This was a completely random idea that I had when I was bored one day when my family had been traveling in a car for who knows how many hours, and then I saw someone running a lemonade stand which led to me thinking about the Akatsuki trying to raise money for themselves. So I wrote this. :)

Prepare for OOC-ness. (I do that a lot, don't I?)

Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto or any of its characters or any of the places mentioned in this fic . If I did, Shikamaru would be dead.

On to the story

Pein was not a man to be at a loss of anything, especially words. But when Konan had told him that they were 'broke', he was rendered speechless. Konan, after watching him open and close his mouth like a fish for the past few minutes, decided that there was more important things to do. Just as she was about to leave, Pein called out after her.

"Konan!" She turned. "What can we do? I mean, should we ask Kakuzu or something?" Pein looked at her for any more suggestions.

"...We should hold a meeting." Konan said. "And ask the others what they think." Pein pondered that for a moment. Worst case scenario, they all quit. Best case, he found a scapegoat. "Sounds good." He agreed. Out of nowhere, Pein pulled out a gigantic megaphone.

"ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS! MEETING IN THE MEETING HALL!(A.N. -Well that was rather redundant.) ALL MUST BE PRESENT!" He yelled. Konan was on the floor beside him rolling about while covering her ears, saying repeatedly that they were bleeding. Pein backed away slowly.

A few minutes later, almost everyone was seated. Pein looked up. 'Itachi..here. Kisame...here. Deidara..here. Sasori...here. Zetsu..' He glanced at the giant Terre Cotta plant pot. Inside it was a Venus fly trap. A very large Venus fly trap. '...Here. Kakuzu, here. Hidan..not here?'

"Kakuzu!" Pein yelled. Kakuzu raised his head quickly, startled. "Where's Hidan?"

"In his room." Kakuzu replied. "Go get him then!" Pein yelled again. Kakuzu's eye gave an involuntary twitch.

Flashback(That's totally not needed, I may add.)

"Hey Kakuzu!" Hidan said from his place on the bed.

"What is it now, Hidan." This was getting aggravating. Kakuzu had been trying to balance his checkbook for the past hour, but to no avail because of Hidan's constant blathering.

"I'm gonna go do my ritual now, so don't bother me for the next hour." Hidan got up off the bed and walked out of the room.

"Thank god.." Kakuzu mumbled.

End Flashback

Pein gave him a blank look. "I see." " ...Well then, we'll just have to start without him." He stood up.

"As you know, the Akatsuki gains money from its various missions, mostly bounty collections." Everyone nodded. "But, as of late, the bounties and missions have been running low..very low. And I'm sorry to announce that because of this, we've gone broke." Pein breathed out. Now to see what they did.

And..they all stared. Just at that time, Hidan waltzed into the meeting room.

"What'd I miss?" He asked. Everyone turned their heads to Hidan. "...What? Is there still blood on me or something?" He checked himself over, shrugged, and sat down next to Kakuzu.

"As I was saying, we're broke." Pein continued. At this point, everyone was giving him incredulous looks, and Hidan looked like he was about to burst out into hysterical laughter.

"So...what do we do?" Sasori commented in a placid voice.

"Well, I was thinking about a fund raiser. Wouldn't that be great?" Pein said gleefully. Surely, only genius such as his could come up with a plan as clever as this. Konan gave an undignified snort.

"That..is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, yeah." Deidara said in a deadpan voice. Hidan fell out of his chair laughing.

"Shut the BLEEP up Deidara! It's not like you could BLEEPING do any BLEEPING better you little BLEEP BLEEEEEEEP- BLEEP! I swear, I'm BLEEPING tired of your BLEEPING BLEEP! I'm going to BLEEPING BLEEP you and then BLEEPING shove it down your BLEEPING throat! Then I'm going to BLEEPING take you to the BLEEPING BLEEP doctor and make sure you get a BLEEPING BLEEP, and afterwards, I'll reach back down your BLEEPING throat, take out your BLEEP, reattach them, and put you in a BLEEPING BLEEP community! Any more BLEEPING questions?!" Pein finished his rant with a crazed look in his eye, and Deidara was off crying in the corner. (24 swears lol)

"...He's weak." was all Itachi said. Kisame gave him a look.

"He beat my record, damn it." Hidan grumbled. "And now its time to sit! Hey, we rhymed Hidan-san!" Tobi said.

Hidan glared at him.

"So, we're going to have a fund raiser, and no complaints." Pein said. "I will assign you different jobs that, when you make money from them, will go to our bank account." Everyone nodded in compliance.

"I have taken the liberty to find a list of adequate jobs for all of you."

"Itachi, Kisame, you will be working at the 'Long John Silvers' restaurant as waiters and such." Kisame didn't looked pleased. "Listen I could've signed you up at Seaworld, so be grateful." Pein told him.

"Sasori, Deidara, I want you to sell your art on ebay for ridiculous prices." Sasori merely inclined his head.

"Zetsu and Tobi...uh...you can go collect seashells and make them into necklaces for Deidara and Sasori to sell."

"Kakuzu and Hidan, I want you to go to the park and set up a lemonade stand and crap like that. Everyone loves lemonade stands."

"And what about you and Konan?" Kisame asked.

"I...will join American Idol, and I will win the 100,000 cash prize! And Konan will provide my support." This time everyone laughed, except Itachi whose lip was twitching uncontrollably.

"Shut up! None of you appreciate my genius." He yelled at them. "Now, I expect all of you to be at your respected jobs by...around four-ish" Pein said. The Akatsuki members stared at him. "GET MOVING!" They all scrambled from their places around the room. He turned to Konan.

"Is it just me, or do they seem to fear me?" Pein asked. Konan just shook her head. "Now where's my application form?" He searched around the room and finally pulled out a piece of paper. It read:

AMERICAN IDOL APPLICATION

"Guess I better get started." Pein pulled out a pen, and began to write. "Name:Pein. Gender: male Previous singing experience: ...None. He signed his name, (after ignoring the rest of the application) sealed it, and went out and put it in the mail box.

"Now...I wait." He went back inside and began watching Bleach. Meanwhile, Kisame was complaining to Itachi about their job.

"I bet he did this to spite me! Come on, Long John Silvers? He knows that they have fishsticks! My fishstick senses tingle every time were in a 15 mile radius of one! Itachi sent him a sidelong glance, as if to say; 'What a special partner I have.'

"Its no use complaining Kisame. We must do with what we have." Itachi picked up his uniform. "Even if it includes a grotesque uniform."

Elsewhere in the Akatsuki base, Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu and Tobi we're readying themselves for their individual trips. When it came around to four, the Akatsuki reached a problem-there was only one car.

"I think we should get it, seriously! " Hidan said. "Yes, I agree. The park is farther from here than the beach." Kakuzu added, still trying to finish his checkbook.

"Are you kidding me? The beach is all the way in water country, you bas-" Zetsu was cut off by Tobi yelling at him not to swear. "Whatever. Besides, you and Tobi can travel quicker than Kakuzu and I." Hidan said.

"Its okay Zetsu-san! Tobi can travel really fast, so he can keep up with Zetsu-san!" Tobi exclaimed excitedly. "...Fine." Zetsu said. "Come Tobi, let's get ready to go."

"Heh, that proves it. I'm the best arguer in the world, hear that Kakuzu?" Hidan put a smug look on his face.

"No, it means your as stubborn as an ox." Kakuzu said without looking up from his work. Hidan paused, and then looked away with a hurt look on his face. "Whatever, seriously."

While Zetsu was being...Zetsu, Tobi was rolling up paper balls and throwing them at Deidara, all the while remaining hidden. "Tobi's a good boy!"

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End of chapter. As I said, it really has no point to it. But a guess having no point is the point. Please review :)