Chapter 8 - The Real Kitsune, and a Shocking Realization

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Neji rushed through the forest. He wasn't in any hurry, it wasn't as if they could find their objects in their current form. He looked around for his nephew and found him standing on a tree, his Byakugan activated.

Kitsune did another sweep and saw his uncle Neji hiding in the shrubbery.

Kitsune dashed towards Neji, narrowly dodging three kunai headed straight for him.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Two or Three clones appeared, grabbing kunai out of their holsters. They all cut their thumbs and did a number of handseals.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" A large frog appeared out of nowhere, from the one seal that it took three Kage Bunshins and one real copy of Kitsune to produce. Gamabunta smoked on his pipe.

"You'd better have a good reason for calling me out here, bub."

"I know, Gamabunta, but I need help this time. I'm taking on a Jounin, not a cat."

"At least we can have fun."

Kitsune got into an entirely different Jyuuken stance, one hand in the air, the other touching the ground. He activated his Byakugan.

"Gentle Fist, Aerial 128-palms!" Kitsune shouted. Gamabunta launched him into the air and let him off. Kitsune dived through the air, using his Byakugan to track Neji in the undergrowth. The advantage of the Aerial Gentle Fist style was that you could have the extra pressure of the air dive, and be able to press the tenketsu points past the chakra veins into the muscles, thus allowing you to control their movement completely.

"He's going to use THAT technique, combining Gamabunta and the Gentle Fist, truly Hinata and Naruto's son."

Kitsune hit every single chakra point he could, and muscles as well. However, the sensation was not as Neji predicted. Instead of a pressurized feeling, he immediately felt his chakra and muscle power randomly spin around.

"Aagh...Kitsune, already showing me you're great technique...an honor."

"Yes. This is my Aerial Gentle Fist Rasengan. The point of the technique is to instinctively screw up your chakra flow and your muscle power in a random, spinning fashion. The small Rasengan is at the tip of all the fingers."

He pointed one of his fingers with a small blue ball at the end. Neji groaned a bit more and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Kitsune's eyes widened as Gamabunta disappeared as well, his concentration having been distracted.

Neji appeared out of nowhere and initiated the Jyuuken stance.

"Gentle Fist, 64 Palms!" Kitsune couldn't do anything except stand and watch, Neji's routine being too fast for Kitsune to react to. He kneeled down in defeat.

"Poor you, if only you knew how to use Kage Bunshins like your father did."

Neji jumped and dashed away. "Two down, one to go. I hope he gives me a good time."

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Enkai was still looking around, but something told him that there was someone following him. He heard two kunai hit the trunk next to hiim and he turned around.

Neji was standing on the branch nearby. The wind rustled near the both of them.

"Well, I guess you're the last one. Fate smiles on me today. Or its just that I'm your sensei, and that denotes the strength gap we have." said Neji nonchalantly.

"There is no gap between power. Everyone has power, it is, however, up to that person if wants to harness it or not. Hard work and talent cannot be great by themselves. It takes the person to build his talent to make something special."

"Then let's see your hard work, and your talent."

"You asked for it. Suiton: Suitatsumaki! Water Tornado no Jutsu!" Enkai did a series of seals and pointed his arms at Neji. A torrent of water gushed out of both of those arms and hit Neji square in the chest. Enkai retracted them and jumped to the branch Neji was standing on. Neji met him at eye level and swirl-kicked Enkai in the stomach.

"Ninpou: Byakurendan!" Neji kicked the airborne Enkai in the stomach down to the ground where he lay lifeless. Neji went down to check his student when suddenl Enkai opened his ice-blue eyes and shouted.

"Suiton: Suibaku no Jutsu!" An entire blast of water gushed over Neji as he lay unconscious on the floor. Enkai left to do some thinking.

"I can't find my object, and I hardly expect Kitsune or Kyokujitsu to find it. The rule was to appear with the object in your hand, but there wasn't any regulation on how you could get them! If you turn it around, I have to look for a log with chakra in it. I can't look for chakra...but Kitsune can! He has the Byakugan! But what about their objects? Kitsune has to look for a talking fox. Who better to converse with animals than Kyokujitsu? After all, she can turn into animals. Finally, to find the pendant...Neji-sensei it could be underground, in the trees...mainly in the terrain...which means I have to fill the ground with water to be able to expand it, and find the pendant! I have to find the others!"