Itachi – Your chapters are getting crappy.

Orochimaru – Yeah, boring…

Hmfan24 – bloodshot eyes I woke up at 1pm today! Stayed up til 3! I went shopping at the mall with my friends!

Akamaru – whimper…ruff

Orochimaru – Your scaring Akamaru.

Hmfan24- grrrr…. I'll edit after I find some blasted money and time.

(crappy) Chapter 3 – Party time!

The air contains an eerie ambiance, creating a hostile attitude towards one another. Confusion reined over Konoha stopping their Christmas spirit to spread.

It was Christmas! Why don't I see happy faces? The boy, he won't stop crying and whimpering 'Santa isn't real!' The people they won't stop flinching when they see the color red. Pete, he won't stop laughing, it was mad chaos!

The Hyuuga clan kept the tradition of inviting their rival clan to the Hyuuga Christmas festival. They sit there knowing exactly why no one was there.

"Father, he isn't coming… he hasn't been to school in a week." Hinata muttered.

In the kitchen the maids prepared the meal slowly. As usual they would gossip to one another, "I wouldn't be surprised if the poor boy committed suicide."

The butler entered the dining room with the usual ham, "Yes, indeed. If you ask me the whole clan seemed unstable." He let out a chuckle setting the table in a luxurious fashion.

Hiashi seemed to still be in shock from the week's happenings, "…"

However, Hinata heard the conversation. She knew Sasuke was too smart to do something as idiotic as that. Her blood boiled as she heard the continuation of the conversation.

"Well, we all know that any Hyuuga can beat an Uchiha. Even Hinata. Why, I remember not too long ago Hinata-sama beat an Uchiha kid. Weaklings…" the maid commented.

"Idiots…"

"No wonder they're extinct."

"Stupid boy won't last much longer."

Hinata nearly snapped. How dare they talk about Sasuke-kun in that manner! Just as she was about to say something, there came a knock at the door.

One of the servants answered it to reveal a little boy who resembled a street urchin. He seemed to be covered in snow and freezing to the bone. Cuts and bruises could be seen all over his body.

"Oi, Hinata-chan. Merry Christmas." He said plainly as he walked past her and plopped down on the couch by the fire.

The whole room went silent as they had a shocked expression on their faces.

Hinata walked up to Sasuke and gave him a weak smile, "Sasuke, are you okay?" She sat next to him giving him a blanket and some hot chocolate.

"…yeah." Sasuke frowned, not dare crying in front of all who was watching.

Hiashi whispered something to the servants as they gathered a few things. He cleared his throat and approached Sasuke, "You know, Sasuke, you can live with us if you want to."

Sasuke's frown deepened, "…"

"I'll give you time to think about it." Hiashi went to gather some gifts to give to Sasuke.

Hinata sighed. She couldn't believe all this had happened to Sasuke in one month. She hated Itachi now. Why would he ruin a young boy's life like that? Sasuke was perfectly happy and looked up to Itachi just as she did. She wanted to talk to him about it, but knew he was in no such position.

"Santa isn't real. He isn't. I didn't get any presents. I definitely didn't get what I asked for." Tears ran down his face as he turned his head in an attempt to hide his face.

"Why? Santa is real! I saw him! Remember we saw him!" (hmfan- I'm editing the last chapter as we speak) She tried to make him reminisce about the past Christmases they had together.

He shook his head, "I wished for my parents back. I said I would do anything. I didn't get one thing."

His tears stopped when he felt her hand touch his. She smiled at him, "I got you something."

She gave him the small, gold box.

He frowned once more, "I didn't get you anything." He looked back up at her smile and couldn't help but smile too.

"I don't care, just open it!" she made sure he opened it.

He opened up two Shuriken, one crystal, the other a dark, opaque silver, "Remember that old tale your Mom and my Mom told us?"

He shook his head.

"Well, these are the two Shuriken that connect people together. No matter what happens these two will always have a connection. Darkness and light." Hinata smiled, "Give it to the person that you want to have a connection with for eternity."

Sasuke felt a smile come onto his face. He knew exactly who he was going to give it to, so he tucked both of them in his pocket.

"Ahem," Hiashi stood in front of the fireplace, "I requested one of the branch members to escort you to the academy Holiday Festival."

"Yay!" Hinata cheered. Although she looked at her best friend and saw that he was frowning.

"…"

"You don't want to go do you, Sasuke?" she sighed at his expression.

Although he remembered one of the thing Itachi told him last year.

"You might want to get your girlfriend under a mistletoe."

Mistletoe, aye, sounds like a good plan. Though, why would he want to kiss his best friend? She was like a sister to him. Plus, he wasn't supposed to like girls, they had kooties.

Hinata didn't have kooties. She wasn't his sister and he liked her very much. He longed to be kissed by someone sweet and kind. (hell 2 the nah with the fan girls) Like his mother, Hinata wouldn't ambush you and ask you for a kiss. She was different.

"If you want to go, then I definitely do!" he gave her a thumbs up and hopped up to go to the door, only to be met by a smirking 9 year old boy.

"Oi, Neji-niisan, you are taking us to the Academy, right?"

"Hn."

Sasuke made his way as Hinata followed. Neji stood there as he saw Sasuke blush when Hinata held his hand, "He likes her, aye?"

Neji silently followed the two kids.

Academy (Orochimaru/hmfan- sports and outdoors, the right stuff the right price, academy! Itachi- You just had to sing! )

Décor was everywhere you could possibly look. The dojo was covered in an icy glaze, creating a skating rink.

There was a life-size gingerbread house complete with icing and ginger bread men. Children were biting off the heads of the life-size cookies and some snuck some away in their pockets. Teens were cleaning out the rooms in the house and chopping down on everything they saw. The homeless were sucking on the door handles made of butterscotch.

Games were set up such as, pin the shuriken star on the Christmas tree, hit the target (a huge snow flake), and retrieve the gifts.

Rocking around the Christmas tree

at the Christmas party hop

Mistletoe hung where you can see

every couple tries to stop

Rocking around the Christmas tree,

let the Christmas spirit ring

Later we'll have some pumpkin pie

and we'll do some caroling.

You will get a sentimental

feeling when you hear

Voices singing let's be jolly,

deck the halls with boughs of holly

Rocking around the Christmas tree,

have a happy holiday

Everyone dancing merrily

in the new old-fashioned way.

Sasuke tried his best all day to lure Hinata toward the mistletoe. NOTHING seemed to work. It would always be, Naruto this, Naruto that. Every single time!

It was hard enough dodging the various girls shoving him into getting under the mistletoe.

"Hinata, it's really important!" Sasuke whined at Hinata as she was talking to Shino.

"… and then I couldn't go outside for a week!" the 7 year old complained. Though when she looked up, she saw that Naruto got a kiss by a girl on the cheek. (hmfan24-uh,uh,ah, I'm not telling who)

Hinata started to cry, but Sasuke grabbed her arm and drug her towards the mistletoe.

She stopped crying and looked up to see where Sasuke was taking her. Was he taking her to Naruto? She didn't want to see Naruto, "Sasuke, don't take me – "

"Hinata, I've been trying all day to get you to the mistletoe, because I –"

Hmfan24- yawn, I'm tired, I don't want none of ya'll to review. You know I'm using europefanfiction now. I like it a whole lot better. Oh yeah, don't review cause I'm editing.