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[Video - Friday morning 12/6]

[Sakura hits the journals up in the morning, relatively early; she's in a cheerful, energetic mood this morning, and feels the need to do some playing today.]

So! We got all that snow yesterday. I think it's time to have a little fun!

What does everyone think of a grand mass snowball fight? I'm talking ninja-style, very few holds barred, get 'em however you can! [Pause.] Try to avoid actually causing serious bodily harm, though. The point is to have fun. But other than that, go for it!

The whole village is fair game, but let's at least get started... hm, just to the south, I think. Plenty of space for fun, and we can spread from there!

[Action - Same day, all day]

[Sakura's out there, wrapped up warm and ready for action. It's a beautiful day for shenanigans and she's got more than a few in mind!]

There's only one rule. Make me do any actual work, and I will destroy you! [Translation: hurt someone and she'll hurt you.

She may also be starting some snow fortifications. Nothing like having the upper hand!]

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[Mostly at the moment he's avoiding thinking about it - too caught up in the moment. It'll all catch up to him eventually, but for now...]

[For now, he's packed a snowball almost too big to properly throw one-handed. Almost. Except that Sasuke augments his throw with a burst of chakra from his palm, sending the snowball - the size of a melon - flying for Sakura's midsection.]

[Oh, well, if he's gonna play like that...

She makes an attempt at catching the snowball, rather than dodging it; not entirely successful, she does end up with a hard thud against her stomach, but a mostly-intact snow melon in her hands, at the cost of dropping the little pile she was working on. Maybe not the most strategic tradeoff, but throwing his own snowball back at him has appeal.

So she does, winging it hard at his gut.]

[If this was anyone else, he would take that volley and keep tossing it back and forth until one of them got splattered. But this is Sakura, and he has a feeling trying to catch this one will end up blowing him off his feet. So he dodges it at the last second, and it catches a tree a few yards behind him instead with a wham that rattles the trunk and blows snow out in a thick arc. Sheesh.]

[Time to get serious, then.]

[Sharingan spin, and Sasuke snatches up a quick double-handful of snow before running side-sprint to circle Sakura's position, dodging in close and then jumping high above to let gravity add some speed to the throw that goes nearly straight downwards toward her.]

Good choice!

[She's laughing as she calls it out, seeing Sasuke dodge her throw; that's more force than she'd use against almost anyone else, but she knows Sasuke, knows he can deal with it.

But now he's coming at her from above, and all she can think is Damn, he's fast! before he's practically upon her, and she flings herself in an inelegant roll to the side, desperate to avoid him, grabbing up a handful of snow and just squeezing it into something like a snowball in the seconds before she throws it at him.]

[He's fast, but she's not bad herself, and he's still in the air when she flings her handful of oddly-packed snow. It sails easily toward him - and passes through with a flicker, half a second before the image disappears.]

[To Sakura's right, Sasuke himself shoulders hard into one of the walls of the little fort she's built, intending to collapse that whole side down on her.]

[The snow wall shudders, and Sakura gives a sharp bark of a laugh. He's really going all out, isn't he? But that's all right -- two can play at that particular game.

It was a good fort though, while it lasted. She's sad to see it go, but that doesn't stop her from shoving chakra into her legs into a jump that slams her against the very top of the snowy wall.

It's not really tall enough for this strategem to work perfectly; some snow falls onto Sasuke as the wall buckles, folding in half around him instead of tipping over, but it's mostly Sakura falling on him. Dammit.]

[Shit, he didn't expect that out of her, and he barely gets one arm up to shield himself from the snow before Sakura tumbles down on him, catching him just off-guard enough that he loses his footing in the slick snow and goes down beneath her.]

[It's all battle instinct that has him rolling his weight to flip them, pinning her under a straddle with one hand on her shoulder and the other snapping a dense, hard-packed snowball out of one of his jacket pockets with the same speed he'd have grabbed a kunai in a true fight.]

[He pauses, for just a fraction of a second, realizing maybe he's taking this a little too seriously. This is a snowball fight, not a battle of lives.]

[...So instead of pelting her at point-blank range, he stuffs the snowball under the edge of her scarf. That's revenge for the first one.]

[It's that moment of hesitation that gets to her -- that moment when she can see him mentally shift gears, to go from something that's very close to combat to obvious mischief.

Her happiness at seeing it isn't enough to stifle her shriek when he stuffs the snowball under her scarf, though! She writhes under his hold, trying to claw the snow away from her skin before it melts and soaks her scarf and collar.]

Ooh, I'm gonna get you for that!

[It's in that moment that Sasuke does something probably completely unexpected:

He laughs.

It's not the hideous, broken sound of hurt and insanity she'd remember from their meeting on the bridge, nor the quiet chuckle he's apt to make without chipping his veneer of self-control. It's light, and it's open, and it continues in half-breathless chuckles as he grapples with her, trying to pin her wrists so she can't get rid of the snow before it melts under her scarf.]

Isn't that what you said about the snow in your hair? Still waiting, Sakura~

[Gods, that laugh. She'd enjoy it more if they weren't currently grappling, of course, but even still, it's so open and happy -- so human -- that it almost doesn't sound like Sasuke. Definitely not the Sasuke she tried to kill not that long ago, the seemingly unredeemable madman. Not even the Sasuke from before he left, the moody, focused preteen.

It's not gonna let her stop from winning, though!]

Well, I wouldn't want to keep you waiting much longer, would I?

[With quick, sinuous motions, she manages to get a wrist free long enough to snag a handful of snow and stuff it down the front of his pants.]

[!]

[!!!]

[Mental keysmash.]

[And then Sasuke's rearing back off of her with the most indignant look on his face Sakura's probably ever seen, jamming a gloved hand down the front of his own fucking pants to dig out that handful of snow before his freaking dick freezes off.]

Fuck fuck fuck - oh you are dead.

[Fuck throwing snowballs, he outright pounces on her, still holding some of the snow she'd jammed into his pants, the other hand going for the zipper of her coat.]

[She rolls quickly, trying to get away from that pounce -- trying to protect her coat most of all, cause don't think she doesn't see you making a go for that, Sasuke.

Of course, he's got a bit of speed advantage on her, and she's also pretty busy laughing her face off. He's playing with her, he's treating this as the game it is.

It's wonderful.]

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