Subaru: Gamer and Shinobi
Here is the next chapter, and hurrah! We are at 1k followers, like I predicted. The story is also at 40,000 hits, 751 favourites and 177 reviews. Now, for some replies to the reviews:
Firstly, I've said this in almost every single author's note. I. Will. Not. Curb. The. Numbers. Now, I know, that a lot of you are saying I should to help out with the story, of which, I am thankful for, but like I've said before, the numbers are staying. I had a really good review from Navn Ukjent, talking about how a stab wound might cause problems for my system, since it wouldn't do as much damage. To that, I introduce the wonderful world of percentages and plot.
I never intended some things to work with numbers, rather, some things are to work with percentages. Also, this is where the plot part comes in. Think of it like this. In the invansion during the Chunin Exams arc, tons of ninja must have died, most around Chunin. However, the Rookie 12 all survived, due to plot. An irrelevant chunin will die of a stab wound, but a main character genin, will be able to survive, due to both plot and power.
A Jonin would never die of a stab wound like a Genin. If a genin got stabbed in the chest, they would die, because of say 1 million damage, but a jonin would not because the numbers are lower than their health. This makes sense due to power levels too. However, attacking level isn't just exponential for Subaru, it is like that for all other people. It is why a Jonin is easily able to battle a dozen Genin. And how a Chunin would easily be able to take out a set of three Genin. The power levels are exponential.
Secondly, to those who talked about nerfs. Read the tags on the story. "OP!MC". I've designed the system to purposely make Subaru OP. That is the point of the story.
To those who pointed out things to do with numbers, thanks a lot, it really helps.
Now, for a random fact about the story:
The pairing for Subaru has been decided and planned out. By the end of this chapter, you'll probably be able to guess it.
And no, I won't pull some bs and make this a harem.
Now, on with the story
Chapter 7: Fuinjutsu is Cool
It had been around 1 month and a half since me and Itachi-Sensei started doing D-Ranks. They weren't as bad as the anime and some fan-fiction portrayed them, though that could be because of my Kage Bunshin. When I got home from today's training and D-Ranks, my Kage Bunshin, which I had told to study Fuinjutsu, popped and I got a rush of memories. About a week ago, I had found out that The Gamer's Mind does not protect me from the headaches as much as I thought it would. Me and Itachi-Sensei were trying to see how much we could push my knowledge training by going to the library with a dozen Kage Bunshin, with Itachi-Sensei providing me with some chakra, by sending it through me.
[Through your actions, a skill has been created, Chakra Infusion]
Chakra Infusion: Lvl Max
The ability to give someone else your chakra.
Uzumaki Perk: Chakra can damage someone's chakra system.
Full Control: Uzumaki Perk can be negated unless intentionally used to damage.
Turns out that Chakra Infusion didn't have any levels and started off as max level, which was pretty cool. Now, when I got the memories from my fuinjutsu Kage Bunshin, I received a notification.
[A new aspect of Fuinjutsu has been unlocked by starting Fuinjutsu Mastery]
[Would you like a walkthrough now?]
[Y / N]
This meant a few things. 1, that my clones had maxed out Advanced Fuinjutsu and had started Fuinjutsu Mastery, which was really useful. By now, I could do a lot with fuinjutsu, from double ended sealing scrolls (storage scrolls which share the same pocket dimension), copying seals (seals which would copy the writing from one scroll to another), erasing seals (seals which would erase ink from a piece of paper), and tons more.
It also meant, that now, I'd be able to do more complex things with fuinjutsu. Hiraishin, anyone? Muahahhahaha! I WILL BE ALL POWERFUL.
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That really hurt my voice. Naruto stirred in his sleep as I recounted what had happened.
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Anyway, imagine that though, the Hiraishin. A lot of problems would be solved. Other things, like Bijuu sealing and Root, would also be less of a problem, with Demonic Sealing and other things. I giddily pressed the 'Y' on the screen.
The world went grey. Time has stopped. Za Warudo.
[Welcome to the Fuinjutsu Mastery Tutorial]
In this tutorial, you will be shown how to create complex seals, and how you can learn more seals.
[Continue]
Complex Seals are seals that are made up of more seals. They are sometimes called compound seals and seal mixes. A common complex seal is the steam seal. This seal is made by combining the water seal (shown) and the fire seal (shown), with either connecting or stamping. Connecting is when the end of a seal stroke is connected with the end of a different seal stroke. This causes chakra to mix, meaning that the seals would work together. Stamping is when you place a seal ontop of another, by adding 'nodes' at all the intercepting points. The second method is usually used when seals need to fit on smaller spaces, while the first method is a universal method.
Complex seals can also be complexly sealed. By combining a stamped steam seal with a chakra-triggered wind seal, you can create a smoke contraption. Something which not only directs the steam exactly where you would like it to go, but also moves out of the seal at a set pace. This new, ultra-complex seal, or compound-complex seal, is not named, but can become famous under an individuals actions.
For example, the Hiraishin is a combination of 2 complex seals and a normal seal. The swift and electrostatic seal combined to make a random teleportation seal. The electrostatic seal is a combination seal, made up of a two lightning seals, and is sometimes called a dual-lightning seal.
A charge seal is the second part of the Hiraishin, made up of the lightning seal, and the spinning seal. The final seal, is the remote chakra seal, which is used in almost all seals.
These seals come together to make a teleportation seal which teleports to a giant mass of the users lightning chakra, which is expelled remotely by your own chakra.
[Continue]
Oh. My. God. Or gods? I don't really know anymore but that's not what matters. The game just told me how to make the Hiraishin. One of the most famous seals in existence. The game is amazing.
[+100 Reputation with The Gamer]
I clicked continue.
Now, for more seals. More seals can be learned through seeing the seals (due to your Uzumaki Heritage), and can be learned through trial and error. The second option is usually unadvised until such time that you have gained complete mastery.
[Finish]
Fuinjutsu just got a whole lot more interesting.
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I had been messing around with the complex sealing for a few hours now. I had an idea. A probably complicated and gonna-take-a-whole-lot-of-time idea, but an idea nonetheless.
A phone.
Yes, you heard me right, a phone. With the seals that I have I should be able to do it. All I have to do is have a copier seal on a multi-ended storage scroll with a chakra burster and a chakra finder on that. From there, I need the scrolls to have copier and ink eraser seals, and all I need to do is add a few conditions and a scrolling function, which would be pretty easy with a scroll extender and a chakra touch mover and hey presto: A phone.
Kind of.
I might need to add some other things like contact lists and image things, but then I'll have a fully working messaging app. I'd also be able to do video calls with photo seals and voice calls with audio seals, which are pretty simple. I'd also have to make a gallery, but with the multi-ended sealing scrolls, and nature-chakra receptors, that would be easy. And impossible to 'hack' too, unless someone can somehow have the same scroll, same chakra, and be in the same exact position as the person they are 'hacking' which is pretty high security. I'll have some Kage Bunshin work on that while I sleep.
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I woke up today to a pleasant surprise, the 'phone' was completed. Turns out, I was right, when you split a phone up into individual seals and know how to connect them, it was simple.
That was another exploit found. Sleeping. While I slept, a Kage Bunshin could do the opposite of Chakra Infusing (under the same skill name), by taking Chakra away from me to stay alive. Normally, that would drain me of Chakra (obviously), but while I'm sleeping, I regenerate Chakra at an insane rate. It's something like... um... yeah... 100% EVERY FUCKING MINUTE.
I don't know whether that is a bug or an intended feature, but judging by the fact that The Gamer hasn't done anything about it (assuming that it is sentient, which by reputation, I think it is), I'll assume it was an intended feature. That meant that a single minute of sleep counted as fully rested, which was epic. The same thing happened for health, as long as I'm not in a combat situation and am actually sleeping in my bed. I learnt that after I passed out from Chakra Exhaustion one day, and woke up on the grass fields about 10 minutes later, with a third of my chakra back, which was the normal rate.
This entire bug/glitch/intended feature got me thinking about how OP the game is. Half an hour to recover each and every health point I had? That sounds absurd. In the average MMORPG, the day and night cycle take about 5 hours, and it took about half an hour to get to full health, which is the same but at a ratio. 24 / 5 = 4.8. 4.8 * 0.5 = 2.4. That meant that in in-game hours, it took 2.4 hours to go from empty to full health/mana, which meant that the gamer system was regen-ing me 4.8 times faster, which is a lot.
Anyway, back to the phone, the Kage Bunshin had managed to add all the features I talked about yesterday, and had made it so that scrolls were untamperable, meaning that adding chakra intentionally or unintentionally would not explode the scroll or something. The clone also adding some seals to prevent seals sent through the image or video call feature from working, since if they did, then anybody could just send an image of an explosive tag, and after it got out of the stasis of the pocket dimension, it would explode instantly, because of the chakra being added, especially the nature chakra.
When unregulated, nature chakra would just overpower some seals, a bit like how when Naruto tried to do the normal Bunshin in the Graduation Exams, his clones came out dead. Except, instead of clones, it's explosions, And instead of 'came out dead', it's 'blown to fucking smithereens'. That would have been a really smart assassination message to be honest.
The Kage Bunshin also added one other feature which I had not thought of. Wait, if a clone of myself thinks of something, does that mean I thought of it? I'll have to ponder over it later with a clone. WAIT, if I ponder with a clone, that means I think with a clone, which would make it separate thoughts, apart from the fact that pondering is usually done by yourself. Hmmm... I hereby name this the Clone-Thought Paradox. Now, where's my Novel Prize? What do you mean, 'they don't have those here'? Honestly, the audacity.
Me and Naruto ate breakfast together, before we both left to go to our respective Senseis. Once I arrived at the meeting spot Itachi-Sensei and I regularly came to, he was there waiting for me.
"Hokage-Sama has decided that you are ready for a C-Rank Mission. Pack your bags for 2 weeks and say your goodbyes, we leave in 2 hours. Meet me outside Hokage-Sama's office.", Itachi-Sensei said before disappearing in his classic Crow Shunshin.
I always was mesmerised by his Crow Shunshin, frankly, it looked epic. I was still deciding which type on body flicker I should use. For now, I just stuck to either the leaf one or a fire one. What about black fire? Mah, I'll think about it later. I body flickered to Naruto and Mine's apartment and left a Kage Bunshin to back my stuff, before body flickering to the Academy. Hmm... I'll appear in a Black Fire Shunshin (needs a better name), to show off. And yes, that is very childish of me. Bite me.
I appeared in the classroom which I would have been placed in, had I not graduated early. There, all the students and the two teachers stared at me with wide eyes. I looked around but could not recognise anyone.
"Erm... This isn't the right class, is it?"
I got blank looks in replies. A teacher spoke.
"You must be Subaru Uzumaki. Iruka-San's class is outside for a practical all day today at Training Ground 27."
"Thanks!", I smiled and waved before disappearing the way I came.
The students started whispering amongst themselves.
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I arrived at the correct place this time and saw Naruto a couple of feet in front of me. In front of me, Mizuki was showing off his Earth Nature to the class. He turned to me.
"Why hello, Uzumaki. What purpose do you have for coming here?"
All of the students turned to me, unaware that I had came.
"Hi, Subaru-Nii.", Naruto shouted.
"Hi, Naruto.", I said before turning to Mizuki, "I'm just here to say goodbye to Naruto and a couple of my friends. I leave on a 2 week long C-Rank mission today."
"So you think that you can inter-", Mizuki starts shouting before being cut off by Iruka.
"Class, you can have a ten minute break. I needed to show Mizuki-Sensei something anyway."
All of the students came towards me.
"Hey Subaru, where are you going on your mission. Want a chip?", Choji said, handing me a chip.
"Sure," I said taking the chip, "I don't know where I'm going though. Itachi-Sensei just said to meet him outside Hokage-Sama's Office in 2 hours."
"Barf barf bark bark", Akamaru barked.
"Hey says good luck on your mission.", Kiba translates.
"Thanks, dog and dog-breath."
"Hey-"
"Woah, Subaru, where you going?"
"Is it dangerous?"
"Do you need packing your stuff?"
"I can help pack your stuff."
"Me too."
"I offered first, get away."
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My worst enemies surrounded me. Fangirls. Ever since I had graduated early under the 'super-cool' Itachi, I had gotten the Bane of All Prodigies. Something that both gods and devils alike fear. Something which has pushed people to the brink of suicide. The evil beings themselves. Fangirls.
I jumped at Naruto and body flickered us both to the opposite end of the training grounds.
I looked towards Naruto and saw his eyes water.
"You're leaving me for 2 whole weeks?", he whispered.
Oh... Naruto thinks I'm leaving him.
With a life like his, it's no wonder he's like this
"Naruto, I'll come back. I promise.", I said comfortingly, hugging him.
"I know you'll try to, but what if you can't? What if you die? You won't be able to come back then.", he says crying, "How will I know you're safe. What if the villagers start being mean again with you gone?"
I hugged him tighter.
It was true that when I was not around, the villagers got worse. They would sometimes throw garbage at him. Shout mean words at him. The likes.
"Hey, I'll be alright. It's a C-Rank. There's barely any danger. And I'm with Itachi Uchiha, one of the strongest people in the village, easily top 10. To him, C-Ranks are easier than a breeze. And, I have something for you."
I pulled out a 'phone' out of one of my pockets, which I had brought to show Itachi-Sensei what I had made. I gave it to him.
"With this, just write in and we can talk to each other. If you press that button over there, you can actually see me and talk to me. It's something I made this morning."
He seemed comforted by my words and I showed him how to use it. My Kage Bunshin popped after placing all my stuff in a multi-ended sealing scroll that I, the original, and my clones share. I channelled my chakra to the seal then thought of a phone. Thankfully, there was a dozen or so that my clone had picked up, them having been made during the night while a clone was making them.
"These are called phones. Give them to all of our friends and show them how to use them. We can all talk to each other."
He smiled and I flickered us both to our group of friends. I nodded at them then flickered away.
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I still had well over an hour until I had to meet Itachi-Sensei. I decided to make as many phones as I could with the help of my shadow clones.
After I had done, the conversation I had with Naruto reminded me of something:
Group chats and group calls.
While they would be harder to make, with duplication, it should be simple enough. The way you actually got someone's 'phone-number' was simple, and no, it wasn't a phone number. It was chakra. All you had to do was input your chakra, and the scroll would check it against the pocket dimension's stuff to see who you were. Then it would take a picture of you from your own scroll and use it for any and all people you give your number to.
I decided not to put the feature in yet, since it had been a long day of Fuinjutsu. And night. Wait, does it count as me doing work if I give all the work to Kage Bunshins? Welp, this question again.
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I met Itachi-Sensei as planned outside of Jiji's office, and we both were called in.
"Hello, Subaru-Kun.", Jiji said, with his grandfatherly smile.
"Hi, Jiji.", I said, before remembering to give him a phone, "I actually have something for you. I call it a phone. It..."
I spend the next five minutes explaining what it was and how to use it. I also gave Itachi-Sensei one too.
"Simply amazing. With this technology, ninjas around the world could stay connected."
I smiled at his praise. Itachi-Sensei gave me an approving nod too and Hn no.42 ("I'm impressed").
"I've already given about a dozen of these out to Naruto and my friends.", I told him.
"I see. Were you planning on mass-producing these? If you sold them, you could both get a lot of money and help the population."
"Yeah, me and my Kage Bunshin actually made a few hundred already. I was planning on selling them for a low price. About 100 Ryo. It would be sold to ninjas and civilians alike."
"Very well. I will take hold of another scroll, if it is alright with you."
I handed him a scroll.
"I'll see if any of our mass producers can work with these. If so, then we'll have started selling them before you get back. All money will be transferred to your account."
"Thanks, Jiji!"
"Now, for your mission. Your mission is to accompany a merchant to Takigakure. You are expected to stay there with him for a week before accompanying him back to Konohagakure."
"Yes, Hokage-Sama.", both me and Itachi-Sensei said, bowing.
"You may send him in now."
The door opened and revealed a man, looking to be in his 40s. He was rather plump, but still had a fit build. He was about the height of Itachi-Sensei, 175cm. He wore an expensive looking suit and a golden wristwatch.
"These two ninja are accompanying me?"
"Yes, Shigure-Kun.", Jiji replied.
"They look a bit young to me."
"Itachi-Kun here is a Jonin and one of our prodigies. Subaru-Kun is also one of our prodigies and is a Genin."
"Very well. We leave straight away.", he said, walking out.
Itachi-Sensei and I both bowed to Hokage-Sama and left with him. Once we arrived at the West Gate, we all signed out at the gate guards, who were not yet Izumo and Kotetsu. About five minutes into our journey, I decided to make small talk with the client to find out more about why he was going to Taki.
"So, Shirgure-San, what are you selling at Taki?", I asked, while walking behind him.
Itachi-Sensei had decided to take front as for me, it was unfamiliar territory.
"Nothing, I actually work for Yamanaka Flowers. They've asked me to go and get some plants and flowers that are only found at Taki. The main one is..."
We ended up talking for about a few hours, before Itachi-Sensei decided that we should take a rest. As a civilian, Shigure wasn't used to extended periods of walking or running.
There, I ended up phoning Naruto, who has finished lessons by then, and talked to him for a while about his day. Turns out, people were somehow already talking about phones and how I made them. It would be a few days before they started selling, and the amount of hype, they would probably sell really well.
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On the last day of travelling, we had just got up. I found the sun still rising, as we walked on. Walking with a civilian could get annoying. Me and Itachi-Sensei could have probably got to Taki in a day or two, and that is with reduced speeds. Suddenly a voice called out, "We've got you surrounded. Give us all your money and nobody gets hurt."
Me and Itachi got into our fighting positions as two dozen bandits came out.
Itachi looked at the man who spoke, and without warning, through a kunai straight at his head. The other bandits charged.
I watched as the life in the killed bandit faded out. And watched.
A bandit made it's way to me and tried stabbing me with what was presumably a knife. Child's play for a ninja, even a Genin like me. I dodged, then redirected his arms to his neck, effectively killing him. Another few bandits charged. Each died in similar fashions.
It seemed to go on for hours. Charge. Dodge. Kill. Repeat. I don't know how many people I killed that day. And frankly I don't want to.
While The Gamer's Mind probably stopped me from most of the trauma, the fact that I took someone's life stuck. I had known what I was getting into when I decided to become a ninja with Naruto. Even before that, when I first befriended Naruto and started to live with him. The world was violent and cruel. Violent and cruel indeed.
I vomited my breakfast out before wiping my mouth and hands clean with a water canteen I had on me.
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The battle was over and Itachi-Sensei had come to check on me. He easily came to the conclusion that I had had my first kill.
"Subaru-Kun, are you alright?", he asked in his typical stoic manner, but to someone like me who had spent every day with him for over a month, it was clear that he was trying to be comforting.
"Yes, Itachi-Sensei. I knew what I was getting into when I applied to be a ninja."
An awkward silence came between the two of us.
"I may not be good with the emotions of others, but let me tell you what my Senpai told me after my first kill."
He looked up, as if recalling a memory.
"Killing does not make you a bad guy. Killing is a part of life. The question is the reason of killing. To protect someone or to harm them? Because while killing is bad, saving the innocents is more important. Those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash."
Itachi-Sensei chuckled at a memory.
"At the time, I did not know how both parts of what he said were linked, but after a while I understood. Sometimes, killing to protect those you love. To protect your comrades. It happens. But what matters is that they are safe. I leave you with those words."
Itachi-Sensei started walking towards Taki, the merchant who had stayed behind to stay safe following. I followed too, as if what had just occurred had not happened.
I would kill if necessary, to protect my loved ones.
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So, has anyone guessed the ship yet? To those who actually read the ANs, drum roll please... The ship is going to be Fuu!
After thinking about possible ships and how they would work, Fuu seemed like a great option. It would easily fit into the story too, since in canon she was too... dead... to get a ship.
If anyone thinks that the fight scene is underwhelmign, that's the point. Killing in the ninja world is a mundane thing, and I wanted it to seem as that. The Gamer's Mind handles most of the trauma of killing for Subaru, meaning after a short while, he'll feel just peachy.
Anyway, here are the stats, even though they were never mentioned this chapter:
Name: Subaru Uzumaki
Gender: Male
Age: 7
Title/Status: The Gamer, Orphan
Level: 16 (Next Level 12%)
HP: 8.32 Million/8.32 Million (Regeneration: 277300/minute)
CP: 7.49 Million/7.49 Million (Regeneration: 149750/minute)
CC: 100%
Affinity: Wind (5%)
STR: 190
VIT: 198
DEX: 224
INT: 302
LUC: 65
Points: 10
Perk Points: 1
Allegiance: Konohagakure
Ryo: 12730
Yen: 2550
Items:
+13% Control Scroll
+500 Rep Points
50 Kunai
50 Shuriken
500 Senbon
Chakra Weights
Goodbye, but before you leave, I leave you with this:
I found a way to satisfy both Pigeons and Phoenixes as summons.