Stupid fic concept I low key love:
The Akatsuki gets isekai'd into a modern-esque world. All individually. Not realizing it had happened to anyone else. And gradually find each other months or years later. Just squinting at each other as they see how they each managed to make a living / survive in this new world. Like dude I've seen you burn a man's flesh off his bones what do you mean you work at the library and host themed learning months for the kids now.
This is what I imagine for each of them:
Konan and Nagato: school teachers
Tobi/Obito: I feel like he’d either end up in a corporate office or be a crossing guard lmfao
Kisame: aquarium guide
Sasori: woodworking
Kakuzu: grumpy nursing home grandpa
Itachi: librarian and maybe works in a bakery too?
Hidan: fast food worker
Deidara: bomb squad but also does ceramics on the side
Those are all so fitting 😭
All I can imagine is Kisame or Deidara pulling into a mcdonalds drive through and their eyes popping out of their damn skulls seeing HIDAN in the drive through (the manager found him eating raw patties in the back and banned him from the kitchen 😔 he misses the taste of blood) while Hidan is looking out the window on his second strike for fighting customers going Y o u ? ? ?
Or Itachi bringing some books to the elderly home on a charity trip and seeing Kakuzu. And them both just hard staring at eat other like 🤨😐
I also think it'd be so funny if Itachi was an absolute job hopper trying to figure out what he wanted to do. With no village to protect and no Sasuke in that timeline. Just moving from being a library assistant to a volunteer at the nursing home to an assistant at a bakery to dabbling in the arts and low key considering college soley because he's interested in the sheer amount of information this world just. Has laying around if you're willing to pay.
Also. On this ^^^^. 100%.
The au popped into my head soley because I heard that song that goes "I know none of this will matter in the long run, but a sound is still a sound if it happens around no one!" and it made me think of Itachi's. General silent suffering. And it made me go God The Unwrittable Singer AU is back in my head again.
Because the unfortunate thing about wanting an Itachi singer au fic every time I hear a song about suffering silently. Is that Mr. Martyre Complex would rather die than share his burdens. Let alone sing them for the entire world to hear. So. Unfixable problem I've been trying to find a loophole in for ages now.
But anyway! If there was a way to bullshit through it. Just. Damn. Would it be funny if like Nagato and Konan were on the way to work and they just heard the song play on the radio like "Is that fucking Itachi's voice???"
Or. Sasori going to the grand expedition of a painting that really took off in the art world and seeing Deidara in the other room of the building hosting a live art event. Them just immediately going for each other's necks like "What the FUCK are you doing here"
Kisame turns on the news after getting home from work and seeing The New Big Celebrity Gossip is that two of the best new and coming artists seem to fucking hate each other.
Kisame whenever anyone questions his appearance: I have a skin condition and my body modifications (gills) make me feel more comfortable about it >:( how about you mind your own buisness. Oh, you know a good doctor? Is there something wrong with how I look? Maybe I'm comfortable in my body >:(
He got tiktok for cool shark videos and quickly realized if he did this enough they wouldn't press it / he wouldn't end up in a tank somewhere
Less fun thing I just remembered: Itachi's illness doesn't magically disappear in this scenario. My guy better pray he doesn't end up isekai'd into the US otherwise him and Kakuzu's reunion will be in hospice care