A/N: I know this is really early, but what the heck. :) Also, keeps on screwing with this chapter's formatting, so if you see something weird, that's what it is.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Christmas Special: Hope

All of the Akatsuki were gathered around the Christmas tree that Pain and Konan had put up. Presents were being passed out, and already the alcohol had been broken out, and Kisame and Deidara were singing rowdy drinking songs.

Many of the other presents were boring old fashioned presents (Itachi got them all scented candles?) or just things that didn't make sense (Hidan gave everyone glass vials full of blood.). But now, it was time for Megan's presents.

She hid her smirk as they began opening the blue wrapped presents. Horror, and just a little bit of terror was in most everyone's faces.

"Why are they female underclothes in my present, un?" Deidara asked, his brows furrowing with alarm and confusion.

"HEY! Those are mine!" Konan yelled as she stood up, her present, which was a very taste full book of sex positions, falling to the ground to be revealed to everyone.

"Why do I have porn?" Itachi asked, tilting his head.

"Because you look like you need it since you're such a virgin at times it's painful," Megan replied.

Itachi coughed in a way that sounded suspiciously like 'Not like you're not one too.'

"Yay! Tobi has a lollipop!" Tobi shouted happily, clapping his hands in joy and spinning around.

"Is this…?" Sasori trailed off, holding up what look strangely like a wooden 'male part'.

Zetsu blinked as he held up a cactus to the light, and then smiled happily at his gift.

"Contacts? Really Megan?" Pain said, raising his eyebrows.

"Really," Megan agreed as Deidara ran from the room, dropping pictures of him bald.

Kisame was sitting on the floor, drunkenly letting his new piranha fish bite his hand.

Kakuzu threw the sewing kit over his shoulder, where it hit Konan on the head. She glared at him but them picked it up and sat it down with Pain's presents.

"What the fuck is this?" Hidan demanded as he held up a Jashinist belly ring.

Megan laughed and ran from the room as several murderous Akatsuki members chased after her. She didn't get too far.

"Oh, I should shove this book up your ass!" Konan snarled as Kakuzu and Sasori held her to the ground, their eyes narrowed with fury after their initial shock.

"Kinky," Megan said, laughing at their horrified faces.

"Has anyone ever questioned your sexuality?" Sasori asked.

"Has anyone questioned yours? Cause I mean, most guys don't cut off their dicks, even for immortality," Megan said.

Glaring at her, Sasori said, "I am not gay."

"For whatever reason, I don't believe you," Megan said.

"I don't either!" Kisame shouted, tripping out of the doorway and landing right beside them.

"Tobi has mistletoe!" the masked man shouted, holding up a branch of the plant.

"Get the away from me," Sasori stated, glaring.

Tobi hung the mistletoe over Kisame and Sasori, the former already drunkenly leaning forward and puckering his lips for the kiss. Sasori simply stood up, and began to walk away. The puppet was quickly grabbed by both Megan and Konan, who pushed him to the fish man, where their lips touched.

Disgusted, the red head wiped his lips with his arm and trudged away. The girls laughed, former anger forgotten.

"Tobi wants a kiss!" said Tobi, who held the mistletoe over himself and Konan. Rolling her eyes, she kissed his mask, right where his lips would be.

Tobi then hopped in front of Megan, and held the mistletoe over both of them. Why do you have to test my heart like that? She did the same as Konan, and then grinning, stole the leafy plant from him.

"No! Tobi wants the mistletoe back!" he sobbed as Megan ran to the room where the others were.

Laughing, the blonde girl held the plant over Kakuzu and Pain. Konan giggled from where she was standing in the doorway, and with a groan of annoyance, Pain quickly kissed the stitched man on the lips through his mask, and left with such a look on his face that the two girls believed that he was going to wash his mouth out.

Megan stared at her hand, which was where the mistletoe had been seconds before. Where did it go?

"Yay! Tobi has his mistletoe back! Megan-chan needs to give Tobi kisses for the rest of the night for stealing his mistletoe!" the lollipop masked man said, his hands on his hips.

Megan gave a sigh, smiling. She leaned forward and kissed his mask. Jashin, or whoever you are, what did I do to deserve this torture?

The rest of the night was all smiles, laughs, and kisses, yet in the back of her mind, Megan knew that this would all end soon, and the one that mattered the most would hate her, and either all of mankind would be stuck in an eternal illusion, or the love of her life might be dead. Maybe we will all get through this alive.

I suppose all I can do is hope.