"I can tell by you're silence that you're not happy, Nagato.", came Konan's voice. She had just marched into Pein's office and announced that she was pregnant. With his child. All she received was silence and a stoic stare. After a few more moments of silence she sighed. "I'm getting rid of it. We can't afford to-."

"Keep it.", he interrupted. Her eyebrows furrowed and she looked up to him. Her hazel eyes burning into his purple rings.

"Excuse me.", she said slowly.

"I said keep it. That is our child.", he reiterated. Konan tilted her head slightly. This was an outcome she hadn't expected at all.

"Keep the child......why?", she asked in utter confusion. Pein stood from his desk and walled towards her. The only sound in the room was that of his shoes as he came closer. Be stopped in front of her and cupped her cheek gently and stared into her eyes.

"After being poisoned all those years ago, we thought you could never have children again. Your eggs almost never fertilized and the few times they did ended up miscarrying. You've held this child longer than any of the others so I know it will make it. You've always wanted a child and this is your chance. Our chance. To rebid the family we lost during the war and continue our legacy.", he explained

"Nagato, that's great and all, but we are wanted criminals. This child's life will constantly be in danger even though it is innocent.", she protested.

"Which is why we will keep it hidden. Only those we trust will know. The child will be smart and won't give us away knowingly. If the time comes, then I will seal it's memories to protect us and itself."

Konan stayed silent. Everything he said was true. It was her only chance to be a mother and they were more than prepared to protect it. Her hand slowly cane up and cupped his as it held her cheek. "Alright, Nagato. I'll keep it. And we will raise our child together.", she agreed.

He let out a rare smile and leaned in close to give her a loving kiss.
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A loud, high pitched scream echoed though the hideout. No one was there to hear since Pein had sent them all on missions that would take at least three months to complete. That gave them plenty of time to have their kids. A boy and girl.

Ryu and Sakura.

The twins of God and his angel.

Nagato stood in the hall, using Pein's body since his own couldn't be there. His back was on the wall and hands clenched tight as he used all his willpower to not bust in there and comfort his wife. Afterall, childbirth was the closest a woman could get to death. Well, a woman who wasn't an S-class criminal being hunted by the entire ninja world.

Soon, the loud screaming of his wife was mixed with the wails of a child. For the first time in a while, he cracked a smile. One of his children had just been born. One of his pride and joys. Already, he imagined himself training and protecting them for the horrors of the world before he could make the perfect one just for them. For his son.

A second cry joined the other and the screams of his wife died off. But quickly, one of the screams stopped. One of his children had suddenly gone quiet, and the murmurs of the doctors quickened. Her ached to go inside as he felt a small chakra signature disappear and another grow slightly larger. His wife had long ago passed out and her children, taken from her as she rested unaware of what was happening.

Seconds felt like minutes and minutes hours as he waited. Suddenly, the door burst opened and out walked the doctor who had delivered his children. Pein quickly walked up to him noting his sullen gaze.

"I am sorry, Kami-sama. But one of your children did not make it. The boy came out without issue, but the girl...", he paused searching for the right words. "Somehow, absorbed his chakra and manifested it into her own as she came after him. The girl is alive and well, but no one can touch her. She's absorbing too much of our chakra for some reason and her small body wouldn't be able to handle it. Your wife, Angel-sama, has also lost conscious from the pain of childbirth and drained chakra." The doctor's head remained lowered.

Pein's lips formed a thin line. Slowly, he walked past him and into the room. There her saw nurses cleaning up the mess and tending to his wife and now dead son. But in the face corner in the room lay a small cradle.

He felt the eyes of the nurses as he walked to the child, but ignored them. He never stopped until he made it to the cradle and peered inside. There lay the smallest, most innocent thing he had ever laid eyes on. As if sensing his presence, she awoke from her slumber and looked back at him. Her bright green, doe-like eyes seemed to peer into his soul. And he felt joy and pride from having made such a beautiful thing. Something he never thought capable after having his heart hardened from all his years as a ninja.

But the longer he looked, the more he felt it. The resentment for her. How innocent she looked as if she had not almost killed her own mother. As if she hadn't been the one to murder her twin brother, who Pein was looking foward to most. As if she wasn't odd in her ability to somehow steal others chakra to the point if killing them. As if she did nothing wrong. How could his daughter, the one he planned to shield most from the pain of the world have already made her first kill only minutes into her birth.

Right then and there he knew where his feelings were and it caused a pain in his heart he could've never imagined.

Pein hated his daughter.

Sakura was not the innocent little princess he had hoped for.

She was a cold-blooded killer just like her mother.

Just like her father.

Just like the Akatsuki.

Just like the world.