Further spitting on the message of the "fighting against destiny" message Naruto told Neji his views on "you are defined by what you're born with." He just accepts it and no saying he'll fight with his own power or anything, even though technically he never did even during the fight with Neji looking back on it.
Hypocrisy at its best.
He did fight against Neji using his own power, and he lost. Then he asked the Kyuubi for some power and then he won.
Reminds me of the last fight between Naruto and Sasuke, where Sasuke declares that he will defeat Naruto using his own power, then immediately in the next panel Sasuke gets power from all the tailed beasts.
"I will beat you alone......using someone else's power, but I beat you and that's all that matters, forget what I said before" - Naruto series 1999-2014.