The Marine of Gensou no Kuni
James, or rather his real name, Naruto, awoke one morning when his alarm clock went off. First he dies during the war against terrorists, who plotted to destroy America, and next he awoke in a white plane and the voice of God commended his bravery and sacrifice. Although he was not alone; his comrades, all brothers-in-arms, they had perished as well helping him put the bullet that killed America's Public Enemy #1 when the palace exploded. So, he didn't wake up in a world where he apparently WAS born in before being whisked away by the very same lord and savior who gave him this chance to live again. His name may have been Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, but to the 23 year old from Davenport, Iowa, he would always be Sergeant James Zero Regulus, of the U.S. Marines.
He climbs out of his bed, and stretches with a yawn escaping. Everything that were his and his friends' worldly possessions also came with them, magically appearing in the expansion to the Namikaze Manor, his home, where his friends bunked at now living in this new world. His computer, his faithful PC, he turns on after using the bathroom built next door to his bedroom. After imputing the password, and hearing the computer's customary greeting which was a wave file of Samus Aran's Intro from Metroid: Other M playing, he gets straight to work opening up Firefox.
A knock on the door and James pushes his chair across the hardwood floor and unlocks it, allowing entrance to his friend Michael Evans.
"Morning Mike."
"Hey James. How long have you been up?"
"Just now dude."
"Ah," said the 21 year old from Davenport, Iowa.
Opening Winamp, James uploads the Rockman 10 Image Soundtrack album and hits play.
"Still can't believe this has an internet connection to home," Mike said, looking at his friend's custom-made PC under the fan-created disguise of James' favorite series: Metroid.
"It's been a week since we arrived here Mike... I would have thought I'd be cut off from my favorite things back home being reborn in this world."
Mike nodded a bit. "Yeah... although we're technically dead back home, so we had to come up with new disguises for online games and such."
James smirked. "God favored us, otherwise why would he do this for us. It makes my faith in him that much stronger."
"Remember how we all came here after meeting those ninjas from that other island country, and those civilian assholes on that village board being such dick-limped pricks?"
James grinned. Oh he remembered how he dressed them all down, and they didn't like it. Of course he is still learning everything about their shinobi society, but deep down, he's still a Marine!
"Is David and Daniel awake?"
"Well, when I peeked into their room, they're still asleep."
David Abbott was one of James' closest childhood friends, from Davenport. He's currently 22, while David's boyfriend Daniel Mason (also from Davenport) was also his age. Michael was the youngest in the group. David and Dan were gay lovers, and of course the military's don't ask don't tell policy allowed their relationship to bloom during the wars and their service to the military.
"We should wake them up soon," James told Mike. "Oh! Better yet, why don't we wake up the village? I feel... mischievous."
Mike laughs, understanding what James (Naruto) meant.
Soon, the entirety of Konoha was rudely awakened at precisely seven in the morning by very loud rock music played by a group of other-worldly Marine soldiers.