Kakuzu raised his hand and slammed it into the back of Hidan's head.
Smack!
"Ow! Kakuzu, what are you doing?!"
"Idiot, can you think before you speak? Itachi's a man. Can he give birth?"
Hidan clutched his head and protested, "But he looks like Itachi's son no matter how you look at him! Look, he looks even more like him when he smiles!"
At some point, the baby had stopped crying. Perhaps all the commotion had made the child, whose eyes had yet to open, start smiling.
When it came to feeling wronged, Uchiha Itachi felt far more wronged than Hidan.
As a fellow member, he had come over out of kindness to help deliver the baby.
He had never expected everyone to end up suspecting him of being the child's biological father!
He could never explain his way out of this...
But Itachi did not want to explain, either.
Silence had always been Itachi's style, and it was his last bit of stubbornness, too.
Faced with the other members' stares, Itachi steadied his emotions and merely replied flatly:
"This child isn't mine... That's all I have to say."
Just as Deidara, who had no qualms about stirring up more trouble, was about to mutter a few more words, Konan suddenly shouted:
"Enough! What exactly are you all trying to do?!"
Konan was extremely proud at heart. She would never allow others to view her this way, especially her best friend, Nagato.
"Are you suggesting that Itachi and I had an affair? Hmm?"
"Pain, do you think so too? Leaving Itachi's character aside for the moment, you should know mine better than anyone!"
Itachi: "?"
Pain: "Konan, that's not what I meant..."
Konan: "Let me state this again. I've never been with anyone! This child was an unexpected gift from