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Harold of Konoha
Chapter sixteen: The Konoha carnival (AKA Harold and company go to a Crappy Carnival)
One day in the village of Konohagakure, Harold Fisher, as well as his friends Inoichi Yamanaka and Tsume Inuzuka, plus Tsume's ninja dog Kuromaru, were over at Inoichi's place playing pool in the den. Over a way in the den, the older Konoha ninja's respective grandsons (grandnephew in Harold's case) were playing on their handheld game systems (Inoichi's young granddaughter was looking over the shoulder of Inoichi's grandson as he played). "Hey Bankai, Shikaru," Haru began, "Did you know that Natsu got the special edition Yo-kai watch medals with the QR codes for the gemnyans?"
"She has the gemnyans?" Shikaru nearly exclaimed, "How did she get the limited edition medal set?!"
"Gem-meows?" said Inohime, Shikaru's younger sister, "What are those?"
"They're cats made of gem stones, basically," Shikaru explained to his four-year-old little sister, "There's five total, each made of a different kind of gem stone."
"Kitties?!" Inohime exclaimed excitedly.
"Uhh, yeah, that," replied Shikaru in an unsure tone.
"I asked Natsu if I can scan the QR codes on the back of her medals later and she gave me the okay," Haru said, "I think the first one I'll try going after will be the one made of Rubies."
Over where the older ninjas were playing pool, Harold said to his friends, "Isn't that great, dudes? All of our grandkids and their friends are getting along, having fun and playing games."
"I'm glad none of them have thus far experienced the hard ships of living through a war," Inoichi remarked in a tone showing that he agreed with his best friend, "I do not want Shikaru or Inohime living through that particular brand of hell."
"The only thing that I can think of that's worse than our respective grandchildren living through war is our respective grandchildren having to spend a day with my ex-husband," Tsume remarked.
"And yet that's actually a safer environment than war," Kuromaru remarked dryly to himself.
"Anywho dudes," Harold said as he sunk a pool ball, "The Annual Konoha Carnival is coming up. You all planning on going?"
"Oh, you're talking about the carnival?" Shikaru called out, getting the older ninjas to turn and face the kids, who all got up and walked over.
"Yeah, I'm planning on finding whichever game booth has the biggest stuffed animal, then I'm going to win that stuffed animal for Natsu," Haru declared.
"Aha, that reminds me of the first time I took your great aunt Sophia to the first carnival that we ever went to," Harold said to his grandnephew, "It was back when Sophia and I were both in our late teens, so it was well before you were born, little dude."
"Didn't you punch a food stall vendor in the face so hard that he passed out instantly because he put jalapeño slices on Sophia's nachos even though she specifically requested no jalapeño slices?" Kuromaru asked.
"…Sophia has a very low tolerance for spicy stuff," Harold defended.
"Hey, Natsu is the same way with spicy stuff!" Haru remarked, "So anywho, I'm planning on winning Natsu the biggest stuffed animal that I can find!"
"Inohime lost most of her toys," Inohime said in a sad tone, "Only Pinkie Pie is still with Inohime…"
"Oh snap, that reminds me that your daughter's family lost their home in a house fire," Harold said to Inoichi.
Nodding in the affirmative, Inoichi said, "Michelle and I have been doing our best to help Ino and her family get back on their feet. On the plus side, it's been loads of fun having the whole family together."
"Aren't Shikaku and Yoshino throwing their hand into the ring as well?" Tsume asked.
"Oh yeah, and speaking of," Inoichi said, "I am glad to report that Shikaku has finally gotten used to being around stuff that Inohime likes."
"Grandma Yoshino can still be kinda terrifying at times, by the way," Shikaru remarked.
Turning to face his grandson, Inoichi added, "Trust me, little man, that's actually normal for that woman."
"Grandma Yoshino is not scary," Inohime said to her older brother, "Inohime always plays tea party with Grandma Yoshino when she visits, along with Pinkie Pie, Elsa…" At the mention of her one Frozen toy that was lost in a fire, Inohime stopped talking and looked sad.
"Well that Elsa bitch is an ice-type, right?" Tsume remarked, "Meaning she's weak to fire."
"Elsa isn't a Pokémon, grandma," Bankai pointed out.
"My point remains valid, though," Tsume defended.
"Well anywho, Michelle, Shikaku, Yoshino and I got together, and we agreed that we'd take our family to the carnival for one hell of a party," Inoichi said, "I can't wait until we spring the surprise on Ino and her family!"
"Uhh, grandpa?" Shikaru began. Turning to face his grandson, Inoichi had a look of horror on his face, the kind of horror that one has when they screwed up big time. Likewise, Inoichi also saw his granddaughter's excited face.
"…Can you kids promise to act surprised when your other grandparents and I spring the surprise on your parents later?" Inoichi asked.
A few days later, Harold and company, accompanied by their respective grandkids, all went to the Konoha Carnival. As everyone walked into the carnival grounds, Tsume said, "Ah, the carnival. A land of unhealthy food that induces vomiting, dangerous rides that induce vomiting, and romantic encounters that induce vomiting."
"Does everything at a carnival induce vomiting for you?" Kuromaru asked, looking up at his owner with a quizzical look.
"When you remember that the last time you went to the carnival was on a date with the asshole who would one day become your ex-husband, yes," Tsume replied casually.
"Speaking of, how's Grandpa Banyo doing?" Bankai asked his grandmother, "Do you know, Grandma Tsume?"
"Don't know, don't care," Tsume said.
"I'm going to see if any of the food stalls here sell beer," Harold remarked, "I can use a cold frosty one right about now."
"You ALWAYS say that, you drunkard," Kuromaru said. Looking to Harold and his friends, Kuromaru continued, "In fact, all three of you always say that."
"Pape Konoha's Brand Lager is a good drink," Inoichi defended.
"Well let's go about checking the place out," Shikaru said.
"Oh yeah! I'm supposed to try and find Natsu here!" Haru said.
"Heh, you have fun," Harold chuckled in good nature as he and the other older ninja waived their hands as the kids scattered.
Haru Uchiha was wandering around the carnival grounds when he heard Natsu Uzumaki call out. A few seconds later, the Uzumaki/Hyuga girl came running up to him. "Natsu, hey!" the Uchiha boy greeted, "You ready to have a great time?"
"My father says that he doesn't trust any of the food here as far as he can throw any of it," Natsu remarked.
"Given that it's carnival food, that's a given," Haru agreed with a nod.
"He said that while my mother was eating a cinnamon roll that she bought at a food stand," Natsu added.
"…So anywho," Haru said, "There's this game stall with plushies you can win," Haru said. With a somewhat self-assured smile, Haru added as he rolled his right shoulder, "I'm not one to brag, but I have one heck of a throwing arm." Looking at Natsu, Haru said, "You want I should win you the biggest one at that stall?"
"…Depends on its size," Natsu replied at length, "I mean that it's very nice of you to offer to try and win me something, but stuffed animals that are too big aren't really my cup of tea."
"Do you prefer smaller plushies, then?" Haru asked, "Like the Komasan plushy I got you for your birthday last week?"
Nodding in the affirmative, Natsu said, "Yeah, around that size range."
"Oh, speaking of Yo-kai Watch," Haru continued, "I told Shikaru and Bankai that you have the gemnyan medals with the scanable QR codes. They want to know if they can scan the codes at some point."
"Can you and the guys wait until I locate and befriend all of the gemnyans?" Natsu asked, "I want to have an idea on their respective stats before I let you guys try and befriend them." Looking at Haru more directly, Natsu said, "You guys don't want to raise a physically-oriented Yo-kai thinking it's specially-oriented, do you?"
Nodding in the affirmative, Haru replied, "Yeah, that makes sense. Anywho, want me to take you over to the game stall I was talking about?"
"Yeah, let's go," Natsu replied, walking along with Haru as the Uchiha boy led the way.
Harold, Inoichi, Tsume and Kuromaru were walking around, taking in the sights as the three humans in the group drank from relatively large cups (for carnival drinks). "Damn," Harold remarked in an annoyed tone as he took a sip from his drink, "This carnival-quality beer not only tastes bad, but it's frigg'en warm! Who in their right mind drinks warm beer?!"
"Welcome to the carnival, Harold," Kuromaru replied sarcastically.
"Anywho, where the hell are the bathrooms around this joint?" Tsume asked, "I really need to-"
"-Not tell us what you really need to do," Kuromaru finished, "Seriously, Tsume. You don't act like a woman your age should."
"And who DOES act like a woman her age, Hinata?!" Tsume snapped, "That bitch had the nerve to ask me to take back the gift I got for her kid for her birthday! The hell kind of crap is that?!"
"Uhh, Tsume, dude, Hinata's daughter turned twelve," Inoichi pointed out, "And you got the kid a horror survival video game that's rated M for mature. A ZOMBIE horror survival game, at that."
"Yeah, I have to agree with Inoichi on this one," Harold added, "Kids their age shouldn't be playing video games like that."
"Hey, I get Bankai games like that ALL the time," Tsume replied, "And he's fine!"
"Well anywho, let's try and find a stall that sells decent beer, at the very least," Harold remarked as he took another sip from his drink, "This lukewarm beer tastes like piss!"
"And we should find that bathroom," Tsume added.
"Yes, find the beer, find the bathroom," Inoichi agreed.
Over a way in the carnival, Haru and Natsu came walking up to a game booth. It was the kind where you had to knock a stack of bottles over with a ball in order to win a prize. To the surprise of Haru and Natsu, Shikaru and Inohime were already at the booth; Shikaru was throwing baseballs at the bottles, obviously trying to win a toy for his little sister. "Hey dude, what's happening?" Haru asked as he and Natsu came up.
"I'm trying to win a plushy of Judy Hopps from Zootopia for Inohime," Shikaru explained as he threw a baseball at the stacks of bottles.
Looking up at the row of plushies, Natsu saw a number of plushies of Judy Hopps from Zootopia. "Oh yeah, Inohime likes that movie, right?" Natsu asked.
"Hey, it got her to stop constantly attempting to sing 'Let it go', so that's a win in my book," Shikaru replied as he threw his last ball.
When it failed to knock the stack of bottles over, the booth vendor said, "Aw, what a shame! Better luck next time, eh?"
"Hey, that last ball perfectly hit the stack!" Shikaru complained angrily.
"Well you have to knock the bottles over, my boy," the vendor replied, "That's the point of the game."
"I totally threw it hard enough to knock that stack over!" Shikaru complained again.
As Shikaru was arguing with the vendor, Haru said, "Hey Natsu, see anything you like?"
"I kinda have my eye on one of the plushies of Nick Wilde," Natsu replied, "He's the fox from Zootopia. You can see them next to the Judy plushies."
Looking up at the row of prizes, Haru said, "Hey, yeah! Now I see it!" Taking out a handful of change and slamming it onto the counter, Haru said, "Excuse me, but I want to try and play this game! How many tries does this get me?"
"Oh, we have a player!" the vendor said as he collected all of Haru's money.
Deposing a number of baseballs onto the counter, the vendor said, "You get this many tries, my good boy!"
"You're wasting your money, dude," Shikaru warned.
"Pfft, obviously you've never seen my throwing arm," Haru remarked, "That fox plushy is as good as won!"
Somewhere else on carnival grounds, Harold, Inoichi, Naruto and Neji were sitting together at a table. Kuromaru sat on the ground next to Naruto. "So where's Mrs. Inuzuka?" Naruto asked as he looked down to the Inuzuka ninja dog.
"She had to use the bathroom," Kuromaru explained, "She tried to use the phrase 'bleed the lizard', but when I explained to her what that meant and that she has to be male in order to use that phrase, she asked for the female equivalent. When I told her there WASN'T a female equivalent, Tsume said, and I'm quoting her on this one, 'Frig it, I need to use the bathroom'."
"I need to find a food stall in this place that sells beer that's AT LEAST cold," Harold declared.
"Same here," Inoichi added, "How can a man enjoy a beer if it's warm? Warm beer is the devil's piss."
"Warm beer of carnival-quality TASTES like piss," Harold added.
Looking mildly stunned, Neji said, "Mr. Fisher, how would you know what piss tastes like?"
"When you have an adult niece, and she works at the local hospital, and she occasionally has to store patients' urine samples at home due to lack of storage at said hospital, and you get REALLY hammered, things tend to add up," Harold explained casually.
"I can confirm that," Inoichi added as he raised a hand. The only thing that the Sixth Hokage, the Hyuga cadet branch member and the Inuzuka ninja dog could do was shake their heads in unison.
While the two men shook their heads, Tsume came walking out of the bathroom with Hinata and Tenten. Tsume and Hinata were in an argument. "Well how the hell was I supposed to know that getting the latest horror survival game for your kid was a bad move?" Tsume asked.
"Natsu turned twelve," Hinata pointed out, "That game was for kids seventeen and up!"
"You could have given it to your nephew instead of having me take it back," Tsume suggested.
"One, it's inappropriate to give a birthday gift meant for one person to someone else entirely," Hinata began, "Two, even though Hogato is old enough for games like the one you tried to give to Natsu, he doesn't even like games like that! If you did end up giving him a game like that on his birthday, at best he'd wait a bit until he can sell it to a pawn shop or the like!"
"Then at least the gift would have had some value to him!" Tsume declared.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Hinata snapped.
"Mrs. Inuzuka, I have to agree with Hinata on this one," Naruto said, getting Tsume, Hinata and Tenten to all focus on him, "I mean I know that you wanted to be nice and get my daughter a gift on her birthday, and I appreciate that. But with all due respect, the video game you got her would have been WAY too frightening for Natsu."
"Fine, whatever," Tsume replied.
"Well if you all will excuse me, I'm going to go find wherever Sakura's at," Hinata said as she proceeded to take her leave, "I need someone sensible to talk to." And with that, the Hyuga clan heiress left.
"Well anywho, let's try to find a food stall that sells good beer," Inoichi declared as he got up.
"At this point, I'd settle for passable beer," Harold remarked in a mildly annoyed tone.
"You guys go on ahead," Tenten said as she held her hands over her stomach, "I need to head home."
"Tenten, dear, are you alright?" Neji asked in a concerned tone.
"Oh, my stomach just isn't feeling well," Tenten replied, "I just need to lay down."
"Heh," Tsume laughed, "You guys should have heard her. Have any of you ever heard of the phrase 'tushy trumpet'?"
"Yeah, me and Harold have," Inoichi replied, drawing a nod of affirmation from Harold.
Jerking a thumb in Tenten's direction, Tsume continued, "Well, Ten-ton here ate so much carnival food that when she used the bathroom, she had a full-blown tushy orchestra!" As Harold and Inoichi laughed, Tenten gave Tsume a very angry glare.
"If it wasn't for the fact that my stomach hurts, I'd kick your ass for calling me 'Ten-ton'," remarked the overweight kunoichi, the anger in her voice very obvious.
As everyone watched Tenten walk away, Naruto shook his head and said as he gestured to the departing Tenten, "You see, this is why I don't trust carnival food."
"Oh come on!" Haru exclaimed, "The ball hit the stack square in the middle! They should have fallen over!"
"Well maybe you have a weak throwing arm, my boy," said the booth vendor.
"No one says I have a weak throwing arm and gets away with it!" Haru snapped, picking up a baseball and preparing to throw it at the stack of bottles with such force that it was bound to be knocked over. Before Haru could throw the bottle, however, Shikaku came walking up to the scene.
"Hey kids, what's up?" Shikaku greeted.
"Haru's trying to win a prize at this game booth for Natsu," Shikaru explained to his grandfather, "Before Haru and Natsu showed up, I was trying to win a plushy of that bunny cop from Zootopia for Inohime, since she lost most of her toys in the fire." Looking at the shelves of prizes, Shikaku saw the toy in question.
"Huh, yeah I've actually seen what that bunny cop looks like since your grandma Yoshino bought a DVD copy of the movie for your little sister," Shikaku remarked.
Taking some money out of a side pocket on his flask jacket, Shikaku slammed it onto the counter and said, "Hey booth carney, let me give this game a go." As he received his baseballs for the game, Shikaku said, "Alright kids, watch how an adult plays games like this. That bunny plushy is as good as invited to the next tea party my granddaughter has!"
"Yay grandpa!" Inohime cheered as Shikaku raised an arm back, took aim, and threw the baseball like he was a player in the big leagues.
Harold, Inoichi, Tsume, Kuromaru, Naruto and Neji were all standing in front of a food booth at the carnival. "Sir, I have but one request," Harold said to the vendor as he and Inoichi walked up, "PLEASE tell us that you serve passable beer here!"
"I sell cans of Pape Konoha's Brand Lager," the vendor said, bending down and pulling two cans of the drink out from a cooler under the counter.
As he placed them onto the counter, Harold and Inoichi both fell to their knees, with Inoichi looking up into the sky and shouting, "THANK YOU, GOD!" as tears of happiness rolled down the sides of his face.
"Uhh, sirs?" Neji said as he pointed to a menu of the items sold at the booth, drawing the two older ninjas' attention to it.
"…I don't care if it's twice as pricey as any other beer I've drunken so far at the carnival tonight," Harold remarked, "It's worth it to finally have something good to drink!"
"I need to wash the taste of piss-like beer out of my mouth, and Pape Konoha's Brand Lager is just what the doctor ordered," Inoichi agreed as he also bought a can of the lager.
"Dude, what you just said about doctors ordering something gave me an idea," Harold began as he and Inoichi popped the tops of their respective drinks, "Do you think I can get my niece, who IS a doctor, to write us prescriptions for Pape Konoha's Brand Lager?"
"If Sakura really did do something like that, I would have to ask her what excuse she had for hitting me so many times back when we were all kids," Naruto remarked dryly as he gave the two older ninjas a 'really?' look, with Neji nodding in agreement with the Hokage.
Later, as Harold, Inoichi, Tsume, Kuromaru, Naruto and Neji walked through the carnival grounds (Harold and Inoichi were both carrying armfuls of cans of Pape Konoha's Brand Lager), Harold said in a content-sounding tone, "Ah, now THIS is a carnival!"
"I totally agree with you, man," Inoichi remarked as he downed his third can of Pape Konoha's Brand Lager.
Turning to face his cousin-in-law, Naruto said, "You see, this is why I'd question Sakura's intelligence if she seriously wrote prescriptions for beer."
"I wouldn't," Tsume remarked casually, then said to her friends, "Yo guys, one of you toss me a beer." Harold and Inoichi both tossed Tsume one beer each, to which the Inuzuka matriarch exclaimed, "Sweet! Double beer!" All Kuromaru could think of doing was shake his head in a disapproving manner as his owner popped one of the cans open.
As Neji nodded in agreement once again, Harold said, "Hey, is that Shikaku playing a carnival game?" The attention of the group was all drawn to the sight, about twelve feet ahead, of Shikaku Nara playing a carnival game; judging by the look on his face, he was having something of a difficult time trying to win. With the older Nara man were his grandchildren Shikaru and Inohime, plus Shikaru's friends Haru and Natsu.
"Word up with thee, dudes and dudettes?" Harold proclaimed as he and the others all approached.
"This frigg'en carnival game is frigg'en hard to frigg'en win," the older Nara man complained angrily, "I mean I know I'm old, but I'm not so old so that it's difficult for me to throw a baseball at a stack of bottles to knock said stack over in order to win a plushy for my granddaughter!"
"Gentlemen, behold!" Inoichi declared to the others, "Proof that Shikaku is trying to mend fences with Shikaru and Inohime!"
Looking at the carnival game booth in question, Naruto said, "Hold on a second." Walking over, Naruto hopped over the counter (alarming the booth vendor in the process), walked up to one of the stacks of bottles, and poked it with his right index finger. When it didn't budge, the Hokage grabbed the bottle and pulled up; not only were all the bottled firmly stuck together, but the stack was also firmly stuck to the table it sat on, making it impossible for the stack to be knocked over by anyone who tries to play the game. "As I suspected," Naruto said as he hopped back over the counter to rejoin Neji and the older ninjas.
"Aha! I knew that something was up with this game!" Shikaru exclaimed as he pointed accusingly at the carnival game, "The carney running this booth is cheating, ripping people off so he can make an easy ryo! (1) No wonder both Haru and I lost a lot of money trying to win this game! It was rigged!"
"Wait a minute," Shikaku began. Looking to the carney running the booth, Shikaku said angrily, "You ripped off my grandson?!" Raising back his right fist, Shikaku said, "You son of a-"
"Shikaku," Inoichi interrupted, getting the older Nara man's attention. "Before you break the carney's face, allow me to make a proposition," Inoichi said once he had Shikaku's attention. The two older men huddled together, and exchanged hushed whispering. After about twenty seconds, Shikaku and Inoichi broke off; Shikaku gave Inoichi a nod of agreement.
Turning back around to face the dishonest carney, Shikaku said, "Alright, here's the deal. If you return all of the money you ripped off from my grandson, plus all of the money you ripped off from me, then Inoichi and I won't be forced to break your face."
"Don't forget the plushy that you and I both tried to win for Inohime," Shikaru added.
Pointing to his grandson in a commending manner, Shikaku said, "Good idea, little man!" To the carney, Shikaku said, "Yeah, throw in that bunny plushy as well."
"O-o-o-okay," the carney stuttered in fear, returning to Shikaku a pile of ryo, and getting down a plushy of Judy Hopps.
Counting out how much he lost, Shikaku handed over the rest of the ryo to Shikaru while saying, "Here you go, Shikaru."
After a quick count, Shikaru said, "This is a thousand short."
"No way, that is all that you spent!" the carney exclaimed.
"Hand the rest over, you jerk," Shikaku said in a warning tone, angrily shaking a fist.
After the carney handed over another thousand ryo, Shikaku handed that money to Shikaru and said, "There you go, Shikaku." Handing the Judy plushy to Inohime, Shikaku added, "And here you go, young lady."
"Yay Judy!" Inohime exclaimed as she received the plushy, hugging it tightly.
"Hey, have you kids eaten yet?" Shikaku asked his grandchildren.
"I personally wouldn't recommend any of the booths here," Naruto remarked casually.
"No, I was planning on getting me and Inohime some food after I won her that plushy," Shikaru remarked.
"Inohime tired," said the young Nara/Yamanaka girl as her eyelids were starting to droop.
Smiling, Shikaku said, "Tell you kids what. Shikaru, why don't you and your friends here go have some more fun while your Grandma Yoshino and I take Inohime off your hands."
"Well that would same me a load of trouble," Shikaru replied.
Taking his granddaughter by her hand, Shikaku said, "Come on, young lady. Grandpa will get you some cotton candy."
"Yay!" Inohime cheered as loudly as she could (which wasn't too much; again, she's getting tired).
After Shikaku and Inohime walked off, Inoichi said with an approving nod, "I think it's safe to say that Inohime is no longer frightened of Shikaku."
"Well this is all well and good," the dishonest carney remarked, getting everyone else's attention, "Maybe we can forget that this all happened?"
"Yeah, I don't think so," Naruto remarked, "I don't know where you come from, but here in Konoha, no one gets away with ripping off innocent people on my watch."
"Just who the frig do you think you are mister," the dishonest carney snapped, "The frigg'en Hokage?!"
"Actually, yes," Naruto replied, "I AM the Hokage."
With a mildly stunned look, the dishonest carney said, "Well damn." As Naruto sent Neji off to get some village ninja to apprehend the dishonest carney and shut down his stand, Sasuke came walking up to the scene. With him were Sakura and Hinata.
"Oh look, miss doesn't-appreciate-the-gift-I-got-her-daughter-for-her-birthday is back," Tsume remarked with an annoyed sneer as she watched Hinata approach.
As Hinata gave Tsume an annoyed glare, Sasuke said, "So what's everyone doing together here?"
"This carney is running a rigged game booth that ripped me off of a lot of money when I tried to win a prize for Natsu," Haru explained, pointing to the dishonest carney. After Haru mentioned this, both Sakura and Hinata looked at the carney with glares that could kill.
"…Did you seriously rip off my son?" Sakura said angrily.
"Are you trying to ruin my daughter's first experience at a carnival?" Hinata asked the carney, sounding just as angry.
"Oh snap," Sasuke remarked worriedly, taking a few steps back.
"Sasuke, what's with you?" Harold asked.
Seeing Naruto, looking just as worried, back of with Sasuke, Inoichi asked, "Lord Sixth, you okay?"
"Do you not see me and Sasuke's respective wives getting angry at that carney?" Naruto asked as he pointed to Sakura and Hinata; the latter was climbing over the counter while the former was already over on the same side as the carney, holding him (with one hand) in the air by his neck.
"Keep him pinned," Hinata said to Sakura, "I want first shot at putting my foot in his groin."
"Only if you agree to hold his arms behind his back while I punch him in the gut repeatedly afterwards," Sakura agreed.
As the two mothers proceeded to beat up the dishonest carney, the man exclaimed as he was being beaten, "Hey, I was told that my face wouldn't get wrecked!"
"Shikaku only said that he and I wouldn't wreck your face," Inoichi replied over the sounds of the carney getting beaten up, "He never said anything about Harold's niece and Lord Sixth's wife beating you up!"
"Oh, I wish I had a video camera to record my niece kicking someone's ass!" Harold exclaimed.
"I got you covered, dude," Tsume said, getting Harold's attention and making him see that the Inuzuka woman was already recording everything on video.
"…This is why I question Sakaki whenever she leaves Bankai alone with Tsume," Kuromaru said to the men.
The following morning over at the Fisher residence, Harold and his wife Sophia were entertaining guests; their niece Sakura and nephew-in-law Sasuke, to be precise. "So after Hinata and I beat the snot out of that jerk, I got Haru his money back and Hinata got Natsu that fox plushy that Haru was trying to win for her," Sakura said as she finished telling Sophia the story she had.
"When Haru said that he got three times as much back than what he spent, Sakura told him to think of the rest was interest," Sasuke added.
"Well I'm glad to see that you and your friend have your respective children's interests in mind," Sophia remarked before taking a sip from her mug of tea.
"Hey Sophia, Tsume burned me a copy of the video recording she got of Sakura and Lord Sixth's wife beating the hell out of that carney," Harold said as he held up a DVD, "You wanna see?"
"I'm not much of a fan of violence as entertainment," Sophia began, "But if it was done to avenge some injustice done to my grandnephew, then I'll give watching it a go."
"Hey Mr. Fisher," Sasuke said, "You said that Shikamaru's dad has managed to patch things up with Shikaru and Inohime."
"Yeah, funny thing about that, actually," Harold replied as he picked up his mug of coffee to take a sip from it.
Over at Inoichi's house, in the den, a child's play table was set up. Seated in one of the chairs around the play table was Inohime. Also seated at the play table, going from Inohime's left, were Inohime's new Judy Hopps plushy, a doll of Elsa from Frozen (Inoichi bought his granddaughter a new Elsa doll to replace the one lost in the fire), Inohime's Pinkie Pie plushy, Inoichi himself, and Shikaku (who was on Inohime's right). "So, uhh…how does this work?" Shikaku asked, "I'm sorry, but this is the first time I've ever done something like this."
"Oh it's really easy," Inoichi began, "First you-"
"Dad? The hell are you doing?" Shikamaru's voice called out, getting the attention of all the humans at the table.
"Grandpas are playing tea party with Inohime!" the young Nara girl explained, "Join us, daddy!"
"I'm actually rather busy, sweetie," Shikamaru replied in as respectful a tone as he could manage.
"Hey, if I'm doing this, you have to do it to," Shikaku remarked.
"Oh come on, dad!" Shikamaru complained.
"Now, young man," Shikaru said. Grumbling in a disgruntled tone, Shikamaru walked over and joined the tea party. As Inohime started to serve pretend tea, Ino walked by and looked into the den.
Meeting his wife eye-to-eye, Shikamaru said with a freaked out look on his face, "Please don't-" Ino cut her husband off when she started to laugh hysterically. "-…That," Shikamaru remarked in an annoyed tone.
END, CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Author's Notes:
(1) 'Make an easy ryo' equals 'make an easy buck'. This story is set in Konoha, after all.
I'm pretty sure that by the time this chapter is out, the bit about the gemnyans that occurs early in the story will be somewhat outdated, given that the second Yo-kai Watch games will either be close to being released or will be released already. Sorry about that.
Also, I really want to get a Midday form Lycanroc. Good thing I'm intending on getting Sun Version.