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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"Oh back then?" Kisame commented when he saw his partner enter back into the group room.

"Konan's gone now, un." Deidara added.

"Yea. Where'd she go?" Itachi replied blankly as he went and sat in his usual seat.

"Dunno, un." Deidara replied. "She said she had to get away for now."

"Don't blame her really." Kisame added to the subject. "Zetsu almost gave us away! What the hell was he thinking? Saying such comments..."

"Why do you think I made him leave?" Itachi replied. "He was ruining everything. I don't know what he's playing at, did he want her to know or something?"

"Don't know." Kisame sighed in return. "But that stupid plant is going to ruin everything before Christmas Day at this rate."

"Does it really matter whether it comes out before Christmas Day?" Itachi asked in a mono tone..

"Yes, un. That's what he's planned and we're not changing it anymore than it is, un." Deidara frowned. "Besides, at this rate when he reveals on Christmas Day she's going to hate him or something, un. All because of Zetsu's stupid little acts."

"Don't see what he's got to gain from all this..." Itachi sighed.

"You don't think..." Deidara started, eye's widening in realisation.

"Oh, what's wrong with you now?" Itachi hissed.

"No Itachi." Kisame butted in. "Deidara strikes an interesting thought, actually."

"I'm not seeing you're point..." Itachi replied blankly.

"Zetsu, think of all those actions he's been doing in the past 3 days." Kisame pushed, trying to get his partner to grasp the point.

All of a sudden Itachi's eye's widened just a little bit, realisation just hitting him. "You... You two think that Zetsu's... Got something for... Her?" He for once was a little stunned.

"Exactly the point, un." Deidara nodded.

"It would explain his strange actions. I did find it a little weird when he did keep on spying on her, even if he was on this project, he was doing it unnecessarily all the time." Kisame explained his thoughts.

"And you think Zetsu could be trying to 'undermine' our plans?" Itachi added.

"To right, un." Deidara gasped back at him. "By the looks of it, for his own personal reasons."

"That explains why he wanted to be the 'leader' of this project so bad." Itachi sighed.

"I can't believe we haven't spotted these stupid little things he was doing..." Kisame sighed as well.

"Yea, well... What are we going to do about it? Un." Deidara asked finally. "We can't just let this project slide."

"You're right." Kisame replied plainly. "We just need to hang on the plan for less than 2 more days. It's Christmas Eve tomorrow, we have make it work."

"I say all we can do is watch him very carefully." Itachi suggested in his mono toned voice.

"That'll be hard, since he's so good at moving quickly, un." Deidara reminded with a bit of annoyance.

"Well he's not going to want to admit he's got feelings for anything." Itachi replied casually.

"Yea, he's not going to admit anything." Kisame agreed. "So good chances are he's going to continue with what he has been doing. Don't let him know we're on to him and he won't really run."

"I guess..." Deidara sighed with annoyance that they couldn't do much. Other than kill him and even that would be really hard. "Why don't you want this project to drop, Itachi? I thought you couldn't care less about much, un."

"..." Itachi just turned and glared at Deidara for a while until he found his wording. "I don't work on something for it to get dropped or messed with. If I do something like a project, it's going all the way through if I've got something to do with it." Itachi growled, for once showing a bit of strong backbone. He usually couldn't be assed to do much but he felt like they'd put so much work into the project and he wasn't having them all having their time wasted. "It'll be like letting a client down and you don't get your bounty because you've let them down, where you haven't tried you're hardest. And I'm trying my hardest, if you haven't noticed, I'm not letting it go down the pan. Just because one of our own is back-stabbing us."

Kisame and Deidara nodded strongly to what Itachi was saying, it had to be considered a mission. And what did you do for a mission? Not stop until you get what you need done and work around kinks that have aroused. "But is this really enough to even be called a mission?" Kisame questioned.

"Yes it is, un." Deidara replied.

"Yea but it's a mission for inside our organisation." Kisame continued to state. "Like for a member to another member."

"A mission is a mission." Itachi replied simply. "It's come from an higher authority in this place too."

"Plus we don't care really about anyone else, which means sometimes we have to... Stick together... Un." Deidara struggled to get his words out, they sounded foreign to him and none ever discussed of such things. They just automatically knew the rules and game play when they entered this place and got to know each other. "I mean... If we came across one of our own getting attacked, we hardly just going to ignore them and let them bleed to death, un."

The other two nodded, also thinking the words just sounded so strange to them. They all couldn't wait for this 'project' to be over and so the inside of the organisation could become more stable again. It was bad enough being against everybody else in the world but to be sneaking around their own wasn't doing any of them any good. In fact making it just purely worse, they'll still need to work together after all of this.

"I swear, no one in this place better ever ask me to do a Christmas favour or give Christmas to them ever." Itachi hissed with annoyance finally, eye's now back into common blank slit form. "This is the only favour of a lifetime you'll ever see me doing."

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Konan quietly sat in the highest room in the place, it was attached to the roof and didn't have much wall but still was perfect shelter for her to sit and watch things without getting splashed by the rain. She hated the rain, everything that it did. She felt it was just her stupid luck to get born into, what she considers, the most worst country of them all. Quite often she even loathed this being her home country, it never did anything good for her. Plus to make it worse she had a partner that controlled the rain and loved making it rain wherever they were. However she couldn't totally bitch about him though, when she had to leave the place or anything he stopped the rain and gave her a dry path to use. He knew she hated it so much and that she couldn't really work in the wet. At least he was observant...

The rain did have one quality though... One that she did like... It gave such a steady and relaxing beat, as long as the water didn't go on her she liked it. She liked going to this room often, to calm herself from her current stressful life. Loads of the others knew better than to disturb her when she was in there, except for Pein and she only aloud him in there with her because he'll be quiet and do what she asked, plus the nightmare known as...

"Hey Konan!" Shrieked a voice and the body let itself into the room.

"Tobi..." Konan almost hissed under breath, the one voice she didn't want to hear.

"Just coming to let you know Kakazu and Hidan are back from their mission." Tobi stated, walking over to her and sitting beside her on the bench that she sat on, the only thing to sit on in the room.

"Back already, huh?" Konan gave a semi interested voice. "Didn't think the'd be back this quick."

"It wasn't that big of a mission. Leader-Sama seems to be having the team go easy on themselves at the moment, maybe he's getting into the season." Tobi started to get excited at the thought of what season it was.

"Doubt it." Konan snorted to that comment.

"Why?"

"My partner doesn't do soft touch moments, really. Nor does he ever get into the season of anything, he most likely couldn't care less." Konan explained simply.

"But he put up the decorations, really pretty." Tobi added.

"I don't know why he's done that..." Konan sighed, did she really know anything of what's going on recently? She seemed to be so out of the loop on things happening recently, she wasn't really the correct person to ask anything from.

"But..." Tobi tried to continue.

"Enough Tobi." Konan snapped at him finally. "I'm trying to... Relax my mind."

"I thought you hated the rain." Tobi raised his eyebrow.

"I only like it this way, it's got a great view..." Konan almost gave a small smile, trying to get herself comfortable again.

"Yea... I saw the state of the bathroom..." Tobi mentioned, not what Konan had wanted to hear about.

"Zetsu getting work?" Konan asked briefly, still getting a shiver down her spine every-time she heard about Zetsu or the bathroom. At least her 'Secret Santa' hadn't bothered her since, thank god!

"Only just... Not even bothering to work quickly. He can be so lazy." Tobi commented. "At his rate he's going to have that thing fixed for ages."

"Darn him..." Konan cussed.

"Hmm?" Tobi put on an questioning face with what she said.

"Nothing." Konan replied quickly. "He's... Just gotten on my nerves recently..."

Tobi nodded slowly. "No plan for anything else today?"

"... Why?" Konan asked cautiously, what was he after?

"Don't get so worried all the time, Konan!" Tobi burst out, a little giggle to his voice. Making her sound really silly for worrying about things all the time. Then again... She did worry a hell of a lot. And she often over thought things way to much, she just considered herself as cautious.

Konan blushed at his comment, did look that on edge? "Sorry..." She sighed slowly and continued to look out at the rain.

"I was wondering... Well... If you wanted to go into the town/city with me..." Tobi asked carefully, not wanting to really annoy her with his stupid suggestions.

"..." Konan didn't know how to reply to that. Should she? Get out of the place a little bit and try and lift her spirits a little? But then again... Did she really want to spend a few hours with Tobi? The annoying pest of the century. Plus it wasn't just raining outside, it was turning into a full on storm out there. Which just proved that Pein's mood wasn't a good one. "I don't know... I can't go in that rain..."

"... Oh yea... I forgot you and rain don't mix..." Tobi sighed.

"No one else?" Konan asked thoughtfully.

"Na, all seem to be busy. Plus none are much fun..." Tobi continued to sigh but now with a pout.

"I think it'd be good for you to go out..." Came a voice from behind, making both of them jump.

Konan's head spun around to see Pein in the flesh, standing behind her with his arms crossed firmly. "Pein! I didn't hear you..." Konan blushed a little.

"I think it's a good idea for you to go out a bit... Ease your mind a little..." Pein repeated and added, not flinching for a second and stayed still like a statue.

"But what about your rain?" Konan gasped. "You never like to stop your rain. The villagers will think somethings wrong..."

"They'll have to deal with it." Pein replied plainly, still not moving. Just keeping direct contact through the eyes with his female partner. "It might be nice... To see the Christmas lights... They can be stunning at this time of the day, just dark enough to see them."

"All of us could go!" Tobi clapped excitedly.

"Just us three, I've got enough of a headache as it is." Pein grunted.

"... Ok Pein... If you're sure..." Konan replied cautiously, what was wrong with her Pein? He usually couldn't give a crap about any such things.

"I'm sure." Pein said firmly and turned to leave the room.

Tobi just started getting up, looking as excited as ever. Konan however sat there for a moment wondering, what the hell was going on around here? There must be something she's missing... Why had Pein decided to change himself a bit ever so suddenly? He hated change. "Come on, Konan. Don't want to keep Leader-Sama waiting!" Tobi urged with excitement and waited by the door till he watched her get up come with him...