ANSWER: The tally is as follows: CHOUJI with 15 slices, SAKURA with 12 slices, SASUKE with 11 slices, and SHIKAMARU, INO, and NARUTO with 10 slices. SHIKAMARU, INO, and NARUTO are disqualified.
Congratulations to the super sleuths out there: JesterSage, Smoking Panda, and Hatsukoi no Mamouri.
Let's begin, shall we?
In the beginning, we are given the cheese count for each character. Naruto with four, Sasuke with five, Sakura and Ino each with three, and Shikamaru and Chouji with seven. The rest of it is merely an addition problem, as most of you figured out.
The finalist who had eaten four slices (Naruto) ate three more slices. Raising his cheese count to seven. The finalists who had already eaten three slices (Sakura and Ino) also ate three, bringing up their count to six.
Then there's a finalist who put two pieces of cheese on his plate, but was ONLY seen nibbling one. By his lethargic nature, we can tell that it is Shikamaru. Thus, bringing up his cheese count to eight.
The contestant who was bribed into the competition (none other than Sasuke) doubled his cheese count. He started with five, so that brings him to ten. The SECOND contestant with seven (so it wouldn't be the one mentioned earlier) also doubled his cheese count, making Chouji have fourteen.
Next, a boy with a blonde head eats his eighth piece of cheese. Even if there was another blonde headed boy in the group, it would still be Naruto, because he was the only one to have seven at the time. So Naruto now has eight.
Ino and another contestant start to argue. The person who called her "Ino-pig" has to be Sakura (because honestly, who else calls Ino that?). During their little argument, Sakura first eats two slices. Ino then tops her off by eating two slices more than her, so that would make four slices. Then Sakura eats another slice before Ino summons her boar. So, to sum it all up, Sakura eats three slices, and Ino eats four. Sakura: nine total, Ino: ten total.
Since the pieces of cheese were steadily running out, two contestants started to cheat. The contestant with eight slices (who else but Naruto) stole four slices from Chouji. Sasuke stole two slices from Shikamaru. They both put the slices on their plate, untouched. And then the boar knocks half of each of their cheese to the ground. This means Naruto now has only two slices on his plate, and Sasuke only has one.
During Naruto and Ino's argument, the rest of the contestants start eating like crazy. Sakura eats three slices, Shikamaru eats two, Chouji eats one, and Sasuke eats what's left on his plate, which is also one. Then the totals are as follows:
Sakura: 12
Shikamaru: 10
Chouji: 15
Sasuke: 11
And later, it is revealed that during the argument, and before Naruto's clones showed up, Naruto had the foresight to eat two pieces of cheese. And that was the end of the round. So the final total is:
Naruto: 10
Ino: 10
Shikamaru: 10
Sasuke: 11
Sakura: 12
Chouji: 15
Naruto, Ino, and Shikamaru were disqualified. When Shizune announced the results, she and TonTon were quite surprised, because in the three years that the cheese eating competition had been going on, not once has there been three disqualifications at once. She also snickered when she noticed that Sakura ate more pieces of cheese than Sasuke. When the contestants heard the results, Naruto quickly forgot about his disqualification and started to tease Sasuke about losing to Sakura. Of course, Sakura took an entire block of cheese and conked him on the head with it.
As for the rest of the competition, it boiled down to Sasuke and Chouji. Sasuke, fueled by his desire to learn a new move from Kakashi, stole the competition, surprisingly eating more pieces of cheese than Chouji.
Unfortunately for Sasuke, he had a great stomache-ache after all the cheese gorging. And even more unfortunately for Saskue, the "new move" Kakashi decided to teach him was training on how to successfully steal cheese more stealthily.
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