~Chap. 2: Headquarters.~
When the morning came they were both exhausted, and it were understandable since Hidan had tried to escape several times during the night. The pale boy's eyes were half closed and great shades of purple framed them as he, now obedient, walked beside the much older man who were relieved that the night at last was over.
"Hey… You-" Hidan tried to start a conversation, but Kakuzu stopped him.
" Don't 'You' Me, at least show some respect and call me by name".
"How could I? I don't know your name fuckin' bitchface!" As Hidan spitted these words out, Kakuzu closed his eyes. Hidan had a point, Kakuzu hadn't told him his name, but he didn't need to use such bad language.
"Don't call me that!" Kakuzu said, in a warning voice, and before Hidan could utter any more swears he continued. "My name isn't really important for you, since we're going separate ways soon, but, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you. I'm Kakazu"
Kakuzu looked at the boy, who seemed puzzled for a second, before he giggled.
"Kakuzu?" He asked, between the cute sounds that were rising from his stomach.
"Yeah, Kakuzu" The older man claimed, slightly confused since he didn't understand what was so funny about his name. When he repeated his name Hidan giggled once again, and didn't stop until Kakuzu asked him why he thought his name was so extremely amusing.
"I just never heard that name before" He giggled and Kakuzu accepted, but when the devilish little boy didn't stop his giggling, even though an hour passed, Kakazu grew annoyed.
"Will you, please, stop with that?" He asked, and took a not so gently grip round Hidan's tiny pale wrist. Hidan tried to jerk away from the uncomfortable hard grip, but didn't succeed.
"H-hey" He said with a shaking voice and tried to fake that he was scared.
"No. Hidan, Don't utter a word from now on" Kakuzu said both demanding and threatening.
Hidan obeyed, and walked in silence beside Kakuzu who led the way to the hide-out. Soon they entered a cave, and Kakuzu moved a big stone just by making a sign with his hands. Hidan didn't become impressed, he just wasn't easily impressed.
They didn't talk, Kakuzu just led Hidan straight forward down a hallway which ended with a robust door. Kakuzu knocked three times before he opened it, and they faced a man sitting in a comfortable armchair right in front of them.
" Leader" Kakuzu spoke, very seriously. " I finished my mission" he finished his sentence. Hidan curiously looked around, examined the room only with his purple eyes, as he listened and took in every word.
"So..That's Hidan?" Pein asked and raised his eyebrows when he sorting out single documents from his desk, and moved them to the drawers.
"Yeah" Kakuzu said, now releasing the boy from the uncomfortable grip. Hidan started to, unconscious to what he was doing, massage his wrist. Pein examined him as he did so, and slowly tilted his head to the left. He hadn't expected Hidan to be that young, with a small sigh he returned to the paperwork.
"You can leave now" He mumbled as he began to read.
"But, what about him?" Kakuzu asked, nodding in the direction of the white haired boy who silently hummed a long forgotten lullaby.
"Didn't I tell you? That's your new partner" Pein said, not even bother to looking up from the paper.
"Wait a second" Kakuzu tried to say calmly, but didn't succeed very well. "You mean, partners? Partners, like partners?" He asked, and Pein looked up for a moment just to give Kakuzu a glance, before he nodded. Angrily Kakuzu grabbed Hidan by the wrist once again. Hidan winced and whimpered, but right now Kakuzu couldn't care less.
After that many things happened in a small amount of time, Hidan were pulled by his arm out in the hallway and soon after that they entered a kitchen. Violently Kakuzu pushed Hidan down in one of the chairs.
"Sit. And don't you dare leave this room" Kakuzu's deep voice demanded, and Hidan just nodded slightly surprised, but relieved, that Kakuzu hadn't beaten him blue.
As soon as the order left Kakuzu's mouth he vanished, and left the pale kid alone in the dark kitchen.
After a couple of minutes Hidan understood that this kitchen was boring to watch, but maybe not that boring to examine. So he stood up and started to open up the cupboards, looking for snacks, but he only found saucepans, frying pans and something that could have been a dead rotted rat who probably laid there for ages. The fridge didn't contain anything eatable, not in Hidan's opinion however. But he soon discovered two boxes at the bottom of the fridge. They were closed and over them two different notes were taped. Hidan had a slight problem with the reading, that's probably why he didn't catch the messages "Do not touch." And "Mixed Meat."
Curiously he opened the one with "Mixed Meat" and didn't found anything special. It was just an enormous bag of minced meat. Disappointed he frowned and opened the second one, which nearly took his breath away. Frozen body parts, mostly arms, hands and ankles, laid between plastic bags which contained a red fluid liquid. Happy that he finally had found something interesting he took up one of the smaller bags and held it in his hands. Carefully he held it up against the light; he could feel the liquid through the thin plastic and as he examined it he realized that it was blood. And according to the body parts which had laid in the same box, he concluded that it very likely was human blood. Excited over his bargain he placed the small plastic bag in his pocket, closed the boxes and continued the examination of the kitchen. Since he couldn't reach the cupboards over the desks he decided to open the drawers instead. The first three drawers where a disappointment, since they just were filled with trash (Not the interesting kind of trash, just candy wrappers and recipes), but the fourth one contained cutleries.
Hidan had none interest in the spoons or the forks, but the shining sharp knifes were far more than interesting. When he took up one of them he let the edge of it stroke his thin skin over the thumb, and fascinatingly watched the blood as it poured out from the small cut. Excited he trotted against the table, and sat down as he, with the same childish excitement like before, began to carve in the old tree table with the sharp knife.
He was nearly finished when the door swung open, and an already furious blue haired woman walked in. Hidan at first thought that she had seen what he was doing, but when she didn't pay any attention to him, he concluded that she didn't know about his doings. About when Hidan sighed out in relief, Konan noticed something red at the dirty white floor, which was awfully familiar to blood. Slowly she walked against Hidan, who had once again started to carve in the old tree table.
"What are you doing!" She suddenly shouted as she saw how he pressed his injured thumb against one of the edges of the triangle he had carved. Slowly Hidan tilted his head against her, looking up at her innocently with his purple eyes. When he saw her puzzled face he smirked slightly and started to move his thumb over the carved pattern.
Faster than Hidan could imagine she took a hard grip of his throat, and slung him against the floor. Still surprised he didn't notice that he had landed on the small bag of blood which had laid in his pocket. It broke and the fluid liquid poured out of his pocket. Konan's eyes narrowed when she understood what was happening, and what Hidan had been doing in the kitchen.
"Reading might be useful" She muttered as she gripped Hidan by the throat, and dragged him out of the kitchen, still muttering things. Hidan tried desperately to escape from her hard grip, but it was impossible.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck" Hidan hissed as Konan dragged him out of the kitchen, and against the door which was at the end of the long corridor.
