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Sunagakure dungeon – the next day
Kurama's familia and Hinata had decided to stay one more day in Suna. Mainly because Naruto and Hanabi wanted to see the Suna dungeon and test how much different it was from the one back in Konoha.
They would head to the dungeon first thing in the morning and when they came out they would head back to Konoha, with any luck they would avoid the hotter hours of the day.
When they arrived at the Sunagakure dungeon, they had been informed that they could keep any crystals they found in the dungeon and change them either in the Suna guild or back in the Konoha guild. They were also informed that it wasn't recommended that a level 2 adventurer ventures further than the 10th floor of the dungeon since the Sunagakure dungeon was more difficult than other dungeons.
After that they had headed to the second floor of the dungeon where the dungeon started for real.
"This isn't that much different from the one in Konoha." Said Hanabi looking around the cave like tunnels that they were going through "The only thing I can think is different is this sand."
The passageways of the dungeon were very similar from the ones in the Konoha dungeon with the main difference lay in the sand that covered the floor of some tunnels and that was deposited in pockets against some walls.
Suddenly from one of the pockets of sand a scorpion as big as a dog jumped out and tried piercing Naruto's skin, but Naruto reacted quickly enough taking a step back and then brining down his knife on the scorpion's back killing it.
"That looked a lot like the one Sasuke fought in the tournament, except it was smaller and it wasn't black." Said Naruto looking at the crystal the scorpion left behind "this one was of the color of the sand."
"That let him camouflage really well, we should probably be careful with the sand. We don't know when a monster will jump out of one of these pockets." said Hanabi.
"Stay behind me that way if one does jump out I'll kill it before it does anything." said Naruto
They continued exploring the dungeon killing a lot more scorpions, Naruto had lost count after the thirtieth scorpion and there were of different colors as well, there were the sandy and the black ones but there were also red and green scorpions. The red one had been particularly memorable since it threw a small ball of fire out of his pincer and Naruto had been surprised but none of the scorpions were much of a challenge. Eventually they had made it to floor 4.
"When will we see something other than a scorpion?" asked Naruto to no one in particular, the scorpion had begun to get challenging attacking in large groups or with great ambushes but still Naruto wanted to see something else and just on cue something new appeared.
An arrow flew through the air and whistled passed Naruto's ear from the other side of the passageway, Naruto looked forward to see what threw that arrow and he was surprised by what he saw.
The monster was like snake having a snake tail instead of feet but the upper part of its body was more human like, even if it was still mostly covered in scales. The monster had two arms and in one it was holding a bow and it had a quiver tied to its back, the creature's face was snake like with a snake like tongue but hints of human features could be seen.
"What's that!?" asked Naruto raising his knife to block the second arrow from the monster.
"That's a naga I believe" said Hanabi "We should be careful, they normally don't attack alone."
Naruto nodded knowing that charging in was probably not the best idea, but right now he had no other idea. His attacks were short range so to deal with the naga he needed to get close.
"I'll distract him, you try getting closer Naruto-sama." Said Hanabi "And be careful of the sand."
Hanabi threw a kunai directly at the naga which move to the side to evade it but while doing that the naga also had to stop shooting arrows giving Naruto the perfect opportunity to go in.
Naruto ran forward towards the naga but as soon as he passed close to a sand pile another naga jumped out with a spear bringing it down towards Naruto who stopped quickly and jumped backwards to avoid the spear. Seeing this the naga opened his mouth and spitted on Naruto.
As soon as the spit touched Naruto's arm it started to burn, luckily he had block with the arm that didn't hold his knife. Naruto then brought his knife upwards stabbing his knife directly in the naga's throat making it explode into crystals.
Seeing its partner die the other Naga shoot an arrow directly at Naruto impacting him in the shoulder, but as soon as the naga stop to shot the arrow Hanabi took the chance to move forward and throw a kunai directly at the naga's head impaling the kunai directly in the naga's forehead making it explode.
"That was tough" said Naruto removing the arrow from his shoulder "I'm starting to see why this dungeon is considered harder to so many others."
"Here you go Naruto-sama." said Hanabi handing Naruto a healing potion which he took and drank to heal his wounds "Do you want to keep going?"
"Let's go at least to the seventh floor before turning back, I want to see what this dungeon has to offer" said Naruto.
"Lead the way then." said Hanabi as they kept venturing forward into the dungeon.
Suna streets
Kurama was bored with nothing to do; she had known that Naruto and Hanabi would probably want to explore the Sunagakure dungeon before going back to Konoha. But back then she was still working at Matatabi's store and if nothing had happened the store would have close the day after the tournament ended.
Hinata had said that she would go out and see if she could find any gift for Teuchi-san and the others. So Kurama was alone as well with nothing to do, so in the end she decided to go walk around the streets.
She walked through the shopping district which was still being reconstructed from the attack of the monsters that had escaped; looking around here wasn't making her any good, all she could think about while being in the shopping district was how close she and Naruto had come to dying.
Kurama wandered with any real direction just trying to get those thoughts out of her mind, soon enough she found herself in front of the Sunagakure coliseum.
She stopped to look around, she hadn't really appreciated how well constructed and decorated the coliseum was. Well except for a wall that was clearly build recently to fix the damage from the troll.
As she looked around she noticed one of the entrances to the coliseum was opened, which was funny because the coliseum was supposed to be closed today, the tournament had ended the day before after all.
Kurama wandered into the coliseum nothing really running through her mind; she was just curious why it was opened.
After going through a few corridors in the coliseum she stopped when someone went around the corner in front of her.
"Kurama!?" Asked Shukaku after rounding the corner and seeing Kurama "What are you doing in here?"
"I just saw a door back there that was open, and I was curious so I came in." said Kurama nervously; she hadn't expected to run into Shukaku.
Shukaku looked annoy at hearing this "I told them to make sure to close everything up." said Shukaku.
"Why do you close the coliseum after the tournament anyways?" asked Kurama.
"We're still dealing with all the trapped monsters" said Shukaku turning around "Come follow me."
Kurama wasn't sure where Shukaku was leading her but she followed him through some corridor until they found themselves above the stands in Shukaku's personal booth.
Down bellow an adventurer was fighting an Orc in the arena as many more were standing ready nearby.
"What are they doing?" asked Kurama seeing the adventurer going forward and killing the orc with a well placed slash.
"We have to get rid of all the remaining monsters after the tournament" explained Shukaku "We place the barrier around the arena and we make so that the sound from inside can't be heard outside. We have to be extra careful this year since this was deemed too dangerous and we could get in trouble."
"You make it sound like you do it like this every year." said Kurama as another orc was released into the arena.
Shukaku smiled and laugh a little bit "That's exactly what we do, we let the monsters out and we kill them, normally in groups but after the incident with the troll we're being careful."
"Yeah the incident." said Kurama looking away in thought.
"Speaking of which, I heard your familia member killed that troll for us." said Shukaku "He should be rewarded for that."
Shukaku took a few steps away from Kurama and took a book that was on a small table nearby.
"Here" said Shukaku handing the book to Kurama "This was the price for the winner of the exhibition match."
"Are you sure about giving me this?" asked Kurama grabbing the book and looking at it "This is a magic book and it looks valuable."
"From my perspective your member killed an S rank, the only person to do that during the tournament and he did it in front of a crowd of adventurers surprising them a lot, giving him a lot of point. He's the winner of the exhibition match." said Shukaku "Now if you would do me a favor please get out of the coliseum."
"Fine but you could have been more polite about that." said Kurama going back the way she had entered.
She had to say that had gone better than she expected. The last time she saw Shukaku he hated her a lot, so she had expected it to go way different.
"You should be thankful I'm in a good mode thanks to your familia member revealing the secret of the red cloak, otherwise I would have probably kicked you out at first sight." said Shukaku to himself when Kurama was out of hearing range "Now I just have to get someone and see if Gyuki was right with his theory. If Gyuki was right this will create a new age of adventurers."
Sunagakure dungeon floor 7
Naruto and Hanabi had finally made it to the seventh floor. They had been lost in some of the earlier floors because of all the sand; in one floor the sand even covered the stairs making it hard to find them.
They had found a lot of scorpions and nagas on their way here they had even fought two Orcs. It had been pretty challenging to defeat some of the groups of monsters but they had managed to get this far with some effort.
"This dungeon is definitely harder than the Konoha dungeon so far." said Naruto.
"But remember this dungeon is a lot shorter than the Konoha dungeon. We still don't know how deep the Konoha dungeon is." said Hanabi
"Yeah Hashirama was the one that made it the furthest into the Konoha dungeon, right?" said Naruto "I wonder how he made it that far."
"I'm surprised that he made it that far, no one has made it even close to where he got." said Hanabi "I just wished he left more written down. If he had done that, the deepest floors wouldn't be such a mystery to us."
"I like that he didn't left much, that way when we make it there it'll be a surprise for us." said Naruto smiling
Right then Naruto and Hanabi made it to an open area in the dungeon; it was a big cavern like area that had multiple exits to other parts of the floor. It wasn't anything new since the new Konoha dungeon had places like this as well.
"Where to now Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi seeing that they had multiple options to continue forward.
Naruto stood still and thought for a few seconds before looking at Hanabi "I think we have explored enough, let's head back." said Naruto.
Hanabi looked a little surprised "I thought you would like to at least find the stairs of this floor before going back" said Hanabi.
"Nah we've explored enough and we wouldn't like to leave Kurama-sama more than needed. She's probably just waiting for us so that we can head back to Konoha." said Naruto.
"Yeah we better not make Kurama-sama angry." said Hanabi turning around to go back the way they had come from.
As soon as they started heading back they heard a roar behind them of something charging towards them.
Naruto turned around first to see what was approaching and saw a bear size creature running towards them, he quickly grabbed Hanabi and jumped out of the way and back into the open room to have more room to move around.
"What was that?" asked Naruto putting Hanabi down.
"Thanks for saving me Naruto-sama." said Hanabi before looking at the creature which returned through the passage and looked directly at both of them.
The creature looked a lot like a tiger except for its larger size and a key characteristic in its canine teeth; they were pretty long and sharp.
"A saber-tooth tiger!" said Hanabi looking at the creature "Be careful Naruto-sama this creature might look like a normal tiger but in reality it's pretty different. It's stronger and faster than a normal tiger."
The tiger leaped forward with his claws in front swiping forward towards Naruto giving Naruto just a few seconds to move backwards barely avoiding the attack.
As soon as the tiger touched the ground again it ran straight towards Naruto aiming to bite him with his sharp teeth, but Naruto managed to use his knife to block the tiger's teeth.
"Naruto-sama!" said Hanabi "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine, but this tiger is a little close." said Naruto jumping back getting some distance with the tiger.
As soon as that happened the tiger leap forward again with his claws extended looking to trap Naruto in the middle but Naruto was fast enough to jump over the tiger and land behind it.
Naruto quickly turned around and he thrust his knife directly into the tiger making a deep wound on the tiger's hind leg.
The tiger was not happy with this quickly turning around and trying to swipe at Naruto again, but as soon as he turned around some shuriken flew directly at him damaging even more.
Seeing his opportunity Naruto ran forward and tried thrusting his knife directly in the tiger skull, but as soon as he was close enough the tiger swiped forward and made a deep claw wound on Naruto's stomach.
"Naruto-sama!" screamed Hanabi throwing some kunai at the tiger keeping it from going forward to attack Naruto again.
Naruto clutched his wound in pain as he took some steps back but seeing the tiger's focus shift to Hanabi because of all the weapons she was throwing towards it Naruto tool the opportunity and ran forward from the tiger's side and cleave his knife directly in the tiger's skull making it explode only leaving behind a crystal.
"That thing was really difficult" said Naruto clutching his wound.
"We better hurry back to the entrance this is the last healing potion we have." said Hanabi handing a healing potion to Naruto.
"Did we already ran out of potions?" asked Naruto "I thought we bought a bunch of them."
"I left some back in Konoha. I didn't think we would need many here in Suna." said Hanabi.
"I see, in that case let's hurry back and let's keep fighting to the minimum on the way back." said Naruto
After that Naruto and Hanabi headed out the dungeon not running into many monsters on the way back luckily, once outside they headed back to the hotel to found Hinata and Kurama that were waiting for them.
Kurama had been angry that they had taken longer than expected in the dungeon; luckily it was still early enough that they could head back to Konoha so they started their way back.
Kurama decided to not tell Naruto about the book yet, she would wait until they made it back to Konoha before giving it to him.
The next day – Kurama's apartment
Once they arrived back at Konoha Hanabi and Hinata had taken their own way back to their home. Meanwhile Naruto and Kurama went back to their home were they felt exhausted on their beds and went to sleep almost immediately not leaving enough time for Kurama to hand over the book to Naruto.
The journey back hadn't been better than the journey to Suna, somehow they had forgotten for a second time that Suna was mostly a desert and they had not brought enough water for the trip.
The next morning Naruto woke up and was surprised to find out Kurama had woken before him, it was common for him to wake up before her but it could have been that he was more tired since he had gone to the dungeon had a long trip on the same day.
After getting ready for the day Naruto started heading out but was stopped by Kurama.
"Naruto wait before you go I want to give you something." said Kurama.
"Give me something, what is it?" asked Naruto curios.
"Well yesterday when you went to the Suna dungeon I went around Suna and bumped into Shukaku." said Kurama "And he gave me this, he told me that in his eyes you had won the exhibition match."
As she said that Kurama took the book Shukaku had given her and handed it over to Naruto.
"But I didn't win, the match was cancelled" said Naruto "I can't take this."
"He said you defeated an S rank and in front of other adventurers apparently so he told me you won." said Kurama "So just take the book and do whatever you want with it, the money from it if you sell it wouldn't be bad if you don't want to use it but that would be such a waste considering this would be your first jutsu."
Naruto thought about it while holding the book "I guess it would be awesome to get a jutsu and according to Shukaku-sama it was a high level magic." said Naruto.
"If you want to learn the spell all you have to do is read it, even if it looks like it's in another language you'll just blaze through the book in a second and before you know it you'll have a jutsu." explained Kurama.
Naruto then opened the book and just as Kurama had said it looked like it was written in a really weird language but he could somehow understand it and before he knew it the book was blank.
"What happened the book is blank!" said Naruto worried that he had done something wrong.
"That's good that means you learned the spell." explained Kurama.
"Really I learn this jutsu just like that?" asked Naruto not really believing it.
"Come on I'll update your stats, that way we'll know the name of the spell." said Kurama.
After a quick update of Naruto's stats, Kurama hold paper with his stats in front of him, the first thing he did was check the part where magic showed up. It was normally blank but today it was different it had a name of a jutsu on it.
"Rasengan" said Naruto reading the name of the jutsu at loud "Rasengan!" repeated Naruto excited he couldn't believe it he finally had a jutsu.
"Rasengan?" asked Kurama "That's a weird name; I wonder what that jutsu does."
"There's only one way to find out right." said Naruto extending his hand but he was quickly tackled by Kurama to stop him.
"Not here Naruto you'll destroy the place." said Kurama "Try it later in the dungeon."
"I can't wait to try it. My first jutsu" said Naruto looking at his hand, somehow he knew that the jutsu same out of his hand, maybe it had something to do with the book or it was just a hunch. Who knows definitely not him he had to try the jutsu to know what it really did.
"Then get going, go and try that jutsu." said Kurama.
"I will, see you later Kurama-sama." said Naruto heading out.
"I better get ready as well" said Kurama to herself "I need to go see Matatabi and Gyuki today."
Decided to end it there, I know it's short and that I haven't updated this or Naruto: the game V2 in a while but this will have to do since I'm super busy right now.
To those of you that are probably here to see if there's any news about Naruto: the game V2, I think I'll have a chapter for that next week.
After all this time not writing as much as I did, it's hard to get in the mood again so updates will probably continue to be slow for a while but hopefully I'll get over it and get more faster updates soon.