Disclaimer- Naruto is ( N O T ) mine. If it were, I would probably crap it up.

Full Summary- Konoha is a virtual reality game created by the Mangekyo Corporation. Kyuubi is a lethal virus create to destroy Konoha by an opposing company. However, when one of the game's programmer found trace of the virus within Konoha, he created a certain modified PC to contain the virus when it access the game. Somehow though, before the intended PC could do such, it ended up as a giveaway prize in an off-game contest held by the Mangekyo Corp by mistake and a certain blond, blue eye boy ends up winning it. What will happen when said blond accesses the game? Read to find out.

Soifra's Beginning Notes- My second fic. I am not neglecting my first one though. This idea just popped into my mind like two days ago while I was reading the manga, Half Prince and I just wanted to write it.

Hope you enjoy. I'm not sure of pairings yet since I intend this to be an action slash thriller type thingy. (i_i) If there were to be pairings they would probably be yaoi anyway, but very light yaoi as this is not really focus on romance.

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Konoha: Virtual Reality – Ch. 1 – W e l c o m e . t o . K o n o h a

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Although it was not by mere chance that he happened to pass the largest game shop in town, it was purely coincidence that at that same moment, a large contest was being held and Naruto happened to be in the midst of it all. Yes, it was all just plain coincidence for all he wanted to do was get to the grocery store which just so happened to be one block away from the said game shop. And all he wanted was his damn fuckin ramen! Was that so hard to ask? Seemingly, as he was pushed about the crowd, it was.

The seventeen year old male tried his hardest to push his way out of the crowd but somehow seemed to always end up tangled in the thousand (purely exaggerated) of arms and legs and other assortment of limbs that he was sure he had no wish of mentioning. After minutes seemed to slip away, Naruto finally gave up on trying to get out of the crowd and instead just went along with the many screaming people that were there. As he was particularly oblivious to why these people were here, he found himself becoming curious and now wished to know as well.

Naruto turned to the person beside him which happened to be geeky looking teen with freckles all about his face and a thick, rectangular, black rim glasses pressed up high on his long nose.

"Hey." The teen glanced his way and seemed to look annoyed. Naruto's lips twitched just the bit but he ignored it. "Could you tell me what's going on here? I just got dragged into the crowd," he said, wavig his hands for emphasis. All he knew was that this was some sort of contest but now he wanted some elaborate answers but the geeky teen in front of him seemed to only grow more annoyed at his question.

"Don't you know anything?" the teen asked in a very squeaky tone that held a very snotty and snobbish hint to it. Naruto resisted the urged to roll his eyes at the other.

"Now if I did, I wouldn't have asked," he said in the politest tone he was capable of, a mock smile upon his lips. 'Stupid snotty bastard.'

The teen snorted. Naruto blinked. Okay- ew...

"Well, since you are so ignorant, foolish human..." What was he? Some sort of demon lord in some stupid RPG? "This is an unofficial lucky drawing contest that the Mangekyo Corp has planned out in order to give away one of their most wanted and basically sold out virtual reality game, Konoha." The freckled teen pushed up his glasses. "It comes included with an all out access to the Mangekyo server that allows the best in gaming graphics. It includes also a newly developed display headgear monitor that puts the virtual reality to the limit." Naruto was sure he was seeing stars shinning within the teens' eyes and a disgusted shiver ran down Naruto's spin. He had heard enough but seeing as the boy was not going to stop his rant anytime soon, he subjected himself to continued listening.

"... includes also a a modified character customization mode for a new PC character that has access to many in game features that a regular PC character can not!"

Assuming that boy was finish as he had stop speaking at that moment, Naruto was sure he could see drools escaping from the corner of his mouth.

'O-kay. Now that's just... ugh!' Stepping back, he placed some distance between himself and the freckled teen. At that moment, a spokesman appeared upon the small stage before the crowds, a microphone in hand. The man tapped it and it gave a loud squeak. Naruto cringe while the the spokesman then place the wireless microphone before his lips and cleared his throat. Everyone in the room become quiet as the man spoke:

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen. Allow me first to introduce myself!" The man grin widely, one hand tossed high into the air. "I am the head spokesman of this lucky drawing contest for the Mengekyo Corporation, Takishido Amura." His eyes roamed the crowd, as if assessing everyone up. "Now, to basically sum this up, by the next few minutes, one lucky person will go home with a deluxe limited edition, Konoha Gaming Pack. To explain how things will be done," The man glance to his right and left, his head giving a nod to someone Naruto could not see and before he knew it, four scantily clad women holding a basket each came forth.

"As you can see," the spokesman continued, "these lovely ladies here have in their hand a basket of which each and everyone of you shall draw out a number. When done," he turned to gaze behind him and indicated a clothed covered object that was there. With quick movements, the man took hold of the cloth at one end and pulled it away to reveal a round, clear glass object that had a spinning handle at the end. At the very top, a small latched up door could be seen while inside were many tiny white papers. Seeing it all, Naruto immediately realized what it was for. "When done, I shall spin this container about and then draw out the lucky number. Once called, the winner shall step forward and be offered the grand prize!!"

At those words, everyone around him began to chatter about aimlessly once more. Naruto also noted the look of anticipation all over everyone's face and frown. He just didn't understand why everyone was acting so. It was just a game after all-- right? Shaking his head, he sighed.

"Now, everyone, please pick a number!' The four women took this as their cue and and headed into the crowd. One by one, people drew out their number and when it was his turned, he hesitated a moment but then thought, 'Che. The hell with it all. I might as well just try.' He reached in and randomly drew out a number. '1010,' he read to himself and gave a shrug of his shoulders. Believing that there was a very high chance that he would not be pick, he immediately stopped caring and only waited to see who the lucky person would be once everyone seemed to have drawn a number.

"Great and now..." The man paused in his sentence and place his free hand on the crank and began to to turn the clear tube and the paper within were tossed about. After a few seconds, he stop and Naruto noted that everyone about him had taken a sharp intake of breath. Naruto visibly sweat-dropped but kept his attention on the spokesman as he opened the top latch, stuck his hand in, and drew out one piece of paper.

"O-kay now. Everyone, this is the moment we have all been waiting! If you will remain as quiet as you are now, I shall read out the number." The man glanced down at the paper and then to the crowd. "Number..." Everyone in the room held their breath and Naruto felt caught up in all the anticipation. "...1010! Number 1010! You have won the grand prize! Number 1010 will you please come to the stage!"

No one answered. The spokesman seemingly began to sweat. "Number 1010? Are you in the room? If you are please come to the stage..."

The owner of the number 1010 was in too much shock to speak. His mouth was agape like a fish and Naruto was sure he was feeling faint.

"I.. I won?" As the room had long gone silent, everyone heard what he had just then spoken and all eyes were turned his way. He felt as if he had shrunken due to all the animosity that had filled the room then.

'Damn. What the hell I do to deserve this?!' Taking an audible gulp, Naruto felt the urge to flee but was broken out of his revere by the spokesman's rather nervous and hesitant voice. It seems that the spokesman, too, could feel the pressure growing within the room.

"Uh.. so-," Amura cleared his throat, "it looks like the young man there is our winner. Please come up here to claim your prize!" Received by nothing but open hostility all about him, Naruto was hesitant a moment to even move but bracing himself and wishing to just get this over with, he did as he was told.

A handshake, a pat on the back, and a few congratulations later, Naruto found himself walking down the street of Tokyo while carrying a large box in hand as he headed towards his apartment.

"Damn, this shit is heavy." Muttering a few curses, he quickly rounded a corner and could soon enough see his ransack of an apartment looming ahead. Upon reaching the place, he quickly made his trip up a flirt of stairs and towards his apartment door. Balancing his package on one knee, he used his now freed hand to unlocked the door. Pushing it opened and heading inside, he kicked the door closed.

"Finally!" Naruto exclaimed in exasperation and dropped the box on his sofa and slumped down beside it. Reclining his head back against the sofa, he propped his legs atop his coffee table and sighed. It had been a long day and he was tired. All he wanted now was to rest and maybe get something to eat. Thinking to do just that, he lulled his head to the side to give the large box a look of disdain a moment before pushing himself off his sofa and heading into the tiny kitchen that the apartment had. Going to his cupboard, he opened it in hopes of finding his beloved ramens but seeing none- well, let just say Naruto died at that moment and his soul was visible as it could be seen coming out of his gaping mouth.

"Noooo!!" An earsplitting shrill could be heard about the apartment building and everyone who happened to hear said shrill only chose to ignore it and went about their daily business as if nothing of the sort had happen. It was a usual occurrence after all. Now, back to Naruto. He was currently downing himself in self pity while his face had lost all color and it closely resembled the guy in the painting, The Scream, by Edvard Munch. Strange and yet amusing at the same time.

As he continued to wallow in his own self pity and asking himself many times on how such a thing had come to happened, it eventually dawn upon him that it was all the fault of that 'thing'. That thing happened to be said game of which he happened to win and had somehow drew his attention away from purchasing more of his beloved ramen.

"Damn you thing-that-I-never-even-wanted... thing! You shall pay!"

Eh hem.

Cough crazy cough.

Muttering curses under his breath, he slammed closed the cupboard and huffed his way out of the kitchen and back to his tiny living room and flopped back down on his sofa. His stomach decided then to emit a loud rumble. "Stupid stomach...," he muttered aloud and gave a heated glare to the box.

"It's all your damn fault, ya know!"

The longer he glare, the more he felt that it was staring back at him, taunting him. Then again, Naruto could just be a bit paranoid due to the hunger. "Stupid box. What's so good about you anyway?" Somehow, he expected a reply from said box but when none came, he smacked himself on the head and simply muttered, "I must be going crazy. Expecting a dumb box to reply of all things." However, Naruto really did wonder what was so good about the game that had every one wanting it.

'Maybe I'll give it a try,' he thought. 'I have nothing better to do anyway.' Heaving a sigh, Naruto picked up the box and headed into his room.

It took a while for him to set up the equipment as he had a very limited knowledge with anything that was technical. Anything harder than making instant ramen was considered 'hard' for him but somehow, he managed well enough as it came with a step to step instructions pamphlet.

"Ok.. plug the HDMI cable here and the display port cable here. Hm, seem simple enough." Plugging the required wires into it's destined slot, he glanced back to the sheet in hand. "Once done, insert disk into drive and follow the given direction that will appear on the screen." Naruto scratched at his head. "Disk? What disk?" He hadn't remembered seeing a disk but thinking he might have overlooked it, he tossed the pamphlet aside, dug into the box and began tossing things out, papers and wraps flying out until he had reached the bottom.

"Ah ha! Found it," he exclaimed and pulled out a CD case. Opening it and removing the disk, he placed it into his computer dvd drive and waited for the window to appear on the screen.

After following a long series of tedious instruction of installing the game's cilent and it's latest updates and making himself a Konoha account, he finally finished.

"Che- about time!" A window popped it, indicating that everything was in order and asked him to log into the game server. Typing in his username and password, the game screen enlarge to full screen mode.

"Please plug in you Display Gear," came a feminine, yet systematic and completely computerize voice. A moment startled, Naruto forwn at the screen in front of him before he plugged said contraption in. Just as he did so, the feminine voice continued to speak. "Please place you Display Head-gear on." He place the gear over his head, the clear viser covering his eyes entirely. Having expected something to happened, Naruto was disappointed when all he saw was nothing but the reflection of his own eyes on the semi transparent viser.

"What a a rip off...," he muttered and made to remove it when suddenly a bright flash of blue light blinded him. Squeezing his eyes shut, Naruto was sure he was seeing spots before his eyes as he tried to refocus them. Blinking rapidly to clear his vision, Naruto was render completely speechless at the scene that greeted him once he had escaped the haze of bright lights.

He was standing, well he felt like he was standing as he was sure that he was still sitting in his chair before his computer at this very moment. Putting two and two together, he figure he was inside the computer world, or it felt like it anyway. It was a virtual reality game after all. Now, back to the topic- he was standing in a wide open space, white all around him that stretch as far as his virtual eyes could see as he glance in every direction. He tried to take a step forward but found it difficult as he hadn't yet master the 'hows' of his controls.

'This is annoying.' Standing where he was, he glanced about the room. 'Okay.. so- where.. am I?' he thought and a voice then spoke. It was the same computerize one from before but where was it coming from?

"Welcome to Konoha, a virtual reality game that allows the player to experience the online gaming world like no other could ever before. Konoha allows the player to truly experience everything within this game with a ninety-nine percentage of realism."

Ninety-nine percentage rating in realism? Piquing his interest he listened on, for once, being completely attentive to everything the voice was saying. When the space about him began to change, he was thrown completely off guard. Everything was speeding pass him in a swirl of colors and Naruto felt as if he was in one of those time traveling machine that he usual saw on those sci-fi movie. Thinking that something bad was about to happen, he was quite surprised when everything stop and he found himself in a whole new surroundings. Gazing from one end of the room to the other, he noted that everything about him, from the wall to the floor as they were cover in green lines that criss crossed each other. They shimmered and glittered and he was reminded of a computer's circuit board.

"Amazing..." He was in total awe and he was also sure that any moment now, the voice was going to returned. As if one cue, the figure-less voice spoke, the sound echoing about the area.

"This is the PC character customization room where you will create the character that you will use within the game. I will now access you account." There was a short pause before the voice continued. "Account found and scanned. Your limited edition PC will be loading soon." Patiently waiting, something began to materialized before him.

"Waoh!" Naruto exclaimed, and his virtual self took an involuntarily step back. Staring on in amazement, he watch as the data collected before him, piling up and eventually forming a computerize male body. Naruto lulled his head to the side as he studied the figure for he couldn't help but feel that the person looked very familiar to him.

He had a lithe and slender body that seemed to be made for flexibility yet the muscles that lined the body proved that the character was a fighter. Sandy blond and somewhat spiky hair adorn the top of his head and his listless eyes were a dull blue. The skin tone was a bit pale as well.

"Character data #1123647, complete. As you are a Mangekyo server user, customization to the character is allowed." A window popped up beside the the listless PC. Upon it were customization keys, indicating hair color, eye colors, skin tones, gender switch and many other assortment that could be customized.

"Please customize your character. Once done, click on the complete button." Still unused to the controls, it took Naruto a while before he had everything the way he wanted. Having made the hair a brighter blond and somewhat longer and yet less spikey and the eyes a livelier blue, he changed also the pale skin for a more tan look. Assessing his completed work, that inkling feeling that he had seem this person somewhere before return but it soon enough disappeared and he immediately forgot all about it. Done, he press complete and the window vanish to be replaced by another. The words, 'ENTER YOUR PC NAME' and a blank space beneath were on it.

"Please name your character," the voice said but Naruto knew what to do already, even if the voice hadn't spoke. Thinking on it a moment, he thought of many creative name but when typing them it, he was given a pop-up that read, 'Name Already Taken'. Quite annoyed by that, he gave up on thinking of anything fancy and typed out: 'N a r u t o'.

He was using his real name. It was simple and easy to remember and he was happy to leave it at that. Pressing enter, the pop- up window said instead, 'Name Available' before disappearing.

"Customization, complete. You may now begin playing," the voice said and before he knew it, he was blinded again by a bright light and he felt the floor beneath him gave way as he fell. Naruto let out a startled scream. Although he should have known that this was all just a game, every just felt too real to be so.

'Is this really just a game?' he thought and before he had time to collect himself, something else happened. In the midst of the blinding light that surrounded his falling self, everything about him flashed a bright red, blinking on and off like a flickering light. His felt like he was being sucked into a unknown vortex, his limbs were seemingly being pulled in all direction. The pain he felt was too realistic to be fake and Naruto thought he was going to die. Body convulsing, he could basically feel his body being jolted every which way, strong electrocuted shocks running all about his inside and he had to wonder if they weren't yet completely fried in the process.

Groaning in pain, he clamped his eyes shut and knew it to be a mistake as Naruto was sure he could see image flashing behind his closed lid and as he tried to pried them back opened, they would not. Red. The color was splattered everywhere and it reminded him of spilled blood. Orange. The color was a blur and Naruto was sure he saw a pair of yellow slitted eyes that held a pedatorial gleam and sharp pointed teeth heading for him but before he could gather what was happening, blackness overcame him and he knew no more...

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To be continued...

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Soifra's Ending Notes- I'm done! Well- did you like? The story is interesting, yes? Please say yes. (o w o)

Anyway- care to guess what he saw there at the end? It's actually easy to figure but I'm asking anyway. (XD)

Please review and tell me what you think so far. If you like it, I will continue the story.