Dew glistened on the large petals of the Sickle Flower as the early morning sun kissed their waxen skin. Sasuke fluttered his wings, ridding them of the moisture that had gathered after flying all the way from his home on the other side of the forest. Rays of light were just beginning to hedge through the uneven gaps in the leaves. He arched his back and spread his wings so that he could absorb the heat of the sun and dry off.

Then, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a pack of smokes. He took out a cigarette, reaching in the other pocket for a lighter filled with a red gooey substance that was often gathered from the sap of Rude trees. If he didn't smoke at least two cigarettes before the start of the day, he became irritable.

Sasuke exhaled a ring of smoke, inhaled, then shot out another ring that went through the center of the first ring. He scratched at a spot on his bare chest with a single finger as he pulled his knees up and stretched out his toes. As the tip of the cigarette turned to ash, Sasuke jammed it into the leaf, burning a hole right through it.

"Hey man," came a familiar voice, "Is that any way to treat our fellow forest brethren? Didn't I make you an ashtray the other week out of clay and friendship?"

"It broke when it got thrown into a wall."

Naruto flexed the muscles of his back and bent over to touch his toes, but then his position changed into a Downward Facing Dog.

"You'd be better off sticking that cigarette up your ass, you know," Naruto said as he lifted one leg after the other into the air like he was about to take a piss on a fire hydrant.

Sasuke, briefly, watched the way Naruto's stomach muscles pulled taut. He mashed the cigarette into the leaf again. "Yeah, well, that would really get in the way of my yoga, wouldn't it?"

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the leaf today." Naruto tutted. "You don't know how good we have it here. The birds are singing, the sun's out."

Sasuke scoffed. "And on the other side of this forest, humans are burning down trees to build their fast food restaurants and their health spas."

"Why do you always have to be such a downer all the time, man?" Naruto sat down next to Sasuke without asking if he could.

Sasuke noticed the way Naruto smelt of freshly fallen rain mixed with sweat and wet toilet paper.

"Yeah, you like that?" Naruto sniffed himself. "It's this new Fairy cologne Sakura bought me from Fairy Tesco's Express."

Sasuke wrinkled his nose. "Yeah, well it smells like ass."

"You only wish you could sniff my ass, you dog."

"Bend over and I'll give it more than a sniff, Naruto."

"Are you coming onto me, Sasuke?"

"No, but I'd be willing to come on you," he said in a near whisper, "Or inside you."

"What did you say?" Naruto asked, turning to him. He had a stupid look on his face, the one he always got when confused, where his face squished up like the mouth of an octopus while it eats something.

"Nothing," Sasuke muttered and flicked ash over the side of the leaf this time. "Nothing at all."