Travel and Companion

I don't own Naruto or The Gamer

Deca: First things first the locations, I am using the first map that came up when I searched 'Naruto World Map' so Shin started in lightning country, moving south west to the land of frost, then further south towards the land of hot water. After that they circled back up more northwest while grabbing a bounty into the land of tea, which I mistaken for the land of rice fields I'm a dumbass I know. The reason they didn't come across B or A when travelling south has stuff to do with the current dealings with the land of frost. Which will be a little arc in itself, the title of which being 'Return to Kumo', an arc I'm quite excited to write.

Now for the second point, if he wants to get chomei, why isn't he going straight west towards the land of waterfalls? First, he doesn't know anything about sealing so he isn't able to seal it inside of himself. Second, it has been just under 2 weeks since he left, and I want to take it a bit slower to milk this series for all the fun I can get. Third, with Sho there his plans got a bit muddled up and instead they took bounties to build up some income since Sho thought Shin didn't have any money, even though it was just in his inventory.

Thank you so much for the review, and I love answering these lengthy ones to get across my reasoning. That's all for now, see you at the end of the chapter!

Previously on Cloud Gamer

I nodded and quickly dashed out of the establishment, heading onto the street after jumping over the bodyguard again. Now with 2 bats riding on my shoulders and heading over to Natio's place.

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Shin POV

"Oh, hey Shin, Sho and Natio just left if you're looking for them. I also need to prepare for a party with some business friends, so I'm kinda swamped with work right now."

"Argh, thanks Sun, I need to go look for them now." I sped off from the front door and activated my dojutsu to sense out Sho's chakra. If he was nearby, I would be able to feel it, then I realised what Sun had said. Business friends, as dumb as it may be, I had completely forgotten about the events before I got sent back in time. Was the samurai revived? What about the other thugs? I ignored all of those points for now and focused on finding Sho.

I wanted these techniques, even if it meant giving this place to some snake pedo. It wasn't my job to solve some countries diplomatic problems, we could go elsewhere for bounties.

I saw Natio's crimson hair through a crowd and ran along some building walls to drop right behind them, they both turned around to me with a quizzical look.

"Shin. What did I tell you literally under a week ago?" Sho said, looking a bit peeved while holding Natio's hand.

"Sorry Sho, and I already promised you I wouldn't so don't worry. I wanted to ask if you think we should head out of this country soon, I have some stuff to do in the land of grass that will take about 2 weeks for everything."

"I'll decide later, when I get back, do you have a time limit for your answer?"

"Yeah, 9pm tonight, if you can give me one before then, we will be all good to head out in the morning."

"Alright, now, let's go m'lady." Sho said, looking back towards Natio who was listening in on our conversation. I dry hurled and jumped back onto a building wall before blasting off towards the park.

Sho POV – Gold's Grill

"Are you planning on going?" Natio asked, staring at me while sipping on some tea. I stared into my cup before answering, "I'm not sure to be honest. I want to stay here with you and get to know you better, but I also feel responsible for Shin. I know he can take care of himself like an adult, but he's kind of grown on me, like some sort of plague."

"Or, like a son."

I started to cough on my tea while she said that, causing her to snicker. I hadn't really though about my relationship with the kid, it was somewhere between partner and friend, but I also felt like I needed to be there to support him, and travel with him.

"I really haven't thought about my position with him, to be honest, he feels like a partner that I can trust, but also someone I want to support with my full being."

"Sort of like, a father would?"

"Please stop saying that, it makes me uncomfortable to think of that kid as my child, haha."

"Yeah, I get it, he really seemed mature at some points, but like a child at others. So weird, but back on topic, if you do go with him. Can I tag along? Sun has got stuff covered here and I'm incredibly bored of the city now, need to stretch my legs about, right?"

"U-Uhm of course! I would be happy to let you tag along, definitely, actually we needed a seal master for Shin's goal, with you there its actually possible!"

"His goal?"

"Yeah, but that's not mine to share. I will say though, it's a fucking crazy one."

"Stop that language! Or I'll have to wash your mouth out young man"

"Oh yeah? With what?"

"That will wait until we get back to your hotel."

"I'm liking the sound of that already."

Our food arrived and we ate in comfortable silence, my mind too filled with thoughts of Natio's luscious curves for me to deliberate about my journey with Shin. He could wait, these thoughts though, could barely.

Shin POV – Park

"Alright Komizu, time for you to give me some tips about wind manipulation."

One of the bats on my shoulder stirred and blinked her beady eyes a couple of times, yawning and starting to hover in front of me.

"Alright maggot! First step of wind manipulation, make your chakra as thin as possible!" She said in a drill sergeant's voice, looking down at me from above my head.

I held the leaf in the palm of my hand and imagined my chakra in my hand, putting it to my palm, and slowly releasing it as thin as a string on my palm. I started to sweat a bit from the concentration but tried to make it even thinner, to the thickness of a needle's point was my goal.

"You almost got it, now just moved it like a saw, which is how I imagine it, or the sharpest thing you can imagine cleaving through!" She barked, the flapping of her wings exposing her excitement to the open world.

'The sharpest thing I can imagine. A knife? No, that doesn't feel right. A kunai? No, not that either, why is this so hard?' An image popped into my head, one of the fights I rewatched many times if not for Naruto for Shikamaru. The Rasen shuriken, a wind jutsu so powerful it was immediately considered a kinjutsu by Tsunade from the damage it causes the user and the enemy. So sharp that it could easily rip through the strings of Kakazu's body and cause irreparable damage to every single cell inside.

Those small needles, severing every single bond, that was my only thought while focusing my chakra. I heard Komizu gasp and opened my eyes, a window was in front of me and in my hand the leaf was cleanly split in two, with a needle of wind still remaining in the palm of my hand.

"'Wind chakra creation (level 1)' unlocked!"

"'Wind style: Wind needle (level 1)' unlocked!"

"You…Did it!"

"Hell yeah! I did it!" I pumped both of my fists up in the air while jumping for joy, I had finally achieved the second nature transformation after a year since the last one.

I laid back down on the grass and stared at the sky above me, it felt good to make strides with skills, so good. I put a leaf in my left and right hands, forming lightning chakra in the left and wind on the right. 'Now how do I combine the two?' I thought, pushing more chakra through to split the leaf in my right and crinkle the one in my left.

"Hey Komizu, do you think I could combine these?"

"Silly Shin, you know that requires a bloodline, and what would it even create?"

"Not sure, and that's why I'm going to try."

"Well good luck, can I have another apple?"

"Sure."

I chucked her the fruit and activated my dojutsu, increasing my chakra control and allowing me to see the most prominent chakra points and veins in my arm. I put a new leaf in my hand, slowly pushing some lightning chakra through my arm and also squeezing in a sliver of wind chakra using my new skill, levelling it up in the process.

The chakra slowly changed, mixing around in my veins but wouldn't leave my arm. I pushed more chakra through and felt an incredible pain pulsate through my body, I reached slowly put my hand on the ground but when I looked it was already there.

"AGH, WHAT THE FUCK!" I held up my palm in front of my face and it immediately appeared, vibrating quickly in front of me. "Shin, are you okay!" Komizu squeaked, flying off of the apple and attempting to land on my hand before being flung back from the motions, slamming into the ground with a thump.

I quickly cut off the chakra flow and my muscles screeched from the stress they were put through. Komizu regained her composure and looked up at me, staring at my hand in particular.

"What was that?"

"I have no idea; my arm was just moving extremely quickly. The leaf is gone as well." I rubbed my arm to soothe the pain and looked around for the leaf, it was sitting nearby and was split into many scrunched up pieces, like it was diced by a knife and then crushed.

There was no window for a skill this time, so I figure I did something wrong and grabbed another leaf. "Are you sure you want to try that again?" Komizu said, attempting to guide me away from potentially harming myself with experiments.

"Yes, I am, this could be quite useful, especially for where we are going." I replied, thinking about the events of kanabi bride, AKA, where we were headed. I put some more chakra through my arm but added more wind chakra this time, making it a ratio of close to 7:3 lightning to wind.

The same feeling happened but less painful, and more like a static jolt to my muscles. The leaf was diced even more than before in my hands when I looked down. I clutched my forearm in an attempt to calm the pain swelling in my bicep and hands, doing nothing to stop it.

I grit my teeth and retry the experiment one more time, ratio 6:4, I didn't know why, but adding more wind chakra seemed like the right play, considering how it hurt less when I removed some and replaced it with wind. My hand vibrated less quick but hurt far less than any attempt, to the point it was more like flexing a muscle for a long period of time rather than constant jolts of needles through my arm.

"New skill 'Swift chakra creation (level 1)' unlocked!"

My arm got tired, and I cut off the chakra, wiping the small amount of sweat that formed off of my brow. I stared at the window in front of me with glee, I had taken huge strides today so far, and now was time to grind to the fucking max!

Komizu was finishing off her apple and I chucked her another, grabbing a pile of leaves and placing my other summon who was still sleeping on the ground. Now began the slow process of farming each skill to become as efficient as possible, and with 6 hours of practice, making it around 2:00 pm I had achieved level 10 in both new forms of chakra creation and gained 4 main levels for my efforts.

Sho POV The hotel

I was laying comfortably with Natio on top of me after our, *ahem* ventures, and was thinking about the trip with Shin. I didn't need to pick up any supplies or anything, but I was still deciding whether to go or not. I knew it was dumb, but I couldn't help but feel a little irked at how we were leaving a job unfinished, even if it was off the books or whatever.

I looked down at Natio and brushed a couple of hairs out of her face, causing her nose to scrunch up and to blink a couple of times before yawning up at me. I snickered a bit as she buried her face deeper into my chest, I caressed her back and gave her ass a bit of a squeeze which made her jump up and stare down at me.

"Perv"

"Ehhh? After how you were screaming not 20 minutes ago, I would call you the perv. It was all like, 'PLEASE SHO, HARDER-'" She quickly clamped my face with her hand and gazed at me with a blush, I licked her fingers, and she pulled them back in disgust.

"Blegh, must you really do that?" She said, shaking off her hand off my saliva and rubbing it on the covers, still straddled tightly to my torso. I laughed a bit and leaned up to kiss her face, which she blocked with her still wet hand with a laugh.

"Gotcha!"

"Blegh!" I coughed a bit from the smell of my own saliva and laid back down, getting comfortable in my pillow and staring up at Natio. "Want a round 2?" I said, wiggling my eyebrows in the most unsettling way possible.

"Not when you do that." She hopped off of me and fetched her dress and underwear, I walked past her to the bathroom and slapped her ass before closing the door and locking it.

Natio banged on there door and yelled about me being a pervert before I sat on the toilet and grabbed my icha icha from the shelf on my right, removing the bookmark and opening to the new page of my smut. That was until a certain click sounded out from the door, 'that shouldn't be possible, the only person with another key to the room is… Oh that brat' I thought, watching as Natio walked in and cracked her knuckles.

"Want to slap my ass perv?" She said menacingly, I got a good look at Shin who was waving at me with a thumbs up while covering his mouth to stop a laugh. Natio looked at the book in my hand and laser focused on it, I slowly put in my bookmark and placed it back on the shelf, hidden behind some towels.

"You didn't see anything."

"Oh, I think I did."

"Please tell me you didn't see anything."

"I think I saw something."

"Anything but that."

"PUNISHMENT!" Natio tackled me into the back of the toilet and grabbed the book throwing it towards Shin in the other room, he caught it easily and bolted out the door while Natio settled her knee straight into my family jewels and following Shin into the hall.

Shin POV

"You know, you didn't have to knee him in the balls." I said, sitting back on the bench and staring into my partner in crime's eyes.

"Oh, but I did." Natio snickered, flicking the stolen book in the air before catching it again. "That perv needs to learn where the line is, or he is going to have a long and painful month."

"You planning to tag along on the trip? Its going to be dangerous you know."

"I don't need a kid that hasn't hit puberty to worry about me, plus, I think you forgot I am a master of seals as a Uzumaki, it kind of runs through the veins."

"Think you could teach me, when we get some materials of course?"

"Sure, as long as we can keep working together to remove every copy of icha icha from the world."

"Deal." I fist bumped with her and chucked a small smirk, meeting her grin while she threw the book one more time in the air and I blasted it with a fireball.

Sho soon met up with us grumbling about 'disrespectful brats' and 'witches'. It was starting to get close to night, so we all sat on the bench together, talking about random things that came to mind while waiting for the clock to strike 9.

"So, you plan on becoming the jinchurikii for the 7 tails?" Natio asked, staring into the stars above us. She had brought it up since Sho had mentioned it earlier.

"Yeah" I replied simply.

"Rumour has it the beast was released from its jinchurikii during the early stages of the war and is hiding out in a temple within the forests of the land of waterfalls. It's one of the only reasons Iwa isn't attacking them directly, since they don't know if they have a jinchurikii or not, they can't risk throwing soldiers. Especially with the situation near kanabi bridge, apparently some upstart jonin has been gaining prominence after his battles against the 4th raikage and the 8 tailed jinchurikii." Sho added, staring at the trees in front of us with his hands behind his back.

The night air soothed us with its slight warmness, it was spring right now, and lucky I didn't have allergies in this world because the amount of flora would kill anyone with even a mild amount of hay fever.

"That upstart, what's his name?" I asked, if we were getting close to canon events, I could finally start fucking up the timeline for fun.

"The yellow flash of Konoha, Minato Namikaze, why do you ask?"

"Just thinking."

"Man, I want to go to Konoha someday, what about you Natio?"

"I want to travel the entire continent, Konoha included so yes."

"Wow, it seems we all want to explore the world." I said, breathing out heavily and standing up to look at them both in front of me. "So, how about we go meet our passenger for the trip?"

"Sure, lets go Natio. Have you told Sun of where you are going?"

"Yeah, I left a note in the letter slot, hopefully he checks it. I can finally be done with paperwork!"

We all started to walk through the streets, with me leading in front and Sho on my right, holding Natio's hand behind me on my left. I noted the new bodyguard out the front of Angel's kiss and walked down, making sure to look back and get a good look at both of the 'Adults' squeamishness.

"Shin, is the client really here?" Sho asked, a tick forming on his head while looking around the establishment

"Of course, since I am picking up a stripper for some company." I said seriously, taking a seat in front of the podium and spooking a couple of adults.

"You brat! You brought us here for that? Not that I'm complaining" He whispered the last part into my ear while they both took a seat on the couch next to me.

I waited for about 15 minutes until it reached 9:00 pm exactly, unlike Sho, I hadn't spent any money on drinks or payment for the shows, so I disappeared out of my chair and behind the curtains with a burst of chakra. 'I should really just learn the body flicker, or a flash step sort of thing'

Miya was sitting there with another smoke in her hand, wearing a dark green trench coat that matched her hair with dark combat boots with steel toes. "Right on time, you got everything ready?"

"Yes Miya, do you want to head out tonight or tomorrow?"

"I think tonight will be best, now if I may ask. Why did you come in through the front, I let the guard know a kid would come through and to guide him."

"Ah, well, I kind of just sped past him with my companions, they are both waiting at the main stage for us, so shall we?"

"Sure, lets go kid."

We exited the backroom from a door and walked through the main area, spooking Sho with our sudden appearance behind him, making him spill his drink.

"AH! Asshole! Oh, it's you, shitty brat."

"Fuck did you say old man?!" I punched hi mover the back of the head, causing Natio and Miya to laugh. He punched me back and we got into a small brawl that got us all thrown out onto the street by the bouncer.

"Welp! Let's head out, towards grass country!" I yelled out, stretching a bit to crack my back. "We need to go grab our stuff first, then we can go. On another note, mind introducing us to our friend here?"

"I am Miya Juryo, and the person that you will be guarding from here to the land of grass and back. Unless of course you ditch me somewhere, then you can't get your scrolls."

"Scrolls?"

"Did the kid not tell you? The reason I'm going there at all is to pay him for his silence about a certain secret. I will guide you all to a vault in the land of grass and unlock it and in return, you guard me for the entire time and stay silent about the situation."

"Sure, that's easy."

We all walked towards the hotel and checked out, grabbing our bags and exiting the city behind us. Down the dark path we went, before we set up camp on the outskirts of the land of tea, I had been carrying Miya for the first 4 hours of our journey and now after sleeping Sho would carry her for the day.

"So that's why you should give up your bag." Sho said, he had been complaining about how I should give up my bag so Miya could sleep comfortably, and he would share his with Natio, though I wasn't entirely sure that the bag would fit them both.

"Listen here shitty old man! I gave up my bag for the last person we had, you can give it up this time!" I yelled back, not noticing at all how the women had both already stolen our sleeping bags and were dozing off.

Sho started to get childish and started moving his hand while I was talking to mock me, I leaped over the fire and stretched out his cheeks before headbutting him.

"Ow! Shitty brat! Haven't you realised they already took our bags!" He yelled, rubbing his sore head while I looked around, finally seeing my stolen bag filled with Miya's body. I sighed heavily and pulled out my teapot and kettle, filling the kettle with some water before placing it over the fire and placing a few leaves in the compartment at the top of my pot.

"Shin, how do you do that?"

"Do what? Pull stuff out of my ass like that?"

"Yes!"

"Well, its kind of hard to explain. Ever since I could remember I've had access to this pocket dimension. I keep tools and stuff in there, and also things like this set."

"Wow, nice, don't really know what else to say but I guess it isn't the weirdest thing I have come across. During the second war, there was this dude named Falax. Man, he was tough, and weird. He wore a necklace of ears and was shouting prayers while we fought. Then the ears started to float around like some sort of telekinesis."

I kept listening to Sho's story while waiting for the water to boil, when it finally did, I poured it into the pot and gave a cup to Sho, who accepted gratefully. We drank tea and talked about different topics, like my past and his, our favourite foods, favourite actors and favourite book series, until we went to sleep calmly on the ground near our bags.

The next morning

"You know, sometimes the forest gets boring." I groaned, hopping to another tree branch with Natio next to me and Miya on Sho's back. We left very early in the morning with only 5 hours for east, since we were all used to that amount. We would have a longer rest in the land of waterfalls and land of sparks, where we were headed towards first. I didn't remember the land of sparks from the anime, so I doubt they went there, or it was mentioned anywhere in the series.

From the geography books I had read in this world, the land of sparks was established by a bunch of smaller lands during the second war and is allied with the land of fire. It specialises in the production of products like silk, paper, cotton and their regional fruit, the emberry. It was a small orange fruit the size of a grape, but it packed a punch, like 6 jalapenos at once strong.

"Then let's play a game!" Sho suggested with a smile, leaping to the next tree in his path while tightening his grip on Miya. I looked towards him and recognized that smirk, it was the face he made when he was going to fuck with me.

"Oh yeah? What type of game?"

"Something I learned on the frontlines."

Now it had my interest, if it was something they learned during a war, even if this was a prank it could be good knowledge, of course, all of those thoughts went out of the window when he spoke his next words.

"Who can stay silent the longest starting now!"

"UGH!"

"Ah! Shin, you lose!"

"Shut the fuck up old timer!"

"I'm only 30! Little shit, if I wasn't carrying Miya I would kick your ass!"

"Try it old man!"

"Natio! Slap that shit for me!"

Natio caressed my head gently as we jumped, annoying Sho to no small degree. "TRAITOR!" He yelled out, speeding ahead, which cause everyone to laugh.

The landscape made a sudden change from lush green forests to a dark grey battlefield with holes ridden through the plains area. There were bodies strung about and fires that had yet to go out from fire style ninjutsu scattered in the area.

We dropped to the ground and Sho's face grew a bit colder, his aura feeling completely different from the warmth he usually exuded to a now icy still feeling that made me shudder.

My ankle was grabbed suddenly and Natio dragged me along, stomping on the wrist of the begging man until he let go. A sickening crunch was heard from our group when I fell into a ditch, unintentionally landing on someone's body and breaking something.

"Are you alright? We need to keep moving."

"Yes, I'm fine."

I got up and continued to run, not stopping to look around all as I sped up and past Sho in front of me. I didn't like this atmosphere, not at all, not one bit, it hurt me to be in the presence of so much death and I felt sick to the stomach wondering how they all fell, the families they left behind.

I shook out those thoughts and opened my status, adding all of my points into luck, increasing it to 91, so close to 100. I closed the window just in time to dodge a kunai that clipped my ear, ripping through the lobe and digging into the ground in behind me.

"Would you look at that, a squad of ninja carrying around some woman. Let me guess, hmmm, actually, I don't care!" The voice echoed around the battlefield, and we all stopped. Sho let down Miya and I brought out my katana, preparing for a fight.

2 hands grabbed my ankles and dragged me underground before the sizzling of exploding tags brought me out of my surprise and the area around me was blown sky high.

I suffered burns over my body and lost 2,000 hp but was relatively alright for someone who just got bombed. I landed back on the ground with a pant and wiped some blood off of my eyelid, looking around for my enemy and activating my dojutsu.

I could sense him going around us underground, but there were 2 other signatures in the area, also underground but were stationary. The ninja went to snatch me again, but I jumped up and thrust my katana into the ground, stabbing straight through the enemy's throat from above the ground, killing him instantly.

The other 2 signatures made their move, one heading towards Sho and the other towards Natio. Sho grabbed Miya and jumped backwards, dodging the attack easily, Natio following along.

The shinobi both jumped out of the ground and landed on the ground with their fists up to fight. They were both wearing brown flak jackets with a maroon undershirt and black pants.

They threw out 2 kunai each at my partners and I used the chance to land a swift swipe with my sword, but they dodged easily and came around with a roundhouse kick that I blocked. I swung downwards towards the one I was attacking but the other shinobi launched off a rock bullet that snapped my sword's blade clean off from the side.

I clicked my tongue and threw the broken sword at them, launching a water bullet to follow along, they dodged both and ran in to fight me directly. Sho interrupted one with a gale palm and followed them away so I could fight one on one.

I launched a high kick up towards the shinobi's head which was blocked and grabbed. They threw me into the floor and stomped the ground behind me, causing a large wall to come up and hit my stomach.

I recovered mid air and threw 2 lightning spears down, which were both easily dodged. I used the chance to land on top of the wall and move wind and lightning chakra around my body, through every single vein. I could feel my entire body shake as swift chakra flooded my system, I was vibrating in place and sprung forward quickly, ignoring my screaming body in favour of trying something new.

I landed a quick 2 punch combo before tripping up the shinobi and stomping on their throat while they were down, causing them to hack up spit. I held up my palm, pointer and middle fingers slightly apart.

'Sorry Nagato, but this was just too cool not to steal' I thought, smirking while I created a wind needle in between my fingers that I blasted straight through the shinobi's forehead, splattering the back of their head across the ground. (Think how pain killed Kakashi in canon)

Natio was wide eyed at my acts, but Miya looked pale before throwing up on the ground next to her. I looked over to where Sho had finished his opponent, wiping his kunai off of the corpse before grabbing any scrolls or weapons it had.

My opponent was carrying a few kunai that I grabbed along with a scroll full of food supplies. I chucked the scroll over to Sho and added the kunai to my inventory, bringing my total to 55 kunai and 40 shuriken, nice, even numbers.

"Hey Shin, how can you kill so easily?" Sho asked, concern lacing his voice while he stood next to me, a firm grip held on my shoulder.

I shook it off and walked back over to Natio and Miya before turning my head around to face him. "I just don't feel anything Sho, that's all, you don't need to worry."

"I used to say that and I got pulled off of the front lines, talk to me when you're ready to spill it, because we can fix you."

"Don't try and fix what isn't broken Sho, it doesn't work."

"I think you are underestimating how serious of a state you are in. If you don't feel a thing when you end a human's life, especially as just a child like you are, there is something wrong. I have friends in the black ops, and this is a common occurrence, I'm not trying to fix what's broken, I'm trying to improve something that works." He didn't say anything after that and gave Miya a water canteen to clean her mouth, Natio gave me a small smile while patting my shoulder before we all headed towards our destination. Not many more words were shared for the rest of the day.

Campsite – 13 hours later

I laid down on the branch I had chosen for bedding tonight but was having great trouble falling asleep, something that hadn't happened since I started sleeping with Yugito. A nagging feeling in the back of my mind was warning me of something, but I didn't know what it was.

'Raid menu' I thought, bringing up the screen and staring at the only one I could select.

"Raid selection menu

'Gecko' Manzo"

I activated the raid and the world shifted around me, the sky became black and I was now standing on the ground, a carriage was nearby with blood splattered over it. A masculine figure outlined with a blue grid pattern stood in front of me, unmoving and still.

"Select difficulty

Easy

Medium

Hard

Extreme

Impossible"

I selected easy and prepared to fight, but another window appeared in front of me.

"Select up to 3 companions

Yugito

Sho

B

Shimo Guards"

I selected Sho, Yugito and B, holograms of them appeared next to me with a green outline. They all stood still, and a countdown appeared in front of me, "3, 2, 1, START!"

My teammates and Manzo rushed at each quickly, trading blows. Manzo seemed weaker than he was when I faced him and was getting destroyed by B and Sho, with Yugito lighting him up with fire from the side.

I jumped into the fray and launched Manzo backwards with a kick to the face, Sho added a gale palm to slam him into the floor while B grabbed him with two tentacles, throwing Manzo straight into Yugito's fireballs. They were all working in synch with each other perfectly, even if they hadn't met before.

Manzo jumped backwards and summoned several large geckos, which my teammates held back while I fought Manzo one on one. I dodged under a swift jab and kicked his knee with my right leg, before landing a solid uppercut to the jaw and sending Manzo upwards.

Manzo flipped mid air and threw down 2 kunai that I dodged easily before sprouting a water whip from the floor that grabbed my torso. I tried to escape it, but Manzo landed a solid punch to my face that sent me rolling backwards, I recovered and threw a thunder spear at Manzo.

He dodged it easily but got trapped inside of a blue inferno from Yugito, Sho healed my injuries while B fought with his swords inside of the fire field. Manzo dodged a couple but received several stabs to his joints from B.

By the time my injuries had healed, B was already finished and stabbed Manzo through the neck, ending him instantly. My vision faded to black, and I was now sitting on the tree again with a screen in front of me.

"You have completed the raid 'Gecko' Manzo with a B – RANK

Rewards are as follows and have been automatically deposited into your inventory

10x 1 skill voucher, 10 skill points, extra lottery spin, 5,000 ryo, 1x hidden objective reveal voucher"

I opened the lottery, and it landed on a red sector, this usually meant some pretty good stuff, not as good as the black on I got last year, but still pretty okay.

"You have landed on a legendary sector, congratulations!

You have received 10x 5 skill voucher, 1x hidden objective reveal voucher, new special quest 'Thief's worth', new quest 'Naruto GT!', 10,000 ryo

Special quest alert!

'Thief's worth'

Hey Mr. hunter, how about you go fetch me some eyes?

Objective 1: Obtain a sharingan eye from the area around kanabi bridge

Objective 2: Obtain a byakugan eye from a main branch hyuga clan member

Objective 3: Obtain a rinnegan eye in in any form

Objective 4: [Complete all other objectives before unlocking]

Rewards: 10x 40 skill voucher, 3,000,000 ryo, title: The one prophesised, skill: space time manipulation, skill: '?' chakra mode

Quest alert!

'Naruto Grand Tour!'

Travel to every country within the elemental nations!

Objective 1: Expand your map to cover the entire elemental nations

Objective 2: Visit every country within the elemental nations

Hidden objective 1: ?

Rewards: 5x 10 skill voucher, 20,000 ryo, title: traveller, skill: silver-tongue

Hidden objective rewards: skill: gold-tongue, 50,000 ryo, 10x 5 skill voucher"

'That's a lot of words' I thought, waving them all the screens off and opening my inventory to cash in my skill vouchers, they were really starting to build up. By the time I had used them all, I had so many stat and skill points that just thinking about the possibilities made me giggle with excitement.

165 stat points, 154 skill points, and now I'm level 177! The levels from the skill vouchers mainly went into maxing out my leaf sticking exercise to increase my chakra regeneration, maxing out my cooking skill to make way better food and drinks, and the last 62 levels were placed in my taijutsu to increase the damage and efficiency.

The 165 stat points were used to get my last 4 stats to 100, selecting 4 new perks, the last 8 points were used for vitality, bringing my maximum hp to 10,792 and my maximum stamina to 7228. The new perks up for selection were useful, but not really in the combat sense, except for the intelligence one.

"You have reached 100 in the luck stat, congratulations!

Please select one of the 2 following paths for your luck to follow

Benzaiten's favour: you have incredible luck in any games or activities that earn money!

Snake eyes: You can detect cheating or foul play in any game you participate or spectate.

You have reached 100 in the intelligence stat, congratulations!

Please select one of the 3 following paths for your intelligence to flourish in

Perception +: For 3 seconds every 24 hours (resets at 12:00 am) you can slow time to a standstill from your point of view, you can not move during this time but can look around with your eyes and think.

Ego: ?

Strategic mind: Your ability to articulate and understand the world around you is magnified greatly, your mind is also more attuned to strategic thinking and plans.

You have reached 100 in the willpower stat

Please select one of the 2 following paths for your willpower to rise in

Will of the conqueror: Your killing intent's potency is increased greatly, to the point where anyone much weaker than you will bow down out of instinct.

Second wind: When on your last legs, gain a burst of energy for 30 seconds, your chakra will be replenished by 20% and health by 10%. All injuries will remain and after the 30 second window is over, you pass out.

You have reached 100 in the charisma stat

Please select one of the 2 following paths for your charisma to follow

Trickster: People believe your lies far easier

Born leader: The people around you consider your opinion more important than others, no matter how wrong it is."

I selected 'Benzaiten's favour' for the potential it gave me to make far more money. Next, I chose 'Perception +' since it was a useful skill that could save my life once a day, for willpower I chose 'Second wind' for the same reason as 'Perception +'. Charisma was hard to decide with, but I ended up going with 'trickster' since I didn't want my allies to kill themselves over my opinions, if they did end up being wrong.

Last thing up was my skill points, but I was starting to get tired, so I put it off for a while longer and closed my status, resting my head back on the tree trunk, dozing off slowly.

"You know, we should really pick up more sleeping bags in the next town we enter. Like, look at Shin, he's having to sleep on some branches when he's not even on a mission!"

"Meh, I say the kid deserves it for calling me an old man."

I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and put my hand up to block the sun, yawning slightly before rolling off of the branch and landing softly on the ground. "That's because you are an old man" I drawled, waving to the two ladies and flipping off Sho.

"Little shit, watch where that disrespect gets you"

"Maybe I would if you could do something about it old man."

"Wow, Shin is really not a morning person huh?" Miya said, strapping her boots up while sitting on my bag.

"Yeah, maybe." Natio responded, sliding out of Sho's bag and wrapping it back up for travel.

"Hey! I am a morning person! Its just when I wake up to some old guy insulting me, I won't sit still." I said, mock offended at their statements. I didn't really care about that morning person stuff personally, so I never paid attention to if I was one. They both giggled at my response while Sho grumbled and stuff his sleeping bag back into his backpack, something he picked up in the capital before we left.

I took my bag off of Miya and threw it in my inventory, Sho quirking his eyebrow before looking away, it seemed my explanation didn't appease him when it came to the inventory.

I stretched a bit more and put Miya in a princess carry, holding her close to my chest as we began to run. She was pretty light all things considering, and it was nice to feel her assets flop against my body every once in a while. It would be one more day until we reached the border to the land of waterfalls, then 2 more after that to reach the land of grass, and boy was that going to be eventful. Even more so now with my special quest, that I was definitely going to complete.

"Hey Sho, we haven't met many shinobi besides that group yesterday. Any reason why? Not that I'm complaining." I said, breaking our silence.

"Most of the forces are being kept on the front lines ad the rest are staying in the main villages to protect them, but it is pretty weird how we haven't seen any high-profile guys except for Manzo a week back, if you could even consider a C – RANK high profile."

"By the way guys, if you want me to help during fights, we are going to need to pick up some sealing supplies. I need ink, paper and a brush, plus some extras for Shin." Natio added, staying slightly behind us to watch our backs.

"That's true, hey old man, know where the next city is?"

"Don't call me that! And yes, I do, the closest one would be Quar near the border."

"Alright, we'll stop there for supplies before we head into the land of waterfalls. Natio, Sho, should we complete my goal while we are there? If it is possible at least."

"I'm all for it, I'd like some extra power for our group. Kind of scared of fighting a huge chakra beast though."

"Hopefully we wont need to, I just need to talk to the bugger then if they agree we can go for the seal. If not, I'll go back there and fight it myself when I'm stronger."

"Beast? What are you guys talking about?" Miya said, looking up at my face in confusion.

"There is something I'm looking for in the land of waterfalls, that's all you need to know."

"Fine then, keep your secrets." She pouted and looked ahead of us, watching the scenery of plains as we passed through.

2 Hours later

"SHIN DUCK!" Sho shouted, I dropped to the floor instantly and covered Miya with my body to the best of my ability, a kunai whizzing over my head and being caught by another shinobi behind us.

"Fuck, we're surrounded!"

I looked around and there were 6 shinobi surrounding our group in a circle, all having their weapons drawn and being ready to fight. I activated my dojutsu and laid Miya on the ground, bringing two kunai out from my inventory and blasting my maximum killing intent over the area.

A couple shivered but stayed still, 2 of the shinobi looked towards me, their Konoha headbands reflecting some sunlight into my eyes. They had smirks on their faces and leaped into action, one activating a pair of sharingan eyes while the other starting going through hand seals.

'This isn't looking good' I snapped mentally, dodging under a push kick by ducking, but it quickly changed into an axe kick and slammed me into the ground. I dropped my kunai and formed hand seals next to his leg, grasping onto his ankle roughly and blasting an electrical current through it.

He jumped up and his teammate's fireball blasted me across the chest, throwing me back into a tree. Sho jumped forward and engaged the Uchiha in taijutsu while Natio picked up my kunai and began to fight another shinobi.

The others started to close in while they fought, and I used half of my chakra to summon a bat that I hadn't seen before.

"SUMMONING JUSTU!" I slammed the ground under me and a large bright orange bat appeared in front of me, screeching loudly and drawing attention to us.

"Master Shin! Are you alright?"

"Just Shin is fine, I really need your help with this. So, who am I working with?"

"Komoriki."

"Alright Komoriki, the one with red hair using the kunai and the old man fighting the guy with pink eye are allies, don't attack them."

"P-P-PINK EYE!? YOU BRAT, WE'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" The shinobi shouted, the ones that weren't fighting all activated their sharingan, glowing red eyes staring into me.

"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY!" I shouted back, forming 2 thunder spears and charging forwards. One of them threw out a fireball that I slid under and the other threw several shuriken around the air, some of them deflecting to where I was originally.

I stabbed the fireball flinger with a lightning spear and kicked him in the thigh, planting the other spear through his head, blowing it up in a shower of gore.

"AHHH! GORO! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" The other Uchiha's sharingan shifted from 1 to 3 tomoe in each eye and he rushed at me quickly. I dodged under a punch but got kicked in the side and then grabbed by the back of my hair.

He smashed my face repeatedly with his other fist until a sickening crunch signified that my nose had broken. He dropped me on the ground and stomped on my ribs until they were also broken. Komoriki was currently holding off the other 2 shinobi while I only had to fight this one left.

The newly evolved Uchiha began to walk away from me after stomping one more time and I slowly stood up behind him. "That all? Nothing left? At least that other one launched a jutsu." I said, huffing heavily to catch my breath and spitting out one of my teeth.

The Uchiha turned around with his eyes filled with rage, launching a quick punch that caught me in the stomach before grabbing my shirt and pulling em into a knee to the face. I grit my teeth and formed a couple of hand signs, clutching my face to put in chakra to the blood coating it.

When he went in for another knee, I made all of the blood on my face into sharp needles with a blunt edge facing me. They all stuck into his kneecap and the Uchiha reeled back in pain, I tackled him roughly to the ground and straddled myself onto his torso, punching his face repeatedly until I did something absolutely disgusting.

When he was about to be knocked unconscious… I plucked out both of his eyes, leaving only bloody sockets to remain.

BLEGH! ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING SHIN! That's all for this chapter, it was hard to write and got very slow at times. I'm thinking of varying chapter sizes instead of the 8k, definitely longer than 4k, but not more than 10k maybe? ANYWAYS, happy 100k words! We haven't even finished the first saga yet and I've already reached that milestone, so surprised I am.

I love you all for reading this so far and sticking with me for each chapter, even if the start was quite rocky. Sadly, even with 20k views, we only have 38 reviews, that is very sad. Still, almost at 200 followers and 161 favourites so congratulations all of you who have added to those statistics.

Goodbye for now, love you all - tired