Disclaimer: naruto doesnt belong 2 me

"This getting to be a heated battle! Don't you think, Michiko?!" Akio bounced happily.

"Huh?" Michiko looked up from her book.

"The battle between Naruto and Neji!"

"...There was a battle now?"

"WHAT?! IT ALREADY STARTED ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO!"

"...A battle started?" Michiko still stared at Akio.

"...WERE YOU EVEN PAYING ATTENTION!?" Akio waved her arms madly.

"I've been reading the whole time."

"..."

Akio gave an exaggerated sigh and continued to watch.

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto shouted.

This time, he created many clones that ran at Neji. He began to fight with only one of them. After that, he began to fight three at the same time. The three of them were already tired as Neji smirked. They began to surround him.

"I told you that I'm not stupid."

Neji began to run at only one Naruto.

"I already know which is the real one!" he declared.

He hit Naruto in the left just below the shoulder.

"The ones who attacked the least because he feared his tenketsu would be hit. The more you attacked me, the more that one stood out. You're the real one," he stated confidently.

Naruto coughed out blood and his clones began to disappear. One by one, they disappeared.

"That's why I told you that it was useless."

"I told you... not to come to conclusions on you own..." Naruto chuckled. Then he disappeared.

"It was a fake?!" Akio gasped. "GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK WHY DON'T YOU!"

"Smart..." Mizu smirked.

"Naru-chan got smarter?" Hiyony gasped.

Two Narutos jumped at Neji.

"ALL RIGHT! GO, NARUTO!" Kiba cheered.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata smiled.

He was a step ahead of me and made one of his replications stay back?! Neji was outraged.

"I've been attacking you with everything I had!" Naruto claimed.

Naruto punched him, but Neji merely smirked. Suddenly, Neji began to spin and Naruto was thrown back.

"What was that...?" Naruto asked.

"Did you think you had won?" Neji continued to smirk confidently.

"That was..." Hinata gaped.

"Kaiten!" Hiashi trembled.

"Damn you! Don't underestimate me!" Naruto used Kage Bunshin again.

They all began to surround Neji as he went into a stance. As they began to attack, Neji began to spin around again. It blew every one of the Narutos away and disappeared.

"That was Father's!" Hanabi shouted in shock.

"The Kaiten is a secret technique that is only passed down to the Hyuuga successors... In other words, those from the Hyuuga Head Family. But he came up with that move by himself? What a guy... I didn't expect him to be this talented..." Hiashi was astonished.

"This is it," Neji claimed. "You are within the range of my Divination. Jyuuken: Hakke Rokujuuyonshou! (Divination field, 64 strikes.)"

"That stance!? Is he going to..?" Hiashi became more surprised.

Neji came at Naruto and spun.

"Hakke... Two strikes!" Neji striked Naruto with two hands.

"Four strikes! Eight strikes! Sixteen strikes! Thirty-two strikes! Sixty-four strikes!" Neji cried.

"Omg! Pressure points! I got to remember this!" Hiyony took out a pencil and scribbled in her notebook that appeared out of nowhere.

"Byakugan and Sharingan.. Who know's who would win that bloodline battle," Kairen thought out loud.

Naruto fell backwards bleeding. Genma walked over and examined Naruto.

"I guess it's over," he assumed.

Naruto tried to get up, but fell down again.

"I hit all sixty-four tenketsus in your body. You cannot stand up anymore. Heh. Mortifying, isn't it? You are on your knees against a power you cannot face finding out how truly powerless you are. It is only an illusion that hard work makes dreams come true," Neji lectured again.

Naruto struggled to get up, but he could barely see Neji's face. But suddenly, images of Lee and Hinata injured appeared.

Kechi Maiyu... Hinata! "Damn it..!" Naruto slowly, but steadily began to stand.

Neji was completely and utterly shocked.

"I told you that I don't give up that easily," Naruto chuckled.

Hinata began to cough more violently and was bleeding, too.

"You're still hurt from the match...!" Kiba stated with worry.

"OMG! HINATA! DON'T DIE ON ME!" Akio exclaimed.

"Don't make a scene, Baka!" Michiko smacked her.

An ANBU began to walk down toward them.

"I'll take a look at her," he said.

"Who are you?" Kiba questioned.

"No one suspicious," he replied.

"No. Go away," Michiko stated bluntly.

"Michiko! Hinata's bleeding!" Kiba argued.

"Fine! Go to your ANPOOH!"

"It's all right. I'm a doctor."

"Stop fighting! It's going to be the same even if you continue. I have no grudge against you," Neji stated.

"Heh! Urusai, dattebayo! Even if you don't, I have one against you!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why..? When you're so strong, why do you have eyes that seem to say you know everything... Why did you mentally attack Hinata like that when she was trying her best!"

"That has nothing to do with you!"

"You ridiculed Hinata and labeled her as a dropout! The Head family and Branch family, I don't know what happened between them... But bastards like you who call other people dropouts will have to deal with me!" Naruto shouted.

The ANBU carried Hinata behind the audience and laid her down. Kiba followed to be near his friend. Akio would have, too, but one, Michiko told her to stay. And two, she wanted to watch the fight. The Anbu laid his hands on Hinata's chest and his hand began to glow green.

"Very well. I will tell you since you seem to care so much... About Hyuuga's fate of hatred!" Neji glared.

Hiyony's eyes widened. She was finally going to understand why Neji was always so cold. So full of hatred. So alone. (Boy I swear that sounded like Gaara, too.)

"Hyuuga has a secret ninja technique that is passed on within the head family. And that is the cursed seal technique."

"Cursed Seal Technique?" Naruto asked.

"That cursed seal technique symbolizes a caged bird, and is also a symbol of those who are bound within an inescapable destiny."

Neji took off his Hitai-ate (don't know how its spelled.) And showed Naruto and everyone the mark.

"When day, when I was four, this detestable seal was carved into me with that cursed seal technique. That day, there was a big ceremony going on in the Village of Konoha. It was also the day when the Country of Lightning, which has been at war with Konoha for a long time, had their Hidden Village of Cloud's head ninja come to conclude the alliance treaty. But in that event where everyone from Konoha including the Jounins to the Genins participated, there was one clan who did not participate. The Hyuuga Clan.

"That day was the long awaited day when the Head family's successor turned three. It was Hinata-sama's third birthday. My father, Hyuuga Hizashi, and Hinata-sama's father up there, Hyuuga Hiashi-sama were twin brothers. But Hinata-sama's father, Hiashi-sama, was born first and a Head family member. And my father, the second son, became a Branch family member." Neji explained.

Flashback

"Hinata-sama is now three. Congratulations," a member of the Branch family said.

"Sure."

Hinata slightly hid behind her father, but turned back and shyly smiled. Neji noticed that and smiled.

"She's cute, Father," he whispered.

His father turned to Neji and gave him a sad smile.

"Huh? What is wrong, Father?"

"No. It's nothing," Hizashi replied.

"Then, I am going to borrow Neji for a while, Hizashi," Hiashi said.

"Hai..."

End of Flashback

"When the Head Family's successor reached the age of three, I was engraved with the cursed seal, and became a caged bird. A Hyuuga branch family member," Neji continued.

"Why do they have to do that?" Naruto was outraged. "Why separate the Head and Branch families? What kind of meaning is there to that weird seal, dattebayo!?"

"This seal on my forehead is not a decoration," he stated heatedly.

Flashback

Hinata was practicing with her father while Neji and his father were watching.

"Your footwork is not good!" Hiashi criticized Hinata.

"Hai!"

She attacked her father again, but was still doing a sloppy job.

"Listen up, Neji. That Hinata-sama from the Head family, you must live to protect her and protect the ability of Hyuuga," Hizashi told his son.

"Hai! Father!" Neji answered with determination.

Hizashi looked down at a smiling Neji who was watching Hinata battle. Hizashi looked back up to Hinata who was panting and tired. His veins slowly emerged.

Hm? An intention to kill! Hiashi glared over at his brother.

He stood in front of his daughter and activated a hand seal. Hizashi held his head and screamed in pain. As he fell, his hitai-ate fell off, revealing his cursed mark glowing. He continued to hold his head in pain.

"Father!" Neji cried in concern. "Father! What's wrong?!"

"Go home," Hiashi ordered. "This is the only time I will forgive that fool. Do not forget your fate."

End of Flashback

"This cursed seal is the absolute fear of death that the Head family gives to the Branch Family. The secret seal that the Head family forms easily destroys the Branch family's brain cells. Needless to say, killing is easy as well. And this cursed seal will only disappear after my death, and it seals up the Byakugan's ability!

"The Hyuuga family has the most unique Bloodline Limit. There are many who are after its secret. So, this cursed seal means that the Branch family only lives to protect the Head family, and it does not allow the Branch family to go against the Head family. It is efficient system to protect Hyuuga's Bloodline Limit, the Byakugan, forever. And... that incident occured..." Neji closed his eyes.

This must be the incident which caused him to be so cold. Hiyony thought as she listened closely.

"My father was killed by the Head family! One night, Hinata-sama was almost kidnaped by someone."

(Aahhhh... so many flashbacks... so tired...)

Flashback

Hinata was sleeping soundly until a figure landed next to her. He took her outside and was close to leaving with her for good. But Hiashi walked outside in front of him and activated his Byakugan. Hiashi slammed his palm at the man and took back his daughter.

End of Flashback

(Shortest flashback of them all! Whoo!)

"Hiashi-sama caught up to the perpetrator immediately and killed him," Neji explained. "He was wearing dark clothes and hid his face with a mask. Who do you think it was? It was the Country of Lightning's head ninja who has just signed the alliance treaty. It was apparent that they came here to seek the secrets of the Byakugan.

"But the Country of Lightning failed in their scheme and ended up with a dead ninja... So they claimed that Konoha broke the treaty and made an unfair demand! Of course, the relationship between Konoha and Lightning worsened and a war almost broke out. But Konoha wanted to avoid a war, so they made a secret agreement with the Lightning."

"Agreement?" Naruto asked.

"The Lightning wanted a Hyuuga Head family member with the Byakugan Bloodline Limit... In other words, Hiashi-sama's dead body. And Konoha agreed..."

"But Father is still..." Hanabi glanced over at her father.

"And war was averted. Thanks to Hyuuga Hiashi's double, who died to protect the Head family... My father! Death is the only way to escape from this detestable cursed seal. They were twins with almost the same strength... But when they were born first and second, their fates were sealed. And in this match, your fate was decided when I became your opponent!"

(This will be the very last flashback! Finally!)

Hiyony stared at Neji sadly. She chose the right person to bother after all.

Flashback

Three in a half years later, Hiyony came running back and hugged Neji from behind.

"Boo! I'm back!" she cried out happily.

"Get off," he bluntly ordered.

"Aw! But didn't you miss me? I missed you!"

"I've said it before. Why do I care? It was never fate for us to be brothers or sisters. And fate will never allow you to beat me. Just give up already."

"..."

Hiyony let go of him and stared at him with a pout.

"You got meaner! You're meaner than before!"

"I never promised anything."

Hiyony pouted and ran off. But she turned back and shouted.

"Just so you know! I got stronger and stronger! Just you wait! I'll beat you and protect you!"

End of Flashback

"Neji..." Hiyony sighed.