9"Why did the chicken cross the road?" It was such a mundane, predictable, over-done joke that Sasuke froze, his chopsticks half-way to his mouth. His father just stared at Itachi, puzzled, and his mother made no indication that she had heard her son at all.
"Why would poultry want to cross the road?" Fugaku asked, curious despite himself.
"To get to the other side," Itachi said, smiling triumphantly. Silence. The joke was so bad that Sasuke had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing.
"How is that an answer?" Fugaku said. "Is that not the point of crossing a road?"
"Exactly!"
"What do you—"
"It's a joke," Sasuke managed. "It's the most over-used, unfunny joke ever. Like, an anti-joke. Itachi made an anti-joke."
Itachi frowned a bit. "Unfunny? My colleagues laughed at the joke."
"No offense, Big Brother, but they were probably laughing at you for making that joke."
"Why would they laugh at me? I am their captain."
"Yeah, but you have no funny bone."
"I was unaware that there is a bone in the human body that dictates whether or not you have a sense of humor."
"...Kami, Itachi, how have you survived this long?"
Itachi straightened his back. "I have exceptional skill in most aspects of Shinobi life. Few would not be hard-pressed to even startle me with an attack."
Fugaku nodded. "As expected of my son."
Sasuke stared at both of them, a look of pure horror dawning on his face. "Have either of you ever told an actual joke?"
"I said one a few moments ago, did I not?" Itachi asked.
"No, that was the most un-joke joke that has ever been on this planet."
"Yet you still laughed."
"I laughed because it was so bad."
Itachi frowned. "Are my skills in humor unsatisfactory?"
"I...not really, I guess. It's just that the joke you decided to use isn't that funny. Try a different one."
"What other one would you suggest?"
"You know, like 'Why did the rooster cross the road?'"
"Is that not what I just—"
"It didn't. A chicken did."
Fugaku stared. "I fail to see how changing the gender of the animal makes the joke funny."
Itachi blinked, deep in thought. "I have heard my female colleagues speaking humorously about how men are...stupider than women. Is that what you meant?"
Sasuke facepalm. "I'm surrounded by idiots."
Mikoto hummed. "Now you know how I feel every day."
The End
Well, that was amusing. I've always imagined that Fugaku and Itachi would be much more formal and out of place with the general populace that they wouldn't even know how to tell a joke.
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