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The Truth: Finding out

Sasuke had never understood the concept of Christmas. It was beyond reasoning; even though his mom had tried to explain about Santa and the decorations and all the Christmas stuff. He did not get it. Of course his brother Itachi had something to do with it. But it was not only Itachi fault. Sasuke had always been skeptical about Christmas and the fat guy that was around every corner.

Anyway, to get down to it, at the tender age of six his beloved brother, Itachi had technically ruined Christmas for Sasuke. Itachi, of course felt bad about it but what was done could not be undone. Anyway, getting back to the story, he had told Sasuke that the presents came from their mom and dad and that Santa was not a magical being but were fat people dressed in red clothes. All in all, Christmas was one big phony that fooled everyone every year.

Of course you must understand that Itachi was not being mean, he just did not want his little brother to be heart broken later on when he found out and to feel betrayed like he felt when he found out last year. He was just being a kind and considerate big brother who looked after his little brother.

Sasuke, though, started to hate his brother from that day on. He would not have minded at all being in the dark. After all as they say 'Ignorance is bliss' right? Wrong, that is a lie, Sasuke was glad his brother told him. Sasuke wanted to know everything. Now, he had the upper hand over the other kids, who wasted their time writing letter to Santa-nonexistent-Claus. It made him smirk at the thought of that. He always felt smug and superior, and we all know that Uchihas love that feeling; it's like a high for them.

Ok, going back to his parents, who had tried so hard since Sasuke was born to make Christmases perfect. They never understood why he started staying away from Santa, refusing to take pictures with him and write him letters. They were abso-fricking-lutely clueless. For the fact was, Sasuke never told his parents what Itachi told him. Why? Because Itachi told him not to and what Itachi said was law.

Now, why would Itachi personally tell Sasuke not to say a word about their conversation about their talk? Because Itachi hated to disappoint his mom—I know I know, he should have thought of this before he told Sasuke- and he was scared of his mom's wrath, just a little bit though. She had asked him not to tell Sasuke about Christmas, she said, " Even though you know that Santa does not exist, just let Sasuke enjoy okay?" Yep, this was the day after Itachi told Sasuke about Christmas. Itachi'd rather kill the whole clan then disappoint his mom. Since, he could not kill the clan during Christmas—that'd just steal all the holiday cheer-he did the next best thing. He glared his best glare at Sasuke, flicked his figherat him and kindly but coldly told him what he'd dare not do.

At eh age of 10, his parents found out that Sasuke knew the truth about Christmas. Ok, this is how it happened. Sasuke opened his big mouth and dashed his parents hope into the ground.

"I know the truth." Sasuke said almost unaudibly, when asked again to write a letter to Santa.

His parents stopped whatever they are doing, exchanged glances with each other and replied, "About what?"

Their faces were calm on the outside, but on the inside there was chaos, pain and destruction. Their little boy was growing up and they really liked all the fuss about Christmasand if Sasuke knew then they did not have any excuses.

"About Christmas. I know Santa doesn't exist. The presents I get are from you and that the elves don't decorate the house; I mean come on. They don't have enough time and there are not enough of them." Sasuke said as sweetly as possible while crushing his parents' dreams.

"How long have you known?" His mom asked, smiling. Then her eyes took on a dangerous glint. "and who told you?"

Sasuke just shrugged and said, "I expect all my presents to be under the tree. You know what I want right?"

"Of course, they will be there." His mom scoffed, "If you knew about it then why pretend you don't know and make us try to make you try a letter to Santa?"

Sasuke grinned one of his very rare grins and walked back to his room. Although, he still did not get the point of Christmas, he wanted presents. How could he understand why people smiled 24/7 around Christmas? The same people who frowned and were mean all the time were being nice and even smiled during Christmas time. Sasuke shook his head, he decided that he would not become like those people. He would not act like an idiot.

Ok, now I will explain about the elves and the decorating of the house by them. I owe you an explanation. This is what happened. Itachi told Sasuke that even though there was not Santa, there most certainly were elves. But alas, they were going extinct so to find one was a miracle. In the olden days, there were many elves, so many that there were enough to decorate everyone's house with magical ornaments, trees and lights. Then the magical things disappeared the day after Christmas; just like magic.

Anyway, as time passed these elves began to die out for some unknown reason. Since there were not enough of them to decorate the whole house, they started to leave a few magical ornaments or decoration in people's house.

"They had magic did not they?" Sasuke asked, entranced in the story.

"Yes, they did but they were using most of their power trying to heal other elves and they were running out. Anyway, the few elves that are left now try to do their best at cheering people up and filling their Christmas with magic." Itachi stopped, proud with his story telling story.

"How do they look?"

Itachi was stumped. He hadn't thought that Sasuke would ask that question. But he was on a roll. So he began talking once again, "nobody really knows for sure, because they would come and decorate a house when no one was around and it got harder to see them since they started dying out and only popped n for a minute or tow to set a magical item in a house. But some people saw a bit of the elves said that all elves have pointy ears and are ever smiling, their demeanor happy-go-lucky." Itachi decided to expand the perfection of the elves and continued to add, "They are said to have great faith and arte very loyal. They never give up and love making new friends. Uhh.. They love making every one happy and do anything for the one they love. They are said to have graceful, fragile features and are of extraordinary beauty. They are also said to have high cheekbones and big expressive eyes in bright coloring." Itachi caught his breath and evilly laughed in his lead, 'A person like this would never exist in this world.'

Wow, Sasuke was awed. He wanted to meet someone like that . But meeting an elf would be like a miracle and everyone knows miracles don't happen.

Somewhere in another part of the country, a little boy with golden skin, elf- like ears and big azure eyes was sleeping soundly.