Kagome wondered how she got ropped into helping Kakuzu count his money. Well, that wasn't quite accurate since he didn't actually let her count the money. Or even touch it for that matter. She was simply supposed to remember what number Kakuzu was at and then calculate the answer for the questions he asked her. It probably wouldn't have been that hard except for the fact that he was so damn fast. She was sure there was some law out there that he was violating that said that someone so tall and huge shouldn't be able to move his fingers so fast that she barely managed to catch the shadow of movement let alone keep track of it all.

"What is the price of new plumbing for the bathrooms plus the cost of repairs for the walls that Kisame destroyed -again- against the amount we currently have?"

Not to mention he asked her purely hypothetical questions that no one other than himself had any chance of answering. No wonder no one else wanted to help. Bastards.

"Ummm...do you mean against the current amount or the amount we will recieve after the missions are completed?" Might as well pretend like she knew what she was talking about.

"There are no missions currently going on Kagome-san. And please keep track; our current balance is positive 687 ryu after all the deductions have occured. Of course Hidan still has yet to hand over his mission money and I'm not including my personal account..." Kakuzu lapsed into incoherent calculations which Kagome was pretty sure had something to do with his newest bounty. Though, how he managed to keep all of this counting straight while still completing paper work was beyond her.

She was pretty sure she was about to scream and bolt, though, if he asked her even one more of his stupid, inane, impossible equation questions that Kagome had no idea how to even write down let alone complete.

"Kagome-san, please tally up the cost of new cloak mendings, food, and any other nessescity before multiplying it by every member and adding in their special requests and then tell me it so I may inform Leader of our current needs."

Kagome's frustrated scream echoed through the whole compound as she threw herself out of her chair and out of the room.

Kakuzu didn't even look up at the disturbance as he continued to tally the expences and record them in clear, quick, writing on a plain scroll. Though he did stick his hand out to the side, palm up. A shimmer appeared beside him before it gave way and revealed the tall, blue skinned man who had been standing there the whole time.

"Fine, fine, you win. Though for the record you're a dirty, rotten, cheater." Kisame stood next to Kakuzu and angrily shoved a large wad of ryu into his awaiting hand.

Kakuzu calmy withdrew his hand and began to count his recently aquired money silently before answering.

"You didn't specify how it had to happen that Kagome-san ran screaming from my room; merely that she did so. It was your careless-ness that brought this about. Now, run along and let me finish; Kagome-san is horrible at mathematics and it will take me forever to fix the errors she made." Without looking up to see the reaction his words brought about Kakuzu continued his previous actions of recording and accounting. A negligent wave of his hand was all the answer Kisame got to his parting comment made from the doorway.

"No wonder Hidan laughed at me when I told him; you guys are way to damn cruel to not be partners."

This chapter is unedited but since I haven't heard from my beta about it I decided to post it rather than make you wait any longer. There are a few parts in her I utterly hate(but can't figure out how to change without inspiration) so I will probably upload the beta-d chapter, once I receive it, in place of this one.