Here is the first chapter. There is not much Tsuna, this is basically world building and explanations of how Tsuna's world now operates. I know he may seem out of character, but, I'm basing him off of how I was at his age for this story. It is easier for me to write him like that, because, the Gamer Ability has altered his brain and he was not sealed. I am basing his personality off of mine and some other people's for this fic.
I am sorry if that bothers you, it just feels more natural and flows a bit better for me.
Also, this story is a FFN excusive! I will not be cross posting this to AO3
Beta read by: OtakuAnimeLover21
To address an issue some of you may have: The tutorials. May I point out that Tsuna is starting out as a five year old? Some one pointed out that I was explaining everything and not making Tsuna figure everything out for himself. He is five! In the original version he started out as a ten year old, that is five extra years of brain development and learning. So, in this version things need to be explained to the five year old child. I apologize if that upsets some readers. As a five year old I struggled to understand a simple videogame known as Pokémon Snap. A videogame such as Tsuna finds himself playing would have been rocket science to me as a five year old.
Disclaimer: See the prologue
Start tutorial Y/N?
"Uh... Yes?" Tsuna said, unsure. A new box popped up. It had a picture of him and several little boxes within. There were other tabs on top. A voice began speaking. It was a man's voice that seemed mischievous.
Before we start, You should know that you now have the 'Gamer's Mind' status. It makes it so you are clear headed and are immune from mental manipulation!
This is your home screen and Key Items. It also shows you the date and time your current funds and your lifetime wealth accumulation! And your pets! From here you can access the other menus as well! Yay for multi functionality!
Your Funds and Lifetime Wealth: Is what it says on the tin!
Date and Time: Ditto
Your Pet: You can accumulate pets as you go along your long journey, this sub screen shows you your pets statuses and their names.
Key Items: Key items are just that: key. These are especially important for some reason or the other. You currently only have the one: The Sky Pacifier. It symbolizes your status as the new Sky Arcobaleno.
Your Title: Sky Arcobaleno. You are the Sky Arcobaleno. You have been cursed/chosen to be a holder of part of a set of mystical items to keep the world in balance. The Arcobaleno Pacifiers, The Vongola Rings, and The Mare Rings are also apart of the set. You are considered a part of the seven strongest people in the world. Reminder: strength is not only physical, but mental and emotional as well!
This concludes the Home screen Tutorial!
Tsuna's five year old mind was spinning. He understood everything... to a point. He had the feeling things would make sense as he went along and got older. He did realize that he could make money so he didn't need to rely on the papa he had never met. He refused to believe the man that was here was his real papa. Papas weren't supposed to be scary. His mama was happy too, though. Tsuna didn't think she would mind him getting his own money.
He reached up and clicked on the next tab. It showed a map that was mostly blank.
This is your map screen. It's pretty self explanatory. As you explore and grow you will unlock new areas of the world. As it is, you only have access to 20% of Namimori. Namimori is the only map available to you at this time, as well.
Map Tutorial concluded!
Tsuna figured that was fair, since he was only five. The world was scary! Next tab. It showed a screen with the picture of his mother and her name under it and twenty hearts next to the portrait. All twenty hearts were filled! There were two empty boxes next to the hearts. There were ten other portraits of people he did not know: Aria, Reborn, Fon, Viper/Mammon, Collonello, Lal Mirch, Skull, Verde, Byakuran, and Bermuda. Under the names of everyone except his mamma and Aria were three question marks. And the names with the question marks under them had eight of the twenty hearts grayed out.
This is your relationship tab. It's pretty empty. You should change that soon.
Tsuna pouted. It's not his fault he was shy!
This screen shows the level of friendship you have with someone. As you gain more hearts by giving gifts, doing favors, answering certain questions correctly, and just talking to them, you will unlock events and receive gifts in return. Gifts could be foodstuffs, crafting materials, money, and recipes! You can only give two gifts a week, not including Birthdays and holidays. Talking to someone only gives Friendship Points once a day. When giving gifts, remember that everyone has likes and dislikes. Giving someone a gift that they love will give you 40 FP while on a normal day, 250 FP or one heart on holidays and 500 FP on their Birthday. Liked gifts give half of that, so 20, 125, and 250. Neutral gift values are 10, 50 and 100. Dislked gifts are worth -20, -125, and -250. Hated gifts are worth the opposite of loved gifts.
Tsuna had to find a notebook to write things down so he could remember later. He also made a note to figure out which gifts people loved, hated, etc...
Overall everyone has 5,000 FP to be gained (Except spouses, but that is much later in your life, kiddo!) Pets have half of that. Ditto for livestock, but we will get to that later in a separate set of tutorials.
The grayed out hearts will be explained at a later date when you are older.
This concludes the relationship Tutorial!
Tsuna chose the next tab. This screen was empty, except for a smaller screen on the side with ten small boxes in it.
This screen is your crafting screen. It shows the crafting recipes you have unlocked. It's empty, so let's fix that, shall we? Here are some basic ones!
You learned how to make: Basic dagger
You learned how to make: Weakest Health Potion
You learned how to make: Spring seeds
You learned how to make: Summer seeds
You learned how to make: Fall seeds
You learned how to make: Winter seeds
Tsuna was confused. He didn't know how to make any of these things! At least the screen was no longer empty. It now held grayed out pictures of items.
Ok, so you don't actually know how to make them yet, you will memorize what you need to make the items in time. I just gave you the recipe. 'Click' on the grayed out icons to learn what you need to make them. Here are some freebie ingredients.
You received 10 wood and one copper ingot! You can make a Basic Dagger!
You received 10 slime and 100 maple sap! You can make 10 weakest health potions!
You have unlocked your inventory! For now, You can only carry either 12 different items, 12 stacks of the same item, or 3 different items of all four quality levels. More on the inventory later, though.
Place the wood and copper in the boxes in the crafting interface to make a dagger and then do the same with the slime and sap to make the potions, please.
Place the required items in the boxes in the order the recipe calls for.
Tsuna did as he was asked and made the items. The dagger and potions went into his inventory. He clicked on them.
Basic dagger: The most basic of knives!
Attack: 10, Speed: 10, Defense: 5
Weakest health potions: The cheapest potion to make, besides a bottle of water!
Restores 25 HP
Items in your 'hot bar', the top most bar of your inventory, are the ones available for you to use without switching around items. Your hot bar will be visible to you outside of the menu screen. Just think on the item you want and a red box will highlight it.
Crafting/Inventory Tutorial completed! Yay!
Tsunayoshi was getting excited. All in all so far, this seemed like it would be a lot of fun! He eagerly clicked the next tab.
This is your skills tab. It shows you what skills you have and the Professions you have chosen every ten levels. More on Professions later. At this time you only have three skills right now. Sorry.
"You're kinda mean, Mr. Voice." Tsuna pouted.
Your skills are:
Foraging
Combat
and
Scholarly
Foraging: Find useful items randomly on the ground. From flowers to fruits to buried treasure. Easy way to make money as you start out. Foraging is based on seasons. You may find Daffodil flowers in the Spring and Sweet Peas in the Summer for example.
Quick tip: save fruits for later. Jellies and wines are worth more. (People will not question the legality of you producing alcohol, due to the reality warping field of being The Gamer.)
Combat: What it says on the tin. You gain 10 HP per level. Speaking of which... You have unlocked the HP meter! Right now you have 50 HP. There is another way to get HP. Eating Life fruit will give you 50 more HP upon consumption.
Scholarly: How good you are in school. The more levels you get the easier school and other things will be. Grants a 1% experience boost per level. At max level your experience gain will be doubled!
As you travel along the long, winding road called life, you will gain new skills by just doing something for the first time. For example, you may gain the Sharpshooter skill by firing a gun for the first time. You can also gain a skill by reading about it in specific. Take for example, reading a book about farming.
There are many, many different skills out there! Focus on the ones that fit you and your play/lifestyle!
Thus ends the skills tutorial.
Tsuna didn't want to think about guns and scary things like that! Farming sounded fun, though. He loved to garden with his mama! Farming was just gardening, but bigger! It also sounded lots safer! He made a note to visit the library across the street from Yukina's later to find books on farming.
(In Italy a certain Hitman felt a sudden dread fill him. He just shook it off and went back to talking with the others, wondering who their new sky was and when they would appear)
Tsuna happily went to the next screen. This time there were tabs on the side of the screen with little pictures Forage and Artifacts and Shipping.
This is your index. It keeps track of the items you have access to outside of the normal day to day. Dining utensils, unless produced by you will not show up on this list, for example. It's just easier this way, ya know? The items that show up depend on your skills. An example of items that may become available to you due to gaining a new skill are fish, rods, bait, and tackle. There are some items that are not limited by skills, like clams. Clams are considered a fish, but they are also forage items.
You are currently viewing the complete list of items available to you. The information of the items is unlocked by selling normal items and donating artifacts and certain minerals to their respective museums. The tabs on the side of this menu is for your convenience and ease of access.
Master each skill and discover everything!
This tutorial is over with!
Tsuna was happy to have something like that to use. It would be easier to keep track of things with the index. The home screen closed and the next tutorial started.
This tutorial is on your Journal and Quests! Your journal is essential! It automatically keeps track of the quests you are doing. You can have as many quests as you want active at the same time, but, some quests are time sensitive. So, be careful and do the timed quests first! Just focus on wanting to view tour journal and it will open.
Tsuna did as he was asked. A new screen popped up. it had a single smaller box within it with a title: Getting Started! Tsuna clicked on it.
You are new to all of this, so, why not learn the basics!
Complete all basic tutorials
Progress: 1/4
Reward: 500G
The journal was covered by the tutorial screen.
All quests are active at all times. For most, you can do them at your leisure. Timed quests will have a timer counting down, so be sure to keep track of that!
Tutorial over!
Getting Started!
Progress 2/4
Go outside for the next two tutorials, please.
Tsuna hopped off of his bed, just now noticing the orange pacifier hanging from a silky white ribbon around his neck. He had the feeling that removing it would be a bad idea and that it had something to do with being the 'Sky Arcobaleno', whatever that was.
His mama was not home, probably out with her book club friends again. She usually went out with them four times a week and with her tea club friends the other three days. He put on his shoes and tied them like Miss. Koboyashi taught him and went outside. There were two new things in his front yard. A huge mailbox and a very big chest.
These are your mailbox and home shipping crate. The next two tutorials will be lumped together, because I'm lazy.
The mailbox is where you will receive letters and gifts and notifications of upcoming events. You will find holidays have changed for you and others, due to the reality warping mentioned earlier. This is because the Overseer of the Gamers is not Japanese and knows little of Japanese customs. Just what she learned from anime. There will be one holiday per month, twelve holidays in all. Some will be relevant to you in specific and others will not because of either interests or age.
The home shipping crate is where you dump the items you want to sell, but can't be bothered to find the appropriate shop. It is actually more convenient to use, so, yeah. Items will be taken away while you sleep and the gold will automatically added to your funds. Because, magic. I guess.
Oh, right. Almost forgot. In your mailbox you will find a basic axe, a glow ring and a keychain.
The axe is used to cut down small trees that you will find growing every where now. They look like cartoon pine trees, but they give you actual wood. Don't worry about trespassing into people's yards anymore. You have free reign of the world, to a certain extent. Have fun with that. The glow ring is basically a flash light in ring form. Lastly the keychain is where you store the keys to places like homes and stuff. As you get to know people they will allow you in their living spaces and let you snoop through their stuff. So, that's fun.
Tutorials completed! Basic tutorial set over!
Getting Started! Is completed
Reward: 500G!
Tsuna gave a cheer. This seemed like it would be really fun!
Tsuna's stats:
Current funds: 550G
Lifetime funds: 600G
Skills
Foraging: 0
Combat: 0
and
Scholarly: 3
I hope you all enjoyed this expositional info dump chapter!
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