[table][row][cell][color=#87CEEB]Hiro Hyuuga[/color][/cell][cell][color=#87CEEB]"A dog must obey. Stay down."[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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[cell][color=#87CEEB][b]"Sensei, I must insist-"[/b][/color], Hiro called out with every intention of stopping the man in his tracks. His promise to... p-put hands on Mori-san before she could struggle was in worse taste than he could bear. Hiro had downed her, yes, but that was because she needed to know that she was nothing to him if they were to be on a team. He hadn't then... put hands on her... he'd offered her his, which she would not take.

But his hand touched nothing. The man who had just fallen into a pond moved around his hand as if he were made of air and knelt besides Mori-san like a spirit. Who was this man? Hiro recovered from his surprise quickly, activated his Byakugan, and rounded the man, but was stopped in his tracks in surprise by what he was seeing. Far be it from anything illicit, he was healing the damage Hiro'd done with his blow, manipulating her chakra with the tips of his fingers, his palms. Hiro could see the dysregulation of her lungs and nerves, her tenketsu system, begin to right itself and Mori-san gasped for air only moments later!

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"You look loaded, kid. That'll be seventy ryo"[/b][/color], said the man who had called himself Kamoji. He was looking at Hiro with such a look that Hiro's lip curled for a moment and he released his byakugan. Just at that moment, Kani-san blundered next to him and shook his fist, gritting his teeth!

[color=#E8000D][b]"Fiend! What have you done to her"[/b][/color], he cried, which Hiro knew was impotent. If he'd so easily avoided Hiro's own blow and healed Mori-san's tenketsu system with such ease, Kani-san hadn't a dream of a chance of doing more than annoying this very dangerous man, and Kani-san was annoying at the best of times.

[color=#87CEEB][b]"Hold back. He healed her, Kani-san"[/b][/color], Hiro ventured. Kani-san was too simple to understand anything more complex than a straight forward explanation. He did not have the capacity to read the atmosphere. He had all the subtlety of a bomb and Hiro trusted him just as much. But as if to strengthen Hiro's argument, Mori-san got shakily to her feet and stumbled away from Kamoji. Kani-san smirked and crossed his arms while Mori-san looked from Kamoji to her teammates wildly.

[color=#E8000D][b]"Well! If that's the case"[/b][/color], Kani-san said, carrying on, [color=#E8000D][b]"You should learn to use your words better, sensei! Had you called out heroically 'I'll save her' or 'In the name of justice, I [i]will[/i] put my hands on that girl', we would not have reacted so! In battle, it is important to be clear to your teammates!"[/b][/color]

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"So... Seventy Ryo"[/b][/color], Kamoji repeated, picking his teeth, [color=#EEE8AA][b]"Which one of you got it?"[/b][/color]

Jin frowned and Hiro narrowed his eyes, was he being serious?

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"Did you expect me to work for free? The village is paying me to teach you. They never said anything about my using my medical expertise. I'm a professional. I got professional pride. I'm giving you a discount"[/b][/color], Kamoji continued, as if in response to the boys' baffled expressions. 

In the end, it was Mori-san who took the seventy ryo from her pouch and threw it at him and, much to her surprise, he swallowed it in mid air.

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"Aright kids! Get in a line or a formation or somethin'. It's the first day and I gotta figure out if you're worth teaching or not"[/b][/color], he announced suddenly but with as much laziness as seemed characteristic of the man. Mori-san stumbled, still a little shaky, next to Hiro, though at arms length. Kani-san flanked Hiro on the other side, his arms crossed and his scarf annoyingly close to Hiro's face at times.

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"Test is simple"[/b][/color], Kamoji continued, grabbing and swinging around his giant hammer as lightly as a parasol, [color=#EEE8AA][b]"All you gotta do is land a blow on me and you all pass the test. If you give up, you fail. Aright! That's all... Now... Uh... Start!"[/b][/color]

Hiro thought back to the blow he'd tried to land earlier, the way it hadn't hit anything. Had that been a preview of things to come? Was this all a set up? He acted the fool, but Hiro was convinced that it was just an act. Even the name "Kamoji" was an act. It meant "Duck Man". It was absurd.

[color=#E8000D][b]"Never fear! Jin is here! I will win this little test for you! For I am Jin, son of Gendo"[/b][/color], and he leaped at Kamoji with a huge punch! Kamoji hopped on one foot, as if in a Kabuki dance pose and... began to [url=https://youtu.be/aanqnyJy-JU]sing...[/url]

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"I am Kamoooooji!
I'll make you big and strong!"[/b][/color]

While he was distracted, Mori-san aimed a kick to his head, which he flipped over and landed on the head of his hammer. If there was a moment to strike, it was now. Hiro aimed an attack at the handle of his hammer to disrupt his balance and would make a follow up attack straight at his center! But it didn't land. Kamoji's hammer tilted to the side and lifted, leaving Hiro striking air.

[color=#EEE8AA][b]"Try to land a strike before I can finish this soooooong!"[/b][/color]

BOOM!

With a sudden swing of his hammer... he sent all three children flying into the woods.
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