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Four years had led to this. Four years of blood, sweat, and tears. Four years of all-nighters, energy drinks, and drunk breakfasts - once they did this, there was no going back. They were going to commit to this dream. Sasuke didn't let his feelings show on his face, but he fisted his hands under the desk. It was real now. We're actually about to do this crazy thing.

"Here, teme," Naruto slid the pen and papers over. Their eyes met, and Sasuke saw the same trepidation and excitement reflected in Naruto's blue eyes. Not that he'd ever tell the bastard, but Sasuke was glad they'd ended up as roommates who fought 13 PVP matches the day they'd met. He'd known he could build a game company on his own, but he made it a better one with this guy and their friends.

"And with this, you have your own space. Congratulations," In the office area of his Internet cafe, Kakashi smiled, looking up at the two young men sitting across from him.

"That would sound so much more convincing if you hadn't spent the past half hour reading that Icha Icha book while we were signing this thing, Kakashi-sensei," Naruto complained.

"I've waited a long time for Icha Icha Innocence, and I'm not about to give it up just to watch you guys sign your names," Kakashi retorted, unperturbed, "You guys are about to start your last university term. You should have figured this out in kindergarten."

"Not this loser," Sasuke muttered as he took one last look over the papers, then slid them across the desk.

Naruto ignored him, instead getting excited about what the signed contract meant for them. "We can have an actual team now! They can actually sit at desks. I can have actual storage! I don't have to store paper's on Sasuke's bed any more! This is going to be AWESOME. Dattebayo!"

"Does Sasuke sleep somewhere else? With a woman?" Kakashi leered.

"My brother is a professor now, remember?" Sasuke retorted, "Campus housing."

"Besides, he's basically a monk," Naruto grinned, "I wouldn't believe he really is Mr. Popular if I didn't have to deal with the love letters every week."

"Go die," Sasuke only scoffed at Naruto.

"Who would eat your Valentine's Day chocolate then?" Naruto teased.

Kakashi put on a look of fake concern, "Are you okay, Sasuke? Do you need to see a doctor about…." when Sasuke glared at him, he cracked and gave a small, teasing grin.

Sasuke wondered how his older brother had resisted the urge to punch Kakashi while they'd been in the same Master's program. Then again, Itachi had only been 12.

"You still need to sign the papers, you know," Sasuke said wryly.

"Fine," Kakashi sighed, "I don't know if I should, you guys drive a hard bargain. Look at what you're paying for the upper level here! It's a prime location! Che."

"You're the one who told us not to be nice," Sasuke replied.

"You didn't have to be that mean," Kakashi muttered. Sasuke smirked with satisfaction. He must be cursing himself for taking them under his wing when they first started out doing the whole game development thing. Kakashi'd thought he was doing his old teacher and kouhai a favour, give their son and brother the benefit of his past experience in the industry. Now that he was only the small business owner of an internet cafe though, they were ruthlessly taking advantage of his slowly declining business.

"That's Sasuke's job, y'know," Naruto grinned sunnily, "He's such an asshole, we let him loose on the people we don't need to be polite to."

"Otherwise we'd be bankrupt by now," Sasuke muttered darkly.

"Hey!"

"Fine, fine. Don't fight, boys. This is supposed to be a happy occasion. You can treat me to ramen to celebrate." Kakashi said, not even looking up.

"Sensei, shouldn't you be treating us to ramen?" Naruto retorted.

"You guys are the ones who'll be making money once you find a partner for your mobile game. With that one's ruthlessness, you should make plenty out of it," Kakashi replied, handing one copy to Sasuke and tucking one into his filing desk drawer. Something down at the bottom caught his eye.

"I suppose we could treat you this once," Sasuke let a small smirk creep out as he tucked the papers into his messenger bag, "considering we just cleaned you out."

Naruto snorted as they both got up to leave but took a quick look back when Kakashi didn't follow them. "Coming, Kakashi-sensei? Otherwise we'll leave you behind."

"Actually, Sasuke, could you step out for just a minute? I have something for Naruto," The older man asked, rummaging in his desk drawer.

Sasuke closed the office door behind him as his business partner went back in. If Kakashi didn't want him there, it was probably something to do with Naruto's parents. Sasuke knew he was only trying to be considerate, considering both him and Naruto were orphans. He walked a couple steps away to give them some more privacy, so he wouldn't overhear anything, and scanned the various screens to see if anyone was doing anything interesting.

The cafe was clean and busy, but quieter than expected, especially on a Thursday evening near the beginning of term in Konohagakure. Now that personal PCs were common and people had so much computing power in their pockets, not as many people used internet cafes these days. Kakashi was still doing okay, all things considered, but sooner or later Naruto would rope him into working for their company. He had faith in his business partner's ability to recruit. They would need a few more years before they could afford the former programming star from ROOT Inc., though.

All of a sudden, his eyes stopped in one booth, booth number 27 in the corner. He recognized the game: Way of the Ninja, an older but still popular MMO. The figure in the booth was hidden in an oversized grey hoodie with Konoha U's emblem on the back. Sasuke raised an eyebrow when he saw what was unfolding on the screen.

A Clan War? In the Forest of Death? And they're the attacking side, not the defending one? Clans warred on other clans for only two reasons: because they wanted their Clan Hall, and thus Clan Name, or for a huge amount of cash. Defenders, however, could claim a huge monetary penalty from the attacking team if they successfully fended off the attack, and they had a home-field advantage on their clan grounds.

The Forest of Death Clan was a notoriously difficult clan to war against because of two things: The defenders had a broken advantage on this map, and the War Leader's ability was an immobility attack that would turn its targets into sitting ducks. Sure, the War Leader would have to leave the base, make themselves more vulnerable, and give up their birds' eye view without the fog of war to use the attack, but it still could easily turn the tide.

He soundlessly prowled a little closer, peering over the player's shoulder to get a good look at his chat bar. This player was part of the Rolling Jade Seas Clan, a well-respected clan on the Hidden Leaf server. Sasuke couldn't see his avatar on the screen, but he could see all of the other person's clanmates on his mini-map, which meant that this player was a War Leader who hadn't left the base and activated his ability yet.

This should be an interesting fight to watch. The Rolling Jade Seas Clan had a slight numbers advantage, and their players were near the markers the war leader had placed. All of a sudden, the person sitting in the booth froze, and from the text that had appeared in map chat, Sasuke could understand why.

[Map] System: [Forest of Death] War Leader Nuxalia has entered the battle.

"Shannaro!" the figure in the seat cursed.

The opponent's War Leader was in? That was quick. They're only 10 minutes into the fight. I wonder how that happened...

(°ロ°) !

How that happened…

[Map] System: [Rolling Jade Sea] Clan has entered the [Forest of Death] Clan grounds. You have three minutes to the end of the invulnerability period. Please prepare for the Clan War. War Leaders must be in their bases by the time the invulnerability period ends.
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Aight Let's do this. Food and Buffs at base, save your cool downs, don't waste your kunai. And fer ****'s sake, used ranged attacks.
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: We lose if I die, so keep me safe, boys by LISTENING TO ME
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Section 6, watch the base
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Remember boys, we're fighting for the hall.
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Lose, and we lose our sacred land
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: And the nice buffs and perks that come with it
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Do you want to go back to using Newbie City?
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Win, and we get lots of nice hard gold.
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Enough to buy the next clan hall upgrade and have enough left over to buy you all Top-Tier weapons
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Click the ready check when it comes up. Squad leaders on the markers
[Forest of Death Clan] CanonFodder69: rdy
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: use the ready check, not chat dumba***
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 4 Leader YugePen1s: lets **** these ****ers

Surrounded by the fog of war, ninjas quietly activated stealth jutsu and spread into the canopy like a miasma, ready to descend upon the intruders. Kunai at the ready, they posed a deadly, unseen threat to the poor souls below. The first timers were nervous and excited, but the veterans were relaxed and confident. They had the home-field advantage. They held the high ground, literally and figuratively Many clans had tried, and many had failed. So what if the challengers were a top 5 clan? It just meant that they needed a small number advantage. But this was their forest.

Chat was silent, until -

[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Incoming. Listen to your squad leaders, don't engage -
[Forest of Death Clan] CanonFodder69: wtf
[Forest of Death Clan] CanonFodder69: 1 person
[Forest of Death Clan] CanonFodder69: 1 person
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: other side might be using stealth, leave
[Forest of Death Clan] YugePen1s: 1 *****
[Forest of Death Clan] YugePen1s: wtf she's drunk
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Squad 2 take aim and then shift to square markers. Don't give away your position.
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 2 Leader InstantKillSh0t: OK
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 2 Leader InstantKillSh0t: We're not hitting her.
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 2 Leader InstantKillSh0t: Not sure wtf is going on
[Map] Chun_Lee: Ya scared of a little girl?
[Map] Chun_Lee: Come and get me you ****ers
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Oh ****
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 4 Leader YugePen1s: It's one drunk ***** are we a top 10 clan or not
[Forest of Death Clan] Squad 4 Leader YugePen1s: Let's just kunai the ****
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: NO
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: NO
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: NO AGGRO
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: YOU ****ERs
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: SHES GOT THE DRUNKEN FIST TRAIT YOU CAN'T HIT HER

But it was too late. In a sleepy bedroom in Hoshigakure's sleepy suburbs, Nuxalia swore loudly as she watched six blue dots appear on the map and converge towards one lone red dot on her mini-map. She leaned forward on her keyboard and started frantically mashing the buttons, desperately issuing orders and trying to save the fight, but in her heart of hearts, she knew they'd seriously fucked up.

[Map] Chun_Lee: Lolololololol [Rolling Jade Seas Clan] War Leader SakuraBlossom:They took the bait.

No matter what taijutsu moves the six ninjas from Forest of Death's Squad 4 tried, none of them could land a blow on the lone, bun haired kunoichi they were targeting. Despite everything they threw at her, they just brushed the edge of her blue and gold qipao, while she danced around like a sot. In a small room at Konoha Tech's Male Dorms, YugePen1s gaped at the screen, not believing what he was seeing. He just managed to dodge one swipe of her white boots, but it connected with a nearby clanmate, and the red damage numbers that flashed on the screen made his eyes pop. Truly angry now, he mashed a key sequence for his ultimate ninjutsu.

In yet another room far away in Iwagakure, Chun_Lee watched the rapidly depleting health bar while frantically clicking on every potion in the open inventory window. While the Drunken Fist trait might be broken in that it didn't require the user to actually fight, as the system took care of pesky things like attacking and dodging, it eroded hit points like crazy.

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: I'm at 60% health now
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: Need back up soon, drunken fist isn't going to last much longer
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: You can't even hit a little girl?!
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: Sry, autogen in the wrong channel.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 3 FriesWithThat: Taunt where they can see it.

Too late, the ninjas of Squad 4 realized why their war leader had ordered them to use ranged attacks. The Forest of Death gave the defending clan a huge advantage when it came to defense: 50% accuracy and 50% ranged attack boost, but unlike most places in the game, it also allowed for friendly fire. YugePen1s' ultimate Ninjutsu did huge Area of Effect damage to his poor teammates, but somehow, the bun-haired kunoichi just fell forward in a summersault and got out of range before the cast time had elapsed..

[Map] System: First blood! Friendly Fire! YugePen1s has killed CannonFodder69 with an assist from Chun_Lee

YugePen1s gaped at his screen. How the hell had she done that?! She was fighting 6 people at once, she shouldn't be able to watch his hand seal animations! He didn't have time to think, though, when her fist connected with someone else and their health bar went grey. Grimly, he started dodging for all he was worth.

[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: ****
[Forest of Death Clan] War Leader Nuxalia: Squad 1 & 2 dispelling jutsus

12 more dots turned from blue to grey and appeared on the mini-map, fanning out in a sweeping motion, but Nuxalia had seen the four blue xs on her map. She knew that meant they were in deep shit. After this, she was going to challenge that idiot Section 4 Leader to a PVP duel herself and beat the shit out of him herself, damn the clan rules.

Chun_Lee breathed a sigh of relief when the red x's marking the downed enemy players appeared. Mission accomplished.

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: 40% 4 down
[Map] Chun_Lee: Nyahahah Missed me!
[Map] Chun_Lee: C'mon c'mon!
[Map] Chun_Lee: Ya scared of a little girl?
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 3 FriesWithThat: Dispelling Jutsus are coming
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] War Leader SakuraBlossom: GO

Ninjas abandoned their stealth jutsus as they reached the tops of canopies and on the forest floors below. Above, the kunais and ranged jutsu were flying like bullets, and below, deadly taijutsu moves were exchanged with ruthless precision. While the ninjas of the Forest of Death Clan put up a valiant fight, throwing 20% of their forces away against one kunoichi had been a blunder that would be very difficult to recover from.

Nuxalia gritted her teeth. She had no choice, now. She had to enter the fray.

[Map] System: [Forest of Death] War Leader Nuxalia has entered the battle

(メ°皿°)ﾉ

Sasuke watched as the player in the booth frantically started laying down new markers. He could read as well as the Rolling Jade Seas Clan War Leader could, though, that panic was breaking out in their clan chat.

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] FireyKunai: I can't use ninjutsu
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakiChan: wtf I can't use taijutsu
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Clan Leader MightMasterEbisu: wtf
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Clan Leader MightMasterEbisu: I just got OHKO-ed

He'll enter the fray soon. He's their War Leader, he can't just leave them to die.

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 3 FriesWithThat: They launched their Warleader ability. I'm still stealthed. Saku go
[Map] System: [Rolling Jade Seas] War Leader SakuraBlossom has entered the battle
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 3 FriesWithThat: I'm targeting

When he saw the pink-haired figure leave the Rolling Jade Seas' base, he realized that the player was using a female avatar. Another male avatar carrying a giant brush joined her, dark purple on her mini-map so he was still stealthed to everyone else.

Hrn. Must be a married couple with a big boost fighting together, if this guy, FriesWithThat - what a dumb username - gave up the numbers advantage to stay behind with her. If he's targeting for her with genjutsu, judging from his brush, she's probably a ninjutsu main. This is getting more and more interesting.

With a jolt, he remembered something. The Rolling Jade Seas Clan War Leader's special ability a passive one, unlike the Forest of Death Clan's. It was a 200% taijutsu boost. For most players, taijutsu was a waste of chakra, as Ninjutsu was able to do so much more damage for the same amount of chakra spent. The disadvantage of Ninjutsu was the hand seals that could give away what they were casting to a veteran player and the cast time. It can't be. This war leader is a taijutsu main?

(o_O) !

Large roots erupted from the earth, and whippy branches lashed out from the trees to tie down the fifteen Rolling Jade Seas Clan members with the most hit points at the moment. Their skill bars that required hand seals were dark, leaving many of them helpless.

[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: GOGOGO WL SKILL
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: FAST&HARD
[Forest of Death Clan] CannonFodder69: That's what she said
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: STAY DEAD

Fireballs, wind blades, and flying projectiles whistled a dirge call for the dead through the Forest. Whatever chakra reserves they had left, they poured into this last stand as their War Leader's avatar sank into the ground. The player herself frantically pounded out the sequence to keep the genjutsu going, unable to do anything else.

They were so focused on one-sidedly massacring the incapacitated Rolling Jade Seas Clan ninjas, though, that they didn't notice a little ink bird flit by their characters, nor the status debuff that appeared. If they'd taken the time to hover over it, it would've read: "Tagged by FriesWithThat: You've been marked for Death. 25% physical defense debuff."

Unfortunately, most didn't bother.

(-_-;)・・・

[Map] System: SeptaKill! War Leader SakuraBlossom is on a rampage! 5% bonus damage! War Leader SakuraBlossom has massacred InstantKillSh0t with an assist from FrieswithThat
[Forest of Death Clan] InstantKillSh0t: I didn't even see her coming
[Forest of Death Clan] InstantKillSh0t: The hell was that?
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Ele?
[Forest of Death Clan] InstantKillSh0t: She's not using Ninjutsu
[Map] System: OctaKill! War Leader SakuraBlossom is on a rampage! 10% bonus damage! War Leader SakuraBlossom has massacred YugePen1s with an assist from FrieswithThat
[Forest of Death Clan] Section Leader 4 YugePen1s: WTF Broken
[Forest of Death Clan] Section Leader 4 YugePen1s: WTF Broken
[Forest of Death Clan] Section Leader 4 YugePen1s: WTF Broken
[Map] YugePen1s: y r u cheating in a clan fight.
[Map] YugePen1s: Top 5 clan can suck my ****s
[Map] System: NonaKill! War Leader SakuraBlossom is on a rampage! 15% bonus damage! War Leader Sakura has massacred SerNorth with an assist from FrieswithThat
[Map] SerNorth: Shut up, Yuge.
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: The husband's using genjutsu to debuff and target so WL can shadow step directly and use low accuracy, high damage taijutsu
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Esp with the married buff + WL ability
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: She's fast, Nux, but she must be running out of Chakra by now.
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: 9 kills, even if they were all taijutsu
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: If they find you, just survive and we should still win

Sakura scanned her mini-map with a scowl. Now that she had left the base, the fog of war made it impossible to tell what her clanmates' situation was. She had to get them back in action, somehow.

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: You need to interrupt the WL to stop this jutsu.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: Or we'll still lose
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 1 Chun_Lee: Dispellers are tied up
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] War Leader SakuraBlossom: Where?
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] ILolololU: I can see her. Tagged
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Section Leader 3 Fries with That: Tks

While Nuxalia may have almost missed the little genjutsu bird that flitted by, she did notice the debuff. She gritted her teeth, but she didn't dare stop pounding out the War Leader's technique sequence. With this technique, though, she could only brace herself against the small kunoichi avatar that appeared in front of her, fist drawn back to hit her.

She calculated that she'd survive the first hit and then let go of the technique to engage the opposite War Leader in a fight. After all, this technique also gave her personally a 50% increase to defense, and it would only take her five more seconds to cast her own personal ultimate ninjutsu.

She watched the small female kunoichi close in on her avatar. This was the legendary SakuraBlossom? The only female player on the world Top 10? She looked so small and unthreatening with that pink hair. How much damage could she really do?

When she watched the replay of the fight afterward, Nuxalia could only shake her head at her own hubris. Then again, how many players could make that many moves in 5 seconds? How in the world did she still have the chakra to hit that hard?

[Map] System: DecaKill! Overkill! War Leader SakuraBlossom is on a rampage! 20% bonus damage! War Leader SakuraBlossom has massacred War Leader Nuxalia with an assist from FrieswithThat
[Map] System: With the warleader dead, the Clan War is over! [Rolling Jade Seas] Clan is victorious!
[Map] System: Resurrecting in 30 seconds…

＼(＾▽＾)／

In an internet cafe in Konohagakure, Sakura Haruno breathed a huge sigh of relief as her teammates' health bars all rapidly refilled, and the blue X's disappeared off her minimap. The former red dots showing the Forest of Death Clan were now a standard dark grey, and their many more X's also became dots. That was close. The Forest of Death really was a broken Clan Hall - what was with that War Leader's technique? Total immob on half the squad? Really, it was too OP.

She reached over to her keyboard to respond to the torrent of congratulations pouring in from her clan mates

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] FriesWithThat: GG
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakiChan: Whee! We Won!
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakiChan: GG War Leader
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] ILolololU: Clutch. Gg WL, esp with that kill streak
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] FireyKunai: First time I've ever seen a decakill
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: Congrats! GG all! ^_^
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: Especially you, CL
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: Beautiful taunts, your Drunken Fist Trait is super OP in this clan war
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Chun_Lee: Tyty, same to you WL! It was all you!
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Chun_Lee: If I hadn't had your max level elixirs I wouldn't've still been standing
[Whisper] Chun_Lee: but you and Fries work so well together! Best hubby and wifey team!
[Whisper] Chun_Lee: It's almost like you guys are dating irl
[Whisper] Chun_Lee: Are you? Have you met in person?
[Whisper to Chun_Lee] SakuraBlossom: No
[Whisper to Chun_Lee] SakuraBlossom: It's just a game marriage, don't think too much about it
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: Hey at least you have an inherent technique, even if it isn't a kekkai genkai.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] FriesWithThat: Still, 100% damage, 100% Dodge while under the effects of drunkenness. Too bad the auto generated taunt dialogue is so bad.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Chun_Lee: Tell me about it! Not honorable at all. I dislike it.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Clan Leader MightMasterEbisu: GG all
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Clan Leader MightMasterEbisu: Sakura, next time maybe give us more time to get in place with your markers
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Clan Leader MightMasterEbisu: They were a little slow to drop

Sakura leaned back from her computer, thoroughly annoyed at her clan leader. He was only a substitute, anyways. He'd been the only one too slow to get to his marker on time, and she'd assigned him to the closest one. Wasn't her fault he put all his trait points in strength and not speed. Dumbass. She was about to type out a response to that effect, when -

[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Chun_Lee: We all need more practice with this game type anyways
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] Chun_Lee: Next time we keep on improving!

She smiled despite her annoyance. That was CL for her. She was always so positive. Besides her in-game husband, FriesWithThat, Chun_Lee was probably her best friend in the clan and one of the only reasons she was still in it after their true Clan Leader had left.

[Self] System: Nuxalia has offered you a handshake to bury the hatchet. Type Y to accept the emote
[Self] SakuraBlossom: Y
[Map] System: Old rivals become new friends. Nuxalia and SakuraBlossom have shaken hands to end the feud!
[Map] Nuxalia: GG. You guys won fair and square. Do you want the Hall or the cash penalty?
[Map] SakuraBlossom: GG. Penalty, please. We already have our own hall that we like.
[Map] Nuxalia: You sure? It's a good hall.
[Map] SakuraBlossom: Yep. And the other thing we agreed on.
[Map] Nuxalia: YugePen1s, you're up.
[Forest of Death Clan] YugePen1s: War Leader, you can't make me do this!
[Forest of Death Clan] YugePen1s: Im not gonna apologize to that *****
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: You dragged us into this, and now you can't even honor your bet?
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: We're already losing thousands of gold because of you, don't make us lose our reputation as well.
[Map] YugePen1s: Sorry
[Map] SakuraBlossom: Sorry for…?
[Forest of Death Clan] Vice Leader SerNorth: Do it properly, Yuge, or I'll kick you out of the Clan myself.
[Map] YugePen1s: Sorry for calling the chick with the buns a **** that flirts to get equipment with male players
[Map] YugePen1s: That War Leader's probably a guy playing a female anyways. No way a girl's that good.
[Map] YugePen1s: uh
[Map] Nuxalia: …
[Map] SerNorth: …
[Map] SakuraBlossom: …
[Map] SakuraBlossom: Wrong Channel?
[Map] System: SakuraBlossom has challenged YugePen1s to a PVP Match!
[Map] Nuxalia: If you don't accept her challenge I'll get the Clan leader to kick you out so I can beat you up myself you little ****

(`皿´＃)

I can't believe he's still going. Sasuke thought, watching as the player in booth 27 keep fighting with one hand while taking a swig of his water bottle.

The slender pair of hands flying over the keyboard played a deadly concerto of death for the poor, unfortunate soul who had stupidly challenged him yet again. As the red damage numbers appeared relentlessly, like little red soldiers marching off to war, the tiny blue chakra numbers that showed what the avatar was using were barely noticeable. The guy controlling the female avatar hadn't even used a chakra rejuvenation potion between fights yet, and he was still only using taijutsu, this time without a married boost or the War Leader buff.

SakuraBlossom, eh? It was a bit of a feminine gaming handle, but it suited the pink-haired avatar in a red, Chinese-style top and white slacks. As he kept watching, one thought formed in his mind. I want to meet this guy. Sasuke started to speculate that the guy sitting in booth 27 probably was also a Konoha U student like him, but the hoodie could have also been a gift from some else, maybe an older brother or cousin. He looked kind of small.

The more Sasuke watched, the more fascinated he became. It was his third fight in a row, and he'd hardly used a third of his Chakra reserves, judging by the little blue bar on the screen. Then again, his reserve number… it couldn't be. There was no way it was that high. It was nearly three times as high as he remembered he was.

He circled surreptitiously, trying to see if his eyes were playing tricks on him. Just as the player in booth 27 dealt the killing blow for the third time though, he leaned back with a sigh, and his hood fell off. As Sasuke saw pink hair and a delicate face with determined green eyes, though, he realized that the gamer he'd assumed was male was actually a woman. A very attractive woman.

Before he could process the fact that the talented taijutsu player he'd been impressed with was in fact a woman, the door to Kakashi's office swung open. Naruto and Kakashi came out, loudly arguing about the merits of Icha Icha Innocence.

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[Map] InstantKillSh0t: Dude,
[Map] InstantKillSh0t: She's kicked your ass three times
[Map] InstantKillSh0t: Stop challenging her
[Map] Chun_Lee: As expected of our Saku! \ ( ^ _ ^ ) /
[Map] Chun_Lee: PVP fight Server number 4 banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
[Map] SakuraBlossom: You still owe me a proper apology
[Map] SerNorth:...
[Map] YugePen1s: FINE
[Map] YugePen1s: IM SORRY OK
[Map] System: YugePen1s has left the Clan War Area
[Map] Nuxalia: Tch
[Map] Nuxalia: Idiots will be idiots
[Map] SerNorth: Oh well. Thanks for the fight. See guys next time
[Map] SakuraBlossom: ttyl! Ty for fight and cash :P
[Map] System: The Clan War Area is closed. All participants will be ported to their respective halls.
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: I G2G guys
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: Internet cafe time limit
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: May not be back until tomorrow
[Rolling Jade Seas Clan] SakuraBlossom: cya when I cya
[Whisper] FriesWithThat: Wait, Sakura
[Whisper to FrieswithThat] SakuraBlossom: What's up?
[Whisper to FrieswithThat] SakuraBlossom: 90s
[Whisper] FriesWithThat: OK, should be quick
[Whisper] FriesWithThat: Let's get divorced

And we're off! This is a fusion fic of Naruto and a Chinese Light Novel and Drama called A Slight Smile is very charming. Thank you to Lody, Ax, and Thorne for being my betas for this chapter, and the rest of the r/fanfiction server for listening to me agonize over this baby. I have much more extensive Author's notes on Tumblr (because I got a lot of feels about this fic). If you want to see some of my behind the scenes thoughts about fusing Naruto with Love O2O, why I'm writing it, and other general madness, come say hi over there! Thank you to Bart Larue and Unsplash for the stock image in my banner, and to Hermit from the r/Fanfiction discord for making it beautiful 3