Adopted Love | By : stephfarrow94 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1469 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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It had taken six months for just one tiny hint as to Zetsu’s whereabouts to pop up. Kisame had just finished his mission and was returning to the base. The closer he got to the base, the more he could sense Madara’s chakra along with an unfamiliar one. He masked his own chakra as he curiously approached the Uchiha and his comrade.
“It’s going better than planned,” the unfamiliar chakra’s owner spoke with a hint of malice in his voice. “There’s only one problem.”
“And what might that be?” Madara’s cruel voice answered back.
“He’s gotten pretty aggressive and gets out of control easily. He’s already injured my friend and almost took my whole arm off – if you’re planning on collecting him soon, you may want to watch out – he’s very unpredictable.”
Kisame approached the voices while keeping out of sight. What were they talking about?
“I don’t care how unpredictable he is – so long as Zetsu is doing as trained, he can be as psycho as he wants to be.”
“What about your nephew?”
“What about him?”
“Won’t he be in danger?”
“No. Worst comes to worst and I’ll keep Tobi separated permanently. I need him for this organisation to be safe.”
Kisame had heard all that he needed to know that they were talking about Zetsu. Pein and Konan were sick from worrying about the plant-nin, so he hurried back to the base with the full intent of telling them everything that he had heard.
-XX-
“And that’s what I heard.” Kisame finished relaying what he knew to Pein and Konan.
Pein finally looked up from his paperwork with a look in his eyes that Kisame had never seen on him before – hopelessness and despair mixed with exhaustion.
“So what are we supposed to do if Madara’s behind it all…?” Pein mumbled.
Kisame hated seeing Pein like this – it just didn’t fit the younger male at all. Pein was young and normally full of spirit, but this Pein didn’t seem interested in life at all.
“Pein0sama?” Kisame asked with a softer tone. “Are you alright?”
Pein nodded. “I’m fine, Kisame-kun… But you didn’t answer my question…”
Konan shook her head. “Pein, look… Kisame doesn’t know about any of this, okay? He was only trying to help. Thank you, Kisame, for telling us.”
Kisame bowed. “Anytime, Konan-sama. If there’s anything I can do to help, just let me know.”
Konan smiled again, dismissing Kisame. Her kind gaze turned stern when Kisame left the room.
“Pein,” Konan growled as she looked back at the male, “I know how Madara treats you and I know that you are scared of him, but hasn’t this gone far enough? Show some balls and stand up to Madara! If not for yourself, but for Zetsu!”
Pein shook his head timidly. “N-no, Konan… I don’t want to –“
“So you don’t care about Zetsu anymore, Pein?” Konan said, all seriousness in her voice. She shook her head sadly before turning her back on him and walking to the door. “If you don’t care about Zetsu anymore, how do you ever expect to keep this organisation together for very long? Abandoning Zetsu – who had only ever showed and loyalty to you – is wrong, Pein, and you know it.”
Konan walked out of the office, making sure to slam the door behind her.
Pein didn’t even seem to notice that Konan had left. “I… I’m not abandoning him… I just… don’t know what to do…”
-XX-
Zetsu lay on the cold stone floor, chained to the wall. He flinched before snarling as light flooded onto his face when the door was opened. He looked up angrily, growling at the people who had put him through hell and back. This time, though, there was an extra person with them. The second that Zetsu saw Madara’s face, hatred seeped throughout his body.
Zetsu threw himself onto his feet and charged with a feral snarl at Madara – only to choke himself as the chain tightened around his neck. He fell to the ground, choking.
Madara laughed and leant down next to Zetsu. He poked at the iron muzzle that had been put around Zetsu’s mouth. He admired its creativity – only able to be removed with a key.
“Very smart of you,” Madara commented as he grabbed a key from one of the kidnappers. He used it to unlock the chains that kept Zetsu’s body weighed down. “I’ll take him now. You’ve done such a wonderful job – I might just have to give you my darling nephew to turn into a killing machine.”
The two men laughed. “We’d be honoured to train an Uchiha, Madara-sama.”
Madara smirked, throwing Zetsu up onto his shoulder. He left the one place that Zetsu had known for months.
-XX-
When Madara returned back to the base with Zetsu in tow, he decided to play the hero, seeing as no one knew that he was behind Zetsu’s disappearance.
“Hey, look at what I found!” Madara shouted to the base.
Kisame and Kakuzu, who were already in the living room, looked up from their game of shouji. Pein and Konan entered seconds later.
Konan gasped and ran to Madara before grabbing the sleeping Zetsu into her hold. She hugged him. Pein looked stunned as he stood there frozen, not moving an inch. He was in shock – why would Madara bring Zetsu back to the base when he was the one who had gotten rid of him?
Kakuzu and Kisame glared at Madara – Kisame had told the Taki-nin about what he had overheard. Kakuzu had been disgusted with the Uchiha ever since. He had taken an apparent dislike to Tobi as well ever since the news, having been seen threatening the young boy with death for no reason.
Madara smirked at them – the two knew that he was the real leader and that if they dared say anything to him, it could cost them their lives.
Konan, who had been hugging Zetsu – almost crying in relief – didn’t seem to notice the muzzle just yet – not until Zetsu had woken up and was snarling viciously. She looked at the boy in confusion before pulling away from him and staring at him.
Konan gasped. “What the hell?! Zetsu! Oh, baby, what did they do to you?”
Zetsu snapped at her fingers, baring his teeth as he snarled. Konan got a good look at them as he did this. She gasped louder at the sight of them – it looked as if someone had ground his teeth down into sharp canines.
“Zetsu…” Konan mumbled sadly. She instantly knew that it wasn’t safe just yet to free him of the degrading custom-made muzzle.
Zetsu’s eyes instantly snapped up to meet her gaze at the sound of her voice. His eyes looked like a sea of emotion – no, a sea wasn’t accurate enough… A storm, maybe? Yes, a storm of emotions. His eyes held the emotions of anger, hatred and pain, but also depression and fear.
“Konan…?” Zetsu whispered. His eyes filled with tears before he hid his face in her chest and sobbed.
“Zetsu… Shh...” Konan soothed, rubbing calming circles into his back.
This must have been hard for him – whatever he had gone through. Knowing Madara, it would have been something full of pain, humiliation – and something to fear.
Konan couldn’t have hated Madara more than she did right now. That was all she knew for certain.
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