Tsunade couldn't take it any longer. She slammed her hands on the table, grabbed Shikaku by the collar, and lifted him off the ground.
"You little brat, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?!" She roared.
After being relentlessly outplayed for an hour straight, Tsunade was at her breaking point. Anyone would be.
Shikaku, still engrossed in his thoughts, had been completely unaware of Tsunade's growing rage. But now, dangling from her grip, it finally dawned on him.
"I swear, Tsunade-sama, I wasn't trying to target you. I was just thinking... about strategy," Shikaku said, scrambling to explain.
Tsunade wasn't buying it.
"Liar! I play a pair of twos, and you throw down a joker! I play a joker, and you bomb me! I play a straight, and then you-what's that phrase again?" Tsunade turned to Xin.
"Break the bank," Xin grinned.
Tsunade's eyes lit up. "Yeah, break the bank! Every time I play a straight, you break the bank! You're out to get me, aren't you?"
"What's your deal, kid? Are you trying to drive me insane?" Tsunade fumed.
"But you were the landlord," Shikaku stammered. "I was just following the rules. The farmers are supposed to stop the landlord from winning, right? I wasn't doing it on purpose, I swear!"
"Oh, really?" Tsunade said, narrowing her eyes as she dropped Shikaku back into his chair and planted her hands on her hips.
"Then how come when Xin was the landlord, you didn't do that to him? I was in the middle of playing, and you just shut me down. What's that about, huh?"
"That was because... uh, your hand was almost empty, so I played to stop you..." Shikaku trailed off, realizing there was no way to win this argument.
"You! Come outside right now!" Tsunade barked, dragging Shikaku out of the tent by his collar. She was determined to give him a piece of her mind.
Poor guy. He might've been a genius, but his emotional intelligence needed some serious work. Tsunade was going to teach him a lesson, no doubt about that.
Xin could barely contain his laughter. "Better him than me."
Shikaku had dug his own grave by getting so wrapped up in the game. It wasn't Xin's fault Tsunade was about to lose her mind over it.
Besides, Tsunade wouldn't actually kill him. At worst, he'd take a beating. No big deal.
Consider it a lesson learned.
Ten minutes later, Shikaku returned with a swollen eye. Tsunade was nowhere to be seen, most likely off to the medical unit.
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