A/N - Few things before we begin.

I'm pretty good in with the Author, I can give you guys a lil uprgade. ;) You're welcome.

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[Welcome to the Anima Project: Archive of Souls and Music.]

Again. You're welcome.

New features of being apart of the Anima Project is that you can glimpse into the Anima Project Podcast, and I stress this, I encourage you listen to it. Not to all of the random ones, but main characters. They give you insight of their character in the story and I will also reference, mention, or even speak as if you heard the song.

But you'll enjoy it even if you don't listen to the music, so it's fine.

On the podcast, you'll find all sorts of songs from different folks ya never even met. {That can be found right at the beginning over every chapter between these bad boys}.

I'm a nerd, but also a good way to show you the features. That ^^^ Up there in bold. That is the current font we are going to use for messages from Anima. Minus the bold.

Now, enough of that. Check out the new story.

Tell me straight up you don't love it.

DISCLAIMER - I do not own Naruto


{You are now listening to the Anima Project Podcast. Now playing: ~Archived soul; Hinata Hyuga~ Gin$eng - We're dreaming}

"I don't know man, they said it isn't over hyped and is actually the 'new age of social networking'. Who the hell fucking knows."

Sakura, a good friend of mine since high school, plopped down onto the couch next to me in the dorm common room as I kicked my feet onto the coffee table. A frown pulled my lips as I looked at the app within the store programmed on my phone. The newest craze had just launched a few days earlier, and not even the news could shut up about it.

Anima, the supposed 'new age of social networking', was an app that assigned you a profile with a single song attached to the description box. And while that normally would sound like fun in general to all sorts of people, what had everyone jumping through the roof was that supposedly 'your' song was chosen for you by the app itself.

Which is where I started having doubts.

Apparently the app based the song completely off of you. With a few questions, and a few permissions to grant, the thing took a quick five second glance within your mind, and just like that it produced a song that spoke the soul.

Your soul.

Technology now days was definitely going places, but if it was towards the right direction I wasn't sure. Apps could scan your mind with a push of a button, and the purpose? To make the next Facebook or Twitter.

But Anima had did a few press conferences about the app before it became available months ago, which is why it was already popular. Their idea sprung, years and years ago, from a simple thought one night over beers. "What if you met people through music?"

After that, they worked on the idea as they waited for the right technology to come out. And while I shifted uncomfortably at the thought of them breaching a comfort level I usually liked to keep within arms reach, the core founders of Anima not simply promised, but guaranteed security. Literally, they stated, at the end of every conference, that if anyone using the app felt as if their security was breached, sue them. As in the Anima Corporation itself.

Even I had to admit it I felt way more at ease about it. Shit now days, people sued for no reason at all so giving us a one spoke volumes on how they cared more about our security then the money they were already raking in.

And while the app was popular, I couldn't imagine it coming up with a song that portrayed me just from a glimpse within my head. I don't know, I didn't have much faith. But after three solid days, the app hadn't completely burst into flames by critiques on the market which set a statement on it's own. Actually, the ratings were record breaking. Literally. Not only that, but as I scrolled through the reviews I couldn't spot one person saying anything bad about it, which was refreshing considering everyone seemed to have some personal vendetta against everything.

"We might as well buy it man," Sakura huffed out as I continued to stare at my phone, "When you think about it, ten bucks isn't that steep."

"For an app though?" I muttered with a glance her.

She rolled her eyes, "Yes, even for an app. The damn thing sweeps your mind, it has to cost money to maintain. Plus, I already had a girl asking me what my Anima account was. Do you know how many girls we are going to miss out on if we don't make a damn account?"

I let out a sigh, weighing my options. When she continued to watch me, I rolled my eyes before caving and pressing the purchase button. It was either that, or she wouldn't shut up about it for the rest of the day.

She looked entirely too excited as a smooth grin split her face before she went to dig for her phone in her pocket. Within plain sight, as if to ensure I saw, she pressed the purchase button as well. And that was it.

Just another lazy Sunday, buying an app we most definitely could have lived with out.

But it's how I met her.

It's how all this shit started up.

And no matter what angle I looked at it... I couldn't bring myself to say that I regretted it.


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