Chapter 225: Hyuga Clan (2)
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Neji needed to learn the Eight Gates. Kekkei Genkais were cool and everything, but for a person with Absolute Healing Factor like himself, the Eight Gates would be a perfect and fearsome technique.
However, before any of that, Neji had an urgent job to do.
To take over the Hyuga Clan.
Neji made way towards the clan compounds, after making sure that indeed, Hiashi was in there. Hanabi and Tenten were showing Temari around the village, so only Hiashi and Hinata were inside clan compounds (besides the other Hyuugas).
Not long after Neji stepped inside the clan compounds, he was confronted by Ko Hyuga, a Ninja from the Main house, and he was also Hinata's caretaker in the past (and he still carries around Hinata's orders from time to time).
[Ko Hyuga - Mid Tier 7]
"Branch Head Neji." Ko said, his tone cold. "Lady Hinata has summoned you after learning you have reached the village. You are to go meet her right away."
Neji blinked. "Why?"
Ko frowned at that. "You will of course learn that once you go see her. However, I don't quite like the fact that you are questioning her order."
"Yeah, I will go see her later. I have something more important to do. Now, if you let me through." Neji casually tried to walk past him, but the man stopped him again.
He had activated his Byakugan and was glaring at Neji.
"I think you're letting your Jounin rank get into your head, branch head. Remember one word from me can bring you down." Ko said, glaring at him. "But I wouldn't do that, no. It's better for me to show you the difference between a newbie like you and a Veteran like myself."
"Aren't you just 25 yourself?"
"Shut it!'
Ko snorted, throwing a gentle fist at Neji's chest.
Neji simply slapped his hand to the side, watching his forearms snap in a way that's not 'right'.
For the next attack, Neji thought of using ‹Rasengan›, something he copied with his Lord's Eye when he observed Naruto spamming it on Shukaku, and the technique was simple enough for him to be able to use it anytime, even though Lord's Eye didn't let him copy any jutsu permanently. As it turned out, his 'Chakra Control' was top-notch, since he trained to control his Mana with Yue (in Fusion form) after almost destroying the Arcane Plane, so he could quite easily replicate the Jutsu.
However, he decided against it, as that could pretty much kill the dude, and Neji didn't want that. So, he decided to do the classic.
To blast him away.
Ko couldn't even scream in pain before Neji moved, raising his hand in front of Ko's chest and firing an ear-splitting shockwave.
-Boom!
Ko yelled in pain and slammed through multiple wooden houses.
Hyuga clan members immediately gathered, assuming it was an enemy attack, before they stopped, looking at Neji with confusion.
"Huh? Neji? Was it you who attacked Ko?"
"D-dude, he's from the Main! Did you lose your mind?!"
Some of "Neji's" friends panicked, but Neji didn't heed them. He waited, his arms behind his back as the wind smoothly blew his hair and robes.
Soon, the person he was waiting for, Hiashi Hyuga, walked towards the scene with two guards beside him. He also had his wife on his side, and her face paled in worry once she noticed Neji.
It seems he and his wife were having some quality time walking in the garden when Neji attacked. Neji felt slightly bad for the woman, Arima Hyuga, for today her husband will lose his position.
"Neji," Hiashi said, stopping a few metres in front of him. "What is the meaning of this? Where is Hanabi?"
"Hanabi is running around the village, she's safe, don't worry." Neji said, watching the man activate his Byakugan to take a look around the village before releasing a barely audible sigh of relief. "As for the meaning of this. Ko suddenly decided he was better than me and attacked me out of blue. It was purely self-defence."
"L-Lies!" Suddenly, Ko returned, supported by two more Hyugas to help him walk. He was bleeding from his mouth and nose, one of his eyes bruised, and his clothes on the middle of his chest had blown off. "I attacked him because he disobeyed Lady Hinata's orders! That's when he attacked me when I had my guard down."
Wow.
Neji almost whistled.
"Why didn't you just activate his Curse Seal?" Hiashi asked, frowning.
"T-that… I-I just wanted to teach him a lesson because he thought he was a better Ninja than me!" Ko tried, earning an annoyed glare from Hiashi.
"In any case, it's both parties' fault. Neji has been doing a great job lately, both for the village and the clan. So I will let this slide." Hiashi turned to Neji. "After he apologises to all of us. I was having some relaxed time with my wife, and ruining it deserves that much at least. Don't you agree, Neji?"
Neji smirked. "I suppose, yes. Getting interrupted while you're busy with a Hyuga girl can be annoying. Like last night, for example. When Hanabi and I were busy making the child you wish to see, I got interrupted by someone. Really annoying."
Arima gasped, her hands covering her mouth, while Hiashi's Byakugan activated on its own, veins popping around his eyes in a threatening manner. "You dare shame me like this."
Neji smirked, about to say something more, just when he heard footsteps from behind Hiashi.
"What's happening?" Soon a voice called and Hinata ran to the scene. "Cousin Neji? Father? What's this commotion about?"
"Hi, Princess." Neji waved at Hinata. "We were just discussing the name of my and Hanabi's chi-"
"Neji, you bastard child!" Hiashi yelled, his white eyes going almost red. "Shut up, and Kneel! Kowtow a hundred times and beg for mercy! Or I will make sure you don't even get a burial in the Hyuga graveyard!"
"And what if I don't?" Neji replied coldly. "What, you're gonna use the curse seal now?"
"If I must." Hiashi said, starting to weave hand signs, and finishing with a grunt. "Now, kowtow!"
Neji didn't move.
"...Kowtow!" Hiashi tried again.
Neji… still didn't move.
"You…" Hiashi narrowed his eyes, looking at his blindfold, or rather at his covered forehead. "The seal is still there… then how?"
Neji slowly grinned, the air starting to sing in his ears as the sky started to darken. He took off his blindfold, throwing it on the ground.
"H-his eyes!?" He heard some gasp. "How is this possible??" They were the few Hyugas who had never seen his eyes, meaning they were kids.
Neji then guided his palm to his forehead, slowly wiping his palm on the green seal, as it got wiped off. "There, gone. It's been just a colour tattoo for a while now, clan head. You have never had me under control."
Hinata gasped at the sight, and Hiashi's frown simply deepened. "...I see. Commendable that you found a way to wear the seal off. Is it another ability of those eyes?"
"Does it really matter, father-in-law?" Neji said. "It's not about that. It's about how it's time for you to step down from the position of a clan head."
Arima's eyes shook in shock at that. She looked at Neji with pleading eyes. "N-Neji, little guy, don't do this! Y-you wouldn't survive against him!"
"Aunty, I am going to die anyway. So why hold back? Please don't worry about me, worry about your husband instead." Neji said, losing his hands from behind his back. "I will try not to kill him, for Hanabi's sake, but my hands might just slip."
"Enough!" Hiashi grunted, stepping forward. "Everyone, step back. It's time for me to show this bastard child a lesson. Also, let the clan doctor know that tomorrow the surgery will take place."
"F-father!" Hinata tried to protest that, but her father didn't even look at her.
Neji soon stood with Hiashi in front of him, prepared to fight. However, before any of the two could launch forward, a yell came from outside the yell.
"Father! Please, stop!" Hanabi came running through the door, her Byakugan activated, and she was followed by Temari, Tenten, and even Sakura.
Huh. They must have met Sakura in the village and Hanabi must have noticed the fight that was about to take place when she took a glance at the Hyuga compounds with her Byakugan.
"Please, father!" Hanabi yelled, stepping between Neji and Hiashi. "Neji Onii-sama will kill you, you can't fight him! Please head back, I will talk to him."
Neji didn't think it was possible, but Hiashi's frown deepened even further. "What are you talking about, Hanabi? I have learned of the activities you did with him last night. Have you fallen for this boy that much? That you're trying to scare your own father?" He scoffed, looking at her in disdain. "Looks like I should reconsider to whom the eyes should go. Now, someone grab her and keep her out of this."
Two guards, their faces stoic, stepped forward and pulled Hanabi out of the battlefield. Hanabi struggled for a moment, but upon realising it was useless she looked at Neji with pleading eyes.
"Onii-sama! Please, let father live! A-ah, that doesn't mean you should cripple him either! I might be asking too much, but p-please! Onii-sama!!"
Neji didn't look at her, making her grow anxious. The other three girls who came with her looked at the scene with worry too, worry for Hiashi, but Neji didn't look back at them.
"In any case," Hiashi strode forward. "Let's move." And struck towards Neji's chest.
At this point, Neji was level 456. More than 150 levels more than four days ago when he met Hiashi for the first time. That time, he wasn't confident in beating him without using his Full Dragon Transformation.
But now?
Now it was a different case.
Neji swiftly changed the direction of Hiashi's attack with his left hand, and his right went to strike in Hiashi's midsection. Hiashi grabbed his wrist before it could hit, but Neji released a wave of Kinetic Force using «Surge».
"Keugh!" Hiashi grunted and was pushed back a few steps. Neji let the man take a breath who replied with a grunt. "That's a strong jutsu. That wasn't chakra either. Another of your eye abilities, I suppose?"
Neji didn't care to answer and strode forward again, deciding to use his new technique.
‹Eight Trigrams, 256 Palms›
A green taijitu appeared around Neji and Hiashi, and before the latter could flee outside, Neji's palms moved like the sound of thunder.
Everyone, including Hiashi Hinata and Hinata, gasped as he performed a technique that the Hyugas have never seen before. A version of their 64 Palms that were too great for any of them to perform.
Hiashi still tried to block it, and surprisingly managed to do not that bad. Though he was still hit 32 times, which was enough to block many of his chakra pathways.
"Kekhg!" Hiashi grunted, backing off once the attack ended.
Neji released a breath, looking at the older man while his hair fluttered in the air. "Is that all the Hyuga Clan had has to offer? Pretty disappointing. I was hoping for more."
"You bastard! Talk to the Head with more respect!" One of Hiashi's guards yelled, about to run at Neji, however, a 'black panther' jumped down from the sky and landed on top of the idiot.
"Stay away from Papa's battle, idiot." Kurai said, her voice deeper as she dug her claws into the idiot's body.
Some others almost attacked the beast, before realising it was Kurai (and also because Hanabi and the other girls surrounded to protect Kurai like mother kitties).
"Haah. I didn't think I would have to use this technique on a clanmate." Hiashi then said, swiftly poking his own chakra pathways to unblock the blocked paths. "But you have broken all heights of disrespect. You deserve death."
"Father!" Hanabi yelled. "Didn't you see enough? Don't push his patience!"
Neither Hiashi nor Neji listened. Hiashi moved, his palms suddenly glowed with a pale yellow chakra.
"This costs a bit of life force, but it's expendable." Two yellow tiger's heads materialised over his palms, as Hiashi launched them at Neji. "‹Eight Trigrams Twin Tigers Crumbling Attack›!"
Neji decided to counter with a moderately strong technique of his own. In both his hands, Rasengan materialised. He heard Sakura gasp from the side, and gasp again louder once he mixtures Deidara's Explosion Release with the two balls of spinning Mana, causing the blue balls to turn bright golden.
Pale yellow met bright golden, and Hiashi's Tigers met Neji's Rasengans, and the former's chakra Tigers crumbled immediately. Neji's Rasengans pushed forward, brushing Hisahsi's fingers, which twisted in different directions, and Hanabi yelled in terror as the Rasengans clashed with his hands, devouring his forearms like a vacuum.
-Boom!
Along with Hiashi's yell, two explosions erupted, creating a large quantity of smoke, as Hiashi fell to his knees, his arms… gone.
The dust cleared while the smell of burnt flesh roamed, and Neji stood with his hair finally stopping fluttering in the air, towering over Hiashi. His head held high, as he smiled maniacally.
"Excluding the formalities, I would like everyone to refer to me as 'Boss' from now on."
Many of those present simply stared, unable to comprehend the scene in front of them.
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