Pain sat at his special chair in the living room while watching the news and sipping his coffee. He let out a contented sigh as he took another sip. This was Sir Leader's idea of a Sunday morning.
He would wake up, have breakfast with the other screaming, cussing subordinates. Then, sense it was the Akatsuki's only break in the week, they would all eventually leave to go to concerts (Nickelback being their favorite), clubs, bars, and anywhere in between.
Pain finally fell asleep in his chair, awaiting the annoying "LEADER-SAMA!!!" alarm.
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Itachi had decided to go to the leaf village today. He had disguised himself as the ordinary Joe Shmo and was looking for a decent store. He finally came to a Barnes and Nobles and decided to start his search for a good book.
When he entered the store, he noticed a 'Clearance Sale, Everything Must Go!' sign and decided to call Leader.
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Pain had finally dozed off when the phone rang. He growled as he picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Pain grumbled.
"I hate to bother you Leader, but do you remember when you were talking about us on the brink of being bankrupt at breakfast?" Itachi said.
"Uh huh."
"Well, Barnes and Noble's closing. It's a small store, perfect for us."
"I'll go and talk to my people about it."
"Sir, you have people?" Itachi asked.
"Duh." Pain said, and hung up the phone.
Itachi stood there for a while, soaking everything in. He finally decided to just let Leader take care of everything and went to go look at Gothic novels.
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"Please Lady Tsunade! Our organization will fall if you don't let us buy the store!" Pain begged on his knees.
"Well, look who crawls up to us good guys." Tsunade laughed. "Why should I let you have the store?"
"'Cause we're cool and have a million girl fan base?" Pain smiled.
"Say that we're the best and even though you're evil, we help you, 'cause we're the good guys." Tsunade smiled.
Pain sat there for a minute, considering his options, and finally realized there was no other choice.
" You're best and even though we're evil, you help me, 'cause you're the good guys." Pain said.
"Ok then, you may open your shop, but know that I'll be checking in from time to time." But before Tsunade finished, he was out the door. She sighed.
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Pain ran to the front desk and booked out the whole store with the rest of the group's money, the clerk afraid of the Akatsuki cloak immediately obeyed. Pain sat in a chair and sighed, oblivious of the staring civilians.
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A week later, all they had to do was come up with a name, and decorate the store. The Akatsuki sat around the meeting table.
"Now, you may be wondering why I called you here today,"
"About this stupid book store idea." Hidan sighed. "I see no point in books at all." Itachi stood up.
"How on earth could you say that!?" Itachi said. "Hidan, it's basically TV in your head!"
"What's with you Uchiha?" Hidan laughed. "The world isn't going to end if I don't read."
"One day, something great'll happen to you, and it won't happen 'cause you didn't read!" Itachi had gone psycho now.
"Whatever." Hidan said as he walked out of the room and into his and Kakuzu's.
"Well Itachi, if you have such a mind for reading, then you come up with a name." Pain said.
"I have the perfect name Sir." Itachi said. "I'll name it 'Gochikku Hon'ya'."
"English please, yeah." Deidara sighed.
"It means 'Gothic Bookstore' in Japanese n00b." Itachi said.
"Well, It's worth a shot." Pain said.
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The next week, the store had their grand opening. The store was stocked with Gothic books, heavy metal CD's, and anything a Goth could want.
Hidan was forced to work at the counter, while Itachi and Kisame worked on opening the upstairs to the public. At that time, a girl walked into the store. Hidan never noticed her until she walked up to the counter and handed him a pile of stuff.
"Holy!" Hidan started.
"You obviously don't pay attention." The girl said as she pushed the pile toward him.
Hidan shrugged and began scanning out the stuff.
'Dracula, Frankenstein, Twilight, what is this c**p?' Hidan thought to himself as he scanned them out. That's what he thought until he got to a plushie of him.
"You know this guy?" he asked her as he held up the plush.
"Uh huh." She said. "I've looked on E-bay, Amazon, Toys R Us, but I could never find this little Hidan plush." She smiled. "Hold on, come to think of it, the Akatsuki's running this store, so you must be Hidan!" she pointed at him, a big grin on her face.
"Yeah." Hidan said. Finally, some respect from a fan!
"So, do you read?" the girl said as Hidan mentally slapped himself for not heading Itachi's words.
"Of course!" Hidan smiled.
"So what's your favorite book?" she smiled as he mentally said "D'oh!" to himself.
"Well," Hidan said.
"Claire VanGoph."
"Right, well, I have to say Saw is my favorite series." Hidan said as Claire laughed. "What?"
"You obliviously have never read a book before, because Saw was never a book, only a movie." She giggled.
"Ok, fine, you caught me." Hidan sighed. He scanned out the plush and gave her the stuff in exchange for the money.
"Our first dollars!" Kakuzu yelled as he ran in from the back room and scared the daylights out of Hidan and Claire.
Hidan and Kakuzu then started a wrestling match behind the counter while Claire stood and looked down at them. She eventually got tired of waiting, brushed her black hair out of her face, and grabbed her stuff and left.
"See you later!" Claire said as she walked out.
"Nice going!" Hidan yelled as he thumped his partner on the head.
"Hey, If you wanted to be smooth, don't let me stop you." Kakuzu said as he went back to the back room. Hidan stuck his tongue out as he left and plugged in his iPod.
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The day slowly crawled by as only five more customers came, and lunch break had passed, they only had fifty bucks.
As they finally picked up, Hidan noticed a golden charm necklace on the floor and picked it up. When he opened it, there was a picture of Claire inside. He put it in his pocket to give to her next time he saw her. They then locked up and went home.
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YO! I think by now, you know I don't own Naruto, Barnes and Nobles, E-bay, Amazon, Toys R Us, Dracula, Frankenstein, Saw, or Twilight, and all credit goes to the geniuses who created them! I on the other hand, own Claire VanGoph. So no using her without asking! I hope you enjoyed, and hopefully review! Domo Arigato and enjoy!