Secret Santa

Happy Xmas 2007! This a mostly a Konan fic with a bit of Pein, my current favourite characters from Naruto that I like to write on, couldn't resist making my Xmas fanfiction for the year on them : ) This is most likely a couple part piece, it's to long as a whole one shot. Hope you enjoy this piece.

Konan finds a note for her talking about a secret Santa for her this year and thinks it's from Pein. Is it from Pein? Or someone else...?

Konan started to rustle in the big double bed and started to awaken from her casual deep sleep. She was soon snapped awake when she realised that she couldn't feel Pein's arms around her waist and flung an arm behind her and couldn't feel him in the bed at all. "Pein?..." Konan questioned quietly to herself, still a bit half asleep. The blue haired girl tiredly sat up in the bed and looked over at Pein's side of the bed to realise he wasn't there at all. Her head quickly flicked to the side table on her side of the bedroom and she looked at the clock. 6.05AM. The clocks green lighting shouted. It was a common time for her to wake up, she was always an early waker and always got up before everyone else did in the organisation. She was just a morning person. When Konan and Pein had first been in the organisation they shared a room like this... He was usually the one to be bothered by her for waking early. Usually took quite a bit of shaking to wake him up and he could be ratty with it. But in turn the organisation got bigger, she was high ranked and getting older and thought it would be best that she had a room to herself, she needed some privacy in this nearly all male place.

"Pein?!" Konan called, just loud enough to be heard everywhere in the Pein combo but didn't receive a reply. "Where could he have gone?" Konan asked herself. Pein never woke that early, he was also pretty tired from yesterday too and thought he'd try to stay in bed for as long as he could. "Hope nothing's happened while I've been asleep..." Konan sighed, things happened at all times.

"Where is that stupid plant!?" Pein huffed to himself as he wandered around and gone through virtually all the rooms in the place. He opened the door to what was usually Konan's room but of course was abandoned for the moment. Maybe Zetsu had come in here... Start work early maybe? Seemed unlikely but he couldn't find Zetsu anywhere else, including Zetsu's room. Zetsu had to be awake... He wasn't in his room or anything, so he couldn't be asleep.

"Zetsu?" Pein questioned as he walked into Konan's room but there was no Zetsu to be seen in the regular bedroom part. Pein walked over to the bathroom door and slowly opened it and peered inside. Nope... The bathroom didn't look that clean either... Had Zetsu even been really trying to clean up the bathroom? He hadn't done much for a day's worth of work... The disgusting half eaten body was still in the bathtub, gross... Why would Zetsu like that for anybody?

"..." Pein let out a slight annoyed sigh. Why can't Zetsu just be loyal and do as he's told? But then again that was Zetsu all over, he most likely couldn't even be loyal to himself. Pein turned on his heel and left, walking back through Konan's bedroom part and left her room totally. Pein was just about to give up and go back to his room to see Konan when he spotted Kakazu in the group room and wondered what he was doing up so early.

"Leader-Sama." Kakazu greeted formally when he quickly saw the Leader now in the group room.

"Kakazu." Pein replied formally and nodded. "What are you doing up so early?"

"Counting money." Kakazu replied simply and showed the bundles of cash he had near him.

"Should've known..." Pein sighed, what else would've gotten Kakazu up so early? He only did things for money, nothing else mattered to the bloke.

"Well I couldn't go back to sleep. Hidan woke me up early with his stupid cussing, he was getting ready for some stupid ritual." Kakazu continued to comment.

"Hidan has one at this time in the morning?" Pein questioned.

"He apparently does at this time of the year, with the season and all." Kakazu explained roughly. "Anyway, he woke me and I couldn't damn well go back to sleep. I couldn't think of anything else better to do with my time." Kakazu was by now wondering what the Leader was doing awake so early but knew better than to question the Leader. None of the members did, it was a well known fact that only Konan, his partner, could ever question him. He was personally surprised that the Leader had even listened to Hidan's ranting and aloud them the few days off.

"Have you seen Zetsu around?" Pein asked dryly. "I couldn't find him in his room."

"Oh yea." Kakazu sighed. "Saw him a bit ago. He told me to tell you that he had a bit of scouting to do, found something he was really interested in looking into."

"Oh..." Pein just replied, not knowing how to respond to that. Scouting? Why would he be scouting all by himself? Pein hadn't given him very much stuff to be scouting for.

"He said it wouldn't take very long." Kakazu added, now looking back at his money. "He just wanted to make an early start so he's not out long for it."

"Ok." Pein responded simply and turned to leave. He might as well head back to his room and see Konan then.

"Leader-Sama." Kakazu bowed slightly in respect and resumed back to counting his cash.

"Konan?" Pein called when he entered 'their' temporary room. Just as he thought, he knew she'd be up by now. She always was an early riser and it had already clocked by her casual time for getting up. He walked over to the double bed and saw Konan was already up and had cleaned up the bed and made it look neat. Pein walked around the room and checked the bathroom but was left with a question mark in his mind because he couldn't see his lovely female partner anywhere. Then he noticed a hand written note on the bedroom table on Konan's side. Pein walked over briskly and snatched it up to read.

Pein,

Gone out for a bit, clear my head. Gone to the centre of the village, have a look around, maybe do a little shopping... Don't worry about the rain getting on me, I'm sure I'll be fine and won't have to use any of my paper attacks if I do get bothered. I've taken my hat and such, so I won't get that wet anyway... Be back in a bit.

Konan

Pein set the note down, wasn't sure he was happy or not with what he'd just read. With the Zetsu thing going on, he'd have preferred that Konan was totally with him, he'd have felt more comfortable if she was. But he couldn't very well turn around and say that to her though, then she would definitely know somethings wrong and might give away his project.

Everyone in the streets followed each other and did continuous bowing. A few poking others because they felt that they should be doing the same and there was a few whisperings and all of them looking on with a look of awe.

"Yes, that's her."

"That's God's Angel, show some respect."

"She's amazing! Just looking at her is amazing!"

Konan just did her best to ignore it, she was way used to this sort of things. She was used to all the people knowing her name, saying amazing stuff about her, bowing at her and just purely staring at her in awe and amazement. To them there was no one better than her, well other than maybe her partner Pein, who she was an angel too.

It was now quite a tad later, roughly 7.45AM now. Most people were up early and opening their shops. Many people had come into the centre of the village to do some last minute shopping, for Christmas Day tomorrow. All looking so excited... She even overheard some praising her for showing up for the 'season', saying it wouldn't be Christmas without a real angel. Konan decided not to be in there to long because Pein would be worried about her.

"Konan!" Called a voice.

Konan just ignored the voice at first, she just put the voice down to some people in the crowds wanting her attention. It wouldn't be a first... There was a fair amount of people that'd love her full attention but Konan knew all to well that she could only ever trust herself and Pein, so there was no point listening to what others wanted to say to her. Konan soon put on a serious frown when the calling voice wouldn't go away, what was this person's problem? Everyone knew not to bother the angel, there were virtually rules of no bothering her or touching her, not unless that's what she desired.

"Konan! Hello?!" It continued from behind her.

"What?!" Konan demanded and swung herself around to see who was annoying her.

"Konan... Didn't mean to annoy you..." The voice responded and Konan quickly realised why the person had been bothering her. It was Zetsu, one of her own fellow members, he was alright to bother her. The rules had nothing on the other members of the organisation.

"Oh... Zetsu..." Konan sighed, not totally sure that she was actually happy to see him. After his little attitude yesterday, she wasn't really happy to hear from him. "A surprise to see you here..."

"Why's that?" The white side asked politely.

"It's just quite early... That's all. None of you are usually up early, didn't think today would be any different." Konan replied basically.

"Yea well... I just wanted to have an early start... Not that anyone could sleep through Hidan's noise anyway." The white continued to comment.

"Hidan was up already?" Konan questioned.

"Yea! Getting ready to do those stupid little rituals that he does. Who cares whether it's the season or not!?" The black side sneered.

"Well if that's what he wants or needs to do then... He should just do it." Konan replied blankly. "What are you doing out here?"

"Just decided to come out for a look around the village." The white side answered.

"Shouldn't have bothered! All I'm getting is getting wet! Wish Pein would stop this rain at times." The dark side added it's own opinion.

"Ah." Konan sighed. "But that's why it's called the rain village."

"You must be used to all this rain by now." The black side commented.

"Why's that?" Konan frowned.

"Well you were born in this country, weren't you?" The white side reminded.

"Yea... I guess..."

"Both you and Pein were born here, weren't you?" The black side continued. Zetsu was starting to have that look in his face again, the same as the day before. "Were you born around the same time?"

"What's with the questions, Zetsu?" Konan frowned, not liking the look he was giving her and she hated talking about her childhood. It was such a horrid one... As if she wanted to be reminded of it!

"Just wondering, that was all." The white side smiled sickeningly sweet at her again.

"Well don't." Konan shot back.

"No need to get so defensive." The black side smirked at her.

"Yea Konan. I just wanted to know a little more about you." The white side added. "I like to know some more things about you. You interest me."

"I'm going shopping now." With that Konan spun on her heel and started to get ready to walk off, she didn't really want to spend that much time with Zetsu. She didn't want to continue the route of their conversation, he was poking around to much at her before private life. The one that she shared privately with Pein...

"Hey!" Konan shouted when she felt Zetsu quickly and sharply grab her wrist. Stopping her from moving forward and away from him. "Don't touch me, Zetsu!"

"I'm going with you." The white side said firmly.

"It's not really safe out here... Especially for a girl like you." The black side smirked, looking down at Konan, who was much smaller than himself.

"I can look after myself." Konan shot back.

"I insist." The black side replied firmly, now pulling her closer to him.

"You can't look after yourself much in this rain, can you?" The white side added, now whispering it in her ear. He had pulled her totally to him, now. "You can't use your attacks, it weakens you. Every second your out here... You're weakened."

"Zetsu..." Konan sighed in extreme worry, her eye's now widened. What was Zetsu doing? She hated being touched, he knew this. Zetsu just wrapped both his arms protectively around her and leaned forward so the rain was dripping on him, not her...