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Ok. I know this is very,very late.
But since the loved RP is slowing down because of the holiday's that have gone past, I thought why not have an RP Special?
Sort of like a Naruto Jump Fiesta but we get to put ourselves into it!

Well everyone choose who your going to give gifts to, who your going to kiss under the misltoe and who's home your going to crash at New Year's.
(This can be deleted if no-one wants to RP)

As usual Bof felt, indifferent about the holidays.
She wasn't buying presents, or decorations for her apartment. Nope, Bof was just sleeping as usual.

-Thinking- What's the point in wasting my money. If anyone is expecting a present, i'll just give them my.. hmm.. Friendship. Yes, that's good enough-

Bof scanned the area, as best as a blind person could, there were people shopping, christmas trees dotted here and there, and most likely christmas decorations on people's houses.

Oh yes, and the occational, over active GREEN guild members trying to figure out what to give friends and loved ones.

In fact MG-Chan had ran past a few shops not buying anything, turning around, and going back to her home.

"She must have given up too, well presents do cost quite a bit of money.." Bof said to no-one, and if she did say it to someone, it would have been an invisble friend or something.

"Dammit dammit dammit..." MG-chan cursed as she paced around the top of the apartment complex. "All I needed was a green stone... And I couldn't find anything close... Just green tinted wire..."

She looked at the small roll of wire in her hands.

"I guess I'll have to make it work..." Tears began to rolls down her cheeks as she grinned from ear to ear, and looked up to find a beautiful snow dotted sunset greeting her. "My youthful love will forge the most beautiful of gifts! He and I will have the most youthful and glorious Christmas! And a magical New Year's Eve!"

MG-chan heard a small sobbing sound behind her, and was about to turn around, when she was embraced from behind in a most youthful manner.

"MG! You are brimming with such blissful youth!" Gai said, squeezing her tightly. "Whoever has caught your eye this most glorious holiday season is a lucky man indeed!"

MG-chan smiled. "Yeah, he's...amazing. He's all I ever wanted, and all I ever needed. All I want...is for him to be happy..."

Gai let out a touched sob. "Ah, the winter of youthful romance! How entracing and magical it is!"

"...and cold," MG-chan said as a cold wind picked up. "Hey Gai, you wanna...go get some tea? My treat?"

"Ah, my friend," Gai said, "Tea is a wonderful idea! However, a gentleman never takes advantage of a lady!"

"Gai! I invited you! I'm paying!"

They took off towards Ichiraku Ramen, still arguing over who would pay for tea.

They argued through tea.

And long after they had finished their third helpings of tea.

Eventually, Gai challenged MG-chan to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, where the winner would pay. Gai won ("Hah! Training with my eternal rivals is paying off!), and they left the ramen stand.

They walked back to the apartment building, talking along the way of fond memories and who would pay for tea the next time.

With one last hug, they bade eachother good night.

MG-chan slumped against the door of her apartment, a wide smile on her face.

"I'll make him the most wonderful gift Konoha has ever seen..." She said. "And it's almost Christmas Eve... I'd better get started!"

MG-chan leapt about her aparment, gathering tools and materials. SHe settled a few minutes later at her living room table, where she stayed, working like a little elf gone mad, for the next few hours.

Bof just sat there trying to ignore everyone else getting worked up over christmas.

"Why are you taking me shpping with you Lee?"

Whos voice was that?
Why Neji's of course and Bof knew this straight away. She listened to Neji argue with Rock Lee, who was looking for christmas gifts for everyone!

-Thinking- Should I get a gift for Neji and Hinata? I have been working in their house?... no wait! I'm not doing anything......

With that Bof got herself up and started shopping for gifts for Neji, Hinata and a few other Hyuuga's she met in the hyuuga household.

"Thank-you very much," Sei said taking the gift for Gaara and bagging it.

"You're welcome miss, would you like that gift-wrapped?" Asked the cashier.

"Um," Sei said. "Would it cost anything extra?"

The cashier smiled warmly, "Since it's almost Christmas Eve, no, all other services are free."

Sei smiled back, "Yes, please gift wrap it."

"What colors would you like?" Asked the cashier. She motioned over to a crate with holes, and inside them, were different, and beautifully made wrapping paper rolls. Their shimmerring colors almost gleamed in the bright store lights.

'So many to choose...' Sei thought. 'I need something red, or orange, or maybe gold, since Gaara's from the sand. But I need it to look Christmas-ish too...Red and Gold!'

Sei picked out a warm gleaming red color, and fat gold bow.
'I hope he likes it...Oh no! I forgot about Temari and Kankuro!'

Sei looked around, she didn't spot anything that would have particularly sparked the other sand sibling's interest. But now was not the time to be picky, she had to get gifts for Lee and Naruto too...

"Un, could you hold on a bit please? I'd like to chose a few other things," Sei said, scooching over to the presents rack.

"Of course, miss, " The cashier said warmly. She waited paitiently.

Sei spotted a black paintbrush, and without thinking, picked it up.
'Kankuro might like this...' She thought, even though it would be obvious he might never need it.
Next, she spotted hair ties, with bells on them! She picked them up, and a clear ringing sounded.

'Temari would like this, I think...' She returned to the counter.

"Uhm, would you please wrap the hair ties in a red paper-the one with the snowflakes on it, and could you wrap the paintbrush in the gold wrapping paper- the one with the bells on it?" Sei asked.

The cashier quickly wrung up Sei's charge, finished wrapping the presents, and handed them to her in a bag.

"Merry Christmas!"

"You too!"

'Alright, now for Lee's present,' Sei thought. 'What would Lee like...?
Something green, I think, but it has to be something he can use...or admire...'
Ideas flashed through her mind.
A life size portrait of Gai.
A new pair of leg warmers.
A new spandex suit.
A new pair of shoes.


She couldn't afford a portrait of Gai, she'd have to pay an artist, and she knew enough, that she definitely didn't have enough moolah to pay.

Leg warmers seemed so ordianry though...Maybe she could customize them. But with what?

Something flashy, yet not too flashy...
Leg warmers....With bells!
Wait...That would do no good to Lee, especially if he was training. An enemy could sense him right off the bat.

'What to get....What to get...' Sei pondered.

'Leg warmers...With embroidery! But embroidery of what...
Gai-Sensei!

Perfect, she could take to the tailor right away!
....After she bought the leg warmers first.

An hour later, she was headed to the tailors, with leg warmers in hand.

"Excuse me, " Sei called. "I'm here for a custom job..."

A half an hour later, Sei left the shop, humming. Lee would LOVE his present. Leg warmers with Gai embroidered on them.

Next...naruto's present!

She entered the little Ichiraku ramen stand, with lights strung over the place, blinking in different colors.

"Old man-sempai, can I have a coupon for 10 bowls of ramen?"

10 minutes later, Sei had Naruto's gift, stuffed in a frog wallet.

Well....Now she had officially no money. But-
Looking up at the sky, she felt great.
Lee and Naruto would love their presents, and Gaara may even forgive her for acting so crazy.

She headed back to the tailors shop, where the leg warmers were waiting.
"Oh, they're great! Thanks!" Sei cried. She put them in a green bag, and shouted, "Thanks!"

Alright, she had all the gifts, and Chirstmas eve was coming soon.

She skipped down to MG-chan's apartment. She'd need to know where the Christmas party was being held...

Kat was certainly in a pickle. She began to wonder if she should buy gifts for everyone else (meaning Lee, Neji, Tenten, Kiba, Hinata, Naruto, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, all of the teachers, the GREEN members, and the sand siblings; instead of JUST Shino)

"Ahhh! I don't know what to do! I don't want anyone to feel neglected... Except maybe Sasuke and Sakura."

((Mitsu's being mean. I hafta get off. I'll continue later.))

"Oh, I assure you," MG-chan said. "Kisame knows that I exist."

"How?" Sei Zu asked.

"I sent him a threatening letter."

"...wha?"

"It went something along the lines of.... Don't touch my Gai, or I'm gonna rip out your guts, fry them, and feed them to starving children, and then I'll slice off your gill slits and wear them on my face as a trophy."

"..."

"XOXOXO, MG-chan."

"Nice touch."

"Thank you."

"Now answer my other questions."

"You're like a steel trap...you aren't letting me go til you hear the whole story, are you?"

Sei Zu's grin answered MG-chan's question.

"Well, the Akatsuki live off in a mountain somewhere, I believe. But since they're all usually on the road doing missions and stuff, it hardly matters. I don't know if they celebrate Christmas, but honestly, who's gonna turn down free stuff?"

Sei Zu nodded in a mock-solemn manner as she sipped her tea.

"But....how I would find him... simple enough really."

"Really?"

"Yeah," MG-chan said with a smile. "Find a clearing a god distance from the village and brew up a big batch of chum, and leave it and the present there."

"Chum?..."

"It's a mix of oil and fish guts and scales and blood. Sharks quite like it."

"Ew..."

"Yeah. But I already sent Kisame his present."

"...what'd you get for him?"

"A reminder. And a rather large salmon."

"Oh, MG-chan," Sei Zu laughed, "You so crazy!"

"But anyway...." MG-chan said as she put her tea cup down on the coffee table. "What are you gonna wear to the party?"

MG-chan was never one to really question the will of fate.

But she was not going to bend to the will of her hair!

No matter how hard she tried to put it up (with pony tail holders or sticks or even bobby pins out the wahzoo), it wanted to submit to gravity. She finally compromised with it, and pinned her bangs back away from her face, and let the rest flow whatever way it wanted. She tied her head band around her neck.

She stepped back from the mirror to look herself over one last time before leaving to meet Sei Zu.

She had read that yukata's had been traditional festival wear. She had asked Tsunade about it, and she had said that yukata's were still fairly popular, although some of the more hardcore ninja sometimes just wore their uniforms. So, riding on the hope that Tsunade wasn't just yanking her chain, MG-chan looked up a good tailor to get a yukata.

Whether or not the yukata was actually any good, MG-chan didn't know. It was a light, minty green, which the tailor had insisted on when MG-chan had let slip her affections for Gai. It had a dark violet sash across the waist, with a red cord tying it. Over her heart were two violet Konoha tree leaves, placed so that they looked like a heart (quoth the tailor, "You strut your stuff and he'll steal your heart away, and YOU GO, GIRLFRIEND!"). Their ornateness matched that of the wire leaf emblem MG-chan had made for Gai. She had hurriedly picked out some low heeled sandals and thick socks.

"Well," MG-chan said to herself. "This is it! The...romantic winter of my youth! YOOOSH! To the training grounds to meet Sei! And then...the festival!"

She rushed to her living room, and picked up her carefully wrapped gift for Gai. She was about to leave, when a knock was heard.

MG-chan opened her door, to see Sei Zu, once again burdened with packages.

"...would you like a hand, Sei?" MG-chan said, taking some of the packages from her. "OMG You're gorgeous!"

"Aww, thanks MG-chan. I'm so glad you wore a yukata! I thought I might've been the only one." Sei Zu blushed. "You're really pretty too!"

"Thanks! The tailor helped quite bit... Anyway, what's up?"