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Naruto knocked rapidly against the thick wood of the Uchiha manner door. Eventually, Uchiha Itachi opened the door to peer down at a six year old blonde whose eyes were shining with excitement.
"Is Sasuke home?" asked Naruto, jumping up and down.
"Aa." Itachi said smiling affectionately. "Sasuke!" he called up the stairs.
The raven haired boy came running down the long flight of stairs to stare up at his brother expectantly.

"Hai, Aniki?" The oldest Uchiha just motioned toward the door where Naruto stood.

"Naruto!" Sasuke exclaimed excitedly as he hurriedly began putting on his shoes.

"Let's go to the park!" Naruto suggested and grabbed sasuke's arm. He then began sprinting to the nearby park, practically dragging poor Sasuke who was still trying to tie his right shoe.

When the two youths reached the biggest oak tree in the park, they collapsed under it. Once they had caught their breath, Sasuke gave Naruto a quizzical look.

"You didn't come over yesterday…" his expression changed to upset, "You said you would,"
"I wanted to!" Naruto blurted out apologetically. "But, but 'Ruka grounded me!"

The youngest Uchiha heir rolled his eyes. "What'd ya do this time?"
Naruto smiled sheepishly, "Tied chicken to the neighbor's cat and then set the dogs on it…" he admitted grinning all the while.

Sasuke stifled a boyish giggle. "How long did it take for them to blame you?"

"At least an hour!" Naruto boasted. Sasuke laughed again.

It was at this moment that two girls of the same age strolled by staring at Sasuke. One had long pink hair and the other's hair was blonde and in a ponytail.

They both rushed up to Sasuke, totally ignoring Naruto, and began to chatter about random girly things that Sasuke obviously didn't care about.

Naruto silently crept behind the two girls and when Sasuke gave him a questioning look, he simply put a finger to his lips and plastered a wicked grin onto his face. The blonde carefully held up tow lengths of hair for Sasuke to see; one pink, one blonde. Silently, he tied the two into a knot and gave Sasuke what was presumably; the signal.
Sasuke got up, walked about five feet to the left and said "Oi, Ino,", while at the same time, Naruto when about the same time, Naruto went about five feet in the opposite direction and shouted "Hey Sakura!" and stuck out his tongue.

As planned, the two girls walked in opposite directions only to fall back in evident pain and begin searching for its cause. They soon found that their hair was tied in what was almost positively and irreversibly knot.

"NARUTO!" they both screamed in unison.

Both boys took off running back to the Uchiha manner in hysteria. They reached Sasuke's house in comical tears and collapsed onto the porch.

When their laughter had died down Naruto finally remembered something "Oh! I almost forgot! 'Ruka says you can sleep over tonight!" he declared.

"Really!" Sasuke asked excitedly.

"Yeah! Go ask 'tachi!" he said, pushing his friend toward the door.

Without waiting Sasuke yelled into the door way, "ANIKIIIIII!"

After a few minutes, Itachi appeared at the door and glanced down questioningly at the two endearing children.

"Can I stay at Naruto's house tonight?" he pleaded, putting on his best puppy dog eyes

Who could resist that? Definitely not Itachi.

"Find, go pack up."

The two boys smiled graciously and raced up the stairs whereupon Naruto hopped onto Sasuke's bed and Sasuke dug out his overnight bag.

"Maybe if we go over to my house, 'Ruka will make us ramen!" Naruto thought out loud.

"Uhuh…" Sasuke replied only half listening.

"You're room is BIG!" Naruto mused.

Sasuke glanced around. "I guess…"

"Done yet?" The blonde asked impatiently.

"Yeah." Sasuke said, smiling.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand and pulled his raven-haired companion behind him.

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The two children hurried across the streets to Naruto's house. Eventually the walked in front of what they knew to be Sakura's house.

Sure enough, there were Sakura and Ino, attached by the hair with Sakura's mom beginning to clip it off.

"There that nasty twerp is!" Ino yelled, pointing to Naruto.

"He's the one that did this!"

"Run!" Yelled Naruto, tugging on Sasuke's arm as he tried to pull the boy along with him. Sasuke held still.

"What're you so afraid of? Don't be a chicken, they're just girls." He

"No you don't get it!" Naruto exclaimed frantically, still tugging on Sasuke's hand.

Sasuke glanced away defiantly. "What don't I" he was cut off by a deafeningly loud –SMACK-.

He whipped his head around to see the cause of it.

There Naruto was, holding his red, stinging cheek with tears in his eyes as Sakura's mom lifted her hand again.

-SMACK-

She hit him again and again while Sasuke simply watched in horror. Soon she was screaming insults while she hit him.

"Monster!" "Demon!" "Murderer!"

Sasuke didn't understand. What Naruto had done was bad, but not that bad! He hadn't done anything even close to bad enough to deserve an insult like "Murderer!"!

"Someone should just do us all a favor and kill you!" She screamed, now kicking the sobbing boy who was sprawled on the grass. Finally, she gave him one last, hard kick and stormed off.

Sasuke stood, eyes wide, paralyzed as Naruto's hysteria slowly calmed. Finally, Sasuke regained his ability to move and rushed over to his beaten friend.

"Naruto!" he screamed, just now realizing that he was crying too. "Are you okay?"

Naruto put on a relatively false grin in hopes that he could cheer Sasuke up. "Yeah, sure, I'm fine. It happens all the time…"

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The two boy's sat in Naruto's room; both snuggled up in their sleeping bags, chatting tiredly.

Naruto shivered, not being as rich as the young Uchiha, his sleeping bag wasn't quite as cozy on these cold nights.

"You okay?" Sasuke asked, looking at the chilled blonde.

"I'm fine." Was all Naruto said, snuggling closer into the nearly nonexistent warmth of his bedding.

"You look cold…"

"I'm fine, Sasuke." He insisted.

"My sleeping bag is big, we can share, if you want…"

Naruto considered this and then nodded in admittance.

He got up and padded lightly across the floor to join his companion in what looked like a very comfortable sleeping bag.

Sasuke moved over, making room for his best friend as Naruto slipped in with him. There, the two slowly fell asleep, content in each others' embrace.

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A/N: AAAAAAAAWW! Kawaii, ne!
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I have three or four more written out…but I don't want to type them just yet 'cause I'm lazy. Mayhaps I'll pay someone to type them up for me? Maybeh…

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