"HEY YOU GAY'S LUNCH'S ON THE TABLE!" Itachi yelled from the kitchen. About half an hour of just laying on top of the blonde, Sasori smiled and got up, sliding his arms under Deidara's legs and around his back.
"No! Don't un!" Sasori looked surprised, and he knew it. He cursed himself. He'd been careless with his emotions lately… and if he wasn't careful then it could get him into a load of trouble.
"Why?" He questioned
"Cause I want to do it myself un" Deidara declared, determination written all over his face.
"Dei… let me help"
"NO!" Deidara turned on Sasori, who was considering yelling at the blonde about "hormones" again – but that would get them to break out in a fight, and he didn't want that to happen. "I want, to do it, myself un" Deidara slid himself off the couch and used his hands and butt to get over into the kitchen. "You know danna un, you can start eating"
"I'm not doing anything until I get to see you get your butt on that chair without my help brat" Sasori folded his arms across his chest, watching as Deidara struggled to get onto the chair. "Dei, I want to he-"
"I don't want you to! For gods sakes danna un! Pass me the freakin' food!" Sasori frowned and grabbed the plate of rice and chicken, putting it on Deidara's outstretched legs.
"Happy eating" Sasori mumbled, walking back to his seat and starting on his food. There was silence for a few minutes, but soon after that it got boring, and so a conversation broke out about time off work – a sort of vacation or holiday. Tobi's idea of course.
"I reckon we just go to the beach for a weekend or a week or something – it won't cost a lot if we camp out" Kakuzu said, shovelling some rice into his mouth.
"The beach? Kuzu we aint god-damn kids!" Hidan said, flicking his rice across the table, frustrating Itachi.
"Hidan's right Kakuzu-san" bYeah, we want to go somewhere more interesting/b
"How about we all go to different places un. I mean, finding a place which we all like, and having to spend possibly a week with all of us would be mayhem – and suicide un" Deidara concluded. "So I reckon we just pair off and go somewhere where iwe/i wanna' go un"
"The blonde actually has a good idea, although… it would cost a fair bit-" Itachi began
"Hey! No way, this isn't coming from the base's bank, if we're separating off on our own then you're paying for it yourself!" Kakuzu said, his hands instantly rushing to his money pouch tied around his waist.
"Pffft. Fine, but who's going to watch the base? We can't leave it"
"Tobi thinks we should take it with us!!" The orange masked hyper-ball jumped up and down at the idea.
"Don't be a fool Tobi! We can't take the base with us, its too big and it'd have to break into pieces if we all went to separate places" Kisame said, his fist slamming on the table.
"I'm sure Pein has some kind of cloaking thing… if he can make it bigger, or at least big enough to cover the whole base, then the base will be invisible till we get back" Konan said. She was remaining quiet mainly because she didn't really have any input – she just listened and agreed to what was being said – if she didn't like it, she said so. If she did like it, but she wasn't that bothered, then she'd keep quiet. Much like now.
"ZOMG! You mean like a maasssiiivvee invisibility cloak! Like off Harry Potter!!" Tobi's eye grew wide.
"Umm… I don't know – I don't even know if he has one – it was just an idea" Konan sipped her tea, ignoring the fact that everyone was looking at her. "What?!"
"Konan-san, are you okay? You seem pale un?" Deidara asked, looking up at Konan from the floor.
"I'm fine Dei, just feeling a bit queasy" She gave the blonde a grin before going back to sipping her tea.
"We still need to run this by Leader-sama though" Itachi said, his voice breaking the looming silence.
"Yeah un, I think Tobi should do it! It was his idea!" Deidara said, pointing a finger at the orange masked kid.
"Deidara are you deranged?! Sending ihim/i to leader-sama is …. Not good!" Kisame said, earning a hurt look from Tobi. "I reckon Itachi should go" Deidara laughed at this, his plate falling off his knees and landing on the floor.
"I-Itachi! W-with Pein, a-asking f-for a h-holiday!" Deidara went into a fit of laughter which only Konan was laughing at.
"He has a point. I'll ask him, I need to talk to him anyway" Konan shrugged, setting her empty cup of tea on the table and going to Pein's office. She knocked lightly and opened the door.
"Come in" Pein's face was once again buried behind mountains of paperwork.
"Do you have a minute?"
"For you yes. For work – no" He put his pen down in frustration, letting Konan massage his shoulders.
"The others were wandering if we could have a break or something – like a holiday"
"All of us?" The boss raised an eyebrow, knowing if all of them went on holiday together, Hidan would surely get killed more times than you could breathe throughout your life.
"Well, Deidara said all of us going together would be suicide, and so we should go as pairs… of course we don't need to worry about pairing them all up" Konan blushed.
"Yeah, they're all as bent as a coat-hanger" Pein sighed and leant back in his leather chair, grinning up at Konan. "Sounds like an idea, although – I need to get this done. So we wont be going anytime this week or the next"
"That's fine, I'm sure Dei would want to be up and walking by the timewe get to go… we do get to go don't we? I mean.. we do actually get a holdiday? You approve?"
"Yeah, but you're my parter…I'm kidnapping you if you say otherwise" Konan smiled and kissed Peins head.
"Great" She smiled. Pein saw right through it. He'd known her for so long – there was nothing on her face he couldn't read.
"Are you okay?" He asked, stroking her pale cheek.
"I'm fine! God, why is everyone asking!"
"PMSing? Or just a bad day" This earned the almighty leader a whack on the head, which he laughed off. He stopped when he saw Konan walking away towards the door. "Konan, I was kidding"
"Kid-…" He heard Konan sigh. "I'm fine" With that said, she walked out. Pein's eyebrow rose. He was going to question her later on for sure. With that sorted, he picked up his pen and carried on working.
Konan walked slowly back into the kitchen, a confident and 'normal' look on her face. "He said we can go, but he's got work to do, so we can't go anytime this or next week. That okay with you Dei?" The blonde nodded and passed Sasori his plate, who passed it to Kisame who was washing up with Itachi.
"Fine with me un, I can get these useless sticks to work more confidently"
"You were walking fine on the treadmill Dei, aren't they working now?"
"They do, but not as well. As he walks on the treadmill he has support to help him stand and walk, here he doesn't have anything" Kakuzu explained. Konan nodded and sighed, turning around and walking upstairs.
"She's not herself un… Ahh well, Pein'll figure it out" Deidara nodded and shuffled himself back into the living room.
"Deidara you're gonna' get bloody carpet burn on your freakin' ass if you keep doing that" Hidan said.
"Oh well un" Deidara pushed himself up onto the couch and sat next to the red head, who had his arm now wrapped securely around the blonde. "Oh bloody hell!" The others turned to see what it was Tobi was watching, and what the reason was for Deidara burying his head furiously into Sasori's neck.
"Tinky winky, dipsy, la la, po (po) Teletubies – Teletubie!-" Hidan grabbed his scythe and crashed it into the TV, breaking the screen and breaking it.
"Hell no am I watching them scary shits" He took his place next to Kakuzu and they sat in silence, wandering what to do next.
"Where's Konan?" Deidara jumped at the unexpected voice behind him.
"Oh, Pein, she went up stairs" Sasori said. Pein gave him a quick nod before running, yes running, up the stairs to find his girl friend. Something was wrong, and he wanted to know what. And what Pein wants, Pein gets.
Konan paced back and forward for the fiftieth time in the bathroom. i'Not good, not good, not good!/i Her hands were infront of her, picking at her fingernails nervously. She faced the door, her back to the little table next to the toilet. Did she dare look? She didn't want to. It could ruin everything. She'd rather kill herself. She sighed and looked at the watch Pein had gotten her a while ago. It should show by now. Alarm bells were ringing in her head, and her ears were ringing also. Her body felt clammy as she turned around and picked up the object on the table. She held it carefully with both hands with her eyes shut. i'Open ya' god-damn eyes! You're not going to see anything with them shut!'/i Konan sighed nervously, a lump rising in her throat, tears threatening to rise. She opened her eyes and looked carefully at the object in her hands. One fine pink line was displayed across the screen. She bit her lip and held back a sob. Tears fell, she couldn't stop them. She double checked, her vision becoming blurred due to the tears. The fine pink line was still there. She swallowed and held the test between her hands, her fists enclosed around it. i'Just snap it, no'one'll know…right? They're all guys – do they even know what one looks like?'/i Konan shut her eyes, commanding the tears to go away. They disobeyed. She sniffed and opened her eyes, confident. She was just about to snap it when the bathroom door burst open.
"Jesus fucking Christ!! Pein!?" She wiped away the remaining tears quickly with both her hands. i'Wait – both?!'/i She dropped the test. Her eyes grew wide as her ginger haired boyfriend lent down and picked it up. She gulped and backed away from him. She didn't want to know his reaction. She didn't want to know what he would do or say. Whatever he was going to do, it wouldn't be good. She held her breath as Pein read the display, his eyebrows knitting together.
"I guess I was wrong with the PMS thing…" He attempted a laugh, but failed. He looked up. His heart broke seeing his girlfriend's two pure eyes shining with tears. Her nose was red and her whole body seemed to scream 'Help-me'. Pein sighed and snapped the test, knowing she was going to do that in the first place. She licked her lips as he walked towards her, her heart racing. Pein wrapped his arms lovingly and comfortingly around her, nuzzling his face into her neck, moving his mouth up to her ear. He bit it playfully, then blew on it, making Konan shiver. "Does this mean I'm going to be a dad?" He asked his face unreadable.