Kenji (Earth-2213)

"I wish I could get her a big open prairie like she likes. I'd let her hop away to happiness."

- Kenji to Asami Sato

Kenji was the zookeeper and only remaining staff member of the Ba Sing Se Zoo. He had an older brother, Menji, who also lived in Ba Sing Se.

Biography
Kenji was one of the original many employees and staff members of the once-prestigious Ba Sing Se Zoo. As the budget of the zoo started to be cut and the institution saw less money by the year, it loss much of its workforce; All employees, except for Kenji, were either been fired, or left the zoo, as it became a dilapidated place.

In 19 AG, once Team 7 arrived in Ba Sing Se in search of Appa, they approached a small farm near the zoo. There, Asami Sato saw a wide range of animals, whom she noticed were visibly miserable and starving within small cages. Kenji revealed to them that the zoo stopped receiving any funding from the Dai Li because children stopped coming to see it duo to the zoo being filfthy; one of the cages particularly showed an animal lying near a pile of feces. When Kenji told them he wanted his animals to live in an open space, Asami suggested moving them to an open area, in the nearby agrarian zone

The animals proved difficult to control, more than Asami believed, and they ended up running wild across the city, terrozing the citizens. Hog monkeys destroyed shops, a rabaroo ate all food in a store, among other disasters. After trying to restore order to no avail, Asami puled out Naruto's bison whistle and drew the attention of the other animals.

Kenji, meanwhile, desperately attempted to have the guards open the city's gates, which they refused until they realized the oncoming stampede. After the gates were opened, Asami used the rocky wall technique to create a wall around the animals around the agrarian zone, to accomodate the animals, and thus a new zoo was created. Children and their families rushed to the new zoo to see the animals, and Kenji then thanked the kunoichi for her help, telling her she would work with animals.