They weathered that dangerously cold night together. It wasn't appearant just how close to disaster they had come untill the next morning. They lay in Kiba's bed, warm and happy. It was still bitterly cold, but no where near as bad as the night before now that the sun had risen. Kiba waited untill Naruto woke up to turn on the TV. He flipped straight to a weather channel and they watched...

"...Last night was the coldest on record. Temperatures dropped into the negative teens and preliminary

reports of people that have frozen to death in their homes have been recieved, but local police are not

commenting as of yet..."

"Oh man..." groaned Kiba, his happy little world shattered.

"That's horrible..."

"Yeah..."

Kiba pulled Naruto closer. "If you hadn't have woken up..." He choked, "...that could have been us."

Naruto nodded. "I just hope the other's are okay."

"Yeah..." He flipped the channel. Every channel was reporting the same thing. Well below zero temperatures. People freezing to death in their homes. Snow and ice piled 5 feets high in some places. They were calling it the worst freak storm in the history of the village. Naruto tried to call Iruka, but the phone lines were all busy. He tried his ceel phone, but there was no reception. "Damn...looks like we're cut off from everyone else."

"Looks like..."

Silence...

Akamaru poked his head out from under the blanket and sighed.

It was going to be a long day...

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It was noon before either of them got out of bed. Naruto's stomach was growling and Kiba wanted to see what it looked like outside. They walked into the living room and Kiba cranked the heat. "Ta hell with the heating bill, I'm not freezing to death..." he muttered. Naruto only nodded. He'd be happy to split the sky-high bill. It wasn't like he was going anywhere soon.

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They struggled to push the back door open. The five foot wall of snow behind it wasn't making it easy. Finally, after a half an hour of trying, they managed to get it opened. Grateful for the door that closed off the small back room from the rest off the house, Kiba shivered in the freezing cold wind that rushed in. He climbed up onto the top of the snow pack and took a few steps out. About five feet from the door he sank like a rock into the soft snow. His head and shoulders stuck out from the hole and he sighed. "Looks like we're stuck inside for awhile..."

Naruto sighed. "Great... we have no food, the water pipes are probably frozen, so we probably dont have much water...we're screwed."

"Looks like..." sighed Kiba as Naruto helped him up out of that hole.

"If only I had my snowshoes..."

"Where are they?" asked Naruto as he closed the outside door.

"In the shed..."

"Great..."

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Few hours later...

Naruto's stomach growled angrily. "Ugh...why did we eat all the pizza yesterday?"

"I don't know..."

"I feel like such an idiot..."

"So do I..."

"If only we had those snowshoes..."

"Yeah..."

Naruto blinked and slapped his forehead. "Now I really feel like an idiot! I'm such a moron..." He jumped up and ran back to the back room.

Kiba ran after him. Naruto waited for him, He closed the door behind him. Opening the back door he said, "I should have realized it sooner..." He formed a series of handsigns,"...I know fire juitsu." He spat flames and melted the snow in front of them for about 20 feet. Kiba laughed and followed him as the walked the path Naruto was creating. They reached the shed in about five minutes. Kiba ran in and grabbed his snowshoes. Luckily for Naruto, he had two pairs. They carried them back to the house and bundled up under as many layers of clothes as the could. Twenty minutes later they were ready to leave. Kiba stopped and turned downt he heat, not want to leave it on full blast with him out, afraid he might start a fire. They made there way out, heading toward town, intending to stop and check on their friends before finding an open store and getting some food.

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