Ho ho hello Konoha!
Chapter 1
The streets of konoha were suddenly filled with decors of some sort before the snow came falling down, a yearly tradition that the villagers anticipated. Of bulbs and bells, missions were naturally cancelled, and the nins were decidedly at home, or at least that's where they should be.
Yup, Christmas definitely was in the air.
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A certain kunoichi with funny hair buns and a green looking boy were cautiously treading in the Hyuuga grounds. It's a bit weird, the girl noted, don't the Hyuugas like christmas? Do THEY even know what's christmas? The odd boy shook his head, but before he could stream words of advice into her head, she hollered.
"Hey! Hey, Neji!"
"TENTEN! YOU SHOULD'NT SHOUT!"
"Pfft..talk about shouting...HEY NEJI!" She purposely screamed at Lee's face, and the poor boy was hard as stone.
"Tenten" He smirked, being the Hyuuga that he is, and she smiled, practically immuned to his manerism.
"Let's go, were running late." He teased, and she berrated him.
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"THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH IS NEAR!"
"Lee.." Neji warned his hyped teamate as he opened the door to Ino's place. It was an inn, closed for the night and packed with familiar faces; everyone in rookie 9 was present, and the whole class too, it was like a reunion. A so-called stage could be found against the wall, it seems the instruments were in place, 'but hey, where's the band?' The Hyuuga asked himself while leading his teamates to a spot next to team 7 minus kakashi and Naruto, who was turning a certain cousin of his to a tomato at the outher side of the room, he growled at the blonde. Tables were scattered aroun the area, Ino herself was with Shikamaru and Chouji at the bar, they look too mischievous with the drinks, 'Can't be too careless...'
"Neji, Do you know where we are?" Tenten asked breathlessly with a grin. Music started to play
"Were in a party." He answered her directly.
"Yes! thank God for that, and do you know what your'e supposed to do in parties?" She taunted.
"...Tenten...we've been through this..." He said painfully, she grinned wider, and a YOSH! could be heard a foot away before someone came to interrupt.
"Yo"
"Shikamaru!"
"SHIKA-KUN!-"
"What the! No calls me that but-..ahh... ahem, Ino told me to bring these to you guys." Shikamaru handed Teneten a tray, avoiding Lee's pouting looks.
Unfortuantley, this wasn't part of Konoha's nin training.
"Drinks?" Neji asked suspiciously, not bothered by Lee leaving the table because Sakura and Sasuke had become dangerously close all of a sudden.
"Yes, Alc-, Refreshments, actually." Shikamaru smirked.
"Refreshments, as in Juice and soda?" Tenten questioned the Nara with a lesser hint of suspicion than Neji.
"Of course!" He replied, and took off pretending that Ino had called for him.
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"Neji, stop scaring me like that! You could have at least told me that you were hyperventilating!" Tenten chided at her choking teamate, his face mysteriously turned into a sudden shade of red, and come to think of it, her too. And hey, was it her, or did the room just tilted a bit? Nahh, this is too easy! the other side of the room was packed with people, that's why it's tilted that way...whoo- where did that come from? She shook her head a bit harder grimaced as the room tilted back in place. '...whooah...i can do that?'
"I am not...hyper- Ack!"
"Here, drink this!" She half mindedly handed him a bottle filled with clear liquid. "Got it from the bar-"
"Ta-Hnks" He faulted while trying to speak and gulped the hot liquid- Wait, what the, HOT? He turned the bottle around to see it's label, but he had to squint an eye to see it clearly. Whatever happened to his muscle coordination? couldn't he squint both? He thought while trying to read the very legible and huge letters of...
"SA-"
"-KE?" She finished for him because his face gave a powerful 'BONK' against the hard wooden table. "...whoops?"
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"NEJI! For the love of-" An infuriated Tenten was screaming at a certain Hyuuga.
"just one more! One more, Tenten, please!" He begged her as he set the whole thing up again.
"Wha? Oh, God no! One more time and I'm leaving you here!" But he doesn't seem to hear her as the music started to play.
"NEEEEJIII!" She screamed at him as he hopped on the stage, catching everyone's attention.
Say, Hey!
He raised his arms, and they went wild.
"If you say so, just don't go blaming me tomorrow for a bad headache and a music video." She smirked, catching Lee with a camera.
Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name
"TENTEN-SAN! IS THAT NEJI?" Lee asked her amidst the noisy crowd of nins jumping along.
'Woah! Ino and Shika-kun are diggin it!' SHe thought while spotting the pair.
"THE ONE AND ONLY!"She yelled back, oh the chaos, someone had already stepped her foot for the 20th time!
"So Neji's drunk too? I just went out to get my newest video camera that Gai-sensei gave me! And I saw this! Tenten! i was right! it IS the springtime of youth! YOSH!"
"What? Is EVERYONE drunk?" She dodged a gigling Sakura and Sasuke while they tumbled on to the foor.
Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday!
"NO! BUT SOME OF THEM ARE AT LEAST WAAAAAAY OVER TIPSY!"
"Oh boy.." She sighed despite the loud music and thumping crowd. "Now I'm really parched."
"DRINK THIS! TENTEN-SAN!" He assured her with a nice guy pose.
'Now, where did that come from?' She asked herself. "Oh well I suppose a drink from you wouldn't hurt..." She said before emptying the tumbler.
Wrong!
Ten minutes later, she joined Neji on the stage.
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Oh well...enjoy! sasusaku next!