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Chapter 29 – A Family's Blood Truths

In a blast of energy Naruto took off on all fours, almost in an instant he had passed Kurenai and his team, running at speeds barely noticeable to the untrained eyes. Kurenai could do nothing but watch in horror as she saw her youngest brother move to engage her hanyou student.

Seeing his target race forward to meet him, Naruto roared loudly as he continued to charge forward, causing a shockwave of powerful chakra to burst from him, sightly staggering his opponent. Smirking viciously Naruto's clouded mind registered an opportunity to strike and leapt up into the air.

"You will die!" Naruto yelled in rage as he quickly approached his target, the sun behind him seemingly blinding the murderer he would strike down. In a flash of red light, Naruto slashed down viciously with his clawed hand, his eyes widening in slight shock at the blood that splashed past his eyes.

In his rage it took him a moment to realise he hadn't yet touched the ground, and in his shock his head slowly looked downward, his eyes widening further when he realised he was suspended in the air, the murderer's sword piercing straight through his chest and his hand effortlessly caught mid strike.

Team 8 called out in shock and fright when they saw Naruto impaled, his body just hanging in shock and surprise. Naruto had been much faster, but in his rage he had underestimated his opponent and the younger brother had simply moved at the last second, blocking Naruto's strike and ducking before stabbing him to the very hilt of his blade.

Hinata froze, dropping her kunai in an instant as she felt her heart tear itself apart at the sight. There was no way, no way that was her Naruto, it just wasn't, it was one of his Illusion it just had to be.

'No… no no no! Naruto! NO!' Hinata felt her knees crumble before her as she watched the blood pool from the blade impaling her love, it wasn't him, it just couldn't be.

The younger brother gave an insane grin before bursting out in mad laughter, the sight of the blood that dripped from the wound of his latest victim made his inner bloodlust quell for a moment, but it surged forth again when he twisted the blade, causing the fox boy to yell out in a cry of rage and immense pain.

"Actually you brat, you will die! Another victim for me, Hidoukai!" Twisting his blade more his face warped into one of sickening delight at Naruto's screams, but that delight was soon changed to confusion as the 'fox boy' on his sword suddenly turned a deep shade of brown, before slowly starting to 'melt' away, the screaming silencing in an instant.

"A mud clone?"

In an instant he withdrew his blade from the pile of mud and went to jump away knowing he had been caught off guard. But he was too slow, as a tree suddenly grew infront of him from the pile of mud that use to resemble Naruto, quicker then he could even think to react it wound its way around him, its branches growing thick and binding him against it. A slightly sickening crunch was heard as the branches crushed around his arm, forcibly causing him to drop his blade as the bones in his arm were crushed.

Team 8 starred on in morbid fascination as there sensei literally disappeared from sight, only to appear not even a second later next to her trapped 'brother'. In one quick movement the kunai knife she held in her hand flashed out, slicing straight through his vulnerable throat, silencing his maddening screams forever.

Kurenai didn't even bother to look back at the 'kin' she had just killed, choosing to instead turn to the remainder of her family and watch there surprised faces contort with anger. "I said I won't show you any mercy anymore, you were once brother's to me and that prevented me from stopping you three before. But no longer! For mother, for father, I will end you three here and now!"

Kurenai's gaze never left her two remaining brother's, her steeled will and cold glare an unnerving sight to see on one so young and beautiful, an aura of killer intent surging from her as she expelled small bursts of chakra. She would kill them here, and after so many years her heart would finally be put to rest, her family would finally be able to rest peacefully.

Idakai and his other yet to be named brother could fell the power of the very presence there sister was making as she stood before them, glaring emotionlessly into there eyes. For just a short second there faces held a look for fear and could not look away, but that fear was soon replaced with a scowl as they saw the fox brat materialize out of pink pedals near his teammates, indicating that there sister had tricked them all with a Genjutsu, or so she thought.

"You may have gotten stronger sister," Idakai spat, his use of the word sister now holding an edge of venom. "But you will never be enough to beat the three of us, your not the only one from our clan that inherited a gift for the illusionary arts!" Just as he finished Idakai and his brother clasped there hands together, sending out a pulse of chakra as they released there own Genjutsu.

Kurenai showed no signs of surprise when the third brother materialised next to her other two in a swirl of blackened rose pedals, she had already detected the Genjutsu and wasn't surprised in the least to find out the brother she had just 'killed' disappeared.

"No matter how strong you are in the Genjutsu arts, we will always be able to counter it! No matter your mastery you cannot stop three Genjutsu masters! Our jutsu together cannot be beaten!" In an instant almost like a rehearsed dance, the three brothers quickly began to flash through a long sequence of handsigns, chanting the names of the handsigns as they gathered they chakra.

Kurenai quickly recognised the feel of the chakra emanating from her brothers, the signature chill of power she once felt many years ago. Reacting on instinct she withdrew two more kunai, but she was far too slow to stop her brother's from completing there jutsu. "Genjutsu Art: Realm of the Red Moon!" The brother yelled in unison, before everything for Kurenai and Team 8 went blank.

Kurenai opened her eyes and gasped for a deep breath, her chest tightening as it strained for air. Her eye's adjusted slowly, almost like she hadn't opened them for hours, her body feeling heavy almost to the point where she felt her legs begin to give way under the enormous weight she felt press down upon her.

Looking around her with keen eagle eyes she quickly began to evaluate her situation, but when all that met her eyes was complete darkness she slowly tightened her guard. At the smallest flicker of light she spun around, a kunai instantly withdrawn from its sheath. Her eyes immediately widened in surprised when she saw the knife in her hand was completely black but she could see its existence by white outlines. Infact she was the same, she was also completely black and defined only by white outlines.

A cold and foreboding feeling washed over her as she looked in the distance, a large red moon rising out of the invisible horizon, she knew this jutsu. It was the ultimate genjutsu of her clan, the fabled Realm of the Red Moon jutsu, the only genjutsu in existence that rivalled the Uchiha's genjutsu Tsukuyomi in space/time manipulation power.

In an instant she felt herself disappear and the moon vanished. Before she even registered anything changing she found herself tied to a tall tree, and infront of her her clan's old estate and training ground lay. Many of her family member's who were killed so long ago went about there daily lives before her eyes, Kurenai remained silent as she watched on, not believing what she saw before her. But those eyes of disbelief quickly turned to horror as she saw some of her family cut down before her eyes, three cloaked figures weaving in-amongst the houses, silently killing everyone before them without any remorse.

A few moment passed and Kurenai could feel her hatred towards her brother's boiling, they were showing her this day just to spite her, they were showing her the day they killed her family.

"What's wrong dear sister? Don't you enjoy seeing our family again? Surely you must miss them after all this time?" A cruel voice asked behind her, Kurenai could practically hear his smirk as he spoke.

"Curse you Idakai! Is this all you wanted? Is this all you three murdered our family for? Just for this one pathetic jutsu?" Her questions were left unanswered as her three brother's just replied by laughing cruelly, there voices echoing throughout the entire illusion. In a blink of an eye all three of them appeared before her, laughing mantically as they looked into her raging eyes.

"Oh come now Kurenai-imouto, surely you miss them all. And considering we haven't seen you in years lets get mother and father here for a big family reunion." Idakai smirked as he glanced cruelly to his brother's and in perfect synchronisation they clapped there hands together once. As they did both Kurenai and themselves and the entire illusionary estate disappeared, leaving only the deep blood red moon lingering in the sky.

When Kurenai's eyes opened again she found herself in her family's old home, it was just the same way she remembered it down to the smallest of detail, the furniture, the fireplace, even the family dinning table was arranged exactly like she remembered. The only thing different was that everything was just visible as white outlines and that blood red moon was visible through the open window.

Unable, or unwilling to move, Kurenai found herself fixated at a picture of her family hung above the fireplace. A picture of her mother surrounded by her three brothers and she herself was sitting on her father's lap. Her eldest brother was not even 12 years old in that photo, and she was barely 5. Looking at the photo she could feel tears coming to her eyes as she looked at the smiling faces of her parents and brothers.

'Was there really a time when we all looked like that? Was there really a time when we were all together... happy? Like we were in that photo?'

Almost in response to her silent question a flicker of colour caught her eyes, and she pulled her attention away from the photo and looked towards the back of the room.

"Goodmorning my daughter, I trust you slept well?" A deep but gentle and caring voice echoed from the back of the room, and Kurenai froze at the sound, a small tear falling from her face as she recognised the voice.

"F-Father?" The voice of a much younger Kurenai was heard in response, without even realising it Kurenai had been changed back to her childhood self, under the influence of the Genjutsu she could not think straight, and could only follow the aching of her little heart. The thoughts of a little girl mixed with the emotions of her older self Kurenai could not resist rushing towards her father and wrapping her arms around him in a big embrace, tears streaming from her cute face.

"F-Father! Father! It is you father! I-I missed you s-so much father!"

"Missed me? Oh my daughter you can be funny sometimes. I have always been here with you, there is nothing to miss as I'll never leave you. Now come with me, we need to meet your mother at the main clan house." He replied in a kind tone. He had been on a mission for the village for almost a week, and he knew how much his daughter missed him when he was gone. But almost like a mockery to what he had said, he did leave her, just not in the way this young Kurenai knew.

Another loud 'clap' was heard and Kurenai, now fully grown and her own mind again, snapped her eyes open, the image of her younger self and father hugging burned into her mind. Taking a few steps into the darkness she felt a wetness on her face. Reaching up to it she realised she had been crying, that simple image of her younger self with her father had bought up more then a few of her buried emotions, and she cursed her brothers for there cruelty.

Another clap was heard and a whole clan estate suddenly formed before her eyes, the persistent red moon in the sky providing a dark light on a once bright and happy place. From what Kurenai could see the recollection of her past home was abandoned but as an image of her younger self holding hands with her mother and father walked out of there house Kurenai quickly realised what her brother's were showing her.

"No! Don't do it! I don't want to see this again!" Watching her parents and younger self walk towards the clan meeting house she knew what would happen, she just couldn't bare to see this again! The pain it bought her already was too much to bare and she tried to call out to them, to call to them and say not to enter that house, but it was merely a cruel recollection her brother's had conjured and she knew nothing she could say or do to change any events. And when the family entered the house another loud clap was heard and Kurenai's vision once again went black, but not before a horrible scream was heard from her younger self.

In a daze her eyes opened once again, she was barely able to comprehend what she saw, her mind was far to hazy, similarly to when one first wakes up so she soon closed them again not wanting to see what she knew was there awaiting her gaze. She had been forced to watch endless the death of her parents at her brother's hands, all the while she was trapped and bound to a large cross. She couldn't tell how much time had passed as nothing had changed in what seemed like an eternity. It was just the same repeated scene over and over.

But when she heard a familiar 'pant' nearby her eyes shot back open, her protective sensei side surging fourth. Her brothers didn't just trap her in the genjutsu, but also her team!

"Naruto! Are you alright?" She called out, expecting and hoping for a response, but all she got was a pant and an emotionally exhausted growl in response. Turning to the direction she heard his response she saw he was tied to a giant cross, his body and tails hanging limply against the binds that held him, he wasn't looking at her, but she could someone still see the pain in his eyes. It took her a few moments to realise that she too hung on a cross like he did. Hearing a buzz on her left she quickly snapped her head around, Shino and Hinata hung in a similar fashion to Naruto, both of them looking draining emotionally.

"Shino? Hinata? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM YOU BASTARDS! LEAVE THEM OUT OF THIS!" Her purpose was to rid the world of her monstrous brothers, but she never meant for her team to get involved. They would be killed if they were forced to suffer more of this illusion!

Three dark and cruel laughs were all she heard in response, the sound echoed around her, mocking her that she was captured. She squinted to see through the darkness, but all she could ever see was that ever present red moon hanging in the sky.

"Come not Kurenai-imouto, you didn't honestly expect us to allow your little genin students to miss out on the fun did you? You know just how well we like our 'fun'." Kurenai spat in response to Idakai's words, she could practically hear his smirk on his face.

"Hmm, not quite the response I was after. Oh well, lets show your precious students how weak there sensei truly is shall we? That you, the 'Prodigy of the Yuuhi Clan' was too weak to prevent the death of her own parents." Another loud clap was heard and a pulse of chakra quickly ensured, the last thing they heard before the nightmare began was the three brother's cruel and mocking laughs.

Young Kurenai was overjoyed to have her family together again, even though it had only been a couple of days that her father had been on a mission, to her it felt like an eternity. Happily standing between her two parents she could wish for little else in her life to be happy.

"Mother? Father? Where are my big brothers?" Kurenai asked happily, a bright smile on her rosy face as she asked her parents.

"They are in the clan meeting room waiting for us now my daughter. They were the ones who organised the meeting, they said they had a special surprise for us all." Her father replied, an excited undertone hinting in his voice.

"Yes I can't wait to see what they want to show us, Idakai-kun has been talking endlessly about how excited he is to show us all." Kurenai's mother added, a sense of real pride easily visible on her delicate and beautiful face.

Kurenai could only continue to smile brightly as she walked together with her parents, hand in hand. She admired her father so much, he was so strong and powerful, easily one of the strongest in there clan, plus he was even a shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village! And her mother was the leader of the clan, she was so strong-willed and determined. Always making the best decisions for the clan and her family. It was always a promise to herself that when she grew up, Kurenai would be just like her parents, a strong genjutsu master like her father, and eventually maybe even become head of the clan like her mother. That's ofcourse if her older brothers didn't want to do it.

Finally entering the clan's main meeting house Kurenai eagerly pushed the door open for her parents and rushed in. But the sight that met her young eyes was not the surprise she had been expecting.

Blood. The floor was covered in blood, partially dismembered bodies lay strewn across the once beautiful marble floors. Kurenai froze, her body and young mind not fully able to comprehend what she saw before her. The faces she saw, they were all people she knew, people of her clan, friends, family. The entire room was covered with their dead corpses. Having no idea how to react in such a situation her clouded mind made her do the only thing she could do, scream, and run out of the house.

Hearing their daughter scream and rush passed them Kurenai's parents rushed into the house, her father running through first while her mother stopped for a quick second to check if Kurenai was ok. When both parents arrived in the main meeting room there reaction was similar to Kurenai's, complete shock.

"W-What? What is t-this?" Half expecting some cruel genjutsu Kurenai's father attempted to dispel it with his clan's best dispel jutsu, but it was to no avail. Plus the stench of blood was completely unmistakable. This was his clan and family.

"K-Kurenai! She's in danger!" Kurenai's mother woke up from her shock as her motherly instincts took over, whatever had caused this carnage could still be here, and they had left there daughter outside of the house!

Rushing to leave the room in fright of anything happening to there precious daughter they were surprised when suddenly the exit doorway disappeared before there very eyes. Being replaced with a solid wall. But the strange thing about the wall was that it was pitch black and only visible because its shape was outlined in white lines. Quickly looking around the room they realised the whole room had become the same, as did each other.

Knowing that such a sudden change to there reality could only be caused by genjutsu they both in perfect synchronisation attempted to dispel it, but again even with there best dispel jutsu, nothing changed. A sudden voice behind them attained there attention, a voice they knew very very well.

"Hello mother, father. Welcome, to the Realm of the Red Moon." The words shocked both parents and turning to face the young man they knew stood behind them, there eyes were filled with the vision of a great red moon.

Kurenai ran from the meeting house as fast as her little legs could carry her, the image, the image of seeing her whole family cut up, mangled, viciously dismembered it was too much for her little mind to comprehend. She could still smell the blood, the blood that covered everything in a once marvellous room. Falling to her knees she could do nothing but cry her heart out and hold herself tightly. The faces, she could see all her family's faces, burned into her mind like a hot iron. Her parents would fix everything wouldn't they? They were the strongest people she knew, they could fix anything. This was all just a bad dream, a horrible bad dream they she just wanted to wake up from.

"Kurenai-imouto? What's wrong? Why do you cry? What's wrong little sister?" A comforting and caring voice behind her snapped her head up, and in an instant she had turned and leapt into her oldest brother's arms, holding onto him for dear life.

"T-T-T-They a-are d-dead Idakai-neesan… E-Everyone… E-Everyone… T-T-The bl-blood was e-everywhere!" She managed to blubber out through her tears as she cried into his warm chest, her entire body shaking from shock in his hold. Her oldest brother would know what to do wouldn't he? He was always the nicest to her out of her brothers, she loved him so so much. He would be able to help and stop the bad dream.

"Shhh, shhh… It's alright, nothings wrong, it will be alright." Idakai replied with a comforting tone, gently stroking his baby sister's hair as he held her close and allowed her to cry.

"It's not what you think, you'll see. Come, come with me, I'll show you its alright." Letting go of his hold on his little sister Idakai slowly began to walk towards the meeting house. Kurenai tugged him back, urging him not to go, but he just gently took her hand and pulled her along, reassuring her it wasn't what she first thought.

Clinging tightly too her brother as he led her back to the house, her tears did not ebb, nor did her fear and shock lessen. She knew what she saw, and it was real. But her brother could fix it couldn't he? Or perhaps he was right and it wasn't what she thought… maybe it was just a bad dream or some cruel family genjutsu?

Half way into entering the main meeting room Kurenai's nerves shot, and she collapsed onto her knees. "I-I... I can't do it Idakai… I-I don't want t-to go in there." Kurenai began to shake and tears streamed from her young eyes like a river.

"Well you don't have to want to go in imouto, I'll take you there myself." Suddenly gaining a malicious aura about him, Idakai lent down and grasped his younger sister by her arm before viciously pulling her along, his steps turning into strides he forcefully dragged her along. Kurenai cried out in surprise and in physical hurt at the dragging, and by reaction pulled against her brother.

"Don't bother trying to get away prodigy of the Yuuhi Clan! I will show you TRUE genjutsu!" Pulling on her harder and without mercy he ripped her off her feet, dragging her despite her protests and pain filled cries. By natural instinct Kurenai struggled against her brother's superior strength, trying with all her might to get away from him.

This wasn't her brother, it couldn't be. Her three brother's were the most wonderful brothers in the world, and she especially loved Idakai, he was always the nicest and kindest to her, always helping her with her chakra exercises or playing games with her. This… 'person' who was dragging her was not her brother!

"L-Let go of me!" She cried out, and in an outburst of fright to get away from him she kicked him as hard as her little legs could manage. Her kick struck true and hit the backs of his knee, knocking his leg from under him and causing him to lose his hold on her. Scrambling to get away from him as fast as possible, Kurenai jumped to her feet and ran for the exit of the house, but she didn't get far as the exit to the house vanished before her eyes, being replaced by a solid steel wall.

Despite her young age, Kurenai was well versed in the Genjutsu arts, a prodigy amongst her fellow clansmen, and could easily tell the traces of chakra on the wall to show it was a mere Genjutsu trick. Quickly placing her hands together she attempted to dispel the illusion. A quick burst of chakra Kurenai had expected the wall to disappear, but instead it just shimmered slightly before returning to normal.

A maniacal laughter behind her caused her to turn away from the wall, growing fear building in her eyes as she looked at her brother stand up. "You? YOU? YOU ARE THE BEST OUR CLAN HAS TO OFFER? How are YOU the prodigy of our clan? What skills and talents do you possess that the rest of us do not also have? You can't even overcome a low level genjutsu on your own, why do our parents always favour YOU if you are so weak?" Stepping forward to his little sister with eyes of murder, he struck a solid blow across her face, knocking her to the floor.

"What can you do that I cannot?" Before even giving her a chance to move he kicked her hard in the side, winding her immediately and knocking her into the wall.

"I am the oldest! And yet the clan is already talking about YOU as the next heir inline! What makes you so special?" Grabbing her by the throat Idakai lifted her high into the air, tears freely falling from her pain-filled face as she desperately gasped for air.

"I will show you just how weak you are compared to your brothers! WE should have been the ones considered for heir. ME, the OLDEST should have been favoured! I will show you just how strong we are!"

Lifting his struggling and sobbing youngest sibling up he dragged her by her throat into the main meeting room, the same horrid sight from before met her eyes, and she desperately forced them closed.

"You WILL see our power! Whether you want to or not dear little sister!" Placing a hand over her head he used a quick Genjutsu to trick her mind, forcing her eyes open.

"See? Do you not see? Everyone! Everyone in this clan was weaker then us! THEY ALL FELL BEFORE OUR UNBEATABLE JUTSU! A JUTSU THAT NO ONE SAID WAS POSSIBLE! SOMETHING EVEN YOU COULD NEVER DO! EVEN MOTHER AND FATHER WERE NO MATCH!" Throwing his younger sister toward the centre of the room, the laughter of Idakai and her other two brothers filled the room, there undertones hinting on murderous insanity.

Kurenai landed harshly on the floor, and gasped for the breath that had been denied her by her own brother's hands. Chocking and coughing it took her a second to realise where she had been thrown, the floor was covered in blood, her families blood. Scrambling to her feet as fast as she could manage she almost threw up as the smell of the corpses infiltrated her nose. And having fell the way she did, the blood from the floor had stained her little dress, her hands covered in the blood of her family.

She tried to wipe the blood off, but it was burnt in her mind, and could see nothing but the blood that would haunt her for years. Her head snapped up when she heard laughter, but it wasn't Idakai's maddened laugh that frightened her, it was the laugh she heard from her remaining two brothers. Looking in there direction, she shook in fear at what she might see, her mind wasn't processing properly as it was, she was more running on survival instincts, but something told her she had to look. Seeing her other two older brothers at the other end of the meeting room, her heart skipped a beat from shock as she saw her two parents tied up, kneeing with her heads held low, breathing heavily with exhaustion. Both of her brother's stood either side of them, a knife at her parent's throat.

"M-Mother? F-F-Father? W-What have you done to them?" She screamed in fright, her question only answered by a cruel laugh. This couldn't have been happening, it was all a bad dream!

Seeing her parents in such a state shook her out of her shock a little, clearing up her mind enough to want to know what was happening.

"Well dear sister they are simply recovering from our jutsu, even the leaders of our clan couldn't stop us! And still they think YOU were prodigy of our clan! Compared to us you are nothing!" Idakai said in anger, a tone of insane jealousy easily heard within his words. Walking up slowly to his still shaking little sister he placed a hand on her shoulder wanting to mock her further. But unexpectedly she turned and attempted to strike him across the face, whether by instinct or by purpose he didn't know, nor would he stand for it.

"Bitch! Try to hit me! I'll kill you just like I did to the rest of our family!" Reaching for a small blade he had hidden in his shirt a murderous and insane spark ignited in his eyes. And just by looking within them Kurenai could see his thoughts, he anger, his insane jealousy of something that wasn't true, but most of all she could see him, she could see that this was truly her brother. How had he fallen so far, and she not seen it?

Closing her eyes as she watched his blade approach her her young mind could barely process that this is where she would die, in a bizarre twist of life that had so quickly shattered the 'family' she held so dear and thought was so complete and happy. But her end never came, the blade never touched her. Instead, a commanding but exhausted voice boomed to stop her brother.

"Stop!"

Everyone turned to face Kurenai's father, still on his knees and his head hung low, but they could all feel his presence, the overbearing and powerful aura that literally pulsed from him. The aura of a trained killer, the aura of a Shinobi of Konoha.

"Do with us what you will… but let her go… you three, have betrayed this clan you have dabbled with dark powers you never should have touched… If your objective is to prove your power then prove it against me… let my daughter go…" His voice was weak, exhausted and filled with pain, both from the suffering he endured in that unspeakable nightmare of a jutsu, and from the suffering he was enduring now, from watching the three sons he loved so much snap so suddenly and his family destroyed.

Idakai however didn't see the broken father that was begging before him, instead, he saw a man who was uncaring to him and his brothers and still even now worried about Kurenai and favouring her. His rage sparked, and even his brother's held a look of fear in there eyes when they saw Idakai's face.

Dropping his sister unceremoniously on the ground Idakai moved like a cold hard killer towards his father, his feet barely touching the ground and his eyes fixated upon the man he hated with his very soul.

Kurenai's father could feel his son approach, and with the last stretch of strength remaining in him he forced himself to look up, to look into the eyes of the son he had raised and still loved even now. But he couldn't see his son when he looked into his eyes, for there was nothing, nothing but a dark black pit of hatred and jealousy, the look of someone completely consumbed by there dark emotions and driven mad.

Seeing such a look in his son's eyes he could do nothing, nothing but consider himself a failure as a parent to have not seen the angst building up in his own son. Closing his eyes knowing his end would be soon, he prayed for the safety of at least his daughter, a single tear falling from his face when the last thing he saw was his own son rushing to kill him.

Blood splattered across the room as Idakai viciously cut his father's throat with a swift blow. The crazed look in his eye only glinted with evil delight at his actions.

Hidoukai, who had been holding a kunai near his father's throat was a little taken back at his brother's rash murder, but seeing the blood splatter from the blade a few droplets splashing against him, he too quickly grinned in response. His excitement suddenly rising at the newest bloodshed, he could feel his own blood begin to boil from the adrenaline pumping through him, this notion of 'killing', of seeing his family before him suffer, it was such a refreshing and incredible feeling!

Kurenai's mother, who seemed to have suffered from the jutsu more then her husband hadn't moved the whole time. But somehow her mind knew what had just happened, and her body began to shake, a gasp was heard but not movement followed, only tears that streamed from her eyes.

Seeing his mother's reaction just enraged him more, she never cried for him. He had only ever seen her cry over Kurenai and her now dead husband. "WHO'S THE PROGIDY NOW MOTHER?" Idakai cried in a insane rage, swiftly curving his blade around and aiming for her throat.

His blade struck true, slicing clean through her throat. He expected to see blood, beautiful lovely red rivers of blood flow from freely the deep wound. But instead, his mother burst into sea of pink blossoms. Stunned at the twist of events he watched them quickly begin to circle around him at high speeds, covering his vision on what was going on around him.

"Oh? What is this hmm? Does our little sister now wish to try and stop us? You want to prove with one of us is the prodigy of our clan Kurenai? THEN SO BE IT! LET'S SEE WHICH ONE OF USE IS GREATER!" In a burst of violent chakra Idakai dispelled the genjutsu blossoms and stared in disgust when he saw Kurenai standing in the centre of the room, her whole body literally glowing with chakra as she flashed through a number of handsign sequences.

She didn't say anything, she didn't even blink, even as tears streamed from her eyes. She wanted to just curl up and cry her heart out, a heart that was bleeding with pain. Her family slaughtered and there corpses around her, her father cut down before her very eyes. What was she to do? A little girl that should have never seen such things. But it made her feel different, she could feel a force around her, a 'presence'. It felt like there were people standing around her, urging her to go on, to fight, to stop her brothers.

Finishing her chain of handsigns her hands glowed brightly for a second, before a forest of pink pedals arose around her. Spinning around her rapidly they quickly formed into little sharp needles, before propelling towards her brother.

Idakai could only laugh at the low-level genjutsu being hurled at him, simply raising one hand he dispelled the needle like flowers, but as soon as he did he found all his limbs bound tightly. Frantically looking at his feet and hands there were suddenly vines, holding the firmly in place. She had set up two illusions, and the wave of pedals was to distract him and disguise the second!

Three kunai flew towards his prone form, but he knew that his sister had yet to be given any weapons and knew they would be genjutsu, he would feel the pain as they hit him, but it would be false pain. Sure enough the knives struck true but knowing the inexperience his sister had with genjutsu that 'mimic and imitate' pain he expected the pain to disappear fairly quickly. Imagine his surprise when it was in fact the vines that disappeared, releasing him from there false hold, but the kunai remained as did the blood the dripped freely from his should chest and stomach where the sunk into his flesh.

Half in shock he pulled the knives from his body, throwing them with a clank to the floor, before turning to his sister with murderous eyes. She was a mess, and he was surprised she even had the concentration to pull of one genjutsu let alone two, and where the hell did she get the kunai from? Rushing for her with a clouded mind, he was set on ending her life there. But as his blade swung down towards he watched her quickly pick a kunai up from the ground, having once belonged to one of the clan members that lay dead around them, and used it to block his blade.

"Stupid girl! Like a pitiful trick will stop me! You are still weak compared to me!" Pushing down hard on his blade he used his superior strength to overbalance his younger sister, and used the opportunity to push her back before delivering a solid kick into her stomach.

Watching her slam into the wall and hearing her cries brought a delighted smile to his face, she was easy! The clan always said she was the prodigy, yet he had so easily beaten her! Turning from her, laughing as she gasped for breath, he slowly turned towards his mother, his two brothers standing next to her with equally murderous smiles. Nodding to them they both withdrew a kunai, readying to take the life of the woman who had given them life. They would have ended her right there, had they not suddenly been swept off there feet by a huge torrent of water.

The water appeared from no where, pouring from the very walls like a great waterfal, and quickly flash flooded the entire meeting room. Raging like a vicious dragon it crashed though the room, knocking the three brothers clean off there feet and smashing them around like ragdolls. Faster then they could recognise what was happening the room was filled, and they were left gasping for air, floating in a room of water that crashed around like the greatest of storms.

At first Idakai was insulted to have another low-level genjutsu thrown at him, he knew his sister couldn't imitate such levels of brain-wave altering and simply took a deep breath. But once again he was met with surprise when his lungs filled with water, a burning pain erupting from his chest as he felt himself begin to drown. Frantically thrashing around in the water he dug deep for his chakra to dispel the illusion. But the pain, the burning knife-like pain in his lungs from the water prevented him from gathering his chakra and holding his concentration.

Looking around in desperation, for something, anything to help him escape the illusion. His two brother's were useless, they two were swimming around helplessly struggling to breath. Despite the raging current of false water around him, he did notice that he wasn't held or confined, and was able to 'swim' through the illusion quite well. Struggling to maintain consciousness from the intense pain burning in his lungs and from the false lack of oxygen he saw the means of his escape, a single kunai knife that remained on the floor next to the bodies of his slain family.

Gathering all his remaining strength and willpower he forced his body to move, his lungs violently objected with excruciating pain that could never be physically described. But instead of immobilizing him, the pain fuelled his anger, and renewed his strength. Swimming swiftly against the current he reached out and grasped the kunai that lay on the ground, before stabbing himself deep in the shoulder. The real pain from the kunai interfered with genjutsu and he quickly felt it begin to dissolve around him. And before it dissolve completely he sent a burst of chakra to free his brothers.

The genjutsu had tricked there minds into believing they were drowning, and now there were free the three brother's lay sprawled on the floor, frantically gasping for the breath that they had be tricked into not taking. The pain from his lungs had stopped, but Idakai was still chocking for air along with his brothers.

Had they thought they had a chance to react, they were quickly proven wrong when three small trees grew behind each of the brothers, the branches rapidly growing and lifting them up, binding them solidly in place. Idakai could only yell in a crazy rage induced frenzy. A rage that skyrocketed when out of one of the branches binding him, grew his little sister a kunai knife in her hand. She couldn't have beaten him! There was no way she could have beaten him!

Kurenai looked at her eldest brother with eyes of impasse, an uncaring expression seemingly out of place on her face filled with tears. Looking down into her brother's eyes of insanity, she felt no pity as the knife approached his throat, he had done such horrible things. And the eyes he held were not those of the brother she loved so dearly.

The blade was mere centimetre from his throat when she saw it, a spark of life in his cold hatred filled eyes. In that instant she saw her brother again, she could see the fear, the regret of his actions, the anger and hatred seemed to have vanish and he had returned to the brother she knew and loved so very much, and in that instant she dropped the knife.

She hadn't been fully aware of what she had been doing, her body had just reacted on its own, seeing her father killed before her, her family laying at her feet. Her mother kneeling motionless while her brother went to kill her. She had just acted, almost like her movements and thoughts were guided but something else. But looking into her dear brother's eyes, she couldn't do anything by cry.

Idakai felt the blade near his throat, he originally hadn't ever thought his sister was capable of this, she was always so gentle and kind, so weak! And yet here she was, keeping him captive while she slit his throat. It couldn't end like this! He wouldn't die here! Not after proving to everyone he was the strongest! He was stronger then her!

He begun to see his life flash before his eyes, all the times he had spent with his family, all the times he spent trying to prove to his parents and the whole clan. All those times would be for nothing in but a few moments. But when he saw Kurenai just dropped the blade, he could do naught but stare at her in surprise. She just looked at him, her innocent face seemed to be horrified at her actions, and all she could do was look at him and cry.

Feeling her concentration on the genjutsu slip he seized the opportunity and dissolved the tree binding him with a disrupting burst of chakra. His sister's genjutsu was broken and she was revealed to be standing before him, the kunai at her feet. Emotionlessly disregarding the tears that fell from her face he lunged forward, striking her hard with a knee to the chest, pushing her back as she gasped for breath he followed through with a chakra-enhanced side kick. Sending her crashing into the wall once more.

Signally to his brother's to finish the job they had started he walked up to Kurenai while they stood beside there mother. Idakai lifted the young Kurenai high by her throat, careless to her struggles, he was far to enraged to care if she could breath or not.

"You… You are the one that the clan says is a prodigy, but it will never matter how strong you are at the genjutsu arts! Because you are too weak to do what needs doing! YOU WERE EVEN TOO WEAK TO STOP ME! AND FOR YOUR WEAKNESS YOU WILL SUFFER! I WILL SHOW YOU THE CONCIQUENCES OF BEING WEAK!" Turning around he threw his younger sister harshly towards his brothers. She landed in a heap, just at the ground by her mother.

Kurenai looked up, her fearful face marred with broken tears so out of place on a girl her age. Her face lit up with horror when she saw her two brothers stand beside her mother, evil grins plastering there face as they both held a kunai to there mothers throat. In one swift motion the emotionlessly cut through her, and the woman who had loved them all and brought them into this world fell lifeless to the ground.

Kurenai could barely see from the tears that filled her eyes and she reached out for her mother who lay mere inches away, a pool of blood quickly forming around her and staining the woman's once beautiful hair.

Idakai relished in the pain he saw in his sister's eyes, it was such a satisfying feeling to see her so weak, so vulnerable, so helpless. Walking to her he stood on her hand to prevent her from touching there mother. He wasn't finished making her suffer. Lifting her high into the air once more by the throat, he withdrew the kunai he still held and hovered it over her stomach.

"I still owe you from those three kunai before!" He screamed at her viciously, before deeply slicing across her stomach. He watched her eyes shoot wipe in pain and shock, a sight that was only improved by the blood that quickly poured from her wound. She cried out in pain, but her cries fell on deaf ears as her brothers loved the sound of her screams.

"And now! Before you die with the rest of our pathetic family we will show you why you are not the strongest! Why WE were the ones who should have been the prodigies!" Dropping his sister to the floor he almost laughed when she grabbed at her stomach, desperately trying to stop the bleeding and pain.

Calling his brothers over, the three of them begun a long chain of handsigns, and Kurenai even in her weakened and emotionally destroyed state could still feel the chill in the air there chakra made as they formed there jutsu. There very chakra felt 'evil'.

"Genjutsu Art: Realm of the Red Moon Jutsu! Goodbye dear sister. Enjoy watching your family die over and over and over again. We won't see you again."

With her brother's finally goodbye she felt the genjutsu quickly take hold of her mind, and the last thing that her eyes saw was the vicious smirk of her brothers, and the bodies of her parents beside them, before all was replaced with a great red moon. 'I am weak… I'm sorry Father… Mother… I… I couldn't save you…'

Kurenai glared hatred at her brothers when the 'reminiscence' stopped and they appeared before her. She was still stuck to the cross, her team either side of her.

"Enjoy the memory Kurenai-imouto? No? What is this, tears? Oh I guess your just so happy to have seen our parents again that you are crying yes?" Idakai asked with a cruel smirk, followed by laughter when his sister spat at him in response.

"You are trash Idakai! The three of you are nothing but trash! How I ever thought of you as brothers I will never know. And you do not ever deserve to call Mother and Father 'your' parents! How dare you say such a thing after you MURDERED THEM!" Kurenai screamed at her brothers. There constant smirk was a curse, a reminder of there 'sudden turn'. And she cursed herself for being affected by the memory, seeing her cry was exactly what they wanted.

Idakai stepped forward, about to respond with another smartarse and cruel statement. When he was halted by a voice speaking softly.

"Leave… my sensei… alone…"

Idakai hated mumbling, it to him was a weak way of speaking, and he despised any type of weakness. "What did you say boy? Speak up!"

"I SAID LEAVE MY SENSEI ALONE!" Naruto's head snapped up and he glared death at Idakai, his eyes glowing blood red, tears flowing freely from them. His rage could be felt pulsing from him, his yokai chakra causing visible ripples of red around him.

"Or what boy? What could you possibly do? You are trapped within the most powerful in existence, rivalling the power of the mighty Tsukuyomi of the Uchiha Clan! You can't do anything here!" Idakai had to admit, this boy was interesting. Such power emanating from him it was staggering. But sheer uncontrolled power could do nothing to him in this realm of illusions. HE was the master here.

Kurenai hadn't noticed before when she had seen him, but Naruto whisker-like marks had been prominent and his hair wild and untamed before. She had been so distracted by the genjutsu to notice he had been drawing on the fox's chakra the whole time they had been trapped. 'We can still use chakra! That's it! That's our escape!' She tried calling out to him, but he seemed to 'at war' with himself to control himself to answer her call.

"Hinata! Can you use your Byakugan to dissolve the genjutsu? Or find a weak point?" Turning to her female student she hoped for some light in this dark situation.

Hinata turned to her sensei, tears falling from her eyes at having been forced to see such a horrible past of the woman who seemed so strong and secure. Her control over her chakra though was messed up, the genjutsu was messing up with her mind, and she couldn't concentrate or gather the chakra correctly. "I… I can't s-sensei. The genjutsu is m-messing with my control." Her voice was weak, evidence of her emotional exhaustion.

Kurenai cursed to herself at the explanation, it was a lot to expect of the girl but she could understand her difficulty. She herself could barely control her chakra easily. Then how was it Naruto could draw on his yokai chakra so easily?

"Shino! Your bugs aren't affected by genjutsu, can't they help?" Kurenai didn't know a lot about the Aburame clan, but she was well aware of there 'immunity' to genjutsu.

"Sorry sensei. They are not responding to my directions. The genjutsu is somehow blocking me from communicating to them. They are trying to remove the genjutsu's chakra from my body, but they can't keep up with it as the chakra is constantly being re-injected into our chakra networks." Shino was a little more in control of his mind at the present moment, he was still affected by seeing his sensei's dark past but he was coping with it in a different manor. His lose of communication with his insect companions however was a deep worry to him. Such a thing was completely unprecedented and he feared he would be of little help to his team.

"There is no point trying to figure out a way to escape, no one can escape the Realm of the Red Moon, it is the ultimate genjutsu!" Idakai found it amusing how his little sister tried to rely on others to help her out of his jutsu, it was just proof on how weak she is to him even after all these years.

Kurenai snapped her head back to Idakai to tell him to shut up, but before she spoke she noticed Hidoukai was visibly sweating as he held his handsign to focus the genjutsu, almost as if he was struggling to maintain his chakra to the jutsu. It was then that she noticed that Hidoukai was the closest to Naruto. Naruto's yokai was interfering with the control of the genjutsu! 'But how is he able to draw on it? His control is the worst I've ever seen...'

'Naruto-kun's body naturally produces very small amounts of yokai chakra. Enough to keep him alive and 'fuel' his kitsune blood. But his control over it is dictated by his emotions, if there are at an imbalance then so too will be his yokai chakra and normal chakra. Often in times of great distress his emotions become too out of control that he draws on large amounts of the Fox's yokai. He has done this a few times and his control over himself is limited. He is not a danger to those he cares about when like this, but we haven't ever seen how much of the Fox's chakra it is possible for him to draw on…'

Sarutobi's words once again rang in her mind, a reminder of the dangers and powers Naruto possesses. 'If Naruto could draw on enough of the Fox's chakra, it would disrupt the jutsu enough for it to collapse!' Kurenai knew what must be done, but she wasn't really sure she was ready for what might happen as a result.

"You can do whatever you like Idakai! Nothing you can do can break us! My student's are far stronger then you ever will be!" Kurenai noticed the tick Idakai got on his face at her statement, claiming children to be stronger then him would have struck a deep nerve.

The three brothers began to roar with laughter. A sick, insane look of bloodlust appearing on there faces as they did.

"Oh really? This very jutsu crushed our entire clan remember! And since you saw it last, we have 'refined' our methods. Hidoukai! You know what to do! The powerful children are first."

Hidoukai smiled viciously at the offer and slowly stepped towards the interesting blond boy, drawing his sword as he walked.

"No leave the boy, I think from what we saw when we were 'toying' with him before there is a better way to get at him. The girl is first." Idakai didn't like the girl with lavender eyes, she reminded him of Kurenai when she was young.

Nodding to his older brother Hidoukai turned away from the boy filled with bloodlust, and slowly walked to the young girl. He had to admit, she was quite the beauty for her age, and he would enjoy immensely watching her in agony and hearing her screams. Approaching the cross she was chained to, he grabbed her hair and yanked her up to face him.

"Hello little girl, looks like you are the lucky one! You are the first to bleed!" Hidoukai sounded almost 'giddy' with excitement and anticipation. His hands literally shaking imagining her blood flowing freely and staining her beautiful face. It would be a look he would remember for years!

"LEAVE HER ALONE! I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU TOUCH HER!" Naruto roared at him, a savage growl echoing around them.

"You can't do anything to stop me! I'll enjoy making your little girlfriend suffer! Might even have a little 'fun' with her after I have broken her." Hidoukai shouted back, a perverse smile forming on his face as he leant down to her, licking her on her cheek. Hidoukai only laughed in response when he felt the boy's strange chakra skyrocket at his actions. Oh this would be so much fun.

Drawing back his blade he plunged it deep into her chest, laughing with insane laughter as her screams echoed around him. Leaving the blade where it was he created another one and thrust it a little lower then the first, this time twisting it delighting in her screams.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!"

Naruto's rage was beginning to peak, and each blade he saw thrust into his Angel only caused him to lose it a little more.

Kurenai felt horrible for using her students like this, she as there sensei should be the one being tortured. She was there mentor, there guardian, yet all she could do was use them to help them all escape. This was a genjutsu! She should be the one to be able to break it and help them.

She was drawn from her self-pity when she begun to feel her skin begin to burn, the very air around her felt hot, and it was difficult to breath, almost like a great pressure was crushing down on her soul. Having felt this pressure once before 14 years ago when she first came to Konoha she turned to face Naruto, a look horror on her face when she saw his expression and his eyes. Gone were the blood red pupils that signified him drawing on the Fox's chakra, in there place his entire eyes were bright red, and his mouth hung open as if he was gasping in pain.

"I'll… MURDER… YOU ALL! AAARRRRRRRGHHHHHH!" Red wisps of chakra burst from Naruto as he screamed in pain, the chakra within him, the dark yokai of the fox was burning him inside out, but it was a pain that he didn't register. All he could see and feel was his Hinata getting tortured. Unbeknowst to him, the chakra was already weakening the illusion, melting the cross that he was chained by a freeing him from its hold.

"W-What is going on? WHAT IS THIS POWER? Hurry up you two! We must reinforce the jutsu!" The three brother's quickly jumped back and formed a line, rebeginning the handsigns for there jutsu.

"Hinata! Quick! Try and use your Byakugan!" Hinata looked up to her sensei with eyes of pure pain, the multitude of swords still sticking from her chest felt like nothing before. Yet as her boyfriend's chakra increased, the pain lessoned and begun to feel fake. Reaching for her chakra she could feel it respond to her almost like normal, and she quickly surged it to her eyes, activating her Byakugan.

The sight she saw was almost blinding, Naruto's chakra was far too much for her eyes to handle, the very light of the chakra hurt her powerful eyes. Pouring all her chakra and concentration in keeping her Byakugan active she forced herself to look past Naruto's blanket of chakra see the genjutsu around them. To her Byakugan eyes everything seemed like the normal world, they were still standing in the village in the same position as they had been when the genjutsu started, the three brothers each also standing in a line focusing the jutsu.

Looking at them she could see there chakra expel and spread out from them, wrapper her and her team like a cocoon. That's how most genjutsu worked, but it was a rather large ball of chakra hovering above her team that caught her attention. Deactivating her eyes she quickly relayed her information to her sensei. "Kurenai-sensei! The moon! It's the moon that prevents us from breaking the genjutsu! Because every time we see it it will recast the genjutsu on us! It is indefinitely recasting it on us because we always see it!"

"Excellent! Shino! I want you to find your companions and have them remove as much chakra from around us as possible, but make sure to have them avoid Naruto's chakra, you know what happens when they eat his Yokai chakra." Shino nodded slowly to his sensei in understanding before trying to contact his beetle companions, to his surprise they answered and responded to his call almost immediately. "Right, now to end the nightmare!"

Kurenai pulled herself free from the cross, which had quickly begun to dissolve when Shino's bugs started eating the chakra around her, and flashed through a set of handsigns to perform her clans most powerful genjutsu dispeller, but this time altering the last sign, she wanted to reserve as much chakra as she could for the battle ahead and so altered the jutsu to use the chakra around her. More specifically Naruto's yokai chakra that was violently thrashing around.

"Art of Genjutsu: Disruption!" Focusing the jutsu towards the Red Moon in the dark sky, she pulsed her chakra outwards using it to destroy the genjutsu and to manipulate Naruto's chakra. It was a dangerous attempt, and she didn't know the consequences, but nothing could have prepared her for the pain the surged through her body as it attempted to capture and manipulate his chakra. To do it the chakra had to be forced through her body, she knew it would hurt, but this felt like liquid magma running through her veins, burning and melting her from the inside out.

Utilizing the jutsu and fuelling it with Naruto's stray yokai chakra, it didn't take long for the moon of chakra to explode, almost instantly dispelling the jutsu.

Team 8 stood stunned for a moment as there minds adjusted to reality, and Kurenai buckled to her knees as she tried to force out the remnants of Naruto's chakra.

Hinata and Shino rushed to check their sensei, making sure she was ok. Shino had seen what she did and thinking quickly he instructed his insects to remove the chakra from the surface of her body, something that quickly aided in easing her pain.

"W-What have you done? Our jutsu was unbeatable! It's the ultimate genjutsu! There is no way you co-" Idakai was immediately cut off as a blur of red flashed past him, a huge explosion erupting behind him.

Naruto's mind was clouded by his rage, and the fact the illusion had ended hadn't fully registered. To him, as soon as he saw Hidoukai standing, partially stunned by the destruction of his jutsu, he burst forward running faster then almost humanly visible and slammed his fist into Hidoukai's gut. The force and sheer power of the strike caused a large explosion and Hidoukai sailed back crashing straight through a villagers house. Naruto didn't even think to give him a second to recover and speed off on all fours to pursue him, blasting away the rubble of the house with a roar of chakra.

"Naruto-kun! Stop!" Hinata tried to call out to him, but it was to no avail, he had already disappeared. She would have despaired but his bloodlust and murderous chakra was easily felt, and the constant roars and sounds of explosions assured her he was fine.

Standing up slowly, Kurenai placed a hand on her two students shoulders before nodding to them. It was a unspoken message, and in an instant they were either side of her preparing themselves for the coming fight.

"You three will not get away this time, I will avenge our clan, and this will be the last day you ever use that accused jutsu!" Idakai and his remaining brother could only sneer at her in response.

It would end alright, but there was no way that three brats and there half exhausted sister could stand up to them. The Realm of the Red Moon was only the start of the fight. The greatest of there destructive powers were yet to come.