Love, Actually
CHAPTER DEDICATED TO: Deva Pein
Okay. Just to make things perfectly clear before I start this chapter, I KNOW THAT THIS WHOLE THING WITH PAIN'S FAMILY IS IMPOSSIBLE. I KNOW HE'S YAHIKO'S BODY, I KNOW ALL THE SIX PATHS OF PAIN ARE DEAD BODIES, AND ARE NOT RELATED AT ALL, and I KNOW THAT NAGATO IS ACTUALLY PAIN. But since this is FanFiction, I hope that nobody's really going to mind. So please don't tell me that it's impossible -I already know!
Oh, and if that big blurb was a spoiler...sorry, but I'd assume everybody's read all that already before reading this...but sorry if that's not true...D:
Okay, so now the happy part! Thanks so much to all my reviewers, favouriters, subscribers again, etc. You guys seriously are the reason I try and update this as fast as I possibly can.
Konan rolled out of bed. Somehow, she was awake, and she wasn't going back to sleep. She grabed some clothes from her dresser, and was half-dressed when her door burst open and Pain hugged her from behind. Luckily, 'half-dressed' included wide fishnet tights, high-rise dark jean shorts and her pyjama top.
"Haven't you heard of knocking?" she asked, amused. Pain's voice was muffled when he replied; it was buried in her neck.
"Yeah, I've heard of it. It isn't as much fun." he said, and Konan felt him smile against her skin. He walked them forwards until they fell onto the bed. There they lay, Konan on bottom, Pain hugging her from behind, until she broke the comfortable silence.
"You're squishing me." she said, her voice sounding fuzzy, her mouth mashed into the blankets.
"I know." Pain said, and after a moment or two, he rolled over again, not letting her out of his hug. With a lot of squirming, Konan managed to rotate herself around so she was facing him.
"Guess where we're going today?" Pain asked her, and she could tell that he was brimming with barely-contained excitement.
"Um..." she said, pretending not to know. He laughed.
"My house, silly! It's the first day of spring break!" he exclaimed, and Konan laughed, unable to remain the wet blanket she normally was when he was so excited.
"Yeah, I know, I know! But we can't go until you let me get dressed." she said, and he sighed and let her go. She stood up and grabbed the rest of her clothes before looking at Pain, who hadn't moved and was still looking at her with a big grin on his face.
"You know, there's this cool thing called privacy," she said pointedly, but smiling anyways as she gestured to the door. Pain just shook his head.
"I won't look if you don't want me to." he said, and Konan felt a jolt to her stomach; a sure sign that she was blushing.
"W-Well...I-It's not like you...you...God you make me so-" Feeling her cheeks heat and knowing she was stuttering like crazy, Konan gave up, whirled around, and escaped into the bathroom, shutting the door on Pain's laughter. After finishing getting dressed in a loose pale pink blouse tucked vaguely into her high-rise shorts, tugging on her dark brown riding boots, and putting a grey cardigan over it all, she faced the mirror.
Oh great.
She was blushing like penguin with a sunburn. Nice. She sighed and splashed water on her face. No effect. Sighing and giving up, she grabbed her toothbrush. Squeezing out some toothpaste, she flicked on the 'brush your teeth timer' that Deidara had lent her. The Sailor Moon theme song came on, and she brushed her teeth throughout the whole thing before rinsing. Then she grabbed her hairbrush.
After fixing her hair the way it usually was (a messy half-bun on one side, the rest loose), and folding a paper flower to accessorise with out of one piece of the stack of origami paper she kept on the bathroom shelf, she swept on a thin layer of mascara before applying a light coat of blue eyeshadow. Once she had deemed herself 'ready', she stepped out of the bathroom.
And was hit in the face with a pillow.
"What was that for?" she asked Pain, flinging it back at him. "I don't like waiting." he said, catching her feebly thrown pillow. She rolled her eyes and sat down in front of him.
"You're so silly. Sasori hates waiting. You would wait hours for me, and you know it." she said teasingly. He sighed.
"Yeah, you're right. I would." he said, grabbing the belt loops on her shorts and pulling her towards him until she was sitting on his lap, her legs on either side of him. She sighed and allowed herself to be hugged, her head buried in his shoulder, his arms comfortingly around her.
"Where are the others going?" she asked finally, and Pain sighed.
"Um...Sasori and Deidara left already for their house, Hidan and Kakuzu said something about going to a hotel, and Kisame and Itachi are at the hotspring resort they normally go to." Pain recited.
"Oh." Konan said, embarassed. "Soo...you're waiting for me, right?" she asked, and laughed when Pain nodded.
"Oh. Well, aren't you lucky, because I'm ready to go now. I'm packed and everything." she said, and Pain gasped theatrically.
"Serious? Well, that means that we can go right away!" he said, leaping up, taking her hand, and racing out of the dorm.
Konan barely had time to seize her bag before she was dragged out. They ran all the way out of the school, around the back, and up the path a bit before finding his motorbike and two helmets. Konan tossed him her bag as she shoved one of the helmets (a white one) onto her head. Pain squished her bag (which, to her credit, was pretty small) into one of the side pockets on the back of the bike, shoved his helmet on, and slung on a black leather jacket.
"Ooh..." Konan said, and he rolled his eyes at her.
"Climb on!" he said, and she obeyed, albeit with a few wobbles. Once on, she realized that it was pretty squishy on the bike. She put her hands on his shoulders.
"Like this?" she asked.
"You're gonna want to hold on a little tighter than that if you don't want to fall off." Pain said drily. She wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Better." he said approvingly, and his smug tone made Konan wonder vaguely if he was being serious about her falling off, before he started the engine, and pressed the accelorator. As the bike shot forwards down the path, Konan was positive that he had been completely serious; the momentum of the bike would've made her tumble straight off the bike with her previous grip.
Now she was holding onto him for dear life, her thighs squeezing around him, her arms almost like boa constrictors around his waist. The bike vibrated underneath them as they sped around the gates of the school and down the familliar road. Konan had closed her eyes, and when she opened them, they were suddenly on a highway. Way to go, inner compas, she had no idea whatsoever where they were.
They stopped for lunch a while after that at a mexican restaurant. After ordering margaritas, Konan suggested they play something.
"Something like what?" Pain asked, and she pulled out a book from her bag.
"It's full of quizzes," she explained, and he grinned.
"Sure! Which one do you want to take?" he asked, and she flipped through the index.
"Well, there's the 'what kind of girlfriend/boyfriend are you?' quiz, the 'which Disney character are you?' quiz, the 'Which Tim Burton character are you?' quiz, and loads others," she said, fishing a pen out of her pocket.
"Well, we've got a two hour drive, and four hours to get there, so let's do them all." Pain proposed, and Konan laughed, sipping her milkshake.
"Okay," she began, flipping to page 102, the 'What kind of girlfriend/boyfriend are you?' quiz. "Let's do this one twice, so we do you, then we do me, okay?" she asked, and Pain nodded, tipping back his 7up.
"So. Question one: It's a Friday night. You ahd plans with your friends, but they fell through. You...a) Demand that your bf/gf cancel their plans and spend time with you, no is not an option, b) Whine and cry at your bf/gf until they give in and spend time with you, c) Rent a video and use the time to relax, regardless of what your gf/bf is doing, or d) You head out to the bar, get wasted, and throw yourself at anything that walks." Konan read, and Pain grinned.
"Hmm. Okay, out of those choices, definately C." he said, and Konan nodded, circling the letter and moving to the next question.
"Your bf/gf was supposed to bring you a turkey and mayo sandwich, but accidentally brought you turkey and mustard. You...a) Tease him or her, then eat it anyways, b) Start to cry or complain until they goes back to get the right one, c) Tell them your ex never messed up on their orders, or d) Refuse to eat the sandwich, or speak to your gf/bf until they go get you the right one." she read. Pain grinned. "A. That was easy." he said, and she laughed.
"Okay. Question three: It's the weekend after a long, difficult week. You want to go out to your favourite bar, but your gf/bf wants to see a movie. You...a) Refuse to leave the house until it involves going to the bar, b) Tell them that you are going to the bar, and if they don't want you to find someone else, they should wise up and let you go, c) Suggest that you see and early movie, then head to the bar afterwards, or d) Cry until your partner gives in and decides to go with you instead."
"C" Pain said, and Konan moved on to the next queston. After five more questions, Konan read out Pain's result.
"Okay. You are...Independant yet devoted. You are confident enough that you do not always need that someone by your side, or need to know what they are doing. You trust that they are loyal and love you, and you don't need constant reassurance. You can spend a night out with your friends and have fun, with or without your partner. Despite these characteristics, you always assure that your partner knows you're devoted to them, even through the most subtle gestures." she read out, then looked up at Pain, who was giving her a teasing grin.
"Who's Mr Wonderful..." he prompted. She sighed, rolling her eyes, but laughing.
"Okay, fine. You're Mr Wonderful, oh, you're so incredible, hey Mr Wonderful, wonderful to me..." she finished their long-running joke, and he laughed.
"Okay. Now I'll ask you." he said, and they began again.
"Seriously? I got the same as you?" Konan asked, and Pain nodded over his drink.
"Okay, wanna do the 'Which Tim Burton character are you?' quiz next?" Konan suggested, and they began again. At the end, Pain was Ichabod Crane, and Konan was Lydia Deitz. About an hour and twelve more tests later, they left the restaurant and got back on the bike. Konan climbed on after Pain, wrapped her arms around him again, and closed her eyes as the roar of the engine began again.
Konan was pretty sure that she'd fallen asleep, because the next time she opened her eyes, Pain was gone, and she was lying on a bench-swing in front of a house she'd never seen in her life. She sat up and looked around, quite sure that Pain hadn't been gone for very long, since he wouldn't just leave her on a bench. Or would he? Only if it was a joke...
She shook her head and got off the swing and stretched, looking around. She saw a piece of paper flutter to the ground, and she realized that it must have been lying on her. She picked it up, immediately recognizing Pain's messey handwriting; Hey Konan, when you wake up, just come in, okay? If you're not inside in ten minutes, I'll come get you, so don't worry -I didn't forget about you. I bet that's what you were thinking. Everybody's really excited to see you :) -Pain
Konan smiled, folded the paper before putting it in her back pocket, and looked around herself. The shiny black motorbike was parked in a very long, twisting gravell driveway, so people driving by wouldn't be able to see the house or the garden, which was decorated vaguely with a few gothic gnomes, a rose-fence, and the swingset. All of them were covered with rather lovely weeds. Konan smiled, taking a liking to the garden already.
She turned to face the house, which she assumed was Pain's. It was quite small, but really, really tall. It looked as if there were a maximum of four rooms per floor, and around four floors. That probably included a basement, Konan thought with a crooked smirk. She walked up to the house, suddenly a little nervous; what if this wasn't his house? What if he was just asking directions, and she wasn't supposed to come in? She caught sight of her own wide-eyed reflection in a large window to her right.
She sighed and made sure she looked okay, at the very least. She smoothed down a wrinkle in her high-rise shorts, then bit her lip and knocked on the door. There was a long pause, and then it swung open. Konan immediately was reassured that this was the right house: the person wasn't Pain, but he did have the exact same eyes and the exact same shade of orange for his hair.
"Um, hi..." Konan began awkwardly; she was supposed to come in, right?
Yes.
Yes she was. She looked up again to see the guy at the door giving her a once-over. He was now joined by another boy. doing the same thing. And a girl, who was examining her clothes. Konan felt herself beginning to blush.
"Hey," the gruff voice of the first guy, who looked a good deal older than Pain, spoke. He had spiky hair similar to Pains, but his face was harsher, less handsome, older, and his piercings were different; he had several long, sharp spikes coming out of his ears, and seven studs over his face.
"You must be Konan. You'd better come in." he invited, and she did, and took off her boots, looking around. The one who had spoken turned and walked away, shouting to Pain that his girlfriend was here.
"Come on, silly, don't just stand there." the girl, who also looked like Pain, but younger, shorter, and with a funny onion-like hairstyle, said, taking Konan's hand and walking her to a well-lit room just down the hallway. The other boy loped along next to them, hands in his pockets, just like Pain did. He had long hair in a long ponytail, with a small portion of it hanging over one side of his face, like Ino. He also had a long scar over his forehead, as well as a bar piercing through his nose, held in place by two studs.
"She's a lot prettier than he described." he commented, "What do you think, Annie?" he asked, and Konan blushed.
Seriously? It's not like I'm right here or anything...
The girl who was holding Konan's hand looked back, giving her yet another once-over before smiling.
"I think she's pretty. She's exactly his type." she said to the boy, who smirked.
"Thanks," Konan said shyly, and Annie grinned at her. Konan hadn't noticed before (major unobservant moment -face-palm-), but Annie had a lot of piercings too: a stud above her nose, a stud on either side of her neck, six going down her cheek, one below each on her neck, and two on her forearms, visible under her quarter-length-sleeved lolita dress. Konan was already jealous of her; she'd been in love with that style of dress ever since she had started choosing her own clothes, but whenever she bought one, and her dad found it, it was burned before her very eyes.
"I'm Animal, by the way," the boy with long hair said, offering Konan his hand. She took it and shook it, introducing herself as well, thinking that he had a funny name, like Pain.
"If you ever dump Pain, I'm available." he said with a wink, and Annie scowled.
"Shut up, freak. I have a good feeling about Konan. She's not going anywhere, and certainly not out with you." She said sternly, steering Konan into the kitchen, effectively cutting off Animal's argument. Konan looked around. And felt like she'd entered a hall of mirrors, full of Pains.
In total, six Pains seemed to stand around her.
As she scanned the faces surrounding her, one of them seemed to stand out and make her feel certain that she wasn't in a hall of mirrors: Pain was grinning at her, sitting on a stool, his hands in his pockets. He gave her a low wave, which she returned.
"This is Konan." he announced to the whole room, and they all looked at her. Great.
"Introduction time!" Annie sang, saving Konan from the six identical, purple, many-ringed stares.
"I'm Annie, Animal's twin sister." she said, gesturing importantly to herself with her thumb, then at the boy next to her, the one with Ino's hairstyle...which was a lame version of Deidara's. Animal shook her hand, leaning close before Annie pushed him away.
"That's Naraka," she said, pointing at the older one who had opened the door.
"That's Pain -I guess you know him already-" she said, and Konan laughed. "That's Human." Annie said, and another boy, who also looked to be a bit older than Konan and Pain, looked up and nodded. he had very long orange hair, like Animal, but his was loose, and he had a lot of studs on his face.
"Preta, Asura, and Outer are all away, but I'm sure you'll meet them sometime." Annie said, and Konan nodded, linking her hands behind her back.
"You're forgetting someone..." another voice came from next to Pain. Konan looked up, and saw a man who could have been Pain's twin. Upon second glance, however, Konan could see that he was definately older, by quite a bit. He had the same strikingly orange hair as the rest of them, but he had no piercings, and his eyes were a pretty chocolate brown instead of the unusual, many-ringed irises that the rest of them had.
"Konan, this is Yahiko, my dad." Pain said, and Yahiko walked over to Konan before hugging her tightly. Instinctively, she hugged him back, looking at Pain with a surprised look on her face over Yahiko's shoulder.
"It's so nice to meet you at long last, Konan! I'd love to hear more about you from yourself. My son-" Yahiko said, giving Pain a meaningful look, "-often seems to fudge the details. He said you were beautiful. Major understatement." Yahiko said, winking at Konan, who grinned and thanked him.
"Okay, show's over, everybody..." Animal announced, and most of the others left, leaving Konan, Pain, and Yahiko alone in the room. Konan instinctively walked over to Pain, who slid off of his stool and wrapped his arms around her. She relaxed and leaned against him as Yahiko began to pour them glasses of orange juice.
"It's so great that you came to visit. I've been wanting to meet you for a while. Keeping Pain in line at school, are you?" he asked, shooting Konan an amused look. She smiled.
"A bit." she said shyly, then looked up at Pain, who gave her an encouraging smile: he knew that she'd never met any of her friend's parents before, and that she was nervous.
"Alright then!" Yahiko said, turning around and handing them their glasses of juice.
"You'd better go and show Konan around, right, Deva?" Yahiko said, looking up at Pain. It took Konan quite a few seconds to realize what he was talking about.
Deva...? Pain interrupted her confused thoughts by taking her hand and walking her upstairs.
"What did he call you?" she asked finally as she followed him. He looked at her, a grin on his face.
"It's my real name," he explained, and Konan stared at him. "Deva's my first name. All my brothers, and Annie too, really have the same name as me; Pain." he had paused and was now explaining something totally weird. Konan blinked at him, trying to figure out what he was talking about. "All of our middle names are Pain. I just always hated Deva, so I changed mine." he finished, shrugging as he led her into a room with a large bay window, pale lavender wallpaper, and a pretty bed with iron loopy things at the head and end of it.
"This is your room, okay? Or, at least, it's where you're supposed to sleep. But the rules around here aren't exactly set in stone..." he said, raising his eyebrows at her and shooting her a sly sideways smirk.
She smirked back, rolling her eyes and shoving him onto the bed, jumping on after him. Annie walked past ten minutes later to find Konan sitting on Pain's stomach, tickling him. She raised her eyebrows, closed the door, and continued walking. Konan blushed, looking at the door. As she turned her head to look at Pain, he pulled her down and kissed her softly.
"Hey, you wanna go swimming tomorrow?" he asked her, and she nodded.
"Deidara took me shopping..." she admitted, and Pain laughed. "What, you didn't have a swimsuit?" he asked, and she punched his arm playfully.
"Well, it's not like I'd have one if I never went swimming, silly...I can't swim very well." she admitted. Pain propped himself up on his elbows.
"Oh? Well that's not good. We're gonna have to teach you now, little missy. No girlfriend of mine's allowed to have a minimal education on water safety." he said, pretending to be stern. She laughed and rolled off of him. "I like these shorts, by the way." Pain said, rolling over to face her and curling his fingers around the belt loops at the top of the high-rising jean shorts. Konan propped her chin up on her fists, elbows buried in the blanket.
"Why?" she asked, and Pain grinned at her mischievously, tugging on them gently.
" 'Cause I can do this.." he said, tugging on them harder, pulling her over to him surprisingly quickly. Faster than Konan could register, Pain had rolled over and was bending over her, kissing her neck softly, his hands sliding up from her shorts to gently run up and down her sides, not quite hard enough to tickle, but the pressure was just enough to make her shiver and blush faintly. Konan gasped, trying breathlessly to speak over her shallow pants.
"Hey, you're dad's really cool, you know..." she said in a rather breathy voice. Pain looked up and smirked, kissing her cheek gently and speaking against it, his lips brushing her skin as he spoke.
"Yeah I know. People say I look a lot like him. Do you think so?"he asked, and Konan frowned slightly.
"Yes...but you're different too. In subtle ways, besides your eyes." she said thoughtfully and Pain asked her to explain, rolling over yet again and propping himself up on his elbows to see her as she tried to clarify what she meant.
"Well..." she began, thoughtfully tugging on her lip as she deliberated, "I really think it's partly in your personalities...I mean, you both seem to like to laugh and be funny. Your dad is similar in the way he looks directly at you when you're talking, and how he seems to mean what he says, as if it's all super duper important. He's got the same kind of confidence about him that you do, but...if it came down to it, I'd say that he's got more of the awesome, leaderish, friendly fix-the-world kind of vibe whereas you have the more dangerous, bad-boy, sex-appealish personality. And piercings." she finished finally, and looked at Pain for approval. He stared at her for a bit, surprised by her thought process. Then he grinned at her and sat up, pulling her up with him.
"You are amazing. That's the best description we've had around here in a long time. Good girl." he cooed, like she was a puppy. She swatted him with her arm, which he caught and used to tug her towards him in another kiss. A quick one, before he made her jump on his back for a piggyback around the rest of the house and outside.
When they finally came back inside, the house was empty, and a note on the fridge from Annie said that they had all gone out to play pool. Konan asked if Pain wanted to go and find them, but he shook his head, shooting her a grin; "I'd rather be here with you than out there with them, seriously." he said, grabbing her and pushing her, laughing, down on the couch.
"Do you wanna watch a movie?" he asked, his voice muffled in her shoulder.
"Mhmmm. I would, thank you." she said, and she felt him grin before he pushed himself up and strode over to the floor-to-ceiling movie organizer-shelf-thingy.
"Okay, what kind of movie do you want to see, browsing the selection casually as she thought.
"Well, for some odd reason, I don't really feel like watching a scary movie right now...hmm. Maybe something funny or...I'm not really sure." she confessed, and Pain chuckled, grabbing some movies and reading out the titles.
"Do you consider Sleepy Hollow scary?" he asked, and she replied absolutely. Tim Burton or no, the witches in it had always made her jump from fear. Especially when they killed that poor little bat...
"Okay..." Pain announced, looking up and down the shelves that were stuffed full of VHSes, DVDs, and BluRay discs.
"We've got all the Disney movies, including Tangled, don't ask me how we got that...We've got most of the Pixar stuff, we've got all of the Star Wars movies, no Star Trek...We have a season of Friends, I think that's Annie's...We've got Night at the Museum 1&2, all the Tim Burton movies that come to mind...I think Dad's obsessivly bought every good movie Colin Firth was in...So that's Mamma Mia, Pride and Predjudice, King's Speech, A Single Man, Shakespear in Love, The English Patient, Bridget Jones' Diary, Nanny McPhee...(what the hell is that...) oh, and Love Actually." Pain finished, moving to start listing some more, which were obviously organized by 'favourite actor'.
"No, stop!" Konan announced, standing up and joining him, grinning.
"Can we watch Love, Actually?" she asked, taking it out and looking up at him. He seemed in indescision, so she put on her banned (by her father and most people she'd ever used it on) large eyes, puppy-dog look. He was strong, apparently: he didn't give in for nine good seconds.
"Okay fine..." he caved, and she tugged him back down on the couch as she excitedly popped the DVD into the player.
"Do you like this one?" he asked belatedly, and she grinned at him, flopping down next to him.
"Of course I do. It's really, really, fun! Well, I guess it's supposed to be romantic, and it is, but I really think it's funny. And cute. Especially the boy who plays Sam...awwwwww I love him!" she said, and Pain raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. When Sam finally came onto the screen and it turned out that he was a little boy, probably aged something like 10, Pain started laughing.
"You know, he's a perfectly eligable bachelor, now..." Konan said, going on to say that he was now 20, and that he voiced Ferb in Phineas and Ferb and spewing other random facts about him until Pain shut her up by kissing her. A loud, collective 'Awwwwww~' sounded around the room, and Pain looked up, as Konan blushed fire-engine-red, upon the discovery that Pain's family (or rather, the majority of them) were back, and had just watched that whole thing.
"Hey, babe, time to go swimming." Pain announced, appearing in Konan's doorway and walking over, falling over on her and tickling her. She laughed, playfully trying to kick him away.
"Geeez already? Okay." she said, yawning. Pain grinned at her wickedly before rolling over and propping his chin on his fists, looking up at her curiously.
"Soo...what kind of suimsuit did you bring?" he asked casually. Konan bit back a grin. "Um, it's a one piece. Or rather, a wet suit. Like the kind scuba divers wear? It also comes with a snorkel and attatched flippers." she said, nodding. Pain looked at her, kind of nonplussed.
"Oh. That's cool." he said. There was a moment's silence, and then Konan laughed, rolling over so she was sitting on him, her knees on either side of his stomach.
"You're silly. It's a bikini. Deidara made me get it. Why? Are you a perrrrveerrrrrt?" she asked, leaning down and bracing herself with her hands on either side of his head. He looked up at her, grinning, as she leaned closer until there was just an inch of space between their lips before stopping.
"Oh, seriously?" he laughed before grabbing her and pulling her down, sealing her protesting mouth in a passionate kiss.
"Ewwwww~!" Konan broke away and looked up to see Animal and Annie at the doorway, both in suimsuits and laughing. Pain grumpily told them to fuck off, flinging a pillow after them. He turned Konan's face to look at her; she was grinning.
"Ready to go?" he asked.
"Yup. Get out, loser, I have to change." she said, kicking him playfully off the bed. He pouted, but left, laughing.
She closed the door after him, locked it, then dug the bikini out of her bag. Laying it on the bed, she looked at it apprehensively: now that she actually had to wear it, the idea of wearing nothing but the small amount of fabric on her body was quite daunting. Apprehensively, she put it on and reluctantly moved in front of her mirror for a thrice-over. It didn't look too bad, and the bikini itself was quite pretty: black with little white flowers. She took a deep breath and stepped toward sthe door. Then she froze.
Shit- I can't do this. What if the top falls off in the pool! What if I look really bad- I mean, Annie looks amazing in hers...Or what if...argh. Okay, I'll just go over to Pain's room, ask him if it looks okay, and if he says no, I'll hit him, if he lies and says it looks amazing, I won't go swimming, and if he doesn't lie and says it looks good, I will...hide behind him just in case, and go swimming. Good. And if the top comes off in the pool, I'l point wildly and scream out 'PANTS' to make everybody look away, and then I'll quickly sneak away and fix it. And if the bottom hop comes down, then I'll casually sink down into the water and pull it back up. But if somebody's wearing goggles or something...I'll hide behind Pain and hope he doesn't realize. Argh. Okayyyy...
Finally, Konan emerged from her room, her blue towell, mentally prepared for absolutely any situation. Suddenly, she was scooped up from behind, sprinted down a hall, out a door, and flung into a warm pool that was full of Pain's family. Full of his family, meaning that she almost landed on Animal. Okay, she was ready for almost any situation.
Maybe not that one.
She broke the surface, shaking water out of her eyes and looking around. Pain was standing on the deck behind her, his arms crossed and a big smirk on his face. "Nice bikini." he said approvingly, giving her a once-over. She blushed, but said thanks anyways. And naturally, thanks to Pain's efforts, her entry to the pool was much less-than-subtle, so everybody was staring at her. Lovely.
Luckily, she was saved from the stares that were boring into her, surprisingly, by Pain (the culprit). He jumped in the pool after her, looking hot and...Pain-ish in black and red trunks. He turned and grinned at her, tugging her towards him by the straps on the sides of her bikini bottom. I swear if the strings snap because of him I will KILL HIM! AAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH...Konan thought, directing her gaze away from his eyes for fear of laughing.
Unfortunately for her, her gaze fell upon his chest. Where drops of water were sliding slowly down his pale, beautiful skin, across smooth muscles, down, down, until...oh my. Not quite realizing that she had zoned out, Konan continued her very, very slow once-over until she was 'woken up' by a loud wolf whistle. Realizing what she was doing, a little too late, she blushed bright red and looked around to see Annie at her shoulder, wearing a sequined, bright red bikini.
"Hot stuff, right?" she said with a wink. Konan wasn't sure what to say, but Annie just sunk into the water and swam away. Her attention was quickly brought back to Pain as a finger looped around the strap of her bikini top, tugging on it just enough to make her look down in panic. As soon as she did, Pain tipped her chin up, grinning at her.
"Nice top. I like it..." he said teasingly. Konan let a breath she hadn't known she was holding out. Giving Pain an exasperated look, she grinned.
"Thank God it was just you! Jeez, I thought it was coming down or something...Wheeeeeeww..." she sighed, and Pain laughed.
"Relax. If it comes down, I'll cover you..." he said, raising his eyebrows with a naughty smile. Konan laughed and poked him in the chest.
"Personal space bubble, dude." she said playfully, and he laughed.
"Oh, hey, I forgot to tell you! Nagato's coming!" Yahiko exclaimed suddenly from the other side of the pool. Immediately Pain and the others all grinned, and Animal cheered. "Suh-weet!" Animal roared, high-fiving Animal.
"Who's Nagato?" Konan asked Pain, and he smiled down at her. He's Yahiko's best friend. They've known each other since they were kids. You'll like him, I'm sure." he said lazily, pulling Konan over to him, threatening her by tugging on the strings of the bottom half of her suimsuit.
"You seriously like to make me panic, don't you?" she demanded cheerfully, to which he laughed. Half an hour later, a rather unhealthy-looking man came out the back door, wearing a purple suimsuit and holding a black towell. Konan secretly thought that he looked like he was seriously anorexic, but Pain explained that he was just a little sick. What really caught Konan's attention was his eyes: his were the exact same shape, colour, and type as Pain and his siblings'.
"Why does he have the same eyes as you?" Konan finally asked Pain in an undertone. He grinned. "It's because our mom was his sister****" he said, just as quietly.
"Ooohhhhhh..." Konan said, blushing slightly: she'd been imagining slightly more creative scenarios of how that could have happened.
The rest of the day passed pretty innocently: the group played several games of pool volleyball, and Konan kind of...failed at it, but her team still won! Huzzah...probably because all of Pain's relatives were good at volleyball.
Then they all played Blindsman's Bluff, and Konan was the last person to be caught. Probably because of all the experience she got ducking tackles from Deidara and Sasori. Finally Yahiko turned the barbicue on and they all ate burgers and hot dogs followed by stuffing themselves with ice-cream. Konan had successfully gotten away from Pain long enough to put her white eyelet summer dress on over her bathing suit as the sun began to set.
At eight-thirty, everybody began heading inside. Pain took Konan by the hand, leading her up to his room, ignoring wolf-whistles from his brothers. He closed the door behind them, and gestured for Konan to sit on the bed. She did, and looked all around his room, thinking that she'd probably hurt her neck just from looking. It was different, and somehow just what she'd expected: The room itself was medium-sized for a teenager who spent most of his time at a boarding school, with pale purple wallpaper and a white ceiling.
The bedspread which she was sitting on was black with a huge rolling stones logo in the middle. There was a large David Bowie poster on the back of the door, and a small wooden dresser near the window, on which was a huge box with several open drawers in which Konan could just make out dozens of studs and earrings. There was a funny little window on the fourth wall which had a black curtain across it.
"What's that window look at?" Konan asked, pointing. Pain laughed. "You'll probably find out sooner or later, but I could just tell you. It's a window into Animal's room. I'm really not sure why it's there, but Dad says it's an escape exit in case my room catches on fire. See..." he said, pulling the curtain away to show a large hole in the wall through which Konan could see another room, another bed, another orange-haired boy lounging around reading porn. Pain wolf-whistled, and Animal looked up, scowled, and flung a pillow through the hole, hitting Pain in the face.
"Good aim." Konan called out, and Animal laughed and thanked her.
"So you brother can just...lean in and see anything he wants to?" Konan asked Pain, who caught her drift immediately and gave her another teasing smile.
"Well, he can...unless I do this..." he said, casually grabbing his chest of drawers and pushing it over the window to cover it. When he was finished he turned around very slowly, hands on hips, and asked Konan if she was ready.
"Ready for wh-" He pounced on her, pushing her down on the bed and following to land on top of her, his hands skimming down her waist, around her shoulders, over her so quickly she hardly knew what was happening, all her thoughts concentrated on his mouth on hers, the loving, teasing, passionate ferocity with which he kissed her, her heart pounding in her ears, her breath coming short, and Pain's body, his face, his chest, his hair, his legs, under her hands as she held him close, knowing for certain that nothing could make her love him more than she already did. But also certain that she was going to stop him before he went too far...just for fun.
****Ya, I know that Nagato didn't have a sister, and whatever, but it's a little hard to explain how they have the same eyes...argh...please don't spaz about that, I just wanted to have Nagato in there somewhere...
Okay, a short chapter by my standards, I know, but I've been having the WORST WRITERS BLOCK EVEERRRR! gaaah I can't even explain it...grrr im so mad at myself right now...but anyways, at least I got something up! yay! Oh, and thanks so much to BoOksandMaNgA for their awesome support! Yaaaaay! Oh, ya, if anybody reading this likes Death Note, and likes MattXMello, please check out Forver Without by ChocoholixAnonomous, because it's a joint fic I'm doing with her. It has no reviews right now, so it would be nice to get sommme...Anyways, the update for this will be quicker next time, I promise! Next chapter, we're probably gonna look at what Sasori and Deidara did during their spring break...Mmmmmmm hehehe. Okay! Love reviews, subscribers, favourites, etc!