Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ VR Connection ❯ Email ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

By: kiowen

Kionat: This is my first fanfiction. Yeah!!

Naru-chan: And It sucks.

Kionat: *sob* I know!! I just want to try writing after having read so many wonderful fics. Sorry that it is so lousy.

Naru-chan: Then you shouldn't have posted it.

Kionat: …..

Warning: Yaoi (SasuNaru), Poor language

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

VR Connection

"Tadaima" A lonely voice called out into the empty apartment, followed by the loud slamming of the door. Bright light with a soft tint of yellow flooded the small living room. A boy of fifteen dragged his tired feet across the carpet-less floor before collapsing onto the worn brownish sofa.

"Oh man… Today has been just as horrible as yesterday… or the day before yesterday… or the day before the day before yesterday… Arghh..." Naruto paused with a pout before continuing, "Sakura-chan still ignores me and everybody still treats me like some freak, not that I'm not used to that by now but… and that no good Ebisu jerkhead just has to pick on me again. I was late for Ninja-do practice because of his stupid detention. Bastard-sensei!!" The loud whiny voice echoed in the room until its owner finally decided he had enough of his daily ranting.

Picking himself up from the sofa, he proceeded to his small messy kitchen for his regular dose of indulgence-Ramen.

"Today I will have miso ramen… Ahhh… there is no miso anymore… chicken then. Huff… Guess I have to visit the store tomorrow." It seems there was only one precious packet of chicken ramen left in his cupboard.

Without skipping a beat, the blond prepared his ramen and settled into the routine agonizing three minutes wait. During those times, he decided for a quick shower to wash away the sweat and grime from his earlier martial art practice.

On the dot when the three minutes was up, Naruto waltzed out of his bathroom wearing only a pair orange boxer. Uncaring that water was dripping from his hair; he grabbed the bowl of ramen and chopsticks then shuffled back into the living room, leaving a trail of wet foot-prints on the bare cement floor.

Passing his sofa, Naruto settled onto the old wooden chair in front of his desk-top computer. His guardian, Iruka, had given the computer to him on his last birthday and, though the model is quite old, it was one of the best present Naruto had ever received in his life.

"Itadakimasu" The blond yelled out loud before slurping up the noodles. While eating, his other hand, the one not holding the chopsticks, reached out and switched on his computer. The screen flashed with colors until it settled to a black background with a picture of his favorite anime character glaring menacing back at him.

His idle hand then grabbed onto the mouse and clicked on the `explorer' icon. One thing Naruto was extremely grateful about was his internet accessibility, and he thanked his Iruka-nii for paying his monthly bills. The blond was totally hooked onto virtual web and he could not imagine a day without it.

"Where should I go first?... Hmm… Check mail… Check mail…"

With several clicks and swift typing, Naruto signed into his yahoo account. There awaits him were thirty-three unread messages, most probably all from his yahoo groups.

*click*

"Ah… they are discussing about the latest episode of the anime…"

*click*

"Haha… that is so true…"

The clicking and random rambling continued until…

"Hey!! What is this?"

Naruto had been happily checking his mails until he came across one that was not from his yahoo groups. From a sender by the name of Hokage, it was an invitation to a trial for a virtual game. Curious, the blond clicked on the link and began reading what it was all about.

Congratulation!! You have been chosen for a 60-days free trial of our company's newest virtual-reality game. Konoha is like none of any virtual games available in the market today. It has been billed as a Game Revolution and a breakthrough to traditional technology. By clicking on the link below and signing up for the trial, we ensure you an experience like never before.

"Whoopie!! I am so damn lucky. So cool!! What kind of game is it?"

As the hyper action-before-brain baka he was, Naruto clicked on the link without even thinking twice. The screen loaded to an official website of some sort, showing an introduction of Konoha. The game seems to be a virtual pet game, or at least that was what the blond thought, players were supposed to select a beginning character then nurtured it into its adult form. The methods in raising your pets will determine the final evolution.

"Oh… so it is just like `Tamagotchi'. And here I thought what kind of cool game it is. Che…" Naruto mumbled, clearly disappointed by what he read.

Moving the cursor to exit the window, he suddenly paused and stared at the screen. Memories in schools flashed through his mind and all of a sudden he felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness. Naruto signed, "Maybe… maybe it will be cool to get a pet of some sort. At least there is something I can do when Iruka-nii isn't here to visit. And I was lucky to get this trial; it is even free for 60 days."

Finally deciding to give the game a try, he moved the cursor back to the `Sign up' button on the site and proceeded to fill up whatever information necessary. After giving a fake username, his e-mail address and thought-up password, the screen flashed to another page where he was to choose preferred characteristics of his `pet'.

"Hmm… No pictures. I thought players are supposed to choose their beginning `pet' from a given selections. Guess this game is different."

Naruto easily filled up the numerous traits for his soon-to-be `pet'. His new `companion' will be a fair-skinned, dark-haired fire-type creature. He got stuck selecting the gender but eventually decided that a male would be better for his first time. Finally done with his selection, the blond clicked on the `next' button. The screen flashed again and a large colorful spinning wheel appeared. The wheel spun for a second before slowing to a stop, producing a green scroll of some sort. It slowly unwound and on it, written in large block letters, was `You have got an Uchiha'.

Naruto gave a twitch, "Uchiha huh?!... as if I know what's an Uchiha. They should at least give a picture."

The scroll on the screen then faded to a pop-up box asking if the player wished to download the pet. Deftly tanned fingers moved the mouse to click on `ok' and cerulean eyes watched as the screen switched to a standard downloading mode. From how large the file was, it seems that it might be a while before the download finish.

Getting up from the wooden chair, Naruto picked up his empty bowl and brought it to the kitchen. After cleaning up a bit, he poured himself a glass of milk before going back to his computer. The download was only at 30% so he opened another window and began his daily visits to some anime and game sites. Throughout the whole time he couldn't stop himself from feeling the bubbling of excitement at the pit of his stomach, it seems the lack of pictures and all had fueled his curiosity to know how his `pet' would look like.

*click*

After a good an hour and a half, with constant checking at the download percentage, `ding-ding' from his computer signaled that the download has completed. Giving a shrill shriek of anticipation and an eager `Finally!!', nimble tanned fingers swiftly moved the mouse to click on the blinking minimized window.

On the original pop-up now was a very peculiar egg. It was a dark navy-blue egg with a fan-like design at the center, the top half of the fan was red while the bottom half was white. The egg was also bobbing like something inside the egg wanted out. Most people would have thought the sight cute but Naruto found it funny and began laughing hysterically.

All of a sudden, the egg exploded into a poof of smoke, filling up the entire screen and even… out of the screen. "Oh shit… My computer…" The blond screamed. Smoke, white and odorless, was flooding the entire of his computer and desk. All Naruto could do was just standing there yelling strings of expletives and frantically searching for the switch to shut his computer down before it too exploded.

While in hyper-panic mode, he caught a sight out of the corner of his eyes that froze his blood and even his heart. A hand… pale, almost bloodless human hand was slowly stretching out from the smoke where his computer screen should be. First long slender fingers, then the palm, wrist, forearm…

"Ah… ah… ahh…." Naruto's beautiful sky-blue eyes widened beyond belief, on the risk of falling off their socket. His cute cherub face was now a mask of silence horror as another pale hand joined its partner out of the smoke. Then when dark ebony hair peeks out from between the two arms, he snapped. "AHHHH…." He screamed like never before and scrambled back as far away from the computer as possible. In his haste, Naruto knocked over his wooden chair and fell butt-first onto the floor but it didn't stopped his movement as he clambered to the wall farthest away from the `monster' and curled up into a protective ball.

There at the spot he sat, shivering and waiting, images of hideous demons and gruesome monsters flashed through his mind courtesy of all the horror movies he had ever watched. When the sound of resounding footsteps walking towards him echoed the room, Naruto swore his heart had stopped.

*step*

The sound of footsteps became closer and louder until it finally stopped right in front of him, casting an overpowering shadow over his crouched form. The blond held his breathe and prayed for a quick and painless death.

*thud*

"Ahem" A low and slightly irritated voice interrupted the loud hammering of his heartbeat in his ears. Naruto, startled out of his defensive position, risked a peek out from between his hands. There stood in front of him was not a hideous demons neither was it a gruesome monsters. It was a teenage boy, about his age, with hair, eyebrows and deep-set eyes the color of the darkest midnight and skin so fair like the palest of moon. That boy, standing there barefooted dressed in an open-collared dark blue top and white short, was keeping a careful scrutiny on him. Naruto, momentarily forgotten about the fact that the boy in front of him had crawled out from his computer, blushed in embarrassment for his somewhat cowardice posture. Quickly, he removed his hands from his head and twisted his body so that he was sitting with his back to the wall but bravely facing the stranger.

The boy in front of Naruto kept a sharp eye on the blond for a second before shoving his hands into the pockets of his white shorts and turning his face to one side. With a light frown on his fair, he scoffed, "Of all people, I got an idiot for my master."

"Huh?!"

"Great!! He is not just an idiot, he is also a retard… Hn…"

By this point, Naruto had somehow understood that the `idiot' and `retard' was him truly. Though he was still quite shaken from what happened and he still didn't really understand what the stranger was talking about, he knew that he had just been insulted. And Nobody Insult Uzumaki Naruto without a fight!! So with a snarl, he jumped up in a fluid motion and threw himself at the stranger, fists and kicks ready at his disposal.

However before he could threw in his cool Ninja-do moves; a gust of wind ripped through his room and spiraled into a small tornado, completed with leaves, grasses, branches and all. Feeling the strong pull of the twister that had somehow started spinning in the middle of his room, Naruto reflectively clutched onto the nearest thing to him and held on for his dear life. Another reason for his action might be because of the maniac laughter that seemed to come from the middle of the tornado. "Bwahahahaha…." Really… it wasn't a very reassuring situation.

Finally, the tornado stopped twisting after what felt like thirty minutes, although it had only been thirty seconds, but the laughter didn't cease. In fact it had gotten even louder and into something that was almost evil. "Well, well, well… what do we have here? Seems like the client and our genin love each other," A good-humored baritone voice called out when the laughter died down.

"Hn… Shut-up…"

Naruto, who had buried his head into the soft cloth-like material, looked up to find that he had clutched onto the strange boy in his haste and was somewhat encasing the boy in a hug. The boy, in turn, had wrapped his arm protectively around the blond in a loose embrace and was busy death-glaring the other stranger. With a yelp and flushed cheeks, Naruto jumped ten feet away from the boy. Then after one last wary glare, he turned his attention to the newer visitor.

The new stranger was one of the weirdest people Naruto had even seen. With gravity-defying hair of the lightest grey, the man had nearly all of his facial features covered with black cloth, save for one eye. Currently, said eye was crinkled in a crescent, most probably an indication of a smile.

"Yo! It's a pleasure to meet you Kyuubi-san. I'm Hatake Kakashi from Hokage Pte Ltd." Kakashi gave Naruto his trademark open-palm greeting.

"Huh?" The blond's brows tightened to a cute frown, "Kyuubi? Hokage Pte Ltd? What are you talking about?"

"Maa... Surely you remember our company's virtual game… The one that you are chosen as one of the lucky few for our free trial." Kakashi supplied hopefully.

The scrunched up cherub face relaxed to a look of realization. "Oh right! Kyuubi was my username… Sorry, I forgot." Giving a sheepish smile, the blond's tanned cheeks tinted a dust of embarrassed pink.

"That much is expected from a retard like you." A snort.

"You" Naruto whipped his head toward the infuriating boy, whom he had nearly forgotten about, and screamed, "Stop calling me an idiot or a retard, you bastard!! And who the hell are you anyway? Why are you doing in my apartment?"

"Actually, he is your virtual character, Uchiha Sasuke. You are supposed to nurture him to his adult form. I have thought it had been pretty obvious when you see him crawled out from your computer screen," Kakashi helpfully answered for Sasuke.

"What…this bastard is my pet!! Wait a minute… what do you mean by him crawling out of my computer screen? You mean I wasn't imagining things just now!! And what about you then? Where did you come from? The tornado?"

Kakashi cheerfully nodded and the bastard Sasuke continued staring at the blond with an expressionless face. By this point, Naruto was beyond care for what the two strangers were doing. His mind was currently a whirlpool of thoughts and it did not help that his poor little brain did not regularly subject itself to too much action. How in the world did a simple signing up for a game trial land him in this situation? Most normal people would never meet up with such problems but hell… it's just too bad that he was no normal people.

"Kyuubi-san, you know I will really love to stay for a chat but it is just too bad that I some very important readings to catch up. It is with deep regret that I have to leave you now. But don't worry. Here is a complete FAQ of Konoha…" Kakashi suddenly interrupted his thoughts and push an orange book into his hands.

"Icha Icha Paradise!!.." The blond turned pink again from the book he had just received.

"Oops! Wrong book." The pervert snatched his book back and handed Naruto a red book instead. "Here is the correct one. Now don't looks so piss Sasuke, I don't mean to upset your client, but Kyuubi-san you really look cute with that blush, it compliments your skin tone ne."

Naruto turned so red, he was practically to the point of combustion at that comment, especially so when he suddenly realized that he was wearing only a pair of boxers in front of the two strangers. Sasuke, on the other hand, was glaring holes into the back of Kakashi's head.

Kakashi's smile, if possible, widened, "Ahem… Anyway, other than this FAQ, here is the remote control for Sasuke."

"Wha…"

"You use this remote control to feed him, buy him clothes, upgrade his abilities and etc. It is all in the FAQ so just read it up."

"But…"

"Now Kyuubi-san I have to go now. Anything you need to contact me just visits our company's site, type in your username and password then search for my name under `staffs'. Or you can just press that red button on the remote control. We give twenty-four hours service, so don't hesitate to call me. Ciao" And then with a wink or a blink since we don't really know if he had shut the other eye or not, Kakashi vanished with another spinning tornado.

"What…" Naruto stared after the disappearing swirl of wind and then at the wreck his house was in. Hands gripping tightly onto the thick red FAQ and the remote control that strangely resembled a game-boy, Naruto closed his eyes and sank onto the floor. His head was throbbing and he felt exhausted. Whatever just happened had got to be a nightmare.

Unfortunately, before he could hypnotize himself into believing that, he was interrupted by an `Hn' and a pale hand grasping his bare shoulder.

Naruto gave a groan and turned to face his new `pet'. "What…"

"Feed me"

TBC??

How is it? I am sorry that it is bad. Is the story difficult to understand? I really hope not. Please review and tell me how you think. It will be a really great help to me ne.