Naruto: Shattered Destiny

by KingdomCody

Keiki Sekine was born into this world different. He sees the world differently than anyone else, he sees it as a game. No he wasn't reborn into the role. His first glimpse of life is of a video game. Can he survive long enough to figure out how to make use of his gift, or will he be killed out of jealousy?

2. Student of the System

Naruto: Shattered Destiny:

Chapter 2: Student of the system

I kick my legs back and forth from my seat, looking at the monitor with mild interest. The adults will tell me what's going on later, so I hum a tune in the meantime.

"Interesting." The Medical Nin thinks out loud.

"What is it?" Mama asks anxiously.

"He does have a Kekkei Genkai, but it's not mastery over fire." The doctor explains. "We'll have to recalibrate to get the best picture we can." He begins fiddling with some dials and moves the 'listener' from my arm to my stomach.

"How can it not be fire mastery?" Papa asks. "Keiki can you show us?"

"Yis papa!" I hold my free hand out and ignite it. The monitor beeps and all eyes go to it.

On the monitor is a bunch of balls connected by sticks with a golden disk in the background, a section of disk is glowing. "Stop that." The doctor tells me and I comply, the disk stops glowing. "Fascinating."

"What is it?" Mama asks.

"I have no idea what this is, this is new." The doctor writes down some notes. "I can hazard a few guesses though." He says uncertainly. "Can you do what you were doing again please, Keiki?"

"Otay." I ignite my hand as requested. The same portion glows.

"This is fire, and if my guess is correct he actually has-"

Eliminate At's (8/20)

Eliminate At's (9/20)

Eliminate At's (10/20)

The center of the disk glows. "What're you doing?" The doctor asks me.

"I see words." I say matter of factly.

"He can read because of them, didn't even know that." Mama further explains.

"I'm still coming to grips with it." Papa admits. "He doesn't start school for another two years."

"Okay." The doctor writes down more notes. "What are the words saying?"

"Elim… Elimin-"

"Write it down dear." Mama hands me a paper and pen.

Eliminate At's (11/20)

Eliminate At's (12/20)

Eliminate At's (13/20)

I write down all the messages I got. "Done!" I hold up the paper with pride.

"You should teach him how to write properly." The doctor says absentmindedly. "Can you make it out?"

"If you look at it long enough you'll get it." Mama tells him before reading it out loud for everyone.

"At's? Oh you mean rats?" Papa asks looking at me.

"At's, I elim… elimin… ated… a lot!" I say with pride.

"You shouldn't have gone down there, at least we got you your shots." Mama says sternly, my arm aches from where I got injected with the medicine, it still stings.

Rabies has been removed from active effects.

I glance at the notification, then at the monitor. "Something happen?" Papa asks me, seeing me suddenly look in two completely different directions.

"Rabies don." I answer honestly.

"Gone?"

"Yis."

"You just know that?" The doctor asks in disbelief.

"Yis."

Quest Completed: Child Exterminator

Eliminate Ats (20/20)

"At's don." I state, might as well tell them what appears.

"Done?"

"No, don." I correct.

"Gone?"

"Yis."

The doctor turns to my parents. "We've never seen a Kekkei Genkai like this before, we'll need to continue research." He tells them.

"Don't you hurt him." Mama tells him threateningly.

"Relax, it'll be observation and the occasional sample." He assures her. "We won't harm him, you have my word." He promises. "I'll inform the Mizukage and we'll work together on this."

"I hungy, fud?" I ask my parents.

"Can we go?" Papa asks him.

"Yes, I'll take care of the rest." He gathers the papers and starts removing the equipment from my person.

Once I'm freed we leave the office. "I would say let's go for some Sushi-" Mama starts.

"Fshie!?" Already I'm excited.

"But you're grounded." She finishes.

"No! No, no no!" I whine. "I sory, I won't do again!"

"I'm sorry Keiki, but your mother said no." Papa says apologetically.

"Aaawwww." I pout.

A few years passed. I heard that the final exams were changed when the academy almost collapsed, by order of the Mizukage I'm to attend the Academy until the numbers are back to acceptable numbers… Those were my tutors words, not mine.

Visits to and from the doctor were quite common, every other week actually. My Kekkei Genkai seems to have stagnated from disuse, but doesn't seem to be atrophying… whatever that means. I can throw fire but just using it doesn't seem to do anything towards my Kekkei Genkai, have I hit my limit so soon? Whenever I use chakra the blue bar pops up, whenever I get hurt the red one pops up, if I sprint or overexert myself the green one pops up.

Chakra exhaustion doesn't effect me like it does the rest, and it irks me that I have no idea why that is. Well, hopefully my days at the academy will teach me why. "Keiki?"

"Yes Mommy?" I call.

"Stay safe!" She calls, she's not happy that I'm going, but it's by the word of the mizukage, what can she do about that?

"I will mommy!" I close the door behind me, I've got plenty of time to make it.

"Off to the academy?"

"Goro-sensei!" I greet my tutor. "Yeah, I left early so I won't be late." I grin up at him.

"It seems like you won't be needing me anymore." He says coyly.

"No!" I say horrified. "You're the best, sensei!"

"I'm touched." He ruffles my hair. "I'll walk you to the academy, I'll see you after you're done for the day."

"Yes sensei." It was a long walk, we spent it going over what he's taught me and what I've retained.

"Are the flashcards helping with your math?" goro-sensei asks me.

"Yes! Two plus two is four!"

"Eight plus four?"

"Twelve!"

"Two minus one?"

"One!"

"Now for a tricky one." sensei says as if I couldn't get it right. "Thirteen plus eleven."

Immediately I start counting up… "Twenty… three?"

"One off, not bad." Goro-sensei nods proudly.

"Twenty two? Twenty Four?"

"Four."

"Dangit." I say dejected.

"It was close, the first double digits are difficult." Sensei praises me.

"Will it get harder?"

"Addition and subtraction? No, it's pretty straightforward once you get to fifteen, or twenty." He explains. "But multiplication and division are on a whole other level."

"That sounds hard." I say nervously.

"We'll get to it soon, and you'll master it as well." he assures me. "How's your Flames jutsu coming along?"

"Still no improvement, it's just a stream of fire." I reply irritably, igniting my hand with the same ease as when I first discovered it.

"Maybe your time at the academy will shed some light on this." He suggests.

"What?"

"Help figure it out."

"Ah."

"A ferry, we can take that." Goro-sensei says. "Hey!" He calls the the ferryman.

"Eh?" He asks.

"Can we get a ride to the Ninja Academy?"

"Do you have money?"

"I can pay." Sensei nods.

He pulls his ferry next to the pier. "Hop on in."

Sensei drops into the ferry and he helps me down into it, the small boat rocks slightly as we come aboard.

"Six hundred twenty eight yen, half now half when we get there." The ferryman tells us.

"Sounds like a deal." Sensei nods, fishing out his wallet to pay him.

He carefully counts each coin "Pleasure doing business with you." With a nod he unties the raft and pushes off with an oar. "Is he a new student?" He nods towards me.

"Yes sir!" I nod vigorously, already feeling the butterflies in my stomach.

"He lives along this pier, it's fortunate to find a ferryman closeby." Sensei tells him, leaning up against the edge of the boat.

"Fortunate indeed." He chuckles as we cross under a bridge.

Another ferry slips into view. "Kanko-san! how goes it?" The ferryman calls out to ours.

"Fair, just ferrying these fine gentlemen about." Kanko replies. "How goes yours, Shunmyo-san?" Our rafts come closer, but not close enough to risk a collision.

"Not as good as yours I'm afraid." He bemoans as the boats start to pass one another.

"I think I saw a couple in need of a ferry along Seaside." Kanko offers as the ferry's pass one another.

"Thank you, Kanko-san, I'll go see right away!" The two ferryman return their attention to rowing.

"Friend of yours?" Sensei asks.

"I'm a ferryman he's a ferryman, it's not uncommon for us to run into each other." He explains nonchalantly.

I glance over the side of the boat and down into the clear water, watching the fish swim about with mild interest. There are so many different colours of fish that it's often mesmerizing to watch them swim about.

I've heard that some people keep some as pets, I wonder how they take them out for walks. If they're in water do they need to take baths? "How much longer is it?" I ask them.

"Nervous?" The ferryman asks knowingly.

"No!" I refute. "Yes." I admit.

"Nothing wrong with being nervous." Sensei ruffles my hair. "It's your first day and you were born into a civilian home, you'll probably be overwhelmed for your first few days." He reassures me.

"Almost there." The ferryman tells us. "A few minutes, give or take."

"Already?" I look at the ferryman. "How long have we been going?"

"Half an hour, roughly."

"Wow." I was completely absorbed by the fish that I didn't notice the time fly by.

"I can't let you off on the pier the Academy is on, Mizukage's orders." Kanko tells us. "I can let you off a pier over however."

"That would be great." Sensei nods.

It's not long until it's time for departure. Sensei helps me onto the pier before paying Kanko the rest of what he's owed. "Before you go Keiki." Sensei hands me a bag of coins. "In case I'm not here, this is to pay for a ferry back." Then he pulls himself onto pier and walks me the rest of the way to the Academy.

While we walk I'm puzzled into silence, why did he give me the yen now instead of at the Academy doors? "Thank you for taking me here, Sensei!" I say stuffing the bag into my pocket, way down in there.

"Just like I showed you." he says with pride. "See you after school, or tomorrow at the latest." He opens the gates for me and I enter the academy grounds earlier than anyone else.

I approach the doors and knock before entering, it's almost empty. "I don't think I've seen you before, are you a new student?" An academy instructor asks, checking his list.

"Keiki Sekine." I introduce myself with a bow.

Quest Added: Academy Days:

I flinch as the words appear, I haven't seen those in years, why now?

Attend Orientation:

The instructor checks his list, flipping through a few pages. "Here you are, Keiki Sekine." He says with a relieved sigh. "Orientation will start in the training yard out back in... half an hour."

"Okay, would it be okay if I looked around?" I ask, I don't want to break rules before orientation, that'd be the worst!

"Stick this on your shirt first." He taps his desk, I approach and notice the name tags. "Then you can explore."

"Thank you!" I take the tag and put it on the collar of my shirt. "See you later!" I wave goodbye as walk down the closest hall. This is where I'm going to spend most of the next four years at.

From the hall I can see a pool dominating most of the free space, it's also a part of the ocean. I think those are training grounds surrounding the pool, but I'm not- Is that a sea otter?

Something pulls itself out of the pool and onto the edge, resting. Excitably I look around for a way out. Sea otters are a common sight along with sharks and obviously fish, but they're so cute!

The otter notices my approach and watches me warily, I make sure not to get too close as to scare it away, but close enough to watch it. I sit on the edge of the pool, my legs dangling in the water.

Eyeing me carefully, the sea otter cleans itself off, a clam on the ground next to it. I wonder where it got it. Once it's clean it hops back into the pool with the clam in it's mouth.

With a push it glides across the water's surface and away from the pool, gnawing at the clam trying to break it open.

It swims up to the edge of the pool and starts hammering the clam onto the edge of the pool. And then the bell goes off, scaring the otter away.

Disappointed I make my way back inside. "Is this everyone?" The headmaster asks.

"Eh… all but three, I think." Is the reply. Did they see me.

"Is it those three?" The headmaster asks with a groan, and suddenly I wonder who he's talking about.

"...Yes."

Quest Updated: Academy Days:

Attend Orientation: Complete

Level three skills to 10:

I think I know what skills are, I still have the coloring book I wrote in back then. I'm mulling it over as we're marched to our classrooms, I'm with the first years.

Our classroom is on the first floor. "Hello class, I am Emiko Okuma your instructor for the year." our teacher introduces herself cheerfully.

"Hello Emiko-sensei!" The class calls out.

A tiny ball of light appears in my peripheral vision, when I look it's gone. "Before we begin, let's go around the room and introduce ourselves." Emiko-sensei claps her hands together.

Another ball of light appears and I quickly look at it, but it vanishes when I look at it. What's going on? The students begin introducing themselves as Emiko points at them.

The small spheres of light come in force, lines connect them like….like constellations. The room blacks out and the lights turn into stars, I'm still in my seat but I'm surrounded by constellations.

TUTORIAL: SKILLS

The words slide across my vision, leaving me to ask more questions. What is a tutorial? What are skills?

EACH CONSTELLATION CONNECTS TO A SKILL, TRY SELECTING ONE TO LEARN MORE.

With nothing else to do I reach out to the constellation in front of me. The stars rush up to me, almost colliding into me, the outline of a chalice mimes the stars.

SPEECH: THE ABILITY TO BARTER AND PERSUADE, GAIN SPEECH EXPERIENCE BY BUYING AND SELLING TO MERCHANTS, AND SUCCESSFULLY PERSUADING OTHERS.

The bottom star is lit with a pale light while the rest remain pale.

Speech Mastery: Items sell for 10% more and your intimidation attempts are twice as likely to succeed.

Speech mastery's words are just below the star, very small… can I get the rest to appear like that?

What's at the top of the chalice? The constellation moves down to acomodate my wish and the top four stars.

Dovahzulaan: For 120 seconds after using Merciless Storm, any shout you use also carries the previous shout.

Merciless Storm? Shout? Dova… Dovazu… Dovazu-somthing. I had questions going into this, and now I have even more questions. How do I look at the other- nevermind.

The Speech constellation backs off as the others come back into my view. I pick the one next to the chalice.

TAIJUTSU: UNARMED COMBAT, GAIN EXPERIENCE BY DEALING UNARMED DAMAGE.

"Hey!' A voice cuts through my tranquility and I'm pulled back to the classroom.

"Sorry! I dozed off!" I say with my face glowing a bright shade of red. "I'm Keiki Sekine." I get up and bow apologetically.

"Please pay more attention in the future, okay Keiki-kun?" Emiko-sensei sighs.

"Yes Sensei!" I sit down, gaze downcast. Can today end already?

I have to level three 'skills' to ten. Well I only know three. Taijutsu, Elemental Ninjutsu and Speech. I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I'm sure it'll come to me before long.

"Keiki-kun!"

"Sorry!" I shout with a start, why is my Kekkei Genkai so distracting? Shaking my head I follow the rest of the class out of the room.

Authors Notes: And done, I don't plan on spending much time on the Academy days, but I will at least cover it. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the previous chapter, It's going to be a fine balance between game mechanics and storytelling. So wish me luck!