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Applying for ability: Stalker.
Learning from Kaji, Tatsuo has gained quite a bit of knowledge in the realm of stealth. Using the shadows and other cover to your advantage can help you avoid enemy attacks, or even strike from the shadows with a better chance at catching your enemy off guard. Spending nearly two years under the tutelage under Kaji who by all means was an
opportunist. He learned to not only use the shade to his advantage, but using his own foliage to create environments more favorable for him to fight in. He has finally grown confident enough to use it in his fighting ability.
Replacing: Fearless with Calm Mind.
After missing all of his Rasengan's, Tatsuo had a moment of clarity. What exactly what was he doing? Yeah they were fighting as rivals, to help eachother grow, but this.. both of them were fighting as if they were aiming to kill. He would stop in the middle of combat, jumping back quite a few feet. He raised his hands in the air and noticed just how bad he ha gotten Hira to bleed. Impressed by his rivals tenacity, but it wasn't worth it. The strength difference between the two was too slight to give either the edge needed to win. At least not without damaging their own bodies incredibly. Part of being a Chuunin was knowing your limits.
"Hira! We should stop this. You're bleeding." he said as he formed a hand seal, his tree golem fell over. While it still had the unique looking limbs it was nothing more than a normal tree now. "I'm serious, this fight isn't worth it. We both learned exactly what we already knew. Neither of us is just going to give up no matter how tough things get. And that's what's going to make us the best of the best. Hopefully i'll just miss less when we get there." he said with a cheeky smile. "And maybe you'll actually manage to hit through my armor." he said as it began to grow back into his body. "I'll buy your lunch and how about you buy mine? That way we both win."
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