Dan felt the hot summer sun on his face and while he did enjoy the cool wind when it blew he couldn't help but think about his situation.
Just like last year and the year before that one, he hadn't received any new students, there had been some people who wanted to learn how Sakura did what she did, but they never stuck around.
"Maybe it's time that I close the dojo." he says to himself as he walks back inside and closes the door behind him, he doesn't manage to take three steps when he hears someone knock on the door.
"Maybe it's Sakura who skipping school again?" he says to himself as he opens the door and finds a teenage boy who has short brown hair and is wearing a green tracksuit.
Dan stares at the kid for a long moment and he immediately sees that he isn't anywhere near Sakura level, but a student is a student so he will train him as best as he can.
"Can I help you?" he asks the boy.
"I'm looking for Dan Hibiki, is he around?" the boy asks him
"You're in luck I'm him are you here to join my dojo?" he eagerly asks the boy in front of him.
'No, you see there's a tournament coming up and I heard that you were a good fighter. Look I'm making a team, I was hoping that you would join my team." the boy says to him before he reaches into his pocket and takes out a flyer, before handing it to him.
"Not interested." Dan says to the kid before he starts to close the door.
"The prize is a million dollars because we will be fighting all sorts of things. Listen you and if we can get anyone else to join us can split the money I don't want it, " the boy says to him through the other side of the door.
Dan wanted to ignore him, but he was forced to stop walking when his foot went through the floor.
Maybe it was fate telling him that he should take the kid's offer, but what good would having the money do for him even if he did fix the dojo, or chose to leave it and live his life with his share of the prize?
"Dad what would you do?" he says to the picture of his dad that's hanging on the wall.
For a long moment Dan stares at his father's picture then he slaps both sides of his face at the same time and pulls his foot out of the hole that it was just in.
'Alright one more time!" he says to himself loudly as he tries to motivate himself as usual.
'Okay I'll do it." he says to the boy as he opens the door and finds that he is still standing outside.
"Greate." the boy says to him as a smile forms on his face.
"Man, I was afraid that I was going to have to do this on my own, oh by the way my name is Sato Kazuma." Kazuma says to him as he lifts his hand and waits for Dan to take it.
"Guess we will be working together." Dan says to Kazuma as he grabs Kazuma's hand and shakes it.
"Okay I'll pick you up tomorrow and we can go on our way, everything that you need to know is on the flyer." Kazuma says to him before he lets go of dan hand and runs away before Dan can ask him about the tournament.
"Well might as well look at this." Dan says to himself as he looks at the Flyer.
"The King of Fists tournament."
"Let's see, all participants must earn their way in, and only after defeating the needed amount of opponents will a person or team be allowed to join the tournament."
"Sounds simple enough."
"The location of the tournament will be given to the person or team after they are accepted. The prize will be a single wish or a million dollars to the winner."
"A person can enter on their own and make a team from people that they defeated, and while every team is allowed to have four people only three will be allowed to fight as the fourth can either replace a member in case of injury or can help during a fight."
"The fourth member's help is limited to once per fighter meaning that while they can enter a fight and help each member of their team, they are only allowed to do it once."
"That means that your extra can help the three main fighters once per person, that's it no more don't bother asking if they can help all three times in one fight because it's not allowed." Dan says to himself as he puts the flyer down.
Guess I should start packing." he says to himself as he looks around once again and feels the reality of his situation begin to sink in again, but he ignores the feeling and begins to pack up his things.
...Elsewhere ...
Kazuma Stood over the unconscious body of the woman that he was supposed to find and while there were other candidates for him to make a team with the person that he was looking at was the closest one to his location.
Not just because he needed someone that could fight, no he had Dan for that, a weak fighter was still a fighter and Dan could and would learn during the competition.
Yet he still needed someone who could kill if they had to and the woman in front of him was that kind of person.
As he looked at the dying woman in front of him, he could see that the strange purple energy that was coming out of her was the thing that was killing her.
He smiled to himself, she would need him to keep her alive, so she wouldn't try to kill him, and maybe just maybe if he was lucky she would ...
He stopped himself from thinking about anything or hoping for anything, this wasn't his world and everyone was waiting for him back home.
"Drain touch." he says to himself as he kneels to touch the ground with his left hand and begins to drain the energy of the world around him.
He then puts his right hand on the woman's back and begins to pour the energy into the woman's body.
He barely has enough time to blink when he realizes that he somehow ended up laying on his side, with his head between the woman's thighs.
Normally this would be a dream for most men including himself, unfortunatly the woman that he just helped was trying to break his skull so he couldn't enjoy it.
"Hey is that any way of saying thank you for saving me." he says to the gray-haired woman who just keeps on squeezing him.
"Okay, this is getting dangerous." Kazuma thinks to himself as the world around him starts to get dark.
"Drain touch." he says to himself as he starts to take the energy that he just gave to his would-be killer along with some of the purple energy that was killing her.
He can feel the woman growing weaker by the second until she isn't able to hurt him anymore, it's only when her legs lose most of their strength that he is able to gasp for air.
Kazuma tries to keep himself from falling unconscious as he feels the woman's pulse through her legs.
At least I didn't kill you." he says to himself before he turns and looks at the woman's body and enjoys the view for a brief second.
"Hey if you want to live I suggest that you don't kill me." he says to her as he hears her gasping for air.
'Look, I have something that I need to do, if you help me I'll help you whenever the thing that was killing you shows up." he says to the woman who looks kind of familiar but he doesn't know her name yet.
Still, he can't help but grab onto the woman's legs and enjoy how soft they are, especially her tighs.
"I'll do it." he hears her say to him as she struggles to breathe.
"Good," Kazuma says to her as he starts to pour the energy that he just took from her back into her along with the purple energy that for whatever reason now looks similar to something that Aqua purified.