Hello from the world's shittiest updater :) I'm soooooo sorry. In other news I learned how to swing dance over the weekend! If you ever get the chance you should totally try; it's major league fun.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Timber by Pitbull


Wednesday I got up early so I could arrive at school early again. I had one last gift for Naruto before Friday. I had run low on ideas for things to get Naruto. I had asked Suigetsu what gift a guy would like, but Suigetsu was incredibly unhelpful. "Well, it really depends on the guy," he said. And then he went on to hint about what he himself wanted for Christmas. It didn't really help. I ended up getting him a book. I hope he likes to read…

Back to the present, though. I pulled on some mint green skinny jeans that Karin had conned me into getting and pulled on a sweater. I picked up the gift-wrapped book and placed it in my backpack.

"Where are you going so early, Hinata?" my mom asked when I skipped downstairs.

"Um the whole Secret Santa thing is going on. I want to get there early to drop off my gift," I replied as I grabbed a bagel.

"Are you going to put a hat on? It's cold out there," my mom walked over to the closet and rummaged about a bit.

"Mom, I'm fine." I followed her over anyway and held open the closet door for her. She was rooting through a basket of hats.

"I know the perfect hat. What is it called? A bonnie!"

"A beanie?"

"Oh, yes! I see kids wearing them all the time," my mom pulled out a grey beanie and shoved it onto my head.

"What the heck?" I ducked down and tried to take it off.

"Oh, that's quite adorable!"

"Okay..." I readjusted it and brushed down my bangs. "Thanks. See you later, mom!"

"Have a good day, Hinata."

"You too!" I waved as I stepped outside. On my way to school, I pulled my iPod and pressed play. Bastille pumped through my ear buds.

I skipped up the school's front steps and inside. First I went to my locker and put a few things in there. While I had my backpack off I took out the gift. I hoisted my backpack over one shoulder and carried the gift with one hand while I scrolled through my iPod with the other hand.

"Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, nah it's just me ain't a damn thing changed," I sang softly as I jammed to Pitbull and Ke$ha and walked through the empty hallway to homeroom. "Swing your partner round and round, end of the night it's going down. It's goin' down I'm yellin' TIMBERRR–" I stopped dead in my tracks as I entered homeroom. I was not alone. Oh, no, not at all.

Naruto was standing in the middle of the classroom staring at me. I just stared back until I realized Naruto had slipped off his headphones and was saying something. I lifted up my hand and popped out my ear buds.

"…didn't hear you coming…" he said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Um…" Yeah, right. I bet he heard me yelling timber. I realized he was holding a gift in his hands. He must have had the same idea as me.

"Who's that for?" He was pointing at the present in my hands.

"Well, this is actually kind of awkward–"

"Oh, right. Not supposed to say who's the Secret Santa for who until Friday…"

"Well, yeah, but…this is for you." He was going to figure out eventually, right? What's wrong with an awkward confrontation a few days early?

"Me?" Naruto laughed.

"Well, it's not funny," I mumbled sort of annoyed. I don't know what I had expected, but it certainly wasn't for Naruto to laugh at me.

"But it is! It is!" Naruto weaved through the desks towards me. "Cause this…" He held up his gift-box wrapped in a red and white ribbon, "Is for you." He handed it to me.

WHAT.

WAIT.

WHAT?

Excuse me; I think all my brain cells have decided to go on holiday.

"You wanna take it? Orrr," Naruto ran a hand through his hair and looked round.

"Um, yeah! I'll take it! Yes!" I quickly grabbed the box. My ability to move and talk had abruptly returned. "And this is for you!" I shoved my gift for Naruto towards him. We sat down in desks next to each other and began opening our gifts. I stopped untying the ribbon.

"WAIT! What am I doing? Thank you! For the concert tickets!" I honestly didn't know what to say. Naruto bought me concert tickets. Super hot, nice boys don't buy me things like that everyday. This is actually a first. "Thankyouthankyouthankyou. So much."

"It's no problem. Glad you're happy."

"Well, how did you know that the Black Keys are my favorite band? Did you know?"

"Oh, I heard you talking about it to Karin… I wasn't listening on your conversation or anything," He quickly added.

"I don't mind…wait." I stopped untying the ribbon once more. "The fruit basket thing! You said for the girl who likes all things tropical. How did you know that?"

"Haha. At the beginning of the year, you know how Kakashi made us introduce ourselves and say one thing we liked? Which is totally dumb, but anyway, you said you loved tropical islands."

"Ohh. I forgot about that. You remembered that?"

"My brain is a steel trap," Naruto joked. "I remember everything."

"Oh, great, so that means you also remember how I fell on my face in the middle of the cafeteria the first day of school?"

"You didn't fall on your face. It was just a little stumble."

"Ugh…you're just trying to make me feel better. I can tell!"

"Okay, you fell flat on your face. It must've been mortifying." Naruto said solemnly. I grinned.

"Open your present," I said. He tore open the paper and pulled out the book. It was a copy of Life of Pi. His eyes scanned the back cover.

"Okay," I started rambling "I love that book, but I don't know if you like to read or what, but if you don't like it–well actually you should read it anyway."

"Okay, I'll read it," He smiled toothily at me. "Now open up yours."

"Okay, let's see…" I carefully finished untying the ribbon and unwrapped the box. I took off the lid and pulled back the tissue paper. Inside were a light pink hair band with a bow, an elegant blue hair band, and three beautiful little hair clips.

"I thought you might like 'em cause you're hair's always falling in you face when you read in class and stuff," Naruto said.

"Thank you, Naruto. I'll put one in right now," I said as I pulled off my beanie and smoothed down my hair. I picked up one of the tortoiseshell clips and tried to put it in, but was having a bit of trouble because I didn't have a mirror.

"Lemme help you," Naruto said as he leaned forward and gently took the clip from my hands. He brushed my hair behind my ear and put the clip in. I'm sure I was blushing up a storm. He leaned back. "It looks good," He said happily.

Soon other people started entering the classroom.

"Well, thank you, Naruto," I said as I got up from the desk to move to my own.

Naruto nodded and then glanced up at me, "Hey, what are we going to do on Friday? We already know that we're each other's Secret Santa."

"Oh yeah…Well, Sakura said we're supposed to give one last gift on Friday. What do you want?"

"I really need a new notebook for history class. You?"

"Earl Grey tea."

"Got it." He winked at me and I tapped my nose in a conspiratorial manner. As I walked to my desk Naruto started humming something to himself. It sounded an awful lot like Timber...oh great, he totally heard me.


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