"NARUTO YOU IDIOT!"

'Great! Just GREAT! What did I do NOW!' Naruto thought, looking over at a stampeding, highly pissed off Sakura. As soon as she reached him she spun him around and yanked him off the ground by his collar.

"AAHH!" he cried.

"How could you be such a jerk? Ever think of what you're doing to Sasuke!" she screamed.

Naruto flapped his arms helplessly. "B-B-BBUUT WHA--"

"YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT YOU DID!"

"NO I--"

"DON'T PISS ME OFF NARUTO!"

"BUT SAKURAAA!" he whined in vein. The girl dropped him flat on his butt and, putting her hands on her hips, began to scold him.

"FINE! I'LL GO... AP...AP-P-OLO-GI-I-IZE... UGH!" he finally exclaimed.

"You BET you will Mister! He stayed home today because YOU fought with him ALLLLLL yesterday! You were both out in the snow for HOURS after dark! He probably got a cold! Poor thing..." Sakura suddenly went into sad/dreamy mode. "If only i could get away from home I'd give him some soup... but I bet that STUPID Ino's already been there... Oh well." she turned back to Naruto. "GO," she ordered, and Naruto slugged away.

"Damn Sakura... I like her but even this is TOO much... I can't believe I'm doing this for that cold-hearted sunova..." he muttered to himself as he trudged along the snow-covered road. Thankfully there weren't many people out. He'd come out in the first place to bombard passers-by with snowballs, but ended up getting bored so he went over to Sakura's house. Naruto sighed. Bad idea.

"Hm..." he suddenly stopped, a plot forming in his head. Sasuke was sick, huh? Naruto was almost amazed that the snake could get sick. An evil smile spread across his face. "Heh heh heh..." he cooed evilly.

So he made Sasuke some soup... some special soup from Sakura's place... which he dumped everything he could find into it. Like hot sauce, vinegar, chocolate... and still managed to make it smell better than it looked.

And he went on his merry way. He'd decided not to try it himself, for fear of what might happen. Wouldn't want his brilliant scheme to backfire.

"Hehehe..." he mewed as he neared the Uchiha's home. He peeked through the window by the door, but the house was dark. He knocked.

Sasuke answered the door, looking like hell but glaring far worse than that when he saw Naruto. He croaked, "What do you want...?"

Naruto turned away, a look of disgust on his face. He didn't want to smile and give away his master plan. "Sakura's mad at me," he said indifferently. "She told me to bring this to you and say 'I'm sorry.' But you can forget the last part 'cause I'm not."

"I'm not hungry," Sasuke replied, shutting the door in Naruto's face. Naruto grimaced. He should have thought of the fact that Sasuke never took anything from anybody. He sighed and set the pot down.

"Ok fine, don't eat it. But I'm not taking it either." And he walked away. Once out of the yard he ducked behind the fence and waited.

Sasuke opened the door and toed the pot into his house, shutting the door once again. Naruto cooed to himself. This was great! Now all he had to do was get a good view inside from a window...'Aha!' Naruto thought, spying a window that showed a view of a kitchen inside.

Sasuke put the pot onto the stove and got himself a glass of water, choking it down as he tried to drink without pain.

'Dang. Maybe I did kick him in the throat a little hard...' The thought lingered in his mind only a second before it was replaced with a simple, 'Oh well.'

Sasuke started to cough violently and went for his cough medicine shakily. Naruto watched in silence. He wondered veagly what it was like to be sick. The Kyuubi had always made his immune system incredibly strong, so the most he ever got was a cough for a day or so, or a runny nose. Nothing serious. Sasuke began shivering and left the kitchen to stock the fire in the living room. Naruto sighed and settled himself into the thick branches of the pine he'd chosen. He waited and soon Sasuke came back. He started cooking the soup again, making it warm as a double to heating the house up a bit more. Naruto waited rather impatiently. Was he ever going to just eat the stupid stuff?

Finally, he poured himself a bowl of the stuff and went to the window to get a spoon. Then suddenly flung the stuff right out the window at Naruto. "You think I couldn't see what you were up to... fool?"

Naruto dodged the steaming bowl and glared upside down at the brunette. "Aw, you take the fun out of everything!"

"And you're just plain stupid..." he shot back, dumping the rest of the soup on the ground outside the window.

Naruto stuck his tounge out at the Uchiha and disappeared, muttering, "Lazy bones..."

'Idiot...' he thought going back to bed. When Saskue reached his room he left his door open, to let in more heat. He pulled down the covers and shivered as he made his way under the cold sheets. 'Stupid winter...' he thought bitterly, closing his eyes.