Rated T, because I said so. (swearing, but it's not like you haven't heard it before.)

If I'm Masashi Kishimoto NAGATO WOULD BE A MAIN CHARACTER! Unfortunately I am not Masashi Kishimoto and thus I do not own Naruto. I DO OWN THE STORYLINE THOUGH! :D Yay for me!

Anywho, on with the SHOW! (er...Fic)

Paper Flowers,

"Konan?" Nagato* walked down the hall and out the door repeating this, he was looking for his Paper Flower, where could she be?

Once he got outside a brave butterfly landed on his outstretched hand, Nagato smiled but stared at the butterfly.

It was white with black markings on its wings; the markings looked almost like patterns when looked at closely.

After a moment the beautiful patterns on the butterfly's wings formed words,

Nagato, it started on the left wing, in small print writing, it continued across the right wing and then back again.

If you are reading this I have left.

My reasons are my own and I've left of my own will,

My heart will always be yours, forever.

Take care of yourself and do not look for me.

Also, destroy this message.

Your Konan,

The paper butterfly flapped its wings while Nagato's eyes widened and the butterfly flapped into the air when Nagato pounded his fist against a nearby tree, knocking it over.

Nagato turned on the forest, his eyes burning with anger, hate and…pain, even more than normal.

He shouted something unrecognizable while clearing a large section of the forest,

Far away a young woman walked away,

Her blue hair with a blue paper flower stuck in it blew in the breeze.

She could hear the sounds of destruction drifting to her,

Nagato, I am sorry. She thought, she was going back on an old promise, to never leave him.

But I must. She thought, I couldn't stay, not with him after me.

She shivered at the very thought, the big boss man. The one who pretended to be who he wasn't.

She continued purposefully jumping from tree to tree.

Back in the middle of what used to be forest, Nagato panted.

He sat in the middle of felled trees and churned earth.

He watched the Paper Butterfly land on an odd looking flower from his vantage point. What was it doing? He wondered without any real interest, he suddenly felt totally detached from the world.

Even more than normal.

He walked slowly forward to pick the flower up, the stem had already been severed and it had been lying on its side.

He twirled the strange blue flower in his hands; he knew Konan's work anywhere. Her beautiful blue flower, identical to the one twined in her hair.

That gave him the resolve to get up. He felt pain eating away at his chest. But he was used to that feeling.

He grabbed the Paper butterfly and carried both Paper creations in his room. He enclosed the butterfly in glass and set the flower next to it.

He then walked out and into the devastated forest.

No matter what Konan said he would follow her.

No matter what.

No matter.

No.

After a little bit the woman realized that someone was following her, and he was catching up.

'Damn, Nagato's fast.' she thought while speeding up slightly. She'd hoped he would listen to her words, but knowing him that was too much to ask. Much too much.

"Konan!" she heard from behind her, 'He's loud to.' She added to herself.

She knew she had no hope of escaping him, but she kept going anyway.

While she was thinking she slipped on a tree branch and fell to the earth, a good six-meter's below. *

Too her surprise, she was caught by someone with bright red hair. "Nagato?" she shouted after he'd stopped, for he'd continued with the momentum from her fall.

"Why the fuck would you go back on the only promise that matters?" he shouted back setting her down.

His Rinnegan eyes glared and were lit with anger for the first time in years.

"I had too!" I shouted back, "Why?" He calmed down slightly, making an obvious effort to hide his pain behind that mask of nothing that he usually wore, in his Pain form or in his real form.

"Because that stupid asshole you take orders from are trying to kill me!" Konan shouted at her old friend.

"What. He wouldn't dare." Nagato stated blandly, without an emotion. He'd already erased it again.

But from experience Konan knew the pain wasn't gone. He was just good at hiding it.

He usually wouldn't so much as twitch at almost any news.

"Yes. Of course he would. You two are getting too close. As you once said Pain, 'We are Pain! We are God!' and so you are powerful, as long as you don't forget Pain. Which you were starting to do."

A man stepped into our small clearing. His Mangekyo Sharingan gave him away as Madara Uchiha, that bastard.

Konan and Nagato snarled succinctly. "Without Pain you are nothing." Madara continued, his short black hair waving in the slight breeze.

"You asshole!" Konan shouted at him while Nagato simply sprung at him.

Madara chuckled and moved out of the way.

Konan just looked on helplessly while Nagato pounced at the Uchiha man with pure hatred shining in his eyes.

Nagato soon began panting while Madara simply sighed. "Don't you know you can't beat me, minion?" He chuckled lightly and grabbed a hold of Nagato's arm, simply snapping it.

Nagato's face didn't change and he continued attacking. "See. You're love distracts you." Madara stated angrily.

Then Konan got behind Madara when he moved next.

Linking her arms with his she held him while Nagato hit him, like a common brawler; apparently Madara was right about one thing. Nagato's feelings left him blind.

Madara just laughed at Nagato's sad attempts to hurt him…

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*1. Nagato is Pain, well Nagato is Pain's real name,

*2. For those of you who don't like doing math, that's 18 feet. For anyone who doesn't use this counting system I can't help you, you'll just have to do the math yourself. :)

I was going to make this a Oneshot but the idea's just kept coming!

I will not update until either 1. I have a moment of great inspiration or 2. Someone guesses which song inspired this fic...

Hint, (It's a Evanescence song, but which one?:D)

Please REVIEW!

Thank you,

WhenTheBloodMoonDies.