A few hours later at 7:00 pm when it was dark outside, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura met up with each other on the bridge.
"And once again, here we meet on time as told by Kakashi-sensei, only to have to wait for him for who knows how long." Sakura sighed, losing patience.
"He'll come eventually. He won't leave us hanging here! Believe it!" Naruto chirped.
45 minutes passed as the three Genins shivered in the cold. It began to snow
"Oh this is just perfect. More snow." Sasuke growled.
"Alright! This is awesome!" Naruto cheered as he began to dance like a child around in the snow.
"Good to see that one of us is enthusiastic tonight." Kakashi said as he was suddenly standing by Naruto.
"Where did you come from?" Sakura asked.
"Well, that's not important. Have you guys got your carols down by memory?" The grey-haired jounin asked,
"Well, of course I have!" Sakura said in her state-the-obvious tone.
"You better believe it! I have them all memorized, hands down!" Naruto grinned.
"No way..." Sakura mumbled as she stared at Naruto.
"Yes way! Believe it!"
"Good to hear." Kakashi smiled. "And you, Sasuke?"
"Yeah, whatever." Sasuke merely replied.
"Alright then. Hokage-sama has requested that we wear something a bit festive, so I was given these." Kakashi held out two Santa hats, a green and red elf hat that had a jingle bell hanging off the end of it, and a pair of reindeer antlers.
The three Genins were quick to grab whatever looked the most casual during Christmas, resulting in Naruto and Sakura taking the Santa hats and Sasuke reluctantly taking the elf hat, as if he would wear antlers and look like a fool. Oh-no, not the great Sasuke! Kakashi took the reindeer antlers and placed them on his head, 'cause we all know Kakashi is agreeable and really doesn't give a shit, as he's already a little out there anyways.
The three Genins put on their Christmas hats, feeling rather stupid. They looked at Kakashi with the antlers perched on his head and laughed. Well, Sasuke doesn't laugh, because it's 'uncool' and such, so he more likely snickered or chuckled under his breath.
"Don't make me switch these antlers for one of your hats." Kakashi warned. Immidietly, the three subordinate shinobi shut up.
Well, maybe Kakashi did give a shit after all.
"Alright. Let's go to the first house." Kakashi announced.
"Alright! Let's let Konoha hear our beautiful singing voices!" Naruto cheered, striking his fist up in the air enthusiastically.
Sasuke and Sakura cringed at Naruto's ironic statement of their "beautiful singing voices", as they knew how bad they, especially Naruto, really were at carolling.
Team 7 trooped up to the first house of Konoha, belonging to no one special in particular.
"I can't believe we're about to do this..." Sasuke groaned.
"Neither can I." Sakura agreed.
"I can believe it! Believe it!" Naruto giggled.
"You just shut up." Sasuke growled, threatening to kick Naruto's face in.
"Alright guys, now no looking nervous. Remember this is Christmas, so look happy and excited." Kakashi instructed his students.
"Speak for yourself! You never look excited! That same dopey expression on your face makes look like you don't give a damn about anything!" Sakura scolded her sensei.
"Who are you calling dopey?" Kakashi challenged in a friendly sort of way.
"Alright! Let's goooooooo!" Hyperactive Naruto cried as he ran up the steps of the first house and rang the doorbell, eagerly waiting for the person to answer the door.
A little runny-nosed boy opened the door and stared up at Team 7. They began to sing.
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la lala, la la la la
'tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la"
Sakura cringed as Naruto sung off key, not as bad as earlier that day, but he was singing the loudest of the team. Too loud.
Sasuke suddenly stopped singing, looking rather cross and stood there, glaring at the little boy.
The other three kept singing, though Kakashi and Sakura were beginning to be drowned out by Naruto, as he continued to sing louder and louder. Eventually Sakura and Kakashi just stopped singing and let Naruto finish off the song alone, sounding horribly off tune and croaky by the end. Naruto finished, gasping and taking deep breaths, altogether sounding very unprofessional.
The little boy stared up at them in awe before he spoke "...Wow! Mommy! Come here and look at the singing ninjas!"
"RUN!" Sakura screamed. Team 7 took off into the bushes and hid, as the little boy was scolded by his mother for supposedly "playing a joke" on her that there were singing ninjas at their doorstep.
"That was horrible! Where did it go wrong?" Sakura cried.
"It was going off rather well until Sasuke quit on us a few lines later and Naruto grew louder and more off-key." Kakashi answered.
"Hey! My finishing solo amazed that kid! Believe it!"
"The little kid liked us, but that's because he's so young he doesn't really know what bad singing is. It's a good thing we got out of there before his mother came to listen to us!" Sakura said.
"Well, at least Naruto didn't forget his lines." Kakashi said. "But Sasuke, I thought you had these songs down to scratch with your sharingan."
"I just didn't feel like singing." Sasuke frowned.
"But you're supposed to sing. It's what we're here for." Kakashi told the grouchy Uchiha.
"Singing Christmas carols is beneath me!" Sasuke spat as he crossed his arms, glaring.
"Aw, don't be such a pussy, Sasuke! I thought you were supposed to be almighty and such!" Naruto teased.
"He is, Naruto! And he'll show you what good carolling is all about, right Sasuke?" Sakura turned to Sasuke.
"...meh." Was Sasuke's reply.
"Onto the next house now, team. We'll be singing 'Joy to the World' next." Kakashi announced. "And Naruto, try not to sing quite so loudly, alright?"
"Ok, sensei! Now off to house number 2!" Naruto cheered as he went charging off to house number 2, singing 'Joy to the World' on the way.
"With all that singing he's doing, the next house won't even need us coming to the door to sing. They can probably hear him right now!" Sakura frowned.
"What a pain in the neck." Sasuke groaned.
Team 7 approached the second house, rang the bell and waited. The door opened and it turned out to be Shikamaru's house, and Chouji was over too. Not the best audience for the carollers. Shikamaru stared at them lazily with one of those 'What the hell are you freaks doing here on my doorstep?" looks on his face, along with Chouji, eating his almighty bag of chips. Team 7 began to sing.
"Joy to the world, the lord has come"
Sasuke wasn't singing at all. Sakura nudged him but he ignored her, staring hard and angrily at Shikamaru. Shikamaru glared lazily back. Chouji continued to eat his chips.
Naruto trailed off as he suddenly forgot the rest of the words.
Kakashi and Sakura kept singing, though Kakashi forgot the words part way though, so he just started 'la la la-ing' instead. Embarrassed, Sakura stopped singing, leaving Kakashi la la la-ing, apparently not aware that everyone else had stopped. After half a minute, Kakashi stopped, finally realizing that everyone else had stopped singing and was staring at him.
"la la la...yeah." Turning red, Kakashi backed away and started shrinking down behind Sakura.
Sasuke slapped his forehead in frustration as his sensei had made him look like an idiot in front of his peers.
"Ha ha ha! That was stupid!" Chouji laughed.
"Why did you have to bug us with that meaningless crap? How troublesome." Shikamaru scoffed.
And the two genins put down poor team 7 with things like 'that sucked' and 'get a life' and 'you guys can't be ninjas' and 'your sensei has a weird hair-do' and such. Heads hanging low in shame, team 7 left the door step as Shikamaru and Chouji threw more insults at them, along with Chouji's finished bag of chips at Sasuke's head.
"Way to go, Kakashi. You made us look like idiots!" Sasuke said angrily.
"Well Naruto stopped half way through and you were the one that wasn't singing at all. At least I kept going!" Kakashi said in defence.
"You were singing "la la la" for half of the song! You just DON'T do that when you sing a Christmas carol! You STOP when you forget the words." Sasuke told his sensei.
"What would you know Sasuke? I thought you didn't sing Christmas carols! Maybe he was supposed to 'la la la' when he forgot the words!" Naruto challenged Sasuke.
"Yeah. At least I made an effort." Kakashi added, folding his arms across his chest, siding with Naruto.
"Guys, can we stop fighting? Let's go onto the next house, please?" Sakura pleaded.
"Right, let's get a move on." Kakashi agreed.
So they trudged through the snow, Sasuke's elf hat jingling all the way.
They reached the third house, rather reluctant to attempt another song.
"Kakashi-sensei, can I please take this annoying hat off?" Sasuke asked.
"No. We have to keep our hats on. Just deal with it. You don't hear me complaining." Kakashi told Sasuke.
"Well that's because your hat doesn't jingle with every step you take!" Sasuke growled.
"At least you don't look like a walking coat rack." Kakashi shot back.
"Boys!" Sakura muttered under her breath as she rang the doorbell.
"No fair! I wanted to ring the door bell!" Naruto whined.
"Does it really matter?" Sasuke growled.
"Alright guys. Next carol is 'Silent Night'." Kakashi told his three students.
The door opened and a family answered. A mom and dad with two small children. Even the grandparents were over for Christmas dinner. Team 7 began to sing, Naruto singing the loudest of them all.
"SIIILENT NIIIIGHT, HOLY NIIIIGHT
ALL IS CAAAALM, ALL IS BRIIIIIGHT!"
Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi stopped singing abruptly as Naruto belted it out with his highest volume and most enthusiastic voice.
Sakura tried to whisper to Naruto that he was singing to loud, but obviously, Naruto couldn't hear her.
Sasuke covered his ears.
Kakashi cringed.
The children began to cry.
The parents just stared.
The grandparents looked ready to have a heart attack. And one of them did.
Kakashi raised his fist, slammed it on Naruto's head, temporarily knocking him out. Saying a quick "Merry Christmas" to the family, Kakashi grabbed Naruto and ran, Sakura and Sasuke following close behind, leaving the traumatized family to stare after them.
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