Alright, so… Let's just say this'll be irregular updating, because, you know… It's a gamer fic, with two currently known Gamers, there will be parts that were rushed because work causing the mind to lose a lot of creativity, while other times it's just hard. I mean, if I had access to one of my other works I was doing at work, as of the time not taking the whole day out, I would have that posted and it was a better work than most that I do here… I mean, sure, the OC is practically a God, who is named after a God mind you, with the need to be a pranking asshole… Also wrinkly old man balls that would put Jiriya into shame because of how he can handle Tsunade. I'd also suggest taking a look at my polls after reading this, as I have set a new one up for the formula style. At the end of the story is a mighty long summary on the two different styles that are used, one is homemade while the other is more based off of a popular RPG game that tens of millions of people play in their spare time. And no, it's not Blizzard's World of Warcraft, though I would like the formula for it to study. Anyway, you all know this.
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, Keeper and the Story line is my own, and the Gamer aspect belongs to Sung Sang-Young and Naver Webtoon.
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Soon the next day rolled around, as the pink haired beauty rose from her bed, stretching her shoulders out. She flipped the bedsheets off of her bed, and walked to the mirror, looking towards it, with crusty eyes. Ignoring the pink screen before her, she turned to her side, and gave a faint smile, seeing her current outfit she was wearing.
She slipped her monk vest on over a red shirt she had, and button up the middle two buttons. From there, she had a small mid drift that was covered by a mesh shirt, and wore the monk skirt, which went only until half way down her thighs. She went ahead and wore some net stockings as well, giving her a poise of both beauty and strength, making her smile widen a bit, as she smacked her cheeks. Turning to her side, taking a look at the pink screen, she noticed the wording on it.
[Your HP and CP have been recovered. You now have four hours of increase experience gaining potential.]
"Must be a feature to the Gamer," Sakura muttered, before she quickly ran over to her dress, and pulled out her red dress. "For now, let's take a shower and get dress."
From there, she grabbed a bottle from next to her dresser, and quickly jogged into the adjacent bathroom, and started to get the water running. Sighing a bit, she looked to the side, as the screen pulled up for her Character list, as she eyed it a bit. Looking specifically at her character, Sakura noticed a small eye ball icon, and pressed it, as blue partials came from her clothing. As the mirror started to fog up, Sakura looked down, seeing that all of her clothing disappeared, including whatever underwear she was wearing. Quickly covering herself, her eye started to twitch, before taking a deep breath, and got into the shower.
'How is thing working?' she heard Naruto's voice call out, making her look around. 'Is the party chat on?'
"Naruto?" Sakura called out, as there was a coughing fit. "You alright?"
'Totally fine,' Naruto says, coughing a bit more. 'I was testing out the Party Chat function, I guess Keeper-san already put us into a party.'
"Seems like it," Sakura says, as she grabs the bottle from the counter. "Bad timing though."
'Yeah, I hear the shower running. We should try to figure out a way for us to communicate without having to use our lips and voice.'
"Yeah, I'll look into that a bit. Found anything out on your experiments?"
'Yeah, the more we use certain types of weapons, we gain passives around it. I was training in Iruka-sensei on using a Bo Staff, and I'm already level three with it, as able to use a 'Thrust' skill and a 'Swipe' skill. I'm going to take a look at some of the jobs that's listed in the book, so we can focus mostly on getting better stuff.'
"Alright, and I'll head to the library to see if we can get any book to help us with training when we can't get a teacher. Do you know anyone that is able to help out with me and my Monk class?"
'Monk? Oh, you mean the weird Taijutsu class. Yeah, I overheard from a few Jonin that Mito Gai, the team leader of Team Three, is a master in Taijutsu. You might be able to get him to help train you, but from what I hear, he already got a pupil and his excurse regimen is insane.'
"We all got to make sacrifices, but I thought that the best Bojutsu user was Lord Hokage."
'Jiji is busy most of the time with all the paperwork, and Iruka at least knows the basics. Kind of the reason why I went to him instead.'
"Sound logic. Anyway, after some basic training with Gai-sensei, how about we spar a bit, just to see where we are at?"
'Sounds good to me, Sakura-chan.'
Sakura smiled, before she stepped out of the shower, and looking into the mirror, stretching out a bit, and grabbing a towel.
"By the way Naruto," Sakura starts as there was a small response in the background. "Are you able to see me?"
'A bit,' Naruto replied, as Sakura quickly covered her chest and lower body. 'I'm only able to see your head and a bit of your shoulders, nothing else.'
"So neither of us would be able to see each other naked then?" Sakura asked, as she turned to see a Naruto head resting on the sink.
'I guess not, though I wonder why Keeper-san would have made that as a design.'
"You got a bit of drool on those whiskers."
Naruto quickly whipped his face, cleaning any of the drool on his face, before rubbing his cheeks.
"Ryo for your thought?" Sakura asked, as Naruto shook his head.
'Nah, just thinking about how to continue working out with the bojutsu skill,' Naruto says, smiling a bit. 'Come by the academy when you're ready to spar. I'll ask Iruka-sensei for help with the Academy Taijutsu style.'
Sakura nodded her head, before taking a deep breath, she uncovered herself, opening up her inventory, and pressed the eyeball icon. Her outfit reappeared on her making her smile, before slipping on her dress. From there, she went ahead and went onto her day, getting some breakfast in her, slipping outdoors, and went onto locate her trainer. As she went onto jogging through the streets, a cold breeze came up to her, making her turn around. Running beside her was a bowl cut hair boy with some rather bushy eyebrows. Sakura made some room, as the boy smile, rubbing his head.
"Good morning," the boy says, as Sakura nodded. "Such a youthful morning isn't it?"
"Y-yeah," Sakura says, as the boy cocked his head a bit. "Just not used to having someone run beside me."
"I see," the boy says, giving her a smile and thumbs up. "I hope we can run with each other a bit more in the future, it's always fun to have another person beside you as you go through your daily excurses, as my sensei likes to call it."
"Who's your sensei?"
"Mito Gai, Konoha's Number One Taijutsu Master and the Green Beast of Konoha!"
"Do you know where I can find him?"
"Of course, he's currently finishing up his Early Bird Warm-up at Training Ground Nine. I'm on my way to meet up with him."
"Good, because I need to ask him to help me with my training."
"Then let us grace him with our youthful presence this morning!"
The boy smiled as he hasten his speed, making Sakura push herself, and try to catch up with the bowl cut boy, almost smiling a bit. As she finally caught up with him, they saw a man with the same haircut as the other boy wear a large, green spandex suit, orange leg warmers, and a dark green vest, as he was jumping between different wooden pillars.
Sakura stared as the man was flipping through the hair, kicking several times before repeating it between all of the wooden pillars that were set on the field, before he proceeds to finish up with training with him flipping from his pillar, and landing gracefully on the ground before Sakura and the boy, a leg split far way, while the other was underneath him, his palm touching the ground as the other hand was behind his back. Standing up straight, the man gave both of them a smile and a thumbs up, greeting them both.
"That was amazing Gai-sensei!" the boy cried making the man laugh.
"Thank you, Lee," Gai says, fixing his hair. "And who are you, little lady?"
"Haruno Sakura," the girl announced, bowing a bit. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Gai-sensei."
"A pleasure as well," Gai replied, bowing in return. "Now, what bring you here?"
"I'm in the academy and set for the number one Konuchi for my class," Sakura says, standing up straight. "But I'm not physically strong like the rest of my class, and a classmate of mine, Naruto, told me that you could help me train for the next couple years."
"I see. I can already tell you'll have a long road ahead of you, not just that you're a girl, but you don't have the fit body like most konuchi I have faced and met. I'll happily training you until you can handle yourself for a Genin, then I'll leave the rest to your squad leader."
"Thank you!"
"Awesome, Sakura-Chan!" Lee cried, fixing his shirt. "We'll be hanging out a lot more in the future."
"That we will, Lee-san," Sakura replies, smiling softly.
"My full name is Rock Lee, Konoha's Future Beautiful Beast!" Lee cried out, making the girl giggle a bit.
"If that's the case," Sakura says, looking up to the sky. "I guess I got to commit to being Konoha's Blossoming Sakura Tree."
Lee and Gai both nodded their heads, liking the chosen title, before they went onto their morning routine. Gai had Lee go onto his normal excurses, while he walked with Sakura, who was curious on what he had planned for her.
"We'll have to start small with you," Gai says, grinning a bit. "I can't have you dropped into Lee's morning routine without making sure you built up to handle it. For now, we'll start with excelling the Academy's standards, and this means heavy amounts of push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. Specifically, meet them, and double that amount for the next two years, that way, you'll blow all of their expectation."
"I've been meaning to ask this," Sakura says, as Gai looked at her. "Exactly what did start the Konuchi Diet?"
"After the Third Shinobi War, there was a rather change in the school academics, where caused women to drop their standards, and let them eat less, which started the terrible diet. Think of it like this, why impair your own body, which can make rival villagers, or even bandits, get ahold of you and do whatever they want. With shinobi villages, you at least expect a quick death afterwards, but with bandits, you're nothing more than a tool for them."
"And if you meet an academy student that was doing this diet?"
"I'd be giving them a rather extensive lecture about the troubles of not being able to actually able to push yourself forward and how much you'd end up being a liability on your team. I know you have being doing it yourself Sakura, Naruto have told me a bit about all the girls except for Hinata-san that has been doing the diet."
"I guess Naruto cares plenty for me then?"
"He cares for everyone in the village, but when it came down to those he consider friends, he'll go to the Shinigami and fight to the end of his life for them."
Sakura looked down, as Gai stared at her, seeing her fidgeting a bit. Smiling softly, he rested his hand on her shoulder, making Sakura looking up at him, as he crouched down beside her.
"I figured Naruto would have sent you to me, so I can help you," Gai says, looking into her eyes. "Now, if you follow my word, and eat properly, you'll be close to Hinata in skill and you'll have a body that you'll be proud of, alright?"
Sakura nodded her head, agreeing to Gai's words, before they went onto their training period. Sakura went over Gai's request, working on everything that the Academy needed her to do. She focused on completing the required amount to pass, that being fifty pushups, pullups, and sit-ups, before she tried to push herself in any of them. As the morning passed, and Sakura slightly tired, she got up from her stretches, before she saw Lee land nearby.
Giving him a wave goodbye, in which he returns, Sakura made her way towards the Academy building, walking along the street, smiling to herself. As she was walking, she was paying more attention to the multiple screens in front of her. She looked at them, seeing she was getting multiple increases to her Dexterity over the past four hours. Smiling at herself, she quickly hasten her pace to the academy, seeing a flying Naruto land a few yards from her.
Groaning a bit, Naruto slowly got up to his feet, as a lavender haired girl and a brunette bun girl ran up to him, one worried, other smiling.
"I told you that you could do it," the bun haired girl say, as the other girl sent an adorable glare at her. "How do you feel, Naruto?"
"Like I got hit by a boulder," Naruto commented, smiling a bit. "That was impressive, Hinata."
"T-thank you…" Hinata says, poking her fingers together. "B-b-but it was T-T-Tenten-san's idea."
"It worked either way," Tenten says, holding her hands on her hips. "Your stance is getting better, but it just doesn't flow right, and you look completely jagged doing it."
"Yeah? That's how some of the instructors before Iruka-sensei was telling me to do it."
"That explains why you were always having so much difficulty fighting everyone else," Sakura stated, as the blonde turned around.
"Hey Sakura," Naruto says, frowning a bit. "You thought there was a different reason?"
"Just that you weren't following the steps," Sakura answered, walking up to him. "I guess you already have been sparring with a couple others?"
"Yeah, you already know Hinata, and that is Tenten. She's a year older then us, and destined to be the Kunochi of the Year."
"A stupid title if you asked me," Tenten stated, patting down her shirt. "If you want to know a bit of the backstory, Naruto and I were a part of the same orphanage in the past, before he was provided an apartment."
"Thank you for taking care of him whenever he needed it."
"No problem, wasn't too hard to keep him from going insane. I do like Naruto's outfit though, really works with the whole defend and stealth design."
"Thank you!"
Both girls nodded, as Hinata was looking away, blushing a bit. The pink and blonde flicked their eyes to one another, both knowing they got a blue screen before them.
{Quest Obtained}
{Spar of Class and Up}
{Practically enough, there is a feeling in the air that most won't notice. It's the feeling of a fight, rolling up close, and your opponents are in front of you. It's going to be a tag team battle between the Gamers and the Lovers, just don't mention it to them, please?}
{Quest Reward: 200 EXP, 250 Ryo, Uncommon Kunai Set, Dimensional Creation Scroll x2}
'Dimensional Creation Scroll?' Sakura thought to herself, as she looks at Naruto.
'Sakura, you thinking the same thing?' Naruto thought, looking back at her.
'That'll help us out with gaining levels I bet,' Sakura says, as Naruto nodded. "How about we do a small spar."
"Two on two?" Tenten asks, as the two Gamers nod. "Why not, this'll be fun. You up for it Hinata?"
"S-sure…" Hinata says, as the two smile.
"Taijutsu only?" Naruto asks, as the two girls nodded.
"Alright then," Tenten says, as they enter the large circle. "Naruto and Sakura versus Hinata and me."
"Then you four will need someone to watch," a voice says, as they turn to the source.
"Hokage-sama?" the four called out, as Naruto smiled a bit.
"I'll see this as a standard to see how well the academy has actually been teaching the four of you," Hiruzen says, fixing his pipe. "I'm proud the four of you are taking the initiative to advance yourselves outside of the academy that isn't constant training in one thing, especially you Naruto-kun."
Naruto smiled at the complement, before he felt an elbow into his side, making him look to see Tenten smiling at him, making his smile wider. Sakura looked at the two, seeing the odd relationship they developed over who knows how long, making her feel a bit insulted. Sighing a bit, they got into their groups, got into their stances.
"Seal of confrontation," Hiruzen called out, as they made the seal. "Being!"
With that, Tenten charged forth, meeting head to head with Naruto, both of them slamming their fists against each other. Sakura charged to the side, meeting up with Hinata, a palm landing on her chest, making the pinkette cough a bit. Pulling her fist back, Sakura shot her fist forward, causing Hinata to back off, and slammed her hand into her wrist.
Naruto landed a strong hit in Tenten's stomach, making her back off, as Sakura followed with Hinata, slamming her foot halfway into Hinata's stomach, pushing her close to Tenten. With the two closer to each other, Naruto got in front of Sakura, as Hinata appeared before him, slamming all of her hands into his body, hitting every part of his body, except for his penis and ass, and a fine shot into his stomach, sending him into the nearby tree.
Sakura stared at the distance made, as she turned her attention to the smoking palm of Hinata's as her shy smile was widening, as she turned her stair towards Sakura.
'I guess this is what she meant by love with pain,' Naruto thought to Sakura, as she stared his direction.
'I'll assume your referring to her crush on you,' Sakura stated, as there was a painful groan. 'I have a feeling I might be by you at the end of this.'
"Sakura-san…" she heard Hinata's voice call out, making Sakura slowly turn to her direction. "You want to fill the love?"
"N-no," Sakura muttered, before she felt a sudden pain in her stomach, sending her into a moving Naruto.
With that, the tree got destroyed, leaving the two gamers in a pile, Sakura pushing herself up first. She blinked a couple of times, looking around, and then down, seeing she was currently pinning down Naruto, who's face looked like he was unconsous, slightly beat red. Sitting up straight, Sakura looked down, seeing that she was currently straddling his hips, making her jump off of him.
Tenten was laughing a bit, as Hinata was giving a murderous glare at Sakura, and Hiruzen was shaking his head with a smile. With a twitch of his hand a silver haired shinobi appeared next to Naruto and Sakura, picking the blonde up. Smiling underneath a mask, the silver haired woman nodded her head, and disappeared, as Sakura blinked a bit.
"Do not worry about him," Hiruzen says, as Sakura looked at him. "He'll be properly looked over by Kaka-sama, his legal Guardian."
Sakura nodded her head, as she rubbed her stomach, and looked towards Hinata, who was staring a bit at her, making Sakura look away. Ignoring the intense glare from her, Sakura bowed to the Hokage, and quickly made her way back home. It's nearing two, and lunch is needed, so Sakura had a bit of a skip, and made her way home.
Once home, Sakura entered the house, hearing no one was home, making her sigh. She knew what the time was, and she didn't like it one bit. The Haruno family is the head family on the Civilian Council and the reason why the Academy has dropped in strong shinobi. She knew about this, and tried to convince them to let leave it the way it was, even if she didn't want to put in the work for it.
Strong shinobi is needed, and with the change in the academy, it felt like the Shinobi force started to weaken ten years ago. Sakura went around the house looking for something decent to eat, only seeing her house was filled with low in fat foods, making her sigh. Looking out the window, she saw the silver haired woman sitting out the window, waving to her.
Opening the window on the outside, the woman slipped through the window, dropping off a bag before her.
"I figured you need some decent meat," the woman says, patting the bag. "This should give you a good weeks-worth of high in fat and carbs, specially donated by the Akamichi family."
"They actually donated it?" Sakura asks, as the woman nodded.
"They originally donate plenty of their meat to Naruto, but they seem to get replaced rather quickly with more rotten meat."
Sakura nodded her head, before she made her way to the bag and picked it up, seeing there was a wider variety of meats, and multiple books that went over needed vitamins, fats, and other minerals that would help support a healthier body. She gave the silver haired woman a bow, before the girl disappeared, giggling as she pulled out an orange book.
Smiling, Sakura quickly went over to the kitchen and alight two fires, setting a frying pan down on one, and a pot full of water on the other. Pulling out one of the plentiful meats that were delivered, specifically a steak, and started cutting it into stripes and then turned those into quarters. From there, she set them in the frying pan with a bit of oil, salt, pepper, and seasoning, before letting it fry in the oil. From there, she measured out a couple cups of white rice, and set it aside in a bowl, as she waits for the water to boil.
Moving over to the fridge, she pulled out some left over vegetables, specially spinach and cherry tomatoes. She started to dice the tomatoes up, before putting them in with the steak, and covered it up, as she started to lay the long spinach leaves out. She poured the rice into the now bubbling water, and covered it up as well, before taking it off of the stove top.
Sighing a bit, she pulled out a couple boxes from the nearby cupboard, smiling at the decently sized containers. Once she had them into separate areas, three small sections with a larger one, as she lifts the lid for the rice, seeing they were able to get fully cooked. She started to scoop them out of the pot, and onto the spinach, and pulled out the steak pieces and laid them on top of the rice.
From there, she started to fold the spinach together into small, bite size pieces, and pieced them together using some of the toothpicks that were in the cupboard as well, and started placing them into the boxes. Adding to it was the cooked cherry tomatoes using the toothpicks to keep them in place. Walking to her fridge once more, Sakura pulled out a pitcher and pulled out two traveling ups, and poured in green liquid into them, as there was a knock on the door.
Blinking a bit, Sakura set the pitcher down, and moved over to the door, opening it up. Before her was a blonde haired girl, smiling with warm and cold blue eyes, and wore plenty of purple.
"Morning Forehead," the girl says, as Sakura smiled a bit.
"Morning Ino-pig," Sakura replied, as she stepped to the side. "What's with the surprise visit?"
"Needed to get away from the shop," Was Ino-pig's reply, as she smiled. "So, I heard from a little source you've been hanging out with Naruto-baka yesterday. Is it true?"
"There was something I needed to get cleared through with him," Sakura says, shrugging a bit. "Nothing romantic, mind you, but he does seem intuitive in a lesser degree with school work."
"So you still plan on dating Sasuke-kun?"
"You know I'll be the best wife for Sasuke-kun."
"You're on Sakura!"
The two faced each other down for a few seconds, before they started to crack under pressure and started laughing. They held onto each other for a few seconds, as they let it all out, and took a deep breath.
"There is no way in Hell am I going to date Sasuke," Sakura says, as Ino nodded. "He broods way too much."
"Tell me about it," Ino says, sighing a bit. "Naruto on the other hand, despite his attitude, he's a sweet and caring guy."
"You know he's like a brother to me," Sakura says, smiling a mischievously. "It was his idea for this ongoing prank, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to get pissed about it. I thought you had Shikamaru and Choji to choose as well."
"Shikamaru is a lazy ass, though Choji does enjoy the time with the both of us. Still don't understand how Choji's family can convert twenty pounds of food in their system into chakra on a whim."
Sakura giggled as Ino smiled a bit, as they moved over to the kitchen. Sakura handed Ino a plate of the rice and meat wraps, as Ino starts eating them happily, while Sakura finished up with the boxes. She placed some chocolate cups, chop sticks, and small spoons into the boxes, before wrapping them up in some cloth.
The two girls left the home, with boxes in hand, as they made their way down the street, as people were talking and enjoying amongst each other. Each person smiled and greeted the two girls, as others were trying to divert their attentions to some of the stalls, and some just ignored them completely. Sighing a bit, Sakura looked around for anyone trying to follow them, as they made a sudden turn, walking into the Red Light Distract.
Soon the streets became less crowded, and more people just hanging around some of the abandoned homes and services. Some of the larger armed men nodded their head to the girls, as the nodded back with smiles, as a woman wearing a revealing kimono made her way to them.
"Afternoon Sakura-chan, Ino-chan," The woman says, fixing the small pipe in her mouth. "Came for little Naruto?"
"Thought he could need some company after what happened today," Sakura says, as Ino swayed a bit. "I'm sure Ino needs to get back to the shop though."
"Growing flowers is harder than it looks," Ino says, sighing a bit. "And I need to drop off some seeds with Naruto anyway, he's been asking for them. The improtu visit with you just gave me some more time to relax, Forehead."
"Whatever you say, Ino-pig," Sakura says, as the older woman smiled.
"Luckily for you, Naruto had woken up no more than ten minutes ago," the woman says, smiling softly. "Brat has some truly great friends."
Both of them bowed to the woman, who returned it, before they made their way to Naruto's apartment. Walking up all the twenty flights of stairs, they made it to Naruto's complex, and opened up the door to see Naruto reading the large book. Ino blinked a couple of times, as Sakura walked into the apartment and set the food in the kitchen.
"Catching up on stuff?" Sakura asks, as Naruto looked up and turned to her, nodding his head.
"Just some stuff regarding obtaining extra stuff," Naruto says, as he looks to Ino. "Afternoon Ino-chan."
"Afternoon, Naruto-baka," Ino says, blushing a bit. "Brought the seeds you bought earlier in the year."
"Awesome," Naruto says, shutting the book. "Hopefully this'll be the last time I have to start them over."
"Start what over?" Sakura asks, as Ino smiled.
"Naruto is trying to work on his green thumb for the past few years now," Ino answered, smiling a bit. "He does have a knack for it, helping out with the flowers back in the shop, but when he tries doing it here, his pots all get destroyed and his remaining seeds end up getting roasted."
Naruto nodded his head, as he pulls out a porcelain pot from the closet, revealing the wide variety of weaponry, as Ino stared at them. Naruto sets the pot down at his table, while dragging out a large back of dirt, a trowel, and a small clay plate for the bot to rest on. As he was working on filling the pot up, Ino walked over to the closet, and looked through all of the weapons in there, seeing the slightly used and beaten up metal.
Shrugging a bit, Ino shut the closet door, and walked over to the door, before turning around and leaned a bit.
"Bye, Naruto-baka, Forehead," Ino says, as the two waved their hands, and Sakura set the boxes down.
"What did you actually learn," Sakura says, as Naruto looked her way.
"Apparently, Keeper had set up this weird system for us to work around," Naruto answers, opening the pack of seeds and dropped two into the pot. "We have our character sheet listed off pretty well, but then he has something called Primary and Secondary Professions."
"What does that even do?" Sakura asks leaning backwards a bit.
"Primary Professions, according to the book, are skills that can be used to create a source of income and certain few can actually effect our stats. An example of this is 'Mining', which is called a Gathering Profession. If I'm able to locate veins of ore, I can harvest them for material, collecting the ore itself, stone for other uses and the occasional gem."
"Sounds cool, but what does it have to do with increasing stats?"
"Mining is a tough job, laboring at stone for hours on end, working your muscles to break more stones. So it focuses a lot on Strength, but it also seems to help with Dexterity as well. Then there are a few Crafting Professions that is used with 'Mining', Blacksmithing, Engineering, and Jewel Crafting are what examples are used in the book."
"Then I'll leave all that hard stuff to you, but what are these secondary professions?"
"The ones listed in the book are Fishing, Cooking, First Aid, and Archeology, whatever that is. I just assume these are stuff that are done as hobbies while primary professions are actual jobs. Thinking about it, if I did decide to not become the Hokage, making an armory doesn't sound too bad."
"And what would you call it?"
"Naruto's Blades, or something basic like that."
Sakura smiled softly, before she set the food down next to Naruto, who finished putting his plant in the window still, and the two of them ate it in silence. Sakura rested her head against Naruto's shoulder, who rested his against hers as they continue to eat in each other's company. Once they were finished, there was a small cough, making them look to see the Keeper was resting against the wall in the nearby hallway.
"I see you two are feeling better?" Keeper asks, as the two nodded. "Good, and I'm hoping you're getting used to the system. I noticed you two already tried to complete a mission, but didn't succeed in it. You're won't lose much, just the money, half of the experience, and didn't get the scrolls. What I have brought, however are a couple skills for the two of you to learn, two each actually. First will go to Sakura, since you'll be working with Naruto a lot, the first one is a Monk skill called [Healing Mist]. It's a skill that allows you to create a five foot, faint green mist, which you can have encompasses someone in. You'll have to focus your attention for it to work, so you can't just waive your hands anywhere and expect your teammates are healed. The next is another Monk skill called [Founding Palm]. This one allows you to slam your palm into an enemy dealing twice your normal base damage is."
Keeper set these next to Sakura, as she stared at the two green scrolls, seeing how they'd be useful for her. She knew he's having her take those since she'll be needing to help Naruto stay up as she uses his own skills.
"For you Naruto," Keeper says, smiling a bit. "The first one is an Adventurer skill while the second one is more of an excise for you. The first one is called [Halvies]. There will be times where you'll have access to different healing items that Sakura would need help with, and this ability allows you to share one healing item and is shared amongst everyone in the party. The effects are cut in half in total, so using this on multiple party members won't be effected that much, since the half of the overall effect is done. The next one is called [Swift Hands] and rightfully so. This ability changes your normal attack into what I call a plunder, which allows you to steal items and/or material from all enemy creatures, but usually only either healing items or material found on them. You don't have to use it and can give it to someone else, but it's something you should consider on having."
Naruto nodded his head, as he picked up the [Halvies] scroll. A blue screen appeared in front of him, as Sakura did the same for the [Healing Mist] scroll.
[Halvies]
[Splits the use of all healing items amongst the party, cutting the total effect in half.]
[Would you like to learn it?]
[Healing Mist}
[Creates a hidden mist that allows you to heal others in short distances.]
[10CP/S Heals 75HP/S]
[Would you like to learn it?]
Both of them looked at each other, before conforming their choices, making the scrolls shatter into orange and pink petals and is absorbed into their bodies. Taking in a deep breath, the smiled and nodded feeling their bodies slight change. Standing a few feet away, Sakura turned to stare at Naruto and lifted her hand up, as faint mist started to surround Naruto, letting him breathe deeply, and exhaled, jumping around a bit.
Sakura smiled as Naruto rubbed the back of his head, chuckling a bit, making the pinkette giggle, before Keeper coughed again. The two turned to look at him, making him wave his hand before in a shimmer, disappeared. The two sighed quietly, before they went onto doing whatever their afternoon was planned as.
Naruto went back to the book and continued reading where he left off, as Sakura left the apartment with the boxes, letting Naruto know she was leaving. The two paid their farewells, and went onto some business, as Naruto focused his attention to the book at hand. Specifically looking into different Class abilities he could try learning on his own.
He flipped to the page that had his class description and overall ability typing. He knew from Keeper's words that the Adventurer was the Jack of all Trades class, seeing that he could use weaker variations of abilities that Sakura could use, as well as other classes. What caught his eye however, was non-Chakra use abilities, peaking his curiosity.
"Let see what I can use here," Naruto says, pulling the book closer. "[Swipe], too obvious… [Thrust], same as the first… [Play Dead], might end up actually dead… [Draft Hands], no thank you... [Lancet] actually sounds good here."
[Lancet]
[An ability that allows the user to learn the experience and how to use certain skills after seeing them used once before. Restrictions include any Undead skill and Self-Destruction skills.]
[One time skill learn with book. Do you want to use it?]
Naruto quickly got up and out of his seat, and grabbed a piece of paper from his dresser and a pencil, before he quickly written the name of the skill and what it's able to do. He then went back into located different skills he felt like he could learn or possibly locate in the future, as he gave a nasty grin, before it fell, rocking his head back and forth. Honestly, it was a good idea, being able to use a skill that he can practically learn other skills without trying, but it felt off, unneeded.
Naruto kept it noted, as he went back into looking for different skills he wants to learn. As he went into this, he was able to locate some decent skills he could learn, as well as a passive ability, before a knock was heard. Naruto got up from his chair, and moved over to the door, opening it to reveal the silver haired woman, waving her hand.
"Evening, Kaka-nee," Naruto greets, stepping to the side.
"Evening Naruto," Kaka says, smiling through her mask. "The Hokage wanted me to tell you that he wants you and Sakura as his office after school tomorrow. Wanted to discuss about pushing you in your training, and to discuss some other details."
"Alright," Naruto says, as he walks over to the book and closes it. "Are you staying the night as well, or do you need to get back to you novel?"
"As much as I would love to cuddle my favorite shinobi-in-training," Kaka says, hearts floating around her head.
"Only one you prefer to hang around," Naruto states, as he was promptly ignored.
"I have to catch up on some reports I needed to get done anyways," Kaka says, sighing a bit. "Those council members are having me going out on missions left and right to keep me occupied from spending some time with you."
"Couldn't you ask the Hokage-jiji to give you some time to rest up?"
"I have, twice now, and when it was approved, five minutes later I get told to go out on a mission, as if it wasn't even registered that I was taking a vacation."
"I'll ask him that when Sakura and I visit, see on what's going on."
"Thanks Naruto, now get some sleep."
"Alright!"
With that, Kaka disappeared from sight, as Naruto sighed, and changed into his pajamas. Crawling into his bed, Naruto smiled softly, before closing his eyes, letting the darkness lift him from his body, falling asleep. Resting outside of his window, on the roof top nearby was a man with shaggy white hair, and a small wart on his nose, lowering his notepad down.
"You're doing well Naruto," the man says, rubbing his shoulder. "I'm sure you'll make your father proud in you, because I know I'm proud of what you're becoming. Damn, look at me, getting all sappy about my godchild betting stronger. Makes me want to get a stiff drink… Maybe Tsunade would care to be my drinking partner tonight, I know she'll enjoy the company."
With that, the man disappeared into the area around him, becoming invisible, and left without a trace. The next day rolled around, and Naruto was slowly getting out of his bed, groaning a bit, before changing into his clothing. He kept his armor off, and quickly looked outside, seeing the sun was starting to rise, making him smile. Climbing out of his window, Naruto started to climb up to the roof tops, pushing himself up using whatever exposed crack there was he could slide his fingers into.
Once on top of the roof, he turned around to watch the sun continue to rise, letting the village be graced with a small orange hue. Not too far away was Sakura doing a light jog through the streets, seeing the sun rise as well, and smiled at the sight, as she dodge one of the passer-bys on the street. Lee came running up to her, as they both greeted and went onto their light jog, before turning around to make way towards the academy.
Soon there, Sakura waved by to Lee, as he waved back and promptly got smacked in the back of the head by Tenten. The two girls waved each other back, as Naruto landed beside Sakura, while Hinata snuck up behind Sakura, giving the pinkette a hug. The three of them chuckled, as Sakura patted Hinata's head, as they nodded to each other.
"Hey Sakura-san," Naruto says, as Sakura turned to her. "Jiji wants us at the Hokage building after school, it's about our training and discussion about a few things."
"Okay," Sakura says, as Naruto ran ahead of her. "Remember what we normally do."
"Always," Naruto says, as he quickly ran into the building, with Hinata pacing herself behind him.
Sakura sighed, before she walked in after the two, as Ino caught up to her, both of them high-fiving. After a few minutes, the two started running down the halls, grinning happily, before crashing into their classroom, butting heads. Even though they were growling each other, the part exposed to the class had the growling faces, while the other side were grinning happily.
In the end, Ino got her seat next to Sasuke, the raven haired boy, who was promptly glaring at Naruto, who was denied getting sat by Sakura, and took her seat next to a pineapple haired boy who was currently sleeping on a dictionary. As the class were talking to each other, Iruka came walking down the steps, with papers in hand, and walked before the classroom, seeing everyone was there. This made the palm tree haired man smile, seeing the surrogate brother/son of his finally made it to class on time, before his head expaned.
"Silence!" the man cried out, as the whole class did as they were told. "Good. Now, you all know how class works, we go over an hour for history, an hour for math, and an hour for chakra training, before we finish the day off with the afternoon working on your stances and movements. I was asked by the Hokage to do something different, going over the different kinds of Jutsus known to shinobi kind."
This caused the class to groan, making Iruka sigh in frustration.
"If you are wanting to become shinobi, you'll have to recognize every style of jutsus out there," Iruka says, setting the papers down on his desk. "I am not proficient any of these jutsus, but I do know the basics of everything for them. We'll start with the most common one you'll run into the field, the Ninjutsu specialist. As their name implies they know plentiful amounts of Ninjutsu to use out in the field, and these people are hard to fight unless you know how to counter them."
'The five affinities,' Sakura thought to Naruto, who nodded his head. 'Fire beats Wind, Wind beats Earth, Earth beats Lightning, Lightning beats Water, and Water beats Fire.'
'Easy enough,' Naruto thought back, as Sakura smiled a bit. 'And since they beat each other that way, you can reverse it to make each one stronger in certain ways.'
'Right, Wind helps Fire get stronger, Fire with Water causing a bath of steam to hide, Lightning with metallic Earth can travel faster, dusty Earth with Wind can blind people, and Water can help create a trap with Lightning to electrocute enemies.'
'You are an evil minded person Sakura.'
"Tell me, what is Konoha's most popular element?" Iruka asks, as Sasuke rose his hand. "Yeah Sasuke?"
"Katon, Sasuke answers, making the man nod.
"Correct," Iruka says, chalking up on the board. "Katon is the most common in Hi no Kuni, and the rarest would be Futon which would be more common in Kaze no Kuni. Now, for the most part, everyone in their respective lands will learn majority of their own lands jutsus, while some are willing to branch out to learn more than one. An example of such a person is Sarutobi Asuma, the Sandiame's son. He is an example that is able to use both Katon and Futon techniques, while another one, Hatake Kaka, who knows over a thousand jutsus of all variants."
"She must be damn amazing," A couple of the girls says, as a couple boys had a perverse smile on their faces.
"She got to be damn sexy," one says as the rest of the boys snicker.
'She prefers to wear a baggy shirt and shorts when she's in my bedroom when she stays over,' Naruto thought, making Sakura giggle. 'I swear she just cuddles against me just because I'm there. And she suffocates me sometimes.'
"Having one of those moments Naruto?" Iruka asks, as Naruto nodded his head. "I'll put in a word to get those windows of your fixed."
"Thanks Iruka-sensei," Naruto says, sighing a bit. "It still gets annoying when Snake-san breaks in during one of my showers."
The whole class snicker, as Iruka shook his head, fully knowing what his blonde charge meant. Snake-sama, aka Anko, enjoys sneaking into Naruto's apartment as he takes his showers, binding herself to the chair with a grin. Sometimes, she's just doing it to get off in front of the blonde, other times she forgets she's in the wrong apartment. The rest of the classroom, except for Sakura, who was blushing a bit, laughed at the Devil Lucked Naruto, which is kind of sad for them. He gets to see the Legendary Melons on a near daily basis.
As the day went on, as they were going over the main set of the three, Sakura and Naruto were more focused on doing their homework over learning stuff they'll learn with their powers. Well, Naruto will, while Sakura already spent most of dinner and stayed up until three in the morning, reading the whole damn book in one go, as she dined on some carrots with a bit of salt and dip. As they went over that, there was a soft knock, making everyone turn around to see Hiruzen appearing at the door, making Iruka bow down.
The elderly man made his way down the steps, looking over the classroom, seeing everyone bowing before him, or were to engross with what the board had to offer. One of them was still asleep, but that's to him, as the Hokage smiled a bit.
"Lord Sarutobi," Iruka says, bowing a bit. "This was rather unannounced."
"It is alright, Iruka-san," Hiruzen says, looking around. "Just thought I get to see our latest class coming along. Everyone does show their doing well."
"Of course," Iruka says, smiling a bit. "Naruto is applying himself in more ways than one, and he is learning quite a bit under some guidance."
"That is good to hear," the man says, as Naruto was glaring at him a bit, eyeing down the figure.
'That's not Jiji," Naruto thought, as Sakura glanced his way.
'What do you mean?' Sakura asks, as Naruto tapped his nose.
'My sense of smell isn't as strong as Kiba-baka's,' Naruto mentioned, looking at the figure. 'But I can always tell the smell of tobacco on jiji. There isn't even a slightest hint on him, and he always smells like it, even after a day without his pipe.'
'What do you have plan?'
"Hey Shino," Naruto asked the boy sitting next to him, who didn't turn towards him. "I'll give you some rotten apples out of my fridge for you insects if you fly a couple horse flies into the Hokage's nose."
"Why?" Shino asks quietly, slightly turning.
"There's no tobacco on him," Naruto stated, blinking a bit. "He always have that tobacco smell, even if it's faint. I visited him yesterday, but he's clean, and he isn't clean for a few days."
A couple flies appeared from Shino's jacket, and flew towards the man, as Iruka and the 'Hokage' talked a bit. Iruka saw what Shino was doing, as the bugs suddenly sent up the man's nose, causing a sudden burst of smoke, as another shinobi appeared, making everyone jump. The flies quickly returned, as the blonde smiled, as the man was shaking his head a bit.
"Who the hell did that!" the man cried out, as Iruka smiled.
"Nice job Shino," the brunette man says, as the other shinobi sighed.
"It was Naruto-san's idea," Shino stated, as Naruto smiled a bit.
"You didn't have the smell of tobacco on you, Mana-sensei," Naruto stated, as the maroon haired man leaned forward, defeated a bit.
"I forgot you knew his smell that well," the man says, chuckling a bit.
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And with that, Chapter 2 has been ended on a sound-full note. As I have stated earlier, this isn't going to be a NaruSaku, NaruHina, or a SasuSaku. I will state that Hinata is going to play a role in romance later in the story, but this is all about the mild fluff. I'll dedicate a complete chapter later to all of the fluff, since the fluff is easy to fluff when one know how to fluff the fluff. Now onto the next Formula Section.
This one is all about damage and how it is calculated. The formula is going to be separated as Total Damage (TD), Attack (ATK), Defense (DEF) and Weapon Bonus (WB). The formula would look like this.
TD= (ATK+WB)-DEF
To get Attack and Defense, we'd have to break it down more. Let's start off with Attack formula. Well break this one down to Attack (ATK), Strength (STG), Dexterity (DEX) and Enhancements (Enchant). The formula would look like this:
ATK= (STG*Enchant)+(DEX*Enchant)/3
This means there are two different kinds of Enchants that can affect the Attack, Buffs and Debuffs. Let's use Naruto for this. He has the Debuff 'Malnutrition.' This means that both his Strength and Dexterity take a punishment of 10% per Stage, and Naruto would have it as a Stage Three debuff, making it 30% weaker on both Strength and Dexterity. So this would be what it'll look like for his physical structure:
ATK= ((5*.67) + (10*.67))/3 or ATK= 3.35+6.7/3 equaling his total ATK is 3.35
Then there is the defense of his opponent, or a wolf with a natural defense of 2 in this case as it's a young pup. Let give Naruto's Weapon, a standard wooden Bo staff with a WB of 5 would make the TD look like this.
TD= (3.35+5)-2 or 8.35-2 making the TD= 6.35 or round to the nearest whole number of 6. At Naruto's current strength, he can only to 6 points of damage against a Young Wolf. If Naruto didn't have the debuff, he's TD would be better.
TD= (((5+10)/3)+5)-2 or 8 points of damage evenly without those debuffs. But let's say Naruto ended up with a buff that gave him a bonus 10% in strength and 20% in Dexterity.
ATK= ((5*1.1)+(10*1.2))/3 or (5.5+12)/3 making the ATK at a rating of 5.67, round up to 6 points of ATK, put that into the TD= (6+5)-2 or 7 points of damage against the Young Wolf.
Yep… Math, it hurts my head, but it's needed if you go into RPG making since you need to work the equations out for those battles… Trust me, when you get those points to 50 and 60, you're seeing a hell of a lot of math. An example is this:
ATK= ((65*1.4)*(80*1.2))/3 or (91+96)/3 makes it 62 points of damage. It may not seem a whole lot, but this is more based off of DnD damage rating over most others, so these points of damage would usually be around a heavy level 40 character. Of course, we could set up a standard rate for this classes, so certain things get a bonus for their stats, as well as give additional points for certain unlocks and provide points, but that means getting into the 200-500 point in stats range… Hello Final Fantasy X.
I could also use the Final Fantasy IX version of their Attack stat which is TD= (ATK-DEF)*((STG+LVL/3)+STG) which is in this format ((5+5)-2)*((5+1/8)+5). Let's work that one out, shall we?
(10-2)*(5.125+5) or 8*10.125 making it equal at the point of 81 points of damage on a 100 HP Young Wolf. This is all based around Final Fantasy VII's damage rating, which is pretty fair if you asked me. So say lets max the STG, DEX, and Level at 99, and give Naruto a Steel Bo Staff with points of 26 for additional damage, while given his enemy, a Minator, a Defense of 75 shall we?
((99+26)-75)*((99+99/3)+99) or 50*231 making the Total points of damage be 11,550 points of damage, but say we limit that to only 9,999 because we all know we want to kill them as fast as possible, but can only do a maximum of 9,999 points of damage if the Minator had an Health point rate of 100,000 like most cheap bosses would.
So, hopefully this did teach you some importance in treating Math kindly since you never have to see it in most RPG games, unless you look into the formulas for it. Those that make the RPG games for you suffer a lot more then you'd think, and do be kind to their work since they spent most of their time focusing on the formulas before they even make the game.