"I want to see something scary this time" They spoke as if they just came off a trashy horror movie that didn't leave an impression on them at all and is banking on their friends recommendation. Sounds oddly specific but it happens....
"My pleasure, your wish is my command!" Words spoken moments before disaster.....As I made the hand seals for "Demonic illusion: hell viewing technique"
Hand seals were weaved, chakra was moved-invading the other party's system, taking hold in their chakra network, making its way, trying to invade their brain-"HUH???" It failed!?-
"Not good enough, again!" that same other party shook their head in put-on mild disappointment.
Without fan-fare, hand seals were weaved again, chakra was moved but the same result arises-
"Technical difficulties? I assume you can get it fixed in ti-" Their musing was cut off.
"Hold on! your sure your not doing anything like you say you are? are you secretly resisting!?" The famed uchiha clan's greatest complained.
There in the dead of night, two figures in the middle of a clearing, one big, one small, facing the other. The smaller one grumbling like a cat who's tail was stepped on, the bigger one....well was two relaxed for their own good.....and she's not supposed to be relaxed right now she should be quaking in her boots-
"Huh? I don't need to even exert myself at all right now.....this is just the basic genjutsu resistance that's been trained into my body from when I was a wee firecracker. Your genjutsu attempts are so unrefined and lackluster that it couldn't even get passed that~" She drawls in pure amusement, like she couldn't help herself....
'Her words cut deep like any sharp blade-YES IM QUOTING ZABUZA RIGHT NOW, SHE'S LITERALLY KILLING MY CONFIDENCE WITH PURE WORDS!!' The internal struggling was out of this world. '....If this was a battlefield, her words alone could bring down the morale of an entire enemy squadron.....did I just find another master of the famed talk no jutsu' The helplessness on my face was clear for the world to see.
"Even an untrained civilian can resist this level of genjutsu.....as one from such a famed clan as the uchiha I shouldn't have to tell you how shameful that is-" Her musings were cut off again.
"I GET IT!!! DAMNIT!! IM ALREADY DEAD!!!....why is your tongue always this sharp...." I plead for my pride and sanity.
"Well...if you take a good look at me, you can notice.....The pure love of the game I have for putting people down!" her face lights up with excitement-no more like excitement that was properly hidden behind a facade before, like she's been playing with her most favorite toy for a while now.....she just didn't want to show it....until now....
My eye twitches uncontrollably, feeling suicidal at this point- "I didn't stay up this late just to entertain no sadist!!" Weaving hand seals quickly again before my words could fully fall only this time the hand seals weren't for a genjutsu...
A sharp intake of breath and hot flames came out of my mouth with an exhale-forming into a huge terrifying ball of gold.
"Oh no~" I hear her lazily drawl before the flames engulf her...again....yeah that shit did NOT hit her at all!
after putting all my indignation into that fireball, I calm down and begin to ponder '.....Is this how I will end up when I come off of war....I've heard and seen that many higher level shinobi develop some quirk, mental dysfunctionality or some coping mechanism.....I guess I shouldn't be surprised....The path of a shinobi is purely masochistic. Deeper one goes the more it changes a person fundamentally.....and not for the better....people like hatake kakashi, senju tsunade and uchiha obito are shining examples of how shinobi, especially in warring times, will eventually end up.....It doesn't seem like its avoidable at all-' My thoughts were brought to a close as I hear a voice from behind me.
"You look like your contemplating your entire life so far.....weird you haven't been alive for that long, you couldn't of seen much" I heard, I turned and scoffed.
"You've shown me enough for a whole life time....." I casually retorted as I turn my head back around to look at the flames flickering out, revealing a scorched black log in the area of impact-substitution jutsu.
Turning back towards chiyo-nee "I guess practice makes near perfect.....I still have chakra left-alot left actually I feel I could go for the entire night with this jutsu." I flatly state.
"You can but shouldn't, I don't have to say why do I?" She asks with a delicately raised eyebrow.
"Obviously" I rolled my eyes at her
"Hey, watch your attitude! kids these days....." I hear her comment
'I'VE BEEN CUSSING YOU OUT FOR SO LONG YET THATS WHAT GOT TO YOU!?.....' I couldn't even bother to hide the incredulity on my face anymore.
None the less the practice continued with more and more attempts made all to the glowing disparaging comments made by the sadist.
For more than two hours, failure after failure followed up with those perilous ridiculing statements she keeps making-wearing me down to pure bitterness...until.
"Your getting warmer, your on to something! Do it again!" I hear her shouts.
I see the look of pure excitement on her face and my indignation rises.....
"You look like your planning to put me in the hospital with your genjutsu~" She taunted
I sweat a little "Don't worry I'll make you see something that'll make you cry for mommy real soon." I smirked while weaving hand seals.
"Sadly my mommy is dead-" She cut herself off as her face grew blank.
Finally a success!
......................
"Sadly my mommy is dead, I wouldn't mind her reappearing here so that I can feel her warm embrace again...." I say in a melancholic tone........
"Wait...I feel a disturbance in my chakra and mind...Did you finally do it? I don't see anything different though." I look around but focus back on the caster. "What? am I supposed to be afraid of you then?~" I was about to laugh.
"Um.....I guess you-" The yuki in front of me spoke but was cut off as-
~whoooooosh~
multiple kunai pierced the body of "yuki"-blood gushing.....
My face grew shock but like the trained shinobi I am, I was able to track the trajectory of the kunai in an instant-zeroing in on the offender....A masked shinobi in a uniform.....the Konoha anbu uniform.....
My emotions spiked suddenly but I turned and rushed to that collapsing yuki but then I heard-
"Mission complete" a complete monotone....but what was heard after was even scarier
~tzzzzzz~
A sizzling sound-"WHA-" I exclaimed before explosive tags stuck to the kunai went off....
An explosion, one that deidara would give a favorable rating to...
I reappear on the other side of the clearing, rage boiling, focusing on the attacker...that mysterious anbu...
about to rush in, I stop myself.....
"Wait....the inconsistencies..." I muttered as I made a hand seal and shouting "KAI!"
It was as if glass was shattering on itself, the entire event was completely erased bringing me back to where I originally stood in front of-
"Took you long enough to break out of it!" a cheeky smile on his face, a face of pure satisfaction "the expressions you made were a god send" He laughed.
......."sigh~ I guess you finally got me, this was your revenge huh" I resign myself to my fate....
......................
she was only in the genjutsu for about 8 seconds actually and within those 8 seconds there was a range of emotions displayed on her face from panic to pain to rage.
I witnessed it all with satisfaction....'Finally! she gets a taste of her own medicine...' I deliberate as I laughed wishing I had a camera right now-wait i don't need a camera I have the sharingan...
With chiyoko now out of the genjutsu....
She gave me a look.....
"Don't give me that look you basically did the same to me, don't think I would forget....." I complain.
"That one....I know for a fact that I survived, but yours.....you basically killed yourself, no if's or buts." she retorted. "anyways, there were some issues and inconsistencies within your genjutsu. If those were addressed I probably would of been in you genjutsu a good while longer, so walk me through your process." She asked and I complied...
"Oh.....Well...At first I was gonna put you in a field filled with big venomous snakes but then I realize that you would be completely unfazed by that and you would break out of that in an instant so I went with something subtler but emotionally shocking, something that would leave your head spinning for a bit.....distracting you from following your instincts to break the genjutsu as quick as possible. It worked and I got something priceless that I'll never forget on top of that." I flashed my sharingan as I say this.
She guffawed "You actually scared me a bit with the genjutsu so I guess you deserve a reward" she claimed.
"What?-" I myself was actually shocked.
She smirked "But first let me critique it. I noticed that the sounds of the forest was cut off during it, The wind felt different and as I took a look at the forested area I saw that spots don't mesh well with the rest of the genjutsu...the fake anbu performs different from the real ones too." She lists a whole sorts of problems.
My eye twitches at the fake anbu part........ok I may not be an expert on anbu practices, the show didn't showcase much of anbu and I'm talking about ACTUAL anbu not the ones that left the org to become regular shinobi like kakashi.......basically all I had to work off of were fan theories and tidbits of knowledge from canon. Everything else.....valid, nothing more I could argue against.
"You know, you act like your a century old sometimes." Very weirdly specific observation I made....
"I feel older than my great great great grand-no I feel older than the great sage himself if I were to put it into words." Ofcourse she went along with my jest like it was nothing.
I smirk at her "my soul is older than than the sage you cant compete!" She gave me a face full of resignation for that one.....
"Your right you shouldn't be trapped in such a child body despite being so mentally old. It must be torture everyday to wake up in diapers not able to do anything about it~" The teasing remark rolls of her tongue like the-
"We're getting derailed miss chiyo, lets bring ourselves back!" I couldn't take it anymore....she has a wise crack for any ammunition I present
"Ah I said you were getting a reward. Right, do you want-" She was cut off by my indignation as I could tell from her face what she was gonna present as a reward.
"I'll disown myself from this household if you finish that sentence......." I was in full survival instinct mode...ready to book it at a moments notice.....Her face flips to an expression more serious in the moment.
"Right, I'll just teach you a jutsu instead....." I see her mouth twitching violently-barely holding back a grin that would scream devil incarnate........."your fire affinity is already pretty strong so you should pick up this one pretty quickly, a 4 months tops to get basic proficiency in it." She continued as she weaves handseals prompting my sharingan to activate pre-emptively.
I see her chakra move in accordance with the handseals. I can tell that she doesn't need all the handseals for the jutsu anymore the extra handseals are nothing more than a teaching aid for me now-I don't really know how I was able to notice that but I just get that feeling based on the smoothness in the transition in chakra movements....her control is very much up in the skies it seems-
"Fire release: burst flame spear" I see her inhale and spit out a laser of fire with its head moving unimaginably fast to strike a target, from what I witness before it hit, the head looked like a cone shaped spear...like the name suggests. Once it hit a target (a poor log minding its own business) the impact didn't seem like much at first...I was ready to dismiss the jutsu in the power department as the impact seemed quite weak until-
~shpooooom~
my eyes widen a bit as barely half a second later the log bassically exploded-no it imploded from the inside out with searing hot flame exiting it in all dimentions-
"I could of made the spear fully penetrate through the log and continue on its way but in the interest of showcasing the jutsu's true mechanics I decided to use the log as the stop point." I hear her comment as my mouth opens a little at that "I'm sure your wondering....Why the weird delay in explosion? why did it behave so weird? well simply put the spear head of the jutsu is a huge concentration of compressed rotating fire chakra stored, primed and ready for when you give it the signal to explode and that compressed concentration and rotation coincidently also gives the jutsu alot of piercing power." she continued, making my head go lightning fast with the implications......
"The spear can pierce multiple obstacles, be it other enemies or terrain and enter your target and burst, burning and damaging them from the inside out with just a signal from you...perfect for idiots hiding behind cover or who like to cower behind a number of bodyguards" Her face becomes a bit predatory when she speaks about the pros of this jutsu giving me some pause.....just waw.
"Unfortunately its not as flexible as we would like...it can only go in a straight line, the only thing you can do with it once its fired is order it to burst and it lacks wide area of effect capabilities like the great fireball technique-well you better hope your targets line up if you want to get more than one with this jutsu" She shrugs out the negatives of this jutsu and I'm still trying to find out in anywhere in my naruto canon database if this jutsu ever existed....it probably didn't or it just didn't show up in canon because all the people who knew it died off screen. Not gonna lie the capabilities of this jutsu intrigues me alot......
"What about its range?" I ask.
"It can reach as far as your chakra would allow. In my case half way cross the village." She answered and that's all I needed to hear for me to be sold on it
"where do I sign up" I gave her a business like posture.
"It costs you doing the house chores for the next 5 months~" She grins.
"HEY! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE MY REWARD!-" I was just about ready to curse her out again....
"But I can give you a discount and bring the house chores down to a week if you give me favors for the next 2 months" She presents her offer like a sales representative trying to get a buy from a consumer
".......Your one shrewd business woman...." Yeah.....I think she's in the wrong profession.....
'Regardless this jutsu is very interesting and not only because it wasn't seen in canon before...I feel like it would be right at home in my arsenal. COME TO PAPA MY BABY SPEAR!' my thoughts go on............
Ok first I want to apologize for taking so long with this chapter, I've just been really busy for a while but I'm ready to get back into the swing of it. Still no permanent release schedule but ill try to make it the wait not as long....The next chapter will come out soon after this one. I hope you enjoyed, see you next time.