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Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!
This genjutsu subjects its target to visions of their greatest fear.
So, what was Sasuke's greatest fear?
One moment he was standing in the training ground, and the next he was in a familiar hallway. A hallway that the young uchiha had walked through it his entire life.
The hallway in his house in the Uchiha compound.
The smell of blood reached him before the sound did. At the end of the hallway, the door to his parents' room opened.
"Is that all you have managed to become?" Itachi Uchiha stepped out, their parents blood still clinging to the blade.
"This is just genjutsu," Sasuke said trying not to rush Itachi in a blind rage.
"And yet here you are… Even in an illusion... You cannot reach me."
The light caught Itachi's face. And Sasuke saw what he always saw when he let himself look.
Not the monster.
The older brother he had looked up to for years before the night that rewrote everything.
"You felt something when he revealed the Sharingan," Itachi said. "That pathetic flicker of hope that you were not alone. That there was still something left."
The hallway shifted as the smell of blood thickened.
"There isn't."
The compound spread out around him in every direction. Sasuke stood at the center of it, just as he had that night.
Alone and Afraid
"Baby brother… you're pathetic. If you want to kill me, then settle for hating me."
Sasuke sucked a deep breath remembering these exact words from the real itachi.
"Hate me and live… like the coward you are. Clinging to life without honor."
Sasuke's felt his blood boil.
"And someday… when you have the same eyes as I…" Itachi's eyes shifted into the Mangekyō Sharingan. "...you will find me again."
Sasuke's chakra surged at those words, memories and emotions. It rushed upward toward his eyes. An instinctive response burned into the Uchiha bloodline.
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
The words tore out of him were everything.
Every year spent training alone in an empty compound. Every night replaying that memory, searching for what he had missed. Every morning waking up to the same emptiness that had been there when he went to sleep.
All of it.
The Sharingan activated at full force.
And the genjutsu shattered under the power of those cursed eyes.
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The training ground came back all at once.
The Sharingan was open in Sasuke's eyes: Two tomoe in one and one tomoe in the other.
Across the glade, Kakashi was moving through Naruto's fireball barrage with minimum effort. Sasuke's hands formed seals before he had fully decided to move.
Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!
The Sharingan allowed Sasuke to time the release accordingly to Kakashi's movement. Unfortunately fireball took out a cluster of clones before Kakashi. A kamikaze clone detonated from the inside the fireball.
"Goddamn it, you emo bastard! You ruined a perfectly good plan."
Naruto paused at Sasuke's eyes.
"Does everyone in Konoha have weird eyes?"
The blonde wondered when his special eyes would come in. He watched Sasuke rush Kakashi.
Earth Release: Earth Flow River!
The ground beneath the uchiha's feet dissolved into a rushing torrent of mud that carried him into the forest. In the same moment, Naruto flickered. The Zweihander came out in a clean decapitating arc.
Ninja Art: Substitution Jutsu!
The log exploded into two pieces.
"Did you use Body Flicker to accelerate the swing?" .
Naruto flickered again.
Kakashi stepped onto the flat of the descending blade as the sword buried itself in the earth.
"You must've a sensory ability," Kakashi said, observational rather than questioning. "Something that compensates for the Body Flicker's tunnel vision. Otherwise you couldn't string the movements together with that kind of directional accuracy."
To say the strategy worked was an understatement.
Naruto's ability to convert the momentum of his flickers directly into his swings was impressive. Even if the boy was a rookie with only basic swordsmanship. The Body Flicker's speed made each cut far more dangerous than it should have been.
But there were many reasons why most shinobi don't use Body Flicker in combat.
The cognitive load alone was immense.
Body Flicker required the user to map points to move between. In combat, those points multiplied constantly. With each new position branching into several more. The mental processing required grew exponentially with every exchange.
At high enough speeds, tunnel vision became inevitable. And yet, Naruto had somehow found a way to overcome both obstacles.
Kakashi kept pace with the Body Flicker exchanges without much difficulty, deliberately holding himself on the defensive.
He intended to help Naruto in the next wall.
It came quickly.
The boy was engulfed flames in the next exchange.
Kakashi grabbed Naruto and throwing him into the lake before the flames could fully take hold.
Steam rose immediately.
The blonde surfaced moments later, water dripping from his frame as he unequipped his armor.
"What the hell just happened?"
"Body Flicker compounds motion," Kakashi said. "Each use adds velocity to the next. In combat, that scaling becomes exponential. Once you pass a certain threshold, air resistance produces significant drag. That drag converts into heat through friction. And it was enough to ignite your body."
"..."
"You are not the first to try using Body Flicker in combat," Kakashi continued. "Sensor shinobi, dojutsu users or anyone who can overcome tunnel vision eventually runs into the biggest hurdle. Hence why very few in history have managed to fully incorporate it into their fighting style."
"Then how did Shisui do it?"
"He found his own solution," Kakashi said. "But that is not important right now. What matters is that you couldn't get the bells from me. If only you had other people helping you."
A look of realization crossed Naruto's face before he leapt into the forest.
"I wonder what you three will show me," Kakashi murmured, turning the page.
There were five hours remaining.
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Naruto uncorked the Estus flask and drank while moving. The warmth spread through him, healing the burns along his body and repairing the strain caused by the extreme G forces. He stopped while re-equipping back his armour.
Sakura was looking for any injuries on the uchiha. Sasuke was examining his sharingan's reflection in the flat of kunai.
"Guys, I have a plan to get the bells," Naruto said. "But I need both of you."
Sasuke looked up from the kunai. "Who died and made you leader?"
Naruto considered this for a moment. Then he made a single hand seal. Four clones appeared beside him.
"All in favour of me being the leader say dattebayo."
"Dattebayo," the clones said before popping.
"And the people have spoken for my leadership."
"No," Sasuke said, standing up.
"Fine." Naruto pointed at Sakura. "You're the referee. Whoever wins this fight is the leader."
Sakura looked between them unsure. But couldn't say much as both of them made the sign of confrontation.
"Hajime!"
A shuriken left his hand with sasuke forming seals behind it.
Fire style: Great fireball Jutsu!
Naruto's clones moved into shield wall formation against the incoming fireball.
Sasuke's initial shuriken curved hitting the helm. The visor snapped open just as the fireball hit the wall. The formation burst into white smoke and through it Sasuke jumped forward.
Genjutsu worked on interference. Chakra fed directly into the enemies brain, disrupting the signals that defined reality. What you saw, what you felt and what you believed was happening could be manipulated.
That was the danger of genjutsu.
And the Sharingan did it through eye contact.
It was said that against a Sharingan user, you ran. Because once it caught your gaze, your mind was already theirs.
SMACK!
Sasuke was punched into the air.
For most people, their senses were how they perceived reality. Genjutsu worked by manipulating that perception. Naruto was not most people. He had another way to perceive the world, one that did not depend on his brain.
Knight's Sight.
It existed outside the system genjutsu controlled. So; when Sasuke cast his illusion, Naruto did not see a false reality.
He saw both.
And he chose the one that was real.
Naruto watched Sasuke get back to his feet with the focused grimness. The Sharingan tracked the next set of hand seals. And copied them in real time, fingers moving through the sequence simultaneously.
"You know Body Flicker Jutsu, Sasuke?"
"My Sharingan copies any technique I can observe," Sasuke said, completing the sequence.
"That is so unfair."
"When has this world ever been fair? So, stop complaining and fight."
Both flickered.
Sasuke had watched Kakashi exploit the armor's gaps and held the kunai like a dagger to do the same.
Clang.
The kunai broke against the armour. With no wind chakra to give the blade the penetrating force the gap required.
The Zweihander came down.
His Sharingan read the arc and Sasuke went for a parry. Then the sword disappeared into inventory mid-swing.
A feint? The uchiha thought. The squire's momentum carried into a spinning heel kick that sent Sasuke crashing into a tree.
"Guess the Sharingan didn't see that coming," Naruto said while knocking the uchiha out with a clean punch to the jaw.
Sakura was rubbing her eyes with both fists flabbergasted that Naruto beat sasuke.
"Do you want to go or am I the leader?"
"You're the leader," Sakura said, without hesitation.
"Good." He reached into his inventory and produced a small orange book.
"Didn't you burn that?"
"Sleight of hand." Naruto flipped it open to the middle. The boy had throw the icha icha book into the inventory before the pyromancy flame burnt it.
"Now. Here is the plan."
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Author's Note:
Q. Did Kakashi intentionally make Itachi appear in Sasuke's genjutsu?
The Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique is canonically a D-rank genjutsu that Kakashi used on Sakura during the original bell test. According to the wiki, the technique subjects the target to visions of their greatest fear or the one image they least want to see, regardless of whether they are consciously aware of being afraid of it. The genjutsu reads the individual's subconscious and produces the result independently.
Kakashi did not choose Itachi. Sasuke's mind did.
If he had used it on Naruto. Naruto would have seen ghosts and a hollow oscar. If he had used it on Sakura, she would have seen a dead Sasuke.
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That's It… For Now.
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