Start: May 4, 2008
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Takigakure no Sato: A
beautiful little ninja village, but harder to find than a needle in a
haystack, literally. Takigakure was filled with waterfalls. To top
that off; Kakuzu really did not remember which waterfall it was in.
So Hidan had every right to bitch his head off.
"Fuck you
Kakuzu! You said the last one was it! But no! I got even wetter for
nothing!" Hidan nagged. "Fuck you and your god damned old
brain!"
"Oh screw you Hidan! You'd forget this place too if you hadn't been here in a hundred years!" Kakuzu swung and the shorter man's head with his brief case. The storm had cleared enough, but there was still heavy grey clouds hanging about the sky, as well as a slight breeze from the ocean only miles away. "Alright, if it isn't this one, I'll buy a deluxe suite tonight, okay?" He inwardly cringed, but knew he had to do something to make it up to Hidan - the boy was already freezing to death.
"I want a decent place even if it is behind this one." Hidan snapped before jumping threw the torrent of water, appearing again some time later. "Fuck you. You jinxed it you god damn money whore." He turned around and beckoned Kakuzu to follow him. "This is the place." he said before jumping threw the waterfall again.
Kakuzu laughed as he heard Hidan cuss, the man having jumped into a rock wall. "Even I knew that one was just a regular waterfall!" He took Hidan's wrist, pulling him from the water. He lent down and pecked the Jashinist on the nose. "Mmm, as fun as it is to watch you jump in and out of these things; let's have a biscuit and think, okay? I've got ones with meat and some with jelly for desert."
"It is the place, Kakuzu," Hidan said, rubbing his nose. "I just ran into a rock. Let's go already, I'm fucking cold."
Kakuzu blinked, rubbing a temple. His memory really was slipping if he could not tell real from fake. He followed Hidan into the small room behind the fall, three large puddles on the floor. "Okay, now one of these leads to the village, one just goes to the floor, and one is a trap hole which is nearly impossible to escape." He looked at each in turn. "Well, you won't drown so have fun."
Hidan sputtered, taking out his pike to check the puddles. "You better suck me off and get us a good hotel." he snapped, poking the center puddle. "This one is a puddle." Hidan then jumped into the one on the left surfacing moments later. "I take this one takes us to the Village then?"
"I'll do no such thing." He jumped in the water as well. "I'll get you a nice hotel and fuck you, but that's about it. You're the bitch in this relationship."
Hidan muttered before
diving down, only to resurface on a wooded dock.
"Welcome to
Takigakure," one of the ninja guards said. "What is the
reason for your stay?"
Hidan turned to Kakuzu who had just
appeared himself. "My partner will tell you why we're here."
"Oh um…" Kakuzu looked around, things sure had changed. He knew that sooner or later someone would notice his headband and then they'd be royally screwed. "We just came back from a mission." He lied.
Hidan caught Kakuzu's
mistake and set on correcting it forming several hand signs he put up
a small illusion, making their headbands change into those worn by
ninja from Kumogakure. "What he means is that we're on a
mission." he said, "We heard that a ninja named Nii Yugito
was here. We came to give her information."
The guard looked
them over before replying. "I wouldn't know that." he said.
"But Shibuki-sama would." he helped Hidan and Kakuzu out of
the water. "He'd be in the square with the children."
"Thanks."
Hidan gave the man a quick bow and dragged Kakuzu off. "You
almost screwed us over, dickhead."
"Well sorry," he said, not paying any attention to his partner. Kakuzu looked around, children jumping in puddles, women trying to drain their flower beds. Everything had changed; it was still home, but not really. He tried desperately to remember were he and Warai had lived – it would not be in the main square seeing as they had been chased out of town, but still he looked.
He felt all his hearts skip in their steady chorus of thump-thump when he saw the faces of a few people he could identify. More than likely their grandchildren, but it was as if he were seeing them. Enemies, old friends. He shook his head, trying to clear it. He had to be on his toes, he could not make anymore stupid mistakes. Or at least, not make anymore and then let Hidan save him. How degrading. "Okay, we need to get a place to stay. Even if the Jinchuuriki isn't here, I still want to take a couple of days looking."
"It better be nice. I want to eat at a nice place too." Hidan looked to the left where some young women were watching him, giggling like mad. In response he flipped them the bird and grabbed Kakuzu's hand. "Let's find this 'Shibuki' person."
Kakuzu walked faster, his face heating over. If the morals of his village were the same, their hand holding would be fiercely looked down upon. "Food or information first?"
"Information.
Let's just get it out of the way." Hidan said looking up at
Kakuzu, "Love you."
As they rounded a corner Hidan
spotted a young man attempting to walk with a bunch of kids hanging
on him. The children were chanting. "Bring down
Shibuki-sama!"
"Look, nasty little vermin; trying to
kill an adult. Ugh, kids are awful."
Kakuzu walked up to the group. "Back off you little runts! Respect your elders!" A thread emerged from his coat and whipped at the ground, scarring the children enough to run away. He nodded to the man.
The man looked just as
terrified as the children. "Er... You had no need to do that."
he said, looking nervously at them, "They were just
playing..."
"Looked like they were trying to kill you."
Hidan said, "Grow a backbone you wimp."
A ball went
sailing and hit Hidan in the head. "Don't bully
Shibuki-sama!"
"Yeah, he's no wimp! He's a hero!"
"Shibuki-sama, hm?" Kakuzu looked from his attacked partner to the shaking man beside him. "Just the person we were looking for."
"Oh you little
punks! I'll get you!" Hidan screamed, picking up the ball and
chucking it back at the children. "I'll rip out your filthy
little innards!"
"Oh, um... Outsiders right? Last ones
to come here were those Genin from Konoha. Er... Naruto Uzamaki,
Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha." Shibuki said the names as if
to help him remember, "Erm... What do you need?"
Kakuzu looked at Hidan. "So a Jinchuuriki has been here, just not the one we want." He grabbed Shibuki's arms, pulling him up slightly. "We need to have a friendly little chat with you, make a scene and this arm comes off, okay?" He said as sweetly as he could muster.
"Ka!" With a
puff of smoke Shibuki was gone. In his place was a scarecrow.
"Nice
going," Hidan said flatly. "You scared him away."
Kakuzu dropped the replacement with a scowl. "How long have the people of my village been such cowards?" He walked over to Hidan, looking up and down the streets. "C'mon, let's find him."
"What for? The
Nibi wasn't here obviously," Hidan said leaning against Kakuzu's
large frame. "And I doubt that he has a large bounty on- Oh
would you get lost you brats?! 'Kuzu make them go away!"
"'Kuzu
make them go away!" one young girl with buns and tan skin
mocked, giggling madly.
Kakuzu whipped at the children. "Shoo you brats! I bet you all have small pox or ring worm or something! Get!" He placed a hand on Hidan's waist, pulling the smaller man towards him. "There, happy?"
"Yes, very," Hidan said, wrapping an arm around Kakuzu's middle. "Can we go eat now? I saw an all-you-can-eat-buffet awhile back."
The man gave a heavy sigh, making a dramatic display of nothing. "Fine, fine. Then I'll go get you a nice hotel and fuck your brains out." He nuzzled his nose in the crook of Hidan's neck. "Mmm, that Shibuki-sama is probably going to round up some ninja to get us. We either need to find him again and work things out, or leave quickly."
"I don't think he'll go tattle," Hidan said, nipping and licking his lover's neck "Lot of people say things like that. And he'll be surrounded by fucking kids. Why do people even have them anyway?"
"I had a kid," Kakuzu said quietly.
"And I'm sure she was an angel," Hidan said truthfully. "I mean kids like those. Nasty fuckers."
"Let's go." Kakuzu backed away from Hidan, walking down the street to look for the buffet Hidan said he had seen. He felt a tight squeeze at his hearts and, suddenly, his hunger left him.
Hidan jogged to catch up with Kakuzu, hugging his arm tightly. "What was you kid like?" He asked.
Kakuzu was quiet for a long, long time. He blinked as his eyes began to water over. "I…there's the restraunt," he said, holding the door open for Hidan. He paid for the both of them and they were seated. It was not until they Hidan came back with his first plate that he spoke up again. "She was…the greatest thing in my life," he said quietly, looking at the table. His hands folded under his chin.
Hidan sat next to Kakuzu and grabbed his hand. "I'm sure she was," he said quietly, pulling his lover down to kiss his eyes. "You're crying..."
"No I'm not." Kakuzu turned away, rubbing his eyes with a sniff. "Okay so I am. So what?" His shoulders tensed even if he knew Hidan would not make fun of him for it, he still wanted to be prepared. "I-I haven't thought about her in…ages." He took a few deep breaths, trying to steady himself. He blinked a few more times before stealing a drink from Hidan's glass of water. He stiffed and sighed, his composer regained.
Hidan grabbed Kakuzu's head and brought their foreheads together, rubbing his nose against his lovers. "It's okay to cry, 'Kuzu-koi," he said, wrapping his arms around the larger's neck. "My 'Kuzu-koi. My first and only."
"I don't cry," Kakuzu said, trying to sound sure of himself. True he had not since his family had died, but his previous actions proved his statement false. "I'm going to go get some noodles." He stood and walked to the buffet.
Hidan smiled sadly after Kakuzu before taking a bite of the fried squid he got. "He's opening up..." he said quietly.
Kakuzu sat back down at his seat, kissing Hidan's ear as he broke his chopsticks. "I love you," he said quietly, his heart aching something fierce. He pulled his mask down just enough to slurp up a bit of food, placing it back to chew. "So, we leave tomorrow morning for Kumogakure and get that damned Jinchuuriki so we can go home, or do you feel like hanging out here a little while longer?"
"Lets leave
tomorrow, but can we sleep in?" Hidan asked, putting on a
pleading face. "Please?"
"Sure, you can if you want.
I doubt I will." He pulled his mask down for another bite, pouring
soy sauce over his food as he did so. "But I dunno," he said once
he had swallowed, "I always find staying asleep easy after we-"
He blinked as he felt eyes on him. "Hey," he whispered to Hidan,
as nonchalantly as he could, "are the people behind us staring?
Don't make it obvious you're looking just…"
Hidan turned his head so his chin rested on Kakuzu's shoulder, his eyes darting to look behind them. "Yeah, just a bunch of teenage boys."
Kakuzu snorted, "More with the kids. When did the people here turn into rabbits?" He tugged his mask down one last time to polish off his noodles, stealing another drink from Hidan before replacing his mask.
"I don't like the way they're looking at us," Hidan said, wrapping an arm around Kakuzu's neck and pressing his face into the side of his lover's head. "I think they saw all the money in your suitcase."
"You're afraid of some little punks mugging us?" Kakuzu scoffed rather loudly. "You underestimate me, Hidan-kun." He ruffled his partner's hair, but under the table he moved the suitcase so that a foot was on either side of it.
Hidan gave another quick glance at the kids before turning around to lean against the larger man. "Now they're looking at us like we're freaks. Do you think it's because of my skin and hair? Me being albino and all."
"You're not that pale," Kakuzu said truthfully. He would never understand what made Hidan think he was so ugly, although, he supposed it was the same way with how Hidan viewed Kakuzu. But even before they had formed a relationship, Kakuzu had viewed him as pretty: soft skin and hair, strangely colored eyes, thin frame with enough muscle to get by. Most albinos had red or pink eyes, but Hidan's were more purple. Kakuzu smiled under his mask. "You really need to get better self-esteem." How hypocritical.
"Look who's talking," Hidan said, unbuttoning the collar of his lover's cloak and then pulling it up to hide his face. "Give me a kiss?" He asked, pulling down Kakuzu's mask.
"What? No! Not so loud!" Kakuzu's face flushed. "Hidan, my village isn't okay with this kind of stuff."
Hidan scowled. "Who
cares? You left this dump and cut all ties with it." he said,
"And this is the first time you've been here since we got
together. Maybe things have changed. Please kiss me?"
Kakuzu
groaned but bent down and pecked Hidan on the lips nonetheless.
Pulling away once he was finished, he rolled his eyes. "Happy?"
"Give 'em a
better kiss then that!" a young woman yelled, her friend
whistling.
See? They liked it. And she's right, give me a
better kiss, Hidan said.
Kakuzu sighed heavily before leaning down to kiss him a little longer and a little harder. "Better?"
"Hot stuff!" the girl who had whistled yelled, the other cheering. An employee walked up and kindly asked them to quiet down.
Hidan nodded, quickly finishing his food so he could get desert. "Do you want desert, 'Kuzu?"
"Nah I'm good." Kakuzu pulled his mask back up and rest his head in his hand.
"You sure?" Hidan asked. "Chocolate is an aphrodisiac."
"I'll just steal some of yours if I want any." He looked at Hidan with a smile. "Well, go ahead, get your sugar and cocoa."
Hidan trotted off, returning with all sweet things chocolate. "I can't see why you don't like sweets, 'Kuzu," he said, taking a bite out of his chocolate-swirl cheesecake.
Kakuzu took one look at the plate and turned away in disgust. "I think I just got diabetes."
"It does not give you diabetes!" Hidan said loudly, pouting. "You should try dark chocolate. It's not all that sweet."
"No thanks," Kakuzu sighed. "Chocolate is gross no matter what." He looked back over at Hidan. "Almost done?"
"Yeah," Hidan said before eating the last of the dessert. "'Kay, lets go. Hold that suit case tight." He winked playfully.
Kakuzu rolled his eyes, he placed a hand on Hidan's lower back as he led the smaller out the door. "Okay, tell me when you find a place that looks good to you." He adjusted his hold on his metal briefcase. He pretended to look around for a hotel they could spend the night in, when actuality he was looking for hunter nins that might be tailing him. Kakuzu pulled Hidan closer, he did not spot anyone, but he felt a wave of paranoia wash over him.
Hidan snaked an arm around Kakuzu's middle. "How about that one?" Hidan said, pointing at a family owned inn. "They're rarely expensive and they have nice beds and such."
Kakuzu nodded. "Alright, doesn't look too bad." He turned them towards the hotel, smiling at the elderly woman at the counter, although it was not visible through his mask. "One room please, single bed with a bathroom." He swallowed, suddenly worried that they might be turned away do to such requirements.
"Yes, is this
lovely young lady your wife? Just married I presume?" the lady
asked, squinting at the two of them. "Newly weds get half
off."
Hidan made a small noise, his face looking sour, but
he said nothing. This was a chance to get an even cheaper room, and
Kakuzu would like that.
"Yes," Kakuzu said a bit took quickly. "I mean," he cleared his throat, "yes, yes we are."
"M'hm that will
be four hundred Ryou please."
Hidan watched Kakuzu exchanged
the money for the key. "Carry me, sweetheart?" he asked, in
a girlish voice.
Kakuzu looked down at Hidan in disgust, but scooped the man up nonetheless. Once he was sure the woman could no longer hear him he hissed: "I hate you so much right now." He fumbled with the key and unlocked the door, dumping Hidan on the bed. "So are we officially a couple now or something?" He looked around the room: light pink walls covered in pink hearts; lights with red bulbs; a plush, heart-shaped bed with white sheets to match the white chairs. "I think I'm going to be sick."
"At least it's not like the ones in those gambling districts," Hidan said, stretching out on the bed. "Mmm, it's so soft!"
The ex-falls nin sat on the bed next to Hidan, hesitating before he too lay down. "Feels nice." He yawned, rolling over to face Hidan. Kakuzu reached a hand out to run the tips of his fingers along his cheek.
Hidan scooted closer, smiling happily. "Love you," he said scooting closer until he was pressed against Kakuzu.
Kakuzu smiled slightly. "Love you too." He placed a kiss onto the top of Hidan's head before rolling over on top of him. Kakuzu pulled down his mask to place hard kisses along Hidan's neck and shoulder.
Hidan moaned in delight, squeezing Kakuzu's shoulders. "When this is all done, when the Akatsuki meets its go-ah!" He arched his back when Kakuzu bit a sensitive spot. "Do you want to live with me?"
"Yeah," he said quietly, licking the spot that had made Hidan squirm. "I would like that." He meant at that moment he would. He sat up and began to unbutton Hidan's cloak. "God you're so beautiful."
Hidan's cheeks flushed a deep pink, averting his eyes. "'Kuzu-koi..." he mumbled, reaching up and biting his knuckles.
"You make me so fucking conflicted." He brushed Hidan's hair behind his ears before he leant down to peck him on the lips. Kakuzu scooted Hidan farther up on the bed; he removed his own cloak before he leaned over to click the light off.
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End: May 09, 2008
