A/N: I'm sorry everyone! I said that I wouldn't continue this story, but Lunar Chasmodai just convinced me to continue… I'm so easily persuaded… Anyway, I'm sorry again, but this chapter doesn't really seem to have much to do with the last chapter, except for at the end. I'm thinking of changing this into another story all together, but I'll see what everyone says first.

Sasuke sighed as he unlocked the front door of his house and removed his shoes. He looked behind him and saw Naruto grumbling about something before entering in the house as well.

"Okay, stop glaring a hole in my head. I'll make you miso ramen if you'll stop," Sasuke began gently cajoling with the blonde. He unwrapped the scarf from his neck and tossed it onto the couch.

Naruto crossed his arms defiantly together but nodded grudgingly. "Fine…"

The dark haired boy smiled to himself and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for the other one. "I can't believe you did that, you idiot…" He heard as he shuffled into his somewhat clean kitchen.

"Look, at least we don't have to worry about my creepy stalkers and fangirls… Unless they're really so thick headed that they still think I'm interested in girls," Sasuke called out from the kitchen. He looked around a bit for the ingredients that he needed.

"Hey, it's snowing… hard!" Naruto yelled out to Sasuke after about half an hour of wandering around the house. Sasuke poked his head out the doorway. He saw the blonde with his face plastered to his once clean windows.

"Hm?" He wiped his hands dry on a towel and walked out. The curtains were pulled away from the windows, a courtesy from Naruto, and it was indeed snowing hard.

"I hope it ends soon. I still have to get back home…" Naruto mumbled onto the glass, making his breath spread out on the cold glass. He pulled his forehead away from the glass, leaving an oily print on it.

Sasuke blinked at the nicely decorated window before walking back into the kitchen. "Yeah, it'll be bad if you get snowed in…"

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"I don't think I'll be able to go home today, Sasuke…" Naruto peered outside the windows again. It was extremely dark outside and the snow hadn't stopped. If anything, it probably became harder than before.

"What? Seriously?" the Uchiha stood behind the blonde and placed his hand on his shoulder, leaning on him a bit to see outside as well. Little mounds of snow were everywhere. He tilted his head a bit to see where his door was. A giant mountain had conveniently cumulated in front of it.

It was Naruto's turn to sigh heavily, clouding up the glass with his breath.

"Stop that…" Sasuke complained, pulling on his hair to get his face away from the glass. He pulled out a tissue from a nearby box and wiped the glass off again.

"Owww…" Naruto whined and skittered away from the window.

"Well, I guess you'll have to stay here for today…" he crumpled up the tissue, pulled the curtains together again, and threw the ball away.

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"Hey! Are you done yet? I need to brush my teeth! Get out!" Sasuke banged on the door of his bathroom. Naruto was in there changing.

"Stop making such a racket!" came the slightly muffled reply. The door swung inward abruptly and a slightly annoyed looking Naruto stood at the doorway. He was dressed in Sasuke's pajamas. "You Uchihas are really obsessed with your family crest, huh?" Naruto picked at the collar of the pajamas, looking down distastefully at the small red and white fans printed all over it.

"Shut up," the boy snapped, dragging Naruto out of the bathroom and slamming the door in his face.

When Sasuke reopened the door and went back into his room, a large lump was already occupying his bed. He stalked over to the edge of it and pulled the blankets down rudely. "Get out."

"Waah, cold!" Naruto squealed, clawing at the blankets.

"Get out of my bed! You're sleeping on the couch, dobe!" Sasuke pulled the blankets off the bed and let the blonde squirm around in the sudden cold.

"But your bed is big enough for both of us!" he tried to persuade him while sitting up to steal the blanket again.

"No! Get off," the Uchiha dropped the blanket on the floor and grabbed Naruto by the ankles, dragging him off.

"Gwaah, Sasuke-teme!" Naruto's fingers latched onto the top of his headboard and wouldn't let go. "Let me sleep here! It's cold!"

"Oof!" Sasuke let go of the struggling boy, thus making him fall onto the bed again. Naruto scrambled to the edge of the bed and snatched the blanket off the ground, hugging it protectively.

"Please?" his eyes widened innocently.

Dark, sullen eyes bore into them. Sasuke glared at him for a full five seconds before turning away quickly, leaving Naruto sitting there, confused. He went outside the room and didn't come back for a few minutes. When he did come back, he had a pillow stuffed under his arm.

"Move over. I'm getting the right side," he muttered in a defeated voice.

"Yay!" Naruto squealed, his eyes closed. He threw the blanket open, making it cover Sasuke's head since he was just leaning over to put the pillow down. All Naruto could see when he opened his eyes again was a dark form standing up with two wildly waving arms from underneath the blanket.

"Stop messing around!" Sasuke yelled at him and pulled the blanket off his head. He gathered up the blanket and sat on the edge of the bed. He was scowling again, like years ago when he was always brooding.

"I'm sorry," the blonde apologized quietly, hugging Sasuke from behind.

The dark haired boy could do nothing to restrain the smile that went on his face. "S'okay, let's just go to sleep…" He felt the bed shake as Naruto bounced away from the hug and laid down on the pillow clumsily.

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"Ohayo, Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun!" Sakura greeted as she opened the door to her house. Somewhere within it came sounds of some food being prepared. "Thanks for coming," she said, her eyes still closed since she was smiling so widely. When she opened them to let them in, she was surprised with the sight of two very grim boys.

She ignored the atmosphere of the sight for a few moments before asking them, "What's wrong? Why do you two look so sleep deprived?" And so they were. Bags under their eyes revealed that. When she received nothing but a shrug from Sasuke, she dropped the topic.

Sasuke shuffled into the house after stomping some of the snow off his feet. Sakura turned around and continued talking. "Sorry to ask you two to come over all of a sudden, but didn't feel like studying scrolls by myself," her voice dropped, "Besides, I want to know more about your relationship that you've been keeping so hush-hush about!"

The pink haired girl laughed playfully. She stopped when she watched Naruto hobble into the house. Her eyes darted over to Sasuke as he pulled his scarf off his neck. She frowned a bit and grabbed both their arms, dragging them into her room without another word.

"Ow, ow, ow! Sakura-chan, not so fast…" Naruto whined quietly as they stormed into her room.

"Okay. What's up with you two? Why are you hobbling around, Naruto? And what are those red marks on your neck, Sasuke?" Sakura interrogated them the second the door closed.

Sasuke looked at her with blank eyes but sweatdropped. Naruto blushed and his eyes darted away from her face. He muttered something incoherently and rubbed the back of his head.

Sakura blinked. A few seconds passed before she drawled out nervously, "Alright, let's just pretend I didn't ask that…" she hurried over to her desk and pulled out several scrolls and threw them at the two boys.

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The room was dark. The only sound that filled it was the sound of heavy breathing. Really. Heavy breathing. Okay, so it was more like snoring…

Sasuke woke up and looked to his left groggily. Nartuo's mouth was wide open and he was snoring incredibly loudly. "Stop snoring, dobe…" he slurred and kicked Naruto hard.

"Gnrph!" he yelped as he fell off the bed. "Owww! My leg!"

The dark haired boy blinked sleepily and peered over the edge of the bed to pull him back up. "S'rry…" he muttered. When Naruto was done rubbing his leg and curling into a fetal position, they fell asleep again.

It wasn't too long before there was another disturbance in their sleep.

"Hm?" It was Naruto's turn to wake up. Something was on his neck. It was wet. Wet? "Sasuke-TEME! You're drooling on me!" he screeched. His right hand grabbed Sasuke's neck as he jolted up, pulling Sasuke up as well.

"Gack," Sasuke choked. He clawed at his neck as he felt Naruto's nails dig into his flesh. His thumb was effectively blocking his airway. Naruto didn't pay attention to the suffocating boy and squealed about his slobbered on neck.

"Oh my gawd, Sasuke!" he finally screamed when he saw that he was choking him. "I'm so sorry! You're bleeding, Sasuke!" His nails had dug in so deeply that blood was oozing out of the wounds.

Sasuke gasped for air when his neck was released and he fell back onto the bed. "Naru-TO! Why the heck are you sucking my neck! This isn't helping the bleeding, BAKAAAA!"

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"S-Sakura-chan! It's not what you think it is!" Naruto squeaked embarrassedly, waving his hands around, panicking.

"It's okay, Naruto, you don't have to explain to me," Sakura smiled nervously and unrolled her scroll.

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"Neeh, I can't believe Sakura thought of that the wrong way…" Naruto frowned deeply as they trudged down the streets again.

"Hn," Sasuke was quiet again.

"What? You don't think it's a big deal? She'll probably spread the rumor to everyone or something!" he threw his hands into the air to emphasize his point.

"It's not that I don't mind, it's just that there's nothing we can do about it… You know Sakura…" Sasuke shrugged again. "But still… We're what? Sixteen? What kind of sickos does she think we are?"

"Yeah, that's just gross, isn't it?" Naruto shuddered, but not because of the cold. His eyes darted to a nearby telephone pole.

"Sasuke-kuun!" an overly high pitched voice came from behind it. A girl ran out from behind it, her arms outstretched in the action of wanting to glomp said person. "Sasuke-kun, I won't believe that you don't like girls!"

Sasuke looked at the girl and in one swift motion pulled out a kunai, took careful aim, and threw it at a wall only inches away from her head. That effectively made her shut up. Her eyes widened as she screeched and ran away quickly. The Uchiha nonchalantly pulled the kunai out of the wall again and put it back into his pouch.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at him. "Don't you think that's a little too forceful? You could have just pushed her away or something… That was random though…" he scratched his head thoughtfully.

Sasuke tilted his head to one side innocently. The blonde rolled his eyes at the action. It was something that Sasuke had barely picked up from being with him for too long. It was kind of scary to see Sasuke act so innocent, but Naruto was getting used to it.

"Hey, Naruto?"

"What, Sasuke.."

"My lips are pretty dry right now…" A small metal container flew at his head. Sasuke was barely able to catch it before it hit him. He looked at it and opened the lid. Beeswax.

"Here you go," Naruto grinned evilly at him.

"That wasn't what I meant…" Sasuke muttered, defeated.

Ice and snow crunched under their feet as they walked, or limped, along the street. The sun was vainly trying to warm up the air a bit, but failed in doing so again. Thin clouds strewed the sky carelessly. Though no bird sang in the brittle cold, the two boys were warm as could be.