Immortality Chapter 4: Questioning and Bonding Time

Once the washing was through and done with and Hidan was dressed, he looked at Kakuzu with a light tint of pink dusting across his cheeks.

"Satisfied?" Kakuzu crossed his arms, making sure to glare slightly. When Hidan nodded swiftly, he nodded back. "Now get ready. Leader-sama may want to see you for questioning."

Hidan looked slightly terrified but nodded again. He was dressed, yeah, but he still needed to brush his teeth and comb his hair. Sure, he had been a homeless boy, but he wasn't a fucking slob. He found ways to brush his teeth and get decently clean. He liked to feel good about himself, and that was one of his ways of doing so.

Once the old miser left, Hidan immediately got to work on brushing his teeth. Once finished with his teeth, he brushed the roof of his mouth and his tongue, spat, and then rinsed his mouth out. Damn, this was the first time in a long time that his mouth actually felt clean. He nodded, smiling slightly, and then got to combing his hair and then slicking it back neatly. He hated how he looked when his hung over his eyes; it just looked entirely too stupid, in his opinion. He hobbled out of the bathroom and looked to Kakuzu, who was just counting money while waiting. Upon Hidan's exiting of the bathroom, the older man turned to look at him with satisfied eyes.

"Alright, done? Then we're going." Kakuzu didn't even wait for an answer; he just picked Hidan up and hoisted him over his shoulder again.

Once that was through, he walked out of the room and began to head for the leader's office. He knocked slightly and heard a deep grunt in response. Kakuzu knew exactly what that meant; he'd been with the man for long enough to know. Well, he also didn't particularly like having to be in the same place as this guy. He was creepy, for sure.

He opened the door, looking at the orange-haired man. "You wanted to talk to Hidan?"

The man nodded, motioning toward a chair that sat comfortably in front of his desk. Hidan shook slightly, but relaxed in a desperate attempt to stop the shaking. Kakuzu nodded and moved to the chair in one quick, smooth movement and placed Hidan on it.

"Would you like me to leave?" Kakuzu blinked, but nodded when he saw the leader nod. After that, he left the office quickly.

Hidan turned from the door to the man in front of him, tensing up once again.

"Hidan.. Another immortal one; you'll be a decent addition to the organization. Now, tell me… Do you have any parents who will be looking for you?" The man placed his hands together in front of his mouth, his rinnigan showing through the shadows of the dark room.

Hidan quickly shook his head. "I ran away and they didn't look for me then; why would they look for me now?"

The man nodded, his eyes flickering downward for a moment before colliding harshly with Hidan's own crimson ones. "How old are you?"

"Fourteen."

"Ah, young. You should be fairly easy to train into this sort of lifestyle, then."

Hidan nodded. This guy was scarier than he had been expecting. Then again, he was the leader.

"Have you ever handled any type of weaponry?"

Hidan nodded slowly, recalling back to when he fought with heavy weapons like axes.

"Such as?" The man smirked noticeably. He was becoming more and more confident that the boy would be quite an antique in their organization.

"Axes, swords, kunai.. Stuff like that."

"So you've gotten into fights?"

"Yes."

"Have you won any of them?"

"Majority, sir. When you're competing over food or survival, you'd be quite determined to get your way and live."

"Good. That's all for today. Go and get some rest to heal up for your harsh training. Kakuzu!" His eyes flicked toward the door, which opened up quickly as the miser entered quickly.

"Yes, leader-sama?" Kakuzu looked almost shocked, like he wasn't expecting the questioning to be over so soon.

"You've caught quite an antique there. Keep him safe and take him back to your room." The man's deep, gruff voice echoed in Hidan's ears. An antique? Was that all that he was to them? Just an antique?

Kakuzu nodded briskly and rushed to Hidan, lifting him up again. This time, however, it was a bridal style kind of cradling.

After they exited the room and Kakuzu closed the door, he looked into Hidan's crimson eyes. "What did he ask you? Did he seem upset at all? How did it go?"

"He just asked me questions about my age, family, experience in weaponry and fighting, and what kind of weaponry I've handled. Nothing too much." Hidan shrugged slightly, though it wasn't too much of a shrug because of the way he was being held.

"Did you answer truthfully?"

"Of course. That guy is scary as hell!"

At this new information, Kakuzu snorted a bit in laughter, carrying Hidan into the room and putting him down on the bed again. He then sat down on the chair that sat in front of his desk, which was scattered with money and paper, and smiled behind his mask.

"Hey! What's so funny, you old miser?" Hidan suddenly scowled, looking frustrated. Why'd the man laugh? It wasn't funny! The guy was actually scary!

"Nothing, brat." Kakuzu suddenly scowled as well, his Christmas-colored eyes hardening.

Hidan huffed and looked off to the side, frowning. "Are you hungry?"

"I don't eat."

"Damn it. I was at least hoping that we could eat together.. Guess that's not going to happen, huh?" Hidan pulled his lips into a straight line, breathing harshly as his face turned red from frustration and embarrassment. Why he'd said that, he didn't know. It had sounded almost like he was telling the old man that he wanted to 'go out' with him, so that was pretty embarrassing.

"No way. I don't get hungry, I don't eat. I'll sit right here while you eat, though." Kakuzu smirked again. Damn, it was amusing to frustrate the young boy.

"Fine. What is there to eat? I don't give a shit as to what you get me, I'm starved."

Kakuzu stood up and walked over to Hidan, pressing his hand onto his stomach. After that, he frowned slightly.

"Of course you are. Your stomach has concaved."

Hidan covered his mouth and burst into laughter as the miser left the room to get him whatever it was he was going to get him. What!? Concaved!? How'd he come up with that!?

After what seemed like a flash of lightning, the man was back in the room with some dango.

"Here." He held the dango out to Hidan, who was still calming down from the intense laughter. "… What? It wasn't that funny?"

"J-just the way that you said it! It was hilarious!" Hidan snorted and took the plate of dango, smirking. "Looks tasty."

"Mm. It will probably taste good, too." Kakuzu chuckled softly, sitting back in his seat and then falling completely serious.

Hidan fell silent and serious as he bit into the dango, but his face lit up into a glowing, bright smile after the first bite. Guess it was just that good, huh?

"This is delightful! Did you make it yourself?" Hidan flashed Kakuzu a rare, yet shining grin as he bit into the dango again.

Kakuzu nodded in response. "Nothing is store-bought."

Hidan gasped in surprise. "Really? I thought that you were a horrible cook!"

"Are you telling the truth or just saying that to piss me off?" Kakuzu narrowed his eyes dangerously again. "Because if you're just trying to piss me off, then I can just put you in more pain."

Kakuzu's tendrils zipped out of his arm and hovered right around Hidan's ankle, causing the boy to jump and tense up.

"No, I'm not lying. That's really what I thought." Hidan's red eyes were widened with shock and fear of getting more hurt because of the old man.

"Hmph.. Well then.." Kakuzu sighed and wrapped Hidan's ankle in the tendrils again, just to keep it held in place and help the healing process again. Hidan hissed in response and ground his teeth together harshly. "What kinds of things do you like doing?"

"Fighting.. Pain inflicted on me from myself… Sacrificing people for Jashin… Yeah. Not much there." Hidan shrugged slightly, frowning. Was the man trying to strike up a conversation? "What about you?"

"Money." The answer was simple; that was all that Kakuzu liked. Money.

"Would you date someone just for money?" The question was completely stupid, but Hidan didn't give one shit.

".. No."

"Then what the hell was that hesitation for? Are you lying?"

"Of course not. Where did that idiotic question even come from, anyway?"

"My mind and mouth. Where else?" Hidan raised a silver eyebrow at the man, chuckling softly. It was really fun pissing the guy off. Well, unless Kakuzu really did injure him, that is…

Kakuzu scoffed in response and just shook his head. "Whatever."