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It was said that Itachi's genjutsu was so good that both Kakashi and Naruto
either felt the after effects of it as if it were reality, or never even
realized in the first place that they were in a genjutsu.

So, can a strong enough genjutsu be used on someone to make them witness the
"death" of someone close to them and thus make the user under the genjutsu
awaken his or her Mangekyou Sharingan?


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Can a Genjutsu awaken Mangekyou Sharingan?


Not possible, Sasuke didn't awaken his Mangekyou Sharingan after being
battered by Itachi's Genjutsu. Itachi kept on replaying how he killed both
Sasuke's parents. The Mangekyou can only be awaken when the user suffer from
trauma after witnessing the death of someone close to them. With the user
normally having to witness or experience this first hand not by Genjutsu. For
further details please refer to [Mangekyo
Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)


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To be fair, the way Sarada awakened her Sharingan proves that awakening the
Mangekyou Sharingan through Genjutsu could be possible. Sarada was under the
impression that Sakura wasn't her real mother even though she was and it was
all just in her head. I could also point out that Mangekyou Sharingan awakens
during the death of a loved one because of the severity of the trauma and it
is not the death alone that awakens it.

Sasuke was probably too young and couldn't handle the Mangekyou Sharingan
which is why he didn't awaken it after death of his parents. Also reliving a
traumatic event isn't as traumatic as the first time it happened which is why
sasuke didn't awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan under Itachi's genjutsu.

In other words, awakening of Sharingan and so forth is caused the variation in
trauma severity, not a death. The Mangekyou Sharingan would certainly awaken
even if someone didn't die as long as the severity of that specific trauma is
the same or exceeds the death of a loved one.

In conclusion awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan with genjutsu is possible if
the individual under the genjutsu is not able to discern reality with the
genjutsu


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