Because magic ninjas will never let you go: a fandom community for Naruto.
Drabble Week: Wednesday Theme!
Your prompt, should you choose to accept it, is this:
Why does Akatsuki's uniform include nail polish?

Because magic ninjas will never let you go: a fandom community for Naruto.
Your prompt, should you choose to accept it, is this:
Why does Akatsuki's uniform include nail polish?
Because magic ninjas will never let you go: a fandom community for Naruto.
Something Extra
They found the bottle when they were out on what Yahiko called "scavenging missions" and Konan called "digging through other people's trash." Bottles and cans were good news: sometimes they had the dregs of food or fresh water inside, and, emptied out, they could be used to collect rain.
"What's in it?"
"Doesn't smell like we can eat it," Yahiko said.
"Dummy," said Nagato, who was the only one who remembered very much of life with his parents, and therefore the authority on anything normal, "It's nail polish. You put it on your hands."
Yahiko held out his. Konan didn't, but she crowded in closer to look, watching as Nagato's steady hands brushed the paint over Yahiko's fingernails. It glided on smooth, and near-perfectly neat, only the barest smudge on Yahiko's cuticles.
"It's pretty."
"You next, Konan," Yahiko ordered, but Konan had already stepped away.
"We'll ration it," she said, already thinking (they could do a rotation, or save it for special occasions) of a schedule, "It's too pretty to use up all at once."
The boys agreed, and they saved the bottle for either the best times or the worst, when they celebrated the new year or when they were so hungry Yahiko suggested drinking the nail polish, no matter how bad it smelled. The day they'd finally realized Jiraiya was going to stay, they sat up late and painted each of their fingernails, then crept over to him and painted his in his sleep.
Not long after, Nagato suggested getting another color. Red, like Jiraiya's face paint, or blue for Konan's hair. They were grown enough to start earning their own money, and have enough extra to buy things like nail polish. Konan thought white could be nice, like the color of a cloud, but she wanted to finish the old bottle, first.
They never did. Yahiko died later that year. By the time that first bottle of polish finally ran out, neither of the two remaining thought about buying anything other than black.
Wow, oh wow, this killed me ;_; I love all the details (like them painting Jiraiya's nails in his sleep) and the vivid descriptions, but it's so sad, but perfect.
Ahh thanks! Glad you liked it, Konan and Nagato and Yahiko have such sad backstories ;_;
My heart. This hurts in all the best ways, and them painting Jiraiya's nails is perfect, and the nail polish being special--
Wow.