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Chapter 7

Destiny's a Bitch

Neji and Asuka stood at opposite sides of the field, Hatsuharu was by her side, ready to fight along with her. Guy was the referee, while Lee just watched, not knowing who to cheer for, they are both his teammates after all. So he'll cheer for both of them.

Gah! Asuka screamed in her head. After all these years of training, I STILL don't have a style, unless I test out my new weapon… I'm not sure. She looked over to Hatsuharu, it seemed like he knew what she was thinking and nodded his head, agreeing with her future plan.

"Why does Hatsuharu get to fight with you?" Neji asked.

"Because, he is a tool, not a student." She responded coldly.

"Are both sides ready?" Guy announced, asking both of them. They both nodded, an evil grin appeared on her face as she lowered her head, hiding her eyes. "Then on 'go' you will fight."

Asuka clenched her fists so tight, it felt like her fingernails were digging into her skin.

"Three!"

Hatsuharu dug his claws into the ground, growling as he stared down Neji.

"Two!"

Neji activated his Byakugan without forming a hand signal of any sort.

"One!"

All three of them tense, ready to pounce on each other.

"Go!"

Hatsuharu formed into three perfect clones of himself and charged at Neji at all different directions while Asuka did hand signals and twirled as the electric blue chakra flowed in the air around her.

Neji dodged all the clones, but couldn't find the original for some reason. He could normally spot the original quickly, and neutralize them. But he cant neutralize him if he cant find him, his focus turned to Asuka; seeing all tha chakra flow out and around her as she twirled. "I see what your doing now, and it's no use!" he charged after her, "I will stop you!"

She jumped out of the way in time, landing yards behind him. "Just a little more time Hatsuharu." She whispered.

In an instant, Hatsuharu came out of the ground and grabbed Neji by the torso, shaking him vigorously so then he wouldn't have time to do anything but experience a short surprise.

"This is it!" she formed a fist and water swirled around her whole fist and forearm as she sprinted towards him. "Water Fang Fist!" she punched Neji in the heart, knocking him out of Hatsuharu's mouth and several more yards away from them.

"I didn't think you'd do that." He said as he felt the puncture marks on his med torso, "Now I'll have to keep focus in the ground too."

"Now that there's water around us, I'm able to do more of a variety." She smirked. Thank you Kakashi sensei. She thought to herself. "But I do have many more tricks up my sleeve Neji!"

"And I'll see through them all!" he dashed to Hatsuharu, and started jabbing him really hard in certain areas. "Considering I'm able to see where your chakra flows, I'm able to stop the flow of it." he jumped back as Asuka pulled out a kunai and missed him by only centimeters.

"Hatsuharu doesn't need any chakra for the rest of this anyway!" she yelled out, still having that grin on her face. She did more hand signals, "Water style, stone rain jutsu!" she did a front flip, and landed, slamming her fist into the ground. Above came rain shooting so fast, all you saw was a blur. But Neji saw through this and dodged most of them, a few hitting grazing him, and barley three of them hit him directly. It literally felt like stones raining on him. While he was distracted, he barley dodged Hatsuharu charging at him and slashed him with a kunai.

"Is that the best you've got!" Neji looked up to see her in mid air.

"You have no idea." She pulled out a chain with an altered kunai at the end of it. "Meet my kunai claws!" she threw the connected kunai to Neji, but he dodged it and got a good look at the altered kunai now.

It looked like a normal four edged blade, the only difference is that the edges have little spikes on it that face the handle; making it easier for it to go in, and painful to get out.

The kunai claw sunk into the ground, she pulled and quickly landed on the ground next to Neji, seeing the opportunity to kick him in the chest.

He easily evaded and started jabbing her everywhere on her body, she began to feel limp, like her legs just disappeared and she couldn't stand anymore. She landed on the ground motionless, all she could do was breathe and look around without turning her head.

Neji released his Byakugan and glared at her, "Before you challenge an opponent you can't beat, make sure you have a thought out plan." He then jabbed a place in her neck that released all her muscles.

"I'll get you next time Neji, just you wait and see." She growled through her teeth as she sat up.

He scoffed, "I'll be waiting to see you fail again at what is impossible."

She got up, but her muscles still refused to work completely. Not being able to fully stand, she got on Hatsuharu's back and laid face down, letting her limbs dangle.

"You'll be like that for a day, just to let you know." He glanced back at her before Guy and Lee approached her.

"That was an excellent sparing Asuka." Guy praised as he patted her back.

"Yes! A most splendid match!" Lee gave her his good guy pose.

She gently laughed, "Thanks guys, but I'm not too happy with it, I need to train more." She looked down with grief, thinking that she could beat and knock some sense into Neji. But instead, she just proved him right.

"Do not give up Asuka!" Lee encouraged, "I lose to powerful opponents like Neji and I NEVER give up!"

She smiled at his kind and encouraging words, "Thank you Lee, I wont give up, I'll keep trying until I succeed, then I'll train more so then I'll continue to succeed."

"That's the spirit!" Guy agreed.

They heard footsteps enter the training ground, the team looked over to see Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji enter. But Naruto and Kiba were shirtless, and Akamaru was still on Kiba's head.

"PROTECT ASUKA'S INNOCENT EYES!" Lee screamed as he tackled her to the ground, covering her eyes with his leaf village head band.

"What are you four academy students doing here?" Guy asked. Hearing Asuka struggling to get Lee off of her, but ignored it anyway.

"Naruto and Kiba came her to train, and we were going to watch," Shikamaru spoke up, "But if your using it, we'll go else where."

"We were actually about to end today, let my students rest for the day." Guy responded, "So this is all yours."

"Naruto! Kiba! Why are both of you shirtless?!" Lee demanded.

"Well," Kiba started, "we were playing around, but you know how it rained yesterday? There was mud, and Naruto started to play around and he got both of us in a mud pile. So we put our shirts in our pack and came down here still."

"LEE!" Asuka shrieked. "I'V SEEN A GUY'S CHEST BEFORE! I'M FINE! LET ME UP!" she demanded, but Lee was still in peak condition, so he didn't move an inch.

"I will on two conditions." Lee commented.

"What are your demands!?" she questioned.

"Keep my head band around your eyes, and spar with me tomorrow." He said.

"FINE!" she answered. "But you're helping me home again!"

"I can deal with that." He responded as he helped her up and tied his head band around her eyes.

"You know what? Kiba, Naruto, you guys can help me home." She took off the head band and started running towards them, but as instantly she took off the head band, her legs were still jelly and failed her as she fell to the ground on her own.

Kiba and Naruto exchanged questioning looks, wondering what to do.

"NO THEY WILL NOT!" Lee shouted as he effortlessly put the head band over her eyes again. "BECAUSE THEY ARE SHIRTLESS AND THEY WILL CURROPT YOUR INNOCENT EYES!" he wrapped one of his arms around her waist with her arms inside his grip, and walked off as she was tucked under his arm.

"Lee!" Asuka shouted as he carried her off towards her house with Hatsuharu behind them.

"Hey, are Bushy Brow and Asuka dating or something?" Naruto carelessly asked.

"I wouldn't be surprised." Neji stated.

"Nope, that's impossible." Guy corrected.

"Why's that?" Choji asked.

"Because, Lee hasn't announced it yet." Guy finished with a big toothy grin.

Ha HA! Did you think she would win? I hoped she would win though… then again, in my opinion, she would have lost to Neji because of her accident prone, and because of her shyness of a frontal assault. She likes to be "unpredictable" so she does more hide-and-seek attacks more than charging after the opponents.

Sorry it's short, but chapter 9 will be longer, I promise, the next chapter is about the same length as this one. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I loved writing it.

I'm also considering a double upload ever other week. Opinions on that? Is it a good or bad idea? I'm doing debate, so I'm hoping my schedule isn't too hectic, I'm just so far ahead of my original schedule for this, I really am.

See you next week!

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