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Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What a drag.

Uh -oh.

Gotta

admit,

that wasn't bad.

Timing was perfect.

You got all three of them right where you wanted them.

That's quite a tricky tune.

Something like that must take a lot of practice.

It does, actually.

So you figured out I was manipulating them with my flute.

You're not as dumb as you look.

Not that it'll do you any good.

Knowing what I've been doing isn't the same as knowing how to stop me.

You've got a point there.

I never was very musical. Just ask my mom and dad.

With that flute, she can manipulate her buddies like puppets.

That song's comprised of sequences of modulated sound waves.

Each sequence controlling a specific movement.

Great, Shikamaru. You can analyze it fine.

But what are you going to do to counteract it?

She's right.

The fact remains I've got no ear for music.

Fake out!

Shikamaru's comeback!

All right, if that's what you want, I'll show you the camellia dance.

What are you waiting for?

You shouldn't be making brash statements like that when you can't follow

through. Just shut up!

I already told you, this piece of bone is harder than steel.

Maybe you would like me to demonstrate just how strong it is.

Dammit!

No one's ever heard this song and lived.

Here's the finale, ninth passage.

Demon Revolution.

Demon

Revolution.

Huh? She changed the tunes.

Here they come.

What's happening?

What's he doing?

Wait for it.

The instant he realized that my material ghosts were about to attack, he evaded

them. He was smarter than I thought.

But...

I

had to use almost all my paper and smoke bombs back there.

And all I managed to do was hide... that white thing.

He took a bite of my physical energy.

That shuriken passed right through

him. These things are more like apparitions with very little mass.

They're chakra itself, but with an appetite.

Probably some kind of chakra that draws its form from eating mental energy.

That's why they crave physical energy. It keeps them stable.

If I scuffle with those hungry chakra much longer, I won't be able to build up

my own chakra.

They're pretty dangerous.

A ninja who can create special chakra like me?

She must be using some obscure ninjutsu.

Which means I should leave those ghost things alone and concentrate on the one

controlling them.

The quickest way would be to go and stop the sound of her flute.

But with those things around, it would be impossible to get close enough.

Okay, then.

The next best option would be to capture those three with my shadow possessions

you two.

But that's not going to happen, since they never attack me at the same moment.

If I let even one escape, he'd get to me, and that would be it. Game over.

She hasn't left me any openings on either offense or defense.

Heh. She must be a pretty good shogi player.

Let's see.

My remaining ninja tools are 12 kunai knives, 9 shuriken, 36 feet of wire, 1

flash bomb, and 1 paper bomb.

Oh, man.

It's like playing shogi without any bishops or rook.

Did I lose him?

Guess that's not possible.

Akamaru!

Here you go, boy. You should eat this.

If you don't eat anything, you won't get your strength back.

Stay with me, Akamaru.

Let's move out.

Gotta catch up with the others.

Behold the Camellia Dance!

There's no use hiding.

Unless you can predict these guys' movements, there's nowhere you can run,

little rat.

And when I find you, I'll break you in two.

All right.

It's time.

Everything's ready.

The only thing left is to get it over with.

I've got nine moves.

I've got to win by then.

Game on.

That's one.

My sound juice can't be stopped that easily.

Whatever you've got planned to beat me, it's not going to work.

He's scampering around like a little rat.

Where is he?

Three.

So he's over there.

Here's four.

Take trick. You can't fool me.

Five, six, seven, eight.

around all over the forest.

What does he think he's doing?

Huh?

Light bomb?

Nine! Damn!

He's making shadows with the blast bomb!

Shadow Possession Jutsu!

Shadow Possession Jutsu complete.

Wait, but how?

How were you able to predict my guy's movements?

There's no way someone like you could have heard the slight differences in my

musical patterns.

That's just it. I wasn't listening to the music patterns at all.

Can't you think of something other than the melody that would give away your

command pattern?

That's right.

Your fingers.

It can't be.

He could tell their moves by... He's saying he memorized my finger positions?

There's no way! That's impossible!

You extend your right index finger and ring finger.

Then you place the middle finger and pinky on your left hand the same way.

That sound seems to make the crab man stand at the ready.

When you press with your right thumb and index finger, and move your left index

finger and pinky, that causes the big guy with the club to charge.

While you were wasting all your time dodging my knife attacks and trying to

locate me, I was observing each and every one of your finger moves, and

how these thugs reacted to them.

Analyze and memorize.

Don't even try.

They're bound by my shadow possessions, you two.

There's one rule of shogi that I always enjoyed the most.

Whenever you capture one of your enemy's pieces, you can turn around and use it

as your own.

From here on, I attack.

I'll use your own three pieces to hunt you down. What do you have to say about

that?

Shouldn't you be a bit more worried?

You could at least pull a knife or something.

This flute is my only weapon.

I told you, not one person who's heard the sound of this flute has survived,

idiot. You've got a lot of confidence.

Dispel!

What was all that about using my own pieces against me, loser?

It's my move now, you rat.

What the?

Shadow possession success.

What did I tell you?

I'd hunt you down using your own pieces.

I used them all right.

Your three pawns were just the bait I needed. In any good strategy, the first

attack's always a fake -out.

The tactic is to score on the second move.

You bastard!

Yep.

There's no other way.

Now that it's come to this, I'll need to summon more power.

I didn't think I'd need to go to second state with a chump like him.

It picked me off.

But I've got to admit, for a little punk, this guy was pretty impressive.

What's this?

She changed?

No. Up until this point, you might have thought you were pretty sharp as a

fighter.

But from here on, things won't go according to your plan.

What is she?

No way.

Is she strong enough to force herself out of the shadow possessions you do?

What's up with this tremendous chakra?

My jutsu's gonna fall apart. I can't worry about conserving chakra.

I have to use my other jutsu.

Ninja Art Shadow Strangle Jutsu!

Choking my body with that shadow?

It feels just like I'm being grabbed by a real hand.

I am not letting you beat me!

Darn it! She's got incredible strength!

At this distance, I can't hold on to her!

Take this!

Demon flute!

Chains of Fantasia!

This is bad.

Is this... Again, Jutsu?

Ha!

What's he trying to do?

My body! I can't move!

I can state my flute can unleash all kinds of genjutsu. Of all of them, this

one's particularly appropriate for that rat.

That's because... This genjutsu paralyzes its

prey and traps it like vermin.

Tell me, how's it feel to be the one tied up?

So you said this was your final move, didn't you?

Unfortunately, it's checkmate.

Die, little rat!

How did you...

What? He broke his own

finger with his shadow? The pain the cause must have broken the genjutsu.

This whole time he kept pretending to be trapped by the jutsu.

I already told you this.

The first attack's always a fake.

It's basic strategy. The second move wins the match.

You might have noticed my second move was a little different from before.

With the shadow strangled you through, the closer I am to my opponent, the

stronger my hold on him will be.

Darn it!

I got careless and came too close!

No, that's not what did it.

It was actually something you said to me earlier about how your only weapon was

this flute.

Don't you remember?

Shouldn't you be a bit more worried? You could at least pull a knife or

something. This flute is my only weapon.

I told you, not one person who heard the sound of this flute has survived it.

That's why.

Exactly. The reason I threw my last kunai knife right in front of you, I

on purpose.

You said you didn't have any other weapon, so I knew all along that you

pick it up and come closer to me.

Thank you for watching.

Thank you for

watching!

to be a dream!