by Izumi Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:43 pm
The next item on Izumi's list was Genjutsu. This was just like Ninjutsu back in her academy days. She did the minimum that she had to and relied mostly on her Taijutsu to keep her moving through the ranks. It got her through basically every test, every spar, and until that farm, every mission. She just learned a whole bunch of Ninjutsu to try and help out with that, but she also felt like she had better learn some Genjutsu to go along with it. Looking at her shadow clone, she suddenly got a great idea for how she might can go about doing that. If she cast Genjutsu on the clone and the clone cast Genjutsu on her, and then she made the clone go away, she could learn twice as many Genjutsu in half the time!
The only bad thing was that Izumi wasn't very familiar with that many Genjutsu. Not a whole lot of people used them, so she didn't hear a lot of talk in the village about them. It seemed like an overall favorite was the one with the feathers. People liked to use that to put other people to sleep so that their missions were easier. Izumi figured that would be good to start with, but beyond that, she'd have to try her own thing.
She made the hand seal for the technique and started focusing her chakra. It didn't work right at first, but eventually she was able to affect her clone to the point that it started seeing feathers fall out of the sky. That must have been an odd sight, Izumi thought. She kind of wished she could see it. But she wasn't totally sure what would happen to the clone if she fell asleep. It might just vanish and then she'd be sleeping away the whole day when she had lots of training to do!
The clone fought the feeling at first and then started to give in. Before long, it was on the ground knocked out. Izumi stopped the technique and tried to shake the clone awake. It was really out! She eventually got it to wake up and continue on with the training. This was the hardest part and she definitely didn't want to try it alone.
Now she had to think of some Genjutsu to use on her opponents. She wasn't a very creative type because most of all she ever did was beat people up. There was a whole art to fighting and it didn't involve the kind of creativity that Ninjutsu and especially Genjutsu needed. It shouldn't be any surprise that the best way she could think of using Genjutsu was to make her Taijutsu more effective. The temple of nirvana jutsu focused on making the opponent fall asleep. So she figured, what if she could make her opponent weaker than they should be? That means she could beat them up easier while they're afflicted.
Izumi started off right away. She was making this up as she went. That means it was pretty slow going. She used the hand seal that she most associated with strength, the ox, and started focusing her chakra. It's a good thing she started with that other technique so that the whole genjutsu chakra focus thing was fresh in her mind. Otherwise she might've screwed this up super bad. Her chakra reached out from her hands as they held the seal and went on to the clone. Luckily, the clone was looking right at the hand seal. If it was looking anywhere else, the technique wouldn't have started and Izumi probably wouldn't have been able to figure out why it wasn't working. The whole Genjutsu trigger thing was still pretty confusing to her.
With the chakra in the clone's body, Izumi started targeting its mind and constructed what she thought would be a good way to try and convince the clone that it actually wasn't as strong as it thought it was. She actually took this a step further. She changed her hand seal to the horse and sent another wave of chakra to alter the illusion. This time, the clone started to feel weaker. She had to confirm with the clone that this stuff was working. When the clone nodded, she started to feel like she was on a roll with this new stuff!
Learned Temple of Nirvana an A-Rank Canon Genjutsu (250)
Learned Demonic Illusion: Weakness a B-Rank Custom Genjutsu (250)
Learned Demonic Illusion: Frailty a B-Rank Custom Genjutsu (250)