NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1: Encounter
Author note: This is a non serious or what not story, there will be tons of plot holes, no harem or romance, just a guy going to different worlds for random reasons. I have never made a proper consise story before so expect nothing from me.
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On his way back home from his local convenience store, our favourite main character aka Grenade was absent mindedly looking at the sky, his body in auto on route to his house as this was a very daily routine of this unhealthy fellow. Grenade squints his eyes at a particular corner of the sky where a blinking light that was increasing in its brightness could be seen.
Lost in focus he didn't see the car the came at full speed towards him and hit his feet. "Ow" he lets out a screech like the manly man that he is and looks at the toy metalic car that a "nice" neighbourhood kid had hit him with. Scowling at the kid and going back on his way, he sees that the brightness of the object in the sky is unnaturally high. Being the big brained otaku that he is, he figured that might be an asteroid on route to his location and being such a great fan isekai didn't mean he'd want to die given the chance thus this untrained and unhealthy body was forced to run down the street while looking at the sky and paying close attention to his surroundings to make sure no 'Truck-kun' takes him out.
Being perfectly aware of his surroundings, he relaxed seeing the bright light fade."Must have burned up in the atmosphere" he thought, going down the cross walk, while still paying attention to both sides of the road.
It was noon so there was hardly any traffic in the area but he still remained vigilant because he had this gut feeling that he would die today. Odd feeling to have on a routine day, but big world with all sorts of people so not that rare for some to be aware of impending death. Now as Grenade makes his way to the pavement/pedestrian walking area, he fails to account for the small crack in between the bricks. With dumb bad luck and incredible precision, he manages to get the front of his shoe stuck in it. Not a big deal, he could've just pulled it out right and be on his way. However, he was currently looking to the sky for any asteroids and forgot the basic teachings of look where you walk and moved forward, spectacularly falling down to the pavement(like that one bread slice falling video or the way izuku midoriya falls calling himself a failure), his slow mind going through which anime and novel he's going to be spending his time on not even realising that he's currently falling down. At an angle of 45° down the fall, our great main character suddenly realises his plight and puts his hands at the front, what he forgot was that it had been snowing and as such his hands slide forward as he kisses the pavement and loses conscious.
"An unfamiliar ceiling" 'spoke' Grenade who hadn't realised that he was but a white ord of light in an expansive white space that didn't have a ceiling to begin with. In this white space other then him and a huge ball of light there was nothing else he could perceive.
Not having a body or brain for helping him hyperventilate or panic due to having a flight or flight response, Grenade simply asks "Where am I?" to the other ball of light. "A different dimension with different laws, to your convenience you could say this is a universal waiting room for souls to be on there way in the cycle of life" the ball replied. "So I died, just like that no thunderbolt falling from the sky, no asteroids and no truck-kun just fell face first huh" Grenade calmly 'spoke', then again looks to the ball of light in front of him and asks "What are you?"
"I am the administrator or in your terms the Game admin of this dimensional sector that's connected to your Earth and it's universe along with other universes as well"
"So do I go back into the cycle of life or wait or what?"asks Grenade. "Well that would be a more automatic process, since my 'job' is to simply oversee these areas of the dimension, you haven't gone back which means that you'll be stuck here for a while" answered/transmitted the ball to him. Grenade realising that he's somehow been unlucky enough to fall out of the cycle of life asks"How long is a while?"
"It's all about perspective really since the concept of time is different here, it may be now or may be far far away or in your terms, millions or billions of years from now"
"So do I just stay here, for millions of years in this white nothingness, what do I do to spend my time while waiting"
"Well, the anomaly that you are in, is a very rare phenomenon that occurs every few eons in the multitudes of universes under my observation, most of the previous anomalies either go insane from the 'whoteness' as you call it or just keep reviewing their lifetime of memory accumulation over and over till my shift here ends or I put them forcefully into a different cycle"
"My life is pretty plain, I'd probably bore myself from 'reliving' it in a sense, so what was the last part about you putting me into a different cycle?" Grenade's 'inner-otaku' sensed an opportunity.
"Before delving into that, I will have to first explain to you that there multiple universes and dimensions out there that have extremely different laws and concepts that maintain their existence and structure. Now by putting you into a different cycle would require me to use some of my authority or 'comand permissions' for me to take your soul and put it into a different world that could have a different concept for laws and such"
"Can I chose the type of world that I can go to, like if persay I wanted to go to a world where Naruto Uzumaki exists, like a chakra world, could I do that?"
"You mean, could 'I' do that and to answer that, yes I can indeed send you to such a world as these world do exist"
"Did you watch Naruto or something, like how'd you know which world I meant?"
"Firstly I can read or for better terms look through your entire soul's data quite easily as a higher plane of existence and secondly all those animes, fantasy books and novels and what not, are all worlds that exist who at some point converge for the better sense of the word with your Earth so some people or authors as you may call them get the 'ideas' about these worlds to write about their history as their stories which have consise details about them. Say for example, Naruto's soul data and Masashi Kishimoto interacted during the converge or proximity of these moving worlds/dimensions, thus allowing him to have the great idea of an incredibly detailed story of this nine tailed jinchutiki"
"Wow, so like you said that there are infinite worlds so what about worlds that are of the same origin but different timelines, like I won't really want to go to a Naruto world that's already starting the boruto part"
"Yes, there are worlds that are essentially the same but with certain differences like one with no Naruto in it or one where he isn't so lucky and dies or ones where the timelines are the same but at different points like one of them would have the second shinobi war while the other would be in the forth war. Putting you into different timelines is within my capabilities, and since you are an anomaly you won't really face rejection from the other dimension's laws. Seeing as how you're so deadset on talking about the Naruto world, do you want to be put into it?"
"Yeah, I'd like to be put into that world, but I still need some time to think of which time of that world and can I chose my spawn point and who I spawn in and like my beginner powers or something?"
"Yes it's fairly easy to put you into Konoha or any other general location in the world, since there are infinite worlds with various variations, with enough time it's also possible for your soul to be put into the body of a character of your choice. It'll have to be when there in there early years like 0-4 years of age as that's the optimal time for the soul to get used to the body, so for example if you wanted to be born as Kakashi whose age is 1 years old with the timeline being similar to the one you're familiar with, then all I'll do is find this specific world with this timeline with the variation being that the Kakashi of that world at the age of 1 died of brain death or something, then I'll put your soul into that body thus allowing you to essentially become a native of that world with the specific spawn that you choose. You have plenty of time, millions of it actually so you can take your time with your choice. I know what you're thinking and no I can't just give you powers that are too illogical for the timeline of choice like a Kakashi with all kekkei genkai, what I can do is give you the specific spawn point of your choice, along with the optimal conditions as well as what you were thinking of, this 'system' can be made for you but it won't be able to essentially give you new powers like if you're Kakashi and like 15 years into that world and suddenly you want a rinnegan, can't do that, the system could however give you knowledge that exists in nearly all of that worlds' timelines like jutsus, seals and other bits of information that you may require."
"That's a lot to take in, can you wait a bit for me to make my choices?" Overwhelmed by the amount of information and options Grenade starts to contemplate on what he may choose. "Sure, you have all the time you want" answered the 'Admin' as Grenade calls him. Grenade was focusing on who he wants to reincarnate as in the Naruto world when it suddenly dawned on him that the Admin was quite accommodating of his choices and was unlike what he expected of a higher being who would find it beneath it to help him or would limit his options to say 3 wishes. Grenade was about to enquire about this question that was forming in his 'head' when the Admin having already known his thoughts answered his queries,"The reason for my even interacting and helping you go to another cycle is very simple. It's because your soul having gone outside the cycle of your world and becoming an anomaly has somewhat become a separate existence thus you could say that you're similar to a weaker higher being since we're not bound by worlds. Secondly, even if you didn't meet me here in this sector, since you're a higher being of sorts your soul won't dissipate or go into a cycle if it chooses not to as well as not losing your previous memories, which would mean you would keep reincarnating with perfect memories of this and the coming lives in the same earth over and over untill you either meet one of us or elevate your knowledge to travel different timelines by yourself. It was an inevitable matter and I'm only helping accelerate your let's say foundation to become a proper higher being. The me that's having a conversation with you is one of many such 'clones' of mine that I put into this soul dimension that connects to your world. I have all the power to spare and having nothing to do other then stay here for eons and eons, so it would probably come down to me just doing it because I feel like it"replied the Admin. Grenade once again took some time to digest the info provided to him and said,"So instead of anomaly I'm a fledgling higher existence who just doesn't know how to even move in this space or how to get into a different world's cycle but with enough lifetimes, I would have been able to do just that as I can accumulate enough knowledge and you're just speeding up the process by putting me into a cycle faster thus starting this whole accumulation process thing" After that comment Grenade became quiet as he seriously thought of who he wanted to be reincarnated as and when he wanted to reincarnate into said person.
After a considerable amount of time spent on going through all he knew about Naruto and who would be the best anime character to reincarnate as and also what his goal would be during his journey through this world, Grenade 'looked' towards the Admin and said,"The one I want to reincarnate as is....