Naruto: Winds and Changes

Jumping back Naruto held up the wrist that held his gauntlet and shot out several kunai in rapid succession, while at the same time was going through a set of one-handed seals with his other hand.

"Kunai Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" several kunai soon multiplied into several dozen kunai, all of which were flying towards Neji.

"What the-! One handed seals! Is he for real!" Yelled a shocked Temari.

"Now that's impressive," Yugito murmured, having never seen anyone use one handed seals before.

'While it is impressive, I wonder why he hasn't used any other abilities yet?' Nibi mused. 'Or Kyuubi.'

'Maybe he's trying to prove a point?' Yugito commented as she watched the battle, 'Or maybe he doesn't need to, I doubt this Hyuuga child is much of a threat to Naruto-kun.'

'What could he possibly want to prove?'

'I don't know, I just saying it may be something like that. After all, Naruto-kundoesn't seem to get along with him.'

The two of them not getting along was an understatement from what Yugito could tell. Naruto seemed to have an extreme dislike towards the so called Hyuuga prodigy, and from what she had gathered from some of her conversations withher fellow blond, it had started long before Neji's battle with Ayako during the preliminaries.

Of course it could have something to do with the boy's attitude. Neji seemed to have some odd belief that fate controlled everything, and that fate somehow owed him because, at least according to Neji, fate was on his side for just about everything.

At least that was the feeling Yugito got the few times she had listened to the Hyuuga prodigy.

Realizing there were too many to dodge or block, Neji began to pour chakra through his tenketsu points, forcing more and more chakra out of his body before he began to spin.

"Hakkuesho: Kaiten!" he yelled out as a light blue doe of spinning chakra formed around him, blocking all of the kunai and making them harmlessly bounce off the blue spherical shield.

Hanabi gasped as she looked up at her father, "Tou-sama that's…"

"Yes," Hiashisaid with a slight nod. "The Kaiten, a technique of the main branch family."

For Neji to have learned something like this on his own. Such talent is wasted in the branch family.

Neji stopped spinning as the dome died down around him, he stood back up and smirked, "You should have known such simple tricks wouldn't work on me."

Naruto shrugged, "I merely wanted to force you to use one of your trump cards. And in case you haven't realized yet, you have yet to land a single hit on me, so don't act so superior."

Neji scowled before he charged back in, far faster than Naruto had expected since it was almost, but not quite as fast as Lee... when he had his weights on. It was because of this that Neji managed to get in close before Naruto snapped out of his stupor and blocked a strike that came in from the left. The blond winced a bit as he blocked a Jyuukens trike with his left hand, while the youki he was channeling through his body kept his tenketsu point from being closed, it still hurt.

Naruto back-pedaled as he tried to gain some distance, but that plan was put to a stop as Neji charged after him. The blond Hanyou was forced to duck and weave in between strikes that were coming far faster and more fluidly then before, and it was obvious to Naruto that his opponent had been holding back, obviously he had not been expecting Narutoto be such a fierce opponent. Not being able to see an opening this time, Naruto decided he had to take a strike in order to get one.

When Neji came in with an attack towards the blonde's chest, he moved himself ever so slightly so that it hit his shoulder instead. Naruto winced a bit but was able still able to launch a kick which hit Neji in the chest, and sent him flying backwards.

Neji landed on his back and skidded across the ground, grimacing as he held a hand to his chest. The blond kicked hard, maybe even as hard as Lee and that was saying something. He looked up in time to see Naruto coming in again, his fist striking out in a jab towards his face. The Hyuuga waited until the last second, timing an attack of his own while swatting Naruto's attack away with a Jyuuken strike. Naruto hissed a bit as he felt the sting from the attack. Thankfully it did not stop him from dodging the next strike from Neji, before jumping back a bit to gain distance.

He shot several senbon from his gauntlet, forcing Neji to deflect them rather than charge in. Naruto used that time to form a Youki whip, which he instantly used the lash out at Neji with. It was only thanks to the Hyuuga's Byakugan that he had been able to see it coming and dodge appropriately.

Seeing Neji dodge the first strike Naruto formed another whip in his other hand and began attacking the Hyuuga prodigy with both of them. Neji did his best to dodge andwhen he was incapable of that, tried to block. However he soon found a problem when he tried to block the attack. Even after setting a layer of chakra over his hands to protect him from the whip, he would still get injured. Whatever that whip was made out of, it was most certainly not chakra, or it was made out of a very strong chakra that he had yet to encounter. Strong enough that even being protected by his own chakra the Hyuuga branch member still felt the burn marks appearing on his hands as Naruto attacked.

Having had enough of the blonde's constant barrage with that odd purple whip of his, Neji charged in, using his Byakugan to its full advantage to dodge the attacks. When he closed in the Hyuuga launched a Jyuuken strike to Naruto's stomach. However the blond was able to swat the attack away before any damage could be dealt.

He retaliated by lashing out with a kick, but was surprised when Neji caught it . However before the Hyuuga prodigy could make an attempt at closing any of his tenketsu points, Naruto jumped into the air and spun around while launching a heel kick, forcing Neji to let go if his leg and jump back.

The two eyed each other wearily, using the small pause to catch their breath.

"Yosh! This fight is turning out to be such a youthful battle!" Lee shouted. "Those two are really in the springtime of their youth!"

Tenten's left eyebrow twitched a bit, "Lee, can you please tone it down! I'm trying to watch the battle!"

"You know, ever since I started training with Ten-chan and Bushy Brows, I've always wondered…" Naruto narrowed his eyes at the Hyuuga. "Why do you always go off on one of those fate rants of yours? You've gone on and on about fate to me ever since we met, but I've never heard you explain why you believe that."

"That is none of your business," Neji grit his teeth, both at the question and his seemingly inability to take the blond down.

"The hell it isn't!" Naruto growled at the Hyuuga prodigy, barring his elongated canines to him. "All I've ever heard from you is fate this and fate that. You keep on bitching like a little pussy from some soap opera! I saw how you reacted during Hinata's fight when she used the Kaiten. I saw how you reacted when I mentioned her when we first met. And I sure as hell saw how you nearly killed that Kumo kunoichi despite the fact that the proctor had called the match. Such unbridled hatred for others, those who have done no wrong to you. And even family! I don't know much about family, seeing as how I've never had one, but I do know that you're not supposed to hate family for no fucking reason!"

"No reason?" Neji narrowed his eyes, the bulging veins around them faded as he turned them off to conserve chakra, he was starting to run low he realized, and this small reprieve may allow him to gain some valuable energy. "You want to know? Very well, I'll tell you why fate is the only thing that exists. Perhaps then you will understand why fighting against fate is pointless."

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