The 12 Days of GaaNaru Christmas

VII. Seven Swans a-Swimming

Naruto woke up to banging on his door. What could be so important that you had to wake the Hokage up at dawn? If it was actually Konoha business, the ANBU would have just broke in and drug him out of bed themselves. It better not be the paper boy, the blonde thought. Naruto crawled out of bed and trudged to the front door with a robe wrapped around him. He hadn't been getting much sleep these past few nights with his and Gaara's antics for Christmas.

Naruto opened the door to see one of his favorite jounin standing before him. His long scarf and spiky brown hair were all of him that Naruto's burry eyes could really make out, but he still recognized him by those two features. He vaguely recognized that the jounin was actually yelling at him but he was too tired to really listen to what he was saying. All it sounded like to him was angry and overly-excited shouting.

"Konohamaru," Naruto groaned. "Come back later. Like tomorrow. I'm too tired to give you a mission right now."

That ended in more frustrated yelling from the shinobi. Naruto began to shut his door. Before he could actually get the thing closed, he was smacked hard and fell backwards. Naruto shook his head. He was suddenly a lot more clear-headed. However, he was also dripping wet and really, very, extremely cold. Did that little brat seriously just hit him with a water jutsu?

He looked up at Konohamaru and glared. The brunette just grinned down at him and put his hands on his hips. Naruto stood and walked up to the jounin. Each step in his slippers produced an awful squishing sound. Konohamaru finally noticed the look he was receiving from his Hokage. Normally, he was the only one who could get away with something like that, but perhaps he picked a really bad day to try.

"I think I want to kill you," Naruto growled.

"Wait! Please! This is really important! You have to come and see it. They desecrated my grandfather and all of the other Hokages. Just come and look," Konohamaru pleaded.

Naruto then let himself be dragged away to only Konohamaru knew where still in his soaked robe, slippers and boxers. He barely glanced up when passing through his garden to see that 50ft statue. The entire village was getting a clear view of his near naked body at this point because his robe had come undone. Naruto couldn't find it in himself to actually care.

They came to a halt and Konohamaru forced the Hokage to look up at the monument with the past Hokage's faces on it. It took Naruto a moment to register in his mind what the jounin was trying to make him see. Then, it clicked. And Naruto was wide awake quicker that you could say "Henge no Jutsu." He cackled. He cackled loud enough to possibly wake up anyone in the village who hadn't already got out of bed. Konohamaru stared at him in surprise.

"Gaara seems to have picked up a few of my traits by hanging around me too much," Naruto laughed.

And Naruto sat there, staring up at the monument. There were the Hokages, decorated for Christmas. The First and Second had been painted with green faces and hair and had Santa hats painted on their heads. Naruto's father, the Yondaime, had what seemed to be strands of garland falling out of his ears and nose, his hair was painted white with red streaks. Perhaps the funniest and the reason why Konohamaru was so upset was the Sandaime Hokage. The old man had been painted with a white face, red lipstick and blush and green eye shadow and his head topped with a giant red bow.

Above their faces, in dripping paint was written:

"To: Naru-chan

From: Gaara-sama

Thanks for making Suna so cold."

Konohamaru had asked what Naruto was going to do about it. He told the jounin that he could wash it off if he really wanted to, but he rather liked it that way. Then, Naruto went back home to change and finally to his office where he proceeded to fall asleep and let his helpers take care of handing out missions. He dreamt of all the fun things he could do to pay his secret boyfriend back.

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