It was Hyuuga Hinata's turn to fight and she was very nervous as normal. She had trained very hard and felt stronger than the last time she took this test. She was kind of hoping she could fight Neji again in a proper match to see if she could match the genius ninja, despite sparring against him in training. She passed her team mate Kiba as he came off the battlefield while she walked onto it. It was weird how the last time she had fought in the exams she had been the match after Kiba, he was exhausted and gave her a smile of good luck as she walked out into the cold rain and muddy ground. She had her team behind her for this fight, but this wasn't her main motivator to win-it was thinking of Naruto somewhere training with one of the legendary sannins and how strong he must be getting. She missed him a heap and wanted to show him how strong she has got while he has been gone and becoming a Chuunin was perfect for doing that. Her opponent stepped on the field and he was absolutely huge and well covered. A long black sheet hung over his face and body and the referee also entered and began the match.
Hinata activated her Byakugan straight off the bat as she attacked her opponent. She was surprised when her enemy took out a huge battleaxe and swung it carelessly, not even getting close to her and giving her a good opportunity for a kick to his head. She was hoping it may have been this easy, but it seemed however it wouldn't be as the damage was done more to Hinata's foot than it did to the ninja's head. He had some kind of protective gear under the hood and Hinata jumped away to create some distance. "Leaf ninjas cannot match us Rock ninjas for strength." Every girl watching the match whether they were from Konoha or not were disgusted to hear this and let their feelings behind Hinata known to the armoured ninja. Most of the crowd loved to see Konoha lose, but were now fully behind Hinata.
Hinata gathered her thoughts and thought for a second. Direct attacks were going to be useless in this fight and Hinata needed a way around this concrete defence. The armour would indeed be troublesome but there were always ways around it. His attacks were easy to dodge and he was quite cumbersome. She looked around with her Byakugan but it didn't prove to show anything. The opponent got sick of waiting and smashed his axe into ground extremely hard. This didn't just have a purpose of scaring Hinata as if this did connect there was no surviving but the shockwave it created through the ground made her lose her balance and distracted from the kunai that were thrown at her. She was able to avoid being hit though and was lucky as an everyday ninja could have followed up and really pressured her, but because her opponent was so slow, his attacks were easy to see through-that didn't help her understand how she would take down a target so powerful though and he began charging in at her with his axe held high. Hinata remained where she was as she had plenty of time to think of a counter attack; she had to find a weak point in his armour. Her own attacks with the gentle fist did internal damage but the armour would prevent her from using that, which she then knew she would have to wear him out and grind him down.
The armoured ninja swung his axe wildly and was nowhere near hitting Hinata. Even when he tried to catch her in a blind spot which may have had some people in trouble, her Byakugan's vision picked it up immediately. This guy didn't seem to be letting up, and her stamina was gradually getting lower. Hinata moved as though she didn't have a tactics, it was a bad plan, but it was a plan. He kept coming and coming and noticed that Hinata had got more fatigued and she was able to get a few shots in, doing no damage but frustrated the armoured ninja as he at times got close to her but couldn't quite hit her. After the frustration had built up, the armoured ninja took a huge swing at Hinata and when he missed, left an enormous opening for Hinata to get a shot underneath his arm. He winced and almost dropped his axe and retreated from Hinata who didn't follow him. "So your eyes saw the part of me that wasn't armoured huh?" Hinata didn't answer as it was indeed her Byakugan that picked up this spot on her. The armoured ninja couldn't work out why such a light shot hurt so much and had obviously never heard of the gentle fist technique. Hinata gathered her thoughts and charged in, she used some pace to get in and around the armoured ninja to a spot where she could once again attack the weak point. "Too predictable to come to my weak point," he had been ready for her and used his other free hand to swipe at Hinata. It was too predictable he would do this to Hinata however and she had prepared her own manoeuvre into a position to get a good strong shot at the enemy's head. It shook the opponent and he was a little groggy, his helmet was also beaten up and the armoured ninja had to take it off as it no longer sat properly on his head. Hinata smiled as she wanted this the entire time. "Fight me like a warrior Leaf ninja. We are battling, not running." Hintata wasn't going anywhere and she was going to fight on her terms, not his. without the helmet, Hinata would move around until she could get a clear shot to the ninjas head who was slowly starting to feel the damage. The more they continued, the more he had to stop and back up from pain and needing to rest. Hinata only had to keep this up, there was no time limit on their fight and she could see her opponent slowly becoming slower and slower. Finally, he played right into what Hinata wanted and he had to take off his cloak and armour. "You play a hard game Leaf ninja," he was breathing heavy; he only held his axe now. "It seems you have worn me out to fatigue, I may not have a variety of moves as you do, but I only need this next one." He stood there appearing normal, and Hinata could see what he was doing but pretended not to. This guy had never seen the Byakugan before and didn't know she could see everything. It seemed he was increasing the chakra flow in and around his body. He was using his adrenaline to increase and accelerate chakra around his body, which meant he would be temporarily able to move at higher speeds for the first time in this fight. He wasn't only refreshed but had double the energy he did before. He rushed in at Hinata with quite a decent speed but she was able to dodge, he had abandoned his giant axe for two smaller ones which he waved around in an intimidating fashion. He was coming for the kill but Hinata could use her hands as weapons to his entire body which he normally would do so much to protect. The enemy hadn't grasped the gentle fist concept and wondered how a girl could do this much damage to him, his movement was also affected by this technique and he found himself having to prepare himself again. The pause only allowed Hinata to prepare for her final attack. She made her seals, "Eight Trigrams Sixty Four Palms". The rain coming down around them, stopped in mid air, the droplets became blades of chakra which emitted from her hands and she began moving at speeds the opponent couldn't even see. She hit him repeatedly with the blades of chakra until he crashed to the ground unable to move. Hinata looked at him in the eyes, "I am not fighting like a warrior, and I am fighting like a ninja."