Naruto: Winds and Changes

The entire arena was oddly silent as the two contestants stared each other down, almost as if they could feel the tension that was beginning to rise as the two contestants glared at each other, each waiting to see who would make the first move.

"You should give up," Neji advised as he decided to give the blond a way out and save himself from the disgrace of losing. "You will not win here today; it is your fate to lose here."

Naruto blinked a few times as he tilted his head to the side, looking almost like he did not understand what the white-eyed prodigy was saying, "My fate?"

"Yes, that is right. It was your fate to lose to me, the moment I was made your opponent your fate was set." Neji said, an arrogant smirk on his face, "People are only as talented as fate allows them. A person's abilities are predetermined the moment they are born into this world."

Kami what is it with this guy? Asked Naruto who was starting to get sick of hearing Neji's spiel about fate. Shaking his head the whiskered blond gave a derrisive snort, "Wow, listen to you flapping that mouth of yours. You know, with the way you go on about fate, you sound like fate's little whore."

Neji scowled, "Don't mock me dead last!" The Hyuuga prodigy calmed down again and smirked, "It matters not what you say, fate has already made me the winner."

"You know, I think you would be better off as a priest than a shinobi with all this fate bullshit your spewing." Naruto grinned, "Or perhaps I should say priestess. What with that long hair and your kimono, you're really pushing the definition of a gender bender, aren't you?"

Enraged at the insult Neji charged towards Naruto, intent on wiping the smirk off of the blonde's face. However before he could even get there Naruto brought his hands into a ram seal.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Six clones phased next to the blond and charged at Neji, using their teamwork to keep the Hyuuga prodigy from being able to actually dispel one of them.

"Whoa! Who knew that kid knew a jutsu like the Kage Bunshin?" Kotetsu muttered.

"It is pretty impressive that he actually knows such a powerful Kinjutsu, and a B-ranked one at that." Izumo added, "I know some Jonin who have problems making that many clones."

Kotetsu smirked as he kept his eyes on the battle, "It looks like this battle just got interesting."

Neji grit his teeth as he blocked one of the clones punches, only to be forced to jump back as another clone came in with a kick on his left. Three of them charged in from the front in an arrow formation, while the other two came in from either side, Wait there should be at least one more…

He almost missed the clone that had come in directly behind him, where it managed to hit him in the back of the head and sent him to the ground. At the last second he managed to lash out with a hand and dispel the clone before he landed on the ground with a dull thud.

Neji was forced to his feet as the five others came at him. He blocked the first one coming in, then twisted his body to the right, dodging a kick from the clone on his left. The three clones in front came in one with a high kick, one who swerved to the side and tried to launch an attack into his torso, and the last one who came in hoping to take his legs out with a kick.

The Hyuuga prodigy managed to jump over the low kick, while flipping backwards to avoid the high kick, he then landed on the third Naruto's out stretched hand and managed to strike out with a chakra-enhanced knife edge and hit him in the face. He then leapt back and waited for the rest of the clones to attack.

It was to his surprise that all of the clones suddenly went up in a puff of smoke. Several shuriken came out of the smoke and towards Neji, who scoffed since he had seen them coming with his Byakugan. He blocked a few and dodged the last one that came out at him, letting it hit the ground a few feet away.

It was then that Naruto decided to get into the battle himself. He charged at Neji and came in with right hook. Neji moved in to block it but at the last second Naruto grabbed onto his wrist, the blond yanked on the Hyuuga prodigy and smashed a fist into his face. The crowd gaped as Neji skidded several feet back, holding a hand to his now split lip.

"You may think you've won some kind of victory with this hit, but I assure you it was only luck," Neji wiped the blood from his lip. "Fate has already declared me the winner of this match, and no matter what you do, you cannot hope to defy it."

"So says the gender confused priestess," Naruto shot back with a grin.

Neji sneered as he charged in to assault the blond. Grinning Naruto began to duck, dodge and wave through Neji's attacks, using the un-telegraphed and evasive moves of the Hebi-ken (Snake Fist) that he had picked up from his spars with Anko. Naruto was pleased to see all of the stretching he had done to be capable of the oddly angled and unpredictable movements had paid off, Neji seemed completely incapable of hitting him. The Hyuuga prodigy nearly growled in frustration at not being able to hit the blond, he increased the speed of his strikes, hoping at least one of them would wipe the blonde's smirk off his face.

Naruto noticed that Neji's moves were getting sloppier and he decided to wait until he saw a good opening, one that came several seconds later. When Neji came in with a palm strike aimed at his chest, Naruto bent himself so far back he had to plant his hands on the ground for support. He used a foot to kick Neji in the wrist, knocking his attack off course. Then he came in with his other foot and managed to smash it into the Hyuuga prodigy's chest. Neji let out a gasp of pain as he stumbled back a few steps, rubbing his chest to try and massage the pain out of it.

Naruto came at him again, this time getting in close and attempting to land a devastating number of strikes on the Hyuuga's torso. However Neji had gotten used to fighting Naruto by now, and was able to avoid all of the blows while trying to get in his own. Naruto was able to dodge the attacks, however he was forced to back off when a few of them got a little too close for comfort.

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