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Drip
Drip
Drip
It was raining outside. Just like his birth place.
Drip
Drip
Drip
Or was it his blood? Pein looked down and saw that yes, it was his blood, slowly dripping to the floor. More of it seeped out of the wound found on his shoulder, trickling down his arm, on to his wrist, on to the palm of his hand, and on to his fingers, where it fell to the floor.
"What wrong? You seem tired already Pein. Or should I call you Yahiko, that seems to be that corpse's name," Orochimaru said. Pein looked up and smiled.
"I'm not tired," he said. "Just at ease."
Orochimaru grimaced. "This isn't a playground boy," he said, adding a small hiss to the word boy. "Grow up, take the world seriously. Maybe then you could deal with death."
The smile disappeared. "What do you mean?" Pein asked, his voice cold.
"I have snakes everywhere," Orochimaru said, his long tongue spilling out of his mouth and licking his lips. "I know when someone dies."
"So you realised that we're killing all your lot?" Pein said mockingly. Orochimaru smiled, a ghoulish smile that sent a shiver up Pein's spine.
"No my dear boy, you've got it the wrong way round. We're killing all your lot," he said. "When was the last time you heard an explosion? Or the sound of rushing water? The screams of people being burnt by poison?"
"When was the last time I heard anything besides your voice?" Pein interrupted. "This room is soundproof, I can't hear anything from outside." He smiled again as he saw that he had foiled that plan. But Orochimaru kept on smiling.
"Didn't you think that Jiraiya told me about you?" he asked. "Told me about you three? I know all about you Pein, all about the Konoha ninjas who came into your house, and when you and your parents were sneaking out, you knocked over the vase that caused your parents to be slaughtered. And how you killed the ninjas after. How you met Yahiko and Konan, how you met us, where you lived with Jiraiya."
"Your point is?" Pein asked. "Because, I'll be honest with you, I don't see where the hell you're going with this."
"It means Pein, that I know your weakness," Orochimaru said, smirking.
"If you're thinking garlic and crosses, it won't work," Pein said.
"No no, I'm talking about the fact that you care. About so many things. Especially the Akatsuki, the group that Yahiko founded all those years ago. The current members have been with you for over a year correct? More than enough time to know enough about them to care. All the other leaders don't care about their group, you're the only one who does."
"I'm not following you here, just how is this going to help you defeat me?" Pein asked.
"Simple. I merely go and kill one or two of your group, throwing you into a rage, which means I can much more easily kill you, and then go and imprison the others, my replacement interests me with those mouths on his hands."
Pein froze, a completely emotionless yet rage filled expression coming over his eyes. "Orochimaru, there is a reason that I did not send every single person I had under my command to kill you the second you left us. And that was because I thought you weren't a complete monster, because I thought you would keep to yourself, not oppose us. After a while, you start threatening the life of the nine tails jinchuriki. I didn't stop you. You turned one of Sasori's spies against us. I didn't do anything. But then you went and did this. You went and kidnapped one of my lot, and then jailed the person sent to rescue him. You notice it's only now I do anything. It's not because I don't want you to find out the secrets of my organization, it's because I actually give a shit about their welfare. So let's see...abandoning the Akatsuki has a punishment of death, threatening our plan by threatening the jinchuriki's life also leads to death, but turning a spy against us actually isn't that bad for you, we just have to kill the spy...but to be frank, it's better to kill both the spy and his boss. So that's a mere...three death sentences. Any requests on how you want to die, any last words?"
"Actually, yes," Orochimaru said. "I have something to say. Goodbye."
Pein yelled a quarter of the words he had got off Hidan as something slipped out of Orochimaru's sleeve and exploded. A blinding light filled the air blinding Pein to the point where shutting his eyes did nothing to stop the light blinding him. He stumbled around blindly for at least a minute before the light faded. It took another half a minute for him to recover from the experience, during the time he recited another quarter of the words he had learnt just by having Hidan in the same place as him. When he finally recovered he opened his eyes and blinked several times. Orochimaru was gone.