Naruto: Simulation Gamer

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The thirteenth of September, 2026.

It was a dark day, at least for one man. Kirigaya Masato. That was the name of the man who was walking down a dark street after the day had already ended. He had just finished his office hours, having finished another five hours of unpaid overtime as usual in the city of Tokyo.

Walking down the dark street, the around twenty three year old young man was holding onto his phone and not even looking at where he was walking to, his mind having left work and now fully concentrated onto the screen before him. The screen showed a… fanfiction website that he had been using since he had been in middle school, almost ten years now.

'Damn… who would think that the biggest fanfiction website from ten years ago is already shutting down… a bummer, where will I get to read my daily slop fiction at this point?' Masato thought to himself as he was walking.

It was at that moment in time that something caught his eye, it was a fanfiction called Naruto, The simulation.

Raising an eyebrow, Masato clicked it, though he wasn't expecting much, the site that he had used to read so many great fanfictions in the past had been completely and utterly filled by either chinese slop that was translated with AI or even worse, just straight up AI garbage that barely made any sense at all. The love and passion that his generation had for fanfiction had unfortunately dwindled as the era of brain rot fast approached the world and the ipad kids grew up.

Shaking his head, Masato bemusedly thought to himself about how he felt like an old man already at the ripe age of twenty three.

'Man… technology really has made the difference between generations feel greater and greater, I mean if you think about it, at least I used to use phones that still had buttons on them whilst the next generation after me, merely a few years after, didn't get to experience that at all… it's interesting to think about at least.' Masato thought to himself, it was at this moment as he was starting to read the synopsis for the fanfiction that had caught his eye that a bright white light started approaching him at insane speeds.

Lifting his head up, Masato froze as he watched what was clearly a white truck approach him at insane, clearly illegal speeds.

'There… there is no way I'm actually going to die like a damned fanfiction protagonist after having read fanfictions all my life right? Ah… fuck me.' Masato thought as he closed his eyes and in the very next second, blinding pain shot through his entire body, making him lose almost every other sense he had, leaving him entirely consumed by the pain.

Thankfully, this all seemed to stop almost instantly, not lasting any longer than maybe two or three seconds before the pain vanished as if it had never even been there to begin with.

'Huh… what just happened?' Masato thought in confusion as soon as he noticed that the pain was gone, and then in the very next second as that thought finished going through his mind, he came to another realisation on what the likely outcome of what just happened had been.

'Ah… I'm dead aren't I?' Masato thought as he tried releasing a long winded sigh however he found out almost immediately after he tried that he could not do the action.

Trying to open his eyes, he realised that he couldn't either, and neither could he move, or smell or feel anything around him, it was as if he was simply a soul floating in complete nothingness without even a body.

'Strange… I somehow feel like I still have my body even though none of my senses are working and I cannot move… or maybe it was just that I died and it all happened so quickly that my mind or soul or whatever it is that I have now is still confused and thinks that my body is attached to me.' Masato thought as he tried releasing a hum only to find himself stumped again.

'Damn it, this is really annoying.' Masato thought to himself, almost chuckling to himself as the thought of how this could be made into an infinite loop of him trying to sigh at himself and then sighing at being unable to sigh.

Before he could further delve into such thoughts however, Masato… felt something.

'My eyes… are hurting… and my ears are starting to hurt aswell… no, not just that, my entire body is starting to hurt, what the fuck is happening.' Masato thought as his emotions started turning more volatile by the second as the pain that had vanished almost instantly before starting returning, however this time it was far far worse than it had been before, if before it had been an instant flash of insane levels of pain, this time it was a slow ramp up towards that level of pain, lasting much longer than it had before.

As the pain was reaching critical levels almost at the same level as what it had been before when the truck had hit him, Masato's thoughts having almost completely cleared, leaving him with only the pain and the darkness, something changed once more.

Masato felt his eyes snap open as blinding light rushed in, and at the very same second, his entire body returned or rather the feeling of it and the ability to control it returned as he released a scream at the top of his lungs.

He didn't know where he was, what was happening or what he should do, all that he knew was the pain and the blinding light that now surrounded him.

It was inside of those moments that he heard a voice calling to him… and a feeling of some kind of cold liquid spreading through his upper body, gently starting to ease the pain from blinding levels into something more manageable.

'Fuck… fuck, what the fuck was that.' Masato thought to himself as his vision started clearing, leaving him to finally realise that he was laid on some kind of bed… and staring directly upwards at the ceiling of some kind of brown tent.

 

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His vision slowly cleared as the blinding white light slowly receded and what was left was a clear vision of where he was… or at least a clear vision considering that the only sight Masato was currently seeing was the ceiling of some kind of brown tent.

Slowly lowering his head so that he could look around, he came face to face with a woman with long brown hair tied in a bun, wearing white clothes and a headband on her forehead with an insignia that resembled a leaf.

The woman was clearly stressed as sweat was slowly pouring down from under her headband which looked to already be completely soaked, having turned from a light blue colour into a dark blue one.

A heavy blockage suddenly appeared inside of Masato's throat, leaving him with no choice but to start coughing out heavily, the medic instantly moving her hands closer to his throat, the very same hands that had been releasing the gentle feeling that had felt like a sign from god to Masato merely a few minutes ago when he had been enduring the unbelievable amounts of pain that were coursing through his body.

*Cough* *Cough*

Coughing heavily without the ability to even take his breath for a few moments, Masato felt his eyes start to water as blood and saliva dripped out of his mouth as he coughed and onto the white bed under him.

"Just a bit more and you should be finished." The woman finally spoke, her voice was calm and almost emotionless despite the clear stress and exhaustion that she was experiencing, it was likely that she was used to this situation and had already gone through it so many times that it had simply become part of her tiring routine.

'Just a bit more? I feel like im fucking coughing up my entire lung out here.' Masato thought to himself inside of his mind as he slowly but finally managed to somewhat get the coughing fit under his control with the help of whatever the woman was doing to him.

Taking a long deep breath, Masato turned his gaze towards the woman whilst softly readjusting his position on the bed so that he could get more comfortable though from the pain that was currently shooting through his entire body at every movement, it didn't seem like he would get to be comfortable anytime soon unfortunately.

Having finally escaped the pain and then the coughing fit that felt like death coming for the second time, Masato finally got to have a clear look at his surroundings and more importantly, the woman who had just helped him.

For a moment, the sight that stood before him was too shocking for his mind to comprehend, maybe that had also been part of the reason as to why he hadn't reacted to it sooner, it hadn't just been because of the pain and the confusion, it had been because the sight before him was something straight out of a fantasy, straight out of one of those fanfictions that he had spent so many hours reading instead of focusing on his actual real life and studies.

'She's… wearing the hidden leaf headband… and those glowing hands just now… that was the mystical healing palm jutsu wasn't it.' Masato thought to himself, his own voice felt almost monotone inside of his own mind, the shock having pushed aside every single other emotion to the side as his mind tried to find any way to grasp the new reality that stood before it.

"With that, most of your organs have now stabilised and you should no longer be in any danger of death, however that does not mean that you are healthy, you have still lost a lot of chakra during the battle and your limbs and overall health is still… precarious to say the least. As you may notice, we had to amputate both your left leg as well as your right arm, they were both infected with poisons that we have yet to find any antidote towards." The female medical ninja said as she pulled out a small notebook and started writing out the details of what she had done today to Masato as well as explaining his current situation to him considering the surgeries had been done whilst he was completely and utterly unconscious.

Masato didn't react, keeping that emotionless facade causing the medical ninja to stop for a moment and look up from the notebook for a second before releasing a long winded sigh and giving a nod before turning around and heading out of small space that had been cleared out for Masato in the medical tent.

The woman had clearly thought that Masato was in shock, having just heard that he had lost both his left leg and his right arm, most shinobi if not all of them would be in certain shock and even despair at having their career ending so abruptly whilst at the same time knowing that they would be facing the aftereffects of this for the rest of their life.

The woman's thoughts however would most certainly be wrong.

'I'm in the world of Naruto… I'm in the world of Naruto… Rasengan, nine tails… the sharingan…. They're all real here…' Masato thought to himself as the shock slowly ebbed away from his mind, giving way to the next overwhelming emotion… pure joy and pure horror combined at the exact same time.

'I dont have a fuckin leg and an arm, im basically a damned crippled, inside one of the most dangerous worlds in the universe…. I need a trusted adult… oh shit I am the trusted adult… help.' Masato thought as the joy slowly gave way aswell… and all that he was left with was… a bewildering combination of shock, despair, and just…. Confusion.

 

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'Okay… I have to calm down… I have to calm down, there is nothing I can do about this if I just panic, that's just a waste of time.' Masato thought as he took a long deep breath and then looked down at his own body, the sight that came into his vision was about exactly as bad as he had thought it would be whilst at the same time feeling ten times worse than he had thought it would.

For a moment, he felt vomit climb up his throat before he had to swallow it all back down with a disgusting gulp as he gazed directly at the two areas where the damage was clearly the worst.

Flies were everywhere, there were no maggots which Masato thanked the gods for at least however the flies were still disgusting enough.

His left leg was gone, though his mind could still somewhat feel some kind of sensation as if his leg was still there, though Masato knew that such a thing was just a shadow limb of sorts, something that most people who lost their limbs would feel even years after those limbs had been cut off or amputated.

The damage however wasn't just to his left and and right arm which were gone and all that remained of them was two stumps covered in white bandages, no the damage was everywhere, it almost felt like every inch of his body was covered in white bandages, from head to toe.

'Damned it…' Masato thought with a sigh before he slowly lifted his eyes up once more, gazing away from the wreckage that was his body and back into the surroundings.

Noises rang all around him, ranging from groans to even the sudden screams every once in a while, the smell of the entire place was if Masato had anything to say about it, utterly disgusting, the smell of blood was overwhelming and so was the smell of piss and feces from ninja who had lost even their ability to control their bowl movements by themselves.

Thankfully for Masato, whilst he could hear the other ninjas and even smell them and the gore that had been wrought upon their bodies, he could not see them, the large medical tent was split into smaller sections around each of the medical beds with dark blue curtains so that none of the other ninjas could see each other.

'I'm guessing that they did this both so that the ninjas wouldn't freak out at each other but also because if someone saw someone else having a panic attack or being in clear complete hysteria then that could spread to the rest of the group which could lead into an uncontrollable situation for the medical staff on standby.' Masato thought before humming to himself, satisfied with his own conclusion for a moment before his mind wandered back to his own condition than back to the conclusion that he had just reached.

'Right… would someone be frightened enough by my condition and disgusted enough by it that they would enter hysteria…. Fuck, that doesn't bode well with me does it.' Masato thought as his head slumped down almost instantly in defeat.

It was at that very moment however as those thoughts were going through his mind that he heard something else, this time it wasn't the sound of a groan from pain from a nearby fellow shinobi, and neither was it a scream or the soft words spoken by the medical ninja.

Instead it was a clear sound that softly rang inside of his own mind. The sound closely resembled the sound that would be produced from a small bell ringing.

*Ding*

Masato's eyes widened considerably as he looked around himself, however no matter how much he looked around at the ground or the bed or the curtains, there was nothing around him that he could see that would cause such a sound to ring out.

However he didn't have to wonder for long as to where the sound had come from as the reason for it appeared right before his eyes, floating mere centimeters away from his body in the air, simply hovering there as if it was completely a normal sight.

It was a blue holographic screen, something that matched almost every single description of what a system window was described as in the many slop filled chinese Naruto fanfictions that Masato had read.

'That… is that thing, what I think it is.' Masato thought to himself in complete shock which was quickly pushed aside together with the disbelief of the situation as words started appearing on the holographic screen before him, causing him to instantly focus on what was being written out.

[ Welcome User Masato! ]

[ You have been granted the Simulation System. ]

[ The System grants the User the ability to head to alternate timelines of his current world and complete certain system given missions, earning himself rewards that he can bring back to his own timeline! ]

[ Does the User wish to accept the System? ]

[ Yes ] [ No ]

Looking at the holographic screens that had popped up in front of him, Masato felt both a sense of exhilaration as well as a sense of distrust towards the screens, he knew from what he had read in so many of those very fanfictions that he had learned about systems that they could be great tools in someone's journey however they could also be great manipulators.

'It entirely depends on whether this one is one of those that I used to get annoyed at where it has death penalties and all that bullshit… fuck, do i even really have a choice though, I can only accept and hope that something in that thing has the power to help me survive here otherwise I am quite royally screwed considering my own bodily situation.' Masato thought as a drop of sweat dripped down from his brow and onto his chin and then the bed sheet.
[ Yes ]

[ Ding! ]

[ System has been granted Access! ]

[ Congratulations User Masato! ]

 

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[ Congratulations User Masato! ]

[ Beginner Package has been obtained! ]

[ Tutorial has been granted. ]

[ Does User wish to activate the Tutorial? ]

[ Yes ] [ No ]

Looking at the congratulatory blue holographic screens floating in front of him, Masato released a long sigh before nodding his head slightly as he lifted his left arm as well as he could and clicked on the yes button for the tutorial.

[ Tutorial has been activated. ]

[ The Simulation System has multiple boons that it grants the user with. However not all of said boons are activated from the beginning and will only be accessible when User Masato reaches the appropriate level to access them. ]

[ First Boon of the system is the Status screen which gives a description about the User's current capabilities as well as condition. ]

[ To open the Status panel, simply think or say 'Status' ]

Reading the tutorial lines one after the other, at first with concentration and then less so as he already knew most if not all of what was being said, this was basically the most generic and widespread part of the system that almost every single system across all the known fanfictions that he had read had.

'System' Masato thought and as soon as those words echoed inside of his own mind, a new holographic panel appeared right before him, floating there in the air.

[ Status ]

[ Name: Rin ]

[ Age: 14 ]

[ Gender: Male ]

[ Level: 1 ]

[ Job: Hidden Leaf Genin ]

[ Physical : F ]

[ Mental : F ]

[ Chakra : F ]
[ Talent : None ]

[ Bloodline: None ]

[ Overall Comprehensive Description: A useless Fodder. ]

Looking over at the simple status screen laid out before him, Masato felt like releasing a shout of pure rage like those Chinese ancestors did in those fanfictions.

'So my name is Rin… im a gennin…. A gennin without two limbs at that and my physical, mental, chakra… basically every single damn thing about me is useless, yeah, so im just a useless piece of shit who's using up the precious air.' Masato thought to himself as he slowly shook his head in disbelief.

'I mean… doesn't the saying go that god gave at least one talent or something to everyone? That everyone had something going for them… i guess this Rin body just was absent or something when god was giving out the talents and shit.' Masato thought as he took breath before slowly calming himself down as he focused on the tutorial holographic panels once more after closing the status panel with a single thought inside of his mind.

[ Now that User Masato has been acquainted with the Status, there are still two other parts of the system that the User has to learn about. The first is the Quest Window, which is currently empty as there are no quests. Quests can only be gained by heading into a different world through the system and that leads us to the final part of the system that the User currently has access to… ]

[ The System Alternate Timeline Simulation. ]

'Alright… this is… this is what I was waiting for.' Masato thought to himself as his gaze focused onto the holographic panels before him whilst a small smile started to appear on his expression, his heart inside of this utterly beat down body was starting to beat faster and faster as excitement started coursing through his entire body.

[ To open the System Simulation Window, simply say the words 'System Simulation Open' Inside of your own mind. ]

Masato didn't hesitate for a single moment as he instantly said out the words inside of his mind.

'System Simulation Open…. Also do I really have to say this every time? It feels kind of cringey not going to lie…' Masato thought to himself as soon as he finished saying the opening phrase, before he could delve deeper into those thoughts however, the holographic screen that he had been anticipating opened up before him.

[ System Simulation ]

[ Rank F Simulation ] [ Start ] [ ? ]

[ Rank E Simulation ] [ ? ]

[ Rank D Simulation ] [ ? ]

[ Rank C Simulation ] [ ? ]

[ Rank B Simulation ] …

[ Rank A….

….

Looking at the rows of options before him, Masato instantly noticed that there was only one option that was accessible to him currently, the lowest rank simulation, that didn't bother him however as his mind was already caught up in the question mark options next to each option laid out before him. Curiously clicking onto the Rank C simulation question mark, a new holographic screen soon appeared before him.

[ Rank C Simulation : Simulations usually contain timelines where the World has moderately changed, thus events that the user remembers from the Naruto world have a higher chance of being wrong. Example, Gaara of the Sand did not possess the One tailed beast, instead he was in possession of the two tails. ]

Looking at the description that the system had given for the mere Rank C simulation, confusion quickly started spreading through Masato's mind.

'Aren't tailed beasts… kind of like a really damn important part of the anime and story? And gaara isn't some no name either… so if this is just a C rank change… then what would the highest… rank be?' Masato thought as he curiously scrolled down the holographic window.

[ Rank S Simulation ] [ ? ]

[ Rank SS Simulation ]

[ Rank SSS Simulation ]

'The SS and the SSS rank don't have the question mark at all… well alright…' Masato thought to himself before he clicked onto the question mark next to the S rank simulation, causing the new holographic screen to appear before him almost instantly.

[ Rank S Simulation: Rank S simulations are simulations where the world timeline had changed in a major way, causing the knowledge that User has retained from his previous world to become functionally useless. Example: Sasuke defeats Naruto at the end of the series and reigns over the world as the Supreme Leader of all Nations. ]

'What…' Masato thought for a moment as his eyes kept widening further and further as his mind went to work almost instantly, imagining what a world like that could be like and every single time, it reached a single conclusion.

It would most likely be a world that was eerily similar to his own world's North Korea.

'Yikes…'

 

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'Yikes… that really wouldn't be a world that I would want to be in, but all these simulations, its interesting, all of them have something that changed inside of them and the rank varies based on how big the change to the world and storyline is. But in the same manner couldn't the one that I'm currently in also be called a simulation world of sorts since I already am a change to this world?' Masato thought to himself almost amused at the irony of how he was going into alternate timelines as if the one in his own wasn't already altered.

Scrolling back up on the System Simulation window, Masato's eyes locked onto the only simulation that was available to him.

[ Rank F Simulation ] [ Start ] [ ? ]

Clicking in the F rank simulation question mark, a pop up holographic screen appeared before him almost instantly.

[ Rank F simulations have only minor changes to the storyline and thus are much more predictable as well as easier to complete by using User's knowledge of the original world from his past world memories. The rank is also lower because the mission requirements are not as hard as in missions of higher Simulation Ranking. ]

'I guessed as much already, it didn't need to tell me the last part at all…' Masato thought as he felt a shadow cover his face for a moment as he thought about if the system was thinking about him as some sort of complete and utter dumbass.

'Well anyways… there's really no reason for me to wait, but before I do that… since this Rin body is my main one, what happens to it when I head into a simulation?' Masato thought and the reply came instantaneously from the system.

[ User's Own World will continue moving as he is in the Simulation however the System has already thought of this and as a way to help the User, it has implemented a 10000x time dilation difference between the Simulation and the real world. A second in the real world is equivalent to ten thousand seconds in the simulation. User does not have to worry. ]

Releasing a soft pleased hum, Masato gave a nod of his head or at least tried to before the pain stopped him just short of completing the action.

'Sigh… let's just do this.' Masato thought as he lifted his only hand and clicked on the start button before quickly pressing the yes confirmation pop up window right after.

A moment later, every single system holographic window disappeared form his sight as if none of them had ever been there to begin with, leaving only one flashing for a brief moment.

[ The Simulation welcomes the Simulation Gamer. ]

And then that too was gone.

'Huh.. What's happening? Why am I not going into the simulation already?' Masato thought in confusion before he saw it, the edges of his vision were starting to darken quickly whilst his body was starting to lose its sense of smell, touch and hearing. The sound of the groaning patients, the screaming and the awful smell of blood and other fluids quickly vanishing as well.

'Ah… this kind of feels just like dying doesn't it.' Masato thought to himself as he finally closed his eyes whilst his head slumped back down on what was supposed to be a pillow but was more of a stump of grass than anything like a pillow.

The world finally vanished from sight, smell and sound… for at least a few moments.

Just as Masato was thinking about how long this was taking, the world finally returned, or rather some world did.

The first thing that Masato felt this time thankfully wasn't blinding light and an unimaginable level of pain, rather it was the smell of damp grass and some kind of meat being cooked, whilst he heard the soft pitter and patter of rain droplets falling down all around him together with the sound of a campfire crackling nearby.

Opening his eyes quickly, he lifted his upper body up and soon found himself facing a small campfire under a small cave at the face of a mountain whilst it was raining all around it. Trees could be seen everywhere, long and dense, clearly a forest, though it looked more of regular forest rather than something tropical.

'Alright… I look… healthy atleast.' Masato thought as he looked down at his body, and he was right, this body was smaller than the one that he had been given in his own naruto timeline however it still had all of its limbs and it had none of the damage the previous body had suffered.

'There's no time to waste, let's just get into this.' Masato thought as he instantly brought up two system windows.


[ Status ]

[ Name: Araya Shinkara ]

[ Job: Hidden in the Rain Gennin ]

[ Physical: E ]

[ Mental: E ]

[ Chakra: E ]

…


[ Quest ]

[ Survive for one week. ]

[ Rewards: 1 Status Point Upgrade. ]
'That's… all? I have to survive one week inside of here and all I get is a single status… well whatever, this is just a F rank simulation mission but… still.' Masato thought before releasing a long sigh.

It was at that moment as those thoughts were going through his head however that the sound of footsteps was heard coming towards the small campfire.

Masato's head instantly lifted up as he gazed towards the sound, his eyes narrowing as his pupils dilated, trying to take in as much light as possible so that he could see what was coming.

And a few moments later, the thing that had made the sound finally came forth, it hadn't been a thing, it was a small group of… kids? Two kids to be more precise, both of them was wearing a hidden in the rain village headband on their foreheads.

'I see… so these must be the npcs of the simulation… well isn't this going to be fun.' Masato thought as his brain instantly entered what he used to jokingly call in his previous world as gamer mode.

 

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"You're finally awake Araya" The first genin said, it was a small girl with long brown hair that came down to her waist and was tied in a pony tail, two bangs framing her face, in the middle of which the insignia of the rain village could be seen, engraved onto the steel plate on her headband.

"Yeah man, you were like knocked out for a while there, that guy really hit you with a genjutsu and I was worried that you wouldn't even wake up for a while. Shizue was barely holding her tears back for a while but I had to be strong y'know, I didn't cry at all." The second boy said, he had short black spiky hair, the same headband tied around his forehead as the girl and a wide, clearly relieved smile on his face.

'Most likely genin, the girls name is Shizue, still no Idea what this guys name is. We were attacked earlier, the previous owner of this body was hit by a genjutsu of some sort that caused him to end up unconscious and then I took over his body. I have to learn more information. Firstly, they're still shinobi even though they are gennin, however that will most certainly make my job of acting like their former team mate easier.' Masato thought to himself before taking a long deep exhausted sounding breath and lifting his head up a bit higher and forming a mile that was almost completely lopsided.

"Yeah… I don't really want to talk about it, even now… I don't really feel well. What… what happened whilst I was unconscious." Masato asked as he looked at the two of them.

"Well… Kazuha basically cried his eyes out in worry though he's trying to act tough now… still we both are really glad that you are okay Araya… really. After what… well I guess… we can just do a recount of the events to jog your memory." Shizue spoke softly, the young girls voice was practically shaking as her eyes started to get filled with tears almost instantly as she seemed to think back on whatever had happened.

'Kazuha… good, so that's his name. Now just keep talking.' Masato thought to himself whilst outwardly he gave a nod of his head, his expression slightly scrunching up.

"Yeah… that would be for the best, my mind's kinda scrambled right now, maybe I'll have an easier time getting my bearings if you jog my memory." Masato said aloud as he looked at Shizue before giving a soft chuckle as he turned his head towards Kazuha.

"Also… there's no way Kazuha cried… no way right?" Masato said, lightening up the mood slightly.

"Yeah, Araya knows it! Anyways… about what happened… well I'll just let Shizue fill you in." Kazuha spoke as he walked closer to Masato and sat down by the campfire.

Shizue meanwhile took a deep breath, lifted her arm and wiped her tear filled eyes before narrowing them into focus as she similarly sat down close by to the two boys and opened her mouth as she started recounting the situation.

"We were on the mission, just a regular patrol as usual around the edges and on the villages to see if any of the civilians needed any help. Sensei Ishiva was with us and was teaching us a bit more about chakra control and then it all happened in a flash, this loud explosion rang throughout the entire area and the next thing I know is that six Iwagakure shinobi body flickered into the clearing, together with a few shinobi from the hidden leaf, they were clearly in a battle, the hidden leaf shinobi were losing, and Sensei told us to run away as soon as he saw the situation, he said that no matter who won, it would spell our deaths if we stayed around and so… we ran, but on the way, one of the leaf shinobi launched a genjutsu or maybe you got caught in it accidentally and you fell down unconscious, Sensei then told us to just grab you and run and… and we did, whilst Sensei stayed behind…" Shizue spoke, the longer she did, the lower her voice got, and the more it shook as she recounted the story, tears finally spilling over, as much as she had tried to hold them back, she had failed.

Looking at her, Masato didn't react for a moment, before his face changed as it scrunched up and he lifted a hand over his eyes covering them for a moment, he took that slight moment that his eyes were covered to put dirt directly into them causing them to instantly water whilst he held his breath at the same time, releasing hiccups intentionally as best as he could, causing his face to start to redden from lack of oxygen whilst at the same time that tears were falling down.

"Fuck… It's… It's all my fault." Masato spoke, his voice shaking, his hands had been lowered and he was flexing his muscles in his hand as much as he could, causing his hands to shake, adding onto the effect that he wanted to produce.

Looking at the boy before them, at their team mate, Shizue and Kazuha finally couldn't hold back anymore either, Shizue got closer as she clung to his arm, sobbing, though even then her voice was low, she knew better than to release any loud sounds considering the situation they were in, meanwhile Kazuha had also gotten closer, his eyes bawling however he didn't sob, he just put an arm around Masato's or rather Arayas shoulder awkwardly as best as he could.

'Mission success. With this, their chances of doubting anything are lowered quite a lot, and even then they weren't that high to begin with, but better safe than sorry. At the same time, I also gathered quite a bit of information.' Masato thought to himself, a joyous emotion coursing through him at the successful act.

 

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A few minutes later, the three of them parted from eachother and sat a bit further away from each other once more.

"So… what's the plan? We clearly can't just head back the same way that we came, and we should also wait for a bit in case Sensei Ishiva comes back for us." Masato said as he coughed into his hand, as if to clear his voice from all the crocodile crying that had just been done.

Shizue and Kazuha gave a nod at the words.

"You're right, we can't really go back the same way… not if we could possibly run into those Iwa shinobi or those leaf shinobi again, that could spell our deaths. And your right… maybe Sensei will come back and get us… I hope… but we all know that the chances of that are slim to none, Sensei is a Chunnin… our village really can't compare to the five big villages." Shizue said, the more she spoke, the more her voice changed, gaining a somber almost defeated quality to it.

'Yeah right, everyone of you guys is basically fodder and then you go and produce freaks like Konan, Nagato and Hanzo… like does the rain village only have two settings, either god amongs men or trash on the side of the road?' Masato thought to himself whilst outwardly he gave a nod in turn to her words before releasing a long sigh.

"Okay… how about we stay here for the night and if Sensei doesn't come back until then, we move away from here and do a circle towards the Rain village, as long as we reach the village, we'll be safe enough." Masato said as he lifted his hand and scratched the back of his head for a bit, the motion utterly casual amids the tense atmosphere around them.

"That… yeah, we could do that. We should take turns staying guard so that we can all be atleast somewhat rested for tomorrow, who's taking the first guard?" Kazuha asked as he nodded and raised an eyebrow in question towards the other two, it was clear that the young boy never was one to take the lead in giving orders and rather simply followed them.

"I can take the first watch, then Kazuha and then you could take the last one Araya? We change every two hours, this way each of us gets atleast four hours of sleep and considering that you were the one affected by the genjutsu, this way you'll have a bit more of a consistent sleep to get your mind as clear as possible." Shizue said as she looked towards the two boys for their opinion on the matter.

'That… actually benefits me the most, acting like the genjutsu took a bigger toll than it did on me was certainly the good choice there. Though i'm having doubts as to whether I'll actually be able to get any sleep even if i tried. Shinobi are trained to be able to sleep under any circumstances however I wasn't trained like a shinobi, I was just a regular salary man merely hours ago.' Masato thought as he felt like releasing a long sigh, this time for real as he imagined just how hell the next few days would be considering that he wouldn't be able to get much if any sleep at all.

"That works for me, thanks Shizue… I, I really appreciate it guys, I'll try my best to not hold you guys back anymore like I did today." Masato spoke, his voice low and weak.
"Dont say that, there was nothing that you could have done today, we're just genin, those guys were like jonin or something… just, just be glad that you're alive okay? We're glad that you are too." Shizue spoke, her voice soft and filled with warmth as she looked at her team mate Araya.

Masato wearing Araya's skin simply gave a nod befre lying down by the campfire and closing his eyes. Kazuha quickly followed suit as he laid down by the campfire and fell asleep almost instantly, his breathing evening out and turning shallower as his mind fell into a deeper and deeper sleep by the second. This left only Shizue up, she slowly got up onto her feet and walked a few feet away from the two of them and stood by the edge of the small cave whilst looking out into the darkness of the forest, her back against the wall so that she could slightly rest whilst at the same time remaining as on guard as she could be whilst her team rested.

Minutes passed, Masato tried his best however no matter how much he did, he could not sleep at all, leaving him there laid onto the ground by the campfire, acting like he was asleep for minutes on end whilst focusing almost completely on his sense of hearing to notice any changes in the sounds coming from the surroundings however he couldnt notice any at all, it was just the soft pitter patter of the rain and the rare sound of a birch chirping in the distance.

That peace however did not last long as around fourty seven minutes after Masato had laid down and pretended to fall asleep, he finally heard something, it was Shizue, she had just released a gasp of breath and taken a soft stumbling step.

Instantly, Masato's eyes snapped open however before he could do anything, the last thing that he saw was a boot and then his entire vision turned red and time seemed to freeze as a holographic screen appeared infront of him.

[ Simulation Fail ]

[ Cause: Player Death ]

[ Retry? ] [ Yes ] [ No ]

'What… what the hell.'

 

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His vision was completely red, practically flashing to him whilst the row of words simply stood there floating before him as if nothing was wrong at all, almost casually announcing that he had just died, died and not even known how he had died, besides the fact that he had seen the boot or rather the sandal and toes of a shinobi before he had died.

'I fuckin died whilst looking at a pair of toes… ugly toes at that.' Masato thought to himself, releasing an inward groan as he mentally accepted the retry button and in the very next instant, his vision swerved as the scenery changed once more and… the pitter patter of the rain and the smell of the woods came back to him once more.

His eyes snapped back open as he instantly jumped to his feet and looked around, and there it was… all around him, the very same scenery that he had first woken up to inside of the simulation, it had truly restarted once more from the very beginning.

'This… isn't this more useful than the rewards themselves?' Masato thought to himself in shock as he kept looking around, however as much as he tried, he couldn't find a single difference between what was around him and what he had seen during the previous run.

'I could definitely use this, If I learn some kind of technique whilst in the simulation… would that translate back to the rewards that I could take back with me to the real world? That could explain why there were so few rewards given in the reward portion of the simulation… that's definitely something to try, though I'm sure that physical upgrades won't be carried over or any stats really… techniques are another matter altogether. And if I know that I could just die and restart the simulation… that lowers my danger levels considerably… meaning that I can use insane practically suicidal tactics inside of here to try and clear a simulation and if it fails then it fails, I could just restart the entire scenario again.' Masato thought and finally he couldn't hold himself back anymore as he started laughing, it wasn't a loud laugh, it was low, however in a way it was more unnerving than if it had been loud, it almost sounded like it was filled with pleasure.

It was at that moment that the sound of footsteps coming closer rang out once more.

Masato or rather Araya turned his head towards the sound and raised a hand.

"Shizue, Kazuha, I'm awake." Masato said as he waved his hand and the two genin came closer towards him.

Kazuha came closer first with a wide relieved smile whilst at the same time showing a look of pure befuddlement inside of his eyes, the same look that Shizue was currently holding inside of her eyes as well.

"Yeah, we can see that, did you go insane or something, why were you laughing like that man? You made me shiver. Still, I'm glad that you're alive." Kazuha said as he walked closer and pat Araya's back over and over, the more he did, the wider his grin grew.

"Yeah… you sure that you didn't lose a screw inside there when you got hit by that genjutsu Araya?" Shizue asked as she walked closer as well, her eyebrows raised up faintly in confusion though the relief was clear to see on her face.
"I'm fine, just glad that we survived, honestly I didn't think that we would, that… enemy attack was… something, damned it. Sensei had to stay back didn't he?" Masato said as he released a long sigh.

'Good, with the information that I gained in the previous turn, I can already deal with this in an easier way than before, though last time I tried to act more confused so that they wouldn't notice how I'm acting since I don't exactly know how the previous owner of this body acted like, this is still better. Now that I know that we are merely an hour or so away from another fatal attack, I can't be bothered with trying to convince them when they likely won't even think too much about it as long as I simply say that I changed from the life and death encounter. The next course of action is how to survive the night.' Masato thought inwardly to himself as his eyes narrowed slightly in thought, his mind whirring into action as he tried to think of whatever he could, however he still came flat, he needed more information.

"Before that, do you all have a map? I want to know where we are. We all know that we can't stay here for long and we should move out as soon as possible, tell me our location and let's devise a route to get back to the village." Masato said as he walked closer to Shizue, he already knew that Kazuha wasn't much for making plans and so he instantly focused on the only person that he knew would be agreeable to making plans, in this situation, that person was young Shizue.

Shizue for her part didn't hesitate even for a second as she gave a nod of her head before her left arm moved behind her to the ninja bag wrapped around her waist and pulled out a small scroll that she quickly unfurled until it reached quite the size. It was clearly a detailed map of the land of Rain. It didn't have any information about the other lands however it was basically a trove of information for Masatos current situation.

'Good, that's great. Awesome basically.' Masato thought to himself as he leaned in slightly to look at where Shizue was already pointing.

It was a small mountain range on the east side of the land of Rain… and unfortunately for Masato… it was on the completely other side from where the village hidden in the rain was situated.

'Damned it. Damned it all. It's never simple is it.'

 

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'We are quite literally as far away from the village as we can possible be…' Masato thought as annoyance surged through his mind for a brief moment before he quickly quelled the emotion down as fast as he could, now was not the time to get annoyed, not when his death was less than an hour away.

"Alright, so where exactly did we get attacked at, I was unconscious and the genjutsu did quite a number on my mind so I don't exactly remember." Masato asked Shizue as he turned his head slightly to look at her.

"Right here, by this small creek." Shizue pointed as she moved her finger on the map to show a location that was quite a bit away, around six kilometers or so.

'That… looks like a large enough distance however considering the speed at which shinobi can move at, it really isn't a distance, thats basically a doorstep, no wonder that we got found out and killed in the previous simulation.' Masato thought as he felt like releasing a sigh, Shizue should have told them that they were far too close to the location during the previous turn and made them move instead of simply deciding to wait out the night for their sensei, however whether it had been because of her inexperience as a genin or maybe simply because she had decided to trust her team mates suggestion, she hadn't mentioned this fact at all.

"We… are quite close to where the attack took place, we need to move. Which direction do you suggest that we take Shizue?" Masato asked as he kept looking towards her, at this point in time, he had no training as a ninja, so he had to rely on her at least until he got more experience under his own belt, not to mention that these two genin had been born inside the land of the rain, the chances that they knew some kind of hidden route was higher than if he suggested something like in the last turn and it only ended up making things worse.

It was however at that moment that Kazuha chose to speak.

"Shouldn't we at least wait out the night here, we still don't know if your capable of combat and we could wait incase Sensei managed to escape so that he could find us, this is one of the marked hidden locations afterall." He said as he tilted his head slightly as he looked towards Shizue and Araya or rather Masato.

"That… suggestion does have merit." Shizue nodded as she seemed to start to get into her thoughts as she mused about the suggestion meanwhile Masato was looking at Kazuha for what felt like a while with a blank expression on his face before he shook his head.

"No, we can't do that. We are too close to the enemies in our current position, and whilst I don't like admitting this, the chances of Sensei still being alive are practically null. We need to move." Masato spoke, his voice slightly shaking at the start before it turned firm and uncompromising.

His words seemed to snap Shizue out of her thoughts as for her a moment her eyes widened, a darkened expression showing on her face before she grimly nodded her head.

"Araya is right. It's… It's true, the chances of Sensei being alive… just… we just can't stay here, betting on that slim chance. As for the direction, I think we should take the straight route towards the village, if the enemies did indeed track us, they would likely think that we are going to go around however that would put us weeks away from the village, something we really can't afford, we don't even have enough rations for more than seven days, the only route that we can take is the direct one." Shizue said as she took a long deep breath before she started pointing at the shortest route possible towards the village of the rain with her hand on the map.

'That actually is a decent suggestion, I wouldn't mind trying it, considering that I can still just retry the simulation incase something does go wrong, and if nothing goes wrong, It would be the easiest way of clearing this simulation… though for the two of them, this is indeed life and permanent death. Thats quite a ballsy move.' Masato thought as he lifted an eyebrow in slight surprise at the suggestion that Shizue had given.

'It seems that maybe I've underestimated her. She really is the leader of this group.' Masato thought to himself before his eyebrow slowly lowered down and he gave a nod of his head.

"Alright, lets go with that." He agreed and in the next few minutes, Kazuha and Shizue moved around the camp, tearing everything down and cleaning everything as best as they could so that they wouldn't leave any signs of them being around here for any shinobi to find after they had left and then use that to track the direction that they had headed in.

Whilst the two of them were doing that, Masato meanwhile had opened his status window once more and scrolled down until he found what he had been looking for.

[ Techniques ]

[ Body Flicker Jutsu ] [ E - Rank Mastery ]

[ Clone Jutsu ] [ E - Rank Master ]

[ Transformation Jutsu ] [ E - Rank Mastery ]

[ Substitution Jutsu ] [ E - Rank Mastery ]

[ Water Style: Water Ball Jutsu ] [ E - Rank Mastery ]

Looking over at the techniques on the status screen, Masato felt a sense of confusion, he didn't know any of the techniques or how to use them however they were showcased inside of the status window, that meant that this body was capable of using them however how would he learn to use them?

The confusion however quickly cleared away, as soon as he thought about using one of the techniques, Masato felt the information on how to execute the technique flow into his mind almost instantly, though he didn't know exactly how the jutsu worked, the body that he was currently holding knew how to use it and thus that covered up for his own inexperience.

 

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Turning his head towards the forest, Masato thought for a moment on which jutsu to use before settling for the body flicker jutsu, it was the one that wouldn't arise any suspicion after all they were just about to leave and head away whilst the other jutsu would cause confusion amongst his team as there was no reason to use them at this current moment.



The second that he decided to use the technique, his chakra flowed through his body, he knew it was his chakra because he could feel it, like a sort of muddy hard liquid coursing through his body whilst his hands moved in a set of hand signs that he knew nothing about but apparently his body could do on pure instinct and in the very next moment, Masato found himself a dozen meters away, almost thirty meters away in fact as if he had simply teleported.



'Damn… that is sick.' Masato thought to himself before he turned his head back to gaze at the other two who had similarly finished packing up the camp and were now heading after him, giving him a nod as Shizue took the lead and Kazuha followed swiftly.



Neither of them however used the body flicker jutsu, they didn't know when they would be attacked and wasting chakra at the current moment in their situation was practically a death wish, it was also why Kazuha gave him that confused look when he passed by him.



'Right… I still had to give it a shot though, can't give a man his first jutsu and not expect him to use it.' Masato thought amusedly to himself as he started running after the two of them.



Running through the woods in the middle of the night whilst the rain continued all around them certainly wasn't a pleasant experience, not that Masato had expected it to be in the first place.



The trio continued to run through the woods for minutes on end, finally the time of his previous death passed, he had officially survived longer than he had during his previous simulation run.



'Good, already an improvement compared to the previous turn.' Masato thought to hismelf however as those thoughts were being made inside of his mind, the world outside changed once more.



Masato had been the one at the back, trailing behind both Kazuha and Shizue who had been running slightly ahead of him, Kazuha had been the one leading the run of sorts through the woods, he had been, and then he had simply not.



Masato watched in shock as one moment, Kazuha was running and in the next second, his head was suddenly not attached to his neck, his body still running for a dozen meters before it seemed to realise that it had no head attached to it and promptly slumped down onto the ground. The head having already fallen down the the ground.



The scene was gruesome, blood had already spilled everywhere however the cut had been so clean that even the blood that had spilled hadn't made a mess. The death had been swift and instantaneous, nothing like the dramatic deaths of the shinobi that Masato had grown to love as a kid watching the Naruto anime.



Looking closer at the scene, because he was utterly unable to look away from sheer shock, Masato who had already stopped running finally saw it, a thin red line or rather a wire, a steel wire that was completely invisible to the naked eye, only visible now because it had been covered in blood that was dripping down from it and onto the ground, that had been the cause of Kazuha's death, he had ran straight into one, neck first.



Shizue, similarly to Masato had also stopped running, however her expression wasn't the same as Masato's where his was blank and utterly in shock, hers was one of pure grief, shock, and despair, her mouth hung open for a while, no sounds coming out of it until finally a small single long note came out… it grew louder and louder until she was full blown screaming in despair as she fell down to her knees, her hands moving as she scrambled closer to Kazuha's head and took it in her arms, holding the head in her lap, clutching it as closely as she could however no matter what she did, the boy would not come back.



"Shizue… calm down, stop screaming." Masato said aloud as he walked closer to her, his shock having already left him, returning him back to his usual calm state once more, his mind had already categorised this all as some sort of hyper realistic game instead of real life, to him the death of Kazuha was simply the death of a non playable character inside of a video game, an NPC.



The young girl however did not stop, her screaming only grew worse as she sobbed whilst holding her dead teammates decapitated head.



'Damned it… if she keeps screaming like that It could attract enemies, if they aren't already here… fuck, fuck fuck, can't this bitch just shut up. I know I can't die but I really dont wanna fuckin experience it.' Masato thought and in those moments when his own panic started surging as he imagined the pain that his deaths had caused him to experience, his hand moved on its own, as if it had a mind of its own, without his own conscious thoughts seemingly affecting it at all.



One moment, the screaming was still ongoing and on the next moment… the child shinobi, maybe aged twelve, maybe a bit older… she was already dead as well whilst holding the decapitated head in her lap.



A black kunai having pierced right through the middle of her forehead and pierced directly into her brain, causing an instant death. She hadn't even been able to react, her mind too lost in her grief… not to mention that she had never expected it, never expected her own teammate… Araya to kill her.


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Looking down at the dead young shinobi by his feet, Masato… didn't feel anything, he waited for that feeling of disgust that he had read about in those many Naruto fanfictions that he had read however the feeling didn't come at all, he felt completely and utterly fine, something that perplexed him slightly.

'I felt disgusted and almost vomited when it was my own injuries but I don't feel anything about these other guys, damn, that's great.' Masato thought as he instantly started smiling widely as he lifted his foot and poked at the head of the dead girl on the ground, once, twice before lowering his foot and turning his attention back towards the distance.

'Still, this really isn't a good simulation run either, I'm not going to give up but the chances of me finishing this alone really aren't great. The wire could be connected to some kind of trap that alarms the one who set it up that something triggered it, which would lead to enemies finding my location, and if it's not that, there's also the chance that some kind of ninja like the ones from the inuzuka clan could simply smell the blood here or something and come to check.' Masato thought to himself as he took a deep breath and then crouched down as he started rummaging through the shinobi bags of Shizue and Kazuha, taking everything that could be of use to him later on.

'A few kunai and shuriken, extras wouldn't hurt to have and then there's the map of the region as well as… oh, both of them each have one soldier pill, that is useful, from what I remember from what I read one of these can keep you fed for a few days, hopefully those fanfictions were correct because I can't really remember if it was the same in the anime and manga or if that was just something that fans came up with.' Masato thought to himself as he quickly pocketed the items that Shizue and Kazuha had been carrying before he lifted himself up and turned to head further in the direction that they had been going in, however before he could take a step… he had to stop as he jumped to the side as quickly as he could.

His hands moved on pure instinct as he launched the body flicker jutsu as quickly as he could and his body flickered into the distance, crossing dozens of meters in a single instant, however Masato didn't hesitate even for one moment as he launched another body flicker jutsu, followed by another and another, by the eighth body flicker however he could already feel that his measly chakra reserves were already dwindling quickly and thus had to stop, he had reached a small clearing almost a full kilometer away by simply using the body flicker in quick succession over and over again without minding the chakra expenditure.

'That was definitely an explosive kunai, the sizzling sound and the small flash of light when it was thrown looked like metal reflecting the moonlight. Hell no, no thanks.' Masato thought however as he stood there in the small clearing, his hands on his knees as he breathed deeply, his eyes still focused on the distance behind him that he had just travelled across, he noticed that… he had already been found.

A group of four ninja stood opposite to him, all of them standing on tree branches and wearing green jonin and chunnin vests, to be more precise, it was one jonin and three chunnin inside of a team, they were all of average looks, they didn't even seem like anyone important, merely a random team of leaf shinobi.

'Damned it, there's no escaping this through force or skill, the best thing that I can do is ask for mercy considering that the hidden rain is not at war with the hidden leaf.' Masato thought in slight annoyance as he looked up at the men.

"Hey, I'm from the hidden rain, we aren't enemies, I swear." Masato said as he lifted his hands up in a surrendering gesture towards them.

The jonin, a man with dark black hair and black eyes, used a sign-less body flicker as he appeared right infront of Masato in a split second.

Masato's eyes widened in slight shock as he took an unconscious step backwards.

The man standing before him was taller than his current body, not by much however it was noticeable. He had spiky black hair that went down to his shoulders and pitch black pupil-less eyes that were currently completely focused onto Masato's own eyes, the man had no expression on his face, a completely blank emotionless look.

"He's not lying." The man said as he looked at Masato for a moment longer, his words leaving his mouth emotionlessly.

'Thank god.' Masato thought to himself as he started to nod his head in relief… only to feel a sudden sharp pain inside of his chest, looking down he found that the man's hand had extended forwards and was already holding a small short blade, a short blade that was currently hilt deep inside his chest.

Looking back up slowly at the man, blood already started spewing out of his mouth and there Masato saw it, the man's eyes were red, with three magatama rotating around a black pupil.

"Ah… I was in an illusion from the beginning wasn't I, you made it so that I couldn't see your hand movement… or the fact that you had your sharingan active… fuck. Do you wanna know something?" Masato asked as he coughed out blood, a few splatters landing on the man's cheek.

"What is it?" The man asked, still holding that expressionless look on his face.

"I think… I know why you guys hated the Senju… It's… because they at least had balls unlike you emo shrimps. You shrimpless piece of fuckin…." Masato spoke, his words slowly slurring until his head lolled to the side, dead once more whilst the red screen of the simulation ending appeared inside of his mind once more.

 

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The simulation ending screen was once more before him, the world around him had frozen once more and the only thing he could see was red and the holographic screen flashing right before his eyes.

'Damned Uchiha and their eyes…' Masato thought before once more thinking about restarting the simulation, the very next second that he did, the world reset once more and his eyes snapped back open, once more inside of the cave on the side of the mountain wall surrounded by the forests and the drizzle of the rain all around him.

It was however at that very moment that something… unexpected came up, a ding like notification sound rang out inside of his mind, the sound was similar to that of a small bell ringing inside his mind, and in the very next moment, a holographic screen appeared inside of his vision, floating there in the air right before him.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has killed a Gennin "Shizue" of the Rain Village. ]

[ User has unlocked the experience system. ]

[ Ding! ]

[ User has gained 100 Experience. ]

[ Ding! ]

[ User has leveled up to level 2! ]

Looking at the dozens of pop ups that were rapidly appearing before him, Masato's smile widened as a feeling of exhilaration coursed through his body, without hesitating even a second longer, he instantly opened his status screen whilst removing the popups after he had already finished reading them and he was once more disappointed.

[ Status ]

[ Name: Araya ]

…

..

'Damned it, It's showing me the status screen for the character that I'm currently possessing inside of the simulation and not my own, I can't even invest or look at the new system yet.' Masato thought to himself with slight annoyance before an idea went through his mind as the realisation came to him.

'Hey system, can I resume this same simulation after I die and refuse to restart, thus heading back to the real world?' Masato thought inwardly and in the very next second, the system came with the reply as the bell sound rang inside of his mind.

[ Yes. Until user finishes the current simulation successfully, he will not be granted another simulation scenario, User can leave the Simulation upon death and return back to this same scenario once more whenever he wishes to do so. ]

'Then… I could just leave and check what the experience system is and what I'm gaining for each level, before that though how about I actually try leveling up a bit more.' Masato thought to himself as the wide smile that had yet to leave his face widened even further, if anyone were to see the current him they would more than likely thing that he had gone insane, to the other people inside of the simulation, Araya had just woken up from a coma induced by a genjutsu from an enemy and the first thing that he had done was get up onto his feet and start smiling so wide that the grin had practically split his face.

It was at that very moment that the sound of footsteps was heard once more, two sets of footsteps coming closer towards him from outside of the cave.

The grin that had been present on Masato's face vanished in an instant as if it had never been there to begin with, thankfully he hadn't been facing in the direction of the footsteps and so neither of the two genin that were approaching had seen anything.

Turning around to face them, Masato lifted his hand and waved slowly.

"Hey guys… have I been out for a while?" Masato asked, his voice soft and concerned as he looked at Shizue and Kazuha who had now entered the cave and were already looking at him with expressions of pure relief on their faces.

"Quite a bit, we were… worried." Shizue spoke first on this turn of the simulation as she walked closer and gave him a hug, unable to help herself, her eyes slightly teary whilst Kazuha remained slightly back, still acting utterly awkward in any kind of emotional situation, his hands fidgeting around his waist as he pretended to be checking his ninja bag that was tied around his waste.

Minutes passed as Masato proceeded to ask the very same questions about what had happened whilst he had been unconscious, as soon as he completed this action which he had only done so as to not seem suspicious in any degree, he instantly turned up his first suggestion.

"We should stay here for the night, just to wait in case Sensei managed to escape… I know that the chances of that happening aren't high however, I just… we should have some hope in Sensei as well and besides this is a hidden location that only rain ninja know about so we should be decently safe around here right?" Masato asked with a tight smile, grief seemingly filling his eyes as he mentioned the Sensei of the group.

Kazuha nodded his head almost instantly, he had been planning to suggest the same thing as well.
"Yeah, I mean our Sensei is pretty strong, I'm sure that he managed to escape as well, I mean we weren't even really the targets of the attack and only got caught in the cross fire anyways." Kazuha spoke as he was sitting by the camp fire next to Masato and Shizue who had also sat down earlier whilst they had been talking about what had happened whilst Masato or rather Araya had been unconscious after the genjutsu.

Shizue thought to a moment, her face scrunching up slightly in thought for a moment before she seemed to come to the same decision as them as she nodded her head.

"Alright, well then we should set up a guard rotation, since I'm the most rested one out of us, I should take first watch and let you guys rest for a bit, and then Kazuha can take the second turn and Shizue can take the last. Two hour rotations?" Masato spoke as he smiled softly towards the two of them.

 

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Shizue and Kazuha nodded their heads in unison as they looked at Araya, their team mate, someone that they had grown up with during the academy and in the village, someone they had gone together on missions with and had learned to consider like family, they held no suspicion in their eyes, the thought that something could be wrong didn't even cross their minds at all, the thought that Araya would do something to them whilst they slept was completely unthinkable.

The two laid down by the campfire whilst Masato headed to the edge of the small cave and leaned against the wall and started counting inside of his own mine.

'One… two… three… four…' Masato counted each second, one after the other, patiently waiting whilst he closed his own eyes, focusing his attention on his hearing whilst he counted the seconds down, minutes passed slowly, finally after a while, he finished counting.

'It's been twenty minutes, I can't wait any longer considering that If I fail to kill them instantly whilst they sleep, the fight could drag out and the enemies that show up during the night after the forty minute mark could arrive and steal my well deserved… experience bags.' Masato thought to himself as his eyes snapped open, his expression had once more changed into a smile, this time not the same grin as before but a rather relaxed joyful smile as he slowly started walking towards his two team mates.

'Unfortunately, I don't have any explosion tag kunai or this would have been much easier… I have to get some of those as soon as I head back to the real world when I decide to head on missions, I really can't understand why shinobi never used them as much, maybe they're expensive? That could be the reason as to why the rain village didn't supply any to their genin even in times of war, I'm assuming that to be the case, especially considering that they're made with fuinjutsu, something to investigate later I guess.' Masato thought as he finally stopped, merely two meters away from the two young genin who were asleep on the floor by the campfire.

Lifting his hand and bringing it behind his waist where his ninja bag was located, Masato quickly took out two kunai before looking down at them in his hand and then back to the sleeping gennin.

'I could throw them however I don't really have any experience with throwing these things, the chances that I don't kill them instantly are really high, now that I'm thinking about it, I really did get lucky during the previous simulation with the instant kill to the forehead.' Masato thought to himself as he took another step closer and then crouched down to Shizue first, from what he had seen, the young girl was most definitely more experienced than Kazuha who had simply rushed forwards on the last simulation and had gotten his head decapitated by a trap, that could have simply been bad luck however he didn't have more information than that to determine which would be a bigger headache if they woke up after the first kill and so he chose the one that he thought would be the most dangerous based on the current information that he had in his hands.

Now crouched above the girl, he lifted his kunai up with one hand whilst he brough his other hand close to her face and in the next instant he slammed it as much as he could, bringing the sharp black kunai directly onto the girls forehead whilst his other hand clamped over her mouth at the same time that he had brought the kunai down.

*Schlink*

With a bloody sound of meat being pierced and quite a bit of resistance, the kunai sunk inside, directly piercing through her forehead and her skull and entering into her brain, instantly killing the young girl before she could even so much as release a gasp or wake up and struggle.

The blood quickly flowed out around the kunai and started spilling down over the sides of her forehead and hair and onto the ground below.

'I can't wait.' Masato thought as he quickly jumped, not bothering with not making any sounds as his body launched itself onto Kazuha who had already snapped his eyes open, the boys nose twitching as he smelled the sudden overwhelming smell of blood around them.

However unfortunately for the boy, he had slept too close to Shizue, and thus allowed Masato to instantly get on top of him and slam his kunai down, this time he wasn't as precise and Kazuha himself had moved his head at the very last second, still, the kunai had directly pierced all the way through the side of his neck.

Masato didn't waste another second, as soon as he saw the damage had been done, he jumped off of the boy and back onto his feet, taking a few quick steps backwards whilst Kazuha released gasping sounds, his body doubled over, both of his arms on his neck, where the kunai was still deeply imbedded into his neck almost fully to the hilt.

The wound was fatal however it didn't spell an instant death, it would be quick, the bloodloss from piercing his neck and artery would be quick however compared to a direct brain pierce, it would indeed be much slower.

Kazuha's eyes moved towards Masato, they were widened, disbelief colouring them, the boy couldn't even utter any words, his throat had already been filled with blood, only gurgling sounds could be heard coming from him as he started losing his balance and sight from the immense blood loss.

Masato stood there, a few feet away, his expression had already returned to that damned easy going smile of his as he lifted his hand and gave a cute little wave of his hand.

"Hey they kazu kazu, you doin good? Got somethin on your neck, want me to remove it for you?" Masato asked, his voice clearly amused.

 

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The light faded from the young boy's eyes and in the very next instant, his body fully slumped onto the ground, his head lolling to the side as the blood continued to flow out, pooling around his body in a much larger volume than the blood that had come out of Shizue.

Kazuha had his carotid artery practically slashed fully, causing the bloodloss to be immense whilst Shizue had been directly pierced through her forehead, most of the bleeding had been because of the broken skin whilst the rest had been internal damage that had showed through the blood leaving out of her nose and ears.

Masato didn't think long about what he had just done, to him these two were simply pieces on a game board, they had been created by the system and as such in his mind they weren't real, their emotions were not real and neither were their feelings or pain and despair.

Quickly walking closer to the two already cooling dead bodies on the floor, Masato's hands moved as he snatched all the supplies that they had, together with the map that was on Shizue before he turned around and started to use the body flicker to leave the area as quickly as he could, however in comparison to the last time where he had done eight body flickers in quick succession, he only did four in this current simulation run.

'I have to save up as much chakra as I can, whilst the chances of this being the run that I finish the simulation are practically void, It doesn't mean that I can't use this to gather further information on the route. I'll try heading on the long secluded route that Shizue mentioned, I don't need to survive the long weeks like them here, I just need to survive seven days, whether this body dies after I'm gone from this world doesn't matter to me.' Masato thought to himself as he pulled out the map after having finished body flickering into the forest as far as he could without completely draining his chakra reserves.

Looking at the map, he quickly found something that could be a good enough location to head to.

The land of Rain didn't only have one settlement, though the biggest one was obviously the village hidden in the rain, there were still countless smaller villages situated all around the land, and one of them was close enough that he could reach it if he continued running for around a day.

'That… let's try heading there. I can simply take over one of the houses from the villagers there and try and wait out the timer. The question now though is whether I can even reach the village without dying on the way first. I have no way to know if I'm being tracked, this body doesn't have any sensory capabilities either and neither do I know of any ways on how to hide my tracks whilst on the road…' Masato thought as he started running once more in the direction that he had set, the trees flashing by him as he ran.

As he was running, he noticed something that he had overlooked before, the speed at which he was running was much higher than he had ever been able to run at whilst on his earth, it was clear that the chakra enhancement even at these low levels was still very much noticeable, running for an entire day would have been impossible in his previous world, at least for most of the population, however in this world even whilst inside this young body, it was completely feasible.
Minutes passed, turning into hours as the first light of the dawn of the next day started shining through the foliage of the forest as Masato continued his run through the forest, he had yet to encounter any danger whilst on the road, in fact he hadn't seen any signs of any kind of human life around, the most he had seen had been the occasion craters that were clearly caused by the clashes of ninja and their battles over the land.

'Living in this world sure sucks ass doesn't it.' Masato thought to himself off handedly as he continued running, finally after around six hours since he had finished his killing of his two teammates, he left the forest and entered a massive clearing, the rain had still refused to slow down or stop, the clouds were ever present and almost completely covered the sky besides the few moments when the light of the sun that had already risen managed to pierce through them and illuminate the world below.

It was at that moment as he arrived at this clearing however that he noticed something else, the clearing wasn't empty, no in fact there was a camp, a massive shinobi camp right in front of him.

Stopping instantly, Masato felt a surge of annoyance course through his entire body, he had just spent the last six hours of his life running through a damp rainy forest in the middle of the night whilst his hands were still sticky with disgusting blood, only for it to all end up with him here, right in front of his enemy and with a squad of shinobi already waiting for him, having likely sensed his approaching chakra from farther away.

"Well… what do we have here? A little kid?" One of the approaching shinobi said from across the clearing, the camp was even further away, barely able to be seen from this distance, they had likely rushed here after sensing Masatos chakra so that he wouldn't be able to come any closer to the camp in the rare case that he was doing some kind of suicidal explosive attack.

Looking at the ninja before him, Masato instantly recognised the engraved symbol on the man's shoulder band, this was an Iwagakure camp.

"A little kid? Your mum didn't seem to mind when she saw me last night though. Should I call you the son of a pedo stone?" Masato spoke as he shrugged his shoulders, a smile appearing on his face.

 

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For a single long moment, silence reigned on the clearing, no one uttered a single word, the only change was the slight widening of the jaws of the Iwagakure shinobi as their eyes slowly moved from Masato towards the man that Masato had just spoken to, to their comrade who wasn't even reacting, the man was in complete shock, this had never once in his life crossed his mind as a possibility when he had first noticed who it had been that had been rushing straight towards their camp.

*Chirp* *Chirp*

The sound of birds was finally heard coming from the forest, breaking the complete silence, and just like a starting pistol, that sound finally broke the man from his shock induced stupor, as in the very next second, his face turned an alarming shade of red, veins popping on his forehead and in the very next second, his body vanished, almost leaving an afterimage behind.

And in the very next instant, Masato felt the strong grip on his throat, the man was already right before him, his hand wrapped around his neck as he slowly lifted Masato from the ground and into the air as if he weighed nothing at all.

"You… snivelling son of a bitch." The man uttered, his voice shaking as his grip continued to tighten until the sound of Masato's neck bones starting to creak was heard faintly if someone was close enough to hear it, Masato was most definitely close enough, it was his own neck, he could vividly hear the sound of his neck about to break as the man tightened his grip further and further.

Masato however was not a man who would give up, not without having the last word at least.

"Is that… the best… ugh that you can do? Can't even curse… me out … properly." Masato muttered, his voice tight and raspy, barely able to come out as he was being choked to death.

The man's face seemed to somehow redden even further, something that Masato thought would be impossible. However, just at that very moment as he was about to kill him, Masato's hand moved directly over the man's face, his fingers finding purchase on the eyes as he thrust his fingers as deeply as he could, blood instantly spurting out.

The attack didn't deter the man, if it had been a civilian, the attack would have likely caused him to back up and scream in pain however these were shinobi, not civilian villagers, the instant that the man got attacked, his grip tightened fully and a clear snapping sound was heard as Masatos neck finally gave up resistance and was broken.

The death was practically instant as the violent red screen of the simulation ending flashed before Masato's eyes, the world freezing once more, leaving only the holographic screen in front of him, obscuring most of his vision.

'How's that you fuckers, fucking finally, I actually managed to do some harm to these bullshit jonin that keep going around and killing god damn genin who aren't even their real enemies in this war.' Masato thought to himself, completely not thinking about how he had done the even more despicable thing, killing his own team mates, his brain didn't register what he had done as something evil, it only registered the other mans act as evil because it didn't benefit him, because to him, he was the player, the god of this world practically whilst they were all characters that he would be playing with.

[ Simulation End. ]

[ Cause: Death. ]

[ Restart Simulation ]

[ Quit ]

Looking at the holographic screen as he shook the thoughts out of annoyance out of his mind, Masato didn't hesitate as he thought about clicking the quit button and the system instantly responded.

[ Quitting the Simulation. ]

[ Ding! ]

[ User has killed 2x Gennin of the village hidden in the rain. ]

[ Ding! ]

[ User has gained 2x 100 experience points. ]

[ Ding! ]

[ User has leveled up to level 3! ]

The popups practically appeared one after the other without a second of delay between each other, announcing that his strategy, just as he had thought had been successful, now all that remained was leaving the simulation and checking his status in his own Naruto World.

Masato didn't have to wait long as his vision quickly started darkening whilst the holographic screens that were floating in front of him vanished one after the other until none remain and the only thing he could see was the red coloured world, the frozen iwagakure shinobi whose eyes had been pierced and who was still holding Masato off the ground by his neck.

And in less than five seconds that sight too vanished, everything returning to pure darkness, darkness that lasted for another few seconds where he had no feeling in his body, where he couldn't see, couldn't hear, smell or touch. And then that darkness swiftly vanished as well as feeling returned to his body.

The first thing that he felt was the pain, the pain of his own broken body that was still inside of the medical ward of the Konoha camp.
Opening his eyes, he found that nothing had changed, in fact it was exactly the same as when he had first entered the simulation.

'The time dilation is one to ten thousand, and I spent around eight hours or so across all the simulations together, that would translate to barely three seconds or so. That… is really convenient.' Masato thought to himself as he looked around the tent for a moment, though he couldn't see much as his bed was completely surrounded by the curtains that the medical ninja had placed around it.

'Alright… Well, no time to waste, let's check the thing that I actually came here to check and then I can head back inside that simulation.' Masato thought as he focused his gaze in front of him and uttered the words softly.

"Status."

[ Status ]

[ Name: Rin ]

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[ Status ]

[ Name: Rin ]

[ Age: 14 ]

[ Gender: Male ]

[ Job: Hidden Leaf Genin ]

[ Level: 3 ] [ 50 / 200 ]

[ Physical : F ] [ 0 / 100 ]

[ Mental : F ] [ 0 / 100 ]

[ Chakra : F ]

[ Talent : None ]

[ Bloodline: None ]

[ Available Status Points : 30 ]

[ Overall Comprehensive Description: A useless Fodder. ]

'So that's what the experience point system is, pretty much what I expected though it's nice to know the exact values, so basically the increase in level experience requirement is around fifty per level if the first level up to level two cost me one hundred points which is what I got from the first genin kill then the second time the requirement for level three was one hundred and fifty, thus two genin kills which were worth one hundred points each, leading to a fifty exp remaining in the bar after the level up.' Masato thought before his eyes lowered as he looked at the status points that he had gained.

'Ten points per level, you need a hundred to rank up one of the stats, chakra doesn't have the system, I'm guessing its because it will automatically increase in rank once both physical and mental reach it as chakra is a combination of physical and spiritual or mental energy. Alright, that makes enough sense.' Masato thought before he instantly invested fifteen points in physical and fifteen points into mental.

[ Physical : F ] [ 15 / 100 ]

[ Mental : F ] [ 15 / 100 ]

Lifting his left hand, the only one that he had in this body, he flexed his fingers slightly however he didn't feel any kind of increase in strength and neither had he felt any kind of increase in his mental capabilities though the second one would be harder to gauge even if there had indeed been an increase.

'I'm guessing that the increase only happens once a stat rank goes up and not when the points are invested whilst the rank still remains the same.' Masato thought however as he was thinking about the best way for him to continue investing his points into the future, a bell like dinging sound interrupted said thoughts.

[ Ding! ]

[ User still has not claims the beginner package. ]

[ Does user want to claim the beginner package? ]

[ Yes ] [ No ]

'Oh… fuck, I completely forgot about that, I got too caught up in the simulations and fighting to the death and all that shit that I basically forgot about a free lunch…' Masato thought to himself as he felt like smashing his head against the wall, the beginner package claiming should have been the first thing he did, even before he had entered into the simulation, however it had completely slipped out of his mind.

'Yes, claim it. Claim.' He thought and in the very next second the system responded.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has claimed the beginner package. ]

[ The roulette of Talent has been opened. ]

[ Spin the roulette. ]

As the holographic pop up panels appeared one by one before him, floating there mid-air, Masato's eyes frantically moved as he tried to read everything as quickly as he could before it could be covered by another holographic screen, thankfully he had always been a fast reader, reading fanfiction at insane speeds as soon as a new chapter dropped had always been his favourite hobby back in his own world afterall.

As soon as he finished reading the holographic screens telling him about some kind of roulette, the roulette itself appeared before him, it was a new kind of holographic screen, whilst the previous ones until now had been a shining blue colour, this one was completely yellow or rather golden and had the image of a roulette on it, engraved inside of the roulette were hundreds of different names of talents, ranging from Taijutsu Talent and all the way up to… House cleaning talent.

'Your joking right? Why is that an option, why the hell is that something that I can get, I dont want that option, I'm in a fucking wizard ninja world, what the hell am I supposed to do with that talent if I get it? Start a cleaning service in Konoha?' Masato thought as a headache instantly sprouted inside of his mind at the mere thought of losing his beginner package to a house cleaning, practically a maid talent.
'At that point, I should just open a cat cafe and hope that Jiraya likes femboys or something.' Masato thought before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath and lifting his only index finger and clicking on the spin button, he could have simply thought about spinning and the system would have responded however this felt like something he should do physically even if it only gave a false sense of hope and security.

[ Ding! ]

[ Roulette of Talent is spinning! ]

The roulette on the holographic screen started spinning at insane speeds, the names of the talents blurring as the roulette seemed to move faster and faster, whilst a timer appeared on top of it, the numbers shining in a bright neon red, counting down from ten.

'Ten…' Masato counted down together with the count down on the holographic screen, his heart felt like it was about to beat out of his chest from both excitement, hope and anxiety at the same time.

'Please let it be something related to the ninja arts, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Fuinjutsu, Kenjutsu, those are the best but even something like stealth talent is fine, anything that can help me with combat, just dont let it be something dumb, please' Masato thought, practically praying to any gods that he knew, even those that he did not believe in, just for this once, so that his luck could finally shine upon him.

'3'

'2'

'1'

[ Ding! ]

[ Roulette has finished Spinning. ]

Looking at the position where the roulette had landed on, Masato felt pure despair at his own luck.

'Why… what did I even do… I've been a good man all my life, I have never done a single wrong thing! Never!' He thought as his hand gripped the sheets of the bed tightly whilst he felt like crying tears of frustration.

[ User has won the… ]

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[ User has won the Cooking Talent! ]



[ Congratulations! ]



'Congratulations? Congratu fucking lations? What the hell do you mean gratz, this is a scam, a complete and utter scam, I knew gambling was bad, my mom used to warn me about days like these!' Masato thought as he felt like pulling his hair out, his head shaking in disbelief before he raised his hand and swiped at the air, clearing out the holographic screens before closing his eyes and taking a deep long breath, calming himself down as best as he could in a few seconds.



'Damn, my body hurts, just from getting so emotional and having my heartrate spike, this body is basically trash, worse than trash, its basically unusable. I'll have to wait for them to transfer me back to Konoha before I can even try doing anything, still I guess it's not all bad, because I've already lost all capability to fight, I wont actually have to risk my life in the real world whilst I can keep accumulating strength with the simulations.' Masato thought as he released a sigh before opening the simulation window once more and clicking the F rank simulation.



'There's no reason to really stay here, I can't even move and theres nothing I can do, It's better that I just spend this time gaining as many experience points as possible though this time I should wait before killing them, first I should find out a way on how I can clear the simulation and then… kill myself, that way I can clear this out whenever I want whilst saving the status rank upgrade, now that I think about it… I should have probably invested all of my points into a single stat instead of both. It's not like it's a waste but still… that way I could have just used the rank upgrade to instantly bring the second stat up to bar and thus level up my chakra as well.' Masato thought as his vision slowly but surely darkened as his senses vanished and he once more entered into the simulation world.



[ Welcome back to the Simulation, Simulation Gamer! ]



His eyes snapped back open and he once more found himself back inside of the cave, next to the campfire that he had already seen dozens of times by this point.



'Alright, let's think, If we head for the direct route, we encounter Konoha shinobi, one of them being an Uchiha, that's basically a dead end unless I can find some way to get them to keep me alive. If I head in the roundabout way towards one of the villages, I end up directly inside of an Iwagakure camp site. Still, there's two other directions that I can head in, no actually it's only one.' Masato thought as he rubbed the back of his head with one hand, frustrated as he stood up from the ground and turned around to face the entrance as he waited for Shizue and Kazuha to show up.



'The reason is pretty simple… one of the two remaining directions is where we ran away from or rather where this body and those two kids ran away from, its where the original attack took place. So that leaves only the last direction… which is to head on the roundabout way but just on the other side of it, though this would make us travel through the mountain thus it would be harder to convince the other two to join me, It's quite an illogical suggestion if one doesn't have the information that I have however… and I can't even explain how I have that information without sounding completely insane, they might even think that it was a suggestion planted inside of my mind from the Genjutsu.' Masato thought before shaking his head to clear his mind once more, he was thinking too hard on how to convince his team as if they were his enemies, he had overlooked the simplest detail.



"Araya! You're awake!" Kazuha said as he entered into the small cave, lifting his hand up high in greeting.



"I… I'm so glad." Shizue muttered softly with teary eyes.



'These guys treat this body like family… I can simply be unreasonable and ask them to trust me.' Masato thought as he finally felt like smiling once more after that disaster of a roulette.



"Yeah, anyways guys, I have something to say, we don't really have much time to stay here." Masato said as he walked closer to them before he proceeded to explain his plan to start heading away from the location they were currently in as soon as possible, once more having to deal with the fact that Kazuha wanted to stay and wait for their Sensei and once more dealing with it just as swiftly as he had during the previous simulations.



"Alright, so… why are you saying that we head through the mountains, we don't even have enough rations to live through that journey until the village, we would be starving and losing our stamina at a much higher rate than usual, it's basically a death sentence." Shizue spoke, her voice tinged with confusion as she looked at Masato, her eyebrows slightly raised up.



"Simple, firstly we can't head back in the direction that we came from, that much is obvious." Masato spoke as he raised one finger.



Both of the genin before him nodded their heads in unison.



"Secondly, we can't head in the other roundabout direction because I know that there is a Iwagakure settlement there, it would spell our death." Masato spoke as he raised a second finger.



At his words, both Shizue and Kazuha's eyebrows rose up even further on their foreheads as they looked at him with pure confusion.



"How do you know that there's an Iwa camp there?" Shizue asked as she tilted her head.



"I learned it from Sensei, he told me to tell you guys about it but… I kinda forgot, sorry. Its just an updated version of the map that Sensei had." Masato said, completely bullshitting his reason for knowing the information.

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'It's not like the man is even alive to tell them that I'm lying out of my ass right now anyways.' Masato thought to himself as he watched the two genin completely eat up his explanation as both of them nodded, a soft sound of realisation escaping them.



"Okay… that explains those two directions but the roundabout way was still not the option that I was thinking of heading towards, the direct path is the only one that we can feasibly survive with the amount of rations that we have." Shizue spoke as she made a small pointing gesture towards their ninja bags that were strapped to each of their waists.



Masato nodded his head before narrowing his eyes slightly and almost smiling.



"Right, and what exactly do you think the people who were chasing us are going to think? They all know, every single village knows that the hidden rain isn't well off, they know that most of our shinobi don't even have most of what the other great villages consider as basic supplies. Now since they know that information, what direction do you think they would guess we would head towards?" Masato asked as he gave a soft knowing smile at Shizue.



'In fact I do not know how much the other villages know, I'm basically stretching this argument however It's not as if it doesn't have Its merits, it does have some logic into it. Either way, I don't need it to be fully logical, I just need it to work on these guys.' Masato thought to himself as he waited for Shizue patiently whilst her face did that habit that he had noticed where her face scrunched up whilst she was deeply inside of her thoughts or weighing a decision against another.



Finally after almost an entire minute of silence that was only broken occasionally by Kazuha who took a step every now and again, clearly the boy couldn't stay still for the life of him.



Shizue finally nodded.



"Alright, that… makes sense, we will go with your suggestion, still we need to find a way to gather food, drinking water won't be much of a problem considering the constant rain however food is most definitely something we have to account for, and considering that we cannot hunt any of the wildlife around because most of it is containing viruses or poisons, it's… not going to be easy." Shizue spoke as she turned to look outside of the small cave.



It was at that moment as those words were said aloud that a thought hit Masato, something that he hadn't expected, and instantly he addressed his system inside of his mind whilst outwardly making a thinking face.



'System, can I use my cooking talent whilst inside of here? Would the talent make me able to cook the poisoned wild life into something edible?' He thought inside of his mind and in the very next second, the holographic screen appeared right in front of his face, floating there in the middle of the air.



[ Correct. Users can use all Talents whilst inside of the Simulation. The user's mind is his own whilst only the body is borrowed inside of the Simulation. Whilst the User's mind cannot affect the mental stat of the body he possesses, Talents do get carried over. User can indeed use the Cooking talent to create edible food from poisoned animals. ]

Reading the holographic panel as quickly as he could whilst trying to not move his eyes so that it wouldn't look like he was reading something invisible in the middle of the air, Masato felt like laughing, the talent that he had called useless actually had a use.



'Nothing is ever truly useless in the world is it! I knew that it would be useful! I totally did!' Masato thought to himself, completely contradicting his earlier despair like a total hypocrite whilst he turned to face Shizue on the outside.



"Actually, I think I have a way to deal with that, I think I may be able to cook the animals so that I can remove the poison, there's a pretty good chance and I'm quite confident in my ability. Still that chance is better than the ones that we have if we were to head in the other three directions either way." Masato spoke, his voice soft and calm, utterly firm as he tried his best to show his conviction towards the two other kids in front of him.



"You have a way to… do that? That… that's great, with food taken care of, this really is the best direction." Shizue said as her eyes practically lit up with hope as she quickly nodded her head.



Kazuha who had been mostly silent until now similarly nodded his head frantically, a wide smile appearing on his face as he lifted his hand and practically slammed it on Masato's back over and over again in his excitement.



"Hell yeah man! I knew that you could find a way. That's Araya for you!" He spoke joyfully whilst still maintaining that wide grin on his face.



"Right, right. Stop now, you're gonna break my back if you keep doing that." Masato spoke as he took a step to the side and rubbed his back with one hand as a slightly annoyed expression appeared on his face before he quickly smoothed it over once more.



"Alright then with that already figured out, lets get going, we can't stay here for much longer, It's not safe, we are way too close to where the attack took place and they could have already tracked us and could be here at any moment, we cant risk it any longer." Masato spoke as he turned to face the outside and motioned with his head for the two others to follow him, waiting only for a mere moment before launching himself forwards in a run, his hands behind him whilst he ran as hard as he could towards the mountain range in the distance.



'Naruto Run for the win!!!' He thought to himself in amusement.

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The three of them continued through the forest for hours, thankfully this time there was no interruptions, the area was usually uninhabited and there were rarely any fights on it as the main fights were usually held around the lower grounds, the forests or the large fields, sometimes even in the small villages however this mountain range had remained untouched mostly by shinobi fights, though they did sometimes happen, it was usually on a much rarer occasion than in any other location.



Rare during the third ninja world war still meant that fights happened every week or so however , compared to the daily skirmishes at other parts of the land of rain, this was practically a peace haven.



Eleven hours after they had started running, Kazuha and Shizue were already starting to slow down, Masato himself wasn't faring much better either, he had never been used to such strenuous physical activity back in his own original world, and thus this had already placed a much larger toll on his mind than it had on his body, the body of Araya still fared decently well, even though it was tired, it was nowhere near the levels of exhaustion that any athlete on earth would have been experiencing at this point, the chakra that coursed through the bodies of all living creatures in this world made it a vast difference in the overall constitution of all living beings.



'Fuck… still, this is tiring. Even with chakra, my body is starting to slow down as well, not to mention those two who have been awake for far longer. At least this body was able to get some rest whilst it was in a coma from the Genjutsu it had been hit by from that leaf shinobi.' Masato thought as he slowly started to come to a stop, they were quite deeply into the mountain range at this point and he was quite sure that anyone that could have been tracking them had already given up, there was no reason for anyone to follow a bunch of gennin for eleven hours straight, that would simply be a gross misuse of military personnel.



As Masato came to a stop, so did the other two who similarly stopped right next to him, Kazuha was breathing heavily, sweating all over his body, he was utterly exhausted and Shizue wasn't in a much better condition herself as she sat down on a rock nearby so that she could catch her breath.



"Are we… huff.. Staying here for the time being?" Kazuha asked as he looked up from his bent over position with his hands on his knees up at Masato.



"Yeah, here is a decent enough place, you two should rest for a bit whilst I go and look around at the surroundings for anything that we could use as a better hiding location otherwise if I don't find anything better, we could just set up camp here. I'll also look and see if I can find any wildlife around here so that I can try cooking it, its best that we save our solider pills as much as we can incase of an emergency and that we don't know if I will find any wild life for days, so it is better to be safe than to be sorry." Masato said as he looked around the area, it was mostly rocky though the forest hadn't let up even in the mountains.



Because of the constant rain that fell upon the land of Rain, this place was practically a haven where greenery could grow even on places that would have otherwise remained without any vegetation at all. That didn't mean that the land of Rain had the same massive forests as the land of fire however as the downfall here was quite intense, leaving many different kinds of species of trees and vegetation unable to be planted however those that could withstand the amount of water, this place was a heaven for them where they could grow constantly and expand.



Shizue and Kazuha gave a nod as they proceeded to get slightly more comfortable whilst also moving closer to each other so they could watch each other's back and be on guard even whilst they were resting. Even when they were tired, they could not let down their guard even for a second, in this world no one knew when the next attack could happen, it could be at any given moment and as such it was best that they be careful whilst Masato was away. It was also one of the reasons why the shinobi had formed three man teams, in this way they would be able to rest whilst one of them could guard and could form more appropriate formations for any kind of scenario that they could be put through.



Walking away from the group, Masato started jogging through the area, he didn't run as he had already wasted more than enough stamina merely on the way to get to this location and they weren't going to be moving away anyhow so he took his time as he looked around the area.



'Thats… a river? It looks pretty deep, right off this cliff edge at that. That… I could make use of that.' Masato thought for a moment as he stopped jogging once he reached a cliff that overlooked the area around them for kilometers, giving him a clear view of all the surrounding forest.



Moving away from the location once more, he continued to search throughout the area though he came up with nothing, there was no caves like the one he had woken up in at the start of the simulation in which they could hide and neither did he find any signs of any kind of animals or wildlife around besides some small birds however he was quite sure that he wouldn't be able to catch them without some serious effort.



'Catching it would cost me more calories than whatever eating it would give, It's just not worth it.' Masato thought from his position near a large rock where he had sat after looking around for a while.

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Minutes after, Masato returned to the camp only to find that things were not as he had left them, no they were not the same at all.



Looking at the location where they had decided to stop and rest for the time being from afar, Masato quickly noticed that there were not only Shizue and Kazuha standing there, there were four other shinobi, three young kids and a man wearing a brown chunin vest.



'An Iwagakure team? Thankfully it seems to only be a chunnin captain and not a Jonin sensei team otherwise this would have been a much worse problem than it currently is.' Masato thought as he turned and used the body flicker, he didn't think about trying to save his two team mates even for a moment as he simply flickered away towards the one location that he had found earlier, one that he had thought about using in case this happened.



The chunnin had already noticed him, after all the man had been on the lookout for any threats whilst he had left his genin team mates deal with the two exhausted rain genin, it was in a way to let them gain more experience fighting whilst not being in any real danger themselves. As soon as the man had seen Masato in the distance, he had already launched his own body flicker that was of a much higher mastery than the one that Masato could produce leading to him closing the gap that Masato had desperately tried to form in mere seconds.



Masato who was still running away towards the location of the cliff felt something nick his neck, the second it did, he stopped using the jutsu and instantly jumped to the side before taking out a kunai whilst he was still in mid air and throwing it behind him without even looking back to check if it had hit anything.



*Clang*



The sound of metal hitting on metal rang out as the chunnin who had been right behind him deflected the thrown kunai away easily.



They were now merely a few meters apart from each other, there was no time for him to talk anymore, not like he had done with the previous Iwagakure ninja that he had met at the camp, this was a fight to the death.



Masato's eyes narrowed for a moment as his hands flashed and in an instant three regular clones appeared around him and instantly all of them jumped towards… Masato, not towards the man.



These were not shadow clones, they could not attack physically and thus were just illusionary clones, however they could still act as a distraction and be used as a hiding technique or to simply confuse the opponent.



The Iwagakure chunin's eyes widened slightly in confusion just as Masato had desired and in that very instant through the cover of the clones, three more kunai were launched through the air and towards the man.



'Using clones like they are a smoke bomb sure is effective.' Masato thought to himself as he rolled away, not even checking if the man had been hit as he moved his hands once more to form the tiger hand seal once more.



'Body flicker Jutsu.' He thought inwardly as his body flickered into the distance once more, moving at rapid speeds towards his destination, and thankfully, he had already been close, the area where the cliff had been wasn't far away from where they had decided to set up camp and thus together with the bodyflickers that he had used at the start and now, he had managed to reach it just in time.



"What are you hoping to do, we both know that this is the end. There is no way for you to run away, your chakra reserves must already be low, you clearly look exhausted as well." The man finally spoke as he similarly reached the cliff area and stopped a few dozen meters away from Masato who was now standing at the cliff, to anyone looking there was no feasible way out of the situation.



The drop from the cliff wasn't something any regular genin could survive, no it wasn't something that even most jonin could survive without them specialising into their body or using some kind of technique that would dampen their fall, something that Masato most definitely did not have any techniques that were capable of that.



'Still… there is a chance of survival, its slim, barely there, however if I do indeed survive the fall into the river… it would be basically a guaranteed way for me to extend my survival time. The only problem is that this isn't a method that I can really replicate in the other simulation attempts after this.' Masato thought before releasing a long sigh and looking up at the chunnin with a smile.



"It is a dead end… or is it? I mean, you just have to think outside of the box you know? Or outside of the stone, whatever ya'll iwa guys have around there. I'm curious actually, do you really have stones for a brain like people say?" Masato asked, his voice amused as he lifted an eyebrow and then before the man could even respond in any way, before he could even speak let alone attack. Masato lifted his arms wide to the sides and took a step back.



Gravity instantly did the rest of the work as his body was pulled backwards and down as he started falling down from the cliff, his speed increasing by the second as the water down below came closer and closer in his vision.



The last thing that Masato saw before his vision completely blackened and he fell unconscious was the complete shock on the man's face.



Shinobi were known to kill themselves, rather than get captured for torture, most would prefer taking their own lives, however that was usually the case with higher ranking shinobi who had already grown harder mentally, not some newbie genin who didn't even have any information to protect in the first place.

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The water enveloped Masato in an instant, the rushing water of the river instantly taking him under, the impact from hitting it from so high up as well had caused him to get knocked out instantly.



Looking down at the rushing river below, the Iwagakure ninja could do nothing but turn away, chasing some random genin even further down to verify the kill wasn't something he could do, he had already left his team of genin for more than long enough as it was.



Turning around, the man used the bodyflicker jutsu without any hand signs and instantly flickered away into the distance, his body being seen tens of meters away for a moment before flickering even further away again and again repeatedly as he rushed back towards his team.



Hours passed, the sun rising and then falling down once more as the moon took its place and then it also completed its full rotation.



A full twenty four hours later, Masato's eyes finally snapped open as his upper body lifted itself instantly whilst his hands moved to his throat as he started coughing terribly, his throat felt like it had been completely ravaged and turned raw. For a moment the coughing got bad enough that he practically couldn't even see, thankfully however it soon started to subside as the tears that had started to appear in his eyes cleared up and he could finally see where he was.



Looking around, he realised that he was in some sort of bed, a blanket wrapped around him. The room that he was in was simple, a door was at the left side of the room, it was closed so he did not know where it led, likely however into some kind of living room.



The room was furnished however in a minimalistic way, not because it was intentional, it was clearly just what the owners could have scraped by and managed to bring together to furnish it at all. Besides the bed that Masato was laid on, there was a small drawer next to it and an equally small closet a bit farther away. That was all the furnishings inside of the room, nothing else.



'Someone saved me from the river and took me here… that's interesting. If only I could find the exact time when I fell down onto the river and then try and replicate the exact same drop… that would give me the chance to get back to this exact point into the simulation again, though doing that is… much harder than saying about doing it is.' Masato thought as he felt a headache surge through his head now that he had fully woken up. Lifting his hands to his head he quickly found out that the entire top of his head was wrapped in some kind of makeshift bandages.



Humming softly so that he could take his mind off of the pain, Masato got up onto his feet slowly, almost losing his balance for a moment despite trying to remain as stable as he could as he grabbed the edge of the drawer next to the bed and used it to slowly stand up straight.



Looking down at his body, he didn't see any real major injuries, besides the one on his head that had already been bandaged, he was overall in a decent enough condition. None of his bones had been broken, which was a miracle in and of itself, he was however quite sure that he most certainly had cracked some of his bones but those weren't fatal besides the fact that they would cause unbearable pain if he were to get attacked on those spots.



'Overall… a decent strategy, whilst I don't know where I am now, if I just remain silent and stay here with whoever saved me for a few more days, this is clear.' Masato thought to himself as he opened the drawer and there he found it, his ninja bag as well as headband, taking both, he quickly looked inside of the ninja bag and saw that nothing had been taken nor had anything been lost in the river when he had jumped before he put both of the items right back inside of the drawer.



'I don't want to gather any suspicion incase something comes and finds me here, I'll survive as long as I can in this simulation and when I'm close to beating the simulation, I'll just kill myself and restart from the beginning, in this way I can confirm whether this path of survival is actually viable or if its another dead end.' Masato thought before he turned and walked towards the door, he was already clothed in some brown cloth that was practically rags however he didn't move to get his ninja clothes which he suspected were in the closet, for the same reason as to why he did not take his headband and ninja bag with him.



Opening the door, light flew into the room from the outside, blinding his eyes for a moment, only now did he realise just how dark the room he had been in had been.



"Oh… he's awake, I should… I should tell father." A voice spoke, it was high and clearly feminine though it carried a childish quality to it.



Masato's eyes instantly locked onto the location that the voice had come from and there he saw it, a small girl with long red hair and amethyst eyes.



'Is that… a fuckin uzumaki?' Masato thought in shock as he kept staring at the girl as if she had just grown a second head on her body.

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Well well looks like his luck is turning around

 

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Looking at the girl before him that didn't look older than ten years old, with long red hair and amethyst eyes, Masato felt like he had just hit the jackpot.



'An uzumaki… if it really is an uzumaki and it's not just some kind of random chance that she has vibrant hair… then there could be a chance that I could gain some kind of information or even learn something from her parents about fuinjutsu.' Masato thought to himself instantly, already thinking about what he could gain from the girl and her family.



"Hey there… do you mind telling me where I am… and who you are?" Masato asked softly as he lifted one of his hands and gave a small wave towards the kid who was still looking at him with wide eyes.



"Ah… dad saw you in the river and took you in, he said that you were hurt and that we had to help you, uhm I'll call dad and tell him about you, uhm he'll be here and tell you." The little girl said in an adorable voice as she turned and started practically rushing away as fast as she could her legs, though that wasn't very fast considering just how small she was.



'Found me in the river and took me in… I guessed as much, still her father found me there, does that mean that these guys sustain themselves on fishing? A fisherman house… that's decent atleast. Better than just some random beggar finding me and helping me.' Masato thought as he walked and looked around, the living room was slightly better furnished than the room he had woken up in, it had a couch on one side, and then a small kitchen on the other part of the room, aswell as two more doors that led to rooms, likely the bedroom for the kid and the bedroom for the parents and then there was the hallway that the kid had just run towards that likely led towards the exit of the overall small house.



Walking towards the couch and sitting down, Masato waited patiently whilst still checking over his body, more closely this time as he poked and prodded at different areas of his body to check which ones were worse than the others.



Finally after around five minutes of waiting on the couch, the front door of the house opened with a long creaking noise and the sound of footsteps came, two pairs of footsteps, one of them was louder than the other, clearly one adult and the little girl that he had seen earlier.



Moments later that fact was proven as inside the room came a tall man with crimson red hair and the same amethyst eyes as the little girl, the man had a young face despite having a daughter around ten years old, he didn't look to be a day older than someone in their late twenties.



'Considering his rate of aging… either he had a child at eighteen or he is an uzumaki considering their vitality and how they age slower than others.' Masato thought to himself before he stood up from the couch and turned to fully face the two of them.



"Ah… it seems that you've woken up boy. You were in quite the bad situation when I found you. Name's Akihiko." The man spoke as he walked closer to Masato whilst the small girl trailed behind him, clenching the back of his pants with her hands as she practically tried hiding from Masato whilst still peeking around the man to look at him.



"Ah yeah… I… I encountered some really bad luck recently, thank you for saving me mister Akihiko. Im Araya, a genin from the Hidden Rain village. Im sure you uh noticed that already though based on my headband." Masato spoke as he lifted a hand and rubbed the back of his head in a show of slight shyness and awkwardness.



"Ah yes, yes I did. I tried my best to help as much as I could, the Hidden Rain has been good to all of us and I know that you all are trying to protect the people of this land as much as you can during these hard times. I couldn't possibly let a young man like you who doing so much for us die off like that in a river forgotten. Do you want some food? Some water perhaps? My wife will be coming back in an hour or so and will be able to make us something to eat but I can give you some water now." The man spoke as he showed an easy soft smile towards Masato, perhaps finding him slightly pitiful for how he had been found and his situation, added on top of his young age, it was a practically impossible situation for the man to not find pitiful.



Masato nodded his head softly.

"Some water would be good, my head hurts a bit though I guess that's to be expected." Masato replied as he took a step back and swayed slightly before sitting down onto the couch.



"Sorry, I…" Masato spoke once more apologetically as he tried to rise up to his feet once more only to fail.



Akihiko only shook his head quickly as he raised his palms up.



"Its okay, just stay sitting, you don't need to be so formal with me, I'm just a regular farmer, that's nothing compared to a ninja like yourself and even then you are hurt, you should rest. Izana, stay here with the man for a bit whilst I get some water okay?" Akihiko said quickly as he tried his best to reassure Masato before he turned around and walked towards the kitchen, leaving the small girl standing there near the couch, her hands having turned into tiny fists at her sides.

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'Good, this is perfect, he pities me, he thinks of me as some kind of pitiful kid who's trying his best to help his land and the people on it. That's perfect, the fact that he even has a daughter that's young as well most definitely helped. Now I just need to pretend to be in a worse physical condition than I am in so that I can gather some more information whilst making it that they have to keep me here for a few more days until I recover enough, that gives me the perfect excuse for exactly that anyways.' Masato thought to himself as he laid back slightly more onto the couch and his eyes landed onto the young girl.



"You're Izana? How old are you?" Masato asked softly as he lifted an eyebrow towards the young girl.



She didn't respond for a moment before her gaze looked away from him as she turned slightly flushed in embarrassment for a moment at being spoken directly to before she opened her mouth and uttered in a small soft voice.



"Im… I'm nine." The small girl stuttered out in that tiny voice as she seemed physically incapable of looking directly at Masato.



"Nine? Wow, you're already so big!" Masato said dramatically as he looked at her softly, trying to appear as kind as he possibly could, though he wasn't exactly great at doing this part.



'Damn it, I've never spoken to a small kid in so long that I don't even know how normal people act around them, like am I supposed to think she's a cute little thing to be protected? Or what? Damn, I guess I can use this chance to practice my acting in case I end up in a similar situation back at the hidden leaf village inside the real world.' Masato thought to himself, however before he could try and communicate more with the child, Akihiko came back with a glass filled with water that he handed to Masato.



Taking the glass of water with both hands whilst showing a grateful expression, Akihiko brought the glass of water… and he took a… sip.



And then he took another sip before bringing the glass down and holding it on his lap with both hands.



"Thank you, I… I really was practically parched, I don't know how I could ever thank you enough, you saved my life and even took care of me. I'll forever be in your and your family's debt for the rest of my life." Masato spoke, his voice shaking slightly as he looked at the man.



Akihiko for his part simply shook his head as he chuckled lightly and waved at the air with his hand.



"Don't worry about it, anyone in the same situation would have done the very same thing. Just focus on recovering, you're pretty beat up. You can stay here for as long as you want until you feel like you're good enough to get on your feet again." Akihiko said as he looked towards Masato with what could only be called as warmth inside of his eyes.



Masato nodded his head for a moment before turning silent as moments passed, for a little while the silence started to become awkward before Masato spoke once again in a slightly embarrassed voice.



"Sorry if this is insensitive to ask sir, but are you perhaps an Uzumaki? It's just the hair and it's… you don't have to answer if you don't want to, I was just a bit curious."

The man's eyes widened slightly for a moment before he nodded his head easily.



"I am, both me and my wife come from the Uzumaki Clan, after our village was destroyed, we came to the land of rain and settled down here to continue living our lives. We have been here for over ten years now actually."



'Over ten years, then just on what part of the third shinobi world war am I? Is this towards the end of the war or the beginning, I'm still quite confused on the timeline, both inside of the simulation and outside of it where im at the medical tent. I'm quite sure that this is before Minato did his decimation of over a thousand Iwagakure shinobi however as that practically spelled the end of the war for the Iwa and Konoha side, if that had already happened then the land of rain wouldn't have been so wrought with danger still.' Masato thought to himself before he focused his gaze onto the man once again.



"I… I know quite a bit about the uzumaki… if i may ask sir, I know this is sudden but people don't usually get chances like this and It feels like this is my one chance in life to ask… Do you know anything about Fuinjutsu that you could teach me? It would really be helpful and would increase my chances of surviving out there a lot." Masato spoke, his voice low, as pitiful as he could make it, even making it shake slightly after each word as he looked up at the man with wide hopeful eyes.



Akihiko for his part didn't respond instantly as his eyes narrowed slightly in thought, this was clearly not an easy request, Masato had basically just asked him to share information that was usually kept inside of the clan.



A moment later however the man seemed to come to a conclusion as he gave a nod of his head.

"I don't know much as I'm not a ninja and never truly learned the arts however as all clan members of the Uzumaki Clan, I do know a bit, how to make a inventory scroll, a basic explosion tag and at least some of the basics on the theory of sealing, I also have a book or two that I took with me about sealing. I am not great at teaching however so I'll just hand you the books and if you don't understand something, I can try my best to help you if I am capable." Akihiko spoke and as he did, Masato's eyes practically gleamed in triumph.

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Time passed, around an hour after Masato and Akihiko had come to an understanding about how Akihiko would be helping Masato learn Fuinjutsu, the front door of the house opened once more and inside came a woman with that very same long red hair, her eyes however were a deep dark blue that resembled the depths of the ocean and not the amethyst that both her husband and daughter shared.



Masato got up onto his feet as quickly as he could and did a full bow before her, head practically parallel with the ground as he expressed his gratitude towards the woman.



"Thank you for taking care of me inside of your own house ma'am." Masato spoke, his voice slightly too loud and over zealous however it didn't diminish the effect that he wanted to achieve, in fact it did quite the opposite as the woman laughed softly and walked towards him before patting his back rather heavily.



"It's fine, It's fine. Don't worry about it kiddo. My husband here would have never allowed a kid to die when he could do something about it. Now, I brought some bread from the market and we have some fish. Let me make you some warm fish soup to help you recover. Izana, come with me, you still need to keep up with your cooking lessons." The woman spoke as she motioned for the little girl to follow her whilst she herself started already walking towards the Kitchen.


"Actually ma'am.. I may be able to help, my family are chefs and I know how to cook, I'd… I'd really like to offer any kind of help, I really don't like being a freeloader and you all have already done so much for me." Masato spoke instantly as he raised himself up so that he was once more standing instead of the full ninety degree bow that he had been in before.



'The cooking talent… comes back to help me once again…maybe I did over react when I got it, this is pretty… decent if I do say so myself, afterall the saying is that the way to the heart is through the stomach isn't it?' Masato thought to himself as he looked at the woman with the most earnest expression that he could bring out on his face.



The woman had stopped walking and then turned slowly towards him, her eyes were practically shining and if Masato could have looked behind him, he would have seen that Akihiko's eyes were similarly in a shining hopeful state.



'Why… does she look like I just offered to save her life instead of just cooking some food or even just helping her with cooking.' Masato thought as confusion wrapped around his mind at the sight.



"That… that would be really appreciated actually, you see… me and Akihiko… we aren't really that great of cooks, we make decent food but we haven't eaten anything made by a real chef in so long that if i can say… my mouth is already watering. Also, call me Hana, that's my name. There's no need to deal with formalities in this house." The woman, now introduced as Hana, said with a wide smile on her face as she motioned with her hand for Masato to follow her.



And he did, heading into the kitchen and for the next hour or so, he proceeded to move around the kitchen with his instincts alone, the talent that he had gained from the system didn't disappoint in the least, he somehow knew instinctively how to cook the food, when it was cooked enough, what spices he could combine to further enhance the taste of the fish and how he could use the oils that had been released whilst the fish had cooked to then enhance the quality of the bread. He moved around the small kitchen as if he had known its layout since he had been born instead of just coming here for the very first time.



The little girl who had been utterly embarrassed and shy at the start, who couldn't even look at Masato in the eyes at the beginning had loosened up completely as she kept asking questions about the ingredients and why he was doing certain things with an excited small voice whilst Akihiko and Hana had simply stood to the side after having watched how Masato cooked for a few minutes, learning that they wouldn't really be of any help towards him and would only hinder him in the kitchen.



"I… I don't even have words… Araya-kun, your family really must know how to cook, this looks… really good." Akihiko spoke, his mouth practically hanging open as he sat at the dining table whilst Masato instructed the little Izuna to bring the food to them.



"Ahaha, thank you mister Akihiko. I'm quite proud of my family, my mother and father always told me that even if nothing worked out for me, even if i was a failure of a ninja or something like that, I would always be able to have a good life if i knew how to cook and I could just retire and continue on the family restaurant." Masato spoke as he turned slightly to gaze at the couple with a light hearted smile.



'My family that definitely exists… yeah I feel like my mouth will start smelling like shit at this point from the amount of bullshit that's spewing out of my mouth. Though who knows… maybe this Araya guy does have a mom and dad.' Masato thought to himself amusedly as he continued cooking before starting to plate the soup and bread for everyone.


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The days passed slowly but surely, nothing out of the ordinary happened around the Uzumaki household, Masato had come to learn that where he had ended up was closer to the inland of the land of Rain however it was still quite far away, the closest city was more than an hour run from the house that he was currently residing it. This led to them mostly never being bothered by anyone, on the off chance that they were indeed bothered, the two Uzumaki's had taken something from their old home in the land of whirlpools.



It was a seal that once placed and injected with chakra would cover their entire house and thus practically turn it invisible to all others, it had been the reason as to why they could still continue living without any harm being done to them, afterall whilst the house by location itself wasn't so easy to be found, it still wasn't perfect, and so the seal was almost always up, the problem wasn't the leaf shinobi, like the ones that had killed Masato in his previous simulation, leaf shinobi had a decent relationship with any Uzumaki and they had even offered the family with the chance to transfer and live in the hidden leaf village, this wasn't because the hidden leaf loved the Uzumaki, it was purely political simply wanted to appear as the good guys whilst they hid the fact that they had also held a hand when the destruction of the land of whirlpools had been done by the four other ninja villages.



Now on the sixth day, Masato was sitting in the room that he had been given with two books across his lap. Today was the last day before the simulation ended and he didn't have a lot of time left before he would have to either finish the simulation or kill himself so that it restarted from the beginning once more.



'I don't really understand much, I tried the entire week however I was barely able to grasp the basics, I can barely manage to make a single inventory scroll and even then its capacity is miniscule and I fail at doing it around four times out of five.' Masato thought as he released a long winded sigh of exhaustion and put the books aside.



'I knew that I wouldn't be able to learn them in a single week like some kind of genius but still, I thought that I would at least be able to memorise the books so that I can keep the information and learn through it slowly but I can't even do that, I don't possess a photographic memory and the seal combinations are too complex for me to remember.' Masato thought in annoyance as he looked back down at the books that he had now laid on the bed before he slowly got up from where he had been sitting and stood on the brown wooden floorboards.



"Alright… It's time." Masato muttered softly, more to himself than to anyone else as he turned his gaze to look at his door that led to the rest of the house.



'The only person currently inside of the house is Izuna, the two adults have headed out, however they should also be coming back home soon so that they can start preparing dinner after having finished their work.' Masato thought before he started walking as he opened the door and headed out into the living room.



The second that he did, Izuna, who had been playing with a small doll, instantly jumped to her feet before running towards him with a wide smile on her face, utterly innocent.



"Big bro Ara! Did you finish studying? Are you gonna play with me now? Please?" The girl asked as she ran towards him and clung to his chest like she never wanted to let go of her new favourite person in the whole world.



In a way, he had become that person, Masato had spent almost all the time that he wasn't studying Fuinjutsu with the little girl, considering that her parents headed out to work, Akihiko to fish in the nearby river whilst Hana headed to the market to sell any of the fish they didn't need to eat for money that they would use to either buy clothes or spices or any other necessity that they wouldn't be able to farm or create by themselves.



Masato had also not minded staying with the little girl, she was quite well behaved, and at the same time he had learned a lot about just how exactly one could act to get a child excited or to get them to trust them more, something that could be useful in the future.



"Mhm yeah, I did say that we were gonna play didn't I?" Masato said softly as he smiled down at the little girl.



"Yeah, Yeah! You promised me." Izuna replied with an excited smile as she practically bounded on her feet whilst still tightly holding onto the doll and Masato.



"Alright, how about this then, you go and close your eyes and I want you to count to ten, by the time that you open them, you'll have a surprise from big bro." Masato said with a smile as he crouched, his face now leveled with the girls.



"Okay! I know how to count to ten!" Izuna replied just as excitedly as ever as she closed her eyes visibly tight and then started counting loudly.



"Ten!"

"Nine!"



*Schlik*



"Eight." Masato said with a closed eyed smile.



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Silence, complete and utter silence, that was all that was left, no more counting down from little Izuna, the only thing that was left…. Was a dead body and a smiling boy holding a kunai… a kunai that was still very much deeply embedded into the skull of a young girl.



Looking down at the girl whose eyes were still closed whilst blood ran around the kunai, overflowing from her forehead and then slowly spilling down her cheeks whilst he held her up with the kunai so that she wouldn't fall down… Masato finally hesitated for a moment.



This wasn't just some random person, this was someone that he had talked to for days, someone that had learned to call him big brother, someone that had truly liked him, innocently liked him without knowing for one second about his true nature.



And now she was dead, all because he wanted to test if he would gain any experience points from kills that weren't shinobi.



His heart felt tight, and for a brief moment, Masato almost felt like tears were about to fall down from his own eyes, for that single instance, for that single moment, his throat, heart and eyes hurt all at the same time, it was a feeling that he had never truly experienced in his life before… and then it was gone once more and the smile that had frozen on his face regained its colour.



'She's just an npc, she's not even a real person, she's basically pixels on a screen. I didn't kill someone real, they're all fake, all simulations, It doesn't matter.' Masato thought to himself, convincing himself about his own actions as he finally let go of the kunai and for a moment, Izuna's body remained standing there, before it slowly fell down.



*Thump*



She now laid across the brown wooden floor, her body already starting to slowly lose its heat slowly as it no longer generated any, her organs having slowly but surely shut down one after the other after her brain had been pierced.



"Now… I just have to get rid of the other two." Masato muttered as he stared at the body for a split second longer before crouching and grabbing it by the ankles and dragging it towards a position that someone who entered by the front door would be able to see instantly.



And then… he walked towards the front door and moved to the side of it so that he wouldn't be in the view of anyone who walked inside and waited patiently.



Seconds quickly turned into minutes and then before long… the sound of footsteps came as the front door slowly opened.



Akihiko and Hana had come home, they had just gone through a regular day, nothing had been different from any other and they had met up on the way home and walked back together.



Hana was carrying a bag filled with some daily necessities as well as a small bag filled with spices that they usually didn't buy, she had bought them for Masato after he had told them yesterday that he would be leaving on the day after tomorrow, this would be the last day that the little ninja would be with them and so she had wanted to make it special, she had grown fond of the boy who played with her daughter, of the boy who tried his best to learn and who always helped and cooked them food.



Akihiko similarly had just finished a day of fishing and brought all of the fish back, not selling any of them like he usually would, he had wanted today to be a feast for them all, a possible last goodbye considering that no one knew what could happen in the ninja world.

"You got the good spices right honey?" Akihiko asked as he opened the front door, his head was turned back as he gazed at Hana instead of the scene that was slowly being unveiled from the opening door.



"Yeah, I got them, they were a bit expensive but I didn't cheap out. Tonight's gonna be special!" Hana said cheerfully as she always was, a kind hearted cheerful mother who had treated Masato as her own son.



The door unfortunately… finally opened fully and both of them turned their gazes forward and what they were met with was a body on the wooden floor, a body that they knew well, the body of their own daughter on her back, face up towards the ceiling… with blood running along its sides like bloody tears spilling out of her eyes and a kunai firmly piercing through her forehead, the handle pointing towards the ceiling of the room.



For a moment, neither of them reacted… The only sound was the small thump as both parents dropped what they were holding in their hands from shock before Hana fell down to her knees, tears spilling out of her eyes whilst Akihiko took a step forward unconsciously.



And then… and then came the heart guttering scream of a mother who had just seen a scene worse than anything any nightmare could have shown her.



Akihiko rushed forwards towards the body and crouched down, grabbing the small dead child by the shoulders.

"Izuna? Baby, my baby, please wake up. Wake up for dad. Wake up." Akihiko shouted, his words coming out barely formed, blabbered, stuttered as his mind refused to accept the reality in front of him.



It was at that moment that the screaming coming from behind him stopped, abruptly.



Akihiko however didn't notice anything, he was too caught up with holding his dead child to realise that something was wrong. If he had turned his head he would have seen his wife sliding against the door with her neck cut cleanly open, blood gushing out of it, making her unable to even speak as she bled to death.



He would however never get the chance as in the very next instant, a kunai lodged itself deeply into the back of his head and directly pierced his brain. Killing him.



The Uzumaki family… was no more.

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