Chapter 4: Beat It

"Who is the idiot sitting in my seat?"

The scowl on the persons face who said this suddenly turns into a smirk as he looks down at Hidan with contempt.

"Wait... Could this be the reason Yamada made me get up extra early for therapy this morning? Is he the new prisoner?"

He asks the whole table, looking away from Hidan and the scowl returning to his features.

"Yeah! This is Hidan!" Tobi says happily. "He's kinda mean but funny too!"

Kakuzu's gaze returns to Hidan as he says,

"Nice to meet you, Hidan. Now move out of my seat, before i've got to kill you."

Fierce anger grows in Hidan's stomach when he hears this.

"The fuck are you callin' me an idiot!? Ass wipe!"

"Someone's feisty." Kakuzu mutters then promptly picks Hidan up by the cuff of his jumpsuit, and tosses him to the floor in a very rude manner. He then calmly takes his seat, now that it is unoccupied. Hidan is almost to shocked to move when he realizes what Kakuzu just did to him. When the realization sinks in he stands up clumsily and balls both hands into fists as he yells,

"You son of a bitch! How dare you fucking touch me like that, douche-bag! Who the hell do you think you are!?"

"This is Kakuzu." Leader-sama says, "He got in here for cutting out peoples hearts and selling them on the black market. He transported the living hearts himself by putting them in his own body." Pain then turns to Kakuzu and asks in a pleasant voice, "What do you think of our new friend, Hidan, Kakuzu?"

Without even turning away Kakuzu answers, "He's loud, stupid and annoying. Thanks for telling my story by the way."

"No problem." Pain answers with a smile. "How was therapy?"

Kakuzu snorts. "How is it ever? We dove deeper into my 'childhood financial problems' today. Apparently, they led to the obsession I have with money. Speaking of which, what game is on today?"

"No games." Says Zetzu, "But there is horse racing!"

"Good." Kakuzu says then stands up and walks over to the televisions and quickly kicks someone out of their seat so he can take it, and changes the channel.

With his seat now open, Hidan sits back down. He is still filled to the brim with hot anger.

"What the hell was that about?" He asks grumpily.

Kisame answers through a full mouth, "Oh, he likes to bet on stuff." He swallows his food and continues, "It's the best way to earn money around here and Kakuzu sure does love money."

Hidan is unsettled and twitchy for a few minutes until he asks,

"What did 'e mean by that, 'the reason Yamada made me come early' shit?"

Deidara shrugs. "Who knows, un?"

Hidan's stomach suddenly makes a loud sound and he gets up grouchily to go wait in the line and get some breakfast. As he is heading to go back and sit down with the rest of the group his eyes wander toward the tv's and he changes his mind. He brings his tray over there instead. He sits down loudly and begins glaring at Kakuzu while munching on a piece of toast. After a few minutes Kakuzu sighs and asks, without looking away from the tv,

"Do you want something?"

"You're an ass!"

"Well, you're a moron." Is Kakuzu's rebuttal.

Hidan growls then turns to the tv. He sees a bunch of horses racing around a track and wonders how Kakuzu can find that at all interesting. He suddenly gets an idea though and asks,

"Which one is yours?"

Kakuzu hesitates before gruffly answering, "Number twelve."

Hidan nods nonchalantly then says in a cheerful voice,

"I'm going to make him lose."

Now Kakuzu turns away from the television. He glares daggers at Hidan then says,

"And how are you going to do that, idiot?"

"I'm going to pray for it to suddenly break it's leg." Hidan answers truthfully.

Kakuzu snorts a laugh then turns back to the tv and says, "Good luck with that."

Hidan smiles then holds his Jashin symbol in his hand and begins praying to Lord Jashin to break the damn horses leg in two. He continues praying this way until he hears Kakuzu's loud exclamation and the sound of a table being upturned. Hidan opens his eyes just in time to see Kakuzu push him against a wall roughly and glare at him while asking in a seething voice,

"How did you do that?"

Hidan smirks. "I prayed."

"Bullshit!" Kakuzu yells, banging the back of Hidan's head against the concrete wall. "I just lost 200 bucks and I'm blaming you!"

"So?" Hidan asks while looking bored. While Kakuzu stands there at a loss for words, Hidan changes suddenly to seriousness. "Tell me what you meant earlier. When you said that shit about me and about you going early to therapy."

At this, Kakuzu smiles. He releases Hidan then says in a triumphant tone,

"You'll see... And when you do, it'll be payment for the money you just lost me."

With that he walks out of the main room and back to his cell.

Hidan straightens his jumpsuit and his hair then goes back and sits down at the table with the rest of the gang. Non of them asks what happened, not that they aren't curious, they just don't want to piss Hidan off.

Hidan himself sulks for a while, then looks lazily around the room. He notices that the rest of the prisoners are slightly different than the group he is sitting with. For one, they don't really interact with each other. Each one has their own little thing. They do talk or hang out sometimes but they don't seem nearly as close as this group.

Hidan asks Pain about it.

"Oh, you noticed that." He says. "Well, I was one of the first ever prisoners in Kure-Ji-Kira, and I found a few of the other strongest, smartest and the prisoners I most got along with in here. Our original plan was... to escape. Zetzu, Sasori, Itachi and Orochimaru were all very organized and together we were determined we would find a way out. We called ourselves, Akatsuki, because we would stare out those tall windows and see the morning light streaming in, wishing we could see the dawn ourselves. The idea kind of died down after a while, and it became more of a friendship between all of us, I guess. Then of course that bastard Orochimaru got out all by himself, what a traitor, not that I wouldn't have done the same thing..."

"Orochimaru?" Hidan asks.

"Orochimaru got in because he was conducting very illegal, very dangerous experiments on people. His guinea pigs would almost always die an extremely painful death. He was a genius, a mad genius, but a genius non the less. Also, though this isn't on his criminal record, but he had a thing for little boys. Some might say he crossdressed as well, I think he really just looked like that. Long black hair, snake eyes, pale face with purple eyeshadow..."

"He was a combination of Michael Jackson and Gene Simmons." Kisame says.

Hidan shudders at the thought.

"He even did the tongue thing." Sasori adds, then demonstrates to get the point through.

"How the hell did he get out?" Hidan asks.

"Good behavior, apparently." Pain says, then he leans in and Hidan copies him while Pain whispers,

"Actually, that's just the public story. I know what really happened. He and Yamada were working together on some drugs... among other things. I think Orochimaru struck a deal with Yamada where, if he completely a specific drug for him, he would be let go, free of charges. And he did it. I never knew what that drug did, but I would always hear them talking about it..."

"So... Orochimaru... just left?" Hidan asks, stunned, once again, at how odd this jail is from the others he's been too.

"He was out of here the exact same day Deidara got in." Sasori whispers as well.

Hidan is thoughtful for a while after that, which is something special for him, because he doesn't usually think all that much. As it starts to get later, he asks Pain,

"Leader-sama, why did you stop trying to escape?"

Pain glances at him, "Like I said, it just slipped our minds after a little while."

"But you've got a bunch more people now to help and shit! I bet we could do it!"

Pain smiles. "You're new her so I'll have to fill you in. Yamada may say it's the same as a regular state prison, but if you try to escape, and you get caught, they will torture you. For days on end. And that's getting off light. Does that sound like a regular state prison to you?"

Hidan's eyes go wide and he nods his head. "Isn't that against the law!?"

Konan laughs this time, "There's a lot of stuff that goes on in here that is against our law and and any other laws anywhere. But both we, and Yamada know, there's nothing we can do about it."

Suddenly Deidara runs over to the table,(he had gone to play pool with Tobi earlier)and says happily, "It's shower time!"

Hidan glances around and asks a bored looking Itachi quietly, "Why in the hell would he be happy about that!?"

Itachi stands up and smirks. "Let's just say that their are some things about Kure-Ji-Kira that are exactly like a regular prison."

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First of all, I want to talk about me comparing Orochimaru to Michael Jackson. I know I shouldn't be saying anything about Michael Jackson! He's dead. It's terribly sad, i know. That is why I want to treat this chapter like a tribute. I wrote this the day he died. He was an amazing artist and should be commemorated for his songs and not his scandals. Not my fault he resembles our dear Oro very much. It's just the way he was designed!

Please review. It would be greatly appreciated in this, a time of need... XD

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