Hey guys…I'm putting my other fic on hold for just A TEENSEY WEENSEY BIT to make this one…since it's around the holidays, I've had this undying urge to right a holiday fic. It's not action/adventure as mine usually are, but I'm hoping it would be an ok change from what I usually write. But there's no way I'm dropping action/adventure. That stuff, I live for.

Once I'm done with this one, I'm diving right back into my life of action/adventure, not to worry. This may not get many reviews, but oh well. I wanna get into holiday cheer somehow, and I hope you will too! Thanks guys, please give it a chance!

Chapter 1 (And only??? You guys be the judges…)

Rejoice by Snowballs

"Come play in the snow, Hinata!" Tenten shouted at the young Hyuuga girl, who was rocking on her feet while standing in the doorway of Sakura's house.

"T-t-too…c-cold…" Hinata replied as she trembled. This time, she was stuttering due to the cold.

"It really isn't that cold, Hinata," Ino said, compacting a snowball in her palms.

"I b-b-beg to d-differ…" Hinata said, pulling her jacket tighter around her torso.

"Well, you're gonna have to come out here some time," Ino said.

"Why is th-that?" Hinata asked as the icy vapor came out of her mouth.

"Because," Sakura said, coming out from behind Ino. Suddenly, they both hurdled snowballs at Hinata.

"Eek!" Hinata fell on her butt as the rest of the girls keeled over laughing. "That wasn't funny!" she squealed as she brought up her upper body.

"Yes it was…" said Tenten between laughter. Catching the distressed look upon Hinata's face, Ino ran over to her and lifted her to her feet.

"Come on," she said. "You're already snowy. You might as well come out here with us!" She tugged Hinata's arms and dragged her into Sakura's snow filled backyard.

Hinata stood motionless as she felt fozen. Sakura and Ino sighed.

"Here," Sakura said, tossing her a snowball as she, Ino and Tenten planted their feet and opened their arms. "Free shot at us. Then will you loosen up a bit?"

There was no reply from Hinata for a few seconds.

"Come on, please, it'll be-" Tenten began, but stopped mid sentence when a snowball came in hard contact with her face. For a while, the girls stood in shock.

"Whoa…Hinata." They all said. Sakura whistled. Who would have thought she'd have that good of aim? After the silence broke, they all cracked smiles.

This time, the girls laughed at Tenten. Tenten laughed along as she wiped the snow off the red side of her face. She stood up.

"…lucky shot," she laughed.

"Ha, she owned you!" said Ino, right before she too was hit with a snowball in her arm. She turned to see Sakura looking all innocent.

"Oh, you're so gonna pay for that one!"

From there, it was every girl for her self in an all-out snowball battle (AN: as lame as that sounds, I'm sure we've all had one before…you know who you are…) Snowballs flew back and forth relentlessly, each followed by either "crap! I missed!" "MUAHA! Gotcha!" or "Eek, she got me!"

Sakura and Ino decided to make a 'snow alliance', a snowball pact they started when they were young girls. They vowed not to attack one another.

"Ok," said Ino, laying out the plan (AN: Yes, in dire times, perilous snowball fights call for maliciously laid out plans!) "So, I'm gonna go left and throw two at Hinata, while you swerve right and throw-AGH!"

Ino was cut short when she and Sakura were suddenly bombarded by about ten snowballs.

"What the?" Sakura said. She brought her head up from her arms that were shielding her.

"Hey!" Ino called over the small fortress they made out of a three foot wall of snow. "Where'd you learn to throw like that, guys?"

"Like what?" They looked to see Tenten and Hinata come out from behind a tree further away from them. Sakura and Ino instantly choked up and looked at one another.

"Wait a sec," Sakura began, holding her hands up. "If you guys have been over there this whole time, then who just-"

More snowballs hit Sakura and Ino, and they could hear laughter…male laughter?

"Naruto?" Hinata said softly.

"Neji??" Tenten asked, gapping.

"Shikamaru?????" Ino gasped.

"SASUKE?" Sakura said in shock.

"That's us!" A happy nonchalant voice that belonged to Naruto chirped. All the girls ran over.

"You guys!" Ino said, smiling.

"Long time no see," said Sakura.

"It's only been a year and a half," informed Neji from behind Naruto and Sasuke.

"Wow, you're right…well it feels like longer," said Tenten. The girls nodded in agreement. Tenten grinned. That was a typical Neji greeting alright.

"So how have you guys been?" Hinata brought herself to ask. Naruto turned and smiled, making her turn red.

"I'm awesome!" He said happily. "And you?" he asked Hinata.

"Oh, me?" Hinata said lightly. "I'm…fine."

"That's good," said Naruto warmly.

"Yeah," replied Hinata quietly.

"Yeah…" echoed Naruto quieter. They both instantly looked away, both their faces flushing.

Upon seeing this, Tenten nudged Ino and Sakura and raised her eyebrows. They all grinned, happy to see Hinata and Naruto had not dropped the link they had, even after the interval.

"Man," said Shikamaru, stepping forward and looking at the ground, then the sky. "I didn't think I'd ever see snow again…" He bent down and rubbed some in between his un-gloved fingers, as it quickly melted to liquid and dripped down his fingers. "Never would have seen a hint of cloud back in the Sand Country."

"Speaking of which," said Ino. "What brings you back to Konoha? Things not tip-top condition in the Sand Country?" Ino was half-hoping this would be the case, as her friend yet slightly rival Temari lived there, and she for some reason didn't like the nonstop flirting had between her and Shikamaru.

"Naw, nothing like that," answered Sasuke. Ino face half fell, but she didn't let it show. "We just wanted to be back home for the holidays. We were sorry we missed it last year, especially when we found out that no one really celebrates the holidays in the sand country. Plus, we thought it would be cool seeing everyone again," he looked pointedly at Sakura, but she didn't notice.

"But why come three weeks in advance?" Tenten asked, tilting her head.

"Oh, well, you know…we were afraid it would take awhile….but it like…didn't…and…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he lied terribly.

"Ok, fine," Neji said, his arms up. "Truth is, it was getting downright boring over there. Every day, every routine, it's the same. And it's as if no one there knows of emotion." It was ironic, having a stoic say that a country has no emotion, but it just showed them how boring the place probably was.

The girls all were thinking the same thing…if they wanted emotion, they came to the right place.

"Oh…I see…" said Ino. The boys nodded. "Except there's just a teensy little problem."

"What?" Shikamaru asked with a perplexed look on his face.

Next thing he knew, snow was all in his face.

"I want revenge." With that, Ino laughed and ran off as Shikamaru scooped up some snow to get back at her for well…getting back at him.

"A genius has gotta break sometime!" Ino shouted as she ran.

Shikamaru grinned as he shook his head. Sigh…she's right. He ran after her.

"Hm…Ino strikes a good point." Tenten said stroking her chin as she winked at Sakura. Neji and Sasuke raised their eyebrows.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

And who knew. Icy snow came in their faces

"Frick…" They both looked at each other. Sakura and Tenten just squealed giddily and ran off like Ino did.

"Well…" said Sasuke.

"We might as well," shrugged Neji. The two both gathered up snow and went after the two girls. I sure do feel bad for the victims of the snowballs those guys will be throwing…

Naruto and Hinata on the other hand, just stood there.

"Hey, Hinata?" Naruto asked kindly.

"Yes, Naruto?" Hinata replied.

"You got something on your face."

Hinata's hand immediately flew to her face in embarrassment as it checked around it. "Where?" she asked in a panic.

Then…snow flew in her face.

"THERE!" Hinata fell on his butt laughing, pointing at Hinata's face.

Hinata just stood stiff as Naruto rolled around in the snow. Oh…my…god…

Hinata had no choice. She gently took some snow in her hand, and compacted it together.

Sometimes you gotta live life on the edge Hinata…well, as far to the edge as you can get that is. Meaning THROW THE FRICKIN SNOWBALL! As Hinata's more daring alter ego jumped in, she flung the snowball, almost against her control.

It hit Naruto and he instantly stopped laughing.

I can't believe I just did that.

"Ah, well," Naruto got up from the snow and brushed some off him. "TWO, can play at that game my friend!"

Hinata started running, knowing what would happen next.

Next thing the eight of them knew, it was a snowball fight to the death. (AN: Well, you know what I mean by that.)

Hope you liked it! More chapters on the way, if this gets any reviews whatsoever that is…if I get like, six, I will update the second one. THANKS SO MUCH GUYS, again, I hope you give me a chance to see what I can do with a regular romance fic! Love you all! R and R!