"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way…" Kiba sang to himself while holding one end of a long string of garland. He quickly tied it in a knot around a hook in the wall and then hopped off his step ladder.

"Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, HEY!" From the other end of the room where he stood tying his own end to the wall Neji shot him a dark look.

"Will you quit that?" he growled, walking over to the decorations table. "I've had enough of Christmas songs to last me years…" he muttered under his breath. Kiba broke out into a wide grin and threw an arm around the older man's shoulders, much to his irritation.

"Now now, Neji, you have a wonderful voice. Come now, sing with me! Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful…" There were few things Kiba enjoyed in life as much as annoying the Hyuga that now stared icily at him. There was something about the way Neji's eyebrow twitched, how his fists clenched and how his eyes flashed that sent Kiba on an all out bugging spree. Hinata had scolded him for it on multiple occasions but he just couldn't seem to stop.

So when Tenten and Hinata had announced that they were holding a Christmas party for all of their friends and had asked them to decorate while they went out and bought food Kiba couldn't say no.

It wasn't until Kiba walked past the table, still humming "Let it Snow" that his smirk grew into what can only be described as an evil grin. He grabbed the small plant with white berries and walked towards Neji, a mischievous look on his face. Neji looked up from the string of paper snowflakes he was unfolding, took one look at Kiba and the plant he held in his hand and took a step backward.

"Don't even think about it, dog breath," he said. When Kiba took a step forward Neji readied himself into his eight trigrams position. Kiba merely grinned at him. Neji glowered.

"Oh c'mon Neji just a quickie!" Kiba lunged at him but didn't get very far before Neji used two fingers to hit a pressure point on his arm, causing Kiba to drop the mistletoe. The Inuzuka looked down at the plant in disbelief and then back at Neji, glaring at him. "So that's how you want to do it, is it?"

Twenty minutes later the girls returned to the apartment to find both boys lying on the floor panting and to their amazement, laughing. Tears were streaming down Kiba's cheeks, and Neji was trying to say something that kept getting interrupted by spurts of chuckles. The girls looked around in amazement at the destroyed room.

Thankfully none of the furniture had been harmed. The table holding the decorations had tipped over, spilling glitter, garland, mistletoe, holly, paper cutouts and all manner of ribbons onto the floor. Anything that had been hanging before hand was ripped down and shredded pieces of white paper littered the floor. It looked like a tornado had ripped through the room.

Hinata leaned over to Tenten and whispered, "What happened?"

Tenten shook her head. "You know what…I really don't think we want to know."