Okay!! So, this is the CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!

Just to clarify, THIS IS NOT IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE STORY. THIS IS NOT A REAL CHAPTER.

IT'S A FUGGING CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, PEOPLE!!

Pairings: KibaxOC, GaaraxOC (sorta), Sasunaru, and implied other pairings involving various Leaf Genin.

START!! :3

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Hotaru: Well hey there, and welcome to the christmas special! The others aren't quite ready to go yet, so I'm just taking the time to say a Happy Christmas 2011 to you all! This has been posted a bit early, since Sora probably won't be online on the actual day until late, so she says Merry Christmas to you devoted fans and readers! You all rock!

Kiba: Okay, I'm ready to go.

Hotaru: What are you doing out here, mutt? Sora said I wouldn't have to deal with you today.

Kiba: Well excuse me! But the fans need some eye candy, or they'll be stuck looking at your fat ass the whole time!

Hotaru: Are you saying I'm fat?!"

Kiba: Yeah, and?!

Hotaru: I AIN'T FAT!!

Kiba: yeah, and I'm wearing make up!

Hotaru: WHY YOU-

Kurenai: Guys, guys, calm down.

Hinata: yes, we don't want to upset the readers, Hotaru-chan, Kiba-kun.

Shino: Come on, let's start the show already.

Kiba: Well we would of started sooner, if someone had hurried up with Akamaru's breakfast..

Sora: Hey! I'm sorry, alright! It's not my fault I'm a klutz- *trips and throws tray of drinks all over everyone*

Hotaru: Great! Now I have to redo my hair!

Sora: Ah, sorry!

Kiba: Sora, what's the big idea?! I'm soaked!!

Hotaru: *points* HEY!! YOU ARE WEARING MAKE UP!!

Kiba: *covers face* SHUT UP!!

*everyone runs back into their rooms*

Sora: eheheh... on with the show!

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Hotaru sighed, brushing through her hair. Why was she doing this again..?

Oh yeah. Stupid Naruto and stupid Sasuke and their stupid blackmail.

Sakura was holding a Christmas party, and had invited all of their friends, including Hotaru. She hadn't wanted to go, but Sasuke had kidnapped her favourite pot plant, Ukki-kun (let's see how many of you know your Naruto trivia), and was holding him hostage, so that she had to go.

But that was the worst thing! That meant she had to find a date! Naruto and Sasuke were going together, since a date was required, and they were dating, but that eliminated straight away the first two people that the redhead would ask.

Expertly plaiting her hair, Hotaru went to the front door of her apartment, shouted a 'bye' to her older brother (OOOH!!! A spoiler ;D), and slipped on her shoes, heading out of the door.

As she walked down the street, she searched out everyone, watching carefully for any unsuspecting male friend that she could ask.

After a minute she decided on thinking through possibilities. Right. Squad seven. Naruto and Sasuke were going together, so they were out.

Neji and Tenten were going together, and Lee and Sakura, so both Neji and Lee were out.

Squad ten, Ino was going with Chouji, since they were an item now, so Chouji was out. Shikamaru was still available... well, Hotaru hoped so, anyway, but still went through other possibilities.

Squad ten; Shino wasn't going because he was on a mission, and that left... ugh.

Hotaru shook the thought from her mind. No way in hell that would ever happen... she wasn't that desperate.

"Shikamaruuuuu!!!" said Nara turned his head and smirked a bit as he saw the redhead racing toward him. She skidded to a stop just in front of him, then plopped herself down on the grass beside him.

"Hey, Hotaru-chan." Hotaru grinned, then decided to just come right out and say it. Shikamaru was one of her closest friends, he wouldn't mind..

"Hey, Shikamaru-kun?"

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"What's with the extravagance, imouto?" Hotaru's brother said, pushing the door open with a cheeky grin. Hotaru shrieked wordlessly and threw a hairbrush at his head, which her brother dodged with neat finesse, then cursed as it smashed into a pot.

"Darn you, Imouto... can't you go two days without breaking something? Hotaru just shrieked again, messig with her mad hair and getting extremely frustrated as she attempted to tame it.

"Here." Hotaru's brother made quick work of the mane of hair, brushing it out and neatlty pinning it to one side. "That better?"

Hotaru glomped the older boy. "God, I love you, Onii-san!"

"Yeah, yeah. Now hurry up, your boyfriend's waiting." Hotaru glared at Onii-san a bit, smacked his cheek, then stood.

"He's not my boyfriend!" she screeched, running and picking up the hairbrush, then throwing it again. This time, it was caught and put back on the dresser. "We're just going as friends!"

Onii-san waved his hand dismissively, purposefully teasing his Imouto. "Hai, hai, just get going. Have a nice time, Imouto~"

Hotaru sighed as she shut the front door, casting a sidelong glance at the sweatdropping Shikamaru and sighing tiredly. "Sorry. My brother's a little bit... fruity."

"Love you too sis!!" Hotaru turned to see his head stuck out of her bedroom window.

"Onii-san!! Get out of my bedroom!!" she roared, her only response being the window slamming shut. The redhead twitched, then sighed as Shikamaru tapped her shoulder.

"C'mon, troublesome woman... we better go. I don't want to get yelled at for being late."

"Yeah, yeah." she mumbled, then grinned at the boy mischievously. "Who knew, Shikamaru-kun? You clean up pretty good."

The brunette blushed a little bit and looked away, bringing a laugh to Hotaru's evening.

"Uh... you look nice too, Hotaru-chan." the two just smiled at each other, then kept up light chatter as they walked to Sakura's house.

Once there, another couple could be seen. Hotaru grimaced, and Shikamaru gave her a wary glance.

The two pairs met at the door, and Hotaru smirked. "You found someone then, mutt?"

Kiba grit his teeth, and Hinata edged behind him a little, "Yeah, what of it?"

Their fight was interrupted as Sakura answered the door, and Hotaru stalked through.

"Just thought no one would want to be seen with you, is all." she said, just before she disappeared out of sight, dragging Shikamaru behind her. Kiba clenched his fists and growled, Hinata giving him a shy look.

"Don't worry a-about it, K-Kiba-kun. Hotaru-chan is j-just a little..." she trailed off. No one really knew how to describe why Hotaru and Kiba were how they were to each other, so most just passed it off as sexual tension. Hinata was way too innocent for that, though.

"Whoa!" the party hall (otherwise known as Sakura's front room) had been madly decorated with tinsel, and paper chains, and almost any other christmas crap you can think of. And it seemed dates weren't necessarily required, since the Sand Sibs were there, and no one had a date but Kankuro.

Hotaru shuddered. The girlhe had brought... Matsuri... ugh. The redhead hated that stupid, fluttering brunette. Not only was she head of the Gaara fanclub, that gave Hotaru the evil eye whenever she spoke to her fellow redhead, but she also swooned quite a bit over mutt-boy. And that expanded his ego so much that anyone could practically feel it.

Suppressing the strangling urge, Hotaru went over to talk to the Sand shinobi. She hadn't seen them in awhile, and hadn't known they were in Konoha. Plus, she had known them all when she was little, especially Gaara, so was quite close with all three of them.

She was deep in conversation about some stone ninja that the three had faced, when the clanging noise of what seemed to be saucepans interrupted them, and the music was turned right down. Everyone in the room turned to face Sakura and Ino, who had devious looks on their faces.

"Okay! Everyone into a circle! It's time for spin the bottle!" there were a few groans and mutters but also a couple of excited looks. Hotaru stepped back beside Gaara, unwilling.

"Are you going to?" she whispered to him, and he gave her a sidelong glance.

"Do we have a choice?" Gaara whispered back, and went to join the circle. Hotaru sighed. If Gaara was doing it, then surely she could?

Muttering to herself, she went and sat beside the sand shinobi, with Naruto on her other side. The blonde leaned over and whispered to her while Sakura was explaining the rules.

"So, you enjoying the party so far?" he asked, and Hotaru shrugged passively.

"I'm not hating it." she replied, "But I don't particularly want to do this. Knowing my luck, I'll end up with mutt-face."

Naruto laughed, and Hotaru joined in a little. Their conversation was cut short, however, when the bottle started spinning, and landed on Sasuke. He gave a look of extreme torture; clearly he had been persuaded to come to this party by Naruto. The bottle span again, and landed on Temari.

Said jinchuuriki laughed and patted the Uchiha on the shoulder. "Heh, go on then Sasuke.. or are you chicken?"

Sasuke gave his Dobe a dirty look, then stood up, went over to Temari, kissed her quickly and then sat back down in his place. He wrapped his arm around Naruto possessively, ignoring the fangirls that were now glaring at both Temari and Naruto. And then of course, there were Temari's brothers, who were glaring at Sasuke for daring to touch their sister. Everyone was either sweatdropping, glaring, or, in Hotaru's case, laughing, for a full five minutes, until the bottle was spun again.

It landed on Shikamaru, which made everyone laugh, since the two really did not get along. Temari grimaced, but nonetheless, went over to him. "Pucker up, cry baby."

Once she had kissed him, he turned away, grimacing, trying to hide his blush. "Troublesome woman..."

More turns went, and mostly the pairs were from canon pairings that each have about a million fans (ooh, hear that third wall break), until it came to Gaara. Quite a few of the girls looked hopeful, especially Matsuri, which brought the question of: why the hell is she here with Kankuro then? To a lot of the other guests' minds.

The bottle was spun again, and landed on an unsuspecting Hotaru.

"Uh..." she mumbled, feeling intensely awkward. Gaara just shrugged, took her chin and pressed his lips to hers. Hotaru's face flushed a warm pink colour, her eyes still wide from shock.

One of her closest friends was kissing her! What the heck?!

And it was kinda nice...

After what seemed like years, Gaara pulled away, a slight smirk on his face. Hotaru just stared at him, then quickly looked away.

Everyone just continued to stare at the two, in shock. No one had ever anticipated that! Especially not from Gaara! And Hotaru... she was blushing! Hotaru never blushes! It was a rule!

"Maybe we were wrong," Sakura whispered to Ino, still staring, "maybe Hotaru's better suited to Gaara than Kiba!"

She clapped her hands, drawing the attention away from the two who had just kissed. "Okay! Time for Hotaru to kiss someone!"

She spun the bottle once more, and Ino smirked. "Well, Sakura... looks like we're about to find out."

Hotaru stood up, staring at the bottle in horror.

"No way! I don't want the first time I kiss someone to be with that mutt-face!!" (cuz Gaara kissed her, so it's different) Hotaru yelled, and Kiba laughed.

"You've never kissed anyone before?" he mocked, making the redhead let loose a feral growl.

"What of it?!" she demanded, standing up and meeting the boy in the centre of the circle. Kiba crossed his arms, and tilted his head to one side.

"Eh, it's no big deal. You'd probably suck at it anyway." he said, smirking, taunting her. The kunoichi growled, a slight pink dusting her cheeks.

"Oh yeah?!" she demanded, inching closer to the dog boy. "Fine then!"

Without warning, she pounced on the inu-nin and secured her lips to his, satisfied slightly by his wide-eyed expression. Determination drilled in her mind, and she pushed him to the floor. She was going to give this bastard the kiss of his life!

Grabbing hold of the collar of his shirt, the redhead pressed her lips harder to the brunette's and pushed her body against his. She opened one eye slightly, and smirked a little to see his eyes were shut, then smirked even more when she felt him start to kiss back. She could feel stares on her back, but didn't care. She would not be outdone!

She jumped a little bit when she felt something run over her lower lip, and scowled slightly. He was fighting back now. She stubbornly kept her lips closed, ignoring his request, then froze as she felt something gently prying her arms from his shirt, and pulling them up around his neck. A shiver ran down her spine, and warm prickles washed over her skin, as the same something wrapped around her waist, pulling her flush against him.

"eh-hem." they stopped at the voice, and looked up to see everyone's smirking faces, then looked back to each other, and leapt apart, blushing furiously and gagging.

"You! This is your fault!" Hotaru screeched, clutching her throat.

"Me?! You're the one that jumped on me!" Kiba yelled, glaring hard.

"Well you provoked me!! You said I was a crap kisser!" Hotaru yelled back.

"That's cuz you are!"

"Oh yeah?! Could of fooled me, the way you was getting into it!"

"What?!"

"Yeah, that's right, Mr Frenchie!!" Kiba blushed, and the two just glared and growled at each other wordlessly, though a slight smirk of victory was on Hotaru's face.

"Okay, okay, that's enough guys." Sakura said, and the pair went back to their seats. The pinkette sighed. Her plan had failed.. they still hated each other.

She folded her arms as Ino span the bottle this time, for who Kiba was supposed to kiss. Her green eyes suddenly lit up with an idea.

'One chance.. and if this doesn't work, I give up.' she thought to herself, then sat back and waited for the end of the game.

Once it had finally ended, she had ironed out the entire plan. She tapped Ino on the shoulder and explained it to her; they were close friends again now that Sasuke was off of the market. Ino grinned.

"Yes! That's brilliant! We've just got to get the others in on it."

When the party was over, Hotaru was glad. She couldn't wait to just get home and go to bed, or perhaps watch some TV with Nii-san. It was Saturday tomorrow, and her day off, so she could rest up.

She said goodbye to everyone, sent a final glare at Inuzuka-teme, and left, walking alone in the streets. It was dark out, and quite cold, so the redhead pulled her shirt a little tighter around herself.

"Hey!" Hotaru stopped at the yell, then registered who it was and kept walking.

"What do you want, mutt?" she said, not bothering to look at him, as she folded her arms.

"Uh..." there was an awkward silence as the two shinobi just walked side by side.

Then, out of the blue, the stupid Inuzuka tripped over his own feet and somehow fell sideways on top of the unsuspecting girl. Their lips smashed together, and both froze, eyes wide. Unbeknownst to the other, both were thanking the heavens that the darkness hid the blushes on their cheeks.

Both were too shocked to move, but eventually Kiba removed his lips from hers, though they still stared at each other. This time it wasn't in contest..

"What the hell? Get off of me!" Hotaru mumbled, blushing, and pushing feebly at his chest. Kiba just continued to stare at her, and it was making her uncomfortable. The cold concrete underneath her didn't help either... luckily, it hadn't rained or snowed yet, so it was relatively dry.

Kiba seemed unable to pull away, and his eyes were strangely drawn to her lips. "I... just want to.. try something." he mumbled, and Hotaru's eyes widened.

"Oh no, no way-" she was cut off by lips on hers just for a second, and then they were gone, as well as the warmth all over her body. Kiba offered his hand to pull her up, a slightly confused look on his face. Hotaru let him help her up, scowling off to the side, then just folded her arms and started walking once more in the direction of her house, muttering about pushy bastards and personal space. She was aware of a certain inu-nin walking beside her, still emanating the confused feeling. Neither said anything.

A few metres away, from behind a hedge, a small group was celebrating. Sakura, Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru and Kankuro were watching, and Naruto clapped Kankuro on the back.

"Nicely done, Kankuro..." he said, laughing, "Who knew those chakra strings of yours could be good for that?"

Kankuro grinned, "It was easy really."

Sakura sighed happily, and Shikamaru smirked. "Perhaps now Kiba'll get his butt in gear and ask Hotaru-chan out.

Sakura nodded, "Yeah. I think everyone knew they liked each other... except for them."

The group laughed, and then all seperated back to their homes. Mission success!

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Sora: Hahahahaha, did everyone like it?

Kiba and Hotaru: NO!!!

Shino: just face it.

Hinata: y-yes. Hotaru-chan and Kiba-kun are perfect for each other.

Kurenai: Finally! Perhaps now I can get some peace!

Hotaru: Are you kidding?! I still hate that mutt face!

Kiba: Well I don't exactly like you either!!

Hotaru and Kiba: Grrrrr...

Sora: hehehe... I think they want to kill me now. Well, fan, vote and comment! And also...

All: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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So, there were a few spoilers in here for future chapters X3 did anyone spot them all? Hehe, well, that's the end of the Xmas special! Hope you liked it!

Fan, vote, and comment please! Tell me what you thought of the kiss scene(s)! :)