Lovely Angel

I have a whole new plot churning in my head(:

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Konan: You do not own me or my Kami.

Me: Thanks…now enjoy and review or Pein will kill you :]

Pein: No I won't…

Me: Shut up, Pein. -_-

Pein:…

Me: (:

CHAPTER THREE:

FALLEN

Pein woke up to find the space where Konan was sleeping last night empty. He propped himself up on an elbow and squinted into the morning light that was shining from the window. He could hear clattering in the kitchen and guessed the blue-haired girl was cooking breakfast. Yawning, he stood up from the bed, trying to make his way to the bathroom and at the same time, adjusting to the sudden movement that made his head spin. Time to start another torturing day of his life.

Konan set the fried eggs on the table along with a few other tasty foods. Pein gracefully entered the room, rubbing his eyes and blinking as he stared at the table full of his soon to be breakfast.

"Pein, you're acting as if you've never seen so much food before." Konan giggled. "Food isn't for staring at, it's for eating."

"Did you make this yourself?" Pein arched an orange eyebrow, ignoring her statement completely.

"Yes. Now come on, eat up." She took a seat and motioned Pein to do the same.

Pein sat down next to Konan and began the breakfast tasty enough to feed him just by staring at it.

:-:

The first few classes of high school were normal, Konan followed Pein around. However, conversations seemed to spark from time to time. There was still hope to get him to be more social. Soon, a little too soon, it was time to fill their now-empty stomachs. As Konan followed the orange-haired teen to the cafeteria, Sakura waved to her and bounded up energetically.

"Konan! Do you want to eat lunch with us? Sasuke's group eating at our table!" Sakura squeaked happily, but sent a glare towards Pein.

"Actually-"

"Okay! Glad you can come!" Sakura grabbed Konan's wrist and dragged her through the lunch line of hungry high-school kids.

Konan followed the enthusiastic teen with a lunch tray to a large white table where her other friends greeted her happily.

"Hey, Konan." A raven-haired boy motioned her to sit down next to him and she obeyed with an uncertain smile.

"Hey, Sasuke." Konan replied, though not in the fan girl squeak other girls used.

To Konan, Sasuke was just another good-looking boy. There was no need to get worked up about him. A boy was just a boy while a girl was just a girl. Nothing more.

"You're pretty cute." Sasuke ran a hand through the hair that framed his handsome face.

"Uhh…thanks?" Konan blushed slightly, but looked back down to her tray and began eating. She wasn't falling for his charm.

"No problem." He swung an arm around her shoulder, making her tense.

"Sasukayyyy! Would you like something to eat?" Sasuke turned to see an irritated red-head batting her eyelashes, making them look like they would fall off any minute.

"No." He replied coldly and faced Konan again. "So…I'm having a party at my house tonight. I was just wondering if would you like to come?"

"Can Pein come?" Konan blurted out the question immediately and covered her mouth in surprise. Where did that come from?

"What?" Sasuke spat. "Why would I invite him?"

"Why wouldn't you?." She crossed her arms and frowned. What was wrong with Pein?

"Fine…bring him if you want. As long as you come, I'm fine." He smirked and let his arm fall to his side.

Konan could feel someone staring at her back, his or her eyesight never faltering. She turned around to meet Pein's lavender-tinted eyes for a moment, but he looked away and wouldn't meet her amber orbs again.

:-:

"Konan." A low voice sounded behind her as she was making her way back to her apartment after school.

"Hmm?" Konan spun around to see a smirking Sasuke carrying a mischievous glint in his jet-black eyes. The glint was the only thing that kept her from believing that he had black-holes for eyes.

"You coming to my party?" Sasuke advanced on her, causing the nervous blue-haired girl to take a step back abruptly and bump her head against a wire fence.

"No, I don't have time." She flinched away from his hand as he reached towards her.

"Now, now. What is a hot girl like you doing then? You have time, I know you do. Stop lying." His eyes went crimson for a mere second, but quickly fazed back to his black orbs.

"I. Don't. Have. Time. Now leave me alone." Konan retorted crossly.

"Shut up, you hot toy." And with that, Sasuke grabbed a handful of her indigo hair and yanked her head back.

"What are you-" Her intense question was cut off when the boy moved forward and teased her neck with his warm tongue.

He slowly proceeded to do so, and began nibble her neck, but he stopped being gentle and roughly bit her like vampires do to their prey.

"Sasuke! Stop! Please!" Konan's voice into a piercing scream, rousing a lustful chuckle from him.

He began sucking at her neck, and bit her even harder, moving his free hand to her leg.

"Stop! Sasuke! It hurts!" She could feel her eyes sting, and soon tears broke out, flowing down her porcelain cheeks.

This feeling that he was stirring up in her. She could have forgotten it from living alone in an old apartment for so long, but he brought it back. It made her struggle, the horrifying feeling choking her into darkness. Into pure darkness. Fear. She closed her eyes, wanting to escape from this torturous fear.

Slowly, Sasuke's hand moved up her leg and hung onto her thin blouse. With a swift move, he tore it off and tossed it to the floor in a pile of white shreds. He stopped biting her neck and moved down to lick her bare shoulders. Konan desperately tried to push him off, flaying the hungry teen with punches and kicks, but he had her under an iron grip.

Suddenly, she felt the heavy weight lifted off her and heard a thud quickly followed by a grunt. The scared teen collapsed to the ground, sobbing. Konan opened her amber eyes to see an pierced teen towering above Sasuke, who was still recovering from the blow.

Pein. Never in her life has she been so happy to him.

"Don't touch her, you bitch!" Pein yelled defensively, reaching down to wrap his hand around Sasuke's neck.

"Shut up! Why do you care so much about the new girl, huh? Just because she has every class with you doesn't mean she's your girlfriend! Monster!" The raven-haired managed to smirk.

"You…" His grip tightened and Sasuke coughed.

"What's…the point of…doing this to…me?" Sasuke choked, but kept the smirk painted clearly on his features.

"Fine, but if you dare hurt Konan again…no, if you even touch her, you will certainly wish that you hadn't." Pein loosened his grip and stood up, watching as the other teen held his neck as he ran off, sending glares every once in a while.

Konan was still on her hands and knees, sobbing uncontrollably while trying to push away the horrifying emotion known as fear. She looked up with red, swollen eyes when she felt a body kneel down next to her. Pein's ever-watching eyes gazed at her, and she found gentleness in his sea of endless swirls. Still, the fear that Sasuke had stirred up in her was inevitable. Konan felt as if she could never trust anyone again. Not even the boy she had wanted to help so eagerly the day before. The hurt teen shied away from Pein, looking down to escape his caring gaze.

"Please…please don't hurt me." She sobbed and wrapped her arms around her weary body, as if to shield herself from the new, gentle emotion wavering from the pierced one.

Pein took off his black jacket, wrapping it around a shaking Konan, and pulled her into his arms.

"Shh…I won't hurt you. It'll be alright now." He whispered so gently that he had to confirm he hadn't turned into someone else.

"I'm scared, Pein. He…he bit me, and it hurts." Konan whined, her voice cracking every once in a while from her sobs.

"It'll be alright, it'll be alright." He reassured her and picked her up, keeping in mind that she was very fragile at the moment.

Sure that she was in the arms of someone who won't harm her, Konan allowed herself to drift off into a deep sleep.

:-:

She awoke to the sounds of the television and Pein shifting around on the sofa, crinkling something around in his hands. The light scent of tea filled her nostrils and she turned her head to get a better look of her surroundings. She was…home.

Not that she wanted to call this dirt pile a home, but she had nowhere else better to go. Konan tensed when she felt a pain on the side of her neck, flashbacks of what happened earlier flooded her mind, and she closed her eyes to lock them back to wherever they had come from. When the memories were locked up safely for the time being, Konan reached up to feel her neck, and found out that it had been wrapped up in a bandage. A flash of black caught the teen's eye and she looked down to see herself wearing a black tank top. Had Pein dressed her when she was asleep? Blushing, she braced herself against the sofa to sit up and looked at the T.V screen that the pierced one seemed so interested in.

Origami? Was Pein actually watching an origami channel?

Konan turned to see him folding a paper rose. His calloused hands placed each delicate fold in the right place, and sometimes his brows furrowed a tiny bit when he reached a confusing part. But that was all. One of the most difficult patterns, yet he folded it flawlessly. Even she, an origami expert, couldn't fold something as perfectly as he did. Not even if she tried a thousand years nonstop. It was too perfect.

"And now we have the one of the most delicate patterns of the rose." The origami lady on T.V said happily, holding up a finished rose that was not quite as perfect as her viewer's.

Sighing, Pein reached forward and turned off the noisy machine with a remote. He sat back down quietly and held the fragile rose in his palm, fingering the folds as he spun the new figure around. He turned to Konan, who was now watching in awe. How could someone so fierce form something so delicate and perfect?

"Are you okay now?" He asked with a little smile.

Except it wasn't a smile. There was no joy in it, it was empty. The look painted on his features was just an expression used to hide something. Something dark and horrifying deep down inside. It was like the way he always closed his eyes when he smiled, trying to hide the hurt that showed in his forever-eyes. Perhaps it was…pain?

"Yeah. That rose…" Konan didn't take her eyes off the paper rose for a second.

Pein held it out for the teen to take and she took it gently into her slender hands, "I made it for you."

"It's beautiful, so perfect" She gasped, and closed her eyes, fingers tracing each perfect fold.

"No-"

"I hold this gift special to me." The blue-haired girl interrupted him boldly.

"Here." Pein took it from her hands and swiftly clipped it into her azure hair in front of her messy bun. "That fits you."

Konan was taken aback by his swift move, but managed to utter out a few words of thanks.

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"You're pretty good at cooking." Konan complimented Pein as he helped her prepare a flame broiled fish and he smiled.

He smiled that smile that wasn't a smile. It was just a mask, and Konan hated that mask. She wished he would just let it all out, relieve himself from the strain of holding everything in.

And just…start all over.

When dinner was finished and both teens had taken a shower, they laid down in bed silently.

Konan couldn't help but turn to face Pein's back and let her eyes explore his skin. She marveled at the way the moonlight from the window kissed his bare skin, making his tan shade a glowing blue. The darkness turned his bright orange hair into a rusty auburn. It was slightly ruffled against the pillow, messing up his perfect spikes. His black, spiky necklace reflecting the light from the window didn't seem to bother him when it dug into his skin. Konan blushed slightly when she observed his bare back. It looked so smooth, like flawless water.

Yawning, Pein turned around to face the quiet observer with swirling eyes.

"Are you okay?" He whispered, amused to find a small blush across her cheeks as she nodded.

The frightened look deep in her eyes betrayed her silent answer. Sighing, he gently put his arm around her waist and smirked slightly at her surprised look.

"Pein-"

"Shhh…don't worry. He won't lay a finger on you ever again. I'll keep you safe. Always."

And those words worked their magic as she stopped squirming under his hold. He closed his eyes and quickly feel asleep, leaving a madly blushed teen awake.

I'll keep you safe. Always.

Konan thought of his gentle, caring words over and over again as she gazed at the sleeping boy. His face looked so peaceful, his usual grimace flattening itself out.

He looked so...handsome.

She smiled to herself, blushing redder, and closed her eyes. Silently, Konan promised herself that one day...one day she would be the one to save him from straying off the right path. Save him from getting lost in the path of pain and terror, and she would take him by the hand, and gently lead him to the world where he will be free. And of all the promises Konan made and broke, she will make sure that she keeps this promise. For Pein. Yes, she will do it for him, no matter what happens to her. Why?

Because she has fallen for this special, orange-haired teen.