𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐆𝐀 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐍

The Third Exam, Pt. 3

Once the crowd got over their shock and Shikamaru made his way back to the contestants' viewing area, Genma announced the next match.

"The fourth match will be between Temari of the Sand and Hanara Hyuga," Genma told the crowd.

Hanara nodded to herself and jumped off the railing, doing a backflip before reaching the ground and walking to the same side Shikamaru was standing before his match ended.

"Are there any objections," Genma ask.

"None here," Hanara responded.

"Nope," Temari shook her head.

"Okay. Then, BEGIN!" Genma said before jumping back.

At that signal, Hanara automatically turned on her Byakugan.

"YEAH! YOU CAN DO IT HANARA!" she heard Ino yell from the spectator's area.

'She's got a pair of lungs on her...' Hanara thought.

"Water Style: Water Clone Jutsu," Hanara said, using the water in the ground to create a clone to her left. She usually hated doing that, as it took a lot more control, but Hanara stupidly forgot to seal some water in a scroll. She didn't have a plan yet, but having an advantage in numbers was always useful.

"Tch," Temari scoffed, "Is that all you Leaf ninja do? Create clones?"

"What can I say? We just use what's useful," Hanara responded before putting her hands in the Bird seal, "Wind Style: Air Bullets!"

Immediately, Temari swung her fan, "Wind Style: Wind Scythe Jutsu!"

'Dammit, I hate when that's used against me.'

"Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation," Hanara and her clone said in sync, rotating to avoid damage.

'Hey, what would happen if I mixed in Wind-Natured Chakra in this? Hmm... let's see next time.' Hanara thought as she stopped spinning.

Temari panted as the wind died down. 'She's out of breath and has less chakra than me. If I plan this correctly, it'll be an easy win. Water Bullets and Wind Bullets are no use, her Wind Scythe'll make them disperse before it gets too close. My Wind Scythe against her's will work, but only if I do it, not the clone. And... chakra strings. I got it!' Hanara thought, a plan forming in her mind.

"Wind Scythe Jutsu!" Temari yelled, swinging her fan, not giving her time to put her plan in action.

"Rotation!" said the two Hanaras as they both spun, the real one adding Wind Natured chakra to the chakra she was releasing from her chakra points. The result was something like a shredding ball. If someone came close to her and touched the Rotation, they would've had one less finger.

'I will need to refine this, but I can use it later! Although... now that I think about it, trying a new technique in the middle of a battle is so stupid.'

The wind died down and Hanara and her clone used that as an opportunity to take out one fan each and make it big enough for one Hanara to fit on each fan. Before Temari could do anything, Hanara and her clone manipulated the Wind around the fan, allowing them to fly.

"Are you really running away, now?" Temari mocked as Hanara took to the air, "Are all of your team members cowards?"

"We may be cowards, but at least we win," the real Hanara responded, moving in front of her clone to guard it as it proceeded with her plan, not that Temari knew.

The real Hanara grabbed her second fan and enlarged it.

"Aw, letting a clone guard you? Too scared to face me yourself? Well, too bad that won't work," Temari smirked, "WIND SCYTHE JUTSU!"

"WIND SCYTHE JUTSU!" the real Hanara roared, watching as the wind she created overpowered Temari's and attacked her while the clone slowly implemented Hanara's plan from behind her.

The girls repeated the process 3 more times, but it was of no use to Temari. Hanara's wind constantly overpowered Temari's due to her already having used lots of chakra that day, yet attempting to fight Hanara using taijutsu was a death wish. Temari was clinging naively to the hope that Hanara's Byakugan would reduce the amount of chakra that she was putting into the jutsu.

Sighing, Temari started to raise her arm, only to find that she couldn't.

Her eyes widened and she instinctively looked to her shadow, "H-Huh? Only that Nara had trapping jutsus from what I saw of your team!"

Smirking slightly, Hanara and her clone flew back to the ground, her clone behind Temari and Hanara in front of her.

"I knew that which is why I decided to pick something up, too," the real Hanara said, "You want to take a guess or should I just show you?"

Temari stayed silent but her face hid her previously obvious shock.

"That's no fun," Hanara mock-pouted, "Fine. Cloney, you can stop hiding it."

The water clone nodded and removed some of the chakra from the five chakra threads (one for each limb and the fifth one for her neck) it was using before taking off its Byakugan so it could make sure it was visible. It made Temari turn her head and she gasped.

"Chakra threads," she said, shocked, "But that's a technique that the Sand made sure wasn't taught to other nations!"

The Hanara in front of her smirked again, "Your brother 'taught' me it by using it while I had my Byakugan on. The Byakugan is quite useful in learning techniques that use chakra in general because with it we can see how chakra is moulded. We can't copy it immediately, but we can learn it by sight which still makes things a whole lot easier. Most Hyuga ignore this fact and focus on our 'superior' taijutsu instead, which is why we aren't seen throwing flashy jutsu, but I never really tried to fit that stereotype. Anyway, we aren't here to talk about what I did for the last month, so let me get back to the task at hand," Hanara shot Temari a crazed grin, trying to scare her, "Defeating you."

'Let's go with the more merciful way, don't want to use too much chakra.'

The clone forced Temari's hands to her side, causing her fan to fall. Temari stared at Hanara, obviously trying to look unbothered, but her eyes revealed her slight fear. The Hyuga smirked at that and walked slowly towards her fellow Wind user.

'This is payback for calling our team cowards, bitch. I'll be the third one to prove that we are smarter than you think.'

Once Hanara was an inch away from the Sand kunoichi, she looked towards the proctor.

"You should call the match," she told him loudly, "This," she struck Temari's collarbone, "Could've been a kunai that hit her neck. This," she used a Gentle fist strike right above her heart, "Could've been a Gentle Fist strike to her heart. This-"

Genma sighed, "Yeah, I get the point. Temari's done. The match goes to Hanara Hyuga of the Leaf! Temari of the Sand is disqualified.

A/N: The Byakugan's ninjutsu specialization stuff was first brought to my attention by a reader on fanfiction.net, so thank you for that :)