Hinata

< Hyuuga Hinata Vs. Hyuuga Neji >

"hunh" Hinata became shocked as she felt a shiver down her spine. Her expression froze with a bit of trembling as she stood in her place, not daring to move around as though a predator had cornered her. Before going out of the hall, Kiba managed to force himself up on the stretcher as he stared at the giant screen. 'Definitely not good' Kiba thought.

"This is going to be an interesting match."Hiruzen thought. Hinata slowly walked to the centre of the battle floor where Neji was eagerly waiting for her arrival. "I never thought that I would fight with you. Hinata-sama," Neji said. "They're descended from one of the most honorable old families in the Leaf Village. The Hyūga clan. Their relation is that of a head family and a branch family." Kakashi explained.

Meanwhile, Kurenai had a bad expression across her face, since she knew the relationship between Neji and Hinata, and also Neji's hatred for the head family…

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Neji saw Hinata avoiding eye contact with him, which he felt was being disrespectful. "Just one more thing before we square off against each other in the fight. I should advise you, Hinata-sama." Hinata looked at Neji as he said. "WITHDRAW. You're not suited to being a ninja. You're too nice. You wish for harmony and avoid conflict; you're open to going with the thinking of others," Neji said.

"And, you have no confidence in yourself. You're always feeling inferior. You thought it's a good idea to stay as a Genin. However, you can't register for the Chuunin Exam without team members. So you couldn't turn down when Kiba and Shino proposed it and, The truth is, you entered the exam reluctantly. Is that wrong?" Neji asked.

"T-That's wrong. That's not true. I-I only. I wanted to change that about myself." Hinata said in a weak voice that seemed to be drained of confidence. "Hinata-sama. It is a fact. You are a spoiled one of the head family. People can never change. A failure will always be a failure" Neji said.

"HINATA" Naruto interrupted. I'm getting irritated watching him bad mouth you as though he is the one who brought you up. Make him eat those words" Naruto encouraged. "Tsk!" Neji glared at Naruto. He turned back towards Hinata only to see that Hinata's body language and her expression had changed. Hinata had overcome her fear as she stood up for herself this moment with fighting intent reflecting across her eyes. She brought her hands together. .

As she did this, her nerves stood out from the side of her eyes, and she opened it. 'Byakugan'

"I challenge you" She announced. Lee murmured "The strongest Taijutsu style in the Village Hidden in the Leaf The Gentle Fists."

"BEGIN" Hayate announced.

Hinata launched herself towards Neji as she sent a few palm strikes. Neji moved about as he stood in one place and dodged all the palm strikes. It was Neji's turn to stoke back as he sent forth palm strikes too. The fight continued with palm strikes being parried and blocked until Neji sent one straight to her heart. "Blerg" Hinata spurted out blood.

"Hah!" Hinata exhaled as she slapped Neji's palm aside to send a palm towards him. "Hmph" Neji snorted as he grabbed Hinata's incoming hand and sent a hit towards Hinata's chakra point. "All this time" Hinata gasped sensing all her chakra network blocked. "Yes I could see them" Neji said as he sent Hinata down to the ground. "Hinata-sama, What we have here is an unchangeable difference in abilities. It's what distinguishes an elite from the failure. It's a brutal unalterable fact.You were destined to regret having said that you don't want to run away anymore, the instant you said it."

"And now, you must have abandoned yourself to despair.This is your Ultimatum. WITHDRAW." Blood kept dripping from Hinata's mouth. "Right Now" Hinata spoke slowly as she trembled, raising her upper body. "I'm sticking to every word I said Because That's.My Ninja Way." Hinata panted as she finally stood up. Naruto kept watching unable to take his eyes off from Hinata. Sakura turned towards Naruto as she said. "Come to think of it, She's always watching you."

HINATAAA! YOU CAN DO IT!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs. 'Some things can never be changed' I thought watching Naruto encourage Hinata. Feeling her spirit return, Hinata ran at full speed to confront Neji again. Hinata and Neji exchanged palm strikes towards one another again for a minute or two. Blocks after blocks, palm strikes parried with each other. "Hah!" Neji exhaled as he sent a palm in a manner of an uppercut, which completely caught Hinata off. Hinata was sent flying.

Hayate walked to Hinata and said. "As further fighting is not feasible under these conditions". "Ah" Everyone was shocked to see Hinata trying to stand up once again. Especially Neji. Hinata finally stood up as she kept breathing heavily. "Why do you stand up again? If you continue like this, you'll really die". Hinata limped towards Neji. She barely managed to stand. 'I will not be caught looking bad. Especially when he is cheering up for me' Hinata declared in her mind as she looked towards Naruto.

Naruto encouraged Hinata with a courageous expression across his face which gave her the strength to resist Neji once more for a final stand. Neji felt threatened by Hinata standing up again. "AAHHHHH!!!!" Neji howled as he ran towards her. She felt extremely threatened. Her body was unable to keep up. Neji was running towards her with the intent to kill. The jonins saw this and was about to rush to stop neji, but suddenly, Naruto appeared on the arena and blocked him. "You did well Hinata, take some rest," Naruto said to her, after which she lost her consciousness.