Naruto: Winds and Changes

Neither Neji nor Naruto noticed the varying reactions of the crowd as they stared at each other.

"They were twins, their strength was virtually the same, however their fate was decided the moment of their birth. Born first, born second, just by that, their fate had been sealed." Neji retied his head band as he looked at Naruto, "Now do you see? Because of this seal I will never be free. You have no idea what it's like to have a curse like this, a burden you can never get rid of."

Naruto closed his eyes as his hand went to his stomach, an act which caught the attention of many of the shinobi old enough to know what he held. Then the blonde's shoulders began to shake as a small chuckle came out, the chuckle soon turned into a laugh which then turned into full-blown raucous laughter.

"What's so funny!" Neji scowled, enraged that this boy was making light of his curse.

"You! You think I don't understand where your coming from," Naruto's laughter subsided as he shook his head, "I do know what that's like. To have a terrible burden placed on you from day one. To have the odds stacked against you simply because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

A bitter smile made its way onto Naruto's face, "So what? Who cares?"

"What?" Neji gasped, too shocked by the callous way Naruto dismissed his burden to even be angry.

"You stand here bitching and moaning about your fate, saying it's inescapable. That nothing you do and nothing you say will ever allow you to defy your fate."

"That's because nothing we do can change fate!"

Naruto shook his head and smiled, "That's where you're wrong Neji. And today, I will prove it to you by beating you into the ground."

"You can't prove anything," Neji turned his Byakugan back on and got in a stance. "Because you are within my field of divination. Hakke: Rokujuuyonsho (Eight Triagrams: Sixty Four Palms)!" the Hyuuga shouted before he rushed forward at speeds far higher than before.

"Hakke: two palms!"

Neji struck out at Naruto with two palms, his hands a blur. Naruto dodged them with relative ease.

"Four Palms!"

Neji launched out with four attacks, yet none of them hit as Naruto continued weaving around the attacks.

"Eight Palms!"

Getting frustrated Neji increased the speed of his attacks. Naruto still dodged them though he was forced to put in a little more effort.

"Sixteen Palms!"

Hands becoming nothing more than a blur, the Hyuga prodigy lashed out. Yet not a single one got Naruto.

"Thirty-Two Palms!"

Again Neji tried to strike Naruto, moving quicker than many of the Chunin and none of the Genin could see. Naruto was forced to increase his speed in order to dodge the attacks.

"Hakke: Sixty-Four Palms!"

Neji sent out his last attacks, increasing his speed to the point that only a few in the crowd could ever hope to follow. Naruto tried his best to dodge them; however one of the strikes had finally managed to get through and hit him…

BOOM!

However all that did was make Naruto explode in a shower of electricity.

The entire crowd became absolutely shocked at the turn of events as Neji flew backwards and landed on the ground with a thud several feet away, his body twitching as the lightning chakra disabled his nervous system and motor functions. He couldn't even feel anymore, much less move.

"Rai Bunshin (Lightning Clone)!" The Raikage shouted as he stood up, "How the hell could he possibly know the Rai Bunshin! That's a technique of Kumo!"

Sarutobi frowned, "I do not believe that was a Rai Bunshin Raikage-dono, let us watch and see what happens next."

The Raikage looked over at the old Hokage before nodding and sitting back down.

"What the hell just happened!" asked Tenten as she looked at the burnt and twitching Neji, "What kind of jutsu did Naruto-kun just use!"

Naruto-kun? Does she know him as well? Yugito asked herself. She supposed she shouldn't be surprised, Naruto had said none of the younger generation knew of his burden so it would stand to reason some of them may not hate him.

'Kitten are you going to let that girl take your man?'

Yugito sighed, 'First off he's not 'my man', I'll admit I like him, he's fun, nice, strong and sweet, not to mention cute. But we come from different villages; we both know a real relationship would be impossible between us.'

'Then what about all this time you spent with him kitten? I thought you were staking your claim.'

Yugito frowned as she looked at Naruto while giving her explanation to her tenant, 'I never said I wasn't. I don't particularly care if a real relationship is possible or not. So long as when we do see each other, I can be with him.'

'Perhaps you can convince the Raikage to let you be an envoy to Konoha for him.'

'That does sounds likea good idea, but that's only if he wants an alliance. And we both know it will take a lot to get the Raikage to agree to such a thing. He always believed in relying on our own strength than having the help of others,' Nibi went silent after that, knowing it was true.

"What's going on? Where's Naruto? And what was with that Bunshin?" asked Ino, not entirely sure what had happened.

"I… I don't know," Sakura said in confusion, she was not even sure what had happened. "I've never seen Naruto use anything like that Bunshin. The only clone technique I thought Naruto knew was the Kage Bunshin."

Several feet away from Neji, the shuriken Naruto had thrown burst into a puff of smoke before clearing to reveal Naruto standing there. A shocked crowd watched as the blond walked over to the disabled Neji, stopping just inside the Hyuuga member's vision.

"H…ow?" asked Neji, barely managing to move his jaw muscles due to the electricity messing with his motor functions.

"It's actually quite simple," Naruto said. "When we fought and I first summoned those clones, they were not meant to test your reflexes, or see how strong you are. I already had a fairly good idea of your strength from the few times I was around when you would actually spar with Lee..." Naruto kneeled down so no one else but Neji could hear what he said, "No, those clones were solely summoned to see if there was a blind spot in the Byakugan."

While most people in the crowd were wondering what the blond shinobi was saying, Hiashi who had mastered the art of reading lips gasped. He of course knew of the blind spot the Byakugan had, the size of the blind spot depended on the strength of the user's Byakugan. It had always been a closely held Hyuuga secret. For this boy to purposely find it was…

"Incredible…" Hiashi whispered.

Hanabi looked up at her Tou-san, noticing the look of shock on his face. She looked back down at the arena, How could Neji-nii-san be beaten by some peasant?

Naruto smirked as he noticed Neji's shocked look, "Yes, I always heard about how the Byakugan offers its users 360 degree vision. But then again I've never been one to listen to here say. I knew there had to be some kind of weakness to a doujutsu of that caliber." He held up a hand as he began ticking off what he knew of the Byakugan's abilities, "it can see through solid objects, chakra and even the tenketsu points and offers 360 degree vision. Nothing so powerful can exist without having some kind of weakness, and since the Byakugan relies on sight, I figured it had to have some kind of weakness that dealt with one's vision."

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