What I Wanted for Christmas Wasn't You!

Blizzard

Losing track of time wasn't uncommon for Tobirama, and she was smart enough to know that this would lead to consequences. However, she thought the consequences of doing her Christmas shopping at the eleventh hour would only result in her purchasing 'less than mediocre' presents for her family, friends, and students.

Boy was she wrong...

How did she end up in her current predicament?

Well... the answer to that is simple.

Tobirama cared for her research more than anything else. Often, she would be cooped up in her lab, too focused to realize what time it is, or even which day it was. She would skip on meals and sleep, which made those who knew her wonder how she had fair skin that glowed, and luscious long hair that looked remarkably healthy.

The answer to that too was simple, and more or less the same... research!

She had found the solution to maintaining her health a long time ago. It's needless to say, of course, that she had been highly motivated since she would never let anything interfere with her finding the answers that she sought.

Not a growling stomach, and certainly not her heavy eyelids beckoning her to get some rest, would ever prevent her from losing her focus and completing her research.

Tobirama was simply amazing, so she wondered how she could have allowed herself to end up in this situation. Then a familiar face popped into her train of thought, Hashirama...

This was her brother's fault! He made her promise to make it to this year's Christmas party since she missed out on all the previous holidays, and Tobirama could not turn her brother down since he had come to her personally with his puppy dog eyes, and pouty face, which he knew she could never say no to.

It was a cheap shot!

He's the real reason she ended up in her state. If it wasn't for Hashirama, she would still be in her lab instead of racing around town trying to find presents, and she definitely wouldn't be dragging her legs through a foot of snow IN THE MIDDLE OF A BLIZZARD!

"Damn you, Hashirama!" she yelled loudly to vent her anger. She wouldn't really be heard by anyone since,

ONE

There was a blizzard!

And TWO

No one in their right mind would be out here in a damned blizzard!

Yet, she a brilliant scientist who worked for a renowned pharmaceutical company was.

"Damn him indeed. I know my reasons for cursing your foolish brother, but what are yours?" a voice that she had been intimately familiar with caused her to freeze in place, when a darned blizzard had failed to do so.

Why?

Why is this happening to her?

She was already having a very crummy day, yet somehow it got worse.

Wasn't she a good person? Most of the solutions she dedicated her life to finding were cures for diseases. Hadn't she saved countless lives with her research?

Yet, it seemed to her that the universe decided it was 'Let's fuck with Tobirama' day, because why else would her EX-BOYFRIEND suddenly appear, in the middle of a BLIZZARD damn it! if some omnipotent God did not desire it?!

The coincidence was just too unlikely.

She was definitely being punished for something.

She looked up and muttered under her breath, "Whatever it is I did to piss you off, I promise I will do right by you. Just please, PLEASE, don't let me turn and find him there" she begged the God who caused her current misery.