53 Amai Jabie vs Neji Hyuuga (1/2)

Jabie and Neji arrived in the arena after the judges had some earth style shinobi repair the field after Esumi's and Lee's battle. Normally they wouldn't fix the arena, but the two shinobi tore it up so badly it looked like a battlefield from a war! The two fighters stared at each other. Neji with a plain arrogant look on his face. Jabie with an excited crazed appearance, resembling a greedy pig in human form. The two cubs on his shoulders also looked at Neji with hunger in their eyes.

”A member of the branch family. Neji Hyūga.. I will enjoy this little match of ours immensely.”

”Get ready lose. It's simply your destiny..” Neji said.

”Destiny you say.. huh? I wonder exactly what makes you the spokesperson for that. Well in your destiny I see a ”prodigy” being shown exactly how foolish destiny and fate really is.

”Begin!” Genma said.

”Hmph! You can't escape nor defeat fate fool.” Neji said before getting into a fighting stance. Jabie put the two orange bear cubs down.

”Ah yes the Hyūga famed gentle fist technique. I'm interested in facing the taijutsu style for myself. But for other reasons of course haha!” Jabie said before walking towards Neji in a slow calm manner.

As Jabie approached Neji closer and closer, Neji suddenly smirked before thrusting his hand towards Jabie's face. Jabie leaned his head to the side and palmed Neji right in the stomach. From the impact a loud boom was heard as Neji was sent flying away. Neji was shocked at the speed the boy had just unleashed as he previously dismissed him as unimportant and foolish. He recovered and slid backwards as he landed.

”WHOA DID THAT FAT KID JUST LAND A HIT ON THE Hyūga PRODIGY!?”

”No way! It must have been a trick!”

”Unbelievable… This year's rookies are definitely monsters!”

”It seems all three of them are unbelievable..” Kurenai said.

*BACK IN THE ARENA*

”I hope you have much more things to show me in this battle besides that, or this will be very quick.”

”Your arrogance. Is one weakness your clan holds. Although there are a rare few without this weakness, I could have easily ended the match with you looking down on me. Take this as a general lesson for a shinobi.” Jabie said as he walked forward once again.

”You may not be as easy as I thought you were but you won't escape your fate of losing to me.” Neji said before readjusting himself and getting back into his clan's taijutsu stance. Jabie saw Neji dash at him as he continued walking forward.

”Your second weakness is the fact that your clan refuses to do anything besides Taijutsu. For some idiotic reason. Your clan is no better than Rock Lee. Well actually it is worst in the fact that you have no issues whatsoever doing ninjutsu and genjutsu. Rock Lee is just physically incapable of doing nothing but taijutsu. I would point out more things you could do with your clan, but I'll just save those ideas for myself.” Jabie says with a cryptic grin.

Neji shouted before attacking Jabie rapidly. Jabie swayed and ducked and leaned away from each attack with his large robust body.

”How the heck is he able to move like that with a belly like that?!!?”

”Does common sense mean nothing to ninjas!?”

”Mommy look! I could eat all I want as a ninja and still be strong!!”

”Chouji I don't see you moving like that! Why can he do it and you can't?!” Sakura asked astonished.

”Who knows?” Chouji said while munching on chips.

Jabie started to form hand signs and mouthed the words, ”Water Style: Crushing Capture.” before catching Neji in a genjutsu. He was about to talk until he noticed a smirk on Neji's face.

”This genjutsu won't affect me. My Byakugan is able to see when a genjutsu is being used on us or our surroundings.” Neji explained arrogantly.

”Thanks for the information, but once again your arrogance just gave your enemy information about your skills. A good shinobi knows information is power. And you just let the enemy gain some power over you.” Jabie said before throwing a senbon at Neji.

”While you are aware of genjutsus being used on you, it doesn't mean you possess the ability to break out of it or dodge this!”

Neji yelled ”Kai!” before being struct with a senbon in his shoulder. He grunted in pain before quickly pulling it out and leaping back. Neji noticed a peculiar grin on his opponent's face when Jabie looked at the barely penetrating wound he suffered.

”Your traditions are also a limiting factor of the Hyūga development. Your clan has been around since the time of the Uchiha and the Senju. Yet for some reason those two are much more famous and well-known in comparison. You even have a fantastic Dōjutsu just like the Uchiha clan, but you are letting it go to waste! The Uchiha knew how to use their power, even though they sadly suffered in clan annihilation by the missing-nin traitor Itachi Uchiha.”

Neji decided instead of having this ridiculous looking boy talk bad about the clan he resents, he will attack. Neji dashed towards the boy again to attack and quickly shut him up.

”You know he's kind of right. I read some history books in class and the Hyūga clan has been around for a long time. I didn't even know about them until the preliminaries to be honest, while all the villagers knew about Sasuke's clan.” Sakura said to Chouji and Kiba.

”Well that's probably because they are so quiet and passive. I mean have you even see any Hyūga clan members around the village? They probably just sit in their little clan ground all day.” Kiba said.

”I'm getting a bit hungry.” Chouji says while pulling out a big bag of chips.

Jabie sighed audibly as Neji rapidly attacked him once again. But instead of dodging all of his hits, Jabie wanted to push him to his absolute limits. He needed the Hyūga boy to show every technique he's capable of before he's able to finish this match. Research doesn't come easily you know. Jabie deflected Neji's piercing finger thrust and punched straight towards his gut. Neji easily saw the attack coming and in return dodged to the side before spinning towards Jabie with a double thrusting attack with his fingers. Jabie responded to this quick counterattack by stretching torso and large belly backwards, by using the soft physique modification technique that allowed him to stretch and elongate his limbs and body!

The Kazekage's eyebrows slightly turned up at this sight. While the audience's eyes nearly popped out of their head.

”How the heck did he just stretch like a snake?!!?”

”Is he part of some snake clan!?”

”Do we even have a snake clan in Konoha?!”

”I wasn't aware he was able to do that..” Shino said.

”Whoa how freaky!” Naruto shouted.

After the Hyūga branch member missed his expertly timed counter attack, Jabie slammed him in the face with his belly! Neji was sent sliding back, slightly able to respond to the attack seconds before it hit. He stared at his unnaturally strong opponent in confusion.

”How are you so strong? My destiny although it is unescapable it is one of a genius. How could you possibly fair against me?!” Neji asked.

”Kukukuku. Are you really so dumb to think that everyone has a set path in life and that they can't escape from it? Despite your great eyes, it seems you're actually blind! Destiny is unscientific. Fate is a hoax. What you make of your life is up to you! Well somewhat. Some situations are unavoidable, but I'm getting distracted. Do whatever the it is you want to do, and if you can't just get stronger until you can.”

”It's not that simple!” Neji yelled.