Sharingan vs. Byakugan

By: Brandon Davis and Justin Bell

Naruto and none of it's characters are owned by me or Justin. We are simply creating our version of a fight between two Naruto characters. Keep in mind that this story takes place before the events of Naruto Shippuuden but after the events of Naruto. We have given both characters techniques that they may not actually have but that we can actually see them having. None of their jutsu will be too outlandish or lavish for the actual character. And this story is not written with a biased opinion against either character but with appreciation for both. Also, we would love some reviews, it doesn't matter what kind just tell us what you think of the story. So, with all that said, enjoy!!!

Chapter 6

Sasuke spun on his heel and stabbed Neji with the index and middle fingers on each hand. Neji jumped backward, feeling the sting of Sasuke's lightning attack on his finger tips.

"Damn, he's combining my technique with his lightning affinity and forcing his elemental chakra into my body with his fingers. Luckily, lightning based chakra won't close chakra points but only numb them for a time, also my chakra points are in a different location than his own and copying my movements won't guarantee a decisive hit to any of my chakra points. Copying my technique to use against me is like searching for a needle in a haystack-"

Before Neji could finish his thought he felt two sharp jabs stab into his back. The Hyuuga turned his head to see a second Sasuke behind him with his fingers deep within his back.

"A shadow clone?! But when did he?!"

Neji saw behind the shadow clone there was a deep hole in the ground.

"I see! After our two ninjutsu collided and created the mist, he must have created a shadow clone then and sent it into the ground behind him. He then let me attack him and push him back so that the shadow clone would be behind me when it came up to attack! With my Byakugan off I couldn't see the clone hiding in the ground!"

Sasuke rushed Neji from the front again.

"And with two of us, that doubles the chances of us striking your chakra points! 8 trigrams 64 palms!!"

Both Uchiha's dashed into the Hyuuga, stabbing into him with sparks of lightning at their finger tips.

Neji could hardly think at all with the pain of electricity popping his nerves from front and behind.

"This Uchiha is always prepared. There was no way he could have known that I would stop using my Byakugan, yet he hid a shadow clone from me just in case he would need one."

Sasuke's fingers dug into Neji's flesh, numbing where they struck and hampering his chakra control.

"I can't go any longer, I must use my bloodline trait now!!"

Neji's body convulsed with a pulse of chakra as dozens of veins stretched throughout his face toward his eyes. In that instant, the movements of both of Neji's opponents slowed and became clear as day to him. He could see Sasuke coming toward him with his right palm aiming at his throat and the clone behind him striking low to his back. Neji lifted his right hand, deflecting Sasuke's frontal attack then raised his left hand redirecting the attack from behind away from him. Sasuke and his clone struck again after their failed attacks, only to be dodged again by Neji's quick movements. The two Sasuke's lashed out at the Hyuuga rapidly thrusting their hands toward him. Neji began to keep pace with their attacks, swaying his body in and out of their thrusts. The frustration on Sasuke's face became easily apparent as neither he nor his clone could land another blow on the Hyuuga. Sasuke's clone threw his right hand at Neji's back, the Hyuuga moved his body to the left and caught the clone's wrist under his left arm. Sasuke thrust his right hand at Neji's head only to watch as the Hyuuga moved his head slightly to the right allowing Sasuke's lightning tipped fingers to strike the throat of his own clone. The clone disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving Sasuke and Neji alone. The two shinobi lashed out with their glowing finger tips and struck each other in the chest with their attacks. Both ninja slid away from each other clutching their wounds and breathing heavily. Neji's head band slowly unraveled behind his head and fell from his forehead onto the ground. Neji looked down at the forehead protector and noticed how tattered it was. Wet, covered in dirt and blood it rested at the Konoha jounin's feet, reminding him that his enemy was a former ally and just how long they had been fighting. Only minutes had passed which easily felt like more than an hour to them both. Both were at their limit, their next attack would decide it all.

The Hyuuga stared at the Uchiha. "He barely has anything left. The bulk of his chakra is going to that net of lightning surrounding him to protect him from my gentle fist. With that armor of lightning around him the chakra in my hands is barely enough penetrate and harm him. Never the less, his organs are injured and he can't keep up the strain of that lightning element and the Sharingan at the same time. The next attack will decide this match."

Sasuke stared down Neji. "He's on his last leg. He's using more and more chakra with his gentle fist technique to get through my lightning armor. Not very smart since my armor injures who ever touches it. Not to mention all of those lightning attacks have numbed half his body making him a much slower target. He won't be able to manipulate his chakra as well as before either. Either way, this fight ends here."

Sasuke issued a slight smirk toward Neji.

"What are you smiling about Uchiha?!" Neji demanded.

"Well, if you must know I'm smiling about what you said earlier. You said you didn't need your Byakugan to defeat me, I'm smiling because in the end you were forced to use your Byakugan anyway."

The scowl on Neji's face lifted and became a smile.

"I must admit there were some pretty close calls. This is the battle I had hoped for when we were genin."

Sasuke closed his eyes and recalled his short time as a Konoha genin. He had met Neji few times yet already he was anxious to do battle with him.

"I have to admit, when we were genin, after first meeting you I knew I couldn't beat you. It was obvious to me that I couldn't win but that just made me want to fight you even more."

Sasuke opened his eyes and stared at the Hyuuga who stood hunched over with the same smile on his face.

"I'm glad I finally had this fight with you Sasuke. It's too bad it couldn't be on friendlier terms."

"Same here. Well, now that we've acknowledged each other's strength, lets finish this."

Both ninja took the 64 palms stance. The last of their chakra pulsed through their bodies and pierced the passing wind, thickening the air with their energies. The lightning surrounding Sasuke hummed loudly as it spread to his finger tips. The immense light created by the electricity served to make his Sharingan eyes seem to glow maliciously. The blue chakra Neji released clashed with Sasuke's tearing through the soft grass at their feet. Neji's finger tips glowed incredibly from the massive amount of chakra he had channeled to them. The blue chakra he had focused created gusts of wind that blew his hair wildly behind him.

"Ready Sasuke!?"

"Come on!"

Both ninja rushed across the battle field slamming their chakra into each other with frightening force.

"8 Trigrams 64 Palms!!!!"

The two shinobi stabbed each other with their finger tips while dodging each others attacks. Neji struck Sasuke's chest with his finger tips, pushing his chakra through the web of electricity that surrounded him.

Sasuke coughed blood onto the battlefield then stabbed Neji's left shoulder, filling his left arm with pain and numbing it instantly afterwards. Sasuke struck again but Neji dodged the attack and stabbed the Uchiha in the collar bone. Neji's chakra was dispersed as Sasuke's lightning armor struck his fingers injuring him again. In a mad flurry of attacks, both ninja stabbed and dodged each other with speed human eyes could not match. Dust was kicked up as the two constantly stomped into the ground with each thrust. Finally, the frenzied bout was ended with the shouting of two words…

"Sixty-four Palms!!!"

The two smashed each other with 64 strikes that sent them reeling backward and finally crashing into the grassless dirt they had created. Sasuke lifted his head and stared at Neji as he lay recumbent near his feet. Neji stared back and watched as the Sharingan in Sasuke's eyes flickered then faded completely. Either the Uchiha was completely out of chakra or Neji had finally struck enough of his chakra points to cut off his chakra flow completely. The Hyuuga couldn't tell. He had long since run out of the chakra required to active his Byakugan and peer into his opponent's chakra network. All he knew was that they both couldn't use their bloodline traits anymore.

"We're both out of chakra. Neither of us can use our kekegenkai anymore. This fight is over." Sasuke spoke through trembling lips.

Neji arduously pulled himself to his feet. "Not yet Sasuke."

Sasuke's eyes widened as the Hyuuga slowly returned to his feet.

"I may not be able to use my Byakugan, but I still have enough chakra to use one last gentle fist attack."

Neji inched closer to Sasuke as he lay on the ground.

"And if I focus my last bit of chakra to your heart, it will kill you."

Sasuke swallowed hard as Neji cast his shadow over him. "My body has no more chakra left! I can't escape him!"

The middle and index fingers on Neji's right hand began to glow with a small amount of chakra as he approached Sasuke.

"This is it Sasuke Uchiha! Gentle Fist!"

Neji lunged forward and thrust his glowing fingers at Sasuke only to be parried by a foreign hand pulsing with blue chakra. Sasuke looked to his right and saw a figure with a dark blue cloak covering his body. Sasuke could already tell who it was. Just from the blue chakra glowing on his hand. Before Neji could make another move, the cloaked figure grabbed Sasuke and vanished from in front of him, reappearing five yards away from the Hyuuga. Sasuke grabbed the hood covering the figure's head and pulled it off of him.

"Kabuto, what are you doing here?"

The gray haired ninja pushed his glasses onto his face and smiled down at the Uchiha.

"Saving your life as it would seem."

"I didn't need your help." Sasuke swatted Kabuto's hand away from him.

"Hmph, as arrogant as ever I see."

Kabuto stood to his feet and stared down the tired Hyuuga in the distance.

"How very unlucky of you to have fought Sasuke and now have to face me. Though I must say you're talented to have survived against him, you won't survive against me."

Kabuto lifted the sleeve on his right hand and revealed his glowing hand. Kabuto crouched into his fighting stance and prepared to pounce on the young jounin. Before his feet could leave the ground a mighty gust of wind swept through the open plain, bringing with it six figures standing in front of Neji Hyuuga. Three were obvious chuunin from the village hidden in the clouds and the others were the three leaf genin Neji began his mission with. All were standing in front of the jounin with battle ready faces and stances.

"You won't touch Neji-sempai!" The young genin with the spiked red hair shouted.

Neji looked down at the three genin in front of him. They were brave. He couldn't believe that a genin would have the courage to stand up to an opponent so obviously more powerful. He was speechless.

"We will take care of him!" One of the cloud ninja shouted.

Kabuto raised his glowing hand to his face. "I wouldn't be so sure about that. Three chuunin, three genin and a battered jounin. None of you can handle us."

"There is only one of you, and we can more than handle that!" Another ninja shouted.

"Are you sure about that? Neji are YOU sure?" Kabuto pointed his glowing hand at the jounin.

"What is he talking about?" The red haired genin spoke again.

"Don't tell me you've forgotten about the cursed seal Orochimaru gave Sasuke? With it's power alone none of you can match him."

Neji thought back to his bout with the spider ninja that also worked under Orochimaru, Kidoumaru. He remembered how the spider unleashed his cursed seal and became incredibly powerful.

"He's right." Neji finally spoke.

All of the ninja there looked up at Neji in confusion.

"I have never seen Sasuke's cursed seal, but if it's anything like the cursed seals I've seen his power will triple instantaneously. None of us are ready for that."

"We are just the first wave Neji-sama." One of the cloud ninja spoke. "There are more shinobi on there way here and they are jounin."

"Doesn't matter, by the time they get here those two will be long gone."

"Not if we stop them first!" The red haired ninja prepared to attack.

"No you won't!" Neji grabbed the genin by the collar.

"Why not, why can't we attack them?" The Hyuuga genin asked.

"Aside from Sasuke there is Kabuto himself. He is not to be trifled with, alone he would be a challenge for all of us."

"So what does this mean Neji-sempai?" The genin bug user asked.

Neji looked hard at Sasuke and Kabuto. "It means we let them go. There is no sense in engaging in a battle we can't win."

Kabuto smiled at Neji's words. "For a genius, you're pretty smart Hyuuga."

Sasuke climbed to his feet, it was obvious that he was still injured from the fight.

"Consider your battle a draw Neji, next time Sasuke might unleash his cursed seal and you won't be so lucky."

There was a sudden flash of light as smoke covered the area. When the smoke cleared Sasuke and Kabuto were gone. Neji legs wobbled beneath him and he nearly collapsed from the weight of his own body. He fell to one knee as the three genin grabbed hold of him.

"Neji-sempai!"

"I'm ok. Just exhausted."

"You did it sensei. You defeated an Uchiha!" The genin Hyuuga clansman celebrated.

"No, Hoshi I didn't."

"How Neji-sempai? You could've killed him if that other guy hadn't shown up." The Aburame clan member spoke.

Neji smiled painfully at her words. "He could've activated his cursed seal at anytime and defeated me, but he didn't. He didn't because this was a battle between our kekegenkai not us. He wanted to prove that his eyes were better than mine. Beating me using the cursed seal would've proven nothing."

Neji dropped his head low.

"I lost."

Sasuke and Kabuto walked through a thick forest heading away from the village hidden in the clouds. The sting of his failure hurt him more than any wound given to him by Neji.

"So the Hyuuga was that good huh?" Kabuto asked.

Sasuke looked up at the ninja and said nothing.

"Well, he must have been something to make you lose this." Kabuto reached behind his back and threw something at the Uchiha. Sasuke reached up and caught his kusanagi blade with one hand.

"You might want to hold on to that next time. Swords like those aren't easy to come by."

Sasuke slid his blade back into it's sheath behind him.

"You're lucky I showed up when I did Sasuke. If I hadn't you would surely be dead right now."

Sasuke looked over at Kabuto with a glare of hatred.

"It's a good thing Neji didn't call my little bluff back there. Then again how could he have known that Orochimaru put a seal on your curse mark keeping you from using it's power?"

Sasuke unsheathed his sword again and quickly placed it to Kabuto's throat.

"Now now, Sasuke no need to get upset. You're at the limit of your current power now so starting a fight with me wouldn't be very wise."

Sasuke placed his sword back into it's scabbard and continued walking ahead of Kabuto.

"There's no other way around it. The truth of the matter is…"

Sasuke turned his head toward Kabuto.

"I lost."

So this is the end. Hope you guys enjoyed this one. Like i said earlier, this is mostly an elongated fight scene. Most of the stories we do will be fight scenes. As far as the reviews go we appreciate everyone's honest opinion but, we are looking for constructive criticizm. Whether you liked the story or not is your opinion but please be civil enough to explain why you felt the why you did. If you liked the story tell us what you liked about it and if you didn't like it please let us know why you didn't and what you felt the story was missing. Anyway, we are currently working on a new project. I won't say much about it, except that it will be another badass fight and it will involve Neji, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Hizashi. Until next time fans!!