The Hikarinin Exams

Chapter Two: Shino Versus Neji!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or any of the characters in this story.

The two Genin stood facing eachother in a staredown. Finally, Neji almost disappeared and began circling an unfaltered Shino at blinding speed. Shino's bugs began to come out and fly toward Neji, who continued to circle him. Finally, Neji stopped a distance behind Shino. He charged at him from behind, but stopped to see a wall of bugs forming behind Shino.

"Mushi no Kabe! (Wall of Insects)" said Shino. The wall of destruction bugs flew toward Neji, knocking him to the ground. He quickly recovered, and attempted to throw a palm thrust into the wall."

"Jyuken! (Gentle Fist)" yelled Neji, slamming his hand into them. There was a sharp smashing sound as Neji jumped backward and grasped his wrist in pain.

"No good," said Shino. "My destruction bugs eat Chakra. It's useless to use that. When you use a Jyuken, the bugs feast on your chakra, become stronger, and fortify like a wall of steel." The wall of bugs collapsed to the ground and returned to Shino. He grabbed a single bug and flicked it at Neji.

"Pretty good, but what are you going to do with one bug?" said Neji.

"Plenty." said Shino. He threw up a hand seal and yelled. "Mushi Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! (Insect Shadow Clone Technique)" The bug split into about twenty more and began flying at Neji even faster.

Neji stared at the bugs coming on toward him. He put his hands in the Hyuga stance.

"Now!" Shino said calmly. "Mushi Kawarimi no Jutsu! (Insect Replacement Technique)" All the bugs turned into whirling Shuriken and Kunai.

"You'll have to try harder!" said Neji. "Hakkesho Kaiten! (Eight Trigrams Rotation)" The shurikens were harmlessly deflected by Neji's field of whirling Chakra. He stopped, panting, when something grabbed him from behind. Using his Byakugan, he could see that it was Shino. But looking deeper, he could see something that the others couldn't see.

"You're a bug clone." he said to the Shino behind him.

"Too late." it responded. The real Shino charged at him with a kunai.

"You've forgotten who you're up against." said Neji. "HAHHH!" he cried out, emitting a massive burst of chakra from all over his body. The bug clone barely moved.

"They eat Chakra, fool!" said Shino.

"Then let's give them more than they can handle." said Neji. He growled as a massive amount of chakra exploded from him. Time seemed to slow down around him. "Just…a bit more…!" he said as he felt his body burning from the sudden massive emission of chakra. Finally, the bug clone began to boil. It exploded into a mass of greenish blood, which Neji whirled around through and slung into Shino's face. He stopped in his tracks and screamed.

"Hakke: Rokujuyon Sho! (Eight Trigrams Sixty Four Palms)" he said. A trigram appeared on the ground surrounding them. Neji rushed in to finish him.

"Two strikes!" he said, tapping Shino in two of his tenkutsu. He then whirled around.

"Four strikes!" he said again. The attacks continued to grow faster.

"Eight strikes!" He tapped Shino eight times, closing even more chakra points.

"Sixteen strikes!" The crowd began to stare. Shino winced in pain, but you could hardly tell beyond his bloodspattered collar and his sunglasses.

"Thirty-two strikes!" Neji's hands became a blur of chakra and bandages.

"Sixty-four strikes!" Neji said, slamming his palms into Shino's tenkutsu. The move was complete. Shino was on his knees, gasping for air. Neji walked up to him.

"Shino… Stop bugging me." Neji said, and flicked him in the forehead with a burst of chakra, sending him spiraling out of the arena.

Kakashi appeared in the arena in a puff of smoke.

"Hyuga Neji has won this match and will now advance. Next match's combatants are…

Hyuga Hinata…

and….

U…" Kakashi stopped after the first letter for dramatic tension.

"So, it's Sasuke?" thought Hinata.

"…zumaki Naruto!" Kakashi finished, then began to read his new book, Make-Out Violence.

"ALRIGHT! Time to go wild!" yelled Naruto.

Sakura kneeled down near Hinata.

"Hinata? You there?" she asked. She tapped Hinata on the shoulder lightly, and the Hyuga girl fell down flat on her back.

Hinata regained consciousness when she felt someone grab her hand. It was Naruto. "Hinata. I want you to fight with everything you have, okay? Don't go easy on me."

"If t-that's what y-you want, N-Naruto." She stumbled into the arena, it finally clicked that Naruto was holding her hand, and she fell down again.

"Hinata, do your best!"

"N…n…Naruto…" she said. "I won't go easy on you!" She was changing already.

"Begin when you're ready…hee…hee…GAHAHAHAHA!" Kakashi said, reading his book while walking away. He tripped over the fence and landed flat on his face.

"Some sensei he is…" thought Sakura.

This story is actually kind of old. I still have another chapter to upload.