"and finally…after dear Kami I don't know how many times I've heard this…Zetsu-san if it would shut you up!" Pein groans into his palm reading the last comment
"for the last time no, you can't have a dammed partner" the leader snaps added finally by Kakuzu and his usual one tracked mind for money.
"besides, it would cost too much to keep another person" after the meeting Zetsu walks in his garden looking around rather sternly, his white side thinks quietly to him self before asking his other black 'half'.
"why does Leader-sama keep us lonely? I wish we had a partner." he begins breaking the silence to try start at least a small sort of conversation.
"idiot. We're partners" his black side snarks taking a firm grip of the watering can.
"but we're only one body. Why does he think we need to be alone?" Zetsu slowly murmurs looking around at the nothingness and empty space around him.
"because he's afraid we'll eat them. It's the same reason Kakuzu is paired with someone who won't die, Oh yes and not to mention we talk to ourselves and eat human flesh!" his bitter side ends in an attempt to try kill his gentler sides argument, he then sat in silence for a long moment thinking once again.
"But it gets awfully lonely…" the darker side could only nod in agreement looking at how every other thing in the garden had at least someone or something to be beside. Inside the living room Zetsu sits alone as usual watching T.V and flicking through the channels then stopping on a channel hosted by a random girl with fire like red hair and green eyes. A thump makes them turn head curiously until they jolt to Kisame throwing a limp body at him, Zetsu catches it accordingly and blinks at the blue nin rolling his eyes back.
"Leader said this is a trial, if you can last a week without eating the chick you can get a real partner…I don't see a point though, I give it a 4 days at the least" he ends as Itachi looks over.
"I give it about 2 days" the Uchiha bets following the shark like man and leaving Zetsu alone with the girl, putting her on the sofa he stares unsure of what to do.
"I don't know wither to cry or to do something I haven't done since I became toilet trained" they both murmur trying to bottle up from squealing with an outburst of happiness that would probably make them look gay. Sitting on the sofa they stare in awe at the girl quietly just content on knowing he had some kind of company, he wasn't too sure on the other hand what she would do once awake. Especially after being taken away from Kami knows where and brought here, a small grunt tells them she's waking up so they start to become cautious.
"…w-where am I" she softly slurs sitting up slowly to look around her, the long kimono flowing with her; eyes opening a little wider to look up at Zetsu. Yet is strange appearance doesn't cause her to jump like most but rather stare at him silently for a moment.
"must be a dream…" she mumbles rubbing her eyes and then blinking at him, she does this several times trying to take everything in around her.
"w-who are you?" she seemed to still be fazed at her where current location Zetsu's mismatched golden eyes glint in the poor lighting, the only thing actually making the room even the slightest bit lighter than it actually could be; even with the candles.
"Zetsu" he answers politely shifting that little bit closer only finding comfort in the stillness and calm attitude she seems to have around him.
"….and who am I?" she innocently asks looking up at him with wondering eyes, Zetsu blinks as Kisame pops in again after remembering; a little later than wanted.
"ah by the way we wiped her mind, last thing we needed was her screaming and running around like a headless chicken" Zetsu's eyebrow twitches as his head turns to look at the shark disappearing again, tensing when he turns to find her closer than expected.
"you know who I am…right?" she pleads gently with a small smile that Zetsu stares at in wonder before blinking then thinking about it.
"if she can't remember her name then I suppose we'll give her one" the girl blinks looking at him with a slightly jarred mouth.
"Zetsu-san?" she softly questions as he looks her up and down then mumbles.
"lets call her…Lily?" the girl in question starts to smile softly then nods slightly.
"I like that name…what's a Lily?" her eyes sparkle in awe at the nin, his eyebrow twitches again; had they wiped Everything from her mind?
Zetsu slept outside in a small cavern which wasn't that cold for him and because of Lily's lack of memory he could probably tell her anything and she would believe it, in a sad way she could only really trust Zetsu right now (hah trust a cannabal missing nin S-rank)
"you sleep here and do what we tell you" Zetsu points to the corner of the cave but she only happily obeys and sits in the corner looking about her self a lot of the time.
"at least controlling her wont be hard" that's when something sick ran through his head, even the devil him self would look down on that vile thought.
"…are you hungry, Lily?" the plant nin asks looking at with her a devious and evil smirk, innocently she gets up and comes closer to him nodding with a goofy smile.
"Zetsu-san…what are we…hun…hunting?" she slowly and carefully speaks walking slowly beside the plant nin, her kimono catches on a couple lose branches and end up stuck now and again leaving her to prise them off.
"we'll start off small so you get used to catching your food, ah there we go" Zetsu stops the girl by putting up an arm, Lily leans a little to see what she's looking at.
"see that girl with the pink hair? Now we want you to bring her into the forest we'll help you with the rest" he pushes her forwards as Lily looks at him nervously then walks towards the girl, she jumps and spins before weilding a kunai but relax's a moment later.
"you gave me a fright! What are you doing out here?" the girl asks stepping closer looking at lily's eye's shifting nervously.
"I-I was trying to find my big brother and got lost, could you please help me find him?" Lily innocently looks at her with worried eyes, Zetsu watches in awe.
[what a good actress] he inwardly murmurs to him self while watching Lily now leading the foolish girl without trouble deeper into the woods.
"my names Sakura, what's yours?" she asks looking at the girl in kimono, Lily smiles gently looking at her softly.
"Lily, I think my brother is around here" Lily looks around nervously then see's the signal and steps closer, Sakura following behind and looking about.
"are you sure he's around here?" Lily nods and takes Sakura's hand trembling softly, she blinks and stops her with a worried expression dropping her guard and turning her back.
"are you okay Lily? You're shaking" behind her Zetsu appears silently pursing a finger to his coloured lips to hush her, suddenly Lily cuddles into Sakura trembling worse than before. Holding tightly she closes her eyes and nuzzles into the pink haired girls shoulder, Sakura being worried about the girl puts her arms around and tries to calm her down.
"I'm sorry" Lily whispers baring the now wretched scream as Zetsu stabs a sharp vine right through the off guarded ninja's heart, the girl slips and flops to the ground. Dead. Eyes still closed a warm hand is placed on her shoulder and squeeze's softly, her green eyes look up into Zetsu's golden robs as he smirks at her.
"good girl" his darker side grins picking up Sakura's body and throwing it over his shoulder, Lily follows looking at the body unknown to what she had just done.
"you did well" Zetsu calmly states pushing the limp body further up his shoulder, Lily smiles happily at him skipping over branch's and small plants back to the den. Lily leans against the wall where she was to sleep with a plate and the 'food' in hand, carefully picking it up in her thumb and fore finger followed by a small sniff. Zetsu watches secretly so as not to arose suspicion in the girl, followed by a piercing glint when she pops the raw flesh her mouth and chews. After swallowing the bit Lily's tongue softly runs across her bottom lip before another piece it put inside.
"this tastes great Zetsu-san" she smiles over at him but he only turns from the girl with a smile so evil it would send a shiver down even the leader of Akatsuki's back.
"Zetsu-san?" Lily questions watching him eating quietly to him self, he makes a gentle gesture listening to her but not actually turning to look.
"I'm going to sleep now" she yawns gently and lies down on the cold rocks squirming slightly, then followed by Lily shutting her eyes; keeping them open ever so slightly so that the light and shadows may tell her where and what Zetsu is doing close by; by morning any evidence of the body is gone and any evidence of there ever being a kill was cleared from sight.