A/N: With all the time I have on my hands, I keep writing. Now it's Pein's turn as a little kid. I know Pein is Yahiko, and all that jazz about Nagato, but that leaves no room for imagination, so I wanted to start my own Pein.

Pein's POV: Pierced Protest

I was shunned by my parents. 'Children should be seen, not heard' was their most used line. I was a young boy of thirteen, and I was practically living on the streets. I was sick of them ignoring me. I got my own things, I worked, I lead a ninja group and still my parents treated me like I wasn't there. It was time for a change. I knew my parents both hated tattoos so I went to the parlour and paid the money. My tattoo was the words, printed in large orange writing on the back of my neck, 'It's all the same' and it hurt like a bitch.

When I got home Mum saw the bandage and laughed, thinking I'd gotten hurt for the first time in years. Dad shook his head and continued with what he was doing. Damn, the bandage didn't do anything, and shit, I'm scared the tattoo won't faze them.

A day later and the bandage went off, the showy writing screaming out. Mum and Dad saw it, blinked and continued on with a shake of their heads. Crap! Hell, I need more. And there's only one thing they hate more than tattoos...

I sat at the piercers place, waiting for the gun to shoot the earring through my nose, over three times. Bang! I winced but the pain was instantaneous, and I laughed as it left for a dull throb. Twice more and I'd be good. The lady did the shots and offered a few more.

"Hey, if you're trying to gain their attention, three won't work. I'll do the lip for free?" I nodded and she quickly pierced my lips twice. I looked in the mirror and I barely noticed the change. "Ears, six times each. That would change it!" I nodded again. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! My eardrums vibrated with the noise and it stung and burned without reason. I let my unconsciously clenched jaw relax and looked again. Whoa, looks more different now. "Hey, I got one more thing I wanna do. It's going to change your appearance so... so much. Please?"Once more I nodded. I felt a bar being placed inside my eardrum and I heard two bangs. Then the same repeated with my other ear. I looked in the mirror and saw the bars cross my ear and I did look different, wilder, more like a leader. "Hey, I'll make it all free, it's worth the cause."

I thanked her and I winced as any noise made echoed cruelly through my head. I looked back and decided I wanted one more piercing.

"Can you do my eyebrow? Please. I'll pay you!" This time it was her than nodded.

I sat back down and bang my eyebrow was pierced. I gave her ¥100 and ran off. When I got home my mother shrieked, my father spat up his coffee and my older sister gasped. I had twenty piercings and it felt good, even though twenty foreign objects shot through various parts of my body.

"Pein? What the hell happened to your face? There's like a hundred piercings on your face!" my mother shrieked like a banshee.

"There's twenty. You needed to see me, and I got a tattoo and you ignored me then. I went a step further."

"But twenty!!! Twenty piercings? That's insane! Why not just one piercing or two piercings!" My mother cried again. Dad was spluttering like a maniac. I just went and got my bags packed. "where are you going?"

"I'm going to my new life! Akatsuki and the entire world is open to me!" I replied.