1 year
A year passes too quickly. It doesn't seem right to think the world's kept on running and new children are born and she keeps on living like nothing happened at all. It doesn't seem right that she should get to go on and nothing ought to happen to her when she failed to save her sensei?
What sort of a student can't do a little thing like that? What healer lets someone so important to them die, and keeps on calling themselves a healer?
It's barely a word, a bitter hiss that she almost doesn't realize she vocalizes. "It should have been me."
5 years
Naruto has a child now. She thinks Kakashi would have been excessively exasperated to know the child was named after him. She thinks he might like the child anyway.
It seems right that she doesn't have one.
She still doesn't think she should be entrusted with another life after the ones she failed to save in the war.
She sighs softly, staring down at the stone. "…You should have been there. It's…probably would have been funny if you were there."
10 years
"Naruto was made hokage today."
She kneels on the dirt in front of the grave as usual, hands settled on her lap, and stares down at the worn letters.
In the distance, crisp black letters stand on a proud gravestone, placed with honor among the other past hokage.
Her fingers knit together at her knees, and for awhile she's silent, because she doesn't need to speak about who died. He would know.
Minutes pass in silence.
Finally she speaks. "…I'm going to have a child."