It is midwinter and the land of fire is covered in a thick sheet of heavy snow. The orange haired leader of the Akatsuki and his blue haired counterpart trudge on coming back from a mission in Amegakure. Ahead of them two green covered bundles lay in the snow. The woman, Konan stops to look as Pein moves on. "Pein," the kunoichi whispered, "There's a bit of chakra coming from these." Konan slips out a kunai hesitantly walking towards the bundles. Getting closer she hears small whimpers, like those of puppies. Konan bends down and removes the green blanket. She gasps as she is met with big dark purple eyes. "Pein, they're babies come quickly."
She said distressed. What kind of horrible person leaves out babies to die, especially in these harsh conditions? Pein joins her and picks up the other bundle and finding another baby as well as a note. It read; they are brothers and sister, 8 months old, D.O.B: April 28th, unwanted, feel free to take. Pein looks to Konan finding her pressing the baby to her chest tears fill her eyes as she hears him read. "They're all alone, like we were." She whispers more to herself than Pein. "We will take them back to the base." Pein said looking off into the distance. Konan simply nods in agreement and the two quickly head back to the base.
"I refuse to take care of any fucking babies!" Hidan yells. "Yeah, I'm already stuck with this one." Sasori sighs motioning to a 12 year old Deidara. "Hey, I don't even want to be here, un!" He argued back. "Tobi loves the babies." The masked nin yells. "Can we eat them instead? No we can't eat them they're babies. Zetsu argues with himself. "Well they are staying and that's final." Pein said his voice monotone. "We are a criminal organization for Jashin's sake why the fuck are we taking care of two brats you found in the snow." Before Hidan could rant any longer he was punched back into the wall. Konan lowered her fist and scanned the room.
"Anyone else want to argue?" The others quickly shook their heads. "Good, now Kakuzu go buy these." She demanded handing him a list. Knowing better than to argue the greedy man just nodded his head and turned to leave dragging an unconscious Hidan with him. "Itachi go run a bath, Kisame grab some towels, Sasori make a crib, Deidara warm some milk, Zetsu keep away from the babies and tidy this place up, and Tobi…be a good boy…um help Zetsu." The members nod and run off in slight fear of Konan to do their duties. Pein stares in awe; he usually had to yell in order to make the men do anything productive.
After returning from the store, which was a hassle with Hidan wanting to sacrifice every being in sight, the zombie duo finally made it back. They were surprised to see their leader holding the babies and everyone else having a quiet but heated argument. "What about Hidan and Kakuzu's room?" "Are you nuts?!" "Well they aren't staying in mine!" "We'll take them." "Anyone but you Zetsu." "Tobi wants to take the babies!" "NO!" All the members yell in unison. Suddenly a cry is heard and all the members turn to stare at a bundle in Pein's arm. Konan takes it from him and gently rocks the baby back and forth until its cries subside. "How about we rotate, the babies stay in someone else room each night." Itachi offers. "That sounds the most fair; they'll stay with me and Pein tonight." Konan said. She takes a bag from Kakuzu and fishes out two jumpers and diapers. She dresses the baby in her arms and then looks at Pein. He is staring at the baby and the clothes. The whole organization is silent waiting for their leader to dress the baby. "You can't do it can you Leader-sama?" Deidara said flatly sweat dropping. Pein looks up and nods handing the baby to the bomber. Deidara rolls his eyes and dresses the baby. Everyone raises an eyebrow but doesn't question his knowledge of babies.
"So Tobi wants to know what to name the babies?" Tobi said walking closer to Konan. Konan stands up and places the babies in their shared crib. One is awake while the other is sleeping. The one awake is a girl and has dark purple eyes and white hair with a black streak in it. She looks at each member before her eyes land on Kisame. She gurgles at him and smiles, droll running down the side of her mouth. "Looks like the damn thing likes Kisame." "She is not a thing and you will refrain from using profanity around them Hidan." Konan scolds with a glare. Hidan mutters to himself before turning his attention to the boy.
His hair is reverse that of his sisters, black with a white streak. His eyes haven't opened yet. "Tobi's right, what are we naming them, hmm?" Deidara adds. "Senpai thinks I'm right." Tobi said doing a ridiculous dance causing Deidara to regret what he had just said. The Akatsuki ponders for a while not thinking of any names. "How about- Kuro and Shiro?" "You stole my idea!" "We share a mind idiot!" Zetsu argued back and forth with himself. "Aren't those your names?" Kakuzu asked blandly. "Well did you think of something?" Kisame said defending Zetsu. Kakuzu shrugged and went back to calculating how many bounties he would need to make the money back.
"Then it's settled, their names are Kuro and Shiro." Pein said. The Akatsuki looked at their newest members and one stared back. Shiro yawned and curled up next to her brother falling asleep, dreaming of the weird blue man she had just saw. The members all smiled looking at the kids remembering a simpler time during their younger years. "Well goodnight." Sasori said picking up a dozing Deidara and heading to their room. The other member filed out orderly leaving Konan and Pein alone with the kids. Konan smiled wheeling the crib to their room; she had always wanted to be a mother. Pein sighed and followed, he was glad to see that Konan was happy.