"Where is it!" Anko fumed. She was sure that she had some left. Two of them, in fact! She looked under the table, just in case it rolled below the furniture.

Not there.

The things on her study table were shuffled uncaringly around and spaces between the books were also checked, just to be sure.

Nothing.

"It doesn't make sense for it to disappear! Things like it don't just melt away to nothing!" Close to hysterical, Anko scanned the small sofa that occupied her tiny living room again before turning the cushions over and searching underneath them for good measure.

Still nothing.

She turned her glare on Orochimaru who was leaning against the wall so as to not obstruct her way. He gave a helpless shrug, before disappearing behind the newspaper he was reading.

"ARGHH! My two dangos can't just disappear like that! Where on earth are they?"

As Anko stormed into the adjourning kitchen to check the refrigerator for probably the hundredth time, Orochimaru reached to his side and nudged two empty wooden sticks further into his kunai pouch.