Asuka Hyuga faced Neji.
A genius of the previous generation faced a genius of the present.
After a few brief words, they attacked. Their Byakugan pierced skin to see the flow of Chakra inside each other's bodies, and they struck to sever and disrupt it.
Fists and palms clashed again and again, moving like lightning.
"Gentle Fist!"
"Steel Fist!"
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Fists!"
Neji had taken Kazan's words to heart. When his opponent used palms, he used fists, countering the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist in the most brutal way possible.
This technique had been created specifically to counter the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist.
Asuka Hyuga soon sensed something wrong. "A technique created to counter Gentle Fist?!"
He had unleashed all sixty-four palms, yet his hands were going numb.
The principle was as simple and blunt as rock-paper-scissors.
Rock crushed scissors.
And that's not all. His Earth Release secret technique has made his skin tougher!
It's not a Konoha technique. Did Kazan find it for him?
The two fought fiercely. They were far apart in age: one was a jonin of the Hyuga Clan, the other a genin fresh out of the Ninja Academy.
Yet Neji had the upper hand, surprising many onlookers.
Asuka Hyuga grew more alarmed with every exchange. Only Neji and members of the Hyuga Clan could use this Steel Fist Style. Only they possessed the Byakugan and could see and fully understand Gentle Fist.
After completing all sixty-four palms and fists, the two briefly separated and stood facing each other.
"You're strong, but you're still too green to shake the foundations of the clan!" Asuka Hyuga marveled at the talent of the young clansman before him.
"Someone who let one defeat ruin him has no right to lecture me!"
Neji stamped his foot