Gah...okay, from this chappy onward, I won't do the stupid talks again... (sweatdrop) Actually, I don't feel much of myself today.... To tell the truth, I'm freaking tired from school today, thanks to sitting all day inside an air-conditioned room on a rainy day.... Geez...I think I'm going to have a cold... Nonetheless, despite me being cold - or even dying - I'll still try my best to update this story for you guys! Anyways, here it is! Woot! Enjoy, minna-san!

Chapter Five

The owls were hooting and replying each other's calls, the wolves were howling every now and again, and the crickets were having a chirping competition on the full-moon night. Sasuke, as he huddled with Naruto, threw a few sticks into the fire that he had made using his fire jutsu sometime earlier. Across from him, Sakura and Kakashi shared a blanket, with the girl falling asleep occasionally - but she quickly regained her composure once she doze off. Shikamaru, on the other hand, just rested himself upon a tree trunk.

"...meow..." Naruto suddenly purred and snuggled closer to the raven, much to his surprise.

"Hn? What's wrong?" he looked down at the half-feline and noticed his tail popping out from the blanket that they were sharing, and he immediately covered it with the remaining cover. "Better now?"

The boy purred again in satisfaction, snuggling even closer to the guy. Sasuke blushed lightly, but smiled a little as he let the blond fell asleep on his lap as he patted and stroked his golden hair gently. As he caressed the smaller male affectionately, he felt his eyes getting warm and watery - and he instantly fight away the tears, tilting his head up and squeezing his nose to avoid the salty liquid from falling down. From across the fire, Kakashi noticed this and he just stared at the both of them with sympathy.

All of a sudden, Shikamaru got up from his place. "It's late, we should get to sleep. I'll be the first watcher. Sasuke, you're after me, and Kakashi-sensei, you're the last one. We'll each stand guard for a couple of hours, is that clear?"

The two ninjas nodded. Then, Shikamaru poured some water onto the campfire and put it out, causing the whole place to get dark in split-second. Then, all of them entered their tents, Kakashi and Sakura in one tent whilst Sasuke and Naruto in the other. The blond hadn't like the idea of sharing a tent with anyone but Sasuke, and he also wasn't approved of letting anyone get into their tent - Kakashi was clawed and hissed at when he was checking out how the two boys were doing.

Once they were inside the tent, Sasuke started stripping himself until he was clad only in his pair of black boxers. Then, he - with great effort - undressed the half-feline as well. After that, he took out a fairly large comforter from his bag and placed it on the tent floor before taking out another blanket and putting it on top of the first one. He also took out two pillows from another bag and placed it on the head on the blankets that was opposing the tent entrance.

"Come on, dobe, let's go sleep," Sasuke crawled under the blanket, with Naruto following suit.

"Meow..."

Around two hours later...

"Umh..." the raven opened his eyes slowly and rubbed the right one with the back of his hand. "Nn...I should be on guard now..."

As he moved around the tent, the blond suddenly woke up. "...meow?"

"...dobe, go back to sleep," he told, but the boy just got up and stared at the bigger male sleepily, yawning a little.

"Meow..."

Midnight blue clashes against azure blue, and the Uchiha let out a sigh. "Just don't complain to me if you're sleepy, get it?"

Naruto purred out in delight as he followed Sasuke closely from behind, his three tails flicking in excitement. Once they reached the huge tree where Shikamaru was rested under, they exchanged places with the half-asleep boy. Then, the raven instantly leaped onto one of the branches on top of the tree, and without any difficulty - despite the fact that he had forgotten how to do any jutsu, the half-feline followed him up the tree, clawing onto the tree for support as he climbed up.

"...dobe, get your own branch," Sasuke growled when Naruto squeezed himself in the small gap between Sasuke and tree trunk.

"Meow...!"

The raven rolled his eyes and decided to just ignore the smaller one. As the two of them sat on the large branch, the blond started to get bored - and he decided to play a game with Sasuke and his tails. He started flicking one of his white-tipped tail around, then all of a sudden, he swished it rapidly towards the guy's left ear - and just as unexpected, the male squeaked and tensed up, before he shuddered and turned to glare at the boy - who just put an innocent look on his face.

"What the fuck-dobe, do that once again-!"

His words were stopped by a squeak that came from his own mouth, thanks to another bushy tail flicked at his ear. After shuddering once more, he growled and in an instant, he jumped onto the blond and began wrestling with him. Naruto, in return, just squealed in excitement as he wrestled back playfully. Soon, the two of them were wrestling each other on the ground - they were lucky that the branch they were sitting on were not that high up, or else they might risk breaking their backbones.

"You wanna play, huh?" the raven growled and tickled the boy's sides, causing him to squeal and giggle out loud. "Take that, take that, you dobe!"

"Meow-wah! Nyaa! Meow, meow!"

As the two of them played with each other, without them knowing, several figures - five, to be exact - was watching them from the bushes around the clearing. Noticing the two boys were not aware of their presence, three of the men started approaching the clearing in intend to take all of the ninjas' valuables. As they proceeded towards the field carefully, they themselves didn't notice the two figures moving in the shadows as swiftly and as silently as possible.

"Heh," one of the rogues sneered. "This one's gonna be easy. They can't even detect-!"

Before he managed to finish his sentence, a shuriken came flying just before his eyes - just a mere inch more and he'd be blind. In an instant, he was trembling like a leaf as the two dark figures appeared from the shadows. Upon seeing the two figures standing before their comrades, the other two rogues immediately went to aid the three - or at least, they tried to. Unluckily, before they managed to get close to their friends, the rogues were already beaten blue and black by the two males.

"Hn...if you really think we're easy..." the taller one of the two males spoke, smirking. "...then think again."

"Meow!"

"You wanna kick some ass, dobe?!"

"Me-ow!" (1)

"Yeah! Come on!"

((To be continued))

lol, such a funny ending! roflmao! I just can't stop laughing! It's so funny! Sasuke was so OOC, and somehow he's so cute in the end! But I have to say, this was quite a filter chappy, but the next one...uh...I don't know.... (sweatdrop) Ideas, anyone? What should they do? Where should they go? What should happen? Tell me!!!!! I'm already out of ideas!!!!!! . The reason for this is because my mind's completely focused on 'Creature of the Night'! That's a great story, even from someone like me!

But anyways, I still hope that you liked this chappy! Anyhow, next, I'm going to update 'My Best Friend' in a few days - maybe even tomorrow! But, reviews first! lol, woot! Ja ne, minna-san!

(1) This would be translated as "Yeah, let's kick some ass, Sasuke!" xD