Benji was ten when he earned his head protector. He brought it home proudly and held it up next to Sakura's old head protector. She laughed and gave him a nice cheesy speech along the lines of, "Today, you are a man." Then she tied it around his head like a headband, the way she used the wear hers.
And he still wore it that way. Gin made fun of him sometimes, but Benji didn't mind, he was happy looking as girly as he did.At least he had lost all the baby fat that had clung to him until he was nine.