Shitty game.

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Chapter 1: Hello Player 2,093,847,226,125,905.

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"Avada Kedavra!"

Harry closed his eyes, knowing he had done all he could and let the killing curse strike him in his heart. Like the prophecy had said, it would enable Neville, Ron and Hermione to kill the snake and its owner, and end the war.

Sensing himself lose his grasp on reality, Harry reopened his eyes and saw that he was in a completely black 'room' … or something. He could feel himself move … barely.

Harry waited a long time as he felt himself accelerate or stop sometimes before he was thrown on a white platform in the dark nothing he'd been since … his 'death'.

A white rectangular window appeared in front of him, and Harry saw the window … or screen, it seemed more fitting, begin to show some words in an ugly fluorescent green.

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Player 2,093,847,226,125,905 (Select to change)

Avatar chosen: Harry Potter (Skill test)

Completion: 3 % (Main Villain killed indirectly)

Path chosen: Neutral Good (The hero)

Competency: 64 % (Laid the groundwork for the Villain's end and the followers' demise in one Great Battle far from civilian areas)

Campaign: 88 % achieved

Secondary quests: 1 % (Master of Death)

Magic: 11 % (Good in magical combat, useless in the rest, only know wand magic)

Mind: 95 % (Iron will, Occlumency)

Body: 7 % (Bad diet, often wounded and broken, rarely well-healed, fit because of competitive sport, runs often on magic and sheer will, few organs working)

Overall Evaluation: 6.5/20.

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Harry blinked a few times at the screen before looking above his shoulder … he could really accept anything to explain this. Even the twins telling him he had dreamt the last four years … how he would like the twins waking him up and telling him he had dreamt Fred's death, George's holiness, everything until the Tournament.

Seeing that he was alone … and wasn't just dreaming or had been pranked, Harry rose his arm in the arm with a frown and startled when a big white wand appeared on the screen. Harry moved his hand and saw the wand on the screen do the same and even change to right itself from its tilted position when he was on some words.

Harry then tried to move his fingers like he was trying to put pressure on something but nothing happened.

"Channel your magic in your own wand when you want to select something on the screen." Appeared in bright purple on the screen.

Harry got his wand out and saw that the wand on the screen was easier to guide. He put it above the very high number after 'Player' and channelled some magic as if he was going to do a silent 'Wingardium Leviosa'.

"You have chosen to change your name. Beware, only the first change is free."

Harry snorted, even in the afterlife … or what seemed to be it, you got scammed. The alphabet in a weird order then appeared with countless symbols and weird letters or numbers.

"Type your name by placing your wand on the characters you want and channel some magic in it to select it."

"Harry James Potter"

"This name is already used, choose another, please."

Harry frowned.

"Harry James Potter Evans"

"This name is already used, choose another, please."

"Harry Evans Potter"

Harry tried out nearly every combination with "Harry", "Potter", "Evans", "James" … or even "Sirius", "Orion", "Lily" … even "Shitty Draco the fucking Malfoy" didn't work.

He would have been fucked if it had, the teen thought angrily.

"May we suggest unused names that could interest you? Keep in mind that it will be your name for every interaction outside of the games and that you will then be able to change your appearance, race and gender."

Harry blinked … and accepted their suggestion.

"Harold Evan Black-Potter the Bold."

Harry twitched, this was almost too good. The name was so … what he had wanted. Harold could still pass for the name his parents had chosen, Evan kept him connected to his mother's maiden name, Black-Potter linked the names of the only two person he would ever consider as his fathers. And the Bold even stroke his ego and made a reference to Gryffindor … even if he had felt more like a Slytherin in the past year.

It was a bit long and pompous but seeing that even 'Shitty Draco the fucking Malfoy' was taken …

"So, are you sure, shall you be known as Harold Evan Black-Potter the Bold to the other players?"

Harry clicked and his name changed in the summary of his … 'Last Game Overall Evaluation' as it was called on top of the page.

Harry then saw that he could click on 'Avatar chosen' and did, making the screen go black.

"Shit …"

Harry thought, one minute, that he had destroyed the thing. But the screen changed colour, from black to a dark grey.

"Welcome to Life simulator, a simulator of what life could have been if we weren't all just electronic construct able to think for ourselves."

That was not a good start if you asked Harry.

"You are one of the players skilled enough to continue past your first walkthrough. Only 12.64 % of the players managed to do so, lucky bastard!"

That was better … even if he didn't really see where he had really been good, looking back on his short life … he'd made a lot of mistakes.

"As you continue to progress through the different adventures and unlock the countless universes in Life simulator, you will be able to take the place of more than 9 billion of characters with complete personalisation possible, and to unlock and interesting world changing options."

That was a lot of people …

"The more you progress, the more you learn and obtain what will enable you to rise through the ranks and become one of the best player Life Simulator has ever seen. Who knows? Maybe you'll be granted the privilege to get a real life of your own, one day!"

That was the part where he was supposed to shout every single insult he knew to this game, its creator and every single one of the morons connected to it?

The screen then became white and there was a golden 'Life simulator v.12.96.113.b' in the background as what Harry quickly identified to be the general menu appeared.

Single Player

Multi Player

High scores

Colosseum

Community

Harry took his wand back and was happy to note that he could direct the wand on the screen without standing up, he was still in rage mode. Even if he kept silent and just glared at the screen like he had at Snape … or Umbridge … or Dumbledore.

"Single Player" He chose, he didn't know anyone, he didn't care for high scores, and could easily guess what Colosseum and Community stood for … he didn't want to fight in a free for all and wasn't in the best state of mind to try seeing if he could speak to others … all the more if they were other players.

Harry Potter (Canon Universe)

Harry Potter (Personalised Universe)

Naruto (Canon Universe)

Harry frowned. On one hand, he really wanted to see if he could go back to his world, but he didn't want to do everything once again. The Dursleys, Hogwarts, Quidditch, the Weasleys, the deadly stunts … he really had a bad life if he thought about it.

He had had to stay with the Dursleys until he was 17 when the three of them were no better than the useless sheep of the Wizarding World. He had had to go to a school where a giant snake, giant spiders, deadly mermen and centaurs, homicidal teachers and really annoying Death Eaters spawn lived.

All this while doing a sport he didn't like just to get to fly without being pestered, watching every single thing he said because he didn't need to awaken Ron's jealousy or Hermione's love for crappy authority figures … and generally, he couldn't do strange things he would have liked to do or lower his guard because everyone would know and find something to say about it.

He really had liked the Weasleys, Hermione, his Quidditch team and even the Headmaster and everyone … but they really were a pain to satisfy … and as the game had said, he was the goddamn hero, he couldn't let them down … he really hated this part of himself.

Then, 'Personalised Universe' … it would still be a fight against Voldemort … no he was tired of fighting a snake-loving red-eyed no-nosed freak.

"Naruto (Canon Universe)"

Uzumaki Naruto (recommended)

Uchiha Sasuke

Fisherman 1

Harry was thankful he had the pictures of the people and dabbled a bit in languages after the Tournament, because he would have been a bit lost. Yeah, it wasn't really serious of a problem if he just switched first name and surname … but it would help …

On the bright side, it was completely different, at least in the culture, seeing as it seemed to be in Japan or in a Japanese-like culture. Compared to his English-centric strictly European adventure …

Now, the blond-haired blue-eyed kid or the black-haired black-eyed one …

Complete overhaul or did he keep roughly the same appearance?

"Uzumaki Naruto"

It was recommended and he wanted to see how he handled being a blond guy. Even while polyjuicing, he had never been blond, Hermione really had a thing against blond people … must have been Fleur and Lavender …

Easy

Medium

Hard

Impossible

"Easy"

The idea wasn't really to fail in ten minutes.

"Once upon a time, a great demonic nine-tailed fox attacked the Hidden Village of Konoha, one of the 5 Great Shinobi Nations, and began to destroy everything in its sight."

Harry's eyes were glued to the screen where he was seeing the devastation brought by every single movement made by the fox. The beast was the biggest animal Harry had ever seen, bigger than the dragons, bigger than the Basilisk … it was a bit frightening to see this kind of creature being real.

"Its mighty tails could crumble mountains and cause tsunamis, it was a natural disaster on its own."

Harry sighed as he saw people attempting to fight the orange fox, he was sure that even Dumbledore or Voldemort would barely be able to scratch the thing.

Still, the teenager smiled as he saw lights emanating from the people and striking the beast … either it was magic or something similar, but it meant that he wouldn't be in the kind of purely 'muggle' world he had feared … a world without strange abilities was kind of boring after his magic-filled first world.

"But one shinobi, the bravest and strongest of the Village, managed to defeat the demon and save Konoha. Sadly, this caused him to die this very night and to let the Village try to recover without him. This shinobi was called Namikaze Minato, the Fourth, or Yondaime, Hokage, the title of the leader of Konoha."

Harry felt a bit relieved at this. He had been sure he would be forced to deal with the fox … it was usually how it went, wasn't it? A big monster, Voldemort, this fox or Death Herself in the Tales of Beedle the Bard and then a hero had to beat him. And this being a game where you were the protagonist … you obviously played the heroes before having a wider choice of characters to play.

He wondered if he had a lot of his Hogwarts' classmates in the unlocked characters … he should have Ron and Hermione … maybe Draco had been unlocked, that would be funny.

"Hello Harold Black-Potter the Bold, you are now Naruto Uzumaki, or Uzumaki Naruto as this culture switches the first and family names' places. From birth to death, you will have to guide your avatar through the Elemental Nations to become a great shinobi."

Harry then saw the screen go black before everything in his field of vision darkened. Something seemed to move around him before he reflectively closed his eyes and was blinded when he reopened them.

Feeling weird all over, he tried to see if he could conjure a mirror to see if what he felt had really happened. Harry felt energy travel his surprisingly, and scarily, little body, before an orange burst of something left his hand and created far more noise than even a mirror breaking would have done.

Among the sounds he could hear, Harry detected voices and he barely saw the knife-like thing plant itself deeply in his own head before he went back to a full empty black world around him and sensed himself travelling without knowing how or where.

Game Over! You've been killed!

Try Again? Yes? No? Change character?

Harry tried hard not to fly the handle as he reappeared in the 'screen room' and clenched his fists as he breathed loudly in the vain hope of calming down quickly.

Maybe he would be luckier with the other one?

AN: Fast edit to add the quotation marks. I'm not english so I used those from my country, sorry.