"Fortunetelling through a bowl of ramen?" asked Teuchi.
"It's a ramen festival, everything has to go with the theme," said Marie with a shrug.
"Hmmm," said the Third Hokage, smirking and looking very thoughtful.
"Can you show me how to get home?" asked Naruto.
"Come back at the end of the festival, young Overlord," said Marie.
"Yes, can you show me what's going on in my absence?" asked Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"You have been gone less than two hours," said Marie, making another pass over the bowl of ramen and causing a scene to form in the broth. "Yet already, there are those who seek to put forth their own agenda."
"Yes, can you turn up the picture clarity a bit?" asked the Hokage, looking on.
Naruto pouted and walked off after it was obvious that Ojiisan was going to take awhile with the scrying pool of ramen.
Mitsuki, the Professor who most associated with him, followed along behind while taking notes.
"Why are you writing this down?" asked Naruto after seeing it go on for awhile.
"Not only the finished product, but the various ingredients and items involved with ramen are being displayed and sold," said Mitsuki. "Including varieties that are intended for nonhuman species."
"I still don't see why that interests you," said Naruto. Old man Teuchi I could see. Not so much Mitsuki. She doesn't even LIKE ramen. As hard as that is to believe.
"The end product doesn't hold much fascination for me," said Mitsuki. "However, the same ingredients can be combined into a number of different results by changing the formulae slightly."
More weird Professor type stuff then, decided Naruto.
[Unlocked Senate Bill for Maid.]
"Huh?" asked Naruto, looking over to the side. "A maid ramen bar?"
"I see," said the Professor. "When the food is average, then other means must be used to entice customers."
Hiruzen Sarutobi ignored most of what was going on around him. If he had to guess, and he had, then it should happen just about...
[Event Boss Has Arrived.]
...now.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Third Hokage, smirked.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" yelled an Archer.
"It's The Flying Spaghetti Monster! Run or you'll be noodled to death!" screamed a Gunner.
"I'm too young and beautiful to be pasta!" screamed a Warslug.
"No ka-noodling allowed," declared an Alraune that was trying to get away.
As everyone began running in circles and other unproductive uses of time, Hiruzen flared his chakra and settled into a combat stance.
The huge mass of airborne spaghetti turned two meatballs in his direction. A bubbling growl was heard from within its pasta depths.
"Oh, bring it on," said Hiruzen. "Let's see if my guesses prove correct."
Noodles, hundreds if not thousands, shot forward. The ground, the stands, two tents, and a zombie looking for a brain were all perforated.
At the apex of his leap, the Hokage unfurled a scroll and released the contents.
Landing on the other side of the monster, Hiruzen noticed that the beast had been slowed by the substance he'd poured over it. "Ah, the power of cheese!"
"It's got the Slowed status ailment!" realized Wussup, one of Naruto's wolf-beast minions.
"Itadakimasu!" said Hiruzen, revealing he had an oversized fork and knife that had been sealed in the same scroll.
"And OPEN!" declared Naruto, slamming his fist down into the bowl of ramen.
"Nothing, huh? Too much to hope for," said Teuchi.
"Yeah I..." Naruto began tugging. "Hey, it's got my arm."
"Should have used a shadow clone to do that," pointed out Teuchi.
"Whoa!" yelped Naruto as his arm was pulled into the bowl past what the depth should have been.
"Okay, that's weird. Even for here," noted Teuchi, coming up behind Naruto and achoring him. "Ayame!"
"Right," said Ayame, flying over and adding her own pull to the home team.
"Heave," said Teuchi.
"Waitaminute, I can see Konoha!" yelled Naruto, who stopped fighting the pull.
"Wha?" asked Teuchi, who also stopped fighting for just a second.
SLURPPPPPP! went the bowl, pulling in all three of them.
PTUI! went the bowl, spitting Ayame and Naruto back.
There was brief silence as the two soggy Konoha natives picked themselves up and looked into the bowl to see Teuchi back in front of his stall before the bowl's images began shifting again.
"Well, crap," said Ayame.
"Ramen! How could you betray me?!" asked a tearful Naruto.
GLURP! went the ramen. PTUI!
"I think my father must have had better ramen karma," said Ayame. "After all, he built a business around ramen."
"There's 'ramen karma'?" asked Naruto. "Can I get another bowl?"
"Only one bowl of Worldgate Ramen per festival," noted the fortuneteller.
"Oh," said Naruto, seeming to deflate a little at the thought of having to go through all this again.
"So, who are you?" asked Ayame to the newcomer.
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