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As a member of the Hyuga clan, Neji possesses the Byakugan, which gives him an almost 360° field of vision. Throughout the series he attempts to bring this up to a full 360°, though he is never able to completely overcome the Byakugan's blindspot. Because of this, Neji is acutely aware of his blindspot and takes extra efforts in keeping it away from opponents as well as paying more attention to it than he does the rest of his body. While the Byakugan naturally has only a limited field of vision, Neji is able to increase the range of its sight several times over by the start of Part II. The Byakugan also allows him to specialize in the Gentle Fist fighting style, which enables him to damage an opponent's chakra circulatory system and inner organs directly with even a slight tap. Neji also uses this technique to attack his opponents heart directly and send them into ventricular fibrillation resulting in the death of the opponent with but a single strike.

Since his time in the Ninja Academy, Neji has been held to be a natural genius, even becoming the top-ranked rookie in his class. As a member of the Hyuga clan's branch house, Neji can never hope to be taught how to use the clan's most secret techniques. Despite this he has learned many of these techniques, such as Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin and Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, independently, a feat that surprises many of the clan's elder members. Since mastering these jutsu, Neji has begun to refine and strengthen them for more specialized needs. In the anime, the fruits of his efforts are first seen during the Sasuke Retrieval arc where he uses Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms (八卦百二十八掌, Hakke Hyaku Nijūhachi Shō?), essentially a doubled version of the Sixty-Four Palms technique, to strike numerous targets at once. In Part II he also develops the Eight Trigrams Empty Palm (八卦空掌, Hakke Kūshō?), a more focused version of the Heavenly Spin, with which he can expel chakra from his palm to attack opponents out of his physical reach. While most of the former Konoha Genin become Chunin over the timeskip, Neji is the only one to subsequently become a Jonin.