Chapter 4: Memory

Sasuke awoke the next morning under a thin blanket next to Naruto whom was still fast asleep. Sasuke smirked at his partner and slowly laid his head slightly above and parallel to the blonde's and inhaled his sweet scent. Then, he pushed the blanket off and stood up only to receive aches from every part of his pale body.

"Some night…" He mused.

He shrugged off the pain and went to gather his clothing that was scattered about the room. After he was dressed Sasuke opened the ramshackle door to find a blanket of snow covering the forest from head to toe. He looked around and then bent down and picked up a handful of snow. A memory of long ago flooded back to his mind.

Sakura was standing upon a snowy hill screaming her head off. "Naruto! Put the snow down! Kakashi-sama said that we're not to fool around here!

But the 12 year old blonde boy wasn't listening as he continued to hurl snowballs at a dark haired boy who was having a bit trouble dodging them.

"Come on Sasuke! DANCE FOR ME MY PUPPET!" Naruto yelled as the snowballs continued to fall.

"CUT IT OUT DOBE!" screamed Sasuke. "DON'T YOU EVER GET TIRED!"

"You're talking to a kid whose diet consists of only ramen and soda!" Naruto yelled back.

"Hm…well maybe your bad eating habits are the reason your brain is the size of a peanut!"

Naruto stopped, "What did you say?"

But unfortunately for him Sasuke was already behind him at that point and 2 seconds later Naruto was pushed face-first into the snow.

Sasuke folded his arms in triumph with a smug expression, "I said that maybe the reason your brain is so small if because you eat nothing but junk…"

Naruto was staggering up but Sasuke was surprised when he saw him laughing.

"Nice one Sasuke!" He yelled, smiling..

Sasuke just stared at him with a bewildered expression.

Almost immediately Sakura ran down the hill towards them and helped pull Naruto to his feet, "Honestly you guys…do you ever stop to think about the consequences of your actions!"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Honestly Sakura do you ever stop every once awhile to actually have fun?"

Sasuke laughed at this, Naruto joined in as Sakura smiled and gave Naruto a friendly punch on the arm.

Sasuke ran his hand through his wet hair, "Come on guys, Kakashi-sama probably thinks we've been eaten…we should go."

The other 2 nodded.

As they were walking up the snowy bank Naruto randomly took off running full speed towards their inn, leaving Sakura and Sasuke walking alone.

Sakura sighed, "That Naruto really is a handful isn't he?"

Sasuke looked up at the sky, "Well…that may be, but life sure is more interesting and fun with him around don't you think?"

Sakura smiled, "Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Are you alright?"

Pulled back to the present day Sasuke dropped the melted snow from his palm as he felt Naruto's hand on his shoulder.

"I'm fine…"

"What were you doing?"

Sasuke continued to gaze at the outside world as he touched the hand on his shoulder,

"Remembering the laughter."

In all honesty, this chapter was completely random, because I wanted to write the last chapter about Sasuke being back in the Leaf village right after Chapter 3, but I didn't want to just go from the love scene to the conclusion, so I whipped a little cute memory chapter, I think it turned out really well.

Read onto Chapter 5! The conclusion.