Neji held his scalp on the ground while Anko cackled in the background, "That ripped a few out by the roots didn't it?"
Neji rubbed his head as he stood up, "That wasn't very honorable Naruto."
Naruto shrugged, "We're ninja, honor is for samurai and dead men. I'd rather be an ignoble winner than an honorable loser."
Neji slipped back into his stance, "That may be, but you are in range of my field of divination."
A sigh came from Naruto's mouth, "Fuck…"
Neji dashed in and began his assault, "Hakke… Two palms!"
Naruto dodged the first two strikes. Neji kept going , "Four palms!"
Naruto kept dodging as Neji picked up the pace, "Eight palms! Sixteen palms! Thirty-two palms!"
Naruto kept narrowly keeping out of reach of the rapid-fire strikes, "Sixty-four palms!"
Naruto's eyes widened as he saw that Neji wasn't stopping his assault. The blistering speed of his hands had Naruto actually worrying about getting hit, finally Neji clipped him and began tagging him with shots, "Hakke Hyaku Nijuuhachi Sho (Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms)!"
Naruto was knocked to the ground as Neji stood straight up looking down on him
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Asuma let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding, "Finally, someone beat the kid. It took long enough though, I kind of thought he was going to finish there for a minute."
Kurenai shook her head, "You forgot didn't you?"
Kakashi and Asuma looked at her curiously and she groaned, "People really don't pay attention to him do they? This already happened LAST TIME! And last time Neji hit him more than he did this time!"
Asuma dropped his cigarette while Kakashi still looked puzzled, "Neji did something like this the first time they fought? Well, how did he get up to win?"
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Neji turned to speak to Anko. Neji stopped however upon hearing a bored sigh coming from Naruto, "Whoopee, more palms. Yay… Man you Hyuugas are seriously a bunch of one-trick ponies."
Neji turned to see a dry expression on Naruto's face, "What are you saying Naruto? You should be beaten after that."
Naruto smirked at him, "Déjà vu isn't it?"
Neji's eyes widened as the same malicious feeling from last time as Naruto kipped back up to his feet, just as quickly the feeling faded. And let out a vulpine smirk, "You barely hit me. I'd say out of 128 strikes you hit me maybe 20 or so times. Last time you hit all 64 of your other technique and I shook it off. I'm immune to your Jyuuken unless you strike for organs or something and even then it had better be a kill shot or I'll just keep coming."
Neji tensed up, "Well then why did you dodge my earlier strikes if you can just take them? When I hit I still had to have disrupted your tenketsu."
Naruto nodded, "Yes, but you forget, I can just open them back up. I already did… Hurts like hell though… That's why I dodged, those things hurt."
Neji was on immediate alert as Naruto charged back in. Luckily Neji performed his Kaiten prior to Naruto reaching him. Naruto was thrown back and scoffed, "You want to try that again?"
As he drew the sword from his back Neji prepared for another rotation. Naruto dashed in as Neji began to spin. Naruto channeled wind chakra into the blade of his sword and split right through Neji's shell of chakra, bursting out the other side. Neji stood still for a moment before dropping to the ground as blood shot from the wounds that appeared on his chest and back. Naruto ignored the outraged cries of the people, 'Ultimate defense my ass…'
Naruto walked over to Neji and placed the blade by his throat. Neji looked up at him with difficulty, "H-How?"
Naruto looked down at him, "Don't worry about it. Sleep."
Naruto cracked Neji with the blunt side of his ninjato, knocking him out to end the fight. Anko walked over and called for the medics while Naruto walked over to a grassy area to wipe off his sword, "Shousa, Naruto Uzumaki!"
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Asuma was clutching the guard rail tightly, "That was wind chakra! How could a genin possibly know elemental manipulation to that kind of extent? That's an elite level skill!"
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Naruto turned to see Choji making his way out onto the field. Choji unwarily stood across from him and got his first eye-full of Naruto's combat stare. He felt like he was drowning in the ocean as he looked into Naruto's eyes that resembled the coldness of an iceberg.
Choji bit his lip and steeled himself, he was no fool, he had seen what had gone on in all of the other matches. He knew he had no chance against Naruto, if he was strong enough to fight off Shikamaru's Kagemane no Jutsu he knew he couldn't match up against him because his strength was really all that he had over most genin. Naruto was faster, stronger, and had too many ways to beat him.
But he wasn't going to walk away from the fight just because he knew he would lose. Worst-case scenario, Naruto knocks him out and he spends a few hours looking up at a hospital ceiling until his parents come and get him. He knew Naruto wouldn't hurt him unnecessarily, so he could more or less place this in a category similar to sparring with his father, he knew he wouldn't win, but that was no reason not to try his best.
Choji gulped and motioned to Anko that he was ready. Anko took her spot between them, "The ninth match, Naruto Uzumaki vs. Choji Akimichi! Hajime!"
"Baika no Jutsu (Multi-Size Jutsu)!" Anko had to jump out of the way as Choji immediately went straight into his clan jutsu list. As quickly as he could he tucked his head, arms, and legs into his body
"Nikudan Sensha (Human Bullet Tank)!" His massive form began its rollout towards Naruto who was swiftly on the defensive to avoid being squashed by the chubby ninja. Despite being in the shape of a massive ball Choji was quite mobile in that form, and was far faster than he was outside of it. Naruto found that the longer Choji rolled the more momentum he picked up.
Naruto pumped chakra into his legs to gain the necessary distance to warrant turning around to face Choji. Naruto channeled wind chakra to his fists and thrusted them out linked together, "Fuuton: Fuujin Seiken (Wind Release: Divine Fist of the Wind God)!"
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