Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles Rewrite

Chapter 61

CHRISTMAS

Author's notes: special thanks to ElEscritorDeLaHoja, sasmith, Eddie Shadow, Naruhinalover20, Rose Tiger, DragoFae24, Hello2340, and NaruhinaRyu for their reviews, to those that review and help with every chapter thank you so much for all your support, I stayed up late getting this ready just for yall Merry Christmas! hope you all enjoy!

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It was Christmas eve, a couple nights after the big fight Naruto and Hinata had had. The ordeal with Kiba had set Hinata back a little, but not too much. Naruto had been able to fix everything. Everything was finally on track and going well. While it was weighing on Naruto a lot, he was continuing to help Hinata the best he could.

He was excited for the next few days however tomorrow was Christmas, his first with Hinata, his first with the group that he had started to call family. Everyone would be coming to the gathering tomorrow morning. Tsunade, and Jiraiya, Kakashi and Anko, Shikamaru, Hiashi would stop by. His whole family, that is minus Itachi and Hanara, they would not be making it into the village for this, it was too risky.

But he was excited nonetheless. He finally had Hinata back, they were all doing a gift exchange since no one in the room was by any means hard on money, they had gotten everyone in the group gifts.

Hinata had been continually healed, all of that snake's venom that Tsunade could get out was out. The aftereffects were still hurting her, but Tsunade assured them that they would fade it would just take awhile. Hinata had started slight physical therapy to start working her muscles back up, as well as her knee. It was tough going but Naruto had always been there for her.

"N-Naruto?" Hinata asked him, "D-does the v-village s-still do t-the t-tree festival?"

Naruto nodded, "Yeah to my knowledge, though I have never been to it myself, last time I was in the village for it I still wasn't a genin and if I was caught at those festivals I would be beaten. I have never been allowed to any of the festivals the village had, I was a pariah back then. I guess I still am, I don't really know though. I don't really care anymore. I have a family now."

Hinata nodded, "I-I'm s-sorry Naruto. I-I had n-no idea."

Naruto shook his head, "Eh, never really that big of a deal when I was young I didn't really care to go, I had no one to go with."

Hinata looked up at him, "I-I never r-really c-cared for the f-festival b-but I a-always loved t-the tree. I-it was a-always so b-beautiful. I-I m-miss it." Hinata sighed, "I-I really wanted t-to go s-see it t-this year."

Naruto grinned, "Well Granny Tsunade should be here soon, why don't we ask her If we can go to the festival this year?"

Right as he said that however Tsunade herself walked in, "Sorry but Hinata has another week before she is going anywhere. I have to be able to monitor her in case there are some obscure effects from removing the toxins. I wish I could let you, but as your doctor I can't let you do that."

Hinata sighed, "T-that's a-alright."

Naruto could tell however that she was pretty down about it. That's when a thought popped into Naruto's head, he would have to wait a while but it would be well worth it. He would have to wait until after Hinata fell asleep. However her spirits had been crushed, it didn't take much to crush her these days, if anything went wrong it was the end of her day. Naruto sighed, there was very little chance that he got her hopes back up until the next day. Luckily she usually started off each day lately in a decent mood, but as soon as anything went wrong it was over.

Nonetheless the two of them talked for a while until Hinata's pain medication kicked in making her pass out for a while.

Naruto grinned he had just enough time, he left a clone in the room with her before flashing close to the tree.

He created a bunch of clones and went to work, he ran seals across the tree before grinning. He did a hand seal and activated them all. The tree disappeared, reappearing in front of Hinata's room.

Naruto dropped to his knees breathing hard, "Fuck that was a lot more consuming on my chakra than I thought it would be." Then he flashed back into the room and unsealed another tree that was already decorated. Naruto grinned as he started unsealing the presents he had gotten for everyone. He unsealed Hinata's of which he had multiple, all wrapped nice and beautiful under the tree.

Naruto grinned the entire setup was perfect. He moved her bed gently to in front of the window.

He sent a clone outside and lit the tree that was under her window and lit it up.

He grinned as her eyes fluttered open looking down at the tree.

Hinata's eyes lit up with excitement, it was the happiest he had seen her in a long long time.

"W-what?" she asked as she stared in awe at the incredible scene in front of her. She looked over to Naruto and saw him grinning like an idiot.

"N-Naruto, did you?" Hinata asked him looking back towards the tree grinning at it.

Naruto shrugged, "I have no idea Hinata."

Hinata looked at him, tears glistening in her eyes, "Y-you did this f-for me?"

Naruto shrugged still grinning like an idiot, "I have no idea how it got there Hina."

Hinata couldn't believe it, "Naruto, how?"

Naruto still hadn't stopped grinning, "Weeeeell if I did it, which I'm not saying I did, buuuut if I did it would have been by exhausting every bit of my chakra reserves to teleport something that huge."

Hinata grinned, she leaned over and hugged the blonde, Naruto was shocked at first, it was the first contact she had really initiated since he got her back.

"T-thank you N-Naruto. Y-you didn't have t-to." Hinata said nuzzling into his chest.

"Officially I didn't do this...seriously I could probably get into a a lot of trouble for this. So it wasn't me."

Hinata nodded and Naruto lifted her out of bed making her gasp as he brought her into his chair cuddling her in his lap.

She sighed contently, he had just pulled her into her very own paradise. The utopia that was his embrace as the just stared at the tree. For a moment she was able to ignore the pain and suffering she had gone through and just be with Naruto.

Naruto sighed as she nuzzled deeper into his chest and the two sat there idly chatting here and there.

After a few hours of the pain medication kicking in, along with Naruto stroking her hair she fell asleep. In Naruto's arms. A few minutes later and Naruto fell asleep as well with Hinata cuddled up on him.

For the first night in years the both of them slept without being plagued by nightmares, they slept contently with each other both of them getting the much needed rest from the dystopia that had been their lives for the past two years.

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Naruto woke up that morning from a tap on the shoulder, he looked up and saw Kakashi doing his eye grin.

"Naruto, merry christmas, but you may want to get Hinata into her bed before everyone else gets here." Kakashi's muffled voice told him.

Naruto suddenly realized Hinata was in his lap and his eyes shot wide open. He stood gently and placed her back into her bed, she woke up in his arms though, she looked up at him grinning before seeing Kakashi and Anko in the room.

Embarrassed she buried her head into his chest to hide her blush.

Anko and Kakashi unsealed their presents and stashed them under the tree while the group traded their merry christmas greetings.

The next two to walk in were Jiraiya and Tsunade, who for some reason had spent the last few days together. Naruto shook his head, maybe his sensei had finally convinced Tsunade to go out with him. The next person to show was Shikamaru, then Iruka, finally Shizune arrived. Naruto grinned as Shizune was the last person they expected for a while. Hiashi would come later. It was a little cramped in the hospital room but they made it work quite well.

Kakashi did an earth jutsu before pulling out fire wood from a sealing scroll. He then fired a small fire jutsu starting a fire to set the mood. Jiraiya and Tsunade sat next to each other in chairs, as Anko took her seat on Kakashi's lap as he sat down in an arm chair.

Iruka and Shizune sat next to each other, sharing a glance, before looking away from each other. Shikamaru sat next to Naruto who was next to Hinata's bed, with Hinata in her bed.

They all sat and chatted for awhile, everyone happy and merry. Hinata was even grinning, though she wasn't talking much, giving short answers still when asked a question, she was actually having fun.

Jiraiya unsealed some eggnog and everyone had a glass, minus Hinata, who Tsunade would not allow to have a glass, the medic in her kicking in.

Naruto finally stood up and pulled out a hat with numbers in it, "Everyone draw a number, whichever number you draw is when you get to hand out the presents you got for everyone. You then decide who goes first."

Everyone nodded and pulled a number, Hinata even pulled a number, as she had sent Naruto out to purchase the gifts she wanted to get everyone, she had him help her as well with that. Most of her gifts were very basic however.

Kakashi had to go first and pulled all of his gifts, handing a bag or wrapped box to everyone before stopping at Anko, he handed her a small box and told her, you first.

Anko nodded and took the box, she unwrapped it before opening it, she gasped and dropped it to her lap, both hands going to her mouth, "Kakashi, it's beautiful." She pulled out a necklace that had a heart as the charm. It wasn't any old heart however, it was a heart that was platinum, forged into two snake wrapping their tails around each other at the bottom. The heads curling together to form the curves at the top, they were both holding onto a large diamond, their eyes were diamonds as well.

Kakashi took it from her as she leaned forward and clasped it around her neck as she continued to look at it, tears glistening in her eyes, "Thank you Kakashi." She then captured his mouth in a kiss as another form of thanks.

Next Jiraiya unwrapped a gift, it was a set of incredibly nice binoculars, for his...research. Jiraiya loved them.

The gift giving continued until Jiraiya's turn, he had given Naruto a cloak, that looked exactly like the one his dad used to wear, it was white and had the Kanji for Uzumaki Namikaze on the back. Naruto was awestruck.

Next Jiraiya handed Anko, Kakashi, Shizune, Iruka and Shikamaru their gifts at the same time, it was the complete Icha Icha set, all first editions and all of them signed, the group was overjoyed.

Then Jiraiya handed Hinata a gift, Hinata opened it and was surprised to see "Tales of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi" Jiraiya's first novel, when she opened it, several photos as well as a note fell out. She picked up the note and read it, it read, "This book is how Naruto got his name, after his mom and dad read it, they named their son after the main character. Please remember the talk we had the other day, I have kept my side of the bargain, you better keep yours. Naruto needs you far too much to lose you like that. It would crush him." Hinata grinned, looked at him and nodded, before picking up the pictures and grinning, there were multiple pictures of Naruto as a baby, and even more so of him while he was training. She grinned, his gift had been perfect.

"J-Jiraiya please c-come here." Hinata asked him.

Jiraiya nodded before walking over and was surprised to be enveloped in a hug by her. He grinned, "Glad I could help kid."

He then handed his gift to Tsunade, she opened it and blushed when she pulled out a very sexy pair of lingerie. She blushed a deep red as Jiraiya stood there grinning like an idiot, he got a knock on the head but he knew it was well worth it.

Next Hinata had Naruto hand out her gifts to everyone. She had gotten them all various clothes or ninja tools, all top of the line and extremely expensive.

Next she handed Naruto a gift she had been hiding. Naruto looked at her with an eyebrow raised, "How did you get me that?!" He asked shocked.

Hinata blushed, "I-I had s-some help, I-I bought it f-from Tsunade."

Naruto nodded before opening the little box, it was the necklace of the first Hokage. Naruto was absolutely shocked. There was also a note in the box, thanking him for everything he had done for her. He hugged her tightly grinning like an idiot.

Finally everyone else went and it was Naruto's turn he handed everyone two gifts, "Okay if you would all open this box first at the same time." He said holding up Hinata's box.

They all opened it and pulled up the ninja chainmail fishnet. They all had been given ten pairs.

"So I crafted these myself, same with Kitsune, and I used some extremely tough metal, they are all the strongest and most flexible you will ever find, I got you all a set of them, You all mean the world to me, three years ago I had really nothing, no one. Now I have my own family here, you are all so great to me. Thank you so much for everything you have all done for me."

Next he had Kakashi open his gift , it was a seal that he was able to apply to his sharingan, it would limit the eye's chakra consumption by a large amount.

Next was Shikamaru, which he had gotten another seal scroll, "Shika, this scroll if you unfurl it and kneel on it before channeling chakra into it you will teleport to the Sand Village if you are here, and to the Leaf if you are there. I know things have been getting serious between you and Temari, this should help when y'all have to be apart. I sent her one as well with instructions to leave it open wherever she would want you teleporting to. It requires a large amount of chakra though, you will probably only be able to use it once or twice a day."

Shikamaru thanked him giving him a bro hug.

For Iruka he had given the man a chokuto he had crafted knowing the Iruka was training with it for jonin exams that would be coming up eventually. He even applied the ownership seal for it.

Tsunade had been given a set of brass knuckles he had crafted, telling her if she channeled chakra into them it would come out as sharp as needles in front of the knuckles.

Shizune was given a new senbon shooter, that shot more and faster than the one she had on her wrist already. Finally he turned to Hinata and handed her three gifts.

"Hinata, while you were away, every year I got you a christmas gift hoping, praying I would have you back to give it to you. Here they are."

As he said this Hinata teared up a little and started unwrapping the gifts the first was a gorgeous Kimono that was colored lavender with lilies on them. She grinned and unwrapped the next, it was a gorgeous necklace that he had bought her last year and had a lion on it, roaring out, encrusted in diamonds on the platinum necklace. The lion's eyes were rubies.

Finally she opened the next one which was a hair pin that was in the shape of a star. It was also encrusted in diamonds. It was exquisite, "I got you this because you are my star, you light up my world Hinata, and because I love you more than there are stars in the Sky."

At this Hinata broke down wrapping Naruto into a tight hug as she cried, thanking him for all of the wonderful gifts as he put them on her." They were finally done, and Shikamaru left saying he had to get home to his own family.

A few hours later and Hiashi walked in holding two gifts. The first he handed to Naruto. Naruto took it and thanked him before unwrapping a phenomenal dress Kimono. It must have costed thousands. Naruto thanked him humbly before Hiashi handed a gift to Hinata.

Hinata opened it and gasped. it was a beautiful dress. "That dress was your mother's, she looked so beautiful in it, just like you will. I figured now that you are grown it will fit you."

Hinata nodded, hugging him with tears in her eyes, "Thank you father."

Hiashi nodded and took a seat before taking up conversation with everyone.

They all had a Christmas late lunch feast which Naruto had had clones cooking at his house, before flashing into the room with them and a table.

After a while Hiashi had to leave, to spend some time with his other daughter. The party had died down and it was now just Naruto and Hinata, cuddled in her bed together looking at the tree that was still there now. Hinata sighed in contentment. This had been the best day in a long, long time. She cuddled into Naruto's chest once again, he stared into her eyes as the two were so happy. The fire was still going keeping the couple warm as Naruto leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on Hinata's lips, both of them having forgotten everything that had happened in the past and thinking purely about the other at the moment. Naruto and Hinata kept this lip lock for a while as they enjoyed the rest of their night before falling asleep much the same way they had the night before.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! PLEASE READ AND REVIEW, HOPE YOU ALL LIKED IT.