MEANWHILE!!!
Hana and Kajitsu were a little bored of their fun in the balls. So, while their mothers were distracted when talking about something VERY important, the two of them wandered off to find their fathers.
It wasn't too hard because they two of them were in the middle of competing in the Spider Stomping Games. There just so happened to be two different machines right next to each other so they could simultaneously stomp spiders and see who stomped more.
"HA!" said Naruto after they finished a round of spider stomping. "I only missed ONE spider!"
Sasuke crossed his arms and laughed slightly. "You missed one?" he said finally.
"WHAT?!" Naruto yelled, pushing Sasuke out of the way and looking at the score on his screen to see that Sasuke had, in fact, stomped every single spider that attempted to oppose him. "I'll show you, Sasuke!" Naruto said as he fished through his pockets for more tokens.
"Dad, I'm bored!" Kajitsu complained.
"I'm busy right now, Kajitsu." Said Naruto as he turned back to Sasuke. "Now I'll show you—"
But then he realized that Sasuke was paying attention to his daughter's current needs. So, not wanting to seem like a worse father than Sasuke, Naruto turned around and catered to his daughter as well.
"How could you possibly be bored at Chuck E. Cheese?" Naruto said.
"I just am!" Kajitsu whined. "Can you buy me some food?"
Naruto quickly looked over at Sasuke and his beamingly happy daughter that seemed to be excited JUST because her dadoo was there.
"Um…of course!" Naruto said. "Anything for my little girl! Sasuke, I'm going to go and get Kajitsu something to eat."
"The food is really expensive here." Sasuke observed.
"Nothing is too expensive for my daughter!" Naruto announced.
"Well, I brought Hana some lunch." Sasuke said.
Naruto frowned. "So?" he said.
"I wasn't saying anything else." Sasuke replied. "I was just commenting that I brought her a lunch so I wouldn't have to buy one for her."
"What, do you think that makes you a better father?" Naruto challenged.
"Dad, I'm not hungry right now." Hana said. "Will you come and play in the balls with me?"
"I'LL take Kajitsu in the balls!" Naruto said.
"I don't want to play in the balls!" complained Kajitsu.
MEANWHILE!!!
Lil Lee just got finished getting yet another strike.
Kobiru clapped enthusiastically as he came over and sat down at the table. "I thought you said you never bowled before." Pansuke said snidely.
"I haven't." Lil Lee answered. "It's pretty easy."
"Well, so that means that our team is…" Sasuke Jr. said, looking over the score sheet. "…Doing much better than you guys."
"I wish I was on Lee's team!" said Kobiru.
"Inoshi, it's your turn." Pansuke said.
Inoshi got up from his seat and took a ball out of the little feeder thing. He threw the ball down the alley but it bounced over into the other lane, rolled into the gutter and traveled down half way to the end and got stuck.
"Oops." Said Inoshi.
"How does THAT happen?" Tashoku said, looking utterly confused.
"Aw man…" said Pansuke. "How far behind the girls are we?"
"You guys are still both even with…zero points." Sasuke Jr. replied.
"Can we put the bumpers up?" Kobiru asked absentmindedly.
"No." said all the men, looking offended at the mere idea of putting bumpers on the alley. They couldn't think of anything less manly.
"Okay, Kobiru, it's your turn." Sasuke Jr. said, getting over his shock.
"I'm going to try really hard!" Kobiru said. "Will you cheer for me, Lee?"
"Why would I cheer for you?" Lil Lee asked. "You're not on my team."
"It would be the gentlemanly thing to do!" Kobiru said.
"Sorry…I'll cheer for you on the INSIDE." Lil Lee said, having no intention whatsoever to do any cheering at all.
Kobiru got up, grabbed one of the balls and then ran up to the alley. After standing there pretending to look confused for a moment, she finally did some kind of absurd motion and dropped the bowling ball, having it dribble into the gutter within an elapsed time of about .05 seconds after hitting the ground.
"Oh no!" said Kobiru. "I need loud cheers!"
"That was hard to watch." Said Sasuke Jr., getting up as Kobiru sat down, looking pleased with herself.
Sasuke wasn't MAD awesome at bowling. He had gone two or three times in his life when he was younger but it's not like he was all…mad… awesome at bowling…
So he took the ball and rolled it down the alley, succeeding in knocking over about six or seven pins.
"Seven…" Sasuke Jr. said, feeling as though his turn was rather anti-climactic.
"IT WAS ONLY SIX!!!" Inoshi screamed.
"It was seven." Sasuke Jr. said, picking up the pencil and writing a 7.
"No, it was a six!" Inoshi said, reaching for the pencil. But Sasuke Jr. only held it above his head. So Inoshi climbed up onto a chair so Sasuke Jr. held it lower. "Stop doing that!"
"If you're going to be so passionate about ONE pin, then fine, it can be a six." Sasuke Jr. said, rolling his eyes. He knew it wouldn't really make a difference anyway, but he didn't want to embarrass himself or Inoshi anymore. Sure, it didn't matter if he embarrassed Inoshi, but they looked kind of the same and people would see Inoshi and realize that Sasuke Jr. was related to him and that would be SO embarrassing.
"Good." Said Inoshi, crossing his arms and sitting down.
"Sasuke…that six…hurting our average…you gotta pick it up…" Lil Lee said entirely in a joking manner.
"Well excuse me for not being an expert at bowling." Said Sasuke Jr.
"It was just a joke." Said Lil Lee.
"Well, just remember that I beat you in the tournament." Sasuke Jr. said, shifting down his chair so he was further away from Lil Lee.
"Um…okay…" Lil Lee said, averting his eyes.
It was now Pansuke's turn! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!
So Pansuke got up, took a ball and failed. There was nothing more to it than that. He hung his head low and dragged his feet back to the table.
"Don't get down, Sasuke!" said Tashoku. "At least you're doing better than the rest of us!"
"Except for Lee." Said Sasuke Jr.
"We're on the same team." Said Lil Lee.
"And?" Sasuke Jr. said.
"And I think he's just saying that hard work DOES beat out genius after all!" said Pansuke.
Everyone looked at Pansuke.
"That has nothing to do with bowling." Said Sasuke Jr. "And SO SORRY, if I'm not a genius at bowling or whatever."
"It's not that I'm a genius at bowling." Lil Lee said. "I have really good aim. While you guys are practicing how to summon or make bunshins, I'm throwing shuriken around and kicking stuff. So naturally I'd be better at aiming things."
"You think you're better than me?" Sasuke Jr. said.
"At bowling?" Lil Lee tried. "And probably a bunch of other things too."
"Not 'probably a bunch of other things'." Sasuke Jr. corrected. "Maybe bowling, but it's just because I've hardly played at all."
Sasuke Jr. then took a deep breath.
"I have to go and take a walk." He said, standing up and walking away.
"He always does that whenever he gets competitive." Inoshi said.
"Does what?" asked Pansuke.
"Takes a walk." Inoshi answered.
"It's not MY fault that he's not as good at bowling as I am." Said Lil Lee.
"No one said it was your fault!" said Kobiru.
Just then, the door of the bowling place slammed open. Everyone turned around to see Kiba stomping over towards them.
"Oh no." said Tashoku, turning around and covering her face. "I can only imagine what he's mad about!"
Then Kiba came over. "Just what did you kids think you were doing?!" he demanded.
"Bowling?" tried Inoshi.
"Well THAT part was obvious." Said Kiba. "But we decided as a group that we would be going to Chuck E. Cheese for the day!"
"But Dad!" said Tashoku. "We're teenagers! We don't like Chuck E. Cheese!"
"It's not always about you kids." Said Kiba. "We went to Chuck E. Cheese today because Senjou is graduating and we thought that it would be fun to surprise him there!"
"Senjou's graduating the academy early?" said Inoshi with a slight whine.
"Of course!" said Kiba. "Don't tell me you thought that he was going to graduate at the same rate as NORMAL kids! So anyway, it's time we go back to Chuck E. Cheese because it is MY duty to graduate the kids."
"Aww…" said everyone sadly.
They started to leave but then Tashoku stopped.
"Wait, what about Sasuke?" she said.
"He's already at Chuck E. Cheese." Said Kiba.
"He is?" said the teenagers, looking confused.
"Well YEAH." Said Kiba.
"You met up with him and told him to go to Chuck E. Cheese?" Pansuke asked.
"Uh…yeah, whatever!" said Kiba. They got all their regular shoes back and left the bowling alley on their way to Chuck E. Cheese.
Then Sasuke Jr. returned from his walk. He stood there and stared at the area that everyone was supposed to be sitting at. Then he looked around for a moment or so.
"…Where is everyone?" he said finally as he walked over to the man standing behind the counter who gave them their shoes. "Excuse me, did the group I was with leave?"
"Uh…" said the guy. "Sorry. I can't remember who everyone comes in with."
"Okay…we had a huge argument about our shoe sizes." Sasuke Jr. tried.
"Everyone always does." Said the guy.
"It's a pretty big group." Sasuke Jr. said.
"That doesn't help."
"Um…there was a boy with pink hair?"
"Oh, THAT group!" laughed the guy. "Yeah, they all left."
"Why?" said Sasuke Jr., looking confused.
"I don't know." Said the guy with a shrug.
"All right…can I have my shoes back then?" Sasuke Jr. said, taking off the bowling shoes. He put his own shoes back on and opened the door. He realized that they probably left without him because he was kind of being a jerk a little earlier. It wasn't HIS fault that he was his father's son!
Luckily, they hadn't gotten TOO far ahead so he only ran up to where they were.
"Oh, hi Sasuke!" said Tashoku.
"Why did you guys leave?" Sasuke Jr. asked.
"Kiba told us you were already there." Pansuke said, pointing to Kiba who was leading the pack.
Kiba turned around. "That's not true!" he said. "You asked if Sasuke was already there. Not…THIS Sasuke!"
"Oh…well…we meant THIS Sasuke." Said Tashoku.
"Then, no, I guess he's NOT already there." Said Kiba.
"That's obvious NOW!" said Inoshi.
