Disclaimer : Naruto © Kishimoto
Genre : Humor/Fluff
Pairings : Nejiten and Kibahina
Word Count : 954 (and here I thought I wasn't going to be able to get passed 200 ;p)
A/N : This was in large part inspired by last year's drabble of the same theme... EVERYONE's NIISAN
Kiba loved Christmas.
Not only was it the happiest time of year, a time where the whole village transformed into this colorful bright childlike wonderland, but it also smelled so good. Being from a clan the specialized at using their nose, smells were important to the Inuzuka. Most things smelled pretty good, but there was nothing quite like the smell of Christmas. There was a crisp clean scent that came from the coolness of Winter. But along with that, was the smells of candy canes, hot chocolate, cookies, big holiday feasts, and pies. Kiba loved pies. But not as much as he loved Christmas.
"Would you stop that," the angry growl of his white-eyed friend, sitting on a large oak chair with intricate carvings and red upholstery, called out to the fang faced boy.
"Stop what?" Kiba smirked, looking down at the glaring Hyuga with an expression of utter delight.
"That," Neji sneered, his eye practically twitching from the rage he was feeling.
It didn't take a genius to understand what the irritated Hyuga was referring to. Unlike Kiba, who embraced the festive air of the season, as well as the current mission they were sharing, which had Kiba dressed in tight green spandex and Neji in red velvet, the Hyuga was not as visibly pleased. In fact, for the better part of an hour, Neji's face had been affixed with what was looking to quickly become a permanent scowl on his handsome face.
"Lighten up, Hyuga," Kiba scoffed, keeping the smirk on his mug if only to piss the older man off just a little bit more. "'Tis the season, dude!" the fang-face boy let his hand drop down heavily on to the older boy's back, as he turned towards his blue-haired girlfriend.
Looking over at his timid teammate, Kiba couldn't help but think she looked so cute. Hinata was always cute, but today she just looked even more so, in her green tights and pretty green velvet dress with fluffy white fur trim on the collar and hem. It was almost exactly the same as that of the bun-haired kunoichi's, who was standing next to her, except that Tenten's was red instead of green. Between the two girls, was the big white dog that Kiba called his very best-friend, barking it up as the small crowd of children waiting in line to see the man of the hour played with his fake antlers.
"Easy for you to say," Neji growled, glaring menacingly at the boy who had just slapped his back. The only thing stopping him from hitting his younger friend back of course, was the explicate orders from the Hokage herself ordering the Hyuga to refrain from making any of the children cry like he had the previous year.
Turning away from the pretty kunoichis and his dog, Kiba gave Neji a questioning look. "Seriously Hyuga, what's your problem?" he asked in a somewhat irritated tone, though of course being the holidays, Kiba just couldn't bring himself to lose that cheerful attitude which had the result of making him sound less annoyed than he probably would have sounded otherwise. "You've got the cushiest mission in the village, all those cute little kids are totally in love with you right now, and you get to spend the entire day with the girl of your dreams, and all you have to do is sit there in a red santa suit and listen to a bunch of young pups tell you what they want for Christmas... what more could you ask for?"
For a moment the prodigy remained silent, almost as if he were thinking over what his younger friend had said. Kiba knew, from rumors and warnings from Tsunade telling him to keep a close eye on his older friend, that Neji wasn't the most kid-friendly guy there was. Hyuga children were said to be quite well behaved, so to force the white-eyed shinobi to sit and deal with hundreds of non-Hyuga children, pulling at his hair, and touching him with sticky fingers, and a few other even less pleasant habits, it was of little surprise that the previous year Neji had all but destroyed Santa's village in an effort to escape his mission of playing the jolly red elf for the children of Konoha. Why he had been chosen for the same mission a second year in row, Kiba could only imagine was the Hokage's twisted sense of humor and a sick desire to see the usually unemotional shinobi tripping all over himself from stress and annoyance. One would think that having grown up with Gai and Lee on his team Neji would be able to handle his irritation a little better. For the most part that was in fact the case. But there was something about having a dozen or so children using one's body as a jungle gym that apparently sent Neji over the edge. Naturally it was quite an amusing sight to see, and Kiba couldn't exactly blame Tsunade for wanting to put the Hyuga through that torture for a second year.
"You know... Niisan," Kiba chuckled, loving how that little vein over Neji's left eye always twitched when the Inuzuka called him that. "You should get used to rowdy kids... I'm pretty sure any kid of Tenten is going to end up being as energetic and wild as she is," Kiba paused, inwardly laughing as he saw the slight blush on the Hyuga's cheeks. And then he went in for the kill. "And of course, Hinata and my kids are definitely not going to be your typical Hyuga kids... so you better get used to the idea!"