Updated: Fixed some minor errors with the story, enjoy.
Naruto found himself flung as the cables released him from their grip. He screamed as he flew through what he felt was a massive pipe of colors with what he would call girly music playing in his ears. 'What the hell,' the boy thought not understanding where the music was coming from or what was happening to him. The colors were light and easy on the eyes, definitely girly colors. Where the hell was he? When would he hit the bottom? Where was the bottom? And most importantly, why was everything girly? His brain couldn't come up with the answers of what the heck was happening.
Then all of suddenly the colors became dark and the music became odd. It almost sounded satanic. The colors were dark red and black, and they were pulsating at the beat, almost like that of a club or something. Then it changed once again but this time with pictures and memories that flashed through his eyes, events he never knew of. When did he save a girl with red hair? When did he...Oh hell no! He had Never kissed a boy! What the hell was going on!? So many other memories rush into his skull. Like him having a team of genin, becoming the fourth Hokage, learning a new sword style, and finding out he was selected to be the next jinchuuriki of the kyuubi by some elderly lady. Something he found out he about very recently. All these experiences came to him and ended abruptly when he hit the floor.
He was so distracted by the images he didn't realize how close to the ground he had became. He stood up groggily, he definitely felt all of that impact. Naruto rubbed his head, and took in his surroundings. There was nothing but endless white. Great! He must of died! Naruto instantly panicked, "I'm dead!" Naruto yelled waving his hands in the air comically. Naruto was stopped by a voice!
"Hello and welcome to Avatar customization!" a loud and excited male voice declared happily.
Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and looked around the area, "What? Who's there!?" the boy asked loudly. Just what in the name of the fourth Hokage was going?
"STAGE 1: CHARACTER APPEARANCE!"
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING!" the boy hollered back rubbing at his ears. Stupid loud voices from nowhere. "Where are you?" he questioned looking all around him. All he could see was white, so where was this guy hidding?
"Please select the traits that are right for you!" the voice once again said making Naruto more confused.
"What are you talking about!?" Naruto scream at the voice. He had finally had it, was this some game to this person? Could he not see how worried he was? It was at this time a screen popped up in front of him. That simple action caused Naruto stumble backwards and point at the screen, "Where did that come from!?" Naruto demanded the voice to tell him. Naruto stood up a moment later after not getting an answer, dust himself off though he did not need to, and looked at the screen before him with a perplexed look. On the screen was a picture of Naruto smiling back at him. A box popped up, "Do you accept your appearance?" it said.
"I'm awesome looking, though…" he had hit the no button. Much to his surprise he could change many things about him, like his own face! He could be a girl if he wanted to too, but he could already do that with the sexy jutsu so there would be no point to doing that. Why would he change something so awesome as himself? He wouldn't! He could also change his clothes and the color of them! Oh hell to the yes! He was pimping out his clothing. He was so seeing if he could find something more cooler than his jumpsuit, yeah like that would happen! Sure enough he found more than one thing that he would replace his jumpsuit for.
He had decided on black, baggy pants with an orange belt and a black kunai holster on his right thigh, black sandals, a black forehead protector, black fingerless gloves trimmed in orange, a orange short sleeved shirt with a black and white shuriken pattern, a black, short sleeved cloak with a white border and orange flames and kanji standing for 'Fire Shadow'. It looked just like the fourth's but more badass in his opinion. The last thing to add to his appearance was the orange bandages wrapped around his wrists to mid-forearms and his ankles to his mid-calves. Boy did he look kick! He looked like a miniature fourth hokage! He hit the ok button and watched as his whole appearance changed for real.
"No fucking way!" the blond exclaimed completely overwhelmed by the the fact that he looked like the image of himself on the screen! 'Just what the hell is going!?' someone had really need to clue him on what was going, cause right now he had no idea. Now he was really happy he didn't change himself be a female or something stupid. The the thought of looking down and not seeing good ol' mister johnson, made him cross his legs. Bad thoughts!
"STAGE TWO: CHARACTERISTICS!"
Naruto's hands came up to his ears, "GOD DAMN IT!" The screen in front of him pulled up a list of characteristics. There were five of them that were starred. Naruto looked at the list. "Choose the characteristics that better suit your style." he read, "Each characteristic has a special effect, so choose wisely!"
"I don't even...you know what, yeah...yeah okay I'll play along for now. Then maybe I can get some answers." he told himself. He had better get some answers, and soon or his brain was going explode or worse! "Alright let's see what they choosen for me." He said playing along with the voice. He looked at the screen once again.
Ambitious: having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed. An additional 5% EXP bonus after every win. Watch out! Every loss will cause a deduction from your EXP bar!.
"EXP, what the hell is that?" Naruto asked out to no one. He didn't understand what this thing was talking about.
Charismatic: exercising a compelling charm that inspires devotion in others. This skill allows the player to charm and persuade vendors and characters for better trade and buying options and to talk your way out of sticky situations. You also receive 5% off any boost a party member shares! So spread that love!
"Okay then, seems good," the blond responded, then he read the last part, "Spread that love? Man that was stupid!" he complained about the text.
Luck: the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities. This can be for the good or the bad! So how will your luck hold out? Chances of finding rare and legendary stuff is highly increased, but so is the chances of running into insanely powerful bosses and harder enemies!
Naruto crossed his arms and looked away irritatedly, "With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia." he said cursing his luck.
Headstrong: You don't care what others think and will rush into the action head first and hope for the best and plan as you go from there! Rushing into battle cause an extra 10% damage boost, and have an extra 5% heath gain each charge if health was lost in previous battles (no effect if at full health). Harder to work with others in combat because of your thick headedness!
"Seems legit." Naruto nodded to himself. So far all the traits sounded pretty good. Then he caught on to the last bit the statement, "I do not have a thick head!"
Show Off: No need to share the fame, you're too flashy for others to handle. Special attacks cause more damage and you are able to use more powerful attacks at once. Too bad your SP bar takes a massive hit after each one! Watch yourself or you will hit zero in a flash! What can we say, haters gonna hate.
"Awesome! I can use special attacks!" Naruto cheered upping into the air. He didn't care what SP was, but whatever it was he hoped he had a lot of it. It was funny, all those traits sounded just like him. "Do I accept?", Naruto smirked and pushed the green button, "Believe it!"
"Congratulations and welcome to Gamindustri!" the voice said cheerfully. Then the how place became dark. Naruto was left standing in the middle of the pitch black room blinking.
"Why do I feel differently." he responded. This was no situation to be congratulated on. "Uh, hello...stupid loud voice dude!" Naruto called out with his hands cupped in front of his mouth. No response came to him. "Well shit thanks for leaving me here!" Then there was a light, a blue glow coming from a spot in front of him, "This has got disaster written all over this." Naruto mumbled to himself as he walked towards the light against his better judgement.
He got up to the free floating orb and asked, "Hello?"
The orb reacted to his voice, "Hello Naruto Uzumaki, and project Optical!" The ball of blue said happily, "I'm Siri, your guide for the moment." It informed floating around the blond once. "If you have questions please ask!"
"Finally some answers!" The boy cried out with relief. "For starters, where the heck am I?" He asked in a rushed tone. He didn't know how long he had to talk with her before she or him disappeared.
"You are in Gamindustri! A cross dimension from your own! You are inside the video game world. In this reality shift realm are four presiding CPUs or Console Patron Unit. Each reside in Celestia, a world they separate from the land they oversee. There is CPU Black Heart, and her "Land of Black Regality - Lastation". Then there is CPU White Heart, and her "Land of White Serenity- Lowee". CPU Green Heart, and her "Land of Green Pastures - leanbox". Lastly there is CPU Purple Heart, and her "Land of Purple Progress - Planeptune"." Siri finished her monolog helpfully giving information to Naruto. Naruto however blinked not realizing or understanding what had been just said.
Naruto nods rubbing his temples, "That's great and all," he started but looked back at the orb with squinted eyes, "What does this have to do with me." He was completely lost at what she was saying. Like what the Hell is a consol-CPU anyway?
"Everything! And nothing…"
"What does that even mean!?" The blond yelled letting his temper get the best of him.
"Well it doesn't matter to you, and yet it does. You see you are something new, something the gaming consoles haven't seen or are prepared for. You are project optical or better known as Oculus Rift!"
Naruto became confused and tilted his head, "Dah what?"
"Oculus Rift. It is the first step to virtual reality! Since you are here, it means much more than the first step, it means it was successful! You are the first human to be here and see the world beyond reality! You should feel special." Siri explained.
Naruto frowned, "So I'm the first, what does that mean?" He asked still trying to get a grip on the predicament.
"You are the key between reality and non reality. You see, since you are alive and real, you can die here in this world which would bring the downfall to this realm."
"Great, I'm a monster in both places," he whispered shaking his head, "Well how would that kill this world?"
"You dying would cause the four continents to fall-" Siri was cut off by Naruto.
"What there are flying continents?!" Naruto interjected. Naruto had to remind himself not look down at anytime if that was the case.
The ball bounced up and in the air, "Yes! Did I forget to mention that? Nevermind, as I was saying… your death would cause the four continents to fall. You see, the four CPUs built their lands for gamers of all to enjoy. So if a real living human was to die in any of their lands it would cause a wipeout. None of the consoles would be able to handle any type of real human loss in or out of their territory."
Naruto snapped his fingers, "So that means even if I died they would instantly shut down, but why would that cause them all to shut down, wouldn't that only cause the one I died in to fall?" He asked, If anyone he knew had heard him say that, they would be shocked. It was an actual good question.
Siri didn't miss a beat, "That is because the consoles were made for real people to enjoy them, any real loss would cause them to crash. The CPUs wouldn't be able to bare the pain and stress it would cause."
"Then why the hell am I here for!?" Naruto snapped. He really didn't like this whole thing, sure he got a badass outfit, but that was besides the point. He still had no clue why he was here, no word of how that damn black box fell from the sky or how it happened, how to get home, and now he had even more to worry about because his death could wipe everything out. What the fuck kind of dream is this! He knew damn well this wasn't a dream too. That fall had hurt like hell and was still hurting a bit from that crash landing.
"You are here to be the stand in for the Oculus Rift! You were randomly chosen, you must be really lucky to win such an honor!" she said in a cute tone of voice.
Naruto didn't share her enthusiasm, "It feels more like a nightmare." he told himself putting a hand to his forehead. So he won some kind of lottery or something and became the avatar for this Oculus Rift thing. "Okay, now how do I leave this place?" he said with a more calculative tone that wasn't fitting for his character.
"That will be answer after you leave this place." she told him, "It is also very important you don't let anyone know of your human status, it would spell disaster for this realm." she warned getting closer to the boy's face.
Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, "What, why?" he inquired not getting her meaning.
"Ahh, I almost forgot." she spoke realizing her mistake and backing away from the boy, "The CPUs are in a never ending battle for supremacy for Gamindustri. It is a battle etched in time. This is called the Console Wars!" she declared the last part for a more dramatic effect, which easily worked on Naruto.
"No way a war!" the blond commented, "There is a war going!?"
"Oh yes," Siri started, "But the only ones fighting in it are the CPUs, the four goddess." she said insightfully.
"So all the people of power are female, and those four are always fighting to rule over Gamindustri?" Naruto asked still trying to wrap his head around the information, Naruto then pointed at Siri, "You still haven't answered my question!"
"I was getting to it before interrupted me," she told him blandly and Naruto became bashful, "You are something new to this world, something unforeseen to them. If they find out a human has entered their world, I fear the goddess would become more aggressive. Their job is make life for humans more enjoyable, they would fight to win you over. You would be like the deciding factor of which CPU is the best. They can't receive human input from the real world, you being here would change that and everything would change very drastically in a very short amount of time." she explained.
Naruto kicked the air, "So me being here is just bad, boy this really sucks! Is there any good news?"
"Anything you learn here in this world can be used in the real world…" she finish by rambling off incoherently.
A look of surprise crossed the boy's face, "You mean if I become super powerful here in this place, I would become super power in my world!?" he inquired with amazement. That would make this whole experience not half bad. He got a yes from the blue orb Siri, "Alright! I'll become totally strong and definitely become the next Hokage in my world when I leave!"
"That's the spirit!" Siri exclaimed happily, "You can find all you abilities in this list!" just as she finished a list appeared in front of him.
"Woah, I can learn all of these abilities?" He wondered but stopped when he read something that hit him like that sack of potatoes that had hit him when he tried to escape from Iruka that one day. His eye widened as he came across a technique that shouldn't be on the list of abilities that he could learn, well there was a couple of them. Those where the Flying Thunder God Jutsus. Flying Thunder Formation Technique, Flying Thunder God Mutually Instantaneous Revolving Technique, Flying Thunder God Technique, Flying Thunder God — Second Step, Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder, and Spiralling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Style Three. Why were they on his list? Only the fourth Hokage Knew how to do them, so how could he learn them. It didn't make sense. It also said that the 'Flying Thunder' was the mission he had to complete in order to unlock the main ability and the mission was unlocked at level 25. The rest of the Flying Thunder God skills would come to him as he increased the level of the main attack. What the hell did they mean by increasing the level of the attack? None of this made any sense.
"How do I even have these abilities on my list!?" he all but yelled, a little out of confusion and mostly out of excitement. He had a chance of learning the technique that the greatest shinobi that had ever lived used. Why wouldn't he be excited about this?
"All the abilities on your list are skills that you had memories about." The ball told him which caused Naruto to become incredibly confused.
"I think I would have remember something that badass if it happened to me!" Naruto accusingly yelled. He had no idea what she was talking about. Never in his life had he seen or used the technique.
"It was apart of you as you entered into this realm. Didn't you see those flashes as you fell?" Siri asked getting closer to the boy like she was analyzing him.
Naruto was about to continue and rebuke the orb until a thought crossed his mind, 'Play it cool, pretend like they were yours.' Naruto then snapped his head in realization, "Oh yeah! Now I remember!"
The ball still stayed close to the boy, almost like it wasn't believing him, "How could you forget something like that?"
Playing it cool Naruto replied, "I guess it may have been from falling god knows how many stories flat on my face!" Naruto raised his voice at the end to emphasize his point.
Siri recoiled at the boy's words, "Oh I deeply apologize with that!" she said apologetically, "I didn't mean for you to forget those memories!" She then started laughing a bit, "Here I thought I was going to be taking some of those abilities away because those memories weren't yours."
'Good fucking cover story self.' Naruto praised himself on the quick thinking. He had almost lost the chance of learning the almighty technique. "Now it said that The Flying Thunder mission unlocked the Technique at level 25, what does that mean?"
"Oh you have a level system, you will start off at level 1! Skills can be unlocked by doing missions or special missions, reaching a new level, beating a monster or boss, or even meeting certain requirements!"
"Okay I'm with you on that one, but what is this level system?" Naruto asked curiously.
"The level system is a based on EXP or experience. Experiences is earned in many ways. It can be earn by bartering with people, getting out of rough situations with a silver tongue, fight monsters and bosses, finishing missions and side quests, and finding random EXP packs that could be hanging around for no real reason!"
Naruto still had a couple of questions remaining, "And SP is..."
"SP is special power! It allows you to use your awesome attacks that are very effective and powerful. Only large attacks affect the SP bar, small attacks such as throwing a Kunai or shuriken, fighting hand to hand, and shadow clones don't affect this bar. Be warned, that if a shadow clone uses a special attack it will affect the SP bar! Every time you level up the SP bar will increase. There's also ways to increase the bar like finding a item or a mission, but those are very rare and hard to finish." she explained in detail. She seemed pretty good at this explaining thing.
"Now what is HP?" he asked.
"HP is Health of player. It is the total Health you have. Health can be increased much like the SP: leveling up, special missions, and special items. Once you hit zero, you would lose the battle. You however are very different from the things in this world. Once you hit zero, attacks will harm you and have a high chance of killing you. The attacks will hurt you regardless when you have health but they can't kill you until you have no health remaining. The battle would continue even after you hit zero. "
"So the HP bar is really like a safety guard. So how do I get out of this world?" he asked hopefully.
"You will be able to leave when you complete your main quest here in this world. You will also be able to return at any time you want to! You can jump back and forth at anytime you please once the main quest is done. You will find out what you main quest is once you get inside the world, for even I don't know what it is yet." she finished.
Naruto balled his hands into fist, "Well let's get this show on the road! I won't become Hokage if I don't leave this place first!" Naruto said determinedly. If he had to beat the main questline thing or whatever, he would! He wasn't going to back down, he probably couldn't even if he tried, not even to a Goddess which he had yet to see.
"Before you go on your adventure, it might be a good thing to show what is happening currently with the Goddess. To see what you are up against." Siri told him. This kind of information might just come in handy.
"Yeah let's go!" Naruto cheered. Hey if you were trapped in another world and didn't know how to get out, might as well make the best of it, right? He wasn't some kind of moppy bitch that cried if things didn't go his way. He might as well think of this as the ultimate training trip.
Siri heard his cheer and quickly disappeared in a flash of blue light. Naruto also disappeared in a flash of orange light right after her.
Naruto appeared standing in the sky next to Siri. Naruto freaked out seeing himself so high in the air, "Holy hell! Get me down from here!" the boy screeched in fright. What was this ball lady? Out of her mind is what!
"You will be fine, allow me to point out the places of interest. To the east Lastation," she pointed out.
Naruto was still fearful about the drop that was sure to happen but looked to that direction she had told him. Naruto was shocked to see what appeared to be a massive village built up with black steel and tall building that looked like house stacked on each other. He had never seen anything like it all. Another thing was it looked dark, like a storm was over it, but it could also be from the huge as massive pipes blowing out black smoke out of them. He didn't think he would like it there too much. Like where the hell were all the damn trees and stuff!? They must of cut them down or something.
"Over there to the north is Lowee,"
Naruto craned his head in that direction and found what Siri was talking about. Lowee was differently more green but also very mountainous. It had little resemblance to Konoha however, the buildings were smaller than Lastation, but the also had weird shaped roofs. It was like something out of a dream. That and how the hell had that lake not gone dry yet!? It was gushing water out of the side in the form of a giant waterfall. Fuck logic why don't yah! That was basically what that Goddess had said.
Siri's voice stopped his mental rant, "To the west is leanbox."
Naruto had to turn his body to see the sight better. He had to say he liked it much better than the other two. It was more green with large forests smaller building like he was use to, and most importantly it felt like home a bit. The color style was definitely that of Konoha, those other place felt too future like. He hoped he would be spending more time in this one. Was that a castle in the background? There might be a princess he got to save! Take that Sasuke!
"And behind us to the south is Planeptune."
Naruto had to growl, what the hell was with all this turning around crap! When Naruto did the 180 turn he was wordless. Just what was he looking at. Not even in his wildest dreams had he ever seen something of this design or scope. The buildings were thin and many and built so close together. They reach into the sky and higher. The village if you could call it that, was surround by a large moat of clear water. The village was all white and blue. "Amazing." So this was the progress they were talking about. Well damn, he felt stupid being from a place like Konoha now. This kind of tech was too much for the boy to handle. Well Lastation was the eyesore of the bunch.
"These are the four continents, Celestia is above us," Naruto started to look up but was stopped by Siri's light laugh, "You would break your neck by trying to see it from here, the goddess are way above us, fighting it out at the moment." Naruto's eyes widened at her statement. He was going to see how powerful these goddess really were. "I'll take us there."
The both disappear in orange and blue flashes of light. 'Well time to get this party started!' The blond thought with a grin, 'Let the game begin!' What could Naruto say? He was all fired up. How could he not be? He was about to see four goddess kicking each others ass, what kind of logic was that! Game Logic is what.
An: Alright, another short chapter but I think it covers what needs to be covered! It also didn't really answer some big questions. It also might even leave you with a few more questions! Don't worry about it if you can put the clues together, everything will be explained later in the story. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and yes I know I could have made a larger chapter and add a part with the Goddess fighting. Yes I know this very well, in fact they were actually in this chapter but I came up with something else. I will also have finals next week and too much homework to do today, so I won't be able to write as much next week or today which is sunday. Wish me luck, and chapter 3 is already in progress with 663 words! Not much at the moment but it will be, it will be. Also I will have the candidates in this story among other things, and will have Naruto's full stats in the next chapter. Find out what happens next time in... 'What is this!'