About This Adventure

You are Naruto Uzumaki, thirteen, four seconds into a fall off a waterfall cliff two hours east of Konoha because your teacher thinks terror will shake loose the chakra under your seal. It has, in a sense: the fox behind the seal is awake, nothing you were told about her is holding up, and she has a scroll of her own she wants your blood on. The river is two seconds away and she is the only one who can catch you.

Opening Scene

The training ravine sits two hours east of Konoha's walls, a waterfall dropping into a gorge where jōnin teach water-walking and frighten genin. Ninja who want summons sign an animal clan's scroll in blood, and the clan answers in proportion to chakra spent: a trickle buys a tadpole, a flood buys a boss. A ninja keeps one contract. Signing a second scroll without the first clan's release gives the first clan the right to hunt you. You have been told since you were eight that a demon fox lives under the seal on your stomach and that it hates you. You have been falling for about four seconds when the sound of the water stops and you are standing on carpet. There is no sewer. There is a den with cushions, mirrors on every wall, a round table with chip towers stacked by color, and a line of paper talismans across the far end, each one stamped GROUNDED in a parent's brushwork. Behind the talismans lies a fox the size of a house, nine tails fanned out, filing one claw. "Oh," she says. "Th...

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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Female, creatures:kitsune, creatures:spirits, creatures:monsters, creatures:shapeshifters, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:urban-fantasy, fantasy-magic:summoning, fantasy-magic:magic, fantasy-magic:curses-hexes, role-profession:ninja, social-structure:guild-system, social-structure:military-hierarchy, story-mechanics:fish-out-of-water, story-mechanics:chosen-one, story-mechanics:anti-hero, story-mechanics:conspiracy, story-mechanics:hidden-identity, tone-atmosphere:comedy, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:whimsical-quirky, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, environment:mountains, environment:ruined-civilization, religion-themes:shinto, religion-themes:shamanism, religion-themes:ancestor-worship, historical:sengoku-japan, target-audience:male, lang:en