The Sad Story of Neji

[boomorman]

I think Nejis childhood was far worse then Narutos.

Neji
1. Born into slavery.
2. Sole purpose in life was to protect the main house.
3. At any time he could be killed by the main house for any reason.
4. Had to watch his father be tortured, and had his father cruelly killed.
5. Had no one to offer love respect or training until he entered the ninja academy.
6. Has a seal that offers only tortured and death.

Naruto
1. Doesn’t have parents, and didn’t really know them to miss them.
2. Was made fun of, and ostracized because in the minds of many of the adults he himself is the demon fox.
3. His seal holds a demon fox that gives him unlimited amounts of chakra…. More of a good thing I guess…
4. Had no one to offer love respect or training until he entered the ninja academy.

[Kn1ves]

I wish all posts are like this. Nice, smart and informative.

I believe that Neji is one of the greatest characters in this series, he has more of a tragic history than Naruto, he has more going for him. Is it just me or does every 'strong' guy have some kind of seal to limit their powers in some form.
(Sasuke's Orochimaru seal, Naruto's Kyuubi, Gaara's Tattoo of Doom, and Neji's Cursed seal) I wonder if Shino or Shikamaru has a seal of their own? And Chouji! Who can forget about Chouji!?

[PuppetMaster Kankuro]

NEJI DIDN'T WATCH HIS FATHER DIE! Hiashi used the hand seal that was killing Hizashi's brain cells. That's what the curse seal does. Hizashi was executed by ninja's in Cloud. Neji didn't see him die.

[Shinji Ikari]

I don't know if this has been said before, but.

About the Neji deal thinking one is born to be genious and stuff. But isn't it also true that he isn't one of those childern or at least isn't considered to be one of them and has just been fighting himself to believe that he really is one of them. I think he really feels left out, i mean, he must feel like he's been pushed out.

So he is just trying to prove to himself that he really is capable.

I don't really think he thinks that fate is that way, i think it's been put in his head since very young because of everything he has been through.

[ninetails]

i really didnt get why he always looked down on some people. how does he know that their destiny was to lose? its not like he knew the future. that really made me think. you really cant tell whos stronger on the outside by just looking at them. so i still think what he says isnt really acceptable.

[Chi Chi]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PuppetMaster Kankuro @ Dec 6 2003, 03:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> NEJI DIDN&#39;T WATCH HIS FATHER DIE&#33; Hiashi used the hand seal that was killing Hizashi&#39;s brain cells. That&#39;s what the curse seal does. Hizashi was executed by ninja&#39;s in Cloud. Neji didn&#39;t see him die. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That last thing isn&#39;t true either. Neji wasn&#39;t present but he was killed by his brother or his father. Otherwise they couldn&#39;t have sealed it on time.

[Sasuke's Goddess]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chi Chi @ Dec 6 2003, 02:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PuppetMaster Kankuro &#064; Dec 6 2003, 03:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> NEJI DIDN&#39;T WATCH HIS FATHER DIE&#33; Hiashi used the hand seal that was killing Hizashi&#39;s brain cells. That&#39;s what the curse seal does. Hizashi was executed by ninja&#39;s in Cloud. Neji didn&#39;t see him die. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That last thing isn&#39;t true either. Neji wasn&#39;t present but he was killed by his brother or his father. Otherwise they couldn&#39;t have sealed it on time. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
The curse disappears and seals the byuakugan at the exact moment of death. Another Hyuuga wouldn&#39;t have to be there to seal it, it does it automatically. Even though it was actually the Hyuuga souke that killed Hizashi and then sent his body to the cloud village as Hyuuga Hisashi&#39;s body they didn&#39;t have to do any sealing. Neji wasn&#39;t present at this but he still knew about it and he saw the torture that Hisashi had put Hizashi through at one point in his life.

[DezertE]

Neji is frickin awesome, a d&#33;ck, but awesome.

[SeGee]

Neji is hard ass because he is stronger than Hanita, the one that actually should be stronger. He wants to prove that he doesnt belong as the cursed one. That branch familys actually can be stronger

[boomorman]

A little soap a little water that seal will wash right off.... There afraid someones going to pull a Kakashi and yank a eye out of a dead Hyuga and use it for their own. Anything that can be done can be undone. Neji will get the seal removed someday….

[Swedish_Star]

I think Naruto&#39;s and Neji&#39;s childhood both where cruel. Neji at least were happy when he was young, and never had to ask himself why he exists, he already knew. (Prove the branch family to be stronger)

[Karasu]

Well one thing is for sure, Neji is even tho he might not think so is fighting his own layed out destiny. Cause he&#39;s a genious that can surpass the best of the best in the main branch probably. I dont know if he had seen anyone use the secret hyuga skills or if he just happened to learn them. probably dont matter it&#39;s kinda cool anyway that he knows &quot;their&quot; moves.

Neji is a cool guy he&#39;s got a cool style, but he needs to stop thinking the way he does Naruto&#39;s destiny is far greater than Neji can imagine. And Hinata might become a badass ninja if she isnt so damn affraid all the time, and got some selfesteem and a good teacher not telling her how much she suck all the time. Lee can aslo become stronger than he is cause even tho he cant do anything else than taijutsu he still have somewhat his own talent of perfectioning his own style of fightning. cause if Lee didnt have any talent whatsoever for the taijutsu he knows he wouldn&#39;t be that good. Just hard work cant get him there, even tho he is quite determined and it looks like he&#39;s just using hardwork.

So yeah Neji got a pretty tragic childhood aswell, and with the way the hyuga clan works Neji dont know alot else than destiny that controls the way of life, and he hates it so damn much he dont understand how hard he actually fights his own destiny.

[DB_Hunter]

Well we don&#39;t know if Kakashi yanked his Sharingan out of a dead Uchiha. He could have been one himself but he was related from a distance to the clan.

[Madox]

I agree with alot of you, Heji is fighting his own destiny and does&#39;nt realise it. I do understand why Neji is the way he is, and imo it&#39;s a very tragic story. From the moment he was born destined to be in the branch family, nothing could change it. Now here he is working hard and training to become possibly the most powerful Hygau (spelling?) family member, but still restricted by the seal, poor guy.

My guess is seeing Hinata will become the leader of the head family she will sympathise with the branch family and decide to permanatly remove the cursed seal, Ths allowing all family members to be equal. Thus creating an even stronger Hygua family.

I hope Jiraya removes Neji&#39;s seal and he becomes a nice guy.

All round an amazing episode with a good section of the story and a kickass fight scene.

PS: Neji &gt; Gaara

[Karasu]

hehe even tho pretty unnessesary but Neji dont own gaara sorry . Dont see that happening. Neji&#39;s good but he&#39;s not that good/powerful. Maby Gaara isnt an especially good ninja but I dont think he needs to be, cause of what we&#39;ve seen and &quot;heard&quot; he&#39;s not like any of the others except maby for Naruto wich apperantly share a similar destiny.

But alittle off topic this is about Neji .

[makkura]

the only thing that pisses me off is that they censored the symbol on his forehead.

i HATE things like that but i was sure they&#39;d do something like that, because people are misinformed, the swastika is originally not a nazi symbol, its a symbol of prosperity and good fortune, it was used as buddhist symbol since ancient times.

[PuppetMaster Kankuro]

I agree that Neji&#39;s childhood was tradjic, and that him having that curse seal is completely cruel. However, we&#39;ve only heard Neji&#39;s side of the story. How did he know all of the circumstances of his father&#39;s death? Perhaps Hizashi volunteered to be the double that went to Cloud to die in Hiashi&#39;s stead. Maybe Hiashi wanted to accept responsibility? I don&#39;t know... I feel kind of bad for the guy, but i think he made a lot of assumptions and drew a lot of his own conclusions. His moves are definately pretty sweet and he&#39;s definately really powerful. In the prelims he was visibley starteled when Lee opened up the gates and fought Gaara. I think that by opeining the gates Lee would&#39;ve owned Neji. Sure Neji&#39;s strong, but he&#39;s definately not the strongest genin.

[Assertn]

neji doesnt put down sasuke or gaara though.......only naruto and rock lee
and then with hinata, well i dont think it was so much about her being a loser, but about her being a coward

[High Wind]

Neji always says that some ones fate is decided at birth and that hard work won&#39;t change anything is because his father (Hizashi) and Hinata&#39;s father (Hiashi) were twins and were equals but Hiashi was born first so Hizashi was cast into the Branch family and that no amount of hard work can change that

But then again he is contradicting himself... after all how would he be able to perfect a move that was only passed through the head family? hard work...


P.S. Has it been 24 hours since the release?

[EnergyCallingMe]

it is because they have risen to being ninjas by pure effort without any other factors to make them as strong as they are which is conflicting with his ideal of the world....well in my mind he is ,alot of things are going around in my mind that shouldnt