Preparations for Christmas party

"Shizune, I want you to send invitations to everyone in Konoha. Make sure that all the members of Team 7 excluding Sasuke will come." Tsunade was looking through all the stacks papers on her desk while tapping her feet. She let out a big sigh and disappointment of all the papers.

"Anything else I could do Tsunade sama?"

"Yes, oh yeah please gather some people to help decorate and somehow get some mistletoe. This will be interesting to see or rather amusing." Tsunade laughed a little and excused herself to Shizune.

"Tsunade sama? Who should I gather to help with the preparations of the Christmas party? Please let's not get Naruto and such. It would be such a disaster waiting to happen."

"Anyone, but Naruto." Hokage-sama sighed and put her hands on her head. She had a long day ahead of her.

Sakura and her long time rival, but yet best friend Ino were picking out dresses to wear to the Christmas Party.

"Sakura-chan, does this make me look fat? I mean the color red is beautiful to wear for a party; especially when the occasion is the season for giving." Ino smiled and their vibes attracted one other to

"Of course it makes you look fat Ino pig; red makes your curves look bigger." Sakura glared at her rival while their "vibes" sent electricity to each other. She turned to the other direction quickly while swaying her hips and placing her hands on them. They both then turned to face each other to stick their tongues at each other. Of course Sakura wasn't being serious about calling Ino that word, but rather mocking her.

"Forehead girl, I heard that there's going to be mistletoe there and dancing as well. Let the best 'woman' win. Keep your hands off Sai, but you can have Naruto-kun and anyone else." Ino winked at Sakura feeling that she had defeated her rival, but yet it only had started.

"Well then Ino pig, let the best woman win. You can have Sai, be my guest; hover all over him if you want. I have my eyes on someone else." Sakura pointed at Ino mocked her friend. Then her inner side flared up and said Hell yeah!!! Kakashi is all mine; dammit!

"Hmph!" They both said it in unison and both crossed their arms looking away from each other.

"I'm going to win against you Sakura-chan no matter what." Ino started to walk away from her rival with the dress she repacked out.

"I'm going to make sure I won't lose against you." Sakura tip toed as she turned around to say her final words before picking her dress for the Christmas party.

Kiba, Neji, and Shikamaru, and Lee were talking to each other about what they want for Christmas, but of course all Naruto could think and talk about was ramen at his favorite restaurant and of course how to get Sakura to kiss him under mistletoe.

"Oi, do you guys have a special girl you want to kiss under mistletoe?" Naruto had a massive smile planted on his face and grinned while sitting with his legs crossed into each other. His eyes blinked about four times or more while waiting for a response.

"Naruto-kun, are you going after Sakura-chan?" Lee asked in an inquisitive tone and pondered about it.

"I am going after Sakura-chan and I will kiss her under mistletoe. Dattebyo!" Naruto replied being really enthusiastic and smiled while giving Lee thumbs up.

"Oh no! Not my Sakura-chan! I will fight you for my love." Lee gave the scary smile that he does with Gai-sensei.

"Eh?! Fuzzy Brows…you…you love Sakura-chan?" Naruto screamed in agony while his eyes popped out in disbelief and pointed at Lee.

"Stupid." Neji just walks away from the two having a little "arugment."

"Ugh, how troublesome," Shikamaru sighed at his two comrades that have the feelings for the same girl. "I get stuck with idiots like Naruto." He waved his arms in the air as if he felt overwhelmed on how the two acted, especially the way Naruto did.

Naruto will always be cocky and loud, not only that he'll still be addicted to ramen. Not only that he's always not listening to me when I'm leade during missions, oh well it can't be helped thought Shikamaru.

Shizune gathered mostly women to help decorate and a few people from Team 8, Team Gai, and Team 10. It mainly consisted of Hinata, Tenten, Ino, Chouji, and some other people from the village.

Hinata was wondering where Naruto was at and she started to play with her fingers nervously. The others were relaxed and laid-back while Chouji was eating a bag of barbeque chips.

"Everyone I want you to help decorate for the Christmas party. I have selected you all, because I feel like you all can do a really good job with it. Some of the other teams will be doing Caroling for the elderly tonight, but at any rate here is everything you need to decorate and if you need anything just one of you come to me." Shizune bowed at them and then waved goodbye to the group of people.

The girls gathered all the things together while Chouji set up ladders for some of them to use.

After two hours of Christmas decorating they finished up while talking, laughing, and making jokes.

Shizune came by to see how the decorating was going and she told them all, "You guys the place looks wonderful. You all did a wonderful job." She smiled at them all and waved goodbye hurrying to Hokage-sama.

To be continued.