Naruto quickly woke up from his blow to the head.
"What the hell did you do that for? I was doing great!" Naruto cried angrily at Kakashi.
"Naruto...the song 'Silent Night' is called 'Silent Night' for a good, good reason!" Kakashi told the blonde boy. "And you were anything but silent!"
"Didn't we tell you sing quieter?" Sakura scolded.
"I think my eardrums are bleeding." Sasuke said out of the blue.
"I-I was just trying to be a good caroler. You know, Christmas spirit and all..." Naruto sniffled.
Eyes watering, poor Naruto began to cry. Sakura just growled at him, ready to hit him while Sasuke muttered under his breath, annoyed.
Kakashi put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and smiled. "We know you were trying to do your best, and we appreciate that. But just try to sing a little more quietly and a bit...less off-key, alright?"
Naruto sniffed and smiled. "Ok."
In need of a tissue but unable to find one, Naruto quickly took off one of Kakashi's gloves from his hands and blew his nose on it. He handed it back to a slightly revolted Kakashi who stared at it for a moment and cringed.
"...Um, you can keep it Naruto...as a Christmas present. Merry Christmas."
"Sweet! My own ninja glove! Thanks, sensei!" Naruto grinned, stuffing the glove into his pocket.
"Can we move on?" Sasuke reminded the team.
"Yeah! Let's go! We're gonna rock! Believe it!" Naruto cheered, filed with energy once again.
"Man, it's crazy how fast his mood swings are! A little disturbing actually." Sakura said.
Naruto skipped up to the next house as the rest of team 7 followed after him.
They climbed up the porch steps and Naruto rang the doorbell. A grouchy old looking man answered the door. Team seven began to sing.
"Away in a manger no crib for a bed
the little lord-"
The old man slammed the door in their faces, sending a pile of snow sliding down from the roof down onto Naruto, burying him. Silence filled the air for a few moments.
"...Well that wasn't very nice." Kakashi stated, breaking the silence.
"I guess old men don't like carolers." Sakura sighed.
A distraught Naruto dug himself out of the snow pile that had buried him.
"I didn't deserve that! What did I do wrong?" Naruto cried.
"You exist. That's what you've done wrong." Sasuke smirked.
"Kakashi-sensei! Sasuke's making fun of me, and it hurts!" Naruto whined.
"Guys, no fighting. Let's just try to have fun with this, okay?" Kakashi told them.
"Fun...ha! Yeah right." Sasuke scoffed.
"Alright! Next house then!" Naruto charged off to the next house, the others frantically following behind the hyperactive ninja. They went up to the door and rang the doorbell. The door opened to reveal...
" Iruka-sensei!" Team 7 cried in surprise.
"Uh-oh!" Naruto gulped.
"Naruto and Kakashi? You guys were the ones that hit me with those snowballs earlier on today! Don't think that you can get away with it again!" Iruka said angrily, fists shaking.
"No, no! We're just here to sing carols for you. Really!" Kakashi smiled nervously, trying to calm the angered Academy teacher.
"I'm not going fall for it! Get off of my door step!" Iruka ordered.
"But Iruka sensei-" Sakura started.
"SCRAM!" The grouchy chuunin shouted.
Team 7 quickly stumbled off into the snow as Iruka slammed the door, but not before throwing two snow balls for revenge, one at Kakashi's face and one at Naruto's butt.
"He didn't need to be so angry about it!" Sakura frowned, crossing her arms.
"Stupid man..." Sasuke scowled.
"My butt hurts! Can I go home now?" Naruto whined.
"At least it was your butt. He nailed me in the eye so now I can't see." Kakashi sighed, rubbing the side of his face.
"Then just lift up your hitai-ate up so you can see with the other eye." Sasuke suggesting the obvious.
(A hitai-ate is a ninja's headband/forehead protector, for the Japanese impaired here reading this)
"...Kind of a bad idea, but better than blindly crashing into a lamp post I suppose." Kakashi said, lifting his hitai-ate up. "Hopefully this won't freak out the residents to much."
Naruto laughed and then began to sing.
"Kakashi, the red-eye reindeer,
had a very messed up eye,
and if you ever saw it
you'd just want to scream and cry!"
"Oh, shut up." Kakashi growled as he pulled his hitai-ate back over eye and glared at Naruto. "I think my other eye actually feels better now, thank you."
"How much longer will we have to do this for?" Sasuke asked, growling impatient in the cold.
"Hokage-sama told us to do this for at least about an hour. We've been going at it for about 25 minutes now." Kakashi replied.
"Oh boy, this is going be a long night." Sasuke sighed.
The shinobi approached the more concentrated area of town where a few shoppers still lingered and more houses lay.
Naruto ran up to one house, or really-
"The Yamanaka flower shop?" Sakura said in fear.
"Yeah! I mean, people live here, right?" Naruto asked.
"Can we skip this house? Please?" Sakura pleaded.
"I don't see why we should skip it. This house has a pleasant aroma around it." Kakashi replied, sniffing the air.
"Flowers...blech." Sasuke growled.
"Don't be fooled by the nice smell, Kakashi-sensei! It's really a pig who lives in there!" Sakura warned.
"What? A pig can have a house?" Naruto asked in surprise.
"Yes...an INO pig!" Sakura cried dramatically.
"Oh geez! Not with all this stupid rivalry again." Sasuke groaned.
"Speak for yourself, Sasuke." Kakashi smirked.
"I just can't sing in front of her! Please don't make me sing at this house!" Sakura frantically begged.
"Aw c'mon Sakura-chan! This pig can't be all that bad!" Naruto grinned, grabbed a half crying Sakura by the back of her shirt/dress thing and dragged her up the front steps and rang the doorbell.
"You don't understand, Naruto! Let me go!" Sakura cried, shaking her fists in the air.
"Shut up! Let's just get this over with." Sasuke told the upset pink-haired kunoichi.
"Ok guys. It's 'Jingle Bells' this time." Kakashi told his team.
The door opened to surely enough reveal Ino. Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke broke into song. Sakura tried to find her voice, but she just turned red and stood there, trying to pathetically glare at Ino, but looked more like she was ready to cry.
Kakashi poked her in the back several times to send her the message 'to sing' as they needed a female voice to make the song complete, now that Sasuke has stupidly decided to stop singing once again and Naruto's tone-deaf singing was rising, but Sakura hardly realized she was being repetitively poked.
At this point, Kakashi looked ready to kick her to get her attention, but Naruto took care of that first, sending his foot slamming into her leg.
"Ow! Naruto! What the hell did you do that for?" Sakura shouted angrily at her team-mate.
"You're supposed to SING! Like a real caroler!" Naruto scolded, looking annoyed.
"Didn't you even notice I was poking you repeatedly to get you to sing, Sakura?" Kakashi asked, looking a little annoyed as well.
"That's rude to poke a lady, sensei!" Sakura cried angrily, pointing an accusing finger at Kakashi.
"Well, what else was I supposed to do? Smack you upside the head to give you the message?" Kakashi sarcastically suggested.
Ino burst out laughing, pointing at them. "You guys are such losers, it makes me laugh! Well, aside from Sasuke-kun. He knows he's too cool to sing such silly things, right Sasuke?"
Sasuke merely gave a "Hmph!" in reply.
"You even have the dorky holiday hats and everything. Now you guys want a review, right? Ok, here it is; you guys sound like couple of screeching cats-"
"You're going to get it, you stupid hog!" Sakura screamed angrily as she made a move to tackle Ino but luckily Kakashi grabbed her first.
"Let me at her! Let me at her, dammit!" Sakura shouted, fists striking the air.
"How embarrassing." Sasuke groaned.
Team 7 turned around and headed off, hearing enough of Ino's insults.
"Have fun singing carols, or screeching carols I should say!" Ino teased. "Goodbye Sasuke-kun!" Ino added in a gushy voice "Call me sometime so we can-"
"Keep your damn paws off of Sasuke-" Sakura started, but was cut off as Kakashi dropped her.
"Learn to keep your temper, Sakura. We can't have you freaking out in public on people's doorsteps like that!" Kakashi lectured.
"She was asking for it!" Sakura cried angrily, fists shaking.
"Sakura, you really need to take a chill pill, girl!" Naruto told the angered kunoichi.
"I don't do drugs!" Sakura shouted angrily.
"What? It's an expression!" Naruto defended, shielding his face with his arms.
"Sakura, just shut the hell up so we can get moving again!" Sasuke said angrily.
"Oh, yes. Ok..." Sakura meekly replied.
They proceeded to (Dun dun duuuuun!) the Hyuuga house, where the arrogant Neji, the shy Hinata, and the ill-spirited Hiashi lived.
"Oh great...not this place." Sasuke groaned.
"Why do we have to sing for THEM?" Naruto cried, "They don't deserve it! Neji's nothing but a no good stinking-"
"But Hinata might like us. I think she could do with some cheering up." Sakura reminded them.
"Oh yeah! She probably deserves some Christmas cheer." Naruto agreed. "But we'll probably freak her out just by approaching her house like this."
Sasuke reluctantly rang the doorbell (Wait, do the Hyuugas even have a doorbell? Bah, who cares.), and surely enough, Hinata opened the door.
Team 7 began to sing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.
Now whether it was that Team 7 who had approached the door and started randomly singing foreign songs from a foreign holiday (as the Hyuugas wouldn't celebrate Christmas, cause they're just like that), or whether it was that Sasuke glaring at her, or Kakashi wearing those antlers which looked like a pair of weapons to Hinata's eyes instead of a pair of antlers, or the fact that Hinata was wrapped only in a bath towel because she was in the middle of taking a shower and had to open the door to find Naruto, the apple of her eye, standing there and singing to her. Whichever of these reasons or all of them, she fainted with a loud 'thump' on the floor, sending Hiashi and Neji running over to the door, wondering what the hell had just happened.
Now Hiashi, being the uptight idiot he is, took the situation the wrong way, thinking they were planning to do bad things to the poor defenseless Hinata, so he kind of went off the handle and shouted a bunch of things, containing how dishonorable they were, how they were fools, what a bad example Kakashi set for the children as a sensei, how the Hyuuga was the greatest clan in Konoha and such.
Neji just stared at them.
Sasuke looked ready to kill.
They tried to reason with Hiashi, but it was no use. So team 7 quickly departed from the Hyuuga house, leaving a dumbfounded Neji and a fainted Hinata on the doorstep.
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