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Naruto

"Adventures and Adversaries." He muses out loud as he sits under a tree in the park. He found it in the trashed and had taken to because of the images of a group of strange people fighting, some using blades while there seems to be a glowing staff being held by some guy in a dress, against a band of short ugly green monsters wearing rusty armor and welding clubs mostly. He glances about him once more, hoping that nobody noticed him, only to spot somebody ducking behind a tree.

He bites his lower lip for a few seconds before calling out, "Alright, I know that you're there! Either go away or come over here!" Within seconds a girl about his age comes out from behind said tree, she look highly nervous and can't seem to look him in the eye, which means she likely felt guilty for spying on him.

"Well... I guess I know what your punishment is." He says in a solemn voice with his arms crossed over his chest. The girl with white eyes seems to flinch as her eyes widen. "You get to help me go through what's in this box!" He says in a matter of fact tone, making sure to nod at the end.

He turns away from the Hyuga girl after flashing her a small grin, returning his attention to the game that he rescued from the trash. As he opens the lid, the girl settles next to him and she stutters, "I never heard of this game before." He nods in agreement. "Yea, it's kind of sad that somebody would throw away something like this without trying to at least sell it." He admits as he pulls out a folded sheet of cardboard, revealing some cheap metal buildings and six figurines as well as a leather bound book called the Player's Handbook.

As he unfolds the cardboard, the girl with pale eyes takes out one of the figurines and stutters out, "I think this game needs more then two players, Naruto-kun." He blinks, startled by having the -kun at the end of his name. "I guess your right." he admits with a sigh as he stares in disappointment at the other five figurines, after all, he doesn't know anybody that well to invite to play this game with them.

"But that doesn't stop use from reading any of these books." The Hyuga stutters out softly. He perks up and glances to see that the Player's Handbook is in the girl's hands and that there's another book under it that is called Schools of Magic. As he picks up that book, it reveals another one called Races of A&A.

He presses his lips together as he glances between the two books before sighing and focusing his attention on the book called Schools of Magic. He could already see that the Hyuga girl's already reading the Player's Hand book. He opens his book to a random page and starts reading. Wow! Is his thought as he finishes the first page and eagerly starts on the next one.

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"So, you finished filling out your sheet?" He asks Hinata and she nods as she puts her sheet over his. He then puts the folded cardboard on top of her sheet before putting the top back on the game. "I picked Rakshasa of the Naztharune type, a fighter. How about you, what did you pick Hinata-chan?" He asks and Hinata reddens slightly before she answers.

"I picked Tiefling and for my class, a bard." Hinata stutters softly and he blinks before grinning at her. "Real creative, Hinata-chan!" He says as he picks up the box containing the game. "Well then, see you after school tomorrow! Also, bring any friends that you have so that we can maybe get this game started.

"Hai, hai, Naruto-kun." Hinata says and he holds up his hand once he's got his back to her. "Until then, Hinata-chan!" He says and heads to his apartment to make himself dinner before trying to work on his homework for the Ninja Academy.

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Neji

"Where are you going?" He asks his cousin and Hinata pales as she turns to face him. "I promised to meet up with a friend." Hinata stutters horribly and he gives the nine year old girl a look of disapproval. "Then I'll just have to accompany you as you make your apologies to them and then we'll head home." He says and Hinata whitens even more and she gets an expression of a kicked puppy.

In the end, Hinata takes him to the top of the academy. He did notice a pair of nine year olds already up on the roof while a wild looking boy accompanied by an Aburame. But ultimately it's the village parish reading a book entitled Races of A&A. He raises an eyebrow as Hinata makes a beeline towards the blond.

"Naruto-kun." His young cousin calls out in her soft way once she's within a few feet of the reading blond. "Hey Hinata-chan! Hey, great! You brought a friend!" The village parish says on seeing him and he notices that those other nine year olds seem to perk with interest, the wild boy, likely an Inuzuka, and the Aburame move closer to see what it is that the blond has set up in front of him.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the future Hokage, believe it!" The blond crows at him. "Fat chance of that!" The Inuzuka cries out and the blond turns to give that boy a scratching look. "Come over here and say that!" Naruto growls out, the book in his hands totally forgotten in favor of arguing with the Inuzuka.

He moves forward and gets a better view of the board that sports four cheap metal buildings and three towers, although there seems to be a few buildings and towers to spare. He then glances at a sheet that had Naruto's name on it and skims through, he felt himself growing very interesting in this game as he flips the sheet about in his hand and reads the back of it. It didn't take him long before he's got the Player's Handbook in his hand and is going through it to confirm his thoughts about this game.

This is very interesting. I guess it couldn't hurt to try one game. He muses once he's completed reading it. It didn't take long before he's filling out a character sheet of his own, making a Drow Rogue. He did occasionally check the book to make sure he has the kind of opinions he wanted his character to add.

Somebody asks for a book and he pauses to glance at a bored looking nine year old who's with a very large friend. With a shrug, he hands the book to the boy and then moves to get the Race book out of Naruto's hands to read more about Drows. Once he's read it, he alters a few things but in the end, feet confident that he has a very fine character.

By this time, the Inuzuka boy has sat down and began work on creating a Warlock while the bored boy, Shikamaru and the husky boy, Choiji, work on their respective character sheets while the Aburame merely reads the book called Schools of Magic.

And so, Shikamaru created a Half-Elf cleric, Choji created a Half-Orc monk, and the Inuzuka boy named Kiba created a Dire Werewolf warlock. "Alright then, now we just need to put those figurines on the board." Naruto says and Hinata takes the figurines to place on the board.

Once the figurines were on the board, something happens. Wind swirls about them and within seconds, the world blurs until his vision clears. He tries activating his bloodline limit only to find he no longer has chakra to command. "Freaky! I've got a head full of black fur!" He hears a familiar voice cries out and he turns around to find that Naruto has very much changed as had the four members of the party.

Naruto now stands close to seven feet in height and now looks decisively tiger like in appearance dressed in ruined purple silk cloths with a pair of sleek blades resting on his back. Naruto's grins toothily as he studies his new appearance and then the village parish turns to give the rest of them a look while he turns to study Kiba, who looks pretty much like normal with the exception of being older and dressed in ratty looking black robe with a wizened staff that seems to be tipped with carved bone if he's to be any judge of such things.

The tallest member of their party is Choji who tops seven feet in height and seems less husky, more muscular looking. Choji wears a dirty white gi that covers most of his upper body and his skin tone has a green tint to it. It didn't come to any surprise that Choji lacks a weapon since according to the Player's Handbook, Monks were hand to hand fighters that use Ki to power their attacks.

He avoids looking at his cousin, highly reluctant to acknowledge the changes in both her and himself, and so, he studies Shikamaru the Half-Elf cleric who will likely be their primary healer. Shikamaru's black hair hands in a loose pony tail and allows him to see his pointed ears. Like all of them, Shikamaru looks very similar to what he previous looks like but older. Wearing dirty green robe with what appears to be a club tipped with metal about his belt with a ratty piece of leather holding a talisman to his patron god.

Then, finally, he examines his darken skin, his own ratty leather armor and notices a dagger strapped to his hip. Taking it out, he begins to polish the blade until it reflects his face. He notes the white hair and silvery blue eyes, his facial features look more refined, likely due to his increase of age. He turns his head slightly and studies his ears, they were more define then Shikamaru's ears.

As he puts the dagger back into its sheath, he turns to look at his cousin, trying to brace himself but still found himself at a lost as he studies her much more paler skin, horns, whip tail, complete with yellow eyes with red irises while a hint of yellow seems to come out of her mouth or nose whenever she exhales. "What race did you pick?" He asks as he tries not to look below Hinata's neck. "Tiefling and a bard for my class." Hinata says.

"What are those?" Kiba asks and they turn to find themselves under attack. "Goblins!" He hears Naruto cry out as he draws out his dagger once more while Kiba barks out without haste as the Warlock moves , "Ixen'Majak!" A ball of fire appears and launches itself at one of the goblins, causing it to yelp in pain.

He wills himself to fade into the background as the other members of the party charge the ugly green creature, already distracting them from Kiba and himself. And so, he moves behind on of the creatures and stabs it in the neck with his small dagger before moving to stab another in the neck.

By the end, there were eleven dead Goblins, he had killed two and aided in the killing of a third before finding himself moving to defend Kiba, leaving the others to take of the other eight. As Naruto looks about, he shrugs before bending over and looting the dead Goblins. Oddly enough, he felt the urge to join Naruto in doing so but asks, "And why are you looting them? It's not like they're carrying anything important." He says.

"True, but we could use the gold and sell the items at the nearest village." Naruto points out, calling to mind what he read in the Player's Handbook. "Well, move aside, I want my share of gold." Kiba says and with a shrug, he follows after the Inuzuka, out of the corner of his eye, he watches Shikamaru check Hinata and Choji over.

Well, this will prove to be very interesting, won't it? He muses softly to himself as he pockets a few old rings as well as gold coin from one of the dead Goblins before moving onto the next.

-)Be Continued . . .(-