Open Source Code (OSC)
Disclaimer: This story is fiction. All the characters, names and places belong to their respective owners.
=[The Protagonist]=
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"This is stupid! I can't believe I've to clean all of this shit again!" Naruto growled angrily as he was ordered to remove the paint that his previous self, whom he couldn't control, so generously put them there. He remembered this was the part where Iruka sensei supposed to offer him ramen if he removed the vandalisms. Unfortunately, Iruka was still pissed at him for the prank during class and someone else took his place instead.
It was Mizuki.
That was weird.
Naruto thought for sure if this was a game, then it should follow the same path as before. It didn't. He didn't like Mizuki as the white-haired chunnin eventually tried to kill him after he stole… borrowed with the Scroll of Seals from the Hokage without consent. Naruto stopped scrubbing as something hit him.
"Are you tired? Maybe you should rest a little, Naruto," Mizuki said, putting on his worrying expression.
"Mizuki-sensei, can I go to a restroom?" Naruto asked.
"If you must, but come back soon," Mizuki said, letting the boy go as he sat on top of the Hokage Monument. Mizuki didn't follow the blond into the restroom no matter how much friendly he appeared since his mind was occupied with something else. He was thinking of how to steal a certain valuable scroll at the moment.
In the vacated restroom, Naruto checked if he could still do Shadow Clone (Kage Bunshin) technique and found out that he couldn't. As soon as he completed the required hand seals, the holographic screen with glowing blue outline flickered with a red notice appearing in the middle.
Kage Bunshin
(Handseal Depictions)
Error: Not Learnt
Naruto looked at it before pressing the 'X' button on the top right to make the notice disappear. He did some other techniques that he would eventually learn but found they were also locked, including the Rasengan. The blond face-palmed and realized he had to actually see the scroll for it to work… or could he? Naruto pressed the humanoid icon to the side of the screen, which he found it to be himself a while ago when he was mucking around with it.
It was logical as he couldn't lock onto himself to check his own stats. His own menu was a lot more different and far more details than what he saw on the other people. He scanned around the listing and quickly pressed on the Ninjutsu and found the list displayed was rather emptied. There were only a few basic academy techniques that he had learnt, plus some he made up along the way.
"Oiroke no Jutsu (Sexy Technique)?" Naruto questioned when seeing it on the list. Harem no Jutsu wasn't on there yet, at least not until he acquired Kage Bunshin from the scroll if he was to learn it the right way. He wasn't going through that again.
Scanning the display, Naruto noticed the button [] on top right of the list and pressed it. A new display appeared in the middle of the screen, overlaying the rest of the other windows. It was divided in half, filling with items to one side with a black box on the other.
There was an insane amount of techniques listed as Naruto scrolled down the list. Fortunately, the Jutsus were in alphabetical order, or it would take him a while to locate Kage Bunshin. While scrolling down, he stopped when he noticed Chidori. It was the same technique he was killed with by Sasuke. He pressed on the item, making the black window on the other side to demonstrate the technique with a moving doll-like figurine. The required hand seal was also illustrated.
"Cool… that's useful," Naruto nodded watching the little show. Once it repeated in a loop, he pressed the button below to learn it, but found another red popup window, overlapping the one he was on.
Requirement: Lightning Release
Naruto winced in annoyance and pressed the 'X' button on the window. He then backtracked to his stats page and checked for his elemental type stats, but couldn't find it. Scrolling down the stats listing, he found the Releases button, which was the word the notice indicated before. He pressed it and found the new popup page emptied. Using the [] button to the side, another window popped up. The blond read through it and shrugged before adding them all to his own profile with a few of more windows stating some more information and warnings, but Naruto didn't understand them very well.
Once done, he looked back at his releases again. It was completely filled as Naruto rubbed his eyes in pain. He looked at the mirror and became paralyzed.
"I got Sharingan? What's that weird rings…" Naruto muttered, looking the ring like pattern around his eyeballs, cutting through the tomoes of the Uchiha's doujutsu. Naruto checked the release list again and finally noticed all the items had the word Default next to it. Naruto blinked and rubbed his eyes before hearing Mizuki calling for him. The twelve-year-old sighed and came back to Ninjutsu list to search for Kage Bunshin again. He quickly added that to his own stats.
"Hope this work…" Naruto muttered, running through the hand-seals. It was fairly slow and he messed up a few times as if he was doing it for the first time. However, he finally created a shadow clone as he let out a sigh of relief.
"Alright, I'm busy right now, you go and finish the job," Naruto ordered the clone.
"Why do I have to do it? I didn't paint it!" The clone argued.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Shut up and go do it. Also use the goggle to cover your eyes, since that will raise a lot of questions," Naruto said, pointing at the ring like pattern with tomoes along its path on his clone's eyes. He wasn't sure how to deactivate it at the moment.
The clone grudgingly obliged, putting the tinted goggle over his face to hide his eyes before leaving the restroom. Naruto remained behind to add every technique on the list to his own profile one by one. It was a slow and painstakingly process. There was no quicker way to do it other than pressing on each jutsu individually and confirm. There must be tens of thousands of them, but the list decreased as the more was learnt. Good thing the list did not repeat what he'd already gained.
Elsewhere, a pedo-snake Sennin coughed as a certain kid just learnt all the Jutsu in the world effortlessly in a few hours.
Naruto exhaled deeply as he finally added the last one. He looked into the mirror again, seeing his strange eyes were still there. He scanned through the list of techniques that he added tediously before and noticed there was a number next to their titles. Almost all of the numbers were zero, except for Kage Bunshin.
Naruto pressed on the number next to Kage Bunshin, and a horizontal scroll bar appeared. The word Mastery was noted. The blond raised his eyes a little and dragged the bar to the right making it maxed out before confirming the changes.
He tried Kage Bunshin again and found his hand-seals was insanely fast to the point that it just a blur for a tiny fraction of a second before a clone appeared by his side. Naruto dispelled it with a smile on his face, and quickly maximized the number on every single technique. Time flew by before he completed the taxingly task. Unfortunately, he found out that even though he had "learnt" the technique, he did not acquire the knowledge about the associated hand-seals at all. That was a set back as he had to read through a few and practice it to make sure they worked correctly.
"How do I hide this?" Naruto asked, looking at himself in the mirror again. He didn't know what doujutsu it was as there were too many information on the screen. However, he was sure people would ask question if they noticed his eyes weren't his natural blue color anymore. Maybe he should ask the Hokage about it? How would Jiji react if he knew this was all just a game?
"Hokage… didn't obaa-chan could make herself younger? Henge?" Naruto tried and it worked as he speculated. His eyes were blue again, masking the doujutsu beneath. He nodded with approval, leaving the restroom and started his return home.
"Let's see where everyone is right now," Naruto muttered as he strolled leisurely down the path while watching the radar screen hovering before him. It was incredibly handy as he spied on where Jiraiya and Tsunade were. The latter's icon was in and out of gambling den from the numbers of other people icons hanging around the same room. Shizune's icon was tagging along as well. Out of curiousity, he actually checked on Haku to make sure that person was male from the profile. He was hopping Haku was female, but unfortunately not.
Who ever made this game has a sick mind!
Resetting the radar back to monitoring around him quickly with a button as Naruto was eventually figured it out through trial and error. He still wasn't sure what some of the other buttons were on the screen, and one of them apparently enables animals and insects to appear on the radar. Enable them flooded the screen with icons.
Anyway, the radar currently listed everyone in his immediate vicinity. Naruto noticed some people were following him for a while as he was randomly walking around in circle. There was that Hinata girl as her name was below her miniature icon, but who were these other guys around him. Naruto stopped and looked around as they hid behind certain obstacles and out of sight from the blond. Even if they did, a rotating circular ring in the screen targeted them regardless whenever Naruto looked towards their direction.
These guys that followed him were very stealthy and Naruto wouldn't even notice them if it weren't for the Radar that picked up everyone, or more correctly, anyone that was classified as human. It can detect them even if they were hiding or in a henge. It also displayed their true name if they had appeared as someone they weren't.
Huh? What is root? Naruto thought as he read the little inscription next to their names and scratched his head a little. Hinata had Stalker next to her which was somewhat disconcerting. Naruto pressed on the rotating ring at one of the guy that seemed to be targeting the wall, and the screen before him zoomed forwards, passing through solid wall to the targeted person as Naruto blinked. The root agent was with his back against the wall, waiting for the blond to continue moving. The profile didn't open up yet as it was waiting for Naruto to tab on it again.
Did the camera just go through the wall? Naruto questioned mentally as he tabbed outside the ring. The screen zoomed back, returning to normal again. Naruto tried a few times to test out the ability and found he could rotate around the target when the lock on was active to see the surrounding around them.
"Holy shit!" Naruto shouted loudly as all the Shinobi hidden pondered what had just happened.
Okay… stay calm, relax… fuck that, where's the bathhouse? I need to use this! Naruto thought excitedly with a lecherous grin. In another reality, that would be called Wall Hack and Ghosting, but the blond didn't know that. He only knew he could zoom through walls at certain targets in the distant, making it a great peeping tool. It was an ability that a certain Sage would die for.
Author Note:
There's no Naruto grinding. Why would he need to if he could edit his own character at will? Of course, adding it doesn't alter his memory so he will need to know the hand-seals. Still, it's the ultimate hacks.