The Great Ramen Competition
Chapter
3: Itadakimasu Pt. 1
Summary:
The Genins & Shikamaru have been forced into a Ramen Making
Competition by their psychotic Jounin teachers. Who knows what weird
and wonderful creations they can cook up…
Credit:
Co-written & BETA by Demeterr
Disclaimer:
I do
NOT own Naruto, if I did, it'd be called "Sasuke".
The big day had arrived. The day for the Ramen judging.
The 11 Genins and Shikamaru headed towards Ichiraku Ramen where they were told their ramen's would be judged. They met Gai, Asuma and Kurenai there, and as expected, Kakashi was late as always.
"Yosh!!! We shall begin without Kakashi!!! Which means I win and it's now 59 – 58!!!" Gai exclaimed happily as Kakashi came around the corner.
"Yo, Did I miss anything?" Kakashi asked while reading his book, "I had to help a pregnant women get to a hospital"
Everyone rolled their eyes at Kakashi. Kakashi didn't care.
While Gai was crying because he didn't win, the Jounins explained how their ramen's were going to be judged.
"It's going to be judged by a TASTE TEST!!!" the Jounins exclaimed childishly "But it's not going to be tasted just by anyone, you lucky Genins (and Shikamaru) gets to taste each other's ramen!!!".
"You'll wear blindfolds so you won't know what kind oframen you'll tasting, Hinata and Neji are not allowed to use their Byakugan and Kiba must wear a nose peg" stated Kakashi.
"Awwww" said Hinata, Kiba and Neji, but of course Neji only said it in his head.
"We will take it in turns by picking names out of these 2 hats, the red hat will be the ramen and the blue hat will be the person tasting the ramen" explained Asuma.
"Than the Genin (and Shikamaru) who tasted the ramen must rate it out of 10, it must be done TRUTHFULLY or you will be disqualified, you will tell us what you thought about the ramen AFTER everyone has tasted their ramen" added Kurenai.
"What if you don't care about the competition and want to be disqualified?" asked Neji.
"Do you want to be a Chuunin?" Gai threatened.
Neji rolled his eyes (In my little world, Neji DOES have pupils) and glared at Gai sulkily.
Let the Judging begin!!!
Kakashi picked a name out of the red hat
"Neji is going to be tasting Lee's ramen…"
Neji paled. Whatever Lee made wasn't going to have a positive effect on him.
Everyone was silent as Neji put on his little blindfold and ate a bit of ramen.
-Silence-
A crow squawks overhead (Aho! Aho! Aho!)
Neji's face went bright red and steam came out of his ears. Then just before he passed out he muttered "Curse the Main House…."
-More Silence-
"OMG NEJI!!!" screamed Gai, breaking the silence as he rushed over to Neji's lifeless body and begins weeping.
So while Kurenai was calling the Medic Nins, Gai was busy sobbing, Kakashi went on with the taste test.
"Ha eyebrows! You're gonna lose!" Naruto accused gleefully.
"I'm not going to lose!" Lee said arrogantly. Wow. Just thin out the eyebrows, grow out his hair, change the shape of his eyes and he could almost be like Sasuke. No. No. No. I wasn't being serious, I was just saying he was being arrogant like Sasuke.
There was a pause as the competitiveness of the two rose.
"You can't have Gai's spandex!" "You can't have Sakura!" both shouted at the same time.
Awkward silence. o.O
"Well I don't want another pair of spandex," Naruto recovered first.
"Yea, well I don't want Sakura," Lee said in the same manner.
More awkward silence. o.O
"No wait... no... Yea I meant what I said," Lee corrected himself.
"Yea well I don't want Sakura either," Naruto declared, as not to be outdone. He continued on, "I only seem to like Sakura because the main authoress has nothing else to write in my parts of the story."
Extremely awkward silence. o.O
Lee looked blank, his mind slowly progressing what Naruto just said.
Naruto was not as blank, as he realized his mistake and hastily covered for it. "I am going to win Gai's spandex," he declared, blue eyes looking shiftily around.
Lee's attention diverted immediately as his eyes burned with the flames of youth. Now if only he used that flame to cook his ramen... then it would be really spicy. But then Neji would be dead, and we can't have that because his hair hasn't become long and prettyful.
"In the red hat we have Sakura's ramen, which is going to be tasted by…..."
"Ino"
"Why does Ino get to taste my ramen!?" "Why do I have to taste Sakura's ramen!?" complained Sakura and Ino, glaring at Kakashi.
After several more moments of heated arguing, which will pass all in one sentence, Ino decided to be rational and try Sakura's ramen.
Blue eyes narrowed in suspicion. "I think you gave me the wrong ramen, this is mine," Ino remarked.
Sakura shoved her aside, reaching for a spoon and chopsticks. "Like hell it is. Don't compare your garbage to my magnificence Ino-pig!" Sakura sneered, trying some of the ramen.
"Shut up forehead girl. That is my ramen since I cooked it with all my love of Sasuke-kun," Ino retorted.
"As if!"
And the squabbling continued.
The names were drew out of the hat again.
"This time we have Ino's ramen, and Sakura shall taste it…"
Now could the readers be kind enough to read the part above, but switch Ino and Sakura around. Thank-you.
"And now Shino will try Chouji's ramen," declared one of the jounin teachers.
"…" Guess who that was. I'll give you a clue, it is either Shino or Chouji. Obviously Shino. Duh.
"What?" asked Asuma.
"…" Shino repeated.
"Oh he says that there isn't any ramen for him to try," Kiba translated.
The others look at Kiba blankly. "He didn't say anything," Asuma said slowly.
Kiba looked puzzled, "Yea he did… never mind, he says there is one noodle left in the bowl," he shrugged.
As Shino reached for the chopsticks, the bowl was snatched viciously away from him.
"You can't have the last noodle strand, since it is the best piece," Chouji accused, hugging the bowl to his chest.
"…" was Shino's response.
"Then I shall duel you for the noodle. Get out your Yu-Gi-Oh cards!" Kiba declared.
An awkward pause.
"Just kidding!" Kiba said brightly.
But no one was listening to him; instead they were all huddled in a little circle.
"Can Kiba really understand Shino?" they whispered to each other.
Chouji took this time to devour the last noodle.
Shino as always, was indifferent.
"And next we have Hinata tasting Kiba's ramen"
"Alright!!! Hinata, you're gonna love my ramen!!!" Kiba exclaimed.
Hinata obediently put her blindfold on and took a bite.
There was a pause.
"Anou…Anou….Kiba-kun are y-you s-sure this is r-ramen?" Hinata stammered, her face turning slightly green.
"Sure I'm sure" Kiba said brightly, "Akamaru likes it, do you like it?"
"I-It's unique" Hinata answered trying not to pass out. She had to finish this ramen or she'll upset Kiba.
The others watched her force herself to eat mouthfuls of dog food with looks of disgust and pity.
Kurenai went and called the medic-nins feeling very sorry for Hinata.
Hinata finished the last bit of ramen. By now her face was a sickly green.
"How was it Hinata, how was it!!!" Kiba asked nudging Hinata with enthusiasm.
"I-I-It's g-great…." Hinata managed to mutter before passing out completely.
"Whoo Hoo!!! Did you hear that Shino!?!? She thinks it's great!!!" Kiba cheered before noticing the unconscious Hinata, "Hinata? Hinata!! Are you ok? Wake up!!!"
The medic-nins dragged Kiba off Hinata and carted her off to the hospital.
"How am I going to explain to Hiashi-sama that both his daughter and his nephew are in hospital because they were eating ramen…" asked Kurenai looking to the other jounins for help only to find them avoiding eye-contact with her and announcing the next taste test…
"Next we have Naruto tasting Tenten's ramen…"
"Ossa!!! It's finally my turn!!! Ramen!! Ramen!! Ramen!!" Naruto chanted gleefully and leapt in front of Tenten's ramen before becoming profoundly disappointed.
"Anou…Anou…there's no ramen here!!!" Naruto wailed glaring at Tenten.
"Yes there is!!!" said Tenten going over to Naruto and taking the chopsticks from him.
Tenten picked out the strands of ramen one by one, then carefully and laid them on the table.
"One"
"Two"
"Three"
"Four"
Tenten fumbles with the chopsticks.
"Five"
"Six"
"Seven"
"Eight"
"Nine…"
"OH NO!!! IT'S MISSING A STRAND!!!" Tenten screamed and begin to cry.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "What the hell?"
"The tenth strand…" Tenten gasped between her sobs.
"The tenth strand..?" Naruto repeated.
"THE TENTH STRAND!!!" Tenten screamed into his face before sobbing into her hands.
Naruto patted her back awkwardly, trying to calm her down.
"It's Ok Tenten, nine strands is good…"
"But it's not the same!!! It was suppose to be TEN strands so it'd be like my name, TENTEN"
"Don't worry Tenten, Nine is good too…" Naruto said with a strained smile on his face still trying to comfort the poor girl.
"NARUTO!!! IS MY NAME NINENINE??? NO!!! IT'S TENTEN!! T-E-N-T-E-N!!! TENTEN!!!" Tenten yelled bursting into a fresh flow of tears.
Naruto backed away from her. Sheesh, Tenten was scary when she's mad.
So while Tenten screamed at Naruto, the jounins decided to move on to the next taste test…
Ideas for more ramen flavours are more then welcomed.
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