{Author's Note}

———————————————————————————Jan 14, 2025

• I'm a big fan of SasuSaku and I really love the idea of how they got together post war. I've watched all of Naruto and Naruto Shippuden as well as a lot (if not all of) the movies and some of Boruto. I haven't read the manga though.

• I'm also not very educated on what happened after the war so there may be things that aren't canon but I do want to try my hardest to keep this story as canon as possible and keep the characters as faithful to the source material as possible.

• I'll try to keep the timeline the way that it is canonically (although, I'm not sure when exactly some of the events take place) but everything will mostly add up the way it should!

• I may screw up a bit so forgive me in advance but I'll try my best! Thank you for reading!

———————————————————————————July 22, 2025

Hello new readers! Welcome to the first installment of my "Patient Love" series!

I recently realized just how obsessed I am with The Blank Period, so I decided that I'll be making "Patient Love" a series! Each story will be written separately and will all have different plots and perspectives of what could've happened when Sasuke and Sakura travelled the world together.

This is the first and original version of the series that is currently to come. This story also happens to be the one that I had the most fun writing and I'm more than proud with my work here (despite the occasional mistakes I made), so I'm happy to write different versions of SasuSaku's love story for any of you guys who are also obsessed with this stage in their lives.

With that said, I hope you enjoy reading version 1 of "Patient Love" as much as I enjoyed writing it! And if you like this story, then please go read the other versions of this story as they come out!

Thank you! And have a wonderful day!❤️‍🔥💖