Chapter 1: And So it Begins

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Darkness it's all I knew now, as I began to try and put together, the events that lead me to this moment in time.

The day had started as any other I would wake up at 6:00 A.M. walk and feed the dogs. Then eat breakfast and go to the gym for 2 hours. After that I would return home to play some Bethesda titles like the Fallout or Elder Scrolls series. It was during that fateful ride home that it happened.

I was riding along at probably about 45 mph down the back roads that lead to my house. I was coming around a bend in the road when suddenly a deer jumped out the woods right in front of me. I tried my best swerve out of the way but it was to late. I ran headlong into the deer and watched was it folded over the hood of my car and crashed through the windshield. I felt a sickening crunch reverberate throughout my body as it toppled into me, flailing and screaming like animal fighting for it life. Unfortunately in the ensuing chaos I lost control of the vehicle and ran straight into a tree. Which leads me to where I was now.

I felt as if was floating in some kind of warm liquid surrounded by darkness. Tried to force myself to breathe but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't manage it. I began to wonder if I was currently in limbo considering my current state of nothingness it was in that moment my questions would be answered. As green text filtered into my vision form the darkness.

Greetings and Welcome, To A Gamers Tale: The Elemental Nations Edition.

Ok what the hell I must be going crazy because there is no way that just happened, but before I could ponder that thought another green text message prompted to pay attention.

Select Gender: Male or Female?

Ok if I think about this logical, oh who am I kidding there's no way to look at this logically. Less than 5 minutes ago I was in agonizing pain as I drove headlong into a tree and was consumed by this darkness. The only possible conclusion I can come to is that I just died and was reborn into a video game character. Which while a ludicrous idea was starting to look more and more like the truth the longer that I looked at the green text. With that in mind and seeing no other option I focused on the text and imagined myself selecting the Male option.

Are you sure? Yes / No

Yeah, I'm certain of that.

Choose Appearance

~Sex: Male

~Race: Caucasian

~Face: Default

~Hair: Blond

Looking over the options I was happy with everything but the face, I knew from experience I was going to be here awhile I always took my time with character creation and I don't see why I shouldn't now.

~Time Skip Several grueling hours later~

Finally I think I found what I was looking for, my new face was almost a copy and paste of Brad Pitt's from the movie Troy. I always liked to play good looking characters and as much as I don't want to admit it Brad Pitt was that guy. Clearing my head of those thoughts I selected the finish option. Only for another message to appear.

Enter Your Name.

Given Name:

Family Name:

Let me think about this a second. What was the Elemental Nations from again Avatar?...

No that wasn't right wait a second, Naruto that was it this game took place in the Naruto Universe now it makes sense. Ok now that I know that what should my name be hummm…. Wait a second I wonder. Slowly I began to enter the information to test the theory I had, upon completion it looked like this.

Enter Your Name.

Given Name:

Naruto

Family Name:

Uzumaki

I then selected yes to which I received a prompt saying "Warning Using this name will alter your game start are you sure you want to continue? Yes / No

'HOLY CRAP it worked but do I really want to take the place of my favorite anime character like this it could change the series as I knew it. But wait wouldn't it already change because I'm here which means this wouldn't be canon anyway, so wouldn't it stand to reason that the best option would be to become the main character?' Thinking it through it made sense if was going to be a video game character I might as well become the protagonist to. With my mind made up I selected the Yes option. And again I was prompted with another message this time it said

Select Your Village:

~Konohagakure (Hidden Leaf)

~Kirigakure (Hidden Mist)

~Kumogakure (Hidden Cloud)

~Lwagakure (Hidden Rock)

~Sunagakure (Hidden Sand)

Wait a second I could choose a different Village that was an awesome idea, but the more I thought about it the more of a horrible idea it became. Mostly due to the fact I knew so little about the other villages it only stood to reason that I should select the Hidden Leaf Village which I did. Upon completion the text disappeared and I was suddenly pushed forward, that was strange what was going on again I felt myself being pushed forward 'okay what the FUUUCCCCCKKKK' was I all could mange as I was suddenly pushed into a bright light. As the light faded and my eyes began to focus I became aware of the fact that I was extremely cold… also naked wait I'm really small oh crap I was just born, that would explain why my words are coming out as nothing but crying.

Before I could continue that train of thought I was sudden wrapped a warm towel and handed to my mother who as I guessed was Kushina she looked dead tired from the extensive labor she no doubt just went through.I turned my head to see my father Minato currently working feverishly to fix the sealing work on Kushina's stomach. Although I knew how this was going to end I had a small glimmer of hope when he finished his work. That was until the caretakers came to get me what followed was the masked man named Tobi suddenly attacking the caretakers and taking me hostage, all I could do was scream helplessly as the events that set the story in motion unfolded.

It had been 5 years since I was born and let me tell you it was unbelievably boring having to wait for someone to change and feed you …. also the assassins didn't help in that regard. As it would seem, disgruntled shinobi and civilians alike saw me as a scapegoat for their frustrations over the kyuubi rampage 5 years ago. Everytime they say an opportunity the would take it luckily I didn't need to sleep otherwise I would have been dead long before now. Speaking of which today was my birthday and old man Sarutobi was coming to wish me a happy birthday he should be here any minute now.

As if right on cue the third Hokage stepped through the front door of the orphanage with a present under his arm and grandfatherly smile on his face. I could help but smile back at him, the old man had that kind of effect on people and it definitely wasn't lost on me. That aside the aged Hokage beckoned me forward when got down on one knee and opened his arms out wide. Taking the invitation I ran forward yelling "OJIISAN!" as I barreled into him. He swiftly picked me up in a strong embrace before saying "My my Naruto you've gotten bigger since I last saw you before you know it, your going to be all grown up'". I smiled at his words and replied "It can't come soon enough because when I get older I'm going to be Hokage". He laughed at my childish antics before sitting me back down. "Well Naruto you know your going to have to work hard for that, it won't be given to you?".

I simply nodded in the affirmative to his question before saying "Anyways Jiji what did you bring me?", while staring at the box that he sat next to him. He answered my question with "Open it and find out" he then picked up the box and handed it to me. Without a moment's hesitation I tore into like an Akimichi at an all you can eat buffet. Eventually I came upon the contents of the box which was a white and black hoodie, black shinobi pants,black shinobi gloves with arm guards, black shinobi shoe's with shin guards,mesh undershirt,a black face mask like Kakashi, a necklace with the leaf symbol engraved on it and a book titled 'Your S.P.E.C.I.A.L.' Upon seeing the book I didn't hesitate quickly flipped the book open at which time the world around me stopped 'Hum how covenant'. With that though out of the way quick scanned the contents of the book it Look something like this.

SPECIAL

~Strength: 5

S is for Strength and that means I am strong! It means I can beat people's faces in all day long.

~Perception: 5

P is for Perception a long funny word it means I can see that pink underwear underneath that skirt your of yours.

~Endurance: 5

E Is for Endurance it's how long I can nevermind...

~Charisma: 5

C is for Charisma it's how you think of what I look like. I don't know what you think but I probably look pretty ugly to you.

~Intelligence: 5

I is for intelligence I lack it.

~Agility: 5

A is for Agility because somehow I can Balance on a small coke bottle with one finger in the air. I don't know how this works but cool beans.

~Luck:5

L is for luck that's probably how I standing on that coke bottle. That aside when all else fails luck will be there for you.

Points Left to alicante: 5

-Optional Traits- (Limit 2)

~Fast Metabolism

Your Body is 10% less resistant to poisons and toxins but you heal twice as fast

~Bruiser

A little slower, but a little bigger. You may not hit as often, but they will feel it when you do! Your Agility is lowered by -2 and your Strength is increased by +2.

~Small Frame

You are not quite as big as the other Ninjas, but that never slowed you down. Your Strength is lowered by -2 but you Agility is increased by +2.

~One Hander

One of your hands is very dominant, you do double damage with one handed weapons, but do half damage with two-handed weapons.

~Finesse

Your attacks show a lot of finses. You do half damage but you gain a +10% crit rate

~Kamikaze

By not paying attention to threats you can focus on all out attack you do double damage but also take double damage.

~Heavy Handed

You swing harder but not better. Your attacks are very brutal, but lack finesse.. You do double damage with Taijutsu & Melee attacks but have a -5% crit rate.

~Bloody Mess

By some strange twist of fate, people around you die violently. You always see the worst way a person can die.

~Jinxed

Things just never seem to go your way. The game will play as if you had 0 in Luck.

~Good Natured

You studied less combative skills as you were growing up. All of your combative skills take a -10 but your Speech, Barter, and Medicine skills all get a +20.

~Drug Reliant

You suffer a -20% to drug resistance, to put it simply you are easily addicted to any drug but you can also get clean with much less effort.

~Drug Resistant

You Gain a +20% to drug resistance, to put it simply you find it hard to get addicted but when you do it's extremely hard to quit.

~Sex Appeal

You've got the "right" stuff. Members of the opposite sex are attracted to you, but those of the same sex tend to become quite jealous.

~Gifted

You have more innate abilities than most, so you have not spent as much time honing your skills. Your SPECIAL stats each receive a permanent +1 but all your skills loss a -5.

-Skills- (TAG 3)

Tag Skills receive a +10, additionally for every 1 skill point spent on a tagged skill you instead gain 2.

~Barter (CHA): 15

~Chakra Control (INT): 15

~Fuinjutsu (INT): 15

~Genjutsu (PER): 15

~Medicine (INT): 15

~Melee Weapons (STR): 15

~Ninjutsu (END): 15

~Pick Lock (PER): 15

~Ranged Weapons (AGI): 15

~Sneak (AGI): 15

~Speech (CHA): 15

~Survival (PER): 15

~Taijutsu (END): 15

Looking over all the information I was struck with the realization that this game was based on a combination of fallout 2, 3, 4 & New Vegas with that in mind my smile turned feral as I already Knew what I had to do. Skipping to the optional traits I always used to choose one role play trait and one min-max trait looking over the options Gifted was a no brainer but what would my other trait be. "Hum plenty of roleplay options but I think the one that will bring the most fun will have to be….. Sex Appeal' With that in mind I selected my new traits and my stats now read.

SPECIAL

~Strength: 6

S is for Strength and that means I am strong! I means can beat people's faces in all day long.

~Perception: 6

P is for Perception a long funny means I can see that pink underwear underneath that skirt your of yours.

~Endurance: 6

E Is for Endurance it's how long I can nevermind...

~Charisma: 6

C is for Charisma it's how you think of what I look like. I don't know what you think but I probably look pretty ugly to you.

~Intelligence: 6

I is for intelligence I lack it.

~Agility: 6

A is for Agility because somehow I can Balance on a small coke bottle with one finger in the air. I don't know how this works but cool beans.

~Luck:6

L is for luck that's probably how I standing on that coke bottle. That aside when all else fails luck will be there for you.

Points Left to alicante: 5

-Optional Traits- (Limit 2)

~Sex Appeal

You've got the "right" stuff. Members of the opposite sex are attracted to you, but those of the same sex tend to become quite jealous.

~Gifted

You have more innate abilities than most, so you have not spent as much time honing your skills. Your SPECIAL stats each receive a permanent +1 but all your skills loss a -5.

-Skills- (TAG 3)

Tag Skills receive a +10, additionally for every 1 skill point spent on a tagged skill you instead gain 2.

~Barter (CHA): 12

~Chakra Control (INT): 12

~Fuinjutsu (INT): 12

~Genjutsu (PER): 12

~Medicine (INT): 12

~Melee Weapons (STR): 12

~Ninjutsu (END): 12

~Pick Lock (PER): 12

~Ranged Weapons (AGI): 12

~Sneak (AGI): 12

~Speech (CHA): 12

~Survival (PER): 12

~Taijutsu (END): 12

With that in mind I calmly subtracted 1 from all of my SPECIAL stats bringing me up to 12 left to alicante keeping in mind this game was closer to fallout 2 I shouldn't raise any of my stats above 8 because they can be increase permanently twice. So I put 3 points in both Intelligence, Luck, and Endurance leaving me with 3 points left to spend humm what should I choose from here I was torn between Strength and Charisma considering both can be extremely important. Sense I couldn't decide I left it to a coin flip heads Strength, Tail's Charisma. Reaching into my pocket and pulled out a single coin and flipped with the edge of my thumb and watched as it descended to the ground with baited breath…..heads Strength it is.

Now finally my tagged skills thinking on it there are 3 types of skills Combat, Support, and Secondary it's best if I choose one from each category so let's look over my options here. For Combat we have Melee Weapons, Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, Ranged Weapons and Taijutsu. Ok let's think Melee Weapons & Ranged Weapons are out I don't want to rely on a weapon that can be lost, stolen, or destroyed. Genjutsu and Ninjutsu were extremely tempting with there promise of devastating abilities the only problem was I didn't know any and might not learn one anytime soon. So that left Taijutsu ok that's one down now on to Support.

My options for support were Medicine, Sneak and Survival. Ok Medicine was nice but I doubt that I would need it at the moment. Survival could be useful if needed to forage for something to eat or set a trap to hunt. My attention was mostly drawn to sneak because I mean come on we're freaking Ninja being stealthy was almost a requirement so that was my next selection.

Finally I arrived at my options for secondary they were Barter, Chakra Control, Fuinjutsu, Pick Locks and Speech ok I'm not even going to think about this one because if I'm honest with myself Speech is OP so yeah I'm picking that. With all that done I took one last Look over my stats before confirming. The second I so the book in my hand transform into a small black book with the title "Tales of a Gutsy Ninja" But the inside of the book still displayed all my information. I gave it one last look it read as

Name: Naruto Uzumaki

Level: 1

EXP: 0 / 200

HP: 260

Chakra: 1,360

DR: 8

Poison/Drug/Toxin Resistance: 16%

SPECIAL

~Strength: 8

~Perception: 5

~Endurance: 8

~Charisma: 5

~Intelligence: 8

~Agility: 5

~Luck:8

-Optional Traits- (Limit 2)

~Sex Appeal

You've got the "right" stuff. Members of the opposite sex are attracted to you, but those of the same sex tend to become quite jealous.

~Gifted

You have more innate abilities than most, so you have not spent as much time honing your skills. Your SPECIAL stats each receive a permanent +1 but all your skills loss a -5.

-Skills- (TAG 3)

Tag Skills receive a +10, additionally for every 1 skill point spent on a tagged skill you instead gain 2.

~Barter (CHA): 17

~Chakra Control (INT): 23

~Fuinjutsu (INT): 33

~Genjutsu (PER): 17

~Medicine (INT): 23

~Melee Weapons (STR): 23

~Ninjutsu (END): 23

~Pick Lock (PER): 17

~Ranged Weapons (AGI): 17

~Sneak (AGI): 27 (Tagged)

~Speech (CHA): 27 (Tagged)

~Survival (PER): 17

~Taijutsu (END): 33 (Tagged)

-Perks-

~Jinchuriki (Untrained) (Control : 0%) Benefits: +1,000 to chakra base, +100 chakra per level and double healing rate while in and out of combat.

-Uzumaki: +200 to Chakra base, +20 chakra per level and +10 to Fuinjutsu

-Namikaze: +5 to all skill and +30 HP per level

After reading over the information a quickly snapped the book closed at which time the world began to move again. I calmly put the book down and took a look at the clothes that I had just received. I suddenly realized there were Minato's Clothes from when he was kid I smiled as a looked them over not just from the sentiment but from the bonuses it gave me. Minato's hoodie +2 Agility and +5 DR, Minato's pant's + 1 to Endurance and +5 DR, Minato's Shin Guards +1 Agility and +5 DR, Minato's Arm guards +1 Strength and +5 DR, Minato's Mesh Shirt +20 DR. Black face mask +1 DR and +5 to stealth, Hidden Leaf Necklace +1 Charisma with people loyal to the hidden leaf. I quickly excused myself to go try on my new outfit upon putting it all on I received the notification 'GEAR SET COMPLETE: Rewards for complete set ~ +3 Charisma and +20 DR while wearing complete set' 'Jackpot' I thought to myself.

I returned to the aged Hokage now having dawned my new outfit. He looked me over aprazignly before saying "Those clothes suit you very well". I smiled at him through my new face mask and replied "I agree and thank you Jiji" he simply smiled as he called me to the door confused I followed him. "Now for the other half of your present" he stated calmly "choose where we go to diner for your birthday" I thought it over all of 2 seconds before yelling out "ICHIRAKU'S" before taking off like a bat out of hell leaving the old man in the dust, he simply chuckled and followed after me. By the time he caught up to me I was already finishing my 3rd bowl of miso ramen and working on my 4th. Sarutobi simply took a seat next to me and ordered a miso ramen for himself. We sat in silence like this until I finished my 10th bowel at which point was stuffed. I looked over at the pile of dowels sheepishly before saying "Sorry Jiji I kinda got carried away". To which he waved me off and said "It's your birthday so you should enjoy yourself while you can because I expect you to begin working hard so you can…

(Perception Check: 5/5 Success)

+10 EXP

…. make your parents proud" he whispered. At that moment I knew I had to ask "Jiji who were my parents" I asked calmly

(Charisma Check 9/10 Failed)

(Charisma Check 9/9 Success)

+30 EXP

"They were" he stopped himself for a second before replaying with "They were both great shinobi who gave their lives to save the Village" 'Hum it would seem that he's not going to tell me just who they were anytime soon, no matter I will find another way to get him to tell me'. With that in mind I said "When will you tell me just who they were"sounding a little frustrated, he answered my question with "When your ready" 'Oh really then maybe I should look into that'. As I was pondering that thought I received a message

Quest Started: Prove Thyself

~Completion requirements:

-Achieve Rank: Chunin

-Achieve Level: 20

-Complete: 20 A ranked missions

Ok maybe that's going to have to wait a bit. Regardless I think I'm going to have to start putting my new found skills to good use. With that in mind I began to plan for where to begin tomorrow.

Character Stats:

Name: Naruto Uzumaki

Level: 1

EXP: 40 / 200

HP: 260

Chakra: 1,360

DR: 69

Poison/Drug/Toxin Resistance: 18%

SPECIAL

~Strength: 8 (9)

~Perception: 5

~Endurance: 8 (9)

~Charisma: 5 (9)

~Intelligence: 8

~Agility: 5 (8)

~Luck:8

-Optional Traits- (Limit 2)

~Sex Appeal

You've got the "right" stuff. Members of the opposite sex are attracted to you, but those of the same sex tend to become quite jealous.

~Gifted

You have more innate abilities than most, so you have not spent as much time honing your skills. Your SPECIAL stats each receive a permanent +1 but all your skills loss a -5.

-Skills- (TAG 3)

Tag Skills receive a +10, additionally for every 1 skill point spent on a tagged skill you instead gain 2.

~Barter (CHA): 17 (25)

~Chakra Control (INT): 23

~Fuinjutsu (INT): 23

~Genjutsu (PER): 17

~Medicine (INT): 23

~Melee Weapons (STR): 23 (25)

~Ninjutsu (END): 23 (25)

~Pick Lock (PER): 17

~Ranged Weapons (AGI): 17 (23)

~Sneak (AGI): 27 (Tagged) (33)

~Speech (CHA): 27 (Tagged) (35)

~Survival (PER): 17

~Taijutsu (END): 33 (Tagged) (35)

-Perks-

~Jinchuriki (Untrained) (Control : 0%) Benefits: +1,000 to chakra base, +100 chakra per level and double healing rate while in and out of combat.

-Uzumaki: +200 to Chakra base, +20 chakra per level and +10 to Fuinjutsu

-Namikaze: +5 to all skill and +30 HP per level

Author's Notes: Well Damn, this is my first chapter I every published so hopefully it isn't to poorly written. Feel free to give me feedback so that I can improve and refine my writing. Anyways peace guys until the next chapter.

P.S. If anyone knows a good beta reader please PM me thank you.