Warrior: Whew! I've finished writing this story. I hope people will like it and be nice about the story since it's my first fanfic, . And probably no one is going to read it since it sucks… haha… Who knows? Oh, don't kill me if they're typing mistakes or any other mistakes since I am human and I can't catch everything… .
Kiba: Man, how come the story takes for the worst in my case?
Warrior: Stop giving away the story!
Naruto: Is there a fight? Let me join!
Warrior: There's no fight. Naruto? STOP! NOW!!!
Kiba: Back off, punk!
Sasuke: Warrior owns nothing except for the plot.
Warrior: Thanks a bunch, Sasuke. Naruto, Kiba! STOP!!!
Chapter 1: Picking Names Out of a Hat…
Christmas break was just around the corner. Candy and food with family quality time was just head in another of couple of weeks, not to mention presents. No one could wait for the joyous holiday to arrive.
"What should we do to torture the students?" Kakashi playfully asked the other Jounins.
The Jounins were sitting inside a warm classroom drinking tea. Kurenai shot a glare at him.
"Torture? Kakashi. I thought we were just having a party for the students, as we announced earlier."
"Why not?" Guy agreed with much enthusiasm at Kakashi's idea. "I have a great idea!"
Asuma's eyes twitched. "Um, yeah." "I'm afraid what he's thinking."
"Well?" Kurenai opened suggestions.
"We should have an event where the students will draw each other names out of a hat. Then at the party, the person's name the student received, will present the gift and everyone has to witness the event."
Asuma slapped his forehead. This was probably the dumbest meeting they ever had. Kurenai raised one of her eyebrows. It was pure quiet as the birds outside chirped. Guy continued.
"The students will exchange gifts when we call their names. And everyone has to be looking. But we won't tell the students that until the actual day of the party. Just tell them to get, to what I called it, a Secret Santa gift."
Kakashi gleefully chuckled. Asuma fleetingly rolled his eyes. Great. More madness. He actually didn't really care. He just wanted the discussion to be over since he lost sleep this morning because of the meeting. He knew what Secret Santa was. Gai didn't need to explain it! Oh, whatever. "Fine."
"Yes!" Guy cried in happiness. "People actually like my idea."
"No, we don't. We just can't come up with anything else." Asuma sarcastically commented as Guy became saddened and hid in his little corner. Kurenai scratched her cheek. "Men. They'll never change out of being boys."
"Something you said?" Kakashi turned over in her direction.
"Let's call a meeting."
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Hinata was one of the last people to arrive. She spotted Shino, but there was no Kiba. Where was he? sitting in the row right above Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. Hinata took a seat next him.
"Hinata. How are you?" he kindly greeted her.
"I'm fine. Why did the Jounins have an urgent meeting?" Hinata tried to start a conversation with Shino, but he didn't respond.
Kakashi stood in front of the classroom with the other Jounins. Naruto and the rest of kids sat in their seats wondering what the meeting was about. Asuma was smoking on his cigarette waiting. Kurenai gazed at the window. The snow outside was pure and beautiful. Yet the crystal snow…
"Now, class…" Kakashi cleared his throat. The class became quiet. Pounding footsteps were heard as the door was violently opened. Kiba rushed inside and took a seat beside Hinata.
"Hey, Hinata. Hey, Shino." Kiba greeted them.
"Yeah. Sakura says always I create a big entrance. Look at him." Naruto thought to himself.
"As you know Christmas Day is approaching rapidly." Kakashi began to speak as the class settled down from Kiba's big star entrance.
"We're just having the party, right?" Ino mentioned the obvious.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes as Chouji continued to eat his potato chips. Kakashi pretended to not hear Ino's comment. "During the day of the party, you guys will exchange gifts. Meaning… you'll be buying each other gifts. Like Secret Santa."
The students gaped. The room was silence as if someone was in trouble. Gai and the Jounins pondered for a bit if the students actually knew what the name meant.
"Now, the gift has to be meaningful and something worth keeping for a lifetime. It can't just be candy. Here are the rules. It can't be gone within minutes, basically meaning all foods and cheap plastic are out of the question. AND… no gift cards."
"Why not?" Sakura shouted.
"Sakura has to be noisy, doesn't she?" Tenten couldn't help to let the thought slipping through her mind.
"Calm down. Christmas is a time where you actually get another person a meaningful gift."
"I, at least, thought Sakura knew that much about Christmas." Lee couldn't help but ponder if he was going to receive Sakura's name out of the hat.
"But what if-?"
"No buts about it. We'll begin the sorting. Sakura, you first."
Sakura snapped her fingers as Naruto snickered at her. Sasuke was full of apathy. He was astonished as to how Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara were dragged into this. Eventually, everyone received a person out of the hat. Some people were pleased, but others were displeased. Gaara... he had lots of exceptions and this instance was one of them: Never revealing his emotions.
Hinata gripped onto her paper as Kiba tried to interrogate her.
"Who do you have, Hinata?"
Hinata didn't even peek at the paper yet. She was reluctant. Shino butted in as he adjusted his sunglasses.
"Kiba, if you're wise and know enough about girls, you'd be smart to back off. They can get pretty violent, if you didn't know."
"Hinata? Whatever. When did you become my mom?" Kiba protested.
"Number one, I'm a male. And number two; I'm warning you for your own good. And number three; I would be a father. Thank god you aren't my child…"
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean, bug head! Well… you certainly act like a mom."
Shino obviously couldn't convince him to back off, but knowing Kiba, he was… Well, that's if you knew Kiba. You see… (In Shino's POV) Kiba was an irksome, stupid, annoying, dumbass, dimwit, obnoxious, vexatious, bothersome, asshole, tiresome, ignorant, idiotic, vacuous, foolish, thickheaded, boneheaded, arrogant, and… Well, you get the point. He's pretty much all of those words. The reason Shino never bothered to pick a fight with Kiba was because he would just be wasting breath, time, energy, power, stamina, and… all of those synonyms to those words. (I'll stop there.) So wait… why was Shino still wasting breath on him? Oh, that's right because they're "friends".
"You haven't even seen a real woman. How would you know?"
"Yeah? And how would you know?"
"I have a mom."
"What?! Does that exclude me? I have a mother, too! Dammit!"
"Well, you must not pay attention to your mother very much."
"HUH? Why do you spy on your mom? You're so much weirder than I thought. Gaah! I'm sitting next to a… pedophile!" (Well, wouldn't that actually be more like, um… Itachi? Hehe. Just kidding there)
The teachers could hear the students' conversation. Actually, everyone in the room could hear Kiba and Shino's conversation, but just no one said anything. Some found this hilarious, such as Naruto. (Probably the only person) Hinata felt quite embarrassed being in the middle and she was sitting in between them. And it all started because of silly questions she could've just answered. Kakashi and the Jounins all exchanged looks at each other.
Neji overheard their conversation. Who did Hinata have? If it was Naruto, he didn't mind. Hinata grew soft feelings for people quickly. He hoped it wasn't someone else like the Uchiha. If it was… he had hoped Hinata would not stray off into liking him. Naruto was a much better choice. Tenten interrupted his thoughts. "Neji, what's wrong?" He shook his head, not speaking.
Lee quickly interrupted their serious conversation. "At least… they did not forget the POWER OF YOUTH in their argument!"
"Uh, how does that relate to anything to what they're doing?"
Tenten questioned Lee sometimes if he had a brain. If Lee did have a brain, then he wouldn't be Lee, right? Neji, with his serious face, sighed softly. Lee completely ignored her question.
In the front of the room, Gai (naturally) responded to Lee. "YES, THE POWER OF YOUTH WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US!!!!"
"I feel loved." Tenten spoke to herself.
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
Neji slowly turned his head over as Tenten shook her head. The teachers were clearly embarrassed. Kakashi nervously chuckled.
The students were quite confused. Let's see. Lee and Gai were having their "youth" moment… rather "student and teacher" moment. Kiba and Shino were having a silly quarrel over Hinata's Secret Santa, which led to if Shino was a male to the discussion of being a pedophile. Who would of thought the shinobis of Konoha Academy would've learned so much?
Temari rolled her eyes. "So tell me again… why are we here?"
Kankuro shrugged not speaking as Gaara made no motion or response if he was listening. But then again Gaara never spoke or responded as always unless necessary and if he did… it would probably be the apocalypse, which is another exception in his case. Gaara dreamily glanced Sakura. Temari or Kankuro didn't take notice. The three sat in silence.
Chouji stared at his paper in confusion. He squinted his eyebrows. Shikamaru strangely gazed at him. What was so confusing about one little piece of paper?
"Chouji?"
Chouji placed the paper in his pocket and stuffed more potato chips in his mouth. He shook his head, telling them noting was wrong. Shikamaru highly doubted it. Chouji never was confused unless, in this case, it was complete different from the assignment… well not really. But… Oh! Why was he thinking? He was using too much brainpower.
"Pedophile? Kiba? You were like that?" Ino teased him.
"What?! I didn't say I was!" Kiba defensively shot at her. The room was snickering with Naruto chuckling being the loudest. Sasuke was indifferent, at least Hinata noticed. Kiba brought Naruto into the verbal fight. Shino couldn't believe it.
"Yeah, what about you?"
"What? Are you trying to pick a fight? What did I do?" Naruto responded to Kiba's anger.
"Hell, yeah! You were the one laughing!!"
Kiba was basically hollering at the top of his lungs. Temari covered her ears while Neji and Tenten were glad they sat in the back of the classroom. As for Lee… well… let's just say… he wasn't listening too much on the dispute between Kiba and Shino.
"I can't laugh? Who made you dictator! Huh? You can't be dictator because you smell as bad as your dog!" (Well, Akamaru is home for now).
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
Kakashi interrupted the silly argument. Kurenai and Asuma were shocked by the dumb argument. Gai was too busy still having his "youth" moment, but everyone ignored them. It wasn't as if they were actually important to the story at the time being.
"Now, now. Don't bring your arguments in here. Leave them outside. You guys are dismissed."
Kiba deeply growled glaring at Shino, who seemed pretty calm for someone who was going to lose his life soon. He stormed out of the room and the tension was over. Naruto scoffed and turned his attention toward Sakura and Sasuke. Everyone resumed back to his or her business. (Not that they were eavesdropping… hehe).
Sasuke cocked an eyebrow. "What's his problem?"
"Thank you, Shino."
"No problem. It works every time with guys like Kiba. Oh. We never had this conversation." Shino got out of his seat and headed for the door. The rest of the class began to recede out of the room as well. Hinata took this chance to read her paper since no one was around her.
On the paper slip read… read… read… read… SASUKE? HUH? OMG!!!
Warrior: What do you think?
Sasuke: It sucks.
Warrior: What! But I worked so hard on it!
Kiba: Can I ask again: why does the story take the worst for me?
Naruto: Shut up! No one wants to hear you!
Kiba: You challenging my to a fight, punk?!
Warrior: Hey, I am-
Naruto: Fine! Bring it on! Just remember I won against you last time!
Kiba: Now I'm going to beat you real hard!
Naruto: Pedophile!
Warrior: Guys, I have to continue the story so-
Kiba: What?! I didn't-
Naruto: Pedophile!
(Kiba comes storming at him and punches Naruto, while screaming, which echoes through the entire Leaf Village, into the sky. Sasuke and I stare then look at each wondering… Could Naruto get any dumber?)
Warrior: Anyways, after being interrupted so many times… Please review and don't me cold-hearted like Sasuke. It's always glad to know someone acknowledged my work!!! Please input on what I can do to make my story better if somewhere wasn't that interesting!
Sasuke: Hmm, I wonder where Kiba went.
Warrior: And FYI italics are thoughts or flashbacks. Also, please input on which people should give each other gifts. I've got Sasuke and Chouji covered. And don't think it means Chouji and Sasuke have each for Secret Santa…