Pein stayed up to watch her sleep, but soon found it drifting on himself. He let the sleep take over him.

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The next morning, was Monday. Konan needed to go to school. The time was 8:00, and school started in an hour. Konan woke up to her alarm ringing. She groaned, and shut it off. She turned back in bed only to meet Pein's chest. She opened her eyes. "Pein? Pein! Omygosh! Why are you still here?" She whispered, getting out of bed and shaking Pein awake. Pein sat up.

"Hm." He asked sleepily. "Leave, now!" Konan whispered to him. "Why?" He asked, confused. "I dont even get breakfast?"

Konan sighed. A knock came at her door. "Konan, are you okay?" Her mother asked.

"Yeah, mom. I'm fine." She replied. "Hey, mom. Can you go make me some hot chocolate?"

"Sure." Her mother replied, her footsteps droning out as she walked away.

Konan sighed again. "Okay, while she's cooking my drink, you can leave."

"Okay..." Pein pouted, got out of bed and stretched. "Oh, I brought your clothes, there by the window."

Konan nodded, thanked him, and pushed him out the room. "Hurry, before my mom comes back."

Pein ran out of the room, with Konan leading him. Suddenly, Konan's mom popped out of nowhere. "Konan, your drink's do-"

Konan gasped. "Mom, hey." Konan said, changing the subject.

"That's Pein! WHY ARE YOU IN OUR HOUSE! WITH YOU HANDS ON MY DAUGHTER!" Her mother yelled at him.

"Mom, no- Listen!" She let go of Peins hand.

Suddenly a whack was heard, and Pein fell to the floor. Konan turned around. "Pein!" She immediately hugged him. She looked back and saw her uncle. A baseball bat in his hand.

"How could you? He didn't hurt us!" Konan cried.

"Not yet." Her uncle replied, Picking Konan up by the collar of her pajama shirt.

He flipped Pein's body over with his booted-foot. Pein's eyes were open, spinning crazily. Wondering what had happened to their master. "Aren't those Nagato's eyes?" He asked.

"Those are. We were told he went missing when he was 7. Its sad that this is how he turned out. The nuns had high expectations for him."

"Nagato?" Konan said to her self.

"When I grow up, I'll be a god. No one'll have to suffer what I went through." The small, black-haired orphan said to Konan, who smiled. "My dad got sent off to war today...He wont be back till next year..." She said, playing with the dirt. "Well, he wont ever have to leave when I'm god."

"Promise?" Konan asked.

"Promise." He replied, grinning.

"Call the cops." He told her mother. "They'll be happy that we found him, there's a big bounty on his head."

She nodded and left. "Wait, what?" Konan asked. "No! You can't turn him in! He's my friend! He never wanted to cause any harm!" She remembered what he told her when they were kids:

"Its hard to explain Konan. But I have this power. This gift. These eyes give me the ability to dream. To fly from the world's dangers. One day, When I'm stronger, I'll take you with me. To a place where we can both dream." Nagato told her, walking along the edge of an abandoned railroad track. His companion, Konan, smiled.

"Thanks." She said. "When you do become a god though. How will you tell whose good and bad?"

Nagato looked back at her. "Well...I've always been able to sense their soul. If their good, they dont contact me. If they're bad, I can sense their soul dying." He looked down.

"Oh..." She looked down also.

'That explains the time in the subway, and the time we went to the store...' Konan thought. The front door busted open, and the cops raced in. She got down and hugged Pein. "Please dont take him! He's not leaving!" She cried into his chest. Her uncle grabbed her off again, and the cops took his body out.

"SEE WHAT YOU DID!! HE'LL BE PUT ON DEATH ROW!! THEY'LL TORTURE HIM!!" She yelled at her mom, and uncle.

"Good, that's what he deserves!" Her uncle retorted.

"No he doesn't! He's caring and protective! He loves me, and I love him!" She yelled.

"No you don't Konan! Don't say such stupid things!" Her mother told her.

"I hate you guys, both of you. He'll get out, he'll find a way. And when he does, I'll run away with him. Then you guys can live without me." She ran up to her room, and quickly got ready for school, wanting to be gone from her home. She went back downstairs, and slammed the door. Crying as she walked to school.