Disclaimer: I asked Masashi Kishimoto for Sasuke. Just one measly little character. And he geave him to me! Turns out he only did that because Sasuke wants to kill me for the shit that happens to him in my fics. And that moment of horrible OOCness where he was on his knees begging. (Raise your hands if you thought dirty thoughts there!)
Christmas Eve found the two guardians and their "sons" sitting in the living room watching Christmas movies on ABC Family. Kakashi and Iruka were cuddling on the couch and Sasuke and Naruto were sprawled on the carpeted floor. All the lights were off with the exception of the multi-colored ones on the Christmas tree tucked into the corner. A large bowl of popcorn was sitting on the floor next to Sasuke and Naruto. It almost looked like the typical family scene. Except the "sons" were laying a little too closely.
Naruto and Iruka would be moving in with Kakashi soon. They had to wait for the New Year and then they would be moving out of their small home into Kakashi's larger one. It only made sense considering how much time they spent there anyway. They'd already started moving some of their furniture into Kakashi's. Naruto was going to stay in the currently empty room.
"What's on next?" Naruto asked as the credits for "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" rolled across the screen.
"The Year Without A Santa Claus," Iruka said with a glanced at the TV Guide.
"Yes!"
"Oh God," Sasuke groaned. "Somebody change it."
"Why?" Kakashi asked with a raised brow. Iruka had gotten him out of his mask.
"You've never watched that movie with Naruto have you?"
"No."
"It's his favorite Christmas movie. He sings along with every effin' song! It's so annoying."
"Hey! Sasuke, I'm hurt by that!" the blonde said with a pout.
"Not my problem."
"You're so mean to me sometimes."
"Again, not my problem."
"Sasukee!" Naruto made his poked out bottom lip tremble. Sasuke smirked and leaned in to give the lip a quick kiss. When he pulled away Naruto was smiling.
Up on the couch Iruka and Kakashi exchanged smiles. Who called it?
xXxXxX
"I'm Mr. White Christmas, I'm Mr.Snow, I'm Mr. Icicle..."
Sasuke groaned. Why couldn't they have changed the channel? Did they enjoy torturing him? Now that he thought about it, Kakashi did in fact like watching him suffer. He was a sick, twisted person like that. That was probably why they were all stuck listening to Naruto sing along off-key.
As Naruto and the movie were getting back into the chorus the phone rang. Kakashi glanded around and realized he'd left it in the kitchen. Sighing, he got up and went to answer it. Sasuke listened to the muffled grunting that was Kakashi answering. A few minutes later the ailver-haired man walked back in.
"I have news," he stated.
"Good news or bad news?" Sasuke asked.
"Kind of depends on how you look at it."
Sasuke raised a brow and looked at Kakashi.
"They haven't been able to find Orochimaru anywhere. They're pretty sure he managed to get on a fight to Guatemala."
Sasuke ignored the random choice of country. "I saw that coming."
"Did you?"
The raven nodded, "He knew my brother. I didn't exactly expect him to wait for the cops to show."
"This means he's still out there."
"Keyword: There. Not here."
"True but-"
"This isn't really a subject for Christmas." Iruka said with furrowed, worried brows.
"You worry too much." Kakashi said, taking his seat on the sofa.
"Someone needs to."
Sasuke turned back over and caught Naruto's cerulean eyes. "You sure you're okay?" the blond asked.
Sasuke nodded, "I'm sure."
xXxXxX
Iruka walked over to Naruto's room to wake the blond up. As far as the brunette was concerned ten was more than late enough on the weekend. He knocked on the door before opening it to an empty room. He frowned slightly. Naruto certainly wasn't awake already. He walked down the hall to Sasuke's room, opening the door.
Naruto was curled up on Sasuke's bed next to the raven. Sasuke had an arm thrown around the blond as they slept, Sasuke's stomach curled into Naruto's back. Smiling to himself Iruka shut the door.
"What's the smile for?" Kakashi murmured in his ear, coming up behind him and placing his arms around his stomach.
"I don't think we really needed to set up that spare room for Naruto," he said.
"I already figured that. I suppose we have a guest room now. All we needs is guests."
As if on cue the doorbell rang, Kakashi sighed and trudged down the stairs to answer it. Standing at the door was Genma.
"Hey Kakashi," he said with a nervous smile around the toothpick, "Uh, Raidou's kind of mad at me 'cause I kind of made out with some guy last night. He kicked me out and I was wondering if-"
Kakashi slammed the door in his face.
"Oh come on! It's only until Raidou gets over it! It won't take long, really!"
Kakashi decided then that they weren't keeping the guest room. He realized that the only guest they would be getting wasn't exactly one he wanted to stay in their house.
xXxXxX
"We made it man!" Kiba yelled as they walked out of the school in a group. They'd just finished their Biology regents.
"We should make t-shirts!" Naruto said enthusiastically.
"I can see it: 'I survived Sophomore year.'"
"Barely."
"That would be perfect!"
Sasuke just shook his head as Naruto and Kiba went on with their t-shirt plans.
"We should put a picture of Old Snakey on there. But like, it would be all scribbled out so you could barely tell who it is." Kiba said.
"Kiba, you're being troublesome," Shikamaru said with a sigh.
"You weren't saying that the other night." The brunette replied with a smirk.
"Oh! Shikamaru got burned!" Naruto shouted.
"Not really." The lazy teen responded.
"Dude, just shut up."
"You gonna stop fighting or do you want to miss the bus?" Sasuke asked, cutting into the bickering.
"Oh yeah, we should probably catch that," Naruto scratched the back of his head. "See you guys later!" He called back to the rest of his friends.
They clambered onto bus 8, making their way to the back. Sasuke took a seat on the inside, Naruto sat next to him and layed back across his legs. "I am so glad that's over," the blonde stated. "Smooth sailing from here."
"What makes you say that?"
"That's what everybody says isn't it? Tenth is a bitch but eleventh and twelveth are so fuckin' easy it totally makes up for it."
"Just because everyone else says it doesn't mean it's true." Sasuke reminded Naruto, brushing a strand of blond hair out of blue eyes.
"They were right about tenth, weren't they?"
Sasuke paused for a moment. Oh yeah, they were right about tenth.
"S'what I thought." Naruto smirked slightly.
"Shut up."
xXxXxX
That night the whole group of friends sat around a fire, roasting marshmallows and making s'mores (Chouji had deemed himself 'keeper of the food', needless to say no one else was getting a whole lot). Sasuke watched in amusement as Naruto picked a slightly burnt marshmallow off his stick and burned his tongue on it. "Let it cool off, loser."
"I know!" Naruto snapped, scrunching up his nose and managing to look more adorable than angry, "Stop being such a bastard. You're supposed to be nice to your boyfriend."
"That's bull! Me and Shikamaru are horrible to each other!" Kiba said.
"Stop being so loud," aforementioned lazy guy said.
"See what I mean?"
"Your marshmallow's on fire." Shikamaru stated.
"Fuck!" Kiba said, pulling it out and blowing on it. It dropped off the stick and burnt right up in the fire.
"That was a waste of a good marshmallow," Chouji said with a slightly menacing glare at Kiba.
"Yeah. Wanna toss me another one?"
Chouji complied, chucking another one at Kiba's face where it bounced off and landed on the ground. The brunette picked it up and stuck it on his stick before holding it over the fire at a safe distance.
"Dude, you know what? We're almost two years away from college." He said, staring in a zoned-out way at the fire.
"That's pretty frickin' sick."
"I know, right?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes. The way Kiba and Naruto talked got annoying after a while. And when they were happy they only got worse about it.
The group lapsed into silence for a moment. Each teen just holding a marshmallow over the fire. It wasn't necessarily that they'd run out of things to say, none of them ever really did (except for Shino who never really had anything to say in the first place). They just didn't feel the need to be talking at that precise moment. All of them realized that they had just gotten past a huge year in their lives.
When Naruto set another marshmallow on fire the silence broke. "Oh, shit!" he yelled. He oulled it out of the fire, narrowly missing Sasuke's face in the process.
"Naruto you fucktard, watch it!" The raven yelled. He grabbed Naruto's stick and blew out the marshmallow for him.
"You're being mean again!" Naruto pouted.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and leaned in to place a kiss on the blond's lips. Kiba wolf whistled from the other side of the fire.
"Troublesome," Shikamaru sighed pulling his perfectly golden-brown marshmallow off the stick.
"Is anything not troublesome?" Kiba asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No."
Kiba shook his head. "Chouji want to hand me a marshmallow? Like, not in my face? Better yet just give me the bag."
"Forget it, you're not getting the bag." Chouji said.
"Dude, give me the bag. We've got like four!"
Chouji glared at Kiba in challenge. Kiba got up and lunged for the bag, Chouji held it out of reach. Kiba growled and tackled Chouji to the ground. "Real smart, let's fight near the fire," Shikamaru said. Kiba finally managed to wrench the bag of marshmallows out of Chouji's grip. He went back to his seat with a triumphant look on his face, sticking a marshmallow on his stick.
A few moments later and Kiba went to stick another marshmallow on his stick. "No!" Chouji yelled.
Kiba quirked a brow, "What?"
"That's the last marshmallow," Chouji stated, staring at the bag.
"I know." Kiba reached for it and roasted it.
"Kiba!" Chouji yelled.
Kiba just smirked, popping the barely cooked marshmallow into his mouth.
"You shouldn't have done that," Shikamaru drawled.
"Why the hell-"
Kiba found himself being tackled by Chouji. "You ate the last one in the bag!" He yelled with a wild look on his face.
"Dude, chill! It was just a marshmallow! You can have the rest if you want!"
"But it was the last one!"
"I told you you shouldn't have eaten it." Shikamaru grabbed another bag of marshmallows.
xXxXxX
Later that night the boys were all still sitting aorund the fire. They were sitting closer to the somewhat dieing fire. No one felt like getting up to put more wood on it. Iruka had come out half an hour earlier to tell them it was midnight. The group had regarded it as something of little importance and continued to sit out there.
After a while they'd started reminiscing over the things that had happened that year. Though they skirted around the subject of what happened with Sasuke and Orochimaru.
"I'm just glad we don't have any more Health classes with Genma. I mean, having to learn about sex is bad enough, but the class on positions was a bit over the top." Kiba said.
"A bit? I should have gotten Raidou for that," Sasuke replied.
"Whatever, it's over. Thanks the gods!"
"But you know what? Even though this sucked ass, it wasn't that bad," Naruto said, smiling at he fire.
"'Kay, make some sense there Naruto."
"Like, shit happened, and it was bad. But good stuff happened too. You and Shikamaru hooked up, and me and Sasuke hooked up. But really, I don't think I would have made it through this year without you guys."
"Aww, I'm touched loser," Sasuke said with a smirk.
"Dude, shut up. I'm serious!"
"I get what you mean," Kiba said, "Hey, you guys gotta swear we're not going to be those friends that stop being friends when they go away to college. 'Cause that would suck."
"Hell no we're not gonna stop being friends!" Naruto yelled. Similar agreements went around the circle.
The friends sat there until the fire died. This was their moment to celebrate the beginning of something new. Something that didn't suck. They'd had a bad year, sure. Having friends there helped them make it through though. No matter what kind of slump they were in as long as they still had their friendship they supposed they could get out of it.
The end
-sniff- My first real fic. It's over. But not really. There's more to it. The sequel is coming kind of soonishsortofnotreally. Before the end of this year. I'm guessing.
And just think of what could happen. There's so many loose ends and all that. Orochimaru got away. Itachi hasn't been seen in years. The sequel will rock the world. I promise.
Anyways, your review are what made me feel really driven to write this thing. And your final thoughts will be so appreciated. -hearts-
LeKunoichi
