Greetings and happy holiday to you all! Hopefully this story, loosely based off of a Christmas Carol, will fill your heart with all sorts of good emotions. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto© or The Christmas Carol©, but I think I own this story.

A Holiday Revelation:

I'm Surprised To Be Alive Too Actually.

Sauske cursed as his kick was blocked. He quickly followed the botched kick with a barrage of punches, only to have them meet with the same results. No ninjutsu, no genjutsu, just pure, boring, taijutsu., why the hell did it turn out with him doing this?

Sauske switched to the defensive, analyzing his opponents actions. After what seemed like ten minutes, he thought he was ready. He dodged a left hook to the head, and sent his foot swiftly into his opponent's knee, then jumped back. His enemy quickly sprinted forward, about to deliver a upward kick to Sauske's head. "Bingo," thought Sauske, who had been waiting for this to happen. Whenever the idiot used an upward kick, he left his foot up a little too long, leaving a small opening. Sauske side stepped the attack, and grabbed the leg, tossing it and the attached body over his back.

What he hadn't counted on was said idiot to grab his hand, throw him into a wall, and use the reverse momentum to land safely himself. Sauske hit the wall with a thud, and started cursing with such interesting phrases that a sailor would choke.

Orochimaru smiled, dusting himself off. "Nice try Sauske-san, but if you want to be a ninja of any worth, you need to look beneath the beneath, otherwise you are just going to be as strong as Kakashi forever. I left that opening on purpose, next time think of all the possible reactions before doing something." Sauske grumbled and nodded.

"Now I have to go off to do one of those god damned publicity stunts, so you run along home and have yourself a merry Christmas or whatever. "Christmas, how the hell did I forget Christmas?" Sauske had been so concentrated on his training since he had gotten to the village a few months ago, he had totally forgotten! That would explain why Kabato was making Orochimaru do those "damned publicity stunts" to raise moral. Sauske shrugged, wished the same to him, and left.

He walked through the thin layer of snow and to his new home. It had been specially designed to withstand ninjas, several half hidden secret entrances that led to spike pits, windows that would shoot fireballs if you opened them, doors with over 100 random switches and levers, with settings that changed depending on the month, day, year, weather condition, or moon phase. Enemy attacks were a big concern around here. Sauske calmly started to pull, twist, and press the items on the door, and just as he was about to pull the knocker back (Hidden final key) the first weird thing of the night happened. Where once had been a gaudy door knocker, there was now a metal version of Naruto's face. "Sause…ke, you aband…oned me… Sauske blinked, and where once had been the face of his old teammate, there was now his normal door knocker. He blinked a few more times, then pulled it back and entered. The inside was very simple, one story, a bathroom, a kitchen, a large room where anything from reading to training could be done, and a bedroom, perfect for his needs. Well, mostly simple, but only because of the various weapons hanging from the walls. Sauske poured himself a glass of water, and fried up some rice for his dinner. After eating he meditated for a while, then went up to bed.

Just before he fell asleep, he heard a rustling in the other room. "The hell?" Sauske quickly slid out of bed, grabbing a sword form the wall, carefully steeping toward the kitchen which now had lights on. He kicked the door open and was rather shocked at what he saw. Sitting at his kitchen table, pouring himself a glass of eggnog, was Naruto. Or at least, he looked like Naruto, Naruto usually wasn't see through, blue, or wearing a chain of shuriken on his back. Naruto finished pouring his drink, took a sip, and smiled. "You know Sauske, you should really try this."

"How did you get into my house? Or this country for that matter? Didn't I kill you?" Sauske had positioned himself in his defensive stance, his grip on the sword increasing. "I'm surprised to be alive too actually, but Relax dude, all will be explained, just let me finish this." Naruto chugs the rest of his glass, then offered some to Sauske, who refused. "You see Sauske, someone decided you needed a little more Christmas sprit. Being as an organization exists which gives Christmas sprit, they came to us."

Judging from Sauske's still semi-blank stare, Naruto decided to continue. "I needed some more pocket money to but gifts, and this gig pays well. They have some sort of weird Jutsu that allows your sprit to break off of your body with some of your charka. But what is really important is this." Naruto gestured to the shrunken chain on his back. "I have a single shrunken for every person I have hurt in my lifetime, and as you can see, they are quite numerous. You had about the amount I personally have now within a month of leaving Konoha. How long do you think they are now?"

Sauske scowled, "You are just a soulless dope, a demon, just a blight on this earth." Naruto shrugged, "I have more soul then anyone in Konoha, in fact, I have two." With a small pop, Naruto's hand was replaced with a chibi fox, which waved a paw at him, before re-becoming Naruto's hand. "See?"

Sauske had now switched from a defensive stance into just standing upright, sensing no need to fight. "So you are just here to annoy me into being more cheerful? Or drink my eggnog?" At this Naruto's smile widened to unheard of sizes. "No I am just here to warn you, you will be visited by some ghosts tonight, and they will show you Christmas in the past, the present, and the future, and you shall see the error of your ways, or become a specter, merely a shade of petty emotions with a lose fitting mass of skin. Adios, and thanks for the nog." With that, the ghostly Naruto took the bottle of eggnog, poured himself another glass, and melted into the ground, glass and all. Sauske looked at the spot where Naruto had been, felt around it to try and find out what just happened, and shrugged. "Maybe I screwed up the rice or something?'' He shrugged and went back to his room.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a sound from the kitchen again. He cursed and went into the kitchen shouting, "GET YOUR OWN DAMN EGGNOG AND LEAVE MINE A-ly shit…" Now the reason for Sauske suddenly stopping his yelled was simple, it was not the stupid fow boy, but in fact, someone more weasel related. In fact, so weasel related it was his name. Itachi…