Hello again, my friends. I'm sorry about the whole not-giving-you-the-new-chapter-when-I-told-you-I-would thing. I started writing it, and then my friend slept over, leaving no time to write. Then I had school and homework, so I wrote a little bit every day. But here it is: Neji vs. Lee. I was really waiting to write this fight. I had a lot of fun with it and I think everyone will like it. Seeing as how Monday there's no school, I'll try my best to get Chapter 9 with the Gaara-Shino fight up by this weekend. I'm probably gonna need some time to think as to how the battle will go, so it should be a good chapter. Also, I made up that move for Neji, the "Kaiten Bakushin". I read in an translator that Bakushin means dash, so I used that. If anyone could find a better word for dash I would really appreciate it. I would also seriously appreciate it if someone could tell me whether it should be "Kaiten Bakushin" or "Bakushin Kaiten" because I was wondering about that. Okay, I'll stop blabbering for now so you can read this chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I guess you could technically say I own the Kaiten Bakushin.

"Lee...I'm not going to tell you to give up...but I'm also telling you that I will not hold back."

"Same for you...Neji."

The crowd hushed down and waited for the fight to start. Genma saw a nod of Tsunade's head, and he sighed and took a step back.

"The second match...Neji versus Rock Lee...begin."

Neji's activated his Byakugan almost instantly, and waited for Lee to make the first strike. "I guess I can consider myself lucky..." Neji thought to himself quickly as Lee charged toward him. "In that match against Gaara, he had already used the gates once, so I'm guessing he won't be using them again." Lee jumped forward with an air kick heading straight for Neji's head. Neji quickly kicked Lee's leg with his own, causing Lee to fall to his feet quickly. In a split second within landing on the ground, Lee squatted down and grabbed Neji's leg. In one swell movement, Lee rose back up to full height and tossed Neji head-first toward one of the many pillars scattered through out the area. In mid-air, Neji gathered up his chakra and began to spin like a top. Suddenly a force field of chakra appeared around him. This chakra destroyed the rock pillar and then Neji quickly dispensed the force field, colliding with the ground on his shoulder. Neji slowly stood up, wiping a little bit of blood on his face.

"I'm not gonna get anywhere with my weights..." Lee turned backward and began to run up one of the rocky pillars. This was a bit difficult seeing as how Lee couldn't use ninjutsu and the wall climbing jutsu was categorized under that. He reached the top and looked toward Gai-sensei, who was leaning against the man-made walls of earth. Gai-sensei smiled and nodded. Lee kneeled down and took off the orange covering of his legs. Now the weights that read "Guts" were viewable. The previous contestants of the Chunin Exam knew what was coming. Gaara showed a small smile, knowing what true skill Lee had. Lee removed the weights and dropped them toward the ground. When they hit the ground, there was a large explosion of smoke and debris. Lee quickly re-equipped the orange coverings and leaped forward off from the pillar. He was heading toward Neji with his flying kick ready. Neji threw an uppercut punch toward Lee's chin. Lee went flying upward and crash landed in front of Neji. Lee quickly got up breathing heavily. Neji closed his eyes and made a certain stance.

" Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!"

Neji dashed toward Lee, ready to press all of his chakra points out of service. Then the unthinkable happened. The thing that Neji thought no one would ever even try to accomplish.

Lee stood still as Neji approached him...

...and he threw a punch straight into Neji's nose without even lifting his head.

Everyone watching the battle had pure disbelief in this. They had seen what had happened with Neji and Naruto. Usually when Neji performed his sixty four palm technique, the enemy was usually stunned with fear as to what would happen next. But Lee...Rock Lee had literally stopped the attack before it even started. Neji went sliding backwards crashing into one of the few trees in the area. Blood quickly flushed out of Neji's nose, which was now broken. Neji stood up and faced Lee, who had turned around to face Neji. Suddenly, Lee had quickly disappeared and re-appeared under Neji's chin. Lee thrusted his leg upward colliding with Neji's chin, sending him flying upward. Lee quickly jumped up over Neji who was still in the air, ready with a punch to the face.

"KAITEN!"

Neji spun around quickly like a top again and Rock Lee's hand hit the chakra so hard that his hand went flying back. Lee and Neji then both fell to the ground at the same time.

"Lee's gonna kill himself if he keeps fighting like this...he's using up so much chakra, and he can't open any of the gates because of the Chunin Exam..." Sakura said in a low voice.

"Don't worry Sakura...it's still anybody's game..." Kakashi said with a small yawn.

"I guess I should reveal my new attack...I've been training on it for a while," Neji said calmly. He wiped some blood off of his mouth and took the stance of his Kaiten. He suddenly began to spin like a top as usual. Then he began to move toward Lee very slowly...while still spinning.

"KAITEN BAKUSHIN!"

Suddenly Neji dashed toward Lee while still spinning. The force field collided with Rock Lee and sent him flying backward into a pillar. Neji kept moving though. The force field kept spinning as he moved.

"He learned how to move with his chakra at that speed!" Naruto and Sakura both yelled aloud. Kakashi even raised an eyebrow at this; Neji was excellent at controlling chakra, much better than Sakura. To move while forcing all that chakra from all over your body was impossible for Kakashi. It was hard enough for him to get chakra out of certain parts of the body like his finger tips.

"Well, Gai, that must've taken a while to teach him," Kakashi stated.

"I didn't teach him that," Gai said quietly. "Every day after we did our missions in the month before this tournament, all of us went home except for Neji. He stayed outside in Konoha for an extra 3 hours, saying that he was 'perfecting a new technique.' I guess this was it..."

Rock Lee breathed heavily while leaning against the pillar, and his eyes widened as he saw Neji coming once more. Neji pounded through Rock Lee and the pillar, making it fall down to the ground, causing a huge rise up of smoke. The smoke flew every where and everyone was temporarily blinded. Suddenly, Lee flew forward out of the smoke and crashed into the man made walls that the others were leaning against. The smoke finally cleared and Neji was seen standing breathing heavily. All around the battling field were deep marks in the ground as if a boulder had rolled through. Everyone backed away from Lee, knowing that if they even put a finger on him he would be disqualified for interference. Lee slowly stood up and looked toward Neji. Both of them were beat up pretty bad, but they didn't give in.

"Lee...I am going to finish this now...you put up a good fight..." Neji said slowly. Suddenly, Neji's hand began to emit an aura of chakra. This was the Juken. Neji was going to halt the chakra of Lee. Lee slowly shook he head as he coughed up a little blood.

"Neji...this is...far from over...I will be victorious!" Lee screamed at the top of his lungs.

Neji looked deep into Rock Lee's eyes. They were full of determination to win. They were full of the wish to prove that a genius of hard work could defeat a natural born genius. Lee charged forward toward Neji, roaring for a massive attack. Neji stood still and waited for him to approach.

"KONOHA DAISENPU!"

Lee leaped forward and performed a spinning double kick, with his left leg higher than the other. Neji tapped both of the legs extremely hard with his index finger and his middle finger at the same exact time. A scream of agony came from Lee as he fell down with a thud as his attack was halted. He could feel no chakra in his legs. Neji jumped backwards as Lee stood up again. It was tough to move his legs. Neji slowly walked toward Lee. Lee, without the ability to even walk forward or backward, threw a punch toward Neji's head. Neji stopped it with his hand and poked his right arm, the arm the punch was thrown with, with his 2 fingers in the same manner of his legs. Lee's arm quickly fell back in place as Lee threw a punch with his left arm. Neji did not stop this one; he moved his head to the right and quickly poked it again with his 2 fingers and it fell into place again.

"Lee...give up...this is..." Neji said slowly, his voice caught with a little bit of sorrow.

"Do not say this is pointless, Neji...because...I will prove...my ninja way!" Lee said out loud. Neji slowly lifted his head and stared straight into his eye. "My ninja way...I will never give up on that! Not in a million years!"

Suddenly, Lee thrusted his head toward Neji's head in one quick movement. With that unexpected head bump, both Lee and Neji fell down. They were down for about 5 seconds, and then Neji slowly stood up and was followed by Lee. Neji lowered his eye lids and gave a sigh full of sadness.

"Lee...forgive me for this, but I want to end this now before I accidentally end up killing you."

Neji's left hand suddenly emitted an enormous amount of chakra. Neji pushed his hand onto Rock Lee's chest and Lee went flying back crashing into a pillar.

"Lee!" Sakura yelled out loud, a tone of worry.

"Don't worry," Gai replied. "Neji just temporarily stopped his heart flow. He'll be unconscious for a few hours. If Neji didn't knock him out, he would've kept fighting. That kid...he has determination."

"Examiner. I have won. Now if you don't mind, I need to take my friend to the hospital."

Genma slowly nodded. "That's a good kid right there...Naruto changed him...good job Naruto..."

"The winner of the second match is Hyuga Neji. He advances."

Neji walked over to Lee and placed him on his shoulders. Medic-nin came and offered to carry him to the hospital, but Neji simply shook his head. Gai slowly walked behind Neji, and everyone saw them vanish into the trees of the forest path that led back to Konohagakure.

Neji looked up at the sun with a small smile. "Rock Lee...you are truly a splendid Leaf-nin. One day you will be recognized. You will be recognized as the hero of pure strength and determination."

The audience hushed once more as Tsunade stood up again. "Hyuga Neji advances. The third match is now in place. If Sabaku no Gaara and Aburame Shino could please move to the center of the area." She said with a distinct voice.

Everyone looked at Gaara as he turned into sand and reappeared in the center. Shino calmly walked to the opposite side of Gaara.

"Alright. Third fight, Gaara versus Shino. You can begin."