I don't own Naruto Warning: A bit graphic and mention of rape during the genjutsu.

It was about midday when Naruto finally came upon Tora sunbathing in a clearing somewhere south of Konoha. Naruto decided to just go up and talk to the cat and see if he could work some more of his magic with animals that he seems to have.

"Hey there Tora, how's it going?" Naruto asked as he walked into the clearing.

The cat immediately leapt onto its feet and tensed, ready to take off in any direction if it needed to. It would not go back to its owner, that was torture that no one would ever be able to get out of with their sanity.

"Don't worry Tora, I am just here to talk to you. You run away so often it seems that you are having trouble in your house. I could help you out with that if that's what you need, to have some sense talked into your owner." Naruto assured the cat.

Tora seemed to relax after he heard Naruto assure her that he would talk to her owner so that she would no longer have to be on the receiving end of those death hugs anymore.

It seemed as though Naruto really did have a way with animals, to get even the notoriously bad tempered Tora to loosen up is not small feat.

"Okay then, let's go back and meet your owner then neh?" Naruto said as he turned around and started to make his way back to Konoha with Tora following close behind him. 'That was easier than I thought it would be… I thought I would have to talk to her more, but atleast I'm not wasting my time.' Naruto thought.

'I hope you know that you just did the impossible… That cat doesn't like anybody.' Kurama voiced.

'Maybe everybody else just approached her wrong, she's a frightened cat and just ambushing her will make her even more scared and when you finally catch her she'll just try anything to get away.' Naruto reasoned.

Kurenai, who kept herself hidden just outside the clearing, could not believe what she was seeing. First her student lures her and her friends into a trap when they were testing him, then he proceeded to fight Hana, and win. Now today he has taken a large amount of missions, has been accepted by the Inuzuka dogs, beat up some random genin that was hunting foxes, and has now calmed the ever irritated Tora and now has the cat willingly following him back to the mission center to go back to her owner. This kid is impressing her at every turn, and she hasn't even known him for more than two days.

-Mission center-

"Finished with the mission Hokage-sama. Tora has been brought back." Naruto announced as he strode up to the desk.

Sarutobi looked up at Naruto and had his jaw drop when he saw Naruto in front of him with Tora happily curled up in his arms. No one has ever come back from that mission unscathed, that cat could get out of everything you threw at it and would fight all the way back to the mission center to get free of it's captives, and yet here is Naruto with the cat happily purring away.

"OH MY TORA-CHAN!" A scream came from the other side of the room. When Naruto turned to look at the woman that was making her way over to him, with arms wide open ready to crush whatever got in between them, he realized why Tora always ran away.

"Madam Shijimi, a word if you may." Naruto asked politely as he held Tora away from the Daimyo's wife.

"Oh, but of course. Anything for the person who saved my Tora-chan." Madam Shijimi replied.

"Well, this is about Tora. She feels that her home life is, well for a lack of a better word, bad… I don't know what exactly she doesn't like about it, but I would recommend that you try and find out so that Tora no longer feels the need to run away from you all the time." Naruto explained.

"Oh my Tora-chan! I am so sorry if I have been mistreating you in anyway! Just let me know what is wrong and I will fix it immediately!" Shijimi exclaimed as she took Tora from Naruto's hands and smothered it between her bosom.

"Uh… Madam… I think I know what keeps making Tora run…" Naruto sweat dropped.

"Oh! And what would that be young man?" She asked ever curious of what she do to help her Tora out.

"Don't squeeze her so tight. She looks uncomfortable." Naruto pointed towards the cat whose eyes were bugging out.

"Oh Tora-chan! I am so sorry!" Shijimi shouted as she loosened her grip on the cat. Tora immediately relaxed into her owners grip and nuzzled into her. "Thank you young man, I hope to see you again in the future."

After Madam Shijimi had left Naruto collected the money he earned from all the missions he completed that day and made his way towards training ground 13.

-Training ground 13-

As Naruto entered the training ground Kurenai stopped following him in the shadows and decided to get ready to train him, but first she needed to know how good he truly was. After beating a chunin when reports showed that he could hardly hold his own against academy students she had some investigating to do.

"Okay, Naruto it's time for your training to get started, though I will need to see your skills since my reports on you are… outdated." Kurenai told Naruto as she strolled towards the blonde. "Since I have already seen a good bit of your taijutsu I will just test you on ninjutsu and genjutsu since I haven't seen your skills in those areas."

"Alright, what do you want to see then?" Naruto asked.

"Well for ninjutsu I would just like to see the basic academy jutsus and any that you may picked up on your own." Kurenai answered.

"Well, I can't do the basic Bunshin, so I will have to use the Kage Bunshin." Naruto reminded.

"Just skip the Bunshin then." Kurenai responded curtly.

"Okay" Naruto was then obscured by smoke and when the smoke dissipated there stood an exact replica of Kurenai. It even had the concentric ring in her eyes that most people overlooked.

"Wow." Kurenai had no other way to explain how good this transformation was except that it was amazing. He did not need hand seals nor did he need a verbal command, and he created a perfect replica of her, for a new genin to be that technically sound in any technique is a feat in itself.

Quickly snapping out of her stupor she regained her air of professionalism. "Alright, now show me the Kawarimi."

Naruto quickly shifted back into his normal form before replacing himself with a nearby twig.

'Again with the no hand seals nor a verbal command. He has mastered those two jutsu to the absolute highest degree. What else have you been hiding?' Kurenai thought "Very good, now do you have any ninjutsu that you would like to show me?"

Naruto smirked when he thought about how surprised his sensei after he used his next jutsu. "Very well Kurenai-sensei."

Naruto took a few steps away from Kurenai and turned away from her and started a short set of hand seals.

"Fuuton: Kami Oroshi." Naruto thrust his hands out in front of him releasing a vortex of wind that tore through the trees at the edge of the clearing. Naruto looked down at his hands to see a few cuts rapidly healing. 'Still haven't mastered it yet...'

Kurenai stood there wide eyed after watching her student show off such a powerful jutsu like it was nothing, it was also an elemental jutsu which raised the difficulty of learning it even further. This kid is at chunin level already, there is no need for her to even train him… Well there is still genjutsu that he probably has no talent in…

"V-v-very good Naruto." Kurenai stuttered as she was trying to come to terms with getting such a gifted child as her apprentice. Though she still needed to see if he was any good with genjutsu to see how gifted he actually was. "Now I am going to put you in a genjutsu and we'll see how long it takes for you to break out of it."

Naruto had to hold in a chuckle when she said that. The fact that only very strong genjutsus could affect him meant that he would breeze through this test. "Okay sensei, I am ready."

Kurenai held the ram seal as she channeled her chakra to infiltrate Naruto's system. However, she was surprised when the chakra was rejected from his system. Thinking it was just a fluke she tried again and was met with the same result.

Scrunching her brow in concentration she tried a stronger genjutsu, but was met with the same exact result as before, none of her genjutsus were affecting the blonde.

Getting frustrated she tried her favorite genjutsu and one that no one has ever broken out of. She went through a short series of hand seals before whispering "Magen: Jubaku Satsu"

Naruto was suddenly wrapped in the roots of a tree that appeared out of nowhere as Kurenai disappeared. 'So she got tired of the kiddie tricks.' Naruto thought, he quickly pulsed Kurama's chakra and freed himself from the genjutsu. "That was an interesting genjutsu Kurenai-sensei, would you mind teaching me it sometime?" Naruto asked.

Kurenai was shocked at how fast Naruto was able to free himself from the clutches of her genjutsu, while inwardly she was ticked that her genjutsu was broken so easily. No one had ever broken that genjutsu and then here a mere genin breaks it in less than ten seconds.

Before she let her emotions get the better of her she reminded herself that she was his mentor and she should be proud of his achievements, even if she had nothing to do with them.

"Uh, maybe later. I am impressed by your ability to fend off genjutsu, I wasn't even able to affect you with my genjutsu until I used one of the strongest in my arsenal. You were even able to break that genjutsu, which no one has ever done before. Could you explain how you could do all that?" Kurenai asked, honestly curious how her pupil was able to do all the things he did.

"Well, there are some good things that come with being a jinchuuriki." Naruto answered while subconsciously putting his hand on his stomach.

"Oh." Kurenai didn't know what to say. She probably stirred some very horrid memories of his past if the lost look in his eyes were anything to go by. "Sorry if I brought up something you would rather not remember."

"No it's fine sensei. One should never forget their past, it leads to be the answer to many questions in the future." Naruto replied, still in a bit of a daze.

"Well… You expressed an interest in genjutsu. How did you figure out that you had any talent in genjutsu? Usually shinobi with large chakra reserves are not all that great at genjutsu." Kurenai asked trying to change the subject.

"Oh, I was looking at some jutsu scrolls and saw the name of a jutsu that I thought looked cool and tried it out. When I learned that it was a genjutsu I just started to learn more and more about it and practice it." Naruto lied not really wanting anyone to know that he was having conversations with Kurama. No need to get the village in an uproar. "After a while I even created my own genjutsu."

"You created your own genjutsu?!" Kurenai asked, astonished that someone so young could create any type of jutsu. "Can I see it?"

"Oh, uh, I really don't think I should use it on you. It's not the best of experiences." Naruto answered hesitantly not wishing to use his genjutsu on anyone he considered neutral or friendly towards him.

"Naruto. I am a jounin of Konoha and a genjutsu specialist. I am the best genjutsu user in this village, I think I can handle what you came up with." Kurenai stated sternly, firmly believing that she could handle just about any jutsu that the kid could come up with.

"Alright Kurenai-sensei…" Naruto gave in. 'I really wish I could control which memories I sent into other peoples minds. I am going to need to work on that later.' Naruto thought before channelling chakra to his eyes and looking into his sensei's eyes. "Kako no Akumu"

Kurenai's vision went black and when she was able to see again it was night time. She tried to look around but quickly found out she was not in control of her body, as she was thinking about her situation she started to hear shouts and screams coming from behind her.

The body Kurenai was inhabiting turned around only to come face to face with a large mob. The mob was brandishing anything and everything they could find out in the open as weapons whether that be wooden boards, fence posts, or broken bottles.

'Kurenai' turned around and started to sprint as fast as she could in the opposite direction. Knowing that she was just along for the ride she decided to try and decipher the genjutsu.

It was a very interesting illusion seeing as it keeps the victim from moving their bodies the way they want it to, instead the caster has complete control over the movements of their body.

'Kurenai' took a turn down an alley only to run straight into a net of ninja wire. When she turned around she found herself cornered by the mob from earlier and they all had a gleam in their eyes that disgusted Kurenai.

The mob quickly closed in on Kurenai and started to beat her with the impromptu objects they had picked up along the street. She could feel each blow that was dealt to her, hear her bones cracking each time someone landed an extremely heavy blow on her small and frail body. She decided that enough was enough and tried to escape the genjutsu.

She focused on her chakra, blocking out the pain and prepared to stop her chakra flow. She stopped her chakra flow and then pulsed her chakra to end the genjutsu, though she continued to feel the pain. She looked up and was greeted with the image of a large man dressed in a red button down shirt and black pants standing in front of her.

Kurenai frantically tried the release herself from the genjutsu, but she was unsuccessful in all her attempts. She even tried to use pain to break herself out, but remembered that she could not control her body. She started to look around at the mob and noticed the sadistic gleam in their eyes and saw their lips moving but she couldn't hear what they were saying.

She concentrated on her hearing and was just able to pick up a little of the chant that they were yelling

"Kill the demon!"

"Finish the job!"

"Avenge our brethren!"

Slowly she was able to hear more and more of what they were saying and she was incredibly shocked at what she was hearing. She was scared out of her mind of what was going on. There was no way that she could get out of this illusion and she was at the mercy of a large mob. Her body moved to the left a little and she was able to catch of glimpse of herself from a nearby puddle and gasped.

What she saw was a child, no older than 8, with sun-kissed blonde hair, brilliant blue eyes and whisker marks on his cheeks. At that moment she figured out what this genjutsu did. It put the victims into the past experiences of the caster, and Kurenai was experiencing one of the beatings that Naruto endured over the years.

She quickly came back to her senses when she heard someone start a monologue while her body was hoisted up onto a post.

"Today my fellow citizens is the day that we defeat the demon! Too long has it been hiding among us and fooling our Hokage into thinking that it is an innocent child! Too long has it been planning it's destruction of our home village! Too long has it been allowed to roam free while we must cower in fear of when it will once again return to finish what it started all those years ago! But how do we do such a thing you may ask? Well the answer is simple! There is no way to kill the demon permanently, we have all read up on demons in hopes of finding a way to rid ourselves of it, and yet we have found nothing! Therefore, we must take matters into our own hands and instead of attempting to kill the demon, we must break it!" The large man from earlier shouted.

When the man finished his speech he turned to 'Kurenai' with a different kind of gleam in his eyes. Kurenai knew the look in his eyes that was directed at her body, or Naruto's body. It was one of lust, perverted satisfaction, and glee.

The man quickly approached 'Kurenai' and took off her pants and turned her body around. She heard the sound of a zipper unzipping before she heard something fall to the ground. She was even more afraid of what was happening to her now than she ever was in her entire life when her vision went black yet again.

She opened her eyes to find herself in the clearing of training ground 13 once again and Naruto was standing next to her with a hand on his arm, probably to dispel the genjutsu.

"Sorry about that sensei. When you didn't respond after the first 10 seconds I got worried and broke you out of it. I'm sorry if you had to experience anything… Horrible." Naruto stated, really not liking the idea of hurting someone who was not prejudice towards him. He also didn't like the thought that he could have used a memory that would mentally scar even the most battle-hardened shinobi to ever live.

"Naruto… Does that genjutsu… Does it implant a memory of your past into the victims psych and have them go through an experience of your life?" Kurenai asked, still quite shaken with her experience in the genjutsu.

"Yes. I figured that my life is possibly the worst thing anyone would have to live with and decided to use it to my advantage. Though I still cannot control which memories I send into my victim. I need to continue training with that until I can perfect it." Naruto explained even more afraid that he sent her into one of the darkest memories that he has had to live through. "Which memory were you sent to?" He asked almost dreading the answer.

"I… I was… I was in a memory of you when you were about 8 years old. You were running from a mob and took a turn into an alley and ran into a web on ninja wire. There you were beaten and then tied to a pole… And then… Oh my Kami! I… You… Naruto… How bad was your life?" Kurenai spoke still completely shaken by her experience and worried for her pupil after seeing a glimpse of his past.

Naruto, knowing which memory she had to experience, flinched and grimaced. That was a horrible memory that he had used on her, his first rape… Not something anyone would ever want to live through.

"I'm sorry you had to live through that sensei. How far did my memory get before I got you of it?" Naruto asked hoping he got her out of it in time. Rape was rape whether it's real or you experience it through a genjutsu.

"I wasn't raped. You got me out before that. But you are dodging the question Naruto! How bad was your life?!" Kurenai demanded.

"You don't want to know sensei… I'll see you tomorrow for missions." Naruto said before disappearing in a swirl of black sakura petals.

Kurenai looked at the spot where her student was just a bit ago before sighing sadly. 'Naruto… Just what have you had to endure...' Kurenai thought before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

When Naruto got back to the Forest of Death he immediately made a large platoon of clones and had them work on his genjutsu so that he could control what memories he sent to his victims. He didn't want to send a potential ally into a genjutsu that would mentally break them, he also wanted to be able to use it for T&I and if the genjutsu turned the person into a vegetable during an interrogation then he just lost a potentially huge source of information.

As his clones worked on perfecting his genjutsu he went off and did physical training to increase his speed and strength. He saw how fast and strong Lee was with only his muscles, no chakra. He was amazed at what he was able to accomplish with just hard work and determination. The ability to move that fast and hit that hard without channelling chakra through your legs is just amazing.

He could only imagine what he could do if he were to channel his chakra through his muscles. The only thing holding him back is the fact that he can't mould chakra externally for ninjutsu or genjutsu, but he more than made up for it with his taijutsu.

He started his laps around the clearing with his resistance seals set one level higher than it was the day before. He would be able to rapidly go through the levels because of his ability to heal quickly, his muscles would be able to heal themselves and be stronger than they were the day before, or even the hour before. It was almost unfair how fast he could increase his strength, but he figured he deserved the ability seeing what he had to go through.

When Naruto finished his laps he went over to two rocks that he had carved into the shape of dumbbells. He also put gravity seals on them so that they were much heavier than a hunk of stone, and he could constantly adjust it as he got stronger. He started out with curls while walking up and down a tree.

This not only made him stronger, but also helped him with his multi tasking and ability to subconsciously perform the tree walking exercise so that he wouldn't have to think about it in battle. When he was comfortable with his ability to tree walk subconsciously he would move on to water walking.

While Naruto was performing his exercises he started to think about what missions he would do now that he is a genin. Though he didn't show it, he was extremely excited to be able to take missions and possibly get out of the village. The few times he had actually been out of the village were the times when he was ran out of there and needed a place to hide.

But now he would be able to go out on business, it just filled him with a sense of accomplishment knowing that all he had endured is somehow paying off. Though he wondered when he would be able to get a mission outside the village. He knew that only C-rank and above missions took you outside the village, and fresh genin didn't get those for a while in their 3-man squads, so it would probably take even longer for him to take a C-rank, seeing as he is just one person.

As Naruto finished all his exercises for the day he dispelled his clones. Holding his head due to the intense memory feedback he started to sort through the memories. He was pleased to see that he was able to control what time frame the memories he implanted into his victim came from, not perfect but close enough that he won't accidentally break someone if he used it on them. Feeling that he had gotten a good training session in he decided that it was time to get some sleep and went to his tree.

Okay, so now that the holidays are over I will be going back to my normal schedule of about one chapter a month until summer break when I don't have to focus on my studies. Hope you all had/have a great beginning to 2014 and I will see you guys in the next update.

~Dyna