THIS CHAPTER AND THOSE THAT COME AFTER WILL MOST LIKELY NOT HAVE LARGE FIGHT SCENES SORRY TO THOSE EXPECTING SOME.

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Bloodline of the Thunder God

Chapter 2: The Power of human sacrifice

"First match Uzumaki Naruto versus Neji Hyuga" Hayate called out in an authorative voice and caused the crowd to break into cheers.

As Naruto walked over to the middle of the field he heard Neji say to him "Even the crowd knows your fate Uzumaki listen to them predict your downfall" And listen he did and his mood only soured more as he heard snippets of what the crowd was shouts at him specifically.

Things such as "Your gonna get what's coming to you brat" and "revenge will finally be our demon" also "the Hyuga will get vengeance for us now scum"

"Why can't they all just shut up! I don't need this right now!" Naruto thought as he stretched and took his ready stance facing Neji. As he thought this his arm gave a jerking twitch and he jumped about a foot in the air causing people to laugh at him.

"MOTHERFFFFFF THAT HURT DAMN IT" he mentally screamed as it felt like he got shocked all up his right arm. "And my arm is STILL TWITCHING!" he was getting frustrated now this could seriously impede his hand seals and taijutsu during the fight.

Unfortunately he didn't have time to dwell on as Hayate call out "HAJIME!" and Neji charged strait for him.

Naruto dodged by doing a flip over Neji's head and getting some distance managed to spam some clones to stall him so he could think of a plan. As Neji dealt with the clones Naruto observed him and tried to come up with a way past his taijutsu style.

"come on Naruto think…what the name of the Hyuga style again, janken? No, jyuken? Yea that's it now what does it do? Targets the chakra points if I remember correctly…HEY how did I know that? Okay today is getting weirder and weirder…WHOA! "

Throughout his thinking Naruto failed to realise that Neji had dealt with his clones and land a strike to his stomach.

"Humph. Face it Uzumaki you are a failure you have always been destined to fail everyone knows it why fight your fate?"

"I don't believe in fate Neji. I f I did I would of died long ago in an alleyway somewhere in the village. And everybody would be happy and not care. But I lived I wanted something more that what I had. I wanted to be a ninja and change people's ideas about me. Now look I'm in the chunin exam finals and fighting the prodigy of the Hyuga clan the village elite! If I'm a failure then I'm a PROUD failure. And I make my own fate!"

"hn… we shall see you are still going to lose. As I said fate has predestined it"

Naruto didn't grace him with an answer and just bum rushed him with more clones. "Gotta think gotta think, get past his….huh" Naruto realised that as he was thinking about getting past Neji's jyuken strikes that there were constant replays in his head and every time he would get hit the next replay would be him getting past that strike and getting hit by the next, and so on and so on. And then a miracle happened, Naruto Uzumaki had an epiphany.

"I get my clones memories and experiences!" and evil grin spread across his face at the possibilities but he quickly shook it off to concentrate on the match. "Right so if I got in now ill get clobbered in the chest…lets try this again" he said make 5 more clones that attacked one at a time. Each one dodging more strikes than the last.

Naruto was actually keeping his cool and assessing his opponent, the Sandaime smirked thanking his lucky stars Naruto was growing up if albeit slowly, but he couldn't help but wonder what brought this change on. He was interrupted from his musings by the kazekage. "That blonde boy down there seems to have surprised you honourable third may I ask why?"

"Of course kazekage-sama, it is because Naruto there usually charges in first and asks questions later. To see him staying back and observing and evaluating his opponent is a great step forward in progress for him as a ninja"

"I see, although I don't see how that will help him defeat the prodigy of the Hyuga a plan alone cannot win a fight."

Hiruzen noticed Naruto smirk evilly before wiping his face clean and school his expression, he looked to where his eyes were focused and noticed his clones steadily gaining ground. He smirked himself seeing that Naruto finally figured out what his clones are capable of. "Perhaps you're right but I have faith in Naruto. It seems he has an advantage nobody else knows of."

"Oh? And what might that be" inquired the disguised kazekage.

"What and spoil the surprise for you? No kazekage-sama just watch and be prepared for a surprise win."

The kazekage shifted in his seat in anticipation "perhaps this brat will end up being more of a nuisance than I previously thought I may have to have him dealt with later during the invasion" he thought sinisterly.

Naruto was now preparing to fight Neji for real and was waiting for the last clones to gain all available knowledge from combat with Neji.

"STOP SENDING IN THESE DAMN CLONES YOU COWARD FAE ME FOR REAL!" shouted Neji growing increasingly frustrated with the amount of clones bogging him down and wearing him out of chakra.

Naruto just smirked and sent a couple more clones at him to anger him more after all, an angry opponent makes mistakes right. "Wow I'm really on the ball today I thinking so clearly!" he thought as he spammed 10more clones that all charged Neji to rile him up.

What Naruto was not expecting was for next to get so angry that he broke out a technique he was not supposed to know. All Naruto heard was…

"ROTATION!"

All of Naruto's clones were detonated and Neji stopped his spin and scowled at Naruto.

"I should not have done that" he stated in a displeased tone He now realised what Naruto had done and was angry at himself for falling for it and was going to correct it now that the cat was out of the bag "I was meant to save that technique for a later fight. No matter I will end this now. You are in range of my divination"

"What?" said Naruto prepared for whatever Neji was going to do. But he was not prepared for this.

Neji moved quicker than Naruto could follow and struck quickly and precisely.

" eight trigrams 2 palms!, 4palms!, 8 palm!, 16 palms !, 32palms !, 64 palms! Eight trigrams 64 palms!"

The crowd cheered as Naruto fell to the floor he may of fallen by he was still conscious and was slowly getting more upset with the comments shouted into the arena "Finish him!", "rid us of the demon!", "destroy him!".

"That's IT! IM NOT GIVING UP HERE!"

Deep within Naruto mind Kyuubi's cage room began to spark with a strange yellow light. I would arc across the bars of his cell and of the walls.

"Well this is interesting. This has never happened before…" was all he said before a small orb of yellow appeared outside the cage and shocked the Kyuubi making him fur stand on end and his chakra spike uncontrollably.

"THIS CHAKRA…YONDAIME!"

Outside the seal in the arena Neji watched as Naruto tried to move before turning to the proctor. "proctor call the match he wont be getting up" he said before spinning around at the spike of evil charka from behind him.

In the split second his byakugan glanced Naruto's chakra system he swore he saw a fox's head inside his stomach look directly at him and roar, before he blinked and it was gone. But that paled in comparison to the fact that Naruto was stood up with chakra flowing freely through his body.

"H…hh…how, that should be impossible no one can reopen their chakra system forcefully like that"

"Whats the matter Neji fate not going your way today?"

That was the last straw for Neji and he exploded at Naruto "WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW FOOL. FATE HAS NOT GONE MY WAY MY ENTIRE LIFE! YOU KNOW NOTHING OF THE SUFFERING I HAVE BEEN THROUGH UNDER THE HAND OF MY SO CALLED FAMILY!" he proceeded to rip off his head band and unwrap his forehead bandages.

"You see this! This is what keeps me from being free! Do you know what its like to live beneath the shadow of a seal all your life! you don't do you!"

"Your wrong Neji I know exactly how that feels" Naruto whispered quietly but all the same Neji heard it.

"what? How could you? Explain what you mean Uzumaki!"

"Fine, but watch the faces of the villagers who hear me speak with your byakugan then you will know my truth" Naruto said in a voice that was darker than usual, surprising Hinata who was reading his lips with the byakugan.

"Oh Naruto, this is the second time today you've let down your mask today. what makes you suffer so much" she thought sadly.

Neji paused a second then activated his byakugan.

Naruto started to peak in a dead voice as he began a tale that would change a life today.

"13 years ago the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, we lost many ninja and the village would have been destroyed if it wasn't for the Yondaime."

"I've heard this story before do not stall!"

"I'm not stalling shut up and listen!" Naruto chanced a glance at the Kage box to see the Sandaime looking on in horror as he lip read Naruto and realised what Naruto was doing, and shook his head telling him not to…Naruto ignored him. Then he proceeded to attack half seriously to make it look like they were still fighting.

"As I said we would be destroyed if it weren't for Yondaime, he charged into battle to stop the fox. But even he could not defeat it. So he came up with another plan. He took an orphan and performed a sealing process placing the fox inside a newborn so the baby's chakra coils could adapt to the foxes power. His last wish was for me to be seen as a hero!" but this village spat on him and his request! I was kicked out of the orphanage when I was 4 I lived on the streets for almost a year when the Sandaime found me! I WAS FOUR!"

Neji was so stunned by this news he could not stop Naruto before he continued.

"The third set up an account and donated from his personal fund for me to live on and bought me my apartment. But he could do nothing against the entire village and their biased hatred, I was banned from some shops and could go nowhere and be treated nicely apart from the Ichiraku ramen stand. I had to ask the third to deal with things to allow me to at least buy clothes for myself. And still the scorn continued! Every year on my birthday I had to hide inside in fear that the festival goers and revelers would become to enraged upon seeing me be accosted for just walking around! It wasn't until I entered the academy that it stopped, but even then the instructors treat me nicely. No help in lessons, outdated materials and equipment and I swear to this day my tests were always harder than everyone else's!" Naruto disengaged the taijutsu fight and jumped back.

"so tell me Neji Hyuga, does fate rule my lif?e have I gone along with what I was dealt? NO! I've fought it at every turn and fought tooth and nail to get to where I am now and you will not take it from me. So come on lets finish this, then maybe you can go and fight your fate."

Neji stood there frozen in a stance for what seemed like forever to him before he shook himself wiped the tear from his eye then looked at Naruto and said

"It would be an honour Uzumaki-san"

From then on it turned into who could come up with the best plan fight as they both displayed increasing ingenuity until Naruto tricked Neji's byakugan by tunnelling underground and upper cutting him into unconsciousness. He was then taken away on a stretcher.

Chapter end

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