Base of jutsu, check.
Hand seals, check.
Double check of theories and hypothesis, check.
Notebooks and scrolls to record results, check.
"What are you doing?"
I let out a shrill. Partly due to I had booty trapped my front door and bedroom along with locked the doors and windows.
Yet, no surprised that Mr. Smug Uchiha got into my apartment.
"Wait, what the hell do you want, Jerk!" I screamed as I pointed at the supposed "drop dead handsome" boy that the girls all loved. Even my crush wouldn't look at me due to this dark hair vampire. "And why the hell are you in my place? I can call the police on your-"
"Calm down," Uchiha Sasuke sighed with his hands up... And my library card in one of them. "You just happened to check out a book I wanted to look at."
"And that gives you a reason to break into my apartment?" I snatched my library card from his hand. "You could have knocked. I mean, did you set off my traps?" Some of those were a pain to put back into place... Still worth it due to those creepy mask kids.
Aaaagh. I don't know if they're ghosts or one of the ANBU sects were scouting me out. Those kids crept me out. Period.
"So, those were your traps," Sasuke sighed while looking at my patio. Yep. Lovely web of wires and bits of glue and feathers covered it. "You got talent in at least one field."
"Jeez. Sorry if adults want nothing to do with me." I snarled before I sat back down. He probably wouldn't find the book he wanted with the mess I got. I'll show him all my library books back in class if he's pissy about it. "Well, if you're done, go away. I got things to do."
"You're bed is in here?" My eyebrow twitched as I heard the Uchiha move in my room. His footsteps were oh so soft, but not silent like the Chunin and Jonin I sometimes got caught by. "Or is this... A whole room for just training?"
"Yeah. Which, are you really wanting me to call the police on you?" Even if they don't like me, the police do know I am damn serious if I made a call when people who are not supposed to be in my apartment was there. They got three spies just this year because of that.
Though, I still don't get why those three looked so shocked at seeing me. I mean, their fault they chose a bachelor's pad to try and hide out in.
The only reason I am in my bedroom instead of my training room was due to I needed a little more space to try out this experimental genjutsu.
"I thought you never took being a ninja seriously."
I slammed my hand on the book I was looking at shut.
Shocking. I made the Uchiha jumped before I glared at him.
I left it at that and hoped the Uchiha would leave. I hated fussing about this topic.
If people would stop treating me as something else, maybe I would stop acting like a fool and be able to focus on studying?
... Okay, that's too much of a stretch. I really do like pranking a lot.
...
Nope. Still there.
I felt Sasuke stare at my back and it was getting annoying. Enough that I put the book down and glared at him. "What?"
"Why are you reading about genjutsu?" What was this? Uchiha Sasuke's Speaking Day? Even more so with a lot of questions? Still, I noticed an odd flicker in his eyes.
Probably was looking down on me. As usually with this condescending jerk.
"I suck at the Clone Jutsu and I found out it's gonna be used again for the Genin Exam." Might as well give him a heads up to keep his mouth shut. "You can guess the rest."
"Hn." A grunt was my only answer. No surprise at all for me.
Still, I hated he was looking over my shoulders. Didn't he understand personal-
"You're trying to make a large scale illusion instead of focused smaller ones?" I stared at Sasuke when he said that. "Isn't that harder to do than the clone jutsu?"
"Yeah, but nothing I did with the clone jutsu works" Since working harder hasn't provided the results, I had a nagging hypothesis as to what was going on.
Hence, my grand- albeit experimental -genjutsu I am about to test out.
Instead of focusing on making several clones out of pure chakra to create the illusion, I was going to try and made a sort of field for the whole illusion...
Kind of like setting up a mirror or, better yet, making a movie screen and then projecting the image onto the screen. Yeah. That was better.
If I got the big illusion to work, then it meant maybe I can't handle doing fine tune genjutsu like the Clone no Jutsu. If I showed that proof to Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-sensei, maybe they could help me fix the smaller genjutsu.
Either way, I get my clones and pass the test, so it's a win-win... Well, if it works, that is.
"I don't expect it to work." Sasuke scuffed and I had the last straw.
"Oh, yeah?" I asked and grinned. I wonder how he would like it with a bunch of my Ninja Centerfold Clones trying to woo him?
"What are you-" I jumped up and made the hand seals.
Ram. Snake. Tiger. Hare. Rat.
"Wait! Stop that!" Sasuke tried to grab my hand and I made a mistake.
The last seal was supposed to be the Ox seal. Yet, thanks to the snob, I accidentally made some odd cross seal. I made a mental note of it since this was likely a fail-
A bright flash of light from my hands blinded me and next thing I know I'm falling through a weird white haze.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
["Choose a name."]
I flinched at the female voice I heard. It was odd and stuffy. However, I noticed something appeared in my vision.
A... semi-transparent keyboard? I have seen keyboards at the hospital and there was one in the mission office for typing up the really messy reports.
Well, maybe I knocked myself into a dream due to that failed attempted. Oh well, I at least could type.
[NARUTO]
I typed out each letter with care even though my head felt dizzy. I then confirmed it...
Tutorial? What's that? No, I'll skip it.
I'll go with the flow and-
"Whoa!" I gasped out as the white haze disappeared and the world was back before me.
Lots of people were around me and it was night time. Lights glowed in the stone covered streets, giving the wooden and stone buildings a bit of a calm, festive vibe.
Where was I?... And why did my hair feel longer? As well as I felt a little lighter.
"Did I..." I then laughed.
I cast a genjutsu, but I did it onto myself!
"Beat that, Uchiha jerk!" I cheered out. I can cast genjutsu... Just now had to figure out how to cast it on others than me. Well, since I will be stuck in my own illusion for a while, might as well explored what I made...
And made a mental note to figure out a way to dispel genjutsu if this becomes common place.
"And... I'm being stared at." I sighed with feeling the eyes on me. Yet, when I looked at the culprits, they just looked away and tried to look innocent. What rude dream people. What was their problem?
"Oh, are you a newbie?" I flinched when a guy in armor put his hand on my shoulder. "How about I teach you how-"
"Off!" I grabbed his wrist and flipped him over my back. My face became a little heated from the embarrassment.
I'm fine when I touch people.
The other way around?
Nope.
Can't handle it outside a few people I got used to. I dealt with enough fear and angst in my childhood without the trauma of being beaten up.
Didn't help the orphan matrons scared me good to keep me isolated from the other kids with outside world dangers.
Never had a problem with me going outside except for when they had me. Jerks.
"You could have just called the GM."
"I think it was more a reflex."
"I never thought I see a little girl wrestle a big guy like that! VRMMORPGs rule!"
Eh? I looked around and saw a crowd stared at me. Most of all, they seemed to be chatting about my lovely reaction.
"Got a screenshot of that."
"Maybe she's a beta and knew how to do that."
"She's so cute with those whiskers. How she get that option?"
"W-What?" Who's she? I looked around and saw no girl next to me. Plus, the only one with whiskers were me... And those were birthmarks. I tried scrubbing them off many times with thinking people were scared of me with looking like a cat.
"Want to join my party?"
"No, join mine! A cute girl is always welcomed in our party!"
"Heck, no. I want that martial artist in my front line!"
A shouting match had begun, but I already jumped onto a shop's awning and leaped up to the roofs.
"Eh?! Where she go?"
"A ninja! No way! A cute kunoichi!"
"I'm not a kunoichi. I'm a guy." I sighed but felt the hives still growing over my skin.
What were with those dream people? I mean, I do like attention... But big crowds that swarmed around me always caused me to break out. All due to nerves caused by constant worries of being mobbed by unhappy adults as a kid. I had enough false alarms for it to become a phobia.
"Woah," I stopped and looked over the town. It even had a wall around the perimeter for protection from the wildness. The moonlight gave a pretty and peaceful atmosphere outside the city.
"I wonder where I created this from?" I said aloud but didn't mind.
I didn't know my mind could make such pretty scenes. I should give my imagination more credit. I sat down to enjoy the view... When I noticed something.
Something was in the corner of my eye... I focused on it and jumped when it formed into several icons.
Including an image of myself on a semi-transparent box.
"Eh?" I tried grabbing the box, but my hands went through it. My whole body shook as my face morphed with the various emotions going through my head.
The image that looked at me was... me... Or sort of me. It was me with bigger eyes and longer hair...
I touched my chest and, barely there, I realized for sure what was in that spot...
And what I was missing between my legs.
Worse?
"M-Menma?" How did I screw up my name so bad? Somehow I typed my name as Menma and that was what showed on the odd boxes.
Trying to see how to solve this, I hit a tab for Senses. What happened was a huge screen full of various words appeared.
"Eh... eh... Eeeeeeh!" My mouth agape when I saw things for magic all the way to abilities for weapons and such.
"Heh heh... heh heh..." I began to giggle.
No way... No waaaaaay.
This wasn't a genjutsu.
"I'm so screwed," I whined out with realizing... The chances of this being an illusion...
Well, it just went dropping along with my chances of getting out this situation soon.
I blamed the Uchiha jerk for this.