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Name: Hyuuga Neji
Age:
Part 1: 13-14
Part 2: 17
Sex: Male
Height:
Part 1: 160cm (5’3″)
Part 2: 172cm (5’7.75″)
Weight
Part 1: 46 kg (101 pounds)
Part 2: 54 kg (119 pounds)
Rank:
Part 1: Genin
Part 2: Jounin
First Appearance: Naruto Episode 21 |
Hyuuga Neji is a main supporting character, first seen in episode 21 of the first Naruto series. In the first series, the series ended with him still as the rank of a Genin. When Shippuden began, he had already advanced to the level of a Jounin. He has long, brown hair and pupil-less, light purple colored eyes, a trait of the Hyuuga clan. His first appearance was along with his team mates, Rock Lee and Tenten, during the groups participation in the Chuunin exams.
Neji comes from what is considered to be a branch family, or a part of the family that carries a cursed mark that forces them to protect and serve the main branch part of the family. In the beginning of the series he believed heavily in fate and that only Genius’s like himself would ever succeed as Shinobi. He laughed at Rock Lee for attempting to become a good ninja with Taijutsu alone as well as his opponent in the Chuunin exam finals, Naruto.
It was during this final battle where Neji began to realize that a Shinobi controls his own fate and can be victorious by having a strong mindset. Although Neji clearly outclassed Naruto, Naruto’s persistence gave him a victory over Neji, a battle that surprised the entire village that watched.
Abilities
Neji was considered, by his team mate Rock Lee, to be the strongest Genin that was participating in the Chuunin exams. Seeing as how he is from the Hyuuga clan, a clan that possesses the ocular bloodline ability called the Byakugan (an ability that closely resembles the Sharingan and the Rinnegan), he is also able to use the Byakugan. The Byakugan is an ability that allows him to see the chakra circulatory system, as well as a nearly 360 degree field of vision, with a very small blind spot that was eventually discovered by Kidomaru, one of Orochimaru’s henchmen that was sent to retrieve Sasuke from Konoha.
His ability also allows him to strike the circulatory system of chakra, causing an inability for his opponent to correctly mold chakra. Most of these strikes come from a Taijutsu-based form of attack, causing internal trauma that affects the internal organs and has the capability of killing an opponent. After the Chuunin exams, he is seen a few more times on missions that were created as filler episodes and seen more times, as an older Jounin, during missions in Shippuden.
