My first fanfic one of three chapters hope you like it.

It was a cold winter day. Christmas Eve to be exact. The sky had been gray for days and there was about 2 feet of snow on the ground, but that did not stop the kids from gathering at the place they did every year to give gifts to their friends. It was a non-official tradition the kids of Kohona had established. Everyone was in the park including Sasuke who of course was getting all the attention form the kids. He was surrounded by a group of adoring girls and envious guys. Naruto was there too, he had a blue box wrapped in a red ribbon in his left hand. He was running his thumb up and down the box in anticipation of the arrival of the recipient.

"Sasuke!" a voice cried out. It was a voice Naruto quickly recognized as Sakura's. She was the one he was waiting for all along.

"Hey Sakura!" He cried out, but without even looking she blew right pass him almost knocking him off balance.

"I-" Naruto tried to open his mouth to say something but inside he gave up. It was like this every year. Naruto would get nothing and Sasuke would get everything.

"Damn that Sasuke" he thought with a tear building in his eye. "What did I do to anybody to get this treatment?" Later the kids started to disperse with Naruto plunked down on the side of a tree with a couple of tears running down his eyes.

"Look at that kid" One of the girls leaving whispered to another.

"Oh it's just Him" she said loud enough for Naruto to hear. "He is so pathetic he tries to get everyone's attention." The girl then approached Naruto "He loser what is it like to spend Christmas alone?" Both girls walked away laughing. By then Naruto had figured everyone had left and broke into a quiet sob, not thinking or saying a word at all. Little did he know there was one person still there. It was Sasuke trying to figure out how to move all his gifts. He heard Naruto crying.

"Hey why don't you stop acting like such a baby and get over it." Naruto looked up at him with a hateful glare

"Shut up you don't know what it is like to be alone!" at that Naruto stood up and ran home with tears running down his eyes. The feeling that came from knowing your own teammates hate you was too much for him. He ran home and slammed the door behind him and began to cry almost endlessly.

Meanwhile at Sasuke's, Sasuke had just come home with two armful of gifts. He had a feeling he could not shake. It was a sick feeling in his stomach that he got from thinking of Naruto. This was not something new to him, for many months he had been feeling this just by being near Naruto. He was getting frustrated and threw himself on his bed and closed his eyes only to see the one boy that was the cause of his sickness. Trying to drown his thoughts he threw on the radio but all he could hear was the quiet sobs of the innocent little blonde boy with the big blue orbs for eyes. He turned over to his side to see a picture of his family when Sasuke was a boy. Next to it was another picture of Naruto surprising Sasuke by jumping on his back. Sasuke let out a little chuckle and then quickly tried to hide it and began to blush.

Back at Naruto's, Naruto was crying so hard he had chest pains and was short on breath. He decided to compose himself enough to get a fire started in his fireplace. He curled up at the fireplace with his arms rubbing his sides. Then he heard a loud knocking at the door.

"Who the hell is that?" Naruto thought to himself still sniffling a little. He went to open the door to find it was the last person he wanted to see. It was that creep with the black hair and the black eyes that seemed to go on forever. Naruto was about to slam the door but was stopped but Sasuke's hand.

"Why are you here you bastard?" Naruto screamed with tears forming again.

"N-Nar-Naruto?" Sasuke stuttered. Naruto could see that his face was entirely red but he assumed its was because of the cold, but it was much the opposite. Sasuke's body was on fire and his heart was racing almost about to jump out of his chest.

"What is it?" Naruto said softly but angrly.

"I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry for what I said to you earlier. H-here" Sasuke held up a green box with a red ribbon on it. "Its for you."

"What for me?" Naruto asked having a hard time believing what Sasuke had said.

"Naruto, I wanted to tell you something…" Sasuke said softly.

"What is it?" Naruto asked

"I've done some thinking and I wanted you to know that you are the best friend I have ever had and I am truly sorry for what I said."

"Really?!" Naruto said in amazement while wiping his nose.

"Yea" Sasuke said handing Naruto the box.

"Do you want to come in?" Naruto asked

"Yea I'd like that." Replied Sasuke, still beat red. They both sat down on the most comfortable place in Naruto's house… the tattered old couch. Sasuke was looking around and noticed something on a table next to Naruto's bed. It was the same picture that Sasuke had kept by his bed. They both sat on the couch for awhile in silence just watching the fire until Naruto began to shiver.

"Hey are you going to open that gift or what?" Sasuke asked

"Oh yea yea" Naruto replied. He tore open the wrapping to find a box. He opened the box to find the Uchiha symbol on a piece of cloth.

"Hmm? What is this?" Naruto asked.

"Why don't you take it out before you ask dumb questions." So Naruto pulled it out and it unfolded it and it turned out to be a blanket.

"My mother made it for my when I was young." Sasuke said "She told me that this blanket symbolized how much she cared about me. Now I want you to have it, to show how much I care about you." Sasuke began to blush again but this time he looked over to Naruto to see he was blushing too. Naruto shivered again and then threw the blanket over the two of them. Naruto stretched and when he put his hand down again under the blanket he found it on top of Sasuke's hand. Both of their faces turned redder, but instead of pulling away they both began to clutch each others hand tightly.

"Naruto… I'll never let go." Sasuke whispered to Naruto. Naruto yawned and leaned his head on Sasuke's.

"Merry Christmas Sasuke." Naruto said. They boys then fell asleep next to each other as the fire burned out Naruto buried his face into Sasuke's chest and all was quiet.