Chapter 7

WARNING: Contains mature content!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto…

"You know what, I'm really tired and these heels are absolutely killing me. I'm going back to the hotel room," Anko said, after three hours of trying to locate Konan. Pein was of no help because he was completely and utterly wasted.

"Excuse me, Anko-san, you can't just abandon her," Itachi said.

"I am sure she is in the hotel room! Where else could she be? We searched everywhere!" Anko whined.

Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Kurenai and Shizune were also looking droopy with exhaustion. Pein and his crew were worried about their missing member. "Well, we will continue the search…so please let us know if she is in her hotel room," Sasori said softly.

"Konan-chan! Where are you my love?" Pein shouted, alarming passerby's.

"Relax Leader-sama," Hidan began, "Konan always goes missing when she gets drunk…I do wonder what exactly she gets up to." He laughed sadistically and clapped Pein on the back, the orange-haired man was sniffling.

"Guys, where's Deidara?" asked Kisame suddenly, and sure enough, when they took a head count, Deidara was missing.

"Here comes senpai!" Tobi shouted as a figure with blonde hair carrying two huge paper bags ran towards them.

"Phew! I've got good news. I saw Konan earlier and she said that she's just heading up to her room and not to worry," Deidara announced, smiling broadly. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and Pein started crying again…but tears of joy.

"Guess he's an emotional drunk…" Sasori commented.

"Was I right or was I right? Now let's go back and chew her out for making us worry like that!" Anko said, flouncing off with the other kunoichi in tow.

"What you got there Deidara-chan?" Hidan asked, eyeing Deidara's paper bags.

"None of your business, un!"

"Fuck you! Let me see!" Hidan said and he tried tackling Deidara who kneed him in the nutsack.

Hidan bent over and groaned, "I would have enjoyed that more if you were a chick…"

Deidara made a disgusted face and walked over to Itachi, "I got a cookbook and ingredients, I'm going to make the cake myself so I'll go back to the inn, take Leader somewhere else," Deidara whispered. Itachi raised an eyebrow, Deidara's face was anxious and he kept glancing at Pein.

"Okay…just don't blow anything up…" Itachi said.

"So what say we go back to the bar and pick up strange chicks?" Hidan said, saving Itachi from suggesting something.

"I'm in favour of the bar part," Pein said.

Meanwhile, Deidara managed to make a stealthy escape again.

Tsunade was on a streak…a losing streak. She had lost quite a large sum of money and failed to win any as yet. Far from being discouraged, she wanted to play more. She walked around looking for another machine on which to try her luck when a tall, strange man approached her.

"Fancy a game of blackjack?" he asked in a deep voice that was kind of obscured by the mask that covered half his face. Tsunade regarded him with both eyebrows raised and then she smiled deviously, "Why not? Let's do this." She felt lucky.

She didn't notice the cunning smile behind the man's mask.

What a great opportunity! Time to sucker the Legendary Sucker out of her money, Kakuzu thought with glee as they walked over to the blackjack table.

When the kunoichi got back to their hotel room, Konan was already in bed and snoring softly. Sakura and Hinata immediately jumped into bed in case Anko suggested that they go out and do something else. Tenten and Ino were chatting to one another while Kurenai poured herself a glass of water and sank down on the couch. "She's asleep. No fun. Oh well, we should all get some rest too because tomorrow will be round two!" Anko declared, tossing her clothes aside and jumping into bed wearing only her underwear.

"Shizune, don't forget you have a date with Genma tomorrow," Kurenai reminded her.

Shizune blushed, it was going to be her first date in a long time…a very long time. Being Tsunade's apprentice didn't allow her to have much of a social life. Speaking of Tsunade, she hadn't returned to the hotel room yet and Shizune began to wonder what the older woman was up to.

"I have to go check on Tsunade-sama!" she said, turning and leaving quickly. The casino was not far off from the hotel, she could see the lurid lights and the sounds of clanging money and spinning of the machines from outside the hotel.

When she entered the casino, she searched around for that familiar pig-tailed blonde hair and saw Tsunade sitting at the drinks bar. "Tsunade-sama! Let's go back to the hotel," Shizune said, holding the sake bottle at arm's length from Tsunade.

"Shizzzz…what you doing here?" Tsunade slurred, trying to grab at the bottle. Shizune hid it behind her back, "Tsunade-sama, what happened to you?"

"Worst game of blackjack ever…I lost so much…"

"Uh oh…um…we have to get you out of here," Shizune said, tugging on her arm, but Tsunade was making it rather difficult for her.

"Leggo of me! I gonna win it all back. Take me back to that guy with the mask!" Tsunade commanded.

"What guy with the mask? Just forget it and lets go, you know you can't win…" Shizune pleaded, forcefully trying to move Tsunade. After a fair amount of struggling, Tsunade went limp and seemed to give up, letting Shizune drag her away from the bar. She took Tsunade to one of the lounge areas in the casino and made her lie down on the couch. "You wait here, Tsunade-sama and I'll be right back," Shizune said, cracking her knuckles and walking off with a determined and steely look in her dark eyes.

Pein and his minions had long since deserted the bar and were now intoxicated out of their minds and sitting in a tattoo parlour. Itachi was propped up against Kisame who didn't seem to mind at all, Pein and Hidan were looking at designs, Tobi was inside getting his tattoo done, Zetsu was twitching every time Tobi emitted a scream of horror and pain, Sasori was just looking annoyed.

"Where's Deidara, she's missing out!" Pein said loudly.

Hidan started laughing maniacally, "Hahahaha, you said she. Hahahaha!"

Tobi emerged from the back, clutching his arm and whimpering.

"Next," the tattoo artist said.

Pein woke up and stumbled into the back room.

"So what are you getting?" the tattooist asked.

"This," Pein said, showing him the brochure.

The tattooist regarded him with a raised eyebrow, "You sure?"

"Yeah!"

"Okay then…"

Pein settled into the chair as the tattooist got to work. Pein sighed, "I don't feel anything. I don't feel pain, I am Pa – AAAAARRRRGH! Oh my God, Oh my God!"

After they all got their tattoos done and made a few other stops along the way, the guys finally returned to the inn not noticing the cloud of flour coating the room along with the smell of something that had recently been burnt.

Tsunade opened her heavy eyes and groaned, realising she was in a very noisy place, lying on a very uncomfortable couch. She tried sitting up but found that her head hurt too much.

"Dude, somebody won the jackpot," she heard someone say.

"The ten million ryo? No way!" said his companion.

"Yes way, some chick just won it…"

Tsunade swore under her breath, Why wasn't I ever that lucky?

She stumbled off the couch, feeling eager to see who was the lucky punk that won the jackpot. The lights were hurting her eyes and she felt the urge to punch all the lights off. When she made it to the main game floor, there was quite a crowd gathered and camera flashes were going off.

"Out of my way," Tsunade said, roughly shoving people out of her way until she could see the winner, who was a woman holding up a gigantic check that blocked her face.

"Come on young lady, we need to take your picture for the Tanzaku Times!" a reporter said.

"I can't, please, I have to go!" came the muffled reply.

Someone managed to pry the giant check away from the winner and Tsunade got so shocked she nearly became sober. "Shizune?"

"Tsunade-sama!"

"Konan-sama, are you okay?" he asked the woman who had just slipped and banged her head against the table. She looked up, embarrassment mixed with a dazed look reflected in her gorgeous amber eyes. He surveyed her face with worry and saw that she was bleeding.

"I'm so clumsy," she said, trying to sit up, "And so wasted, ugh."

"Just relax, I'll go get Pein, he can take you up to your room to rest."

As he turned, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back at her and took a gulp of air.

"They're all outside…can't you help me?" she asked in a soft voice that was hard to say no to.

"I can. I have some first aid in my room," he said, lifting her up with ease, carrying her to his room in the hideout. It was a plain room, furnished with just the essentials as they normally had to change hideouts regularly. Konan sat on his bed as he fished out his cotton wool, medicine and gauze.

He carefully dabbed at her wound with the cotton wool, cleaning the blood. She sat still, watching him with interest and he felt slightly nervous under the gaze of the older woman whom he admired ever since he joined the Akatsuki. It was her beauty, grace and aloof manner that drew him to her. Her lips were slightly parted and she was staring at him intensely, he matched her intensity, contemplating what he was about to do.

No, the alcohol was not clouding his judgement, this was one of his unspoken desires. Konan bit her lip and leaned in closer towards him, making his heart rate quicken. He was pleasantly surprised when Konan was the one to close the distance between them. They kissed slowly at first, tentatively, enjoying the feel of each other's lips.

"Konan-sama," he said huskily, pulling away from her, unsure if what they were doing was right. Of course it wasn't right, it could never be right.

She pulled him back towards her by his neck and their lips crashed together without restraint. He slid his hands underneath her shirt and caressed her sides and then up her body, marvelling at the silky softness of her skin.

She frantically tugged at his shirt and lifted it up while he helped her to take it off. She touched his chest, mesmerized by the sight of his body. She pushed him roughly on to the bed and straddled him while kissing him ferociously as his hands were tangled in her short hair. His mind was reeling, for all he knew this could be some alcohol induced fantasy, none of this could be real. There was just no way that this angel could be with him right now.

He ran his hands up her body and ripped her top off, his hands had a mind of their own as he unclipped her bra and tossed it aside, he then rolled them over so that she was under him. He couldn't help but admire the woman before him, looking radiant with her flushed cheeks and lowered eyes. She took his hand in hers and brought it to her breast, allowing him to caress her. She felt so good in his hands and her moans were making him want to devour her completely. He kissed her neck with much fervour and proceeded to lick her nipple experimentally; satisfied with her reaction to this, he continued to tease her with his tongue.

In a battle for dominance, Konan rolled them over, pinning him under her once again, kissing him without restraint. He loved the feel of her soft, petal-like lips against his rough skin.

"I want you," she said finally. His heart soared; after years of just watching and wondering what it would be like, it was finally happening. But this was so wrong in so many ways. But since when did he care about right or wrong? He was an S-ranked criminal, they both were, the normal rules didn't apply to them.

"Are you sure?" he asked her.

"Yes," she replied breathlessly.

He tugged at her pants and she put her hand over his, looking uncertain but she quickly dismissed it and let him take her pants off. She unzipped his pants in one quick motion and pulled them off. She licked her lips slowly and gazed at him through half-lidded eyes.

He picked up a kunai from his dresser and swiftly cut off her underwear. She blushed beautifully as she is exposed to his hungry eyes and she wanted to see more of him too.

"Wow," she said, staring at his length when she hastily relieved him of his own underwear. It was his turn to blush. He knew that she had probably already been with Pein, and he was nervous as to how he would measure up.

"Have you ever…?" Konan asked suddenly.

He understood what she was asking and shook his head, feeling like an inexperienced little boy. Konan probably sensed what he was feeling because she took both his hands and pulled him up seductively. She lowered herself on top of him and wrapped her legs around his waist, her eyes closing as she moaned loudly. He held her close as they traversed through the boundary of sin.

He awoke with a start and lay in bed panting heavily. So that's what had happened that night. He had somehow buried the incident deep in the recesses of his mind, but why was it coming back to haunt his dreams now? Neither he nor Konan ever spoke of it after that. He even had his doubts that it really happened because the next day he couldn't remember much of what happened the previous night. Konan gave no indication that it happened either.

He put his hands over his head and grimaced, he could not dare to think of approaching Konan, her wedding was tomorrow and she would marry Pein and he would be that forgotten, drunken, one-night stand.

A/N: Sorry guys! I felt like prolonging the revelation for just another chapter!

Also, this was my first lemon…hope it didn't suck too bad!

So, any guesses who her lover was?

Please review!