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Neji moved like a ghost in the underbrush... wounded, soaked in blood, barely conscious... but utterly determined. His body screamed with every motion, but he had no time to listen. He had already decided.
He would end this.
And for that, he would have to use it.
Chakra Sōgeki: Asshuku-ten. The "Compression Point."
A cursed invention of his own design. A technique born of madness and brilliance, combining the core Hyuga principle of Gentle Fist with the forbidden idea of dense chakra compression. Instead of simply blocking chakra flow, Asshuku-ten would condense chakra into a microscopic point and detonate it inside the target's organ. A single finger strike, and the victim's insides would rupture like rotten fruit... bypassing even armours.
He had tested it only once... on a thick tree. It left a perfect cylindrical empty pocket.
But the recoil… he had never felt such pain. The bones in his finger shattered like glass. The nerves? Burned out. Useless for weeks. But if it meant survival... if it meant silencing this Uchiha... he would offer his entire hand.
He began setting the field.
The forest around him was old, its floor uneven and tangled with roots. Neji's Byakugan flickered again... each use threatened to knock him out cold. But he needed every second.
He moved wire.
Silent, invisible steel cords were wound between branches, between roots, among shattered trunks. He tied kunai to the ends. Others he laced with tripwire traps and smoke pellets. He draped a cloak soaked in his own blood over a rock... a decoy. A heartbeat illusion.
He needed the Uchiha to look away for just one second.
Every heartbeat was a countdown. His blood was leaving him. His left hand? Numb. Hanging limp. Burned to bone in places. But his right still obeyed. It shook, yes, but it obeyed.
Behind the largest tree... one already blackened by his own explosion... he crouched. His breathing was a whisper.
He waited.
The Uchiha moved again.
Neji didn't know his name... but he could feel the way he moved. He was young, perhaps a few years older. But battle-hardened. Not reckless anymore. Cautious now. Alert. The Sharingan spun slowly as the Uchiha crept through the woods.
Neji knew what he was doing... reading heat signatures. Chakra trails. The residual static of a shinobi's passage. If Neji had been less careful, he would've already been dead.
But Neji was Hyuga.
He reached into his pouch with his good hand, pulled out a smoke tag, bit it gently between his teeth, and waited. The wires were all in place. The field was ready. The final piece?
A sacrifice.
The Uchiha spotted the bloodied cloak first.
He paused. Crouched. Eyes narrowing.
His Sharingan analyzed it instantly... fresh blood, damp fabric, a chakra trace.
He Body Flickered forward, landing beside it—
Neji pulled the wire.
A clink.
SNAP!
Four kunai hurled down from the branches, one nearly piercing the Uchiha's shoulder. He leapt back, twisting midair—
Right into another trap.
BOOM!
A smoke bomb detonated from under a mound of leaves. The forest filled with thick, black mist that stung the lungs and eyes. It wasn't regular smoke. It was ash-laced, mixed with fine metallic powder... the kind that clung to skin, revealed movement, and dulled the Sharingan.
The Uchiha cursed, backpedaling, slashing the air around him. "Coward…!"
From the edge of the smoke, a wire tugged.
A kunai sliced through the haze... not to kill, but to distract.
The Uchiha ducked... and Neji was there.
He launched from a low crouch, his chakra flaring in short pulses to disguise his trajectory. His feet hit a wire that twisted him sideways mid-air, letting him shoot from a different angle than expected.
He was above the Uchiha before he noticed.
The Uchiha turned, eyes locking onto Neji in the air.
Their gazes met.
Neji's palm lit with compressed chakra.
A pinprick of blue light, swirling violently around the tip of his right index finger. The air warped from the pressure.
He aimed straight for the chest.
The Uchiha didn't hesitate... he twisted and threw a kunai upward, aimed directly at Neji's exposed side.
It dug into Neji's ribs mid-air, but he didn't falter.
He struck.
His finger slammed into the Uchiha's chest... right over the heart. There was no soft push, no graceful jab like the Gentle Fist.
It was a brutal spear-thrust.
The chakra detonated a fraction of a second later... inside the Uchiha's body.
The sound was wet. Horrific. A CRACK like bone exploding inside a sealed jar. A gout of blood burst from the Uchiha's mouth as his heart imploded. His eyes went wide, blood vessels in the whites bursting into red lightning.
But Neji screamed too.
His finger snapped backward on impact... the bones pulverized. The recoil ran up his arm like fire.His entire shoulder jerked out of socket from the backlash.
Both shinobi hit the ground... hard.
The Uchiha spasmed. His hands clutched at his chest, trying to undo the damage, but chakra sputtered out of his fingertips in dying sparks. Blood frothed at his lips. His Sharingan spun wildly, flickering, then dimmed like candles snuffed in the rain.
He reached for a kunai.
Neji... choking, coughing, ribs broken... crawled toward him. He didn't even feel his right arm anymore. His vision was red. Sound muted. But his eyes locked on the Uchiha, crawling like a dying animal with one hand.
"Stop… moving…" Neji muttered, voice full of venom.
He slammed his elbow down... bone on temple.
Crack. The Uchiha twitched once, then went still.
Neji collapsed.
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