Author's Note

So, last chapter, we ended with mostly Konan stuff. All in all, I probably could have made an entire chapter on it, because I'm going to finish a few things up

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Warning! This story will contain language, sexual situations, and possibly fetishes that some people may feel uncomfortable with. If you are easily offended or disturbed, don't complain, you've been warned.

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Chapter 25: A Desert Lotus

Yoichi woke with a start, sitting up in his bed breathing heavily. Taking a moment to look around, he saw he was in his room in Konoha. He let out a small sigh of disappointment, everything having just been a dream. He wiped his eyes, a few tears that had threatened to escape never getting the opportunity to.

"She's gone, Yoichi. Just accept it. Things like this happen." He told himself, hoping it would help him feel a bit better. It didn't.

Getting dressed, he made his way out to the main room. None of the others were awake, him just being woken up early. Being the first one up, no one had gotten the newspaper, him walking outside to get it, only to almost trip over a box.

"Agh, son of a bitch! Who delivers packages this early?" He muttered, grabbing the newspaper and picking up the box. "To…. Temari, from… someone in Suna." The handwriting was a bit scribbled on who it was from, but there was a clear indication that it was from Suna from the sand that was trapped in the box's packaging.

It could have easily been anyone, since she had her brothers send her anything she might have forgotten in Suna as well as a few foods that were local there. Carrying the box inside he ran into Kin who was always was the first one up from what he could tell.

"Ah, morning Yoichi. What's with the box?" She asked as her placed it to the side.

"Package for Temari." Kin blinked.

"Who delivers packages this early?" He gave her a look as if to say 'I know, right?' before she continued. "Anyways, we're kicking you out for most of the day." He froze.

"Wait, what? Why?" She let out a sigh.

"Well, because you haven't done much outside of the house the past few days. Plus, we're having our own party for Temari." He blinked. Kin stared at him a moment before rolling her eyes. "Oh my god, you forgot her birthday. We all thought that's why you were taking her out tomorrow in the first place! I mean, sure, we decided we wanted our own alone time, but we were expecting you to have something big planned for her and just take us out to maybe a nice place to eat." She pinched the bridge of her nose with one hand, the other on her hip.

"What's going on?" Ino asked, being the next to arrive. Yoichi wouldn't get a chance to tell her though.

"He forgot Temari's birthday!"

"What? No!"

"Hey, I didn't know! No one told me!" He tried to defend himself, but that is always the wrong course of action.

"Oh yes we did. All of us made sure to mention when it was someone's birthday! You should know by now!" Ino retorted. Things were looking grim.

"You know what, I bet he doesn't remember anyone's birthday either! If you can tell us one person's birthday that lives here other than yourself, then we might help you find out a present for Temari." That didn't sound like a good trade off to him. With a sigh he turned around.

"I'll just get breakfast while I'm out. Be back when the sun's down." He said as he walked back out. Neither of the girls objected.

"You know, hearing your problems really make me want to not get married even more. Women just seem so troublesome." A certain Shikamaru Nara told Yoichi. In a surprising turn of events, he just happened to run into both Shikamaru and Choji heading to an early lunch after Yoichi had been wandering around for a while. Wanting any kind of help, he offered to pay for their lunch, to Choji's delight.

"It certainly is… One moment, they're showing themselves in lingerie, the next they're kicking you out for forgetting something you've had to miss twice. They hardly talk about things they like, and anything you could think of for them is something they've got already!" Yoichi let out a groan of frustration.

"Well, go through what you know she likes and start from there." Choji suggested, Yoichi nodding and sighing.

"Okay. She enjoys working with flowers and plants, her favorite snack are sweet chestnuts… and she hates octopus." Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.

"Two years and how many months?" He asked, Yoichi holding his head in one hand.

"Yeah, yeah… She had a garden put in to tend to, but I think she said she couldn't grow her favorite kind do to the earth or something. I think she mentioned seeing it all the time in Suna, but what kind of plant grows in the desert?" Shikamaru had his palm meet his face.

"You mean like… a cactus or something?" Yoichi stared at him a moment before sighing.

"You know, this isn't the reason they call you a genius, but it's the reason I will." Reaching into his back pocket, he pulled out enough money to handle lunch. Whenever Choji was done, at least. "Thanks for the help. Sorry to just run out on you, but I need to make sure to get one. We should talk more often." He said before heading off.

"Didn't Ino, Temari, and that one girl give a speech about being his property or something? Why is he doing all this for them?" Choji asked, Shikamaru shrugging.

"At this point, I can't even tell who's doing the whipping…" He replied.

As Yoichi made his way around Konoha, completely lost from forgetting how to navigate around, he came across a small shop that he hadn't really remember seeing before. The main reason it stuck out was because of how the entry way had paper cranes on either side. While he did need to check the Yamanaka flower shop to see if they had anything for cacti, he figured he had time.

The inside was fairly simple and small. It seemed to a shop that specialized in the paper folding art, with complex crafts scattered around, a few beginners' guides to one side, and several different colors of paper being sold. Behind a makeshift-counter was an old woman who smiled to him.

"Can I help you?" She asked, Yoichi shaking his head, giving her a smile back.

"I'm just looking. A friend of mine was a shinobi who taught me a bit of origami. Haven't had much of a chance to work on it myself, though. I would have asked them for some advice, but… they're gone now." He said, gently picking up a paper rose, identical to the one she had. He rather not even think of her name.

"Ah, I'm sorry to hear that." The woman said, Yoichi giving her a polite nod before looking around a bit more. Deciding it would be a nice hobby to have, he bought enough to last him a short while, wanting to try and practice folding the papers with his chakra. While he had to accept she was gone, he didn't have to forget about her.

By the time he finally made his way to the flower shop, the sun was just beginning to set. Inoichi was already beginning to close the store, stopping when he noticed Yoichi.

"I was wondering when you'd stop by. Ino let us know the other day you were back. If you wanted to talk about something, I'm just closing up." He said, Yoichi giving him a polite nod.

"Actually, I wanted to see if you had any cacti seeds or something. Temari's birthday is tomorrow and I couldn't think of what to get her, but by the time I figured something out, I got lost from wandering around. It's been two years, everything looks different." Inoichi chuckled but shook his head.

"I'm afraid we don't carry anything cacti-related. Not the right kind of air here. But, you're not the only guy who's been in this situation. Well, outside of the more-than-one-girl part. Let me finish up closing shop and I'll see if I can't help pull a few strings. Besides, in your predicament, I'd worry more about just making the night special for your girls rather than finding them a present." Yoichi let out a sigh of relief, more than thankful to him already.

"But!" That's never a good sign. "Ino's birthday is exactly a month away after that. I want you to put as much effort as you can for her on my behalf, understood?" Thankfully it wasn't a week away. A month would be much easier. Nodding, Inoichi smiled and waved him in.

"Alright, now, let's start off with you telling me what you were planning on doing, and I'll mention why it's wrong no matter how you try to defend it. You'll thank me later." Yoichi already had a feeling this would take a while. Probably should have just come by here first.

Several hours later, he managed to get home, Inoichi giving him just about every bit of advice as he could to help him while also seeing how he could help things out for the next day. When he got home, part of the main room was a mess, but not a mess he was awake enough to clean up. The girls already asleep, he staggered to his room to pass out, hoping that he could get enough sleep for the next day.

*Fwump* "Wake up! It's eight!" That was how Yoichi was woken up, being hit in the head by a pillow and being yelled at. Groggily, he sat up and opened his eyes, his blurred vision coming into focus to show Temari waiting for him.

"Come on, you're helping me in the garden before breakfast." Wait, what? He stared at her for a moment before she sighed, hitting him with the pillow again. "That's part of the rules, remembering? You need to help us out with anything we're doing. So, you're going to water my garden while I trim anything down that needs it." Of course he forgot!

Taking a moment to wake himself up, he jumped out of bed and got dressed, meeting her out in the garden. He hadn't seen the garden, so it would be nice to see it. Plus it shouldn't take too long, right? Well, he should have seen the garden first.

"You know, I knew you were into plants, but isn't this a bit… much?" He asked her, looking over the garden that was easily bigger than the Yamanaka's flower shop with a wider variety of flowers to boot. Temari shrugged.

"It's a hobby. Besides, half of these are herbs and vegetables to eat or sell. Kin helps take care of them when Ino and I are both away, but it's faster if I'm the one trimming them." He was just about to ask what she meant by that before pulled out her fan from seemingly nowhere, opened it up, and swung it in the direction of the plants.

While Yoichi had expected it to either blow them all over or cut them all to pieces, she had gotten enough control over her wind to just barely hit parts of the various plants. Somehow. With that, she closed her fan back up, propping it up with her hands on top, resting her chin on top of her hands.

"Alright, I'm done." She said, watching him. He blinked at her, Temari just smiling innocently at him, before sighing. If that's how she was going to get things done, then she couldn't get mad if he did the same, right? Turning on the hose, he let it run to get prt of the ground suitably wet. Going through a few hand signs, he had the water rise as a mist, sending it over the plants until they were each watered enough, with Temari turning off the water.

"See, wasn't so hard, right?" She asked, heading back inside to eat breakfast, most of the others already finished. They ate fairly quickly, Yoichi asking her if she had anything else to do. To both hi surprise and relief, she had been given a book yesterday she wanted to read, so she wanted to just stay in. Of course, that didn't mean he was off the hook.

Every now and then, she would ask him to move a certain way so she could get into a more comfortable spot, using him as a headrest, basically. She'd also say 'chestnut' here and there, him having to feed her some chestnuts that she had also been given. Other than that, it was nice. While she was reading, they still managed to chat, Temari telling him how she's been writing to her brothers every other week to check on them and let them know she was okay.

He couldn't deny that he thought it was sweet she still was so concerned about her brothers, and voicing it got a blush from her as well as an elbow in his stomach. Not hard, but enough to knock the wind out of him. Occasionally one of the other girls would stop by to talk briefly or ask a question, but they didn't stay around too long, leaving Temari and Yoichi alone most of the time. They didn't realize that they had talked through lunch until checking the time they saw it was almost four.

"Ah, good timing! We've got a reservation at six." Temari blinked.

"Reservation? For what?" Yoichi smirked, leaning in and kissing her cheek.

"Dinner. Don't ask where though, you'll see." He said, getting up to get ready. Now it was Temari's turn to be confused by him. She was just expecting something casual. Not wanting to let this go to waste, though, she got up as well, heading to her room to get herself cleaned up as best she could.

An hour and a half later, Yoichi was waiting patiently for Temari, idly folding a piece of paper that he had bought earlier.

"Sorry, I wasn't really expecting for anything formal tonight, so I didn't have something picked out already." He heard, putting the paper away and looking to the voice, smiling to Temari.

"Don't worry, you look great." She smiled and looked down, wearing a light purple kimono with a red flower pattern. What kind of flower, Yoichi couldn't tell. He had put on a dark purple kimono with a black hakama.

"Thanks." She replied, keeping herself from blushing, noticing him walk to her side and offer his arm.

"Shall we?" He asks, Temari looking at him for a moment before smiling wider and nodding, taking the offered arm and allowed herself to be led out into the village to wherever Yoichi had planned to take her. They seemed to wander aimlessly, the two of them idly chatting, until Yoichi stopped. Figuring they were there, she looked around, noticing where he had in mind.

"Okay, someone told you." She said, looking back to Yoichi. He shrugged.

"I don't know what you mean." In fact, he didn't. Inoichi had called up the place and made the reservation, only telling him instructions how to get there. Yoichi didn't even know the name. The two of them went in, a bit ahead of their reservation, but there wasn't much of a problem.

From what he could tell, the restaurant wasn't the fanciest or most expensive, but it wasn't the kind of place you would eat at often. Talking at the table, he learned she thought their tofu and vegetable soup was the best in the village. The girls had gone there together on one of their days off while he was gone, and she enjoyed her time there.

Dinner wasn't too eventful, the two of them finding more to talk about. If something didn't come up immediately, she would talk about her brothers, which she enjoyed to do. Time seemed to fly by yet again, the moon in the sky by the time they left. Not wanting to head back yet, the two took a long stroll around the village, finally out of things to talk about and just enjoyed each other's company.

"Oh! Don't want to forget…" He stopped, digging through his clothes for something, Temari tilting her head and watching as he pulled out a small box. "Happy Birthday, Temari." She eyed the box before accepting it, opening it up to see a fairly simple necklace, a desert lotus broach on the end.

"I know, it's not much, but I wanted to get you something special." She eyed it for a moment before letting out a sigh. Yoichi's smile faded as he got a worried look. She didn't like it, did she?

"You know, you're really good at this." She said, getting a confused look from him. "Today was practically… perfect. You put up with everything I do to you like always, and still were a perfect gentleman." Her tone was one of annoyance.

"Is that… a bad thing?" He asked, making Temari sigh, her stepping close to him and wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Not usually. But don't you remember our first time together? I told you, I want to be punished. Since then, you've been nothing but nice to me, no matter what I tried did to try to get you to do anything to me. I thought at first it was because you didn't find me attractive like the others, but I've been reassured that that's not the case. The biggest punishment I could ask for was to not be punished, it turns out." She whispered, leaning into his ear. Yoichi blinked, almost having completely forgot that, but now that she had told him, he got an idea.

"Well, the night's still young as they say…" He said, trailing off as she smirked at him.

Temari later found herself blindfolded and gagged, her arms bound behind her back completely naked otherwise, head against Yoichi's sheets, legs spread and hips in the air. After their little moment, they returned home, Temari being led to his room, where he almost immediately began to ravish her, stripping her down and putting her in this position.

Yoichi chuckled from behind her, running two fingers along her slit, using his chakra to make her feel extra sensitive. She whimpered in delight and anticipation, unable to tell what he would do to her. Almost out of nowhere, his hand would connect with her rear, making her yelp in the gag, only to feel him teasing her folds once again.

As much as she enjoyed the 'no punishment as punishment' idea, the actual punishment felt a lot more rewarding. It didn't take long before she was dripping with desire for him, but he kept up the teasing, spanking her at random intervals, but steadily focusing on that. Each smack against her rear caused her to let out some form of sound that was a cross between pleasure and pain, the former becoming more prominent as time went on.

Eventually her body couldn't take any more, moaning into the gag as her body shuddered after one last spank, her juices spilling out beneath her.

"Who knew you were slutty enough to get off from being spanked?" He asked, intending to mock her. And from how her position was, it worked, only making her burn with desire more. She wanted to be punished more by him for being such a slut, and he more than welcomingly obliged.

"Let's give this girl what she wants." He said, Temari able to feel as he moved to tower over her, before having to arch her back as she felt him plunge into her rear. She let out a blissful, muffled scream as she was stretched out beyond what she thought her limits were. Even though he hadn't been lubed up to her knowledge, it went in fairly smooth. Some sort of jutsu?

It didn't matter at this point. All that mattered was she missed this, enjoying the way he grabbed her hair to pull her head back, thrusting inside her with no remorse. She could only do her best to get as much air in her, unable to move her body. She was practically limp beneath him, letting him thrust over and over inside her. After a short while, she would feel him give one last thrust, the only warning she was given being the throbbing of his shaft inside her, before she had her insides filled with his thick, hot cum, having her own orgasm from feeling him unload inside her.

Still, she was unable to move, even as he pulled out of her, laying on the bed beside her. He gently removed her bindings, pulling her ontop of him, thinking that they were done until she felt her other hole take in his member, something sliding into her rear to prevent any semen from spilling out before receiving a smack on her hips.

"I'm not done with you yet. Move those hips, bitch." He almost growled at her, Temari sitting up.

"Yes… Master…" She panted out, already feeling exhausted, but her body didn't care, obediently riding him as her head rolled back, purple-hearted pupils staring at the ceiling.

4 Months, 28 Days since Yoichi Left Konoha

For the rest of the week that Konan had promised to stay, she had fun. Yes, fun. Something that she thought she had gotten too old for, that she would never have again to achieve their… no, Akatsuki's way of peace. Yoichi reminded her of what peace really felt like, able to leave all her worries behind. She felt like a kid again.

The day she had woken in his bed would be the only time she did so during the week. That same day, the two of them would talk more, this time Yoichi walking her around the complex to show her everything and introduce her to some of his family. His ideology on peace was something that she began to believe in the more she saw it. He explained to her how most of his family despised him for being the 'son of that traitor', but true to his own word, no matter what they said or how they acted, he treated all of his family with the upmost respect. By the end of the week, she even witnessed one of his uncles apologize to him after having spat at Yoichi a few days prior.

But while he treated others with respect, he was different around her. Despite their age difference, any open opportunity to tease her, he would take. A week prior, she would have called it annoying, but now, she enjoyed it, even beginning to tease him back some. It was almost strange how comfortable she was around this boy, who she slowly began to see not for his age but for who he was.

She enjoyed her time so much that when she should have been getting ready to leave and getting Yoichi's answer on if he would help Akatsuki, she was hanging various origami models the two had made over the week in her guest room, Konan agreeing to show him how to fold the paper flowers as he requested earlier. When they were almost finished, Yoichi was pulled away to talk with his grandfather, leaving Konan to finish up alone.

"Having fun?" A voice behind her asked, making her jump and spin around, staring at a certain half-white, half-black plant man emerging from the ground

"What are you doing here?" She asked in a hushed but harsh tone. Zetsu laughed at that.

"What am I doing here? You're the one who's decided to take a week off to spend time with a child!" Konan narrowed her eyes, taking a breath to calm herself.

"I was told to get whatever I could out of him by any means necessary. His condition was for me to stay a week before he gave his answer." At that moment, it hit her. It had already been a week? But, it had gone by so fast!

"Good! Then you'll be leaving shortly. I'll be sure to let Leader know you're returning." With that, he sank into the floor before she could answer. Seems she had no choice. Taking off the clothes she had borrowed, she found the outfit she had arrived in, putting it on. Picking up her robe she looked at it, as if tryng to decide if this is what she wanted to do.

"It's been a week already, huh?" Yoichi's voice came from the doorway. She nodded slowly, not able to look at him. He came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist. It was almost funny, he was just a few inches shy of her height. "If you want to stay, you're welcome here." He said, Konan tempted to do just that.

After everything he had done for her in this short time, she knew she had feelings for him. It just felt too awkward for her, him being so young. She saw so much of what she had loved about Yahiko in him that it was hard to push him away. But for now, she had to. She had something else to do first.

"I can't. I have to stop Nagato. You've shown me a better way to find peace, and you've helped me. But I can't let him go on like this. I need to show him what you've shown me. I need to remind him of Yahiko's dream for peace, and help carry it out for him to honor his memory." She said, Yoichi nodding.

"I understand. I don't think I need to say it, but I can't help the Akatsuki. Just know, you're not alone. I'll do my own part to bring peace to the world. Can you at least promise me, that I'll see you again?" She turned around and nodded. They looked into each other's eyes before leaning in, their lips meeting in a gentle embrace.

"I promise. No matter where we end up, we'll see each other again." He nodded, the two breaking apart. She put on her robe, about to leave before he stopped her once more.

"Here." He held out one of the paper cranes he had made. It was a bit crude, but it was the best he put together so far. "I put my chakra into this one. You can use it to write to me, can't you?" Konan smiled and nodded, taking it and gently placing it her robe.

"You remembered after I only told you once. I'll be sure to send you a letter as soon as I can to let you know I'm safe." She told him, her walking off into the small courtyard, looking around to see if anyone was looking. Yoichi gave her a small wave to which she gave a smile in return before her body turned into paper, flying off into the sky.

And that would be the last he saw of her.

Author's Note

And so begins the week of dates, as well as the current conclusion to Yoichi's interactions with Konan. Bit of dissonance between how he's acting now and how he acted with her, huh? Wonder what happened…

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