*sighs* i just couldn't resist writing this. i'm going through a SasuNaru fluff phase i thinks...

so yeah, i've already planned this out; there'll be Four chapters, basically a short story about Naruto and Sasuke's life together... enjoy..

Warnings: Kids speaking more then they should... fighting? AU and other things...

Disclaimer: DO not OWN

THREE YEARS – TIME OF MEETING

They met at the playground, a place full of large metal and wood hybrids that seemed to have no purpose at all to small-minded adults, but were a child's ultimate play land. A child was, after all, much more agile then the average adult and so it was no surprise to parents – though to new mothers it was a worry – as children scaled seemingly flat surfaces, climbed tall arches of metal and swung on anything their little hands could reach.

It was one of childhood's perks.

Naruto Uzamaki and his mother Kushina frequented this particular playground as it was close to their home and on this particular, sunny day, they appeared on scene around mid-morning, just as another young boy was arriving with his mother.

"Why couldn't Itachi bring me?" the boy complained in a voice befitting of a three year old.

"Sasuke, you're brother's very busy with his schooling right now, you know that," his mother replied.

"Whatever, it's because father doesn't want me spending time around him!"

"Where did you get that idea?"

But the child wouldn't answer, choosing instead to fold his arms across his chest stubbornly, and pouting without meaning to.

It wasn't long that he kept that look, before a storm of blonde slammed into him, quickly followed by a brunette with red marks on his cheeks though the other boy knew well enough to slow down before impact.

Kushina rushed over immediately, seeing that not only had her child fallen, but he had possibly hurt another child. She began a relentless barrage of apologies on her son's behalf, to the other boy's mother before being cut off by the kind smile on the other woman's face.

"Don't worry about it," Mikoto said, "my first son is much worse. You get used to it after a while."

"I don't know how I could ever get used to seeing my baby get hurt!" Kushina exclaimed. Her nervous babble coupled with Mikoto's calm chatter distracted both women from their sons who were currently on the ground arguing.

"Get off of me!" Sasuke demanded, struggling under the weight of the blonde who was giggling madly, "what's so funny anyway?"

"You look like a girl!" Naruto yelled, enraging the Uchiha.

"I do not!" Sasuke screamed, pushing the blonde off of him and jumping to his feet, "you do! You look like a big, stupid, ugly girl!" he thought a little bit before adding, "And you're fat, too!"

"Am not!" Naruto exclaimed, getting up and looking himself over though it was hard to really tell with the baggy orange shirt his mother had placed him in.

"Are too!" Sasuke insisted, "and stupid too! Why are you wearing orange, that's an ugly colour?"

"Blue's an ugly colour!" Naruto countered, looking quickly at the colour shirt his new enemy wore.

"Your eyes are blue!"

"Well they're ugly then!"

"Stupid, you just called yourself ugly!"

Naruto frowned, trying with all his might to understand what was going on. This new kid was good; good at being a jerk!

Naruto acted on instinct and shoved the boy, having been out-smarted in a battle of wits he resorted to physical strength.

In response, Sasuke launched himself at the blonde, yelling out as he did so and tackling him to the ground. The two boys were soon rolling around on the ground fighting in a way that only children could do effectively; with claws and teeth rather than fists and feet.

They soon gathered an audience.

Many of the children who knew Naruto quite well, cheered him one and Kushina quickly realized what was happening, she rushed over with murder in her eyes, having made the transformation from worried mother to angry as hell, she pulled her son off of the other boy.

"What do you think you're doing?" she growled, her son stared up at her with blue eyes full of fear and defiance, "do you realize that you could've been hurt, or that you could've hurt that other little boy?"

"But –"

"No buts Naruto. Now apologize and you and I are going home."

"He started it!" Naruto exclaimed, but any further thoughts of protest vanished when he saw the look his mother gave him. Seeing that all his friends had dispersed since his mother arrived, he turned to Sasuke and screamed "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" in an attempt to appease his mother.

"Sasuke, you apologize as well," Mikoto said.

"Sorry," he said snidely.

"I really don't know where he gets it from," she sighed to Kushina, her new friend. There was no doubt the boys would be seeing each other again since their mothers had made an instant connection.

"Me neither," Kushina said, she offered a parting smile before grabbing her son's hand and dragging him off home.