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Konoha's shopping district
It had been some weeks since Naruto's life had become a game.
He had done some side quests in the commercial district, raising his reputation all the way to highly unfriendly, so he was now accepted in some stores who in the past had thrown him out.
But the prices were as high as they could make them, he couldn't buy anything without using all of his money. Seriously some of those prices were insane, 20000 ryo for a shirt!? How do they plan to sell that?
He did the mission with the rats several times as well as others he had found, such as delivering stuff for the shops. A curious thing he noticed was that the quest changed as he did it more and more, now there were 10 rats instead of seven, the mission also gave more Ryo than the first version so now he had 20,000 Ryo, which was more than he had ever had in his life.
He decided to look for a shop were his reputation was just unfriendly and not highly unfriendly, this was something he had noticed, his reputation with the district in general was highly unfriendly but each shop had a reputation of their own, some still hated him and some were just unfriendly but those were shops like the furniture shop or something like that, what he needed was a ninja shop.
After some hours of searching, he found a shop which was just unfriendly, its name was the Karma ninja shop and it had a quest so if he did it, it would probably raise his reputation and make it so the people in the shop sold him equipment and weapons at better prices.
He got close to the shop and the quest window appeared
New Side Quest
To learn more, talk to the owner of the Karma Ninja Shop
Reward: Higher reputation with the Karma Ninja Shop
200 Ryo
2 perk points
Failure: lower reputation with the Karma Ninja Shop
This mission was better than any he had seen until now specifically because of the 2 perk points; it was obvious this place was important in some way.
He accepted the quest and went inside the shop to find the owner.
Inside he found a tall, muscular man with blonde hair and rough hands, maybe from working in a forge or something like that.
"What do you need kid?" asked the man with a gruff voice as he looked at Naruto .
"Some Shuriken, maybe some kunai" Naruto retorted.
"You seem to be an academy student" said the man looking at Naruto "Ninja tools for your class?"
"Yeah, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I'm in my last year at the ninja academy, well if I can graduate that is, but I came here to see if I could get a box of kunai and another of shuriken" said Naruto.
"Well, that would be easy to get, I'll be 20,000 Ryo" said the man.
"Don't you think that's a bit too much?" asked Naruto pleading a little "You know I'm just in the academy right?"
"Well I could give you a discount price if you do me a favor" said the man pointing at Naruto.
"Whatever you need" said Naruto eagerly.
"I need twenty boar tusks, you can get them from the boars on the woods near training ground 22, and if you bring twenty I'll give you both boxes for 10,000 Ryo" said the man making a deal.
"7000 and we have a deal." said Naruto.
"Clever but that won't work, 9500 is the lowest price I'll give you boy." said the man sternly.
"Fine I'll take that" said Naruto "I'll be right back with those tusks, you won't even notice I was gone."
Naruto exited the shop and headed directly to training ground 22.
Training ground 22
Once he arrived to the training grounds he headed immediately to the woods on the edges of the grounds and he saw one boar and it was Lv 5 and had a green portrait.
Another thing Naruto gained from in the last weeks when he was just questing like crazy and getting money were 2 Lvs so he was now Lv 4 and his stats looked like this:
NAME: Naruto Uzumaki
RANK: Academy student
LV: 4
XP: 10/600
HP: 2800/2800
CP: 6300/6300
ATK: 59
DEF: 42
RES: 41
SPD: 49
INT: 22
WIS: 27
LUCK:?
He was now stronger; taking on this Boar shouldn't be a problem.
Naruto took out his kunai and got closer to the boar carefully trying to not let the boar see him, once he was close enough he slashed the boar with the kunai right on its back which angered the boar. The boar started trashing around kicking and lunging towards Naruto.
Naruto evaded every attack from the boar and slashed at it whenever he had a chance, soon enough the boar was tired and tried running away but Naruto jumped on it and dug his kunai on the boar's head killing it.
He gained 10 XP from the boar, not much, but it dropped one boar tusk something Naruto needed, so he kept dealing with lone boars for a while, after some time he had 15 of the 20 boar tusks he needed, he had killed 12 boars in total by now some of them having dropped 2 tusks.
He found more boars deeper into the woods; there he found a group of 3 boars, Naruto thought about it for a little while, if he were to fight all three at once he might found himself in trouble so he decided to find a way to get an advantage.
Naruto climbed a nearby tree and waited for a little bit once one of the boars got close enough Naruto jumped from the tree on top of boar taking it by surprise and stabbing it directly on the head with two kunai killing it almost instantly.
The other two boars were alerted of Naruto's presence from the wails of the first boar, seeing their friend dead both boars charged Naruto trying to ram him with their sharp tusks. Naruto managed to sidestep one of the boars but the other made contact with him sending him to the ground.
Naruto quickly spun around and got to his feet putting his kunai in front of him readying himself for the next attack from the boars.
It took a little while but one of the boars charged again, while he was charging Naruto quickly threw some shuriken hitting the boar head on making it miss him completely. Naruto took the chance and killed the boar before he could attack again by digging a kunai on its head.
The last boar furiously charged Naruto and much like the first boar Naruto fought it trashed around and made Naruto go on the defensive as he started dodging all the attacks from the boar. But just as the first boar it soon tired out and Naruto killed it as soon as he got his chance.
"That was exhausting…" sighted Naruto "But this will open the door for better equipment."
He got the last 5 tusks from these 3 boars, so he decided to head back to the Karma ninja shop to end this quest.
Karma Ninja Shop
"I'm back with your boar tusks" said Naruto putting the boar tusks on the counter of the shop.
"Well done kid, I will do as I promised, and give you the half price discount" said the man.
"Hey you promised 9500!" said Naruto.
"Ok, ok, 9500 it is" said the man "But I have a question, did you said you were an Uzumaki?"
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki but that name was given to me at the orphanage. At least I think so since I'm an orphan" said Naruto.
"So you don't think you are an Uzumaki, well you don't have the characteristic red hair of the Uzumaki clan anyways." said the man.
"Wait your telling me that there was an Uzumaki clan? Like the Uchihas or Hyugas?" asked Naruto not having heard of that.
"Well I don't know if they were as big as that, since I never saw them, I just heard from them in the past when I was younger then I made some research and found out a bit more." explained the man.
"So you're telling me I could be of a big clan and I don't know it?" said Naruto.
"Yeah but I don't believe so, since you're an orphan and the Uzumakis were destroyed during the last great shinobi war. I don't know if any survived that attack and if one did it must be hiding or he doesn't know his an Uzumaki since that was long ago." said the man.
"Well being of a clan would certainly help on my quest of being Hokage, but it doesn't matter I can still be a Hokage with my own effort." said Naruto standing as tall as he could and giving a goofy smile.
"Haahaha, I like you kid, if you ever need something else come back here, I won't try to trick you with higher prices anymore." said the man laughing.
"Thanks old man, I will" said Naruto.
"Don't call me old man, it makes me feel older than what I am. Call me by my name Ernst." said the man.
"Ernst? That's a weird name." said Naruto never hearing a name like that before.
"Well I'm not from this country, I'm from a place far away but I moved to live here when I was younger because I liked the village." said Ernst.
"Well, thanks Ernst, I will definitely come back here if I need anything else." said Naruto heading outside.
"Wait, Naruto I got something else for you." said Ernst taking out a book "You might not be an Uzumaki but take this, it's an Fuinjutsu book something Uzumakis were known for"
"Thanks" said Naruto taking the book "Well then see ya" said Naruto heading outside
Once outside he got a notification
Side quest completed
Get 20 boar tusks and deliver them to Ernst.
Reward: Higher reputation with the Karma ninja shop
200 Ryo
2 perk points
Your conversation with Ernst raised your reputation and relationship with him going all the way to Friendly.
"Wow that's a huge boost to my reputation" said Naruto quietly reading the box "Well I better return home and continue to read the book" said Naruto referring to the fuinjutsu book Ernst had just given him.
Decided to end it there, next chapter is the time skip to the end of the academy year, so wait for that
Tell me what you think of this chapter in a review
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Radiant Historia (DS)
This game is an RPG with a really unique combat mechanic. Whenever you fight you go to a 3x3 grid in which you can move your opponents using some attacks, if your enemies are close they deal more damage but you deal more damage as well and the contrary if they are far away.
But the meat of the combat system is the chain mechanic you can push people into other people and attack them both at the same time and if you chain attacks together you deal even more damage. The higher the combo the higher the damage multiplier.
To help you build long combos you just have to use the change turn mechanic in which you can change turns with anyone including allies or opponents creating chains of up to 10 attacks in a row (Somewhat like the brave and default system from bravery default).
This game is so good that it's my favorite game ever made.
This game is an RPG with time travel elements but the way they use this time travel elements is new and original, with multiple endings (most of them bad endings) that you can get them all in one play through, letting you repeat any section you want as much as you want.
Also the music is made by Yoko Shimomura the one that made the music for kingdom hearts and the Mario and Luigi games. So yeah the music is great.
Expect a lot of references from this game in the story