And just like that, months passed.
Nothing significant happened during this time. No sudden inspirations. No sudden breakthroughs. Just the same old routine—eat, train, study, repeat.
To some extent, I kept up with my full-body organ enhancement without fail. Every meal turned into a power-up. Every breath, every heartbeat, every ounce of chakra flowing through my system became more efficient. Slowly but surely, my stamina, durability, and chakra reserves kept climbing up. Barely noticeable to anyone on the outside, but very clear to me.
And yeah, I trained with Tsunade regularly. We'd gotten used to each other by now. Studying, sparring, arguing over dumb things.
Then one day, while we were casually sitting under a tree after training, eating some fruit, I asked something that had been at the back of my mind for a while.
"Hey. You know any Genjutsu?"
Tsunade looked up from her food. "Genjutsu?"
"Yeah. I was thinking of learning some."
She gave me a look. "I thought you were focusing on Medical Jutsu. Why suddenly Genjutsu?"
"Better for strength," I said honestly. "But I've been thinking—with how precisely I control how chakra flows, then theoretically, Genjutsu should come easier to me than most people, and they would be much stronger too."
She hummed. "Fair point… I don't know how you trained it, but your chakra control really is ridiculous. Even Second Grandpa doesn't have that kind of control… Alright, although I have no interest in Genjutsu, I have a scroll you can start with."
Is this the feeling of having a sugar mommy?
A few minutes later, she handed me a scroll, which looked new, almost unused. "D-rank. Hell Viewing Technique. It's what most people start with. But it's a good Genjutsu—it shows people their greatest fear."
I nodded, tucked it under my arm, and went home.
The next day, I first enhanced my brain and opened the scroll.
I followed the instructions step-by-step. Cast the jutsu. Let my chakra flow into the target. Disrupted their perception—lightly, just enough to stir something from deep inside.
It worked.
First try.
And I wasn't even using my full focus.
From that moment, I knew it.
This shit? It was easy.
People treat Genjutsu like it's some obscure art form. Complicated, unreliable, vague. But that's because they're bad at controlling their chakra.
With my control, it was like thinking—yeah, literally just thinking. What I think, I can make people have that illusion.
Precise, layered, unpredictable. One try at Genjutsu, and I knew this was a field where no one could dream of ever competing with me.
The jutsu showed the target their worst fear.
That was it.
And that was enough.
Because the moment I saw how it worked, my chakra-enhanced brain had already gone into full focus on how to improve the jutsu.
Showing someone their greatest fear—that shit was busted. Heck, even the strongest shinobi must have something they fear. And if they have fear, I can exploit it.
So, I started improving it.
Not later. Not after months of practice.
Immediately.
There was too much room to work with.
Why just show someone a fear?
Why not lead them to it?
Why not walk them through a path that slowly builds up, deepens the unease, turns their own mind against them?
So I scrapped the jump-scare approach. No flashes of horror. No loud mental screams.
Instead, I started layering small memories. Familiar sounds. Distant conversations. Regrets. Doubts. All little cues that slowly turned into something bigger. The illusion would escalate step by step, like a slow descent. A spiral. No exit.
And once the target realized what was happening, it'd already be too late.
They'd be trapped in their own fear. Not just seeing it—but living it.
Feeling it tighten around them like a noose.
To break the illusion?
They'd have to face it.
Fight it. Accept it. Understand it.
Most wouldn't. Most would just freeze.
And brute-forcing out of it?
Good luck trying to pour chakra into your system when your brain is halfway convinced you're being buried alive, or reliving the worst day of your life. The jutsu pulls your chakra into the illusion, one thread at a time.
And all of that from a single D-rank base.
No, not a D-rank jutsu anymore…
This was a whole new thing entirely. A-rank minimum, probably S-rank in my hands…
And it was just an upgraded Hell Viewing. An evolved version that worked on an entirely different principle.
I tried it on a clone. A shadow clone—Tsunade taught me this sometime ago…
To bunk classes together.
I ordered the clone not to break the illusion, because otherwise, my peak-tier chakra control would have really disabled it…
As the illusion hit, the clone twitched. Looked around frantically with a horrified expression. Then dropped to its knees.
Didn't even dispel.
It just… sat there. Trembling.
I watched silently for five minutes before cancelling it.
Then I fell down—the memories hit me…
Shit… cancelling clones share their memories, and since it's not a Genjutsu, just memories of one, I can't break it either.
Then I fell back, arms shaking a bit, and let out rapid breaths.
'Finally over… At least the jutsu works well if that's a consolation.'
It didn't take chakra. Not much, anyway. Just enough to anchor the illusion and keep it stable. And the way I designed it, it practically ran on the target's own mental energy.
The smarter the person?
The worse the effect.
Because smarter people overthink. They analyze. They chase meaning.
So when you show them a fear, they don't ignore it.
They dive into it.
That's when the trap closes.
And sadly for them, shinobi almost all specialize in analyzing stuff and acting accordingly. That increases the lethality of the jutsu several times over.
I didn't immediately tell Tsunade.
She already thinks I'm weird enough as is.
She'd probably start questioning everything if she knew I built a high-level end Genjutsu out of a basic one in a single day.
Though, this time my plans were a bit different. I planned to share the A-rank Genjutsu—let's call it… Lucid Horror—and my Rasendan and Rasengan series with the Hokage.
Yeah, I know, some of you may say that it's stupid and stuff, but I need to advertise myself. Become well-known to the Hokage…
It will make things a lot easier for me in the future.
With that in mind, I started improving the jutsu further—nothing much,
Less chakra. More realism. Deeper layers.
The goal wasn't to win fights with Genjutsu.
No.
The goal was to end them before they even began.
To make the opponent kneel before they even knew they were caught.
To turn a simple look, a flicker of chakra, into a prison of their own making.
I wanted to turn into some sort of boogeyman—one that gave people a feeling of my invincibility, because anyone who dared to fight me died before they knew how.
It was something only Genjutsu was capable of.
So I decided to take its horror to a whole new level.