I looked at my cell phone. Kyuubi had just hung up on me! That could only mean that Kai was drunk and Shukaku was trying to kill him. I slapped my forehead and wondered why I hadn’t considered this before. Oh well it’s Kyuubi’s problem…
I sighed and leaned back in the back yard chair staring at the chess game I had paused. It was quite an interesting predicament playing against one of my shadow clones because we both knew what the other would do. My queen was in danger by the rook, so I simply moved her away behind a pawn. If the rook tried to take her, he would take the pawn instead. Seeming to read my mind, my clone moved the rook away behind another pawn.
“You know we really sssssshould go and check on Kai and Kyuubi,” my clone said as he finished moving the piece.
“Yesssssss, but then who would win?” I asked.
“Usssss of coursssssse,” my clone replied.
“You jussssst want me to give in ssssso I’d losssssse,” I replied.
“You know me too well,” the clone replied, “let the game continue then.”
Finally it came down to both of us having only kings left.
“Draw?” my clone asked.
“I would have to sssssay ssssso,” I replied, “I guesss we need to go and ssssave Kai now.”
“Thissss wasssss mosssst entertaining,” my clone said as he turned into a plume of smoke.
“He, I won,” I called after him.
“Not a chance,” the clone me laughed.
As he left, I turned and walked slowly out of my house. This was going to be very interesting. The mansion was filled with the sounds of screaming and laughter. I sighed and opened the front door.
