The Five Hidden villages appeared again, except this time you could choose telepathically which village you want to be from. I chose the village hidden in the Mist, as I was a little of a water element buff. The screen zoomed in on the village, then through the mist, and then it zoomed in on a 3 story building, to a room on the second floor, until it finally arrived at a mirror. In the reflection of the mirror was a half-naked character with random features. Next to each of his features was the word of each corresponding part of the body and at the top and option to choose the gender. I started with the hair making my character have a pony tail similar to that of Shikamaru's. I then moved down until I reached the feet. I made my character look like a combination of Shikamaru, Haku, and myself; with scrubble turning into a goatee. "Character customization is really detailed," I thought. "Its probably because there will be that many players in the game." My customization of the features of the character was followed by a height and age selection, I chose to make my character 5'8 and 15 years old, I wanted my gaming experience to be as realistic as possible. After selecting the features and the height and age, my character turned to a closet and a wardrobe where I could select what he would be wearing. As I was selecting, my character was actually reaching in the closet and wardrobe finding the clothes that I chose. I chose an outfit that looked exactly like Shino's in Naruto Shippuden except all black and without the glasses. My character finished by tying his headband around his head. Then the screen turned black. Suddenly in the darkness, five element orbs appeared. They were Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, and Water. I guess these orbs represent chakara elements so being the water buff that I am, chose water. It allowed me to choose again so my second choice was wind. After choosing the screen went black again. This short time of darkness was followed by the word Kekki Genkai and it had highlighted options for which ability I could choose. "Sweet, I'll make my shinobi like Haku" I said choosing his blood line ability. After I chose, darkness covered everything again, but this time when I could see again, everything was different. I was finally in control of my character, looking at this new world through his eyes. I looked at the ceiling, then at my hands, I was definitely in control of this body. After getting used to moving a character that I created myself, I realized that I was actually laying down. I got out of bed quickly, moving felt more automatic than I thought it would, and ran to the mirror. I appeared in the mirror, but this time with no options to change my features and with a strange light blue steak that stretched from the front of my head to the end of the hairs that were tied up. "I guess this is how I'll look forever" I thought, thinking about how life consuming this game would be. "Man this has to be the most Crystal game I've ever played!" I heard someone shouting from outside of the door. "Don't say crystal, we gotta act the part, but yea man this shit is dope!" Another voice exclaimed. I moved to the door like a shinobi, back against the wall, ears perked up, right hand on my kunai pouch. I had Kunai! I reached into the pouch and saw 12 razor sharp knives ready to be thrown. The kunai weren't the only things that surprised me, but I was also surprised at how fluidly I moved to the door, Like a real shinobi! The mechanics of this game were definitely better than any game that I have ever played. After getting over my surprises I heard more people talking outside and with no cries for help or the sound of metal clashing, I decided it was safe enough to go outside. I opened the door, the piercing sharp rays of the sun did more damage than any kunai I was expecting would. After my eyes adjusted to the light, I was surprised again by how real the game looked. I could see the rust on the railing in front of my door, the dew dripping from a humming bird's beak as it was drinking from a flower. Perhaps what surprised me the most was how the female characters on the ground below me looked. I mean usually female game characters can be hot to an extent, but these characters looked exactly like real girls. I took in the scenery for a while before I realized that everyone was actually headed in the same direction. Testing out the mechanics of the game even further, I hoped off of the second floor where my room was onto the ground. I felt the shock wave through my body as I stuck my landing, two feet like a pro-gymnast. "That was pretty cool dude," I heard a high pitch voice coming closer to me. "I really wish I didn't make my character 7 years old, I don't even get a headband until I graduate the academy and become a Genin." I looked around and then finally down until I saw a kid. "Dam I'm really glad I decided to make myself 15 years old, I guess it was shinobi intuition" I patted myself on my back inside my head. "I'm sorry about that kid, what's you name?" I asked the pipsqueak. "Ok dude I'm not a kid in real life I'm actually 13, and the names Aqua." He said crossly. "To make things worse he was really a kid in real life and he picked a name like aqua, no creativity whatsoever," I laughed in my head. "Oh well Aqua I'm Nile, do you know where everyone is going?" I said talking slowly as if I was talking to a baby rather than a 13 year old. Before I could finish my sentence Aqua was running in the direction that everyone else was headed. Yelling back in my direction he said, "The MizuKage is about to give the opening ceremony, you fucking dick!" Its always funny how the youngest kids in every game always have the worse language. I ran in the direction of the crowd and the loud murmur of voices, lets see what the MizuKage looks like.

When I finally got to where everyone was gathered, I saw a tall building covered in moss here and there that stretched so high that I couldn't see the top due the to mist. I looked around and saw both female and male characters as kids, as teens, some as adults wearing an assortment of clothing. Everyone however looked completely different from the other. Spanning the the crowd my eyes landed on a character that looked like someone's grandpa. He wore all black robes that had a hood which he had taken off. He had a long white Gandalf like beard to compliment his Gandalf like hairstyle which complimented his old hunched over stature. His eyes looked kind of scary though, almost lifeless. I chuckled, "What a troll." In the middle of my observation a voice from a plateau like building in front of the really tall building began to speak,

"Attention shinobi of Kirigakure, I am Yagura, your MizuKage, I welcome you" he said with confidence. The Mizukage looked and sounded exactly like Yagura from Naruto except he was a little taller and he boasted the Kage ensemble. He continued, "As we all know, the game was just released simultaneously across the world, so every shinobi, except those who were allowed access to the beta have equal skills sets," He paused. "The game is based on similar laws to reality so your character will age, feel pain,and grow physically just like if we were in the regular world. Since this is a shinobi world, you will find that there are rules from the regular world that do not apply" He paused and turned to his left, "For example..." Standing to the left of the Mizukage was a shinobi wearing a gas mask and clothes that resembled a pinstripe paunch o that was tighter the closer it got to his head. The ninja was unnecessarily tall and made the Mizukage look like a child. When Yagura looked in his direction the shinobi weaved hand signs so rapidly my eyes could barely keep up with the movement of his fingers. "Summoning Jutsu!" He said with a deep thunderous voice. He bit his thumb and thrust his palm onto the ground and a cloud of smoke appeared and when it cleared the giant gas masked shinobi was in the shadow of what looked like a giant bear with a skunk like tail and snout. The Mizukage continued, "We as shinobi are gifted with the ability to manipulate chakara and as shinobi of the mist we boast specialty in the greatest element, that of Water" He paused this time smiling before he started speaking again, "We shinobi of the Kirikagure are the best shinobi in the ninja world and we shall prove that to the other villages either by diplomacy or by war, let all fear the showers of the Blood Mist." The crowd cheered on cue and I found even myself yelling "Blood Mist" as if I was under some genjutsu. Suddenly the sun turned black, the sky illuminated with a red glow. In the face of the sun a human face appeared that looked just like the old shinobi I had saw in the crowd earlier. Its eyes moving like a baby that realized it could see for the first time. It said, "I am Tonori Miyazaki, better known as the creator of this game. However, all Shinobi must refer to me as Madara." As he said Madara the ground began to shake making everyone tremble with fear." He continued, "Mother Nature has become despised with the insolence of human kind and has blessed me with the power to bend reality. From now on this is you're reality." I looked around to see if everyone was just as confused as I was. "You shall be trapped here forever, but if you die your life shall disappear from both worlds." He was about to continue talking when I heard a familiar voice, "Why don't ya shut up jackass, this is a game, I'll sue your ass if anything happens to me for real fucktard." I looked over to see Aqua yelling at the sky. Aqua's character then appeared in the sky like he was being recorded on TV. "I will make an example of him," the sun said. As soon as he said this the old man I had saw earlier in the crowd was bending over in front of Aqua, face to face. One of his eyes had the rinnegan pattern the other a sharingan in the tsukuyomi pattern. The sky then showed Aqua in a different place. He was nailed to the ground and crying out in pain. There were also clones of the old man, each holding a large stone. Each of the clones began to put the stones on top of Aqua, each stone applying more weight causing Aqua to cry out in an inhuman-like sounding pain. the process continued and restarted for what seemed like days until the sky returned to its red glow. I looked at Aqua in the crowd, snapping out of the apparent trance we were in, and saw that he was on the ground; the old man was nowhere to be seen. Someone ran over to check his pulse, "He's dead" the person said trembling. " The black sun began to speak again, "If you die in this world you die in both worlds" He said in an eeirie voice and then continues speaking, "You as shinobi will make this world realistic, I have gifted certain shinobi with kekkai genkai abilities while others are just regular shinobi. In a shinobi world villages must compete for resources and revenue so each village will have a feudal lord that they must protect or their village will be utterly destroyed. Villages can be employed by other feudal lords to gain more revenue and resources based on the strength of their shinobi. Welcome to your new reality." The sun and sky then turned back to their natural state, the shocking words resonanting in the air, "Welcome to your new reality."