Pein stared out the window of his hospital room. It was hard to believe that the Village Hidden in the Leaves were this easy to trick.
But he knew Anko didn't trust him for one minute. Pein also knew her forgotten past that Orochimaru erased from her memory. Pein saw her only once when they were both twelve.
Pein sat there and pictured her face…then tearing that Kakashi to shreds while he was laughing hysterically. Pein sat up immediately.
Surely he wasn't feeling anything for that Mitarashi girl, was he?
He began to feel his heart race and his palms began sweaty. He, a member of the ruthless Askatsuki, who felt nothing for anyone, could NOT be falling for her.
"Hello?" a girl called. Anko walked in and Pein's heart began to race. She smiled at him and his heart took a leap in his chest.
"So how's your arm doing so far?" she asked. "Not so well," he said in his most sympathetic voice. "It feels like iron when I try to pick it up." He sighed.
Anko laughed. "Well, if it hurts so much couldn't you have told your nurse Shizune?" Pein went for the flattery phase. "She doesn't look as cute as you do."
It worked, she blushed. "Thank you but flattery isn't going to help you against me." Anko walked out.
"I beg to disagree, Miss Mitarashi." Pein said under his breath with a smirk, suddenly picturing him and Anko together.