The door swings open as Ashton runs into his room; Aluminum bag in his right hand, dangerously hot bowl of shrimp ramen in his left. He rushes to his 24-5Di television, the new updated version of the 23rd century that allows users to essentially interact with whatever is on the screen as if the viewer were actually part of the program. "Ash, don't be on that game all night, I saw on the news that its bad for your health!" My mother warned from up the stairs. I slurped a mouth full of the shrimp ramen from the bowl as if I was immune to the heat and ran to close my door. They say everything is bad for you in this century, but we'll develop a cure for it just like how we developed one for Cancer and it will be replaced again by another virus just like how we're searching for a cure for Mechanical Nano-Interference- The fatal virus that damages the central nano-chip that everyone has implanted in them at 1 week old. I guess its just Mother Nature's way of saying stop fucking with me. Drinking up the last bit of my ramen broth, I tap my wrist and call my best friend Nick. We had both just purchased the Naruto: Welcome to the Ninja Way game, a revamped and recreated game of the Naruto anime from the 21st century, and were ready to live, I mean play the game. The game was like every typical MMO game made now a days, where you essentially enter another dimension and become your created character. Except this game featured a role playing society to capture the essence of how life may be like living in a Naruto ninja world. Everyone who bought the game would be regular shinobi who could work their way up to become the Kage of a village. The Kage's and their advisers already set in place were the lucky few who were accepted into the beta version. They were not only gifted with knowledge of the game, but they were also ascribed certain abilities due to their titles. This game also boast another feature, every character you see in the game is real, meaning that the NPC's were all played by real people, people who worked for the company.
"This is about to be Dope," I said excitedly to the phone on my wrist. "Dope?" He laughed. "Nobody says dope anymore you mean its about to be Crystal, you my friend have been watching to many old movies" He said. " Yea yea crystal whatever" I said annoyed by truth of his comment. Nick had been my best friend since birth and we knew each other better than our own mothers did. It was probably because we did almost everything together. By everything I mean we had beaten almost every game together because that's all we ever did. We lived as if playing videos games was almost better than living itself. "I just started my game" Nick said as I started mine simultaneously. The last Naruto Shippuden theme song played in the background. Then Japanese characters for the 5 ninja villages appeared on the screen. On top of them was a health warning: playing this game for a long period of time could cause cerebral damage... blah blah blah. I exited the message and immediately a play button popped up in between two massive doors like you were entering a ninja village. "Alright, I'm about to enter the game," I said to Nick. "If you can add me on a friends list or something I'm going to make my name Nile I said. " Alright, I'll name mine Alev, its Turkish for flame." he said proudly. I laughed, "You always pick the weirdest names, but did I tell you I met this girl earlier when I was buying my game?" He repeated my laughter, "You didn't get her Codes ( What kids call digits in this century) though." "I mean I didn't but she said we could meet up in the game, she was so Hi-tek (Provocatively beautiful; sexy)," I responded. He laughed again, "Ok then what is her character name?" I paused how could I forget to ask her what she would name her character. " "Exactly, you're acting so LAN, but alright I'm starting, see you in game" he said and then the light on my wrist turned dark. I laid in my comfy game couch, clicked play, and closed my eyes.