Naruto: Clash of Ninja/Characters/Neji Hyuga

Neji Hyuga is a member of Team Guy and a child prodigy of the Hyuga clan. Despite his natural talent, Neji's membership in one of the clan's lower houses leaves him ineligible to learn the clan's most secret techniques. At the start of the series, Neji openly hates the main house because of this, readily attacking its members verbally or physically when given the chance. At this point in the series, Neji believes in a fatalistic philosophy: that one's destiny is inescapable and that a weak person will always be weak. After being defeated in battle by Naruto Uzumaki, a character that has proven his "destiny" wrong by getting stronger, Neji has a change of heart. He abandons the idea of a predetermined fate, and resolves to get strong enough to never lose a battle. He also tries to remedy the estranged relations between himself and the members of the main house, resulting in his training with the leader of the main house at the end of Part I. In Part 2 of the Naruto series, Neji plays a less important role. Neji has become a Jonin and has now reached almost the full potential of the Hyuga Kekkai Genkai. He only goes on a single mission with Naruto in an attempt to save Gaara of the Desert.