I don't own Naruto or Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
Also I should say something that I failed to say before, both Hanabi and Hinata have normal eyes (just think in any color it doesn't really matter) instead of the white eyes that they have in the Naruto anime, since the Byakugan isn't a thing in this world or at least not for now, might make it a thing later on.
Konoha dungeon floor 8
Naruto and Hanabi had just killed another Orc this time it had been easier than before since Naruto now had stats on the A ranks, and they had learned some of his attacking patterns from last time, but still this version was unarmed they still didn't know how strong the version with a weapon would be
"I feel a lot better after that" said Naruto "How about we head to the next floor Hanabi?"
"If we work together I'm sure we'll be fine in the next floor" said Hanabi but that was the problem she wasn't sure if they were still working together, it might be a trap so that Naruto could hand her over to those guys, adventurers did that all the time they could betray someone for money
"Let's go then, if I remember correctly the stairs to the next floor are around here" said Naruto
"Right behind you" said Hanabi following Naruto, she should have gotten away from him but there was something telling Hanabi that Naruto was different, he wasn't like all the other adventurers
Soon enough they were on the ninth floor of the dungeon, it wasn't different from all the other ones so far the only difference as in all the other floors was the type of enemies you could encounter, by now it was nearly impossible to find lone enemies unless they were Orcs or the few stray minotaur that were rare in this floor
"We should be careful now, if we find an Orc it won't be like the one on the last floor, it'll be armed and it will be really hard to fight with just your knife's short range" said Hanabi
"We'll have to be smarter than before and use some tactic to get close" said Naruto
"Correct, so we need to move together, we can't let one of us be attacked while their alone, it could really get us in a bad situation" said Hanabi
"Stay close then, I'll go in front" said Naruto starting to move ahead "Watch my back and tell if any monster appears"
And that's what they did they moved through the floor easily slaying groups of goblins and some fire lizards
It wasn't that different from the previous floor until they rounded a corner and saw an Orc, they weren't as rare as in the last floor and they were stronger than before so facing it would be hard
"That Orc is carrying a club, which gives him extra range" said Hanabi "We should plan something before going in"
"I got an idea, I thought of this during the fight with the last one, the one that was unarmed but it should work just fine" said Naruto
"What idea Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi
"Well the Orc seems to attack whoever attacked him last, even if you deal less damage than what I do" said Naruto "So if we can switch agro constantly it'll be easier"
"That makes sense, it might be strong but an Orc is pretty dumb we might trick him to move in circles" said Hanabi
"Exactly, so I'll start this one I'll bring him this way avoiding the club, you need to hide so he doesn't see you and when we pass you anger him so that I can hit him from behind, I'll try to end it right there or else it'll be dangerous" said Naruto
"That's what we did with the first one" said Hanabi "But this time we'll be more organized"
"Yeah something like that" said Naruto "ok then get ready I'll get his attention" said Naruto rounding the corner and running to the Orc
"Wait Naruto-sama, we should prepare it a little more before charging in!" said Hanabi but Naruto had already ran off
Naruto made use of the fact that the Orc was turned around and he got the first strike without much danger, hitting the Orc directly in the area where the Human ribs would be, well Orcs were pretty similar to humans their physiology could maybe be the same
Naruto made sure he still had his knife in his hand and immediately jumped backwards making more space between them, a correct decision since the Orc turned around in rage swinging the club backwards in the process hit where Naruto had been just a second ago
The Orc charged in rage swinging the club furiously not leaving much space for Naruto to dodge
"Come on you stupid thing come this way" said Naruto running the way he had came towards where Hanabi was waiting for them to pass
When he passed he looked to the side seeing that Hanabi was just barely ready to hit the Or when it passed, as soon as the Orc passed Hanabi threw a barrage of kunai to the Orc making him scream in pain turning around to see his attacker, Hanabi got ready to run away but the Orc did something unexpected he threw his club directly at Hanabi's escape route making her have to avoid the attack but now the Orc was closing in really fast and she was directly in the way
Naruto saw this and decided he needed to act fast; this particular Orc was a little bit higher than Naruto so he used that to his advantage and he jumped on his back holding on and extending his arm so that he could strike directly in front of the neck of the Orc with his knife
Naruto then pulled out the knife from the Orc's neck and continue striking at different points of the neck, the Orc struggled trying to grab Naruto but when he was getting close he stopped and felt to the floor exploding leaving behind his crystal and something else
"Close one, I didn't thought he would throw his club" said Naruto "Are you alright Hanabi"
Hanabi felt to the floor sitting it had really been scary she thought she would die right there, luckily Naruto had saved her "I think I am" said Hanabi "what about you Naruto-sama?"
"I'm good, it seem you an Ino-san were right, I am getting strong pretty fast I think I could take on three of those things without rest in between" said Naruto
"Yeah you are getting pretty strong" said Hanabi "I have never heard of a rookie getting A ranks in less than a month"
"What's that anyways?" asked Naruto looking at something the Orc had dropped; it looked like metal spike of some kind
"That's a drop item" said Hanabi "Different from dropped weapons from the monsters this don't disappear you can take them outside and sell them or do other things with them"
"What's this anyways, it looks like a metal spike" said Naruto grabbing it and looking it closely
"I think its called Orc armor part, that Orc must have been wearing a piece of armor and we didn't noticed" said Hanabi
Naruto thought about it and then remembered that the Orc had a small protector on his leg he had not paid attention to it since it was useless protection for the Orc it didn't even covered the areas one would attack to get him to fall if one wanted to attack the legs "Your telling me Orcs can wear armor!?" asked Naruto
"They can, but I didn't bring it up since it's really rare in this floors they start wearing armor on a later floor, it's a strange occurrence and even if one has armor it'll just be one piece or pretty crappy armor that doesn't cover anything important its mostly ignored in this floors if one has armor since it does nothing" explained Hanabi
"You're really knowledgeable Hanabi, were did you learn all this?" asked Naruto
"I read a book on the first few floors on the dungeon to get to know it a long time ago, I don't remember much but this made me remember the chapter about Orcs and I remembered all that" said Hanabi
"So that Orc was a special one" said Naruto pocketing the armor piece
"Just as how you are special and grow stronger really fast" said Hanabi
"I might be special but I still need to get stronger" said Naruto "I should have never let it get so close to you Hanabi, I got you in danger"
That settled Hanabi's mind there was no way Naruto was going to betray her, so why was he talking with those guys "You know Naruto-sama when I arrived this morning I saw you talking with some guys, what did you talked about?" asked Hanabi
"Well nothing important they just offered me something and I told them I would not work with them" said Naruto
"Did the job had anything to do with me?" asked Hanabi her cheerful tone getting out of her voice
It seems she wanted to talk about that, maybe he could get some info now "they did mentioned you, they said you owned them money and that you were trouble, but I told them to go away"
"So you're not going to hand me over to them?" asked Hanabi directly she figured it would be better to be direct
This caught Naruto by surprised "I would never betray a friend" said Naruto "especially when that friend is in trouble and I want to help them with it"
"So you know about it?" asked Hanabi
"I do, I saw you and those guys talking in an alley and then this guy Kakashi came and recued you, I was about to jump in when he did" said Naruto "Why were you letting those guys bully you anyways"
"It's because of a member of the Manda familia, Orochimaru he ask everyone to pay a fee at the end of the month and if you don't he adds you to his list" said Hanabi
"What's so bad about a list?" asked Naruto
"Well if you're on his list he takes you away, some say he experiment on those people" said Hanabi "Since only a few return and the ones that do return stronger and loyal to Orochimaru"
"Has no one told the familia god?" asked Naruto surprised by the revelation
"It's useless Manda-sama has Orochimaru on a pedestal to him Orochimaru could never do anything wrong" said Hanabi
"Then why don't you leave that awful familia" said Naruto
"I can't, I don't know where to head if I leave the Manda familia, no one wants an ex member of that familia in his, it could bring in a war game" said Hanabi "I love being an adventurer, I might just be a support but that's enough, I don't want to leave the dungeon"
"You could come to my familia, I'll talk with Kurama-sama" said Naruto "You can come and meet her today"
"I can't do that, I can't get you or your goddess in danger, it could start a war game" said Hanabi
"Just come and meet Kurama-sama today, you don't have to join if you don't want to, but I would like you to do it" said Naruto
That sounded reasonable "Ok them, I'll meet Kurama-sama" said Hanabi
"One more question" said Naruto "why open about this now?"
"I couldn't take it anymore, you have always treat me so good and I have just done bad things behind your back" said Hanabi "I stole some of the money we made, we were not splitting it 50/50 we were doing it 70/30 at the beginning and 60/50 last time"
"I also was going crazy not knowing if you would betray me and hand me over, but after you said that you would become stronger just to avoid me getting in danger I just needed to know if you would hand me over so I just asked" said Hanabi
"As I said I would never betray a friend" said Naruto "I'll become the greatest adventurer there is and the greatest would never use others as stepping stones he would fine his own way to the top, but that way doesn't have to be a lonely one"
"That's rather deep for you Naruto-sama, if I didn't know it was you I would have tackled you and ask what you did with the real one" said Hanabi
"Hey!" said Naruto "anyway I think that's enough for today let's return, we'll speak with Kurama-sama before doing anything else"
"Ok right behind you" said Hanabi her cheerful tone returning to her voice
Kurama's apartment
Well Naruto lied they did something else before going to meet with Kurama-sama, they pass through the guild reporting and changing the crystals before going to see Kurama-sama but they didn't do anything else, they didn't mentioned anything about the Manda familia to Ino or anyone else
When they arrived at Kurama's apartment Kurama was there and they explained the situation
"I see that's certainly a problem" said Kurama
"So can you help her Kurama-sama?" asked Naruto
"I got a plan that might work" said Kurama "But you would need to contact those two again Naruto and you'll need something else"
"What would I need?" asked Naruto willing to do anything to help Hanabi
"I'll give you a list of thighs you need to get" said Kurama "Wait a little while"
"You shouldn't do any of this, you can end in trouble if you do" said Hanabi
"Don't worry if my plan works it'll be alright, you'll even be able to go the dungeon like normal" said Kurama "I said I would do anything to help Naruto and now he wants to help you, so I'll help you as well"
"I don't know what to say" said Hanabi
"Then say nothing" said Kurama as she finished writhing the list of things they would need "Here Naruto if you could go buy these things we'll be set"
Naruto grabbed the list and read it "I see, but I don't know where to buy half of this things" said Naruto
"Just go to the shop where you bought your armor, they should have some of them there" said Kurama "Go now, I need to talk some things with Hanabi"
"Ok then" said Naruto as he left to buy the things in the list
"What did you sent him to buy?" asked Hanabi
"Half of the things I wrote down are useless really, I just needed him to go away for now" said Kurama "Now I need to talk to you about something"
"About what?" asked Hanabi nervous
"Firstly if this goes right you won't be able to walk around the city as normal, so I'll need to teach you a little Jutsu I got here, I didn't thought it to Naruto since it's not really a combat Jutsu and it serves no purpose but it's really helpful in this situation" said Kurama remembering the awesome magic scroll she bought a long time ago for a lot of money, it turned out to be a total rip off but at least it finally would be useful somehow
Jutsus or Magic could be thought to another person if one chooses to, the catch is that if the other person has no affinity towards the Jutsu being thought then he or she can't learn it, some Jutsus can be learn by everyone but those are mostly useless, like changing the color of your hair or things like that, the one Kurama was teaching Hanabi was one of those the useless kind of jutsu
Then Kurama's friendly face disappeared and she released some killing intent that put Hanabi on edge "Secondly, if you ever put Naruto-kun in danger intentionally I'll personally make sure that you don't ever lay a foot on the dungeon ever again" said Kurama having a small pause between the last few words
"I'll never hurt Naruto-sama" said Hanabi nervously "I promise"
"Good, now let's practice this Jutsu" said Kurama showing Hanabi the skill so that she could practice it
Some hours later
"I got everything you asked for Kurama-sama but I don't know how thirty bags of potatoes are going to help" said Naruto
"They won't, their our food for the next few days" said Kurama
Naruto almost felt to the floor "I thought we were helping Hanabi here" said Naruto
"We are, did you got the things on the top of the list?" asked Kurama
"Yeah they're in this bag" said Naruto showing the bag
"Good give those to Hanabi tomorrow, she's going to use them" said Kurama "Now all you have to do is meet those guys again"
"About that, why do I need to meet with them?" asked Naruto
"Well I'll explain it to you on the morning, you'll have to work on it tomorrow" said Kurama "for now go to rest"
"Where's Hanabi?" asked Naruto not seeing her anywhere
"She left earlier, I already told the plan to her she'll go with it, you just have to meet her in front of the dungeon tomorrow like always, after you have talked to those guys" said Kurama
"If this works, what are we going to do about the Manda familia?" asked Naruto
Kurama had not thought so far ahead, she had to do something about that guy Orochimaru, but she could not go and talk with Manda that would go poorly "All we can do if give the info to the Konoha guild and wait for them to do something" said Kurama
"If you say so Kurama-sama" said Naruto "I'll go to sleep goodnight Kurama-sama"
"Goodnight Naruto-kun" said Kurama
Next morning in front of the Konoha dungeon
Kurama had explained the plan to Naruto this morning, he had gone out early as to wait for those two in front of the dungeon, they would probably pass through here to go to the dungeon as they did yesterday at least he hoped
Just as he thought that he saw them they were heading into the dungeon Naruto approached them and the stopped to talk to him
"What do you want brat, you made yourself clear yesterday" said the first man
"You see, I didn't have all the facts yesterday, I listen to your words and I found out that it was true that girl was stealing from me" said Naruto "so I thought that maybe the job proposal was still up"
The second man smiled "See I told you she was dangerous" said the man "Now then if you are going to help us all I need you to do is take the girl to the ninth floor of the dungeon, we'll meet in a corner near the stairs to the tenth floor, we'll leave a mark so that you know the direction"
"Ok, but what about the pay?" asked Naruto
"50,000 Ryo we'll give to you when the job is done" said the first man "We'll be waiting"
With that the two of them headed into the dungeon, Hanabi appeared short after
"Is everything set?" asked Hanabi
"Yep, here you go" said Naruto handing her the objects she would need
"I hope this works, if it doesn't then I won't be able to stay in the dungeon anymore" said Hanabi
"It will, now we have to head to the ninth floor, let's give them some time, let's go wait in the seventh floor" said Naruto
"Right behind you Naruto-sama" said Hanabi following Naruto
They made it there pretty quickly and then waited for about an hour before heading further, it didn't took them long to pass through the eight floor and then they were on the ninth floor
"We're supposed to meet near the tenth floor stairs" said Naruto "But we haven't found them yet"
"It should be somewhere this way" said Hanabi taking one of the multiple corridors it led to a big cave like empty space
"This is different; the other floors didn't have spaces like this just corridors and open areas near the stairs" said Naruto
"These areas can attract larger numbers of monsters so we should be careful near them" said Hanabi "Or just stronger monsters in general, Minotaurs are more likely to appear here for example"
"I see so we should stay clear from areas like these" said Naruto "At least for now"
"Correct let's keep going" said Hanabi moving forward
They fought several groups of smaller monsters on their way to the meeting area, but soon enough they found the stairs and just as they had said they had left a mark on one of the walls to show where they were headed
"Ok now is when we put the plan in action" said Naruto
"I wonder if we'll be able to do it, maybe we should bait them somewhere else this place is not good" said Hanabi
"You might be right Hanabi" said Naruto looking around "Maybe we could bait them to that room back there the big one"
"That could work" said Hanabi "Just follow me when I go there"
"Ok, now let's do this" said Naruto walking forward to where the meeting place was, soon enough he saw the two men waiting for them
"The girl's still conscious what were you thinking man?" asked one of the man looking at them arrive
"Naruto-sama how could you do this!?" asked Hanabi faking being in shock and then she ran away
"I thought you two would be smart enough to hide, now come on we need to catch her" said Naruto hating every word that came out of his mouth but he had to stick to the plan
Hanabi on the other hand had arrived at the big room "Well I hope this works" said Hanabi then she grabbed two green ball like objects from her bag and dropped them "Bait it'll attract monsters here, now it all depends on Naruto-sama" said Hanabi waiting for him
Soon enough Naruto arrived just outside of the large room with the two men behind him, suddenly the room started filling with monsters, some goblin and lizards
"What the hell is going on, there are a lot of monsters" said the first man
"Maybe we should get out of here, if she moved through here she's probably death by now" said the second man
"No we need to check, if we report something incorrect to Orochimaru-sama he'll have us in there next time" said the first one
But before they could even come with a plan to tackle the task of checking the room flooded with monsters they saw something that changed their minds an Orc had entered the room holding a hammer in his hands attracted by the bait that was hidden in the room
"That's the stronger class of Orc you can find in this floor" said one of the two men "We might be able to defeat it, but we can't do it with all those other monsters in the way, it would be suicide"
"She's death, there's no reason to think otherwise" said the other man "let's just get going"
"Fine" said the first man turning away and heading to the exit
"What about me?" asked Naruto he didn't want anything to do with them but he had to keep the façade for now
"Oh yeah, well we were not planning on paying you" said the first man "You see it would be detrimental to us, so why don't you just stay here"
Then he pulled out a piece of paper that Naruto didn't know what it did and threw it to the ceiling, the paper then blew up blocking the escape route Naruto had
"What the hell was that?" asked Naruto as he lower his hand that he had raised to protect his face when the paper exploded
When he saw what was left of the corridor he knew he couldn't pass through there but that only left one exit, the room with the bunch of monsters
The corridor would be back to normal in the morning the dungeon somehow fixed itself bur if he stayed here that long it would just be a matter of time before the monsters found him so he had to get out, he wondered if Hanabi had made it out
This hasn't been their exact plan but it had worked they seem to think she was death, now he just had to make sure they were not right
"Naruto-sama!" screamed Hanabi from far away, Naruto turned around to see where she was and he found her on the other side of the room surrounded by monster, there was no way he would make it in time specially with everything in his way, but he had to try he couldn't just let her die
Hanabi had been careless she had stay too long waiting to see if the bait worked, when she saw that it did she ran to the stairs but monsters blocked her and she had to run back from where she had come from, soon enough she had found herself surrounded not knowing what to do she screamed for help to Naruto, she saw him a little bit later running towards her killing every monster that got on his path but it was obvious that he wouldn't make it there was no way she would get out of this one
He wouldn't make it, it was so far away "Damn it I need to be stronger, I need to be able to protect her, I can't let this happen!" said Naruto in rage as he charged through several goblins that blocked his way then he started shinning as if white light came from inside him
Hanabi had killed some goblins as she ran away she had dropped her bag long ago it only weighted her down, she had run out of kunai and was against a corner this was her end, she should have listen to her sister maybe then she would have been safe, a Goblin mode forward with a short sword in hand and when he moved to deal the killing blow on Hanabi he was suddenly stopped by Naruto that appeared from thin air
"Naruto-sama!?" asked Hanabi not seeing him being so close a few seconds ago "How?"
"I don't know either" said Naruto as he deflected the sword and killed the goblin and then moved to a lizard that was close by, jumping over the fire and throwing his knife into its head and then grabbing it back as he felt on top of it and the lizard exploded "I just wished to be close to you to help you and then I was right next to you"
"The skill you talked about some time ago" said Hanabi coming to a realization "You said it allowed you to protect someone so it lets you get to them in an instant, it teleports you"
Naruto continued killing monsters as they came close, luckily the Orc was at the other side of the room so he didn't worry too much about him "Come on, we need to move there's an exit over there" said Naruto "We can talk more about this later"
Hanabi followed Naruto out the room and into the corridor and then they continue running until they reached the stairs to floor eight
"Well that didn't go exactly as planned" said Naruto "but at least were out of there, now let's get out of here"
"Wait I need to do something first" said Hanabi raising her hands to her head and chanting a small incantation before some fox like ears appeared on her head
"What are those!?" asked Naruto surprised by the spell
"Kurama-sama taught me this it'll make me look like a Kitsune and also this" said Hanabi lowering her hand to her eyes when she opened her eyes they had turned white "This will make me unrecognizable from before"
"You know that you look exactly the same as before just with other ears and other eyes right?" asked Naruto "Are you sure that's going to work, I should have consulted the full plan with Kurama-sama but she told it would work that I shouldn't worry"
"If your goddess say it will work shouldn't you believe her Naruto-sama?" said Hanabi "Anyways with this I can make it so that it looks like a died, when it all calms down I can just remove this and return to normal"
"I suppose I should, ok then let's head back we still need to get out of the dungeon" said Naruto
"Where will be head to?" asked Hanabi
"We have to go inform Kurama-sama that the plan work, we'll see what we do from there" said Naruto "So let's get going"
"Right behind you Naruto-sama" said Hanabi following Naruto outside of the dungeon, she would have to buy a new bag and stuff later but for now she could be calm once again
Decided to end it there, most of this chapter is completely different from what I had thought originally but I like how it came out
I'll explain more about Kitsunes and other races next chapter, at the start I didn't want to include them (That's why I didn't mentioned them) but I came to think that they can just make the story better so I included them
I'll also explain "a will to protect" properly, since its effect has change multiple times in my mind since I first thought of the skill, but I think this iteration will fit with my story perfectly