Naruto: Game of the Year Edition

A Naruto fanfiction written by Majin Hentai X. Takes the concept of a Peggy Sue and adds an interesting twist: what if the character sent back (in this case, Naruto) suddenly finds themselves at a "Game Over" screen, and soon realizes their entire life has become a video game?

...Well, in Naruto's case, an opportunity to do things over again through leveling up, defeating "boss characters", and collecting secret inventory items.

...And dying. Lots and lots of dying. Thank the Game Makers for Save Points.

The game begins here.


 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Of all the end-of-game penalties to Naruto's score (i.e. breaking his nindo, losing a precious person, etc.), one penalty is "Ignored Hinata". Naruto being Naruto, he STILL doesn't get it.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: ...Hoo, boy. Naruto's reaction when he hits the Game Over screen the first time is not to be printed on a family-friendly wiki.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Naruto, as in canon. However, he slowly starts to shift away from "moron" and towards "badass" due to collecting several Intelligence stat powerups.
 * Evil Weapon: The Cursed Katana is very much this. Powered by Kyuubi's malicious chakra? Check. Hostile towards anyone else that tries to touch it? Check. Lights anything non-Naruto it touches on fire? Ohoho, check.
 * Game Breaking Bug: Of all things,  .
 * Jerkass Gods: The Game Makers seem to be this at first. However, they do appear to be showing a tiny bit of kindness; when  is accidentally activated, they leave it on in order to give her a better chance of surviving.
 * Karma Meter: One is in place, and as of yet, Naruto is on the Good side. There seem to be no extra powers for being of a particular karma as of yet, but there are certain jutsu and weapons that he must have certain karma to use (the only one seen so far is ).
 * Monster Arena: The Hellspawn Pit, fashioned in a similar matter to the Bloody Palace from the Devil May Cry games; a bonus area that Naruto finds in the Forest of Death filled with one hundred floors, with a Boss Battle against a tailed beast every ten floors. Of course, Naruto is a bit confused when he looks around and only counts nine doors... The place is so terrifying that Kyuubi himself begs Naruto never to go back to it.
 * Nerf: Naruto, during training for the Chunin Exams, stumbles on a brilliant idea: why not send a crowd of Shadow Clones in all directions to find the stat powerups? Unfortunately, after using this a couple times, he is kindly informed by an ANBU operative that using that technique could be interpreted as being used to spy on other candidates, and if he uses it again in that fashion, he'll be disqualified. Fortunately for Naruto, this seems to be an issue only during the Chunin Exams.
 * Time Stands Still: Naruto has the option of pausing the video game at any time by saying the word "pause". Unfortunately, as he discovers during his battle with, he can't actually attack anyone while in this mode.