Snow Family
In the fresh, virgin snow, Kakashi sets out to work. He slowly rolls three separate lumps, shaping them into the images he has long burned into his memory. The first is built tall and proud, coloured with all bits of yellow he can find until it manages to draw in stray eyes like a welcoming sunshine. The second, he packs with extra snow around the heart, because he never wants to see her chest hollow ever again. And finally the third takes Kakashi forever to finish because he never knows if he should decorate it with one eye or two.
Kakashi knows it's ridiculous, but he can't help building his long-fallen teammates out of snow, especially at the thought of the up-coming holiday. Because it's Christmas, and Christmas is a time for family, and no one was more family than them - even if it took Kakashi much too long to realise that.
Their smiles, their laughter, their unmistakable personalities, Kakashi isn't able to mimic onto the frozen statues. But then again, maybe it is a blessing he can't - Kakashi doesn't think he can bear to leave their sides if they became too real. And he knows freezing out there in the numbing air until he leaves behind nothing more than a lifeless shell of a fourth snowman, with a frozen smile forever carved on his cold dead lips, is not an option - not when Kakashi knows his team won't be happy with him for letting that happen. They're depending on him to live out his life to the fullest for their sake as well as his own, and Kakashi doesn't ever want to disappoint them. Never again
A/N: If anyone's reading this goes, 'Oh this sounds familiar,' that's probably because you read it before. In 2013. On my dA. Yeah, I always meant to put it on ff, but never got around to it because it was so short. But now that I have a separate drabble account, why not?
BONUS: Obito snowman dilemma:
In his hands, Kakashi juggles the two tiny stones in a long, long debate. Eventually Kakashi settles on the same conclusion as every previous year - one for Obito, one for him. He pushes the first stone into right side of the snowman, the second he slips deep into his pocket. There it'll lay snugly until Kakashi gets home. And at home, he'll kneel under his bed and pull of his tiny secret box of treasures. With a silent clink, the stone will be placed in and become lost beside all the other stones kept from previous snowy Christmas years.