Espresso Expresso

Chapter Seven

Deidara woke up the morning following his bar escapade with the headache to end all headaches. "Ugh…" he groaned, swinging his feet over the bed. "Do I really have to work today-un?" Then, he immediately ran to the toilet and vomited. Yeah. Someone wasn't going to be very productive even if he did go to work, so he crawled back into bed and pulled the blankets over his head.

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Meanwhile, at the coffee shop, Kakuzu was ready to throw a fit. "WHERE THE HELL IS DEIDARA!?" he screamed.

"Uh…" Zetsu sweat-dropped.

"If Deidara-sempai's drunkenness last night was any indication he will not be coming into work today," Tobi mumbled. Kakuzu crossed the room in a few steps and looked Tobi squarely in the eyes.

"What was that?" he asked, his voice a deadly calm. Tobi gulped.

"Uh, well, Deidara-sempai was kinda… inebriated last night." he replied. Kakuzu's face was unreadable.

"How inebriated?"

"Pretty inebriated."

"THAT DUMBASS! I TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD TO BE READY TO WORK TODAY! WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING?" Kakuzu yelled. Tobi flinched, but Kakuzu kept going. "THAT IDIOT! EVERY TIME HE SHOWS UP LATE HE WASTES MONEY!"

Just as Kakuzu was finishing his tirade, the bell above the door to the shop clanged and in walked what seemed to be an entire office building of workers.

"Oh shiznit," Itachi said.

"Shiznit is right," Tobi agreed.

"We would like… uh… 206 mochas, 75 black coffees, 152 cappuccinos, 13 milk teas, and 12 iced green teas for the staff meeting today," the leader said. Kakuzu's eyes lit up. That amount- well, it would bring quite a fair sum of money, so he charged into the break room and woke up the others.

"EVERYBODY START MAKING COFFEE!" he yelled.

"That stupid Deidara!" Itachi complained. "Now I have to do twice as much work since that lazy idiot probably has the hangover of the century!"

"Now, now, Itachi," Kisame consoled. "Tobi is taking more than his fair share of the work."

"It still pisses me off…" Itachi replied.

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After the horde had left with their coffee, Kakuzu retreated to the break room to count the newly acquired money, and Zetsu collapsed in one of the chairs for the customers.

"Woof. I hope we don't get another crowd like that for a while," he sighed.

"Damn straight," Hidan agreed, fanning himself.

"Well, someone had better go get Deidara out of bed and to work before Kakuzu kills him," Kisame said.

"I'll go," Tobi replied, heading out the door to cure a hangover.

To Be Continued!

Omake- Author's Comments

It is 5:15 AM and I really should be doing some last-minute cramming for my test later today, but ya know what? I'd rather write:D

-GoesKaboom