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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"Tobi!... This better not be you playing more of your games!" Konan yelled with a worried look on her face. What was with her? Why is this bothering her so bad? She's a S-Rank ninja, she even had legendary status, very good for a girl in any country. Now look her. Scared at of someone maybe hiding in her bathroom and sending her creepy notes. "Get it together, Konan." She hissed to herself. "What's there to be scared of? It's bound to be one of the others. Messing with you. No one else knows where we are... Even if someone did, ha! No one would dare to enter in here."
Konan soon turned her face from worried to annoyance, she just wanted to be by herself and someone just keeps bothering her. And not even with a good reason, Pein surely must not of approved of this 'Secret Santa' thing. Sure he'd been acting a little weird with Christmas decorations but not even Pein's weirdness would allow this. He wouldn't want her to be worried or anything like this. Plus no one else knows of it, so it has to be someone playing a prank on her... And her patience was wearing thin. Konan's eye's sneered with her now current expression and pulled out a sheet of paper from under her cloak. The piece of paper quickly got automatically folded into a paper kunai, sure it might be paper one but it acted just as good as the original and was strong. "I'm giving you 5 seconds to come out of there!" Konan warned, loud enough to be well heard to anyone hanging around. Konan walked herself to the bathroom door and mentally counted to herself. She suddenly started to have doubts that the person was still in there... She couldn't feel that strong chakra anymore. It was like it suddenly vanished ages ago and there was no sign of it coming back. "Better to just check..." Konan whispered to herself. "Coming then!" Konan yelled and slammed her hand onto the door knob and swung the bathroom door open. It wasn't what she had expect...
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"I think it was a stupid plan..." Itachi stated in his common mono toned voice.
"Well no one asked you." Zetsu's dark half sneered back.
"It was stupid, un." Deidara agreed.
"Well that's a first." The dark half comically hissed.
"Enough, what's done is done." Kisame butted in, not wanting an endless fight to erupt. It wouldn't get them anywhere.
"That's right, what's done is done. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with the results of it..." Came a hissed voice, no body to be seen but the others didn't need to see a body to know who it really was. "It's not the way I wanted it..."
"You should be happy we're doing you're dirty work for you!" Sneered the black side.
"We're happy to do it, really." The white side added quickly, making it sound like the black side was just joking.
"Speak for yourself." Itachi added bluntly.
"Yea, speak for yourself." The dark side hissed to his white part.
"Shut up." The white part retaliated.
"You shut up."
"Why don't both of you shut up? Un." Deidara butted in. "He's speaking. Don't waste his time, un."
"Since when did you care about anybody speaking?" Itachi sneered.
Deidara was about to make his response to that rude comment but intersected. "Enough! I don't want to hear all this." The voice butted in and not sounding happy at all. "Zetsu... You've 'decided' to become some sort of 'leader' on this project."
"Yes and I am. I don't think I'm doing that bad of a job." The white side replied.
"You're not doing it that well."
"Nonsense. I'm doing it brilliantly." The black side defended.
"It's not going as discussed."
"Well it's not going to go exactly as you thought when it's not being done by yourself." The dark part hissed.
"It must be done my way. You're screwing it up." The voice hissed, sounding not happy at all.
"And what's not going to plan, exactly? We've followed you're basic instructions." Itachi asked, breaking up the little fight that was being created.
"That gift for one thing." The voice stated.
"What gift? Huh, Zetsu? Un." Deidara added with question in his voice.
"Yea... There was just message, wasn't it Zetsu?" Kisame agreed.
"By the looks of it Zetsu you're adding parts of your own." It sharply accused.
"It was a nice touch." The black side insisted. "Less blank."
"It was supposed to be just sweet romantic messages till Christmas Day and she would get the main 'gift' surprise then." Kisame stated. "What was all this adding for? Sounds like you've been adding words to our messages as well."
"Yes. Why? I'd like to know too."
"I already said. I thought it would be a nice touch, more personal."
"There's no need for personal when she's going to get the most perfect 'personal' bit at the end. Un." Deidara added crossly. "You shouldn't be add things without clearing it, un."
"Since when do you care? Since when did any of you care?" He replied bluntly.
"..." Itachi just closed his eye's, not bothering to respond. Didn't feel like he needed to explain anything.
"Well what's you're reasons, huh?" Deidara shot back. "... She's one of us, ya know. That's why. We might not like each other at times but we're still like... A family of... Sorts... Yea, un. And if He wants this and that to happen then that's what's going to happen! Un. No questions."
"Aw, Deidara's going sweet on us." Itachi joked with a smirk on his face.
"Ha. I think you feel the same way, un." Deidara shot back.
"What makes you say that?" Itachi hissed in reply, eye's squinting.
"Because you wouldn't be bothering, un."
"..." Itachi didn't reply but the silence was enough to show that Deidara was correct.
"Deidara's got the points and you all agreed and Zetsu... You're fucking it up." The voice sneered.
"Hang on, hang on! We'll just have to just sort it out then!" The dark side defended.
"To right it's going to be sorted!" The voice snorted. "It was not in the action plan to scare her to death and make her act off. It's not helping me at all! It's just making her hate us."
"Touchy touchy."
"He's right, Zetsu." Kisame replied firmly.
"Yea, un. If it carries on like that she won't like the final result. She'll hate the person before that." Deidara added.
"Look, I said sorry." The white side said, at least one side looked sorry for his actions.
"A part of me thinks you're trying to mess it up." Itachi accused with very slit and accusing eye's.
"You're being ridiculous!" He snapped.
"You'd think I'd mess up the plan!?" The white side exclaimed.
"Well you're doing a good job of it." Itachi butted back.
"I'll do better, promise." The white part pleaded.
"You'd better!" The voice snapped. "I won't accept nothing less than perfect! I don't want her acting off and acting like she hates me before hand. Back off for now."
"But Christmas Day is less than 3 days away... We can't let the track go totally cold." Kisame explained.
"Fine! But only messages and when I say messages... I mean only messages! Understand? We can't risk it. Also nothing goes past me now, I want to see them. Plus what else were you thinking Zetsu? With that gift and all."
"What do you mean? We've already gone over the reasons of the last thing." Zetsu questioned with the black half.
"Well for starters you're tactic was stupid. Hiding in the room while she was in there and all!" The voice stated with the problem.
"... I wanted to see her reactions... That was all." Zetsu explained with the white part. "Besides that's why we set up Tobi anyway. So he was in the incriminating room when she found it."
"Fat lot of good that did us." The voice sneered. "She doesn't think it was him anyways. But then again... Maybe that's a good thing... Why did you others follow that?"
"We just wanted to make sure she was off our backs, un." Deidara explained the logic. "We don't want her on our tracks was all. She's very observant."
"Yes... She is. Which is why it was stupid for Zetsu to be in there at the time. She sensed you, you idiot!" The voice boomed.
"She did!?" The dark part gasped.
"It's obvious you weren't be careful enough..." Itachi sneered. "You're usually so good at this."
"That's because I am!" He yelled back at Itachi.
"She's not a common target, idiot." Deidara commented. "She knows our chakra's well, un. And you didn't hide in the walls well enough."
"..." For once Zetsu was out of words. Felt like an idiot to get caught out. "... She knows?"
"No, thankfully."
"?" Zetsu questioned.
"She caught like a second of it. Didn't have enough to guess who it was, but she does know someone was watching her." The voice explained. "Next time... Think more carefully."
"..." Zetsu didn't respond, still feeling stupid for being almost caught. He was supposed to be great at this but he let his guard down, which was so unlike him...
"What's with the gift?" The voice asked. "Why did you choose that gift?"
"I thought it was a sweet touch." The white part explained.
"Meaning behind it?"
"Why would you think there was a meaning or message behind it?" Zetsu's dark half questioned bluntly.
"Because it was pretty nicely planned, not something you bought or cook up in a second." The voice continued.
"Just thought it was nice..." Zetsu's white side replied.
"..." The voice didn't bother to reply, Zetsu seemed insistent on not mentioning much about the gift. He didn't trust it... Usually that meant Zetsu was up to something and didn't want any of them finding out.
"We better disband..." Itachi muttered soon after the voice explained a few more things.
"Why?" Zetsu asked.
"She's bound to come out of her room. We don't want her seeing us together or overhear us discussing. Don't her linking us to your mistake. And for your sake it better have been a good gift/s, don't need her screeching or anything." Itachi explained.
"He's right." Kisame nodded in agreement and got up to leave.
"Just remember what I said." The voice warned.
All the small amount of members nodded but soon froze when they heard a female scream coming from the direction of Konan's room. There was no question that it was her, she was the only female in the place.
"Looks like she didn't like what you call a 'nice' gift/s. So much for your 'personal' touch, doesn't sound like anything I would want to give to her. You really know how to fuck up my plans!" The voice sneered and the other members quickly got up to see what Zetsu had done...
