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Wandering around for a while, finding the bathroom didn't take as long as he would've thought. Walking into the male restroom, he made his way over to the sink and turned on the faucet, splashing cold water on his face.
'To think that I've actually been transmigrated into the Naruto world is still crazy to believe... but I guess this is just my chance at a second life, to live it to the fullest,' he thought, sighing deeply. He wiped his face off with his hands and looked up into the mirror above the sink.
He immediately froze.
Staring back at him was a face he wasn't used to seeing, and it caught him completely off guard. Unlike his previous appearance, he now had unnaturally spiky black hair that was fairly messy, with droopy eyes that had noticeable bags beneath them. He didn't look anything like those handsome fanfic protagonists he'd read about who always seemed to be blessed with good looks. There were no remarkable or distinctive traits about his appearance whatsoever.
He was thoroughly, completely average.
Maybe even below average...
Looking down at himself, he could see he was also fairly scrawny and lacked any real muscle definition, honestly he looked like Captain America before the super soldier serum, just all skin and bones.
"Jeez, couldn't I be at least a little handsome ?" he muttered, clicking his tongue in annoyance. But he shrugged it off, it wasn't his biggest concern at the moment.
Turning around, he walked to the end of the bathroom to find an empty stall. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him, taking a seat on the toilet for privacy. 'System, open rewards...' he thought, focusing on the interface.
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NOTICE!!
[OPENING REWARDS]
Processing...!
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1X [SILVER CARD] - Press To Reveal
1X [BRONZE CARD] - Press To Reveal
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"Obviously I'm going to save the best for last..." he muttered and pressed on the bronze card option.
Suddenly, a bronze card materialized out from the screen with a shimmer of light, floating in front of him. The back was covered in intricate metallic lines that seemed to pulse, before the card started to spin around slowly, revealing the front of the card.
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║ ( BRONZE ) ║ ║ ║ ║ [GROW BODY!GROW!] ║
║[TYPE OF CARD: ║ ║ [ One Time Use ] ║ ║
║ [-INFO-] ║║ You grow taller by 2 inches... ║ ║
║ ║ ║ -Press To Use- ║ ║ ║
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'Not what I was expecting, but I am a bit on the short side, so I'll take it,' he mused, reaching out and pressing on the floating card.
Instantly, the card dissolved into golden light particles that seeped into his skin like warm honey. 'I don't feel anythi—'
Then suddenly, he could feel himself stretching just slightly, his eye level shifting up by a small but noticeable amount. The change was subtle, but it was definitely there. 'Well, let's hope whatever the silver card has is better,' he thought, pressing on the silver card.
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║ ( Silver ) ║ ║ ║ ║ [LEAF HURRICANE] ║
║[TYPE OF CARD: ║ ║ [ ATTACK] ║ ║
║[CHAKRA CONSUMPTION: ║ ║ [200 CP] ║ ║
║ [-INFO-] ║║ A spinning heel kick that creates a small whirlwind effect. ║ ║
║ ║ ║ -Press To Add Skill- ║ ║ ║
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His lips curled up into a surprised "O" expression. "An attack card?I guess that won't be too bad for my first skill card...yikes, but it drain's my chakra, eh the consumption isn't too high." he shrugged and then pressed on the floating card.
[SKILL ADDED!]
The silver card dissolved into sparkling light that flowed into his body, and he could immediately understand how to perform the move, but it gave him a slight headache since the information was forcibly being imprinted in his brain. 'Ugh...' he sighed, rubbing his temples.
After the headache died down, he got up off the toilet seat ready to leave. "Alright... I guess that's it for now—"
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[ NOTICE!]
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With the current SP you have earned so far, you have received enough points to achieve a promotion! You can convert 1000 SP into "Story Significance Points" to become a "Nameable Character".
[Y/N]
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He froze midway as he was about to get up, then sat himself back down on the toilet. 'Hmm...But I really wanted to use my current SP to increase my stats... but considering how easy it was for me to get that amount of SP, it shouldn't be too hard to earn more again. Plus I would still have some points left over to use elsewhere,' he reasoned with himself.
After a moment of consideration, he pressed the "Y" option.
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[ NOTICE!]
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forcibly consuming 1000 SP...
[SSP- STORY SIGNIFICANCE POINTS] ➤ 3 (Background NPC level)
↓
[SSP- STORY SIGNIFICANCE POINTS] ➤ 13 (Forgettable Named character)
You have received a new character promotion!
Rolling...
Rolling...
Rolling...
YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE NAME ➤ KINTARO SASAKI
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'Kintaro Sasaki? I was expecting something a little bit more badass, but I guess that's an okay name for now,' he thought, deciding not to get overly picky about what was admittedly a pretty plain name. He wasn't one to complain too much. 'Alright, time for me to get back to class...'
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[ NOTICE!]
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Upon becoming a Nameable character, you have also received a backstory!
Creating backstory...
Gathering backstory...
Processing backstory....
[BACKSTORY COMPLETE!]
Imprinting backstory...
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The moment he stood up, he was hit with what felt like a dump truck's worth of memories, everything from the very moment of his birth up until this exact instant. Along with those memories came a thunderous headache that felt like his skull was splitting apart.
He immediately collapsed onto the bathroom floor, clutching his head with both hands.
"AAGGH... shit!" he groaned, his voice echoing off the walls as waves of foreign memories filled his brain.
. . . .
Kintaro Sasaki had been an orphan since birth. On the day of the Nine-Tails attack, both his parents were killed in the chaos, and he was placed in the village orphanage as a baby. He'd lived there until joining the academy, at which point he was moved out to live on his own in a small apartment provided by the village, which were the standard procedure for older orphans who were training to become shinobi.
It was a simple, yet tragic backstory...but very cliche of a background character.
After what felt like years but was probably only a few seconds, Kintaro felt the headache finally begin to subside. He slowly stood up from the bathroom floor and brushed himself off, still feeling disoriented.
'It could've at least warned me before doing some shit like that...' he groaned internally, shaking his head and pinching the bridge of his nose. 'At least now I'm covered if anyone questions me about my past or anything. Or when it comes to blending in, I won't look like a complete dumbass...' he mused, before he then left the bathroom and headed back to class.
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[🔔RINGGG!!!...🔔]
"Alright, that's the end of today's class..." Iruka announced to the room as students began packing up their belongings to head home. "And just a reminder that the graduation exams are only eight months away, so you guys better start training from now through and practicing as much as you can after school if you want to pass."
"YES, SENSEI!" the entire class chorused in unison.
Being one of the last ones left in the classroom, Kintaro quickly gathered his things and headed toward the door, eager to get home and process everything that had happened today.
"Hey, Kintaro..." Iruka called out, gesturing for him to come over.
Kintaro paused and walked back toward his teacher, raising an eyebrow curiously. "Yes, sensei? Am I in trouble?" he asked, wondering if his earlier display had somehow crossed a line.
Iruka smiled warmly and shook his head. "Haha, no... I just wanted to say I'm impressed with what you did today. Keep up the good work," he said encouragingly, his voice carrying genuine praise.
Kintaro bowed respectfully. "Thank you, sensei," he said, before turning and leaving the classroom to head home.
Thanks to his new memories, he wouldn't have to worry about wandering around lost like he had earlier with the bathroom. He knew exactly where his small apartment was, and knew everything else like the back of his hand.
. . . . .
It didn't take long for Kintaro to get home, since his apartment wasn't too far from the academy.
Despite never setting foot in this apartment before, Kintaro felt oddly familiar with it, like a place where he'd spent years living. It was honestly a weird sense of déjà vu, but in an extreme way that made his head feel slightly fuzzy.
The apartment itself wasn't anything special. It was small, with everything crammed into just two areas. The living room and kitchen shared one space, while a smaller area housed his bedroom and bathroom. The place had minimal furniture to save what little space there was, making it feel fairly bland except for the basic necessities.
Dropping his bag by the door, Kintaro walked over to his worn couch and collapsed onto it with a heavy sigh.
'Since graduation is just a few months away, that means I have a while to get stronger before canon officially starts. And after that, the Chunin Exams begin, which is when the plot really starts picking up,' he thought, staring up at the cracked ceiling above him. 'That leaves no time to mess around or slack off if I don't want to die... this is my second life, so I'm going to protect it with everything I've got.'
"Stats..." he muttered under his breath.
[DISPLAYING CHARACTER INFORMATION!]
━─━─━─≪◈ STATS ◈≫─━─━─━
[NAME] ➤ Kintaro Sasaki
[AGE] ➤ 12
[PLOT RELEVANCE] ➤ Cannon Fodder(Destined to die off-screen)
◇───INFO───◇
[SP - STORY POINTS] ➤ 500 SP
[SSP- STORY SIGNIFICANCE POINTS] ➤ 13 (Forgettable Named character)
-Overall Character Evaluation-
Uh, who is this guy again...?
◇───STATS───◇
[STRENGTH EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(5/10)
[SPEED EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(3/10)
[ENDURANCE EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(4/10)
[DURABILITY EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(2/10)
[CHAKRA CAPACITY EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(500 CP - Slightly Above Normal Civilians...)
(1/10)
[CHAKRA CONTROL EVALUATION] ➤ E-
(1/10)
- - - - - -
[INTELLIGENCE EVALUATION] ➤ A+
(1/1200)
[POTENTIAL EVALUATION] ➤ C-
(1/200)
◇───NINJA STATS───◇
[TAIJUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
[NINJUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
[GENJUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
[BUKIJUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
◇───SKILLS───◇
[LEAF HURRICANE] ➤ E-
◇───JUTSU'S───◇
[TRANSFORMATION JUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
[BASIC CLONE JUTSU EVALUATION]➤ E-
[SUBSTITUTION JUTSU EVALUATION] ➤ E-
◇───CHAKRA AFFINITIES───◇
[WATER RELEASE EVALUATION] ➤ N/A [You have no training with this element...]
━─━─━─━─≪◆≫─━─━─━─━
'Alright, since I have 500 SP left, I better use it on the only sensible thing to use it on, which is my strength. If I convert my current SP, that'll get me 5 stat points, which I can use to level up my strength to a measly E rank...' He mused, before he then converted the rest of his SP to stat points to level up his strength.
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[ NOTICE!]
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[STRENGTH HAS INCREASED!]
Consuming 5 stat points...
[STRENGTH EVALUATION] ➤ E-
↓
[STRENGTH EVALUATION] ➤ E
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Instantly, Kintaro could feel a surge of strength rush throughout his whole body. Even though it was a slight difference, it was still a very noticeable one.
Clenching his fist to test out his new strength, Kintaro stood to his feet. "Perfect... now, the three things I have to focus on now are the academy jutsu's..." he said to himself. "From Kintaro's memories, he's not proficient in the three academy jutsu and he's not able to pull them off back to back with his lack of chakra as well... so my focus right now should be on my chakra and especially my chakra control to see if I can limit the chakra usage on each jutsu."
He paced around his small apartment, working through the problem. 'And the best way to do all of that is to learn the three chakra control exercises...which if I remember correctly are the water walking, tree climbing, and the leaf concentration exercise, which at my current level is going to be a bitch to master..'
Then with his mind made up, he then quickly changed out of his school clothes and left to head to the training grounds.
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Walking through the training grounds, Kintaro could hear the sounds in the distance of shouts and screams with the clang of metal reverberating through the air. Since it was late in the afternoon, a lot of people had come out to train for their own personal reasons.
However, Kintaro made his way past the closer, more crowded training areas and headed for the further training grounds where he could find a bit more peace and quiet, and more importantly, privacy. The training ground he chose was fairly small, but spacious enough that there were plenty of things he could practice without any issues.
The area was surrounded by tall trees, with a large stream running nearby. He assumed the water probably flowed throughout the whole village, connecting to Konoha's main water system.
'Which exercise should I start with?' he contemplated for a brief moment, drawing on both his anime knowledge and Kintaro's academy lessons. 'Water walking is the most difficult of the three, so I should save that for last until I've mastered everything else. Tree walking would be the second hardest... so that leaves the leaf exercise.'
[A SUDDEN QUEST HAS STARTED.]
"A quest...?" he mumbled beneath his breath as a familiar interface appeared in front of him.
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[QUEST STARTED]
"BACK TO THE BASIC'S..." Quest has started
Type: Side Quest
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-QUEST INFO-
You are a complete rookie with a lack of the basics... so learn the basics if you want to pass the graduation exams.
OBJECTIVES:
➤ Master the water walking exercise...
[0/1]
➤ Master the tree walking exercise...
[0/1]
➤ Master the leaf concentration exercise...
[0/1]
-REWARDS-
[3000 SP]
[2x Bronze Card]
[1x Silver]
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TIME LIMIT: 3 WEEKS
FAILURE CONDITION: The loss of Quests for a month
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ACCEPT?
[Y/N]
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Kintaro accepted the mission without hesitation. ' Hmm..there's a failure condition now...? And my time limit is three weeks? Jeez, I don't even know if I'll be able to learn all of this by then... and if I can't complete it, then I lose the ability to earn quests for a month, which is honestly my only chance of getting strong enough to participate in the Chunin Exams right now. Losing a month means a significant loss to my progress... fuck.'
Kintaro furrowed his brow in frustration and sighed heavily.
'Well, I guess I just have no choice but to master all of these as quickly as possible,' he thought, walking over to a nearby tree and grabbing a leaf that had dropped to the floor. Finding a comfortable spot beneath the shade, Kintaro crossed his legs and placed the leaf onto his forehead.
Even though he had never used chakra before, thanks to Kintaro's memories he knew how to access it and manipulate it, so the basic concept of "using" chakra wasn't a difficult process at all.
However... "controlling" it was a completely different aspect.
Pressing the leaf against his forehead, he closed his eyes and focused on his chakra, trying to direct it to his forehead. But even as he attempted to guide it, his chakra felt wonky and slippery. Controlling his chakra was like trying to squeeze a bar of soap...the more he tried to firmly grip it and control it, the more it seemed to slip from his grasp, making it nearly impossible to direct where he wanted it to go.
After what felt like a couple of minutes, Kintaro had made zero progress on the leaf concentration exercise. He couldn't even direct his chakra past his chest tenketsu networks, much less all the way to his forehead.
The leaf fluttered to the ground for the tenth time.
Kintaro groaned in frustration. "This is going to be a long ass day..." he sighed, picking up the fallen leaf and pressing it back against his forehead before trying to direct his chakra there once again.
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