A/N: Again, long update sorry! I have been very busy lately and I hit some roadblocks on this chapter. I wanted to add more, with other team members disrupting the game, but the chapter was already long enough as it is, and I did not want to delay the update any longer.

I suppose this chapter doesn't focus on Tobi much, but more on the Akatsuki as a whole...consider it a Tenth-chapter special!

...Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who's read, reviewed, and/or favorite this story!!! It's my first to get 3,000+ hits!! Thank you!!!! Ten hilarious chapters, and there's more laughs to come!!

Disclaimer: FrescaPower doesn't own Naruto, Looney Tunes, or High School Musical, or anything else that may have been made reference to.

Chapter 10: Akatsuki Red Clouds vs. Konoha Rookie Nine

Pein had a problem.

He was a victim…

…Of pre-middle-aged hair loss.

No, not really.

This was a complete lie and, in fact, had nothing to do with this chapter.

Pein had a problem.

The Akatsuki were becoming divided. Akatsuki Friday Monopoly Night wasn't what it used to be. Everyone would bicker over who got to be the iron. Kakuzu would insist that those who landed on Boardwalk weren't paying him enough rent, Deidara would blow up the houses and hotels, and Konan would get so bored that she would fold the Monopoly money into lethal origami.

Yeah. He really needed to figure out something quickly.

So, he took up surfing the web for ideas.

"What's this flashing thing? 'You are the 999,999th visitor. Click here to claim your prize.' Interesting."

Click! Pein's computer was immediately overtaken by hordes of viruses and spam.

"Sigh...looks like I'll have to do this the old-fashioned way. ZETSU! I need 50 ideas on how to increase teamwork in the Akatsuki by tonight."

"What's the point? I'm such a minor character," said black-san.

"Oh, come on, we should be happy doing such a menial task!" said white-san cheerily, and with that the talking aloe vera walked off.

Pein called the Akatsuki for an emergency meeting.

"I've decided that the entire organization is going to take part in a friendly basketball game with another team." Pein took out a hat filled with little slips of paper. "This hat contains the names of teams we might play. The one I pick out will be the one we play." He rummaged around the hat and pulled out a paper.

"Alright, we're facing... the 'Looney Tunes'?! Who put this in here?!"

"...That was me..." grinned Kisame.

Pein rolled his eyes and pulled out another name.

" 'Wildcats.' "

Every Akatsuki member shuddered with fear.

Pein shredded the paper into little bits. "Hell. No."

Pein pulled out another name. "The NBA. What the heck is the 'NBA?' "

Several names later...

"And we are playing..." Pein rummaged around for the last name. "...Konoha."

"Konoha?" repeated the Akatsuki.

"How will their Hokage even agree to this?" asked Deidara.

"This is a fanfic," happily explained Pein, "Anything is possible!"

Ring! Ring!

Tsunade answered the phone in her office. "Hello, Godaime Hokage speaking."

"Hello, Tsunade. I have a proposition for you."

"Who is this?"

"Come on, you know who I am. Leader of an evil organization..."

"Orochimaru?"

"No, it's me, Pein!"

"Oh. We're still not giving you Naruto, in case you were wondering."

Pein muttered a 'Dammit!' but continued on. "That's not exactly why I called. What would you say if your village played a friendly game of basketball?"

"Sure, why not? We're stuck in a filler arc anyway."

The Godaime Hokage Tsunade agreed to host a basketball game with the Akatsuki. The Konoha team would consist of Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Shino, Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji.

The day of the match arrived.

Pein approached the opposing team. "I know we're playing a friendly game of basketball, but what say we sweeten the deal?" Pein asked with a grin.

"What do you mean by that?" asked Tsunade.

"If you lose, we get the nine-tailed jinchuriki, but we'll give you the body back."

"Deal! And you can keep the body."

"Oi! Don't I get a say in this?" protested Naruto.

"No, because you're stupid," smirked Sai. Naruto fumed silently.

"Hang on, what do we get if you lose?" asked Sakura.

"Er...you'll get...um... this magic rock!" replied Pein, pulling a ordinary-looking rock out from his cloak.

"How do you know it's magic?"

"I don't. That's what makes it so magical."

"And now I'm going to assign positions," said Pein, reading off a piece of paper attatched to a clipboard, "...Itachi, Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu, Konan, and Deidara - on the field."

"Aren't you playing, Leader-sama?" asked Itachi.

"Nope. I'm the manager. I don't have to do anything!" Suddenly, Pein felt an incessant tugging at his cloak sleeve.

"What does Tobi get to do?"

"Tobi," began Pein, "You get to be the most important player of all - the bench warmer."

Tobi cheered. "Do not worry, Pein-sama! Tobi will do his very best to keep the bench warm!" The masked ninja dashed off and sat contently on the bench.

Pein clapped his hands together. "And now that Tobi is out of the way, there is nothing stopping us from winning!"

Thirty seconds into the game...

"FOUL!" shouted Shiranui Genma, the game's referee.

Zetsu had just tried to eat Shikamaru, who had fallen asleep out of boredom. Team Konoha got a fouled shot, making the score 1-0.

Thirty seconds later...

"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" cried Naruto as ten doppelgangers poofed! onto the field.

Genma's whistle sounded again. "Off the field! There's too many of you."

Naruto's doppelgangers sadly walked off the field.

Genma rolled his eyes. Honestly, do these teams even knowhow to play basketball?

Forty fouls later...

"That is IT! I quit!" Genma threw down his striped referee shirt and stormed off the field.

The score by then end of the first half was 41 – 41, a tie. Time was running out; neither team scored due to the fact that there were no more fouls, but mainly because both teams really sucked at playing basketball.

It was at this point a certain foul-mouthed grim reaper decided to do something rather stupid. The second half had just begun and Hidan noticed that Sai from team Konoha had the ball. Everyone else was fighting one another, and since Genma had quit, there was no one to stop them committing fouls. Hidan noticed that Sai was just standing in the middle of the field, holding the basketball. Then, Hidan got an idea.

He walked up to Sai and pointed to him. "Hey, you remind me of the Pillsbury Doughboy."

Sai remained silent.

"Haha. Laugh, Pillsbury Doughboy."

Hidan extended a finger to poke Sai in the stomach. In a flash, Sai grabbed Hidan's wrist, breaking it. Sai then threw the ball into the air and tossed Hidan over his shoulder.

It was over in about three seconds. Sai smirked, caught the basketball, and scored.

42-41. Konoha was in the lead.

Hidan was led away on a stretcher. Kakuzu, who was retiring to the bench, looked at him and sighed."Idiot," he muttered.

The half-thread ninja went to sit down on the bench. However, Tobi was taking his benchwarming job very seriously - so seriously that he placed an electric blanket over the bench, put a space heater near the bench, took a hair dryer to heat the bench, and even started a fire underneath the bench.

So, when Kakuzu sat down, his reaction went something like this...

"OW! MY ASS!"

Needless to say, Kakuzu was lead away on a stretcher.

There was only one minute left. "Kakuzu is out, and so is Hidan…" Pein scanned the bench, "Looks like we have to put in…" his face fell when he spotted the only player on the bench. "Oh."

"YAY! TOBI GETS TO PLAY!"

"Oh, joy," muttered Pein unenthusiastically.

There were thirty seconds left in the game.

Kisame had the ball, but was completely surrounded by the leaf ninja.

Twenty seconds.

In a desperate attempt, he threw the ball randomly. Tobi caught it.

The masked ninja ran towards the basket while being chased by half the Konoha team. Naruto tried to grab it out of his hands, but Tobi was unstoppable.

Ten seconds.

Tobi jumped into the air and sailed towards the basket, hands poised to dunk the ball.

Everything went into slow motion. The Chariots of Fire theme played. Tobi hung suspended in midair, arms outstretched. The crowd slowly opened their mouths agape with astonishment. Choji slowly, slowly munched on potato chips, his mouth also agape, but with half-chewed food in it.

(Ew.)

Time resumed normal speed and several things happened at once.

Tobi went to dunk the basketball…

And...

...KA-WHAM!

Tobi crashed into the backboard. The ball fell out of his hands and bounced away. The timer sounded and the game was over. The entire Akatsuki team did an enormous anime face-fault, while Konoha's supporters cheered and did the wave.

"We won! Now give us the magic rock!" demanded Naruto, who was relieved his team had won.

"Uh...it...disappeared," Pein said suspiciously, quickly hiding something behind his cloak. "It was...er... transported to a different dimension."

Team Konoha rounded on Kakashi.

Coming up in Chapter Eleven: A Tobi TalesChristmas special! Itachi is feeling angsty and depressed. When all hope seems lost, Tobi - who is trying to earn his Akatsuki cloak - appears to show him what life would be like if Itachi had never been born. That's right - it's a Tobi Tales version of It's a Wonderful Life!