Chapter 22: Year 8, Month 8

"Park, park, park!"

Three-year-old Keiko glared up at Sasuke, who smiled and shook his head, pointing to the mission scroll in his hand. She had been expecting him to take her to park that day, as he had promise days ago, but now he was denying his young daughter what he had promised.

"You pwomised!"

"I know, I know. I got this last minute, I'm sorry Keiko."

The young child stuck her bottom lip out in a pout, before crossing her arms over her chest and keeping her glare on her father. Sasuke didn't have a clue on how to make his daughter happy with him again, until Sanosuke walked into the room.

"Sanosuke can take you to the park."

"Really?!"

"…what?"

Sanosuke watched Keiko as she ran to the sandbox at the park, yelling at him to come and play with her. Sighing, he followed her, sitting on the edge of sandbox. He loved Keiko, he really did. The only problem was that he had planned to do some of his homework once he got home, but Sasuke sent him off to the park with Keiko. Sanosuke understood why, since Sasuke had promised he would take Keiko to the park, but had to break the promise at the last minute for a mission.

"Keiko, I don't want to play in the sandbox. Wouldn't you rather swing?"

Keiko looked at Sanosuke, shaking her head and turning back to the sand castle she was trying to build. "I like sandbox."

"You need a 'the' in there, sis."

She shrugged. "I like sand…"

Sanosuke shook his head, looking around for a moment, before sliding down into the sandbox with Keiko, helping her even out one of the towers of her castle. "Let me help you."

Keiko's eyes brightened, as her smile grew wider. She nodded, and continued working on her sand castle.

I hope none of my friends see me… especially Minato…

"Look good to you?"

"Mm-hm!" Keiko smiled while taking hold of her brother's hand and looking back to the sand castle. They had spent much longer than they had planned, as the sun was beginning to set. Their castle took up most of the sand in the box, and it became larger than Keiko had originally thought it would be. She loved it in the end though, as when they were finished she started jumping up and down while yelling 'All done!'

"Ready to go home? I bet mom has dinner ready."

"Sure!"

Sanosuke smiled and shook his head a bit as they started walking home. It was getting darker by the second, and all he was hoping was that they would get home before it got too dark.

"Sano-chan?"

"Hm?"

"Thank you for taking me to the park."

"…You're welcome."

END CHAPTER 22

Author's Note: Well, that's another one in the books~
Sweet little Sanosuke with his adorable baby sister. It makes me love writing this fanfic even more.
Also, sorry it's so short. My mind didn't want to make everything work, but I got it done, didn't I?

My parents brought back this AWESOME peach cobbler jam from Georgia. I've never been one for jam, but this is delicious.

Yeah, so, remembered how I said I was playing Pokemon Blue?
My in-game name is Sasuke, my rival Naruto, and my starter was a Bulbasaur named Sakura. :D
I played HeartGold over again a while ago, (still working on Kanto actually) and I named myself after my OC, Asuna, and all my Pokemon were named after Naruto characters. :3 If I remember, I'll post which character was what Pokemon~

And then The World Ends with You. Does anyone else just love that game? I wish I had a 3DS so I could play KH:DDD, mostly for the fact TWEWY is in it, and so is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is my third favorite Disney movie. And I just love Kingdom Hearts so much.

I'll see you next week with our new chapter~!