Start: April 27, 2008

Start: April 27, 2008

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Hidan jolted awake, covered in a cold sweat. Nightmares were a rarity for him, but when he had them they were terrifying. The subject of this one had been Kakuzu. His eyes darted around the room. "'Kuzu?" Hidan leaped out of his bed and ran into the hall. "Kakuzu?!"

"I'm right here Hidan," Kakuzu turned from the kitchen into the dinning room, looking at the younger. "What's wrong, you look scared. Did Itachi do something to you?" He hissed, he and Itachi had gotten into an argument only an hour ago when the blind Konoha nin drank Kakuzu's coffee instead of his own.

Hidan tackled Kakuzu to the floor and nuzzled his chest, trembling violently. "I thought my nightmare came true. I thought you were gone. Not dead, but just gone like you never even existed." He kissed every inch of his lovers face, chanting his name quietly.

Kakuzu pet Hidan's hair, trying to calm his distraught partner. "C'mon, get up. I'll make you some breakfast, okay?" He pecked Hidan's forehead before sitting up. "We're going to be leaving in a couple hours so you should eat something and then I'll help you get ready."

Hidan pulled away reluctantly, still trembling. "Okay," he stood and helped Kakuzu up, gripping his arm as they walked into the kitchen. "What will you make me?" He asked quietly.

"What do you want?" Kakuzu rubbed his hand up and down Hidan's back, surprised with how much the dream had shaken him. He frowned and turned to face Hidan, placing a hand on each of the younger man's shoulders. "Are you okay? I've never seen you so scared before."

Hidan bit his lower lip his eyes watering. "The dream... It was so..." he breathed in deeply, calming himself, "I kept asking where you were, and no one seemed to have ever even heard of you. Like I said, it was like you were never born. It felt so real, and when I woke up you weren't there."
"Oh boo hoo, you've become such a wimp."
Hidan looked over to the fridge where Itachi was standing, a stick of fried squid in his hand. Hidan made no snappy reply, he merely made a small noise and buried his nose into Kakuzu's arm.

"Did you forget to take your happy pills this morning, Itachi?" Kakuzu glared at the Uchiha, wrapping an arm around Hidan. "Or did you not get laid last night?" He looked down at Hidan, who had started to shake again. "C'mon, I'm supposed to make you breakfast. And how about a bath afterwards, hm?"

"I never liked Hidan, letting him in this organization was a mistake. Leader-sama only brought him to teach you a lesson. He has no special jutsus and hardly any chakra control." He glared at Hidan, his Mangekyo Sharingan swirling to life. "Even you have to admit that, Kakuzu-san. He is a hindrance and a money guzzler. And he's made you soft." Itachi flipped his hair and walked briskly past them.
Hidan looked after the Uchiha and then looked at his feet. "I'm not hungry anymore."

Kakuzu sighed, rubbing Hidan's arms. Everything Itachi had said was completely true, and Kakuzu knew he had told all that to Hidan at one point in their relationship. It was useless to deny the things said. "Okay," he said quietly, "lemme just finish packing our bag and I'll give you a bath."

Hidan gripped his partner's shirt. "Take a bath with me? Please?" He pleaded, kissing Kakuzu's arm, "I don't want to be alone right now. I'll stand a luke-warm bath for you."

He started to say that he had already had a bath, but decided against it and nodded. "Alright, I'll take one with you." He tilted Hidan's head up and looked him in the eye. "I'm not going anywhere, it'll be okay."

Hidan smiled, his eyes sparkling. "Okay! Come on then." He dragged Kakuzu back to their room so he could finish packing. He quietly watched his lover pace about the room.

The ex-waterfall nin dug through drawers looking to replenish their clothing, weapon, and food supply. Every couple of minutes he would run out to the kitchen or bathroom to collect the things he had on a scrap-paper check list. "Anything you need?"

Hidan shook his head. "Nothing that you've already gotten." He looked over the side of his bed, pulling out his teddy bear. "Should I give this to Tobi or something? I don't need it any more."

"What if we have a kid or something?" Kakuzu joked, double checking the bag for anything he may have missed. He normally did not get attached to the things he made, but he had to admit he would miss watching Hidan snuggle up with the bear night after night even if he were the one replacing it.

"I hate kids," Hidan said with distain. "Crap, I forgot to tell you, I'm out of skin cream. After the bath can we get some? We can leave right after."

Kakuzu groaned, placing a hand on his head as if to run it through his hair. His hood made this act difficult. "Fine, fine; but you better make it last, you hear me? You and Deidara use your weight in girly-things. Hell, not even Konan goes through as many products as you two do."

Hidan nodded. "Will do, are you done yet?"

"I guess." He stretched before turning to Hidan. "Shall we?"

Hidan beamed. "Yeah," he dashed into the bathroom drawing the water and stripping off his clothes. "Come on, 'Kuzu!"

Kakuzu locked the door, removing his clothes as well. "I take it you're feeling better." He lowered himself into the water, sighing contentedly even if he had just gotten dry from his last one.

Hidan fallowed suit and lay back on Kakuzu's chest. "Being with you makes me happy." He batted at his lover's hair, smiling. "I love you, so much."
"Hidan," Kakuzu said quietly, wrapping his arms around the smaller man, "you know that…you know I still care about Warai, right?" It was a dangerous question, he knew, but he could not let Hidan go on thinking that he was the only one in Kakuzu's heart, even if there were five of them.

"I know," Hidan said, rolling over to kiss the larger man's chest, "but I don't care." He slunk up to the crook of Kakuzu's neck, grabbing his shoulders with near bone shattering strength. "I don't fucking care." He bit his lover's neck, hard enough to draw blood. He sucked the wound and then grabbing his neck in such a way that Kakuzu's mouth automatically opened. He kissed him with an open mouth, the stitched nin's own blood flowing over his mutilated tongue.

Kakuzu pushed Hidan away, hissing in pain. "Fuck," he jumped out of the tub and over to the mirror, inspecting the wound. "Not everyone likes pain you idiot." He ran a finger over the bleeding injury, a black thread immerged from his wrist to stitch up the gash. "Bite me all you want, but not so hard, jeeze."

Hidan grabbed a bar of soap and ran it along his chest making a lather. "Afraid of a little pain? That was nothing; I would have thought you would have a high threshold for it, with all those stitches." He motioned for Kakuzu to come back. "Lemme wash your hair, it looks all greasy. I won't bite you hard again, baby." Hidan had heard men call there girlfriends baby, but it was doomed to be misinterpreted.

A hardened fist collided with Hidan's head, smashing it into the linoleum behind him. "I swear to god Hidan, if you ever, EVER, call me that again, I will find a way to kill you!" Kakuzu pulled his clothing back on before storming into the bed room, slamming the door so hard, that that level of the house shuddered.

Hidan pulled his robe on and rushed after Kakuzu, tailing behind him while holding the back of his head. "What did I do? I only called you 'baby'!" He grabbed Kakuzu's arm and tugged on it roughly. "Sasori called Deidara 'baby' all the time and he never got mad! He loved it!"

"Yeah, Deidara. Do I look like a fucking girl to you? If anything YOU are 'baby'." He sighed harshly, walking around the room with his fists on his head. He stood looking angrily at the ceiling before looking back at Hidan. "Bleeding?"

"What sort of fucking question is that?! Yes I'm bleeding!" Hidan removed his bloody hand from the back of his hand and shoved it in Kakuzu's face. "See? Blood!"

"Beautiful," Kakuzu led Hidan over to the bed, sat him down and got behind him. He parted the man's hair, looking at the wound. "Ah, it's not that bad. It'll be better in an hour or two."

"Whatever..." Hidan said pulling away and taking off his robe. "I don't want a bath anymore, let's just go." He pulled his clothes on and got himself ready. He went to his drawer and pulled out his 'secret stash' of food. He ate quickly and then turned to look at his lover. "Let's go. I still need to get skin cream."

"Look, I'm sorry okay. It wasn't your fault," Kakuzu said, probably snappier than he had meant. Apologizing was not his forte. He fixed his hood and picked up their bag.

"Yeah, sure you are." Hidan opened the door. "Let's just get out of here, this place is so dreary." He walked out, adjusting his scythe now and then.

Kakuzu sighed harshly, following Hidan for once. Fine, Hidan did not believe him, he would never apologize again. The walked for a few hours before it began to drizzle lightly. "Let's find a cave to stay in."

"Yeah, sure." Hidan turned and gave Kakuzu a melancholy smile. It took awhile, but they managed to find one. Hidan fingered his rosary as he watched Kakuzu attempt to build a fire. "Kakuzu, what would you do if I were to die? Bury me, or just leave my corps there?" Hidan asked suddenly. "What would you feel? Would you mourn over me? Even cry? Or would you move on right away, and replace me with out giving me a second thought?"

Before they had started going out – having sex, whatever they were doing – Kakuzu would have given the simple, truthful answer: You won't die. And have left it at that. But no, he could not. Not that he did not want to, he just, could not. "I would burry you," he said quietly. "And I doubt I would find another."

Hidan turned to fully face Kakuzu. "Find another what?" he asked. "A partner? Companion? A lover? Someone who you'll love?" He wanted to know, he had to know.
"I don't know; all of that. Why?"

"I want to know how much you love me," Hidan said, reaching out and grabbing the hem of Kakuzu's cloak, burying his face in the expensive fabric. "If someone took me away, what would you give them to get me back? Money? The secrets of the Akatsuki?"

Kakuzu grabbed Hidan's wrists, forcing the boy to look at him. "What is wrong with you Hidan? What's with all these questions? Why do you suddenly care about all this nonsense? Like I said before, you're an S-ranked criminal and you don't need me to hold your hand all the time. Besides, if you were kidnapped and were too stupid to save yourself, I'd just come get you. Simple as that."

A look of fury came over Hidan's face. "It's not nonsense you fucking money-whore! What would you do if Leader said you couldn't get me?!" He screamed, "Would you listen to him? You know he hates me! Just you wait; when I'm in a situation that requires this stupid organization to part with something to get me back he'll get a replacement as soon as possible! And when it happens what will you do? Just fucking listen to him and not even think twice of getting me?!"
Kakuzu stood, smacking Hidan's cheek with the back of his hand. "Shut the fuck up Hidan! Of course I wouldn't listen!" He sighed harshly, falling to his knees and bringing Hidan close. "Just, please, stop with these questions. It-it hurts to think about okay?"

Hidan's body trembled with the attempts to hold off his sobs. "Stop hitting me!" he wailed. "Stop! I don't like it." He buried his face into the folds of his lover's cloak to hide the fact he was beginning to cry. "It makes me feel like you don't-" Hidan dissolved into heart wrenching sobs before he could finish.

"Stop being an idiot," Kakuzu said before he could stop himself. He tried to cover it up with a tight hug, snuggling his cheek in Hidan's hair. "Look, I love you, but sometimes you need a good punch in the face, and other times, I just can't stop it. I do things I regret but…" he trailed off. "Look, can't you just accept my apology from earlier so I don't have to do it again. It's very uncomfortable."

Hidan lurched away, slapping Kakuzu very hard. "I don't think you do love me!" He screamed, backing away until he hit the cave wall. "I don't think you know what that means." He grabbed his scythe and removed the pike, pointing it at the larger man. "Tobi was right; I don't deserve what you do to me. I shouldn't be insulted and pushed around like I'm a worthless piece of trash. Your words are empty!" He moved the weapon so the sharp end was pointed under his chin.

"I don't want to be here anymore. I'll wipe myself off the face of this planet. That will make you happy right? Then you can think of Warai all you want. Perhaps Jashin-sama will still let me bask in his presence." Hidan smiled, grabbing his rosary. "Just know that before I kill myself that I loved you more then anything."

Kakuzu looked at Hidan blankly. "You're right. You don't deserve me. Leave, die, whatever makes you happy." He turned away from Hidan, back to building the fire in the cave. He really doubted that anything would happen to Hidan. Either he would chicken out or whatever ceremony he had to perform would fail. There was, of course, still that small creeping worry that it would work. Like all his normal human emotions, he stomped it out before it had time to really dig its claws in. "Maybe those people in the restraunt were right; maybe you really are just my abused girlfriend. And I know Kisame was right…"

For a while Hidan kept the pike where it was, but finally he let it fall from his trembling hands. He already felt dead. "I... I... I want you to make love to me..." he said. "I want to feel you inside of me, for you to kiss me..." He fell on his side and stared blankly ahead. "I want you to treat me like I'm worth something."

Kakuzu was quiet, not wanting to say anything on impulse that might make things worse. Once the fire was lit, however, he turned to Hidan, lying down next to the younger man. He reached a hand out and stroked the pale face next to him. "You can't force this Hidan," he said sadly.

Hidan scooted closer to his lover, looking right into his eyes. "'Kuzu, hold me please. Kiss me."

With a heavy sigh – not sad, not agitated, just a loud, long exhale – Kakuzu pulled Hidan into his arms, cradling the boy, and began to place tiny, chaste kisses over his face and neck. After removing his mask of course. "Hidan…I know you don't want to…but I want you to-to sleep in your own bed tonight. And think long and hard about…us, a couple. Weigh the pros and cons, and then leave me if that's the better option." He ran calloused fingers through Hidan's hair, against his scalp. "Can you do that for me?"

"No! Don't make me do that!" Hidan grabbed Kakuzu tightly.

"You know there are more cons, that's why you don't want to," it was not a question and Kakuzu knew it. He hugged the smaller man tighter. "You should leave me. It's a relationship that's bad for both of us and we both know it." He sighed at his own words, half of him feeling better about the possibility of ending this partnership, and the other half ready to die. Kakuzu kissed the top of Hidan's head.

"Don't make me, please! I can't leave you!" Hidan moaned in misery. "I need you, and you need me!" He wrapped his arms around the larger's neck. "I'll stop complaining; I'll teach myself to enjoy you hitting me! I'll do anything to keep you! But don't try to push me away."

Kakuzu frowned, "Why did you offer to be my punching bag if you didn't like it?" He sat up; the clinging man was painful at that angle. He leaned against the cave wall, tucking Hidan's head under his chin. He began to run his hands up and down Hidan's back, trying to soothe the boy.

"I know I did, but only when I want you to," Hidan said quietly. "But I'll learn to like it at any time." He leaned up and kissed Kakuzu on the lips, pulling the man down to lay on top of his small body. He then pulled away and stroked his lover's stitched cheek. "'Kuzu-koi," he reached up and kissed Kakuzu again.

Kakuzu looked at Hidan sadly before leaning down to peck Hidan on the lips. "Okay, let me go. I'm starving. We didn't get breakfast remember."

Hidan felt a pang in his heart, but let the man go. He did not move, just watched him with sad eyes while he lay on the cold ground. "I've ruined it haven't I?"

"No, I've ruined it. It isn't your fault that I can't stop myself from taking my anger out on you." Kakuzu looked back over at Hidan. "I do want to make this work. But it's just not a healthy relationship."

Hidan sat up. "Zetsu is a cannibal, Sasori was a walking dildo, Deidara gives himself oral sex with his hands, Leader has a piercing fetish, Itachi is a psychopath, Konan is almost made of fucking paper, Kisame most likely has two dicks and Tobi... Tobi..." he trailed off, trying to find something off with him. "Well forget Tobi. But anyway, we are fine in this fucking relationship. Come on, sex with a puppet? I doubt that Sasori ever even felt anything." He crawled over to Kakuzu and leaned against his back. "Come on, we're fine."

The ex-waterfall nin merely sighed. He truly did not believe that they were alright; no one in the harem Leader dared call an organization was alright. But Kakuzu did not voice his opinion on the subject. "Hand me some oil and noodles."

Hidan smiled and removed the asked for items from the bag. "Here, 'Kuzu," he said contently. "What are we having? Do you want me to go and get a rabbit?"

"You hate hunting; frying pan please." Kakuzu took the items and held out his hand for the third.

"So what? I want to do something for you," Hidan said blushing. "You know, to make up for me hitting you earlier. What do you want? Fish, deer, pheasant, or rabbit? Maybe snake?" He reached in the bag again to pull out the frying pan. "I could go pick some mushrooms to help flavor the noodles; I know which are poisonous." He handed the pan to Kakuzu. "I saw some pomegranate trees with some ripe fruit." He looked at his partner expectantly, waiting for an answer.

"Some mushrooms would be fine. Pick whatever meat you want; please hurry though, I want to have the meat stripped by the time the pan heats up." He smiled behind his mask. "Be careful, okay?"

Hidan smiled, bobbing his head in confirmation before he pranced off with his pike and a sack in his hands. He returned exactly seven minutes later, the sack filled half way and a fawn tossed over his shoulder. He placed the animal next to Kakuzu. "Thing didn't even try to run when I came over it," he said while licking the blood off his hands.

Kakuzu smirked, "Well, well, you can do things right!" He opened the bag, pulling a rabbit out along with a kunai from his pocket. "Go skin the rest of them, build a fire, and smoke them. And make sure you take the bones out too." He grabbed the feet, making quick work of the skin before attacking the organs and bones. Kakuzu then sliced up what was left of the animal and threw the pieces in the pan along with some oil.

Hidan nodded and set to work. It took a long time, but he managed to prepare all the animals. He set up the fire and set the meat to smoke. He trotted back to sit by Kakuzu. "I'm fucking filthy," he said, licking even more blood of his hands, he then held his right hand out to Kakuzu. "You want some?"

"Not at the moment, thank you." The elder divided the food between them and handed Hidan a plate then chopsticks. "Itadakimasu," he said, nodding to his plate before tugging his mask down to eat.

Hidan inhaled his food. When finished he pulled off his cloak and grabbed a kunai. He traced the tip along his arm before putting enough pressure on it to break his skin. "I haven't done a single ritual for over a week," he said quietly before turning to look back at Kakuzu. "Do you want to help with one?"

"I'll just watch," he said, eating considerably slower than his partner. Kakuzu unconsciously licked his lips as beads of blood rolled down the younger's pale flesh.

"It's not a big one," Hidan cooed. "Feel free to join in when ever you feel like it." He plunged the kunai into the damp earth and carved out the symbol of his god, pulling off the rest of his clothes when he was done. He quietly chanted, running the blade along his length, his hips bucking against it before trailing it up his stomach, leaving a thin cut where blood budded to the surface. He then drove the weapon in, cutting trough the muscles until his lower rib stopped its progression. "Fuck that's good." Hidan sighed, bringing the weapon back to his hardening length, swirling it around himself, his hips trembling with the effort not to move.

Kakuzu watched with unblinking eyes. He had never watched one of Hidan's prayer rituals before, and had ignored any of the ones he preformed after they had made a kill. He finished his food, and in an attempted to make it look like he could care less, he went to check the meat that was drying in the mouth of the cave, away from the rain.

Hidan no longer paid any attention to Kakuzu, bringing the kunai to his neck he finished his prayer and ripped out his throat. "Ah, Jashin..." he croaked, bubbles of blood forming at the wound and even more blood dribbling from his mouth. "'Kuzu!" he reached out to his lover.

The man turned at his name, "Yeah?" He said quietly," What's wrong?"

"Come here..." Hidan said, using his hand to make an ushering motion.

"Do you're ritual," Kakuzu said sternly.

"That was my ritual," Hidan replied, his head lolling to the side. "I said it wasn't big."

Kakuzu walked up to his lover, taking the young man into his arms. "Need me to fix you up?"

Hidan coughed, blood pooling out of his mouth and wound. "Yeah, that would be nice." He placed a weak and bloody kiss on Kakuzu's lips, "Mmm... Hurry."

He wiped the blood of his mask before laying Hidan down. Threads extended from Kakuzu's wrist, piercing the already marred flesh to stitch up the oozing gashes.

Hidan sighed. "It feels nice when you sew me up," he moaned, arching his back off the ground. "Kiss me when you're done stitching me up?"

Kakuzu nodded. "We need to be going to bed soon. I'm still going to make you think about our relationship." Once the stings had returned to his body, he stood and began laying out their beds. Hidan's on the other side of the fire.

Hidan watched Kakuzu with disbelieving eyes. "I thought we settled that," he said, slowly sitting up. "I thought we agreed that we should stay together. If I end up leaving you what would have been the point of giving you my heart? I gave it to you so we could be lovers forever, and you just tell me to leave you if the cons out way the pros? And we both know that the cons, in fact, out way them." He crawled to Kakuzu and leaned against him, rubbing his naked body against his lover's clothed one. "And you haven't kissed me like you said you would."

Kakuzu was conflicted between frowning and smiling. Unfortunately, he smiled involuntarily. He thanked his mask for being up, before tugging it down to kiss Hidan. "Fine, do whatever makes you happy." He stopped making Hidan's bed before he crawled over to his own.

Hidan removed his rosary and crawled to where Kakuzu was now laying. "Will do," he purred before fastening the piece of jewelry around his lover neck. "Ninja art: Shinjinbukai Hyoushi (Godly Binding)." Hidan then removed Kakuzu's hood and mask, smirking. "I wouldn't try to move. It's useless. You can't escape the spell."

Kakuzu, despite Hidan's warning, struggled. "What the hell Hidan? What did you do?" He glared daggers at the man sitting on him.

"I trapped you," Hidan said, unbuttoning Kakuzu's cloak. "You said I could do whatever made me happy." He maneuvered Kakuzu's arms out of the cloak sleeves and pulled the man's backless shirt off to reveal his heavily stitched chest. "And I want you to feel good." Hidan leaned down and kissed, sucked, nipped, and licked the most sensitive areas on his lover's chest.

Kakuzu groaned, "Well I don't like this! Stop it right now!" He hissed against Hidan's oral attacks, trying to get away.

Hidan sat up, looking confused. "Why don't you like this? Is it because you're not in control?"

He blushed, looking away with a scowl. Kakuzu hoped his dark complexion would hide his change in color. "You know I hate not being in charge," he muttered.

"It's not like I'm going to do you in the ass. I'm just going to suck you off," Hidan said, kissing Kakuzu under his chin. "I'll free up your arms if you want."

Kakuzu licked his lips, trying to decide whether or not he wanted this. "Fine, go ahead. Just don't do it again; at least not without asking." He huffed and looked away. Trying to keep up his tough domineer was hard.

Hidan licked his lips, looking at Kakuzu with hungry eyes. "You won't regret letting me do this." He returned to kissing Kakuzu's chest, trailing down to his lower stomach before pulling his pants down. "Already a little hard," he said quietly before blowing on his lover's length.

The ex-waterfall nin hissed, half wanting to pull away, half wanted to get closer. "Would you hurry up already?!"

Hidan laughed. "No, I think I'll take my time." He spread his lover's legs apart and suckled the sensitive skin of his inner thy while he massaged his scrotum.

"H-Hidan! Ugh, I-I'm going to kill you when I get out of th-this," Kakuzu gave a breathy moan, wriggling under his partner's hold.

"Who will you get to suck you off for free?" Hidan began to mouth the underside of his lover's length, pushing his legs farther apart.

Kakuzu glared at his partner at the comment, but the look soon fell as he let out a guttural moan. "F-fuck, why do you have to be so good?"

"So I can see you writhe in pleasure," Hidan replied, nipping the taunt flesh before running his now loose hair along the shaft. "It's very satisfying." Finally he enveloped Kakuzu with his mouth, his head bobbing rapidly

Kakuzu moaned again, throwing his head back as best he could, trying to lift his hips closer to Hidan's mouth. "I f-fucking hate you right now..." he breathed heavily, knowing that that was not true at all.

Hidan pulled away and began to chant. Kakuzu moved on his own, getting up and pulling the mat to place it half on, half off the wall. He reseated himself and Hidan got back in between his legs, his hands pumping him. "Want me to free your hands? Then you could make me go as fast as you want."

"Th-that would be lovely," Kakuzu said, his breath hitched in his throat. "Mmm, fuck Hidan..."

Hidan partially traced his rosary and placed his mouth back on Kakuzu's length, he pulled away for a second to say one thing; "Grab my head and fuck my mouth till you cum."

Kakuzu was more than happy to scramble up and grab the back of Hidan's head, bringing it down with teeth-shattering force. He moaned hotly as he felt the teeth dig into his flesh, but he did not stop. He got on his knees and pulled Hidan up, while thrusting out, before bringing them together again. He did this over and over until he found a steady pace. He licked his dry mouth, looking down at Hidan to make sure he was still okay with this. But Kakuzu found this task slightly difficult as his eyes were clouded with pleaser. "Ngh...fuck...god Hidan..."

At hearing his name Hidan looked up at Kakuzu, a hint of unsureness in his eyes. He smiled as best he could and grabbed Kakuzu's hips and pulling him as close as possible before he swallowed his lover length.

Kakuzu groaned happily, bucking into Hidan a few more times before he came with a sigh.

Hidan pulled away, swallowing Kakuzu's cum. "That was fun," he said with a lazy smirk before kissing his lover on his lips. "Enjoy yourself?"

Through pants Kakuzu managed to glare, but it was not full of the usual hate and daggers. "I hate you," but the words were said with out a trace of malice. He lay on the bed, arms laying on either side of him. One hand beckoned Hidan to lay with him.

Hidan complied, laying next to Kakuzu. "Hmm, I love you," he said, throwing a leg over his lovers hips. "Glad you let me suck you off?"

"I guess, but I would've been alright if you hadn't offered." He sighed contently, pulling Hidan closer, nuzzling a cheek in his hair before marking the spot with a kiss.

Hidan reached over and pulled the blanket over them, resting his head on Kakuzu's chest. "I can hear all of your hearts," he yawned, suddenly feeling very tired. "Listening to them makes me sleepy."

Kakuzu smiled gently, watching his lover with half lidded eyes. "Do they beat together or apart?"

"Together..." Hidan drawled, "Hmm... sleepy..." His eyes closed and his breathing evened out.

Kakuzu gave a dry laugh, looking up at the roof of the cave. He closed his eyes, listening to the steady pour of the rain mixing with the crackling of the fire. He let out another sigh, snuggling Hidan even closer, before he too fell asleep.

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Hidan awoke to the sound of thunder. He lifted his head to look out side: it was not raining, but the sky was dark with clouds. "Lightning storm." He turned to Kakuzu and shook him gently. "'Kuzu, wake up."

"Mmm, what? What's wrong?" Kakuzu sat up, looking at his partner as best he could in the darkened cave. "What time is it?"

"Don't know. Morning maybe?" Hidan sat up, licking the shell of Kakuzu's ear, "We should get going, but let's be careful: There's a lightning storm going on." He fumbled around and found his pants, pulling them on with a grunt.

Kakuzu stuck his head outside the cave; it was just as dark outside as it was inside. "How do you know it's morning? For all you know it could be midnight." He too began to dress, despite his own words. "I mean, I'm usually up with the sun."

"Do you feel well rested?" Hidan asked. "I would think you'd still be tired if it was midnight. You went nuts when I told you to fuck my mouth." He licked his lips, "Fuck you tasted good." He rummaged through the bag, pulling out his gel and using it to slick back his hair.

"I still feel a little tired." As if to prove his point, Kakuzu yawned. He pulled on his hood, tucking the stay hairs underneath. "To be perfectly honest, I did enjoy it. But I'd like fair warning next time, alright?" He said sternly, pointing a no-no finger at Hidan.

"Where's the god damn fun in that?" Hidan asked, pulling on his cloak. "Next time I want you to ravish me. Will you?"

"I don't get you; one minute you say be nice and love you, the next you say, well, stuff like this. Do you want me to hurt you or not?" Kakuzu looked down at his partner in annoyance.

"I said ravish me. The ravish that means to overwhelm somebody with deep and pleasurable feelings or emotions," Hidan said. "Like what I did last night.

Kakuzu flicked Hidan in the forehead before he began to pack up camp. "You sure you want to go out in weather like this? It's awfully dark out."

"Yeah, I'm sure," Hidan said deciding to help Kakuzu since it made cleaning up all the more quicker. "Let's go now."As they left both forgot to do one thing: erase the ritual symbol from the ground.

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A hooded figure hovered over the symbol before crouching down to scoop up some of the semi-dried earth, running it threw it's fingers.

"He was here."

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End: May 4, 2008