input: Write a function to take a dictionary of different fruits and their counts, and return the same dictionary ensuring the counts are intact. If the input dictionary is empty, return an empty dictionary.
  assert item_counts({"apples": 5, "oranges": 6, "bananas": 7}) == {"apples": 5, "oranges": 6, "bananas": 7}
  assert item_counts({}) == {}
output: def item_counts(fruits):
      return fruits