Experimenting with Illusions [Training topic]

A diminutive figure cast their gaze on the training field surrounding them. Crimson hues twinkled with mischevious mirth as darkness swept beneath hiding the insanity buried within. The owner a short young 'woman' only four foot ten in height with a slender frame. Delicate snow white fingers brushed through strands of long black hair, making sure to avoid the senbon needles so not to cut their fingers. The person was known as Yumi and looked to be a sweet young girl with a charming smile and petite body with snow white skin. Yumi was considered a snow white beauty and could be considered especially charming due to her appearance, but Yumi was something else entirely. With a glance and stare everyone thought the diminutive Yumi was a girl and with common knowledge, it was expected as Yumi looked like a girl, acted like a girl and dressed in female yukata's and kimonos, but Yumi was anything but a girl, Yumi was a boy of sixteen years. Yumi had a twisted psyche and enjoyed fooling the minds of all who laid eyes upon him. He looked like the picture perfect image of a noble young lady, a civilian and not the deadly shinobi he was. All his weapons were concealed.

The twin holsters he wore, hidden on his wrists beneath his yukata sleeves, the hip pouch on his right tucked away in the obi sash, a scroll on the left and at the back hidden behind the obi sash bow a sheathed tanto blade. He had senbon needles concealed in his hair hidden by the luscious black locks. The only weapon he had that was visible was the umbrella he carried full of senbon, but it looked like an ordinary umbrella and was hard to tell it had senbon loaded inside. Yumi was all about misleading, distraction and misdirection, keeping everything about himself as secret as possible, to surprise his enemies.

The kirigakure shinobi was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of pathetic sobbing and whimpering. Looking down in front of Yumi tied up in rope was a dirtied man who looked forty. The man was a random homeless Yumi had plucked off the streets; he needed a test subject. Why? Yumi was planning to test out some genjutsu he was working In confusion. The genin had been writing down ideas for some D and C rank genjutsu he had come up with in his past time, totalling in at seventeen techniques, and now he was interested in testing out his ideas and getting them off the ground. Yumi considered himself an accomplished amateur in the art of illusions, but to become a true master he needed to expand his arsenal and invent his own truly horrifying illusions.

Yumi reached into his right sleeve, pulling out a little black book and opened it. The book was full of notes of various ideas. Yumi owned three books a black one containing all his Genjutsu ideas, a red one for his poisons and other chemical ideas and lastly a cyan blue for any medical techniques he had ideas for. He had left the red and blue book at home as he was only focusing on his Genjutsu ideas for practice today. Yumi hummed a gentle tune gazing at the ideas listed in the little black book, trying to decide on which to test out first. The book contained dozens of experimental ideas for Genjutsu not just of the D and C rank but above, containing some for B rank techniques even A. The longer one read the book, the more horrified they would become at the ideas within they were truly twisted and terrifying.

Casting his gaze back onto the whimpering man, Yumi sneered the sneer looked truly ugly on his beautiful features, completely out of place. Yumi had been using the man as a test subject for various poisons designed to weaken the mind making the target easily susceptible to genjutsu. Now after being poked, prodded and poisons so many times he had been reduced to a snivelling mess. Yumi raised his right leg and kicked the man before drawing his tanto blade and cut the ropes. "Stay!" Barked out Yumi getting a cowardly nod from the man.

Yumi took a few steps back and rubbed his chin deciding on which experimental genjutsu he should use first. Yumi decided to just start in order, the first was a technique designed to confuse and distract the opponent. Yumi smiled sweetly at the man making him gulp nervously. The little 'lolita' began swaying his hips in a rhythmic and seductive manner. His arms extended out joining him as he began to belly dance, shaking his hips and belly promptly. The man locked onto the form of the moving lolita, as he did he blinked feeling his vision beginning to blur. As his vision blurred Yumi's image split apart into five overlapping blurring images startling him. Suddenly he felt pain in his left cheek; blood trickled past as a senbon had sailed forward, removed from Yumi's hair on the right side, arm extended. The man squeaked at the sight and almost wet himself.

Yumi rubbed his chin. The technique had its advantages and was named the Rippling wave due to the rippling effect it created around his body. The five overlaying images was to confuse his movements all five performed the same task but made it increasingly hard to see just where the attack would be coming from. Yumi walked past the man and retrieved the senbon needle licking the blood off and stashed it back into his hair before his place once more at his previous spot.

Yumi began swaying his body once more, moving akin to a snake or a belly dancer, drawing the focus of his test subject. Ripples started coming off his body, distorting his image and affecting the targets vision. FIve overlapping images of Yumi began to form over the original body just like the previous technique. Yumi kicked off with what little speed he had launching towards the homeless man. A hand reached behind Yumi's back drawing his tanto blade, holding it in a reverse grip. The overlapping images copied Yumi's actions. The genjutsu used sidestepped to the right the images following behind confusing and disorientating the man with their movements. Yumi moved right in and began the process of swinging the blade. The man turned to the far left image attempting to block but left his back open allowing the edge of the tanto to bite into his back slashing open a decent sized wound, drawing blood. Yumi stepped back the images following as the man cried out, but Yumi wasn't done as he chained an illusion.

The five overlapping images came back together to create one before Yumi stepped to the left. Yumi swayed his body while doing so and immediately dozens of overlapping images of the yukata wearing genin spread out left and right circling the man. Yumi moved and so did the illusions creating a circle of confusion. In the confusion, Yumi struck again with the tanto slicing the left cheek of the man and retreated five meters.

RIppling Wave, Rippling Step and Rippling Spring three D rank techniques involving the use of body movement to confuse and distort the enemy. They were just three of many techniques Yumi planned to have up his sleeve. Now time to try a few of the more, fun ideas. Yumi joined his hands together in the snake seal, followed by the ox, boar, dog and lastly the snake seal again; the five seals flowed smoothly one after the other. Yumi then slammed his hands on the ground casting the illusion and weaving his web. The ground trembled as the sound of loud hissing assaulted the ears of the homeless man and Yumi. Rushing out of the ground behind Yumi was a massive wave of snakes, hundreds of thousands of them, all kinds. The snakes moved like a tsunami and washed over Yumi crashing down on the man and engulfing him. The man screamed as he was swallowed by the wave of snakes before Yumi cancelled the technique.

Yumi had been practising in solo these Genjutsu techniques of his but didn't have anyone to test them on to see their effectiveness, so far he was happy. Especially when he saw the after effect of his Demonic Illusion: Stream of Serpents. The man was cowering in a ball and sucking his thumb. Yumi didn't give the man time to think as he drew out two kunai, one from each wrist holster, holding them in each hand. With a flick of a wrist, Yumi performed a fake throw only after locking onto the man and triggering the illusion. Two kunai materialised in thin air and flew towards the man, followed up as Yumi threw the real kunai. The man looked up spotting the two knives racing towards him and screamed living his arms to defend his chest, only for the knives to phase through. As he looked up he spotted two more flying at him. The man lowered his arms thinking they were fake only to cry out in pain as they pierced into each shoulder. Blood sprayed out on impact as he stumbled backwards crying tears from the pain.

Yumi snorted and ignored it; the Shadow Throw had been a success. Now it was time for a locust swarm. Yumi threw his arms out in a theatrical manner triggering the illusion. A buzzing was heard as locusts swarmed out from his sleeves consuming everything in their path. The locusts engulfed the training field and a twenty-meter area. The locusts washed over the man making him scream as he was swarmed. Yumi formed the boar seal and followed it with the Bird, tiger and lastly snake. The locusts parted leaving a direct path for the man to spot Yumi's actions. With the path, open Yumi threw his arms out after locking onto his target.  As the locusts buzzed, they were soon joined by a swarm of flying scarab beetles they rushed out of Yumi's sleeves. The scarabs scurried towards the man who was trying to get away only to scream as the scarabs consumed him and began eating his flesh. The man screamed under the affect of the illusion before Yumi dispersed it breaking the control.

Yumi made the ram seal then extended his arm pointing a finger at the homeless. The sky went black before a bolt of lightning came crashing down striking the man head-on. The spell was based after another designed to launch a giant fireball on the target. Yumi wasn't done there however as he extends his arms out to the side to test out another experimental genjutsu. Chakra flooded his arms as he locked onto his target the homeless old man. 'Chains' shot out from Yumi's sleeves launching towards the man where they began to coil around him restricting his movements completely. The man screamed as the chains seemed to constrict, he even began begging for mercy but Yumi simply snorted in amusement.Yumi wasn't about to let him go.

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Yumi looked down at the pitiful mess before him, contemplating just what to do with the 'chained' up man. Releasing a wave of chakra Yumi dispersed her twin techniques allowing the man to regain some kind of sanity as he lay on the grassy fields in a puddle of his own urine. Yumi sniffed before sneering, the man was sitting in his own excrement, he had released his bowels from the fear brought on by the constant use of Genjutsu and attacks from the Genin. Yumi was surprised the man was comatose yet but was happy he was still somewhat awake so the torture could continue. The genin brought his hands together up into the ram seal, going straight back into his tests. Chakra coursed through Yumi's vein as he locked onto the target and allowed the illusion to take place. Yumi's entire body dispersed turning into a swarm of flies that flew up towards the man buzzing around him. The man screamed trying to swat the flies all the while crying tears of agony.

The Flies Nest was an illusion Yumi came up with for distracting and for a quick getaway if needed. Using the flies to swarm and draw the enemy. The swarm would also allow YUmi to set up for another technique. Yumi appeared right in front of the man hands coming up in the ram seal. He had gotten this idea from research about the explosion release. "Katsu!" The man scurried back trying to shield himself with his arms when Yumi 'exploded' violently, blood, guts, bone and tissue flying everywhere as an explosion slammed into the man. Smoke consumed the area before it vanished as quickly as it appeared. Yumi could be seen standing over his victim who had fainted on the spot, froth spilling out of his mouth.

A scowl began to form on delicate white features as those crimson hues looked down in disgust. Yumi kicked the man but he didn't wake, he was thoroughly out of it. Now, what was Yumi going to do without a test subject? The tweeting of birds drew the Genin's attention as a robin flew on down landing on a training post. It wasn't a human but it would do. Yumi giggled evilly and began to whistle, these next few Genjutsu he was eager to see in use were sound based ones. He didn't have a musical instrument to use but he could use the natural chambers of his body for noise. A sweet harmonious tune erupted from his lips that seemed to lull the robin making it sing along. As Yumi whistled it whistling turned dark as humming was added and a twisted ear piercing noise shot out into the robin. The little birdy began to quake and shiver with fear as its fragile psyche was broken to pieces by Yumi. The Ballad of Fear a sound based technique to break the psyche dealing with fear and induce it in the target.

There was no trial and error only success. All his techniques had been trialled at home to see if chakra would follow his directions, but whether the illusion took place was another thing.

The robin under the effects of the fear-inducing Genjutsu couldn't fly away allowing Yumi to start again. Yumi began clapping his hands together in a slow rhythmic beat. As yumi clapped the sound began to grow eerie. A demonic howl echoed out as the bird froze. In the surroundings of twenty-meters, human-sized flaming skulls appeared hundreds of them. The skulls laughed and chattered as they buzzed around the bird. The bird suddenly fell over, dead. Its little heart couldn't take the attack and it died. With the bird's death, the two illusions were cancelled. Yumi tsked in annoyance, disappointed it had not lasted any longer.

Walking away from the bird and the man's body Yumi moved over to another part of the area deciding to test the Genjutsu out on himself to get the work done with. Yumi moved through the snake, boar, snake, dog, tiger and ram hand seals going through the process three times ensuring his movements were as accurate as possible. Once prepared Yumi took a deep breath and allowed his own chakra to infect his mind to trigger the illusion. The young man the exhaled blowing out a ten-meter cloud of noxious purple gas that began spreading out consuming everything. Yumi stood amongst the gas unaffected. The technique was a rip off of the Poison Mist Jutsu, instead of breathing out real poison it was an illusion to make the enemy believe a giant cloud of poison was heading towards them. Yumi cancelled the technique dispersing it allowing the poison mist to vanish as if it had never been there.

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Yumi licked his lips in a sadistic and sensual manner he was almost done. There were only three more experimental techniques in his list he wished to try out. The first was the Ballad to the Rotten another sound-based illusion that when cast at the target it would make them think the world was gone. The world would do dark, buildings would age and from a third person, the viewer would find themselves starting at their own rotting corpse. Their body will have rotted away to a half flesh state, their organs rotten and decayed spilling out onto the streets as rats infest their corpse gnawing away at it. The target will be forced to gaze at their corpse and the longer they stare, after a certain amount of time the corpse will spring to life a decayed hand reaching out at the target as the corpse's teeth chatter to devour them. This particularly nasty Genjutsu could be combined with the Ballad of Fear to increase panic and make the target easily susceptible to the illusion. With that Yumi got to work experimenting with the illusion technique, first going over the sound to cast it.

Yumi began to whistle a soft harmonious tune, the tune was upbeat and could be described as sweet sounding. Yumi's cheeks moved with the whistling as it echoed through the air. The cry drew in the surrounding wildlife as a monkey poked its head out and began approaching the little 'girl'. The moment the monkey was close the song turned dark and twisted. The monkey released a fearful screech as it found itself in the dark looking at its corpse. The monkey stared in strange fascination and fear even poking the rat-infested corpse with its tail, only for the corpse to suddenly spring up teeth chattering as it took a bite out of the monkey. The beast grabbed its own heart and fell backwards, dead from a heart attack. Animals were just too weak to use genjutsu on.

Yumi kicked the corpse away and returned to the homeless man from earlier, looking down in disgust at his body. Yumi then raised his right foot and stomped down on the man's pelvis. The force of the blow and pain made the man spring back to life screaming out in agony. Yumi rolled his eyes and took a few steps back watching as the man slowly regained his bearings. The moment the man looked at Yumi a terrified expression appeared as his face lost all colour, turning white like a ghost. "I have a few more techniques to use on you, afterwards you can leave." Yumi's tone was sweet but it made the man shiver as he knew what she was truly like. He could only nod his head in defeat, preparing himself for whatever would be thrown his way.

Yumi approached the man smiling sweetly as his hips swayed back and forth. Yumi stepped right up to the man and extended his right hand. The man cringed at the touch as he felt it stroking his left cheek in an almost tender manner, unaware the illusion had begun. Yumi seemed to vanish and the homeless man found himself surrounded by a field of flowers. The man looked around with a strange fascination unaware of what was about to transpire. Yumi had already walked off creating distance to watch what would happen. The illusion was called Demonic Illusion: Sweet Embrace and was one that used the targets sexual desire against them. This was one of the few techniques Yumi had already tested, not just on humans but animals as well to see what effect it would have.

Trapped in the Genjutsu the man looked around before to his surprise a young blonde from his past appeared. He had been in love with her since young, she was beautiful. He could only stare as she approached clothed in nothing but a skimpy see-through pink nightie. The young blonde with a large bust, hourglass figure and sparkling green eyes giggled and pressed herself against him withering sweet words into his ears. Yumi watched on in amusement as the man sweated and panted reaching out to grasp the air. Yumi swiped a hand through the air releasing a wave of chakra and dispersed the illusion ending the man's pleasure. The homeless blinked in surprise growing soon depressed when he realised it was all a trick, again.

Yumi smiled and began to hum a sweet harmonious tune that grew in volume with the help of chakra. The man couldn't help but relax as his heart was soothed by the sweet sounding music.  The moment he relaxed, however, the illusion transpired and Yumi disappeared from sight. The man blinked and found his hand felt heavy, there in his fingers was a blood-stained katana. He stumbled back and fell over screaming when he saw 'it' in front of him. In front of the man was the corpse of the same blonde haired woman from earlier. She was lying in a pool of her own blood, her stomach had been cut open, her intestines and organs had spilt out. The woman's green eyes were looking up at him in horror seeming to ask the question why did he kill her. The man dropped to his knees and screamed, the katana leaving his grip. The man grabbed his head screaming at the sight before him, his insane and psyche broken.

Yumi stood directly behind the man watching in mild fascination at the effects of his genjutsu, Ode to Death. The Ode to Death was a genjutsu that made the target see the death of all those they loved, killed by their own hands. As an added touch the eyes of the dead would look directly at the target in horror asking the question of why they killed them. If he combined it with Ballad of Fear he could really do some damage to the psyche. The homeless man, however, had already experienced a number of gruelling tortures at yumi's hand and his mind was only inches from breaking, this technique had done it for him.

Yumi pulled out his little black book and went right to the back where he had notes for existing Genjutsu, notes he had copied from the library. The man was thoroughly broken and probably wouldn't even feel the effects of any more illusions, but Yumi could still cast them on the man to make sure he got them right. The Genin went to work reading up on the first of four existing Genjutsu, the False Surroundings Technique. Yumi went to work in laying the terrain with his chakra and waiting till it went to work. He experimented trying different areas, manipulating his chakra as he would. Once he had the technique down he began moving to the next one, Descending Hell. Like the first one and the other two to follow it was a C rank Genjutsu.

Yumi practised with the handseals first Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey and Ram making sure he could form them with enough accuracy and speed. The movements were repeated dozens of times before looking at the broken man and casting the technique. A giant fireball descended from the sky hitting the man and seemed to engulf everything around him, burning away it at. The man felt nothing as he began laughing, he had gone deranged as he appeared to be hugging thing air. Yumi rolled his eyes and cast the jutsu again summoning fireball after fireball to rain down from above on the broken man. Yumi practised until he felt the technique was right before moving onto the Rockslide Genjutsu. yumi practised the technique casting it onto the man making it seem as is dozens of explosions were going off ad the ground was collapsing beneath his feet as the illusion was cast. The man was the only target in the area, to which Yumi held nothing back all in order to perfect his technique as he cast Jutsu after jutsu, slowly feeling himself beginning to grow exhausted, but he wasn't done he had one technique too.

Yumi began targeting the man's senses following the directions were given to activate the Sly Mind Affect technique. Yumi's chakra invaded the man's body and took hold triggering the illusion. Once it was cast Yumi kicked the man in the back, "You can leave now." The man could only laugh like a maniac as he stood up and began leaving the training field, only to suddenly appear behind Yumi as he had walked in circles. The man laughed again and tried to leave only to appear in front of Yumi, no matter which way he went he kept walking back to Yumi. When the Sly Mind Affect is cast the enemy is forced to walk around continuously in circles by making it seem as if they're walking straight to their desired destination.

Yumi deactivated the Jutsu and approached the man who had fallen to the ground laughing madly. Yumi looked down at him without a shred of pity and drew the tanto from his sash. Yumi slashed out with the blade delivering a quick strike along the neck striking the jugular. The man collapsed bleeding out in seconds. Without looking back the Illusionist walked off, the man would be dead soon. Yumi's back vanished as he headed home his goals accomplished for the day.

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