forehead protector and the outfit that Gai had given him made their home there as well.
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