Secret Santa

Happy Xmas 2007! This a mostly a Konan fic with a bit of Pein, my current favourite characters from Naruto that I like to write on, couldn't resist making my Xmas fanfiction for the year on them : ) This is most likely a couple part piece, it's to long as a whole one shot. Hope you enjoy this piece.

Konan finds a note for her talking about a secret Santa for her this year and thinks it's from Pein. Is it from Pein? Or someone else...?

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"Watch what you're saying, un!" Came Deidara's voice from the group room.

Where it had been empty before when Konan was in there it was now filled with some of the members of the organisation. All sat around their common parts of the room, all in the same discussion.

"I said nothing." Kisame replied bluntly, firmly starring at Deidara. "She was only talking to me because I was the first person she saw."

"And what was she doing questioning it? Un." Deidara continued to accuse.

"Well of course she was going to question it, idiot." Zetsu's dark half butted in. "She gets a weird message, of course she's going to question it!"

"Still... We don't want her on to us, un." Deidara hissed in return.

"And she won't." The white side of Zetsu answered. "Didn't notice a thing when I left that message. In fact... I was in the room and she didn't even notice."

"Quit bragging." Itachi hissed. "On a normal day she would've. She was just tired from her mission is all."

"Like you could've done it better!" Zetsu's black accused.

"I bet I could've." Itachi replied blankly as usual.

"Quit arguing, it's going to get us anywhere." Deidara butted in, not wanting to hear hours upon hours of bragging and nagging from fellow members. "She didn't catch Zetsu. That's it, un. Besides, Zetsu was the best choice for that job anyway. It's what he does all the time, un."

"Thank you." Zetsu thanked and just smirked at Itachi.

"Whatever." Itachi frowned in return.

"Yea, whatever." Kisame added. "She didn't catch on, that's all we needed. I don't see why we haven't added Tobi, Kakazu or Hidan though... Wouldn't it have been just easier to have them helping us?"

"Because it's a stupid idea." The dark side of Zetsu sneered.

"Meaning not good idea." The good side of Zetsu butted in, trying give an explanation. "I mean..."

"He means Hidan can't keep his loud trap shut, un." Deidara butted in with his own funny little explanation. "Hello, he could think bad of Konan in any way, shape or form and then just start cussing at her and we know he can mention anything when he's like that."

"True and he can get like that from anything to no reason at all." Itachi sighed, still with blank voice and face.

"Exactly, making it not a good idea." Zetsu's black half butted in yet again.

"And why do you have to be boss all the darn time? Un." Deidara accused.

"Because it's my idea."

"I'm not the one that argues all the time." The white side added. "Plus I am higher in the levelling than you."

"What's that supposed to me? Un." Deidara shouted back at the plant.

"Enough!" Itachi grunted. "We're getting nowhere. It was Zetsu's plan and he is the one that does do the most for Leader-Sama, other than Konan. And he is the one that passes things on to Leader-Sama for us, we don't do it each personally."

"Itachi's right. Let's just stop making stupid little arguments, we all know our places here and we all know how and what we do. We're still a team, whether any of us likes it or not." Kisame added. "Why not Kakazu?"

"That was just playing it safe." The white side of Zetsu answered. "Can't risk him mentioning it to Hidan, plus him and Hidan would just make things worse."

"Yea, arguing team from hell." The black side just had to add.

All the rest of the S-Rank shinobi nodded in agreement to what Zetsu was saying. They were a difficult pair and took usually ages to get anything done when they were together. Plus one couldn't do it most likely without the other one finding out and questioning.

"Didn't think there was anyone else that's worse than us for arguing but those two proves me wrong, un." Deidara laughed, while some of the others nodded in agreement that they could be that bad.

"Plus they've been out a lot on doing things, more than the rest of us." Zetsu added. "Not around much to do much."

"Yea... Think they have another massive mission tomorrow. Wouldn't be of any good to us. Plus there's no need for them to know." Kisame agreed. "Fine. What about Tobi?"

"Ha, you mean why have Tobi? Un." Deidara laughed.

"Now that's just a little rude about your partner." Itachi hissed.

"Hmm..." Deidara grunted back at the Uchiha, he so didn't like him. "Tobi will just get it in our way."

"True, Tobi does get in the way, a lot." Kisame nodded.

"Plus the brat can't keep quiet!" The dark side rudely commented.

"What I mean is... He's nice and everything but he really doesn't know when to shut up." The white side butted in.

"Exactly my point." Deidara continued. "If he knew the real plan there would be no way in hell he'd keep it quiet, to much of a 'good boy. Un."

"True." Kisame agreed.

"Plus what would he do? Help us make pretty cards, un?" Deidara laughed at his sarcastic suggestion.

The rest of the group, except the blank Itachi, either laughed or smirked at Deidara's comment. Even with very funny comments Itachi never cracked a smile, even though what they'd just said was such the truth.

"Na, he's alright..." Deidara sighed finally, still with a hint of giggle in his voice. "He's just... Not correct for this... Plan. Yea, that's it, un."

"We could use him though." Itachi added blankly.

"What!? Are you crazy?! You've just heard what we said, didn't you?!" Zetsu's black half burst.

"Not like that." Itachi sneered. "I don't mean like have him in our group or anything."

"Then what do you mean, Uchiha? Un." Deidara sneered at the main one in the organisation that he couldn't stand.

For a moment Itachi just gave sneered look back at Deidara, before finally answering. "I mean use him in the plot... Idiot..." Last part very sneered but almost like a whisper to himself.

"What did you call me!?" Deidara burst with annoyance.

"Leave it!" Kisame interrupted. "We've got much better thing's to do and people to fight than fight between ourselves."

"Whatever, fishy." Deidara grunted with annoyance. Kisame didn't reply, just gave a very uncomfortable glare for a moment.

"And how do you suppose we use Tobi in our plots then?" The dark Zetsu asked, breaking silence in the room.

"Dunno but I'm pretty sure we could use him for something..." Itachi replied in a quiet tone.

"Like frame him, un? Well not frame but make Konan think it's him more than any of us?" Deidara suggested and questioned at the same time.

"Exactly." Zetsu smirked at the idea. "We just have to keep her off our trails for the little bit of time we got."

"... And if she starts looking in the direction of one of us?..." Itachi asked, wanting to make sure they had all bases covered where they could.

"Let her." The dark side replied simply.

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"?... Huh? But we don't want her to catch on till Xmas day, un." Deidara replied with a startled face.

"It doesn't matter." Zetsu replied. "If she thinks it's one of us, let her. Just don't get caught red handed. She won't guess our plans in a million years anyway."

The others nodded with understanding, seeing Zetsu's point. Why did he care about this plan so much? Some of them wondered. But it wasn't like Zetsu was going to say anything anyway. His reasons was most likely like theirs, they felt like they had to... Plus sounded entertaining from usual stuff anyways.

"What's on in here?" A voice said, almost demanding what they wanted to know.

The high ranked ninja all turned and starred at the area where the voice came from. Their eye sight soon showed the voice belonged to Kakazu and he was walking into the group room with his partner, Hidan.

"Nothing." All four ninja said at the same time and went to looking at different directions.

"Whatever." Kakazu hissed finally when he wasn't getting a response and went and sat in his common area.

"Sneaky bastards." Hidan cussed as he went and sat down in his usual spot. "You lot don't do anything fucking brilliant anyway."