Chichi - father

Hahaoya - mother

This is the first SasuNaru I wrote. I thought it was a cute idea so I rolled with it and it's not my most refined story, but I think it's cute. Enjoy!

o.O.o

Shinobi

Normal = General chat

Bold = Clan chat

Italic = Private chat

Chapter 1

Things should have been better at this school, emphasis on should. They weren't. Not really.

Naruto Uzumaki had arrived at Kohona High at the beginning of the school year and was immediately pegged as a geek and a loser, dropping his chance at making friends. His guardian, a well-known publisher, had urged the boy to go outside his protective shell and strive to gain friendships that would last for years. Jiraiya's words, not Naruto's. Needless to say, Naruto didn't have the confidence to do that.

So he sat there silently: eyes either on his books or the teacher. If he wasn't going to have friends, he might as well get good marks. However that didn't assist in the loneliness he always felt after school and on weekends. Jiraiya always worked late and Naruto was always alone, wandering the empty house with a huge weight in his chest.

That was why he'd started playing Shinobi.

o.O.o

Kyuubi appeared for the first time, standing stock-still amidst the forest. He took a tentative step forward, as if testing his own mobility, and stopped. A stranger approached.

Stranger: Greetings ninja! Welcome to the Shinobi world! Here you can go on missions, learn jutsu, and travel our extensive world! Is there anything you would like to know?

Kyuubi: Ya. What a jutsu?

Stranger: A jutsu is an ability that you will soon gain as you discover them.

That was vague. Kyuubi turned away from the stranger and strolled through the forest. He wasn't sure what to do, so he took stock of his situation. Genin level 1, 5-health, 10-Chakra, no inventory. What was Chakra? Kyuubi shook his head and forged on, selecting the map icon on the top corner of the screen. He was treated with a view of all the lands. Right now he was in the Land of Fire, bordered by the Land of Earth and the Land of Rivers. He glanced over the map, easily memorising its contents, and put it away. The nearest village was Kohonagakure and that was his target.

Kyuubi reached the village with little incident. He'd done some research and knew that the only way he could buy stuff was by doing missions, but he didn't know where to get missions. Another player passed by and he hailed them.

Kyuubi: Where do u get missions?

Tra_cker: U new?

Kyuubi: Ya.

Tra_cker: Go 2 top of tower, find office. Hokage Tsunade is there. She gives u missions. What ur jutsu?

Kyuubi: What's a jutsu?

Tra_cker: Ur kidding. A jutsu is ur power.

Kyuubi: Where do u get them?

Tra_cker: Go 2 tower & find library. Or go find teacher. U need cash 4 teacher, u got cash?

Kyuubi: No. I go 2 library?

Tra_cker: Ya. Cya. Good luck.

Kyuubi: Ty.

Tra_cker: Yw.

With that, Tra_cker wandered away. Kyuubi felt that they wouldn't meet again. He checked the map again and located the tower, marking it. From there it was easy to follow the marker and get into the tower. It was harder to navigate the many corridors and stairs, but Kyuubi finally reached the top. He found Tsunade's office easily and went to go through the door.

You have not learned any jutsu. Come back when you have.

Great. Kyuubi began to hunt through the tower, looking for the library that Tra_cker had mentioned. Ah. It was right down the very bottom. How predictable. He was allowed into this room and drew his cursor over all the books. It rested on a thick volume sitting atop a pedestal. Kyuubi approached warily.

It was a jutsu book and he had five options: transformation, shadow clone, substitution, invisibility and rope escape. He was to select one. Obviously all new Genin had to pick one of the five, so he picked one. He selected the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Immediately copies of him filled the room and Kyuubi panicked, shutting off the technique. The copies disappeared. Perhaps he should try training with his technique before going on missions. He didn't want a side of epic with that fail.

o.O.o

He had been playing for weeks and it hadn't gone to waste. Kyuubi successfully mastered the Shadow Clone Jutsu and was allowed to go on his first mission, a D-rank. It was the only mission he was capable of doing because he was inexperienced and he had no good gear. He needed money for that.

For his first mission he was to leave the Land of Fire and take a letter to the Land of Rivers. He completed the mission within twenty minutes, losing no health or Chakra. Upon his return to Kohonagakure he was paid a small amount. He bought a kunai and went straight onto his second mission. At the end of that one he levelled up.

Kyuubi was very good at doing missions and on occasion he was challenged to fight by other Genin. He beat them every time. After a week he gathered the courage to travel to the Land of Lightning, where he was almost killed by a person of Genin level 9. Thanks to an energy bar he was able to escape with 1-health and keep his inventory.

He learned so much about the game as well. There were 9 separate areas: the Land of Earth, Land of Fire, Land of Iron, Land of Lightning, Land of Snow, Land of Sound, Land of Water, Land of Wind and Land of Sky. Each land possessed different villages, like how the Land of Fire had Kohonagakure and the Land of Rivers had Tanigakure. Players were able to visit all the different lands and embark on missions from different villages.

The more missions he did, and the more people he fought, the higher levels he reached. Soon Kyuubi would be Chuunin level, and after that he would be Jounin and then Kage. Only the most elite players were Kage and that was something Kyuubi wanted to achieve. There were ten stages to pass before going up a level and he was currently on level 8 of Genin. Five more missions and he was Chuunin.

After that, he could leave the Genin world and go to a Chuunin world that only Chuunin were allowed to play on. It prevented senior players from preying on newbies and Kyuubi quite liked that aspect of the game. He was fine with fighting other Genin. After all, he was good with his jutsu.

Jutsu were probably the most important part of the game. Players began with one of five and they were stuck with that one for the whole Genin world. When they reached Chuunin they could select other jutsu to specialise in, provided they had money, and they were free to learn jutsu techniques as they pleased. The only downside of that was that jutsu used Chakra and the more powerful the technique, the more Chakra it used. At level 8, Kyuubi had 19-Chakra and he could only use his jutsu three times before his Chakra was depleted. He had to work on that.

Kyuubi: Chuunin lvl, here I come!