It seemed that Pein had told the other members their new jobs a bit too early. He had expected the baby to be whisked into his room a few minutes after his announcement. However, Konan and Madara were still up there hours after his declaration of responsibilities.

The other members were sprawled around the room, waiting, for none of them knew how long labor lasted.

"Hey, hey, let's play a game!" Hachirou suggested, tugging annoyingly at Kakuzu's sleeve.

"Let's not."

"Aww, why not? I'm so restless and --" he was forced to stop dragging on the sentence when Kakuzu punched him in the stomach. "Quiet, or I'll sew your mouth shut, Hachirou."

Hachirou clasped both hands over his bleeding lips, nodding furious. "Aye!"

They lapsed again into silence, mainly because Hachirou was busy picking at his lip and rubbing his bruised stomach to talk anymore. But of course, a fool doesn't know when to learn. Hachirou quickly began speaking again.

"Hey, hey, guys, why not play I Spy?"

He received glares.

"Jan-ken-pon?"

Kakuzu rose his fist to smack him.

" How 'bout we play Kagome, Kagome? Kagome Kagome, Kago no naka no Tori wa--ouch!"

In no time, Hachirou was scrambling around the room in a desperate attempt to get away from Kakuzu. Kakuzu was chasing after his partner, trying to fulfill his earlier threat.

+ Jan-ken-pon is another name for Rock Paper Scissors, sometimes just shortened to Janken.

+ Kagome, Kagome is a Japanese children's game where a child is blindfolded and sat in a chair and other children walk around him/her chanting a song. The blindfolded child has to guess which child has ended up behind him/her after the song is finished. If correct, that child has to sit in the chair for the next round.

+Kagome Kagome, Kago no naka no Tori wa-- was the beginning lyrics of the song the children sing when playing the game Kagome, Kagome. Hachirou was singing the same song.