Taro Hyūga

Taro Hyūga (日向太郎, Hyūga Taro) is a main character in the fanfiction, Naruto: Kimza Chronicles, and its sequel Kimza Chronicles: The Last Sealer. He is a chūnin-level shinobi of Konohagakure, a member of the Hyūga clan, and a member of Team Neji.

Personality
Taro is a level-headed young boy whose attitude greatly resembles his father and mother's in a combined fashion. Like his mother, he is a bright spark who finds the best in life, but always prepares for the worst. Just like Neji, he is serious and ready to take on a challenge, no matter how tough it is. He also looks up to his older teammates Genzo Nekiogama and Linne Kechkuro to help him out whenever he needs it.

Taro expresses great love and interest in plants and spends most of his free time studying plant books or studying plantlife itself, giving him the nickname "Flower Boy". This in turn gives him sort of a dislike for violence, saying that watching a peaceful plant sway in the wind is a lot better than spilling blood on the battlefield. He and Linne are considered close buddies due to their love of plants. He vows to one day become a great botanist after showing his father and his clan how far he can go as a shinobi.

In battle, Taro seems to lose his dislike for fighting and focus on taking down his opponent. After battle, depending on the outcomes, Taro praises his opponent on how they fought and vows to overcome his weaknesses and prepares for the next fight. Due to his father's encouragement of telling that shinobi protect the world, Taro is determined to become the strongest he can be.

Taro also has a fear of thunder, and tends to freeze or cower whenever he hears it, but his fear is lessened after he spent a week with Gen Nakaido to overcome his fear.

Appearance
Taro has medium-length dark brown hair that is slightly spiky at the top and he has customary white eyes of his clan, though they turn pale-violet when he is upset or excited, as his mother's eyes are violet. As a member of the Hyūga clan, he possesses the Byakugan which, when activated, stimulates the veins and arteries immediately around his eyes to protrude much more prominently.

During Kimza Chronicles, after becoming a member of Team Neji, Taro wore a white jacket zipped up to his lower chest, a dark blue t-shirt, blue pants and dark blue earrings that his mother gave him. He wore his forehead protector around his head. Around the time of the Asura Invasion Arc, Taro unzipped his jacket and his shirt revealed the Hyūga clan crest on the front.

During The Last Sealer, Taro has grown a bit more taller and muscular. He now wears a black and purple jacket with silver designs and a hood, a black shirt with a white collar, beige pants, and continues to wear his earrings. His forehead protector is now black and a bit longer. After the Issaru Arc, Taro has started wearing his father's black armbands, though they are hidden beneath his jacket sleeves.

Abilities
Taro is an excellent warrior and a very dependable tracker. Throughout Kimza Chronicles and The Last Sealer, Taro has proven himself as a powerful shinobi over and over. Many say that he has surpassed the strength his father had at his age. By the time of The Last Sealer, he is able to fight without the assistance or guidance of his father and team leader Neji and has even surprised him many times.

Byakugan
As a member of the Hyūga clan, Taro possesses the Byakugan, which enables him to have near 360 degree vision, x-ray vision, and the ability to see the chakra pathway system. Though his line of sight with the Byakugan is basic in Kimza Chronicles, by the time of The Last Sealer, Taro has a vision range extending to at least 500 meters. He also has extended power over his Byakugan as a by-product of his mother's clan's chakra. His Byakugan can not only see through many genjutsu, but it can channel chakra into his pupil and fire it towards a target in a small, but concentrated beam. He can also keep track of multiple targets at once while standing still.