PA: THIS IS A OMAKE THAT IS NOT RELATED TO THE MAIN STORY LINE! This chapter, and everything inside of it is to be taken as a joke. The characters may appear somewhat occ, and there are some sensitive topics, but I purely mean it as humour.
It was a chilly winter night, graceful snowflakes dancing towards the ground. Naruto stood clad in thick black pants, a baggy grey hooded jacket was thrown over his shoulders with a deep blue scarf tightly wrapped around his neck, covering his mouth and the bottom two whisker marks on his cheeks. His blue eyes looking out over the ground as a chain belt swung limply in the wind.
In his hands was Kurama, in his chibi form looking across at the gathered people, this cold weather never really went over well with him.
Tia stood to his right, her arms over her chest as a small yellow fox poked its head out from her jacket. Her clothing was much the same as Naruto's feeling that it was more comfortable and easier to fight in than what others were wearing.
Nel was different, instead choosing to wear a long fur overcoat, in a slightly faded brown, her long green hair falling out from under a fur hat while her feet were wrapped up tight in long boots. Around her neck was a green scarf, similar to the colour of her hair, a small fox poking its head out from her jacket while a wide smile was on her face.
Zabuza held a bored look, finding himself in a long drawn coat, Gaara and the others wearing the same, while Haku took clothing similar to Nel.
"So this is that holiday humans call Christmas?" The orange foxed mused, not even trying to hold back on the boredom in his voice, "I am not a fan."
Striking a pose, Nel brought a finger up to her lips, "Is that because you haven't fought anything yet?"
"Maybe."
The group had gotten used to the mannerisms of Kurama, and they all hated being able to admit such a thing, "Won't we draw attention if we continue to stand this high up Naruto?" Gaara asked blandly, looking at the people below him, they seemed like ants from this height.
"Everyone knows humans can't look up Gaara, we are fine."
"Naruto-kun is correct, hardly ever to humans look up at the sky. They seem to be much more focused on the ground in front of them... Maybe that is why they are always dying from things falling on them?" Tia added as an expansion of his thoughts.
The group had to jump to the side as a large object flew between them, a harmonious jingling ringing through the air as it grew distant, "Uhhhh, can someone explain?" Naruto asked, looking around to the others, who all seemed to be giving him a blank look in response.
"I can not see anything stranger happening tonight," All eyes turned to the pale teen with green eyes, a stoic look on his face, "Did I say something wrong?"
"He really doesn't know that he is doing it does he?" Nel questioned getting a small shake of the head from Tia and the blonde fox in her arms.
Naruto dusted himself off, taking his position again as Kurama jumped back up into his arms, his blue eyes roaming over the tall buildings, "... We are missing people."
True to his words, Grimmjow, Lily, Starkk and Zabuza were all missing. Gaara, in response turned to face Ulquiorra with what could possibly be a risen brow, though, without the actual brow, "You are a machine that should only be deployed in war."
"I do not follow Gaara."
"Even the best of plans can be unravelled by you opening your mouth, now if only we could teach you to harness that ability to help protect our kingdom." The redhead stated simply, looking off into the distance as the object seemed to vanish from their eyes.
A thunderous explosion rung heavy in the air, a ball of fire erupting in the night sky, "My money is on Zabuza..." The blonde leader trailed.
"No, I think it was Grimmjow's turn to do something stupid," Nel responded with Tia nodding in agreement.
Gaara took a thinking position, "I believe it to be Lily that caused such an event."
"M-maybe it was Starkk-kun?" Haku whispered out earning a series of laughs in response, "W-what?"
"I don't think Starkk has the energy to do something like that. I mean, if something was able to get him fired up then yeah, but he is as lazy as them come... I doubt that would even wake him up." Naruto gave a feral smirk as he bent his legs, the others appearing to be on the same track as they followed his action, "So... Race ya!"
In a blur he vanished into the night sky, the others not far behind him.
Zabuza gave a tired groan as he pushed a piece of burning wood from his body, "Oi Panther, you didn't get yourself killed did you?"
"Ah fuck you too Oni!"
"Okay, you are all right. Starkk?"
"Five more minutes..."
"Yeah... I think you're good. Lily you okay?"
There wasn't much of a response, Zabuza looked around and moved some burning wood, finding Grimmjow laying their with a frown on his face, taking a few moments to think about his situation he dropped the wood back down, shuffling through and looking for the others, "Oi ya sword swinging bastard!" Came a muffled cry from under the wood, shrugging his shoulders Zabuza continued to remove the planks, baring waving to Naruto as the blonde landed next to him, the others not too much further behind.
"So, who fucked up?" The blonde stated so eloquently as he pushed some of the flaming wood around with his foot.
Zabuza stretched his shoulders out and looked at the blonde leader, "Lily... We landed on the strange wooden thing, then she started talking to the man, then he said she was much to nice to be out this late, then boom. Fire everywhere..."
"In my defence he was hitting on me. Nothing but bad vibes on that man, he even talked about stuffing my stocking... Who the hell does that kind of thing?!" Lily was wearing a long fur coat, looking like a cross between a pop-star and a mob-wife. Her hair was a little frayed from what could be called a crash. Though, Naruto wasn't exactly sure what happened.
When he asked her to explain, he really regretted it.
"Well, he came flying through and picked us all up, not on purpose I don't think.
He said; Hey their little girl, you are going to have for me to fill your stocking like everyone else.
I was like; How did you know that I wear stockings?
Apparently he knows everything, that way he can check to see if I have been naughty or nice. I blushed, screamed and proceeded to explode. Only Starkk is meant to know that."
He loved her, honestly he did, Lily was probably his closest friend from this life, seeing as he was partnered with Nelliel and Tia now, but sometimes she was just a little bit childish and didn't think things through properly, Naruto removed a piece of wood from the ground and grimaced, this was definitely one of those times.
"How does it manage to turn into a cluster fuck whenever we go to the human world?" He mused aloud, mostly to himself as he poked the man in front of him, letting out a sigh. Now he might not be fully caught up with the fairy tales of the humans, but he was pretty sure that they weren't meant to be real... That made it so much harder for him to wrap his head around that he was poking someone, who was very clearly dead, that looked like a dead ringer for this 'Santa' guy, who just happens to drive some strange flying mobile.
"Well, his dead." Naruto called blandly, giving him an extra poke for good measure, it was better to be safe than sorry after all.
"Wait, like us dead or dead dead?"
An irritated sigh quickly followed that comment, "Grimmjow, please don't get started on this again, or me and Tia will kick your ass like last time." Nel ground out, moving up to stand next to Naruto, who had pressed his lips tight together, "You don't look happy."
"I am still trying to figure out what to do, as it seems that Lily just killed Christmas... Really, you had to open your mouth Ulquiorra."
"I still do not understand what I did wrong." He informed blankly.
Haku gave a small giggle at the scene, "I think that is what bothers him the most."
Naruto kicked the ground with his foot, Kurama dropping from his arms as he stuffed them into his pockets, "Well, if this is 'Santa', then we have to do his job... But Lily managed to blow up the supposed 'sleigh' that he drives as well... Ideas people?"
"Save Christmas?" Nel offered.
"Denied too cliché," He responded calmly, "That is the kind of thing that people write stories about."
"Well, isn't this a story Naruto-kun?" Tia questioned hesitantly.
Naruto turned up to look at the sky, "You have no proof of that. So, for now, no we are not in a story. Now ideas, that don't involve saving Christmas."
Grimmjow gave a small shrug, while Starkk seemed to wake up finally, "Blame it on somebody else?"
"Who could we palm this off onto... I don't think that the humans know of Soul Society or the Shinigami, so that rules them out."
"I could always just go back to doing my job?" A jolly voice offered, causing the group to turn to face it.
There stood the once dead 'Santa', looking at them like everything was fine, the blonde leader narrowed his eyes on the man, "So... are you this 'Santa'?" The man nodded and gave a small chuckle, "Then you have to die now, I have already come up with a plan of what to do with your body and who to place the blame on, I don't like wasting my time. So Lily, overreact again."
The mobster lifted her right hand up and pointed it out like a gun, a large smile on her face, "Bang!" A tiny blue orb flying from the tip of her finger and ripping through his chest. Followed by close to thirty others, making sure she did the job right this time.
"Okay, so is he dead this time?" Zabuza questioned, moving over and poking the remains with a crispy stick.
"That depends, because really we are dead as well you bastard Oni." Two fists slammed down on the top of Grimmjow's head, leaving him sporting a set of matching lumps.
Gaara looked blankly at Naruto who gave him a foxy grin in response, "You are about to do something bad, aren't you?"
"As far as I know, we are in America, in the year 1961, and I believe that the Vietnamese killed Santa, ruining Christmas for everyone. That is the story, and we are all sticking to it." He got a series of nods in response.
Tia walked up to his side and pulled down her scarf, giving a small peck to his cheek, "Won't this cause strife?"
Naruto nodded, "Remember how I told you of sacrifice Tia?" He got a positive response from her causing him to continue, "Well this is one of those times, we need to pretend we were never here, and the easiest way to do that is to shove the blame to someone else."
"I now understand sacrifice."
"I still do not understand this 'Jinx' that I apparently hold control over."
"Ulquiorra, not now, I believe Naruto might actually pop of gasket soon."
PA: I mean no disrespect to anyone with this chapter, I feel like I keep needing to say this, it is done as a joke and to be in the Christmas spirit of sorts. I will be updating this story properly once I have finished the project's I am working on at the moment, namely, a mass cross over story and a Naruto-Tokyo Ghoul cross over. Their chapters should be out soonish.
