Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 57

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor The Gamer. I own nothing, really.

Chapter 57

It was time, finally.

If I was being honest, I didn't know if I was more happy or nervous that the day of the Finals had come. It felt awful, the first half but I was just so... tired, of worrying about that, of having the knowledge of the future gnawing away at my brain. I just wanted to be done with it so that I could be free of the Damocles sword that hung over my head. One of them, at least.

Once more, maybe it was wrong of me to feel that way, but for better or worse, everyone and everything would have changed after the Finals were over, be it that Orochimaru was stopped or he won. The future would never be the same as I knew it from then on and I was elated by that. I had changed too much for it to remain as it was, there was no way things would play out the same now.

On the other hand, I was nervous. So very nervous that all that I had done, all my training, all my planning, all my preparations would just... not be enough. I dreaded an outcome that would just say that all that I had done was make things worse. A confirmation that told me that I was a mistake, that I should have just stayed dead and this world would have been better off without me.

[Eiji Satou

Main Title: Anko Mitarashi's Apprentice

Secondary Title: Prodigy

Energy Points: 920/920

Chakra Points: 920/920

Cursed Chakra Points: 0/9200

Strength: 46

Dexterity: 50

Constitution: 46

Chakra: 46

Chakra control: A]

My stats hadn't gone up that much, merely by one each. Although, to be honest, that made sense since I had focused much more on Jutsu Creation, be it the Void Genjutsu or my new Lightning Release pair. That wasn't to say that I had neglected that side, but I hadn't done nearly enough to make good progress. After all, they were, in my opinion, fairly developed already, any progress now needed a monstrous amount of training that I just hadn't been able to do now.

I had entered the late game, as it were. I had long since passed the time where I would level up stats in days instead of months. That was, however, what I planned to focus on after the shitshow that was coming my way. I had about as many tools and Jutsu as I could manage to get my hands on. Now I needed to be fast enough, strong enough and have enough stamina and chakra to use them appropriately.

Dismissing the Status Screen, I read over some of my skills that I had improved during my training time.

[Lightning Manipulation – Lvl 11

Increases control of lightning according to level.

Lightning jutsu use 11% less chakra.

Lightning jutsu are 11% more effective.

The user is 11% more resistant to lightning.]

Funnily enough, Lightning Manipulation had been leveled unintentionally, since it had gained five levels when I finally managed to create the Lightning Release techniques I had been working on. The rewards I had received were those levels and one stage in Chakra Control which had been what pushed me firmly into A.

Next on the list would have been the new Jutsu themselves, but I had seen so much of them through the last few weeks that I was sick of them. I had pushed myself so hard to get them maxed out before the finals that I was fairly sure I could have cast them in my sleep, nevermind without seals.