It was a day like any other, and my friend was over, currently deciding which video game we should. He decided that we could play Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations. I tried coaxing him into playing Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, and it worked! Surprisingly. I guess he decided that they were almost exactly the same. I had just unlocked Itachi for Free Battle the day before, and my friend immediately used him in battle.
"So...you like Itachi?" I asked my friend while we were waiting for the fight to load.
"Yeah, he's cool" My friend said keeping his eyes on the TV screen.
"Oh, OK. anyway-"
"THE BATTLE BEGINS!" He said making his voice deep and raspy. I looked back at the TV and heard the announcer's voice
"Let the battle, BEGIN!" Immediately I started hitting my friend with different attacks. I was using Lee, whom I liked using. Mainly for those times when I start dashing around my opponent and preventing any hit from landing. Then my friend Chakra Dashed over to me and used the Tsukuyomi on me. Something glitched and the game froze, with Itachi's Mongekyō Sharingan stuck on the screen.
"Ugh, we're gonna have to restart it" I said and looked over at my friend. "Like to do the honors?" I said with a slight smirk
He looked over at me, expression blank, "No"
"Fine, staring competition" He rolled his eyes
"Fine" He closed his eyes, waiting for us to start
"3...2...1...Go!" I said, both of us opening or eyes and looking into the others. I knew I could beat him. There was a trick to this. If you relax your eyes a little, it should become alot easier to keep your eyes open. Though to be honest...I kinda practiced by watching TV without closing my eyes. Anyway one minute in and I saw his eye twitch slightly. I decided to keep quiet and maintain the poker face I had. On the inside I was smiling smugly, knowing it would be over soon. Twenty seconds later he blinked and realised his mistake.
"Dammit!"
"Or 'Kuso'" I said. He looked over at the TV and walked to my PlayStation 3 to hit the off button, but just before he did he glanced at the screen and fell over, unconscious.
"What the heck?" I said out loud, my one eyebrow slightly raised. I walked over to him to shake him but before I could try and shake him awake I glanced at the screen and suffered the same fate. Well not really suffered, but everything went black after looking at Itachi's Tsukuyomi. The last thing I heard was a deep voice laughing weirdly.
Next thing I knew I was in a body, it was mine but at the same time, not. I watched, uh...me? Grow up as an orphan and learn stuff about being ninja and other things related to the world of Naruto. It felt wrong but then at the same time, so right. Like it was as it should be. Those of you who have eaten something that you really like even after being told not to know what I'm talking about. Sixteen years went by in 5 minutes, and nothing was clear to me. When I woke up I was 16 years old and laying in a sleeping bag next to someone who had already gotten up, yet still in the sleeping bag. There was a lamp near him so I could see his face, in a way.
"Uhm..." I mumbled, not sure how me and this person were connected. Though it felt as if I knew him already.
"Hmm?" He said looking at me with a smile that I knew too well. Literally, I don't know why I know it so well. It's scary. I raised an eyebrow at the person.
"Ace?"
"Yup"
"Have you already guessed who I am then?"
"No hey Raiden. I have no idea who you are Raiden" he said, stressing my name while the rest of his words bled sarcasm
"OK jeez, quit the sarcasm you butt"
"And if I say no?"
"I will hit you"
"No"
"Fucking hate your ass"
"Aww come on, you don't really?"
"Yes" I crossed my arms, and my legs and turned away from him, making a weird face meant to be angry.
"Fine you wanna be like that" He copied my gesture. I took this time to try to remember this life's past. If I remember correctly, I was an orphan, from which clan again? Uhmm...Uhh...Oh well, if someone summons me I'll figure out. And apparently we are in the anime Naruto, judging by the fact I learned jutsus. That's all I could remember, also being good friends with Ace and...everything else was blurry. Fuzzy if you will. I couldn't even figure out the village I was brought up in. I was kind of excited to be in Naruto, one of my favourite anime, though, I didn't wanna be killed in a mission or something.
"Hey Ace"
"What" He said acting angry. We both knew it had already blown over but the act was to good to give up. We are weird like that. (Notice the ARE)
"Do you know what clan you're from?" I asked
"Absolutely no idea" He replied
"Any idea where we are?" I heard him shift a bit and pat the ground next to him
"On stone"
"No, like what village?"
"Wait for sunrise, then we can see"
"How long till that?"
"Uhmm...Dunno. Guess we wait."
"Like, till sunrise?"
"Yeah"
"Are you gonna stay awake?"
"Duh"
"You have a streak of falling asleep when we want to stay awake"
"I will stay awake, believe it!"
"That's just cheesy, stop. Just stop"
"Why?"
"We're INSIDE Naruto"
"EEEWW! HIS INSIDES ARE STONES!?" I facepalmed
"Idiot, the Anime"
"Oh"
"Did you not try to remember anything from this life?" he scratched his head
"No, well, I just started then you asked me these questions"
"Oh OK. Carry on then"
"Mkay" he said and began to concentrate. 3 minutes later he said,
"I only know the jutsus I was taught and being brought up by a father who is now in hospital. And that me and you are very good got anything?"
"Same except I was an orphan"
"Oh OK. Sounds rough" Ace started looking at the sky which was now turning from absolute black dotted with white stars to a deep purple
"Tell that to Naruto!"
"Maybe I will"
"OK then. I'll watch you"
"Fine, watch me...if you dare..."
"Dude I've seen you naked. It's scary and emotionally scarring but I would dare to watch you do anything else, other than stuff that involves nudity"
"We're practically brothers" The sky had gone from purple to pink and I got out of the sleeping bag to stretch.
Meanwhile...a few hours before this...
In a tiny apartment in the village of Konoha, a certain spiky haired Genin lay awake in bed, unable to fall asleep. And to say that the Kyuubi wasn't helping, was an understatement. He was annoying Naruto and trying to strike up a conversation and all that junk. He even suggested Naruto visit his "cell" so they could...I actually don't know the reason. Let's go see shall we?
"Hey Naruto..."
"Kyuubi for the last time I'm not gonna visit you!" Naruto said angrily, slamming a pillow on his face.
"I just wanna talk" Kyuubi replied
"NOW you wanna talk!? It's almost midnight!"
"Fine, go to sleep and visit in your dream"
"I WAS TRYING TO GO TO SLEEP BUT THEN YOU HAD TO START TALKING TO ME!" He sighed, "If I do somehow fall asleep I'll try to visit you. But, why?"
"Just wanna talk about some things" Kyuubi replied plainly
"Like?" Kyuubi thought and then said,
"About...you using my chakra. There are a few things I want to teach you on how to control it" The Nine Tails lied
"Really!? Cool!" Naruto immediately shut his eyes and tried falling asleep. Soon Kyuubi heard Naruto snoring
Naruto's dream...
He stood there, in a black void. The only light was the light from a few...um..."stars" dotted around. Then, one by one all of his friends from the Hidden Leaf Village appeared. Except Shikamaru. He was probably too lazy to care.
"Oh hey guys, what're you doing here?"
"Shut up..." Kiba said
"Hey come on, we're friends right?" Naruto said, forgetting it was a dream.
"You monster..."
"Demon..."
"Failure..." Tears formed in Naruto's eyes
"Useless..."
"Piece of crap..." That was it. Naruto broke down crying and fell on his knees. He had his hands on ears and was mumbling something. Then he appeared in that place where Kyuubi was kept. He was still crying and seemed oblivious to the fact that he went somewhere. Kyuubi was about to say something when he saw Naruto. He just stared, unsure of how to react. Naruto noticed where he was and ran at Kyuubi, only stopped by the bars that kept the Kyuubi where it is.
"This is all your fault!" He shouted at Kyuubi, opening the gates and running towards the gigantic fox. He grabbed on Kyuubi's fur, and cried into it, unable to release his anger and sadness in any other way.
"They all hate me for it! Why did you have to be inside me!? Why me!? All those years of pain! I wish I was never born!" Kyuubi transformed into a human to hug Naruto, but then said person looked up.
"Wait, you're a-"
Back with Ace and I...
It finally became bright enough so we could see where the heck we are. I finished stretching and I looked around. We were in a big village. Like really big, huge. Then I realized where we were standing. I walked to the edge and looked at the persons face we were standing on. Lady Tsunade. For some reason I started laughing at her forehead. Ace came to stand next to me and looked at me like I was crazy.
"Look...at her forehead...it's so smooth!" Don't ask why. We both laughed and we fell over.
"You think...she has a five-head?" Another laughing fit.
"Remember that...that one girl in your class...she had a seven-head!" We started laughing and rolling on the ground. A someone arrived behind us. I couldn't identify them because of us laughing and being on the floor.
"Uh..." the person said. Ace stopped laughing and got up to address the person. I got up shortly after. It was an ANBU. With mask of some sorts on face.
"Lady Tsunade summons you both...immediately" The mask covered his face but I knew he wasn't sure what to say next.
"OK. Be there shortly" Ace said, giving the ANBU a small smile. The ANBU gave a quick bow before leaving. I rolled up my sleeping bag while Ace did the same.
"Do you think we have a house? Or are we homeless?" I asked throwing the bag, that held my sleeping bag, over my shoulder and looking in the direction of the Hokage's...building thing.
"You maybe, but I know I have one. Nearby Naruto's apartment actually. I hope so anyway" He gave a sheepish grin, "You can come live there with me if you don't have a place to stay"
"Do you know the possibility of us actually living together even without this makeshift arrangement that we made right now over here on Forehead?"
"Are you really going to call Lady Tsunade that?"
"Not to her face-er...Forehead" Ace sighed
"Let's just go" We jumped onto the side of the cliff face and ran down using the chakra trick that you do with your feet. You know that one. No not that one. That's the water one. No, a little more to your left...yeah that one. We walked the rest of the way to the Hokage... mansion I think? Well that thing anyway. You know what I mean. We got to the door and Ace and I had another staring contest on who would knock on the door. I was getting a bit irritated because we had to be there "immediately" so I blinked and knocked on the door. I didn't give Ace a chance to react and neither did the Hokage because exactly 0.623 seconds later she shouted: "Enter!" I opened the door and walked in. Immediately I noticed three stacks of paperwork on the desk.
"Raiden, Ace, you two have officially been accepted into the village as ninja" We both stood there for a few seconds, not knowing how to react. Tsunade continued.
"Ace, here are the keys to your apartment," She got out some keys from her desk and handed them over to Ace, who mumbled some sort of thanks. "Raiden you do not have a house and there are no open apartments or houses left so-"
"I was kinda gonna bunk at his house...forever, or until he kicks me out" I cut Tsunade short.
"Well that sorts that out. You guys have been granted three weeks orientation and afterwards you will be tested for your skill level, whether Genin or Chunin. Dismissed"
"Hai" we said and left.
"Well that went well" Ace said
"I never got to see how big forehead is" I complained, acting sad.
"Better that you didn't"
"Yeah..."
"Did you notice they look different in the anime?" Ace said, attempting to change the subject.
"Not really. They pretty similar"
"Well they look different to me. Anyway wanna go check out the house?"
"I feel like I want to randomly visit Naruto" I looked at Ace "You wanna?"
"...Okay, I have nothing else to do" He smiled "Besides, what good is three weeks off if you don't have fun?" I grinned and we Bro Fisted (Trademarked by PewDiePie)
Back with Naruto...Where we left off...
"Wait, you're a woman!?"
A/N OK, that was by far the longest chapter I'd ever written. Do not expect more chapters of this length. Anyway please review, and if you liked this story and you wanna see more, hit that Favourite and Follow button, and if you hated it and want to flame my ass so hard I don't have an ass anymore, hit that favourite button. Bye! (Be prepared to be called the OC Army, readers)