Warning: Shounen ai, some descriptive kissing scenes and fowl language.
lol FROSTY, if the biggest issue you have with this is the fact you don't know if they celebrate Christmas you're a better person thanI. XD I am still worried about my sanity after listening to 3 hours or more of Hanson and Nsync! X.X
Under My Tree
'No One Else But Me And You
Nothing I Would Rather Do
Than Hold You All Through The Night
Under My Tree'
And so it was Naruto was delighted when missions were canceled thanks to Christmas, the only ones accepted were ones where a ninja chose to go. Needless to say there weren't a lot of those. Sasuke probably would have done some but Naruto refused to let him saying he would destroy his house if he did. So Naruto freed Sasuke from the missions but decided he needed to drag him to every store he could find for decorations. So it was on his first day of Christmas vacation he was woken up at 6 in the morning.
"Wakey wakey Sasuke!"
Sasuke swatted at whatever it was that was buzzing in his ear, however all that got was his hand captured. Sasuke was about to kill whatever it was until something warm and slimy ran over his palm! Jumping from his face down position on his bed Sasuke cursed and stared shocked at Naruto who smirked and released his hand. Sasuke stared at the drooled on appendage.
"...Dobe?"
"Yeah?"
"Did...did you just...lick my hand?"
Naruto smirked in his face, "Yup! Now get up! First thing on the list for today is a Tree!"
Naruto bounced off his bed and Sasuke glared after him, who the hell did he think he was!
Naruto piled on his jacket over a borrowed black turtleneck and pulled on his winter shoes then pulling down the rolled pant legs of his favorite orange pants. Sasuke apparently woke up, a killing aura announcing his presence before he entered the living room. He glared at Naruto all the way to the kitchen to drink some of the tea Naruto had prepared. Naruto laughed silently, he'd only been living with Sasuke for about 4 days but the other boy was increasingly...human. It never occurred to Naruto Sasuke liked to sleep in, or that the boy was actually pretty emotional. Granted Naruto was probably getting annoying, but he couldn't help it. He never spent Christmas with anyone before, it was fun to be able to for a change, even if the someone was Sasuke. Naruto tapped his foot impatiently as Sasuke came back in and started pulling on his coat.
"Naruto, if you ever lick me again. I'll kill you."
The blonde scoffed though he was tempted to believe it. Sasuke pulled on a black hoodie with a blue stripe and a blue scarf with tiny fans on the ends, he pulled on his shoes fixing the bottom of his blue pants. Finally after they were both bundled up they headed out. It wasn't snowing hard but the ground was thick with the white covering. There were more people out than one would assume for such a cold morning, the homes they passed on their way to town were puffing smoke from fireplaces, making the scent of firewood thick as the scent of pies in the air. Their breath puffed out in clouds as they buried their hands in the pockets and walked on.
"After the tree we need things to decorate it with, I know where we can get that, the shop next to the Ramen stand has some great stuff! Then we'll need stockings and maybe some lights! It'll be great! Maybe we should get some mistletoe and invite Sakura-chan over!"
Sasuke tuned Naruto out, nodding once in a while to pretend he was listening, his ears were getting cold and his usually pale face was sporting a pink hue. He didn't even care where they went anymore as long as they were in a building! Unfortunately for him, their first stop was an outdoor fenced area where there were dozens of firs and spruce trees waiting to be taken home. Naruto seemed to get more excited by the step so when they reached the man Naruto was almost jumping up and down.
"Wel-welcome..sirs."
Sasuke glared at the hateful look the man gave Naruto, it was uncalled for. Naruto however ignored it smiling warmly at the man.
"We want the best tree you have!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes, the man seemed torn between being mean to Naruto and kind to the Uchiha heir, Sasuke helped him make up his mind.
"Quickly. Were in a hurry."
The guy smiled deciding to ignore Naruto.
"Right away."
They went through a few trees Naruto turning them down because some imagined issue.
"Its to thin!"
"But that's to short!"
"It looks like a stick!"
"Its dying! See that's a very dead branch!"
"You call that a tree!"
Finally they decided one, much to the mans and Sasuke's relief, it would be delivered later in the day so they still had a few hours. Bidding the man a goodbye Naruto hummed happily. Sasuke had to admit, Naruto seemed in a better mood than usual.
"What's with you recently Dobe?"
Naruto looked over at him curiously, "Whadda mean?"
"You seem more annoying than you usually do."
Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke before smiling to himself in thought, after a moment he looked back his cheeks bright and his smile warm and a little shy.
"It's probably because I'm not alone this year."
Sasuke stopped mid-step, more pink than could be caused by the cold covering his face. There was no reason for that to look as...dare he say cute, as it had. Being with the boy all the time was getting to him. That had to be it. Naruto stopped noticing Sasuke wasn't beside him anymore and looked back at him.
"What's wrong?"
Sasuke shook his head looking away from Naruto as he walked on, going passed Naruto as he mumbled an answer under his breath, burying his face in his scarf.
"Nothing."
Naruto caught up and directed Sasuke to the shop with the decorations, the were in a isle picking out trim, Sasuke had objected adamantly to orange and red and Naruto refused to get Sasuke's preference of blue and black.
"You can't use black for Christmas, Teme! That doesn't make sense!"
"Orange isn't exactly in the Christmas colors either stupid."
"Hm? What's this?"
The boys turned seeing Iruka and Kakashi staring at them.
"Iruka-sensei! Kakashi-sensei!"
The men smiled coming over to the boys, Iruka pulled Naruto into a fatherly hug as he spoke.
"What are you boys doing?"
Naruto was released from Iruka's hug and stepped back beside Sasuke.
"Getting decorations!"
Kakashi arched an eyebrow, "Sasuke, you're decorating?"
The Uchiha shrugged, "Naruto wouldn't shut up about it."
Naruto scoffed, it wasn't exactly arm breaking to get the boy to accept.
Iruka smiled down at them, "Good, it's nice to see you're in the Christmas spirit Naruto."
The boy nodded happily, he was way into it, which was a little strange for him. He celebrated but the giddiness of getting new decorations and a good tree as opposed to the weak, thin one he was usually sold was making him dizzy. Plus when he woke up on Christmas there would be someone else there, that was a warming thought.
"Well, you boys will have to come over for dinner Christmas eve."
"Okay!"
Kakashi chuckled and reached over ruffling Naruto's hair, the blonde scowled at the child-like treatment but let it go, he was in too good of a mood for a fight right now. Kakashi pulled back and smiled behind his mask.
"Be there at 6:00. Okay?"
"'Kay."
Iruka smiled at them both, "Well, have fun boys."
With that and a wave they were gone, Naruto turned to Sasuke, "Okay, we both agree on blue right?"
Sasuke smirked and nodded, Naruto nodded too.
"Good, then how about blue and Silver?"
Sasuke sighed, "Fine."
Naruto smiled slapping a hand on Sasuke's back as he turned and began piling garlands, ball ornaments, tinsel, and blue and white lights in Sasuke's arms. They wandered, Naruto grabbed some mistletoe while Sasuke wasn't looking and a star for the top of the tree before declaring they were done.
"At least with the inside decorations. We still need to go get stuff for the outside and maybe some egg nog!"
Sasuke sighed tossing the stuff on the counter and gifting the clerk with a scowl for the dirty look at Naruto. He'd noticed the glares Sasuke would give them and was secretly immensely thankful. "Dobe. I won't do this all day."
Naruto waved away the statement and nodded, "I know, that's why were hurrying."
Sasuke scoffed, "Hardly, we spent a half an hour arguing about orange and black."
Naruto ignored him smiling to the clerk as they gathered their purchase and Sasuke paid. They went on to the next store where Sasuke drew the line at a 6 foot tall lifelike Santa.
"That is stupid."
Naruto scoffed but let it go as he talked the boy into a light up Snowman, they got some wreaths and some lights for outside, but Sasuke insisted on nothing too flashy. Naruto grudgingly gave in because Sasuke was being such a good sport about humoring his sudden bout of holiday spirit. So it was they soon left town, marching back with more bags than they would have been able to handle had they not both gone. Naruto was happy with himself as he got Sasuke to buy some egg nog and even Christmas cookies. All together Naruto had a really great day. He mentally reminded himself it was all thanks to Sasuke, whatever drove the boy to let him do this, he was grateful. It was almost like having a family, and that though kept the smile plastered to his face the whole walk home.
Once they got back the tree had been delivered so they set to getting everything up. Well, more or less. They took a moment to warm up before getting everything up on the inside, Naruto laughed when Sasuke tried putting up the tinsel but got the silver strands all over himself and seemed to get more on him in the process of getting them off until Naruto had to step in and help. However Sasuke had a pretty good laugh when Naruto went out to put the snowman in the yard and stepped in a rather deep spot. The blonde screamed for a good 10 minutes before Sasuke came out and helped him out, of course Naruto refused to let the boy get away with laughing at him, the great Uzumaki! He decided to get back at him and hit the boy right in the back of his head with a snowball. Sasuke stopped in his tracks and Naruto got a face full of snow before he knew it was coming.
Of course that meant war. It was quick and brutal, Sasuke used his Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu to melt the snow under Naruto so Naruto was soaked as well as freezing. However he used Tajuu Kage Bunshin no jutsu to attack him from all sides. Sasuke had found the real Naruto and used the wires he always used with Katon to tie Naruto up and go inside, taunting him by standing in the doorway drinking tea while Naruto cursed him until a jounin poofed into the yard and told them people were complaining to the Hokage about the shouting. Finally they had outside and inside set up and were in dry clothes. Settling down, Sasuke gave Naruto tea and they sat with a fire dance in the grate.
-TBC!-