Chapter 3

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Naruto grunted as he was slammed against the ground. He quickly pushed himself on all fours and kicked his left leg behind him. A huff told him he hit the target. He jumped to his feet, but his attacker had already recovered. Naruto blocked five punches and sent three back, before a knee to the gut forced him on his knees.

"That's enough, both of you." Minato's voice rang out. Natsuki jumped back, while Naruto struggled a bit before getting up.

"Good job you two. Especially you, Natsuki. I'm surprised, most girls are weaker than boys."

Natsuki puffed her chest, while Naruto growled. "Well most girls don't have a demon in them that make them stronger."

Minato gave him a look. "Naruto..."

"What? It's true, the blond lady with the diamond on her forehead said so herself, remember?"

Minato couldn't argue with that. He had asked if Tsunade could come over and check the children, to make sure there were no complications that could interfere with the beginning of their shinobi-training. There had been nothing, a few unusual spots in Naruto, but nothing really troubling. However, Tsunade had discovered that the Kyuubi's chakra, minuscule amounts of it seeping into Natsuki, was strengthening her bones and muscles, making her stronger and tougher than the average boy her age. She had said that while Naruto and Natsuki had been present, although honestly speaking only Naruto had paid attention to her.

"Yes, it's true, but that doesn't mean you should rub it in." Minato admitted.

Naruto nodded. "Yes, it does, otherwise she'll treat it like a personal accomplishment. Dad, be honest. If Natsuki was a normal girl, heck, if she was a normal boy, who would have won?"

Minato sighed. "You Naruto, and don't swear. Natsuki, your brother has a point. In the entire spar, you never once dodged or blocked a single attack, you just took them and kept on striking, quickly forcing Naruto, who did dodge and block, into the defensive."

Natsuki blinked. "So? It didn't hurt and I still won."

Minato looked at her. "That's true, but this was a bare-handed spar. In real combat against experienced enemies, you'll almost always be fighting someone with a weapon, if only a kunai. And if you fight them the way you fought your brother, you'll be cut to ribbons before you can inflict any damage. Even the Kyuubi can't heal you if you have a a knife in your chest or lost your head. Your strategy is just dashing out hits and relying on the fox to fix anything that happens to you. While that is okay now, it has to change. Your mother says that in sword-training, Naruto beats you every time."

Natsuki was insulted. "Only because mom always calls the matches before anything happens."

Minato frowned. "No, she calls the matches when one side gets a hit that would either cripple or kill them if you were using real swords. Naruto just uses openings to hit those places."

Natsuki shook her head. "Nuh-uh, she called matches when Naruto hit my shin or arms."

Minato looked at her. "Well you can't fight without arms and feet, can you?"

Natsuki pouted, before finally admitting "No."

Minato ruffled her hair. "See, was that so hard?" Natsuki's face clearly stated YES, but Minato didn't notice. "Now, let's move on to jutsu-practice."

Natsuki's face brightened, while Naruto grimaced. Natsuki loved learning and using new jutsu, which she did incredibly fast, while Naruto always took longer. The secret of Natsuki's success of course once again lay in the fact that simply because the Kyuubi was sealed inside of her, Natsuki had unnaturally large chakra-reserves. She could go on when Naruto had to take breaks, and more importantly, she could afford to use five times the chakra needed to get the jutsu to work, while Naruto had to work on his control to get it to work. Of course, that also meant that Naruto could stand and carefully move on liquid surfaces by now, while Natsuki was incapable of merely walking up a tree.

While Natsuki was upset when she saw her brother walk over water or just walk up vertical surfaces to avoid her, she saw no need to better her control, as she had no problems doing the jutsu they were taught. Any attempts of Naruto to state otherwise were perceived as bullying, and his parents didn't take his side in those arguments either, going with the old line 'Any problem that I can safely ignore is not a problem', meaning that as long as Natsuki could do the jutsu, they were happy. To their parents' defense, he and his sister were five, but Naruto still couldn't see what was wrong at pointing out a problem before it became a habit and even harder to correct.

What Naruto loved were genjutsu. He discovered that with his good control, which he regularly practiced, and his very creative mind, they just came naturally to him. Kushina had taught them the basics, but with Natsuki unable to dispel even the most basic ones and endlessly complaining, she had, much to Naruto's chagrin, decided to drop genjutsu until they were a bit older and, in Natsuki's case, more mature.

Naruto had been upset with the sudden loss of his passion as a lesson, and wandered the village for a few hours. By coincident, he had met a member of the Kurama-clan, who were known for their skills with genjutsu, and asked him for pointers. He had to invite the older boy to dango, something his savings still hadn't completely recovered from, but he had gotten his tip. In fact, that tip would be one of the biggest impacts in young Naruto's life.

"Genjutsu" the Kurama had said "is different from any other jutsu, no matter if taijutsu, ninjutsu, kenjutsu or fuinjutsu. You see, with all of those, you can easily learn from a master, and with talent, you may even surpass him using what he taught you. You may become a taijutsu-master using only taijutsu you were taught by others, just as you can easily become a ninjutsu-master using only jutsu that others created, as long as you have sufficient chakra, talent, affinity, and of course determination. Genjutsu however is fundamentally different. No matter how hard you work or how talented you are, you will never surpass your master using what he has taught you."

Naruto had looked at him. "Why not?"

The man had smiled. "Simple. Genjutsu is a jutsu that relies on one's imagination to work. The handsigns are something used by beginners to upper mid-class, and they only serve the purpose of helping you focus. But those handsigns are something you use, they are unique to you. While a person who knows what the genjutsu is supposed to do can cast them with the handsigns, they in fact reduce the power of the genjutsu, as they distract from the true source, your imagination. True masters can cast a genjutsu with a single finger, a sound, a gesture, or even without any indication. Basically the genjutsu that work best for you, that are the most impressive and the hardest to break, are those that you yourself created. To put it bluntly, a beginner who designed his own jutsu may, and has, cast a better genjutsu than a master who uses something made by another. If you really want success with genjutsu, don't ask for handsigns or how to do the jutsu, ask for what it does and then work until you made one that does it. It requires more work, but the results are well worth the effort."

Naruto blinked. This went against almost everything his mother had told him. "But, aren't handsigns vital because they control the flow of chakra? So a genjutsu shouldn't work without precise chakra-work, right?"

The Kurama had laughed. "Indeed, and that is why those who work in the art of genjutsu need very good chakra-control. The handsigns are only needed if your control is not good enough to move the chakra on your own. That's also why people with miserable control are unable to break genjutsu on their own; they have to disrupt their flow of chakra, although the higher-level genjutsu can resist that, and those people don't have enough control to cause such a disruption within themselves. And you don't need handsigns, any focus will do. In fact, we have a girl in our clan, the most talented one we've seen in a very long time, and she uses pictures she draws as a focus instead of handsigns. Initially you may need a focus, but what that focus is really doesn't matter in genjutsu. For ninjutsu, it is important, because the handsigns are also connected with certain elements of nature and help you tune in better, but that's a different story."

So Naruto had started working on creating his own genjutsu, testing them on animals and the harmless ones on random pedestrians. He had also started drawing again, although after Natsuki again took one of his pictures, a rough sketch of Konoha, while he wasn't looking and claimed it was hers, he had started to burn them as soon they were finished.

There was another thing that fascinated Naruto, although that was even more difficult to learn. While alone in the house, Naruto had walked into his father's library. While Minato had installed seals that ensured nobody he didn't authorize could pull a scroll out of the drawer and that nobody could remove a scroll from the library, he also had the bad habit of leaving things laying around. Naruto discovered that seals, while immensely complex, were actually fairly simple in concept. There were certain rules and guidelines for seal-work, which could be bended to a certain degree but not broken without dire consequences, and as long as you followed these, you actually had a lot of freedom in what you do. Of course Naruto would need a deep understanding of seals before he could do anything that was even a fiftieth as complicated as his father's Hiraishin, but the most basic things Naruto quickly learned to do, the entire concept of sealing somehow making complete sense to him.

All in all, Naruto was by far superior in genjutsu, fuinjutsu and chakra-control to Natsuki, while having a slight edge over her in kenjutsu, due to the fact that he actually dodged and blocked. She was better in taijutsu, although simply stronger and faster would be more accurate, and also superior in ninjutsu, thanks to Kyuubi's increased reserves. Her problems with control were avoided, and when it became clear that the way things were going, Natsuki would never be able to use a Bunshin, they decided to teach her the Kage Bunshin, a jutsu perfect for people with high chakra and demons stopping information overload. Natsuki had taken to it like a fish to water, while Naruto had nearly killed himself when in a fit of jealousy, he had tried the jutsu in his room, managing three clones, which dispelled themselves to give Naruto back his chakra, as voluntary dispelled clones return everything excluding exhaustion to their creators. Naruto had learned his limit and the Kage Bunshin's secret there and then, and never created more than two clones tops, usually one, who then trained chakra-control or read available scrolls and books while he focused on genjutsu, fuinjutsu and physical fitness, in that order.

Naruto had actually taken the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu apart, figured out what gave them their independent minds and abilities to send information, and combined the sentient mind with a type of Bunshin that had no physical body but didn't dispel when hit, creating a new jutsu with drastically reduced chakra-costs. His Genzou Bunshin had the cost of a low D-ranked jutsu and took no more control than one needed to stick to a wall, yet nobody took him seriously when he presented it. They explained that it wouldn't do any good against an experienced shinobi, despite the fact that Naruto explained he had intended it to be for shinobi beginning their career, to which it would have been a very useful jutsu, since the clones were transparent to the caster, an unintended side-effect. Naruto had even created another jutsu based on his first one, a C-ranked jutsu requiring a water-walking level of control, the Genzou Bunshin no Yoroi, but the only thing that Naruto got when he tried to present his work was the order to not use ninjutsu in a taijutsu-match, although his father seemed happy that Naruto had started crafting jutsu, even if they currently were useless ones in his opinion.

Natsuki spent most of the time she didn't train with her many friends, while Naruto, who after that story Natsuki had told on their birthday had become something of an outcast in his age-group, something that Natsuki had started to actively encourage, spent most of his free time either perfecting his chakra-control, coming up with seals, or working on genjutsu. While the simple ones Naruto could quickly recreate, he was working on one that would be much more complex. What he didn't know was how soon he would need it.

It was a cold day in February, Naruto and Natsuki were now six and a certain rhythm had settled in their lives. On weekdays they would get up, get dressed, brush their teeth, and begin their exercises before they were tutored by their mother. After lunch at 1:00 PM they had free time until 7:00 PM, when dinner was served. Then their father would be home and they would go through 1½ more hours of training before the day was done and the siblings would wash, spend time with the family and go to bed. On weekends they had free and could decide whether they wanted to train, study, play, or just hang around. Minato worked Saturdays and parts of Sunday, while Kushina spent every second weekend with friends, leaving the children unsupervised.

On one particular Saturday, Naruto and Natsuki were alone in the house, having just returned from shopping, Kushina going back because she had forgot to buy an important dinner-ingredient, when it happened.

Naruto and Natsuki were in the kitchen, unpacking the shopping-bags, when they heard a swooshing sound. Both spending enough time throwing kunai to recognize the sound of one cutting through the air, they both jumped off the chairs they had used to reach the higher drawers. Two kunai embedded themselves in the wall were their necks had been only seconds before. They turned around, only to see a man wearing a headband with rocks carved into it. Natsuki summoned a small army of clones, confident that would be enough, only to stare in shock as the man made short work of them. That shock cost her, as she froze, and only Naruto pulling on her arm to get her to run turned the third thrown kunai into a grazing shot instead of a kill.

Naruto knew they only had as long as it would take the man to destroy the rest of the clones, which would probably be in roughly twenty seconds if the regular poofs sounding out of the kitchen were any indication. A nice part of the kage bunshin was that the clones, knowing what they were, were a lot braver than the originals and had no problem starting kamikaze-attacks, which bought them a little time. Naruto's goal was to reach the front-door, then the gate, and then they would almost be out of the woods, as there was always some shinobi on the road, usually more than one, and every chunin knew jutsu that served to call for backup.

He actually managed to leave the house before the Iwa-nin caught up with them. Natsuki, who had been little more than dead weight the entire escape, cried out in pain when a shuriken sank into her calf. She noticed that her surroundings were getting blurry. She wondered if she was poisoned.

Naruto knew there was no way he'd make it, even if he left his sister behind. He formed a few handsigns and prayed to every deity that might be listening for this to work. Then he saw that the Iwa-nin had drawn a tanto and was swinging it down. Naruto's eyes widened in horror. He knew he wouldn't be able to dodge in time.

Jin Nadare, jonin of Iwa and former member of its hunter-nin, saw the boy beginning handsigns, and decided that whatever he was planning, he was not going to finish it. He drew his tanto and swung it downward.

It cut through flesh and bone, leaving a deep diagonal gash from left collarbone to right hip. The boy didn't look like he was in pain, it was more disbelieving shock. Even though Jin hated the Yondaime with a passion, the man killing his father, mother and three older siblings, he couldn't help but feel a twinge of pity for this kid, who probably couldn't understand what was happening.

"Nothing personal, kid. This aims for your father. The pain will end in a second." With that, he slashed the boy's throat, the blond kid collapsing in a gurgling heap. The girl had tried to open the gate, but Jin's tanto pierced her heart before she managed to pull it open. Jin removed the blade and, just to be sure, slashed her head off with a single strike. He was blown back by a chakra-wave that burned on the skin, but apart from that he was fine. He opened the gate and began to run, knowing he had only seconds until the burst of chakra would alarm somebody.

Getting out of Konoha was fairly easy, as the commotion had left every shinobi on duty confused. However, ten minutes into his escape, he realized that he had pursuers. They had come faster than he would have liked, but realistically speaking, he had more head-start than he himself had expected, and he had prepared traps the entire route back to Iwa, ranging from exploding-tag-arrays to camouflaged seals that would fire poisoned senbon at those tracking him, not to mention a few safe hiding-places.

Maybe twenty minutes had past, and the Konoha-nin had been steadily gaining on him. By now, he could actually see flashes of them. There was no Hyuuga, which was a huge relief because it meant he could use twenty hiding-places that a Hyuuga would have immediately spotted him in. The Inuzua and Aburame were worrisome, and Jin had gained multiple cuts and grazes from projectiles aimed at him. He didn't give up though, because he knew they were nearing the first trap, a simple array of ten exploding-tags. It would be triggered in just a few...

BOOM!

Such a satisfying sound, especially when accompanied by the screams of the dying. Even Deidara would not have been able to beat that. While he wasn't stupid enough to go look what he hit, a rough headcount did show that only fifteen of the former forty-headed squad were still on his trail. While his route lead him towards Kusa, the traps slowly dwindled his pursuers numbers, although they had gotten more careful after that first explosion. When he put his biggest plan into motion, he had gained more ground, with maybe seven followers left. He reached the river and started to run over it, suddenly making an 80° turn to the right, jumping into a prepared hole in the muddy shore and closing it seconds before his pursuers reached the river and ran across. There was a short pause while the trackers searched for his sent, until they started running off in the opposite direction. Jin had walked that route a hundred times to make sure his scent was on the trail. It lead to a clearing, where a rain of poisoned senbon would go down on them. He had left a communicator there so he could hear when they reached the clearing, determined he would not crawl out until they had reached it. Then the relieving rustling of feet rang through his headset, and Jin bolted, running on the river for a few seconds before running towards Taki to reach Iwa. The hunt had gone on for two days now, and Jin was starting to use chakra-pills and concentrated caffeine-tablets to keep moving.

He listened to the voices in the communicator, smiling at what he heard. At first only angry calls, then surprised cries when the senbon fired. One particular piece of information made him grin and gulp at the same time.

"Kushina-sama! Damn it, she's down! Where are the medics?"

"They went down in that first explosion!"

"Damn it! You two, bring Kushina-sama to Tsunade-sama at once! You two, come with me. We're gonna get that motherfucking bastard for this! Inuzuka, do you still got his trail?"

"I think he tricked us. The tracks are not as fresh as they should be. He lost us at the river!"

Jin kicked into a higher gear. Kushina Uzumaki, the Red Death, Uzu's Crimson Whirlpool, had been hunting him? His escape was a miracle. However, she was hit by the senbon, and from the way it sounded, a lot of senbon, each of them dipped in a poison that killed in less than an hour. They would never make it back to Konoha in time.

Getting rid of the last three had been comparably simple. He had lead them into a trap that, while not fatal, covered them in a substance similar to fresh skunk-juice. They would never be able to track him now, meaning that with the last few traps and maneuvers to lose them, he was free as a bird.

He headed straight for Iwa, reaching it four days after he had left Konoha. His welcome was a national hero's. The Tsuchikage, a firm hater of Konoha, welcomed him in all honors. Shortly after, Iwa received the news that Kushina Uzumaki had passed away, and that the Yondaime had committed suicide after the loss of his entire family, and the ecstatic leader named Jin his successor. While beaming with pride, the greatest reward was the adoration of the female gender. After a hot night with three gorgeous women, Jin finally fell into well-deserved slumber.

Konoha was in an uproar. How had this happened? A assailant from Iwa had sneaked into the Namikaze-compound while the adults were absent and attacked the children.

Namikaze Compound

"How did he even get in?" A dog-masked ANBU asked while looking at the two unmoving bodies of the children. The bastard had got them good.

A tiger-masked rookie spoke up. "Hokage-sama suspected that he sneaked in when Kushina-sama left the compound to get the groceries she forgot. He immediately changed the seals, but the damage is done."

Inu nodded. "So, what happened to him?"

Tora shrugged, while the children started to stir. "A high-class genjutsu. Ibiki had a bit of trouble getting him out of it. He said the man actually fought to stay in it. Must have been some dream. Not that I blame him, I'd want to stay any place where I'm not Ibiki's new toy."

Kushina spoke up. "So who put him under it?"

Minato shrugged. "That's the big question, isn't it? The Kurama-clan stated that as much as they'd like to take credit, none of their members were outside of their compound at the time in question, and while we have some who are good in genjutsu, Itachi here being one of the first to come to mind, they all say they had nothing to do with it, nor do they have any idea of what was used. It was either forgotten, customized, or self-made."

Kushina's eyes wandered to Naruto and Natsuki. "You don't think one of them..."

Itachi seemed thoughtful. "It's possible, but if so, then we have a genjutsu-prodigy on our hands."

Inu seemed more hesitant. "I don't know. Of course geniuses like Itachi here exist, but they usually get noticed. A genjutsu-prodigy especially, as they have to try their jutsu out on people, in contrast to ninjutsu- or taijutsu-prodigies, who can train alone with nobody watching."

Itachi nodded. "True, genjutsu-users need to practice on others, but that doesn't necessarily mean they get noticed. If the jutsu is subtle enough, the person may not even know he's under a genjutsu. The attacker, who as the insignia of a jonin, would have been able to free himself from the genjutsu. The jutsu must have been so subtle he didn't notice he was put under it, working with his logic to make sure that he didn't realize he was caught, and pleasant enough for him not to try and dispel it out of sheer desperation. Also, some minor injuries must have been ingrained, as he has a few wounds that would have dispelled a genjutsu that shows the mind no reason to why there is an injury. The jutsu would have to be at least a B-rank, maybe A-rank to have all these effects."

Kushina shook her head. "But neither one received such training! I taught one really low-ranked genjutsu, then I had to stop because Natsuki was getting more and more upset because she couldn't do it. Naruto did learn it fairly quickly, but there are only few scrolls about genjutsu in the compound, and those are never pulled out. Neither Naruto nor Natsuki had any source on genjutsu, so it couldn't have been them."

Inu looked at Natsuki. "Do you think it could have been... the fox?"

Minato thought about it. "Well, kitsune are known as tricksters and masters of illusion. Of course, we never heard of Kyuubi having any genjutsu-skills, but it could be that the fox simply never found itself in a situation were it would need to use them. That seems to be the only explanation."

Itachi was not convinced. "Wouldn't that mean that there should be at least some traces? Youki-residue for one? There are sections in Konoha that we still can't even approach because the stuff still lingering in said sections is so dense and aggressive to living beings, like us. 5% of Konoha have been deemed uninhabitable after the attack, and they still are, after all these years! And you're telling me the fresher trails vanished in minutes?"

"Do you have a different explanation?" Kushina asked.

"None so far." Itachi admitted. "Still, I can't help but think that something we don't know happened here."

Minato shrugged. "And I agree. But if what you said is true, even the Iwa-nin won't be able to help us with that, as he would not know at which point his memories are a genjutsu."

Naruto was seething in anger. He had worked months on that one genjutsu, making sure it worked just the way he wanted to, so that he could finally show something unique to him that his parents could be proud of, and now that he had actually activated Zekkou Sekai, driving himself to chakra-exhaustion while doing so, his sister of all people got the credit! It was not fair! And of course Natsuki didn't deny anything, granted, she didn't know better. But now she walked around with her head even more bloated, actually threatening him to put him under her 'super-awesome genjutsu' if he didn't do what she wanted. Naruto had laughed her in the face, only to be punished when his sister started crying and telling Kushina he was making fun of her. Why did Natsuki get the credit for everything he worked for all the time, while he was being called jealous whenever he tried to set things straight?!

Even worse, Natsuki had found out that their parents and the teachers in the ninja-academy they had recently started to visit didn't trust Naruto when his and her words stood against each other, especially if she had witnesses. So she had started to play pranks, and blamed him! And of course the other children took her side, claiming they saw Naruto do it. Some other pranksters like Kiba Inuzuka had started to do the same thing, meaning that Naruto was slowly gaining a reputation as a troublemaker, despite not doing anything wrong. It went so far that Naruto considered actually playing a prank on somebody, only so that their parents would, just for a change, yell at him for something he actually did. He was sick of hearing "Why can't you be more like your sister?", resulting in him once yelling back "Because I don't want to blame others for what I did or take credit for their actions!", which had resulted in a week of house-arrest. Really, life sucked.

What Naruto didn't know was that life was about to take another U-turn on his seventh birthday, and not for the better.

Chapter 3 is done. Took a little while, but it's done. Next chapter will be the accident, and then I'll probably work on other fics that I have neglected for a while. Still, I'm surprised I got this many reviews with only two chapters. I humbly thank my reviewers for their input.

In fact, it surprised me that a number of suggestions coming from the reviews were along the lines of what I had planned for the fic. Should I be flattered because of my highly intelligent readers, or should I worried that my plot is that easy to see through? Should I continue this story, or focus on other stories?

Anyways, coming to the content of the chapter. As you probably have found out by now, I intend to have the lion's share of Naruto's jutsu, well, of jutsu that he actually uses, to be designed by himself. He will be on or maybe even above Yakumo's level in genjutsu, and surpassing his father in fuinjutsu, although it might take a while until I boost his level to that hight. He will be good in taijutsu, not as good as Lee, but he could wipe the floor with Kiba. He will use ninjutsu, but there he will use more already invented ones. You can say that Naruto will be proficient in all aspects, but he will excel with genjutsu and fuinjutsu, which will also be what he uses most.

As for his arm, that one will be a unique thing. The idea has as far as I read never been used before, and has absolutely nothing to do with DMC4 or Tales of Symphonia, neither of which I have never played, as I must admit. Originally I had not even planned for the arm to exist, but I wanted Naruto to have more than just genjutsu and fuinjutsu, and decided to use the crippling for that, which even allowed me to find an excuse for Naruto's later uber-skills in genjutsu, but enough of that.

As I wrote above, the accident will be next chapter. I will say this much, it is unintentionally caused by his parents.

Here are the jutsu I have invented for this chapter.

Genzo Bunshin no Jutsu (Phantom Clone Technique)
Rank: D
Range: Short (0m-5m), Middle (5m-10m)
Type: Support
This jutsu was the first of many to be invented by Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. It is a combination of the traditional Bunshin and different additions. They are sentient and not reliant on their creator to move. They do not send information once dispelled, as with the amount of clones that could be created, that ability would almost certainly cause information-overload. The clones have no solid form, however they will not dispel when hit. Instead, they will allow the hit to pass through them. The clones are transparent to the caster, allowing him or her to hide amongst or even within the clones. The jutsu was intended to call large amounts of clones that would be so close together that their forms would be merging with each other, breaking up the human form and confusing enemies. Hyuuga's can not look through the clones, as the fairly dense chakra in the clones shroud their view. The weakness of this jutsu is that the clones make no sound aside from talking ad have no scent, meaning that someone orienting themselves by sound or someone with a sense of smell comparable to the Inuzuka can easily find the original. Naruto initially intended this jutsu to replace the Bunshin no Jutsu as one of the standard three academy-taught jutsu and improve the survival-rates for freshly graduated genin, but it was rejected because nobody took him seriously.

Genzou Bunshin no Yoroi (Phantom Clone Armor)
Rank: C
Range: Short (0m-4m)
Type: Support
A alteration to Naruto's first jutsu. The clones called are identical to those the Genzou Bunshin no Jutsu summons, only these clones all take the same spot as their creator, their chakra covering him like an armor, shielding him or her from the Byakugan. The clones are still independent from their creator, and use this to full advantage. They will attack from other directions and in different ways than the creator, confusing the enemy to which attack should be blocked and which won't do anything. The clones can distance themselves up to four meters from their creator, adding to the confusion by jumping into different directions. As the clones are non-corporal, they can launch feints through each other and the original caster, just as the caster can attack through the body of the clones, making the entire attack highly unpredictable and almost impossible to defend against. Naruto devised this jutsu to further support freshly graduated genin, but nobody paid enough attention for him to even present this jutsu and prove its usefulness.

Zekkou Sekai (Ideal World)
Rank: ? (Unranked, speculated to be somewhere between B and A)
Range: Short (0m-5m), Middle (5m-10m), Long (10m+)
Type: Offensive/Defensive/Support
First advanced genjutsu designed and created by Naruto. It is based on the idea that to dispel a genjutsu, one must first realize that he is under one. This genjutsu uses the enemy's own planning against them by simulating their expectations, making them see, hear and feel what they expect to feel. It is designed to make the victim experience the 'best possible and plausible turn of events', meaning that the victim's own schemes work against them, and the more detailed their plan of action is and the more they have calculated all risks and thought everything out, the harder it is to realize they are not in the real world. While the jutsu does not have the power to change the perception of time, it alters the short-term memory, making the victim believe that five hours have passed for every minute under the genjutsu. After the 'planned scenario' is over, it causes the body to produce large amounts of endorphin, to keep the victim in a daze of happiness. The last effect was not planned in its creation, but is a positive side-effect that reduces the risk of the victim realizing that something is wrong. A potential weakness is that the victim has not made any plans or expectations, which may cause them to notice that things are going a little bit too well.

I have recently been warned that responding to reviews could result in the deleting of my stories, so I will stop it. However, I think I can put a general Q&A in here.

Q: Will Naruto stay in Konoha?
A: No. He'll leave eventually, and long before the genin-exams.

Q: Will Naruto be a Missing-nin?
A: You can't desert from an army you've never joined.

Q: Will Naruto forgive Konoha?
A: No. He will be in complete control of himself, so he will not go on a killing-spree, but he will hold Konoha and his family in disdain.

Q: When will you update?
A: When I find the time. There are no set dates, and I rarely give any. However, I do intend to finish every story that I started.

Q: Will Naruto be paired with Hinata?
A: I can't say for sure, but probably not. The Hyuuga are one of Konoha's most prestigious clans, so it is likely they were invited to Naruto and Natsuki's birthdays, meaning that Hinata was one of those who left Naruto for Natsuki, although she was one of those that sent him a apologizing look. And Natsuki's actions were not meant as blackmail, more like the typical 'You were mean to me so I pretend you don't exist' kinda thing, with an extension to all that are on his side. Children can thing surprisingly black and white.

Well, that's all for now. Wait, one more thing. I'm curious as to how many people actually read the stuff I write in my notes, so all that read this, please add a & to the end of your review so I can make a headcount. Thank you for your cooperation,

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