Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
This chapter starts a few minutes before the end of the last one
Shukaku's booth
"I've been waiting for a while now Gyuki" said Shukaku to his fellow bijuu "where is the contestant you came all the way here to see?"
"I believe his the next one" said Gyuki reading a list that he had been given on the order of the participants, Shukaku had refused to read the list as to not ruin the surprise
Right then Amagi started introducing Naruto
"And now our next contestant Naruto Uzumaki part of the Kurama familia from Konoha" said Amagi
"And he'll be facing a B rank monster" said Baki "Let's see what he'll face, today we've had some great fight maybe this next contestant can surprise us"
"Kurama!? She got a member in her familia after all this time?" said Shukaku surprised as he heard to what familia Naruto was part of. Then he looked toward Gyuki "Now I know why you came all the way from Konoha just to see one person fight"
"Kurama surprised us in the past. When she came to my office saying she got a member in her familia and that she wanted a weapon for him, I decided I needed to see him with my own eyes first" said Gyuki
"He's just facing a B rank it doesn't seem that interesting" said Shukaku as the gate opened to let the monster
"Who knows what will happen when Kurama's involve" said Gyuki remembering a time when Kurama actually tried helping him to make a sword a really long time ago, that sword may have exploded somehow
Then the rock troll came out of the gate running directly towards Naruto and he evaded the first hit
"That's a rock troll!" said Baki "what's that doing here that's an S rank monster!"
"What!?" asked Amagi "Then we have to stop the match!"
"I agree" said Baki "guards stop that troll"
When the guards didn't appeared Shukaku stood up from his chair to look around for his guards and then screams could be heard outside the coliseum and he saw a Cyclops escaping from beyond the walls of the coliseum thanks to the height of his booth
"Told you something would happen around him" said Gyuki "Something always happens when Kurama gets involved in something"
Not much time later the girl with the four ponytails entered Shukaku's booth hurried
"Shukaku-sama two A rank monsters, a Cyclops and a black Scorpion escaped their cages and are destroying the city" said the girl "Gaara is following the Scorpion right now but all the guards are unconscious for some reason and no one is able to follow the Cyclops"
"Wasn't the Cyclops a B rank?" asked Gyuki not being too worried about the situation
"There was one that was particularly bloodthirsty and better in combat than the rest we captured we placed him in the A ranks for that" explained Shukaku "But that's not important right now. Temari get anyone able and go stop that Cyclops we can't let him destroy the city, if you need help maybe the participants of the tournament may offer to help"
"And what about the contestant facing the S rank?" asked Temari
"The monsters that escaped into the city take priority" said Shukaku "The one in the arena will be contain by the barrier for now. Baki will go help the contestant to escape get going now"
"Understood" said Temari turning around and going back down to the area the contestants of the exhibition match were
"Barrier?" asked Gyuki not having heard of anything of the sorts
"I can't let the monsters escape from the arena and hurt the audience so a barrier is created around the arena to prevent the monsters from escaping. It also serves a second purpose blocking the sound of the announcer so that the contestant doesn't get any information that can help him" said Shukaku moving towards his microphone
The crowd had heard from people coming from outside in panic of monsters running around destroying the city and the crowd had entered in panic thanks to this and were running into the coliseum searching for a place to hide
"I'm not good at calming crowds" said Shukaku to himself as he grabbed the microphone, he preferred making crowds excited not calming them down but he had to do something now he had no choice
Suna's Coliseum Arena
Naruto was ready for the monster that he would have to kill and B rank couldn't be that hard Kiba had beat one so it was obviously not that hard
Then something appeared in an instance almost crushing him in his first attack Naruto had to move to evade quickly just barely avoiding the attack
After evading the attack Naruto turned around and got his first good look at the monster he was facing
It wasn't as big as the ones Kiba and Sasuke faced but it was definitely bigger than the one Haku had faced. But as he had seen with the Chimera size was not everything that thing was strong and this was probably just a little weaker
Naruto charged at the troll and when he got close enough almost immediately the troll swung the big mace like rock he was holding and impacted Naruto directly sending him flying to the wall of the arena
That had hurt a lot, he felt almost as bad as when he almost died with the orc on the dungeon but this had been just one attack, how strong was this B rank that could do so much damage in one hit. He figured he had already lost he couldn't hear the crowd cheer him all he heard were panic screams maybe they were worried that he was death because of that attack
But not long after that he learned the real reason the crowd was in panic when he heard Shukaku's voice, differently from the microphones Amagi and Baki had, Shukaku's could be heard in the whole coliseum including the arena
"Everybody please calm down" said Shukaku "The monster that have escaped are being dealt with and they can't hurt you inside the coliseum"
"The tournament is being put on hold until further notice and the current match will be stopped" said Shukaku "Everything's under control please return to your seats and keep calm"
This only calmed the crowd a little bit, some were still running and screaming in panic not wanting to die but this was the best Shukaku could do he wasn't good at calming crowds he was only good at making them excited
"Escaped monsters?" said Naruto not understanding really well but it seem something bad had happen. But right now he couldn't focus on that he needed to concentrate on the monster he had in front of him
The troll came charging at him Naruto barely evaded the attack by moving to the side, the last attack had hurt a lot but he could still move
Naruto grabbed his knife and with all the strength he could muster he drove it into the troll. But the knife just bounced off of the troll's rock like skin
The troll turned towards Naruto and raised his rock mace in the air before bringing it down, Naruto was sure he was done for but someone entered the arena and moved him out of the way
"Are you alright?" asked Baki as he placed Naruto on the ground once again after grabbing him to avoid the troll's attack
"I think so" said Naruto looking at himself
"Good run out of here, I'll take care of the rock troll" said Baki pointing towards the exit
"It's just a B rank monster I can help" said Naruto although he wasn't that sure since his last attack had just bounced off the troll
"This troll is not a B rank, something happened and this S rank monster escaped into the arena" said Baki "apparently two A ranks also escaped into the city and are causing panic amongst the population of Sunagakure. You need to get out of here and into safety"
"S rank!?" said Naruto surprised even he knew he had no business facing a monster of that rank but Naruto wanted to help fight this monster it was his fight after all
"I'll cover you, run!" said Baki raising his fingers and then throwing an invisible wind blade towards the troll barely annoying it
The troll roared and threw his mace like rock towards Baki and then charged behind it
As soon as Baki moved to avoid the rock, the troll landed a square punch on his guts sending him flying through half the arena
Baki stood up while holding his stomach and coughing a lot that had been a direct hit another one of those and he might not live to tell the tale
"Are you alright!?" asked Naruto running towards Baki
"I'll be fine you just run out of here!" Screamed Baki as he stood up but it was clear that he wasn't going to be ok alone
The troll charged once again against Baki with his rock mace held high Naruto tried dashing towards Baki but he wasn't going to make it
Right when the troll started bringing his mace an ice mirror appeared and blocked the troll's attack making his rock mace bounce out of its hands
Naruto looked towards the exit and noticed Haku standing there with one hand extended towards the mirror
"I won't be able to stop another one, I'm low on chakra because of my match" screamed Haku towards Naruto and Baki
"You already did more than enough thank you" said Baki finally getting into his fighting stance "I'll take care of the rest, get out of here"
"But…" started Naruto wanting to help especially because this was supposed to be his match
"But nothing you get out of here" said Baki "You'll just get in the way"
Naruto figured than Baki was right after all he had no jutsus that could help him defeat the troll and the knife he had in hand did no damage to the troll so he ran as fast as he could towards the exit which wasn't that fast since he was really hurt from the troll's attack
Seeing this the troll ran behind him but Baki jumped in front of the troll and threw several wind blades in a row hitting the troll in the face several times blinding the troll and making it crash with a wall
The troll turned around and focused on Baki this time
"That's perfect focus on me you big rock" said Baki throwing more wind blades while attracting the troll away from Naruto and Haku
Once Naruto exited from the arena Haku helped him walk back into the lobby where they ran into a group of adventurers that were getting ready to head out
From the group Kiba noticed Naruto and approached him
"Hey Rookie they asked us if we could help search the Cyclops that escaped, so I volunteered to go search for it" explained Kiba "Also someone was looking for you, they seem worried you better talk to them"
Kiba moved his head in a general direction and Naruto noticed that Hanabi and Hinata were there so he approached them
"Hanabi, Hinata you two ok?" asked Naruto worried that maybe one of the escaped monsters attacked them
"Naruto-sama" said Hanabi running towards Naruto "You have to do something, the Cyclops it was attacking Kurama-sama"
"She is probably still out there, it wasn't that long since we separated because of the Cyclops" said Hinata
"What should we do?" asked Hanabi with worry in her eyes
"Where was the last place you saw her?" asked Naruto
"In the shopping district but she ran the way opposite from the coliseum" said Hinata
"Ok you two stay here, you'll be safe here" said Naruto turning around towards the exit
"And what will you do Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi worried
"I'll go look for her" said Naruto running outside
"You're in no condition to head out Naruto-san" said Haku having overheard the conversation "You barely got out of the arena after that hit from the troll"
"I don't care I have to head out there and search for her" said Naruto starting to head for the exit
"Wait" said a voice from behind Naruto. Naruto turned around to look at a person he hadn't seen before "If you're heading out there you better take this"
The man took out a vial with a red liquid inside and handed it to Naruto
"A greater healing potion" said Hanabi recognizing the vial the man handed Naruto. They had bought one of those after they almost died so she knew how they looked like
"Can I really have it?" asked Naruto after the man nodded Naruto grabbed the potion and drank it in one gulp; the pain in his body disappeared short after "Thanks for that. Who are you anyways?"
"I'm a friend of your familia goddess my name's Gyuki" said the man
"Gyuki as in the bijuu?" asked Hanabi
"Correct that's me" said Gyuki then he turned towards Naruto "Make sure to save Kurama I might not like her that much but I don't want her death"
"I will save her, thanks for the potion again" said Naruto turning around and running outside the coliseum heading for the shopping district of Sunagakure
The group that Kiba was with had already left but Naruto had seen them head the long route following the destruction the Cyclops had caused. Naruto had a lead thanks to Hanabi and Hinata so he headed directly to the shopping district in hopes for finding the Cyclops before it was too late
When Naruto arrived at the shopping district the first thing he noticed was the destruction the Cyclops had caused he quickly followed the trail created by the destruction in hopes of finding the Cyclops fast. He hoped that nothing had happened to Kurama-sama
Inside the arena
Fighting this troll was taking his toll on Baki he was strong enough to defeat one rock troll but this one was even stronger than what he remember, if SS rank existed in this tournament Baki would classify this troll as a SS rank monster for the tournament. He was also not at his full strength as he had to fight Gaara earlier in the day
On the stands Kabuto was seeing the fight of the troll against Baki it was some great data about the berserk potion as Orochimaru had called it but that wasn't what Orochimaru wanted and he knew it so he took a small vial out of his pocket as he leaned against the border of the arena and he pour the content into the arena without getting seen
The smell of the second potion would activate the second effect of the berserk potion and plant a target inside the troll's mind, this second potion was linked to Naruto he had gotten what he needed from Naruto to link the potion the day he met him. Back then he wasn't sure if Orochimaru was interested in the Level 1 adventurer but he still got what he needed just in case
As soon as the Troll smelled the potion it started acting more violent throwing the rock mace towards the crowd only for it to stop against the barrier that was set for the monsters
"What's happening to it all of the sudden?" asked Baki to himself
The troll slammed his hands in the ground and took a piece of the ground throwing it against wall of the arena and then charging the wall of the arena
The troll managed to smash both the wall and the barrier in one attack escaping the containment of the arena
"He broke the barrier!" said Baki running behind the troll "Everyone move out of the way of that troll!"
People that were inside the coliseum ran and scream moving away from the troll somehow the troll hurt no one and continued his way on a straight line towards the shopping district of Suna
"This confirm it, someone did something to this troll. As he was when we captured it, he would have never been able to break the barrier" said Baki to himself "But now its way stronger than before and for some reason it's ignoring me"
Whatever happened to the troll while it was in its cage didn't matter right now, he needed to catch up to it and stop it from rampaging across the city
Somewhere in Suna
Kurama was still running from the Cyclops. The large monster seem to be insistent in getting her since he had ignored other groups of people that they had passed
It hadn't been that long since she separated from Hanabi and Hinata by now those two must have made it to the coliseum and they are probably safe there, now she needed to think how to make it there
She just hoped Naruto was ok, knowing him he would probably volunteer to help catch the monsters or something and get hurt in the process
Kurama's train of thought had been stopped when she went around a corner only to find herself in a death end, she quickly turned around but the Cyclops had already caught up she was trapped
She looked around but apart from one wooden plank that was against the wall at her side there was nothing that could help her get out of here, she was completely trap with no way out
The time seem to stop around her as she waited for the Cyclops to deal the final blow she got time to think in a lot of things
She remembered her time alongside her fellow bijuu and other gods most of them disliked her some even hated her but she still remembered all those time she had fun with them
This was the end there was no way she was getting out of this one alive. At least she had been able to get Naruto started in his dream he would be able to continue on his own from now on and one day he would become the greatest adventurer in the world she was sure of that
But as she thought that she couldn't help but feel sad an angry that she wouldn't get to see that day she would give anything to be able to live and be able to see that day
Screw getting killed by a Cyclops she needed to live she couldn't leave Naruto alone, who knows what that brat would do after her death she needed to be there to help guide him
Right as the Cyclops raised his mace above his head the wooden plank besides Kurama started glowing, she didn't noticed since she had her eyes closed
Not long after she was carried out of the alley evading the Cyclops mace and getting some distance away from him
Kurama opened her eyes and found herself in Naruto's arms as he ran away from the Cyclops
"Naruto! What are you doing here?" asked Kurama but before Naruto could answer she continued hugging him "You know I don't care I'm so happy to see you"
"Kurama-sama I thought I wouldn't make it in time" said Naruto "Thankfully a will to protect activated and I could make it in time to save you"
"So that's how you made it in time" said Kurama understanding. It was then that Kurama finally noticed that she was being carried in Naruto's arms and blushed a little bit, she would have asked him to put her down but the Cyclops was hot on their trail. Even though Naruto had a S rank in speed he was still Level 1 so he wasn't much faster than the Cyclops
"We won't make it" said Naruto looking behind him as the Cyclops closed the distance, since he was carrying Kurama he couldn't run at max speed
But as the Cyclops got closer and closer a spinning blur passed Naruto's side and hit the Cyclops directly in the chest making him stop once the person spinning stopped Naruto noticed it was Kiba
Stopping to look behind him Naruto spoke "Kiba what are you doing here?" asked Naruto
"I'm not the only one here Rookie, I told you we were looking for this big guy" said Kiba
And as soon as he said that a cyclone of wind impacted with the Cyclops head making it scream in pain, Naruto noticed that the girl with the four ponytails was standing on top of a building with a huge fan in her hands
Then some other adventurers appeared and attack the Cyclops with their jutsus
"Naruto I think you can put me down now" said Kurama, just then Naruto remembered he was carrying his familia goddess and placed her back on her feet
Not long after the Cyclops exploded from the barrage of attacks leaving only a crystal behind
"Excellent it did more damage than what I hoped for, but I'm sure Shukaku-sama will work it out somehow" said Temari seeing the Cyclops explode
"What now, do we just go back to the coliseum?" asked Kiba
"That would be the best, I'm sure Shukaku-sama would like to thank you all for your help today" said Temari putting her big hand fan on her back
"Let's head back Kurama-sama, Hanabi was really worried" said Naruto looking at Kurama "I'm sure seeing you will calm her down"
Kurama nodded and turned towards the coliseum but as soon as they started walking back screams of pain and surprised could be heard from the adventurers that were in front of the group
The rock troll came charging across the middle of the group of adventurer not giving some even a chance to get ready for it
Baki appeared behind the troll and jumped on top of the building besides Temari "The troll escaped the barrier and broke the coliseum wall" explained Baki "I've been following it since then for some reason its travelling in a straight line"
"He broke the barrier!?" said Temari not believing it
"Yes it did" said Baki "For some reason it's stronger than when we captured it"
The troll stopped in the middle of the street and looked around until his eyes stopped on Naruto, once he caught Naruto in his sight the troll roared towards him and started running in Naruto's direction
"Move out of the way Kurama-sama!" said Naruto pushing Kurama to the side and jumping at the last second to avoid the charge from the troll
"Isn't that the contestant from the arena?" asked Temari seeing the troll attack Naruto for a second time in the day
"Is this troll somehow targeting him?" asked Baki to himself but the clearing his mind, it didn't mattered right now, he needed to stop the troll and he needed to do it fast "Check the injured I'll get the troll it seem to have stopped here so I can focus in defeating him"
"Alright after I take out the injured I'll come back to help" said Temari who looked around and noticed Kiba "You help me out over here, we need to get the injured ones out of here"
"Me?" asked Kiba pointing to himself, Temari nodded. Kiba looked like he wanted to fight the troll but seeing the injured adventurers to the side he knew they had to take them out of there so he followed Temari to help her move the injured adventurers
Meanwhile the troll took a piece of the ground and threw it towards Naruto
Naruto quickly ducked under the rock and took out his knife, he knew it was probably useless but right now with all the other adventurers around he just needed to keep the troll pinned down and they could take care or at least that's what he thought
Naruto ran forward and managed to jump over the troll's arm as it tried to punch him. Naruto was standing on top of the troll and tried bringing his knife down with all the strength he could muster but it once again just bounced off the troll's rock like skin, at least it hadn't broke so he still had it
The troll raised an arm above his back and grabbed Naruto quickly throwing him forward. Naruto flew through the air and only stopped when he impacted hard against a building's wall
"Naruto!" screamed worried Kurama running towards her familia member
By the time Kurama reached him Naruto had stood up back on his feet but it didn't lasted long as he started falling to the ground but before he could reach the ground Kurama placed an arm under his shoulder to help him stabilize
"Come on Naruto you have to move" said Kurama trying to get Naruto to move out of the way
Seeing that it wasn't going go for Naruto, Baki jumped down and created several wind blades and threw them towards the troll. But this time his attacks had little effect in getting the troll's attention as the troll just ran forward through the wind blades charging towards Naruto and Kurama
"No damn it" said Baki reaching towards the troll in a desperate attempt to stop him but he wasn't close enough to do anything
Seeing the troll get closer Naruto started thinking he was in no condition to evade the attack but at least Kurama-sama would survive if he moved her out of the way so he placed his hand on Kurama's shoulder with the intention of pushing her out of the way. To Naruto's surprise the opposite of what he wanted happened, as soon as he placed his hand on her shoulder he felt something push him out of the way; it had been Kurama trying to save his life
He looked at her in surprise as he felt to the ground.
This couldn't be happening if someone had to live that was Kurama she was a goddess after all and he was just a plain old adventurer or in other words a human. He couldn't let this happen
He could see it in her eyes she was telling him to live but he also saw something else in her eyes, sadness.
Suddenly from inside of him he felt strength, he didn't knew what it was maybe adrenaline kicking in or just his strong will making him move again
Naruto quickly recovered his balance and moved towards Kurama he had no time to move her out of the way the troll was literally just one or two steps away from them so he grabbed her quickly and placed her behind him
The troll then raised his fist and brought it down towards Naruto seeing this Kurama's eyes filled with desperation she needed to do something but it was too late to do anything so she just screamed
Right then a light erupted from the two stopping everyone in their place even the troll stopped surprised by the light taking a few steps back
The light then felt down onto Naruto covering in a strange red cloak all across his body this also changed his physical appearance a little bit making his teeth and nails grow into fangs and claws his eyes became more feral, the cloak looked like raw red chakra and ended in one tail behind him
"What happened to him?" said Baki looking at Naruto surprised
"He changed" said Temari "What's going on"
"Rookie what happened?" said Kiba looking at Naruto surprised
Farther away from everyone Kabuto was looking at the fight and he was in awe at what has happened "Orochimaru-sama will find this very interesting" said Kabuto to himself with a smile
But Kabuto was not the only one that was watching the fight from far away, Gyuki was too he was laughing and had a face of excitement "So that's how it works. After all this time I finally understand" said Gyuki to himself "You wanted a weapon Kurama, I'll give you one. I need to start preparing the forge"
Everyone looked surprised at the change that had occurred to Naruto, his appearance was closer to that of a werewolf but many of his characteristics were more common in kitsunes
Naruto looked down at himself and then to Kurama. She had fainted after the strange light came out of them
Naruto didn't understand what happened but he felt a lot stronger than before, he also felt the need to fight, he needed to defeat this troll. He held the knife in his hand and it was covered in the same red veil he was covered in
Naruto charged the troll and slashed multiple times damaging the troll's rock like skin
The troll tried countering but Naruto just raised his arm and shoved the troll's arm out of the way then he slashed upwards with the knife and dealt a pretty deep wound in the troll's arm
Naruto continued with his attack on the troll dealing many deep wounds eventually the troll tried punching Naruto again but he was crippled from the wounds Naruto had inflicted and Naruto evaded it easily getting closer to the troll and stabbing it directly in the head making it explode leaving only its crystal behind
Everyone stood still no knowing how to react and then the red cloak around Naruto banished and he felt forward into the ground unconscious
"What just happened?" asked Kiba looking around
"I … don't …know" said Baki slowly
Decided to end it there, tell me what you thought
This chapter was really hard to write, I wanted two specific things to happen and because of how I set up the last chapter it was really hard to have it all in just one chapter but I managed to do it
Also it will take a long time to explain what Gyuki was referring to with "After all this time" part of that last line he had. Actually I don't really know when I'll explain it but it will probably take some time