He was Naruto freaking Uzumaki damnit! Future Hokages wouldn't let things like video game rules and World enslaving monsters stop him from saving his precious people! Even if he had to crawl through their personal nightmares!
I do not own any elements of the anime 'Naruto' but if I could smell like I do! With new old spice nin-nin edition!
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Day 2-Baby steps
The bullies laughed at her and all she could feel was humiliation, Sasuke openly laughed at her and everyone at school decided that day that day they hated her.
Her lunches were stolen rumours were started by other girls and nobody would hang out with her until….
No they always had avoided her and nobody had ever taken the time to notice how truly wretched she felt…
Naruto awoke with a start and jolted out of bed; smacking his head on the ragged bedside table he had scavenged a few years back. Groaning in pain the jinchuuriki lay on the floor few a few seconds before the alarm went off.
Naruto shut his eyes and let out a deep sigh before getting up slamming the off button and went through his morning routine.
(Kingdom hearts ost "destiny islands remix" or other happy-'main hub' music)
Naruto sipped his ramen lightly enjoying the flavour before remembering the events from yesterday and the dream he had had.
"So everyone is asleep in the world except me huh….." he said lightly to himself trying to imagine the consequences of that, "I'll probably have to use Kage bunshin to make sure their houses are all up to scratch," Naruto thought to himself, the people were less asleep and more in a stasis thingy, so he wouldn't have to feed them or clean up their….
Naruto for the moment was quite happy that the spell worked in stasis rather than sleep. Naruto sat for a second and wondered how he'd free everyone before he remembered tapping the tattoo on the Anbu's forehead.
"The monster…if I beat that I bet the guy will wake up!" Naruto said cheerfully, before remembering how he got his ass handed to him. He'd also been a lot slower and weaker in the dream world than in the real one and his jutsu had also been locked away.
Naruto sipped his ramen again like coffee and lost himself in the smell for few seconds, savouring the delicious morning beverage…
Shaking himself from his ramen induced stupor Naruto continued his line of thought. "It said he was level 20-something, does that mean I have to level up like in a video game?"
HINT: Use the esc button to open the menu!
"AHHH" Naruto jolted out of his chair and onto the floor as his musings were shattered by the words forcing their way into his head, he then yelled again as his ramen tipped over fell right onto his head, spilling boiling hot ramen broth and noodles over his head.
"The fuck! Why do these words keep popping up out of nowhere? And what the hells the 'esc button' anyway?!" Naruto yelled aloud hoping the words might give him an answer.
…. Hint: Clap three times to open the menu!
Shaking his head Naruto went to go have another shower and finish his ramen before trying anything to do with these weird ass rules life kept throwing his way.
After a health and perfect orthodox breakfast of instant noodles and tap water as a drink, Naruto felt ready enough to try whatever death trap was awaiting him this time.
And just like that his vision Suddenly went black.
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The first thing Naruto noticed was the song playing in the background of….wherever the hell he was. Thinking about it too much gave him a headache.
His vision was viewing a 2d screen with a list of several options he could choose on the left, There was a picture of him grinning on the right with several stats listed next to his portrait.
Then there was a blank space and at the bottom of the menu screen was a count of how much time he had spent with the world asleep, a percentage meter which currently read 1% and then how much money he had on him.
Suddenly a message popped up in front of his eyes….Naruto stopped thinking about it before his head exploded.
Welcome to the menu screen! In here you can access several different options, when you access this menu the world outside is NOT pause so be careful when you open it up. You can currently access a few things such as:
Equipment
Inventory
Map/Journal
Party members
Save/load
Options
Quit to menu
Quit game
Open them to find out more about each individual topic!
Naruto read the message over and nodded to himself before deciding to go through each one first before doing anything drastic. Before he might've ignored this boring stats and stuff but having a demon shoving an arm in ones chest does make one more cautious about this stuff. Mentally selecting equipment Naruto waited for the information to pop up and Wryly wondered if him getting used to this mental way of doing things was a good thing or not.
Equipment:
In this menu you can change different party member's equipment and compare items in your inventory to others.
There were only two options in the menu though, the first of which was a portrait of him and then just the words 'Back to menu' underneath. Naruto mentally selected himself and the Menu shifted and he saw on the left a picture of himself walking on the spot which rotated slowly. On the right was a menu with mostly empty spots with only two items.
His jumpsuit coat and a stack of 10 cup ramen.
Orange coat
Armour: 10
End+ 4
Wil+6
Cha-10
Int-12
Naruto vaguely wondered how he knew what each one of these stats meant before shrugging mentally to himself and dragged the coat onto his model and the orange coat appeared in a gold shimmer on his avatar.
Backing out of the two screens Naruto went to inventory and found it was just showing what he had on hand before backing out and entering Map/journal.
This is your map and Journal screen, on the right is a map of the area you are in and on the left is a list of any quests you currently have.
Naruto looked over the map of Konoha and swapped back and forth between a map of his room, a map of Konoha, and a map of the elemental nations.
Shrugging to himself Naruto looked over his quests and noticed three different tabs.
Incomplete quests, completed quests, and tutorials.
Opening up tutorials first Naruto rolled his eyes when he realised it was just the same messages he had shoved in his head in game along with a few obvious ones, who forgot how to jump in video games anyway?! Nevermind ones where you controlled normally as in real life?!
Naruto opened up the incomplete quests since he hadn't completed any quests and found himself staring at an entry.
Main quest act 1: A hidden Threat
Free your friends after learning the basics of the new world!
Face your new foe: Complete
Open the menu: Complete
Learn the basics of the menu: Incomplete
?
Naruto nodded to himself before backing out and selecting the party member's options It was a just a mass of portraits but all of them were only silhouettes aside from his in the middle which had a slight grey tint to it.
Welcome to the party screen! After you free a major person from their nightmare they can join you on your quests! However you can only have 3 in a team at once! Party members not in your crew can relax and regain HP/MP, perform tasks for money and exp, and can research more about your new enemy! It is also important to socialise with your companions to earn bonuses in their stats and learn more about them.
Currently you have no companions unfortunately.
Naruto looked at some of the portraits before giving up trying to puzzle them out and looked at the main menu
Naruto looked over Save/load and realised he couldn't access it; he tried to do the same with the other options and couldn't wondering at why he couldn't access anything under Party members he shrugged and exited the menu.
XXXX (Kingdom hearts ost Destiny islands HD remix, or hub music)
Now feeling a lot more confident with his understanding of the game Naruto went back into what the game called Naru mode and words forced themselves into his head again.
Hint: Great! Now that you know how to play the game you should now head to level 1 to begin your new adventure!
Naruto felt his adrenaline build up this time he wouldn't let some monster beat him! Naruto's confidence wavered slightly as he wondered why the world had changed into a game, shoving the mental wonderings aside Naruto headed to the first level, checking his map several times when he got lost.
XXXX (silence)
Naruto entered the building and as he checked over the map he read the title of the area he nearly had a heart attack; this was Sakura's house.
Sure enough a middle aged woman with pink hair sat snoring lightly at the dining room table and upstairs Naruto found his crush lying against her wall with a red pentagram tattoo on her forehead. Naruto felt a spike of anger at the creature that would do this to Sakura before steeling himself and lightly touching her forehead.
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Ooooh a cliffhanger! Umad audience?! U MAD?!
*Achem* dwindling sanity on my part aside this chapter was just here to give you guys a glimpse of what's to come, I think there is an incongruity in the stats in the previous chapter but I will be completing a full synopsis of them after the first dungeon.
Betcha guys didn't see Sakura as the first level though huh?
Okay maybe it was the obvious choice I mean her personal demons (being a sheltered fangirl: no offence Sakura fans) Are bullies and her own insecurities easy level 1 baddies! Also if I was going to have Naruto choose where he was going he'd probably go to Sakura first which made sense and helped out me in terms of making shit work.
But the thing is I don't like Sakura and having her as Naruto's first companion seemed lame, but in the end common sense wore through. I was thinking of having the Female lead in the next dungeon but it'd be too obvious and rushed, I have a fairly good idea of who's second and third so I'll have to wait.
Lastly I wrote these three chapters in a row so updates won't always be so quick and easy (like Sakura's mom HEYOOOOO…again sorry Sakura fans but it'd be cruel to bag Sasuke's mom) so you have been warned.
Also I hope the Zelda/Naruto crossover thing is coming through with the music, again I'm avoiding actual songs and have characters sing pop songs about their pain. The suggestions are just there to give that anime style rpg sense.