Naruto's shouted question seemed to echo through the game show studio.
"What?" asked the elder god/cat/n-dimensional being.
"What?" asked both of Naruto's parents.
"What?" asked the three models/kunoichi.
[What?] asked Brisingamen, dangling from Hinata's hand.
"I saw it on a poster at the candy shop before they threw me out," explained Naruto. "What's a 'Tootsie Pop' anyway?"
"It's a small pseudo-chocolate gummy substance wrapped in a hard shell which is mostly composed of sugar," said Toltiir, who was absolutely SURE that he hadn't put those candies in this world. Well, mostly sure. "The hard shell is flavored artificially by fooling human-style taste buds into believing that something is vaguely similar to the flavor described on the wrapping paper."
"What exactly does that mean?" asked Naruto.
"That the question doesn't count because it has to be something valid," said the being. "The questions and answers on the board are in regard to you and your existence."
"But you didn't specifically say that, did you?" asked Naruto.
"Prize Wheel!" yelled a large number of the audience members.
"Kick Kakashi in the balls, sensei!" yelled one female voice.
"Say what?" asked Minato, distracted by the odd comment.
"Don't start that again," said Kushina. "Naruto, don't."
"No? Why not?" asked Naruto.
"Because the god of mischief is currently playing nice and we don't want that to change," stated Kushina.
"Oh," said Naruto, scowling for a moment.
"So what question will you ask?" asked the cat.
"It's got to be about me?" asked Naruto.
"Yes. Future, present, or past." The cat nodded. "Though if you want to ask about people who are associated with you, that's fine too."
Naruto was silent for a moment, scrunching up his face in thought, before he spoke. "You said I had enemies, right? So, how do I get strong enough to beat 'em?"
A panel rotated on the board to reveal an answer.
"Training," said Toltiir. "Even with a wish or Item Of Power in your possession - unless you've trained and trained hard to master your abilities - you can't defeat them without significant time spent training."
"Really?" asked Naruto before noticing both his parents were nodding at that answer. "Oh. Okay."
"There's also 'teamwork'," said Minato.
"Yes, that IS something that Konohagakure specializes in and stresses repeatedly," said the cat.
"'Teamwork'?" asked Naruto. "You mean you can't be an awesome ninja on your own?"
"Oh, that's quite possible," said Toltiir. "Many S-Class criminal nin are awesome all by themselves. Even they team up with others though."
"Oh," said Naruto.
Dingdingdingding
"That one wasn't on the board?" asked Toltiir. "Which one? Oh. I would have thought that came under the category of further explaining the earlier answer. Okay, go ahead Naruto - spin the wheel!"
The audience cheered as Naruto went up to the Wheel and gave it a mighty spin.
It finally stopped on:
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