"Welcome to Jjjjjjjjjjjjjeapordized!" said a voice off-screen. "The game show where you, the victim of fate, get to choose how much or what you know. Careful though, because it would require your LAST wish to unlearn what you learn if you can't handle it!"
"You can't handle the truth!" called out one of the people in the studio audience.
"Eh?!" asked Naruto, finding himself behind one of three seats. There was now an audience of vaguely-defined people, a board with four rows and six columns dividing it up into small squares. The cat was also wearing an odd sort of suit and talking into a microphone.
"Now, our topics today are," said Toltiir, gesturing at the board. The top of the board flicked up to reveal the column headers.
[Secrets Of Your Past] [Secrets Of Your Future (Potential)] [Who Loves You, Baby] [Secrets Of The Universe] [Enemies Thine] [Secrets Your Enemies Don't Even Know]
"Uhm, if this is a game, who else is playing?" asked Naruto, pointing at the two empty seats.
"Who do you WANT to play this game?" asked Toltiir.
"I dunno," said Naruto.
"That's correct!" said Toltiir as the audience cheered.
Piff! Three girls appeared near the board.
"Uhm," began Naruto.
"A lot of game shows use models to reveal the prizes and such," said Toltiir. "So I figured, why not?"
"Right," said Naruto, deciding to act like he knew what was going on. Which was most assuredly NOT the case, of course.
"Now, where do you want to start?"
Naruto blinked. "Uhm. Why do the villagers hate me?"
"Good question!" called out someone from the audience amongst minor clapping.
"On the day of your birth," began Toltiir as one of the spaces on the board flipped around to reveal Naruto's question. Toltiir quickly explained the Fourth Hokage sealing away the Kyuubi in a young boy to save the village. "Unfortunately, due to people often being completely illogical and making their decisions entirely on emotional content and consensus, the majority view you as the demon-fox instead of the container. Which pretty much goes completely against what the Fourth Hokage was aiming for."
Naruto twitched a few times, his eyes going to the various charts and slides that the cat had pulled out to illustrate various parts of the story.
"Uhm," eventually began Naruto, sniffling at this. "Why did he seal it in ME?"
"Ah hah, we come to the second card under [Secrets Of Your Past]," said Toltiir as that section rotated away as one of the models gestured at it. Revealed was now the question "Who are Naruto's parents?"
"That wasn't my question," pointed out Naruto hesitantly.
POP!
"What?" asked a blond man that Naruto recognized.
POP!
"What? Minato?" asked a red-haired woman.
"And here to answer that question directly are our guests, Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze. Your mother and father - direct from the afterlife," said Toltiir.
"I'm... not in the belly of the shinigami?" asked Minato, patting his ripped and acid-burned coat.
"Naruto?!" asked Kushina, her eyes tracking to the boy.
"We'll just cut to commercials while the reunion takes place," said Toltiir, dabbing at his eyes with a lace hankerchief.
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:45)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.