Neji woke up feeling edgy he could tell today that something was different, there was another presence in the village, hostile, angry and very powerful. It seemed to much of a coincidence that he was summoned to the Hokage that afternoon.
"I've bin waiting for you" said Tsunade "Now what im about to tell you is important you probably don't know this but there is a family of ninja living on the outskirts of the fire country"
"They're called the tiger clan" said Kakashi who had arrived suddenly while reading his favourite book
"While they don't belong to this village they have helped us against our enemies, and one of they're most promising members has just come of age and is about to be initiated into the clan but before that he has to defeat a newly made jounin from this village" Tsunade looked at Neji
"Me"
"That's not the only reason I decided on you Neji take a look at the tiger clan family tree it dates back to the two founding ninja" Tsunade handed him a piece of paper
He looked at the top of the list.
"No way this isn't possible the founding female ninja of the clan is a Huga and founding male is an Uchiha"
"An interesting combination" said Kakashi
"It is unknown what affect this had an Huga and a Uchiha coming together but they have spawned some of the best ninja" added Tsunade
"So when do I fight this ninja" Neji asked
"He came in before you guys he standing next to the door"
Neji turned around to see a boy standing there, he looked the same age as Neji, he wore only light blue trousers he had blue marking going all over his body his hair was light blue and long it ran right down to the centre of his back, on his legs were wooden sheaths that held bamboo poles with a cone shaped guard also there was a small cord strapped round his belt full of water and his left arm was encased in metal from the elbow down and the fingers were as sharp as blades. His eyes they looked like to Uchiha sharingun but were light blue and had a pale centre and on his back he carried a large scroll.
He looked at them coldly though his attention was mostly based at Neji.
"My name is Amollion" he said
He walked up to Neji and held out his hand.
"I guess we're distant cousins or something since we share an ancestor"
Neji shook his hand and forced a smile
"Amollion can you and Neji wait outside while I talk to your father" said Tsunade
Amollion gave a small bow and left the room, at that moment they noticed another man standing on the other side of the door is was Amollion's farther and head of the tiger clan he was as tall as Kakashi and wore a blue bandana over his left eye they could still see the scare that was left behind and some blood. The wound had never healed properly he suffered it during a war between the tiger clan and Konoha (That will be explained later) we wore an open coat in the clans colour blue, there wasn't really any resemblance between him and Amollion.
"Grendar nice to see you again" said Kakashi
"Its been too long my friend" Grendar replied
"Good you too know each other" said Tsunade
"I have come here to warn the opponent you chose for Amollion, It's a long story so ill start from the beginning, Amollion is not a legitimate member of the clan his mother is of the clan but not his farther, I am his adopted farther I've raised him as my own since he was a child, but his birth farther is one of the seven shinobi swordsmen called Kisame"
The room fell silent.
"Really" said Kakashi "The same Kisame that's one of the seven shinobi swordsmen and a member of the Akutski
"Yes, normally when a non legitmate child is born they are cast away but I adopted him into my branch of the family"
"Why?" asked Kakashi
"The clan was divided whether we should do so because we haven't cast out a member in three decades and his mother was my wife"
"Was?" said Tsunade
"She died at child birth and I had no other sons so, he may not be of my blood but I have loved and raised his as if he was"
"Does Amollion know of his heritage" asked Kakashi
"Yes it seems Kisame came to hear of Amollion somehow and the resemblance is there, those blue markings over his body are not tattoo's he was born with them as well as gills and Kisame comes to the village every few years to see Amollion we have never been able to stop him and Amollion wants to see him one time he took Amollion away and didn't return for a whole year, he only just returned two weeks ago on his birthday so he can go through the coming of age battle, but since he has returned he has been different his charkra flows differently it was Kisame who gave him those swords he carries. But also he has created his own jutsus, god knows what Kisame taught him" Grendar said
"Do you have any idea what Kisame may had done" asked Kakashi
"Well lets put it this way, before he left he still had his left arm"
Outside in the hallway Amollion and Neji were waiting to be called in.
"So do you possess the Byagugun" asked Neji to Amollion
Amollion didn't answer at first he looked at Neji as if he was looking right through his eyes.
"Sort of we in the tiger clan possess a small amount of the Byagugun and the Sharingun but no to the extent you the Huga and Uchiha clan have instead we eventually developed our own kekiegenki, but I can still see a persons chakra circulatory system and my sharingun means I'm good at predicting enemy movements"
"So you pssess three kekiegenkis then"
"In a way"
Kakashi emerged from the room followed by Grendar.
"Amollion your battle will be tomorrow" he said
"Who with"
Grendar looked at Neji and Amollion grinned.
"I look forward to it"
Suddenly Grendar pulled out a dagger and stabbed Amollion through the chest Amollion slumbed onto his knees.
"What the hell are you doing" shouted Naruto
Suddenly Amollion's body turned to water.
"A water clone, he rather skilled at producing them, it means he's now wandering around the village" said Grendaar angrily "I told him not go around the village alone"
Amollion was jumping along the roof tops when he sensed the water clone had been destroyed, he stopped on top of a pole.
"Lets see how good this village is at noticing Genjutsu"
Amollion pulled out a flute that was made from wood it had blue swirls on it as decoration, he started to play first it was slow and quiet then got louder and faster till he was playing a soothing melody. Its sound could be heared thoughout the village, pink flower petals started to fall from the sky.
Grendar and the others heared to flut at the same time they noticed he flower petals.
"This is his Genjutsu, don't bother trying to release it, this sound Genjutsu you have to block your ears to become immune to it" he handed everyone ear plugs and as he said the flower petals disappeared. When they looked around at the village they saw everyone was asleep they had fallen where they stood after listening to too much of the melody.
Found Amollion high up on a chimley playing his flute , his eyes were closed as he played, he opened one eye as he sensed Grendar getting closer then he stopped.
"That was lame this really cant be known for its knowledge of Genjutsu" said Amollion "I was able to get to nearly every person in the village"
"Amollion you agreed you would do no harm" shouted Grendar
"I got bord and besides they're not harmed"
With that Amollion disappeared.
"Don't worry I know where he's going im sorry to have caused this trouble" said Grendar
Neji made his way back and thought about the battle he was about to be involved in.
"He seems pretty strong he possesses the Byagugun and Sharingun and whats with that metal arm and why his gord full of water has chakra flowing threw it and the sheer mass of chakra he has is immense, I have to admit im a little nervous about fighting him, but ive never had an opponant who ive been so keen to fight" Neji thought to himself
Amollion was sitting in a tree just on the outskirts of the village.
"That Neji seems to be strong, im guessing he preffers close quarter combat, which suits me fine, I showed my hand by doing my Genjutsu in the village, he has very concentrated chakra I bet he trains hard, I heared hes the most promising ninja of his age, na I shouldn't be worried the year I spent with father made me nearly invinsable maybe if I win hell let me join Akutski"
"Hey Neji" shouted Naruto
"Naruto"
"I heard you got called to granny Tsunade did you get a mission"
"Sort of I've got to fight a tiger clan ninja so he can get his right of passage"
"Really, what a right of passage?" Naruto asked
"It is a occasion when a ninja reaches a certain age have to go through to become a recognised member of the clan" said Neji
"Oh cool so what's this guy like"
"You'll see"
It was decided that the fight between Amollion nad Neji would take place at the chunin battle arena, word spread quickly about the match and of course the huga clan were there to witness and the tiger clan was presence and a visitor only Amollion was aware of.
Amollion and Neji faced each other, Grendar stood between them.
"Ok you may go all out on each other but I will interveain to try and avoid any deaths ok when your ready" with that Grendar moved to the edge of the field.
Neji and Amollion took their stance.
"Alrite Amollion lets see what Kisame taught you"
Neji watched through hi Byagugun that Amollion was building up his chakra, suddenly Amollion charged him with amazing speed that Neji was surprised, he wasn't using his bamboo swords the two started to exchange blows, Ten Ten was watching in the sidelines.
"Idiot going toe to toe with Neji in close quarter nowone can beat Neji in taijutsu"
Although she was saying that Neji had yet to land a single blow, then Neji found an opening and let out an onslaught.
"8 palms"
"16 palms"
"32 palms"
Amollion grabbed his arms.
"1 foot" he shouted as he did a backflip kicking Neji in the face, Neji went flying onto the ground behind him.
"That's impossible" said Ten Ten "how could he"
Amollion coughed blood as Neji got to his feet.
Then he realised he was surrounded by chakra strings fixed to Amollions fingers, Amollion pulled on them to cut Neji into pieces.
"Rotation!"
Neji spun at a great speed releasing chakra and destroying the chakra strings, Amollion stood there quite supprized.
"That's an interesting jutsu"
Neji charged
Amollion drew his bamboo pole swords Neji drew his kuni and the two started to exchange blows then two seemed evenly matched in taijutsu, then Amollion jumped back to get some distance.
"Lets try something different" he said
He then started to do a large combination a hand signs.
"Water style water summoning jutsu"
Suddenly like a wave water filled the arena Neji had to jump on a tree to excape it, he could see through his Byagugun that Amollion was standing on the bottom underneath the water. "How can he breath" thought Neji
Amollion looked up at Neji knew he could see him 'lets make this interesting' he thought to himself as he put his hands on the ground. "Earth style earth manipulation jutsu"
The ground started to change shape and on the surface of the water small islands appeared and Amollion was standing on one of them. He did another combination of handsigns.
He put both hands on the grond and moved them together, he slowly raised it and what looked likt clay started to grow out of the ground, and took the shape of a person.
"This is my clay soldier I mix water and soft earth to create clay, this is a human in nearly every sense of the word just watch what he can do while I go prepare for the finally, Amollion jumped back into the water.
Neji stood there staring at the clay soldier, the soldier then started to make more of itself it put its hand on either side of him and pulled more soldiers out of the ground.
Neji attacked he sent his chakra into a blast destroung two of the soldiers but one escaped and attacked him, the soldier had spawned his own wepon it was a sword Neji clashed with the soldier Neji was able to cut him a few times but only did straches the soldier then spawned two more soldiers and they all attacked.
"Rotation!"
The force destroyed all of them but when he stopped Amollion was standing in front of him Amollion slashed him across the chest, he had concentrated his chakra to the tips of his fingers to create claws, the tiger clans favourite taijutsu move.
"That's enough of warming up no lets see if my new jutsu has any battle worth" Amollion said with a smile
Neji was getting frustrated it seemed like Amollion was toying with him testing out jutsus.
Amollion raised his chakra, then a head appeared on his left shoulder, then his right it continued to grow until it pulled away from Amollion and had its own body.
The one to the right of Amollion turned into a man with red spikey hair, he carried a wooden sword and had the same marking over his body but they were red as were his eyes. The one on his left was beautiful women she wore kimono and kept her left arm hidden she had long blongde har and the kimono was green and she covered her face with a fan.
"Meet Nin" indicating the one on his left "And Gin" indicating the women
"Alright ive bin looking forward to a fight" said Nin
"This opponant is handsome" said Gin
"Don't go falling for him hes sopposed to die" said Amollion "oh and Nin if he defeats you ill replace you with him"
Judging by Nins facial expression Neji could tell he didn't like that prspect, but what did he mean by replace.
"Right lets go" shouted Nin as he engulfed his blade in fire
"Fire how can he use 3 elements" said Neji
Nin charged and Neji held out his kuni and blocked the heat from the blade meant he couldn't stand there for long, he jumped away then there was a guch of wind and hit him and it felt like he was cut all over, suddenly then an arrow pierced his shoulder and he fell into the water he only just able to climb onto one of the islands.
He looked at the three, the wind technuique came from the women and the arrow came from Amollion who had fused his bamboo poles together to make a bow he dipped his fingers into the corb full off water and made and arrow out of it.
"I cant fight like this two of thewm are using long ranged attacks while one keeps me away from them, if this place wasn't full of water I could fight better"
Then an idea came into Neji's head.
"Whats he smiling about" thought Nin
Neji then jumped into the water and went to the bottom.
"Rotation!"
The water started to spin into a whirlpool.
"This isn't going to help him" said Amollion
"But me and Nin cant breathe under water" said Gin
"Your acting like I care" said Amollion "Would I have stolen your left arm if I did care about you"
Suddenly the wall to the arena started to crmble.
"Shit"
The wall collapsed and the water draind away, as it was Neji jumped out of the water and started striking Nin contiunasly, Nin collapsed after the onslaught.
"Nin!" shouted Gin
Neji threw a kuni that pierced her shoulder and another pierced her hand, she screamed and collapsed, Neji took his stance ready for amollions counter but he didn't he stood there stareing with anger in his eyes.
"Amollion what are you waiting for help us kill him" said Nin who was on the ground holding his chest.
Amollion looked at Nin, he then drew another arrow it was bright blue with the water and chakra, Neji got ready to dodge but then Amollion redirected his aim and fired.
The arrow went straight for Nin, and struck completely destroying his head.
Neji was shocked at what he had done.
"Amollion what are you doing you've killed him" said Gin
Amollion turned to Gin and used the metal claw to slash, he run the wind chakra through it, so he cut so deep it went all the way through to her chest.
"What are doing they're your companions" shouted Neji
"They are anything but, they are ninja I defeated, I can take the bodies of deafeted opponants and use them in future battles, sadly I am only limited to carrying two, if they are defeated I don't need them anymore, though Gin still has her uses, this left arm is hers" he said holding up his metal arm "I incased it in metal so I can still use my own chakra through it"
"Your sick" said Neji
Amollion smiled as he charged Neji, he had detached his bow into the sword versions again.
Grendar was still watching from the sidelines and had been joined by Kakashi.
"He's as ruthless as Kisame " said Grendar
"Well he is Kisames son" said Kakashi
"Time to end this" said Amollion
He attached one of his bamboo swords to his left palm and the other his his left elbow, it was then icased in spinning chakra, Neji could see he was using his own chakra and the wind chakra from the arm, it was long like a spear but attached to his arm.
Amollion charged and Neji used his rotation technique, the two clashed the two seemd evenly matched, Amollion was going all out trying to break Nejis technique, but then the two Jutsus cancelled each other out and sent the two flying.
They both stayed there for a while, many thought the fight was over, the members of the tiger clan were disgusing weather this meant that Amollion couldn't become a regonised member if it was a draw, many of them would be glad to see Amollion go anyway. But then Amollion slowly got to his feet and Neji did the same, the two charged again buit they were slower than before Neji went to stike a finishing blow but Amollion was only just able to block it and then went to counter with his left claw aiming for his chest, Neji couldn't dodge Neji closed his eyes waiting for it to peirce, but nothing happened, he opened his eyes.
Kakashi and Grendar had stopped Amollion at the last second.
"What are you doing?" asked Amollion
"The fight is over you win" said Grendar
"But the fight isn't propolly over until one dies" said someone behind them
Grendar knew who it was, he slowly turned round.
"Kisame!"
