A/N: This is my first try as an author so bear with me. English isn't my first language so don't hesitate to pm me with any fault you find, I am always eager to learn.

The anonymous reviewer 'narutoFan' left an interesting assessment for the last chapter, he felt that Naruto showing the whole stadium what he could do served no purpose and on the contrary allowed potential enemies to know how to counter him an so on …

Now I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that every move he pulled was based on his bloodline and therefore no one should be able to copy any of them.

Furthermore, it is highly practical for him (and for me) to describe once and for all when an ally should get the hell out of his 'dome of control', if they don't want to suffocate or get caught in some of his techniques for example.

Then again there's no real easy counter to what he showed previously, to adapt one's body to be able to perform in high-altitude / low-oxygen concentration environments or to find a way around of someone predicting your every move based on the molecules of air around you is no easy feat.

Anyway, welcome to the next chapter of Kaze No Kami.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other manga for that matter.

Chapter 20: Genius of Hard Work

Konoha Stadium – Spectators Area

As Naruto was taking a highly deserved break, people were commenting on his first fight with the taijutsu specialist of Konoha. The most impressed were of course the shinobi whose style are heavily based on taijutsu as the Hyuga or Inuzuka.

Hinata and Kiba were happy for their teammate while Neji had to admit that Naruto did once again surpass Fate, he, a non doujutsu holder was able to go above his limitations in order to achieve what even the most powerful Byakugan or Sharingan users couldn't in defeating the Gokken.

For Lee, it was a more complicated issue. Thanks to the return of Tsunade he had been able to resume his duties as a shinobi after she healed him. He trained hard and non stop following the footsteps of his sensei. To see someone his age perform on the same level as his teacher made him question if hard work was enough to achieve greatness. Sensing his student's turmoil, Gai who had joined the spectators told him that even Naruto, someone considered a genius like the Uchiha or Hyuga, most likely also trained hard to reach his current level despite his natural talents. This cheered him up and soon the duo started to exchange 'nice guys' poses and 'spring of youth' declarations.

The others were simply in awe or prostrated in silence at the display of skill from Naruto. Even Sakura, who had been studying under Tsunade for the last three years, now felt respect for Naruto. On her master's orders, she had regularly trained with Gai and his student in order to perfect her medical taijutsu style and knew firsthand how powerful Gai's Gokken style was.

The break finally ended and Naruto stood up ready for his next test.

Kage Box

Tsunade, who was silently enjoying a cup of sake, also stood up and announced the next part of Naruto's test.

"You will now be tested in your genjutsu proficiency Naruto. Kurenai please start the test." Declared the blonde Hokage.

She was about to sit down again when Naruto interrupted her.

"Actually Hokage-sama, if it's not a problem I would like the next test to be on genjutsu and kenjutsu at the same time." Asked a surprisingly polite Naruto.

Tsunade quickly regained her composure from being called by a respectful name by Naruto and narrowed her eyes before speaking again.

"Are you implying that you won't be able to fight seriously if you're facing only one kunoichi and not two? I thought you would be more respectful about women, especially since this is your teacher that was chosen to test you." Said an irate Tsunade.

Naruto stayed calm and bowed his head before replying.

"I assure you that it is nothing like that, surely you are aware that I never could perform the simplest genjutsu in my youth because of reasons out of my control." He started getting a nod from his leader perfectly aware of his chakra control problem.

"Well instead of trying to fix it, I found a way around my problem. But as a consequence, my genjutsu techniques don't work like the classical ones, I have to rely on other shinobi arts to take full advantage of them and kenjutsu is a perfect one for that." He continued.

"Finally as you said, Kurenai-sensei is my teacher, Yugao-sensei also taught me a lot in the past. I have the utmost respect for both of them as women and as kunoichi, they are both very beautiful and deadly in their own field of expertise. I am perfectly fine with staying a chunin should I fail to perform adequately against both of them at the same time." Finished Naruto as he bowed before Kurenai and Yugao this time.

Both women blushed at his last argument on their skill and feminine charms, and knew he meant no disrespect towards them. They nodded to Tsunade, signaling they were fine with what Naruto asked.

"Seeing as Kurenai and Yugao agreed to your idea, I see no reason not to allow it as long as you know that you will be doing lots of gate guarding time should you fail this test." Finally announced Tsunade with a smirk when she got a nod from Naruto.

Arena

As the two women made their way towards him and Genma, Naruto once again started to unzip his jacket and then took it off and put it aside with his mask but kept the katana this time. He got the same reaction from the women in the audience he got the first time and especially from the two in front of him right there.

"D-Do you have to fight a-almost naked again Naruto?" Said a blushing Kurenai having the chance this time to observe Naruto's new stature up close while Yugao, who did not have her usual ANBU gear in order to not reveal her identity, chose to watch a surprisingly interesting ground.

"Hai I do, I promise there's a good reason and you will understand why soon sensei." Replied an embarrassed Naruto while scratching the back of his head.

Seeing as everyone was ready, Genma gave approval for the test to start.

Yuhi Kurenai & Uzuki Yugao versus Uzumaki Naruto

Naruto immediately did a familiar hand sign and launch his Muga no Kyouchi Wind field then took a defensive stance with his short katana in his right hand ready to pierce his target. It was a beautiful wakizashi, with a blue handle while the Tsuba was composed of two golden metal pieces that seemed to form a 'S' symbol when placed together around the blade.

Kurenai chose to stay relatively close to him, having heard of his new aptitude to drain his opponent's stamina she wasn't too concerned about that since her art didn't rely strongly on stamina. She then prepared her next move against him.

Yugao, however, decided to put some distance between them and wait for the right moment to charge in as Kurenai would no doubt give her an opportunity to strike at Naruto once he shows an opening in his guard. She decided to send chakra to her feet and be ready to jump in when she could since contrary to her friend, Yugao needed the stamina to support her kenjutsu.

Seeing his two sensei in position and ready to exploit any opening he would show, Naruto decided to prepare himself in order to launch his first genjutsu technique. He used his katana to lightly cut the skin on his thumb then used some blood over his fox tattoo. The tattoo glowed once then suddenly an explosion of chakra radiated all over the audience. The wind picked up violently, dragging lots of dust all over the arena. Byakugan holders could see that Naruto's chakra output practically doubled, to the rest the air felt a lot warmer to them high in the stands.

As he took back his defensive stance, Naruto finally launch his genjutsu, "Futon : Maboroshi no Sekai !".

As everyone waited to see what Naruto's jutsu would do, they were surprised that it actually did nothing as both Kurenai and Yugao were still up with their guard raised. Everyone then assumed he failed at catching either of them in his technique.

Kurenai immediately took this opportunity to launch her own genjutsu, "Magen : Jubaku Satsu !" all those who had already been subjected to that jutsu knew Kurenai would trap her victim in an illusion that would make it seems like a tree out of nowhere was coiling itself around them, making them unable to move from that spot and thus completely defenseless.

It looked like her jutsu managed to catch Naruto off guard since he suddenly dropped his guard, his eyes looked empty and he had both his arms loosely hanging on each side of his body, though he still hold his katana.

Seeing the opportunity she was waiting for, Yugao immediately dashed towards the defenseless Naruto in order to incapacitate him in a submission hold before signaling to Kurenai to drop her control over him. Both were a little sad that their prized student would fail so fast against them when he announced that he wouldn't.

No one in the stadium was expecting Naruto to get out of that situation except for one smirking pervert who couldn't wait to see the face of every body once the trick is revealed.

As Yugao appeared in a blinding speed right behind Naruto, ready to put her katana close to his neck to show that he lost, she was surprised that the moment she touched him instead of making contact with his skin, her blade continued and went through what looked like an illusion that did not even dispel.

Another Naruto then slowly appeared out of thin air right in front of her, he held his blade back although pointing the tip in her direction then she heard him slowly say "Futon : Kaze Shinsou."

The blade of Naruto's katana instantly glowed as he pronounced those words then in a flash, it seemed to extend itself at an amazing speed as everyone could see the tray of light leaving the handle of his katana then traveling in Yugao's direction.

Years of experience allowed the ANBU operative to narrowly escape the flash of light coming her way but her eyes suddenly widened when she saw the smirk on his face, she wasn't his real target. She tried to warn Kurenai of the incoming danger but was too late already as the ray of light was already in front of her friend.

Kurenai was not expecting such an attack and in a reflex, she closed her eyes at the last moment, seeing the approaching blade aimed at her neck. When she reopened her eyes she saw that she was fine but heard cracking sounds from the tree just behind her. She understood that if Naruto wanted his blade would have killed her just a second ago. She simply smiled then stood back deciding to not interfere anymore in this test.

Seeing that his sensei retired from the fight, Naruto bowed to her then charged at Yugao with his katana. As she saw him approach ready to slash in a vertical swing, she hold up her own katana to block him but suddenly felt something cold against the back of her neck. Slowly turning around she saw the smirking face of one Uzumaki Naruto holding his katana against her neck.

"I yield Naruto, congratulations." Said Yugao with a smile.

"Thanks Yugao-sensei." Replied Naruto as he relaxed his body and canceled all his jutsu.

Kurenai then joined them in the center of the arena and spoke first.

"Before we start, I would like confirmation that you only used genjutsu and kenjutsu in this test." She said receiving a nod from Naruto.

"He's telling the truth sensei, I had my Byakugan activated at all time during the test." Said Hinata from the stands.

"I see, then I'm ashamed to ask but could you explain how you caught us both in your genjutsu and how it works since I didn't even felt any disturbance in my chakra system. I would also like to know how you escaped one of my most powerful genjutsu since the last time we tried you couldn't even resist the most basic ones." Said Kurenai.

"When did you assume that you were not caught in my genjutsu sensei ?" Asked Naruto with a grin.

"You once taught me that genjutsu is the ability to manipulate one's flow of chakra in the victim's brain, thus causing a disruption in their senses. Basically you take something fake and plant it inside the mind of your victim. Now, as you know I never had the chakra control to perform that, so I went the other way around and managed to find a way to create my own genjutsu art. What if instead of disrupting my enemy's senses, I made it so that what he really senses from the outside is fake. Inside my wind field, you cannot trust you brain or senses." Started Naruto as everyone around him was oblivious to what he said.

"I can control what you see using the refraction phenomena that applies when you see mirages in the desert by overheating the air in certain spots. I can also control what you hear using the vibration in the air in order to create any kind of sound I wish to make you hear such as incoming footsteps in a wrong direction. I can also make you feel the wind generated by the movement of something around you, whether it is real or not. Obviously I can also do the opposite and mask my true presence to you in all of those aspects." Explained Naruto leaving once again the entire audience speechless.

"There is no dispelling against this technique since I do not feed you any of my chakra to tamper with your brain. In fact, as far as you know everything you sensed in that field was real and your brain never lied to you. Same about doujutsu users or mind blocks, none of them can counter this." Finished Naruto with a smirk while some of the Hyuga and Uchiha lovers had to scowl at that assessment.

"That was amazing Naruto, you went above everything I thought was possible and made your own way in an art that was supposedly not made for powerhouse chakra holders like you. How did you escape my jutsu?" Said Kurenai.

"For one you were focusing your jutsu on a mirage, even then in order to reach me you have to cast you genjutsu by expelling your chakra in the air and as you know I can disrupt anything that comes at me by using air as a medium inside my field." Replied Naruto.

"Very well, seeing how you countered me and then caught both of us in your illusion field I think it is safe to say that you have at least reached elite jonin level in genjutsu skills." Analyzed Kurenai before turning her head towards Yugao.

"I see that you opted for something slightly longer than those kunai you used to wield to improve your defensive stance as I said that it was one of your weakness. I also heard about your fight with Momochi Zabuza the Kiri no Kijin, and how he was able to read your reach even when you used your Kaze no Ken, it seems you also overcame that weakness by constantly changing your weapon's reach with that strange piercing technique of yours." Said Yugao getting a nod from Naruto.

"I will concur with Gai and Kurenai, you also have at least elite jonin level in kenjutsu skills." Yugao said finishing her analysis.

"Thanks Yugao-sensei." Replied a smiling Naruto.

"We will take a break to allow everyone to have lunch and then finish with the last test this afternoon." Announced Genma.

Kage Box

Tsunade was about to leave and go back to her office when a chunin suddenly shunshined in front of her.

"Hokage-sama, emergency transmission from Suna, The Kazekage has been kidnapped and Akatsuki is most likely behind it according to them. They require immediate assistance and the return of their ambassador Temari." Said the chunin.

A/N: What do you think about Naruto's new set of skills and the way genjutsu applies to him ? I know the visual mirage thing is a bit forced but well it's not entirely impossible.

His new sword and sword-style is obviously inspired from Bleach which I don't own either. Its origin in Naruto's world will be explained later. I was tempted for a moment to give it the actual powers it has in bleach but having an extendable sword was kinda hard to squeeze in, even for me :)

Again what was "disclosed" in this chapter shouldn't be used against Naruto in the future since there's no counter to it as far as I know / want, and there is no way to copy it either.

Next time, the end of the testing with Kakashi or the start of the Gaara rescue mission ?

Find out in the next issue and as usual please Read and Review.

New jutsu :

Futon : Maboroshi no Sekai , translates as the World of Illusions. Naruto's way to cast his own genjutsu field. Inside his zone of influence, he can control his opponent's senses the same way a classic genjutsu would but without the need to 'inject' his chakra into their brains.

Futon : Kaze Shinsou , translates as Divine Wind Spear. Extends the reach of Naruto's weapon instantly the same way his Kaze no Ken does but the reach is random and goes as long as Naruto wishes inside his wind field.