"Uhm, what about us? We're still..." asked one.
"Oh yes, you're still dead," said Toltiir, making sure that an acoustic trick was in place so that the private conversation was being heard over in the family reunion. "The deal I made with the shinigami is that I won't bring anyone back from the dead that doesn't have a direct familial or clan link to Naruto. Even then, he has to specifically wish for that, and he only has one wish left."
The three 'models' looked at each other, then stole glances at Naruto. "So there's no chance," said one of the models.
"No, there is, he just has to figure it out," said Toltiir. "If you're asking if I have the power to do it. Yes."
"You can?" asked the oldest of the models.
"I can grab every molecule that originally composed your bodies, bring them together and restructure your body," said Toltiir. "I can even set the age for whatever is most fitting depending on how Naruto words it - if he makes the appropriate wish. Heck, I could make all of you elves or kemonomimi or dragons if he worded the wish right. It all depends on how he words it."
"You can do that?" asked the eldest. "So why don't you?"
"Why?" asked Toltiir. "If I stepped on the authority of the local Death Gods, then they'd be out to make sure you returned to the afterlife in what would most likely be a very painful and gruesome manner. I managed to get a few stipulations in, but that's depending on what Naruto does with that third wish."
"Mikoto?" asked the rehaired mother of Naruto, approaching the three women. "I... have an idea."
"Now, let's start," said Toltiir after everyone had settled down. He restarted the game, which automatically had the models hit with an "appropriate behavior" compulsion. It wasn't strong enough to FORCE them into their roles, but it would require effort on their part to break out of those roles. "You have 240,000 ryo left, Naruto. Each question costs a certain amount of ryo, depending on its place on the board. If you ask a question that is NOT on the board, you get a prize! What is your next question?"
"Why a game show?" asked Minato.
"Ah ah ah," said Toltiir, waving a paw. "Naruto's the contestant. You two are his advisors, the models are the models to show off prizes and such."
"Prizes? What kind of prizes?" asked Naruto.
The lowest slot opened on the category [Secrets Your Enemies Don't Even Know] was switched over by Mikoto, who then smiled and posed. Followed by her looking slightly disturbed.
"Prizes are randomly determined," said Toltiir. "They include such staples as a lifetime supply of Rice-A-Romi!"
"The San Fernadino Treat!" chirped Mikoto, who then looked VERY disturbed.
Toltiir nodded. "Or other standard prizes including a... NEW CAR!"
The so-far-unnamed Uchiha girl drove out from backstage in a heavily tricked out 1916 Stutz Bearcat.
"Gas not included," said Toltiir. "A washer-dryer set. As well as things normally not found in a gameshow. Wand of Wonder. Portable Hole. Devastating Kiss jutsu. Aura Of Awesome. Stuff like that."
Naruto was not normally a greedy individual. The idea of getting special new jutsu or abilities though...
A familiar form faded in behind Toltiir. EVERYONE (except Naruto) recognized the Shinigami.
The shinigami made a couple of gestures.
"Are you sure?" asked Toltiir, addressing the shinigami. "I've actually been trying to 'color inside the lines' here."
The shinigami gave a thumb's up, causing a few of those present to consider fainting or checking for genjutsu.
"Good news!" said Toltiir as he turned to the group. "As long as I handle the minor details like constructing bodies and reconstructing DNA and bending the laws of space/time - potential Resurrection is on the prize wheel!"
There were a number of gasps at this development.
"Now, just to make sure, this is in addition to the clause XIII-b that was specified regarding Namikaze-Uzumaki clan members and other similar legal ties?" asked Toltiir.
The shinigami stared back.
"Okay, cool, glad to see we're all 'on the same page' so to speak," said Toltiir.
The shinigami faded out, and reappeared in the audience section.
"That seriously creeps me out," said the Fourth Hokage, with a few answering nods from various deceased individuals.
"Okay," said Naruto."Who was that guy who beat me so bad? The one that started everyone else beating on me?"
Toltiir noted Minato paying special attention and figured that if Naruto DID bring his Dad back - this particular individual was going to get a visit. "That would be Kazuko Tetsugama, who owns Sunshine Dryclean in beautiful downtown Konoha."
dingdingdingding went a bell held by the third model.
"And that question was NOT on the board, so if you'll go over to the prize wheel and give it a spin!" said Toltiir as a humongous wheel with thousands of prizes listed appeared.
Naruto swallowed nervously, aware of all the gazes on him as he went to the prize wheel and gave it a spin as hard as he could. Then there was nearly a minute of nervous waiting as the click-clack noise was all that was heard. Followed by the pointer stopping at:
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:06)
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.