"New mission! Sakura-chan! Sasuke! We have a new mission!" Naruto shouted with excitement.

The three youngsters then walked to meet their sensei.

"As you know, Christmas is around the corner, and thus I need you guys to do this." The jounin with his face almost fully covered said.

"Santa… Claus?" the team asked in disbelief as they found themselves staring at 3 bright red suits.

"Yeah. I need you to act as modern Santas and give out presents to everyone!"

"Hokage-sama gave this order?" Sakura asked. The girl had got to know the Hokage better after learning from her for so long. (Lets remember this part and forget the part about Sasuke going to Orochimaru.)

"Yeah. We can be paid quite a sum, ya know?" Kakashi smiled.

Sigh…

"What the heck!" Sasuke grunted.

"This is cute, isnt it? Sakura-chan!"

"It makes me look fat…" the pink hair girl complained.

Then the three of them then went around to distribute gifts.

"Santa Claus is coming to town!" Naruto sang as he slipped through his friend's chimney into his living room, only to be greeted with a friendly lick by Akamaru.

"Santa Claus?" Kiba asked in bewilderment.

"A present for you, Kiba!"

"Ah Thanks but… Santa?" Kiba mumbled

"I am Santa, no doubt! Here's some food for you, Akamaru!"

"Arf arf!"

"You say he's Naruto?" Kiba stared at the Santa Claus before him and asked.

"I'm not Naruto! I'm Santa! I'm off! Bye!" Naruto dashed for the gate and knocked hard on the glass door that he failed to see.

Kiba was quite sure that his idiotic friend had came to visit.

Meanwhile, Sasuke lugged the heavy bag of gifts and strolled to his destination. He had wanted to exchange with the others but Kakashi insisted that he should not be picky about missions, Naruto refused to help no matter what, and Sakura was… trying to look less fat in the red suit.

Ding dong.

"Coming!" the long silver-haired (or is it white?) girl came to open the door and gasped at the sight, "Santa Claus?"

"Merry Christmas." Sasuke gave her the beautiful dress and said.

"I knew there was Santa in this world! And his voice sounds like Sasuke-kun!" the girl laughed. "Ah this dress is soooo beautiful! I would wear it to a party one day if Sasuke-kun asks me!"

Sasuke turned and left, before she could recognize him and pester him further.

Sakura, after dolling up, was sent to the Hyuuga's place.

"Merry Christmas, Hinata-chan!" she smiled sweetly.

"Neji-niisan! Come and see! Santa Claus is here!"

The genius stared at him/her and twitched his eyebrows.

"There can't be Santa. It's just a fictional character." He said and activated his Byakugan.

"Sakura? What are you doing here?"

"Eh! You could tell? Actually I'm on a mission. Got to go, bye!"

A/N Please don't care about whether the Byakugan can be used for this kind of things…

Then she continued to another friend's place.

The door opened and there stood two guys in green, having the same hairstyle.

"Gai-sensei! Santa! Will you please give presents to Sakura-chan too? She will be very happy to see it!" the younger one jumped

"Good! Youngsters, get your presents and have a merry Christmas!" Gai-sensei cooed.

Later on, Naruto reached a big house. It does look abit freaky and run-down.

Naruto felt his heart race as he approached the door. His hand shivered, but pressed the doorbell nonetheless. The door creaked open slowly. He had never been to any haunted house and of course did not believe any of the stories, but this house is indeed abit scary.

"GO AWAY!" a manly voice shouted.

Naruto felt himself choke on sand. He fell backwards and felt really terrible.

"Gaa…ra! Stop it!" he tried to shout.

He then used his Kage Bunshin Non Jutsu (Shadow replication) to fight back.

A huge gust of wind blew away all the sand and his replicas.

"Why are you throwing your temper at a stranger?" the lady scolded.

Cough cough!

"Are you ok? Santa?" Temari asked.

"I just didn't expect it. Hey Gaara! You can't be that violent!" Naruto stopped as he saw Gaara's cold stare. Apparently, the siblings have had a quarrel.

Naruto quickly left three gifts and scurried away.

Then he saw a familiar figure. It was a fat boy carrying a bag of potato chips.

"Chouji! Its me!" he shouted.

"Santa Claus? I want food! Lots of food! I want Korean Barbeque! The shop is closed today! I want ice-cream too! And chocolates! And buns! And everything!"

"Hey, its me, Naruto!" he said and realized he was supposed to act as Santa.

"Naruto? Why are you dressed in this?"

"On a mission."

Before he knew it, Chouji had finished all the edibles inside Naruto's big bag of gifts.

As for Sasuke, he wondered around on the streets. This kind of missions were simply too stupid. All three of them felt the same way. But Sakura was kind to accept it, and Naruto changed his mind after realizing that he can play pranks on others.

"Sasuke." A deep and familiar voice said.

Sasuke turned and saw a man that he would really hate to see on a Christmas night, Uchiha Itachi.

"Itachi!" he shouted as he dashed over, Chidori in hand.

Itachi dodged the attack and gave Sasuke a kick in the face. They then fought for a good half an hour, when Itachi decided to end it all.

He activated his Mangekyou Sharingan. (Kaleidoscope Sharingan if I'm not wrong. The one with illusionary technique)

Sasuke then saw scenes of the days when all of them were still happy together at home. Itachi was still a good brother, little Sasuke was still young and playful.

Tears gathered up in his eyes.

"Itachi, why…" Sasuke wiped his tears and asked.

"I know nothing can bring us back to what we were. I know you want to kill me. But I wont hesitate to kill you, when you actually have the ability to fight on par with me."

Itachi left his little brother alone and strolled into the dark and lonely street.

The young boy sat on the snow-covered floor and cried. Everytime he sees that man, he would have the urge to kill him. But time and again, he had failed. Why, why did that man have to come and disrupt a supposed-to-be-happy Christmas? Nobody realized, not even Itachi himself, realized that all he wanted, is to see Sasuke.

Kakashi hid himself away from others and read his book (Flirting Paradise of course) secretly, leaving the mission to the young ones.

Then all three of them reported back.

Anime veins popped up on everybody's faces.

"You! You were supposed to distribute gifts! Why did you finish all the food!"

"It wasn't me! It was Chouji!"

"And why did you get into a fight!"

"…"

"Sakura! You are supposed to dress up as Santa! You vain girl!"

"But Sensei! At least we did our jobs!"

A/N a very meaningless chapter… anyway, reviews!