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After helping Kurama Yakumo pack up her tools, Kurenai stood up. "Alright, we're leaving. You guys should leave early too."
"Please wait, Kurenai-sensei."
"What is it?"
"I'd like to spar with her, if I may?" Sasuke requested, still bothered by the fact that he had fallen for a genjutsu.
Sasuke could explain away falling for Kurenai's genjutsu by her being a senior, and besides, he had noticed traces of Kurenai's genjutsu.
But Kurama Yakumo, a girl around his own age, had made him fail to even detect any traces of genjutsu. This was hard for Sasuke to accept.
[This child has such strong self-esteem.]
Kurenai gently stroked Kurama Yakumo's long hair. "Sasuke, you don't understand this child's situation. Yakumo has been in poor health since she was little and can't practice taijutsu. Moreover, her genjutsu abilities mostly rely on painting, and she doesn't have any paints right now, so..."
Kurenai politely declined Sasuke's request.
Indeed, there were no paints left. Kurama Yakumo painted with oils, which were different from what Naruto had taken out.
Actually, Kurama Yakumo could use genjutsu without painting; the painting was just a form of expression. It was just that Kurenai didn't want people to get too close to Yakumo; this child was too dangerous.
"So, a ninja who can't use taijutsu!?" Sasuke hadn't expected that the thought he had while watching Lee's match back then would actually come true.
"Hmm... I suppose you could put it that way." Kurenai considered it; there didn't seem to be anything wrong with that statement.
Everyone had a different understanding of what a ninja was. If a ninja was defined as someone who used ninjutsu, then Kurama Yakumo indeed counted as a ninja.
In the broader classification, genjutsu was also a type of ninjutsu.
"Can we just spar with genjutsu?" Sasuke continued to request, "Please."
"Yakumo, do you agree?" Kurenai passed the question to Kurama Yakumo.
"Okay." Kurama Yakumo also wanted to test whose genjutsu was stronger, hers or the Uchiha's Sharingan.
"Naruto, are you going?"
Naruto, who had been offline the entire time, came back online: "Going."
How could he not go and witness Sasuke getting beaten up?
He loved watching these pretentious types get their faces slapped.
"Then let's go." Kurenai led the way, holding Yakumo's hand.
Naruto followed. When it came to genjutsu, as long as it wasn't Tsukuyomi or Infinite Tsukuyomi, Naruto wasn't afraid at all.
Breaking a genjutsu required help from others, or like Kurenai Yuhi in the original story, stabbing oneself and using the pain to break free.
And this was where Naruto's confidence lay. Believe it or not, I can stab myself while fighting you!
Naruto no longer counted on the foxy vixen to break genjutsu for him; a lash from that tail hurt more than two stabs.
Naruto felt that the Nine-Tails was simply insane. Who breaks genjutsu like that? Why don't you just bounce up and smash me to death? That would break it even faster, and it could even break Infinite Tsukuyomi.
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Along the way, the mature Kurenai-oneesan chatted and laughed with the loli Yakumo. Sasuke followed behind Naruto, head down, contemplating how to deal with Kurama Yakumo's genjutsu.
He was thinking very seriously, not even looking at the road, relying entirely on listening to Naruto's footsteps.
From his footsteps, I can tell he took a thirty-five-centimeter step.
Hmm, this step, thirty-three centimeters.
And this was a passive skill, not hindering Sasuke's thought process in the slightest.
So, unbeknownst to Naruto, he had once again become the pathfinder.
If someone were tracking them at this moment, just by looking at the footprints, they definitely wouldn't guess there were four people ahead, because there were only three sets of footprints in total.
It wasn't until they reached Kurama Yakumo's house that Naruto realized what it meant by "nine out of ten lolis are rich, and the tenth lives in a villa."
Naruto mentally counted the rich lolis he currently knew: Hinata, Hanabi, Ino â each one was terrifyingly wealthy. And then there was Tenten, simply inhumanly loaded. The remaining one was Kurama Yakumo before him; this one lived in a villa.
What, you say Sakura? You dare to consider my bro a loli? Believe it or not, I'll beat you to death!
Of course, there were also lolis in the Naruto world who weren't rich, like young Konan, who was poor enough to beg.
But as the saying goes, "No poorer than a beggar, if you don't die, you'll eventually make it."
So, on a stormy night, Konan, tossing and turning in bed, muttering "I want money, I want money," woke up the next day to suddenly find she had awakened the "Money Ability."
She had made it!
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As the few of them entered the villa, the light immediately dimmed. The curtains were drawn tightly, giving off an eerie feeling.
Naruto felt like he wasn't pushing open the door to some loli's home, but rather entering an Akatsuki meeting place.
Perhaps even Akatsuki meetings were brighter than this. After all, with an old man like Kakuzu and Itachi, who suffered from presbyopia, it wouldn't be good if it was too dark.
Kurama Yakumo had no intention of opening the curtains at all. She placed her painting on the easel. "Make yourselves at home. I'm going to prepare."
There were many paintings, all with dark color schemes, but Naruto didn't see the one from the original story where Kurenai Yuhi was pierced through the chest by a red spear. It was probably because he had triggered the plot too early, and Kurama Yakumo hadn't had time to paint it yet.
Kurama Yakumo went to prepare for the battle, and Sasuke also began to adjust his state.
Naruto, however, had an eager expression on his face, because he had seen a piano.
As expected of someone living in a villa, they even had a piano at home.
"If you want to play, go ahead. Yakumo won't say anything," Kurenai said with a smile.
She knew Naruto could play the piano. The commotion from Naruto's practice back then had alarmed a large number of people.
Even the Third Hokage, after finding several piano masters, couldn't figure out what on earth Naruto was playing.
"Okay." Naruto sat down at the piano and began to think about what he should play.
Kurama Yakumo sat before her drawing board, and Sasuke also stood up, ready to respond.
The confrontation was imminent.
Naruto finally thought of what to play.
HyĆhaku (Wandering)Â â Sasuke's classic entrance theme.
As the piano music began, like a signal, Kurama Yakumo started to draw, and Sasuke activated his Sharingan.
No one in the room spoke. Amidst the enveloping piano music, the faint rustling sound from the drawing board could be heard.
Kurenai looked speechlessly at Naruto, who was playing enthusiastically. Had this child not realized he was in a genjutsu, or had he realized but didn't care?
When Kurama Yakumo made her first stroke, the genjutsu had already activated. Kurenai herself had only realized it after a while.
Naruto realized he was in a genjutsu when the Nine-Tails was about to lash out at him.
But Naruto didn't dispel it. I'm just playing the piano. As long as I'm the one playing and I can hear the sound, I don't care if it's reality or VR.
Is playing the piano in VR not playing the piano anymore?
After one rendition of HyĆhaku, Sasuke still hadn't moved from his spot.
Naruto didn't know what Sasuke was experiencing, but Kurama Yakumo's proficiency in VR made Naruto look at her in a new light. This loli alone could rival ten game companies.
Watching one draw and the other stand still was too boring. Naruto, with nothing else to do, switched to another song and began to play â Kokuten (Black Spot).
The background music when Sasuke wreaked havoc at the Five Kage Summit, also Sasuke's signature "show-off" theme.
Brother, whether you can pull off this act successfully depends on you.
However, it was completely useless. Time slowly passed, and Naruto was halfway through the song, but Sasuke still hadn't moved an inch.
In the final section of the song, Sasuke finally moved.
Sasuke drew a kunai with his left hand, raised it, and then stabbed it into his own thigh.
Naruto lifted his finger that had pressed the last note.
"You lose." Sasuke endured the pain, a slight smirk on his lips.
Naruto looked at Sasuke in astonishment. Who gave you the courage to say that?
Haven't you realized we're still in the genjutsu?