"I'll be right back, okay?"
Tobi smiled and grabbed his wallet of the table and put it behind his back, hiding it from Zetsu. Zetsu stood there and looked at him.
Zetsu sighed, aggravated. "Tobi, come on…" Zetsu pleaded, holding his hand out.
Tobi shook his head. "Nope, you gotta say you love me first." He said, smiling.
Zetsu groaned and blushed. "Tobi, I'm not—"
"Yes you are!" Tobi commanded, interrupting him. "Say 'I love you.'" Tobi insisted, smiling bigger.
Zetsu sighed. "I'll say I love you,…" he paused, looking at Tobi, still smiling evilly. Zetsu sighed, knowing what that face meant "…but I ain't calling you anything…" he explained.
Tobi frowned. "Awwww, come on…"Tobi whined "you know you like to call me that as much as I like to hear it…"
Zetsu sighed, giving in to his request.
Tobi smiled big, waiting.
Zetsu blushed and looked away. "I love you..." he mumbled.
"Come oooon, Su-kun…" Tobi begged.
Zetsu sighed, annoyed, but blushing "…my…lollipop…" he mumbled softly.
Tobi scowled at him. "Like you mean it…" he ordered.
Zetsu rolled his eyes and looked at him, at his now smiling face. "I love you, lollipop…" he said, with a little more enthusiasm.
Tobi smiled big. "Good boy." he said. He pulled the wallet from behind his back, putting it in Zetsu's still open hand.
"I thought you where the good boy?" Zetsu asked as he took the wallet in his hand. He put the wallet in his back pocket.
"I am..." Tobi said. He shrugged, unconcerned.
Zetsu nodded his head to him, confused. He shook his head and turned around to walk over to the door, shutting the door behind him as he left.
Tobi sighed and fell down on his ass on his bed, wondering what Zetsu was going to get him and when he would get back. He sighed, bored, looking around his empty room, swinging his legs off the bed.
He sat there and thought for a while, missing his presence.
Then, Hidan burst through the door, almost breaking it off its hinges. Tobi jumped and watched Hidan's stuff get thrown down on the floor. Hidan's face was red with tears.
"Hidan, what the—" Tobi started.
"Shut up, Tobi!" Hidan yelled, cutting him off, his voice strained. He slammed the bathroom door behind him. "Leave me the fuck alone!" he yelled beyond the door.
Hidan groaned in pain. He ran his palms over his head and down to his neck, body arching in pain. The tears began to flow again.
Tobi sat there, bewildered as well as worried. He just wanted to help out. But he couldn't do that…Hidan scared Tobi shitless.
Instead he listened to Hidan's loud sobs and cries, the occasional scream or shout, from beyond the locked bathroom door.
"Hi…Hidan?" Tobi asked nervously.
"SH-SHUT UP TOBI!" Hidan yelled back, voice cracking.
Tobi jumped. Tobi stayed where he sat on the bed, quiet as ever; he did not want to piss him off again. He heard some other noises, breaking the silence, but he thought it was nothing important, considering there was more significant issues at hand right now.
"Th….That fucking…" Hidan muttered behind the bathroom door. He was digging his nails into the counter, head hung over the sink, tear drops hitting the cheap sink, wanting to rip the counter apart. The emotional pain was killing him. He mumbled words under his breath.
Tobi stood up and walked up to the door. "What was that?" he asked, pressing his ear up to the door.
Hidan growled under his breath. "I said…" he paused for a second, calming his breath so he wouldn't yell, but needing to yell. "That fucking son of a bitch…"
"Who?" Tobi asked, worried. He was scared of asking him.
Hidan growled angrily in distress, glaring back at the door. He turned and slammed his fist on the door. "Kakuzu! Who the fuck else?" He screamed at him.
Tobi jumped back, head hurting when Hidan rammed his fist on the door, right on his ear.
"Kakuzu didn't want to work on the wedding! He doesn't like to think about the wedding! He doesn't want to talk about the wedding! He doesn't even want to GO to the fucking wedding!" He yelled. He hung his head low and his voice lowered, so Tobi wouldn't hear. "He probably doesn't even love me anymore…" he shook his head "is this my punishment for falling in love….Jashin-sama...?" His eyes began to water more.
"Hidan!" Tobi cried. "Don't say that!" He paused, thinking of what to say "What makes you say that?" he asked, not knowing why he did.
Hidan slammed his fist on the door again, his foot slipping slightly.
"Why…" he gulped "W-Why the hell not..?" he stammered, trying to talk through all of the physical and emotion torture.
"Because..." Tobi paused, and then he sighed. He looked down at his feet.
Hidan listened closely, considering Tobi's voice lowered significantly.
"Because" Tobi started "the way I saw you two the other day...it makes no sense why…"
Hidan's breath stopped in his throat. He gulped, body weakening. He looked over at the door. He could feel his worried presence.
Tobi smiled faintly. "I was jealous, I guess..." Tobi looked back up at the door "but I don't know...but you were so happy then...I just don't get why you're like this now..." he finished, shaking his head in confusion.
Hidan gulped, hand slipping off the door, eyes twitching. His arm hung by his side, dead, weak; eyes glued to the door, in ache and confusion. He reached his other hand to the back on the counter, waving his hand in the air trying to find it. He fell hard on his knees, dropping the blade in his hand, eyes not moving once from the door.
"Hidan?" Tobi asked, startled.
Hidan heard him…but didn't respond…the realization of how crazy he was acting just hit him…how hurt Kakuzu might—will be when he sees him like this…tears rolled silently down his cheeks.
"Hidan..." Tobi said, filled with worry.
Hidan was broken from his trance thanks to Tobi's voice. He looked up at where the voice came from.
"Hidan...come on..."
Hidan stared, taken back by Tobi. He gulped and his eyes trailed down to the bottom of the door, and then to his thighs; his one damaged, red one, and the slightly stained, unharmed one.
K….Kakuzu…
His eyes watered again.
"Ka…kaku…"
"Hidan...?" Tobi called again, needing to hear his voice.
Hidan...
Hidan gulped, eyes welding up again. He looked back up at the door, knowing Tobi wouldn't give up. He looked up at the door knob, knowing he should open it. Maybe it was too far away. He lifted up his weak arm, stretching and reaching for the door knob with all he could. He grabbed the doorknob, struggling to turn it. His hand slipped, his arm limp on his thigh when his hand fell.
Tobi gasped softly when he saw the door open slightly. He grabbed the door and swung it open.
He gasped, looking at the weak, bleeding boy, sitting on the floor. "Hidan!"
"DAMN BITCH!"
"...I haven't even done anything yet..."
Hidan glared down at Tobi, who was holding open a big bandage above Hidan's leg, about to wrap it up.
Tobi sighed and rolled his eyes, shaking his head. He started to wrap his leg up. "Sorry..." he said, annoyed.
Hidan sighed. "I already told you, you don't need to do this...it'll heal by Friday..." he said, leaning back on his palms and looking away.
"I don't care..." Tobi explained as he continued to be a doctor to Hidan. "These cuts are really deep anyway..." Tobi said. He looked up at Hidan, who was looking away sadly, not wanting to see Tobi worry about it.
Tobi sighed and continued to wrap his leg up.
Hidan just glared down at his leg being wrapped up.
Tobi looked up at his face, seeing the sadness. Tobi sighed and put his arms down, once he was finished.
Hidan blinked and looked at him weird. "What?"
Tobi sighed. "Pardon my tone… " Tobi started "but what the hell…is wrong with you?" Tobi asked angered, glaring up at Hidan with his eye.
Hidan blinked, looking at him, confused.
He glared at him. "What the fuck, you little-?" he tried to get up, just to wince and fall back down, hands hovering over his leg, wanting to touch it, but not wanting to touch it at the same time.
Hidan glared down at Tobi again, who was just staring at him blankly.
"What the fuck do you mean 'what is wrong with me?'" Hidan asked, angrily.
"I'm talking about you doing this to yourself...willingly..." Tobi started, standing up still looking at him.
Hidan followed him with his eyes, confused.
"You did this because of someone that loves you...and nothing else." Tobi finished.
That struck Hidan like a freight train. Hidan stared at Tobi, awestruck. Hidan gulped and looked down, not wanting to admit he was right.
"Well, fuck you." Hidan ordered, hiding the truth as he shoved Tobi out of the way with his stretched out arms. Tobi did was he was forced to do.
"Kaku…Kakuzu...d...d-did this to me" He explained as he struggled to get up, using Tobi as an arm rest. He stood up on his good leg, then let go of Tobi, shoving him back a bit. Tobi eyes just watched him, unimpressed and moved.
Hidan continued to limp towards the window, arms keeping him balanced. He winced with each unbalanced step. Tobi's eye followed him, not caring about helping him at all.
"I-I…f-fuckin—!" Hidan was cut off by slipping and falling to the side forcefully. His arm immediately grabbed onto the bedside table that was closest to him, it falling onto its side as well, a table leg ramming him in the side. He shouted softly, but said no more.
Hidan just lay there, ignoring the pain in his side, not crying out in pain. Tears flowed from his eyes, feeling like—knowing that he fucked up his life. Tobi continued to watch, unmoved.
"You didn't have to help me up, ya know…"
Tobi sighed, looking down at Hidan in the bed, finally doing what Tobi wanted him to do. "You look like u needed it…considering you can't really walk right…" iOr do anything right for that matter…/i he thought to himself.
Hidan rolled his eyes and pulled the covers over him more, looking away.
Tobi sighed about to say something, when Zetsu knocked on the door.
Tobi's head snapped around, looking at the door. Hidan continued laid there, slightly confused, but not moving.
Tobi got up and walked to the door, opening it up to see Zetsu standing there with a bag in his hand.
"Hey, what did you get?" Tobi asked, excited, smiling big.
Zetsu looked at him confused, only holding one bag.
"Uh…soda…?" he said, confused. Zetsu looked over at Hidan, who was laying his head on his cheek, looking defeated. "What happened to you?" he asked, directing it to Hidan.
Hidan's eyes darted over to him, filled with anger.
"He had a…uh..." Tobi started, answering for him. "…Accident?"
Zetsu looked down at Tobi weird. "An accident? What kind of 'accident'?" he asked, wanting answers, very concerned.
"It doesn't fucking matter!" Hidan yelled at them.
Zetsu looked over at Hidan, who was already trying to get out of the bed again. He sat up on the bed, throwing the covers off him.
Zetsu's eyes widened when he saw the huge bandage wrap on his leg.
Hidan put all his weight on his good leg, getting half way up.
Tobi rushed over to Hidan. "Hidan, I told you to stay in bed." He told him as he pushed him back down on the bed.
"But, I'm fucking pissed!" Hidan yelled. "I can't stay in bed!" He tried to get up again, just to have Tobi shove him down again.
"Look, you did this to yourself," Tobi explained, not letting go of Hidan's shoulders. "so I don't care what you say, you're staying in bed." He ordered.
Zetsu watched Tobi in awe, surprised by his forcefulness.
Hidan just groaned and shoved him away.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Zetsu complained, interrupting him. "I was there for all of that…"
Tobi whined. "I know, but…"
"Just tell me about the random letter being written at 2 in the morning or whatever…"
Tobi sighed and continued his story.
"Well, I woke up around one o'clock, to still see Hidan awake…"
"I can't sleep…"
Tobi looked at Hidan. Hidan looked so weak, defeated, and just hating life.
"Why not?" Tobi asked, concerned. He only wished to help.
Hidan sighed, sitting up on his bed, keeping his bad leg straight out on the bed, other leg hanging off the bed. "I don't know…I just…." He sighed, not continuing his sentence.
Tobi thought for a while, looking at his tired state. He glanced down at Hidan's leg, remembering what he said only hours before.
"K…Kakuzu!" he heard the screaming cries in his head.
Tobi looked back up at Hidan's worried, tired face.
"You wanna call him?"
Hidan shook his head and looked away. "I…I can't call him…" he complained. "I can't tell him…" He looked down at his leg, the throbbing pain gone "Not now…" he mumbled.
Tobi sighed, leaning back on his palms, sitting criss-cross, applesauce. "Then write him…" he suggested, not really knowing if he would take his advice or not.
Hidan looked over at him, confused. "Write him?"
Tobi nodded, and then shrugged. "I do when I can't talk to someone…but need to…"
Hidan whined and looked down at his leg, face filled with worry.
Tobi smiled faintly. "Write him…" he suggested again.
Hidan looked up at him. He sighed and looked at his leg again.
"Get me a fucking piece of paper, damnit…maybe two…"
Tobi looked down at Zetsu, smiling faintly. "And then he wrote it…it took 3 hours…but he still wrote it just the same…"
His smile faded when Zetsu didn't say anything once he was done story-telling.
"Zetsu?" Tobi asked worried.
Zetsu sat up, sitting Indian style, looking directly at Tobi. "We have to do something…" He said, anxious.
Tobi's eyes widened.
Zetsu looked down at his feet. "…before something worse happens." He sighed and looked up at Tobi, who was looking at him surprised. "Hidan is the only one Kakuzu ever talks about…" He sighed. "we have to…we ineed/i to do something…"
Tobi gulped. He nodded. "I don't think I can take care of Hidan anymore…he's yelling at me more…" Tobi whined. "it's scary…"
Zetsu giggled. "Well help them out, and Hidan won't yell at you anymore…" he promised.
Tobi smiled. "Yeah…" he said simply.
Zetsu smiled. "We'll talk to them tomorrow…"
Tobi nodded. "Right…"
