A/N: Oh gosh. I am so sorry for not updating. I have so much homework! Math sucks.. no, it doesn't. I suck at math. -- Anyway, here's the next chapter of "I Believe In Magic?". One or two more chapters, I think!

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That evening, everyone went home happy-- okay, ALMOST everyone. In the last hour, they had developed, as Lee put it, "a very youthful plan" that was "sure to stoke the fires of youthfulness within Neji-san, YOSH!"

Now they just had to assign parts the next morning.

The plan was to meet each other at the crack of dawn and build the North Pole in some rarely-used training grounds near Neji's favorite training spot. Someone would Someone was to act as the great Santa himself, someone as Ms. Claus, some would act as elves, and some would be the reindeer.

Of course, there were obvious kinks in this plan. For one thing, nobody wanted to stuff his clothes with pillows to make himself look more like Santa but Naruto. Now, Ino and Sakura, the only 2 girls willing to be Ms. Claus, did NOT want to be "married" to Naruto, but.. well, they'd figure that out later.

Tenten, Ino, and Sakura were spending the night frantically putting together costumes (yes, they were the ones who were not that happy. Have you noticed that girls almost always get stuck sewing when it's needed?) and Kiba and Naruto were making props and instant hang up scenery. Out of paper. But who cares? It's only temporary after all.

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5:46 A.M.

"Where are they?! They were supposed to be here sixteen minutes ago!" Ino hissed angrily.

"A-- aah, Ino-chan, t-they're probably c-coming right now..." Hinata hurriedly consoled Ino, while secretly wondering whether Naruto and Kiba were at all. "P-perhaps th-they're having trouble g-getting the s-scenery h-here...?"

Right as the words fell from Hinata's lips, a speck of orange and a speck of brown appeared in the distance, and a barking dot frolicked alongside them.

"HIIIIIIIII!" the orange speck hollered. "WE'LL BE THERE IN JUST A SECOND!!"

Sakura sighed. Baka, she sighed to herself. He doesn't even know that this early in the morning he shouldn't be screaming that loudly!

Poor, poor, Sakura. How she was going to scream when she heard the news.

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Sakura screamed.

"WHAAAAAT?!?!!!" she exclaimed, with tears of disbelief in her eyes. "I HAVE TO BE MS. CLAUS?! NOOOOO!!" She dropped to the floor on her knees in despair.

"But Sakura-channnn!" Naruto happily sang, "you get to pretend to be married to me! Me! And I'm cool!"

"Ahem..." Shikamaru sighed. "Sakura, shut up. Naruto, shut UP. Now, you--" he pointed at Lee-- "are a reindeer."

"YOSH!" Lee cheered enthusiastically with tears in his eyes, and ran off to the reindeer costume pile.

"You, reindeer. You, elf. You, also elf. Ummm.. you're hard, but I guess you can be a reindeer. We need more reindeer."

"..." Sasuke walked off to the reindeer pile, trying to retain what was left of his dignity, now that he had been assigned to be a reindeer. What a condescending job.

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All the jobs had been assigned, the scenery had been set up with only a few minor injuries and only 7 deep cuts, and everyone was getting dressed up now.

Sakura had cheered up slightly, and was now admiring her Ms. Claus outfit.

"I look so much better than you, Ino-pig ELF."

"Forehead girl, you dream on. I'd look a THOUSAND times better than you as an elf than you would in the best designer clothes existing."

A fight was prevented by an exasperated sigh from Tenten.

"Lee... reindeer don't wear green spandex."

"But Tenten-san! I must wear this youthful outfit! I shall wear the antlers... and that shall be enough, right?"

"No, Lee. If you see a reindeer wearing spandex, you're either seeing an imposter reindeer, having illusions, or the world is about to end. We don't want Neji-san thinking that, do we?"

A dejected Lee went off to change into a reindeer costume, dropping raindrop-tears on the paper scenery as he went.

"NOOO! LEE! NOW THE CANDY CANE MAILBOX LOOKS WET! AND WHEN IT DRIES IT'LL BE WRINKLY!"

Yes, it would be interesting to see what would happen when they got Neji over here.

A/N: Yay! 2 WHOLE CHAPTERS! Thanks to my wonderful very-first-story-ever-posted-on-FFNet-reviewers, Lehrohon-hime, pepto (anonymous), RuneWitchSakura (without her, this story wouldn't exist! She made up the challenge!) and kaotic312, who is one of my favorite favorite favorite authors. By the way, she also made me feel guilty and write this chapter. Without Kaotic, you'd probably be waiting forever for this chapter. THANK YOU!

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