Next, team 7 went to Aburame Shino's house. Perhaps they'd get a better audience there. Naruto rang the doorbell, ready to sing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful". Shino's father was the one who answered the door, clad in the usual Aburame attire: big white coat and black sunglasses.
"Woah! Check it out guys, it's Shino senior!" Naruto gawked, pointing at Shino's dad.
Kakashi jabbed Naruto in the ribs with his elbow for Naruto's rude and stupid outburst. At this moment, Shino appeared at the door.
"It appears that we have carollers at our doorstep." Shino said.
"So it would seem." Shino's father said.
Naruto tentatively began singing, and the rest of team 7 joined in quickly. The two Aburames just stood there, listening in silence. So team 7 finished, with the two the bug-wielding ninja standing for a moment in silence.
"It seems that they are finished." Shino's dad stated.
"Yes." Shino replied.
To their surprise, Shino held out a tray of cookies for team 7.
"Wow, for us? Sweet! Thanks!" Naruto grinned as made to grab one, but Kakashi and Sakura quickly held Naruto's hand back.
"That's all right actually." Kakashi smiled nervously. "We're on a diet, right guys?"
"Oh yes, definitely! Can't get too fat during the holidays! Ha ha ha!" Sakura laughed, playing along with Kakashi.
"Feh." Was Sasuke's mere reply.
Sakura and Kakashi dragged a pouting Naruto away from his beloved cookies and departed.
"It appears that they did not want to taste our cookies." Shino spoke.
"Indeed." His father replied.
Once far out of earshot, Sakura and Kakashi let go of Naruto.
"Naruto! You don't accept cookies from strangers, especially suspicious looking ones!" Sakura scolded.
"But they weren't strangers! And I was really hungry!" Naruto whined.
"You just don't accept food from someone's doorstep. Cookies like that can easily be poisoned. Shinobi must not fall for simple tricks like that." Kakashi warned the young blonde.
"So paranoid." Sasuke muttered.
"Though it does strike me as odd that Shino would try to poison us. Still, better safe than sorry." Sakura said.
"They are bug-wielding shinobi. Never trust people who use bugs to do their bidding." Sasuke said in a-matter-of-fact-tone.
"And he was just saying how paranoid I was a moment ago." Kakashi muttered, shaking his head.
"Aww, alright. But that was the most positive response we got all night! Next time we get offered cookies I'm not turning them down. Believe it!"
"Naruto, you are a bonehead." Sasuke sighed.
Next they approached Maito Gai's house.
"Not him!" Sakura groaned.
"Do we really have to sing for mega-fuzzy eyebrows senior?" Naruto whined.
"Remember guys, Christmas spirit. Spread good cheer to all." Kakashi reminded his unenthused students. Though Kakashi didn't looked that enthused either about singing for Gai, his eternal rival. Naruto rang the bell and Gai opened the door, rather surprised to see Kakashi and his team standing there. Team 7 began to sing.
"Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree-
"Well, if it isn't my eternal rival, Kakashi!" Gai shouted exuberantly, white teeth flashing as he grinned.
"Um, Gai? Could we finish our song-" Kakashi was cut off.
"And a fine set of antlers you have sprouted too!" Gai laughed.
Kakashi began to get a bit impatient with the passionate green-clad man. "Gai, please shut up so we can finish our-"
"How very youthful of you to go door to door carolling! That brings the score up for you, Kakashi! I will need to do something equally or more youthful and Christmassy in
order to-"
"SHUTUP AND LISTEN TO OUR SONG!" Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke shouted angrily.
"Thank you, guys." Kakashi said to his team.
"Oh, this is going to be good!" Gai grinned.
Team 7 began to sing
"Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree-"
Kakashi had some other lyrics in mind though.
"How industry annoyed you
Oh blistered tree, oh blistered tree
Its chemicals destroyed you."
Sakura hit Kakashi to stop him from singing. "Sing it properly!" She scolded angrily.
"Sakura, you don't hit your sensei. You just don't." Kakashi told the vexed kunoichi patiently.
"Lucky for you, the exuberance of youth is still living within my ever eternal and worthy rival, so he keeps an even temper!" Gai added.
"No, he just doesn't give a shit." Sasuke corrected him.
"...Can we sing now?" Naruto asked.
"You know what? Screw this. Let's just go to the next house, guys. It's pointless singing for a lunatic like Gai who won't listen to our songs." Kakashi sighed.
"But we haven't finished singing the carol yet!" Naruto whined.
"And you sung it all wrong!" Sakura added.
"No, no. Our sensei has a point, guys." Sasuke told them. With that, Sasuke willingly followed Kakashi off Gai's front steps.
"Running away from your Christmasly duties, are you? That brings you down one point, my eternal youthful-"
"Just SHUTUP!" Naruto shouted angrily as he slammed the door in Gai's face and ran off after Sasuke and Kakashi. Sakura stood there for a brief moment with a 'That wasn't supposed to happen' look on her face. She shortly afterwards followed the rest of her team down the road.
"Sensei...you didn't practice your Christmas carols, did you?" Sakura accused.
"Gai didn't deserve a proper carol." Kakashi said as he shook his head.
"But sensei, didn't you just tell us before that we must have Christmas spirit and spread good cheer to all?" Naruto reminded Kakashi.
"Yeah, something along the lines of that I suppose. But Gai was too much of a pest lately. He's been tailgating me all day and yesterday with a large box in his hands. Who knows what he was going to do to me with that thing!"
"Sensei, I think he was just trying to give you a Christmas present." Sakura pointed out.
"Oh…that would explain things a little better I suppose." Kakashi said thoughtfully. "Anyways, let's just get the carolling over with."
"What he said." Sasuke said.
So team 7 carried on for another half an hour, singing their carols (quite horribly may I mention, as Naruto kept singing off-key and forgetting his words, Kakashi kept la-la-la-ing for whenever he forgot some words and also improvised some odd violent and perverted lyrics on the spot, and Sasuke was just being his usual asshole-ish self and refused to sing for half of the time) So, they sung for more people they knew, such as Kiba, Lee, Tenten, and other various chuunins/jounins that Kakashi was acquainted with (who all laughed at his antlers. Yet Kakashi was taking this rather well.) Those however, who laughed at Sasuke's elf hat faced severe pain.
The poor carollers got much negative criticism for their singing and felt pretty crappy by the end of the night. Naruto had a look that was a mix of grouchy and depressed. Sasuke just looked as pissed off as ever, Sakura looked ready cry, and Kakashi looked just as bored as ever.
"Well, that sucked. I mean, it was so bad we had to make up perverted lyrics to make us look good. Even then we still sucked!" Naruto whined.
"We were so horrible...this was the worst Christmas ever!" Sakura whimpered and burst out crying. Kakashi pulled out a small hastily wrapped box and gave it to Sakura
"Here. Merry Christmas." Kakashi smiled.
"Why'd you give me a present?" Sakura asked.
"Oooh! Does Sensei have a crush on Sakura?" Naruto laughed.
Sakura slowly backed away from Kakashi.
"No, Naruto. You are a sick little retard." Kakashi glared.
"Why, thank you!" Naruto smiled.
"Naruto, you idiocy makes me want to cry at times." Sasuke sighed.
"Why are you giving me a present, sensei?" Sakura asked again.
"Isn't that what you do at Christmas, or did I get the wrong holiday? You're the expert on this Christmas thing. You're the one that told me that people gives presents for Christmas."
"Well, you do give presents on Christmas, yes." Sakura nodded. "But I didn't get you anything."
"I don't need a present. You performed the best tonight, so you deserve to get something." Kakashi smiled. "Besides I gave Naruto a present too, and I'd feel bad about not giving you one when he got one."
Naruto took from his pocket the glove Kakashi gave him that was now soaked in...well, yeah. You know. Naruto blew his nose on it again.
"I think I'm coming down with something. Can I go home before I get sick?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, sure. Go ahead." Kakashi nodded. "Well, good work I guess, team. Look at it this way; it could've been worse. You're all dismissed."
"Finally!" Sasuke sighed in relief.
"Oh yeah. Before I forget, here you go Sasuke. Merry Christmas." Kakashi tossed Sasuke a candy cane. "Despite you doing a bad job on participation, the other two got gifts, so you can have one too."
Sasuke stared at the candy cane for a moment and tossed it over his shoulder to Naruto. "You can have it. Fetch, boy."
"Ooh! Candy!" Naruto dove into the snow after the candy cane, thrashing about and emerging from the snow, holding the candy cane between his teeth, smiling. "Best Christmas ever!"
Sakura just stared at Naruto in disgust and began to walk home, mumbling and grumbling, dropping Kakashi's present without noticing or caring.
"Geez, nice to see I'm appreciated. This Christmas business really is troublesome!"
With that, a slightly vexed Kakashi 'poofed' away. Sasuke then turned and started walking home.
"Hey Sasuke! Aren't you gonna stay and throw snowballs at passer-by's with me?" Naruto asked, completely forgetting that he wanted to go home a few moments ago to prevent getting a cold.
"No." Sasuke replied coldly.
"Alright. Suit yourself!"
So Naruto had a fun time, throwing snowballs at people while catching a cold, and becoming horribly sick the next day.
Ino at home was pondering the thought of the ridiculous Christmas carollers that appeared at her doorstep the night before. She went to her team that day, as Asuma had a mission to assign to his cell.
"Apparently, our mission yesterday got some complaints." Asuma started.
"Gee, I wonder why?" Shikamaru said sarcastically, glaring at the cigarette between Asuma's lips.
"So as of now, our new mission is to..." Asuma paused to read the mission paper he received. "…Go door to door and sing Christmas carols this evening?"
Ino stared at her sensei for a long moment before replying, "...what?"
Oh boy, here we go again...
The endAlright, I hope you guys can find it in your hearts to give me some reviews. I could really do with some! Please?
Well anyhoo, Thanks for reading this. Just some notes: Despite the fact I wrote Sakura going all gushy over Sasuke and such, I loath the pairing. I'm just keeping her in character, that's all. I don't believe that pairing will actually happen in Naruto though. SasuSaku can burn in hell.
And as for the odd present thing with Kakashi and Sakura…well, I actually do support KakaSaku (I feel so much better getting that off my chest!) It's not meant to be a KakaSaku moment though (Hell, this isn't supposed to be a romantic fanfic at all!)
Now finally, though I dislike saying this, I'll say it anyways...Merry Christmas, and a Crappy New Year!
Oh, whoops. Ha ha ha! I mean, and a Happy New Year!
Now give me reviews! >:D