Your Fate

Hayate had started the match. Kenji and Neji stood in their stances across from each other. Kenji threw her shurikens at him, Neji dodged them smoothly and ran towards her.

"Here he comes!" she thought. Neji came and pushed his palm out towards her. Kenji reacted by just sidestepping his attack. It just grazed her upper arm.

! "That hurt!" she thought and got behind him and jumped back.

Neji turned around and saw Kenji pressing her opposite hand on the spot where she was lightly grazed. "What's going on!? My arm feels. . .!" she thought. Cue Glued State.

"Have you figured it out yet?" Neji asked her.

"Hey! What happened there!? She was hardly scratched!" Naruto exclaimed.

"No, even light contact like that will hurt." Lee said.

"Eh? How?" Sakura asked.

"His taijutsu." Lee said. "This is why the Hyuga are called Konoha's noble family." he added.

"The Hyuga clan has a special taijutsu style passed on from generation to generation." Guy started. "The taijutsu style Lee and I are experts in focuses on external damage, such as attacking a person's bones. On the other hand the Hyuga taijutsu style tries to attack the chakra network system and cause internal damage. We call that Jyuuken." Guy explained.

Kenji tried to lift her hand off. "It doesn't feel like any bones are broken. That Byakugan of his. . . What is it?" she thought.

"Well, there's no way you can train your internal organs. If you're hit you'll get hurt no matter how tough you are." Kakashi said.

"What's the chakra network system?" Naruto asked.

"It's similar to how you blood vessels. They're like these pipes where chakra flows with your body." Lee explained.

"So it's like a path for chakra." Naruto said.

"The chakra network system is closely intertwined with your internal organs. The Hyuga release chakra from their hands and use it like a weapon to damage their opponent's internal organs." Lee explained.

"But how does he do it? You can't even see the chakra network system." Sakura wondered.

"The Byakugan can see them." Kakashi answered her.

Kenji brought her hands together she made the hand signs tiger, ox, dog, rabbit, and snake. "Fuuton: Daitoppa!" (Wind style: Great Breakthrough!). A large and powerful burst of wind came from her mouth.

It hit Neji, he shielded his face. Kenji looked into the smoke. . .

! She gasped and Neji landed two fingertips on a specific spot in her shoulder. "He went straight for that spot!" she thought. Neji bent his arm and then extended it back out below her neck releasing chakra.

Kenji was pushed back, she landed her feet down and the soles of her feet skidded on the floor. She stopped and put her hands on her bent knees. She panted and blood fell to the floor. "I can't gather chakra." she said. Neji closed his Byakugan.

"What just happened?" Naruto asked.

"He closed Kenji's tenketsu points." Kakashi said. "The chakra network system has 361 chakra points but their width is that of a needle. If you hit them accurately you can increase or decrease chakra flow." he told them.

"Oi, bakemono." Neji called. "Give up." he said. Kenji kept panting. "It's just impossible for you to become a shinobi and if you do many people will despise you. The life of a deformed outcast like you has no purpose. That is your fate, you were destined to be a failure." he said. Kenji just looked down.

Cue Sadness and Sorrow piano.

"Neji is Konoha's strongest Genin, a genius." Lee said.

"The way things are, Kenji will not win." Sakura said.

"Neji's just too strong for her." Guy said.

"She can! She can beat him!" Naruto yelled he had flashing memories of how hard she had worked during these exams. "She's strong. . ." he clenched his fist.

"He's got a point." Sakura thought. "If I let my fear cloud my goal I can't protect my comrades." "My comrades are. . . precious." she remembered Kenji's words. "If Kenji was weak she wouldn't have done all that for us and kept going." Sakura thought.

Kenji was completely silent, "Fate. . ." she thought. Cue Alone.

It was the third Graduation exam, Kenji was sitting in her seat at the back of the classroom. "When your name is called come to the classroom next door. There you will be asked to do the Bunshin no jutsu." Iruka announced to the class.

It was Kenji's turn and she made her way into the classroom where Iruka and Mizuki Sensei sat. They had many headbands on their desk. Kenji spread her feet, closed her eyes, and put her hands together. "Bunshin no jutsu!" she made six other clones next to her.

"That's good, you may disperse your clones now." Iruka told her.

"Hai." Kenji said and her clones disappeared in smoke.

"Iruka Sensei her grades these past years have been depressing. She's dead last, the worst kunoichi. I suggest we hold her back another 2 years before she's Genin." Mizuki discussed.

This surprised Kenji in a bad way. "I disagree, she replicated perfectly with good stamina." Iruka opposed politely. "Also, she replicated twice the amount of clones than the rest of our graduates so far." he added, he looked back at her. "Congratulations you pass." he said.

Kenji grinned with blushing cheeks. "Yatta!" she cheered. She came out of the classroom with her headband in hand and then she stopped right outside the door. Kurenai was standing in the hallway in front of her.

"So you became a Genin. . ." Kurenai said looking at her headband. "Watch your back, now that you've made the wrong choice and became a ninja the world will not lend you any mercy." she told her. Kurenai turned her back on her. "Don't forget who you are, you'll meet a terrible fate. I know it." she said.

Then Kenji fell on her knees, she started to fall.

Sakura and Naruto gasped. "I knew she'd lose." Asuma said.

Then Kenji slammed her fist in the ground. She punched herself a hole and dust flew up from the impact.

! ! ! ! Everyone watching was shocked.

Kenji planted one foot in the ground and then the other using her fist for balance.

"Kono. . ." Neji said scowling.

"Here's somethin' you oughta know." Kenji said and pulled her fist out of the floor. "I never. Give. Up!" she said. "And I sure don't back out of a fight!" she said.

"You're so foolish! Just look at yourself! Give up, now!" Neji ordered her.

"Quit sayin' that!" she told him. "I won't give up! And I never go back on my word!" she yelled. "Sore wa. . ." (That's. . .) she lifted her head up. "Atashi no nindō da!" (My ninja way!) she grinned proudly.

Neji furrowed his eyebrows and stood in a unique stance. One arm was stretched in front and one in back. He had his Byakugan locked on her. A green trigram lit underneath him and Kenji.

"Juukenhou: Hakke Rokujuu Yonshou!" (Gentle fist art: 8 trigrams 64 palms!) Neji said. "2 palms!" he struck her twice, she groaned. "4 palms! 8 palms! 16 palms! 32 palms!" every hit shoved chakra into Kenji violently. "64 palms!" his final strike ended with the back of his left palm on her upper chest and his back right palm on her torso.

Chakra spread in her body from his hands like a ripple. She was blasted back, then her body turned into lightning.

! ! Neji widened his eyes.

"Whoa! Chill out, it's just a clone." Kenji said, she had her feet stuck to the wall with chakra. She jumped down and faced him again. "I guess even your Byakugan can't see through misdirection." she said.

"When did you-!?" Neji growled.

"I switched out at the beginning right after you hit me." Kenji said. Neji remembered, after he had grazed her arm in the beginning of the match she got behind him. That was when she switched herself out with a lighting shadow clone.

"Now I've learned your fighting style and how to counter it." Kenji said.

"She had a plan all along!?" Neji thought.

"I was serious you know. I'm gonna kick your teeth in." she said and cracked her knuckles.