"Aargh!"
The Akatsuki all turned to look at the kitchen. After a few seconds appeared Itachi. Tears filled his eyes and he held an empty tub of some sort.
"What is it Itachi?" Pein asked with a sigh.
"It's so bad…" Itachi whispered looking to the ground with his Sharingan eyes.
"What is it Itachi?" Pein repeated in a rather annoyed tone.
Itachi looked up dramatically and took a step forward. He flung the plastic tub to the floor which slid towards the table and hit Kisame's chair leg.
"My ice-cream…" Itachi said and scanned all of the Akatsuki "It's gone… someone has eaten it,"
There was a hush around the table. Who had dared to take Itachi's ice-cream? Had their own food products became victims as well?
Hidan trembled at thought of his ice-cream being eaten. He leaped to his feet "My Baked Alaska!" He sprinted to the kitchen to inspect if in fact he had become a victim to the mysterious ice-cream eater.
The loud whimper that soon followed from the kitchen confirmed that he was also a victim.
"We have a serial eater on our hands," Itachi said gravely.
"Someone's been eating my cereal?" Kakuzu frowned.
Itachi shook his head "No… as in serially eating ice-cream…"
Kakuzu blinked at him "Someone's been mixing ice-cream and cereal together… that's barbaric…" He looked to the floor in thought "…barbaric…" He murmured.
Itachi stared at Kakuzu "No…"
Hidan's voice called out from the kitchen "Someone has eaten Kakuzu's cereal too!"
"Oh dear lord," Kakuzu whimpered.
"Looks like someone has mixed it with the ice-cream as well!" Hidan added.
"…Barbaric…" Kakuzu whispered.
Pein stood up and regarded everyone in front of him "It looks like we have a food thief in our midst. This is a very serious matter. This is the whole sort of matter that we have to attend to in our meetings. Thankfully it seems that not everyone's food has been taken."
"Deidara's muffins have gone!" Hidan shouted.
"What?" Deidara roared as he marched to the kitchen. Upon realising that the news was true, there followed an even greater roar.
He marched back into the room grumbling. He stood next to Itachi "This shit needs to be sorted out hmm,"
"Calm down," Pein urged, he looked at Itachi "Please ask Hidan what else, if anything, has been taken,"
"Anything else gone Hidan?" Itachi shouted.
"Well I could have done that," Pein groaned shaking his head.
Itachi shrugged "Well why didn't you?"
Hidan's voice stopped the conversation from growing "It's been a food massacre!"
Kisame snivelled slightly when he heard this.
"Kisame's fish fingers are gone!"
Kisame's snivel evolved into a fully grown weep "Oh dear lord no!"
"Tobi's Smiley Faces are no more!"
"Ayeeeeeee!" Tobi shrieked "Not my smiley faces! With their smiley facey goodness!"
There was a few seconds of silence. Pein had a feeling it was coming. What had became of his strawberry laces?
"Pein…"
"No! Don't say it Hidan!" Pein answered quickly "I don't want to hear,"
Hidan walked out of the kitchen chewing a strawberry lace "Oh, okay then,"
Pein decided not to react to this. The whole situation was already stressful enough.
"Right…" He said "It seems that we'll have to call upon our proverbial fly on the wall,"
"Ya whut?" Itachi said, he shook his head "That's dumb idea, we should just ask Zetsu,"
"That's what I-"
"Great idea hmm," Deidara grinned, he looked around the room and then called out in the way that someone would call for their pet dog "Zetsuuuuuuuu! Come out, yeah!"
Zetsu popped up from the middle of the table "Yes?"
Kisame grabbed him by the scruff of his plant "You gotta help us maaaannnn! They took my fish fingers!"
"I'm presuming this is about the missing food?" White Zetsu said.
"It definitely is," Black Zetsu nodded.
"Do you know anything?" Kakuzu asked.
"I would have thought it'd be fairly obvious," White Zetsu said.
"JUST TELL US!" Hidan yelled.
Zetsu pointed towards the corner of the cave "Him,"
Everyone turned to look at the corner of the cave. There sat a humongous, extremely round and obviously very tired, familiar face.
"What are you doing here?" Pein asked.
The person burped and looked up at them "Oh…" He waved towards the front of the cave "I kept the key after I left," Orochimaru smiled.