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Tobi is Tobi

The sound of heavy, but gentle pattering of the rain echoed in the almost pitch black room Nagato was in, and with it followed the uproar of harsh-slapping thunder in the distance from the dark sky every few minutes. Every now and then the noise of a machine would hum softly through the dimly lit room, which was empty of all except for the machine that kept Nagato alive, as well as Nagato himself. The room itself was rather dark and plain, the only thing about the room that was interesting at all were the swirls of lines that ran throughout the room until they met each other to form several circles that curved around each other, larger and larger. The swirls somewhat resembled Obito's- or rather Tobi's orange, identity hiding, swirly mask.

A low groan, so weak sounding, escaped from the seemingly sleeping man with long dark red hair that slipped over his skin and bone shoulders. His skin was a sickening pale; his skin was too tight, almost seemingly stretched over his bones in a stomach-turning way. Nagato's cheek bones were even more noticeable than when he used to be healthy, and his cheeks were sunken in. Right below his ringed eyes were dark and heavy bags, as if he had not slept in a hundred years. His collar bones stood out above his chest, almost as if they were proud to be so visible, his chest showed all of his ribs, to which they looked as if they would pop out of his thin looking skin. Nagato's arms resembled that of a toothpick, skin taunt and unhealthy. It was a very sad sight to see for someone who was supposed to be very a powerful person and claimed to be a kami.

His nearly purple ringed eyes fluttered open as if he were awakening, as some of his dark-red, lifeless hair shadowed over his left eye slightly. Nagato let loose a strained breath that resembled a harsh sigh, his weak body tensing with hidden pain. Then his body started to spasm, slowly at first, before it jerked his whole body forward, to the left and right, then backward at random moments. "Konan," it was no more than a whisper of pain, as his eyes pressed shut by themselves, he felt himself lose all control of his bodies that were scattered about the base and around Amegakure, the Hidden Village of Rain. He felt every one of his bodies hit the ground, floor, and desks lifelessly where they were all situated.

Nagato very nearly cried out as a new spasm of pain shot up and down his spine, then to his toes to his fingertips, his brain throbbed, he felt as though tiny needles were piercing through one side of his skull and out the other a thousand times. "Konan," he hissed through clenched teeth, before he remembered that he had sent her out of a mission a day ago. So no medicine.

His head slumped forward in agony as the spasms slowly stopped. Nagato slowly breathed in and out through his mouth, his lifeless blood colored hair moving in front of his face, hiding his strained, tightly skinned face. He sat there motionless for a few moments hoping the pain that was slowly going away would leave quicker. A few moments afterward the only door to the room flung open, not making even a squeak and the pain finally stopped, though the throbbing in his head continued, but it was ignorable ache now.

"Are you dead?" The voice held a mocking tone, and not a bit of concern, not that Nagato was expecting any. Even though he hid it well, the man before him, Tobi, probably still saw the weak tremor of fear that was hard to mask when he had just dealt with his usual agony. It was very frustrating. He was not afraid of this man!

"No," he was glad to note that his voice still held its authority, and not like he had been through agony not one minute earlier. Nagato tilted his head to the side slightly so his hair would move somewhat out of the way, showing his purple-grey ringed eye, that seemed to glow in the dim lighting, now that his hair was moved he could clearly see the masked man before him. "What do you want?"

It was a simple question that warranted a simple answer, but it seemed the man before him was anything but simple as he began to laugh deafeningly, causing Nagato's headache to pulse painfully behind his eyes, though the discomfort did not show of his sickly pale face. "Well, all of your bodies dropped dead like flies! So, I thought you died. That would be so unfortunate." The tone of his voice told Nagato that Tobi wouldn't really care if Nagato dropped dead, that was if it didn't muddle his plans any.

Nagato snorted slightly, his blank expression turning to one of disdain. "You saw all of my bodies fall?" His question was full of doubt, and complete annoyance. His eyebrows pulled together slightly, almost a sign of confusion, but not really.

The orange masked man chuckled, "No, but I saw three just fall to the ground randomly." He snorted, "You didn't see me? Pathetic," Nagato could hear the sneer that the mask covered, and scowled deeply at the masked man before him. "Really, I wasn't even really hiding!" He laughed then, Nagato wasn't sure if it was smug, mocking, or just insane laughter. It was most-likely all three.

Nagato shook his head from side to side slowly, trying, in vain, to escape his headache, before sighing drily in an almost uncharacteristic way. "Are you going to leave now?"

"No," The voice laughed, "I have a surprise! Hidan and Kakuzu were terminated," the tone of his voice suggested he was speaking about rodents or insects, but the names disregarded that thought quickly.

Nagato's brain paused for a moment in confusion, "By who, how? They were supposed to be immortal," he hissed.

Tobi shrugged his thin, muscular shoulders, his black, red, and white-clouded Akatsuki cloak following the motion easily, and he tilted his head to the side slightly. "Konoha Shinobi. Hidan was buried under rubble, and he's being guarded heavily, but it'll be easy enough to recover him when we wish. As for Kakuzu, all of his hearts were pierced by Kakashi Hatake, Leader-sama."

The title was said sarcastically, but Nagato ignored it, and looked practically thoughtful. "We'll wait a while to retrieve Hidan, make them let their guard down a little. We'll get a replacement for Kakuzu later," as he said this, he was regaining control over his bodies. Luckily, no one was really there, except a few startled civilians, to see the weak display.

Tobi laughed once again as he headed for the door, "Of course, Leader-sama." The door slammed shut harshly, causing Nagato to scowl darkly, and just to add to his utter annoyance the back of his head started to itch something terrible.

Damn him; Nagato thought to himself, and it sounded harsh even inside his mind. He's still mocking me!

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