There is a place for what was, and a place for what could have been. Sasuke tells himself that none of it will ever matter, because the ending will always be the same.

There is the sky above him—the sky that reminds him of the boy he had left behind in Konoha and the boy he had met somewhere in Kusa—but there is nothing particularly beautiful about the sky. [10 things that never happened to Uchiha Sasuke.]