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Chapter 9: Genjutsu and … wholly mother of …

(Training ground 43, Thursday)

It had just passed midday in the peaceful village of Konoha. Team 7 were taking a brief moment to relax after completing their mission for the day and waiting for their sensei for the day … that is until one Mitarashi Anko arrived.

Naruto had some of his clones helping Sasuke improve his reaction by throwing rubber balls at him to improve his reaction like Gai had asked. Hinata was practising her water manipulation. Currently she could hold the water and move it up to her forearm before loosing control, which was a remarkable achievement. Naruto was once again working on his self repair and cleaning seal.

As Naruto was about to finish the seal, a kunai flew through the air and ripped the seal in half. Naruto just stared at the ruined seal for a couple of minutes until … "Aw come on! What is it with people and ruining my seals just when I'm about to finish them! Whoever did that better apologise right now!" Naruto yelled.

After Naruto finished his rant, a figure dropped from one of the trees surrounding their training ground. The figure landed in a crouching position all the Genin could see was dark purple hair and a beige trench coat. After the figure stood up … they could basically see the same thing. The figure wore a beige trench coat over a mesh body suite, only just covering half of the figure's chest, proving that the figure was indeed female. The woman wore an orange mini skirt connected to a blue belt. She wore a pendant of what looked like a snake fang on a thick cord around her neck and her Hitai-ate was almost completely hidden under her violet hair. "Why the hell should I apologise to a brat like you anyway, that seal would probably blow up in your face anyway. Just out of curiosity, what was it meant to do anyway?" asked a slightly intrigued Anko.

"Well it was meant to repair any damage in objects as well as clean them when applied, it would be useful during long term mission to make your weapons or clothing more durable, but also wouldn't need to find a river to wash your clothes in or worry about somebody walking in on you washing your clothes, including whatever you're wearing at that moment." explained Naruto. The statement caused Anko to blush slightly, Hinata to blush even more since she was blushing ever since she saw Anko's attire and Sasuke, well to give a slightly less Emo reaction.

"Um, ok then, well why don't we introduce ourselves then gakis? My name is Mitarashi Anko, your sensei for stealth, tracking and trap making. I enjoy interrogating and playing with my snakes. I don't like whinny gakis and people who talk about things they will never understand. Alright now you guys go, start off with duck but over there." Anko said, indicating Sasuke.

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke; I enjoy training and for some reason spending time with these two." This caused Naruto and Hinata to comically gawk at Sasuke. "What? Anyway, I dislike traitors and annoying fan-girls. My goal is to revive the Uchiha clan and gain its justice."

"Hm, interesting. You seem to have the eyes of an assassin." This caused Sasuke to smirk. "This at your age isn't a good sign. It usually means the person is either driven by revenge or emotionally disturbed occasionally both. I want to 'talk' to you after this training session is over. Now blushy go."

"Ano, my name is Hyuuga Hinata. I enjoy training with my team mates and gardening. I dislike bullies and the way my clan currently operates. My goal is to change the way of my clan when I become the head."

"You don't seem very confident in your abilities. I'm going to enjoy breaking that habit from you, almost as much as I will that blonde girl from Team 10." all of the Genin sweat dropped at their sensei's behaviour. "Well then last … and looks like least, whinny sealy go."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I also enjoy training, even if it is with teme over there. I dislike people who judge others on something they had no control over and people who make fun of my height. My goal is to become the best Hokage this village has ever seen."

"A very very opportunistic goal indeed, I'll believe it when I see it though and even then I'll be pinching myself and checking for signs of concussion. Now that that's over with, we are going to play a little game of hide and seek. I will go hide in the forest over there (not the forest of death … yet), all you have to do is find me. But I should warn you that I have filled the area with traps and I won't stay still either. Well good luck." and with that Anko dissolved into several snakes, indicating a personal Shunshin.

The three members of Team 7 huddled together to form a plan. "Alright this seems a lot like Kakashi-sensei's bell test, so I believe that we should stick together and work as a team, agreed?" asked Sasuke.

"I agree, I have an idea for our formation though. I have a very good sense of smell, like Inuzuka's do. Don't ask me how but I do. I also have experience with traps with my pranking days and other … experiences. Anyway, I think I should be at the front for those reasons. Hinata has her Byakugan which will allow her very wide vision, so if we do get attacked from the back by a timed trap or Anko herself, she'll notice it. So I believe Hinata should be at the back. Sasuke, you have the least experience with traps, it's not an insult because you're probably better than any of the other from our class. For that reason, I think you should be in the middle, it will allow you the longest time to react and also warn everybody in case I miss a trap. Everybody ok with that?" Naruto asked. Both Genin nodded and then they started off into the woods.

They took the ground root because Sasuke and Hinata hadn't had the tree climbing exercise yet to make tree hoping effective enough. After a couple of minutes walking, Naruto brought them to a halt just before a clearing. "This would be a perfect spot for her to set up an ambush to warn her of our location. Hinata, try to scan the area for anything that can be linked to a trap of some sorts." Hinata complied with the order and found several traps set up in the clearing. A pitfall… snake style, a swinging log, kunai and shuriken launcher and a couple of exploding tags. They decided to go around the clearing and dismantle the kunai and shuriken launcher to store up on equipment, Naruto's idea mainly.

Team 7 kept searching for the sadistic purple haired woman, without catching her. They had been able to discover and avoid or dismantle many traps along their way, and Naruto gained a lot of new equipment for his collection. They had also run into many, many traps. They all varied from attacking snakes, dodging kunai and shuriken, avoiding poison clouds, climbing out of holes and ultimately getting back up to do it all again.

They were now back in the clearing they began and where they first met Anko, after the three hour mark, Anko reviled her location to get to know what her subj… I mean students needed working on. "Alright maggots, it's recap time. Individually tell me what you struggled with the most, and what you would like for me to work with you. Duck but, go." stated a grinning Anko.

"Hn, I struggled with trap detecting and tracking the most, so I feel that I should brush up on those, but I would like to concentrate on stealth the most because, my two team mates here both have special skills to do with tracking so they won't need to rely too much on me for that side. Also stealth would be a lot more beneficial for my fighting style.

"Interesting. Alright I will help you improve with trap detecting and tracking but will concentrate the most on stealth. Now blushy, go."

"Ano, my Byakugan helped me a lot with detecting traps since I was able to see through things. I don't think I need you to help me improve that aspect much because I will be training my Byakugan with my clan fir these types of circumstances. It's similar with tracking, although I would like to be able to track without the use of my Byakugan to make my Byakugan even more effective when I use it. Stealth I probably need work with as well, but I would like to focus more on tracking.

"Your wish will be granted."Anko said as she henged into a genie like character. "Ok whinny sealy, go."

"I am fairly confident in trap detecting due to my pranking days, I'm also confident in trap making, but I would like to learn more on that aspect. With tracking, I have a heightened sense of smell like the Inuzuka, but I haven't trained it well enough to use effectively. Stealth, I was able to hide from ANBU after some of my pranks so I think I'm good right now, but working on it won't hurt. So if possible, I'd like to work on everything, but focus on trap making."

"Alright then. The way will do it is, we will be practising various arts every week, maybe three different types every lesson and then our hide and seek game. When we get to an art that one of you have asked to be focused on, I will give them the higher percentage of attention, but I won't leave the others alone. For example during stealth training, Sasuke will be my main concern, but I will help you two as well. Does anybody have any questions? If you do we tuff, you should have been listening more because I told you everything you need to know. You are now all free to leave." Anko told her subj, damit, students, which caused their eyes to gleam with happiness.

As the three Genin started to walk away, they were stopped dead in their tracks by the voice of the snake mistress. "Hey, duck but. You didn't forget about our little play date after the training did you?" Anko asked sweetly with a sadistic smile on her face.

"We'll see you tomorrow Sasuke. If you survive that is." And with that both Naruto and Hinata ran as fast as they could to get away from the crazy sadistic bi… I mean left the training ground.

(Training ground 8, Friday)

Today was the day that Team 7 would meet the last of their sensei, even though they had already met Yuhi Kurenai once, this was their first official meeting.

Just like all the other meeting, every member of Team 7 was brushing up on some skills before their training for the day started. Sasuke was training his reflexes with the help of Naruto's clones. Currently Sasuke was facing three clones and got hit occasionally, after he was able to dodge the three clones' rubber balls for 10 minutes he would get another clone and repeat the process. Hinata was still practising her water manipulation. She still only able to teach her elbow, but the time it took was decreasing fairly quickly.

Naruto, well he was still trying to complete his seal, although this time much more nervously. He would occasionally stop, look around and carry on working every thirty seconds or so. The final three brush strokes were very very near, which made him very very nervous. He was on total awareness, making sure nothing would hinder the seal in any way, then suddenly … "YES! I did it and this time it wasn't destroyed. WAHOO!". Yep, he actually finished it. The only thing left to do now was to test it, which he would leave until later that night.

It only took a couple more minutes for their sensei to arrive. One thing you could tell straight away by looking at her was that she was… a lot more modest than Anko. She wore a red mesh shirt, with a red sleeve on the right arm and non on the left. Over the mesh she wore a dress that seemed to resemble bandages with a thorn like pattern on it. Her hands and forearms as well as her thighs were bandaged. She had shoulder length untamed hair as well as blood red lips and eyes which seemed to resemble the Uchiha's Sharingan. "Hello again Team 7, I hope that you all remember me." stated Kurenai.

"Hello Kurenai-sensei" responded a polite Hinata.

"Yeah, hey Kurenai." was Naruto's response.

"Still with that, 'I'll call you sensei once you teach me something' attitude Uzumaki."

"Of course, Yuhi." Naruto answered rather coldly

"Well anyway, we should probably get our introductions out of the way. I'm Yuhi Kurenai. I enjoy being a Genjutsu expert and learning new Genjutsu. I dislike perverts and disrespectful young brats-" before Kurenai could finish, Naruto cut across.

"That statement is highly offensive and disrespectful to me Kurenai. Haven't you ever heard of the expression 'Treat others like you want to be treated'?"

"Anyway as I was saying, my goal was to become the Konoha's main Genjutsu expert, which I am. So now my goal is to serve Konoha to the best of my abilities and continue to grow stronger."

(Sasuke, Hinata and Naruto introductions, you all know how they go by now.)

"Now that that's over with. Firstly, I know you had a Genjutsu dispersion test during the academy, so can you please tell me what your scores for that test was?" asked Kurenai.

The students explained how Sasuke got 26 out of thirty, 70% efficient, Hinata got 27 out of thirty with 80% efficiency and Naruto got a full 30 with almost 90% efficiency.

"Wow, that's very good chakra control you have there Naruto." stated Kurenai.

"Actually no it isn't Kurenai." This received a very confused look from Kurenai. "My dispelling is very efficient because I am able to keep most chakra from leaving my body, which isn't really down to my control although the higher my control the easier it is. No my chakra control is the worst out of all the graduates this year and always will be, no matter how hard I work. I will never be able to be a medic-nin, should I chose to be, and will not be able to cast the highest level Genjutsu no matter how hard I work. The reason for this is because my reserves are constantly growing, which means as my reserves grow my control weakens. For example my control if probably around 60% right now, If I don't work on control, by the end of the week I'll be down to 58%. That is the reason why I will never be able to have near perfect chakra control because it will always decrease afterwards unless I'm constantly working on chakra control, and I'm telling you now, I will not be spending every waking minute working on chakra control." Naruto explained to his teacher, while giving her a 'don't press any further look' which granted him a knowingly nod from the genjutsu mistress.

"Ok then, well since that's done, I'll explain what and how I'll be teaching you. Since my speciality is Genjutsu, that is exactly what I'll teach you in. Along with Genjutsu I will also teach you chakra control which is vital for Genjutsu but also helpful with Ninjutsu. To teach you in chakra control I will be showing you techniques that are designed to improve your control and also at the same time increase your reserves. Within Genjutsu I will teach you how to cast Genjutsu in various ways, different techniques, multiple ways of dispelling Genjutsu and also Genjutsu recognition. To train Genjutsu recognition, I will place you under Genjutsu at random times during our training sessions. To begin they will be Genjutsu for hiding or changing something's appearance. At first they should be fairly easy to notice and will get harder as you go on and so will the techniques. Now, if you think you are under a Genjutsu, I want you to state what makes you think you are under a Genjutsu, attempt to dispel and see if you are correct. This will train your awareness and Genjutsu recognition. Every body understand?"

"Yes Kurenai/sensei." replied Naruto/Sasuke and Hinata.

"Alright the first thing I'm going to do is teach you tree climbing or other way known as tree walking. What you do is you focus a fixed amount of chakra to your feet and using that to basically walk up a vertical surface." Kurenai explained while walking up to a tree and proceeded to walk up the tree. "If you don't use enough chakra," Kurenai cut the flow of chakra from her feet which caused her to fall off the tree, "you loose grip and fall off, but if you use to much," Kurenai once again walked up the tree and this time pushed too much chakra which caused the bark around her feet to brake and pushed her of which caused her to fall off again and landing in a crouched position, "you'll be pushed off and the surface will receive damage. You need to find the right amount of chakra and be able to keep the flow steady and constant. It's best if you use a run up and keep running at the beginning, then slow it down until you can walk up from a stand still like I can. Now get to it." Kurenai explained/declared.

All three Genin made their way towards a tree for themselves. Sasuke was the first to start by running full blast at the tree and running up a good seven feet before being blown off, signalling too much chakra used. Hinata was second and was able to make it up seven and a half feet before slipping off, signalling not enough chakra. Naruto was last to go. He ran straight at the tree and then … stopped right in front of it. He then placed one foot on the tree and casually walked up with his hand in his pockets. He kept walking until he reached a sturdy enough branch and proceeded to walk along the bottom of the branch while upside down. He then turned back to face the other two Genin and Jonin. "Is this good enough Kurenai?" Naruto asked with a sheepish grin.

"You already knew how to do it didn't you?" asked Kurenai with a deadpan expression on her face.

"Yep, so what now then, do I wait for my team-mates to get this down or do I try another practise?" asked Naruto as he dropped from his branch to land in a crouched position.

"I'll give you three options Naruto. You can either wait for Sasuke and Hinata to complete this practise and then move on with them. You can come with me, you can tell me what practises you can already do and I'll then show you the next step. Or you can come with me and I'll start practising your Genjutsu recognition. Your choice."

"Hmm, tuff one. Can I do a mixture of the three? I'll do the second option first to find out what the next practise is and I'll practise that on my own after lessons. I'll then start practising Genjutsu recognition with you at the same time; I'll leave a Kage Bunshin with these guys in case they need some pointers. Do you know how to do Kage Bunshin?"

"Yes I do Naruto. All Jonin are given a copy of the jutsu to learn along with others. But I'm not proficient in using it due to my naturally small reserves that gave me the natural control for Genjutsu. Why do you ask?" asked a slightly intrigued Kurenai.

"I just wanted to know so you could either send me of with one or leave one here so it didn't look like you're showing favouritism with me or something." explained Naruto.

Kurenai was shocked by the statement. She never thought how that might look from other's point of view. This was a dilemma for her. She turned to face Sasuke and Hinata. "From what I can see, Naruto has mastered tree walking. Am I right?" Kurenai asked turning back to face Naruto, receiving a nod in return. She turned to face her other students again. "He is just as qualified as me to teach you this technique and should be able to help you just as well. I want an honest answer from you both. None of us will think any less of you if you say no to my question. Would you feel alright letting Naruto answer any questions you have regarding this technique while I teach him some other stuff?" Kurenai asked, feeling very guilty asking such a thing of her students.

"As long as the dobe doesn't try to mess with us if he's teaching us then I'm fine with it." stated Sasuke.

"I am also fine with that arrangement sensei."

"Okay then. Naruto do you promise to teach them properly and not mess with them?" asked Kurenai and once again received a nod. "Alright, if you need any help ask Naruto's Kage Bunshin, if he can't answer it, he can come find me and I'll tell him the answer. Now let's get to work."

By the end of the day, Hinata had made it up to three quarters of the tree and Sasuke wasn't to far behind. Naruto had explained that he was able to walk on water as well, which lead to Kurenai explaining the next test which was a variant of the leaf concentration exercise. He was meant to balance a kunai on his forehead, the higher mass and awkward balance made the exercise much more difficult than the leaf version. Naruto then spent the rest of the time recognising and dispelling Genjutsu after Genjutsu.

At the end of the day, as the students left training ground 8 and Kurenai, Naruto turned around and yelled back, "Thanks for the lesson Kurenai-sensei."

This caused Kurenai to blush slightly and couldn't help but grin.

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