Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25265296-20150729190244/@comment-5936871-20150729194042

Toneri went after Hanabi because she had the strongest Byakugan in her clan, since Neji was gone. If Neji was there, Toneri would have attacked him and tried to steal his eyes. However, Neji would have defended himself a lot better than Hanabi did and Toneri would have to personally confront Neji and assault him with who knows how many puppets in order to bring him down and take his eyes. On top of that, the ruckus their fight would cause would probably wake the whole village and everyone would come rushing most likely ruining Toneri's plans or he would just quickly take Hanabi and run since he wouldn't be able to deal with Neji let alone Naruto and the others.

Then, I can foresee Neji traveling with them all to rescue Hanabi and he would probably be the "Byakugan Prince" or something and become more of a main character than Hinata. However, Toneri would still want to kidnap Hinata and make her into his wife. So the whole romance between Naruto and Hinata would still happen just fine and in the very end the Tenseigan would be destroyed, Hanabi would be rescued, and maybe Neji (After him being the one who receives Hamura's chakra instead) fights alongside Naruto to take down Toneri (Which would be badass as hell) and in the end the same events that happened at the end happen.

Then years later Neji and Tenten have their own badass kid (Imagine the Byakugan combined with all those long-range weapons) who makes the previous generation look like crap alongside all the other new gen kids and shows off how badass he is in the Boruto movie :P However, too bad that wont ever happen since Neji is... ya know... dead... killed off after doing almost nothing in Shippuden... by jumping directly into some wooden stalks without using blow body or rotation to deflect them away. Oh Kishi, why do you do these things?