Chapter 86: The Warehouse 9

Carl yawned as he got up from his bed in his house in the Warehouse between worlds. He was a little disappointed he didn't get to see anymore of the Cataclysm that Deathwing had caused.

While on the one hand getting entertainment from an event that would likely cause widespread death and destruction wasn't exactly…good. On the other hand, he wasn't really celebrating the deaths. He just wanted to enjoy the spectacle of destruction.

He himself was capable of similar destruction, if not worse. But he hadn't ever let loose like Deathwing did. Maybe he would find himself a nice asteroid field one of these days and see what he could do?

Carl moseyed over to the terminal Spere 037 had left behind for his cheats. Looking through the options and the new tab for his Dragon alt-form, he made sure to add the perks he got from the last world into his base body and his two alt-forms.

He now had three different bodies, his Human, T-Rex, and Silver Dragon bodies. As usual when he finalized his selections, he passed out.

After waking up, Carl did his usual shower and breakfast routine. This morning he felt like having a different breakfast from usual and prepared a traditional Japanese breakfast. Rice, miso soup, grilled salmon, a small salad, tsukemono (pickles), and natto (fermented soybeans).

It wasn't as heavy on the stomach as say a traditional English breakfast. But he enjoyed the meal, and promptly ruined the mood of the whole meal by having a frosty mug of Root Bear instead of a cup of green tea or anything more appropriate.

With a mug in hand and in his Night Elf form, he then began wandering around his warehouse. It didn't take too long before he found a new door in the side of his Warehouse wall, near the ones that led to his Dinosaur lands, that opened up on the Dragon Hold of his Silver Dragon Flight.

Carl wandered into the Dragon Hold and noticed that there was no one wandering about. Confused at the sight, he made his way over to where they had been holding the banquet party just before he left the world of Azeroth.

Opening the door, Carl saw all the members of his Silver Dragon Flight inside where they had previously been. But they were frozen in place, unmoving.

Giving a great sigh in both relief and disappointment, Carl closed the door behind him.

"Apparently they are 'followers' not 'companions', so they don't get to remain unfrozen in time between worlds." Carl guessed as he made his way back to the Warehouse. He had been hoping that he could interact with them between worlds, but it looked like it was not to be just yet.

The thing that made it a bit difficult for Carl was that he knew he could get some companionship at any moment he wanted. All he had to do was spend some of the Warehouse CP to buy a couple of those stasis pods and put Fiona and Rhona in them, and he would immediately have some companionship.

The thing that always stopped him was that he looked at how much CP he would need to visit each of the past worlds to gather his girls.

Each stasis pod cost 20 cp. Each return trip to a world cost 20 cp. And he only got 10 cp every world. Right now he had 120 cp. After the fifteenth world, he would have 140 cp. Which meant he would have enough to visit 7 worlds.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pokemon, History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, Harry Potter, Against the Gods, Stargate SG1, and Game of Thrones.

Seven worlds that he had to go back to in order to pick up his girls, friends, and family. He couldn't afford to spend cp on a stasis pod now if he wanted to make it back to each of those worlds immediately after the 15th jump.

Since he couldn't pass the time chilling with the members of his Flight, he decided to go play some games. Entering his house, he flopped down on the couch and began looking through his stockpile of games for something to play to waste some time.

Looking at some of the games reminded him of the Harry Potter world where he had first learned how to merge technology and magic. He, Fleur, Hermione, and Luna had spent so many hours together working on runic schemes to allow electronics to work in magic rich environments.

Thinking back on those days, he smiled in reminiscence. Those girls were all brilliant, and they would have loved exploring the Stargate's world's tech along with him. At least in the future he could watch as they learned the science, technology, and magic.

Carl chuckled aloud as he remembered one particular summer morning shortly after they graduated.

Carl peeked his head into the den of the house he and his girls lived in. Hermione was sitting at her desk, head bent over a book as she scribbled notes.

He smiled to see her so focused on her work. The way she occasionally blew her hair out of her face was especially amusing and endearing to him, since it was such an intrinsic part of her personality.

"Hey, Hermione." He called out to her from the door.

"Hmm?"

"Fleur, Luna, and I are going to the beach. You coming?"

"Hmm, that's nice. Have fun." She absentmindedly said.

"You coming, then?" Carl asked again.

"Sure. Sounds good." Hermione didn't even look up from the book. Carl was getting the impression that she was in her study zone.

"You know we're being invaded by life size M&Ms. They demand tribute. We thought we'd bake a cake to give to them. Any thoughts?" Carl was struggling to keep himself from laughing. The snickers behind him by the two blondes wasn't helping him.

"Sounds about right, go with that." Hermione absentmindedly answered as she continued writing.

"Your parents called. They said they had decided to sell you to me as a Harem girl. You're only allowed to dress in sheer silks and slippers from now on." Carl added on.

"I'm sure they mean well."

"Hermione, if you don't put down the book in 10 seconds, you're going to spend the day with blonde hair to match Fleur and Luna, and we'll dress you in the skimpiest bikini we can conjure up when we go to the beach."

"Hmm, okay, Carl."

The full out laughter of Luna and Fleur could not be contained as Carl began his countdown. When he reached three Luna and Fleur brushed past him into the den. They were already in their bikinis, sarongs, and flip flops, ready for the beach. They were carrying what looked like dental floss in their hands with evil smirks.

A moment later, Hermione was forcefully pulled away from her precious books and changed in moments into the skimpiest bikini Carl had ever seen. Apparently the two blondes had taken Carl's joke to heart and were going to enforce it for the day.

"Guys, come on! This isn't funny!" Hermione complained while covering certain parts with her hands and blushing all the way down her neck. "There's no way I'm going out in public like this!"

"Oh, but you are! You agreed to it." Luna disagreed while hugging one of Hermione's arms.

"Yes, you did." Fleur added, holding the other. "But don't worry, there's a spell on your bikini that makes anyone who is not us ignore what you are barely wearing. They won't see how little your scrumptious outfit covers. But we…we get to enjoy the delicious sight to our heart's content."

Hermione blushed even more if that were possible.

"Carl!" Hermione tried to appeal to him to save her from the embarrassment.

"Sorry, Hermione. My hands are tied, you did agree to it, after all." His gaze raked down her 'outfit'. "Can't say that I'm too disappointed though. I agree with Fleur, the sight is positively mouthwatering."

Luna then began whispering in Hermione's ears something that caused her to begin to flush in excitement instead of embarrassment. They all knew of his amazing hearing, so the whispering was done behind a silencing charm so Carl couldn't hear. But the speculative and plotting gaze of the three girls somehow got his blood pumping in anticipation of an enjoyable morning.

And boy was he right. The use of certain spells made sure they could flirt and tease each other in the most scandalous ways in public and no one but the four of them could see what was going on.

It was a most memorable, exciting, day.

And silencing charms were amazing.

Carl smiled in reminiscence. That had been a good day. He played some random games for a few hours, watched a movie or two, and finally decided that there was no reason for him to wait in between worlds anymore.

In the beginning of the Jump Chain, before he had access to Occlumency, he had to spend the time readjusting his mindset and coming to terms with the worlds and people he had left behind.

But now that he was regularly organizing his mind, it was a lot easier to adjust his emotions and mindset between worlds and jump into a new one. So he didn't feel the need to spend so much downtime between worlds adjusting his mind in preparation for the next world.

He turned off the entertainment center in his living room and moseyed on out to the terminal to initiate an entry into the next world.

Generic Naruto Fanfiction

Welcome to the Elemental Nations! This is a world of Ninja, a world of fighting and war, of intense combat and hidden darkness. A world of…giant harems? Gods and Demons, and ninjas acting less like folklore heroes and more like pop-culture ninjas?

It's a strange world, this one. It is the world of Naruto fanfics. Yes, all of them! Well, not really, but it can be! Exiles and Hokages, Sharingan bearers and Akatsuki members, all versions of Naruto exist somewhere out there in the giant multiverse that is Naruto Fanfiction, and you're going to one of them!

You may pickwill go to a random Naruto fanfiction in which you are inserted upon taking this jump, within a couple of limits. Firstly, the story must be set in the Naruto world. Fusions are fine, characters tossed into other worlds are not, unless it's other universe characters coming to Naruto.

Secondly, the fanfiction mustwill not have a jump of its own.

Everything else goes!

Alternatively, if you lose the lottery, you will go to a more "Generic" world, one where a random boring assortment of common tropes from Naruto fanfiction plays out.

Either way, you'll probably need these 1000 cp.

"Well, that's a crock of shit." Carl snorted at seeing he wouldn't get to pick the specifics of the world. He looked around suspiciously for a moment. "Jump-chan, are you there?" There had to be someone there messing with him. But if they didn't come out, what could he do?

He could do nothing, that's what.

After nothing happened and no powerful being came out to talk, he returned his gaze once more to look over the intro in disgust. There were hundreds of thousands of Naruto fanfiction out there. That meant this world could be anything.

In the infinite worlds of Naruto fanfictions, anything could happen. Naruto himself could be anything from a genius not seen since the Age of Legends to the dumbest block of wood that can barely do shadow clones. Hell, even the ability to do shadow clones isn't guaranteed. Naruto might not even be a ninja, or he might not even be a dude, he might be a she. Hell, it might not even be Naruto, it could be someone from another world inhabiting Naruto's body. Or Sakura had her body taken over, or who knows what else.

Carl sighed in disappointment at the lack of solid intel about this world. He wasn't even guaranteed that the Naruto he got would have the cheerful can-do attitude of the original that made the story so fun. He might be as broody as an Uchiha, or more murderous than Gaara was before he met Naruto.

"There's just no telling what is going to happen in this world." Carl was still frowning before a thought occurred to him. He perked up a bit. "Yeah, there's no telling! That means I don't have to care one bit! If I find I don't like the people in whichever Naruto world I end up in, I can just screw off for the next 10 years and not care about their angst and problems! I won't have to feel obligated to do anything to help them just because I like the original characters in the Naruto comics!"

Carl paused for a moment, head cocked in thought.

"Well, except for Sasuke "Hn" Uchiha. I hate that guy." Carl paraphrased a Mel Brooks movie while picturing Sasuke in medieval clothing. "No way am I helping him!"

Time and Place

By default you're inserted at the start of whatever fanfic you choose to enter with this jump. However, if that's not what you want, you may freely choose the location and time period of your insertion.

"Hmm. Kinda hard to pick a perfect point when you don't know what fanfiction story you'll get." Carl scratched his chin in thought. "On the off chance that I get a cast of characters that I like and want to interact with, I should make it early enough to get to know them. When not in wartime the kids generally enter the ninja academy when they are eight and finish up when they are twelve. So that would give me four years to get to know them. And I would then be leaving the world when I'm 18. Not bad."

"And if I find I like them, I can help them train so they aren't such green noobs that they'll die on their first C rank mission." Carl nodded in affirmation at his choice, and entered the information to go into the world when Naruto's batch of people were eight.

Age and Gender

Your age is set to 1d8+10, and your gender remains the same as it was before this jump. Or you may freely pick either, if you so wish. Whatever, man.

Carl burst out laughing. It sounded like the Jump-chan was smoking something when they made this part, so laid back that they didn't care. It was all good, dude. He selected age eight and to remain male.

Origins

Drop-in: You arrive as you are. No new memories, nothing. If you want you can have a village ID card and/or hitai-ate (headband with a metal plate and your village's symbol on it) for your starting village and an unremarkable existence on paper, but that's it.

Prodigy: You're a prodigy! A genius, like Hatake Kakashi or Uchiha Itachi. You could graduate from the academy early, or even might have graduated already!

Exile: Ooh, something went wrong. Konoha (could be another village, but let's be serious here, it's probably Konoha) has exiled you from the village, and declared you persona non grata. How much sense this makes is entirely relative and dependant on the fanfiction in question, but y'know. That's how it is.

Demon: Maybe the world of Naruto isn't as simple as one would like it to be. Maybe there are older, greater things than humanity running around. You're associated with the more mythological aspects of Naruto fanfictions, gods and demons, spirits and prayers, and the rest.

"I'll most likely pick either Drop-in or Prodigy, just because that would let me stay in the academy like I was planning. Maybe Exile, if I got exiled from somewhere else and ended up in Konoha? Demon is right out, unless the discounted perks that origin gives are fantasmagorical enough to make me change my plans. Well, I'll pick my perks first and then decide based on discounts."

Chakra Coils (Free): The basic ability to use chakra, as represented by "chakra coils" that are a nebulous part of your body and/or soul now. You have top-quality chakra coils which would place you in the top 5% in this world in terms of both capacity and control.

After this jump your chakra system and body continue to function just as they do in this world, retaining any improvements or additions made along the way. You may also, if you choose to, induce the development of chakra coils in other people simply by pushing some of your chakra into them.

Carl smiled in excitement at the prospect of getting Chakra Coils. From the explanation of Chakra in the original show, Chakra was the result of combining Mental Energy and Physical Energy.

He's not an expert in Chakra yet, but it sounds like those Chakra Coils will be some kind of organ or mental pathways or something that will combine his Magic (mental energy) with his Ki (physical energy). The research possibilities about merging two different energies excited him and he couldn't wait to get some good readings on his body and other ninja's bodies.

He'll even be able give all his girls Chakra Coils when he picks them up. He added the perk to his shopping cart.

Academy Training (Free): You already have all the basic training necessary to start on your career as a ninja. Your physical stats and resilience are what civilians would call 'peak human' and you can mold chakra, use kunai and shuriken, do the academy three jutsu (henge, kawarimi, and bunshin), and have learned a basic taijutsu style. You've even studied ahead a little and learned tree climbing, chakra-boosted jumping, and several D-rank techniques.

Carl added the perk to his list. While he was planning on going through all four boring years of the academy, already having the basics down would allow him to swiftly move to other, more interesting subjects, immediately.

He knew some basic ideas about the three academy jutsu that he would gain knowledge of. The henge was a technique that allowed the ninja to look like someone or something else, thus fooling enemies. In some of the Naruto fanfictions the henge was described as an illusion technique, while Naruto (for whatever reason given) used an actual physical transformation. In other fictions the henge was described as an actual transformation, and everyone used it like that.

Whichever version was the case for the particular Naruto world he'll go to, he'll find out soon enough.

The kawarimi switches out the user for a nearby object of some kind, which gets them to safety from enemy attack. The ninja of Konoha almost always use the kawarimi with a log, which has led to some fanfictions having an almost cult like religion among the Konoha ninja as they worship The Log that saves their bacon. In some of the fics the logs aren't even present until they use the technique, which summons Incarnations of The Log to protect those ninja who are loyal to the everlasting protection of The Log. Amen.

Carl chuckled at the absurdity of it all. But who knows, he might end up in one of those worlds.

And the bunshin was a technique which creates an insubstantial clone of the user that can be used to confuse the enemy as to just where they are, allowing them to get the jump on them in combat.

Thinking about the bunshin and comparing it to the shadow clone technique, Carl was more inclined to think that the henge was an illusion technique.

The shadow clone technique, which was Naruto's signature jutsu, creates a solid copy of the user which distributes the chakra of the original evenly between the clones and the user. At least that's how it was usually explained; it may vary between different fictions. When dispelled in one or two hits, the chakra given to the clone returns to the original along with the memories that the clone experienced.

It was also a technique that can kill someone who didn't have enough chakra to perform the technique, since it separates out their chakra to different clone bodies. If they are left with too little chakra in their body when the cost of the technique comes due, they die.

Carl was inclined to think that if it takes so much chakra to create a solid copy of the ninja that it might kill them, then there was a great likelihood that actual physical changes to the body cost too much chakra to be an E-rank technique like the henge.

Another good argument was the example of the Akimichi clan in the Naruto world. The Akimichi were known for their large physiques, their large appetites, and more importantly their body expansion jutsu, which causes them to actually physically grow parts or all of their body to gargantuan size. The cost of those techniques was high in energy requirements, which is why they were always eating.

And remember, the Akimichi were noted for their large appetites among ninja, who as a group are very physically active people who would definitely require plenty of food to remain strong and active. If their techniques cause them to be noted for their huge appetites, and their body transformation techniques are high enough rank to warrant an actual clan to form around it and be noted for their use in battle, then it is highly likely that a little E-rank technique like the henge isn't an actual transformation, but a simple illusion, simply based on the chakra and energy costs of such techniques.

Carl shook his head to clear it from miscellaneous thoughts and refocus on the jump document. Whatever he thought about the ninja techniques here and now, it could all be swept away by the peculiarities of the world he was going to. He needed to keep an open mind so he didn't get blindsided!

Elemental Affinity (Free/100 cp): Not much to see here. You have an extremely strong elemental affinity in one of the five primary elements of this world, those being Fire, Wind, Water, Earth, and Lightning. The first purchase of this perk is free, second and onwards cost 100 cp, though you must purchase a different primary element each time.

"Perfect! A free purchase of Earth and now I've got them all. My wind affinity may not be as high as my Fire, Water, and Lightning, but it's there!" Carl clenched a fist in victory.

He didn't know how the darkness/shadow affinity he had would play out in this world. Does the Nara clan have a shadow affinity that allows them to control their shadows and create ninja techniques from it? Carl shrugged and moved on. There was no real point in speculating too much right now except to entertain himself.

Perfect Control (300 cp): Okay, whoa. This is quite nifty! Your chakra control is now utterly, absolutely perfect, which means that no matter how much of it you use and how many different manipulations you do at a time, you never waste so much as an iota of it, retaining absolute pinpoint control at all times.

And chakra isn't the only thing you can control so finely, either. Welcome to the world of perfect muscle control and coordination. You have utterly inhuman mastery over each and everything in you, your energies and your body, so strong that it never frays, let alone breaks, no matter what. You can manipulate chakra with your mind alone, and thus perform any Jutsu you know without the need of hand seals at all.

In future jumps your control over your bodies expands to cover any other bodies you may acquire, and you can control any and all powers and abilities you acquire just as finely as your chakra.

Carl added it to the list. While he was beyond excellent in the many martial arts and magics he had trained in, gaining perfect control would bring him up to the next level, no doubt making him that much more deadly.

Unlimiter (400 cp): Your potential knows no bounds. Even with everything that chakra can do, other ninjas eventually reach a limit on how strong or fast or agile they can be, how much chakra they can store or channel, etc.

But not you. Never you.

You have the capacity for limitless growth inside of you, breaking all of the natural limits on the human body, mind, or soul. With enough training you could eventually grow to equal the gods, and then to surpass them. Furthermore, your potential stands unlimited in another way as well.

Normally, gaining a skill or ability changes people. Muscles develop along a certain way, the nature of their chakra changes, and a thousand and one other things. The point is that this tends to reduce the extent to which they can learn other things. With you…that just doesn't happen.

No matter what you learn and what you train in, your ability to master other skills remains completely unaffected. It doesn't even matter if it's somehow a requirement for you to toss aside other arts to progress in one, you can ignore that and go right ahead all the same. This applies to any skills you have already acquired as well. Time, atrophy, curses, nothing short of jump-fiat can make you lose an iota of your ability, come hell or high water.

Even deliberate attempts to cripple your capacity will always fail short of actual destruction of the relevant body parts. In case the last does happen, you can be assured that while this does nothing to speed it up, you will heal from such damage. Finally, you yourself are also protected from the effects of your arts, such that even the most dangerous techniques or abilities you ever use can only do temporary damage at worst, even if said damage is an intrinsic part of their function.

Carl couldn't add Unlimiter to his basket fast enough. While he had gotten similar benefits from the Dragon God's Bloodline in the ATG jump, that bloodline had only made it so that any powers he possesses will continue getting stronger as he grows older, with no upper limits except his lifespan. The Dragon God's Bloodline said nothing about his physical, soul, or mental growth potential like the Unlimiter did.

And while he was doubtful that the perks he got from the Jump Chain would help him grow stronger than the creator of the Jump Chain, maybe he could one day get just as strong and gain control over his jump?

Carl shrugged. That was too far in the future and too iffy. But for now, he had tasty perks to purchase. Looking down at the next perk, he paused in thought for only a short time before adding it to the basket.

Kekkei-Genkai (400 cp): Ah, some of the best stuff in Naruto. You have a Kekkei-Genkai, a Bloodline Limit of your own, which lets you do things few others can ever match!

You receive 1000 bp (bloodline points) to spend in the Kekkei-Genkai section. In addition, this purchase gives you control over your bloodlines, specifically the part about it passing on to others. You can pick and choose if you want your children to inherit your bloodline(s), to exact and intricate details.

Finally, should you so wish, your bloodline, not to mention any and all other powers and abilities you may have that can pass on thus, will always, always breed true, no matter how many generations pass or how much the blood is diluted. You can also choose to pass on a weaker copy of this perk to your children, and they to theirs.

This perk may only be bought once.

Carl nodded to himself that it was the right choice to purchase this perk. Not only was he getting 1000 bp for spending 400 cp to get a genetic power, but now his future children didn't have to worry about marrying their siblings to keep their bloodline strong, like what had happened to the Demon Royal Family in the ATG world. If Caiyi's family had this one perk a lot of her family's issues could have been avoided, he was sure.

At the very least they wouldn't have been relegated to only having two kids that married each other over and over again. Or had their lineage broken because one of them was assassinated by ambitious traitors.

Not that he was advocating for his kids to marry each other. The idea was very icky to him. But…he was in a weird fantasy like jump chain, traveling through multiple realities. Who knew what kind of situation he would inevitably find himself mired in. Right, moving on.

True Name (500 cp): Whoa. Ookay, this is some deep stuff, man. Something happened. Maybe it was a great quest, some memories from another life, maybe you glimpsed at something mankind was not supposed to see. However it happened, you have discovered your True Name.

This is the truth of who you are, all of it, the summation of every "you" that ever was, could have been, will be, or might be. And knowing it grants you quite a bit of power over yourself.

Firstly, this means that it's no longer possible to drive you mad or corrupt you, even by things which would normally find doing so a trivial effort. You know yourself. No matter what actions you might perform, what you might witness or be exposed to, your True Name remains the core and truth of you and all else just slides off, leaving you unmarred. The same effect also shields your soul from any and all attacks whether it be mundane or magical, whether the perpetrator is some petty torturer or a celestial spirit. Your soul, sense of self, and willpower are absolute, boundless and inviolable, come what may. Neither can your True Name be used against you, or knowledge of it pass on to others save by your own will and desire.

Beyond this, truly knowing yourself places your heart at ease and lets you draw out more of it from within you. Simply by meditating upon your True Name you find that your soul grows ever-so-stronger, growing richer for the experience, and immensely benefitting your comprehension of all things related to your mind, soul, or spirit.

Finally, your enlightenment will avoid the traps of stasis or hubris; from now on your soul will develop only for the better and never for the worse as you walk the road towards the better you, the you that you really wish to be. No more self-deception, no more blind alleys.

Carl sat down to meditate a bit when he read the entry on True Name. Then he read it again. It was so…deep. He added it to the cart. He felt like the purchase was more than worth the cost.

If he had come to this world first and all he could afford was the Unlimiter and True Name perks alone, he would have snatched those two up. Even more than bloodlines and fancy jutsu that everyone went crazy over, the unlimited potential and ability to know and protect his very self was priceless. A mere 900 cp for those kinds of benefits? Definitely!

He had purchased quite a few perks just from the general section, and he didn't regret it at all. He had actually laughed out loud when he saw one perk in particular, but he wasn't going to pick it. The Clan Restoration Act for 200 cp would give him the legal right to having multiple spouses and make the whole thing work. But he already picked up one of those perks from the ATG world, so he didn't need this one.

Not to mention the fact that the Clan Restoration Act heavily implied that he would be having kids to restore his clan. And he wasn't going to be going there just yet.

Looking at the last of the Generic Perks, he shook his head. He certainly wasn't going to pick to be a Jinchuriki and have a demon in a seal in his stomach.

Moving on to the next section, Carl decided that he would go ahead and pick the first perk in the Drop-in section.

Shinobi (100 cp): What with all the screaming jutsu names and giant fireballs and kaiju summoning, its like these people have entirely forgotten that ninja are supposed to be stealthy. Well, good thing you're here to remind them.

You are a true Ninja, a true 'Old School' shinobi. You have ungodly dexterity, patience, and sheer skill at sneaking. You could sneak through a village full of ninja at high alert while wearing bright orange, and your skills at lockpicking, picking pockets, stealing, sneak attacks, and the like, trades which demand stealth like this, are just as ridiculous.

In addition, you no longer need to cry out any of your jutsu's names, being able to just execute any and all of your techniques without even uttering a word. You're also a dab hand at using more 'traditional' ninja methods of dealing with people, such as poison use and various practical assassination techniques that don't require engulfing your hand in lighting and running in a straight line at someone.

Finally, while you do not gain any supernatural abilities related to stealth, you can maintain any abilities you do have in just about any condition, be it drunk, injured, or unconscious.

Carl was already pretty confident in his stealth skills, especially after spending the last decade plus as a rogue in the World of Warcraft. But a 100 cp perk that would ensure he wasn't screaming his jutsu out like a retard in this world? Yes please! It was one of the things of the original cartoon that annoyed him greatly, having the characters yell out their moves.

Carl passed over the other perks in the Drop-in section. The Ninja Therapist perk didn't interest him greatly since he had the Decency Inducing perk from the ATG world. He also didn't think he needed the Innovator perk by this point to be able to be innovative with his abilities.

And having the broken luck from the Plot no Jutsu perk sounded like fun, but wasn't a high priority for him. Something as variable as luck didn't interest him, because like the perk said if he got too used to relying on the luck, the universe would smack him down.

After looking over the perks available from the Prodigy origin, Carl made up his mind that it would be his origins. He wanted the discounts on the 400 cp and 600 cp perks. And he would go ahead and pick up the 100 cp one, since it was free. It was a nice bonus, even though he already had a good role play perk from the SAO world.

Masked (0 cp): A proper ninja does not reveal themselves until it's too late for the enemy to do anything about it. Not their true power, and certainly not whatever they're feeling.

You are now a master role-player and infiltrator, capable of putting on a flawless act that could fool anyone short of the most discerning and perceptive people alive, and often even them. You'll never even hint at possessing any ability or knowledge you couldn't reasonably be expected to have. Neither will you ever express a visible emotion that you don't want to. And unlike many long-term infiltrators you will never 'lose yourself' in a role or emotionally confuse a cover identity for the real you.

You could easily spend your entire life since infancy pretending to be the village idiot while actually having the power and knowledge to beat up a Kage, and leave everybody none the wiser. In addition, you have exceptional talent at both henge and mundane disguises.

Brilliant Mind (200 cp): You are a genius, in the true sense of the word. Your IQ is in excess of 200 and your mental processes are optimized to where you have a truly perfect memory; unlimited storage, perfect indexing, instant recall, fully retroactive, all the perks.

Furthermore, your intelligence is so boosted that you can easily detect any attempts at genjutsu or other methods of tampering with your thoughts, memories, or perceptions, and can block them with trivial effort. Simply put, you're immune to any attacks that target your mind in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't matter if they're magical attacks, mind control, or some semi-mythical doujustsu technique, they bounce off your mind without leaving any mark at all.

He already had an upgraded brain and perfect memory. With Occlumency he had amazing indexing and storage and swift recall. But now with this perk, his mind indexing and memory recall will be reinforced and made automatic.

But the thing he wanted this perk for more than anything was for the amazing mind defense. Especially against the Sharingan's bullshit powers. The True Name perk protected his soul from manipulation and attack, and now Brilliant Mind will protect his mind from being messed with.

Carl already disliked how in the original work the eyes of the Sharingan stole other's hard work and jutsu so easily. Okay, it's mostly cause he didn't like any of the Uchihas on screen, they were a bunch of dicks. Like, major dicks.

And he couldn't really get mad at the Sharingan's hax stealing powers without being a hypocrite, since he had that kind of skill through perks. He just didn't want his own skills stolen from him. So he was a hypocrite like that, not wanting to be stolen from when he did the same thing. Oh well. He didn't care, he still disliked the Uchiha that made appearances in the Naruto comic anyway.

Sasuke turned traitor for power to kill his brother, threw an epic pouting fit when he found out his brother had a "good" reason to do what he did, but still wanted to destroy the home he abandoned and was just a giant…dickhead.

Even Itachi, who was supposed to be some tragic hero in the show pissed Carl off. Itachi helped kill off his entire clan, even personally killed his own father and mother. Then he psychologically tortured his own brother to make sure Sasuke followed in his path of dickery. And why? Cause he's trying to make sure there's peace, or something like that?

"Sure, Itachi. Kill everyone to ensure peace, that makes sense." Carl sarcastically rolled his eyes. "Sure, sure, he was in between a rock and a hard place, the Uchiha wanted to stage a coup on Konoha, but he was a loyal Konoha Ninja that wanted to prevent war, he was in a tough place, whatever."

"He should have grabbed his brother and high tailed it out of town while the confrontation between the Uchiha and Konoha went on, if loyalty really was his defining trait. Because in that situation he had conflicting loyalties that would have been hard to decide which of his loyalties were more important."

"So he was loyal to Konoha, but not to his family? And Itachi was dumb enough to fall for that bogus story from Danzo that his entire clan needed to die? So he ended up killing his entire clan because Danzo wanted to collect Uchiha eyes to increase his personal power. So not worth it."

"What was my point again?" Carl paused. "Oh, yeah. I hate the 'misunderstood' Uchiha that these fanfics like to nerdgasm about, and how their eyes are the pinnacle of power. Seriously, they can only unlock their second highest eyes when they kill their best friend or lover, causing huge emotional issues."

"So they as a clan care more about gaining power than they do about relationships with their loved ones. Then in order to get the perfect eyes that won't go blind they have to replace their own eyes with the eyes of a relative that has murdered their best friend or lover. Why are these eyes so highly thought of when you have to be a big ball of angst-i-ness to do anything special with them?" Carl was surprised his eyeballs were still in his head, he rolled them so hard.

"Well, at least with this Brilliant Mind perk I'll be immune from the Uchiha's Three-Days-of-Torture-in-Seconds bullshit soul gaze genjutsu from their hax eyes." Carl smiled in satisfaction at his perk.

"Hmm…Am I being a bit too unfair to the Uchiha?"

Carl thought for a bit longer on the topic.

"Nahhh…The dicks deserve to be castigated."

True Genius (300 cp): Oh, wow. There's geniuses, there's legends…then there's you. Not only do you have vast potential in just about every Ninja Art out there, but your ability to master new skills, arts, techniques, or anything else is utterly absurd. You pick up the basics of new things almost immediately and improve from there at dazzling speed; a month of hard training would give you the sort of gains that an average ninja would spend a lifetime trying to achieve.

This works for everything learnable or trainable, in this world or any other. Physical development, chakra capacity, you name it. And you never need to waste time laboriously practicing or reconditioning what you have already learned; your skills and abilities will remain razor-sharp no matter how long they are left unused.

Better still, what real genius ever needs to rely on others? You could teach yourself how to become a seal master just from reading the textbook, learn advanced jutsu from half-legible scrolls fished out of the garbage, and master new taijutsu styles by secretly watching other ninjas perform their daily kata.

Nor do you suffer any bottlenecks or 'down' periods in your training. Every step on the path to power is as simple and obvious as the very first one, when it comes to you.

The only limitation on your ability to learn new skills, techniques, or abilities is that you cannot create new information from nothing or train in powers or special abilities that you don't have the capacity to use.

Lastly, the very first lesson you learned was that genius is wasted without the proper application. Your work ethic is excellent and you not only have the dedication to keep grinding away for prolonged periods of time but actually enjoy doing so.

While Carl wasn't quite sure just how much of a boost this perk would give to his already ridiculous learning skills, he figured it couldn't hurt to add on some extra learning and genius abilities. At the very least it would seriously lessen the amount of time it would take to train up a new body if he got another one in the future, so he thought the 300 cp was worth it to fill in the gaps, so to speak.

After looking through the other origin perks, he decided to stick with what he had for now. He had already spent quite a bit of cp, and the other perks he saw weren't that interesting to him.

Items: You receive an additional 400 cp to spend in this section alone. 100 cp items are free for their respective origin, all others are discounted. Wherever relevant, you may import an existing item for no additional cost.

"Hmm, now that I think about it, the chakra metal of the Naruto world is special metal that can channel chakra. I definitely need to learn the secrets of this incredible metal that channels the combination of mental and physical energy. It could be another key to learning how to combine all three of my power centers into one. Ki, Magic, and Profound energy. 'With our powers combined…'"

Ninja Weapons (Free): You have a pouch full of all kinds of general use ninja weapons, like shuriken, kunai, senbon, each of multiple kinds and sizes, up to and including things like fuuma shurikens and the rest. It also has many spools of ninja wire, along with the other slightly niche materials, and everything is of the very highest quality, prime Higurashi product.

No matter how many of these you take out, there are always more, and you always pull out exactly what you were meaning to. Strangely no one ever seems to question this, maybe they just think you have a lot of storage scrolls in there? The items you take out eventually disappear after use.

"Hehehe, I'll never have to buy ninja tools! So cheaty! I love it!"

After rejecting the rest of the General section items, Carl grabbed the first one from the Drop-in section.

Shadow Clones (100 cp): Ah, shadow clone no jutsu. The signature jutsu of the Naruto franchise. And now you can join in on the fun.

You have a copy of a technique scroll for the shadow clone jutsu, of such quality that an idiot could teach himself from this thing in virtually no time at all. It even has safeguards built-in that eliminate any possibility of killing yourself by putting too much chakra into it, or getting a headache from too many clones dispelling at once or anything like that. The worst that can possibly happen is that it fails to work.

You still can only make as many shadow clones as your chakra can support but outside of that you can feel free to abuse this handy jutsu for training, decoys, diversions, paperwork, chores, or whatever else you can imagine. In the event that this technique is supposed to have some additional features in the particular fanfiction you go to, or even a better version, this scroll will contain both versions.

"And I was bagging on the Uchiha earlier for hax. Shadow clones plus Brilliant Mind with its automatic memory sorting, perfect and speedy recall, and unlimited memory is ridiculously cheaty." Carl shook in laughter.

"But, hey. Even if it is cheating, it's still not stealing someone else's hard work by just peeping with their special eyes."

Anbu Mask (0 cp): And a tattoo! You have been inducted into the ANBU forces! The Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai are the most elite forces of any village, the crème de la crème, per se. And the unit you have been inducted into is elite among even them. You have access to the finest training, supplies, and help your village can offer, and a security clearance to match. You may, if you wish, be assigned high-level missions. Or you can put yourself on 'detached duty' and just go back to being an ordinary ninja. It's up to you.

In future jumps you will have the status, access, and clearance of a high-level operative in whatever intelligence or military special-operations unit exists in your home nation, and they will curiously forget to actually assign you any missions or give you any orders unless you want them to…just as they forget to revoke your clearance.

"Huh. Being an ANBU before I even start at the academy isn't exactly what I was planning. But then again, it could be perfect. I can just have myself assigned the job of evaluating the academy for the higher ups since I'm at that age. And in a lot of these worlds the academy teachers deliberately sabotage Naruto's education, which would impact on the education of a bunch of clan heirs. And that would be a good way to get all the clans behind reforming the academy, if it impacts them and their clan heirs personally."

Carl firmly nodded. Besides, the ANBU Mask was free.

Uchiha Jutsu Archive (200 cp): The Uchiha really were quite shameless in their day, always going around copying everybody else's lifetimes of hard work just by using their special eyes. Well, at least you get to benefit from that.

Somehow you've obtained a copy of the complete Uchiha Jutsu Archive, everything that several generations of dedicated intellectual property thieves could copy from every other ninja village, clan, and small ninja child in the Elemental Nations. Pretty much any and every technique, seal, chemical formula, pill/cookie recipe, or random dance routine that that one Uchiha liked can be found in here. Any knowledge that wasn't limited to literally just one person, family, or bloodline, or was based purely on sealless chakra manipulation (such as the Rasengan) and thus uncopyable by the Sharingan is in the archive, all of them laid out in such a clear and concise format that any half-competent ninja could teach himself just by reading the scroll.

This archive will update with a complete set of spells, fighting styles, etc, etc. from any setting that you have visited and will visit in the future. Provided it could be generously called public, or even semi-private, knowledge it will be in here. Only the most super-secret, utterly private techniques are missing; after all, even the best copyright pirates can't get everything. This place is comprehensively warded against thievery, somewhat ironically, and it would take a team of top-tier infiltration specialists to even attempt to breach it. Of course its best defense is that, at least at jump start, no one knows you have it. Post jump you can have this become a warehouse attachment.

Carl couldn't help himself and barely propped himself up on the terminal before falling to the ground, he was laughing so hard. It was just too right! Steal from the stealers! Serves them right!

Wiping a tear from his eye, he straightened up once more and continued on.

Clan Jumper (300 cp): Because of course a prodigy like you is the clan head! Or at the very least, the clan heir.

You now have your very own ninja clan, with all that entails. You start with, at minimum, an assured place among the clans of your own village and all the legal privileges this entitles you to. This includes a village council seat along with your clan's entire legacy; a vast clan compound ranging anywhere from dozens to hundreds of acres. A fortune that could buy small countries, at least one secret, ridiculously powerful Style of Ninja Arts, armories holding thousands of weapons, many of which are priceless masterworks, and a considerable business empire.

You also have a symbol specific to your clan, which, if you so will, can be placed on things you own to indisputably mark them as yours, or tokens or medallions to indicate that someone represents you, or has your favor, things like that, and never be challenged. Forging this symbol is basically impossible, as people instinctively know when it's real and when it's fake.

Furthermore, you either already have or can easily recruit an entire extended family of dozens and dozens of ninjas and their spouses, children, etc. under your clan banner. These will range from experienced jonin elders all the way down to cute little genin, all of them entirely loyal to you. In addition, anything you purchased from the Kekkei Genkai section can, at your discretion, be a clan bloodline that all your fellow clan members share.

Your loyal clan members follow you into future worlds, with the council position and wealth/estates adapting to fit the new world you import them into, and all members developing equaling aptitudes in the local methods. The least this can be is a somewhat important noble clan or influential family, and at the highest you could be one of the movers and shakers of the whole nation, with access to the very highest echelons of power. The one limit is that this clan will never be the sovereign ruling power of the nation…though it could be a distant branch.

Carl smiled in anticipation. He already had his Silver Dragon Flight. Now he was going to be getting a Ninja Clan following him around. He was really liking this Naruto jump world already.

Carl paused and looked around in horror. He didn't say anything out loud! There's no way he just jinxed himself!

Eventually shrugging off the bad feeling he had, he moved on.

Kekkei-Genkai: All those who bought the Kekkei-Genkai above receive 1000 bp (bloodline points) to spend in this section alone! If that's not enough, or if you didn't buy the Kekkei-Genkai, you may convert cp to bp at a 1:2 ratio. This works both ways, if you have bp left over. You may not use this to get back more cp than you originally spent.

All abilities here act like a muscle. That is, they can be trained with time and effort to be far stronger than they currently are. They also cost chakra, but little enough that unless your reserves are exceptionally low keeping two or three active isn't all that much of a drain. If you have multiple eye-based bloodlines you may selectively choose how they manifest and how they look.

Carl looked over the available bloodlines, thinking of what would make his ninja the best. He already had incredible senses from his body mod, so he wasn't particularly attracted to a simple boost of the senses. And while a super sense would improve his ninja clan, he felt like it was an advantage that could be trained to overcome or counter through techniques.

The idea of a bloodline that allowed his member to manipulate a combination element release was very interesting to him. The Ice bloodline was a combination of Water and Wind. Wood release was a combination of Earth and Water. Lava was Earth and Fire. Storm was Water and Lightning. Boil was Water and Fire. And there were several others.

The one among those combination element releases that interested him the most was Wood Release, which would cost 500 bp. And the reason that one interested him was that the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was known for that wood element release. It was supposedly how he built the forest surrounding Konoha in such a short time.

And if Carl chose that bloodline, he could probably be in charge of the Senju clan. Tsunade Senju, the greatest medical kunoichi and possible future fifth hokage, would be his relative. And he would gain an instant reputation among Konoha. His words would carry a lot of weight with the people of Konoha.

The other bloodline that interested him a lot, to be honest, was the Byakugan.

Byakugan (600 bp): The infamous White Eyes of the Hyuuga clan. These are some special eyes, Jumper. You can, at all times, have a perfect 359 degree vision on all places around you, with a tiny blind spot at a miniscule spot on your left shoulder blade.

Beyond the breadth of the vision, you have X-ray vision, which you can control perfectly to choose what you see through, and what you don't. You also have immensely powerful telescopic and microscopic vision, letting you see for miles ahead through whatever may be in between, as well as each individual cell in your palm. You can also see Chakra directly, as well as pierce illusions like nobody's business.

Finally, you have some significant ability at looking through even things that transcend physicality altogether, being able to read documents stored inside sealing scrolls and similar things. But this last is an ability that needs to be developed, and it requires some intense effort to achieve it, to say the least.

Having the Byakugan also grants you a body suited to their special Taijutsu style, the Juuken. Your balance and poise are impeccable at all times, your intelligence is significantly higher than average, and your fingers are like steel daggers in their strength and striking power.

To be honest, the biggest downside of getting the Byakugan was being a part of the Hyuga clan, those sticks in the mud. The whole family practices stoicism to an unhealthy degree. As to whether that was a result of their in-family problems, or they feel they need to uphold their dignity as one of the biggest, most important clans in Konoha was anyone's guess.

Especially nasty was how they put the Caged Bird seal on all of their branch family members. The Caged Bird seal was supposedly meant to protect the Hyuga's eyes from being stolen, since it would destroy their eyes on their death. But in reality it was a way for the main house members to keep control of the branch house members. Using the special method to channel chakra, the main house members can cause intense pain and even death to the branch house members if they don't obey the main branch.

If he did choose the Hyuga, in addition to the Clan Jumper item that he had purchased he would likely end up being the heir to the clan. Which, based on what happened to him in the Game of Thrones world, would mean he would be Hinata's twin brother.

Once he woke up in the world he could work hard to study the Sealing Arts and figure out a replacement for the nasty Caged Bird seal. So a bit of work to change his clan for the better was in order.

And the advantage would be that he would have a large clan that would be loyal to him, and very well suited to being spies. Well, maybe not that well suited. Their completely white eyes made them very good at spying, but it also made them conspicuous and completely memorable. Well, that's what the henge was for.

The Senju Clan, on the other hand, only had Tsunade Senju left of it. So he would have to restore it. Which likely meant that he would be expected to take many wives and start pumping out kids as soon as possible. There might even be plenty of people objecting to him being an active duty ninja, since they wouldn't want to lose the precious Senju seed now that they found it again.

"Yeah, I just convinced myself. Hyuga it is." Carl chuckled at the idea of anyone forcing him to be a baby making stud horse while he was still under his promise to his women to not have kids yet. "Those Hyuga eyes are amazing in what they can do. Besides, with my Heart of Snow Glazed Glass from the ATG jump I should be able to work out how to do all these 'bloodline only' elemental combination releases. So after a bit of training I'll be able to manipulate wood anyway without the Senju bloodline."

"Now, what about that Tenseigan." Carl looked over the upgrade for the Byakugan.

For an additional 400 bp, your eyes grow past the ordinary Byakugan into the Tenseigan, which grants you several additional abilities. First of all, you gain the power of manipulating gravity, with enough finesse that you could manipulate things on a hand-to-hand level and enough power that if you put absolutely everything you have into it, you might just literally move the Moon. You can also use this power to fly, and animate statues to do your bidding. This last bit is not necessarily due to the gravity control, mind.

In addition to all that, you gain the power to wield the Truth Seeking balls of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, one for each non-fusion element, including Yin and Yang. Further charging these balls with your own power lets you perform special tricks, even the least of which tend to be more powerful than most things ordinary ninja could ever hope to pull ever in their lives.

From what little he understood of the Truth Seeking balls was that each ball represented one of the elemental releases. So the five basic non-fusion elemental balls would be Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Lightning. And the fist sized black balls would float around behind the user, waiting to be used to control each of the elements.

They could also be shaped into weapons of great strength, or shaped into whatever the user could imagine.

And while a member of the Otsutsuki clan could steal and implant the eyes of a member of the Hyuga clan to evolve their eyes into the Tenseigan, Carl wasn't sure if he could do it in reverse and steal some eyes from the Otsutsuki clan members to evolve his eyes into the Tenseigan.

In the last Naruto movie some asshole Otsutsuki member stole Hanabi's eyes to evolve his to the Tenseigan. So, since he was going into the Hyuga clan and Hanabi would be his little sister, he would be hunting down some of those arrogant berks anyway. Well, as long as they existed in the Naruto world he was going to.

"Decisions, decisions. Either sell back 400 bp for 200 cp and hope that I can get the eyes from a member of Otsutsuki, or get the power to manipulate gravity guaranteed." Carl was tapping his finger to his lips in the classic thinking pose. "Yup, gravity manipulation it is!"

With his bloodline selected, he scrolled further down the document.

Scenarios: Each scenario gives you an additional 500 cp to spend before the rewards mentioned. Failing a scenario doesn't forfeit your chain, but it does forfeit both the scenario rewards and this jump. That is, you're still leaving but not with anything more than memories.

"Hmm, more cp and I get a reward out of the scenario for completion. I'm very interested. Let's see what's available."

The first scenario was already crossed out in Carl's mind. Of the Clan would have made him the last of his clan and responsible for building the clan back up from scratch. And since it was incompatible with Clan Jumper, he wasn't able to select it.

After reading through the information, Carl realized that the scenario was basically to build up the clan until the point that it rivaled what he would get from Clan Jumper, and the reward was to have the clan he built up follow him through the Jump Chain. As long as he didn't mind the massive amount of extra work, he would get paid cp instead of spending it.

Carl decided to check the other scenarios first, to see what was available, before he made the final decision. But he was leaning towards not taking the scenario. If he did, but kept the Byakugan, then something like the Uchiha massacre would probably happen to the Hyuga. And he didn't want to risk the possibility of his future sisters Hinata and Hanabi being killed just so he could build back up the Hyuga because of the scenario.

Summoner of the Divine (requires Summoning Contract): Summons are mighty beasts that ninjas can call upon to aid them in their fights, often against other summons. You are one such summoner, only now you're set on the path to greatness few can even imagine.

You see, there exist now in this world a number of Beasts that count as nothing less than Divine beasts, mightier even than the Mythical Beasts you get for the 400 cp contract. This has nothing to do with what these words mean in other worlds, rather it means that the clans being referred to are mighty ones with extraordinary powers other summons clans can scarcely comprehend. They're far away, arrogant, and powerful beyond words. If any such clan was to take a summoner it would only be one of the leading Ninja of the generation, someone capable of getting their contemporaries to hold them in the same regard as the lesser summons hold these godlike beasts.

And now you must find them, interact with them, and convince them to take you on as a Summoner. Your journey to this goal will not be easy, rest assured, nor will it be quick. But at the end lies untold power and glory, and that makes it all worth it, doesn't it?

An example for how this can be done would be if you take one of the Four Chinese Symbols as your target. You would have to secure the allegiance of at least three of their 'vassal' races, such as birds for the Vermillion Bird, water-based or Amphibian species for the Turtle, reptiles for the Dragon, and so on. You must get at least three separate summon clans like this to take you as their summoner, and then you must make them accept you as a Sage for each of them.

It is only after this, once you have proven yourself the greatest of summoners for each of these lesser clans, none of which may be weaker than those wielded by the Sanin, by the way, that the way to the top opens to you. All this ensures that the clans give you excellent recommendations with the Divine clan you're chasing, but that alone won't do it. It remains up to you to convince the actual clan, and you must do it well enough that they make you their sage.

At this point, however, the Scenario stands fulfilled and your title as the greatest Summoner and Sage alive uncontested.

Success means something special here. Not only do all the clans you have won over follow you with total CP-backing, your exploits have impressed the whole Summons World so much that you may even have other races join you! Specifically, a Divine species as powerful as the one you picked, or three 'ordinary' summons as powerful or weaker than the ones you won over as part of this scenario. Take them along, help them see the world, and be the greatest summoner ever!

To sum up the scenario in just a few words, he had to become the summoner for a Divine Beast Clan and master their Senjutsu arts, which would make him their Sage.

As far as Carl understood it, in the hierarchy of beast clans, there were three tiers of summoning beasts, based on the strength of the ninja beast clan. Normal, Mythical, and Divine beasts. The Divine beasts were the farthest away from the areas near the normal world, and they are the most proud and arrogant. The Divine Beast Clans have a number of vassal races that are Mythical or Normal beast clans.

In order to become the summer of the Divine Beast Clan, he would first need to gain the summoning contract for three of the vassal races and master their Senjutsu arts and become their Sage. Only then could he work on convincing the Divine Beast Clan to give him their summoning contract and work on mastering their Sage arts.

If he succeeds in accomplishing the task, all the summoning clans that he convinced and proved himself to will follow him in the Jump Chain, as well as one other Divine Clan or three other clans of the same strength as the first three clans he became a sage of.

Carl thought about the scenario seriously. With his alternate Dragon body, not to mention that he had 10% Dragon God Bloodline in his body, he was sure he could become the Divine Dragon's summoner and sage. And it would give him even more followers in his Jump Chain journeys.

Taking the scenario would give him 500 cp, and he would have to spend 200 or 400 cp to purchase a summoning contract. And there was a chance of failure that would wipe away everything he purchased in this world. So there was some small amount of risk.

If he was afraid of this small risk with all his advantages, he shouldn't even bother taking this scenario because the Divine Dragon Clan was bound to be arrogant. If he couldn't stand up to that small amount of doubt, then the Divine Dragon Clan's attitude was bound to intimidate him.

Looking inside his mind, Carl searched for an answer. Was he nervous? Was he afraid? Or did he feel eager? Was he simply aware of the consequences?

The more he questioned himself, the more sure Carl was. He knew he would accomplish this scenario. Since the scenario required him to have a Summoning Contract at least on the level of the Sanin, he was planning on picking up the Snake Summoning Contract if he could.

He had purchased the Parselmouth perk way back in the Harry Potter world. It was time to put the language to use again in gaining the snake's allegiance so he could become their sage. And once he had mastered the Sage arts for the Snakes, he would question them about finding another vassal Clan of the Divine Dragons to approach next.

Not to mention the idea of him taking control of the Snake Summoning Contract to counter Orochimaru kind of amused him a great deal.

Summoning Contract (200 cp/400 cp): You have backup! Well, in a way. You have signed a Summoning Contract with a clan of ninja beasts, and they are ready and eager to come to your aid whenever you can muster the chakra to cast the Jutsu!

For 200 cp it's a 'normal' clan like the Toads or the Snakes, while 400 cp gives you a 'Mythical' or 'Divine' clan, like Dragons, or Phoenixes, or White Tigers…you know how it goes. Jinchuriki receive one 400 cp purchase, reflecting the clan their beast is obviously the boss of, for free.

With time your summons may impart certain techniques that would make you a 'Sage' representing their Clan, as well as any other benefits they provide.

Carl got his hopes up at seeing that he could go ahead and purchase a Divine Clan contract for only 400 cp, but when he went to add the Divine Dragons, he was disappointed to see that it wasn't in the options. So much for cheating his way to victory.

In the end he selected the Snake Summoning contract for 200 cp.

The next scenario was interesting and intriguing to him.

Sealmaster (incompatible with Ancient Tongue): Seals…they're a unique proposition, when it comes to the world of Naruto, even more so in Naruto fanfics. Do they just store things, or do they do anything anyone can ordinarily do, just in written form?

Few know, but for the purposes of this scenario it's definitely the former. That is, at the beginning. You see, regardless of how it might have been in the world you pick, it's definitely possible for seals to do everything ninjas can do. From Ninjutsu to Genjutsu to even melee fights through the right sealing of Kinetic energy, it can all be done if one is clever enough.

And now you must be. Seal Lore in this world has not expanded beyond 'store things and make things explode', if elaborate enough in those fields to range from 'firewood' to 'Bijuu'. But now you are here. You must conduct the needed research, find the needed secrets and do all the work required to expand and elaborate the field of Fuuinjutsu.

You must design hundreds, if not thousands of seals, enough that can cover everything Ninjas typically do. From releasing fireballs to having a scroll perform every step of the Impure world summoning on its own, only once you have utterly perfected the art may you truly be called Sealmaster, and this is when the scenario stands fulfilled.

As a reward, the knowledge of the field of Sealing becomes a sort of constant for you. No matter where you go, any and all magic techniques that depend on written symbols of any kind are automatically found in your knowledge, ready and waiting to be used at your pleasure. In simpler terms, you gain an Intellectus for Runes, Seals, and Sigils of all kinds.

"Well, I'm already going to need to figure out the Sealing arts to replace the Hyuga's Caged Bird seal, since I'm not going to stand for the majority of my new ninja clan being slaves. But wait, if I pick this scenario then it means that the sealing arts will be limited at first to 'store things and 'make things explode'. Which means the Caged Bird seal is just a version of an explosive seal with specific conditions to set it off."

Carl frowned in thought at all the implications.

"From what I remember of the Hyuga, only one of the siblings of the main branch gets to stay in the main branch. The rest of them get branded with the Caged Bird seal. No way is anyone putting an explosive tag on my sister's heads!"

He paced back and forth, thinking about the situation. Based on things that had happened in his past when he picked certain perks and drawbacks, he knew there were plenty of unintended consequences that happen. He couldn't control everything. So there was a decent chance that Hinata may be branded with the Caged Bird seal before they were eight.

"But the only real possible way to prevent her getting that nasty seal that I can see is to choose a clan other than the Hyuga. But even then her life will be miserable among the Hyuga." Carl scowled in thought over all the bad choices. He already wanted to be a big brother to Hinata and Hanabi, cause he liked their characters from the show. Even with all the bad that came with the Hyuga, their eyes were bad ass and he wanted them.

"And having the advantage of the Intellectus will be huge in future worlds. I'm pretty sure I can have the Yamato's VI help me out on figuring out the basic and advanced principles of the Sealing Arts. Well, not like I really need the help with the memory and learning perks. But the Yamato VI will at least help me record the data for other people to peruse."

"So I can put most of my attention on attaining the Summoning scenario and stick a bunch of clones working to learn seals. And if I'm getting close to the 10 year mark and still haven't finished the Sealmaster scenario, I'll just pop into time compression to finish it. Not that it's very likely to get to that."

"Okay, I'm going to go ahead and get this scenario. But if any of those Hyuga elder douchebags dare to get within 50 feet of Hinata or Hanabi with a Caged Bird seal, I'm going to castrate them with explosive seals, at the very least. See how they like it."

Looking at the other scenarios, Carl immediately decided that two of them were no goes.

"Once More, The Jubi would have me snatch up all nine Bijuu and shove them into my own gut. Which would most likely kill the Jinchuuriki they were inside before, unless I healed them up afterwards."

But it won't be that easy. Every Jinchuuriki in the world now essentially has the Jinchuuriki perk themselves, complete with capstone boosts where they would apply. On top of that their villages are entirely supportive of them, and will provide them all the support that there is to provide.

"If I was going to run rampant through this world and not care for the consequences or mess I left behind, then I suppose picking this scenario wouldn't be a bad thing. But the idea of doing that leaves a bad taste in my mouth." Carl shook his head and decided he didn't need to have the Ten Tail Tail Juubi living in his gut. Going to war with the entire world just to grab a bit more power just felt wrong to him.

"Let's see, Willed with Fire would have me fight over the title of Hokage with four other candidates that have a complete Origin with all perks and items. So I'd likely be fighting against one each of a Drop-in, Prodigy, Exile, and Demon, or any combination of those, for the title of Hokage. Yeah, I'll have enough on my plate as it is to bother with that. And I have no desire for the title of Hokage."

"While having the whole village follow me through the jumps as a reward would be awesome, I'm gonna pass. I'll leave the hat and the paperwork for Naruto, assuming he's a decent person in this world."

God of Shinobi (cannot be taken with Perfect Control): Anyone can do things if they follow the proper procedure. Well, not anyone, but you know what one means when they say that hand seals and exact instructions mean that even the dumbest of idiots can eventually figure out just about any jutsu.

Which is why you get to be the one to break this world. See, all these things, hand seals, explosive tags, Jutsu as a whole, are all just crutches. Written down, established ways to manipulate chakra that achieve predictable results. They're an aid to most people, but you must prove them to be prisons.

You need to master every scrap of martial technique possessed by your village, by hook or by crook. And 'master' does not mean being able to repeat the hand signs. It does not even mean being able to perform the jutsu.

No, it means being able to achieve the effects of the jutsu without making any signs at all. You must master the way of manipulating your chakra by your will alone, achieving the near-miraculous effects Shinobi perform with naked will.

Once you can let loose devastating Ninjutsu as well as terrible, ensnaring genjutsu with solely your will made manifest, when you can send objects into a pocket dimension with a thought and bring it back with another, and when you can cause chakra to explode without using brushes, ink or paper, only then will you be counted as a true God of Shinobi.

And once you do, you find that all efforts become just as easy for you. No more need for any somatic, verbal, or even material components when you are the one in charge. It becomes possible for your will and your chakra to make up all shortfalls, and so long as you have enough of both, you can impose your will upon the universe and bring about any and all effects you have the knowledge to, with nothing more than a thought.

Carl had been looking at the God of Shinobi scenario for several minutes, going back and forth on whether he should get rid of Perfect Control and pick up the scenario.

In the end Carl decided to go for it. He had incredible learning perks, and had grabbed the Uchiha Jutsu Archive and was going to learn all those jutsu already so that he could replicate them with the sealing arts for the Sealmaster scenario, so adding a bit more time compression in the Time Pearl to train a bit more and master the God of Shinobi scenario wouldn't be that hard.

And that way he wouldn't be spending cp to get the Perfect Control perk, he would be getting paid in cp to do so. Besides, he had so many perks that enhanced his intelligence and learning that it wouldn't be that much of a chore to accomplish the scenario.

Drawbacks: You may take any number of Drawbacks you want for full cp.

Looking at the first drawback, This is Your Story, that gave no cp and was basically used to self insert into an established character, Carl passed. He was going to be the heir to the Hyuga. He didn't want to end up in Neji's body or something weird like that.

Let's keep it Simple (+0 cp): OK, let's face it. The canon plot of Naruto is an unrecognizable mess. Even dedicated fans have trouble explaining what was going on underneath the underneath all the way to the endgame, and far too many fanfics never go deep enough into their own background to make it plain how much of that canon they are or aren't using. Well, there's a cure for that.

By taking this toggle, any and all elements of canon that didn't exist pre-timeskip and that are not explicitly part of the fanfic you are usingthat was chosen for you are strictly optional. Make Itachi an actual bad guy, have Obito actually die during the Third Ninja War, pretend Kaguya never existed, whatever. So long as the fanfic you've chosen doesn't outright contradict you on that point, it's all good. Feel free to enjoy your ninja adventures without being crushed into irrelevance by vast plots and imponderable forces that you had no interest in anyway.

Carl sighed with mixed feelings when he saw that drawback. On the one hand, it was something that he thought was really nice. On the other hand, it reminded him that he had no idea what fanfiction world he was going into. Carl shrugged, he would get by just fine, he was sure.

He added the drawback just to make the world a little less complicated. He didn't get any options to pick and choose what kind of world he was in, more is the pity. But he figured it wouldn't hurt any so he left it.

"Let's see, next is a drawback that only gives me 100 cp that forces me to catch the demon cat Tora once a week while I'm a genin and at least once a month after that without fail? This sounds like one of those traps where I'm expected to say 'How hard can it be?' and then suffer miserably for my arrogance. It would be something like Tora is proportionately skilled to whoever tries to catch him, or something ridiculous, so even Kaguya would have issues catching the demon cat. Pass."

"A ramen addiction that rivals Naruto for only 100 cp. I'm gonna be too busy to suffer from such a debilitating addiction. I like ramen, but not to the point I want to have to manage it like a drug addiction."

"And there's the drawback for Fangirls for 200 / 300 cp. 200 cp gets me useless and weak fangirls that makes pre-timeskip Sakura look like Tsunade. For an extra 100 cp they will be competent yandere fangirls only when they stalk me. Murderously jealous fangirls who are disgustingly ugly and only competent when they attack me? I'll hard pass."

Diapers and…Sunshine? (+200 cp): Ignore that age roll. You arrive as a toddler. Your abilities are suppressed at the beginning, and start to come back at a rate that has them at full power when you reach your rolled age. You may choose between arriving in the 'now' or a corresponding number of years before the plot of the jump.

"Hmm, now this one I actually have to consider a bit. Actually, now that I think about it there are two events that happened when Hinata was young that I wouldn't mind preventing. When she was three she was almost kidnapped by a Kumo ninja who was the diplomat there for peace talks, or signing the peace signature, or something. He was caught and killed by her father, Hiashi, which caused all kinds of diplomatic problems and resulted in Hiashi's twin brother Hizashi committing suicide and his body being turned over to appease Kumo's war mongering threats. That was the incident that started her cousin Neji hating her and caused her horrible case of shyness and meekness."

"The other incident was Hinata's mother dying when she was five, right when her younger sister Hanabi was being born."

Carl paced back and forth while thinking about the wording of the drawback.

"It says toddler. So that's probably a year old, not from birth like I originally assumed. If it's a linear progression of releasing my powers, then at three years old I'll have unlocked 2/7 of my powers. At five years old I'll have unlocked 4/7, assuming I do arrive in world at the age of one. 2/7of my power should be enough to at least stun a ninja or delay him to be caught in our house instead of out on the street where just any old spy can see what happened and report to their bastard superiors."

"And it says 'ability' and 'power', so it is likely that my Warehouse should be active, since that's not exactly an ability. Which means I should be able to use the medical bay. And if not, I know a great deal of medicine, so with just over half my powers returned I should be able to heal my new mother."

Carl nodded to himself. Saving his prospective mother and sister were worth going so early. When these problems had occurred to him after reading the drawback he had been tempted to go change his age of insertion to 2 so he could make sure he saved them. That would have meant he left the world when he was 12, just as he was graduating from the academy. This drawback actually made it so he could go through with his plan to leave the world when he was 18 and still save his family and get paid 200 cp on top of it. Carl added it to the list.

Got Lost On The Road Of Life (+200 cp): Your sensei is probably going to live forever, seeing as how they'd be so late that they'd miss their own funeral. The last time they actually showed up somewhere when they were supposed to instead of hours later was during the previous ninja war. Even the Kage of your village has entirely given up on trying to make them be punctual anymore. Furthermore, even when they do show up their time management is horrible. How did this person ever make jonin, anyway?

Which means that you're pretty much going to have to train yourself if you want to learn anything useful, since barring an emergency you're lucky if you get so much as two hours of useful instruction out of them per week. The rest of your genin team will have the same problem; you'd better hope they're the self-motivated type!

"This drawback is most definitely based off of Kakashi." Carl snorted in amusement.

Carl thought about it. He was going to be ANBU from 8 years old, so he'd have access to the higher level stuff from an early age while in the academy. Well, he also had the Uchiha Jutsu Archive. He would be spending a lot of time studying the sealing arts and working with his summons. So it might be a good thing to not have a teacher around to waste his time with low level stuff. His two teammates were likely to be out of luck if he was on the team.

"Hmm. Maybe after 'graduating' the academy I can forgo the Jonin sensei thing to ostensibly work ANBU while taking care of my scenarios instead. So taking the drawback would likely not affect me or the other two genin at all. And if I do get stuck with a genin team, I'll have shadow clones to attend meetings and help my teammates train and study."

Carl had successfully talked himself into taking the drawback.

You Baka! (+200 cp)would ensure by jump chain fiat that there would be a violent little girl that would get mad often and for no reason and hit him. There was nothing he could do about it to stop it. No one would even think it was odd that she regularly hit his head.

Pass. There was no way Carl was going to allow someone like Sakura to constantly beat in his head. He wasn't that hard up for cp that he would put up with that kind of nonsense.

Precious People (+300 cp)would force him to do anything for his precious people. Even stick to an idle promise he made years ago, even when he was released from said promise. And if he failed the promise, he would angst enough to make an Uchiha look cheerful.

Pass. There was no way he was going to mess with his behavior such that the drawback could make him fail his scenarios. If he had a choice between fulfilling some half forgotten promise that no longer mattered and working on the scenarios with failure on the line, he didn't want the drawback to kick in and ruin his efforts.

Super Pervert (+300 cp)would make him a pervert on the scale of Jiraiya who peeked on the bathhouses or Kakashi who blatantly read porn in public. It would even interfere with his ability to interact with people in certain, romantic, ways. And he would be unable to defend against the righteous anger of the victims to his peeping.

Pass. He had no desire to go through all that at the age of eight to eighteen for a lousy 300 cp.

Village Pariah (+300 cp/+400 cp)would make him the village outcast for 300 cp, or for 400 cp they would actually try to kill him. He was going to be the heir of the Hyuga. If he was outcast, then he couldn't do a decent job as the heir. He passed.

Dobe-Teme! (+300 cp) would give him a foul mouth, which would kill his friendships and ruin his reputation as the heir. He would pass on the 300 cp.

Honorary Village Council Member (+300 cp) would change his behavior so that he acted like those bad IQ council members that make enemies and acted suicidal. His sense of strategy would be completely ruined. Carl declined the honor of ruining his ability to think.

ROOT of All Evil (+300 cp/+500 cp)was a drawback where Danzo had his eye on him for his root forces. He didn't want to mess with having Danzo's attention. He would rather strike the old bastard from the shadows without giving him an opportunity to maneuver against him.

Higurashi Quality Edge (+400 cp): Whoa there, edgelord. Calm down. No? Oh, whatever.

You are now a total and absolute emo edgelord, in all the worst ways. You can never shut up about anything that's gone wrong in your life, be it significant stuff like being used as a prison or your family being wiped out…or a paper cut you got.

You wear only black, and may or may not use eyeshadow. Blades and wrists are also a distinct possibility, depending on you really. Worst of all, you have no respect for others' problems, and declare them an 'emo, angsty bitch'!

Nope. Just nope. Behavioral controlling drawbacks like that are just right out. Especially ones that would give him angst.

Carl looked at the drawback that would make sure he had no access to his Warehouse and moved right on. He wasn't going to allow that when it might be the only thing he had available to save his future mother.

And the next one that would have Orochimaru target him he turned down as well. Orochimaru was on his target list, but he didn't want that battle to go down at the Snake Sannin's discretion. Carl was the one who would strike first, and strike hard.

Real Problems (+600 cp): Your life is the first chapter of Badfics. Forever. Or a long time, at least.

Seriously, you just can't catch a break. Wherever you go, girls are standing around with fists like hammers, ready to hit you in the head. Mobs form at a look of you, ready to lynch you in the street.

Everyone from the Kage to the street dog is conspiring against you, and when you get to a different village you find that they treat you like a spy, saboteur, assassin…and everything else they can think of, no matter how ridiculous the idea.

Now, the good thing is, this can be worked through. If you manage to hold on, you can terrify, charm, or cajole people into treating you well…

But don't expect it to be easy. Or quick.

That drawback was basically Naruto's life in Badfics. Carl chose not get it. He had enough on his plate, he didn't need the distractions. And he was at 4050 cp still banked, so he was looking pretty good.

Carl went back to the beginning of the jump document to check if there was any last minute changes to his decisions. It was good that he did so, because a few of them caught his attention after he had added the scenarios.

In the Demon perks there was one that would help him immensely with his Divine Summoner scenario.

Kyuubi-chan (200 cp): It can be a daunting prospect to be set face-to-face with beings of terrifying power and might, such as demons or gods. You, however, are special. You find that you have something about you, like an aura, which immortal and powerful beings find rather soothing and pleasing.

In addition, your mental faculties are such that you remain entirely unaffected by the status and power of the people you're interfering with, able to treat them like you would anyone else. Indeed, it's almost as if something out there wants you to form relationships with such entities, because they tend to be open-minded towards you even if they normally wouldn't be at all, and you have inordinate luck and skill at charming and convincing them.

You could talk to a demon and get them to become anything from your friend or lover, convince proud clans or species to become your summons and/or friends, get princesses and priestesses interested in bearing your children, and in general, the more powerful and distant a figure is, the easier you find it to get close to them.

This perk was pretty much perfect for helping Carl accomplish his Summoner of the Divine scenario. He was glad he had gone back looked over his options once more.

Sample Collection (400 cp): Oh, what's this now? Doing some experiments, are we? Well, if you are, these would be priceless. This is a comprehensive collection of DNA samples, with blood, hair, nails, and even bones samples from…well, just about everyone who's anyone!

That's right. This is a collection of neatly labeled samples that have materials from very nearly every powerful ninja, samurai, random guy, demon, sage…pretty much anyone who can be considered A-class or above in the Bingo Book. The exact nature and quantity of the samples depends on the people in question and their histories. That is, someone who keeps getting injured would likely have extensive blood samples here, but for someone for whom it's a rarity you would likely see only stuff like hair and skin, and quantities dependant on how easy it tends to ordinarily be to get those things from them.

The exception is for dead people, in which case you get significant quantities of everything from blood, bone, skin…well, everything. Each and every sample is perfectly preserved, and experiments performed on them have significantly higher chances of success than normal. In future jumps too, you get samples from all major figures in the setting, whether in terms of fighting strength, intellect, or the rest.

Carl's plan to study chakra to figure out how to combine two of his types of energy, physical and mental, in order to figure out how to combine all three would be helped greatly by having more samples of ninja to study. Probably.

He could even see about cloning extinct clans and have them be retainers to the Hyuga clan so they came with him to through the jump chain. There were plenty he could do with it. So, he decided to go ahead and spend the cp.

Carl blew out a breath of air from deep in his lungs as he centered himself. He looked through his selections a final time, and was satisfied. He had 3450 cp banked up, which wasn't as big as he hoped to keep banked, but there were just too many good things to purchase in this world that he couldn't resist. And it wasn't too bad, really, thanks to the scenarios, considering how many perks he actually ended up purchasing.

It was time to enter the world.

He hit the finalize button.

The world turned dark around him.

[AN: If you weren't sure of the Mel Brooks movie I was referencing in regards to Sasuke, it's from Robin Hood, Men in Tights. Look up "Hey Abbott!", it should give you the clip.

Okay, I'm sure I'll get some people all up in arms cause they love the Sharingan or the Uchiha, and they don't like how I talk about 'em here. Or they might point at my "hypocrisy" since in the ATG world Carl chose to get skills that mirrored the Uchiha's copy wheel eyes and the fire to burn stuff. Or whatever reason.

I don't know what to say guys, beyond: I felt like ranting, and that's human nature.

We constantly change everything about ourselves. We change our opinions, we change what we think is cool. We change how we react to things.

We can also have two seemingly contradictory opinions at the same time.

I can think the Uchihas have some cool powers, while at the same time being annoyed by how overpowered they were made in the show to the point that they were the espoused as the pinnacle of the peak of badass powers. And it got even more ridiculous in some of the fanfictions.

Especially if I was personally being put in a world where those Copy Wheel Eyes can steal my techniques and hard work? You betcha ass I'm gonna preemptively dislike them!

I can also get annoyed at some of those power fantasies where only Naruto, the Uzumaki-est Uzumaki eva to live! Learns about the powers of Seals and Swords and everything else cause he's just that baddass! And he's the only strongk one on earth and everyone else is weak and dumb compared to him!

And yet I still like that version of Naruto about 1000 times more than Sasuke. *shrug*

So I guess what I'm saying is if you got upset about anything I said in the chapter, I understand. Just try not to be too angry when you lambast me, lol.

And thanks for reading!]

Perks 1000 cp + 3450 cp = 4450 cp

·Chakra Coils 0 cp

·Elemental Affinity: Earth 0 cp

·Unlimiter -400 cp

·Kekkei-Genkai -400 cp

·True Name -500 cp

·Shinobi -100 cp

·Masked 0 cp

·Brilliant Mind -200 cp

·True Genius -300 cp

·Kyuubi-chan -200 cp

Items +400 cp

·Ninja Weapons0 cp

·Shadow Clones -100 cp

·Summoning Contract: Snakes -200 cp

·ANBU Mask 0 cp

·Uchiha Jutsu Archive -200 cp

·Clan Jumper -300 cp

·Sample Collection -400 cp

Bloodline +1000 bp

·Byakugan -600 bp

·Tenseigan -400 cp

Scenarios

·Summoner of the Divine +500 cp

·Sealmaster +500 cp

·God of Shinobi +500 cp

Drawbacks

·Diapers and…Sunshine? +200 cp

·Got Lost on the Road of Life +200 cp

Banked CP: 3450