I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. Naruto and all the characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. Apart from Jin who belongs to me.

'Konan, kindly explain yourself,' Pein said, eyeing the sleeping child in his friend's arms.

'She was all alone, Nagato, I couldn't just leave her,' Konan said, calmly. '... She's like us.'

Pein looked at the blue haired kunoichi before him for a few moments, her words echoing in his ears. Although there was no-one else in the room with them, he still felt the need to lower his voice as he spoke next.

'Like... us,' he repeated, sadly. 'Very well, she can stay here until you find her family. If she has any, that is.'

'Nagato-' Konan began.

'I have business to attend to. We'll talk later,' Pein cut across her.

Konan nodded, silently. She headed out of the room, leaving Pein to his work.

'I knew he'd let you stay,' she whispered to the little baby.

...

'No way! Leader's actually letting you keep that little-'

'No swearing around her,' Konan said, just before the word left Hidan's mouth.

'No swearing around who?' Tobi had just bounced into the room, his face would have been full of curiosity had it not been covered by his swirling mask.

'The little brat that Konan's adopted,' Hidan growled, irritably.

Tobi cocked his head, clearly puzzled by this. He came closer and, when he saw the child Konan was holding, promptly turned to mush.

'Aww! She's so cute! Where did you get her? hat's her name? She's so cute!' he cooed.

The baby, who had been peacefully sleeping until this point, opened big brown eyes and looked up at the startlingly bright mask. It took her a few moments to fully take it all in, but as soon as she had, she opened her mouth and resumed her wailing.

'Ah! What did I do?' Tobi asked, his hands over his ears.

'Gah! Shut her up!' Hidan shouted over the crying.

'What the hell is going on in here!?'

Deidara came charging into the room, a clay spider in one hand and a clay bird in the other, clearly under the impression that the base was under an attack of some sorts.

'Senpai! Make her stop!' Tobi begged.

'Blow her up!' Hidan ordered.

'Everyone be quiet!' Konan shouted.

Everyone fell silent except the baby who continued to scream at the top of her tiny little lungs. Konan gently rocked her from side to side, humming a lullaby that she remembered from her childhood. The baby fell silent and stared up at Konan with thoselarge chestnut eyes.

'Good girl,' Konan hushed. 'It's alright, I've got you.'

Konan sat down on the sofa and continued to hum her lullaby, rocking the baby all the while. Deidara, who had now grasped the situation almost completely, squished his clay creations back into shapeless blobs and returned them to his clay pouch.

'Konan, what is that thing doing here, hmn?' he asked.

'I found her in the forest,' Konan said, quietly so as not to set of the crying again. 'She's staying here until we can find her family.'

'Like hell she is,' Hidan said, darkly. 'If she does that again, I don't care what you say, she's going one way or the other.'

Konan glared at the immortal as he stormed out of the room, cursing under his breath and muttering something about Jashin.

'I'm with the idiot,' Deidara agreed, shooting a nasty look at the now silent child.

'Aww, Senpai,' Tobi whined, 'what's the harm? She's so cute and I'm sure we can stop her crying.'

'Says the one who was probably responsible for it in the first place, hmn,' Deidara replied, curtly.

'You're being mean, Senpai,' Tobi pouted; or rather, would have pouted if it weren't for the mask.

'Oh, grow up, hmn,' Deidara snarled.

'I think the same goes for you too, Deidara,' Konan said, coldly.

'What's with all the yelling?'

Konan groaned as Kisame entered, practically dragging Itachi behind him; the last thing she needed now was for the stupid shark man to scare the little girl she had just got to stop crying.

'Shhh!' Tobi ordered, waving his hands at the Kirigakure ninja.

'Konan, could you kindly explain what's happening?' Itachi asked, spotting the baby almost instantly. 'I doubt that Tobi or Deidara would be able to give a satisfactory reply.

'Say that again, Uchiha!' Deidara snapped.

'I'd rather not indulge you,' Itachi replied, calmly, before turning his attention back to Konan. 'Who is that child?'

Konan, who was getting rather tired of explaining this repeatedly, sighed and said, 'I found her in the forest.'

'Leader is alright with this, I take it?'

Konan nodded.

'Very well.'

Konan could have hugged the Uchiha for remaining calm and not adding to the chaos that seemed to be following her around today.

'Does she have a name?' Itachi asked.

Konan shook her head.

'Well, we have to call her something,' Tobi pointed out. 'How about Katsu?'

'Are you deliberatly trying to make me angry, Tobi!?' Deidara demanded.

'Jin,' Konan said, simply.

'Wha-?' Tobi seemed, once again, to be completely dumbfounded.

'Her name,' Konan said, a touch irritably. 'Jin.'