Neji Hyuga’s death is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in fiction And not because I am or was a Neji fan. I honestly never thought all that much of him really. No, Neji’s death was disgusting because of what it represented. The entirety of the first part of the series was all about overcoming the odds and beating destiny and yada yada with Neji being the one character to say “No, you can’t beat destiny no matter how hard you try.” Remember that Neji was basically born as a slave in his own all because his dad was born a few minutes latter and pretty much his sole purpose in life was to die for his cousin Hinata like a good little slave, so it’d make sense that’d he’d think like this. Move on a bit to the Nardo vs. Neji fight and what happens? Nardo kicks Neji’s ass and spouts his usual shtick about overcoming destiny and blah blah blah and he actually makes Neji have a change of heart. All well and good right? WELL I'M AFRAID I'VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS! Fast forward to the Pain Arc in Shippuden and guess what happens? Turns out Nardo’s actually the legendary child of destiny. Yes, after spending the entire first half of the series denouncing the idea of destiny, the very same main character who was supposed to be fighting against destiny and all the other stuff becomes destiny itself. And it gets better! Because not only is nardo the child of destiny, but he’s also the son of the legendary 4th Hokage, one of the strongest people in their world, and a descendant of the Uzumaki clan who was famous for insane chakra reserves. All this on top of the fact that the fox inside him is basically a living nuke that he has full control over. Now fast forward to the lolwar arc and turns out ol’ Nardo is also the reincarnation of a god (this is some real Bleach level foolishness). But the worst part is what happens right before this. Neji dies. Yes, that’s right, Neji dies. Protecting Hinata. With a smile on his face. Like a good little slave. Sound familiar? Well it should because this is the very same destiny Neji was fighting against with the encourage of Mr. Child O’ Destiny himself. Basically Kishimoto just completely shat on the entire theme of the first half of his series and told everyone “fuck you, you don’t get to win and destiny is absolute”, by killing off the one character to call bullshit on the entire theme of part 1. And this is just one reason.