Hayashi was resting, trying to catch his breath from the exhaustion. "Dammit, I should've known!" he muttered to himself. Under normal circumstances, the physical ability would be enough to tell a clone apart from the real deal, but he was too engrossed in the fight to tell. He quickly readjusted as he struggled to get up, he had expended so much chakra and continued to do so. Just as that happened, though, a ninja joined them, invited by Akio to help with the exercise. It was that ninja who cheered on Seth earlier.

Quickly, Seth and the ninja attacked Akio and it was no surprise that he dodged them all, but Seth was caught in a zone where Akio could hurt him. Luckily, Arashi went in with some jutsu that was from Shisui, no doubt, and saved Seth, leaving a tag behind. The tag triggered and blew up, throwing Akio off his balance and making his sage mode falter. This was the opening the ninja needed to complete the exercise and Hayashi would make use of it. Just when that happened, the new ninja used a jutsu to make his arm hard as rock, maybe even harder.

There was no doubt that his next move would be to try and hit Akio, so Hayashi used his "plan B". Before he charged Akio, a shadow clone of Hayashi was sent out away from the field in case things got ugly. This is what drained Hayashi so much, as it was already tiring enough to use all those jutsu but now he had to maintain a shadow clone alive. But it seemed that the effort had paid off, as he now could use his clone perfectly. The clone came out from behind Akio and jumped to grapple him and hold him in place so that the ninja could hit Akio.

Just as that happened, Hayashi himself dove at the bells Akio had, calculating his timing so that the ninja's impact with Akio would happen just a moment before Hayashi got to the bells. "Alright, I've wasted so much energy, this has to work!" Hayashi thought to himself as he had the bells in sight. Hayashi wasn't a rude guy, so he was trying to get all the bells for his teammates since this opportinuty probably wouldn't arise again.