[Complete] We're all Islanders at Best, Intrusive and Arrogant ♥

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Who: Naruto and Mukuro
When: Evening
Where: Out in the forest
Summary: Naruto manages to get Mukuro to go out with him and play in the snow. The first trial of these newly joint boyfriends begins!
Warnings: Reminiscing, snowman building, hot chocolate and fluff not talking about the snow. ♥

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The illusionist stood from his seat where he was enjoying his usual cup of tea.

Mukuro knew who would be at the door, the message he'd gotten minutes ago was a good indication and he wasn't expecting anyone else. And he didn't think Cloud was expecting someone (actually, he didn't even think Cloud was really home...), so by simple deduction, the person at the door had to be Naruto.

And sure enough, when he opened the door, there stood the blond ninja clad in somewhat appropriate winter attire. At the very least, it was better than what the other had worn that certain night. Though he wondered a little about the orange...

"Naruto-kun," he greeted with his usual amused smile. He moved aside to let the other come in.

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"Saaaa! Hey Mukuro!"

Naruto smiled brightly back as he scooted on in, making sure to stay by the doorway so he didn't get Mukuro's house dirty with his wet shoes. The blond dusted off his bright golden hair, which had dots of snow on it. His cheeks were nice and rosy from being out in the cold. However, his bright blue eyes looked the Italian over.

"...You're not ready dattebayo," He stated, a pout obvious in his voice, though it hadn't quite made it to his face yet.

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He chuckled softly.

Mukuro was dressed for the most part. All he really needed to do was put on his boots and a jacket, then he'd be ready to go. He wouldn't be bothering with a scarf or a hat as he didn't feel comfortable wearing either of them. Hats he just didn't like and scarves, well. There was a chance he might wear one if it was loosely tied, otherwise he wouldn't bother. The high collar of his jacket would be good enough to shield his neck from the cold.

"I will be in a moment. But you know, there's no rush in... building this snowman."

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"I'm not rushing for the snowman dattebayo!" Naruto stated, scowling faintly, though it wasn't out of anger. His expressive face beamed again, his whisker marks sticking out prominently.

"I'm excited! I want to spend time with you! You know. When we're not asleep." The blond merely grinned brighter, before sparing a glance down at his hands, adjusting the black gloves. "Not that I mind sleeping with you but why just sleep when we can go out'ttebayo and have fun?"

He knees started bouncing lightly, signaling he was beginning to get antsy. He was standing in one place--and him being so still, to Naruto, was unnatural, as he was always moving.

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"Alright, just give me a moment."

Not saying anything else, Mukuro put on his boots before putting on his jacket, snatching his gloves from the table before promptly putting them on. He was silently thankful that his clothes were usually appropriate for this type of weather. There was hardly a day when he was dressed in anything less than fully covered, even on the hotter days. For personal and practical reasons.

Giving his glove one last tug, he glanced over himself before looking over to Naruto. "I believe I'm ready now," he said as he placed his LP in one of the jacket's inner pockets before buttoning up. "We should probably get started if we want to get it done before nightfall."

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"Okay!" Naruto exclaimed, raising a hand up into the air as if wanted to be called out on in class. "Lets go dattebayo!"

He opened the door, the cold air washing in. The blond stepped out, greeted instantly by snow, heading down and out towards the forest, sometimes walking beside Mukuro, other times running a bit a head of him to chase a bird away or to just bound around before the older man caught up.

"The woods will have plenty of untouched snow left to play with dattebayo!" The blond exclaimed, nodding his head. "That kind is always the best, er, or so I've heard. Freshly fallen so it's all nice and soft!"

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Mismatched eyes just watched the blond have his fun in amusement, a softer smile playing on his face.

Ever since they had gotten together, Naruto seemed to just emit happiness. And not for the first time, he wondered what he had that attracted the younger male. The answer always seemed out of reach for him, but that was probably for the best. More questions may come throughout their time together, but so would some answers.

"If that's the case, then shall we get started?" He said, gesturing to the untouched snow. This would be another first for him.

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"Yes!" Naruto paused in front of him, looking down.

"First we need to make the base! It has to be big dattebayo or else the other two balls on top won't stay up. But that's basic architecture." The blond looked around, before deciding there was certainly enough snow, and nodded. "Lets just start by building the first huge pile right here?"

The woods was quiet, minus the soft sounds of few birds and other animals scurrying. Naruto seemed to take a moment to look around, taking his surroundings of darkened trees, and the contrasting bright white snow, the grayish sky hanging over them as it continued to snow, softly. His blond hair was still catching snowflakes, and his red cheeks seemed to do the same, the soft mist of his breath spiraling into the air as he exhaled.

Naruto blinked, catching flakes on his lashes as he stared up at the sky.

"...Lets get started."

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With a hum of agreement, Mukuro glanced around and got started on gathering the snow. He'd never done this sort of thing before so he was entirely sure of how to go about it, but at least he'd seen the basic structure of a snowman before. They would just have to imitate that.

Really, this would be so simple in an illusion.

But it was a novel experience, for the both of them. A memory that they could keep for themselves and look back to when the mood struck. One of the many first acts as a... couple.

So into what he was doing, that Mukuro didn't take much notice of what the blond was doing as he gathered the snow the best he could.

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The blond was busy shaping the snow as he and Mukuro piled it on, working in silence. It was nice, only the sounds of the soft shuffling as they worked, the natural noises of the woods, and Mukuro's soft breathing...

A few minutes in, however, Naruto finally spoke.

"So, my apartment still looks like the inside of a barbecue pit dattebayo." he offered Mukuro a light smile, looking over at him finally from shaping the pile to start looking somewhat like a sphere.

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He glanced over at Naruto, a teasing smile on his lips. "Oya, I imagine it'll take some time before it's finally fixed. I can only guess as to how it looks," Mukuro mused, a soft chuckle following his words.

And really, he could only imagine the disaster that was the blond's kitchen. He knew he wouldn't be letting the other do anything in his own kitchen until he was fully aware of Naruto's cooking ability. And he was silently thankful that he wasn't as bad as the blond when he attempted to make something for himself.

It seems he would have to seriously endeavor in learning how to cook, especially if Naruto was going to make himself at home in his apartment.

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"Eh, well, um. Not so happy, ha ha!" Naruto looked down. "Actually, um. Lavi and I eh... burnt up his apartment too, so he's staying with his boyfriend Neji dattebayo! I told you--the one who's place I was over today fixing stuff? I'm going over there tomorrow too--it should be done by then."

Naruto packed some more snow into their creation. "I'm working on the tile! Ehhh... there were these knives that fell and kind of--anyway, the tile was completely ruined, about four feet of it dattebayo, so I have to go to the store and buy some 1 x 1 tiles, and of course all the grout and such for it'ttebayo."

Ah, well, at least his boyfriend was a handyman?

"He's lucky it's not white tile dattebayo! The new ones would have looked oddly colored next to them. But the grout worked well, and the tile wasn't too expensive, I just needed, like, six or seven of them'ttebayo. I only laid down four so far... but Lavi and Neji had needed help with various stuff so..."

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Mukuro listened as Naruto talked on about his day working on this Neji person's flooring. So the other was well versed in construction? Once more he learned something new about the blond, which undoubtedly won't be the last.

Admittedly, he himself didn't know how to do much. Fighting was all he knew and was willing to know, especially given his life. It was a game of survival, the so-called mafia life he had lived.. It was all he had known and resigned himself to ever knowing. But now he was here on the island for a different kind of adventure and having this blond ninja interfere with all he knew. Naruto was a curiously disruptive force to deal with.

"It sounds like you're enjoying yourself though, despite the mishaps," Mukuro commented as he packed on the snow. It was starting to take shape now.

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"It kind of reminds me when I first became a genin dattebayo--oh. That's the lowest rank of ninja dattebayo. Um, but you have to do only D-Rank missions, maybe C-rank if you're lucky dattebayo, they base missions off skill levels and assign them. But they're usually horrible stuff like, weeding yards and locating lost animals dattebayo and fixing roofs and doing housework."

Naruto smiled over at Mukuro, standing to his feet and surveying the mound. "I think that's big enough!"

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So they had some sort of system for their ranks. That was an interesting piece of information that he had not known about before hand. Mukuro briefly wondered what rank Naruto was, shuffling through his memories to see if the blond had ever told him before. If the other did, he couldn't remember.

Taking his mind off of those particular thoughts, he looked at their mound of snow. He lightly shook his hands, feeling the chill seeping through his gloves. Mukuro might not have minded the cold but he didn't exactly want to freeze.

"I suppose we should start the next part then."

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"Yup. We should hurry, we don;t want to freeze to death out here, ha ha!"

Naruto started working on the next part. These next two would go by much faster, considering they would be smaller. He started piling on more snow, conitnuing on with the conversation. "Saaaa, yeah, I remember those days. There was one mission when I was twelve dattebayo, were Sasuke-teme and Sakura-chan and I had to hunt down the Fire Lord's wife's cat. Ugh. It was so horrible! D-rank missions were the pits."