Naruto: If I ask you to be Naruto, you will become a yellow-haired person?

“Naruto, Neji Hyuga is a year older than us. That one year of extra ninjutsu training at the ninja school makes a big difference. Maybe you shouldn't...”

Ino Yamanaka's delicate face was filled with worry.

Kiba Inuzuka, Shikamaru Nara, and the other companions around her also had solemn expressions, extremely wary of Neji Hyuga, who had long held the title of genius.

“What? After all that boasting, this is the first time in years I've heard someone call me weak?!”

Neji Hyuga's handsome face was ashen, his white eyes fixed on the blond boy in front of him.

His fists clenched tightly in the loose white robe.

This Naruto Uzumaki clearly had a similar fate to his own, equally miserable, suffering the indifference and discrimination of the villagers.

Yet he was actually taken as a disciple by Lady Tsunade!

While he was destined to be a caged bird, trapped in a cold, lonely iron cage for life, with no hope of freedom!

When will I be able to open this cage and soar freely in the sky?!

Sasuke Uchiha, listening to Neji Hyuga's impolite words, his face was calm and his expression was solemn.

“Neji Hyuga! Naruto doesn't need to fight you. I, Sasuke Uchiha, will be your opponent!”

Sakura Haruno's face turned anxious, her rosy cheeks turning pale. She quickly tried to grab Sasuke Uchiha's arm.

“Sasuke-kun, you are no match for Neji Hyuga!”

“I heard from a second-year senior that Neji Hyuga… he's really strong! Not just ordinary strong!”

Sasuke Uchiha's face stiffened, his expression displeased, and he forcefully shook off Sakura Haruno.

“You?” Neji Hyuga on the opposite side chuckled lightly upon seeing this, and said contemptuously, “You should listen to your little girlfriend.”

“I vaguely heard before that there was a Uchiha kid in the first year who was knocked down by Naruto Uzumaki with one punch, that's you, right!”

“Such a weak and useless person is not worthy of being my opponent!”

Sasuke Uchiha's fair and handsome face suddenly turned purplish-blue, as if he was wearing a mask of pain.

Iruka frowned slightly at the sight. How could this Neji Hyuga be so arrogant? He was even more unruly than the rumored Uchihas…

This second-year student is too impolite!

But seeing that Neji Hyuga's homeroom teacher, Hayate Gekko, and Mizuki didn't interrupt, he didn't want to reprimand him either.

“There's an old saying in my hometown, 'A wise man submits to circumstances'… I misspoke…”

“It should be 'A barking dog doesn't bite!'”

Naruto patted Sasuke's shoulder and said in a low voice, walking forward. “I'll do it, Sasuke.”

“Neji Hyuga, you keep saying that you are a so-called strong person, doesn't that just mean you are insecure and confused?”

“A true strong person doesn't need to prove their strength to others, because it's an objective fact that everyone has to admit.”

“Did the First Hokage ever brag about his own strength like you?”

Naruto looked at Neji Hyuga calmly and shook his head, with disappointment on his face.

“And you, who claims to be strong, only shows me your inner inferiority and cowardice!”

Neji Hyuga was first stunned, then became enraged, and his delicate face twisted grotesquely.

Naruto's words directly stabbed the inverse scale in his heart.

No matter how extraordinary he considered himself, how he praised himself as a genius of the Hyuga clan.

He couldn't escape the fact that he was from the Hyuga branch family, a clansman in name but a servant in reality!

The so-called genius and strong person was just his way of paralyzing himself, using the halo of genius to escape the cruelty of the reality that he could never escape for the rest of his life.

But Naruto actually exposed the inferiority deep in his heart in front of many ninja school students in the first and second grades, especially in front of Hinata Hyuga of the main family.

This was simply cruelly tearing open the bloody scars he had deliberately hidden in his heart in public!

“You bastard!”

“Let me see if your strength matches the hardness of your mouth!”

Neji Hyuga snorted coldly, and suddenly terrifying, sprawling visible meridians covered his eyes.

The originally pure white eyes suddenly became filled with a glimmer of light, as if they could see through all the hidden traces of the opponent.

Sasuke Uchiha's face was solemn. Was this the Byakugan of the village that was as famous as their Uchiha clan's Sharingan?!

Ino was also shocked. It was the first time she had seen a Hyuga clan member use the Byakugan in battle.

She couldn't help but quietly glance at Hinata, who was next to her, her two small hands unconsciously twisting together, her face full of tension as she stared at the field.

Was Hinata like this when she activated her Byakugan too?

Neji Hyuga quickly formed a set of opposing hand seals, and lunged forward, striking out with a palm.

His figure lightly swept like the wind, extremely fast. Naruto only saw Neji Hyuga's loose robe fluttering, and

at a tricky angle, a blue and white light suddenly emerged and struck towards him.

Naruto jumped up, narrowly avoiding this fierce palm.

Then, continuous, countless sounds of breaking wind rang out from all directions.

Naruto only felt that Neji Hyuga's Gentle Fist palm force was erratic, and it was impossible to predict its attack direction and strength.

But every move was aimed at the vital chakra points in his body.

Naruto's figure flickered and dodged constantly.

His eyes narrowed slightly. The Hyuga's Gentle Fist?

It was rumored to be a strange technique that could freely control the flow of the opponent's chakra by constantly hitting the opponent's 361 chakra points.

It was very different from the Gentle Fist style that Hinata and his sister-in-law Hanabi had shown before.

Hinata and the others relied more on using force against force, with softness within strength, and their palm techniques were ethereal and dazed.

Neji Hyuga's moves were more swift and erratic, and his fist and palm techniques were sharp.

The strong and fierce palm energy was constantly traversing between Neji Hyuga's palms and his body.

If an ordinary opponent's defenses were broken by this fierce palm energy,

even if it didn't hit a vital chakra point, they would be shaken open and torn by the chakra cyclone covering their palms, and the chakra in their meridians would surge and become disordered.

As expected of the branch family genius who would later independently develop the absolute defense, Rotation.

Seeing Naruto's figure agile, like a butterfly flitting through flowers, narrowly brushing past his palm range each time.

After a short time, he hadn't even touched Naruto's sleeve, let alone hit a chakra point.

Neji Hyuga gradually noticed something was wrong, and he became alert in his heart.

As expected of the guy who could defeat a Uchiha kid with one punch and was valued and accepted as a disciple by Lady Tsunade.

But his heart was even more sour and bitter. This guy was able to escape from the protection of Lady Tsunade and bask in the sun of the village.

While he, who was also a genius, could only be bound by the caged bird in the cold cage called family.

He shouted even more angrily and unwillingly.

“Naruto Uzumaki!”

“As Lady Tsunade's disciple, do you only know how to dodge and completely dare not confront me head-on?!”