Neji continued doing this for the next 2 minutes, till the water coming at him had very little pressure, which led him to start burrowing upwards.
He came out of the ground after stopping his rotation. 'I only have nearly 30 per cent of my chakra, continued rotation took too much out of me' He noted while noticing Sora Standing on the shuriken and looking at him.
'He also gave me this much time, I bet he could have electrocuted the water or used some other jutsus to make me unconscious... I guess I am grateful for that, but I will show him his error' Neji resolved himself while looking around for his teammates without turning his head.
He found Lee to be unconscious against a tree, which had his face engraved on it.
Neji shamelessly looked away like it wasn't his fault for Lee to have that landing.
Hard choices require the strongest will.
He looked at Tenten and realized that she was unconscious.
'He probably defeated her, I guess the time I took in underground is enough to take her out of the matc-' Neji stopped his thinking and his eyes widened.
He sidestepped as a kunai with an explosive tag came at him at blinding speeds.
No, it wasn't due to the sudden sneak attack by Sora.
He had been looking out for it since the time he came out.
It was due to looking at Tenten properly that he realized that it was highly likely for Tenten to get unconscious due to how Neji threw her and her not softening her landing.
'This idiot... ' Neji cursed, whatever good feelings he had about her due to her planning and coordinating with him and Lee evaporated into thin air.
Tenten got a negative point from her constipated-face teammate.
Neji looked at the red-haired kid dispelling the mini-shadow clone which was seemingly responsible for controlling the shuriken.
He had actually tried to attack that particular clone before but wasn't able to hit it.
'I didn't know that you could create a mini-shadow clone, which looks just like the original, but smaller in size' Neji still marvelled at this wonder while sending some vacuum palms at him, which Sora intercepted with his water senbons.
The shuriken under Sora disappeared and he dived towards the ground while intercepting those attacks.
He landed on the ground with almost no sound and that was the cue Neji took to rapidly flicker towards Sora.
The latter tried to flicker before, but Hyuga made sure that with vacuum palms, he couldn't increase the distance between them. 'Why did he let go of his aerial advantage? Is it because he didn't want to fight the battle of attribution' Neji wondered.
Sora tried to launch a small-sized Rasengan at him, but Neji had already seen it coming, despite the speed and lesser distance between Neji and Sora, Neji twisted his body while maintaining his momentum and closed the gap between him and Sora.
Sora's eyes widened, he didn't see it coming "Shit" He decided to ditch his escape and formed a regular-size Rasengan and flickered directly towards Neji.
'From where did he learn slang, does Hanabi know it too?' Neji frowned as the earlier momentum from his maneuver got converted to Rotation, but this time instead of clashing with Rasengan directly, it approached it from the lower side, making Sora's Rasengan holding hand go above.
Neji has stopped his rotation and intends to take his victory which was only one palm strike away.
However, instead of taking a split-second decision, as he should have originally, decided to answer his initial question, which he was in the process of doing.
'Sora's speed is faster than me, comparable to Six Gates Lee, Yet, I could match Lee like that due to the wide area I could cover in close combat with my Gentle Fist' Neji knew that with his Eight Trigrams, he could easily match faster opponents in closer range, especially with his technique which attacks throughout the body.
'Yet, he could have sent a bigger rasengan to me or used a clone jutsu now to overwhelm me, despite being clones, each of them has the capability to fight a lesser Elite Jounin due to Sora's fighting style, yet he chose to do this' Neji decided to give up on his chance to attack Sora.
And Crouched down while closing his eyes. 'Everything is fine in my vision, yet I feel something is wrong' Neji opened his eyes and moved the chakra to his fists.
"Eight Trigram: 128 Palms" Even before Neji said his technique's name, he had sent attacks behind him first.
"Fuck" Sora's main body which was using a seal to hide himself from the byakugan yelped in pain as Neji's hit landed on his right hand blocking chakra points there.
Sora stumbled for a second, which Neji had used to attack in front of him, dispelling the shadow clone that he had thought was real, before turning around and jumping towards Sora.
However, Despite being the inexperienced kid he was, Sora had much combat experience fighting Hyugas of all people.
He had already initiated his body flicker even before Neji could land some hits.
Neji instantly converted the palm strikes into Vaccum palms.
Over a hundred compressed air strikes were hurled at Sora at breakneed speed over the next few seconds.
'What the fuck, what type of horrendous technique is this, not only are his vacuum palms already stronger and faster than Hanabi's, but with the way he is releasing them now is so fast that dodging them has become so hard' Sora had to do so many manoeuvres while releasing chakra from his tenketsu to give him bursts of speed to dodge those attacks.
However, this was in the initial phase only, as Sora had noticed that the number of attacks collectively coming at him were increasing, so he had started weaving hand seals with his left hand.
Neji raised a brow but wasn't really surprised.
Sora had already broken his sense of normalcy.
This was just a drop of water in the bucket known as absurd things Sora could do.
"Rising Water Slicer" Unlike other times, Sora this time yelled out his jutsu name loudly and stomped on the ground.
He had released water as he was flicking backwards, such that water was leaking from him as he was going.
Multiple waves of water erupted from the area where Sora had stomped on the ground and its size increased with each passing second due to the water in the path going in.
'Is there a hidden agenda behind that or does he want me to think that there's a hidden agenda, how annoying' Neji remained undeterred and released the high amount of compressed air at Sora.
By this time, the sound on the battlefield was similar to a battlefield where a machine gun was being fired continuously.
Sora's rising slicer only reduced the speed of vacuum palms, and intensity, which was enough for Sora to flicker get a larger distance.
He then stopped at the place and aimed two of his fingers at where Neji was.
Despite not having a byakugan, he still was a sensor, albeit with short range, but knowing exactly what was happening in the region.
A rasengan formed at his tip and soon it became larger with passing second.
It reached fist size and kept increasing.
However, soon he had to stop increasing its size due to vacuum palms coming at him.
'Should be enough' Sora thought as he changed the shape of the Rasengan, such that the part of Rasengan near his fingers started to compress.
The Rasengan's size was greater than a normal-sized Rasengan, but nowhere near Odama Rasengan
The vacuum palms were only 5 metres away from Sora when he was done.
He outstretched his palm, such that now his palm was facing the abnormally shaped Rasengan.
BANG
A loud sound like a bullet could be heard throughout the training field.
Sora found himself getting blasted back nearly a dozen metres behind.
This was after he had used shape-shifting Jutsu to increase his weight tremendously.
Meanwhile, the Rasengan, now had its size reduced, nearly to a size of regular size, however, the speed at which it was going was higher than Sora's top speed.
It mowed through the dozen vacuum palms coming at lightning speed.
Neji had already started rotating the moment he looked at Sora doing something weird with his Rasengan.
His all instincts were screaming at him to do that, as he knew that he wouldn't be able to dodge.
In one second, the Rasengan not only mowed down through all the vacuum palms like a knife cutting through butter.
The Rasengan met the Rotation at a side point of Rotation and to Neji's relief not head on.
Neji found himself accelerating backwards and luckily away from that absurd jutsu.
The rotating dome crashed into a few trees nearly a kilometre before Neji stopped.
Sora flickered a few seconds later to see Neji standing from the floor.
A loud voice could heard for a few seconds, as the Rasengan was mowing down all the trees.
'If That jutsu hit me directly head-on, without my vacuum palms, I would have probably died on the spot with or without rotation'
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