If it's love
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Konan rubbed her eyes. After a ginormous Christmas dinner the night before, and after running through a freezing cold field without a shirt! Ew... She was totally pooped. Not quite literally, but definately figurately. It was Boxing day, and in celebration of Christmas, (but mostly because of exhaustion) everyone had slept downstairs with her and Pain, so it was a little squishy. Even without opening her eyes, she could feel that she was sort of lying on Pain, his arm loosely draped around her shoulders, her legs were splayed over Hidan's back, and she could guess that the others were squished around them, or else had cleverly claimed the beds/sofas. She opened her eyes sleepily when she heard a weird click. The room was a blur until she had blinked a few good times, and when it did come into focus, she was confused: she could see Itachi standing on the edge of the carpet, grinning at her, holding the camera. She didn't know why this could be picture-worthy, and somehow she didn't want to know. She groaned slightly as she slithered out from under Pain's arm and sat up, rubbing her eyes some more.
"HAPPY BOXING DAY!" Konan fell over again from shock and surprise. There was a loud chorus of laughter when she did. She frowned and opened her eyes, sitting up again. Everybody else seemed to have been awake the whole time, even Pain, and had waited until she 'woke up' to practically make her piss her pants. Nice, guys. Nice.
She finally dragged herself to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and sort of her hair, washed her face, got half-changed...and then she fell asleep again in the bathtub after drawing the curtain to keep the bright lights out. Of course, in her slumber, she didn't realize that A) she hadn't bothered to lock the door. B) Pain wanted to take a shower. C) Pain came in, locked the door, stripped, and was reaching a hand towards the hot faucet for the shower. She also didn't know about D) that as soon as his back was turned, muffled laughter came from outside as certain persons unlocked the door with a screwdriver and took his clothes, then propped a chair up against the handle. Konan would soon come to realize all of these things as hot water suddenly jetted towards her from somewhere above her head. She yelped silentely (she had lost her voice after all the screaming and stuff last night) and struggled to figure out what was going on, trying to get to her knees in the slippery tub. Any thoughts of 'where the heck is the water coming from?' were lost as she opened her eyes (she had screwed them shut to keep out water) and yelled as a foot, closely followed by a leg had entered the tub.
"YAAAAAA! WHAT THE HECK!" she yelled, turning away and slapping her hands over her eyes, continuing to yell things at the weirdo. There was a moment of silence from the other person. And then-
"Konan?" Konan didn't dare turn, but she was appalled to recognize the voice of Pain.
"Pain? What are you doing! What's going on?"
"Um...I'm having a shower...or I was going to...but...why are you in here?" he asked awkwardly, making sure to keep the shower curtain (which was relatively opaque) between them as he spoke.
"I fell asleep in the bathtub! I guess I didn't lock the door...Um, can you turn off the water?" she asked, and Pain laughed shortly, turning it off. Konan got up, and pushed the curtain aside to step out, until she heard a funny shout of "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" She suddenly remembered that he was most likely naked, and gasped, slapping her hands over her eyes. She was in mid-step, so she naturally lost her balance. She felt two arms grab her and place her down on the floor.
"Okay. I'll just...er...get dressed, and then- What?" Pain sounded confused.
"What's wrong?" Konan asked, very aware that they were in an awkward situation. She wasn't sure if she would feel more or less awkward if they weren't dating. Pain sounded very confused. "My clothes are gone...and so are all the towels...wait a-" he seemed to turn the handle and push, as if to open the door, but it didn't move, as far as Konan (with her eyes closed) could tell.
"Assholes." Pain muttered, trying again and again, practically throwing himself against the door.
"What's going on?" Konan asked. Pain sighed.
"Okay. Don't open your eyes." he said, and she nodded as he continued. "It seems that our charming friends may have known you were in here, or maybe not. Either way, they've locked us in, taken my clothes and the towels, so really the only thing I can cover myself with is the shower curtain. Which is just wonderful. And now..." he paused, and Konan suddenly shivered.
"Is it just me, or is it freezing in here?" she asked, her teeth chattering. Pain seemed to think.
"You're right. And I think it's because...they've propped open the window to the outside. And.." he made a sound like he was trying to wrench a loose brick from a wall- "It's completely jammed." he said, irritated. But he sounded sort of like he was grinningl. He always did.
"Are you serious? I'm cold! I wanna have a shower now!" Konan said, shuffling over to the bathtub and flopping over it, never taking her hands away from her eyes. Pain laughed.
"Right. Well, I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm completely naked. So I'm colder than you, and I call the shower." he said, and she heard him walk over and pull the curtain away. Konan was freezing, so she was determined not to lose this fight over who-gets-warm-first.
"Nooo! I want it! I'm cooooollldddd...I wannnnnit! Wannit Wannit Wannit Wannit!" she whined, giggling throughout as she squeezed her eyes tight shut and fumbled around for the hot tap. She found it, and then she felt something weird and cold at her hips, tugging on her boxers.
"HEy! What the heck! Ow...that's so cold! Stop it, stop, sto-" The deed was done. Her boxers (pink with red hearts) were gone, and she was wearing a wet t-shirt with (she hadn't taken it off last night) a bright red bra and matching underwear. Great.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now. As long as it doesn't scar you for life..." at Pain's last words, Konan immediately snapped her eyes open, and gave a great shout of laughter; he was standing next to her in the shower/bathtub, wearing her pink boxers (which seemed to fit okay. Konan assumed that her hips/butt/thigh ratio was a bit bigger than his, so they weren't like spanx) and otherwise totally naked. She continued laughing at him until she remembered that she was freezing cold. She switched the hot tap to shower mode, and stood up, gratefully soaking in the hot water. Until she was practically pushed aside by Pain, who was grinning and moved forwards to get at the shower water, too.
"Hey!" she said, laughing, pushing him aside. They continued like this until they compromised with standing face-to-face, squished together slightly, so they both could have some shower time. Konan was beginning to realize that her large white snowflake t-shirt was not opaque anymore. At all. She sighed, feeling Pain's eyes on her.
"Um...I know this is a totally awkward question...but can I take this off? I mean...it's not like I want to, it's just that it's absorbing the water..." she trailed off, not particularly wanting Pain to see her half-naked, but ultimately she was still cold.
"I don't mind." he said, grinning. She rolled her eyes, turned away, bent over to peel the shirt off, and flung it onto the empty towell rail. She was now wearing next to nothing; her bright red bra (with hello kitties on it) and underwear (similarly decorated) did not cover much skin. She moment the shirt left her, she seriously wanted it back. She was about to go and get it when Pain's long, wet arms snaked around her bare waist (making her shriek slightly; it tickled) and pulled her back against his chest, resting his chin on her head.
"Don't go get it. It's hardly fair for Me to be the only one practically naked in here." he said, and Konan felt the furious blush spread over her cheeks.
"Your ears are red." Pain remarked from behind her. She blushed more, and got free of his grip, and turned around.
"Stop telling me that. It only makes it worse." she said with a small smile, her cheeks a rather fetching shade of fire engine red.
"You match your underwear." was Pain's only comment. She rolled her eyes before pressing against him, still cold.
"I'm cold." she said quietly, and he laughed just as quietly, wrapping his arms around her again.
"Konan, look up." he ordered gently, and she, obedient as a habit, looked up. She caught one glimpse of his beautiful, intricate eyes before he captured her mouth in a kiss.
Long story short, let's say it might have gotten a little more steamy in the bathroom. ;3
Finally after banging on the door and demanding to be let out, and begging for food, and other things like that, a laughing Sasori eventually moved the chair and let out a mostly naked and wet Konan and Pain, who proceeded to shout up a storm at him and all of his accomplices (Deidara, Hidan, and Kisame) and then got dressed and stuffed their faces (they had been locked inside the bathroom from 10:22 until 12:09).
Happy Boxing day. Yeah right.
"Maaaan! You better fuckin' appreciate these, bitch! Do you know how fucking wrong it felt to buy these? Jashin, and then we didn't even fuckin' win!" Hidan complained, throwing Konan a box of tampons, an Elle magazine, nail polish and eyeshadow. She recognized them as things that had been on her scavenger hunt list. She grinned at him.
"Not my colour." she said, chucking the pink eyeshadow back at him, and hitting him in the back of the head with it. He looked at her with a smirk.
"Do I fucking look like I care? I swear to Jashin, that bitch-ass scavenger hunt thing you assholes had us do was fucking crazy! Seriously! We used up, like, half our holiday cash on fucking bras! I don't even wear them, for fuck's sake!" he vented, and Konan laughed.
"Yeah, well, I had to kiss Deidara's butt!" Konan said, hugging a pillow to her. Sasori had heard, and laughed, flopping down next to her and kissing her on the cheek (a random new habit of his).
"Yeah, well that's not a punishment. It's a gift from the heavens!" he said with a teasing smirk at Deidara, who deemed the subject not worth a comment from him, and merely stepped on Sasori's foot on his way to the kitchen.
"So, does anybody need to go shopping? Just think of all the money we'd save." Kakuzu commented thoughtfully, fingering through his wallet. Konan decided that she didn't really need anything.
"Oh! I almost forgot!" she said suddenly, leaping up from the couch (thwarting Sasori's attempts to hug her) and raced into the kitchen to where Deidara, Pain, Itachi and Kisame were talking casually. She grabbed Pain's arm when he was in mid-sentance, and wrenched him behind her, running up the stairs. He was laughing as he followed her into Sasori's room. She pushed him onto the bed, locked the door, and sat down in front of him, smiling.
"So, why all the secrecy? Are we gonna be talking about something...rated higher than Disney channel?" Pain asked with a grin, pulling her feet towards him. She bit her lip so as not to laugh when he grabbed her feet. Without warning, he tugged them sharply. She fell backwards as he slid her legs towards himself. When she sat up again, her legs were crossed around his waist, and she was sitting in his lap like she normally did.
"Well, actually, I just wanted to ask you a question." she said, and he leaned back, crossing his hands behind his head and closing his eyes.
"Shoot." he said, and she replied 'Bang.' before responding with her real comment.
"I wanted to ask you about your Christmas present! I want to know what the USB is for!" she said, and he opened his eyes with a small smile.
"Okay, I'll show you...if you show me how to open my present from you." he said, and she bit back a grin.
"O-kayyyyy..." she said. "Wait." she instructed, and he nodded with a grin. She crawled out of his lap, but before she could leave the bed, he grabbed her arm, turning her towards him and kissing her. He finished with two small kisses. Then he grinned at her. She looked at him quizzically, still smiling, until he supplied an explanation.
"Want more? Bring my present." he said, and she gasped, not sure if she should laugh or not.
"You...you...you're eviiiiiil!" she said accusingly, and he laughed loudly while she left the room with a shy wink, and raced down the stairs, his kisses still disorienting her slightly as she skidded around corners and through doors. She finally found the box she'd given him, and zipped back up the stairs. When she got there, Pain was lying right where she'd left him. She grinned, locked the door again, and, suddenly feeling like playing, clasped her hands behind her back, hiding the box.
"Well?" Pain asked, grinning at her. "Are you going to give it to me...or not?" he asked, sitting up and grinning wider. She pursed her lips, smiling through it. She knew she was being silly, but she just felt like having fun. Like spinning around, being tickled, jumping up and down and hugging and...well, really everything. She had these weird phases sometimes. She knew it would pass, but she liked having fun when she could.
"Well...why don't you find out?" she asked, grinning.
He stood up, grinning as usual, and walked towards her, arms stretched out like he was going to hug her. As soon as he was close, Konan ducked under his arm and skipped over to the other side of the room. He smirked, raising an eyebrow, and followed her, going faster this time. She laughed and moved again, this time around the bed to the wardrobe. He laughed, and chased after her. They continued the cat and mouse game, laughing more and jumping on and off the bed, slipping on the carpet. Konan had just ducked under his arm quickly, and made a huge backwards leap for the bed. He was faster, and jumped, too. He pinned her down on the bed, hands on either side of her head, their faces inches apart. He reached down and grabbed the box from her hands with a slow grin. It was odd, but as the smile slowly, slowly spread over her face, Konan felt all silly and warm. Like she was blushing inside. At least it would match the one burning on her cheeks, she thought ruefully.
"I win." he said quietly, and dipped his chin slightly as if to kiss her. She had closed her eyes, but after a few seconds, she frowned and opened her eyes.
"No fair." she said to him, and he grinned.
"Want it? Hmmm?" he asked teasingly, raising his head higher and grinning. She rolled her eyes, exasperated.
"You are so immature." she told him, and he laughed.
"Well, yeah." he said, like it was just so obvious. Like, duh, Konan.
She smiled slightly, then raised her chin, kissing him softly. He made a funny groaning sound, and she giggled before one of his cool hands came behind her head, wrapping in her hair and deepening the kiss. He was kissing her slowly, casually, but with so much liking that she could almost feel The Something, even if she didn't see it. Konan's breath came quicker, fanning on his cheeks as the kiss grew deeper, fiercer. She placed one hand on his neck, his skin cool to the touch. Her other hand slid up his t-shirt, fisting the fabric from the inside and pulling him down on her harder.
"I...I..love..." she said breathlessly against his lips, and he moved his mouth down to her neck, kissing down softly until the collarbone that was exposed by the V-neck of her pale purple t-shirt. He kissed it, said 'I love you' quietly against the skin, making her shiver, before he bit her collarbone gently. Konan was completely surprised by herself when she made a weird moaning sound, quietly, her hands buried in his orange hair. She felt him give a low chuckle and do it again. With some effort, she managed to roll him over, so she was on top. She looked down at him breathlessly, her legs on either side of him, sitting on his chest with her hands next to his head. He was smiling at her, his eyes full of The Something, his hair messier than usual.
"Present time." she said in a rather breathy voice, and he grinned up at her impishly.
"Of course, silly! I was getting you into the mood." he said, saying the last two words in a funny way, elongating the O like a cow (Mooooooo, lol), making her laugh.
"Okay. You first." she instructed, reaching to the back of her neck and undoing the silver necklace he'd given her. The silver chain and 'paper' flower slid into her hand, and she handed it to him. He smiled at her quickly before flicking she small switch on the back of the charm, and the usb thing came out. He got off the bed quickly, unplugged Sasori's laptop from it's charger, and brought it back to the bed. He turned it on, and Konan bit back a grin when Pain (who knew Sasori's password) typed in ImFiner343 and flicked to his background, which was a picture of Deidara (thankfully not naked, or anything weird) tugging an end of his hair thoughtfully, sitting on a bench with his legs crossed like a yoga expert, half-molded clay in his free hand. Pain pushed the usb into the computor, and after a few seconds, there was a 'device detected' notice before he clicked several icons and instructions and stuff, and a video began.
"Merry Christmas." Pain said, sliding the computor towards Konan, who lifted it up onto her lap, watching the video with a small smile.
Pain seemed to have mixed videos he'd taken himself of her, the others, and him with her, along with music and words. Konan recognized the beginning of Ooh lala (goldfrapp) as the fullscreen video began. Large, pale blue-grey letters faded in, in the same font as the Corpse Bride title: Konan. She felt a blush creep over her cheeks as the video continued. The song had changed to Wannabe, and Pain seemed to have gone to a lot of effort to edit the clips perfectly so the words matched up. There was a scene of him, Sasori and Hidan talking, saying what they 'really really want' which ended with Konan coming in laughing, jumping up and saying 'Zigazig ahh!'.
The scene switched to Konan dancing and singing while she vacuumed with Are you gonna be my girl playing loudly in the background. Konan laughed as she watched herself use a lamp as a mic and swung her hair around to 'Big black boots...Long brown hair...and she's so sweet with her...GET BACK STARE!' White letters in a funny font that looked exactly like Pain's messy scrawl typed across the screen as Konan paraded around the room with the vacuum. 'Just the way you are'.
The scene switched again, this time to a video that one of the others had taken, of Pain walking away from the camera, down a snowy street, which Konan insantly recognized as the one outside. The song was now the Pink Panther theme. She laughed as she saw the back of her head come into view, and crept after Pain down the street. She watched as the her in the video leapt onto him with a shout of 'Surprise!' and a loud laugh. He laughed, and span around, the video pausing and zooming in slowly on the third spin, focusing slowly onto their faces: Konan's eyes closed, mouth open in a laugh, her arms wrapped around Pain, Pain looking up at her and laughing, too.
The song had gracefully switched to you're beautiful. More text appeared onto the screen: Best thing in my life. Konan hadn't noticed that she had wrapped her arms around herself, or that she was trying not to cry from happiness and love. After several more clips of her and Pain laughing, her, Sasori and Deidara singing Mommy kissing Santa Claus, Kisame giving her a piggyback and then dropping her in the snow, her chasing Hidan, Kakuzu and Itachi around the kitchen and living room because they'd stolen her underwear.
Finally, the last song, If it's love ( by Train) began playing, as a picture of Konan asleep against Pain, his arms wrapped around her, and his eyes fixed calmly on her face, a grin on his face. I love you were the last words to fade and zoom, then the screen faded to white. She looked up at Pain, who clearly was watching her intently to see if she liked it. She leaned over, hugged him, and said that she loved him.
After a few minutes, Konan picked up the black box she'd given him with the silver sketch of him on the cover, and placed it on her knee.
"Watch carefully." she instructed, and Pain grinned. She unclipped one of the charms off of her silver bracelet. Pain grinned when he realized that it was different from the others (which were mostly 'paper' cranes, flowers, dogs, etc). "It's for you. You could use it as a keychain or something, because it's got a hook..." Konan explained shyly. She held it up, and Pain saw that the key was really the end of a key, the unlocky-part, and the rest was his name in curly metal. Konan blushed faintly as she pushed it into the keyhole, and turned it, keeping her eyes focused on the present. There was a small click, and then Konan lifted the lid carefully. Inside, neatly stacked, were six CDs, and six DVDs.
"What's on them?" Pain asked, and Konan blushed more.
"Um...just...things..." she said, and he laughed.
"Can we play one now?" he asked, and she nodded, shuffling through a lot of the DVDs until she found one labelled with a red converse shoe with small black words saying boogie shoes spilling out the top. She popped into Sasori's laptop, and clicked a few times on various buttons and icons, and then it was ready and fullscreen. She pushed the laptop towards Pain, who grinned at her, then began watching.
"Um...it's not that much...I really only made it for fun, and the others are better, it's just I thought it would be funny, because you-" Konan mumbled, worried he might not like it, but Pain placed a hand over her mouth with a smile, and pressed play.
The screen turned bright blue, with words in white saying '3...1...2...PARTY!' at the same time as seven recognizable voices.
Konan stifled a laugh with her fist as her black silhouette with ipod earphones came onto the bright blue screen as Hey Mama started playing. She started dancing, then the screen switched to red, with Sasori dancing. It continued switching, with yellow and Deidara, to purple and Hidan, to grey and Kakuzu, to dark red and Itachi, to blue and Kisame. Then letters appeared on the screen: 'Swing'. Boogie Shoes started playing, and it began with Konan dancing swing with Itachi, and waving their hands around during 'My my my my boogie shoes'. Then it flicked to Sasori and Deidara dancing, then Kakuzu and Hidan, then Kisame and Itachi.
Then the word 'Themes' came on the screen. Hidan was first, with Get outta your mind. He was dancing wildly, like the Hetalia people in the fan-made Flathead commercial. (It's really funny. if you know Hetalia, you should watch it.) Then Kakuzu went, with Money (pink floyd). He was dancing really funny, his ipod earphones swinging around as he moved. Then Kisame danced to Splish splash, then Itachi to Walkie talkie man, then Deidara to Boom boom boom boom (I want you in my room). His was seriously funny, because about halfway through the clip of the song, Sasori came in, whomped him, and very clearly (because the camera was pointing at his profile) said 'I want you in my room' with the song.
Then Sasori danced alone in slo-mo to Club can't handle me. Then Konan came on dancing to Are you gonna be my girl, and was soon joined by everybody else, all dancing around and stuff. The video ended with a clip of Pain, edited to look like the others, laughing and pointing at Konan, obviously laughing about something somebody had said, but the sound was off. My chick bad was playing, and Pain laughed. The video ended, and the screen went black.
"That was so cool! Did you do it all yourself?" Pain asked, and Konan grinned.
"I'm happy you like it. Itachi helped make it look like Ipod ads, but I filmed most of them, and organized them and stuff. The other DVDs and cds aren't like that, though. They're all different." she said, quite proud of herself. Pain laughed and kissed her.
When they went back downstairs, they found the house completely empty. There was a stickynote on the front door saying that the others had gone out to buy cheap-ass junk. Konan suspected Hidan of writing the note, seeing as it was hardly legible, and there was swearing. Who swears on sticky notes? Really? Anyways, Konan and Pain decided to go to a cafe for some coffee/hot chocolate and to stare at passerby (a randomly fun thing to do, if you've never done it).They ordered one grande mocha-cappucino with whipped cream and sprinkled chocolate flakes for Pain (a coffee critic, if nothing else) and a large hot chocolate with a bit of mocha in it, whipped cream and chocolate shavings for Konan. They also got a huge slab of fudge-cake-brownie-icecream thing to share (when I say slab, I mean slab. Like, 6" by 6" square of fudge-brownie-whatever.)
"Can we sit by the window?" Konan asked as they paid and picked up their food/drinks.
"Sure." Pain said, and soon they were sipping hot drinks and playing 'guess their life' with the unsuspecting passerby. It was Konan's turn. She pointed to a kind-faced woman with curly red hair, a little overweight, and with four children who didn't look anything like her.
"Okay. Her name is Sam, like Samantha. She's a volunteer for the community, and always donates to food banks. Right now, she's spending time with orphans, or maybe she's just babysitting. She's single, hasn't gone on a date since highschool, but she could possibly be lesbian, just as a wild guess. Her parents were the typical loving 40s-sitcom couple, and raised her sheltered from the more violent things in life. She is happy where she is, and often reads romance and travel novels while sitting in her red armchair with her cats, Tabitha, Napolean, and Greedypuss. Her favourite beverage is hotchocolate, and she loves lasagna." Konan said, and Pain grinned approvingly.
"That's good! Except for Tabitha and Napolean...aren't those choreographers from So you think you can dance?" he said teasingly, and she gasped.
"Oh! That's where I got them from! Wow...I didn't even realize." she admitted, and he laughed before choosing a young-ish woman, tall, in her twenties, sitting on a bench and holding a cup of coffee while reading a book. She looked pale and a bit sad.
"Okay then. That is Miriam. Her name means 'sea of bitterness', as a side note. She's in her second year of university, which was in part paid for by her parents. Her father died when she was rather young, of cancer, and her mother is very happily remarried to a lawyer who doesn't include Miriam in his day-to-day lifestyle. She lives in rez with people taking similar courses to hers. She has made a few good friends, but in generally shy and prefers daydreaming about literary characters than going to parties and such with her classmates. She is taking courses in the literary arts, and loves fantasizing and dreaming about whirlwind romances, incestuous relationships, daring pirates and damsels in distress. She loves to write sonnets, but prefers keeping them to herself, as she is quite frank about things in them. She is more inwardly-focused than outwardly. She has never had a boyfriend, but dreams of the magnificent day when she will find somebody just right. She enjoys listening to love-oriented music, and prefers bands like Train to singers like Usher, Akon, T-pain, etc. She sometimes downs vodka when alone, and had a bad party experience in highschool. She gets good grades, but is shy about sharing her happiness. She is too self-conscious to fully open up among friends and family. She loves her sister, Natalie, and visits her often. She showers in the mornings every day, and she plays the piano." he finished, sipping his coffee. Konan applauded.
"Wow. That's good!" she said, and he winked at her over his mug. She felt a little fluttery (embarassingly enough), and even more so when she knew she was blushing faintly. She saw him grin, and pointedly ignored it.
"Okay...um...how about we...take this personality quiz?" she suggested, just finding one in the magazine somebody had left there. Pain agreed, so she began, taking it first. It was a are you a together-forever couple? quiz. Konan was a little scared in case they failed. They finished the quiz.
It was mostly things like 'what does your boyfriend/girlfriend call you when you're alone? a) babe b) sweetheart c) fuck-machine. There were the occasional cute questions like 'if the two of you are walking together and you pass a young couple with a baby, does he a) rush immediately to stock up on condoms b) squeeze your hand, but doesn't say anything c) seems disappointed when the mother bottle-feeds the baby.
Konan added up the numbers, and turned the page upside-down. She found 40-55 points: Long-term Lovebirds. She smiled, told him, and began to read it outloud, stuffing in a forkful of fudge every so often. 'Are you a Together Forever Couple?' You're the type of couple that makes everyone jealous. With your lovebird looks and thumbs-hooked-in-each-other's-pockets strolls, you have obtained what is the Holy Grail of the Ally McBeal set: true love. You've both reached the level where you accept each other as is, but that doesn't mean you're both blinded by bliss. You've learned to love the good, the bad and the ugly side of your parter, settling the stage for a love built on something more solid than the stuff on Halmark cards. But don't go crazy just yet. Wait six months to a year before making any kind of big decision, like having kids.' Konan finished and choked slightly: kids! Obviously this was directed at a much older couple...she hoped...
"Well that was fun." Pain remarked, and she laughed before taking another chug of her whipped-cream smothered hotchocolate. She looked up with a smile and a sigh, to see Pain looking at her and grinning.
"What?" she asked.
"You've got whipped cream on your face, silly." he said, and she laughed, raising a hand with a napkin to wipe it off, when he grabbed her hand and stopped her. Looking up at him, confused, her question (whatever it was) was cut short as he leaned across swiftly, and kissed her face, just between her mouth and her cheek. She laughed (slightly hysterically, as it was completely new and a little weird) when she felt him lick off the whipped cream before kissing her mouth.
She kissed him back, slowly raising her arms, one going around his neck, the other fisting his shirt. He had one arm tightly around her waist, pulling her off her stool towards him, the other fisting her hair. He licked her bottom lip, and she opened her mouth willingly (it had taken her a while to get used to this, but she found that she liked it now) and allowed him entrance into her mouth. She was so caught up in the kiss, the smell and warmth of his breath mingling with hers, the feel of his hard, long body pressed against hers, his strong arm wrapped around her like he'd never let go, that it took her fifteen long seconds to realize that someone was banging on the window. She broke away with a sigh (she hated stopping. It made her feel cold and sad and empty and alone, despite the fact that he was right next to her, and still holding her tightly) and looked at the window, confused. Pain looked as well, and then grinned when they both recognized Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, Kisame, Hidan and Itachi looking at them. They could hear the 'get a room's and wolf-whistles even from inside. They exited the cafe, having finished their brick-fudge-thing and both their drinks, and joined them, only to be pelted with various sexually harrassing comments, questions, and suggestions. Huzzah.
After a dinner consisting of lasagna, garlic bread and salad (graciously cooked by Pain), they all flopped down onto the floor/sofas in the living room.
"What should we do now? I'm bored, un." Deidara said with a yawn, stretching.
"I got some personality disorder quizzes from some magazines. We could take them, if you want." Konan suggested from her upside-down position on the couch. They agreed, so she dug them out of her bag, and they began with Sasori. He ended up with HIGH for Narcissistic, and MODERATE for paranoid, dependant, and obssesive-compulsive. Then Deidara took it and finished with MODERATE for dependant, histronic, and schizotopial. Kakuzu took it, and got VERY HIGH for schizoid, HIGH for antisocial, paranoid, and narcissistic.
"Hey, I knew you were fucking crazy, 'Kuzu!" Hidan said with a laugh, earning him a stiff punch to the shoulder.
Hidan ended with HIGH risks for narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial, and schizotopial. Itachi took the test. He ended up being the 'normalest' one yet, with loads of LOWS and only one HIGH: schizoid. Kisame took it and got HIGH dependant, and MODERATE avoidant. Pain took it and got MODERATE for shizotopial, but LOW for everything else. Finally Konan took it. She finished with HIGH for schizotopial and MODERATE for dependant. So far, Kakuzu was the 'weird'est one of all of them. Afterwards, they sat around and talked for a few hours until they deemed it 'late' (12:23) and went upstairs, leaving Pain and Konan to unfold their beds and sleep downstairs.
Konan lay under her covers, her eyes closed, but she couldn't sleep. She knew Pain was still awake as well, so after a while, she spoke.
"I'm bored." She heard Pain laugh from over on his bed. There was silence for a moment, and then Pain jumped on her bed, causing her to fly into the air with a yelp. He caught her on the way down, laughing, and hugged her. It took a moment to get her breath back, and when she did, she bopped him on the head with her pillow before hugging him back. They stayed like that for a while, not really talking, just...you know. Finally she spoke again.
"Do you make a wish on New Year's Eve?" she asked, her voice muffled (because her face was pressed into his bare chest. This was good because he was hot, but bad because if she moved away, he would see that she was blushing like Hero, the disgraced bride. (from Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespear) He thought about it for a bit.
"Well, I suppose so. I never did until people started thinking about, say, the world ending in 2012, or something horrible happening. So I guess I started wishing for stuff like 'Please don't let the world end' and 'Let the polar bears survive', but I never really believed that it would work. I never really cared much to protect stuff, until I met you." he said quietly, his face buried in her shoulder, his breath warming her as he spoke. It took a moment for his last words to settle in her mind.
"Me? Why?" she asked, surprised, and he laughed quietly, his breath tickling her neck.
"You're the only person I know that if something bad happened to you, like if you died, I really wouldn't know what to do. Thinking about it, if, say, you were hit by a car tomorrow, I don't know how long I could stay in school. I guess I'd drop out, maybe get a job, but I just...wouldn't care. I'd probably quit, or get fired, then just...drift for a bit until I died. I wouldn't have a purpose." he said thoughtfully. Konan frowned and drew away.
"That's not good. Pain, if I died tomorrow, I don't want you to waste your life! Seriously! I mean, I hope you'd be sad, but-"
"Sad!" Pain snorted. "That's a huge understatement." he said, but she interrupted him and continued.
"I'm being totally serious! If anything happens to me, I mean, it's really nice you care so much, but I don't want you to just...just..." she struggled to find the right words, but they were lost as Pain pressed his lips softly against hers in a kiss. He drew away, looking at her carefully.
"Stop." he said quietly. "Just...leave it, okay?" he said, and she pursed her lips and looked at her hands. How could she just leave it when he was planning on wasting his life if anything happened to her? Sure, she'd be pretty upset if she knew that he didn't care, and just went back to school as if nothing had happened while she pushed up daisies, but she'd never expected him to say that he would lose his purpose...
"Hey. If you wouldn't 'have a purpose' after I died, what was your purpose before you...er...decided it was...something to do with...um...me...?" she asked, not sure how to ask this without sounding arrogant or whatever. Pain chewed his lip in thought for a moment.
"I suppose it was just to do whatever and have fun with my life. You know, the motorcycle, piercings, pyro stuff, hanging out with the guys and talking about random shit. I didn't really think about the future at all. Until, of course, I met you." he said, a small grin flickering across his face as he looked down at her in the darkness. She blushed, scowled, and looked away.
"Right. Okay. How about we agree on this." she said, and he raised an eyebrow at her, but didn't speak. "If something horrible (I.E. fatal disease, blown up, hit by a car, etc) ever happens to either of us, the other one can only be sad (or however they'd feel) for...umm...six months. Less if you want, but I think I'd need at the very very very very very very verrrryyyy least six months. Of course, I'd probably still be upset years later..." she was more talking to herself than him now, unaware of the grin that had spread across his face.
"See? I told you." he said, and she shook her head.
"But if you died...if something bad happened to you, I know...or, rather, I hope that you wouldn't want me to end up on the streets because I couldn't get over it ever, because I could never ever concentrate on...er...not you for...okay, I don't know any more..." she muttered, knowing she'd lost the argument. She hoped that if anything bad happened to Pain and he died, she'd be able to get a job, or something, and not just...drift...but as she thought more about the pain and heart-breaking misery that would follow, she really couldn't see how she could ever move on. Dang it, he was right.
"See? I told you." he murmured, and she sighed.
"Okay fine. Fine, fine." she said, and there was a moment of silence as both of them thought about what might happen if the other were to die. "You know, when I first found out I'd be sleeping in the boy's dorm, I thought I would be in a living hell. But really...this has been the best four months of my entire life. And this has been the best Christmas ever." she said thoughtfully, and he grinned.
"Why?" he asked playfully, and she turned to look at him, a small smile on her face as she took his hand and looked at their entwined fingers interestedly as she spoke.
"Because I met the others and you guys are the best friends I've had in my whole life. And the best Christmas? Well, really, the best December... because of you. Because I love you." she said simply, and he grinned, but shook his head.
"No. Because I love you." he corrected, and she rolled her eyes before he kissed her.
New Year's Eve came quicker than any of them had expected. It was 10:00 pm, and they were walking along the street, following a crowd to La Favoloso Imperiale (which Sasori had translated as 'The Fabulous Raven'), going to the local New Year's party. They were all vaguely dressed up (after all, it was the first out-of-school party of the whole year) and were talking loudly as they made their way into the club.
Konan was wearing tights with large fishnet holes, a bubble-gum pink (a first, I know) dress that was mostly chiffon, form-fitting until just above her middle, where it flared out and stuck out. It was strapless, with a bright pink sash around the waist. Konan felt very conspicuous, but Deidara had insisted that she wear it, and she felt like celebrating and being silly because it was her very first New Year's party. She also had a black lace flower (clip) in her hair, replacing her customary paper one, just for fun.
The guys were mostly wearing colourful jeans (the kind of guy-skinnies that they normally wear. Some girls don't like them, but Konan loved them- she just never told her friends.) and either graphic tees or loose, open-collar, rolled-up-sleeve collar shirts. Konan had also dug out her glow-in-the-dark can of paint and had put glowing pink paint on all of the guys as well as herself so they could see each other (and also make everybody else jealous, of course).
Sasori, his dark red hair sexy and messy as usual, looked super hot (though not as hot as Pain, of course) in red skinnies and a black V-neck tee, and a neon-pink glowing handprint on his chest. He had also insisted on painting the glowing paint on Deidara's mouth and making him kiss him, so he also had a glowing pair of lips on his neck.
Deidara (who had washed off the paint from his mouth) was wearing a dark blue V-neck tee, purple skinnies, bright yellow converse, and a pink gothic mouth with a tongue sticking out on his chest, and (Sasori had drawn it) PROPERTY OF SASORI on his back.
Hidan was wearing an open blue collar shirt which showed off his toned chest (Kakuzu had practically forced the reluctant Hidan into a shirt; he had been planning on going without) and black skinnies. He had a glowing pink FUCK on the back of his shirt, and handprints all over his exposed chest.
Kakuzu was wearing black skinnies, a dark grey shirt, and a glowing pink dollar sign on his right arm, and he had dipped both hands into the paint, so they glowed.
Itachi was wearing an open white collar shirt, its sleeves rolled up, and bright red skinnies. He had bright pink streaks in his hair, and a funny lollipop on his back, which he claimed to be some kind of family sybmol.
Kisame was wearing a white Vneck, and blue skinnies. He had pink paint in the shape of gills on his neck (he was playing off the long joke of him looking sharky) and I'M WITH SEXY on his back.
Pain was wearing his red converse, skinny jeans, and a pale blue Vneck. He had pink handprints up his chest, and SEXY written up one of his pantlegs (written by Konan).
Konan had glowing pink hands like Kakuzu, glowing pink smears through her tights and dripped over her shoes (black converse). Sasori had been responsable for the glowing pink handprint over her butt. So, they were, more or less (perhaps less, but they hoped it was more) looking cool and paryt-esque as they walked towards their New Year's destination.
When they got in, Adam Lambert was playing, If I HAd You pumping through the speakers which were positioned all over the huge dancefloor. It was two stories, the upstairs more a danceroom than a bar. They got drinks (Sasori, for some inexplicable (he did explain, but he probably fudged on the details) reason, had a fake lisence) and went upstairs, Pain with his precious straight vodka, some of the others with beer, gin and tonic. Konan had a Shirly Temple, was deemed a 'real girl' and followed them. They got Kakuzu to guard their drinks (he insisted on them being kept safe in case somebody drank them while they were dancing. He refused to waste money on drinks that they could lose.) and they all went onto the dance floor. Sasori and Deidara drank the most the fastest, and soon retreated into a corner of the crowded danceroom to make out. Hidan ended up pretty drunk, and was slumped on the table with Kakuzu. Itachi and Kisame had disappeared onto the balcony to relax after a while, leaving only Konan and Pain still on the dancefloor. They were currently jumping around to Magic by B.O.B., and laughing.
That is they were before there was an angry growl from over in the corner, and the next thing they knew, fists were flying among various angry yells and swears. Konan recognized the voice of Sasori snarling "Get the fuck away from him!" and Deidara shouting "Sasori, stop it! Stop!".
Before she knew it, she had pushed her way through the crowd, Pain right behind her. She saw Sasori fighting some guy wearing fake glasses (those weird black ones...don't know why they're 'cool') and a neon yellow t-shirt. They were knocking people over as they fought, half-wrestling, half just...fighting. Deidara was trying to pull Sasori away at the same time as yelling at some guy next to him.
"Stop! Stop it! Stop!" Konan yelled, moving forwards, pushing people aside. Honestly, how arrogant could Sasori be? He probably just got dissed or...No...he wouldn't get pissed off just 'cause of something like that...he's too cocky. It must have been...Deidara. Konan thought as she basically threw people out of her way as she tried to get towards the fighting pair. The guy fighting Sasori must have come on to Deidara or something like that. Sasori was exactly like the over-protective boyfriend type, except he was more in love, and less crazy. He was just...himself.
Konan shouted for them to stop again, then gave up, and jumped onto Sasori's back. Sasori told her to get off at the same time of fisting the other guy's shirt and punching him in the gut. Konan ignored him, clinging on and ignoring Pain's half-laughter, half-worried advice, and ripped off one of her heels. She raised it above her head as the song went I got the magic, magic, ma-a-a-agic...and hit the other guy on the back hard. He grunted, and she did it again.
"Stop! Stop it, you dumbass!" she shouted, not sure which one she was talking to, still clinging onto Sasori like a monkey, still pummelling the other guy with her heavy high heel. Finally she kicked the other guy in the stomach with her other heel and succeeded in splitting the two apart. After more swearing, etc, the fight ended, and she put her shoe back on. Sasori was scowling, glaring at the other guy's retreating form as he ran a hand through his messy hair. If looks could kill...Konan thought as she walked over to Pain, who hugged her and told her she was silly.
"So...what happened, anyways?" she asked Deidara, who had sat down on a table, looking irritated. Sasori's attention returned to them, and he scowled again, looking at Deidara, half-angry, half...er...furiously..um...loving? It was rather hard to tell.
"That mother-beeeeeeeeeeeep-ing sh-beeep-ch was trying to fucking -beeeep-" Sasori explained, but Deidara interrupted with a slightly less vulgar explanitory sentance.
"That asshole asked me if I was getting any, then he stuck his hands down the back of my pants and...well...Sasori um..." Deidara was looking down at his legs, his hair hiding more of his embarassed, disgusted face than usual. Sasori rolled his eyes with a disdainful snort, grabbed Deidara, and moved back into the throng. Konan looked at Pain, who made a funny face, grinning.
"Hey, do you want some water?" he shouted above the music, knowing that she didn't really like tasting alchohal a lot, and she nodded. He went to go grab some, as she danced with herself to Ghetto Superstar. After a few minutes, she felt hands on her hips. She turned, looking for Pain. Of course, as irritating fat goes, it wasn't him.
"No." she said, stepping away. Seconds later, hands were back.
"No! I said no! No means no!" she said, moving away, pushing past some people, trying to get away from the creepy guy in the aviaters and red sweater. Finally, she thought she was fine. Dancing with herself again, hoping Pain would come back soon, she sighed. And then she felt hands not just on her butt. They were under her skirt. Under as in beneath her skirt. As in the perverted asshole had put his hands up her skirt, and was now squeezing her butt cheeks. EWWW.
"FUCK!" she shrieked, a much louder and higher sound than she'd anticipated, but whatever. She slapped the hands away, whirled to face the man, bright red with anger, cold with hatred and disgust. He was grinning.
"What's wrong, hottie? Don't like what you see?" he asked with a grin, pointing with both hands down. She looked, and blanched then turned red again when she saw something disgusting. A tent in his pants. A fucking tent. ew. There are no other words. She looked back up at his face, disgust pouring out of every piece of her essence.
"You disgust me. You're a fucking sickening freak." she said, her voice much more stable than she'd thought, but it still carried. She got the feeling everyone around her was listening. "Your face looks like it was on fire and somebody tried to put it out with a fork." she said, spitting on the ground before him and turning away contemptuously to look for Pain. She was scared now; she couldn't hit him: he was older, probably lived here, and she could get put in jail for like a night for violence or something. She was pushing through the crowd when she felt hands close around her shoulders tightly, hot, alchoholic breath on her neck, and a hard, horrible something pressing up at her butt. She jumped about a foot in the air.
"Get the FUCK away from me!" she shouted, scared. There was a laugh behind her as he began grinding into her butt, the tent in his pants getting harder. She kicked him in the shin with her high heel, but he didn't let go. And then there was a snarl from behind them, a rather animalistic, savage one. The kind you imagine James the vampire (the only Twilight one with any balls) making. Much, much less than a second later, the perverted, disgusting creep was wrenched off of Konan, who staggered away, and turned, shaking, scared, to see Pain beating the man to a bleeding, broken pulp. Pain grabbed the bleeding man's throat, pulling him up slightly so their faces were at eye level. The creep's nose was clearly broken, he would have some serious black eyes the next morning, and he might not be up to running for at least a week.
"If you ever even look at her again, you are going to wish that I'd killed you now." Pain's voice was soft, almost silent, as he spoke before dropping the man to the ground and walking over to Konan, a muscle in his jaw jumping slightly, his jaw locked. Konan spotted a puddle of water and a lot of broken glass which she assumed was where her water had gone. She shuddered slightly, walking wordlessly beside Pain towards the empty balcony ten feet from them. She wasn't sure if she wanted to talk to him or touch him, because she was worried he might push her away or something.
They closed and locked the balcony doors behind them, and leaned on the metal railing, looking out at the dark, starry sky and the snowy village below. Konan was waiting for him to say something, but decided that it would have to be her. From the position of his jaw and the expression on his face, she was pretty sure that she would be doing most of the talking.
"Pain?" she said tentatively. He didn't move. She sighed, and sat down on the cold balcony floor, taking off her heels, rubbing her feet, and looking through the metal bars down at the snow-covered roofs of the stores on the highstreet beneath them. She sighed again. She felt like wanting nothing more than to be back 'home'. Well really, it was her home. Like school was home. It was more home than the house of her father. I don't want to stay here, Konan thought, I want to go home... For the weirdest reason, she felt like crying. She got a lump in her throat which she couldn't swallow. She looked away from Pain to hide her face as her eyes filled with inexplicable tears. She hated to cry. She loved crying at the same time, because when she was done, she always felt better. But she hated it because she cried at the oddest times. Like now.
She didn't bother putting her shoes back on.
"Goodnight." she said to Pain, then swing one leg over the balcony and clambered down to the fire exit's staircase. He looked at her, but she looked away again, her eyes full of tears. As soon as she landed on the snowy ground, her feet numb from the snow, she walked a few steps towards the house. Then she started running. As soon as she ran, the tears slid down her face. Surprisingly, they were quite silent tears. Konan was usually the one for WAAAAAAHs and I d-d-d-dont WAAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAA! the kind when you can't breath without gasping loudly. But this time she just made a funny sound like a crying dog. Yes. She ran along the snowy highstreet, past closed shops, empty houses and loud pubs. Her fishnetted feet slipped in the snow, and she skidded as she flew around a corner. She crashed into someone who caught her, but she couldn't see who it was. The streetlight was broken. It was dark.
"Get off of-" she said through her tears, trying to get away before the person kissed her, hugging her tightly. She tried to fight them until she felt two triangular piercings below the other person's bottom lip. Either it was a horrible coincidence, or...? She succeeded in pushing away, and looked up, squinting through her tears and the darkness up at the face of the person above her. Giving up, she raised her hands, still scared it might not be him, and placed her hands on his face. He didn't move. His skin was cold, but what was the most important information to Konan at that moment was that she could feel three piercings that went straight through his nose. Now that was the deciding moment.
"Pain..." Konan sighed, not sure if it was with relief or sadness, and stopped fighting his grasp. He pulled her to him, wrapping his arms more firmly around her, but didn't say anything. Konan suddenly realized that she'd grown: she reached his chin now instead of his collarbones. It was quiet for a long time.
"Konan...don't go...please." he said quietly, the sadness in his voice seriously making her want to cry harder. Just cry her heart out. She settled for pressing her face into his chest so he wouldn't see her cry, and say a muffled 'I'm not going anywhere'. He sighed, rubbing her back slowly.
"You're crying." he commented softly. She froze: how did he know?
"Um...no..." she said, and heard a quiet laugh.
"I can feel it. You're getting my shirt wet." Pain said, and she snorted before returning to crying with her face pressed against his chest.
"I don't want you to be mad at me." she said in a tiny voice after a while. She felt him stiffen for a millisecond before shaking his head and tugging playfully on a lock of her blue hair.
"Silly. You're silly." was all he said. She frowned and looked up at him.
"Why am I silly?" she asked, and he grinned down at her.
"I'm not mad at you. I could never be mad at you. You're too silly to get mad at." he said, and she made a face.
"Thanks." she grumbled, but didn't look away.
"You're beautiful." he commented randomly. She looked at him oddly.
"What do you mean?" she asked, and he laughed.
"I mean exactly what I said. You're beautiful. You're beautiful, you're silly, you're crying, and I love you." he said, repeating practically everything he'd said from the time she'd realized it was really him to that moment. She shook her head slowly, but a small smile appeared on her face.
"No...you're wrong." she said quietly, and continued before he could interrupt. "You've got it wrong. It's true, I'm silly, I'm crying, but you're beautiful, and I love you." she said, poking him in the chest with every accented word. He laughed loudly, and before she knew what he was doing, he had grabbed her around the waist, picked her up, and was spinning her around and kissing her. I guess we've made up...if we ever really were in a fight...Konan thought as the world blurred before her except Pain's face.
And that's exactly how she liked it.
They returned to the dance floor, but strictly to find the others, celebrate midnight (which was in twelve minutes, coincidentally) and the go. This time, Konan stuck to Pain like glue, and he kept an arm around her shoulders as they walked. They found Kisame and Itachi first. Kisame was pretty drunk, and was leaning on the wall, grinning at Itachi. Itachi was fine, and agreed to stay there while they found the others. The next to be found were Kakuzu and Hidan, who looked like they'd been in a fight; Hidan's eye was black, and his knuckles were bruised, as if the other person had taken most of the beating. Kakuzu's shirt was askew, he had a scratch up one arm, but was otherwise perfectly fine. Of course, he would be. They agreed (a little slowly, due to the alchohol) to go join Kisame and Itachi. Next they had to find Deidara and Sasori.
"If I know them," Pain said suddenly, "They've gone off to a bathroom to make out...or..." he said with a grin, and she bit back a similar expression.
"Well, I guess we'd better check." Konan said, following him to the bathrooms.
"I'll check this one," Pain said, gesturing to the guy's one behind him. "But I think they'd probably be in yours." he finished, and Konan nodded, and pushed open the girl's bathroom door.
It was vaguely quiet, except for the sound of someone throwing up, (which then, of course, made her feel sick) and a muffled sound, like somebody speaking...while kissing..? Konan (who still wasn't wearing shoes; Pain had given them to Kakuzu, who said it was a waste of money to leave expensive footwear lying around) walked along the row of stalls, bent over to see feet. There was one pair of stripper heels in the stall with the barfing sounds, none in most of the others, until she found one pair of bright yellow converse which she recognized as Deidara's facing her, and one black converse (seriously? Does everybody wear these to New Year's? Konan herself only had the airwalk kind, like most of her friends, but she still had them...) facing the other way.
Sasori and Deidara.
She contemplated grabbing one of their ankles to surprise them, but she decided against it. She went into the stall next to them, got the TP roll off of the dispenser, exited the stall again, then tossed it over the stall Deidara and Sasori were in with a shout of 'Hey! It's me! Five minutes 'till midnight!' There was a surprised sound as she heard the TP hit somebody, then a few muttered complaints and grumbles and so-forth, until they finally came out of the stall. Sasori's hair was even messier than usual, his shirt was a little wrinkled, like somebody had fisted it, his pants were a little askew, and he was scowling at her. Deidara looked a little less messy, but his hair was a little tangled, he was blushing slightly, and it looked like somebody had tried to rip his shirt off.
"Fine, fine, we're coming..." Sasori said, a little irritably, as they turned to go. Of course, he slapped Konan's butt where his previous handprint was still glowing brightly. She sighed loudly.
"You are soooo immature." she said, sticking her tongue out at him. He smirked.
"You're saying that to me?" he challenged, and she grinned, looping her arm around Deidara's, and he grinned at her.
"Hey Konan. Where's Pain, un?" he asked casually as a woman came through the door, looked confused, then looked back at the WOMEN on the door, frowning. They burst out laughing as they left and found Pain leaning against the wall just outside. He raised his eyebrows at Sasori and Deidara as he took Konan's hand and followed the others through the crowd to Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi and Hidan. Two minutes to go.
"Are we doing the fucking sappy Make-a-wish-and-kiss-at-Midnight thing?" Hidan complained loudly. Kakuzu told him to shut up. As per usual. The countdown began. Konan looked up at Pain.
Ten...Nine...
"I know this is cheesy," she began. "..But I love you. I love you so much. I'll love you forever, for always. Even if you stop loving me, I want you to know I'll always love you." she said, quietly, but loud enough for him to hear. Pain looked down at her, a funny grin on his face. He shook his head, still grinning.
Seven...Six...
"I love you." he said simply with a laugh, tugging playfully on her hair, like he always did. Konan realized that if he stopped doing that, no matter how annoying it was at times, she would miss it like a best friend.
Three...Two...ONE!
Konan jumped up into Pain, wrapping her legs around his waist, her arms around his neck. As she had jumped, she had seen a flash of blonde as Deidara had been grabbed by Sasori, she had seen Itachi folding around Kisame, and Kakuzu grab Hidan's chin and force it towards him. Konan didn't even hear the cheers of HAPPY NEW YEAR! After one, she was too busy to listen. She was kissing Pain fiercely, wrapped around him. He was holding her tightly and kissing back forcefully. He turned slightly, and pressed Konan up against the wall so he could concentrate on kissing her more than on holding her. He pressed into her, and she kept her legs linked around his back. She placed one hand on his neck, the other on his chest as she kissed him, trying to force I love you into the kiss.
Quite a few minutes after midnight, she broke away, gasping, to see Pain looking at her.
The Something was pouring out of his eyes.
At that moment, Konan realized that what she'd been calling 'The Something' for so long was really love. Serious love. The kind of love that is deeper and better than the kind tween girls cry about in romantic movies. Konan felt a kind of warmth well inside of her as she blushed, knowing that she would never again cry while reading Nicholas Sparks, or tear up during Titanic. Because true love, real love, the kind you don't find every day, or even every year, was looking at her right now. She felt herself tear up from sheer happiness, and she kissed him again softly.
"You love me, don't you?" she said quietly. It wasn't a real question. It was like the 'You ate the last cookie, didn't you?' when you already know they did, they know you know, and it's already been silently confirmed, but you just want to put the thought out there audibly.
"You finally get it." he whispered with a sexy grin before kissing her. It was slow, but it was the best, sexiest kiss Konan had ever had. And Pain had been the only one ever to kiss her. She lost her resolve, and tangled her hands in his hair, pulling him closer to her. She felt him grind into her as he kissed her, pushing her up against the wall. She gasped into the kiss.
Your love got me looking so crazy right now...Your kiss got me hoping you'll save me right now...Got me looking so crazy in love...
Beyonce pumped through the speakers as they made out on New Year's Eve. For the first time, Konan really understood how Beyonce had felt when she wrote the song.
Happy New Year's.
Okay. I know this was totally wayyyyy slower than my other chapters, but school started and everything...T_T...etc. Well, I know it's probably not got so many funny bits in it, but I hope it was a good chapter anyways. Thanks for all the support, reviews and subscriptions. I love reviews, they make me suuuuuuper happy, even if it's only one or two words. Please keep sending them! I promise to finish this, and update soon.
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