Naruto is a manga series by Masashi Kishimoto published by Shueisha in Japan's Shonen Jump and VIZ Media in the American Shonen Jump. The anime series is produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex for TV Tokyo and Animax with VIZ Media having gone through multiple networks over the years. I don't own the series, I make no money out of doing this. Please support the official release.
Hey guys! Another day, another Slug. The fight continues and Naruto pulls out a few more tricks in his titanic battle with the Hyuga Prodigy.
Chapter nine: Juken! The Flawless Gentle Fist!
Another swarm of Kage Bunshin rushed at the Hyuga prodigy, twenty of them this time. Neji saw the one at the far back. 'The same strategy? What a fool.' He rushed his way past the clones and pulled a kunai from one of them before leaping into the air to land right behind Naruto. "It's over." The clones disappeared.
"Father, why is Naruto trying to use Taijutsu? You were teaching him Nintaijutsu on account of the lack of time." Katanakaji shook his head at his daughter's question.
"Initially, yes. However, I then discovered that Naruto had mastered the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and could divide his training up among many. I taught him a martial art that I thought would help him understand Juken tactics better. In fact he read up on it and decided to adapt his Nindo to include it's teachings."
Tenten turned to her father, "What Martial Art?"
"Judo."
Another swarm of Kage Bunshin rushed at the Hyuga prodigy, twenty of them this time. Neji saw the one at the far back. 'The same strategy? What a fool.' He rushed his way past the clones and pulled a kunai from one of them before leaping into the air to land right behind Naruto. "It's over." The clones disappeared. Neji drove the kunai forward but fell forward when the kunai was suddenly smoke. Two hands grabbed his arm.
"Seoi nage." Neji was suddenly in the air and then slamming into the ground. A trap. Neji rolled away from his opponent and tried to regroup but the orange genin was on him straight away. Neji attempted a kick but it was grabbed and Neji was swung by his own momentum into the air and then into the ground, face first. Held close together by the blond Genin, Neji struggle to break free. "As long as we're this close you're 'All Seeing Eye' is pointless and you don't have the room to try choking my Chakra points. I can just keep throwing you into the ground until…" He didn't get to finish as Neji fixed his footing and then brought his stare to Naruto, radiating with Sakki.
"Hakkesho. Kaiten!" Naruto couldn't hold his grip, it was as though Neji's skin was on fire. Neji span round and the 'fire' began to surround him. Naruto pushed away, throwing stars appearing in his hands and flinging them to cover his retreat. The stars didn't pierce the armour and fell to the ground in a mass of shattered metal. Neji sneered at the fourteen year old Genin. "Did you think you had won with a couple of Judo moves?"
Hiashi gave a start, just as Hinata was shocked into a hacking cough and Hanabi leaned forward to watch the fight. They all shared the same thought: 'Hakkesho Kaiten… the Heavenly Spin…"
While the Hyuga Clan members were shocked, Neji's Kunoichi teammate was all too familiar with his mastery of the Clan Technique. They had trained together for a long time to perfect it. With the Byakugan's almost three hundred and sixty degrees of vision and their natural ability to direct Chakra out of every part of their body allowed Neji to use the Ultimate Protective and Defensive Jutsu.
'So there's another who has an Absolute Defense to rival my own?' mused the red-haired Suna-nin.
"Father, he can use your technique." Hanabi stated as they watched Naruto try to breach Neji's Kaiten only to be flung across the arena.
Hiashi nodded. "Kaiten is the Hyuga Main Family's….. a special technique only passed onto the Heirs to the Hyuga House." 'For Neji to have mastered that technique by himself, without instruction…' Hiashi went deep into thought, observing his brother's son. 'What a Talent. To be this good…'
Naruto ran forward and prepared the hand gestures for Kage Bunshin, Neji began to spin again. A single clone appeared and ran forward. The clone leapt onto the beginning Kaiten and before he was flung away and destroyed, Naruto leapt onto his back to gain height. He pulle out a scroll and raised a hand. "Kai!" A mass of weapons of every shape and size appeared and all came crashing onto Neji. His barely formed Kaiten couldn't handle the onslaught and the Hyuga Prodigy fell away, rolling away from the blades and hammers. The tide of metal came to an end and Neji looked up to find the blond Genin rushing him with a kunai in one hand and a hammer in another. In his confusion he could not fully avoid the attack as the blade pierced his arm and the hammer came own on his forehead. Only his Hitai-ate protected him from losing consciousness, though it did lead to the metal of the Hitai-ate cutting him.
Neji coughed up some blood before he started to sneer again. "Not bad but now you've entered the range of my Hakke Rokujuyon Sho." He adopted a new stance as Naruto prepared for another attack.
Hiashi Hyuga stood up in shock. 'That stance….'
Naruto's attack didn't land as Neji hit first. "Two strikes! Four Strikes! Eight Strikes! Sixteen Strikes! Thirty-two Srikes! Sixty-four Strikes!" The blows were a blur as they landed all over the blond Genin's body. Finally, his boy exploded away from the Hyuga boy.
Hinata and Kiba looked horrified.
Kotetsu an Izumo started adding up the profit they stood to make on their new medical care program.
Hanabi's Byakugan flexed as she focused on the attack's effect.
The Sandaime Hokage gripped the arms of his chair, leaving dents in the wood.
Tenten and Katanakaji looked at each other worriedly, trying to discern why Naruto had put himself in such a position.
Hiashi watched the blond gasping for breath on the arena ground then looked to his nephew. 'What incredible talent.' He thought, 'For the Great Hyuga Blood to flow so strongly in one who can never claim the title of Heir to the Clan…'
Exam Proctor Genma moved closer to the battle. 'That should be about it'.
Neji walked over to Naruto. "I have hit the sixty-four tenketsu of your body. You cannot stand, nor can you channel Chakra." He watched while Naruto, still hunched and holding his torso, rolled onto his knees. "Stay on your knees before a power you cannot defeat or change and accept your worthlessness." 'Just as I have.' "Having your dreams come true through hard work is an illusion. Heh, is it painful? Accepting your role in life?"
Hinata fell from her seat in a coughing fit. When Kiba knelt down to help her up he found blood in her palm. 'N-naruto-kun….' She struggle to see across to where Naruto struggled to rise as her vision blackened.
"D-do you r-really think that I, the last of my Clan would be defeated by the boot-boy of the Clan that served mine?" Naruto looked up as he set one foot down, and then the other. He raised himself to full height to face his opponent who was now backing away in shock.
"W-what?" Neji tripped on a stone and fell onto his rear. 'I-impossible… what is he saying? How is he standing?'
"I am an Uzumaki. The last of the Clan who founded Uzushiogakure. Just as the Uchiha helped the Senju found Konohagakure, so too did the Hyuga help the Uzumaki found Uzushiogakure. Just as the Uchiha were Konoha's Military Police Force, so too were the Hyuga the Uzushiogakure Military Police Force. I am your Lord and if anyone is going to lose this fight it shall be you." Naruto took a resolute stance as he stared down his enemy. 'Good, he will get angry now. Now he will begin to tell me why he hates his own Clan.' Naruto pulled out the Tessen, Swing and Swoop, and took a beginning position. "Yin Seal: KAI!"
"Father, is that all true? What is he?" Hanabi couldn't believe what she was seeing. With that command, a second Chakra network had appeared. It mapped the entire body, just like a normal network. However there appeared to be more 'wires' that collected around his forehead and his stomach. She tried to look closer at the network. It was an eerie orange-red colour. She looked closer but fell back when it seemed to growl at her. "What is he?"
Hiashi felt a cold sweat run down his neck. How had that boy learned about that. That information was only known by the oldest of Clans, the Senju. When Uzushiogakure had fallen, the Hyuga's petitioned the Sandaime Hokage for Asylum. The Yin Seal…. The Seal that had been used by the Shodai Hokage and his wife, the Lady Mito Uzumaki to seal the Nine-tailed fox within her. Somehow… that boy has learned of his maternal lineage and found a way to use the Demon's Chakra. "I…. I don't know Hanabi…. I don't know."
"She was injured during the preliminaries, she said she was fine but…." Kiba struggled to explain to the ANBU working on the unconscious Hyuga girl. He was panicking, feeling responsible for his teammate's condition.
The ANBU gave a reassuring tilt of the head. "The Iryo-nin that treated her merely missed a minor injury that hasn't healed properly. Just a simple bit of emergency surgery. I can do it right now actually, if you prefer."
Kiba eyed his mysterious Samaritan. "Just who are you?"
The ANBU turned to his work. "No-one suspicious if that's what you're thinking."
"As your Superior I command you to answer my question." Naruto faced the Hyuga boy as he moved closer, still in an attack position. "Why? Why did you mentally attack Hinata like that when she was trying so hard?" The Hyuga charged and launched into Kaiten. Naruto swung his Tessen and a great gust swamped Neji. His perfect sphere of Chakra lost form and he fell sprawling on the ground. "Insulting Hinata, automatically deciding she was a loser, I don't care what the hell has happened with your Clan but people who call others losers like that are people I won't forgive!"
Neji pushed himself off the ground, picking stone out of cuts and grazes. "Fine, I'll tell you. You've told me about a Hyuga past I didn't know about so I'll tell you about their present that you don't know about. I'll tell you about the Hyuga Clan's Destiny of Hatred."
