Ok so here is my (late) Christmas story. Trust me it's worth the wait, lol.

I am very proud of this story b/c i don't think I took the chracters OOC at all and i just had fun with it. :D

Also, while writing this, i've descovered a new pairing -that i love- and i will tell you more later on in the story, but for now ENJOY!!!!!

i own this idea that's it

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"Merry Christmas foxy!" Kiba boomed as he handed Naruto a tall rectangular box wrapped in a red and gold paper.

"Thanks dog breath!" Naruto yelled as he took the gift.

Naruto and Kiba were hanging out at Naruto's house, waiting for Kiba's parents to come and pick him up –they got called away for a veterinarian emergency, and his sister kicked him out of the house so she could get the Christmas Eve dinner done. So, Naruto asked his adopted dad –Iruka- if Kiba could spend the afternoon of the 24th at their house. Iruka, of course, said yes, so the teens spent most of the day together.

"What is it?" Naruto asked excitedly as he started unwrapping.

"You have to unwrap it to find out." Iruka pointed out as he watched the two teens.

Naruto took off all the wrapping and his smile instantly fell, replaced with a confused stare.

"It's a nutcracker." Kiba said, the edge of his lips twitching. "Get it…nut cracker!" He explained as he began to laugh. Naruto lost his confused face, and replaced it with an irritated one. "Because you're gay ...nutcracker!" Kiba let out another boisterous laugh, as he clutched his stomach.

"You ass!" Naruto gritted out, raising the nutcracker ready to throw it at Kiba. Iruka grabbed the gift out of Naruto's hand and placed it on the coffee table.

"I think it's a lovely gift…even though the reasoning is wrong."

Naruto groaned and tackled Kiba, shortly after the two boys started wrestling. They didn't stop till Kiba's mom came in and dragged him out.

Later, after Iruka and Naruto had their Christmas dinner, Naruto went outside to go get some more firewood for their fireplace.

"Stupid Kiba and his dumb gifts!" Naruto muttered under his breath as he walked. "He's been spending too much time with Sai; the pervert's rubbing off on him."

As Naruto walked towards the back of his house to get the wood, he heard a familiar scream. Wasting no time, Naruto ran towards the source.

"Konohamaru! What's going on?!" Naruto asked frantically his eyes doubling in size.

Konohamaru –Naruto's next door neighbor- was pressed against the wall to his house, surrounded by snakes.

"Naruto! Help me!" The boy pleaded as he tried to flatten himself closer towards the brick wall.

Naruto looked over the snakes and noticed they were all looking at Konohamaru. Quickly and precisely, Naruto picked a path that looked like it didn't have a lot of and ran to Konohamaru -killing the snakes in his way by squishing their heads. Once near the boy, he threw him on his back and ran towards Konohamaru's front door. Once on the door step, Naruto turned around to check the snakes and saw all of them slithering away.

"Thank you Naruto!" Konohamaru cheered as he developed Naruto in a powerful hug.

"You sure you're ok?" Naruto asked as he pried himself out of the boys grip.

"Yup!" Konohamaru gave him a big toothy grin and a thumbs up.

After Konohamaru's parents thanked him several times, Naruto went back to his house and decided against getting more fire wood. Inside, he found Iruka sitting on the couch, holding Naruto's nutcracker in his hands.

The room was a simple and cozy room: the couch was against one wall with a coffee table in front of it, and their Christmas tree was in the corner, a good amount away from the wood burning fire place. On the wall next to the entrance way, was a lazy boy chair with an end table and lamp next to it.

Naruto sat on the lazy boy and gave out a tired sigh. He glanced over to Iruka and smiled, cuddling deeper into the chair.

"This is a very detailed nutcracker." Iruka complimented not even noticing the lack of fire wood.

Naruto scoffed and pouted at his gift.

"I can't believe that mutt." He grumbled. Iruka handed him the nutcracker, ruffled his hair, and went off to bed. Naruto looked over the nutcracker and shook his head back and forth. "I guess it is pretty cool." Naruto admitted stubbornly.

The nutcracker was made of all wood, but it wasn't blocky like the traditional nutcrackers. In fact, it almost looked like a male Barbie doll, with the exception of being made of all wood and able to crack nuts. It had raven hair, swished up in the back -framing the dolls face. The face was set in one of disinterest, bordering on irritated. The outfit carved into the nutcracker was a dark blue tunic with a white undershirt, a dark blue belt with a gold belt buckle, and a dull gold sword sheath with a little sword in it, and the pants were black with a pair of black boots to finish the outfit.

Naruto grabbed the nut cracking lever and clicked it a few times, watching the raven haired nutcrackers mouth open and close. Not a very big mouth. Naruto observed. It could crack a peanut, maybe but not much else. Naruto sighed then yawned. He placed the nutcracker back on the table, put out the fire. He then shut off the Christmas tree lights and locked up the house, then went up to bed.

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Is the spacing in off b/c to me it seems off....hmmm.

ANYway! I hope you all liked it and the next chapter should be up soon. It all depends on how fast my roomie can edit it for you guys :)