Darkness. It's all around me, suffocating me. I feel nothing as I stand in this pitch-black void, paralyzed, and though I would never admit it later, scared. I try to open my mouth, but it won't listen. I try to take in the smell of my surroundings, breathing in through my nose, but my body denies me. Only my ears allow me to take in any sort of sensory input. Unfortunately, anything I might be able to hear around here is drowned out by the sound of a beating heart. After my panic, I realize that there is nothing I could do to change my situation, at least at first glance, so I think back. To who I am. To my name. Everything is blurry, but there is one thing I am sure of. I died. When trying to focus on my cause of death, it eludes me entirely. It is as if my mind fights back. I press on. I wish to remember the pain, so I do. All the pain I endured in my life, the humiliation, the hurt, the feeling of my heart and mind breaking.
It snaps me out of my unfeeling, paralyzed state, allowing me to strain against my surroundings. I try to move violently and trash around. Due to some form of wooden construct holding me prisoner, however, I can only close my eyes and scream out my pain until my throat can no longer hold out and my tongue gets its first real taste in this environment. Blood. Still shaking, I calm myself, tears flowing down my cheeks and my eyes hurting fiercely. I died. Whatever mistakes I made, whatever my enemies may wish on me, it cannot hurt me anymore. It isn't much, but it allows me to calm down somewhat. It is a slow process, calming down after having been exposed to a lifetime of suffering, but I manage. After all, there was little else to do here. After my body stops shaking and the only things that concerns me anymore are the feeling of wood and the loud heartbeat. When I open my eyes, what greeted me was something I never would have expected. A rectangle, in all its blue glory, appeared before me.
Would you like to play a game?
Y|N
What were my options? To say no and stay here, in the darkness, trying to maintain my sanity, or to say yes and potentially maintain my sanity for a little while longer? I let out a sigh, surprised that it doesn't hurt my throat. Surprised that the taste of iron vanished. Why was that? I decide to not concern myself with that and look at my only option. Mentally, I click it. Clicking things. That was something I vaguely remember from my past life.
Welcome to the world of Naruto.
Naruto? Immediately my mind supplies information to me. Blonde idiot, dressed in orange, has a big fox inside of him, was considered an underdog despite having almost infinite chakra, being from an almost extinct clan which gives him even more, being the reincarnation of the chosen and son of the Sage of Six Paths, being the son of the Fourth Hokage who is one of the very few villages with a 'flee-on-sight' order, and being trained by the upper political echelon of his village in a world where political power is almost always coupled with personal power. You know, typical underdog stuff as far as anime goes. I sure hope that I got some sweet bloodline stuff. While some people want to do everything themselves and all that jazz, often ignoring their own natural privileges when declaring that they did so, I mostly want to survive.
Due to the following conditions,
- Immense psychological trauma of having experienced a lifetime of pain within seconds
- The stress of reincarnating into a body in a different world
- Being directly connected to the God-Tree
you have awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan. Your unique ability in both eyes is [The Gamer].
I blink. Well, that went about as good as it possibly could have if the rectangle tells the truth.
New quest unlocked!
Of Alien Origin (1)
Open your status.
On success: +5 Status Points
On failure: Death
Well that wasn't dramatic at all. The first mission has a chance of death? In the tutorial? I can feel my wooden restraint tighten. It's do or die I suppose. "Status", I mutter. The voice that comes out of my mouth confuses me. I am not supposed to sound that young. Before I can think about what that means, the rectangle changes size and words. Changing words was nothing new, it's done that a few times already, but the size change surprised me. Then again, if this was supposed to be an RPG, why should I be surprised? It wasn't much weirder than its newly changed positioning.
Name: Matsu, (no Title), (no Clan)
Level: 1 (0%)
HP: 28/60
CP: Infinite*/0
Control: 10%
Str: 4
Dex: 5(+1)=6
Vit: 4
Int: 10
Cha: 8
Crk: 0
Status Points: 0
Looking at it, my physicals are crap, because I am not smart enough for them to actually be anything decent. What does surprise me is the infinite out of zero CP, which I can only assume are chakra points. The other anomaly, the +1, is intriguing as well, but I have no idea how any of this is calculated, so I'm probably unable to satisfy my curiosity on that topic before I get more information on how [The Gamer] operates.
Quest Completed!
Reward: +5 Status Points!
New quest unlocked!
Status Points: 5
Five whole status points. I could make myself a lot faster. Or a lot stronger. Or a lot luckier. That one in particular seems nice.
Of Alien Origin (2)
Increase your Crk by five.
On success: New Perk "Of Alien Origin"!
On failure: Death
There goes that choice, I guess. I mentally push the five points into Crk.
CP: Infinite*/25
Crk: 5
Status Points: 0
The moment I do, I can feel something inside of me shift as a weird power fills me. Is that what chakra feels like? It is intoxicating. "What in the-", I barely get out before the rectangle interrupts me again.
Quest Completed!
Reward: New Perk "Of Alien Origin"!
New quest unlocked!
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Escape from the God-Tree
On success: Loss of the "God-Tree Bound" Perk!
On failure: Death
I am going to assume that the God-Tree Bound Perk is something inherently bad and I should be happy to be rid of it. First of all though. "Perks?", I ask, hoping that it might give me insight.
Perks:
Civilian-Born: By being a child of generations of non-chakra users, you possess a weaker body than true ninjas. You only gain 50% HP and 50% CP. It is 20% harder to raise physical stats by hard work.
God-Tree Bound: By awakening from the Infinite Tsukoyomi while still being bound inside the God-Tree, you have infinite CP as long as you are connected to it, but slowly die and turn into a White Zetsu.
Of Alien Origin: By generating your own chakra without being related or directly aided by an Ōtsutsuki, you have gained the ability to increase your Lck by spending status points.
Progenitor Of Hate: By being the first to unlock the Mangekyo Sharingan without being inherently peaceful, you no longer require CP to keep it active after activating it.
The Gamer: By obtaining the [The Gamer] ability, you obtain the following skills (these may grant related sub-skills): [Gamer's Mind], [Gamer's Body]
Remember how I said that I figured that the God-Tree Bound perk was bad? Well, now I am a hundred percent certain of it! I struggle, but sadly it doesn't help. I doubt I am capable of breaking through the wood, especially since I now have a weirdly small body. Was I reincarnated as a toddler? I get the feeling I have been turned into a toddler! After some more struggling, I realize that there's little I can do. My body is sore and my legs hurt from simply standing. I consider my options. Physically, I am incapable of doing much, so what other option is there? The answer is pretty obvious: Chakra. Unfortunately, I have no idea on how to actually use chakra. I move it around a bit and into my hands. I can't make handseals though. After all, I'm still imprisoned. With no other options, I just flare it out, pushing it as fast as I can. That seems to do the trick! When I push it out, my surroundings just seem to... disintegrate? I hope that this is God-Tree only and I don't actually have Mei's Kekkei Genkeis, because my complete lack of control would make me a danger to others, and by extension a danger to myself. I also notice a strange feeling of weightlessness, of falling. Makes me wonder wh-
8/60 HP
Okay, ouch. The reason why I felt like that made itself known the moment I was able to perceive it. Turns out that my prison wasn't ground level. I look up into the tree and gulp. Had I been any further up, that fall would probably have killed me.
Quest Completed!
Reward: Loss of the "God-Tree Bound" Perk!
New quest unlocked!
(Sugar) Daddy
You are literally a baby. Find someone to take care of you. Tip: Crying has the best chance of working, but may attract predators.
On success: Someone who protects you is reward enough
On failure: You stay lonely
I think that has to be the single weirdest quest name you could give in that situation. I start crawling around for a bit. No clue how old I am. Sure am too small to be the age I feel my body is development-wise. Maybe I'm a midget? Oh, well, far from the end of the world. So I crawl around. Then I consider crying. Now I know what you're thinking: Don't you have any pride? To which I reply: A meal which costs me my honor is still free!
Perhaps fortunately, I choose not to. After all, it might attract the attention of someone I don't want to meet. I sigh. Well, time to relocate and hope I find something edible. I crawl away further before looking at the God-Tree, taking in everything about it. The tree was huge. Crazy huge. In the anime, you see that it's located in a crater, but you have no idea just how big that crater is. I am still not out from under the tree despite an hour of crawling! Then again, it's not like my crawl speed is that impressive. After I've been crawling and looking around for a while, I hear a weird sound. I remember that sound. It's that same sound a microwave makes when it just finished heating something up.
New Skill:
Lv 1 Observe (0%)
Use of this skill grants additional information on a target. The lower the target's level compared to yours and the higher the level of this skill, the more information is gathered.
Observe, huh? I might as well try it right away.
Dirt
Rock
God-Tree
Never mind then. The only information I can gain is the most basic one. Looking up into the tree I can faintly see some names, but they mean nothing to me. There's three names inside the tree that do, but I did not want to meet either of those.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki
Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
Hamura Ōtsutsuki
I'd really rather not have to deal with these three. I sure hope that Kaguya just doesn't have her Byakugan active or her Rinne Sharigan open. I gulp. Had I cried back then, I'd already be dead. I think for a bit. I don't want to alert Kaguya, but if I don't have anyone taking care of me, I doubt I'll live long. I am in a really bad spot.
For making an accurate observation despite your physically young age, gain +1 Int
Not. Helping.
At least not right now, at the very least. There is one thing I did notice though. It mentioned me creating a new skill. My The Gamer Perk did the same thing. How did I not check this out immediately? Maybe the +1 Int did help some. "Skills", I whisper, hoping that Kaguya doesn't notice.
Skills:
Lv 1 (Max) Gamer's Body (100%)
This skill allows its user to perceive his own life like a standard RPG Video Game. He does not require food, sleep or water, may freely modify his abilities within certain set limits, reflects his status as opposed to taking visible damage and can regenerate while sleeping.
Lv 1 (Max) Gamer's Mind (100%)
This skill allows its user to passively perceive the world around him like a standard RPG Video Game. The user possesses selective immunity to most psychological effects and is entirely immune to certain genjutsu or mental effects. Further, due to the perfect control enabled by this ability, maximum Control is uncapped below 100%.
Lv 5 Genjutsu: Sharingan (-)
This sub-skill of the [Sharingan] allows the user to craft different illusions without properly using genjutsu. The higher the level of this ability, the more powerful the illusion can be, but it is almost never equivalent in strength to a properly performed genjutsu by someone of the user's level.
Lv 1 (Max) ID Create (100%)
This skill is a combination ability of [Gamer's Body] and [Gamer's Mind]. Allows the creation of Instant Dungeons, with different dungeons being unlocked as you progress in level. Turns into [ID Escape] of the same level while inside an Instant Dungeon.
Lv 1 (Max) Mangekyo Blindness Immunity (100%)
This passive sub-skill of [Gamer's Body] allows its user to become immune to the loss of sight normally experienced by over-using the [Mangekyo Sharingan]. It also grants a one-time discount of 50% on buying the [Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan] upgrade for the [Mangekyo Sharingan] in the shop. Doing so causes this skill to be permanently removed.
Lv 1 (Max) Mangekyo Sharingan (100%)
This skill represents an upgrade to the [Sharingan] and grants access to one or two special skills almost always unique to the user when active. Decuples the CP cost of maintaining the [Sharingan] active while active. Passively grants access to [Susano'o]. May be upgraded in the shop. Special ability gained: [The Gamer]. Warning: Over-use of this ability may render the user blind unless precautions are taken.
Lv 1 Observe (98%)
This sub-skill of [Gamer's Mind] grants additional information on a target on use. The lower the target's level compared to yours and the higher the level of this skill, the more information is gathered.
Lv 5 Sharingan (79%)
The [Sharingan] is the signature ability of the Uchia clan, having an upkeep of 10 CP/s for Uchia or Ōtsutsuki Clan members and 100 CP/s otherwise. While active, it grants the [Genjutsu: Sharingan] and [Sharingan Chakra Sight] Skills with a level equal to this skill's level. Further, it allows the user to copy jutsu and movements he sees while it is active and increases Dexterity by +5% plus an additional 5% per tomoe (max. 3 tomoe). Depending on skill level or other circumstances, this skill may change its appearance and gains additional tomoe. Current amount of tomoe: Three.
Lv 5 Sharingan Chakra Sight (-)
This sub-skill of the Sharingan allows the user to detect chakra. The user may be visually informed of how much there is, what nature-transformation it is going through and how it was shaped.
Lv 1 (Max) Shop (100%)
This skill is a combination ability of [Gamer's Body] and [Gamer's Mind]. You may spend Ryo or Status Points to gain Items, Jutsu, Bloodlines and more. Some Quests created by [Gamer's Mind] may grant Gatcha-Tokens you can use for a random spin with possible prizes depending on the token.
Lv 1 Susano'o (0%)
This sub-skill of the [Mangekyo Sharingan] allows one to create a human-like monster out of chakra. The higher the level, the more complex and powerful the monster. Obtaining the [Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan] allows for even more complexity and power. Unlike the [Sharingan], the [Susano'o] requires the same amount of 2000 CP/s regardless of Clan.
Lv 1 (Max) The Gamer (100%)
This sub-skill and unique ability of the [Mangekyo Sharingan] passively grants the "The Gamer" perk. Further, [The Gamer], skills using [The Gamer] or skills requiring skills associated with [The Gamer] cannot be identified, learned or copied unless the person learning, identifying or copying them possesses the "The Gamer" Perk.
Oh god that is one big list. After looking at it and thinking for a bit I quickly realize a few things. First of all, turning off the Mangekyo Sharingan would probably knock me out or kill me as my Progenitor Of Hatred Perk would no longer work. Secondly the CP cost of Susano'o is insanity and I highly doubt I am ever gonna be able to actually use it. Thirdly, most of my abilities are interconnected with The Gamer, so I don't have to worry about being copied, which is nice. Another thing to note is that the Shop tracks Ryo, which may very well not exist yet, so that's probably useless unless I can get some via quests. And I really don't have the luxury to be spending stat points.
I lie down on the ground, no longer supporting myself with all fours. How am I supposed to be able to do anything right now? My quest kinda locks me into finding someone who could help me, but I'm probably the only person not in a genjutsu on the planet right now. Staying here is going to kill me for sure, so that's not an option. It only takes Kaguya deciding that she wants to check on the Zetsus and I'm toast. Heck, if I just stay here and one of the Zetsus is ready to drop, I'd die in an instant. Yes, I had the Sharingan, but next to no CP now that I am no longer connected to the tree. I had to escape. And really, there's only one way for me from what I can see. I gulp again. What would await me if I do this? No clue, but what was the alternative? Waiting until Kaguya notices me? That's practically auto-death. I steel my resolve for what might happen before I stand up, my body taking a lot better to the whole upright-walking than I thought, and invoke the skill.
"ID Create!"