Sakura blow-dried her hair while dancing around her room to the radio. The kunoichi picked up a curling brush and began to sing into it. Then she began to turn her straight pink hair into soft Cherry Blossom curls. Her favorite song, "Dirty Little Secret", came on and she blasted the radio. Ino walked up the stairs in a white, silk bathrobe and leaned against the doorway, yelling, "Turn that racket down!" Sakura turned to Ino before lower the music.
"Did you say something, mother?" She asked while pulling out a white clothing box with Jiraiya's logo printed on it. Ino sighed and began walking down the stairs before stopping to holler, "I'm giving you fifteen minutes to dress, then I'm leaving." Sakura ignored the order and began to put on her undergarments. Since the two girls had matured, they'd become better friends. This gave the girls the fabulous idea to rent an apartment together, in order to cut the living costs. It was a little shaking at first, but they got over their differences and now lived peacefully together. Sakura grabbed a thick winter jacket and walked down stairs. Ino was sitting on the couch in her candy cane, stripped tights, red shorts, and shirt with a peppermint in the center. Ino's hair fell over her shoulders with peppermint clips pulling back loose bangs.
"Whoa, hot momma!" Ino whistled as Sakura made a sizzling sound when touching her side. The tight green, floor dress made Sakura's eyes shimmer in the light, and the high side cuts showed off her slender legs. Ino's phone rang and as she answered, Sakura put on the winter coat.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"Who is it?" Sakura whispered as she slipped into her satin heels.
"Kiba." Ino mouthed. "How long does it take for him to get ready? He's worse than Sakura!"
"Hey!"
"Your boyfriend is taking forever to do his hair. You know Kiba, just meets us at Tsunade's. Alright, kiss kiss, bye." Ino picked up her candy cane purse.
"Kiss kiss? How corny!" Sakura laughed while Ino murmured ways to get back at her friend as she locked the apartment door.
Temari locked her hotel door and pulled Shikamaru by his tie. The strong willed woman wore a red and sleeve-less, turtle neck dress with the seam in the middle of her thigh. At the collar and bottom of her dress was white, Santa hat fluff, and knee high, black boots. Over that was a huge, over-sized, snow coat and upon her head was a Santa hat. Shikamaru was being drug through the falling snow in a black tux and Christmas orientated tie that played "Jingle Bells" when pressed. He had come to pick Temari up for the party, but when he had arrived, she was still dressing. To pass the time, he fell asleep and when she found him, she pushed him off the bed.
"I can walk by myself." Shikamaru straightened his tie after his girl let him go. The snow lightly fell onto their hair that was down. Temari stroked some of his bangs from his face and smiled, "You're so cute with your hair down. Why don't you wear it like this more often?"
"It gets in my way when training."
"Baby." Temari was about to turn and keep walking, but Shikamaru pulled her close to his body. Leaning his head against hers, Shikamaru brushed his lips against hers, sending chills through the Sand shinobi's body. Temari felt her blood temperature rise as Shikamaru ran his hand up her neck and brushed a snowflake off of her eyelashes. Next, he placed his arm around her waist and whispered into her ear, "I look beautiful, my desert rose." Temari kissed him, and they walked peacefully to the party.
Tsunade walked out of her bedroom and showed off her stylish clothes to Jiraiya, who whistled loud as the Hokage turned in a circle. Tsunade wore skinny jeans, black boots, and a red, long sleeve, cowbell shirt. A black claw with red diamonds pulled up her hair; this was an early Christmas present form Jiraiya. Jiraiya wore a Santa outfit, by request of Tsunade, with light blush to give him rosy cheeks. Jiraiya chuckled a few ho's and pulled Tsunade onto his lap.
"What would you like for Christmas Hime?" He kissed her cheek and rested his hands on her waist.
"I want Santa to tone his abs and loose the bear belly." The blond gently patted "Santa's" belly.
"Hey, I've been working out more than you, old lady. Your legs are losing tone." Jiraiya began tickling Tsunade as she laughed and kicked. Tsunade begged Jiraiya, "Stop, stop, I'm goanna pee my pants!" She managed to push herself away from him, holding her sides. The doorbell rang and taking this opportunity, Tsunade ran to the door. Shizune, Iruka, Hinata, and Naruto walked into the house laughing.
"Pervy Sage, I never though you'd actually wear that!" Naruto continued to laugh as he pulled out his manly frog purse and handed a twenty over to Tsunade. Jiraiya smiled, "I had two choices; 1) Let Tsunade win and watch you lose twenty bucks, or 2) Let Tsunade beat me to a pulp and you win twenty bucks. You should see your face!" The Sage began laughing with the others as Naruto's mouth dropped and he tried to snatch back his twenty.
"That's not fair! Give me that back!"
"Looks like I already want to be home." Shikamaru sighed as he walked into the room with his arm around Temari.
"Hinata, that black dress looks adorable on you." Temari put her coat into the coat closet. Hinata wore a knee length, black dress with white snowflakes dancing around. Shizune stood beside her in a red cocktail dress with a black bow in her hair and on each of her shoes. Naruto wore a black tux like Shikamaru and a tie that played "Deck the Halls". Since Iruka's teacher's salary didn't pay nearly as much as A ranked missions, he wore nice slacks and a navy blue, collared shirt. Next came Sakura and Ino with holiday cards for everyone, and placed them beside Naruto's holiday bags. Naruto was glad they could come, but changed his mind as soon as the girls saw his fat lip. They were in hysterics as soon as they heard the story. Shortly after, came Sasuke and Kiba in matching suits, but Sasuke wasn't wearing his Christmas tie that Naruto had given him, unlike Kiba who couldn't stop pressing and listening to "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer". Kurenai and Anko walked into the party wearing green and red, Santa's elves outfits, followed by Asuma in slacks and a black, collared shirt. Lastly, Kakashi and Gemna walked in with tuxes and fellow shinobi.