Hello happy people! Let us commence with the next chapter! Only a little after Christmas!

I do not own Naruto, the website this fic is posted on, the Christmas Carol, or my soul. They all belong to their respective owners, except the last one, which my brother threw out (seriously, he did).

A Holiday Revelation

Of Present and Ninjas

Sauske looked at the two ninjas that were arguing in the middle of his floor. While normally, an author would mean that they were that they were an equal distance from all the walls, but in this case it was more of them being sliced in halve by the floor with half of them above it and half below. "Now Naruto I can understand, he used to be my friend. Itachi, my brother, and his annoying friend I have no clue. But why the did you idiots get sent here!"

Tsunade glared at him, and bobbed him over the head. Being the person she is, this caused him to go flying into what remained of his refrigerator. "We are here because we represent you present! I that which you now fight against, and Choji is here, well, um…, I really don't know actually. Choji, any idea?"

Choji looked up from the ice cream he had salvaged, and then made several grunting noises. "Oh, he is here because Naruto said you had good food here. But down to business, we are here to show you the Christmas you are currently missing back in Konoha. Come, grab my robe, while Choji grabs all of your food."

Before Sauske could do anything, the Sannin had grabbed him, and the surroundings warped, and soon, they were standing in the town square of Konoha. Tsunade pointed toward a building, and Sauske went toward it. The closer he went, the more a strange sound resonated in his head. As he peered into a window, he saw what it was.

It was laughter. The interior of the building was completely decked out in Christmas fashion. Where there were not garlands, there was mistletoe, where there was not mistletoe, there were trees with ordainments on them, there even a raised area with a band on it, and in the few places where none of those were, people were packed in. Sauske leaned on the window, and passed through it like it was water. He immediately noticed a small area of the place that had no one in it, but that was mostly because Gai was there with mistletoe.

As he looked around, he saw old teammates, comrades, brothers in arms. Hell, he was pretty sure that one guy in the band was Itachi in disguise. He wandered through until he heard some voices different from the rest.. "Ok guys, guess who I am!" He turned to see Naruto walking like he owned the place, and doing several gloomy and whiney looking things. That was defiantly the same old Naruto. "Ohohohohoh! Naruto-San! Is it Sauske?" Sauske's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he heard that. How dare he do that! And how dare Lee say it!

"Got it in one Lee! Who's next?" Naruto started laughing as Shino, surprising everyone there, started to act someone out. Sauske, disgusted, walked away. Was he really that bad? He soon found himself at the door to a room with the words "Ghost Therapy Room, Do not enter without permission." Under it, in smaller writing was "Those that do so will be send to the rehabilitation clamps." Sauske, being the curious ninja he was, entered.

Sauske walked in and saw, to his confusion, the bodies of over a dozen ninjas sitting in chairs asleep. Among those that he recognized were Tsunade, Choji, Neji, and that weird official from the second exam. "As you see, when our spirits are in this form, we are vulnerable to attack."

Sauske turned his head to look at Tsunade as she entered through the still closed door. "Of course being as any member of opposing villages that would hurt us can't get here, or is currently enjoying the party like your brother, we can relax. That and the fact that opening the door, or any window into this room sets off more alarms then George Bush having an idea."

"Who?" Sauske asked, his head tilted. "I have no idea, it just kind of popped out. Anyway, you have seen what your friends are doing in your absence. Having fun. Even your brother is having some Yule-tine cheer. Hell, they still miss you; Naruto almost killed someone last week who called you a traitorous bastard."

"Wouldn't this be a better example if I could see them?" Sauske once again had his head tilted. "Yes, but those of the Hyuga blood can see us if they use their bloodline, and if they are skilled enough hurt us, so avoiding them like the plague is a good idea." As she said this, Choji popped into existence behind him. "Tsunade, it is starting." She nodded and led Sauske back into the main room, where the music had stopped, and the person Sauske now knew to be Itachi was stepping up to the Microphone.

"Now everyone, we have had a good time tonight, but all good things have to have an end. So as this last song goes out, think of a good wish, I know mine." And he smiled, while backing away. He didn't say the next part out loud, but as he got his guitar strapped back on, Sauske could swear he lipped the words "for Sauske".

Sauske looked toward the group who had been playing charades with Naruto, and found that both members of his old team had lipped the same thing. Suddenly, just as unexpected as it started, Itachi's last song two notes into it's beginning, the whole area shifted, and he was returned to his house.

"We are going now Sauske, but don't worry, the worst is yet to come." With that, Tsunade and Choji melted for the last time, into the ground. Sauske looked at the place they had been standing, at his now completely destroyed kitchen, (including several bite-marks on the appliances) and back at the door to his room. He then did the only thing that was reasonable at the moment. He set as many traps as he could in the room, and barricaded himself into his bedroom. "let them come! They will never get me now!"

Just as he thought those words, the kitchen exploded, shrunken flew, kunai shot, bladed disks, um…disked. Then, another explosion heralded the last trap going off. Sauske smiled, waited a few seconds, and burst out of his hiding place.

His moment of victory was spoiled, partly because his house was now missing two walls, but mostly because a hand made of compressed sand had grabbed him and pulled him toward the owners of the most blood-thirsty eyes not belonging to either Itachi or Orochimaru he had seen in his life.

"Long time no see Neji, Gaara, what can I do for you?" After waiting for a response all he heard was silence. "They won't respond you know." Sauske's head whirled around and came face to face with the last of the Spirts of Christmas Future.

Woot! Finished! I plan to have the next one be mid-February, but no promises. For those that are actually reading this (not very many) Who do you think the last one is?