Joseph Heller has a point when he says, "Every writer I know has trouble writing."

In the mean time, enjoy this chapter with the Akatsuki (who I don't own) and don't kill me!

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"Fine," growled Hidan, starting the game in the form of…

Princess Peach

"Too much bad karma," Kakuzu snickered, "It's your own fault for killing all of those people, Hidan."

"Shut up."

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Hidan's bad mood dissipated part-way through the game when he realized that this character wasn't quite so bad.

"Oh yeah! Eat my turnips!"

It was quite embarrassing, actually, which caused Zetsu and the ever-hyper Tobi to focus their attacks on him, whereas Kisame just hung out, pausing the game every now and then to annoy the others, who would then let up on the Jashinist a little bit to attack him.

But in the end, Hidan was kicked off the island two times, and then a third, to sit glowering at the screen while Zetsu and Tobi took on Kisame, all three with all three lives.

Now the fish-man swung into action, pressing buttons furiously to knock off the others.

But it wouldn't be easy.

By now, Tobi was hyped on sugar, and Zetsu's black half was in control and not willing to give anything away.

Kisame would have to fight for a win.

Which was just the way he liked it.

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It took him only five minutes to knock out the competition and be declared winner, taking his team to go against Cin and Sasori.

They had to give Hidan another whack to get him out of his sulking state, and then he was back in the game, making the Princess fight her hardest, as though the fate of the world depended on the battle.

"How are you so good?" panted Kisame.

"Older brother, remember?" Cin sighed, but didn't loose focus, "It was my goal in life to beat him at these games."

"It's nicer than Itachi's brother's goal."

"You have a brother?" she asked the Uchiha, still playing.

"Hn."

"What's his name?"

"Sasuke," but his face seemed to soften a bit as he spoke.

"What's his goal?" Cin asked, encouraged.

"To kill me."

"Oh," she focused back on the game with enough time to send Hidan on his first trip.

"See ya next fall!" she called out, trying to forget Itachi's disturbing words.

"Calm yourself, Cindra," Sasori said from his duel with Kisame, while Hidan jumped back in to battle with Zelda, "If you get too cocky, the delusional fool will take you down."

"But Kisame's fighting..." then Hidan realized what the puppet-master really meant, "...that's harsh, Sasori."

"What else is new?" the red-head replied as Link landed a hit on Ike.

It took long enough that Itachi had to go to the kitchen to get more snacks for the watchers. Tobi's sugar high finally wore off, and he was curled up in a little ball, fast asleep.

The sun was starting to go down, before Hidan was finally knocked off for the last time. Zelda ran over to help out Link, surprising Ike to the point that he fell off.

And that was when another Final Smash appeared.

Cin looked at Sasori, who looked back at her for a moment, and nodded. The girl grinned.

While Link held off Ike, Zelda became Shiek and went for the prize, and then aimed for the fish-man and fired...

Ike went flying, and Cin (for the first time ever) used the "taunt" feature, before high-fiving the red-head.

"Two more to go," the puppet-master grinned, as Ike was revived and they returned to ganging up on the swordman.

It wasn't too long before he was finally beaten, making Cin and Sasori the champions.

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So it looks like Sasori is able to play team video games after all…he just prefers to torture his teammate instead.

Poor Hidan, and he was doing so well before he became to overconfident.

So, I hope you enjoyed.

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