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There are others than human that celebrate Christmas. How? Well, read and you will find out^^

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Chapter 15 - All those little birds

"Dude, stop that, okay?"

The Aburame boy stopped the flow of insects in their attack on the little bids, and then turned around.

"What I do is up to me, is it not?" He asked, giving the visitor a glare. "I don't expect someone like you to be able to understand."

"Hold it, man. What are you talking about? Why shouldn't I?" Kankuro threw up his arms as another glare was sent in his direction. "Okay, okay, I know you're pissed, alright. But you don't have to blame me for the fact that your insects have been eaten. It's not like I'm the one munching on them!"

Shino frowned, but the puppet master was right. It was the birds he should blame, not the boy.

It had now been two days since the guests from Sunagakure had arrived. Shino could still remember that he hadn't planned on going, but that Kiba and Hinata had forced him to, telling him that it would be seen as incredibly rude not to welcome the four travelers. So he had gone there, expecting nothing more than watching them enter the gates and then giving them a nod before heading home again. Not in his wildest dreams had he thought he would be forced to take one of them back with him to stay there for the holidays. No, that was not what he had expected at all.

Naruto was the one to blame. When deciding to invite their neighbors over, that idiot Naruto had insisted on taking the responsibility for their guests. Well, it seemed like all he had done was send them the invitation. Arriving, it became clear that no proper plans had been made for their living arrangements, and it seemed like Naruto had planned for all four of them staying at his place. As if that could ever be an opinion. Even though Shino himself never had visited the Uzumaki lair, he'd heard plenty from their peers. From what he had gathered, Naruto's apartment would not only lack the space, but the environment and mess would probably also make all of them sick.

So, in the end, it ended up with the four guests splitting up to live with different people. The girls had both gone to stay with the Hyuuga-family, Gaara had for some reason insisted on staying with Naruto, and before he knew what was happening, he was walking home with the puppet master.

"Hey! I know!" Kankuro seemed excited "We could make one of those hay-things that Ino talked about the other day!"

"Ino?" The Aburame raised an eyebrow. He had not heard anything about hay or how it could possibly solve his problem.

"Yeah, I heard her tell Matsuri about it when we arrived. Some kind of special treat, consisting of hay, that the birds loved or something." His explanation earned nothing but a skeptical glance for his host. "You know," he added, gesticulated with both his hands. "So that they eat that instead of your gross bugs."

"..."

"Ehm, I..."

Shino turned and walked away before he could hear what the other boy had to say. It was in the midst of shopping time, and he had to wait in a line of several customers, but at least he was able to collect three golden sheaves. As the boy returned home, he could not help but letting a little smile appear in the corner of his mouth. Such a simple idea. Still, if it worked, he would not complain.

He entered the gate to his house and headed right towards the fence furthest away.

"That should do it." The bug-boy said as he fastened the last thread and stepped back to have a look at his efforts. The sheaves were hanging nicely in the corner of the yard and, as soon as Shino stepped away from it, the births he had seen earlier, gathered, nipping to the treat.

"Let's see if there's any truth to this…" Slowly, Shino let his bugs out and into the open air. The whole time he focused on the birds - contempt on not losing any more bugs that day. As his cloud of insects reached the number of thousand, the boy let out a pleased snort. The insect master then went inside and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

As they had eaten, the two of them left the kitchen. Kankuro was rubbing his belly, pleased with the Leaf's food, and was looking forward to spend the rest of the day on the couch.

"It's time to go out and do some more training."

"What?" Kankuro wasn't sure if he'd heard correctly. "What, again?"

"Your idea worked perfectly. I have to say I'm satisfied by the result. Because the birds now are focused on eating, I now have the ability to strengthen myself." Pulling on his jacket sleeves, Shino stepped over to the usual training area behind his house.. "Are you coming?"

"Oh, man…" Inside, the puppet master let out a sign. "Guess there is nothing else to do…"

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