Chapter 1: Prologue
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T-truck-san?!
Darkness. Floating in the air, unable to feel my body. The only source of light is the bright blue alert window.
Congratulations!
You're dead!
While this is no good, you have been given the unique opportunity to become a Player on any world you choose. To be reborn as a Player, please sign the agreement below.
And a three hundred page agreement with a place to sign it. How did I end up in this situation? Well, I'll start at the very beginning of this very unusual day. It started with an unbearably loud alarm clock.
* Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep *
- How the hell do you wake me up at the most interesting part of the day?! You can't fall asleep! Ha-ha, okay. I turned off the alarm and went to the bathroom. Nice to meet you, I'm Daiki Katsu, 16 years old, high school student. After my morning routine, I went to school. The school greeted me with a stern look from the headmistress. Yes, I was 13 minutes late, so I had to listen to her lecture me on the importance of punctuality in today's society. After a couple of minutes of this nonsense, I went to my class. I got a couple of C's during the whole school day and that was pretty much it. Just as I was about to go home, I was called out.
- Daiki-kun, do you want to come on the new ride with us? We have an extra ticket. A couple came up to me. a couple. A beautiful girl with long brown hair and a muscular brunette with tanned skin. My childhood friend and her boyfriend.
- Alice, I don't mind, but didn't you want to go just the two of you? -I don't mind rides at all, but these two.... they make me feel like a third wheel. Damn it, why don't I have a girlfriend?! Every time I see these two holding hands, kissing or hugging, they're so happy!!!! I want to be like that too, instead of wasting all my school days.
- Come on, Daiki. It'll be fun, let's go. That Kendo, the handsome bishonen! The most popular guy in the class. That's the kind of guy that girls fall for all the time.
- All right. What's the attraction? Why are they looking at me like that? What did I just sign up for?!
- Skydiving! The two of them shouted in sync. I was afraid they were up to something.
- Don't worry, it's my father's place, so he'll let us in easily. - Kendo whispered in my ear without Alice noticing.
- Okay, let's go.
- Aren't you surprised? It's so scary! Aren't you scared at all, Daiki-kun? -It's better than watching those two being cute.
- No, let's go.
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I'm standing here in a heavy skydiving suit, thinking: What did I sign up for?! And it doesn't look anything like it does in the movies.
- Dikey, are you scared? It's not funny! What if we fall in the wrong place?! Or the parachute doesn't open?! I have a suspicion that I'll have a heart attack on the way down! How did those two even come up with this kind of fun?!
- Don't worry, Daiki-kun. It's my first time skydiving too. Alice is cheering me up. How can you panic after saying that? A girl my age isn't afraid, and I'm panicking. Okay, calm down. Inhale~, Exhale~. Okay. Let's just do it and that's it.
- I'm calm. You can jump first, I'll follow. Yeah, right. I'll just stay on the plane when they jump and then tell them I was joking. Yeah, that's what I'll do. After a short briefing, Alice and Kendo took turns jumping, and I was standing there watching them when suddenly the fucking instructor decided I couldn't make up my mind and wanted to help me!!!! Oh, s¥^@! And I went flying down. It was scary at first, and the feeling of having nothing to lean on was crushing. But after a while I just opened my eyes and looked down, and honestly, it was unrealistically cool! The beautiful view that opened up to me, the feeling of flying and freedom..... it's really something! There's a couple holding hands and spinning in the air. Kendo seems to have been doing this for a really long time and is helping his girlfriend. Wow! Even at a time like this, they manage to coo!!!! Whatever! Screw them.
And so I was enjoying the flight, looking at the ground and spinning around. And at the moment when I wanted to open the parachute. it didn't open. IT DIDN'T FUCKING OPEN!!! I was frantically pulling the goddamn string, but the chute wouldn't open. Alice and Kendo had already opened theirs and were floating slowly in the distance. And for me, as cliché as it sounds, my whole life is flying before my eyes. After a big panic, I, calmly accepting that I was capzked, was falling down.
But at some point, I felt something twitch behind me and felt it reveal itself. It opened up!!!
- HOLY GOD!!!!- I started shouting merrily at the top of my lungs. -EVERYTHING! I'M USING MY SECOND CHANCE TO THE FULLEST!!! I'M GONNA DO EVERYTHING AND LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!!!! YUHUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
Already happy I slowly flew down, looking around at the scenery. All I could see under my feet was a pure yellow field. And at some point I noticed in the field, no, not a horned herd, not a haystack or anything like that. What I saw coming out of the woods was a... A HGV?! A big white lorry with one remarkable sign. It said Isekai on it. N- really?! I'm of course a big fan of anime and manga, I even liked to read earlybies, and I know about this genre and this, you could say, mythical creature that sends hitmen into a 2D world. But I never believed he really existed. But the question is different: What the &#@*¢€^° is he doing here! While I was pondering this, I was about to reach the ground and the moment I should have touched it, I was hit by a lorry.
And here I am standing, or no, FALLING in this dark void and processing all the information I got. Yeah, I'm dead. On the one hand, that's too bad, but on the other hand, I don't want it to go away. I've come to terms with it. But it's still hard to believe that I'm a hitman, or rather I will be once I agree to it. Although, do I have a choice? Obviously not. I wasn't even told what would have happened to me if I hadn't been given this unique opportunity to be reborn.
Oh, well. A rebirth it is. Why should I complain? It's practically every other anime fan's dream! So many worlds, so many adventures, so much to look forward to! And most importantly, HUNDREDS OF 2D GIRLS!!! I could so have power, superpowers, a harem, and all that kind of stuff! Of course it's a shame I won't be able to meet any more of my loved ones from my home world. Even though they were few and far between, they were dear to me. Especially Alice. No, I didn't love her in that way! I had known her since childhood and loved her purely as a friend! Whoa! Hmm, don't some worlds have abilities that allow you to travel through time and space? That's right! I'll become a real MC, conquer the whole world and travel to my favourite worlds! Maybe even make a harem of the most from different worlds!!!! That's it! It's decided! I will become the strongest and I will travel the worlds, at the same time accumulating a harem!!!! So, skip the unnecessary agreement, I don't have much choice anyway, and sign. The notification window slowly dissolved and another one appeared.
Select the world you wish to travel to.
Hmm, which world to start with. If I think of all the fanfics I've read, most start with the world of Naruto. Yeah and that's where the power to travel worlds is. And I know that world better than anyone. But I'm just too scared to face the main villains of this world, namely the Ootsutsuki clan. The anime never showed what this clan is and how many of them are Kaguya-level monsters. Only that Kaguya was insanely afraid of their appearance and almost lost her mind because of it.
Hmm, if you think about it, every world has super strong antagonists like that, except for the non-fantasy worlds, but you can get to those worlds afterwards, and if I go now, my chances of travelling to the worlds will be greatly diminished. So screw it. It may be a very dangerous world, but I'd rather go there than to an unknown world or one I don't know much about. Wait a minute! I get to choose the time and the person I'm reborn into?! Oh, my God! What if they don't?! I'll end up as a supporting character and it'll be a harem and not a harem and a trip. Okay, I have to name the world first, and I'll deal with that later.
- Naruto World!
The window shattered again when the name of the world "Naruto" appeared on the line. After that, another window appeared.
Select the time period of the character and the character itself.
Phew, you can choose a character! So, what's a "time period"? I can't just choose when the canon started or when the main characters were born? I mean, can I choose characters like Hashirama and Madara? Or the same Indra and Ashura? I don't want to get into them anyway, though. I'd rather pick a time closer to the birth of the main characters. But who should I pick? Naruto? Sasuke? Noooo! I'll hold off. I don't want to pick them. Their lives are shit, so to speak. I think even the biggest moron can see that. And I don't need the influence of Indra and Ashura's souls. Sure, there's some good points, but I'm more worried about my own psyche.
And throughout the whole anime, my biggest worry was when I saw Naruto's childhood. That's the one that seemed the most unfair to me. First of all, the reason why he was despised. Hiruzen is an arsehole! I don't understand why he thought it was better to tell the whole village that Naruto was a jinchuriki than that he was the son of the Fourth Hokage. By simple logic, who would want to be kidnapped more: the jinchūriki of the Strongest Tailed, and this was proven in the war, where he single-handedly defeated six Tailed being only half his size! Will he or the son of the dead Fourth Hokage be kidnapped?
To me, the answer is obvious. And if they say that the villagers could still sense Fox's chakra from him, that's not true at all. Yes, there were sensors that could do that, but they were at least Jonin level, and Hiruzen couldn't have ordered them to hide who the jinchuriki was. And the common folk wouldn't be able to figure it out, at least not until Naruto himself got pissed off and released his chakra right in the village. And if they say that Minato's enemies could have killed him, you can remember the Naruto film where he moved to a parallel world. There, Sakura was the daughter of the Fourth and everyone knew it. Her head was still there and there was no hint that she died at the hands of her father's enemies.
Although I don't deny that Minato's enemies could still have come to him, but even then, what was Hiruzen doing hiding both?! Naruto would have just been an orphan then. No discrimination and no contempt. So Hiruzen is absolutely a dick! And that's not the only thing that makes him an arsehole. I wonder where Minato and Kushina's inheritance is. I can't believe that the house they were shown in the anime was a rental. Or that they didn't have a bank account. There's no way two Jonin, one of whom is the Fourth Hokage by the way, would leave their son nothing. So Hiruzen, the dickhead, pocketed what was left of them. He gave Naruto a dormitory flat and that's it.
The village was supposed to give the orphan an allowance anyway. And by the way, the allowance was a pittance. I remember the scene where Naruto didn't have money for ramen, and he went home crying, and then he picked mushrooms and fished in the forest so he could have something for dinner. And even there, that old prick had asked him to share the fish for some reason. Naruto was kind and wanted attention, and he was glad that some strange old man was treating him normally and communicating with him.
That's why I felt sorry for the guy, and that's why I want to give him all the attention and love that was taken away from him. And to make him look at his village, not thinking that he has to earn their trust, but thinking about what this village did to him. I certainly don't want to make him the bad guy, I'll just get it into his head that he doesn't have to earn their trust and respect. And if nobody likes that, if they say anything, I'll burn the whole village down.
Well, now I have some ideas about the character I'm going to inhabit. So, I say:
- Naruto Uzumaki's older brother. Time: Erm, ahem... Oh! Itachi Uchiha's peer!!!- of course, I just made this character up, but maybe the system can accept this as a real character. I don't know who it will be, of course, so I've set up some roughly distinctive information about him, well, I was!
Processing information.
Warning! Error!
No such character was found.
We are searching for a similar character in parallel worlds.
The character has been found.
Menma Uzumaki.
The world is almost identical to the original world. Would you like to change the world of the original Naruto to a parallel world?
Yes/No
Wow! I did it!!! Just what I wanted!!! It's like a mind reader! Is someone watching me and helping me?
That's crazy. That can't be.
Okay! Stop! What?! The system is alive?! It can read my mind?! What?!
- Are you alive?! How?! Who are you?! How can you read my mind?!
-...
- Hey! Why aren't you talking?! I definitely heard you say: "Nonsense. This can't be happening." And I even saw that window appear and quickly fall apart.
-...
- Hmm, I've seen something like that before. Oh! Right! The Great Sage from the Slime anime. Are you trying to be that guy?!
-...
- Come on! If you don't want to answer, don't answer! So, what was that about, oh yeah. Changing the world. Answer: Yes!
The window scattered again and another one appeared.
Choose one of the three randomly selected character traits below:
1.Unique Dojutsu.
2.Unique genome.
3.Unique skill.
Wow, that's the one! The thing that Popadancers usually get when they're reborn. Your own cheat! Well, it's an easy choice, the first two are eliminated immediately, because they are features of this world, so they can be obtained here. And it's going to be a bit cheesy. I'd rather get a special skill, so....
- A unique skill!
Attention! You have received a unique skill: Royal
Royal: you were not the main character of this world, and therefore did not have such a useful skill, but acquired!
Luck at the critical moment +1000000. If you suddenly find yourself in a situation where you had to die, with a 99.9999% chance to you will fly out of the bushes (sometimes literally) and will save your carcass, and maybe some plushes will give. Attention! The ability works only in the main world!
Wow, I can't say I'm not excited. But I thought I'd have an uber-mega ability, and this.... Well, now there's a guarantee that my carcass will be safe, at least in this world. So the window crumbled and another one appeared...
Attention! Character creation is complete. Character loading. 1%...3%...27%...56%...79%...95%...99%...100% Loading is complete! The character's soul begins to be grafted into the character. The game begins!
I think that's it, well, wait for me, my little, silly, little brother.... Naruto!