Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 52

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor The Gamer. I own nothing, really.

Chapter 52

"This is a bad idea, Eiji," Anko said and I held back an irritated sigh.

I had told her what I planned to do with the Orochimaru Shade in my mind, her and everyone else that needed to know, including Hiruzen, Inoichi and Ibiki. The Hokage and the latter had been all for it once I gave all my reasons and my contingency plans to keep the thing under control. They had, however, demanded that my measures were actually as effective as I thought they were.

That had led to the Yamanaka Head quadruple-checking everything in my mind once more. Some that I hadn't even touched, but I endured through the whole thing patiently. After all, I understood how worried they must have been about what I was doing.

Eventually, they were all reassured that I wasn't doing something stupid. Everyone but Anko, that is. My sensei had been adamant that I was the biggest idiot on the planet for giving Orochimaru any room to do anything at all. She was biased due to bad experiences, I knew that much, but it still annoyed me that she had so little faith in what I could do. I had been the one to find the method to deal with the Mark in the first place, for God's sake.

However, she was worried too, and I knew that. It was the only reason I hadn't snapped at her so far.

"Anko," I said curtly. I was doing my best not to shout something mean at her already, I think I could be excused if I wasn't perfectly polite. "I'm doing it and I'm being smart about it. I told people just in case something happened and it really was a bad idea. But I'm confident in my defenses and so is Inoichi."

"It's just..." She tried to justify herself.

"I know," I interrupted, my eyes moving to her and staring. "However, this needs to be done well. The world literally could be depending on this, as you said. I can't take any chances. Now, if you excuse me. I need to study these," I finished signaling the books that I had gotten in the Shinobi Library.

Most of them weren't even from the Genjutsu section. Instead, I dove inside the Iryojutsu one, looking for anything I could find regarding senses. Now, the only thing I needed was to find how to affect everything with one single Genjutsu and then I needed to find a way to add my little idea into the whole thing.

Thus, I took out my notebook and started writing down everything that I found.

[}-o-{]

"Ok, so, this works," I nodded, looking down at what I had written. I was still working even while back at home. It was late into the night and I sat at the dining table, reading over all my ideas and deciding what seemed like it would work and what didn't.

My first step in the process was to tackle all senses one at a time and see how I would go about taking it out. For that, I had precedents for several senses, like sight and hearing. Still, I had made new ones just in case. From there, I would then decide if it was possible to take all those little jutsu and combine them into one or if I would need to work on something new that would nullify all senses.

The latter option was much more difficult, but then again, combining several jutsu into one wasn't exactly easy either. Furthermore, there were many senses, which meant that there were more chances of one messing up another's chakra interference with the target's coils. In the end, I was fully expecting to have to start from scratch, but at least it was good practice with Genjutsu creation if nothing else.

"This one looks like it would work, I think," I muttered, less sure with the one I had made to block the sense of smell. After all, that one was one I had to make from scratch. Granted, there were some Genjutsu made to stop people from smelling and tasting certain things, mostly poisons. However, there weren't many that completely eradicated the senses.