1 New Beginnings
The sun just rose in Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village. Konoha resides deep within a forest at the base of a mountain known as the Hokage Rock, which has the faces of all those who have taken the office of Hokage engraved on it. It is surrounded on all sides by enormous walls.
We head towards an old unsightly apartment complex. Inside one of the rooms, there was a child sleeping soundly while hugging a holster. The child enjoyed sleeping so much so that he was drooling a little.
This child's name is Uzumaki Naruto, born on the night of October 10th. He is an orphan and he grew up not knowing who his parents were.
Not having anyone else to provide for him, Naruto received monthly income from the village in order to afford daily necessities.
Naruto has yellow-blond spiky hair and bright blue eyes. His trademark characteristics are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. He is rather short for his age, being only 138.5cm at age 11.
*RIIIING!!!! RIIIING!!!!! RIIIING*
*BAM!!!!*
Naruto groaned as he slammed the alarm clock on the nightstand beside his bed. He dreaded that sound, but it's too late to go back to sleep now since he was wide awake from the ringing of the alarm clock.
"I wish I can sleep forever." He grumbled as he rubbed his sleepy eyes. Naruto cracked his knuckles before getting off his bed and starting his day.
He walked around his apartment. It was dirty, old and the roof looked like it was one second away from falling onto Naruto. The floorboards creak at every step he took, he could only bathe in freezing cold water as the landlord closed the hot water for his and only his apartment for reasons he did not know of.
Naruto squeezed out some toothpaste onto his toothbrush and started brushing his teeth. It was hot mint flavored toothpaste, he heard some say that it was the most bitter thing ever but he did not think about it as such. He liked the refreshing feeling it brought after having brushed his teeth with it.
Naruto spat out the toothpaste after a few minutes of brushing his teeth and scooped some water from the tap and drank it. He started gargling.
[Synchronization Process Starting...]
"Pfft!!!!" Naruto immediately spat out the water in his mouth and looked at the floating screen in front of him with an expression of pire disbelief.
"Is this Genjutsu?" Naruto asked himself with a panicked expression on his face.
[99%.... 100%]
[Welcome, Uzumaki Naruto to the Helpful System. Would you like to check out your skills?]
"And this thing knows my name! I'm gonna die!" Naruto declared dramatically, ignoring the stomping and shouting sound coming from the apartment above him, telling him to shut up.
[Relax Naruto, I am only here to help. And no, this is not a Genjutsu. I assure you that this is very real.]
"Uh.... yeah.... sure...." Naruto mumbled, still having a lot of doubt about this 'Helpful System'. Naruto sighed and scratched his head, maybe he was still sleeping and this was just another dream of his.
Naruto decided to just move on with his day, he and his classmates had a day off from the Ninja Academy today, so he was going to train in a forest.
Naruto shivered a little as the cold water washed over his naked body. The floating screen was still there.
"Disappear damnit!" Naruto growled out. He was surprised when it actually did disappear. He shrugged, relieved that the Genjutsu that tried to trick him was finally gone.
After showering, Naruto wore his daily clothes. He wore an orange and blue jacket with a white collar, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, and a red Uzumaki crest on the back. He also wore orange pants with a shuriken holster on his right knee and blue sandals.
It was the worst possible outfit a future Shinobi like him could ever wear. It stood out like a sore thumb and he would probably be the first one killed if he actually wore that while on a mission.
But this was all Naruto could get as the all of clothing store owners banned him from entering their stores and chased him out of their stores whenever he tried to buy some clothes.
Naruto sighed and shook his head. The villagers of Konoha all openly ostracised and resented Naruto for reasons that he didn't even know.
To be honest, Naruto hated it. He hated those glares and whispers that would be sent his way whenever he walked through the streets of Konoha. But that hatred for the villagers was vastly overshadowed by his confusion of why they hate him.
"Let's not think about that right now." Naruto whispered before rushing to the kitchen to cook his breakfast. His breakfast contained his favorite meal, cupped ramen that only required boiling water, a cup of ramen and 3 minutes of waiting.
[Skill Created!
Cooking(Ramen): Lvl 1
the practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.]
Naruto froze as he looked at the same floating screen from before appearing in front of him again.
"I thought I told you to go away!" Naruto shouted at it, receiving no reply. The stomping and shouting coming from the apartment above him came once again but Naruto ignored that.
[I cannot 'go away'. I'm stuck with you forever.]
"Ew...." Naruto immediately replied.
"What the hell do you want with me?" Naruto quickly asked it.
[To guide you and nothing else. The Helpful System keeps track of the progression of your skills while giving you some juicy benefits on the side.]
"Like what?" Naruto asked.
[Cooking(Ramen): Lvl 1
Once you max out this skill, you will give people an orgasm when they tasted the ramen you cooked.]
"What the hell is an orgasm?"
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Naruto sighed as he exited his apartment. Since the Helpful System said it was stuck with him forever, he would just have to accept it and get over the fact that he has a floating screen that can talk to him and show him his real life skills.
Naruto walked through the streets of Konoha. He saw that the villagers were glaring at him and whispering amongst each other. He was surprised when the floating screen appeared in front of him again.
[Killing Intent Resistance: Lvl 1
It is simply the user exuding pure killing intention, and having it affect their opponent, themselves, and others around them, up to the point of paralysing them with fear.
When the killing intent is particularly strong, it can even give the victim visions of their own gruesome death. This can cause killing intent to be confused with a genjutsu, despite it not being a jutsu at all.
Your own killing intent gets 2% stronger when the skill levels up. You are also able to ignore 2% of others killing intent.]
Naruto widened his eyes as he read the description of his new skill. The villagers hated him so much that they wanted to kill him.
'What did I do to deserve this damnit?!!' Naruto shouted in his mind as he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists angrily. He shook his head and arrived in the forest clearing.
He looked to see that there were several tree stumps in front of him that had targets tied around it.
The targets were full of small holes. Naruto opened his shuriken holster and took out a shuriken from it.
He threw it at the target, the shuriken didn't even reach halfway before it fell onto the ground. Naruto groaned, he had just threw a faulty shuriken.
At this point faulty shurikens are a normal thing for Naruto. He got these from an academy teacher who was 'generous' enough to give it to him.
But Naruto immediately knew that the academy teacher was trying to set him up for failure as soon as he tested it out on these targets.
Naruto just kept throwing his shurikens. There were faulty ones and there were ones that were up to standard. Naruto's aim still sucks though.
[Skill Created!
Shurikenjutsu: Lvl 1
Shurikenjutsu pertains to techniques that entail the throwing of shuriken, kunai, senbon, or any other number of bladed, hand-held weapons. Shurikenjutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, ninjutsu, and/or chakra flow in order to create more devastating techniques.
Additionally, shurikenjutsu can pertain to techniques used through ninjutsu-made weapons.
Reduce strength needed to throw shuriken by 2% and increase shuriken flying speed by 2%.]
"Wow! This is amazing!!" Naruto cheered as he read through the description of the new skill he just created.
*BAANG!!!*
Naruto jumped and pulled out his kunai. He entered a defensive stance and looked around him cautiously.
"What the hell was that?" Naruto wondered.
*BAANG!!!*
" There it is again." Naruto whispered before dashing towards the place where the banging sound came from. He hid in some bushes when he spotted someone.
He is a tall and well-muscled man. He has fair skin a strong jawline, a somewhat large nose, and black hair. He is most noticeable for his shiny bowl-style haircut and thick eyebrows.
He wears a green jumpsuit, orange striped leg warmers, and the standard Konoha flak jacket, which he normally leaves unzipped. His red forehead protector is worn around his waist like a belt.
"A Shinobi." Naruto whispered to himself, noticing the Konoha forehead protector he was wearing.
That Shinobi is Might Guy who is a jōnin of Konohagakure. He leads Team Guy, which was formed a year before the other main Konoha teams of the series.
They specialise in close-quarters combat with all of its members using some sort of physical attacks.
Guy was grinning while assuming a fighting stance. In front of him was a wooden training dummy.
"Haaa!!!" Guy shouted as he leaped towards the dummy.
"Witness the Power Of YOUTH!!!! DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!!!"
*BAAAAAM!!!!!*
Guy delivered a flying kick straight in the face of the wooden dummy, destroying it in the process.
Naruto was amazed at Guy's immense power. Guy landed on the ground and gave a winning smile to the dummy. His pearl white teeth glowed brightly as he grinned confidently at it.
Suddenly, he disappeared from thin air, shocking Naruto. Guy suddenly appeared in front of Naruto, scaring him.
"Ahh!!!" Naruto yelled as he landed on his butt. He looked up at Guy who was grinning at him.
"And who do we have here?! Are you interested in the Power Of Youth to, young man?!"
" Who the hell are you?! "
To be continued...
