Love is more than a word.
By: Ren-Chan
Original concept by Masashi Kishimoto
One fine day at the akatsuki base……
Bells were ringing,
Joy and merriment was spread all around
Snow covered the otherwise distasteful ground and to top it all off……
Everything was covered by the wonderful aroma of sugar cookies and Hidan's masochism,
But alas, it was Christmas time and yet another year of one person getting gifts for everyone.
and unfortunately the person who was in charge wa-
"LEADER-SAMA! LEADER-SAMA! TOBI'S BEEN A GOOD BOY!!!!" An orange masked boy yelled jumping up and down, holding a MILE long list of useless items.
"Please Tobi… I have more important matters to attend to, so pl-"
"LEADER-SEMPAI! LEDER-SEMPAI! Is it true you're our secret Santa this year, un?" A blonde artist said holding an equally long and useless list of junk wanted in this 24-hour time slot. "Well I guess it's not such a secret now. But yes I am san-"
" O.M.G! LEADER-SAMA'S SANTA! OHHHHHHH YAY TOBI ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE SPECIAL! CAN TOBI BE YOUR ELF HELPER? TOBI PROMISES TO BE A GOOD BOY!" Tobi smiled beneath his mask.
Deidara sighed and grabbed Tobi's collar. " No I'm his helper, un."
"Why you, sempai?"
"Because I'm older and MUCH wiser…un."
"But because you're so old…shouldn't you have gray hair like Hidan-sampai?"
Pein turned and walked down the hall, trying to hide the slight chuckle from himself. He knew what everyone had wanted…
Tobi wanted an orange monkey doll
Deidara, an art table
Zetsu, well a cactus, surprisingly…
Kakuzu, a new piggy bank. He's already got a good 13 of em' chock full with SPARE change…
'Hidan wants a new partner?,' Pein thought smirking, 'does he honestly not like Kakuzu that much?'
At once Pein stopped. He pondered for a moment, then it came to him… what did Konan want for Christmas?
He hurried to the small jar that the group put all their wish lists into. One lone paper was there.
' a new addition?' Pein thought. He plucked out the slip of paper, all neatly folded, in a holly themed stationary.
'Konan' it read on the front.
Pein opened the paper slightly, then closed it back. 'what if it's a trick…' Pein thought once again. You see Pein keeps many memo's to himself, and he found that speaking them out-loud, terrible idea. So he thinks them, every single detail of his life, he thinks them.
Pein slipped into his study, the single place where he was alone, no prying eyes. He lit a single candle, sat by it in his lion paw chair, and read the note aloud, the only thing he does aloud.
" ' dear Santa, for Christmas I would like to see the love of my life accept me for me,' love of my life?, " Pein questioned puzzled and quite, well he didn't know but he continued to read on, " ' also I would like to ask for some sort of sign weather to pursue him or not, ' PURSUE!" Pein said aloud, trying to regain some sort of composure, but he pressed on through the lengthy note, " and, I know this sounds very selfish, but… I want him alone with me for only one day.' Alone?" Pein thought. He smirked. He knew now precisely who she was talking about. It was none other than himself. Who else could it have been? Hidan?
He stuffed the note into a book he was reading. Reading helped Pein calm down from his stressful job. Being the leader of not only an entire village, but an organization too?
' I guess I should head on out to sleep, eh?' he asked himself, as people like him tend to do. He walked past Itachi and Kisame's rooms, lingering at their door, listening to their hushed conversation.
"Hey……I can't believe Konan did that."
" Yeah,… hey I even heard she had read his personal stuff for spite."
" Spite? Konan? No, she's way too soft to even think of spite."
" oh don't be fooled… last week she gave me that huge cut on my back."
"No way that was her? You got beat-up by a woman? No by KONAN?!? Unbelievable."
"No… you see she…she was…"
Pein walked away, how could they say such things about his angel. His new…uh
'god what is it that they call a male and female close friend? If only I could remember… Gah! What do they call…ugh!" Pein clenched his fists next to his head and closed his eyes thinking ooooh-so hard.
"What do they call what?" A female voice suddenly broke him from his little spat with his conscious for being unable to deliver him his answer. Pein jumped a little then calmed down when he realized who it was.
"Konan-chan…uh"
"What do you want for Christmas?" was the sudden and unexpected Question.
"wha-what?"
"what is it that you would like for Christmas? You've got to want something?"
"Uh…What did you want?" Pein asked giving him time to straighten his jumbled thoughts.
"Me… I wish for… something to channel my energy into."
Pein smiled, "Well you can always come and talk to me, I'll make sure that you have company."
"Oh, o-o.k" Konan half smiled as she turned into her room.
Pein stood there for a moment, thinking through what he'd just said.
" Maybe I said too much… gave myself away…" He spoke aloud, somewhat loud enough for it to go though the balsa wood doors that lined the hallway.
"Hey, Leader-sama. I heard you're conversation with Konan-chan."
Pein turned around to face a red-haired man standing with his cloak buttoned all the way up.
"Yes… What of it?"
"Wemen… they can smell fear in men. I'm sure she noticed it if I did."
"I no nothing of this… fear. As you know I am well above a mere human, I have no emotion, Sasori, you of all people should know that." Pein scoffed slightly startled by his co-worker's conversation.
"Yes, yes I should, yet… do you notice this about yourself?" Sasori smirked. Sasori was old, almost older that Pein himself. He would give Pein advice on simple life lessons that Sasori, as great a ninja as he was, found it hard to go though with no help.
"So what life lesson do I receive today?" Pein asked barely letting a yawn escape his tired body.
" Well… I actually can't help you… Not that I would like to in that attitude." Sasori scoffed walking into his room that he shared with Deidara.
Pein turned and went into his room also.
As he stared up into the ceiling in his he thought about all of the sayings Sasori had told him. One stood out.
'Wemen sense fear, their intuition is never wrong.'
Sasori's voice kept echoing on and on.
'Wemen sense fear, their intuition is never wrong.'
'Wemen sense fear'
'their intuition is never wrong.'
"UGH! SO IF WEMEN ARE SO SMART HOW COME THEY LET MEN RULE…" Pein shouted then laid back down in understanding.
Wemen choose their mates… by intuition. Another saying came to him.
'only a woman can weaken the enemy, place a burden on your heart.'
Pein had always wondered what burden he was talking about. That burden was emotions.
"Oh, my ,god. She-she chose me. Out of everyone… she chose …me."
Pein laid there with a smile gracing his face.
'She found me worthy of her, attention… no wait her uh…' Pein thought. And as he drifted onward to sleep he murmured on last word.
'love. I'm worthy of her love.'