Nagato grinned evilly when Kushina appeared by port key with Gai and Lee's spandex outfits. Thanks to the Rinnegan, he could create endless copies of the things. Kakuzu only forced the other Akatsuki to pay him because Pein hated to use it to make clothes, and he got half of the cash.

Konan was the first to find out about his prank, and she went bounty hunting until it was over. She loved Nagato dearly, but there wasn't a chance in hell she was going to wear those horrendous things just to help with a prank.

"It has come to my attention that we have become rather noticeable before our plan has gone into action. To rectify this I have decided to add something new to your wardrobes to avoid detection. Just to warn you that these new uniforms are mandatory," said Pein in a dead flat tone. There wasn't going to be any arguing.

And just to insure that they actually wore the things, he had Kushina lay a curse on their door frames so that whenever they exited their room they would be wearing the clothes. Since magic was undetectable by ninja, they never would sense it.

(When Nagato learned she was a witch, he just shrugged it off. Kushina was already weird enough, what was one more thing? Magic wasn't that rare in the Elemental countries.)

He smirked when the first victim came out of their room wearing the awful suit. He was on the floor rolling with laughter and failing abysmally when Kakuzu got hit with the curse. Best of all he was in a remote part of the base which only three people even knew about (Madara, Konan and Nagato) with wireless cameras capturing the action.

The looks on their faces...were priceless. Itachi did the only sensible thing...which turned out to be walking around the base in the buff, since he was the only one to figure out that the whole thing was a prank. However he did unseal his spare cloak and went to hide.

That place ended up being the secret area that Nagato thought only he knew about.

"Leader-sama," said Itachi tonelessly.

"Itachi, how did you find this place?"

"Konan told Kushina, who told me. Am I to assume the new 'uniform' is a prank?"

"How the hell did you figure that out?"

Itachi gave him a look.

"Pein, I used to live in the same village as Maito Gai. My sempai in the ANBU was Kakashi, who was considered Gai's rival. Did you really think I wouldn't recognize those damn suits of his on sight?"

"Damn. Are you going to tell the others?"

"I could...or I might stay here and watch the fireworks when they realize you just pranked them for no apparent reason."

"Deal!"

Deidara took one look at his closet, and said "To hell with this, Un!"

He then proceeded to bomb his closet...only to end up in one of the outfits anyway when he left his room.

"ARGH!"

Deidara tore off the spandex suit, ran into his room to get new clothes since his cloak vanished, then ran out. He screamed in frustration even louder when he found that merely entering the room set off whatever ninjutsu the Leader had put on the door.

His scream of rage was drowned out by Hidan's scream of fury when he found out the hard way that the spandex he was stuck wearing happened to be impossible to cut through, making it practically impossible for him to cut himself for his rituals.

"Wonder what shit the Leader wants us to wear now. Don't mind the cloaks, those are at least half way tasteful... WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS?!" shouted Hidan.

Hidan was staring in absolute disgust at the suits. He used a quick Katon to destroy them, orders be damned. The second he stepped out of his room, he felt the change take place and growled. When he went to shred it with his scythe, his scream of rage could be heard over Deidara's fury filled one.

The damn suits were knife proof! Hidan spent the next ten minutes trying to rip it to shreds, before another thought hit him. If he couldn't cut himself, he couldn't perform his daily rituals to Jashin-sama!

His scream of fury was heard through half the base!

Kisame took one look at what Itachi was wearing, before the teen destroyed it and burn the remains with Amaterasu's flames and his eye twitched.

"Is that what Leader expects us to wear?" he asked.

"Apparently," said Itachi with a drone.

"Fuck that shit! I ain't wearing something that makes my eyes water!" declared Kisame who went to drink the last of the beer.

Only to find Itachi had beaten him to the punch and stolen all the beer in the fridge.

In a fit of rage very similar to a certain duck-butt styled Uchiha...

"ITACHI!"

Kakuzu took one look at the spandex and said flatly "I don't care if it is free. I am not wearing it."

His scream of rage when he found that someone had actually placed a curse on his door that forced him to wear it was rather impressive. The fact he was planning to make Pein pay for the repair bill on the door frame, more so.

Sasori never went near his room. He didn't even use it most days because he never slept. He did find some amusement in the screams that were occurring all over the base though.

Zetsu was currently eating someone unimportant, and therefore was nowhere near the base.

Tobi saw the new outfit, and true to form put it on.

"Tobi is a good boy!"

(Madara, who was hiding behind the mind of Obito, winced. He was going to make Pein pay if this was really going to be the new uniform. He hated spandex!)

The next morning, most of the Akatsuki was pissed off, and only Tobi was actually wearing the outfit. Everyone else twitched at the sight but were too angry to berate him.

Pein didn't say a word. He just laughed at all of them, and to the fury of the other members Itachi joined him.

"I swear to Shinigami-sama if this is a permanent addition to our uniform I am going to resign, Rinnegan be damned!" snarled Kisame.

"Why the hell isn't Itachi naked like half of us?!" demanded Deidara.

Itachi looked at them deadpan.

"I, unlike, you figured out that this was a rather amusing prank the minute I saw the outfit in question. Also I had a spare cloak sealed away just in case. By the way, from what I can tell the spell that forced you into those outfits was on the door frame."

"Pein, I swear to kami you are going to pay for my door frame!" snapped Kakuzu.

"Not a chance in hell. It was Kushina's idea to give me those outfits. If you have issues with them I'm sure she would like to have a chat with you over that ten million ryou you still owe her after she kicked your ass at poker," said Pein blandly.

Kakazu really looked pissed now.

"IT'S SIX MILLION! INTEREST TACKED ON BECAUSE SOME MORON SUMMONED HER HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD WHEN SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD DOESN'T COUNT!"

"As hilarious as it is to hear that Kakazu owes someone a large sum of money, when did he go against the Yondaime's wife in a game of poker?" asked Sasori bored.

Pein waved his hand dismissively.

"Kushina Uzumaki is one of my only remaining cousins, and she knew where I lived at the time. She happened to come by roughly when Kakuzu first joined while he was kicking my ass at poker, and decided to join in for the hell of it. It's his own damn fault for being distracted by the Uzumaki Clan seal book, which is worth enough cash to make even Kakuzu salivate over, long enough for Kushina to cheat. Though with her brand of luck it's entirely possible that she beat him with that royal flush without cheating," said Pein bored.

"That woman had to be cheating! There's no way in hell she kept getting all those combos that happen to beat my hand every damn time!" roared Kakuzu.

Pein gave him a bored look.

"You could always challenge her again."

"Not a chance in hell. Last I heard her luck was apparently the reverse of that brat Tsunade's. I'm not idiotic enough to challenge someone with that kind of blind luck."

"As hilarious as this is, what the fuck happened to our clothes?!" demanded Hidan.

"I placed a minor genjutsu on your closet. I only removed a few of the cloaks..."

"You mean to tell us we have to pay Kakuzu for replacement cloaks again!?" said Deidara pissed.

"It's your own damn fault for having that kind of extreme reaction. You're ninja for Kami's sake. You should have been able to figure out after you saw the outfits that it was a prank. By the way, I have copies of your reactions hidden, so don't try to find them. I'm sure quite a few people would buy the tapes of the fallout."

Once the members of the Akatsuki got it through their heads that it had all been a rather elaborate prank, they went to salvage what was left of the base. Their rage at the spell and the outfits had caused considerable damage, and Pein wasn't paying for the repairs or replacement cloaks. They should have figured it out after seeing the outfit in question.

Though he did have fun sending the remaining outfits to Orochimaru and forging a note that caused over half of Oto to start wearing something similar.