Normal thoughts
'Thoughts on the game'
"normal speech"
[The Game]
Jutsu / game text
Special speech
Flashback
POV: Third person
'I'm fucked.'
This was the only thing Arima could think while Kushina looks at... Glare at? No, I should say tried to burn a hole through his head with the intensity of her gaze. It feels like his end was coming as her hair started to move like nine tail, shadowing her face. Interesting enough, he could no longer see her eyes, instead, he saw two glowing light.
'Yeah, I'm completely fucked.'
…
You may wonder how did I end up in this situation? Well... After Kushina invited Arima to her house, they use the afternoon to talk about everything and nothing. The only interesting point is that thank to his conversation with Minato and her, he gained two points in Charisma. He also learns that someone else is living with them but they will wait until he or she came back to introduce him or her. The conversation stopped when Minato come back from his work late in the afternoon, almost the evening.
They all decided to eat together, Minato agreed immediately since he had to talk with Arima as well, so they went to the restaurant since no one wanted to cook.
Now, if you remember correctly, Arima had told that he never ate any Ramen, right? Well, Kushina was deeply shocked by that (Read: she almost crush him to death in her hug), and she couldn't miss this occasion to go to Ichiraku to eat their special recipe.
Now, what could have gone so wrong that it went from friendly dinner at a Ramen restaurant to Kushina being ready to murder him?
Well, after trying the Ramen with a lot of expectation from it, he said:
"Yeah, not bad."
he means, he had to see Naruto praise it to high heaven in the Manga and Kushina was speaking of it like it was God personal dish! He tough it would be amazing, that it would be like in some of those cooking manga when the character seems to have an orgasm when they eat the protagonist cooking!
So yeah, it was really good and he would have praised it more if he didn't expect too much, but now he couldn't think of anything more other than some stupid thing like: 'The character in the cooking manga may take some drugs before eating, it could explain their reaction'.
At the time, he didn't catch Minato looking at him like he was about to kill himself, neither did he saw Kushina turning her head so fast that she slaps some other client with her hair and he didn't hear the resulting scream of pain.
He should have, it would have saved him from this situation.
Anyway, so here he was. Sitting between a bowl of noodle and a demonic looking Kushina. Just behind her Minato was trying to talk to her and reasoned her. Keyword: trying. It didn't seem to have any effect.
"What... Did you say?" Kushina asks with a LOT of killing intent leaking out. Not Kyuubi level, but since a few civilian are shaking and stopped breathing, he concluded that it was bad. The fact that he couldn't breathe either and saw multiple vision of his death also point to a bad situation.
[ The skill 'Sense danger' level up! ]
'Yeah, thank you captain obvious. I didn't notice that my life was two-step away from ending because of some dish.' He taught sarcastically. It seems that at least the Game enjoys this situation enough to reward him.
Luckily enough, this distraction let him breathe a little and try to plaid for his life.
"I mean... It is amazing! I didn't know what to say since it was so different from what I normally eat!" He replied and it is somehow the truth, the previous Arima only ate bland food and he from earth only ate western food, so it was a first and something different.
Kushina paused. She didn't sense any lie but she didn't stop looking at him for a moment. Maybe it was out of pity, maybe she wasn't particularly serious earlier, but in any case, she decided to stop leaking Killing intent.
"... It will do for now." She said, before eating her Ramen once again.
Arima let out a breath, he could finally get some fresh air! Judging by the dozen other sighs he heard at the same time, he wasn't the only one how feared Kushina's wrath. Minato look like he just survived a crisis and ask for some Sake from Teuchi, the owner of the shop. It seems that his daughter Ayame is still too young to work here. She should be... two or three-year-old now?
Well, it doesn't matter too much. Arima had some question for the two Ninjas next to him that he didn't ask before, so now is the best time. After all, what better time that after surviving a near-death experience?
"Kushina-san, Minato-san," Arima said while looking at them. They both had agreed that he should use 'san' instead of 'sama' like he should have. Kushina wanted him to use nothing but it would have been too much in public. "I have a question, what will I need to do from now?"
"Well," Minato answered. "I will prepare your identity paper as soon as possible, it should be ready for Monday." 'So in four days?' Arima taught quickly. "Meanwhile, we will test you to see if we can let you enter the Academie and for which year we should put you in." He finished with a smile.
'Interesting. I guess that even with my combat skill, there is something I may learn there.' It was true, Arima may equal a freshly promoted Genin in a fight, he didn't have any knowledge of Konoha history outside of the great line of the series, he also lacks a lot of those common pieces of knowledge since Arima was only a civilian and furthermore from a small village.
"What will be tested exactly?" He asked, hoping to know most of them so he didn't have to spend to much time in school. he didn't mind going there, but he only had two to three years before the Kyuubi is released.
"Well, General Culture, Math, Japanese, History, Chakra Control, the three academic Jutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, basic Sign Langage and Bukijutsu. You can also have an optional study subject, in your case you could pick Fuinjutsu." Minato answered.
Arima had most of them at a good level, but he may have some problems for the non-combat one. Except for math, he was good at that so he would have no problem. Well, if he has some problems, he could use some Shadow Clone to learn faster than others. He may not use as much as Naruto would in the future, but if he could always have some active alternately, he could speed up his training a lot.
Though the only reason Arima will not use it as much as Naruto is that he simply didn't have the Chakra to create hundreds of clone at every turn. He needs to keep some chakra in himself to train or react if needed.
"The first test will be held tomorrow morning, we will do as much of the theoretical as possible, then we will test you on the more physical one in the afternoon." Said Minato, seeing that it interest the young Uzumaki.
Suddenly, Kushina seems to remember something as she raised her head quickly before looking at Arima.
"Now that I think about it, I will use this opportunity to look at your Fuinjutsu's skill! I will also show you how stupid it was to train alone in this." Said Kushina.
Arima shivers but nod nonetheless.
Following this conversation, the trio spends their time talking about how is it to live in Konoha. Since Kushina remember what it was like when she first come here, she could easily understand what someone like Arima need to know about this place. Most of the information isn't exactly important, but it gives him a better understanding of where to find some interesting location.
He gave himself some mental note about someplace, which somehow creat little quests to explore the village.
[ NEW QUEST: Konoha's exploration ]
Your new strange life begins in an even stranger place. Thanks to the information given by an enthusiastic redhead, you have some important location to visit.
[ Main objectives ]
Visite the training field
Visite the library
Visite the weapon shop
[ REWARD ]
1,000 EXP + 1,000 Ryos + Konoha full map
The quest was nothing impressive, but it let him remember his goals nicely, so he didn't complain.
After some time, the group left the restaurant and head to their home. As always, Arima wanted to meditate instead of sleeping but an idea comes to him. Since he doesn't need to keep his chakra at a good level, why not use some Shadow Clone to train while he meditated?
By thinking about something that should have been oblivious: +1 Intelligence!
Arima grinds his teeth. Even he had to admit that he could have used it before. He took several deep breaths to calm himself before letting it go.
Arima makes the hand-sign and said softly: "Shadow Clone." creating 10 clones with each 2,000 CP, since they all lose 10 CP per minutes, they should dispel in 3h20 minutes. He found out that while saying the name, or god forbid, shouting it, isn't necessary, it helps focus on the technique and is clearly useful when it is still at the starting level.
"Ok, now you will be Clone One through Ten. One and Two, you will study General Culture. Three and four, it will be Japanese for you. Five and Six, you get History. Seven and Eight, you have basic Sign Langage. Nine and Ten, you will improve our Caligraphy a much as possible. While you guy does that, I want all of you to use the Chakra Isolation passive skill. It shouldn't be hard to do both since it is passive. I will meditate until you all run out of Chakra."
With this strategy in place, Arima starts to meditate for the night.
~Next day~
As anyone would expect, Arima passes his test without any surprise. His knowledge from his previous life let him score almost perfectly in Math and he gives more than enough proof of his skill in Chakra Control, the three academic Jutsu (with the Shadow Clone instead of the basic Clone), Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and Bukijutsu.
However, even after using two sets of ten clones the previous night, he couldn't learn everything needed for passing the test with great mark for General Culture, Japanese, History, and basic Sign Langage. He still gets a lot of good answers since he got four sets of clones with 3h20 of study each for every subject. Also, even if Arima was a civilian, he had some basic knowledge on all of them except Sign language
Thanks to this, Arima scored an average of 71%. He could still thank some divinity for making the practical subject more numerous than the others.
Also, he levels up some of his skill increase a little with this, making his Shadow Clone gain 4 levels, his Chakra Isolation, and Meditation by 2. He also gets 3 points in intelligence for the work.
[ ENDING QUEST: Exam ]
You will test your skill against Konoha academy's standard! Prove them that you are worth it!
[ Main objectives ]
Pass the exam with over 50% in general (v)
[ Side objectives ]
Pass the exam with over 65% in general (v)
Pass the exam with over 75% in general (x)
Pass the exam with over 85% in general (x)
[ REWARD ]
(main) 5,000 EXP + 5,000 Ryos + Title: Konoha academy's student
(side) 2,000 EXP + 2,000 Ryos (*1)
Konoha academy's student: As long as you are in the Academy or the Academy's training ground, you gain a bonus toward your EXP for your level, skill, and stats of 25%. It stops working after level 50 for your personal level, 200 for your stats and 50 for your skills. After this limit, the Gamer gets a penalty on every EXP gain of 80% until he graduates in the respective areas.
[The title will be automatically equipped when the User starts the Academie and will not be removable until he graduated.]
Needless to say, Arima was both pleased and displeased with this Title. The boost will let him grow quicker but only until he reaches a limit who isn't far from his current abilities... Although, it will only work for the thing behind this limit. Even if his most important skills and stats would quickly reach this limit, it will 'push' him to improve some areas he would be lacking in.
Now, since Arima had finished the regular test, he could finally join Kushina who was waiting for him on a training ground to show his skill in Fuinjutsu...
Arima had to admit, he had mixed feelings about his new older sister. (The fact alone that she is his family already make him puzzled, so it didn't help.) If Arima was, to be honest, he was somehow scared of Kushina. Not because of the giant demon beast trapped in her, but because of how easily she can change her mood in a heartbeat. But it isn't the 'fear' of death or anything even close to that, it is rather the fear you have when your mother will scold you. Harshly.
In other words, Arima already sees Kushina as a family figure who he shouldn't go against. It isn't bad in any way, but it intrigues him a lot of why does he feel like that. After all, Kushina seems to be in her early twenty, he was as old or even older in the other world! Why would he consider her as his big sister? Hell, he technically has almost thirty years of life combined!
The only reason he could found for thinking like that is that his seven-years-old part wanted desperately a family after knowing that all of the Uzumaki died and that his adoptive family follows them. Now, even if some... Circumstances changed, he has a blood relative hell-bent on having him as a little brother.
After thinking it over, Arima did the only thing he could think of. He shrugs it off and accepts the reality as it is. He doubts he had much of a choice in this matter and even if he had, it would be stupid to refuse.
So it is with renewal determination that Arima advance toward his loving big sis-
"YOU ARE LATE, BAKARIMA!"
...Loving and fearsome big sister.
"Sorry, I was thinking about my life's choice or lack thereof," Arima answered shamelessly, knowing that it sounds a lot like one of Kakashi future excuses.
Kushina raised an eyebrow, confused at the younger redhead statement but shrug it off easily. Seeing this, Arima was starting to think that it is an Uzumaki's quirk to accept the strangest things without a problem.
"So," Kushina started. "Gimme your sealing book, please." She said before extending her open hand. "I need to know where did you learn from."
Arima couldn't see any reason to refuse so he gives her the book Fuse gifted him. Kushina took a look at the title and seeing that she never heard of this particular book, choose to create two Shadow Clones. One of them took said book and walked under the shade of a tree to read it.
"I will let this clone do the reading, it should be quick so at the same time, I want to see what you have for basic seals. You have some on you, right?" He answered with a nod. "Good, then create a Shadow Clone and sent him to create some seals further away with my own clone. Looking at the finished product is good, but seeing it personally is better." Kushina said calmly.
On the other hand, Arima was a little nervous about this 'test'. He had, surprisingly, never fail a seal to the point that it needed to be shown. The few times it happens, the only damages had been a ruined seal and some wasted material, nothing more.
But he remembers what Kushina said about a real failure, something about explosion and duck. Correction, Doom-duck. Needless to say, it scares him enough to make him want to insult his past self about this. He had read enough Fanfiction to know that it should have been a bad idea!
Anyway, despite his mini-frick out, Arima create his clone and told him to go create something. The female clone follows him while the two original look at them walking away... Really far away. To the point that Arima start to wonder is it isn't just too much.
"So Arima, could you show me one of your seals please?" Asked Kushina, not surprised by the distance like the younger redhead.
Arima nods and took of a random seal he
Now that the two clone were over a hundred meters away from their creator, they stop on Kushina notice. The younger clone wanted to stop a lot earlier but his colleague pushes him to continue with a little "You will understand." and a serious expression which didn't reassure him at all.
"Ok, now create something simple. Like an explosive tag." Said the female clone.
The other clone nodded and bring out a small wooden table from his inventory, before sitting in a seiza before it. He took out a blank tag, some ink with his blood mixed in it and a brush. In front of him, Kushina's clone noted that the clone was able to open the seal that the original wear on the back of his hand even if he is, well, a clone. This is the very first time that Kushina sees a Seal works on a clone when it is tattooed on the original.
Arima's clone was a little slower to create this seal that he ever was. He really didn't want to fail it, not this time. After all, failing alone is disappointing at worst, right? But in front of someone else, especially someone you want to impress it is way worst. So, for the first time, Arima activated Murphy-law. If something can go wrong at an important time, it WILL go wrong.
A couple of seconds later, the clone has a feeling of dreap, no, doom is a better word to describe it. After all the clone...
Sneezes.
BOOOMMMM
The two originally were looking at the explosion from afar, Arima opens his mouth and closes it a few times, imitating a fish, while not producing a single sound.
He starts to imagine what if such a thing had happened to him before when he still hadn't learned the Shadow Clone. He makes a quick count on how many seals he currently had in his inventory... 138. With most of them being an explosive tag. He didn't even count how many did he already used...
He shivers knowing that what he did until now was the same as a Russian roulette with himself... Over two hundred times. Now that he thinks about it, the only time that his luck increased naturally, was when he created seals and almost failed.
... He should really start to think more before doing something stupid and possibly suicidal.
For finally noticing the obvious: +1 Intelligence!
For surviving until now on luck alone: +5 luck!
"Wellllll..." Kushina said awkwardly. "At least... It packs quite a punch?" The wry smile on her face shows that she was also thinking of what would have happened if Arima had failed a seal before meeting her... Needless to say, her lack of relative would know an all-time low.
Not far away from them, the only surviving clone finished reading Arima's book. She closed it before making her way to the redhaired duo.
"Master." Said the clone to her original. She holds out the book to her and poofed out of existence after delivered it.
This somehow took Arima out of shock and gave him a conversation topic other than his numerous and unintentionally suicidal intent.
"Your clone call you master?" He asked while raising an eyebrow at his sister.
"Well, yes. It helps to make a difference between them and I. What did your call you?" She answered easily and curiously asked him her question.
Arima, on the other hand, remembered that Naruto's clone called him 'Boss' in the series, so it shouldn't be too weird... Or at least, not too weird by Konoha's standard. He also remembers that the only time a clone talk to him, it was when he was using it to look at himself. He called him 'Narcissistic pervert' if he isn't wrong.
"I never really had the occasion to let them talk back until now I told them why I creat them and they obey." He lied shamelessly, not wanting to make a fool of himself even more.
Kushina shrugs it off and went back to the reason of their presence here.
"Well, since I have read your book and see how you work, I can explain to you what went wrong. First, your book is a basic starting book from an unknown clan, it most likely dates from the Warring States Period. It tells how to create the basic seal and how to do some small thing, but only the most basic.
It also lacks all the rule that the Uzumaki created and widespread around the world. So while you could recreate the seal noted in it, you will have a hard time to create anything else and it will be even harder to improve beyond what you already know without a better foundation."
Kushina took a deep breath before continuing her lesson.
"If it was only that, then it wouldn't be too much of a problem. But for us, Uzumaki, improved the basics of Sealing to the point that every little mistake that could turn into... Well, THAT!" She pointed toward the burned ground where their clones died.
"So from now on, I will teach you the rules of Fuinjutsu of the Uzumaki clan, with them you will never explode with low ranked seals and will be able to progress a lot more than you with any old book." She said with a warm smile on her face. "So, be ready."
Unknown to Arima, Kushina was extremely happy to have the opportunity to teach a young Uzumaki, especially if it improves his survival chance.
Author note :
Thank you for reading my first fanfic!
My apologies for the delay for this chapter, but I had a really bad case of 'Author-block', especially for the test part for the Academie. I wanted to do something more... developed, but it always turned out badly. So in the end, I skipped most of it and give the result.
In the poll I put in the 'Answers' section of this fanfic, I have a major advantage of the current system so I will keep it. I will, however, change the question part, I will reformat the question in a short sentence to make it easier for everyone. I hope you will like it, if the answer is not enough for you, contact me via MP.
Finally, I still don't have a beta-reader... So I will search again. If someone who read this is interested, please contact me!
IMPORTANT: (or not?) I changed my profile picture to show Arima, I also add a link to my profil to show how Arima looks like. I hope you like it!
Answers :
Question: Can he use Metamorphosis to do [...]? / Metamorphosis is OP [...]
Answers: So, this technique has flaw and it will be brough in the story later on, you will also learn more about it in, if not the next chapter, one close.
Question: Will Naruto be born? If yes, will his situation change?
Answers: Minato and Kushina will have children(s), but there will be some change. If there is something that I despise in a Fanfic, is when there is a lot of change comming from a OC but the whole world stay the same than in canon. I have stop reading a lot of fanfic where it happen, so Arima will have a big impact on the world (in good and bad).
Current Status :
Name : Arima Uzumaki
Title : Birdy : Under 'Metamorphosis' and in bird form, other can't easily differentiate you from regular bird, even your Chakra.
Level : 32
EXP : 14,680 / 23,000
HP : 6,900
CP : 22,550
S : 87
P : 105
E : 129
C : 82
I : 111
A : 96
L : 101
SP: 0
PP : 2
SP: 0
PP : 2
MONEY : 128,300 RYO (= 12,830 $)
Current Skills :
Fuinjutsu - [Level 26/ 100 ]
Genjutsu - [Level 12 / 100 ]
Chakra control - [Level 35 / 100 ]
Stealth - [Level 19/ 100 ]
Chakra sensor - [Level 15 / 100 ]
Bukijutsu - [Level 25 / 100]
Taijutsu - [Level 21 / 100]
Enhance sense - [Level 13 / 100]
...
Metamorphosis - [Level 10 / 50]
Meditation - [Level 15 / 50] (Level up! +2)
Shadow Clone - [Level 5 / 50] (Level up! +4)
Sense danger - [Level 11 / 50] (Level up! +1)
...
Chakra Isolation - [Level 3 / 20] (Level up! +2)
Substitution - [Level 15 / 20]
Transformation - [Level 20 / 20]
Genjutsu: Hell Viewing Technique - [Level 16 / 20]
Genjutsu: illusive dream - [Level 20 / 20]
...
Genjutsu: Slightly out of center - [Level 10 / 10]
...
Leaf sticking - [Level 5 / 5 ]