Chapter 5 - Konan's Mission

Pein woke up early the next morning and went about his usual routine of having a shower, eating breakfast, reading the paper, doing some paperwork and then relax in front of the tv with a hot cup of coffee. Once he had his coffee in hand, he walked out of the kitchen and into the living room to his chair. Sitting down he relaxed against the cool leather and closed his eyes, taking a sip of his coffee. He smiled to himself, thinking about later on in the day when Deidara and Sasori would return with the young woman he thought of so often. He was quickly taken back from his thoughts as he remembered he had to brief Konan on her solo 'mission'. With a sigh, he set his coffee down on the table and headed for his office to grab a few briefing papers he had assembled the night before.

He sat down in his chair as he scanned over the several papers making sure everything was in order and that it would take a good few days for Konan to complete each objective and she would have to travel to several different villages in the process. Pein smirked, he knew this would keep Konan busy and allow him the time he needed to get to know Sakura with out any interuption. However, he would also have to put new rules into effect before Konan returned to prevent any action being taking against his soon to be blossom.

Soon, Sakura would be his. He wouldn't force her to love him, however, once she was here, she would not be leaving. Pein cringed at the thought of having to take her down if she tried to escape from the Akatsuki. With one final glance at the briefing papers, he rose up from his desk, gripping them tightly as he headed for Konan's bedroom. Stopping outside of the door, Pein closed his eyes before closing his hand to knock on the door.

"Come in Pein, it's open."

This was unexpected to him, he figured she'd still be sleeping since she always told him she didn't like to be woken up early in the morning because a woman like her needed her beauty sleep. Shrugging his shoulders, he moved his hand down to the door knob, turning it slowly, pushing the door open. He eyes shifted a bit from one side of the room to the other. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, he walked into the room just to have the door slammed shut and locked, him inside the room with Konan.

"What the hell!"

Pein jumped as he was pinned to the wall, looking down at Konan who was wearing pratically nothing. It wasn't like her to be in so little clothing. Konan gripped his wrists and pinned them to the wall as she looked up at him with a lust filled gaze. Pein just looked at her, confused until she moved in, pressing her lips to his roughly trying to kiss him deeply. This pushed Pein over the edge. His eyes widened and the adrenaline began pumping through his veins as he broke Konan's grip and pushed her back onto her bed.

Konan let out a scream as she hit the bed and then looked back at Pein, "mmm somebody is a little anxious..."

"What the fuck Konan...you and I are just friends, nothing more. How can I get this through your head!"

Konan pulled her blankets over herself, taken back by Pein's sudden outburst. Pein walked over and threw the papers down on her bed. "Get your shit together and get started. We'll discuss your punishment for this when you get back."

Konan looked away and nodded, watching from the corner of her eye as Pein stormed out of the room, slamming her door shut behind him. He walked into the living room and grabbed his coffee, heading out the door to do his patrol of Amegakure. He walked relatively fast today to work off the anger than Konan boiled within him. He couldn't believe that he came onto her like that knowing full well that they would always just be friends.

-On the Desert Path-

Sakura was walking on her own in the middle of Deidara and Sasori. They had stopped in a village getting her clothes and a pair of shoes to wear as to not cause them any unwanted attention. She looked back and forth between the blond and the red head, they were silent for most of the walk, only speaking to her when they wished of her to speed up her pace.

The sun was at it's mid-peak in the sky, it beamed down upon the trio as the walked, the wind doing very little to keep them cool. Beads of sweat danced down the side of Sakura's face, but she kept quiet not saying a word wanting to keep the two men at ease and not cause them to lash out at her.

Deidara glanced over at her, noticing the heat was getting to her. He reached for his water bottle that was consealed in his cloak. Opening it, he handed it to her.

"Drink up un, Leader-sama would not appreciate it if you came in unwell."

Sakura nodded, taking the bottle of water and drank some of it back, closing it and handing it back to Deidara, speaking her first words to him.

"Thank you..."

Sasori smirked a bit, "your quite polite for being kidnapped."

Sakura looked at him, "well...I was kind of expecting something like this to happen...and I wanted to leave Konoha for the longest time..."

Both Deidara and Sasori were taken back by this as they looked at each other and then back down at Sakura.

"So you mean to tell me, we didn't have to kidnap you...you would have came with us willfully?"

Sakura nodded at Sasori's question as she continued walking. Sasori and Deidara remained quiet, surprised at this discovery of her will to come with out struggle. They all walked as the wind began to grow more fierce blowing the sand up. Sasori took his cloak off and placed it around Sakura. It would protect her from the sand since it would have more of a toll on her. She blushed a little and smiled.

"Thank you...uhm..."

"Sasori, my name is Sasori, and that his Deidara."

She nodded, "it's nice to meet you both."

-In Amegakure-

Pein stood upon the top of the look out tower. Everything was business as usual. The streets were busy with people running their errands. The sun was shining down on the village, but with Sakura's arrival, he wanted the weather to be perfect. As he took a seat on the tower, he noticed Konan was heading out on her missions. He smiled and then stood up jumping down from the tower and heading back to the hide out.

~To Be Continued~