Ice-cream!

Itachi slowly walked into the kitchen, only to find a certain hyperactive masked ninja waving a piece of paper as he jumped around.

"ICE-CREAM!!" Tobi yelled, louder than Itachi had ever heard him yell before. "Ice-cream. Ice-cream. ICE-CREAM!"

"ARGHH! Stop screaming Tobi, un!"

Deidara walked in, standing just inside the door way. Behind him, a disinterested Zetsu stood, looking as though he was fighting with himself. Again.

"Weekly meeting," The plant mans lighter side seemed to be in control at the current time. Not that that lasted long. His darker side briefly took over to finish the sentence. "Leader-sama's office. Now."

"ICE-CREAM!" Tobi repeatedly yelled as he ran into the lounge where the rest of the Akatsuki were sitting down, watching a movie.

"Tobi, we don't have any ice-cream." Zetsu's personalities seemed to be at peace, for now, each speaking a sentence at a time. The plant-man followed Tobi into the lounge. "Yeah, you ate it all a week ago."

"But—But the note says 'Going to Konoha for ice-cream. Be back soon.'" Tobi whined shoving the note at Zetsu to prove himself right.

"Get in here. NOW!" Leader-sama called from his office behind the closed door, his voice flecked with some hints his irate temper. "Weekly status reports and the sort are now due."

Itachi stayed where he was, following Deidara as the ex-Rock nin walked into the large office. Leader sat behind his desk, his elbows resting in the only spots on his desk not covered by paper. His fingers were entwined, his eyes watching each of the members over the top of the fingers.

Itachi sat down in his usual chair while the others were scattered around. Deidara sat on the other side of the room, his legs crossed in the girly fashion he always used. Zetsu stood in the shadows next to Leaders desk whilst Kisame sat in the chair next to Itachi. Hidan sat on the ground on the other side of Itachi, his knees bent and his large scythe, still dripping with blood from his latest sacrifice, leant against the wall next to Kakuzu, who was busy calculating the expenses of that past week. Tobi was sitting in front of Deidara, his legs crossed as he rocked back and forth like a little child, chanting 'ice-cream' just loud enough to annoy Deidara. Sasori… wasn't there. Itachi looked around the room, trying to spot the puppet nin but stopped when he felt the Leaders glare on him. As he looked at leader, preparing to give his own report, he heard the door open as Sasori slinked in and leant against the wall just behind Deidara. He could have sworn Deidara just giggled.

"Kisame and I have information on the Kyubi's movements."

The two girls walked along the forest path, both wearing Akatsuki cloaks. The face of the shorter ninja was shadowed by the hat she wore whilst the taller used a white cloth to clean the fresh blood from the blade of her long sword.

"Why did you kill him?" The voice of the shorter ninja was uninterested, only being used to destroy the annoying silence and to end her partners twice-as-annoying humming.

"'Cause I felt like it. Duh." The taller girl returned the now blood-stained cloth to its holding position inside the depths of her cloak as she slipped her sword back into its holster that sat on her hip. "Geez, Athren. Why else?"

"RAIN!" Athren hit her partner over the head. "You're NOT Hidan. You DON'T worship Jashin. You don't need to kill everyone you see."

-Briefly returning to Leader-sama's office-

Hidan sneezed loudly and looked around. His eye twitched. Someone was talking about him.

-Back to the girls…-

"But I want to…" Rain looked at her partner, her eyes big and wide (A/N: Yay for puppy eyes!). "Hehe, you can't resist the puppy dog eyes."

She whimpered as Athren bonked her on the head before continuing to walk.

"Leader-sama?" Itachi had succumbed to the need to ask the question.

"What?"

"Who went to get the ice-cream?" Itachi asked. "Everyone's here."

"Mwahaha," Leader smirked, laughing evilly. "Not everyone, Itachi. Not everyone." (A/N: Bannana is awfully pleased with that sentence. So don't touch!)

"Stop it, Rain! Pick a flavor already."

"Got one."

"Good, let's go. My heat proof shadow bubbles do leak after a while, remember?"

Rain nodded and followed her partner outside. As they began to head their way back home, they spotted Sasuke sitting outside the door, waiting for someone and looking extremely pissed off.

"Hey, Sasuke." They chorused as they passed him. They looked ahead and smiled at the man approaching. "Hey Kakashi-sensei."

As they walked off, Athren heard Kakashi say something about a mission. They obviously hadnt been noticed.

What fun, eh?

Bannana came up with the idea of using shadow bubbles to refrigerate the ice-cream...

Next Time: Enter Team 7