....The champion v/s Ken , everyone was dying to see this match. Ken himself was a little curious to know the abilities of Doku.
Doku was three years older than Ken. Being the Champion and the headmaster's student , he was as arrogant as his master.
Ken was ready to fight , while Doku was busy getting all the attention. The match was was now to begin . Ken had nothing against Doku , as he was just the student of a bad master. Both the fighters were standing in their respective stances , facing each other. The announcer : Bow.....Ready....BEGIN.
Doku ran towards Ken with no technique, Ken thought that being the Current Champion he shouldn't defeat Doku so easily. Ken deliberately stretched the fight for a few minutes and then he pretended to have weakened and let Doku get himself once.The public roared , as if Ken wouldn't get up again. But to their distaste Ken jumped up and in the next attack Doku didn't even think and filled with rage , because of Ken getting up again , just Rammed towards him. Before he could notice , Ken's right foot was on Doku's belly and somehow he knew in his mind that he was about to fly out of the ring.....
.....and he did , the crowd went silent , Sakumo's eyes popped out , their champion was beaten right in front of their eyes. Shinzo was amazed , at how Ken beat Doku with such ease.....but at the same time he had questions about how Doku appeared directly in Semi - finals.....
...and how were there fighters from all over the world.
Meanwhile the entire crowd was dumbfounded. They were thinking how it were possible that Doku , the current champion , was beaten so easily , and that too by a servant. When Ken got out of the ring , Shin asked him all of these questions .Ken explained to him by telling him " The headmaster is a fox , Shin , but unfortunately not a clever one. If he had allowed me to enter this tournament , the public would go into an outrage , because I am afterall a servant. So he made the tournament open. He converted the Ninjutsu tournament into a World Martial Arts Championship. As this would give an explanation to the people as for why I was allowed , all these martial artists were brought here by Sea , just so they could fulfill his foolish ambitions . He thought that looking all these fighters I would fret and withdraw my challenge. .....but then he doesn't know me well enough."
...." and then what about Doku , how is it , that we only got to see him in the Semi - finals ?" asked Shin. Ken replied , "All these fighters from all over the world are genuinely professionals , the headmaster knew that Doku is nowhere close to being a good fighter yet , he wouldn't even have made it through the preliminaries. So he let Doku enter directly in the Semi - finals. The crowd thought that Doku entered in the semi - finals as he was the current champion. " Shinzo understood all now. He thought what now if the champion lost in the semi - finals , who will Ken Have to fight in the Finals ?
The Finals were announced.....
KENTO HASASHI V/S RYO HASHIMURA
.....It was like the fight started one second and ended the other. Ryo was a man in his 50s , but still looked fit for fighting. The match went like this , Ken and Ryo were facing each other , the announcer said.....BEGIN.....and Ryo simply stepped of the stage , Ken won.
The headmaster's face shrinked to disappointment. Ken gave him a look that said "Get Ready". By this time , even the crowd was chanting ...Ken.....Ken...Ken.
Now it was the headmaster's turn . He got up on the ring and with a most bitter expression on his face announced that "I wish to give our new Champion a chance to fight against myself." As expected , the crowd got excited.
The match was to begin after a few minutes. Meanwhile the headmaster walked up to Ken and said "what are you playing at boy ? How did you know about all the other fighters ? Why did Ryo let you win? Ken replied " Ryo was afraid of fighting me , that's why! And as for the other fighters , let's just say that I have eyes." The referee announced " Fighters return to the ring". Ken and the Headmaster take their stances. Ken now had the killing instinct in his eyes and in the deepest voice he said to the headmaster , "I was playing till now Soke (Grandmaster) , now I will fight." The headmaster could literally feel the dark Aura emitted from Ken.
Ken and Ryo exchanged a look of agreement.
Announcer: Bow...Ready...Fight!
The instant the announcer said fight , Ken was right under the headmaster's face on his back , his right foot was on the headmaster's chin. In an instant , the headmaster was in the air , the highest row of the audience had to lift their face up to look at the headmaster's unconscious body. If he had fallen from that height he would have died , but Ken caught him mid- air almost two feet above the ground and dropped him outside the ring.
Ken announced
"I WIN!"
The public was now much more than just excited , they were scared ...they just witnessed something out of the ordinary. No one saw Ken move from his stance to right under the headmaster's chin.
Ken was announced the winner. In his victory speech Ken said "I fought this fight to erase all race bars from this amazing art of Ninjutsu. I hereby announce the opening of a new school , where everyone shall learn equally with each other. I shall now bring back to this village true and authentic
NINJUTSU.
Shin now looked up to his brother as he was a God. But then , after seeing Ken fight everyone else did too........