Dazen was on the ground unable to move and looked at Kenji who was holding the unconscious Hideki in his hand and thought: 'He captured Hideki before defeating us, I didn't even see what he did.'

Kenji put Hideki on the ground and woke him up, Hideki woke up confused not knowing what happened, but when he saw Dazen and Ayume on the ground unable to move he understood: 'So we lost, I just remember which trap worked and having trapped the sensei , then I have no idea what happened.'

Kenji looked at the three students and smiled as he said: "You guys did great, the plan was very clever, if it was someone else it could have worked."

Ayume was frustrated and said: "How did you escape, I was sure we had captured you and how did you capture Hideki so quickly?"

Kenji looked at her and said: "Calm down, for now focus on recovering as soon as you can move, we can discuss everything that happened, then I'll explain how I defeated you."

The three nodded and began to rest to recover after about 40 minutes, the three had basically recovered and Ayume said: "Okay, we're fine, now tell us how you managed to escape our trap?"

Kenji smiled and replied: "Calm down, let's go, first explain to me your entire plan and how you put it together and then I will explain my actions."

Ayume nodded and said: "The person who created most of the plan was Dazen, with Hideki's help I only gave some guesses."

Dazen spoke soon after: "It wasn't anything too complicated, when we were discussing our skills we soon came to the conclusion that the ideal fighting style for our team would be for me to engage in close-range combat with the opponent, with Ayume helping me with medium-range jutsus or entering into short-range combat with me and Hideki would stay away from the fight looking for an opportunity to put the opponent in a genjutsu or confuse him for a moment so that Ayume or I could finish him off."

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Kenji nodded and said: "Yes, your skills complement each other very well."

Dazen agreed and said: "Yes, but I thought that wouldn't be enough, so I suggested that we set a trap and I pointed out that we could use combat to guide you towards the trap and that's when Hideki came up with the idea of using the surroundings change technique which would make it difficult for you to identify that you were being led into a trap."

Ayume then said, "That was the plan, we had to improvise a little, but we managed to get you to the place we wanted, but you still managed to escape in the end."

Kenji smiled and said: "I see, it wasn't much different from what I imagined, well now I'll explain how I managed to escape, the reason is very simple, I discovered that you were leading me into a trap right at the beginning of the fight, so the idea of using the surroundings change technique from the beginning changing details of the battlefield was great, but unfortunately you were fighting me, I have been training here for years so I will notice any changes and also I have a very keen sense of smell so I was able to quickly tell that I was being deceived."

"And when Dazen and Ayume continued to attack me even after failing the first attempt, I was sure that you were planning something and that's why you were confident, so when Dazen paralyzed me and Ayume tried to hit me, I took advantage of the moment to change my place with a clone from that moment on you were only dealing with a simple clone of me that's why you were defeated."

Dazen heard everything and thought: 'So that was it with the main body he must have gone after Hideki and located him, as I thought we had no chance during almost the entire fight, he only defended himself if he wanted to defeat us, he could do at any time, but he held back so he could see all our abilities, he is very strong.'

Ayume and Hideki also reached the same conclusion as Dazen, Kenji looked at the three who were crestfallen and said: "There's no need to be sad, you performed much better than expected, if it weren't for me being an experienced jounin the plan would have worked when it comes to skill you must be among the best genin and together you could handle an experienced chunin."

The three felt better after hearing Kenji's words, Then Kenji continued: "That's it for today, you can go home and rest, tomorrow I will make my report to the Hokage so you will have some time to rest and enjoy the day after tomorrow we will start for real, so get ready."