Alright, fourth chapter and already I'm getting asked for help. Bea, first off if you want to write stories you need a fanfiction account, it makes the process possible. If you get an account, then you can PM authors and I'm sure that the people who do respond will be happy to help. And to Ominous thank you for the spelling, I was really lazy with the spelling and that review really helped me out. But sadly, we got our first hater an unknown hater but don't worry I have deleted their totally un-youthful comment! If you don't get that reference, then I'm sorry but you need to watch the show again. Warning you right now, this chapter probably has so many mistakes that I missed so bare with me. That and it's late at night.

Chapter Four

Light at the End

Naruto was not enjoying the almost un-hearable whispers all around him, he could barely hear them and they were just creeping him out to the point that he hadn't even noticed that he'd leveled up due to winning the fight with the mini boss. His stamina was fairly high as was his chakra, using the technique and the crystal claws at the same time wasn't very difficult. Hell, he was only at 6500/7000 chakra which wasn't even a quarter of his reserves so he felt good enough to take on the boss after this floor. The entire cave walls were covered in extremely sticky spider webs and Naruto had been un-able to get it off his crystal claws. So after giving up a while ago Naruto just decided to continue on with long strands of white silk hanging from his hands.

The floor, thank the ramen gods was untouched by the silk or Naruto wouldn't have been able to move. And did it seem that the farther down that he went, the smaller the cave walls were getting. He was still walking fine, it was just that the sticky ceiling was inches above his head when on the last floor it had been a few feet above him. That unto itself was unnerving, tight spaces and venomous spiders. Naruto shivered again and reminded himself that after he got out of this that he was going to add spiders onto the 'stay the hell away from' list, right next to ghosts.

Nothing could beat ghosts on his stay the hell away from list, you couldn't punch them and they were just creepy. Hell you could kill a zombie, but ghosts you couldn't touch. But enough about that, Naruto came into a small chamber where the regular enemies of the third floor, Funnel Webs.

Funnel Web

Health-300

These spiders were much smaller than the spider king, whose gruesome death was still clear in Naruto's mind. But they had much thicker legs and were much hairier with leathery backsides. Their fangs were thicker than most of the enemies and venom didn't drip from their fangs. So the fangs were used for biting instead of poisoning.

The funnel webs looked at Naruto, six eyes on each of them just blinking and staring at Naruto. Until one of the funnel webs started shooting needle like hairs and Naruto, who quickly drew his arms up in a x-pattern to protect his chest. The hairs bounced uselessly off the diamond hard crystal. Naruto shot a look through the nearly clear pinkish crystal, the spiders were just sitting there and so Naruto advanced with his arms in front of him like a shield.

When Naruto reached the first funnel web, it jumped at Naruto who grabbed it with his claw and began smashing it into it's allies before stomping on them himself. When all of them were gone from the room, Naruto picked up the Ryo and the drops which included more silk, some leather, and a spider eye? Must have something to do with making poison. Naruto was about head out of the room when he heard a sound. Hushing up, Naruto tried to hear if the sound would comeback again, it wasn't like all the whispers on the floor. It actually sounded like, squeaking? Naruto listened intently for the next few minutes, locating the source of the sound.

After what seemed like half an hour, Naruto managed to find the sound. A small red head poked up from underneath the webbing, Naruto gently wrapped the claws around the figure that didn't seem to be very big. Pulling the figure up, it squeaked once more and then Naruto brought it out of the webs. Naruto looked around making sure that he was alone before he sat down and tried not to lean against the wall.

Setting the small animal on the ground in front of him, Naruto let the crystals on his hands fall off so he could work at the webbing surrounding the animal. Gently managing to pick the silk off of the creature, Naruto picked it up again to look at it. It was a baby fox, a little bigger than a kitten or a puppy and it had been wrapped up in webbing. Naruto felt sorry for the kit, it had been stuck down there for who knows how long with no sunlight, no food, no water, and it probably would've been eaten if Naruto hadn't come along. So flipping back his hood, Naruto placed the small fox inside his hood and made sure that it wasn't going to fall out before forming a bit of crystal around the hood, making him seem like a hunchback or something with the lump of crystal covering the hood and the fox.

Hey, he didn't want to take chances that the boss might hit him a couple times, but the fox would be safe and comfortable in there. Naruto stood up from his position sitting on the ground and continued on, but not before he was interrupted with a orange and black text box in his face.

Familiars- familiars are animals that can fight by your side and also level up just like you. They can be a great partner in battle and can help out in situations that don't require fighting. The (female) kit is descended from a breed of foxes known for their ability to manipulate chakra and their fighting ability in battle. Take the (female) kit to the Inuzuka's first chance that you get to make sure that she is okay.

Quest alert! Take the (female) fox kit to the Inuzuka's to get a check up.

Rewards-

Fox Familiar

500 Exp to both you and your new familiar

Naruto sighed this was a responsibility that he didn't really need on his hands but he didn't want to just leave the small kit in the Inuzuka kennels. He'd take the kit to the Inuzuka and ask for them to give the small fox a check up in the morning. He could forsake his ramen for that, he wasn't going to be a cold hearted bastard. Naruto continued on with the floor, re-making the crystal claws to match his feet again, now that the kit was secured on his back.

The only sound for the next few minutes was the soft clicking of his claws on the stone floor, Naruto had noticed that the whispers had stopped the deeper into the third floor he'd gotten. He sighed, Naruto didn't know what was more unnerving, the whispers or the complete silence with the exception of the soft clicks of his claws on the cold stone floor. How did Naruto know it was cold? Because it obviously wasn't warm in the cave because he was shivering. And he knew that he wasn't scared enough to be shivering from fright.

Naruto also noticed that all the enemies had seemed to have vacated the third floor, he hoped that they didn't come back on the fourth floor just to screw him over. The spiders were annoying, and even though he was over leveled, they still took some time to kill. Naruto quickened his pace, he wanted to defeat the boss and get out of the dungeon, he'd been in here for who know how long.

Eventually Naruto came down a cave that got smaller as it went, and Naruto was forced to crouch and eventually crawl on his hands and knees in order to get through the cave. Good thing he wasn't claustrophobic, and the only thing he had to fear was ghosts, those accursed things that just wouldn't stay dead. But it got him thinking, if he died and became a ghost, would he be afraid of himself? He would have to see, after he became Hokage and all that jazz. Naruto dragged himself from his thoughts and noticed a light at the end of the tunnel.

Literally, he'd just been crawling in the dark and when he came to the end of the tunnel he'd noticed that he'd been in the dark all along. Well light was nice, and so Naruto grabbed a torch that was sitting in a ball of spider's web and held it in his crystal claw. Luckily, the crystal didn't transmit heat all that well so he wouldn't burn himself on the flames that slowly crept down the torch.

Naruto quickened his pace again, and then quickly stopped when he came to the opening of the cave into a giant cavern, that had a crevice running though it. Through the silence and the silent clicks of the flame popping every now and again, Naruto could hear a silent river running through the bottom of the crevice. He'd rather not fall down now, because not only would he break his bones on the crash at the bottom but he'd then have to drag his broken body out of the river and up the crevice.

Naruto looked around, his vision was increased with the torch lighting up his path but the darkness seemed to eat the light as much as it could making a sort of opaque barrier that the light could not penetrate. Naruto growled in frustration, he couldn't see the end of the cavern and so he began walking along the wall, avoiding the crevice in the middle of the cavern. This was frustrating, Naruto just wanted to fight the boss and get out of there. Naruto then spotted a dull shine near were he was, over the chasm. Naruto just couldn't get a break now could he?

Naruto sighed and then took a few steps back, before getting a running start and leaping over the chasm as far as he could. But it wasn't quite enough, and Naruto didn't quite make it, before crashing into the edge of the crevice and sliding down the smooth rock face. The torch dropped from Naruto's hand and fell all the way down the chasm before dropping into the river below. But it didn't extinguish, and instead it ignited the entire river into flames. Naruto however was stuck on the rock face, his clawed hands and feet digging into the smooth rock. Naruto looked down, it wasn't running water down there, it was running oil.

And then he noticed there was a long alcove running near the bottom of the crevice and he noticed the barrel almost leaning into the river. He could barely read it but he made out a few words. Warning, explosive! Naruto's eyes widened as he started up the rock face as fast as he could, using the crystal claws on his hands and feet as well as using his tree walking abilities to gain speed. Just as Naruto was about to climb over the edge, the entire chasm exploded and launched Naruto over the edge and into the wall.

He landed back onto his face, the fox on his back was squealing in terror and then calmed down as it realized that it was safe in the crystal. Naruto got up and walked into the cave leading out of the cavern. His health was regenerating from getting knocked down to half health from the explosion. He winced as some of the burns were healed but other than that Naruto pretty much returned quickly to full health. Who the hell makes a river of oil and then puts high explosives next to it!? Something was going to die today preferably a giant spider, and oh how Naruto was going to get his wish.

Naruto followed the cave, which appeared to be spiraling down into the depths of the earth, and the further down that Naruto got, the more webs seemed to cover the once clean rock face. The spiraling cave then came to a stop and leveled out, before opening up again into a bigger cavern than the last one. This one seemed to be the size of Konoha's arena. The moment Naruto stepped into the boss room, torches lit themselves around the edges and four glowing lights light up in the center and flew to the ceiling of the arena, which was almost 100 meters up.

The ceiling and walls were decorated with cocoon that Naruto could only guess contained dead bodies and animals that were victims of the spiders. Four pillars surrounded the exact center of the arena, all placed in such a way that two of them framed the path for Naruto to reach the center. The other two stood symmetrical on the other side of the small circle in the center of the arena.

Naruto looked at the black sphere floating in the center of the, when he got close enough it flew up towards the ceiling and he followed it with his eyes. The black sphere floated up to a giant black spider that he didn't notice before. The sphere floated into a socket on the spiders mid-section and it blinked? The sphere blinked a couple times before it turned white and it rolled in the socket until a red iris and black pupil were staring back at Naruto.

The giant spider itself was black in color, a shiny black as if it was covered in metallic armor. There was a large red hourglass on the backside of the spider and Naruto found himself staring at that for a moment to long before the spider somehow shrieked and jumped down from the ceiling. When it landed, it reared up on it's last four legs and showed off three foot long fangs dripping with acidic venom and then it shrieked again, shaking the entire chamber.

Queen of Spiders- Black Widow Level 10

Health-2000

Naruto's jaw dropped, it was his level. But the average enemy level was 3-6! Oh, average, being the key word and a boss wasn't average at all. So that was a good thing to know, bosses would be higher leveled that all of the enemies on the floor. Naruto jumped in and swung at the bosses legs, hoping to take out it's mobility right off the bat so he could wail on it for the rest of the fight. No such luck, Naruto only found himself about to be skewered by on the end of the widow's legs.

When Naruto jumped back the widow launched a web at the ceiling and reeled itself up, much to Naruto's disdain. Naruto growled as it sat up there, staring at him with that giant pulsating eye. The giant eye was a dead give away for the weak-spot on the boss, and so Naruto ran up to one of the pillars and began running up it. When Naruto had reached the ceiling, he began fighting the damn thing upside down. The first thing he did was get underneath it to its smooth underbelly. Naruto then launched himself off of the ceiling and into the bottom of the spider.

Both of them were launched from the ceiling towards the ground, and get the spider managed to use it's webs to grapple away from the ground at the last second. Naruto turned in mid-air and landed on his feet, his health only going down a small bit seeing as his crystals protected his fall a little bit. Naruto stared at the spider which was in between two of the pillars and began running up on of the opposite pillars, determination burning in his eyes.

As Naruto was running up the pillar, he began doing hand signs for one of his techniques and when he was adequately high enough Naruto did a flip off of the pillar and over to the spider before activating his technique. "Crystal Release: Giant Crystal Hammer!" Naruto held his fists together above his head and the size of the crystal claws grew in size until they were half the size of the widow. And Naruto smirked as he slammed the hammer into the spider's backside knocking it to the ground.

Health- 1500/2000

Yeah! He just needed more attacks like that and he could end this battle really quickly. The spider watched Naruto as he landed and then coughed up globs of acid which it launched at Naruto. Naruto not wanted to end up sludge dodged the globs of acid as they melted the stone floor. Naruto had taken his eyes off the spider long enough for it to have spawned a sack of spiders, which burst open and spawn several Baby spiders Health -100

Okay that wasn't fun, Naruto was rushed by ten baby spiders and the queen herself. Naruto was then forced to try to kill the babies while trying not to get impaled himself by the queens longs legs. When he dodged one of the legs, he grabbed it and like the king, he chucked the queen at the wall. Stepping on the rest of the babies Naruto launched himself at the queen before tearing into her back and mainly the eye.

It was disgusting but the queens health quickly dropped to 500 and then Naruto was knocked back by a blast of strong wind. He tumbled across the room before managing to come to a stop. The widow had turned from black, to red and above her health bar were the words Enraged, Naruto knew that he was in serious shit. The spider queen was even faster now and used it to her advantage trying to impale Naruto with all eight legs and Naruto could do nothing but dodge. Rolling out from under her Naruto attempted to run up the pillar only for the queen to attach a line of silk to him and then pulling him back down the ground. Naruto watched as his health dropped almost 200 points.

The queen again attempted to impale him with one of her legs, and he managed to grab the offending appendage at the last second holding it a few inches from his chest, both of them struggling, Naruto to keep it away and the queen trying to sink it into his heart. With a roar of effort, Naruto forced the spider queen away and she rushed in again trying to bite him this time.

Naruto decided that this was enough and when the queen got in range he back handed the fangs away from him and the grabbed on of the legs before severing it from the main body. He the proceeded to jump above the spider who just lost a limb and shoved the end of the limb into the giant eye impaling the spider. The leg broke through the entire body and impaled the spider to the ground.

Naruto dusted himself off as he watched the spider queen explode into bright and multi-colored pixels. Naruto jumped in the air, "That's why you don't mess with the next Hokage!" Naruto walked over to the shining pile of loot and grabbed what was rightfully his.

100000 Ryo

1 Spider's Den Key

1 Black Widow Trophy

Grabbing it all Naruto ran over to the new entrance and went through it, coming out into another brightly lit room with a golden chest in the middle. Naruto kneeled down on the floor and the inserted the key into the chest lock and watched as it popped open. What was inside was truly wonderful.

Rage Modifier

Spider's Dagger

5 x Acid Vial

200000 Ryo

Speed Modifier

Scroll of Ninja Wire Techniques

Scroll of Spider Thread Techniques

5 x Steel wire spool

10 x spider silk spool

Truly wonderful, Naruto would look over all of them as he got back to the apartment, he turned to the back of the room and walked into the small alcove. He looked up only to see iron rungs leading to the top of the shaft he was looking at. The top was darkness and the soft glow of the moon, which meant that it was night time. Damn he spent a long time in the caves! Naruto began to scale the iron rungs as fast as he could in order to get to the top of the shaft.

When he was up the hole sealed up behind him, making it seem as if he appeared out of thin air. Naruto took a deep breath and enjoyed the fresh air of the above ground. But something was amiss, everything was quiet, no cricket or owl were making sounds tonight. And that allowed Naruto to hear distant heavy breathing heading his way. Naruto crouched down and hid next to a tree hoping that he could blend in with the scenery as somebody headed his way.

A man holding a sack, which was moving ran towards Naruto but didn't seem to noticed him. The man was wearing a Kumo forehead protector and Naruto narrowed his eyes, why was he here at Konoha? The man stopped to catch his breath and he chuckled a bit, "When I get back to Kumo, we will finally have the Byakugan like lord Fourth wanted. You little runt ya hear that? When we get back to Kumo, you get to give us an entire army of Byakugan users."

The person in the sack started trying to get out of the sack and muffle sounds of shrieks and cries were all Naruto heard. Naruto hated rapists, kidnappers, and well he didn't like a lot of different type of people, and this man fell into a lot of those categories so it was time to step in. Naruto dashed from his spot next to the tree and curled his fist up, which was still enveloped in the crystal and he threw a punch at the unsuspecting Kumo ninja.

Naruto aimed for the spot where the sun don't shine, and the Kumo nin fell over and didn't get back up again. Naruto let the crystal over his arms and legs fade, as well as the crystal hump on his back, and made sure the fox was still there before he grabbed a kunai and cut open the sack. Naruto then helped whoever it was out of the sack and cut the ropes holding them. The Hyuga the Kumo nin had kidnapped was sobbing, and it sounded like a girl. Naruto then recognized who it was by the dim light of the moon. He used that light to peel off the tape off her mouth as she sobbed.

"Hinata! Everything's alright now, it's going to be fine. The man's not going to hurt you any more, he's knocked out. I'm here Hinata so calm down." Naruto wrapped his arms around Hinata, and held her close. He tried to comfort the shy girl as she sobbed into his shoulder.

"I-I-I was so scared-d Naruto! I thought I'd never see Konoha again!" Hinata buried her face into Naruto's shoulder.

"Shhhhh, just be quiet and calm down for now." Naruto continued to hug Hinata, patting her on the back and just in general comforting her. It was several minutes until an Anbu arrived at the scene with a lantern at his side.

The Anbu simply looked at the scene before radioing in, "Tell the Hyuga's we've got the man who kidnapped their daughter and she's alright. We are by Training Ground One. No I don't need back up, she's fine."

The Anbu approached the two children who were next to the knocked out man. The Anbu slung the Kumo nin over his shoulder, "I need you two to follow me to the Hokage tower." Naruto looked back at the Anbu and nodded before follow the Anbu who walked at a relatively slow pace for the two children. Naruto managed to coax Hinata into walking on her own, but she wouldn't leave his side and he kept one arm around her just to comfort her.

It took twenty minutes to get from the training ground to the Hokage tower, and they just went into the building. The lights were on but most of the staffing were asleep and so it was eerily quiet. The Anbu knocked on the door and there was a gruff, "Enter!" from Sarutobi. Naruto followed the Anbu into to the office and they all stood in front of the Hokage who was still wearing his pajamas.

"Anbu report!" Sarutobi wanted to get this over with as soon as possible.

"I found the man unconscious at Training Ground One with the boy calming down the Hyuuga heiress there. I assume that the boy knocked the man out."

"Naruto please tell me what happened."

Naruto cleared his voiced and patted Hinata's back, "I was training for most of the day, and I guess I fell asleep and when I woke up a few minutes later when I was about to leave I found a man carrying Hinata here in a sack and so I hit him where the sun don't shine. Hit him hard enough to knock him out I guess." Naruto smiled and went back to keeping Hinata from crying again.

It was at that moment that Hiashi burst into the office and looked at the scene before he rushed to his daughter's side. Hinata reluctantly left Naruto's side only to be hugged by her father.

"I thought I was going to lose you." Hiashi spoke more softly than Hinata had ever hear him speak, and she quickly returned the hug. Hiashi looked over to Naruto, "I assume that you were the one to rescue my daughter."

Sarutobi smiled, "Yes Naruto here is the one who saved your daughter."

"You have my eternal thanks, I don't know what I would've done if I lost her." Hiashi then looked over to the man who was still slung over the Anbu's shoulder.

"Give the man to me, I'll kill him!" Hiashi growled before Sarutobi cut him off.

"I think that you'll find that he'll never have children again much better than killing the man. And if you did kill him then it could cause war between us and Kumo and that's the last thing that I want."

Naruto thought for a bit, "Is it true that the Yamanaka's can go through memories and actually replace memories or get rid of them?"

"Yes, where are you going with this Naruto?" Sarutobi asked his head tilting a bit.

"Well I was thinking that we could simply rewrite the Kumo nin's memories and just be done with it all. Make it so he doesn't remember anything and he just came here to do what he came to do. It'll avoid any conflict with Kumo." Naruto suggested, before shrugging his shoulders.

"I'll take that into consideration Naruto, can I assume that it okay with you Hiashi?"

"If it makes you feel any better, he'll never have kids again." Naruto said with a smile.

Hiashi smirked once before returning his look to the Hokage, "Yes that is fine with me, but I want double guards on everybody in the Hyuuga clan whenever anybody from Kumo shows up!" Hiashi took his daughter and they both excused themselves from the office.

Sarutobi sighed, "I can't thank you enough Naruto, you've probably saved us from what could've ended in war. Tomorrow I'll take you for all you can eat ramen at noon, Ichiraku's."

Naruto jumped in the air, thanking his grandfather figure over and over before running out the door shouting about ramen over and over again.

"I'm getting to old to be getting up and midnight." Sarutobi sighed, he really was getting to old for the job. He'd need to pick a successor soon, somebody who could actually protect the village unlike him. He could barely do anything in his old age anymore. So it was about that time then, time to retire for real.

Okay, not my best chapter especially towards the end there but it's late at night and I should probably be sleeping or studying instead of typing so you'll just have to deal with the awful quality of the part after the boss fight. But I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll hopefully get some reviews. Next time on chapter five of the Naruto the Game story, what's this? It's another time-skip!