A/N: Hello again! I'm not sure if this one has spoilers or not, but it's meant to come after the end of 3X04, so be warned!

Enough Tuna for all

After a relatively nice meal at Kamekona's, everyone was ready to head home.

Steve, Catherine and Doris were going back to Steve's place to spend an unpleasant and awkward family evening, Kono and Chin were planning to hang out at Kono's place and Danny had a meeting with his lawyer.

Since it was time to go, everyone started reaching for their wallets. As usual, Steve patted his pockets and came up empty handed, so he turned to his partner with a shrug. "Sorry Danno, I left my wallet in my other pants… Next time's on me, ok?"

Danny sighed but gave a resigned nod. "Sure… Next time…" He said with an eye roll.

On hearing Danny was buying, both Chin and Kono grinned happily. "That's so nice of you, Brah!" Kono said, patting Danny's hand.

Chin, in turn squeezed Danny's shoulder. "Very kind indeed… Next time is on me, ok? After Steve's turn, of course!" He said with a big smile.

Danny rolled his eyes good naturedly, for once not caring about having to pay the tab, again, since Chin was smiling again, and that was worth much more than a shrimp meal. "Yeah, yeah… Steven over here seems to have short term memory issues when it comes to his wallet, so I'm guessing we'll be waiting for the new millennium before he buys…" He stood up with a smile, taking the check and moving back to Kamekona's truck.

Kamekona was just finishing plating some steaming garlic shrimp and smiled at seeing Danny with the check on his hand. "Well, little Haole, come to pay for my services? That's for me the best part of your meal!"

Danny winced slightly, but chuckled anyway. He moved closer to the big man, speaking softly. "Listen, Big Man… I'm paying for the meal, but I'm a little short on cash at the moment, and my credit card is a bit overstressed…"

Kamekona raised his eyebrows. "Why don't they pay, if you're short on kala?" He asked, looking at the rest of the team.

Danny crossed his arms in front of his chest in a defensive gesture. "Supposing that's what you're saying, I'm not short on money… It's just that my rent is due next week and I have to pay for my lawyer today, and Grace needs some arts stuff for school and wants me to go buy it with her this weekend, so I just want to make sure that I have enough for those things… About the rest of them, everyone else seems to have forgotten their wallets, as usual…" He said with a shrug. "I'll pay you next week, maybe the week after, but I'm not short on cash, just a little cautious…"

Kamekona studied Danny for a minute and then took the check for him. "Alright brudda, I'll start a tab for you…" He said with a nod of his head.

Danny smiled, relieved. "Thank you babe… Just… don't tell them about it, ok? Don't want them to worry over nothing…" Danny said, glancing at his team, still sitting at the table.

At Kamekona's nod, Danny checked his watch and moved away. "Thanks again, my man… Gotta go, I have an appointment in 15 minutes! See you around!" And with a quick wave, Danny moved to his car and was gone.

Kamekona looked at the table and with a sad shake of his head moved to a freezer nearby. Picking up a large tray, he moved to the Five-0 table. He dropped the heavy tray over the table, crossing his arms across his chest. "So I heard you left your wallets at home? You'll have to pay for the meal with work then…" He said, looking pointedly at Steve, Chin and Kono.

Steve frowned. "What do you mean we have to pay? Didn't Danny pay the bill?"

Kamekona nodded. "Nope… It seems he forgot his wallet home as well, but he said you'd cover his part… Hope you don't mind getting your hands dirty…" He finished, with a nod in the direction of the large tray.

Chin sighed. "Is there any chance you'd let us pay you later?" He asked, already knowing the answer to his question.

Kamekona winced. "I don't believe in debts or in keeping tabs for customers… I prefer tangible forms of payment…" He said with a nod.

Kono rolled her eyes. "And how do you expect us to pay for the meal?" She asked, raising her eyebrows.

Kamekona uncovered the large tray, revealing a few large tuna fishes. "Nothing too difficult. I just need some help to clean some fishies!" He said with a large smile.

Steve sighed, turning to Cath. "Hey, would you mind driving my mom home? I'll be over as soon as I'm done here…" He asked with a pleading look.

Cath didn't seem to like the idea too much, but didn't see any other way out of the awkward situation. "Sure… no problem…" She said, with a forced smile.

Steve walked Cath and Doris to Cath's car, and by the time he was back at the table, Kamekona had cleared up all the dishes and placed three large tuna fishes on the table, the smaller one in front of Kono, one slightly bigger in front of Chin and the biggest of the bunch on the empty spot where Steve was sitting initially. There was another tuna, about the same size as Chin's still in the tray in front of Kamekona.

Steve took the sharp knife placed next to his fish and looked at Kamekoma. "Alright, how do we do this?" He asked the large man.

Kamekona moved closer to Steve, wielding a knife of his own. "Well, brudda… You have to take out everything you're not free to use… Think of it like your paycheck for instance…" He said looking at the large fish.

"Since your house is already paid for, you only have to worry about some monthly bills, no rent or mortgage… right?" Kamekona continued, raising the knife and chopping off the tail of the tuna.

"Other than that, money for food and some other daily expenses…" The large man kept explaining while moving the knife again and taking out the fins and some skin.

"Oh! And don't forget the taxes!" He kept talking, chopping off the fish's head with a well practiced move.

"So that leaves you with plenty of nice and delicious meat to work with…" The big man finished with a flourish, leaving the clean fish in front of Steve and moving to Chin's side.

Kamekona studied the fish, and after a minute of studying it, he started cutting it as well. "Well, it looks like you're paying a mortgage for your house, my friend…" He said, chopping off a larger piece of the fish's tail that seemed darker and not too fresh.

"Other than that, you have plenty much the same stuff to take care of as McGarrett…" He chopped off the fins and the head as well, leaving in front of Chin a medium sized peace of fish. "But you are still left with more than enough to manage comfortably…" Kamekona said with a pleased smile in Chin's direction.

The big man now moved to Kono's place looking at the smallest fish in the bunch, placed in front of her. "Well, you don't have as much to work with as these two, but it looks like you have a good lease agreement from your cousin… and not as many expenses…" He said, chopping off just a small portion of the tail and fins. After he chopped off the head, he was left with a larger piece of fish than Chin's. "You see? You're better off that your cuz over there!" He said with a smile, nodding in Chin's direction.

Kamekona finally moved back to the tray, taking out the last fish and placing it in the spot where Danny was sitting initially. He shook his head sadly, studying the fish in front of him. "This poor fellow is as big at Chin Ho's, but looks like he's paying a huge rent…" He said, chopping off a large piece of the tail.

"He must also have to pay some alimony; maybe contribute for some expensive school for his child?" He continued, chopping off another piece of the fish that also looked not fresh.

"Add to that an expensive lawyer, specialized in custody matters…" The large man said, chopping off about a third of the fish's side that also looked bad.

"And of course the usual taxes and regular expenses… Doesn't leave too much to work with…" Kamekona finished with a sad sigh, looking at the small piece of fish left in front of him.

The big man looked up at the people standing around the table, and was pleased to see that they realized how smaller the piece in front of him was, not even reaching half of the smallest one of the three of them.

Steve seemed to think about it for a couple of minutes, finally taking his knife and cutting half of his piece. "Well, what if I give him half of mine?" He asked, looking for confirmation from his friends.

Kamekona shook his head sadly. "Well, a good tuna fillet don't come in pieces, does it? The color is not the same, and the flavor will probably be different too… It'll feel like a meal made of charity and it doesn't deserve that… On the other hand, maybe it'd be better if you can make the fillet larger… with stuff like remembering your wallets for a change…" He said, with a pointed look at the three people around the table. "Or maybe finding a way to get a larger fish?" He moved his look to the leader of the team, returning his piece of fish back to him.

Steve nodded, looking at Chin and Kono, and finding their implicit agreement. "Yeah… I'm sure we can do that…" He said.

A couple of weeks later, Kamekona found himself face to face with a fuming Danny Williams. "What did you tell them?" The shorter man asked him in a soft and angry voice.

Kamekona gave Danny his best innocent look. "What'd I tell'em? I didn't tell 'em nothing! What should I've told 'em, brudda?"

Danny shook his head. "I don't know what you did, but you did something! Every since that day they've been acting strange! And it's all your fault!" Danny ranted, pointing an accusing finger in Kamekona's direction.

Kamekona frowned. "They're acting strange? Strange how?"

Danny shook his head sadly, passing a hand through his hair. "Well, they're acting strange… In the last two weeks, Steve has taken my car to question some witness or some other stuff about ten times, and at least five of those he has returned it with a full tank of gasoline! At least five! And during the same time, either Chin or Kono have come into work in the morning bringing breakfast for the whole team at least four times! They've brought Malasadas, coffee, even Coco Puffs a couple of times! And they never did that before!" Danny ranted angrily, waving his hand wildly in the air.

"And you know the worst of it? The day before yesterday Steven went to talk to the Governor and managed to convince him to get a 10% raise for the whole team and for Max too! He doesn't need a raise! I'm sure he's not sure what to do with the money he makes on a regular basis except for spending it on Cargo pants! So why would he go to the Governor for a raise, Huh?" Danny finished angrily.

Kamekona chuckled, patting Danny roughly on the back. "Well, brudda… Maybe he thinks his team needs the money to pay for all the gas and breakfast they're buying now?" The larger man asked, trying and failing to look innocent.

Danny shook his head again, trying and failing to look annoyed. "Don't know what you did, Big Man, but you managed to make it look like it was nothing intentional on their part. Doesn't mean I like it any better, though… Anyway, I guess I should thank you for it in any case…" The shorter man grudgingly extended his hand to Kamekona.

Kamekona ignored the extended hand, patting Danny on the back again and making him stumble a step forward. "I didn't do anything, brudda… No thanks are necessary!" He said.

Danny regained his balance, and moved away from the larger man, and in the direction of the car. "I'll never understand Hawaiians… Crazy people, all of them!" He grumbled, while getting into his beloved car and driving away.

Kamekona chuckled and watched the Jersey detective drive away. He was happy that his Ohana had realized a good way to help, and he was even happier that for once the proud man had accepted the help without putting too much of a fuzz about it. He went back to his truck with a spring in his step, he had shrimp to cook!

The End

A/N: Thank you very much for reading!

This little story came about by how much care Danny put into counting the $50 that he had to pay the fortune teller... He has complained about money in more than one occasion and I didn't like that Kono automatically assumed that he has more money just because he earns more than her.

Anyways, I'd really like to hear what you think of this one!

Thanks again, and I hope to see you soon!