Chapter 10:

'Arrogant child.' Orochimaru thought, moving into the light.

"Do you believe in ninjas?" Orochimaru asked.

"No?" Sasuke said.

'What the hell is he thinking?' Sasuke thought.

"That's a shame. You were such a great ninja." He said.

Sasuke glared. "What are you saying?" He was getting impatient with him.

"You want to be stronger than your brother right?" Orochimaru asked.

Sasuke nodded.

"When you were a ninja, you were stronger than your brother." Orochimaru said. (A/N I never said he was telling the truth!)

Sasuke glared. "So what?" He said.

"If you help me bring back the ninja world, you will be stronger than your brother." Orochimaru said. He smirked.

'That's what he wants.' Sasuke thought.

Sasuke was silent.

'The only reason I came was to get this stupid thing off my neck.' He thought as he ran his hand over the curse mark that had appeared after Orochimaru bit over it.

'But I seem to have hit more than that.' He started to look up. An image of his father telling him,

'Sasuga oreno musuko da." (A/N I don't like the way it is said in english so I used the japanese one) went through his head.

'That moment may come.' He thought as he looked straight at Orochimaru.

"Fine." He said.

'I've scored the jackpot.' Orochimaru thought.

"Come with me."

Kabuto pushed his glasses up.

'I wonder who else he plans to get.' Kabuto thought as he watched from the side.

"IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!" Gai-sensei shouted at 6 in the morning.

Tenten woke up.

'It's still 6...' Tenten thought as she got up and went to her personal bathroom. She quickly got ready. She tied up her hair in buns, brushed her teeth, and put on some jeans and a sweater. She looked out the window at the snow before going out to open her presents.

When she came down, everyone was there. Lee, Neji, and Gai-sensei were all waiting by the tree. Lee and Gai-senei were staring at the presents, anxious to open them. Neji was sitting on the side, he didn't look interested. Tenten sat down next to Lee and Neji. Gai-sensei noticed her and picked out a group of presents.

"Lee!" He shouted. Lee walked over to the group. Gai-sensei had happened to sort the presents so everyone could open them quickly. Lee had about 4-5 presents. This didn't seem like a lot but it was one of the bigger groups. Gai-sensei went over to another group.

"Tenten!" He shouted.

"Yes." Tenten said and went over to her presents. She had 5-6 presents.

'Strange, I usually only have 3-4.' She thought as she looked at them.

Gai-sensei went to another one, looked at it, and skipped it.

'Must have been his.' Tenten thought. Gai-sensei went to a group of 2-3 presents.

"Neji!" He shouted.

Neji sighed and walked over and sat down.

"Ready..." Gai-sensei began. Lee's body became tense.

'Is this a race?' Tenten thought as she looked at them.

Neji didn't make any move at all. He just sat there.

"Get set..." Lee started to sweat from anxiety, as did Gai-sensei.

"...GO!" Gai-sensei shouted as they all rapidly started to rip their presents.

"..." Tenten and Neji stared.

'This every year...' Neji thought as he watched them race.

"I'm done!" Gai-sensei shouted. "Hahaha! Lee! You have to train more! I was taking it easy!"

"Osu! I will try harder!" Lee shouted opening his last present.

Once they were done, Tenten started to open her presents. She got a giftcard from Temari, a small swiss knife from Hinata, and a scarf from Neji...wait a second.

"Neji?" Tenten turned around. Neji blushed.

"What? You think I can't knit or something?" He was very annoyed.

"Pu..." Lee and Gai-sensei tried to control their laughter. Neji glared at them before returning to staring at nothing.

"No, thank you!" Tenten said and put it on it's side with the other presents. Lee and Gai-sensei had given her a giftcard.

"We didn't know what to get you." Gai-sensei said.

"Thank you Gai-sensei. You too Lee." Tenten said.

'Oh, there was one more.' Tenten thought picking it up. 'Who's it from?' There was no tag or anything on it. She shrugged it off and started to open it. When she opened it, she pulled out a small knife looking thing.

"What's this?" Tenten asked putting it in front of her face.

'A kunai...!?' Gai-sensei thought as he looked at it. "Tenten...who is that from?" Gai-sensei asked."

"Hm...? There was no name." Tenten said. She examined it. It looked like a dart in a way. Her eyes glinted as she aimed her knife at the dart board. She carefully checked her aim one more time before throwing it right into the bulls-eye.

"Yes!'' Tenten shouted.

"That was good Tenten-san!" Lee said amazed.

'She's good.' Neji thought. 'I think they were good at it too if I remember right.'

'Tetuya could always hit bulls-eyes.' Gai-sensei thought clapping for Tenten.

Tenten walked over to the dart board and pulled out the knife. She spun it around her finger.

'I wonder who gave it to me?' Tenten thought as she watched the small knife spin around her finger.

"Tsunade-sama, about the kunai..." Gai-sensei was standing in front of Tsunade who was finishing some paperwork.

"What do you want me to do? Ryuko asked me to, I had to." She said.

"But Tsunade-sama, why at a time like this?" Gai-sensei was well aware that something was happening.

"Because it was a time like this." Tsunade sai pushing aside her paperwork. "That girl needs to be portected. With her past, Orochimaru might come after her."

"..." Gai-sensei didn't say anything.

"How was her aim?" Tsunade asked changing the subject.

"Incredible." Gai-sensei said. "Just like them."

"Not meaning to interrupt." Kakashi-sensei said coming in. "But, you really did that didn't you." Kakashi said.

"Yes, and it will be fine." Tsunade said. "Now, I need to go somewhere so please leave." Tsunade said getting up.

"Yes." Kakashi and Gai-sensei said getting out.

They glanced at each other before parting.

Chapter 10!

Bonus story! Read and do as says!

Deidara:Guess what Tobi-un?

Tobi:What Deidara-sempai?

Deidara:I heard that they were going to change your star system so that instead of how much of a good boy you are, they'll give you stars based on how many reviews this story gets-un.

Tobi:What!? Tobi didn't hear that!

Deidara:Well you do know-un. You're going to have to beg to get your stars know-un. (snickers)

Tobi:Please! Tobi wants more stars so please review!

Deidara:Might be impossible with this story-un.

Natume:Shut up Deidara. But please review for the sake of Tobi's stars!

Tobi:Natume-san, please give me more stars!

Natume:We'll have to wait and see! Be a good boy and wait!

Deidara:I'm surrounded by idiots...

Natume:Who are you calling an idiot!?

Suddenly, Deidara and Natume start to fight.

Tobi:I want to fight too!

Tobi joins in.

Natume:Keep reading and review please!

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