I think we need to inject a bit of humour in these chapters, don't you guys? So far, they've mostly been cute or romantic or something like that...well, not anymore. The next three, at least, are going to be mostly funny.

So let's kick the humour off with a tribute to Hoshigake Kisame! Yay! This won't really have much in the way of romance, aside from me poking fun at ItaDei and PeinKonan. Oh, and just a little note, this is assuming that none of the Akatsuki members are dead, not even Sasori, though Tobi will be there...dunno exactly how that works, it just does. XP WARNING: All of the Akatsuki are going to be quite OOC, except possibly Tobi, who's random and retarded enough that he might actually say/do a couple of the things I've made him say/do. Well, here goes everything!

Chapter 6

Kisame

"Do you have any 3's?" Zetsu's black half asked.

"Go fish," Itachi replied. Zetsu picked up a card from the middle, grumbling. "Kakuzu, do you have any 5's?" Itachi continued, glancing up at the other man.

"I still don't see why I have to give it to you," Kakuzu said. "It's my card, I picked it up fair and square. Shouldn't I get to keep it?"

"Jeez, Kakuzu, I didn't realize you were like this with everything," Hidan complained. "I thought it was only with money. Just give him the damn card and let's get on with the stupid game."

Muttering under his breath, Kakuzu reluctantly handed the card over to Itachi, whose expression remained unchanged. "Konan, do you have-" Itachi began, only to be interrupted by Kakuzu.

"Hey! Isn't it my turn now?"

"No," Itachi replied, "because you had to give me a card. Therefore I go again."

"This is a stupid game," Sasori commented. "Why are we even playing it?"

"Because I said so," Pein informed him. "Itachi, continue."

Itachi sighed. "Konan, do you have an 8?"

She shook her head. "No. Go fish."

At that moment, Deidara walked in. "What's going on here?" he asked.

"Where the hell were you, you bastard?" Hidan exclaimed, glaring at Deidara. "We were waiting for over an hour!"

"Well, I had a long way to go," the blonde said defensively. "Couldn't you have started without me?"

"No," Pein said. "I called you all here, in person, for a very specific reason, and it couldn't be discussed without everybody."

"Then why isn't Kisame here?" Itachi asked.

"Because it's about Kisame," Pein said simply. "It's his birthday, and the first one that he's going to be celebrating with us, so therefore we must make it something special."

"Wait, his birthday is today?" Deidara said. "Why didn't you tell us about this earlier?"

"And how do you know when his birthday is?" Itachi pointed out.

"I didn't even know he had a birthday!" Tobi said happily. Everybody ignored him.

"I've done some fairly extensive research on each of you," Pein replied. "I had to make sure that there were no little surprises before I allowed you in the group."

"But how did you find any of this information?" Hidan asked.

"I have my ways," Pein said mysteriously. This made an awkward silence descend upon the room.

"Umm..." Deidara began, "just how much info did you find on us?"

Pein smirked. "I'd rather not say. Now, on to the topic I called you here for. What do we do for Kisame's birthday?"

"Nothing," Deidara suggested. "Celebrating birthdays is for kids, not sexy S-rank criminals like us."

"If we're all so sexy, then why don't we have a sexy party?" Hidan said.

"Oooh! I know!" Tobi said excitedly. "We should all go to a strip bar!"

Everybody stared at their masked teammate in shock. There was even a bit of a "wtf" expression on Itachi's face.

"You know, I think that's actually a good idea," Hidan said slowly.

"But would Kisame appreciate it?" Pein asked. "Or would it be something we should do for someone else?"

"Maybe we could go to the aquarium?" Sasori suggested. "That's gotta be the equivalent of a strip bar for someone like Kisame."

"Wouldn't he just try to eat all the fish there?" Deidara said, clearly opposed to the idea of doing anything to celebrate anything.

"No," Itachi said, "not after he joined this new group. I don't know what it's called, but I keep hearing him say 'Fish are friends; not food' whenever he sees any fish swimming around."

"That's just weird," Kakuzu said. Everybody agreed silently.

"So...aquarium?" Pein asked in clarification.

"Yeah, sure," Hidan said.

"Whatever we do, it'll make more sense and be more entertaining than playing this stupid game," Kakuzu said, standing up and throwing his cards to the ground.

"Hey look!" Tobi exclaimed as he ripped up his cards and flung the pieces into the air. "Confetti!"

"You owe me new cards," Itachi said, not impressed.

"Go kick his ass!" Hidan urged.

"Yeah, those cards probably cost you money," Kakuzu agreed. Itachi shrugged.

"I got them off the body of some shinobi I killed a while back, so it's not the money I'm worried about," he said simply. "It's just that now the number of cards isn't what it should be, so I can't use them again."

"Well, I'd still be angry about it," Deidara said. "Why aren't you angry?"

"I am," Itachi replied. Everybody looked very closely at his face, but there was no discernible difference there to prove his statement. He still looked as calm and unaffected as he always did.

"You know," Deidara commented, "I don't think I've ever seen you look angry about anything. Is it even possible for you?"

"I think that the Uchiha clan must have some sort of disease that makes it so they can never show emotion," Kakuzu said.

"Not true," Kisame said, joining the group now. "Itachi's little brother shows anger quite well. In fact, he's nearly as good at it as some of us are. Itachi is just the anomaly of his family."

"Can we stop talking about this now?" Itachi asked, still fairly calmly.

"We have work to do," Pein said. "Everybody, come with me." Konan and Pein led the way, and all the other Akatsuki members followed. They were walking two by two, each with their partners, much to Kakuzu's dismay. Zetsu and Tobi brought up the rear. The Akatsuki walked to an unknown (before now) land, and then into that land's Hidden Village, which just so happened to be full of aquariums. Kisame raised an eyebrow.

"Why are we here?" he asked.

"We're here to celebrate your birthday," Pein replied, stopping at the doors of one of the aquariums. A woman stood at a desk there, smiling widely at everybody.

"Welcome," she said cheerfully. "Entrance fee is-"

"We're not paying any money," Kakuzu interrupted. "Let us in or we'll kill you."

"Kakuzu, shut the hell up," Hidan told him.

"We're not here to kill anybody," Pein told his group. "We're here to enjoy Kisame's birthday."

"Oh, is this for a birthday party?" the woman at the desk asked, smile never wavering. "Birthday party groups of 8 or more get in free! And the birthday person always gets a balloon of his or her choice! So who's the lucky person?"

Pein pushed Kisame forward. "This is the birthday boy," he replied. Hidan snickered, and Kisame looked like he was going to kill someone. Or possibly die of embarrassment. Or both. Probably both.

"Well, hello there," the woman said. "And how old are you today?"

"None of your business," Kisame replied.

"Okay, I'll just grab your balloon choices for that age." She ducked down, then came back up with many balloons in her hand, of many different colours. Each of them said on it, in white writing, "Happy none of your business-th birthday!" The woman smiled. "Now, which colour would you like?"

Kisame blinked in surprise. "Umm...all of them?"

"Of course! I can always blow up some more."

This peaked Deidara's interest. "Did you just say something about blowing something up? I love blowing things up!"

"No, you just like blowing things," Sasori said under his breath. Deidara glared at his partner, cheeks turning red.

"You're not supposed to know about that!" he hissed, glancing briefly at Itachi. The Uchiha seemed not to have heard the conversation. "Who told you?" he asked Sasori.

Sasori smirked. "That's for me to know and you to never find out." Deidara scowled, then Pein spoke.

"Okay, let's go in now," he said, and they all traipsed inside.

"Bye bye, now, have a good time," the woman at the desk said, smiling and waving at all of them.

"Whose bright idea was this to come to an aquarium for my birthday?" Kisame asked, clearly not impressed.

"It's all Sasori's fault," Deidara replied.

"Stop accusing each other," Pein commanded. "We're here to have fun. Kisame, it's your birthday, so you lead the way."

"Do we have to be here?" Kisame asked. "I'd really rather not do anything special. A birthday is just another day, and I prefer to spend my days fighting and killing people."

"We have nothing urgent to do right now," Pein replied. "The bijuu can wait, we've got enough members...we could all use a day of fun."

"Yeah, well, like Kisame said, fun for most of us is killing people," Hidan said. "There's a whole village here that nobody knows about, and nobody would notice if it suddenly didn't exist, since nobody knows it does exist in the first place. Let's destroy it."

"I like that idea," Kisame said. "And as you've said, it's my birthday, so shouldn't I get to decide what we do?"

Pein sighed and closed his eyes. "Alright, a show of hands. How many of you would rather destroy this village?" He opened his eyes once more to count, only to find that Tobi was the only person whose hand was not raised. "Okay, fine. But this is the only time you all get to go against what I say." Cheers erupted from the group, and everybody rushed off in different directions. Well, every pair, that is. Pein and Konan stayed right where they were, and Konan put a hand on Pein's shoulder.

"Maybe it's better this way," she said. "If we give them room to do what they want sometimes, then they'll be more likely to follow our orders in the future. I mean...your orders," she added hastily, seeing the look on Pein's face. He sighed and shrugged her hand off.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's go join the fun."

In a matter of minutes, the village with all the aquariums no longer existed.

End

There! Humour! Yay! XP I hope you all enjoyed it, and Happy Birthday once again to Kisame! Please review, and don't forget to tune in next time (which will incidentally be in 10 days).