Christmas!

Yes, it was that time of the year and all around Konoha Village, people were busy trying to find the perfect gift for all their friends and family. But as usual, our favourite ninjas were having trouble with what to get for whom.

Naruto hurried through the bookstore, looking for Kakashi's gift. Oh, he knew what he was going to get for his teacher perfectly well. The problem was, it seemed to have sold out in every single store he looked in!

He rounded a corner-

- and walked straight into Sasuke.

"GAH!"

"Jeez, Naruto, you might want to watch where you're going."

"Well I'm SORRY, but right now, I'm more worried about getting my present for Kakashi right at this minute!"

"What are you getting him?"

"The prequel to Make-Out Paradise."

"Well then you're going to have to find something else."

"What? Why?"

Sasuke pulled the book in question out from under his arm.

In a café three stores away, Kakashi looked up. He could've sworn that he'd just heard somebody that sounded an awful lot like Naruto yell out "DAMN YOU, SASUKE!!!"…

He shrugged. For a moment, he wondered what the problem was this time. Then he got back to reading Make-Out Paradise.

Gaara stood in one spot, staring at his presents checklist. It looked something like this:

Temari- fan polish

Kankuro- more face paint

Lee-?

So far, he'd ticked Temari and Kankuro off his list. It was pretty hard to walk into a general store and not find face paint, and finding fan polish had been a great deal easier than he'd expected. Naturally, he'd bought four tins of the stuff; since Temari's fan was unusually large, he'd figured she'd need more.

He'd beaten his brain up deciding on a present for Lee. Food? No, that wouldn't really be appropriate. Training gear? Lee already had three wardrobes full.

Eventually, he'd decided to give up on it for the time. He'd thought that he might know the perfect gift on sight. After all, you don't know what it is until you find it. Unfortunately, it wasn't willing to be found.

For the second time that day, he gave up. This time, though, he was going to ask Tenten for help. Perhaps she'd know what would be good.

Shikamaru walked lazily through the shops. Normally, he procrastinated in his gift-buying; however, since that always wound up causing more stress, he'd decided to get his gifts three days prior to Christmas, instead of on the day itself. It turned out that it had been a good plan, because there was a better range of choices. He'd got all his gifts. Yes. That was good.

Shikamaru went home, safe in the knowledge that he had all his gifts and was therefore able to laze about watching clouds.

Yay! Christmas fic! I know it's kinda out of season, but AH DON'T CARE. I like writin' it. Hee heee hee!

I know exactly what Gaara's gonna get for Lee. (Insert evil laugh here.) If you think you know what Gaara's going to give Lee, leave a review and we shall find out if you are right in the next chappeh!