A/N: Hey there! I'm back from writing Naruto fanfics :D If any of you used to remember the NejiTen fanfic 'One More Chance' and 'A Love in Time', I deleted it. I don't feel like continuing it anymore, and i was going through a lot of things that time at school, family, friends and my whole teenage life :( including Neji's death xD But since when 2015 came, i'm perfectly fine already :D i made a remake of my two fanfics, but in a fairy tail fanfic tho. Try reading my Nalu fanfic "The One that Got Away", it's the remake of my NejiTen story "One more chance". "the Perfect time", remake of "A Love in Time".
Anyways...i hope even if NejiTen didn't became canon, there are still people reading fanfic about them. Even if they did not become canon, i still hardly ship them :D I'll try posting more naruto fanfics after i finished my fairy tail ones :)
Btw, I wrote this because I was inspired when I watched a movie of Julia Roberts and a novel :) In this chappy, i dont know that much about Karate matches xD so excuse my errors in terms and scenes. Just focus on what happened instead.
Please review and enjoy reading.
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Konoha: Karate Nationals 2016 event is almost coming to an end. Numerous people who consistently won in matches have been finally declared as the fighters who'll be representing the country. Every match has been intense and thrilling for all the audience and representatives. Winners are already prepared to receive their medals and titles, and their official right to represent the country. But the awarding will not begin, unless the final tie-breaker match between a black-belter and blue-belter would come to an end.
"For our final tie-breaker match before the awarding, we have the blue-belter Naruto Uzumaki!" The master of ceremonies announced through a microphone. Naruto Uzumaki waved at his fellow schoolmates, friends and neighbors who came to watch and gave their full support to him. He stood outside the match line along with his mentor and coach, Kakashi Hatake, while waiting for his final opponent. "As you can see, Uzumaki is acting normally before the start of his match. Was he that really excited to prove himself to everyone? Would he win against the black-belter Hyuga? And, here he comes- Neji Hyuga!"
Compared from Naruto who only got his friends and relatives cheering for him, Neji Hyuga had almost the whole crowd cheering for him. Everyone already bet he would win against the blue-belter, Uzumaki. Naruto Uzumaki was considered as a lucky karate fighter who gets to join the Karate Nationals even though he only won few medals compared to Neji Hyuga who has been a legendary karate fighter since grade school, thanks to his mentor and teacher, Kakashi and Jiraiya.
For Neji Hyuga, who rarely lost in a match and takes home a medal and trophy from every competition he joins, the Uzumaki is a piece of cake for him. With his lavender eyes, he could see that the Uzumaki is not as serious and determined to win at all as him. He never expected such courageous blue-belter to face a famous black-belter like him already. He judged him for taking the competition as a simple game. But him, he does not. For him, it shall maintain the pride and title of their clan: Hyuga, as the family of all martial arts champions throughout the world.
Neji fixed his ponytailed long brown hair before stepping near the match line. There he stood on the opposite side where the Uzumaki boy is standing along with his mentor and teacher Might Guy, who was sees Kakahi Hatake as his rival in martial arts. "Neji, good luck." Guy patted his shoulder. He just responded with a nod.
"There is Neji Hyuga! Who could obviously feel the intensifying heat with his match with Uzumaki, and vice versa! How determined is he really to prove that he is the reincarnation of his prodigy father, Hizashi Hyuga and his other legendary relatives?" The emcee said.
"Step forward." The referee beside ordered. The two stepped forward at the same time inside the line. They bowed at each other before the referee signaled them to start the match.
They both positioned their hands and legs to fight. Neji gave the blonde his so-called 'juuken stance'. Before one of them could even attack:
"This is our last fight, Naruto. Be prepared to lose." A confident Neji said, which angered Naruto. Neji rarely loses into a round match, unless his opponent was a black-belter, but he still ends up winning the competition mostly. He defeated several karate fighters as his age, some of them were even his schoolmates. Rock Lee, a taekwando prodigy, Kidomaru, a black-belter and even his own cousin Hinata Hyuga whom he almost killed by striking its heart. No wonder is perfectly confident that he'd be able to defeat Uzumaki whose only a blue-belter.
"Oh, yeah! We'll see, Hyuga." Naruto, surrendering all strength left in his body after several matches, retorted with full self-confidence and courage. "Let's see where your boastfulness take you!" Then, he gave him his first attack already. Neji dodged his attacks with his fast and mighty fists, where he is good at.
The second emcee along with the audiences intensely watched the match, "The attack was started by Uzumaki! Hyuga managed to dodge all of his attacks! Oh, Uzumaki is losing it! Hyuga is able to return attacks on Uzumaki! And- oh! Uzumaki managed to dodge his attacks by doing a backflip! Can an Uzumaki really stand a chance against a Hyuga?! Will Neji Hyuga maintain the pride of his family?!" The fight was intense. The most unfortunate thing for Neji that could ever happen to him:
"Oh! Oh! That's bad...it seems that Neji Hyuga is losing his balance from Naruto's attacks. Another attack from Naruto! Another one, and another one, Neji is unable to dodge! What could have possibly happen to the Hyuga prodigy?! And-ooh!"
The whole crowd was shocked of how Neji Hyuga was in his final match. He could hardly tackle Naruto's body with his mighty fists. "Naruto! Neji dodged his attack, and- oooh!" The emcee kept on speaking fast intensively. "Is this even happening to Neji Hyuga?! Naruto made him lose his balance and-!"
"U-zu-ma-ki!" Naruto screamed out loud before gave Neji one strong punch on his chin and a side-kick, causing him to get knocked out of the match line.
"Nice, Naruto!" A pink-haired girl from the bleachers screamed in joy.
"N-naruto-kun..." A blue-haired girl silently screamed inside her mind in joy.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" The emcee announced.
Everyone, including Neji's supporters, couldn't believe that Uzumaki was able to beat the Hyuga prodigy. Almost all of the audiences stood to to give him a round of applause. Naruto happily ran towards to his friends at the lowest part of the bleachers and gave each of them a high-five.
Meanwhile, Neji remained at the floor, laying helplessly and couldn't even move. The referee approached him to help him stand up and shake hands with the victor. "Neji, please stand up already." The referee shook Neji's body. But Neji remained laying on the floor and with his eyes wide open, without even blinking. The referee carefully flipped Neji's body so he could lay straightly on his back. "Oh my god..." The referee gasp in shock to see an unconscious Neji with its eyes wide open. "Somebody call an ambulance! This is urgent!"
The managers and staff of the event quickly ran towards Neji, including Naruto, Guy and Hiashi Hyuga from the bleachers. "Neji! C-can you hear me?"
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Neji slowly opened his eyes until his vision gets clear enough for him to look around him, and find himself inside a room with white ceilings and walls. That turned out to be a hospital room. He saw his Uncle Hiashi and cousin Hinata sitting on the small couch in the room. He realized he was laying in a hospital bed with an oxygen cord connected into his nose and a cord on his finger connected from the heart monitor. He guessed he must have been unconscious for hours since his match with Naruto...
"U-uncle..." He spoke up, his voice a bit slurred.
"Neji!" Hiashi immediately went towards to him. "Hinata call the doctor!" He ordered. The bluentee quickly went out to do as what she was told. "Neji...how are you feeling?" He asked.
"U-uncle..." Neji spoke in a slurred voice once again. "I- c-can't move..."
"What do you mean you can't move? "
"Uncle! I can't move my right hand and legs..." Neji cried.
Little did Neji know, it was the last day he could fight or even stand, walk and run with his own body. The day where his dreams can no longer be fulfilled and him becoming a complete useless...
