(Naruto) Hokage's Choice V
To: Uchiha Headquarters
Sender: SUchiha
Subject: Malfunctions
Message:
Citizen’s Protecting Children from Fantasy (CPCF) attacked our building, #123 ten minutes ago. So far, most gamers were not harmed as they had not yet started their game and the police have taken the attackers into custody. However, one gamer was already submerged into the game when the attack took place. The gamer is currently physically unharmed. However, I am not sure if the gamer can remain that way. Attached are files regarding the game, the gamer, and the situation. Look into it and see what you can do.
I will be contacting the gamer in order to inform them of the situation.
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Hokage’s Choice
Chapter Five-Whatever happened to ‘Safety first’?
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I remained in room for a moment, organizing my thoughts. Ok, so I had a couple of rivals. Naruto and Lee didn’t seem all that bad-I was sure if I could talk to them alone, I’d be fine. They were the only ones really reluctant to kill me. Ino got on my nerves, and Kiba was a very flirty jerk.
And Sasuke…
He looked like a god-actually, all of the boys (with the exception of Lee, though I supposed his personality could be endearing. Maybe) were very hot and therefore, I just got my money’s worth.
(Maybe this was heaven? I mean…Naruto was just adorable, Kiba was so wild looking, and Sasuke was the bad boy. Everything I’ve ever wanted, in one room.)
Anyways, Sasuke was a wild card that I couldn’t trust. He didn’t like me nor did he hate me-with the exception of me being the heir and all that. He’s just…there.
I didn’t think I should try to make him my ally. Yet.
First, I’d go after Lee and Naruto.
Having made a decision, I left the room and wandered down the hall. The down side to thinking for that long was that no one-and I mean no one-was outside waiting for me.
Sure, I wasn’t expecting them to wait, but couldn’t one of them at least hang around and give me a tour? I’m the heir, so that wasn’t too much to expect, right?
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Walking down the padded halls, I found a door and opened it. The sunlight blinded me as I stepped outside, softly closing the door behind me.
Finally! After walking around for an hour-a long hour of bumping into people, Where am I’s, and opening doors to empty rooms-I had finally found a way outside. I was finally out of that surprisingly big tower.
(Honestly, it looked a lot smaller from the outside.)
Peering around, I realized I was near a forest. Soft green grass carpeted the ground until the forest, with small clusters of blue, yellow, orange, and red flowers. Every now and then, a small tree stood, with purple and pink flowers decorating its branches. Butterflies, rabbits, and squirrels ran around. It looked very bright and happy.
By contrast, the forest looked very dark and uninviting. Large trees stood around the edges, filtering the sunlight so that only small patches of light actually made it past the branches. The pools of light were filtered here and there, leaving most of the ground in a dark gloom.
I shivered. I definitely didn’t want to go in there. Looking around, I spotted a figure walking towards me.
It was a small boy. He had a long scarf around his neck and goggles on his head.
“Hey, you!” he called out to me. He started to run until he came to a stop in front of me.
“Yes?” I asked politely. It was best to not create further enemies.
“You…I’m going to become the next Hokage! Not you! Me!” he yelled. “I, Konohamaru, am going to take that title from you!” he pushed me, causing me to fall.
Oh great. Yet another rival. Honestly, why was it that everyone I met wanted to kill me?
He glared at me before running off towards the forest.
The very forest I had a bad feeling about.
“Hey! Kid!” I yelled, getting up. “Hey, that place looks dangerous! Come back!” I started to jog after him when a bright light hit my eyes again.
Up in the sky, a beam of light surrounded by clouds appeared. In the middle of that light was a figure that floated slowly down. I could hear trumpets and a chorus singing as it floated down. As it came closer, I could see the figure better.
It was a man, older than me. He had raven hair that was tied back in a ponytail. His dark eyes and aristocratic face matched his body. The only thing that looked odd about him-besides the whole floating thing-were the pair of angel wings attached to his body.
He looked a bit like Sasuke. Not too much, but close enough that they could be siblings.
Maybe he was another character in the game. An angel…
Angels were good. Good means they could be my ally.
I could have a guardian angel! YES!
“Haruno Sakura,” his sultry voice said, mesmerizing me. “I have important information to tell you, gamer.”
Wait.
Gamer.
Gamer?
I’m not a ‘gamer’ in this world. “Hey! How do you-” I asked.
“Listen carefully,” he interrupted me. “There has been a slight glitch in the program.”
“A glitch?” Oh god. No. That’s not good. Glitches usually ended up with dead people. “What do you-”
“The glitch in the game,” he went on as if he hadn’t heard me. Maybe he didn’t. For all I know, this could be a one-sided conversation, “is not fatal.”
“Oh, good. That means-”
“CPCF attacked our building and the machines, not realizing you were in the game.”
Oh. So those adults actually broke in? What sort of security does this place have?
I should have attacked those parents when I had the chance.
“Other gamers have been rescued successfully. They were just starting the game, so we could get them out quickly.”
Lucky them.
“However, you were further in when this happened. It happened only a short while ago but you can be saved. So, stay calm.”
That means the lightening before must have been from the attack…I wasn’t going crazy!
That thought doesn’t comfort me as much as it should.
“You just have to finish the game in order to be saved…”
Oh. Like that would be easy.
“And-no, I should tell her everything. She has the right to know!” the man looked over his shoulder, as if he was talking to someone I couldn’t see. Maybe it was someone from the real world. “Sakura, listen! I don’t have much time to tell you this! Your life is in danger!”
WHAT? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ‘STAY CALM’ THING?
“If you play this game for too long, your brain is going to meltdown. You have to quickly win the game. If you don’t, you’ll die!” his voice sounded a little desperate now. He started to float up, the angel choir singing again as his voice started to grow fainter.
“Sakura, don’t forget the ring! Don’t forget it next time!” he started to yell something else, but his voice faded completely by then.
Ok, so I could die.
Die.
Death.
Never return to life.
Oh. God.
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A/N: Sorry about the wait for the update. I’ll try to update this soon, after I update Ghost and Therapy for Dummies. Anyways, I hope my style for this one hasn’t changed too much (and if it has, it has for the better.) Hope you enjoyed!
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