Hi everybody! Unless you've probably already noticed, I'm BAAACK!!!! Yes! I AM alive!
... Sort of.
Anyway, I have re-written some parts of the two earlier chapters, so before reading this chapter,
be sure to go back and re-read chapters 1 and 2 first.
There were some things there that I wasn't quite satisfied with, but that is all covered in the
respective chapters.
Anyhoo, enjoy the third chapter of Eyes Opened!
Chapter 3: Roar!!! Explode!!! Neji vs Hoishi!!!!!
"W-who are you!?" Hoishi barked.
Neji raised his head and his eyes snapped open. He gathered Chakra into his eyes
with a mighty yell!
"BYAKUGAN!!!!!!!" Neji yelled as he summoned his Bloodline Ability.
Hiashi raised his head from the ground, his smile unfaltering.
"That's Hyuuga Neji... The Hyuuga family's most outstanding genius!" Hiashi said, a tingle
of pride went into his voice.
"What? That kid is the Hyuuga Clan's most renowned genius!? Somehow, I find that pretty
hard to believe..." Hoishi said, eyeing the young man before him with a skeptical eye.
"You're gravely underestimating him, Hoishi! And that...will be...your...demise."
Hiashi wisphered.
Hiashi's head slumped down on the ground and he succumbed to the darkness.
Hoishi entered a battle stance and smiled confidently at the young man before him.
Neji paid the man no heed. He instead turned his eyes over to Hinata.
The young heir was smiling, despite her many wounds.
Neji's Byakugan showed him Hinata's Chakra Circulatory System, and the genius frowned.
(Hinata has sustained some slight damage to her inner organs. Nothing critical, thank god.
But she'll need to see a doctor.) Neji analysed.
"So how about it, genius boy!? Care to try your luck against me? I sure do hope that you will
put up a greater fight tha-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!"
Hoishi was taken aback by the man's outburst. Neji slowly directed his eyes to Hoishi.
His white eyes betrayed nothing, except his killing intent. It was enough to make Hoishi back
a step. Neji's voice came out in a low, threatening whisper.
"You hurt the one person who means the most to me..."
Hoishi chuckled and changed his stance slightly.
"Oh? Is that so? Ha ha ha!! This is rich! I never would have thought that the weak girl I
kidnapped was actually the Hyuuga family's most priced genius' girlfriend!!! Ha h-"
"HAKKE KUUSHOU!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hoishi's laughter came to an abrupt halt as a burst of Chakra came flying straight at his face!
Only thanks to his quick reflexes, was he able to tilt his head to the side, making the
Chakra burst miss.
Hoishi frowned.
Neji brought his arm back into the Jyuuken battle stance and mirrored his enemy's frown.
Hoishi resumed his own battle stance and bent his knees.
"It seems that Hiashi has been teaching you some nice tricks! Alright then, kid! If that's the
way you want it!!!" Hoishi yelled and charged!
Neji dodged the first punch by quickly sidestepping. Hoishi spun around in the blink of an
eye and delivered a second one, but Neji blocked it. Hoishi sped up his attacks and tried
all kinds of different combos, only to have them blocked or avoided. Neji left an opening,
which Hoishi acted upon. He struck, only to have his fist stop an inch from the
young man's face.
A small amount of Chakra was surging between Hoishi's fist and Neji's face! Neji had his
eyes closed in concentration.
"This is...!" Hoishi mumbled, he knew this move!
He tried to pull his fist away, but Neji's Chakra was holding it firmly in place!
Neji stuck out his arms, opened his eyes, and yelled!
"Hakkeshou Kaiten!!!!!!"
Hoishi was knocked away like a small fly by the centrifugal force the young Hyuuga created.
He made a graceful somersault in the air and landed perfectly on his feet. Hoishi looked up,
only to be sent flying again, courtesy of Neji's foot. As he flew, Hoishi felt a small vibration
pass through him and nerves immediately popped up by his eyes.
With his Byakugan finally working again, he quickly spun in the air and delivered a horizontal
spin kick that connected with Neji's solar plexus! Hoishi slammed a Chakra-empowered
hammerblow right between the teenager's shoulder blades, and Neji got to eat dirt.
But the genius wasn't left lying in the miniature crater for long.
Hoishi pulled his leg back in an impossible angle before letting it fly forward in an upwards
axe-kick that connected soundly with Neji's jaw and actually lifted him off the ground and
onto his feet again just by the sheer force of it! But the soles of his sandals had barely
touched the ground before Hoishi had kneeled before him with his palms held at his sides,
gathering clear white Chakra.
"Hakurou Tenmun!!!!!" Hoishi called and smashed his palms into Neji's defenseless
airborne form.
Neji's eyes widened exceptionally as the white Chakra built up and then more or less
exploded on his chest!
"Kuuarrrghhh!!!!!" Neji screamed and coughed up blood.
He flew back like a rag doll and slammed into the rocky ground several times in rapid
succession untill he finally stopped about 10 metres away.
Hoishi quickly returned to the standard Jyuuken battle stance and waited.
At the most popular food stand in all of Konoha, everything was peaceful.
The only thing disturbing the peace was a few gentle conversations and the sound
of slurping.
One customer's slurping was particularily loud, though.
"Hey, slow down kiddo! You're on your 12th bowl already!" The aging owner called
over his shoulder as he worked on another customer's order.
The customer in question raised his bowl and drank the rest of the contents before
slamming it down on the wooden desk.
"Puuhaaaah! That was GREAT!!!!!! Man, there just isn't anything in the whole wide
world that beats a few bowls after a busy day!"
The blonde wiped his mouth on his sleeve, the orange fabric somehow managing to
become even more orange when held up towards the light. "Hey old man!"
He raised a finger with a grin. "1 more bowl, please!"
The old man shook his head with a sigh and shrugged.
"Did he even hear what I said? Whatever, as long as he's paying." He muttered and
started on the order.
The blonde put his hands together and stretched his arms towards the ceiling
as he waited for his order.
There was another man sitting on the stool beside him. In contrary to his companion's
impossibly blonde hair, his loudness, and the unzipped shirt he was wearing that was
just so...orange it actually hurt your eyes when looked at directly, he was just sitting there,
quietly slurping up his ramen. He swallowed the last of it and brushed some of
his coal black hair out of his face.
"Hey, dobe." He said as he reached for a napkin.
"What d'ya want now, bastard?" The blonde answered just as his order was
set down before him.
Wiping his mouth with the napkin as he listened to the approaching and by-now
familliar sound, the man took his glass of water and turned the other way on
the stool.
"You want a friendly advice?" He asked casually.
Raising a blonde eyebrow in question, the orange-clad ninja raised his right hand
with his chopsticks held at the ready.
"What?"
Lifting his glass and taking a sip, Sasuke closed his eyes and replied:
"Run."
"What are yo-"
SLAM!!! "BLOARGH!!!!"
Sasuke shook his head with an amused chuckle and took a sip of water.
He didn't need to turn around. He could picture the scene behind him just fine anyway.
Though... The blonde always did look quite hilarious when his arms were flailing like that...
"Good evening, Hyuuga-san. For what reason have you decided to join me here this
pleasant evening and drown your boyfriend?" Sasuke said, his voice laced with sarcasm.
Yanking her boyfriend out of his ramen bowl and down on the ground, Hanabi scoffed.
"Spare me the sarcastic pleasantries, Sasuke. And Naruto, get your lazy ass off
the ground. We've got a job to do." She stated all in one breath.
Naruto was lying on his back in the dust with his hair plastered to his face and
a slightly dazed look in his blue eyes.
He was up and going in the next second though, gesticulating wildly with his arms
with his already loud voice screwed up to full-volume.
"Lazy? LAZY!? Here I am, eating my ramen and just minding my own goddamned
business, and then I SOMEONE decides to come in here, and turn my holy ramen
into a goddamned MURDER WEAPON, and-"
Naruto blinked, his hands stopping in mid-gesture.
"Whaddaya mean, "we've got a job to do" ?" He asked with a raised eyebrow,
a few drops of ramen sauce and a fish cake dropped from his hair.
Sasuke spun on his stool to face the youngest heir of the Hyuuga.
Her words had caught his attention too.
"I'll tell you along the way." Hanabi said and turned around.
" "Along the way" ? Hey, Hanabi! Just what do you mea-Hurk!!!?"
Hanabi had his throat in a vice-grip and was glaring him into the ground in a second.
"You either do as I say, or you will get no ramen at all for two months!
What's it gonna be?" Hanabi growled in two seconds.
Naruto gulped.
"Yes, mistress?"
Sasuke slid off his stool, tossing some money over his shoulder as he went, and hurried
after the couple.
" "Night-off" my ass! If it's not an assassination-mission in some foreign country,
it's baby-sitting the dobe and his girlfriend! Oh jolly, the joy just never ends!"
Sasuke muttered.
He jumped onto a roof and ran up alongside Hanabi.
"So, mind telling me what's going on?" Sasuke asked as he jumped from the roof,
swung once around a pole, and landed perfectly on the very edge on the other roof.
"You want the good news or the bad news?" Hanabi asked with a grin as she threw
herself from the roof, grabbed a pole jutting out horizontally from a house with one hand,
and swung herself into a sommersault that landed her on another roof the second
Sasuke and Naruto got there.
"BAD NEWS!!!!!!!" The boys chorused.
Hoishi waited, but his opponent didn't get up. Shaking his head with a sigh,
the man shrugged with a laugh and started towards the fallen young man.
"What is with you, Hiashi!? First you lose to me, which means you're weak. And then
you go and train another brat, who's even weaker! Honestly, if you had just focused on
your own fighting skills instead of spending time on this kid and teaching him worthless
tricks, you might just have had a chance against me!" Hoishi chuckled.
"True."
Hoishi's eyes widened and he flinched in shock.
Neji pulled back his arms to his sides with a feral grin on his face, which was only a
few scant centimetres away from the exiled Hyuuga.
"But he DID teach me..." He tilted his palms and a Chakra as white as snow enveloped
them, illuminating Hoishi's face. "THIS move!!!"
"Wh-what the-"
Neji's Byakugan activated and the Chakra grew brighter.
Like twin lanterns swaying in the evening breeze, Neji's glowing hands smashed into
Hoishi repeatedly with the force and precision of a surgeon during a delicate operation.
Hoishi's body jerked along with the hits and he grit his teeth, the pain that erupted like a
volcano and spread out like a wildfire through his body every time the young Hyuuga's
hands touched him was nigh-unbearable!
(How could a kid...!?) He managed before coming face to face with "the kid" once again.
Neji's hands glowed and he slammed them both into Hoishi's chest.
"HAKUROU TENMUN!!!!!!!!!!" Neji screamed and poured a huge amount of
Chakra into his hands!
White Chakra emerged in a mass from his hands, burned through Hoishi's clothes and
pressed into the center of his chest, and then shrunk into a compressed ball.
(Damn! How could I...!? I underestimated him!!!)
And then, Hoishi's world went white.
... Okay, so the "few minutes" I promised turned into "a few hours" . Sorry 'bout that, but I had some minor problem
with WB again. The bastard was trying to sucker-punch me... AGAIN!
But then I re-read some of the reviews, and Writer's Block had to run for cover! There is nothing like a review or two
where people nag you endlessly to continue, to get you to actually do so!
Ahem!
Anyway, here it is! The third chapter of Eyes opened! FINALLY!!!!!!
Yes, I know that it isn't quite up to snuff, and yes I KNOW that you have been expecting more from me, but let's face it.
I'm in Sweden. It's 02:00 in the morning, and I still have school to get up to.
So, it's 02:00, I've got school, I'm tired, I'm a bit cranky, but still VERY open for reviews!
