Arriving at the training center, Dazen took out a food bar and started eating before starting training while thinking, 'I have improved a lot in these 6 months, starting with my chakra control I mastered water walking after 3 months and with Regarding taijutsu, I've advanced a lot, I think I should be as good as an experienced genin, but that's to be expected with the way I train and I've sought out Professor Takashi several times to help me with the training.'

Finishing eating, Dazen stood up and began to stretch as he thought, 'However, my improvement in these aspects doesn't even compare to my improvement in Kenjutsu and Ninjutsu, despite not having yet mastered the first step of chakra nature training, I have already learned the 5 elemental jutsus that I chose during this time, after all, it was not necessary to master the nature change to master E rank jutsus, as for Kenjutsu, I have already learned it all basics with Professor Takashi and in the last two months I've been fighting with him daily to improve even more, despite still getting hit a lot I've managed to hit him a few times and he's already having to fight me seriously.'

'Now that I've learned the elementary jutsus I'm just going to train to master them, I'm not going to try to learn another jutsu, in fact, I think I'll focus on learning more about genjutsu all this time, I almost completely ignored this aspect and only learned what academia teaches, but now I think I will focus on this aspect. I don't need to become an expert, but I have to know how to defend myself efficiently.'

Having decided this Dazen decided to go to the library tomorrow and look for the topic, if he didn't find anything he would ask Professor Takashi about how he could learn to defend himself against Genjutsu.

Soon Dazen began his training and only stopped when it was getting dark, then he went towards his house to continue with the chakra nature change training looking at the leaf that had not completely wrinkled, Dazen thought: 'I didn't think it would be so difficult to complete this first step, I can already wrinkle a part, but not completely, I think it will still take a few months... I hope to master it before graduation.'

The next morning Dazen woke up early and went to the ninja academy to study about genjutsu, then he arrived at the library and took out the books related to genjutsu and started reading.

Genjutsu was based on controlling the release of yin chakra to enter another person's chakra network and control their senses, creating various types of scenarios and illusions to torture the opponent mentally or keep them still and kill them outside of the genjutsu.

And to defend yourself from genjutsu, you would essentially have to interrupt your chakra flow, thus interrupting the influence of other chakra in your body, but this required refined chakra control and a lot of practice.

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While reading Dazen I thought, 'Konoha has a lot of content about genjutsu and how to combat it, this must be due to the Uchiha and Senju clans, one specialized in the use and the other in combating genjutsu, this generated a very large amount of knowledge about the area , it's a shame the anime didn't explore the use of genjutsu with the only relevant user being Itachi.'

Dazen continued reading everything about genjutsu combat training, for now Dazen did not intend to learn how to use it, just to fight it so as not to be caught by surprise in the middle of the battlefield.

Time passed and soon class time arrived and Dazen had to stop reading and go to the room, meanwhile in the hokage's office, Hiruzen was reading some reports about the recent missions carried out while a man who had a scar on his chin waited patiently at the side.

Finishing reading, Hiruzen put down the papers and sighed as he said: "As expected, the strength of the other 4 nations has almost completely recovered from the previous war and not only that, but the nations of Iwagakure and Kumogakure seem to have become even stronger, What do you think Danzo?"

Danzo looked at Hiruzen and replied calmly, "Even with the end of the previous war, the reasons why the war started were never resolved and it can be said that the war only worsened relations between nations, the conflicts only stopped due to the damage that everyone took it, so everyone knew that at some point the war would return and Onoki and A were the first to start preparing for such a moment and benefited, as no one imagined that the conflicts would start again so quickly."

Danzo stopped a little and looked at Hiruzen irritably: "If you had listened to me and put more pressure on the nations at the end of the war, this wouldn't have happened, we were at an advantage with the system that Tsunade implemented if we had continued…"

Hiruzen interrupted: "Enough of this the conflict was not worth it, despite the advantage in strength due to the inclusion of medical ninjas in the teams it would not be enough to prevent the number of deaths from continuing to increase even further, and Konoha's losses would continue to pile up, which could cause the morale of the citizens and ninjas to decline..."

This time it was Dazon's turn to interrupt irritably: "We could solve this by manipulating the information to increase the morale of the population and the loss of life would be worth it as a ninja they must be prepared to die fighting for the village it is a ninja's duty. "

Hiruzen looked at Danzo and replied: "Despite what you think, there are consequences for this type of behavior, if we had done what you suggested it would be easy for the other nations to infiltrate information into the village and spread it and so the population and ninjas If they started to doubt their leaders we would be lost, their ideas have good intentions for the village, but they are always too extreme to be implemented, now enough with this discussion we have to think of ideas to undermine the power of other nations."

Danzo was not satisfied with the end of the discussion, but he knew that continuing would lead to nothing, so he began to discuss strategies with Hiruzen to combat the other nations.