Hello everyone of the big wide world!

For once it didn't take acouple of months to get this chapter out, yay! anyways, i hope you enjoy it, big plot deveolper in this chapter too!

Warnig: (or advice) for the upcoming chapters that include christmas, if you haven't watched Epic Meal Time then please do so, you can find it on youtube, maybe this might give you an indication of whats to come ;)

thanks, BlueBB


String, warm water, a bucket, permanent marker and one little piece of information that would be very useful in the upcoming future; my plan was coming together. I had thought about it for a very long time, even searched the internet for ideas. My plan was going perfectly; it was going to be the best prank ever dealt in the whole history of earth.

I couldn't wait to see the look on kisame's face.

Of course he knew I was still angry about the whole thing, but he didn't suspect what was about to become of him. To make sure I had everything I needed, I went around to all the Akatsuki members and asked them about Kisame. Nothing useful came out of it; apparently he wasn't scared of anything, that's until I was talking to Tobi.

After a long time of non stop talking, there was finally a useful piece of information. "And then Kisame was walking with Tobi through the forest and all of a sudden a spider dropped sown in front of him. Tobi was really scared and thought Kisame would kill it, he just stood there! And then he made Tobi kill it! Tobi was really brave..." this one little piece of information was the icing on the cake, it would make everything work.

I planed to unleash my plan tonight, when everything was quiet and everyone was asleep, and then I just had to wait until morning. It was going to be the best night of my life.

"Hey Crissy guess what, guess what?" again? This was the second time today Emily had done this to me.

"What?"

"No you have to guess, and why are you searching under that log?" she asked, trying to peer over my shoulder.

"No reason," I said, setting it but on the ground, no spiders under there. "Did you remember what you were going to tell me last time, because I don't think you actually got around to it."

"What? Oh no, it's something else, but I do remember what I was going to tell you," she said happily.

"What is it then?" I was anxious to get back to my search.

"Hang on, the first one is more exciting," she said grinning. "Look what I found in the attic, it's just what you need!" I looked on mortified as she pulled out a Mrs. Santa dress up from behind her back.

"Don't you remember, I wore it to a Christmas party once, it should still fit!" she seemed so excited about the whole Christmas thing, I was feeling the opposite.

"Oh yeah, I remember," I shuddered at the thought of wearing it.

"Don't worry, its not that bad, I'm sure the guys will love it," she said, making me blush. "Oh come on its not that bad, I mean it is little bit suggestive, but I'm sure no one will mind."

"Year, everyone but me," I growled. Emily's idea of a costume was a little bit on the suggestive side, but add the fills and sparkles and it was a nightmare.

"It will look great on you, and don't worry; I'll do your hair and makeup so you will look beautiful." She said, the beautician within her coming out.

"Great, thanks."

"Oh don't be such a sorry sop, you know you'll enjoy it," she said smiling, Emily could be such an optimistic person sometimes.

"Anyway, on to the guess what from yesterday?" I said, trying to change to a different topic.

"Oh year I almost forgot *face palm* I was walking around my bedroom yesterday and a floorboard squeaked."

"Um ok..." I said, wondering where this was going.

"Well you should know that none of the floor boards speak in that room," I really hadn't paid that much attention to it, but it did use to be my room, and my mum's before that. "Well I was really curious so inspected it and found that the floorboard actually came out! So I reached inside and guess what?"

I really didn't like guessing games, "The boogie man was hiding there?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, cause the boogie man is real," Emily said sarcastically.

"What! The boogie man is real?" Tobi yelled, stepping out from behind the house.

"Not again," I muttered.

"No, I was being sarcastic," Emily Tobi him.

"Oh, what does sarcastic mean?" Tobi's sweet innocent voice asked.

*face palm* "It means being funny in a mean way," Emily told him.

"Oh," he seemed to contemplate this for a while.

"Anyway, what were you doing behind the house, were you listening to our conversation?" Emily asked, a suspicious tone coming over her voice.

"What, no no, Tobi wouldn't do that," he said, holding his hands up in innocence.

"Good, hey guess what? The trampoline is calling for you, he misses you." Emily said to him.

"What? Hang on trampoline, I'm coming!" and he ran off.

"Good job," I told her smiling.

"Thanks," she said smiling. "Anyway, guess what I found?"

"What?" I asked, slightly intrigued now. Thinking back to the search of our hose that the Akatsuki did, I was surprised that Emily had found something that they didn't.

From her pocket Emily produced a small box; it was about the size of a large max box and was jet black with silver swirls and dimenties on it. "Look, it even has you name on it," Emily said, pointing to my name which was printed in cursive red letters.

"What's inside?" I asked, even more curious.

"I don't know, I can't get it open," she said, trying to lift the lid.

"Give it here, let me try," I suggested.

She past me the box, it was fairly light, it just like a jewellery box that you get when you buy new jewellery. Putting the tip of my thumb in the crease of the opening I pushed. The lid opened with ease.

"What! How did you do that?" Emily asked amazed. She moved around to see what was inside.

It was the most beautiful piece of necklace that I had ever seen. It was a small golden leaf, about the size and shape of a rose leaf and hang from a golden chain. On one side sat an opal, its many colours glittering in the sun light.

"Wow," Emily breathed. "Do you reckon it's from your mum?"

"I don't know, if it was why didn't she give it to me when she was still alive?" I asked, memories of my mother flashing across my mind.

"Maybe she didn't get the chance," it was a sad thought, but true. We didn't get the chance to do many things that a mother and daughter should have.

I pushed away the memories and brought my mind back to the present, this necklace seemed somewhat familiar, yet I knew I hadn't seen it before. Suddenly a thought struck me, one that confused the hell outta me.

"Hey Em, you know how the Akatsuki is looking for someone?" I asked.

"Yeah," she didn't seem to know where this was going.

"How did they describe the necklace that would tell them who they were looking for?"

She thought for a moment before a look of surprise and understanding lit up her face. "You mean?" she left the question hanging.

"I don't know, but they described it as being a small golden leaf with a crystal of-"

"Of a thousand colours on it." Emily said, finishing my sentence.

We stood staring at the leaf, could it be possible?

"Was there anything else beside the box?" I asked in shaky voice.

"I don't know, I just found the box and then came to show you," she whispered, staring at the necklace.

"Did you leave the floor board open?" I asked.

She stared at me in shock, she had.

"Shit," I muttered as we took off, running back to the house and up the stairs. What if someone had been in her room and found something? What if there was a letter explaining everything? If they had, we were in deep shit.

Itachi and Konan looked up in surprise as Emily and I ran through the kitchen and bolted up the stairs. We reached Emily's bedroom and dropped to the floor beside the open floor board.

"Let's see if there's anything there," Emily said, reaching towards the opening.

"Wait!" I said, suddenly thinking. "Do you have a touch?"

"Of course, but what do you need it for?" Emily asked as she got up and grabbed one.

"Because if someone's taken the letter, we'll know it was there in first place because of the markings in the dust." I explained, turning the torch on and pointing it at the gap in the floor.

We both peered in searching the small space within. The dust was a thick layer on the floor, years of forgotten memories lying untouched. There was a spot which the dust hadn't touched and when we compared it to the box the size was exactly the same.

"Look, there!" Emily said, pointing to another patch which sure enough was the size of an envelope. The only problem was, the envelope was missing.

"What do we do now?" Emily whispered.

"I don't know," I couldn't even begin to think of what was lying in wait for us. Who had found the letter?

"What are you guys doing?" Emily and I spun around to face Konan and Itachi who were standing at the door way.

"Uh – um," Emily started.

"What's that?" Konan asked, pointing at the hole in the floor.

"I-it's a secret compartment we found, we thought it might have something in it, but there was nothing," Emily tried to explain, she put her hand in the hole and moved it around. "See, nothing there," she said, lifting her hand out and showing an empty fist. I saw the specks of dust falling from her finger tips, good thinking Em, I thought as I realised what she had done.

"We'll see about that," Itachi said, moving into the room.

My hand tightened around the small box behind my back, I had to hide it, and fast. As Itachi bent down to inspect the hole I noticed that Konan was watching me closely, crap.

"Hmm, there doesn't appear to be anything there," Itachi said, standing back up, "Here," he handed me Emily's torch.

Stupidly I reached out to grab it. Suddenly Itachi grabbed my wrist and twisted it, forcing me to turn around. I caught a glimpse of Emily's shocked face as I gasped in pain; he wasn't very gentle about the whole thing.

"What are you!" I cried out, trying to twist my head to see his face.

"Nothing," he muttered, seeming disappointed as he stared at my empty hand.

He let go of my wrist and started to walk out the room, but not before casting me a knowing glance before hand. The silence seemed incredibly loud as konan and Itachi walked back down the hallway and down the stairs.

"What the hell did you do!" Emily burst out, fear clashing with intense relief.

I pulled the small box out from the back of my shorts. "Thank god the box is so thin, otherwise we would be totally screwed right now," I said as my hands started to shake.

"What are we going to do with the necklace?" Emily asked.

"Well we can't hide it anywhere because they're bound to find it, especially now that they have reason to suspect us." I said, shuddering at the thought of them finding out.

"One of us will have to keep it with us at all times, in a place that no one can see."

"Yeah you're right," I agreed, it was way to risky hiding it somewhere. If they decided to have one of those searches again and we couldn't hide it in time then we would be definitely caught out.

"I vote you keep it," Emily said, pointing directly at me.

"What!" I didn't want to keep it, what if they realised I had it?

"Well it's yours anyway, so you should be the one to keep it," Emily told me, it didn't look like she was going to back down on this one.

I sighed, I knew I had already lost, "But where am I suppose to hide it?"

"I don't know, somewhere on one would think to look." She gave me that look, obviously I was suppose to know what she was on about.

I did, "You put necklaces there!"

"Well you can't put it around your neck, everyone will know," she agued.

she was right, I couldn't wear it around my neck, I couldn't put it in my pocket, I couldn't hide it around the house because in every instance there was a big possibility that the Akatsuki would find it.

"Hehe, I win," Emily grinned at me.

"Shut up," I grumbled.

"You had better hide it soon, or we really might get caught out next time." Emily told me, starting to cover up the hole in the floor.

Well there was no where else for it to go, "Where do I out the box?" I asked when I had hid the necklace, realising even the box would be a dead give away.

"I don't know," Emily said.

"Hang on, I have an idea," I said, racing to my room. Once I was in there I found an old necklace that I had lying around. Placing in carefully in the box I put the whole thing in the bottom of my drawers, there, now hopefully they would overlook it next time.

"Hey Crissy!" my name sounded up the stairs, oh crap.

"What is it Tobi?" I asked, coming out of my room.

He appeared at the top of the stairs, "look! Tobi has a list of things he wants for Christmas; Tobi wanted Crissy to send it to him straight away."

"Ok I will next time I go into town," I said, taking the list from him.

"But what if he doesn't get it on time?" Tobi asked me in a sad voice.

"Don't worry it will, it only takes a day to reach him," I told Tobi.

"Yay, thank you so much," Tobi said happily as he skipped back down the hall way and down the stairs.

I looked at the list, if we were going to keep the pretence up I'd have to go out and buy him what he wanted. With all the food and clothes, my bank was already hurting from these guys.

I nearly fell over where I stood when I looked at what Tobi had written down, the letter said.

Dear Santa.

Tobi really, really, really thinks you are the best person in the world, and if anything were to happen to you, Tobi would rip that person in half.

Santa, Tobi has been a really good boy and for Christmas, he would like;

- One of those broom broom things that Crissy has, I think she calls it a Kur.

- A new mask, seeing as how Emily's horse wrecked Tobi's old one and now it's almost fallen apart.

- And Tobi wants a Tobi cake! It has to be chocolate cake though, that's the only one Tobi likes, and it has to have bacon on it, but only Crissy's bacon because that's the best.

That's all Santa, I can't wait to see you at Christmas! Tobi's so excited.

Love Tobi.

I couldn't believe it, he wanted all of this for Christmas! How on earth was I supposed to find a golf buggy, and make a life size cake that big!

This was going to be the biggest challenge of my life.


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