[He knows when he goes home, everything will be alright. But every day just feels like it gets harder. Gokudera has purpose in his boss, looking after Tsuna, and focusing on being his friend. But he can’t rely too much on anyone, when the length of their stays in this world is so unpredictable.

He used that disaster as a distraction from the pain of losing Aurora, and… Zuko could have been gone longer, and Gokudera would not have known, so preoccupied with fighting to keep New Camelot safe.

Gokudera draws a line through what he’d written and shakes his head.]

I thought that just a haiku would be simple enough. Help me focus on something else… and then I could submit it to Monika… since she’s got that literature club…