Chapter 51- Intermission
(This chapter is totally random from the story line and is completely irrelevant to the previous chapter and the one after it. It's just for fun! YAY!)
The eight male students decided they wanted to play a game of Trivial Pursuit. So they did.
"Let's pick teams!" said Lee. "Naruto and Sasuke can be captains simply because they happened to be the first people I looked at. And…Naruto, you pick first because your name comes first in the alphabet!"
Everyone was going to tell Lee to shut up because he wasn't the boss of them, but then they figured it was a good enough idea so they'd just deal with it.
"Fine." Said Naruto. "I pick Kiba."
"All right!" cheered Kiba. "First picked! I rule!"
"Heh." Said Sasuke smugly. "Anyone can see that in a game of Trivial Pursuit, the most ideal person to have on your team would be Shikamaru."
Naruto put his finger up to argue but then he realized that he picked the wrong person.
"KIBA!" yelled Naruto. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?"
"Because I'M the most ideal person to have on your team in a game of Trivial Pursuit!" Kiba argued. And he probably believed it.
"So I pick Shikamaru." Sasuke concluded.
"FINE!" said Naruto. "Then I pick…um…Neji!"
"Why?" said Sasuke with a raised eyebrow.
"Because he's the next smartest!" Naruto answered with a nod.
Shino's eye twitched (but no one saw) and Neji was obviously thinking that he was BY FAR the smartest. Even smarter than Shikamaru. He's just disillusioned that way, I guess.
So, after a quick scan of the people that were leftover, Sasuke finally picked Shino.
"Our team is going to do so much better." Said Sasuke.
"That's not true!" said Naruto angrily. "We pick Lee next!"
"HURRAY!" cheered Lee.
"I'm always last." Cried Chouji as he went to Sasuke's team.
"Why do I always end up with all the annoying people on my team?" Neji sighed to himself. Though everyone heard him. But it's not like he cared.
"All right, since you got to pick first, we get to go first." Said Sasuke.
"No!" Said Naruto. "That's not fair!"
"Just let him go first, Naruto." Said Neji, looking overly annoyed far too quickly. Naruto grumbled and groaned but allowed them to go first.
"Let's just play without the pieces and just ask each other the questions." Said Chouji. Since no one really knows how to play Trivial Pursuit anyway, they just decided to go along with that.
"Who will answer the first question from this team?" said Kiba to the Sasuke Team.
"Shikamaru." Said everyone.
"I am always abused." Shikamaru said sadly.
"All right, Shikamaru, here's your question!" said Naruto, picking up one of the cards. "When is Harry Potter's birthday?"
Shikamaru sat there for a minute. "Wait…you're serious?" he said.
"Yeah!" said Naruto.
"I don't know anything about Harry Potter…" Shikamaru frowned.
"WHAT?" demanded Shikamaru's team.
"Do you need a hint?" Lee asked.
"No!" yelled Kiba. "No hints!"
"I'll give you a hint!" said Lee. "It's some day in the '30's."
"Be quiet!" yelled Kiba.
"Let's see…" said Shikamaru, scratching his chin. "So it's either the 30th or the 31st, so clearly it is not in February. What season is it in?"
"We're not giving anymore hints!" said Naruto.
"Summer!" said Lee.
"Shut up!" yelled Naruto and Kiba as they jumped on Lee.
"June, July or August…" Shikamaru pondered.
"Another hint!" said Lee. "The month starts with a J!"
"STOP GIVING HINTS!" yelled Kiba irrationally.
Chouji tapped Shikamaru on the shoulder while Kiba and Naruto were distracted with shutting Lee up. "July 31st." he whispered.
"Oh." Said Shikamaru, sitting up and clearing his throat. "Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st."
Neji raised his eyebrow because he saw them cheat. He looked at his team that finally let go of Lee and collected themselves. He was going to bring up the horrible cheating, but then he realized that he was playing Trivial Pursuit and it didn't really matter all that much.
"Congratulations, Shikamaru!" said Lee, clapping his hands. "You get one hundred points!"
"You practically gave him the answer to that one!" Kiba yelled. "We should get half those points!"
"No way." Said Sasuke since it mattered to HIM.
"Who's going to be answering the question from your team?" said Chouji.
"Uh…Neji, you!" Naruto decided.
"Fine." Neji said as if it was painful.
"Okay," said Sasuke, picking up the card. "What is the motto of Hogwarts from Harry Potter?"
"WHAT?" demanded Kiba, practically pushing Neji out of the way. "That's not fair! That's impossible! Nobody knows that! You have to give Neji a hint! We gave you guys hints so you have to too!"
"No we don't." said Shino. "You guys CHOSE to give us hints."
"But that's not fair!" complained Kiba as if it was HIM answering the question.
"Well…if they don't WANT to, we certainly can't force them to!" said Lee. "Even though it really would be nice of Sasuke to give us a little help considering the difficulty of the question."
"YEAH Sasuke." Said Naruto, slamming his fist down on the table.
"Will you all just relax for a second?" said Neji as he reached for the Trivial Pursuit box and held it up. "Look, we're playing Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit."
Everyone leaned over and looked at the box.
"Oh." They all said in unison as they sat back down.
"Who picked this out?" said Neji in an accusatory tone as he looked at Lee.
"Don't look at me." Said Lee, scoffing.
"I did." Said Chouji. "I saw the movie last week so I figured I'd have an unfair advantage over everyone and maybe I'd win at something."
No one could be mad at Chouji because they felt bad for him.
"Don't be upset, Chouji." Said Shikamaru, patting Chouji on the back. "If any of us knew anything about Harry Potter, we would definitely play this game with you."
"Gee, thanks Shikamaru!" said Chouji.
"Who could possibly think up all these questions about one thing?" Kiba wondered, looking at the gigantic stack of questions.
"I'm gonna go get some ice cream!" declared Lee randomly as he stood up.
"I'll come!" Chouji said.
"I guess I will too." Shrugged Shikamaru.
"Me and Akamaru too!" said Kiba. "Come on, Shino, you're coming too whether you like it or not!"
"Whatever." Said Shino.
"Don't leave me out!" commanded Naruto.
"Well, I won't turn down an opportunity to get ice cream." Shrugged Sasuke.
They all stared at Neji.
"No offense, Neji, but eight's a crowd." Said Naruto.
"I hate ice cream anyway!" said Neji.
"Oh Neji, you hate EVERYTHING!" chuckled Lee as he wiped a tear from his eye. And, to make himself feel better, Neji gentle fisted Lee back into Halloween.
