[It takes Sasuke a second to reorient himself. Sure yeah, he was in fight-mode - but he was in sparring mode, not life-and-death struggle mode, and this is a little beyond what he was expecting. Apparently they both overdid it a bit with that hit.]
[After a beat or three he pushes himself up, awkwardly, half-folded into the bank. He's more pulling himself out of a hole with his hands than he is sitting up, and he looks across the way... to see Naruto basically just as fucked by that as he is.]
[That makes this a little less insulting. A little better.]
[...Kind of ridiculous, as it catches up to him that they've made this out of a snowball fight. Everyone around them is just flinging snow and they've blasted each other a few dozen feet across the field. He can't help it.]
[He starts laughing.]
[It's quiet, and it doesn't really carry, but he just kind of lets go of the bank for a minute to flop back into the hole and chuckle half under his panting breath.]
[If it hadn't been for the Valley, he probably wouldn't even be thinking of it like this. This is normal for them. This is how shinobi do things. But with memories of how things were like when chakra wasn't even a thought... this really is overblown enough to be funny.]
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[After a beat or three he pushes himself up, awkwardly, half-folded into the bank. He's more pulling himself out of a hole with his hands than he is sitting up, and he looks across the way... to see Naruto basically just as fucked by that as he is.]
[That makes this a little less insulting. A little better.]
[...Kind of ridiculous, as it catches up to him that they've made this out of a snowball fight. Everyone around them is just flinging snow and they've blasted each other a few dozen feet across the field. He can't help it.]
[He starts laughing.]
[It's quiet, and it doesn't really carry, but he just kind of lets go of the bank for a minute to flop back into the hole and chuckle half under his panting breath.]
[If it hadn't been for the Valley, he probably wouldn't even be thinking of it like this. This is normal for them. This is how shinobi do things. But with memories of how things were like when chakra wasn't even a thought... this really is overblown enough to be funny.]