Chapter 1059: Konoha's Genins are Trash
The scene of Sasuke struggling at the hands of Orochimaru was within Raijin’s vision. Watching the young Uchiha slowly beginning to lose his breath, Raijin thought to himself, ‘Leave it to Orochimaru-sama on how to train ninjas…’
Raijin wasn’t much surprised by this turn of events, in fact, he had somewhat expected it which is why he allowed Orochimaru to take the reins on Sasuke lead for now, and he could see Orochimaru doing a good job of leaving a shadow in Sasuke’s heart that Raijin can later use to further stimulate Sasuke.
Since Raijin was able to see Sasuke’s struggle, Naruto and Neji could see it too, and shouted, “Let Sasuke go!” “Stop it, he’d die at this rate!”
Of course, Raijin wouldn’t allow them to interfere. He activated the Lightning Chakra Stimulation Technique as he disappeared from his position and appeared in front of Naruto in a flash and punched him in the face.
‘Damn it, he is too fast!’ thought Naruto while gritting his teeth as he once again his body was slammed into a tree.
Because Raijin had put a seal on Naruto’s body, so he is unable to use the Nine-tail’s Chakra, and since Garaga is too far away from him, the Giant Red Snake is unable to transfer Natural Energy to Naruto either. While the boy himself can also absorb Natural Energy, he would have to stay still and calm his mind which is impossible considering their current situation.
In short, Naruto had no way to fight back against Raijin.
As for Neji?
Whoosh! Zzzz!
The sound of breaking through wind and lightning crackling reached Neji’s ears as Raijin appeared by his side.Neji’s pupils shrank as he exclaimed to himself, ‘Too fast, can’t react!’
While Byakugan grants near three-sixty-degree vision, it does not grant dynamic vision that of Sharingan therefore, it was difficult for Neji even to follow Raijin’s movements or react to them. All he noticed was that a moment ago Raijin had knocked out Naruto, heck he did not even notice how Raijin did that, and the next moment Raijin was standing beside him.
‘How can anyone be this fast?’ such a thought appeared in his mind. For a moment, Neji even felt that Raijin was even faster than his Sensei, and that’s saying a lot.
Having dealt with Naruto and standing beside Neji, Raijin calmly put his hand on Neji’s shoulder and while staring into the young Hyuga’s eyes, he chuckled, “So, you are Hyuga Neji from the Hyuga Clan, huh? Honestly, you are disappointing. I thought you were Godaime Hokage’s disciple, so you’d be strong, but it seems I was expecting way too much from you, or maybe the entire Hyuga Clan is just that, huh?”
“Raijin…” mumbled Neji narrowing his eyes and immediately leapt a few steps distancing himself then took a deep breath and looked at the Amegakure ninja. He resisted the fear and nervous in his heart as his expression became firm. In Neji’s heart, he can accept and tolerate anything, but the mockery of his Sensei is not something that he can tolerate. He can accept being defeated, but he cannot accept staining the reputation of his Sensei. The complicated thoughts in his mind disappeared, all his focus was on one simple point, and he took Gentle Fist Stance.
Seeing the sudden change in Neji’s expression and stance Raijin was a little surprised and praised, “Well well… perhaps you have something more to show.”
Neji did not disappoint Raijin as suddenly chakra in his body flared from all the Tenketsu and started taking the form of a Cloak that wrapped around him.
‘Byakugan Chakra Mode!’
“Hmm?” Raijin blinked thoughtfully observing Neji’s Byakugan Chakra Mode and shook his head, “The Jutsu you are using, it doesn’t seem to be complete yet…”
The problem with Neji’s Byakugan Chakra Mode is that he is unable to control the output through all the Tenketsu to be even, at some parts, there’s more Chakra and at other parts, there’s less.
Neji also understands that he has yet to completely master the Jutsu that Kuroto told him to master a few months back, but there is nothing else he can do for the time being. He can only rely on the incomplete version of Byakugan Chakra Mode that he has learned, after all, the Amegakure ninja in front of him is too strong, and if he tries to keep his hands, he might end up dying.
‘Thirty seconds… any more than that, and I won’t be able to maintain this mode, I have to somehow get past Raijin and save Sasuke within the next thirty seconds,’ thought Neji as he stepped forward at an incredible speed and tried to get past Raijin.
Yes, Neji’s goal was to save Sasuke, naturally, he did not want to engage with Raijin, and that’s what he tried to do, but how could it be so easy?
The corner of Raijin’s lips arched in a smirk as lightning flickered around his body and he disappeared from his position appearing in front of Neji, blocking the young Hyuga’s path, “Not so fast…”
‘He can still follow me?’ Neji was stunned and gritted his teeth as he came to a stop and tried to jump over Raijin, but before he could succeed, Raijin held his ankle with his left hand and threw him on the ground, bang!
After throwing back Neji to the ground Raijin snorted, “Humph, it wouldn’t be that easy.”
It doesn’t matter how fast Neji becomes while using the Byakugan Chakra Mode, with the strong insight of the pair of Sharingan in his eyes, Raijin can easily keep track of Neji’s movements.
Before the dust cleared, Neji once again stood up and attempted to save Sasuke using a similar speed. Instead of direction passing by Raijin, he ran to the side, running in a circle, and tried to use another path to bypass the Amegakure ninja.
Looking at Neji, once again, the corner of Raijin’s lips curved into a smirk. This time, Raijin did not go after Neji, rather, he raised his lightning-covered left hand in the air, and released a Jutsu, ‘Lightning Style: Lightning Snake!’
A serpent made up of lightning appeared out of the palm of his hand and instantly zapped Neji who couldn’t react to the speed of lightning serpent. His body exploded into white smoke and disappeared, poof!
“Using the cover of dust to create a Shadow Clone and use it to lead me away in order to create a chance for yourself… that’s indeed a good tactic, but, unfortunately for you, it won’t work out against me,” chuckled Raijin looking at Neji who appeared before him as the dust cleared.
“It didn’t work at all?!” thought Neji a little panicked as he glanced at Sasuke who was being choked by the Kusagakure Kunoichi in worry then looked at Raijin thinking to himself, ‘What to do? How to bypass him?’
“What? Can’t think of anything? It seems I was right, Konoha’s Genins are indeed trash,” chuckled Raijin mocking Neji.