AN: I decided to start reading the manhwa, The Gamer, again. When I looked at all the skills I realized that there is no such thing as Gamer's Mind but instead it is Gamer's spirit. Never would have expected it. Everything we've ever been taught about it is wrong! There is no such stat called agility or vitality! Instead, there is something magical called 'power' *oohs and aahs in the background. But I ain't changing jack.
HP and CP have been restored to the maximum!
As the pop-up disappeared, I woke up and walked to the training hall as was instructed after being tortured. I gained a few stat points from it:
Current:
Name: Naruto Namikaze Age: 8 years old Level: 13 (29%)
Currently: Refreshed Titles: None Equipped Classes: N/A
HP: 4900/4900 (x 1.25) = 6125/6125 CP: 8100/8100 (x 2) = 16200/16200 EC: 500/500
Regenerate: 20 HP per second 46 CP per second See EC regen in help
Fame: 100/50 Class Points: 0 Stat Points: 10
STR: 30 VIT: 49 DEX: 14(15.4) AGI: 131(144.1) WIS: 81 INT: 46 LUK: 1089
Maybe I should check my skills. Skills?
'This is Game. Think or say menu to get to the menu. Everything you have access to will be there. Ja ne.'
Can he hear everything I say?
'No just stuff related to your powers.'
That wasn't related to my power. I waited a few seconds for him to respond but he didn't so I decided to just take a look at the menu. Menu.
Menu
Current
Skills/Traits/Classes/Titles
Inventory
Quests
Store (unlocked at Level 25)
Options
I clicked on the second one with my mind (mind-clicked it?), because I didn't want to say or think it.
Skills:
Gamer's Spirit (MAX) Passive
Recognizes reality as a game and keeps the mind calm. Immune to mental disorder/ intrusion.
Gamer's Body (MAX) Passive
It provides the body to live the reality as a game.
Observe (1/100)Active
It shows the information of a target.
Physical Endurance (49/100) Passive
It helps you endure pain and damage. You also take less damage from attacks, currently taking 24.5% of all damage done away.
Alpine Style (25/?) Passive/Active [Can add more to the style]
A fighting style created by Naruto Namikaze after studying a bunch of different fighting styles to figure out how to create a style that maximizes speed and fluidity. It is made mostly of upper body strikes with arms, elbows, fists, palms, and even head being used. It also has some grappling involved. It's named after the fastest animal without chakra enhancement: the alpine swift.
Passively increases: AGI by 10% and DEX by 10%.
Actively increases: AGI by 30%, DEX by 30%, and STR by 10%.
Chakra Control Mastery (7/100) Passive
A skill that allows you to manipulate the chakra inside of your body, and expel it out of you. Decreases the cost of jutsu by 3.5%.
Legendary Speed (MAX) Passive/Active
The skill is given to anyone who gets past 100 AGI. It grants you speed that almost no one else can replicate. Converts 1 AGI to 1 m.p.h. EX) 20 AGI = 20 m.p.h.
Stealth (9/100) Passive
Any shinobi should know how to conceal themselves and sneak around in case the situation arises. You know how to do so.
Increases chances of being stealthy in almost any scenario by 9%
Traits:
Namikaze (Your trait is different from Namikaze's without the bloodline: Jinton)
400% Increase to speed; 25% increase to fuinjutsu learning speed; 10% increase to bukijutsu; +4 AGI, +2 DEX, +1 WIS, +1 INT per level; Jinton enables you to go 5 times faster than your original speed. Is on top of all buffs.
Description: In the past, the Namikaze was a clan well known for their speed and slight affinity to fuinjutsu. They were all assassinated, but one Namikaze survived named Minato. He didn't inherit the bloodline, but some of his children did.
Holy crap! My siblings gained the bloodline also. Could it be that some means that I'm the only one? No response from Game so I'm going to be assuming that I am wrong.
Uzumaki (You have bloodlines that aren't unlocked for this clan)
Health regenerated per second is ⅔ your strength instead of ½ like a clanless shinobi. Amount of HP is 1.25 times larger than normal person. Amount of CP is 2 times more than normal person. 50% increase in fuinjutsu learning speed; Seals do 10% more damage and are made 10% faster than a non-Uzumaki; 25% increase to learning speed of kenjutsu; +3 STR, +2 SEX, +2 INT per level
Description: The Uzumaki are a clan that has descended from Rikudo Sennin himself. They once made up the hidden village Uzushio but most Uzumaki were killed in an attack on the village by Kiri, Iwa, Kumo, and Ame. Most scattered to different places on the Earth while weeks before the attack, the heiress of the clan came to Konoha to get the Kyuubi sealed inside her. She got married to the 4th Hokage and is the only Uzumaki known to be alive officially. She inherited one of the bloodlines and passed all of them on to each of her children.
Genius
All stats are gained faster. +3 WIS and +2 INT gained per level.
Amazing Gene Pool
You share a lot of genes with famous shinobi, therefore your genes make it easier for you to become like them. +1 to every stat for every level gained. Stats are gained much faster and its easier to become stronger at higher levels.
Classes:
N/A
Titles
Forgotten son of the 4th Hokage (Equip?)
Forgotten or not, the Elemental Nations as a whole has high expectations for you, not all of them being good. +100 fame and +50 infamy.
I equipped the title, took another good hard look at my skills and realized that I need to get to training right now. I burst out the door and into a sprint and turned left. Then right, and with five more turns taken at an increasing speed I opened the door to the training center and went right in. I looked at a person who I assumed was to be my instructor and gave him the code Danzo told me to give him.
"B4789STAR."
"Good. I will begin your training. Do 500 push-ups as fast as you can. Do not use any chakra for enhancements unless I tell you to."
I didn't respond and instead got down into a normal push-up form. I started to go down- *kicked in stomach*
-200 HP
I got out of form and started coughing blood, sputtering out words "What was that for?"
"You did it wrong. Do it like this." He got down into a weird position where he placed his hands into position down by his waist, and held himself up with only his hands and started to lower and raise his body in position to the ground.
"Do you understand?"
"Hai."
I got down into the position the instructor was telling me to and started doing the push-ups. This was so much harder than a regular push-up and the instructor kicked me in the gut every once in awhile, telling me to go faster. After about every 40 (more push-ups in the end) push-ups, I got a notification saying: +1 STR and +1 VIT. It made them easier and I started going faster, after about 100 the instructor stopped kicking me in the gut and instead opted to do some push-ups on his own, seemingly inspired. He never took his eyes off of me during that time, however.
I didn't slack either. By the end of that, I gained 12 STR and 12 VIT. I think the reason why I gained so many points is that I was doing the push-ups in a correct stance and the trait Amazing Gene Pool. It could also be that points don't have that high of a value, but that has yet to be determined.
"Start stretching. Do the poses I show you."
I copied the poses and while getting a little bit of dexterity, my main surprise came from this: The skill /Yoga/ has been learned. I wanted to mind tap on the skill but decided that it would be suspicious to the instructor. At the end of the poses, I got +4 DEX and 3 levels in the now 4/100 skill /Yoga/. After this, the instructor decided to take me to a large room. No, a ginormous stadium would describe it better but it still couldn't describe the sheer immensity of the room. The only way it could be this big is if there were seals or a jutsu making it this large. +1 WIS The floor was chiseled stone and seemed like a bunch of snakes had slithered across it and made the patterns.
"I will be testing your current top speed in this room. It is about 1200 miles long and 5 miles wide. When I shout out go, it means to start running. There are seals placed on the wall telling me how fast you are going. You can and will enhance yourself with chakra for the exercise."
He shunshinned to the side of the wall and started a countdown. I have to admit that I was curious as well as to how fast I could go. With a coat of chakra applied internally and externally I looked at the instructor and waited for the signal.
"GO!"
I exploded into the fastest amount of speed I ever have gone into and started hauling ass. Pop-ups kept on appearing but I ignored them and went faster, my legs starting to go on fire. I went even faster, my whole body on fire now with my lungs expanding and deflating at a rate so fast that if I didn't have Gamer's Body and Chakra Enhancement on, I would be dead from them popping. But I still went faster, breaking the sound barrier this time. By this time, I decided to try to unlock Jinton. I upped the chakra output, putting most of it into my legs and lungs. I felt a click vibrate from within my body and a pop-up notified me that I unlocked Jinton. If what I thought earlier was fast, then this would be ludicrous speed. But even if I was going so fast and I was in a little pain, I felt free. It, the running, cleared my mind. It was like a drug in the way that it felt so good. I didn't have to think. I could just be me, not caring about how others feel, not having to put up facades of happiness. In fact, this was me or at least a great part of me, emotionless yet happy. I never wanted this moment to end. But the upcoming wall made it. After about 15 minutes of running, I met the end.
In that moment, I forgot Danzo's torture. I forgot all his promises of pain because I wanted one thing. Freedom. Freedom of this place and freedom of this village. First I would have to escape though…
So as I ran back, I started to plan my escape. It would be brilliant and have a lot of explosions. Maybe I could even do this. A quick scene of me wedgieing Danzo popped up. Maybe he has PTSD? I could pretend to be the gold and silver brothers and scare him shitless. This was going to be good. I should put this in a book of top ten escapes when I get out of here.
As the spot where I started began to appear I saw the ROOT-nin giving me a look of shock. How could I see the shock if he had a blank mask, may you ask? I would respond that the man took it off. ROOT never and when I say that, I mean never, ever, not in a million years unless they were about to die. But the thing I was shocked by was who the kid was. It was a kid from my class named Sai.
"Sai, how the heck did you get in here? Do you already work for Danzo or something like that? Did you infiltra-."
"I worked for Danzo-sama. Since about three months ago, I was forced to fight my brother to the death. I decided that I would honor his wishes and escape from Ne."
Flashback no jutsu
"You two are ordered to fight to the death. If neither of you are back at base in 3 days, I'll kill you myself." Danzo said, perched upon a rock above the two ninja in training.
"What?" I asked him, confused by what he said.
"This is the last test of those joining Ne. It is meant for you to kill off your emotions." Danzo shunshinned away, leaving behind a tiny puff of smoke from his speed.
"You can't be serious,... I can't kill my brother." I mumbled.
Shin's face twisted into an emotion of sadness and fear. "Then, I might just have to kill you instead."
"Brother!" I shouted, but he had already lunged at me with his tanto.
I instantly jumped up and hopped on to the perch where Danzo was standing. "Are you serious?!"
He lunged upwards, throwing a kunai at me whilst swinging his tanto. I blocked it with my own and jumped upwards, this time onto a tree branch. I started to tree hop away from him, scared for my life. He had always been slightly better at combat than me, and a small advantage like that could kill me. As I kept jumping away from him, I heard a large thud sound on the ground. It seemed that Shin had fallen. I jumped to him and went next to him in a crawling position. "Brother?"
He had put a kunai up to my throat and with a sad look said: "You are far too kind, and naive to survive this." He stopped.
"Brother," I whispered, almost drowned out by my breath.
"Still, you are the one, who will live." He whispered back. And then he started coughing and hacking up blood. "I am... sick." He panted and said in labored breaths.
"We have to get you some help." I quickly said, not caring how absurd that was for the situation we were in.
"It's useless.." He said raspy and labored, "It's useless, I've already looked into my illness, there's nothing we can do." He paused before continuing "It's completely incurable."
"No that's-" I started to stutter out but got interrupted by Shin.
"Lord Danzo doesn't know anything about this. So when you report back to him, just tell him, you got rid of me." He said as labored as his other dialogues.
"No.. I can't." My voice started to break beyond upset of what was happening. I thought of how happy yesterday was, and how I got a sketchbook, my present, from him. That seemed like centuries ago compared to now.
"I knew all along, that the final test of Ne was to kill a comrade." He was now starting to cry and I already was. "That's why, I didn't tell you that I was sick." He sucked in air and continued saying "Before today, I tried to live with the secret, so that I could lose to you in our fight." He coughed a little bit more, "But, I don't think I even have enough strength left.., to pull that off." He seemed like he was about to die, while I looked on, helpless and crying.
"Brother... I also knew that one day I was going to have to battle someone." I started to cry at the end. "But never could I imagine that it was going to be you." I was on the verge of weeping. I never felt so unable to stop something from happening.
"Show no emotion Sai. Keep it on the inside with the hopes that one day you can escape this hell hole called Ne. It may destroy you, but it will be much better than having no emotions. Now go, go and live for the both of us. Don't listen to Danzo's brainwashings and forget everything I said." He stopped before saying "Now go! I may not be able to fight you but I can still kill myself." He started coughing up blood.
I started to weep but remembering his last wish, I kept it in. I would escape and live for the both us, regardless of Danzo. I hopped away, but put chakra in my ears, to hear if he would say anymore. He started to cough up more blood and said to himself: "But I do really wish I could see your last drawing…" He started to choke on his own blood, and with a death rattle, he died.
That noise would ring forever in my ears.
Flashback end
"I'll help you escape." I blurted out. Shit, if this was all a ruse to get me admit to disloyalty, I'll get beaten again.
Major Co-Quest Alert
Escape the foundation (Ne) alongside the Gamer Sai and tell someone about it.
Quest Rewards: Escape from Root and Danzo, +20000 EXP, One random A-rank skill or 10 Class Points, Danzo gets [?], and a possible new friend in Sai.
Quest Failure: Depends on how and when you fail, either death or being placed in an insanity ward.
Accept? Y / N
'Yes.' I thought to myself while looking at Sai. I would've never expected him to be a Gamer. Suddenly the Game's words from a month ago popped into my head: "Ten people every few generations who have unique lives and stories to them get blessed with my power." I chuckled and said "What're the chances of that? So many people on this planet yet somehow we're both Gamers."
'Observe' I thought while looking at Sai.
Current:
Name: Sai /Age: 9 years /Level: 43
Currently: Excited / Titles: Root Ninja / Class(es): Assassin
HP: 5000/5000 /CP: 10000/10000 /EC: 0/0
Regenerate: ? HP per second / ? CP per second / See EC regen in help
Fame: 0/0 / Class Points: ? / Stat Points: ?
So you can't tell if someone else is a gamer just by looking at them? Interesting.
"Yes, what are the chances. How long have you had this?"
"About a month. You?"
"Since Shin died."
'This is Game, speaking to the both of you. You two will be in a forced party until one of you dies, or the quest is completed. Good luck!'
You have joined a party with Sai! Party rules state that: experience gains will be split based on how much work is done, while rewards are separate for quest gains. You can't attack each other for 30 seconds after the party ends.
As I looked at it on the HUD I saw Sai's name and level below mine. As I thought about it, even if I could outrun Sai, he'd still kill me in a serious fight.
"Sai?"
"Yes."
"Could you promise me that you wouldn't betray me?"
"Sure, but a shinobi's word means nothing."
"I'm not asking you as a shinobi, I'm asking you as a person. It means a lot, because most of my life has had empty promises."
"Ok then. I promise you as a human being and friend that I will not betray or harm you in any way."
"I promise you the same."
"Oh and Naruto, turn on the setting party speak. It's in the options and it's for when you want to say something to only your party mates."
Thus was the beginning of a friendship and the end of a chapter.
AN: Finally it's over! And I'm not talking about the chapter, I'm talking about the summer camp. I nearly got kicked out, the bathrooms were holes and the showers were pathetic. I also hiked until I somehow got lost and onto the highway. That was fun, picking up garbage for 2 miles straight. Lol. I liked the way this chapter went, more so than the other ones anyway. Tell me what you think because I can't judge my work by myself. See ya!