Naruto: Wolf of the Hidden Leaf

Well, this was awkward.

It was already night outside and a couple of hours have passed since all the classes have finished.

I was still in the academy. More specifically, the teacher's lounge. Getting called in the teacher's office on the first day of school wasn't exactly the best for my image.

Kurenai was out tending to the kid to whom I had used the genjutsu on. He was immediately taken to the nurse's office. But apparently, his psyche hasn't been recovered from my genjutsu.

I was still not sure, what the hell happened back then and how it happened. Even though Kurenai hadn't told us about the name of the jutsu, I had somewhat of an educated guess.

The jutsu she used, was extremely similar to the one Kakashi used in the 'Bell Test' against team 7. But even if that were true, it shouldn't have had such an intense effect on him.

There might be some variables in play here that I needed to account for. First and foremost, my bond with Umbra. I've talked with Umbra after the incident and he said that our bond only helped me learn genjutsu faster. Even though he has never known about someone learning it on the first try.

At the same time, as much as I love Umbra; his words didn't necessarily need to be true. His parents died when he was very little and he doesn't exactly remember those days. The reason he told me that I'll be able to learn genjutsu faster is because he overheard someone talking about his species.

So, yeah. The information was murky on that one. But for the sake of convenience, I considered that to be a perk for bonding with Umbra.

But that still didn't answer the main problem of this incident. The level of reaction and the level of intensity the jutsu had cannot be the level it was intended to be used in. Even though I had dispelled it with Kai quickly, most others had been inside the same jutsu when Kurenai had used it. And none of them had the same reaction.

This was an absolute new development for which I had no explanation at all. I might attribute it with my reincarnation, but that still didn't make things clear. I've been living in this body for more than five years and not once have I seen any indication that I had a 'cheat'. The feats I have right now were result of intense training and calculating moves.

I've tried to bring up any 'system' that reincarnators usually get in an isekai novel. But all I found was extreme embarrassment and nothing else. So, it's safe to assume that this was not because of some reincarnation related shenanigans.

Which left me with no choice but to consider that this was an Occam's Razor incident. The simplest explanation was the most probable one. And, in this case the simplest explanation was that I am simply talented at using Genjutsu.

Even if that was not exactly a bad thing, it wasn't exactly a good thing either. Without a dojutsu, I'll have a clear ceiling on how good I can be. I mean Kurenai herself is a genius level genjutsu user. But she got beat by Itachi without any real effort from his part. This just shows the point.

Being talented at genjutsu will be extremely useful for me when I'm fighting Chunin or Jonin level threats, they're going to be practically useless when I face any Akatsuki members. And I'm not even considering people like Madara on my list. He is an entirely different kind of monster altogether.

But that was still far into the future. So, thinking about that will just make me worry more without doing anything good.

Thankfully, my sad lamenting was interrupted as Kurenai entered the room. She looked exhausted.

Sorry for that, I guess?

She took a quick look at me and the sleeping Umbra by my side and sat on her chair. With a long sigh, she looked at me and started.

"Do you have any idea the amount of stuff I had to deal with just because of you? It's the first day of academy and you've already assaulted a student. Daiki's parents are furious right now."

"Who's Daiki?" I spoke up before I could stop myself. Why do I become so stupid sometimes?

"You almost permanently disabled someone and you don't even bother to learn their name!" Kurenai fumed at me.

I wanted to point out to her that she knocked Daiki out of commission before I could learn his name. But decided not to run my mouth any more than it was required. If I make her angrier, then she might try to actually harm me physically.

So, with me keeping my mouth shut, Kurenai went on a rant about the class. Which then changed to how annoying her job was. And at the end she was just saying stuff that was not at all related to the topic at hand.

"All that aside, what jutsu did you even use to make him react this way?"

"I used the one you used in the class."

"No, that can't be it." Kurenai discarded it entirely. "The jutsu I used is called 'Hell Viewing Technique'. It's only a D-rank jutsu. Although it's powerful enough to teach young genins a lesson, it's nearly not as potent to affect a student this way."

Kurenai was talking about the affect it had on Daiki. But I needed more, I needed the specifics.

"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly did he see?"

"He saw one of his greatest fears. When he was a kid, some of his relatives told him the story about how ANBU will come and abduct children who weren't obedient to their parents. It's not a true story obviously, but it has supposedly made quite an effect in his subconsciousness. In the class, while he was looking into your eyes, he noticed coming from the side. But before he could do anything someone with an ANBU mask covered up his head with a bag. At that point, he screamed and when he screamed, the ANBU caught him by his neck and tried to bang his head on the table. This part is okay with how genjutsu normally works, but the part that's still bugging me is the fact that Daiki's body seemed to move on its own at that time. It felt to him that the illusion itself has become physically real."

As soon as Kurenai explained to me what had happened, I knew that something amiss was there. I spoke up,

"That can't be possible. High ranking genjutsu can manipulate both a person's mind and body. But on such a low level jutsu, that just can't be..." I stopped midway as thoughts swarmed through my head. He felt like someone was trying to bang his head with the table without realizing that he himself was trying to bang his head in reality.

This was not normal.

Seeing me immersed in my thoughts Kurenai continued.

"Look, I know that you didn't want to harm him like that. But for the time being don't try using genjutsu on anyone else without proper precaution. Understood? The next time it happens, I won't be so forgiving."

"Of course, Kurenai-sensei." I replied with enthusiasm.

"Good. Now that the formal stuff is out of the way, I can start with the real reason I kept you for so long. But before that I need to conduct a test."

"What test?"

"Use the jutsu you used in the class on me."

"What? But you just said..."

"I know what I said. Do you really think that I'm an unprepared shinobi like Daiki? I just want to experience how powerful it actually was."

Seeing no reason to turn her down, I looked into her red piercing eyes and quickly performed the hand seals required to perform the jutsu.

Just like Daiki before, Kurenai remained silent for some time after I had activated the jutsu. It seemed like she was experiencing her fear and judging whether or not it was actually as powerful as she had thought.

I kept the jutsu activated and after nearly thirty seconds of its activation, I sensed a sudden sense of danger. My instinct screamed at me to 'dodge.'

Before I could even begin to process what the danger was, a kunai flew at my face on a point black range.

I didn't have enough time to dodge. So, with quick movements I used my hidden kunai to try and deflect it.

I did not have enough time to perform a proper deflection nor did I have enough time to do much.

The kunai hit mine and I heard the sound of my kunai being broken. Fortunately, I just barely able to change its trajectory as the projectile flew inches beside my head.

My wrist groaned in agony as I took out two other ninja weapons from my pouch. Umbra was up and silently appeared right behind Kurenai, ready to strike at a moment's notice.

My heart rate went up as I thought of the worse case scenario. With a quick movement I prepared a 'substitution' in case Kurenai felt like killing me again.

Moments later, her face changed completely. Her pupils became dilated with sudden excitement and her face seemed to mimic that. It seemed as if she just had an extra set of adrenaline.

With those exact same red eyes, she looked right at me. This time with more of an insane vibe than intimidating. Her lips curled up in an insane smile as she spoke,

"Extraordinary! Truly extraordinary!" she looked at her right hand, the same one that had threw at kunai at me just moments ago. "It felt so real. I knew that it was fake. My mind knew it and yet it felt as if my body didn't comply. My body reacted to the fear without my mind's consent." Her eyes changed towards me this time.

"Rei, you have no idea what you have. What you have the ability to accomplish! You're a genius just as everyone had said. But your talent with genjutsu is something that I can't even begin to describe. And I don't think most people can."

As Kurenai praised me for my talent, I felt more uncomfortable than I would've liked. The gaze in her eyes were not normal. I've seen those eyes before once.

It was neither admiration nor praise.

It was possessive.

And that was dangerous. Sensing my discomfort, Kurenai seemingly shifted back towards her old self momentarily.

"Go home for now. From tomorrow onwards you'll have special genjutsu lesson. Dismissed."

I sensed that she herself weren't in the right state of mind. So, with a quick glance towards Umbra, I quickly got out of the room.

As I got out of the academy, Umbra told me that my hand was bleeding. I looked towards it and sure enough blood was pouring out of my wrist. I must've been injured when my kunai broke.

I touched my wrist with my other hand as I tried to stop the bleeding with the little amount of knowledge I had regarding medical ninjutsu.

I reflected back towards the events of the day and felt a splitting headache in my head. I looked towards the sky above and the moon looked back at me.

The blood on my wrist wasn't what bothered me. It was the smile I saw on Kurenai's face… and the way it reminded me of someone else I've met before. Obsession comes with weird colored eyes, it seems.