Hello everyone! Meatbunattack here!

I've been on a long break from fanfiction lately due to real life getting in the way, but now I'm back! And now I got another story I want to share! I love the concept of this story and I'll try to have it as a 'write as I go' without any plans for the future of this story. I write it as a challenge to myself to try and develop my writing style a bit more and I'm already a few chapters into the story.

What I'll do with this one that I haven't done with any of my other stories is that I want you to help me out! There are so many directions this story can take and so many options on what kind of power my character will have and I want your advice! I'd appreciate it a lot if you could help me and join me through this journey to change the Naruto canon.

This will be an AU of Naruto, even before my character appeared things have changed.

I hope you enjoy this first chapter. Stick with me to the end! And sorry for any Grammar or spelling mistakes, I'm doing my best but English isn't my first language. It's a bit of a slow story in the beginning but it gets better with time, I promise.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Naruto as a universe, only my OC's.


Beginning

It's a beautiful sunny morning in Sunagakure. Small dust clouds stir up from the gentle desert wind outside the village and is giving a sense of calm to the desert, where the sun has just risen from the horizon to light up the glittering sand with its bright light. There are ninjas on lookout in the numerous guard spots inside the walls surrounding the village, many letting out a yawn as they finally see the sun after a long night.

Inside the village's walls is a clan compound to the east; one of the smaller ninja clans Sunagakure has acquired that they are very proud of to have. They may be small, consisting of four families at the moment, but what they lack in numbers they make up for in skill. The clan started as a merchant powerhouse but with one mutation within the clan it soon got divided into two parts, one who continued their merchant route and trade while the other focused on combat. The one who mutated to have a Kekkei genkai was Shiro Masago, who is still alive to this day after so many years. The Masago clan, both parts of it, were a great help in creating the village hidden in the sand about 60 years ago and for that they're held in a high regard within the village; to the point that the Masago are always guaranteed a spot within the council of the village.

The first to receive this Kekkei genkai, Shiro Masago, was a boy bright for his age. He became the merchant clan's main defense; getting skilled enough so they didn't have to hire just a few more shinobi to protect their precious cargo when he was assigned to it despite his young age. He was a true prodigy in anything he attempted to achieve. He never needed any sleep to keep his energy. He was always calm and collected no matter the situation he was in, even if he stumbled upon situations or was forced to perform actions that would make any normal child weep. Something that's always amazed those sharing his family name and the shinobi he spent time with is a trait everyone in Shiro's family line shares; whatever wound they have sustained, be it fatal or not, as long as they get a bed to sleep in, the wound will magically heal overnight. No one has been able to figure out how that works since there's nothing special with their blood, nor do anyone detect any major chakra usage throughout the night when they sleep to heal the wound.

As the clan developed inside Sunagakure's walls once the village was founded, all of his children shared his amazing abilities. Fast growth, incredible intelligence, always a sense of calm in the face of danger and an amazing ability to heal. Something that the special shinobi tasked with observing the special family find strange, is that everyone sharing Shiro's blood have a tendency to swipe and tap on thin air; as if there's something there that only they could see and interact with. When the interrogation department tried to get a hold of the clans secret power through interrogating the civilians who have been married to the clan members, they simply smiled and said that it was an ability no one other than the Masago would understand, that it would be too absurd for anyone else to believe. When they all stated the same reason, the interrogation team couldn't help but agree with the civilians and let the case go unsolved; they gave up on trying to find out about their secrets and simply let them be, letting them grow in size so that the city could boast about their talented shinobi.

An 'Game' ability, that's simply absurd. Being a ninja isn't some kind of game someone can play, it's a serious occupation where you have to put your life on the line every day to complete missions. But considering that it's the 'o' Masago ninja clan with their amazing hidden abilities, over the years the city have come to understand the view they have on their life a little better. They cannot die from wounds as long as they sleep it off, no one from Shiro's direct blood line has died in battle, only Shiro's wife has died from old age so far and Shiro himself will soon join her. At least he will stay alive long enough to see the next generation of his family arrive, the 4th generation.

Inside the clan compound, a woman has just given birth to a pretty little girl; exhausted and panting, she's gently holding onto her new little angel with the man beside her is looking at the baby with similar adoration. As the two nurses who assisted in the child birth start to pack up, seeing as their work is done, the mother whisper lowly under her breath.

"My baby girl…."

She look up to her husband with a tired yet warm smile, lightly tightening her hold on the resting bundle in her arms.

"You register her name, Hiro…"

The man smiles, leaning down to kiss the woman's forehead. Hiro lightly tap the air next to the child, pressing a button no one but them can see as he grin widely.

"Mio Masago…"

The two parents can hear a quiet 'ding' that only those of the clan can hear while the two nurses ignore what the new family of three is doing; the strange clan has done that for every child after all. As the baby has received her name, she open her eyes slowly to take her first look at the blurry image of her parents. The bright pink gaze of the child seem wiser than that of an infant, looking around her surroundings with a quiet coo. Recognizing this behavior and colour to her eyes, Hiro laugh, gently rubbing his nose against the babies cheek.

"She is a reset, love. Look at her eyes… beautiful."

The baby look absolutely confused by Hiros actions, limbs flailing as she stare at the man with wide eyes. The new mother smile widely at her baby, gaze so full of love as she lightly bring her closer to nuzzle her other cheek.

"Welcome to the family, Mio…."

First POV Mio

Okay. What is going on here? I'm currently lying in a crib of what's supposed to be my new… home? What? My limbs flail erratically as I look around, making my eyes tear up in frustration when my limbs don't follow my command. I want to stand up and look around but my body doesn't follow my thoughts. What is happening? Where am I? WHO am I? I can't clearly remember but I knows I'm NOT supposed to be this small.

Every thought process stop when I can suddenly see some kind of blue holographic window in front of me, making my eyes widen at the screen. On the very top of the screen it says "welcome" in big bold letters written in English, the universal language. Suddenly, more text start to appear on the screen and I read it, fascinated by this strange window that appeared from nowhere.

Welcome to your new life Mio Masago.

Mio Masago… it doesn't feel like my name but I can't remember what my name is supposed to e otherwise. Mio sounds cute…

You have just gotten the opportunity to be reborn and start your life anew. A much more exciting life that your previous one. You have no reason to hide your abilities to your clan since everyone are under my protection but only 4 in total have been reborn like you have.

Wait who is this thing that's watching over them? And reborn…? That explains why I feel like I should be different, that my environment should be different. I figure I should be panicking over this revelation but I'm not, I'm actually rather calm considering my situation. After all I can't remember who I was even if I feel like I should be different, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

You will grow and adapt in this new world in order to become a powerful Shinobi. If you think or say 'Pause' you will bring up the main menu.

It doesn't write more text after that, making me slightly confused. Pause…? I look around me wildly as my surroundings change, eyes widening more as the bedroom disappears with white tiles suddenly appear out of thin air to block my reality. As I'm inside this space it feels like the space will go on forever… I look around with wide eyes, not even noticing that I'm floating and able to control my limbs much better in here. As another screen appears before me, I turn to face it.

This is the pause menu. It might've paused the world outside the menu for the original game user but for you younger generation time still goes on around you.

What, so now I'm just staring dumbly in my crib as I'm in here…?

You can hear and feel anything that's happening in the outside world while you're in the pause menu if you choose to do so. In the pause menu you will have access to many different special options that you can't reach outside this void space.

The window shift to get smaller, deleting the text once it's certain I've read it. A menu appears beside the text window, something I clearly recognize. But I don't remember from where… It has "save game, load game, options, shop" in four different blue rectangle buttons.

This is the main menu. Here you can save your game, load a recent save, adjust your options to what you see out in the real world and access the special shop with jutsus, powers, that only your clan has the ability to learn. Of course, you can always learn other abilities outside the clan with enough practice. Clan jutsus are expensive so you need to save up a lot of money to buy any of them. Please save your game.

I blink dumbly at the text before I glance to the 'shop' button. So in there I can get jutsus…? What's a jutsu? I recognize the word but I don't remember from where… following the 'tutorial' as I've dubbed to call it, I press the 'save game' button. The screen shifts to show four empty slots available for save files. I glance to the text window as it starts to write again.

This is the save screen. You can have up to four different saves and overwrite saves as you go on with your life. Save your game in important situations so that if you fail you can always reload your save and try again. If you die and get a game over, you'll restart from your latest save file. If you ever feel like you could've done something different to better your life, you could always return to your younger years and do it over. But be warned, your clan members will know if you ever choose to reload a save and will be angry at you for going back years without their consent. Please save your game in the first slot.

So I have a cheat system to make sure I never die…? Wow that's… that's really cool and really useful. Without knowing how, I reach out a hand to lightly press on 'save file 1 empty' with my finger. As I spot the very chubby limb, I can't help but stare at it; looking long and hard at my hand. It's… really small. I clench and unclench it, fascinated that I can control this small, weak limb in here. As my observation on my body is complete, also spending some time to look at my stomach and legs, I look up at the screen in front of me. The tutorial has finished writing what it want to say and I notice that the first save file now says 'first day as an infant' instead of empty. Neat. I shift my gaze to read what the tutorial has to say.

Now that you've saved your game you can always return to being an infant if you choose to. You have only four save slots so think carefully as you overwrite them to replace with new saves. To load a save, it's just like saving it, pressing the save you want to reload and accept. Now, press 'back' so we can get into options.

I do as it says, pressing the bright blue 'back' button. The tutorial automatically press on the options button for me and there's suddenly a huge list of options in front of me. Well, not huge, but certainly larger than I imagined. I turn to the text screen first to see what it has to say. This is kinda fun to explore…

This is the options screen. Here you can adjust your settings to your needs. All from colour on your menu to useful hud you can see in real life. Take your time to look through the options and adjust it how you'd like it, then press back when you're ready.

I nod slightly to the tutorial before I focus on the options menu. I start to fill in and adjust to how I want it, not really knowing how or why I know what everything does. But I'm not complaining.

Background music: [on] [off]

Subtitles: [on] [off]

HP and CP display: [on] [off]

Mini-map: [on] [off]

Speech volume: 100

Music volume: 60

Sound effect volume: 60

Subtitles speed: Fast

Subtitle language: English

Menu colour: Red

Once I'm done with fixing up the options, I press the now red 'back' button to return to the main menu. I can see the friendly tutorial typing away again in its window and I read what it has to say. Now the window is red instead of blue like it was before; red is my favorite colour so of course I'd choose red.

Now that concludes the tutorial. You'll gain access to the main menu shop once you've gained enough experience so that's something you'll get to learn about later on. There's still much to learn about your abilities but those are outside of the menu screen and something you'll get to learn from your family. Make sure to keep me entertained or you never know what will happen in your future. I'll talk to you if it's ever needed~. Say 'exit' once you want to exit the main menu.

Once I've read everything that's been written, the window close and disappear. I can't help but shiver at the hidden threat in there to keep it happy, frowning slightly as I look down at my chubby baby legs. Keep it happy, huh…? Well… how would I know what would make it happy? Maybe it's another thing that my clan will teach me… but what is a clan? What is this HP and CP? Is it like mana and health? Possibly, it feels like I know all the functions to this 'game' thing already but I don't know why or how. But it all feels so… familiar.

I mentally say 'exit' and the world around me disappears just as quickly as it appeared. Once I blink back into reality, my eyes widen in shock and surprise at having someone suddenly appear right in front of my face. So much that my body starts to cry in distress, not able to process the emotion even if my mind can. My limbs flail around me as I'm trying to push away the giant head that's way too close, but of course my limbs don't follow my command. I can hear soft music in the background, but it's too soft for me to really focus on.

They talk some kind of gibberish, the person who just invaded my personal space, and I can feel myself get picked up. When my head hangs limply on my shoulders, they're quick to support me and hold me to their chest. With the gently rocking motion and soft mumbling in my ear, I can feel my emotions slowly dim and am finally able to calm down. Once my straight out crying and screaming has been reduced to sniffs, I can't help but feel embarrassed over my actions. I just straight out cried because this someone startled me. That's so pathetic….

"You're special, Right…? You understand what I'm saying, right…?"

I blink in confusion as I see text appear on the bottom of my vision, looking down at it. The text follow my gaze so I can't clearly see what it says. Is that the subtitles…? The person that's holding me pull me away enough so I can look at them, a wide smile on their face. It looks like a boy, not much older than 7 or 8 years old if you go by his baby fat. He has wild spiky dark green hair that frame his smiling face nicely. He has wide and happy neon purple eyes that's practically sparkling in excitement. I blink again at him, making a small sound of confusion. What did he just say…? The next time he speaks I can see the text under my vision much better, like it's moved up slightly to adjust to my blurry vision.

"Yup, that's the eyes. Hey, I'm Yohio. I'm 7 years old and just like you. I was also reborn into this clan… I hope we can be great friends."

I blink a few more times as I register what he says, managing a small smile and gurgle as confirmation. The tutorial did say there were 4 others in the clan like me. So this one has also gotten reborn huh…? The boy giggles softly and adjust his grip on me, sitting down on a chair inside the room as he continue to speak to me. Speaking to me like the adult mind that I am. It's such a relief to not be treated like a baby… Or, well. I feel like an adult, like I was an adult before this happened to me.

"I know it'll be hard in the beginning, being a baby and all that… but it'll get better eventually. Since our great grandpa was the first to be reborn, the whole family has accepted it and embraced it. They treat everyone that's like us like normal adults so they're all really nice."

Yohio grin wider, making me notice his dimples as a happy blush spread on his cheeks. He's getting excited to talk about our family, my new family, and I listen to what he's saying with wide curious eyes, not even noticing how I start to chew on my hand.

"You know, the difference between those who are reborn, or 'reset' as the clan like to call it, are the eyes. A normal baby born in our clan has a 'normal' colour in the eyes. But we reborn got unique ones! Shiro-Sama has pure red eyes. Uncle Taro has neon green eyes. I have purple and you got bright pink! Isn't it cool?"

I blink again as I process this information, looking around the room. I have pink eyes? Really? Oh no that sounds so weird, I gotta look in a mirror to see how bad it is. Is there a mirror in here? Yohio is just about to start talking again when I spot someone in the doorway. Someone with warm brown eyes and a gentle smile on her face. I recognize her… that's my mother right? I can feel myself getting drawn to her. Wanting to be closer to this woman, I flail my limbs in her direction as I try to smile widely at the woman despite my facial features not responding to me correctly yet. She's so pretty too despite my vision being so blurry. The woman laughs happily, walking forward and making her long, curly black hair sway with the motion. She's absolutely stunning in my opinion…

"Introducing Mio to the world, Yohio-kun~?"

She says softly, bending down to pick me up just like I wanted. I stare fascinated at her hair, baby hands moving to take hold of it. It's so soft… despite not seeing him, I can see the text as Yohio speak. I'm so glad for the subtitles, or I wouldn't understand a word they say otherwise. Perhaps I'll try to turn it off when I wanna learn the language but not yet, I want to understand where I am first.

"Yeah! I mean, she's like me. Reborn and all that. I wanna assure her that the time as a baby will be strange but it's gonna be better!"

The woman laugh happily and I can feel a pair of lips being pressed to my temple. I turn to look at her and is amazed at the amount of love in her eyes. This woman is so beautiful… I wish I'll be as beautiful as her when I grow up. Petite nose, full lips, small freckles on her cheeks that's barely visible under her tan skin. Her beautiful black curls of hair and warm brown eyes. She's breathtaking….

"Mnhm… welcome to our family, Mio darling. I'm Hanami, your mother. Yohio is your cousin, your father's sister's son. Just like everyone else in our family, he'll help you along to grow stronger. Don't be afraid to ask about your powers, Okay? We all know it can be confusing at first… at least you have the advantage of already getting access to the menu~."

She pause to press another gentle kiss to my forehead, making me giggle happily with a slight warmth spreading on my cheeks.

"You'll learn our language super fast thanks to it. Right Yohio-kun?"

I can almost feel Yohio nod after shouting out an excited 'yeah' but right now I'm only focusing on Hanami. My mother is beautiful! And so kind too! I like my new family already. After many tries, my hand manage to land on her cheek, a happy gurgle escaping me at the small success. Small tears gather in the corner of her eyes, her smile spreading wider as she gently kiss my forehead again. This woman is making me feel so warm and loved, I'll absolutely give her the same treatment once I'm properly able to.

"I love you Mio… let's go and meet the rest of your family."

She then turn towards the exit, gently holding me to her chest with one arm while her other reach down to presumably grasp Yohio's hand. I'm carried along and, since there's nothing more I can do, I look around my new home as we walk. It's made of some kind of gravy light brown stone without any kind of cracks in the structure, but despite the bland colour it feels cozy. Like… like a warm and comfortable home. This new life… I have no idea what my past life was like. But I can't help being extremely excited for what comes next. They seem so warm and understanding of my situation. I'm really glad I'm not in this strange predicament alone... I wonder who other than me, Yohio and this Shiro-sama who are reborn. Neon green eyes… I'll look out for those.


I'm wearing a grumpy pout on my face, doing my best to glare up at the person making 'funny' faces at me. It's my cousin Aiko, a girl who's around 14. She has baby blue eyes, very pretty eyes I must admit, and straight dark green hair in the same shade as Yohio. She looks like a pretty and bright girl, but right now I can't help getting extremely annoyed with her. She knows I'm older than her mentally yet she treat me like a baby. And she's just having fun at my expense! I let out a loud scream of frustration when she once again tries to tickle my stomach with those 'goochie goochie' sounds. It's embarrassing and frustrating!

The family meeting went very well, I like everyone in my family so far, despite Aiko treating me this way. Something that seems to be a family tradition is that everyone has a name that ends with 'o' excluding those who are married into the family. So there's old man Shiro, who looked very very old, grandpa Jiro and Katsuo with their respective wives Masami and Sayaka. None of the old ones paid much attention to me and mostly said hi, introduced themselves and sat down by a table to talk like adults do.

Uncle Taro had really pretty neon green eyes and apparently he's the clan leader. Aunt Chiyoko is the oldest of my uncles and aunts but she isn't clan head. Maybe cause Taro is a Reset…? There's also uncle Gorou who's Chiyoko's husband, aunt Emi who's uncle Taro's wife, uncle Daisuke and his wife Ichigo. Yohio has a big sister, Aiko who's making these silly faces at me. They're children to Chiyoko and Gorou. There's also Setsuko and Sho who are twins and children to the clan leader Taro and Emi. And Yuuto who's single child like me to Ichigo and Daisuke. I'm the youngest of them all, of course, but Aiko is the eldest of them all, being 14. Then there's the twins at 10 years old, Yohio at 7 and Yuuto at 4 years old. It's a very small but very nice clan. Everyone seems excited that there are two reset children in this generation considering the last generation had only Taro.

Another family trait that everyone has who are born into our clan, other than our name, is apparently our hair colour. We either have dark green, dark blue, dark red or dark purple hair. Not really normal colours. Even great grandpa Shiro has a strange light purple colour to his hair without any white in it. Why does his hair keep that colour despite his age? My grandpa's wives have grey hair like old people should have. I guess it's something to do with our special power?

But back to my current frustration, I try to stay angry at Aiko's stupid and childish actions, but my body betrays me as I start to smile at the tickles and silly faces. I'm not capable of laughing yet, which will be when my vocal cords have developed more, but my body's emotions is overriding that of my mind. Which is really irritating and embarrassing.

Yohio, bless that child for understanding my plight, whine at his sister and lightly pull on her shirt.

"Siiiis stop that! She doesn't think it's funny!"

Aiko simply grins at her little brother, a mischievous glint in her eyes. She seems to be a troublemaker at first glance…

"Yes she does~. Look at that happy little smile of yours!"

She turn back to me and nuzzle playfully into my belly. Just what I needed. I grab onto her dark green hair and pull, making her cry out in pain and try to remove my hands without hurting me. I'm basking happily at the sound of her pain, glad to know that I can cause her as much physical pain as she embarrassed me.

I can hear a sigh from my mother, Hanami, as she approach me and the two siblings. She effectively make me let go of Aiko's hair, without me really knowing how, and pick me up to hold me close. I can't see what she's doing as I'm resting over her shoulder, but I can hear her scold Aiko.

"Aiko, just like with Yohio you shouldn't treat Mio like that, it's embarrassing for her."

As my mother continue to scold Aiko for her behavior, I spot Yuuto, the adorable four year old shooting me a smile and a cheerful wave from where he's sitting beside the twins colouring. I smile back, since I can't do much else, and is content to not really focus on any conversation. That's also when I notice the background music…. it's beautiful and calming.

I can hear the sound of a distant, soft flute along with string instruments, creating a calm feel to my surroundings. I choose to zone out even more from the clan members voices, focusing on the music as I'm carried by my mother. This feels so nice….

"-io. Mio are you listening?"

I blink out from my earlier daze, trying to focus on the person in front of me. I immediately notice his neon green eyes and curly dark blue hair, knowing that it can only be Taro, our current clan leader. I let out a soft sound at the back of my throat, widening my eyes at him. NOW I'm paying attention. I'm still thankfully being held by my mother Hanami, feeling comfortable in her arms. Taro sigh softly and smile gently at me, as if understanding why I had just zoned out. He has clear lines on his face from smiling so much through his years, he look like a really nice uncle honestly. The one who smiles the most at least.

"Right, hard to focus… But as I was saying, I'll help you unlock the memories of your past once you've developed your chakra enough. So just like I said to Yohio-kun…"

He reach out to gently boop my nose with his pointer finger, making me giggle softly at the motion. That felt so weird in the body I currently have… Yet I'm oddly amused by such a small gesture.

"Make sure to work hard, Mio-chan. One day, you'll help to guide other Resets as a part of our clan… We'll start your training once you've started to walk properly ok? So you don't accidentally press something you shouldn't."

Glad to see some sort of start to when I can get to know where the hell I am and what's going on, I get excited by this revelation. I have no idea what he means with training, but I guess it's going to lead towards that 'experience' the tutorial was talking about. I giggle softly and flail my arms around, I'm looking forward to it! A small 'ding' sound can be heard from Taro's location, making everyone turn towards him. He get a grim look on his face, pressing the air in front of him. What's he doing…? As If reading my thoughts, Hanami ask him the question I want to ask him too. And by the looks of it, everyone else too…

"Another mission from our Maker…? What is it about?"

Tako look around at his family until his eyes land on Yohio, gaze lingering on him for a few more seconds. As he turn back to me and Hanami, he's smiling again, shaking his head slightly in dismissal.

"Just another mission specified for the clan head… Nothing we have to concern us about right now."

He press the air again and everyone return to what they did before that sound appeared from thin air. I'm just blinking confused, what just happened? No one bothers to explain it to me either, the festivities of inviting me to the family continuing like nothing happened. As my mother sit down with the grown ups to converse, I can feel my stomach churning in need for substance. Realizing what I have to do to satisfy it since I'm still a very small baby, I can feel the colour drain from my face. Oh this is going to be humiliating…


So yes, this is a gamer fanfic but a different take on it from what I've read before. I've been inspired by 'Gamer of sunagakure' and 'dreaming of sunshine' to write this fanfiction. Compared to other gaming powers, my version of the gaming element is quite different... You'll see what I mean as the story goes on. Also the fact that my main character isn't alone with this power, that she has a whole clan supporting her as she moves forward. If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them!

This chapter's question: Which ninja village would you have preferred to be reborn into?