Shizune stood in Iruka's kitchen making a huge Christmas breakfast. Iruka had insisted on a small meal, but that wouldn't do for the medic Nin. Shizune always made extravagant meals on the holidays and wasn't going to stop until she was six feet under beside Dan. The couple wore matching red, checkered pajamas and helped each other bring the food to the table. Then while eating breakfast, they chose to open presents to a Christmas CD.
"Do you think she'll be surprised?" Kankuro asked, walking through the snowy streets with his brother, and bodyguards who were carrying several boxes full of presents.
"Temari thinks you're on a mission and that I'm in a meeting with the elders, simple as that." The Kazekage tried to smile; it seemed that he needed more practice.
"Why don't you work on the smile later, I'm sure she'll be happy to see you celebrating." The puppet master put his arm around his younger brother as they walked up the steps to Temari's hotel room. Kankuro knocked on the door and waited; no reply. He knocked again but there was still no answer from the kunoichi. The two became very impatient and Gaara's patience was very small.
"What's taking her so long?" The eldest brother hammered on the door even louder. "I mean…Gaara? You okay?"
"Move." The red head glared as sand spread over the door and burst, causing everyone to fly back from the force. Gaara's face calmed and he looked toward his brother. "Sorry, guess I got carried away."
"Ya think?" They walked into the empty hotel room.
Temari's eyes flickered open as her brother senses flared red alert. Shikamaru felt her body tense as he sighed and rolled over. Sitting up, Temari looked for her clothes.
"What's wrong, was I that bad?" Shikamaru sat up and rubbed his head while watching Temari dress into a simple, plain black kimono.
"No, it's my brothers; they're up to something. I'll meet up at your place as soon as I can." The blonde pulled over her coat and kissed Shikamaru good-bye.
"Stay safe." The brunette called before flopping back onto the bed. Temari ran out of the mansion. Whatever was wrong, the Sand Shinobi was about to find out very soon.
Hinabi walked into her sister's room and sat at the foot on the bed. Gently shaking Hinata's foot, the youngest Hyuga woke her sister from a peaceful dream. Hinata rubbed her eyes, "What time is it?"
"Ten thirty, your boyfriend brought you home at five and then had a talk with father. You two sure do stay up late." Hinabi smiled, she was glad to see that her sister was happy with some one. "Here's your Christmas present. I know it's nothing big and grand but,"
"Hanabi, this is beautiful and these hair pins perfectly match the kimono!" Hinata felt the silk under her fingers while her eyes ran over the scene of Osaka. Running her hand through the obi, she found a good luck coin safely hidden. Smiling, Hinata pulled out several boxes for her sister who commented, "I thought it would bring you luck on a date with the Uzumaki." Hanabi unwrapped several scrolls, the latest shuriken, and a new set of sleeping wear. The present that made tears for in her eyes was a scroll by Hokusai. The sisters giggled and held each other as to not ruin the moment they shared with each other.
Kakashi rubbed his head while pouring a cup of coffee and feeding his dogs. The previous night had been great up till the part when the Copy Nin had to bring his two drunk and rowdy friends home. Unfortunately, the two got his bed, heaven forbid Genma be separated from his love, so Kakashi was left with a small love seat.
Genma strolled into the kitchen as the silver haired man laughed at Genma's enormous headache. Kakashi drank down his coffee and took a bite of some eggs. He rarely showed his face to people and Genma was one of those selected few.
"Hey, thanks for letting me stay, but what happened?" The other Jonin took a bite of Kakashi's bacon.
"You and Anko were knocking boots together, the dogs kept barking at you two, and I need a knew love seat because it sucks ass to sleep on. You owe me big time for this one."
"Alright, alright, don't get your panties in a bunch princess. How bout I do your laundry for a couple months and take care of your dogs when you're out?" Thinking this over, the other man found it a good trade and agreed.
The old Sannin rolled over and felt the bare chest of his woman rubbed against his lightly. Slowly Tsunade wrapped her arms around him while moaning in great delight. Jiraiya gently pressed himself against her as she enjoyed sucking on his lower lip. Suddenly, a cry from rang out, coming from the corner of the room.
"What the hell is that?" Tsunade sat up and her eyes grew big. "Jiraiya…why is the Sarutobi baby in our room?" The white haired man sighed as he got out of his warm bed and walked over to the crying toddler. Picking up the note, he read it aloud while handing the child over to Tsunade.
"Dear Jiraiya,
I thank you for watching my precious little Shunin for the next week. I realize that we had originally agreed upon a day but Asuma and I are going on vacation. I packed everything you'll need to take care of the little angel.
Take care,
Kurenai
P.s. Give him a bath before he goes to bed so that he doesn't wake you during the night."
Tsunade bounced the child on her lap and said, "Well, guess you're going to be busy this week. Hey, don't touch those!" the woman pulled Shunin away from her as he giggled and reached for her breasts. Suddenly, Naruto burst through the door yelling, "Pervy Sage! Pervy Sage! Wow, what are you doing here Tsunade? And why do you have a baby?" The Hokage pulled a sheet over herself and handed the kid to Jiraiya.
"He belongs to Kurenai. I swear Naruto, if you tell a single soul about this then I'm goanna make sure you never live to become Hokage." Tsunade growled. Pulling up his underwear, Jiraiya added, "I'll tell you about it later. Why'd you come?"
"You promised that you'd come with me to have dinner at the Hyuga mansion. And now that I know you've got it going with Granny, you might as well bring her." The blond zipped up his jacket. "Well hurry up! Take forever and a day why don't you!"
"You run home with the child and get changed. I'll meet you at the mansion. Hiashi wont mind if I tag along, we're good friends." Jiraiya handed Shunin over to his protégé and changed while Naruto eyed the child. Bringing him close to his face, Naruto said, "You have the cutest little nose I've ever seen." Naruto leaned closer and the boy grabbed the blond stands of hair, pulling as hard as he could. Naruto yelled and attempted to pull the toddler off of him.
"Help! Get the devil child off of me!" Both boys pulled but neither succeeded. Tsunade walked over and gently unclasped the child's hands. Naruto quickly ran to a mirror and hissed, "Thanks to that kid's spit covered hands, I have to re-wash my hair." The two Sannin laughed at the young man who looked disgusted with Shunin.
"Where were you?! We've been worried sick about you!" Kankuro yelled at his older sister.
"Why's it matter?! How long have you been looking for me anyways? You could have given me a heads up that you were coming." Temari glared as her eyes swept over the sand covered hotel room. Gaara began taking the sand back and growled, "It was supposed to be a surprise, but obviously you weren't here. This wouldn't have happened if you'd had been here." The sand was mostly gone by now and the bodyguards had just finished stacking all the presents in the corner of the room.
"Where were you?" Kankuro asked again and watched his sister sigh heavily as she took a seat on her bed. This wasn't an easy, or fun, task but the sand kunoichi was able to tell her brothers the real reason why she was in Konohagure and where she had been last night. After talking about the uncomfortable topic, Gaara commented, "Well, I guess that is one way you could spend a Christmas Eve, though this book never mentions having sex."
"I just can't believe you waited that long." Kankuro chuckled before Temari grabbed Gaara's 'How to Make a Wonderful Christmas' from him and hit Kankuro over the head. Snatching the book back, the Kazekage handed it to Baki, and then handed a rectangular box over to Temari. Surprised, and interested, the shinobi took the box and ripped off the paper as fast as she could. Taking off the lid, Temari found a beautiful silk fan with the Suna sun setting lying on her lap. Smiling at her brothers, the woman swung them into a death hold hug.
"Temari, I can't breathe." Gaara and Kankuro both gasped and choked.
"Oh well just get over it." Temari let go and then handed each a present that she'd bought them. "By the way, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going over to Shikamaru's for dinner to night. So I expect that you both wear something nice and come."
"Did you even bother to ask him if you could bring company over?" Kankuro asked irritably.
"No, but his mother wont mind and Shikamaru can just deal with it." Both brothers looked at each other and knew that the two would turn out to be an old, arguing married couple some day.
Ino ran to the door and opened it to see Kiba, standing in the cold with a small box under his arm. Akamaru sat beside him with a large bouquet of winter flowers in his mouth. Ino took the flowers from Akamaru and playfully said, "Thank you, I'm happy to see that someone cares about me." She then kissed him on the head and stood back up to look at Kiba before saying, "That's a cute trick, did you teach him that?"
"I might have taught him a few things." Kiba smiled and kissed Ino as she showed them in. "I can't stay for long, I had to sneak out as it is to 'buy' some bread. But at least it gives me enough time to give you these." Ino set the flowers in a crystal vase and shyly smiled at Kiba when taking her present from him. Then she ran to her room and came back with a box that she handed to Kiba.
"Let's wait to open these," Ino handed a different bouquet of flowers to Kiba, "give these to your mom and tomorrow at lunch we'll open our gifts." Kiba walked to the door before answering her back, "I don't think the gift I got you is appropriate in public." Kiba laughed as he missed a snowball and then fired one back, but Ino was quicker and hit Kiba with a second. The blonde laughed as she watched her new boyfriend wipe the snow from his hair and then embrace her. Ino rested her head against the brunette's chest and soaked in his warmth before passionately kissing him good-bye.
The pink haired shinobi curled up beside the young Uchiha in front of a warm fire. This was the only place she wanted to be right now but unfortunately for them, her parents would be arriving very soon. Sasuke rested his head against the kunoichi's and sighed as the warm fire evoked past memories of him and Itachi. Itachi had always gotten Sasuke exactly what he wanted, not because he had asked for it, but because Itachi knew what would please his younger brother the most. It seemed that Itachi was never happy unless his little brother was smiling. But this was all in the past and hopefully, Sasuke prayed, the two might one day over come their differences and be what they used to be; brothers and friends.
The doorbell chimed, bringing the Uchiha back from his past. Sakura moaned, "They're here already?" The raven-haired boy took a deep breath, before he spoke in a calm voice, "Sakura, I'll show your parents in while you finish bringing the food to the table." Sasuke had to make a good impression on her parents this night. Though he was already highly looked upon by the whole village, this would determine his status with Sakura's father. If things went as planned, Sasuke would receive permission to marry the beautiful Haruno.
"Good evening." Sasuke greeted the Harunos and was pleased to see them delighted with the Uchiha complex.
"The food smells wonderful." Mrs. Haruno said as she floated elegantly to the dinning room.
"Sasuke made it for us." Sakura beamed as she took a seat across from her mother. Sakura's father sat beside his wife and added, "It good to know that my daughter is dating a man who can give her a break from cooking." Sasuke smiled; sure he didn't cook all of the food but at least he made most of it, thanks to the help of Kakashi.
"Pervy Sage, hurry up before Hiashi comes." Naruto murmured as Jiraiya tied his tie.
"Well, if you would've stopped playing with that kid, than we wouldn't be worrying about this." The man growled as Tsunade rocked the child back and forth in her royal blue dress. A sound of unlocking locks came from behind the door and Hinabi opened the door.
"Welcome and nice of all you to come, you're just on time. Iruka sensei and Shizune are already here." Hinabi warmly welcomed the Shinobi and showed them to the living room.
"Tsunade, nice of you to join us, but where is that young and energetic Uzumaki?" Hiashi waited until the future Hokage walked from behind the Sanin and handed a small box and bag to the Hyuga clan leader.
"Thank you, I'm sure that the present is wonderful, I'm honored."
"You're welcome." Naruto quickly made his way past the man and over to Hinata who was discussing with Iruka and Shizune about the academy training the students on poisons. Wrapping his arm around her, Naruto whispered, "Did you enjoy part of your Christmas gift?"
"Part? Don't tell me you got me more. Naruto-kun, you didn't have to get me anything." Hinata stroked the man's hand while he talked with Iruka about his future plans as Hokage.
"Calm down boy, Tsunade still has a few more years on the job." Shizune chuckled, holding her stomach while leaning against her fiancé. Hinabi then politely interrupted them with the news of dinner. Tsunade, Hiashi, Jiraiya, Neji, and Ten Ten were all seated at the table when the others joined them. The cooks had filled the table with varieties of food and dinks. Around the table were candles whose light danced off of the silver.
After the guests had eaten all they could, the clan leader called for the cooks to clear the table and bring out the wine that Naruto had bought him. Hiashi hand poured the wine, which was usually only done when there was something important to be said.
"I have an announcement to make regarding my position as Hokage." Tsunade held up her glass. "I've decided that it's finally time to train Naruto so that by the end on the New Year, he will be ready to take over the position as Hokage. To Uzumaki Naruto!" All glasses were raised and drank. Smiling, Naruto held up his own glass.
"I'd like to present my last Christmas present to my lovely Hinata-Chan." The blonde looked at the Hyuga leader, who nodded. "Hyuga Hinata," Naruto kneeled on one knee and pulled out a small bag saying, "will you marry me?" Luckily Hinabi had been sitting by Hinata and was able to catch her after she fainted.
"Should I take that as a yes?" Naruto laughed while slowly standing his fiancée up. Hinata jumped into Naruto's arms and he held her tightly as she sobbed.
Across in the Village Hidden in the Mist, three shinobi walk through a snow covered forest. The leader held out his hand and said, "Stay here, I'll go on." The two understood what had to be done and watched their leader walk into the dense forest. The man pushed branches out of his way and came to a clearing with two, wooden crosses that had dead wreaths around them. Pulling two fresh wreaths from his bag, the man placed on around each.
"It was nice knowing you Zabuza, you were able to teach me a lot by being an opponent." Kakashi sighed as the winds blew around him, caring along warm snowflakes.
"Don't worry," Kakashi looked to the sky as a tear fell from his left eye, "I haven't forgotten you Obito."
Yeah, I finally finished this story! Also, I'd like to tell you, because people have asked me, that the ages are based off of Naruto being around the age of 20-21 and though I am aware of the newest manga, I wanted to tie in many characters to hopefully bring humor to you all. Review to tell me what I should have changed or what you liked.