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D is for Dessert

Ibiki, at this moment, is close to two hundred pounds of muscle. He is quite good at intimidating people with that bulk, and is one of the tallest and largest men in the Leaf Village. He'd have the official title if the Akimichi clan suddenly disappeared, not that he really cared.

The truth was, Ibiki had actually lost weight in the past ten years. When he'd first become a genin, he'd been a "little" more than overweight. As a twelve year old, he'd been 150 pounds of fat. He'd overeaten to cover the fact that he was inwardly terrified of killing people, terrified of harming anyone. God knows why he became a ninja in the first place. It was only when his parents died did he stop eating so much, most of the available food going to Idate. His progress as a genin was slowed as he took on two jobs to pay for their apartment and looked after his brother. And, of course, he lost weight. It wasn't until his brother was old enough to take care of himself that he gained muscle, but at least he had slimmed down.

That wasn't to say that Ibiki like food any less, it just meant that he ate sensibly. He had no inclination to survive as a ninja only to have a heart attack. He practiced moderation and only ate healthy food.

Except dessert. It was Ibiki's one vice. If an enemy interrogator held a chocolate cake in front of his face and asked for Intel, Ibiki wasn't so sure he'd be able to resist. If it were a special occasion, like a subordinate he really didn't like getting demoted and shunted out of his department, he would celebrate with cake or ice cream. In the privacy of his own home, of course. No need for Anko to find out and tease him for the next few eternities.

The only dessert he hated was Pocky, if you could even call it a dessert. But Ibiki still ate it once a year, on his brother's birthday. It had been his brother's favorite food, and it was one of the few traits he and his brother had shared, the love of dessert.


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