</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Death BOO Z @ Feb 3 2004, 04:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Insomniac &#064; Feb 3 2004, 10:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> if he wasnt arrogant then yes he would </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
it was just his bad luck to get matched against Hinata and Naruto, they both bring out the bad parts of him.

If he was up against someone like Sasuke, Temari, Dosu or anyone else then he would have become a chunin in no time.

just like with Shikamaru, if he was up against someone with superkill jutsus, like Lee&#092;Kiba&#092;Gaara then his shadow bind jutsu would make him seem like a lousy one-trick-pony.

it&#39;s depedns alot about what matchup they get, the&#39;re many ninjas who could get to be a chunin if they hadn&#39;t met someone in forest or if they wouldn&#39;t have quitted in the first exam, that&#39;s why there are two exams each year, so possible chunins won&#39;t have to wait an entire year to get promoted if they just messed up at one thing. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
the fact remains that neji was extremly arrogant. at that point even more than sasuke but after naruto kicked his ass he changed alot too. he now believe in that you can change your fate and arent born into specific roles. beleiving that made him arrogant. and he acted like an allknowing god...

i dont think anybod got ripped on a chuunin title and shikamaru deserves his title the only person that might be good enough brainwise to become chuunin would be temari she used her brains to fight but shikamaru won the battle or the brains and that put a shadow on temari..