Today, it was Deidara's turn to man the cash register. He stuck three tongues out at Hidan, who scowled at him.

Itachi walked from shelf to shelf, making sure everything was in order for the customers. Sasori was busy in the back room or now called the 'break room' making more Akatsuki related merchandise, Kakuzu was putting money in many piles, Kisame was ordering more items from Borders, and Hidan and Zetsu were in charge of working on the upstairs today.

He had begged to Itachi to switch him to a job downstairs, but Itachi told him he would send her upstairs when she came. He sulked, one reason being Zetsu, who would obviously spy.

Their first matter was the lights, which with much persuading, had to climb atop of Zetsu's head to screw in the lights, with many "How many Akatsuki members does it take to screw in a light bulb?" jokes following.

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During lunch break, Hidan was instructed to take his Big Mac to go, and watch over the store. When he came back, a girl was huddled over, waiting for the store to open.

'Claire?' Hidan thought as he ran up to her. She jumped up and started shaking him.

"I NEED BOOKS!!!!" she yelled.

"What happened to the other books!?" Hidan cried out.

"I read them all." Claire stated a matter of factly.

"Ok, hold on." Hidan shuffled threw the keys until he got the right one and let her run free.

Hidan put his food in the back room and followed her around.

"Read this… and this… Oh! Haven't read these!" She mumbled to herself.

She got a couple Death Note key chains and finally decided to go check out.

He scanned her items out and handed them to her.

"Oh," Hidan riffled in his pocket. "Here's this." He placed the golden locket on her stuff and watched her eyes get wide.

"YOU FOUND IT!" she yelled as she reached across the counter and grabbed him in a hug. Hidan's face turned a bright red. She let him go.

"This was a present from my parents before they… well…" Claire stuttered.

"Died?" Hidan asked as Claire looked at her shoes. "Sorry."

"It's all right." Claire said.

"Well, I know one thing, it wasn't as bad as what happened to my parents." Hidan laughed. "My dad was a total drunkie. He beat me senseless everyday. Then he killed my mom, and got himself killed by the Kage."

"I guess you're right." She then went threw her messenger bag, grabbed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and ate it.

"Why do you have that in your bag?" Hidan asked.

"Let me eat in your backroom then."

"Fine." Hidan said as she stuffed the sandwich in her mouth, hopped over the counter, and ran into the back room.

"I have no home." Claire stated as he walked in.

"Where do you sleep?"

"A friend's basement." Claire said with a mouth full of sandwich.

"Interesting." Hidan said, eating his fries.

"Hello! Anyone here?"

"Hold on!" Hidan called back as he ran back to the front counter. "Can I help you?"

A teen about fifteen stood before him. He had long black hair and red highlights, a few piercings like Leader's, and a black Creature Feature tee shirt.

"Yeah, where are the CD's?" the boy said.

"In back." Hidan said, pointing to where they were.

The kid walked to the back, and came with a stack of CD's, and handed them to Hidan.

'Creature Feature, Poppa Roach, AC DC, now these are things I know about!' Hidan smiled to himself. "Who may I be addressing?"

"Blake, Blake Harvy." He said, flipping his hair back.

"Got good taste in music." Hidan said. He then noticed Blake looking through his iPod.

"So do you." He said, giving him the iPod back.

"That'll be $25.93." Hidan said.

"Dude! That's an awesome price for five CD's!" Blake smiled as he pulled out his wallet.

"Well, we're not like the other rip off stores." Hidan laughed, handing him his change. Just then, Kakuzu bust through the door.

"Who said the CD's were a good deal!?" Kakuzu yelled, threads ready to strike. Blake hopped behind the counter and grabbed some cash from the register.

"Try to kill me now pussy!" Blake said sticking his tongue out as Kakuzu fell to the floor.

Hidan took a twenty out of the register, hopped over the counter, and waved the money in his face. Kakuzu sprung up and took the money.

"Where'd the kid go?" Kakuzu snarled.

"He left with his stuff." Hidan said. "And he told me you should go to the funny farm."

"When that kid comes back, I'm charging fifty percent more than usual." Kakuzu growled.

Claire came to the front counter.

"Hey Kakuzu, I spent twenty bucks here today! Does that make you feel better?" Claire smiled.

"Yes it does, but why are you behind the counter?"

"'Cause Hidan let me."

"Oh, 'Cause Hidan let you! Well, I'm sure you got a discount!" Kakuzu grumbled.

"Shut up you." Hidan scoffed. "It's time to pack up anyway.

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Well, that night, they pleased Leader with more customers, and more money. $74.62 to be precise.

So they fell asleep, dreaming of many different things. But much to Hidan's surprise, he dreamt about Claire, and wondered to himself, 'What is this feeling!?'

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Yay! Now, I'm pretty sure you know what belongs to me, but just incase you don't, here they are. Borders, Big Macs, Death Note, Creature Feature, Poppa Roach, AC DC, iPods, and Naruto. I do own these, Claire VanGoph, Blake Harvy, 'How many Akatsuki members does it take to screw in a light bulb' joke, the story line, and the idea. Be sure to review! Domo Arigato and Enjoy!