After Sasuke’s confession, the two of you were forced apart to responsibilities. Yet something fundamental had shifted. Where there had once been silence and uncertainty, there were a quiet assurance that neither of you intended to let what you’d found slip away. It was Sasuke who initiated this meeting, choosing a place where the village was visible but not yet reached, a boundary he had crossed countless times before—once in defiance, once in exile, and now in contemplation.