SURPRISE! I am your Secret Santa...HIME. 8D TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
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I hope you like this. It's a little different...a tad rushed...and maybe a little...OOC... >.> BUT ENJOY. ILY
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It was Christmas Eve and Sasuke Uchiha was doing what Sasuke did best, he counted his money. He was almost done when he got a knock on the door.
“Dobe, who is it?” Sasuke called from his office to his clerk.
“It’s your brother!” Naruto called back.
Sasuke sighed and scooped all of his money back into a back and slipped the bag into his safe. He fixed his suit and walked out of his office.
“Nii-san…” Sasuke greeted his older brother who was dressed in a fine suit. He looked ready for a party.
“Are you sure you will not come to my party?” Itachi asked.
Sasuke scowled the last thing he wanted was to spend time with his older brother who had left him alone all those years in the orphanage after their parents died.
“I am sure, Nii-san.”
Itachi sighed and slipped his hat on, “I just thought I would ask. You have yet to meet my wife and we have been married for a year. She would like to meet you. Christmas is for the family…”
“Feh. Christmas…Just another commercial holiday created to get your money.”
“That’s not what Christmas is about, Otouto…I hope you learn that.”
Itachi opened the door and glanced back at his little brother, “Merry Christmas.”
The door closed and Sasuke crossed his arms and glared at Naruto, “Get back to work, dobe. Finish up and be sure to be here bright and early tomorrow.”
“Mr. Uchiha, sir? But tomorrow is Christmas!” Naruto exclaimed.
“So? The world does not stop because of one stupid holiday.”
“I…was hoping to spend the day with my wife and children. This could be my son’s last Christmas.”
“Better to decrease the surplus population. Be here bright and early. And stop burning the coal,” Sasuke tsked.
“But, it’s cold-ttebayo!”
Sasuke pointed to his suit jacket, “See theses dobe? These are garments. Garments were invented by the human race as a protection against the cold. Once purchased, they may be used indefinitely for the purpose for which they are intended. Coal burns. Coal is money and coal is costly. There will be no more coal burned in this office today, is that quite clear, Mr. Uzumaki?”
Naruto sighed and turned back to his desk, “Yes sir…”
Sasuke went back to his office and collected his money. He put on his hat and scarf and headed home.
When he arrived at his doorstep Kiba and Shikamaru were standing there. Kiba represented the local animal shelter and Shikamaru represented the local orphanage.
“Sasuke Uchiha!” Kiba called, “Why not donate to the local animal shelter!”
“Or the orphanage.”
Sasuke ignored the pair and pushed passed them.
“Merry Christmas,” they both called.
“Bah…Humbug…” Sasuke said, slamming the door behind him.
That evening Sasuke enjoyed a large dinner alone and crawled into bed early. He was enjoying his solitude, reading a book about growing tomatoes.
Suddenly, he heard a rattling noise. Rattle, clank, crash. Rattle, clank, crash.
“Who’s there?” Sasuke called.
RATTLE, CLANK, CRASH.
Sasuke slipped out of bed and drew a kunai from his pillow. He waited…and waited.
The sound seemed to be gone. Sasuke sighed and lowered his kunai. Those nights of insomnia were getting to him.
“Oi! Sasuke!”
Sasuke threw his kunai at the sound of his name. The kunai went right through his assailant. Sasuke blinked in surprise.
“Suigetsu?” he questioned.
The kunai going through his former teammate would normally not be unusual, because Suigetsu was often falling apart into a puddle, but this was different.
“I thought you were dead…” Sasuke stated simply.
“Dead…I guess you could say that,” Suigetsu said, sipping from his ghostly cup,
the chains on his arms rattled as he moved.
“What happened to you?” Sasuke asked.
Suigetsu looked at the chains on his arms and the large and heavy boxes connected to them.
“Greed. When you die you truly get what you delved out in life. I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!”
Sasuke looked at Suigetsu like he was insane, “…Dying has changed you into an idiot. The way you talk is weird.”
Suigetsu ignored Sasuke’s eye rolls and took a long drink from his cup of ghostly water, “You have been given a chance to not become like me. I had this chance once and I…ignored it. You will be visited by three other ghosts tonight. Listen to them…and maybe there will be hope for you. Or you can be an idiot and turn out like me.”
Suigetsu turned to leave, but one of his metal boxes got caught on a chair. He pulled hard, knocking the chair over. Sasuke opened his bedroom door and looked for his former teammate. He was gone. Sasuke scowled and closed the door. He really needed more sleep…Since he was hallucinating visions of dead people.
