Chapter 150 Why Did Everyone Cheate?
Naruto raised his hand to remind him, "But doesn't Sasuke often throw tantrums?"
“That makes sense.” Haruko Hayama chuckled to herself.
As Sasuke Uchiha listened to their slanderous words, he suppressed his anger and accidentally popped the balloon in his hand.
"Hey! I blew those up with all my might!" Kiba Inuzuka, who was in charge of blowing up the balloons, was the first to jump up in anger.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Uchiha Sasuke looked at him and apologized without any sincerity.
"You bastard...!"
Provoked, Kiba Inuzuka immediately commanded the small Akamaru to rush towards him. Because they were too close, no one could react in time and they could only watch as Akamaru jumped and landed squarely on Sasuke Uchiha's face.
"..."
The room fell silent, then burst into laughter, led by Naruto Uzumaki.
Sasuke Uchiha slowly pulled Akamaru off his face. Feeling the cold aura emanating from him, Akamaru let out a timid howl and did not struggle.
Seeing that the aura around him was about to materialize, Haruko quickly hid her smile and pressed down on his shoulder, "Sasuke, calm down!"
"...I must kill him!"
Sasuke Uchiha stood up angrily, glaring at Kiba Inuzuka, whose expression remained arrogant. The people on both sides quickly got up and stopped the impending battle.
Nara Shikamaru happened to be sitting between the two forces. Faced with this absurd chaos, he sighed for the umpteenth time that day, "You guys are such a pain!"
After managing to persuade them both to stay calm, Haruko Hayama realized that two people with very similar personalities could indeed have unexpected developments.
Sasuke and Kiba might become good friends in the future?
Uchiha Sasuke: ...?
Kiba Inuzuka: Huh?
Everyone had already eaten dinner, so they were all too tired to eat the many dishes that the mother had prepared in the morning. The least affected one was probably Choji Akimichi, who even asked if he could become Haruko Hayama's adopted brother.
"If all else fails, I can be your sworn brother!" Choji Akimichi kept talking nonstop.
Yamanaka Ino couldn't stand his cowardly behavior. "Ignore him. All he does is eat all day."
Haruko was amused by him and called out to everyone, "Let's play some games."
Upon hearing this, Tian Tian took out all the game boxes piled up behind them and asked, "Okay, which one should we play?"
Because there were so many different kinds of games, they tried out each one as much as possible, and in doing so, they got a general idea of everyone's "playing etiquette".
"Kiba! Don't let Akamaru peek at us!" Yamanaka Ino grabbed Akamaru, who crawled out from under the table, and was furious.
Kiba Inuzuka, who had caught Akamaru as he ran away, grinned smugly. "What can I do if Akamaru is just running around out of boredom?"
"Neji too, he even uses Byakugan while playing a game, I can't stand you guys."
Looking at their ingenious cheating methods, Nara Shikamaru suddenly realized how useless his Shadow Imitation Technique was at this moment.
Choji Akimichi, who was standing next to him, chimed in, "I can understand. After all, Shikamaru is too smart. You won several rounds."
"Hey, is my intelligence your reason for ganging up on me?" Nara Shikamaru sighed in frustration.
Hyuga Neji defended himself, saying, "It's not like I was the first to cheat; Hinata-sama started before me."
Hinata Hyuga blushed instantly under everyone's gaze and hurriedly explained, "I...I...because I wanted to help Haruko win..."
Haruko Hayama, sitting to her left, leaned forward slightly to block her view and eased the awkwardness with a smile, "Haha, after all, Shikamaru is too hard to defeat, this is called making good use of resources!"
Upon hearing that it was Haruko Hayama who started the conversation, Ino Yamanaka immediately switched sides, saying, "That's right, it didn't say we can't use the Byakugan."
"You really are..." Nara Shikamaru looked speechless.
Now it was Choji Akimichi's turn to comfort him, "You should be used to it by now."
Rock Lee slammed his fist on the table and stood up, indignantly shouting, "This is a fair game of tears and sweat! You're all too arrogant!"
“Tears and sweat…” Sakura Haruno’s lips twitched.
Tian Tian clapped his hands and said, "Alright, you've all confessed to cheating, so be lenient."
They all looked at each other in bewilderment. Hyuga Neji took the lead and raised his hand first, and the others followed suit one after another.
Every day when I look around, wow, so many people?
"Shikamaru? You cheated too!" Tenten was shocked.
Nara Shikamaru coughed awkwardly, "I just gave him a hint, since some idiot couldn't beat me and came to surrender..."
"Idiot?" Naruto Uzumaki thought about it carefully and realized that the only person he called an idiot was Haruko Hayama!
Naruto Uzumaki looked at the guilty Haruko Hayama in disbelief. "Haruko! Didn't you say you'd team up with us to defeat Shikamaru?!"
Faced with the golden retriever's complaint, Haruko chuckled and scratched her face, "Well..."
Sitting between them, Uchiha Sasuke sneered, "So you actually favor the one who lacks motivation."
Ino Yamanaka was taken aback. "Eh? Sasuke is helping Haruko cheat too?"
"Ino, you too?" Sakura Haruno met her gaze and stammered, "Actually, I'm helping Haruko too."
Choji Akimichi, who was watching the drama unfold, dropped his potato chips in shock. "No way...you're all Haruko's people?"
Stared at by everyone, Haruko sweated even more. "Hahaha...it's that one..."
Tenten on the right patted her shoulder and sighed, "What surprises me is that with so many people helping you, including Shikamaru, you still couldn't beat Shikamaru."
Haruko Hayate immediately found an excuse, "Exactly! You still couldn't beat Shikamaru even like this? Shikamaru, you should really reflect on whether you've been genuinely helping me!"
Nara Shikamaru, who was then falsely accused: ...
Hinata Hyuga, who had been carefully tracing Haruko Hayama's profile while being protected behind her, caught a glimpse of Shino Aburame out of the corner of her eye, who had been overlooked by everyone else.
"Shino, you actually cheated..."
Hinata Hyuga's voice finally drew everyone's attention to Shino Aburame, who had been stubbornly raising his hand. Even when faced with their curious gazes, Shino showed no emotional fluctuation.
Rock Lee nodded in surprise, "It's hard to imagine that Shino is such a competitive person."
"Ahem..." Haruko Hayashi covered up her embarrassment and released the little black bug that belonged to Shino Aburame, which she had been hiding in her sleeve.
Under their watchful eyes the whole time, the little black insect flew steadily to Shino Aburame's front, and Shino Aburame calmly raised her sleeve to retrieve it.
Others: ...
Tian Tian sighed, "Let's play a different game. You guys are too indulgent!"
Rock Lee, the god of justice, suggested, "Let's play Truth or Dare! There's no way to cheat on that!"
"Great idea, Li!" Tian Tian exclaimed with delight.
After being solemnly warned against cheating, everyone rallied and tried again.
Haruko Hayama, still feeling Sasuke Uchiha's cold aura: ...I was really, really wrong!
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