Saga of Tanya the Kunoichi

Tanya looks at Hinata, expecting her to de-escalate the situation.

But Hinata as expected just looked downward and did not dare to say a thing.

First it's Uchiha Sasuke who always wants to beat her to prove the 'pride' of Uchiha. Now it's Hinata's cousin. The price of the big clan seems to be deeply rooted in the clans of Konoha.

Tanya takes a deep breath. From her understanding the Hyuga branch had always been seen as the ones who served the main family. 

But Neji's father and Hinata's father are twin brothers. 

He can assume Neji's bitterness comes from this fact.

Neji doesn't want to wait for Tsuyu to say anything first and immediately challenges her.

'Tsuyu, I would like to see the genius Hiashi-sama and Hinata-sama have always talked about. A genius of your caliber won't turn down a challenge will you?'.

Tanya looks at Hinata again; seeing she lowers her head acting like a tortoise. Honestly she can just refuse. But if she does it will offend Neji even more, most likely.

"Neji-san, I understand. Let's have a spar. I would be glad to exchange skills with you and see how far I am in Taijutsu".

Neji smirks, already imagining the loss of Tsuyu, and he can also prove to Hinata once again that she is nothing compared to him - but only because of her birth that she's in the main family.

Neji turns around and walks straight to the training hall of the Hyuga clan, not giving Tsuyu any respect at all as if expecting her to follow him.

As Tanya stood up, Hinata also followed after.

Hinata held on to Tsuyu's sleeves as they walked to the training hall.

"Tsuyu-kun… I am sorry… about him… he's… um… I… you should refuse…".

Tanya just gives a light polite smile.

'I understand there's conflict between you and him. But this is just a spar for me to see how far I am in my training. You don't have to feel any burden, Hinata-san'.

Hinata nods as she follows them to the training hall.

Neji stood at the other end of the hall, crossing his arms. He planned to show Tsuyu and Hinata, what a true genius is.

As Tsuyu prepares herself, Neji is already in his Gentle Fist stance. His eyes contained arrogance and confidence.

Neji opened his Byakugan, the veins surrounding his eyes.

"Give it your all". He says arrogantly.

Huh? He's serious?

After all, him using the Byakugan means he's already planning to target her tenketsu and it will cause serious injury internally. 

Hinata quickly voices out, realising Neji is not sparring simply, but to use his chakra fully with the gentle fist.

'Nii-san! It's just a spar… it will be dangerous-'.

Neji glared at Hinata with annoyance.

"This is why you are weak. Always holding back, too scared to even fight". He said bitterly. Since Hizashi is not there he can say such a thing to Hinata.

Hinata meekly looked down.

Tanya felt annoyed at how Neji is looking down on Hinata. Such comments have zero input for Hinata and are simply words to shame her and make himself feel superior.

"Then I will get serious as well".

Tanya's blue eyes got a little darker as he glared at Neji coldly. Neji felt a cold run down his spine, but he is not backing down.

She knows Byakugan well enough. 360 vision, ability to see chakra flow and tenketsu.

Prediction of attacks are done based on the flow of chakra into the muscles in close combat, and using the observation a Byakugan user would know which limbs and parts of muscle is being used prior to an attack or which way one would even dodge. 

But to utilise this would require a high level of combat experience. She won't take Neji lightly. Besides, she already had her own way to counter Gentle Fist using her chakra control over important tenketsu to reduce internal damage.

Neji watched intently at Tsuyu's chakra flow, trying to anticipate her movements. He is surprised at first seeing the volume of Tsuyu's chakra. It's almost 3 or 4 times as high as his own! So this is the body of an Uzumaki, the almost extinct clan… Neji thought silently.

Neji calmed his mind. It doesn't matter how much chakra she had. He will show her and Hinata how useless it is. He's already prepared with 8 triagram stance!

Hinata is shocked to see this stance. 

'How did he learn it?!', Hinata thought inwardly. Only main branch, like her, will be taught the stance.

Neji is planning to show Hinata, his mastery of 8 trigram 16 palms! At 7 years old, while learning it himself through mere observation, it's a demonic genius indeed.

Tsuyu takes a deep breath. She decides to make a move first.

"I am going to start", Tsuyu said calmly. Neji squinted his eyes, ready for anything.

Neji can see the flow of chakra concentrated onto both of Tsuyu's legs. 

But his eyes widen slightly as he observes the way the chakra is flowing with precision and control.

'Tenketsu?'.

Neji is surprised to see Tsuyu's chakra gathering at the tenketsu points in the legs almost evenly, effectively amplifying the strengthening and hastening the contraction and relaxation of muscles compared to normal chakra use.

This is similar to the main family members training and how they use it to attack at such a high speed achieving 8 trigram 64 palms at the maximum! How could they give the training method to Tsuyu, an outsider!

Neji felt even more rage in his heart.

He observes in that second even more chakra focuses at the tenketsu of Tanya's soles of feet, almost overloading them. If it bursts it will cause Tsuyu to injure her feets. If Tsuyu overloads them just slightly more it would burst. He is unfamiliar with what Tsuyu is trying to do.

'What is..?', Neji naturally doesn't know the fact that Tsuyu had learned chakra control through the important tenketsu points and the Raging Fist that utilises overloading tenketsu and discharging with perfect chakra control.

While Neji anticipated Tsuyu's charge, Neji's eyes widened in shock and barely registered her movement speed!

The extra force of chakra released on Tanya's soles causes the wooden floor beneath her soles to snap, and she lunges at Neji as if wanting to kill him!

As she's midair she gathers chakra to her right leg, overloading the tenketsu at her knee subconsciously like through her hard training.

Neji barely sees the incoming attack with his dynamic vision and manages to barely raise his arms to try to block the knee strike targeting his head. 

The knee strike landed on Neji's arm that protected his head from being blown off. He felt a strong force impacting deep into his bones, causing the pain to travel to his entire arms. The force was so strong his arm couldn't stop the force and slapped his own face!

'Kuh!!'. Snap. His nose broke and he is sent flying 2 meters away and falls on his back with a shameful thud. His nose bleeds and blood trickle down to the side of his cheeks.

Huh??

Tsuyu herself is questioning what's in front of her.

Hinata gasps. Not expecting Tsuyu to knock him in one blow. While Tanya herself is bewildered. 

She truly didn't expect it. She thought Neji is serious and so she also gives it her all at the very start. In her imagination, Neji with Byakugan would see her attack and be able to block it. If he can't, he would be able to dodge it. 

As for counter attacking, she believes her speed is too fast that Neji wouldn't be able to accurately attack her tenketsu during counterattacks that's why her strategy are just pure brute and speed.

…

The room fell silent for seconds.

Neji stood slowly after gathering his strength and thoughts. His nose is still bleeding and dripping to the floor and his clothes. His head is still spinning from the sudden loss. His byakugan has already been deactivated. 

Hinata looked at Neji, almost with concern.

"Nii-san…".

A part of Hinata felt like Tsuyu even had overdone it. It's just a spar…

Neji registered his loss. He felt so ashamed. He thought so highly of himself, and he's taken down in one blow due to his own arrogance, not anticipating Tsuyu's speed and power.

After more seconds of silence, Neji finally spoke, his tone filled with shame.

"I lost…".

He didn't speak much. He just left the training hall. Not sure what he's thinking.

Tanya looks at Neji's back as he leaves. She felt like she had just bullied a child.

In Hinata's view, Tanya is being merciless for her sake. Because Neji had been looking down on her and mocked her, Tsuyu is only defending her. Hinata felt guilty that Tanya's action is indirectly because of her own weak self.

Tsuyu and Hinata looked at each other after Neji left.

…

"I think it's getting late, Hinata-san. See you tomorrow in class". Tanya wiped the dust on her clothes as she spoke. Avoiding mentioning what just happened as if it was just a fever dream. She felt a little awkward at the overall situation and wanted to leave quickly.

Hinata nodded and went with Tsuyu, seeing her off.

After half an hour, Hinata is suddenly called to his father's reading room. 

Hiashi puts down the scroll as he hears his daughter's voice outside. He calls her in.

"I heard the three of you went inside the training hall. What happened?", Hiashi looked sternly.

Hinata hesitated to tell, but it's her father after all so she explained… 

About Neji challenging Tsuyu, and his subsequent defeat. Hiashi is surprised to hear that Tsuyu can beat Neji in one blow. And that both of them are utilising chakra as well.

Hiashi's expression turned stern. Gentle Fist is not for child's play as it will cause internal injury once you use chakra along with it to hit tenketsu. He is dissatisfied with Neji mostly. And even more dissatisfied knowing he lost in one blow.

He decides to teach him a lesson later…

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