Naruto- Greetings, Elemental Nations! I am the System!

[DragonsEye]

[Chunin Exams Stadium- The Uzumaki Heir]

'Father has really outdone himself this time.' Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, the sole male heir of the Uzumaki Clan thought as he looked at the stadium which hosted the first ever Great Chunin Exams from the stands.

For the first time in history, the Konoha Stadium held people not only from the Fire Nation but all the five Elemental Nations.

The Great Chunin Exams was one of his father's most ambitious projects, the first time the Kages of all five Hidden Villages were standing together in public on the same stage after decades of warring with each other.

'Still doesn't mean that the Hidden Villages have started to trust each other all of a sudden. One simply needs to look at the list of the finalists to know the truth.'

Indeed, not a single Shinobi among the finalists was from Konoha's former enemies, Kumo, Kiri and Iwa.

Most of the Shinobi from these villages had forfeited in the first round while the remaining had not signed the life and death contract for the second round, thus ending their journey in the Great Chunin Exams.

It was obvious that the three Hidden Villages didn't want to risk their precious Shinobi in what was basically a public stunt for them.

'And yet, even this was not enough to convince the Village Council to allow me to participate in the Great Chunin Exams.' Naruto thought bitterly.

Since Naruto was the last male heir of the near extinct Uzumaki Clan and probably even the last male, his life had been filled with the politics of the Konoha Village Council since he was born.

Not to mention that his father Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage often bent to the Village Council's demands because of his overprotectiveness for him.

Ever since the attack on his mother by a mysterious masked man on the night of his as well as his twin sister's birth which had almost led to the death of his entire family, the overprotectiveness of his parents for the two of them was off the charts.

Narumi, his twin sister who didn't look like him since she had red hair rather than Naruto's blonde, had it less worse than him as she had a part of the Kyuubi, the Nine Tailed Beast sealed inside her with the rest of the beast sealed inside their mother.

Kyuubi, being sealed inside Narumi, provided her with enhanced regeneration and even a part of his chakra should she manage to control it. Due to this, his parents could afford to be a little less hard handed with her.

However, Naruto, on the other hand, was left to face the full force of his parents' overprotectiveness while also facing the constant clamour from the Village Council.

'Hmph! Those Village Council bastards just want me to form a harem of their daughters and be their puppet. When will they stop pushing the Clan Resurrection Act for me to Father?'

The Clan Resurrection Act or CRA for short was an act which allowed the last male heir of a near extinct clan to legally form a harem so as to produce a huge amount of children for the proliferation of the clan.

While the CRA would certainly be extremely attractive to any hot-blooded male his age, Naruto was not interested in it a single bit.

The reason being that he had seeing how helpless his great, oh-so powerful father was against his mother's anger far too many times.

If his great father could not control a single wife, how was he to handle multiple?

Not to mention that he had never thought of simply becoming a babymaker. Being the only son of the Hokage, he had some big boots to fill, the first one becoming as great a Shinobi as his father.

Though his twin sister Narumi would certainly like to contest that she would achieve that level first. After all, she had been loudly proclaiming her dream of becoming the Hokage since her Academy days.

Anyways, returning to the topic, because of the Village Council's pressure, Naruto's father Minato could not allow him to participate in the Great Chunin Exams despite the fact that he had been trained by Konoha's strongest corps, the ANBU since his Academy days and already had elite Chunin level chakra reserves.

His dear sister had only been allowed to participate because it would be extremely dangerous for a Jinchuuriki like her to participate in a Chunin Exams in another Hidden Village and it would take years for her to be promoted to Chunin otherwise.

It also helped that the Kyuubi's chakra provided Narumi with an extra layer of protection.

'Still can't believe that the Village Council's concerns turned out to be true for the first time."

And what a way it had been for them to come true?

During the second phase of the Chunin Exams, one of the most dangerous traitors of Konoha, Orochimaru had infiltrated the exam venue, the Forbidden Forest and his target had not been any examinee Genin but ANBU Captain Itachi Uchiha who was there for security detail.

Moreover, Naruto himself was there with Itachi at that time, having somehow managed to convince Itachi to take him along.

Thankfully, nothing had gone wrong as Itachi had been able to hold Orochimaru down while Naruto used one of his father's unique shuriken to summon him through his Flying Thunder God Jutsu.

Naruto's mother Kushina Uzumaki's heart had almost leapt out of her chest when she had learnt that Orochimaru had attacked Naruto.

She had been ready to take out her sword and hunt for Orochimaru in the entire Forbidden Forest but fortunately, his father had managed to stop her somehow.

'Looks like they are finally going to start.' Naruto came out of his thoughts as he looked at the podium where all the five Kages had finally arrived.

"The Great Chunin Exams is a great step towards achieving peace for the entire Elemental Nations. For the first time after several decades,......"

Naruto's father, the Fourth Hokage had only started his lecture when Naruto heard something.

Something which was going to change the Elemental Nations like never before.

[System Loading….. 100%]

It was a crisp and clear voice, sounding like it was coming from some kind of device yet it was completely emotionless, like the speaker was not even human.

Immediately, Naruto became alert and swept his surrounding with his eyes to form an understanding of the situation. The initial purview made him realise that everyone had heard the same voice as him.

The spectators were in confusion and he could see the hidden ANBU trying to find the source of the voice.

[Greetings, Elemental Nations! I, the Great System, have arrived with the glorious purpose of teaching you how to be a true Shinobi!]

The voice made some grand claims yet its tone was emotionless as if its claims were no great matter.

By now, everyone's eyes from the Five Kages to the common spectator's were wandering, trying to find the source of the voice. Yet all the attempts were turning out to be fruitless, as if the voice was everywhere.

[No longer shall great potential be buried in war! No longer shall it be destroyed just because it faced a stronger opponent!]

The ANBU were openly running around the entire stadium now as the voice's claims continued yet their search had no result.

[The First Event is about to begin!]

It was at this moment that a blue translucent screen suddenly materialised in front of Naruto.

These words not only sounded in Naruto's ears but were also written on the blue translucent screen.

Seeing the first trace of the voice in front of his eyes, Naruto immediately slashed at the screen with a kunai. However, the kunai passed through the screen effortlessly as if the screen didn't exist.

'Genjustsu? Kai!'

Thinking that the blue screen was a Genjutsu, Naruto formed a hand seal, releasing a burst of chakra from his body. Yet it had no effect on the blue screen in front of his eyes.

Before Naruto could begin thinking of how to interact with the screen, a timer of 10 seconds suddenly appeared beneath the words on the screen.

Realising that he didn't have much time, Naruto ran his eyes once again through the stadium to see if anyone was experiencing the same phenomenon as him.

Most of the spectators didn't seem to be seeing in front of their eyes but a single glance at the finalists' stands told him that their expression was unusual.

Could they be seeing the same screen as him?

However, Naruto couldn't continue his stream of thought as the timer turned to zero.

[Let the Chunin Exams Battle Royale begin!]

As Naruto started thinking what these words could mean, his vision suddenly turned white.

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Author's Note— And so it begins!

As all of you can see, Naruto's situation in this world is different as his family is still alive and he also has a twin sister who has the Kyuubi sealed inside her instead of him. He is also hounded by the Village Council for CRA since he is supposedly the last male Uzumaki.

His personality is much closer to Boruto than the original Naruto. However, his twin sister Narumi's personality can be considered to be quite close to the original Naruto.

The rest of this world will be explored as the story continues.

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[DragonsEye]

[Chunin Exams Stadium- The Fourth Hokage]

Sometimes, Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, thought that Fate really had something against him.

After all, whenever he was about to enter a new chapter of his life, tragedy seemed to struck out of nowhere.

And it was not some common tragedy either but one with world-shaking effects.

When he had finally asked out the love of his life, Kushina Uzumaki and started dating her, the Third Shinobi War started.

When Kushina was about to give birth to their first children, a mysterious masked man struck and the Kyuubi Attack happened.

If it was not for the sacrifice of his predecessor, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, he dared not think that his family would have survived.

And now, when the Five Hidden Villages had finally decided to sit on the same table and talk about peace, a mysterious voice had sounded out of nowhere with outrageous claims, ruining all of his plans.

"Any progress in finding the source of the voice, Itachi." Minato asked the ANBU Captain standing behind him, currently coordinating all the ANBU in the stadium to search for the mysterious voice's source.

Itachi Uchiha was one of the most prodigious Shinobi to ever come out of Konoha, already in line to be the next ANBU Commander despite being only a few years older than Minato's own children.

"No, Lord Hokage. The ANBU have not found any sort of device which could be broadcasting the voice." Itachi unfortunately answered in negative.

"But we have found something mysterious about the voice's broadcast. Everyone in the stadium has heard the voice equally, no matter what the location was. It was as if the voice was sounding right in their ears."

"Could the broadcast have been done through Genjustu? No, a Genjutsu would have been easily cought by the Kages. The only way would be Fuuinjutsu." Minato guessed.

Being a Fuuinjutsu Master himself, Minato knew that this Shinobi Art was capable of performing such an act.

"Lady Kushina had the same doubts. That is why she is currently sweeping the stadium to search for the traces of Fuuinjutsu. Though she has not found any meaningful results yet." Itachi reported that his wife had already joined the search.

Good! Kushina was the greatest Fuuinjutsu Master in Konoha, more knowledgeable in Fuuinjutsu that Minato himself. With her joining the search, Minato was sure that the culprit would be found soon.

"Hmph!! With the way the search is going, the ANBU will not be able to find the source today. Do you need my help, Lord Hokage? I could teach these young' uns something."

Surprisingly, Onoki, the Tsuchikage of Iwagakure offered his help despite the fact that he hated Minato as well as Konohagakure to his very bones because of the crushing defeat his Village faced in the Third Shinobi War against Konoha.

"I thank you for your kind support, Lord Tsuchikage. However, it would not give a good message if the Kages stepped up just because of mysterious voice broadcast." Minato replied, kindly declining Onoki's offer.

"Then, hurry up. It is already getting late." A, the Raikage of Kumogakure said impatiently.

""Still, I am surprised that the perpetrator only performed a voice broadcast with how resourceful he seems to be. He could launch a surprise attack and we would not have any inkling of it even at the last moment."

Rasa, the Kazekage of the Sunagakure questioned the motive of the perpetrator in a rather creepy voice. He looked rather suspicious today since he had not revealed his face ever since he took a seat. However, Minato knew that it was no time to investigate.

"I am sure that we will learn his intentions once we find—" Minato's remaining words remained stuck in his mouth as several pillars of light emerged from the stadium, with most of them appearing from the finalists' stands!

When the pillars of light disappeared, none of the people who were there were left. They had simply disappeared without any trace!

Realising the graveness of the situation, Minato immediately used his Space-Time Jutsu, the Flying Thunder God Jutsu and teleported to the finalists' stands.

However, to his surprise, he couldn't find even a single trace of any kind of chakra being used, much less a Space-Time Jutsu.

"Minato…" It was at this moment that a familiar female voice called him sorrowfully.

Turning around to look at the source of the voice, Minato found that it was his wife Kushina who had called him with tears in her eyes.

"Our children, Naruto, Narumi….. They are gone!" Kushina informed Minato tearfully.

"Don't worry, dear. We will definitely—"

"Reporting to Lord Hokage, I was escorting my student Satsuki Uchiha for the Great Chunin Exams when she suddenly disappeared in a pillar of light. The ANBU have found that the same phenomenon also happened to several Genin in the village."

Minato had not even started consoling his wife when his student Kakashi Hatake arrived to report that the same incident had happened in the entire village.

Minato couldn't even begin to think about what he should do. All of a sudden, not only his children but also several Shinobi of his village had disappeared and he didn't have even the slightest clue regarding where they could be.

Ding!

It was at this moment that a blue translucent screen appeared in the sky suddenly.

[Welcome to the Chunin Exams Battle Royale!]

Minato had just begun analysing the blue screen when he suddenly felt a huge surge of chakra along with the smell of ozone filling the air.

A humanoid figure covered in blue lightning jumped from the stands and headed right towards the blue screen!

The figure punched the blue screen but his body passed through it as if the screen didn't exist.

"Tch! Genjutsu!" The figure cursed as he landed in the stadium, revealing that he was actually A, the Raikage.

"Calm down, Lord Raikage! This opponent is far too tricky to be defeated by pure force." Lady Mei Terumi, the Mizukage of Kirigakure advised as she landed in the stadium with the rest of the Kages arriving right after her.

It was at this moment that the words on the screen changed.

[The Chunin Exams Battle Royale is the first event held by the System with unimaginable rewards. The participants are Genin Shinobi who are borderline Chunin level or already at Chunin level but have not been promoted.]

"A Battle Royale? You dare to pit our Shinobi against each other in a deathmatch and we are supposed to just watch!" Onoki said furiously as he read the words on the blue screen.

As if hearing Onoki's words, an extra set of words appeared below the previous text on the blue screen.

[Note— The Chunin Exams Battle Royale is an extremely realistic simulation world similar to a Genjutsu where Death is but a temporary defeat. Upon their defeat or death in the Battle Royale, the participants will be returned to the real world without even a single scratch on their body.]

"Not a single scratch, huh! This so-called System dares to abduct our Shinobi, put them in a deathmatch and then says that the deathmatch is just a Genjutsu. And we are supposed to believe it?" A, the Raikage said furiously, not believing system in the slightest.

However, the System seemed to have unheard his words as the words on the blue screen continued.

[Here is a Glimpse of the rewards the participants can obtain from the System!]

The words on the screen disappeared as the pictures of the supposed rewards appeared on the screen.

As soon as they saw the rewards, everyone's eyes widened in shock. For the rewards included several techniques which were near impossible to obtain in the entire Elemental Nations and some were outright impossible.

Hidden Villages' secret A-Rank and S-Rank Jutsu, including Raikage's 'Lightning Armour' and Minato's own 'Flying Thunder God Jutsu' and 'Rasengan'!

Not only that, there were also extinct Jutsu of former Kages such as Third Raikage's 'Hell Stab'. There was even Uzumaki Clan's Fuuinjutsu and Kenjutsu on the list.

"H-How did this System obtain our personal Jutsu? And these extinct techniques! They were buried in the history a long time ago. If this system really has such rewards, then—" Mei Terumi didn't there to even finish her words, realising what kind of effect this System could have on the Elemental Nations if its claims were, in fact, true.

At this moment, the Five Kages had realised that this System was definitely not the work of a man. Its origins were not simple if it could abduct so many Shinobi effortlessly and offer Jutsu of such tremendous power as mere rewards.

"Look! The screen has changed again." Kushina pointed at the blue screen as its contents changed again.

This time, there were no words but rather moving pictures on the screen. The screen was now divided in multiple parts, with each part showing a different Shinobi.

Though the multiple screens were now focusing on different Shinobi, there was one thing common in all of them. The environment was a giant, dense forest which actually looked rather similar to the Forest of Death, the exam venue of the second phase of the Chunin Exams.

"Look! There are Naruto and Narumi. Thank goodness they are alright." Kushina pointed two particular screens to Minato which showed their children.

Both Naruto and Narumi were combat ready, kunai in their hands as they looked at their surroundings warily.

"So, what should we do now, Lord Hokage? This System seems to be far more powerful than we initially thought it to be." Onoki asked Minato about their future plans since this incident had happened in Konoha.

"While this System's workings and intentions are unknown, we simply can't believe its words. We have no way of currently approaching our abducted Shinobi. But we will not lose hope. We will sweep through the entire Konoha, try to find even the slightest trace of this System. There is no way that we are going to let this System lord over us while we do nothing."

Minato declared as he looked at the giant blue screen in the sky, at his children which were currently trapped in a deathmatch.

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Author's Note— I wanted to show how everyone reacts to the System's actions and doesn't simply accept it as many stories of these genre show.

Some perceptive readers may have found that there is Satsuki Uchiha rather than Sasuke Uchiha in this world.

The main reason for this genderbend is that I have not seen the Naruto anime and have only read several fanfictions along with a few snippets on YouTube. Though I would try my best to give you all a great experience.

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[DragonsEye]

[World of Battle Royale— The Uzumaki Heir]

"This so-called realistic simulation Genjutsu is really something."

Naruto thought as he looked at the sky of this Battle Royale world which seemed to be formed of hexagonal panels, a reminder that this world was a false one no matter how realistic it seemed to be.

He still had difficulty believing that such an illusory world could be created where even Death was an illusion.

Ding!

[The rules of the Chunin Exams Battle Royale are now being displayed. Please read them thoroughly as you will not get another chance to see them.]

The System's mechanical voice sounded as a blue screen materialised in front of Naruto displaying the rules of the Battle Royale.

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(1) The area under the purview of the Battle Royale is a giant circle which will get smaller as time passes by. A mini-map has been provided for the participant's convenience which will relay the participant's location regarding the circle.

Note- If a participant steps outside the circle, he will be subjected to poisonous gas which will grant him a 'painful death' in just a few minutes.

(2) A participant can only leave the Battle Royale upon his 'death' or 'forfeit' upon his defeat at the hands of another participant.

Note- The 'forfeit' feature is only available to prevent a participant's torture in case of his capture upon his defeat. A forfeit will not be accepted if the participant still has combat power left.

(3) The Battle Royale will end when there are no participants left who are 'hostile' to each other.

The term 'hostile' doesn't apply to those participants who know each other and as such, can't fight to death with them.

(4) Warning! In order to have a fair match, each participant's chakra reserves have been limited to borderline Chunin level. The limited chakra reserves can be unsealed using certain rewards found in the Battle Royale.

The rest of the functions and rules will be explained later as the Battle Royale continues.

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"Chakra reserves are limited to borderline Chunin level! What the fuck?"

Naruto couldn't help but curse as soon as he read the last rule. Immediately, he drawed upon his chakra reserves but the result was exactly what he had feared.

His borderline Jounin level chakra reserves had indeed been limited to borderline Chunin level. This level of chakra reserves was what he had during his Academy days!

It wasn't that the most of his chakra reserves had suddenly vanished. They were still there but he just couldn't access them for some reason.

"I hope that Narumi can manage her limited chakra reserves for this Battle Royale. Her Shadow Clone Jutsu is really chakra intensive."

Unlike his borderline Jounin level chakra reserves, his twin sister Narumi had nearly mid Jounin level chakra reserves. This made chakra manipulation really difficult for her but also enabled her to use some really chakra intensive Jutsu like Shadow Clone Jutsu easily.

"At least, the chakra limitation rule would prevent a monster like Gaara from wreaking havoc in the Battle Royale."

Naruto knew very well that the most dangerous opponent in this Battle Royale was Sunagakure's Gaara, the One Tailed Beast [Ichibi]'s Jinchuuriki.

Naruto didn't know what method Sunagakure had used to seal the Ichibi in Gaara but it was clearly faulty.

Gaara's psychotic behaviour clearly showed that he was being influenced by the Ichibi. His ruthless actions in the Chunin Exams preliminaries had already proved that he was but a bomb ready to explode at any time.

Naruto's father had already offered Lord Kazekage to take a look at Gaara's seal but the Kazekage had refused his offer by saying that Gaara's mother, the Kazekage's wife had sacrificed herself to empower the seal and that there was nothing wrong with it.

As Naruto read the rules one last time, he couldn't help but notice the 'hostility' clause. This clause basically prevented the participants from fighting their friends and acquaintances.

"But what if all the participants refused to fight each other from the start? Won't the Battle Royale then end immediately?" Naruto couldn't help but wonder.

Ding!

[The participant will realise how baseless this possibility is once he meets his first opponent.]

The System suddenly answered Naruto's question with a blue screen out of nowhere.

"Wait! What if—"

Thinking that the syystem may be willing to answer his doubts, Naruto asked a lot of questions to the System. But unfortunately, the System didn't answer even a single one of them. It was as if the first answer was just a courtesy.

Realising that questioning the system was meaningless, Naruto finally started moving towards the centre of a circle. After all, he had been spawned rather close to the circle's boundary which was slowly closing in towards him.

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"A Shinobi!"

Naruto thought as he encountered a Shinobi after running for around 15 minutes.

The Shinobi was running ahead of Naruto and had not sensed him yet. Looking at his dark skin as well as his clothing, the Shinobi was likely from Kumogakure.

Naruto didn't have an understanding of the Kumo Shinobi's skill as most of them had not passed even the first Chunin Exams Test. Still, he had full confidence of defeating this guy as long as he had Genin or even Chunin level skill.

As the Kumo Shinobi was not aware of him yet, Naruto took full advantage of this opportunity and approached him as silently as possible.

Given that Naruto had trained with ANBU since his Academy days, this kind of basic stealth was just child's play for him.

Once he thought that he was close enough, Naruto pasted an explosive tag on a kunai and threw it at the Kumo Shinobi after attaching it with a chakra string.

The System had thankfully not prohibited the use of explosive tags and other Fuuinjutsu seals. And it was also fortunate that Naruto always had a set of explosive tags with him.

No matter how subpar Shinobi Kumo had sent for the Great Chunin Exams, any Shinobi worth his headband won't be taken out by a simple kunai.

As the kunai sailed towards the Kumo Shinobi, he reflexively tilted his head to avoid the kunai. However, that was Naruto's intention in the first place.

Kai (Release)!

Just as the kunai was passing by the Kumo Shinobi's head, Naruto activated the explosive tag on the kunai with the chakra string.

As the explosion happened right next to the Shinobi's head, his ear and even his brain to some extent was damaged by the explosion.

The Kumo Shinobi couldn't handle this much damage to such sensitive organs and crashed against a tree as a result.

While this kind of damage was enough to send a civilian into a coma, the Shinobi were made of harder stuff. Even though this Kumo Shinobi was just a Genin, he would be able to recover from this kind of damage in just a week if it was the real world.

"Forfeit! I don't want to kill you." Naruto said as he held a kunai to the Kumo Shinobi's throat.

"I-I forfeit!" The Kumo Shinobi was heavily disoriented by Naruto's attack but somehow declared his defeat.

[Calculating the participant's chance of victory against his opponent…… Less than 1%

The forfeit has been accepted!]

As the Kumo Shinobi's forfeit was accepted, his body was shrouded by a white light and soon vanished.

"Brother Itachi's trick worked perfectly. He really wasn't joking when he said that this trick would be enough to defeat most of the Genin."

The explosive tag and the chakra string was an ANBU strategy used often to deal with opponents of low level. Something Itachi had taught Naruto during his first bandit extermination mission.

'Wait a second! Why did I immediately attack that Kumo Shinobi without even trying to make contact with him? I am using not this aggressive."

Naruto couldn't help but question his sudden change in behaviour but unfortunately he couldn't find an answer.

Ding!

[As you have faced your first opponent, you should have realised that you recognised him as an enemy for no reason. This is because of the Enemy Recognition Jutsu cast all over the Battle Royale World. It makes the participants consider anyone did not have an impression of as an enemy.]

"Fuck! This System feels more insidious the more I learn about it."

Naruto cursed as the System's now familiar blue screen informed him of the Enemy Recognition Jutsu.

"Looks like I can only interact with Konoha Shinobi. Let's see if I can find Narumi. Hopefully, she is doing alright."

Naruto thought as he continued running, his thoughts filled with concerns regarding his dear twin sister.

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Author's Note— The Chakra Reserve Limitation Rule is something I put in because I thought that it would make things more interesting. It was also to prevent power creep to some extent since this Battle Royale is Chunin Level.

I was inspired for the Enemy Recognition System by the red dot feature of maps in the video games which showed where your enemies are. In the Chunin Exams Battle Royale, anyone you don't know or have no impression of is a 'red dot' aka an enemy.

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