Kureno Yuhi

*"The cherry blossoms are in bloom."* - Kureno

**Kureno Yūhi** (*Kanji*: **紅野 夕日**) is a Jonin of Konohagakure and the Team leader of Kinumaru Aburame, Akako Hyuga and Bishuku Inuzuka.

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Ninjutsu*

Kureno possesses an affinity for Yin release as such Kureno almost exclusively makes use of genjutsu and his ninjutsu serves as a compliment for his genjutsu primarily.

* **Doton - Kuchiyose: Hanagasumi** (土遁・口寄せ・花霞, Earth Style - Summoning: Flower Haze/Field of Cherry Blossoms) A special kuchiyose jutsu developed by Kureno where he will use kuchiyose and earth release to instantaneously excavate the earth to give way for roots and to summon a cherry tree or a cluster of trees near him as a means of defense by creating a barrier or as a source of vegetation for his various techniques. Kureno is able to prime any cherry tree into being summonable in this manner by carving special markings into them with chakra.

### *Genjutsu*

Kureno's specialty and the reason he is feared across the ninja world as the supposed mightiest genjutsu user of Konoha.

* **Inton: Magen** (陰遁・魔幻, Yin Release: Demonic Illusion) Is a jutsu and a school of techniques derived from this jutsu. It consists of using Yin Release and Genjutsu to endow upon Genjutsu Chakra a soul and to mold and shape the chakra into possessing a body of primarily spiritual energy creating thus a Genjutsu Demon. The resulting effect is the creation of a special genjutsu which is able to grow stronger by feeding upon physical energy to make up for its own deficit, similar in principle to Revolt of the Demon World Jutsu but at a microscopic scale. The resulting techniques are much harder to dispel than your standard genjutsu due to two factors: the physicality given to the genjutsu technique makes it harder to disrupt with one's chakra and the absorption of physical energy makes the target less able to produce a burst of chakra to disrupt the genjutsu while simultaneously empowering the genjutsu's stickiness. The more physical energy is absorbed the more solid the body becomes but after a certain point the genjutsu will cease to be and become a pathogen in the nervous system to be dealt with by the body, but the point in which this occurs is higher than most ninja's physical energy reserves.
	+ **Magen: Jubaku Satsu** (魔幻・樹縛殺­, Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death) The trademark jutsu of Kureno Yuhi, it consists of him making use of Inton: Magen to generate a cloud of "spores" of Magens. When inhaled the target will instantly become entangled by both the illusion of a tree and literally entangled by the growing genjutsu demons within them. The genjutsu is typically used to stun the enemy for interrogation or for combat as a means of overriding their nervous system ability to control their body.
	+ **Magen: Hanabira Kawarimi** (魔幻・花びら変わり身, Demonic Illusion: Flower Petal Substitution) A substitution jutsu genjutsu hybrid technique used by Kureno where he will switch his position with a mass of flora, most commonly petals or leaves, and endow upon the petals during the substitution a myriad of Magen. Feeding upon the physical energy of the flora the magen will detach once having absorbed it all, and now empowered will be able to instantaneously and (probably) permanently trap anyone foolish enough to enter that space into a genjutsu.
	+ **Magen: Yozakura** (魔幻・夜桜, Demonic Illusion: Watching Cherry Blossoms at Night) The ultimate genjutsu employable by Kureno, usable only in an area with flora and requires a certain amount of setup. By embuing magen into the vegetation around themselves Kureno is able to cause the Magen to not only empower themselves but also breed and proliferate in a matter of seconds, if enough vegetation exists Kureno is able to turn hundreds of Magen into millions of Magen over the course of a skirmish. The resulting army of magen carried by the gentles of air currents when inhaled by the enemy will overwhelm their body and its physical energy, killing the opponent in minutes while continuously feeding him a genjutsu of the user's choice. Due to the sheer number of genjutsu effects placed on the user it would be impossible for all but a jinchiruki to possibly disrupt them all.
* **Inton: Kagamigen** (陰遁・鏡幻, Yin Release: Mirror Mirage) A special Yin Release technique where Kureno will use Yin release to endow a soul unto the genjutsu chakra of an enemy in a manner similar but distinct from his Magen, thereby granting it a semi ethereal body, pacifying it and placing it under Kureno's control. Then by providing it with his own chakra Kureno will be able to not only replicate the genjutsu indefinetly in a process similar to mitosis but will also be able to send it back at the enemy who has no control over the new genjutsu.