Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
Naruto was getting ready to go to the dungeon; he was not particularly excited to go the dungeon today he would have to do as if he saw nothing yesterday and not tell Hanabi anything
Not that he was going to do nothing, he would wait for an opportunity to try and get information from Hanabi, try and find out why those persons were taking money from her, and maybe found out who this Orochimaru they talked about was, they seem to be afraid to get on some kind of list he has
He had been so caught up in what he was doing that he almost forgot that he had new armor, he went and put on the new armor, it fit perfectly and it was pretty light but also strong, he had tried to make a hole on it with his knife but he hadn't been able to, he felt great with this new armor, now he just needed a weapon and he would be set, at least until he leveled up
Kurama-sama also woke up early today, Naruto didn't know why but she seem en energetic, he left before her to arrive on time at the dungeon, he hoped Hanabi would go, he kinda left the option of Hanabi going away to hide from those guy out of his mind, he hoped that she stayed in Konoha that way he would be able to help her
When he arrived to the area near the dungeon he was happy to find Hanabi waiting for him, she seem as cheerful as always
"There you are Naruto-sama, let's get going" said Hanabi moving near Naruto as they moved towards the dungeon
"Good morning Hanabi, what do you think of my new armor?" asked Naruto trying to think in anything to speak about
"Oh that's good quality armor, were did you get it, in one of the Matatabi familia's stores?" asked Hanabi
"No, I found it in one of the small stores that sell the unwanted products of the big stores" said Naruto
Hanabi looked surprised by that "But this armor is really good quality I can see it just by looking at it, why would they throw it at one of those stores?" asked Hanabi
"I don't know, maybe they confused it with beginner's armor, or at least that's what Ino-san believes happened" said Naruto
"That might be" said Hanabi thinking about it "With this we might be able to go higher, let's do that let's try to get to floor 9" said Hanabi
"Are you sure?" asked Naruto "It could be dangerous, after all I still only have this small knife"
"Don't worry we'll be fine, with your strength and that new armor I'm sure we can do it" said Hanabi confident that they could do it
"If you say so" said Naruto "But if it gets to dangerous we pull back"
"You're the boss Naruto-sama" said Hanabi
With that they entered the dungeon and in little under an hour they were on the stairs leading to the 8th floor
"See we had it pretty easy all the way here, with that armor they barely scratch you Naruto-sama" remarked Hanabi
"That's true, but we also are pretty used to getting here, we have just been in floor 8 once" remembered Naruto to Hanabi
"But last time we were weaker and you didn't have that armor, this time it'll be easier" said Hanabi
"If you say so, but remember if it gets dangerous, we're leaving" said Naruto
"I know you said that earlier" said Hanabi "come one let's get going"
Naruto and Hanabi went into floor 8, it was as they remembered it, and as Hanabi said it wasn't that hard, but they had yet to run into an orc
Orcs were bigger than goblins, generally even bigger than humans, but sometimes there were some that were just as big as humans, they had human like appearance but with long ears, long and sharp teeth, and green skin they were also really muscular, on floor 8 they were unarmed, but deeper into the dungeon they carried clubs and mazes of different materials
Another thing about floor 8 orcs is that they were actually pretty rare, almost as if they were not some of this floor monsters, and at the beginning people thought that orcs on floor eight were just lost from floor 9 but in reality they also appeared here just that weaker and rarer
It was similar with strong enemies in deeper floors, when they first appear they are pretty rare, but the lower you go they become easier and easier to find eventually they might become the regular enemies in a floor
"It seems you were right Hanabi, floor eight has been going fine" said Naruto seeing as they had been in floor eight for a while without any problems, but they had still to find the stairs to the next floor
"See I told you, now we should head to floor 9 and that way you will see that you are stronger than what you think you are" encouraged Hanabi
"You might be right, let's go" said Naruto excited he wanted to see if he could keep going and beat stronger monsters "But we still need to find the stairs"
"They should be a little bit further, if I remember correctly" said Hanabi
"Let's go look then" said Naruto going forward and rounding a corner, he stopped when he saw what was at the other side
It was an Orc, and behind him Naruto could see the stairs to the next floor, it seem they would have to defeat him, the Orc wasn't particularly big, it looked like he was just barely higher than Naruto it was probably one of the weaker ones
"Why did you stop Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi curiously when she saw him stop
Naruto gave a few steps back as to not agro the Orc and then spoke "It's an Orc, the first one we find, we should be careful and plan our approach since it seems he hasn't notice us yet" said Naruto
"We could just do what we have been doing, I'll distract him with projectiles and you get close to finish him" said Hanabi
"That could work, but I don't want you to be in danger this is an opponent we haven't faced before" said Naruto worried for Hanabi
"Don't worry, I'll be careful" said Hanabi trying to calm Naruto
"Ok then, but if it gets dangerous I want you to run away" said Naruto
"If you say so Naruto-sama, but I don't believe we'll have many problems" said Hanabi
"Just make sure to stay safe ok" said Naruto "I'll attract his attention first, when he come close you get his attention with your projectiles and then I'll try to finish him off"
"That sounds like a plan" said Hanabi searching for something in her pouch she took a Kunai out and handed it to Naruto "Use this to get his attention from a distance"
"Good idea, this will give a head start" said Naruto "get ready here I'll go get his attention now"
With that Naruto moved back to the corridor that lead to the stairs where the Orc was positioned, he got close enough that he could throw the kunai and did so hitting the Orc right in the head, the monster then noticed Naruto and proceeded to charge towards him, Naruto was surprised by the speed of the Orc he started running backwards and the Orc followed him, when they passed Hanabi she threw several shuriken at the Orc making him stop following Naruto
The Orc turned around to see the person that had thrown the shuriken and when he caught sight of Hanabi charged towards her, but he didn't make it far before Naruto used the opportunity to get close and stab the Orc on the back of his head with his knife, it didn't kill the Orc immediately, but it did made him stop focusing on Hanabi he turned around and quickly moved to punch Naruto with his higher strength
Naruto quickly evaded, the Orc had caught him by surprised he expected it to die when he stabbed him when the Orc turned around Naruto had let go of his knife, it was still firmly fixed in the Orc's head as it continued with a barrage of punches Naruto could only evade soon enough Naruto hit a wall behind him and got nowhere else to run
"Naruto-sama use this" said Hanabi throwing another kunai towards Naruto, it hit the wall besides him and he grabbed it quickly as he avoided another punch by the Orc that impacted with the wall making a small hole on the point of impact
"Thanks Hanabi" said Naruto thanking his support quickly before going back to fighting the monster, now Naruto understood why a longer reach weapon was needed, his knife or the kunai he had in hand were so close range that it was pretty hard to fight monsters like the Orc they were fighting
The Orc screamed and charged towards Naruto once again, Naruto only had a few seconds to evade to the side and he used the opportunity to move behind the Orc and slash him directly at the neck, the Orc screamed in pain as he was slashed, Naruto grabbed his knife that was firmly fixed on the orc head and pull it out and then slashed at the other side of the Orc's neck making him fall to the ground and exploding leaving behind his magic crystals
"That was harder than I thought it would be" said Hanabi getting closer to Naruto
"And they're to supposed to be armed in the next floor" said Naruto tired sitting down to take a breath
"But we dealt with it and now you're bound to be stronger, it'll be easy to go further to next time" said Hanabi
Naruto thought about it a little bit "You're right, let's try going to floor 9 next time for now let's stay here and get some crystals in floor 8" said Naruto
And that's what they did they stayed some time in floor eight killing monsters they were lucky that they didn't run into any other Orc for the day, soon enough they headed back to the guild
"Seven bags full of crystals this should be a big pay check" said Hanabi as they were heading to the guild
"Yeah, this is the best we have done till now, although they are still not great quality" said Naruto
"Yeah, in these floors we have to kill a lot of monsters to get a good amount of money, but adventurers that go deeper normally only get one or two bags of high quality crystals and they get an even higher amount of money than us" said Hanabi
"I heard that crystals get bigger when you go deeper, I wonder how strong the monsters in the deeper floors are" said Naruto
"They must be pretty strong, if that Orc was an example of the floors to come it means we will find stronger and stronger monsters the deeper we go" said Hanabi
They stopped talking since they arrived at the guild, Naruto went and reported to Ino what they had gotten in the dungeon, and then Hanabi changed the crystals again
"Here you go Naruto-sama" said Hanabi handing him a bag of Ryo "we made 10,000 Ryo this time, that would be 5000 for each of us"
"10 thousand!?" asked Naruto not believing they had made so much
"Yep, I couldn't believe it either but we stayed pretty long in the dungeon today" said Hanabi
"That's true and we went early as well" said Naruto "So same time tomorrow?" asked Naruto
"We'll I was wondering if you wouldn't mind entering a little later tomorrow I have some stuff to do" said Hanabi
"No problem, I'll maybe go to the apothecary and pick some more healing potions early tomorrow then" said Naruto
"Ok then see you tomorrow, Naruto-sama" said Hanabi as she left
As Hanabi left Naruto wondered if he should follow her, after all he wanted to make sure she was safe but as he moved to follow her she was nowhere to be found so Naruto headed back home
Earlier that day
Kurama had woke up early so she could get ready to go see Matatabi she had told her that she would have something for her today
Naruto also woke up early he must had been worried about his support, he had told her about what he saw yesterday she had advice him to try to help her without telling her, it was the best way if he was to direct she might just run away and not let Naruto help, she kept it a secret for a reason he needed to find out what was the reason before he could do anything
She knew that it probably wasn't the best solution to the problem, but if what he told her was true and Hanabi was part of the Manda familia, she didn't wanted to have troubles with the Manda familia if this wasn't treated carefully they could enter a war game and with only Naruto it would be suicide to enter one
For now Kurama decided to let Naruto handle the problem with Hanabi, there was not much she could do anyways they needed to find out more before she could be of any help, so she decided to focus on her meeting with Matatabi
Kurama did a final check to make sure she was ready and then headed to her meeting with Matatabi
When she arrived at Matatabi's office she stopped herself from just opening the door and going in, as she would have done in the past and instead she knocked, maybe that was one of the reason everyone hated when she visited who knows
"Come in" came Matatabi's voice from the other side Kurama opened the door and Matatabi signaled her to sit down and she did "You came back, it's actually a little surprising"
"You expected me to not return?" asked Kurama
"Well considering your track record" said Matatabi "You have never worked since you descended, from what I know at least"
"I have worked" said Kurama "Not many times or in any particularly good job or any job that involved physical labor, but I have worked"
"That says a lot about your abilities" pointed out Matatabi "anyway I got a job for you"
"Really?" asked Kurama "what do you got?"
"Well it's the only thing I could find" said Matatabi opening a drawer in her desk and taking out a uniform "you'll be selling products during the tournament coming up, mostly weapons and armor"
"You don't have anything that requires less standing around and talking to people?" asked Kurama
"I know you don't like talking with strangers that much, but this is the only thing I got, also you don't have to work for two week when the tournament starts and I'll still pay you the full month" said Matatabi
Kurama was not particularly fond of talking with people, when she first gave up her powers and joined the humans she had been attacked because of what she had done in the past, with time people forgot about her but she still feared someone attacking her, that was part of the reason she hadn't been able to find a job till now
"Also you won't be alone, I'll have several other seller around you just have to smile and show them the product, let others talk" said Matatabi
"That sounds better" said Kurama
"But you should really work in getting better at talking with people" said Matatabi "You said you would work your hardest in whatever job I gave you right?"
It's true she had said that "Yeah" said Kurama
"And you also want to help you familia in any form you can right?" asked Matatabi, Kurama nodded "then you will probably need to contact a lot of persons in the future, and if your familia gets more famous thanks to the kid, more people will come towards you, so you should work on it"
That was true; Kurama hadn't thought on that, she needed to work on that "I'll work on it, I'll get better and give it my all at the job" said Kurama
"Good to hear" said Matatabi "You start the day the tournament starts, come here one week before that to receive the adequate training, that would be all"
"Ok thanks Matatabi" said Kurama standing and walking to the door
"Don't mention it, just make sure to not blow it this time" said Matatabi
"I won't" said Kurama exiting and heading back home
Kurama's apartment – later that day
When Naruto arrived home Kurama-sama was already there
"Welcome back Naruto, I hope everything was alright today" said Kurama
"It was great, we even defeated an Orc but I don't know where Hanabi went after we finished, I would have like to make sure she stayed safe" said Naruto
"I'm sure she'll be fine, after all she did risked going to the dungeon with you today, if she was in big trouble she would have probably hid away" said Kurama
"That might be true, I hope she stays safe" said Naruto
"Worrying about that now does not helps you, let's just update your stats for now" said Kurama
"Yeah you're right" said Naruto removing his shirt and laying down so that Kurama could update his stats
Kurama updated his stats as she always did "Wow Naruto you are really becoming strong fast, you got your first A rank" said Kurama but then she was surprised "Scratch that, you got several A ranks"
"Really!?" asked Naruto excited for his grow in strength "Did I really got several A ranks"
"Yes, you are really special Naruto, you've become pretty strong in a few weeks" said Kurama grabbing a piece of paper and copying his stats
Naruto quickly stood up and grabbed the paper from Kurama's hands "Wow an A in speed and in stamina, I'll be level 2 in no time" said Naruto excited
"You still need to have an adventure" said Kurama
"That's true, what's an adventure anyways?" asked Naruto
"Well no one really knows, it just kinda happens" said Kurama
"I wished it was easier to know what an adventure is" said Naruto "That way I could level up faster"
"It'll eventually happen you just focus on staying alive and getting stronger" said Kurama
"I will Kurama-sama" said Naruto with a smile in his face "There's no way I'm dying until I become the greatest adventurer there is"
Next day in front of the dungeon
Naruto had arrived a little early and was waiting for Hanabi outside the dungeon, she had told him that they would enter later today but they had not set an hour so he just went to the apothecary bought a few potions and then headed here to wait
He had been here nearly 30 minutes already, but he thought that it wouldn't be that long before Hanabi arrived
"Hey you" said someone behind Naruto "I know you, you've been going to the dungeon with that girl"
Naruto turned around to see who was talking to him and was surprised to see the two men that had been tried to kill Hanabi that day "What do you two want?" said Naruto
"Well you see the girl, Hanabi, that has been going to the dungeon with you, she owns us some money" said one of the men
"You should stay away from her, she is probably stealing money from you" said the second man "I wouldn't trust her"
"Hanabi would never do that" said Naruto "Now get away you two are annoying me"
"Man we don't want any trouble, we just want you to help us" said the first man
"I wouldn't help you ever" said Naruto not wanting to discuss with them anymore
"You haven't heard our offer" said the second man "It's pretty good"
"I won't hear it, whatever it is I don't want to be part in it so go away and leave me alone" said Naruto starting to move away from the two men
"Now you're pretty annoying boy" said the first man "we're just trying to help you here"
"Yeah as if I believe anything you say" said Naruto
The second man seem to be pissed with Naruto's attitude and move closer "I told you he wouldn't help, let's just get rid of him" said the man trying to punch Naruto but Naruto evaded the punch and counter with a punch to the man's stomach
"Leave me alone, I don't want anything to do with you two" said Naruto moving away from the two
"Don't tells us that we didn't warn you later" said the first man "you'll regret it" then the two men headed towards the dungeon and entered it
Soon enough later Hanabi appeared as cheerful as always "Morning Naruto-sama, anything wrong?" asked Hanabi seeing him angry
"Nah, just some people annoying me, let's head to the dungeon I need to let some steam out" said Naruto
"Right behind you Naruto –sama" said Hanabi and the two headed to the dungeon
But unbeknown to Naruto Hanabi had watch his interaction with the two men, at least the beginning after seeing the men Hanabi decided to hide to not be seen, she wondered what had the two men told Naruto, was he going to betray her and give her to them?
Hanabi could only hope she was wrong, but maybe she had to stop joining Naruto in the dungeon
Decided to end it there, tell me what you thought