Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
Konoha guild
"This is impressive Naruto you leveled up really quick" said Ino looking at the paper Naruto had handed her with his updated stats "Now you can go further into the dungeon all the way to floor 17."
"I'm really excited to see what the dungeon has to offer in the deeper floors." said Naruto "and also I'm excited to try my new jutsu."
"I noticed in the stats update it says you now have a jutsu called rasengan" said Ino "With this jutsu and your skill plus your stats I don't see any reason to hold you back from going all the way to floor 17. It won't be easy but I'm with this stats it's technically doable."
"So I can go there today if I wanted to?" asked Naruto excited that he wouldn't have to go through step to get to the deepest floor he could get to.
"Well before you go I want to give you something" said Ino "You're party is just two persons if I remember correctly."
"Yeah only me and Hanabi" said Naruto.
"In that case wait here a little bit I need to get something for you." said Ino standing up and going to the back area of the guild where they kept things in storage.
Not too long ago Ino appeared once again carrying something in her hands, it looked like some kind of cloth.
"This are fire resistant coats, with this going forward in the dungeon will not be that hard" said Ino "You might have faced lizards that spewed fire out of their mouth before."
Naruto nodded in confirmation that he had faced those lizards in the dungeon before.
"Well in these deeper floors you will find monsters that make the fire those lizards had look like just matches." said Ino "This are required to go deeper, I'm giving you three of this coats, one for Hanabi, one for you and one to have in case you find someone else that wants to go with you."
"Thanks Ino-san" said Naruto taking the coats "I'm sure that with this we'll have no problem."
"I'm sure they will help but still remember to be careful Naruto" said Ino worried "The amount of monster you will find and the aggressiveness of the monsters is going to increase a lot. You might find yourself cornered so promise me that you'll be careful."
"We'll be careful and try to not get in trouble" said Naruto.
"That calms me a little bit more." said Ino "Anyways remember to be careful and to give those to Hanabi, I'm sure she will keep those coats safe until they are needed."
"Ok see you later Ino-san" said Naruto standing up and heading outside the guild.
On his way out he found Hanabi that had gone to exchange the crystals they had made in Suna.
"What's that?" asked Hanabi when she saw the coats Naruto was carrying.
"This are fire resistant coats, they will help us explore the level 2 floors of the dungeon." said Naruto handing the coats to Hanabi "Apparently monsters down there have some high damaging fire attacks."
"Yeah I read about them the other day, there's this wolf that spews fire out of its mouth and it can apparently melt rock in a matter of seconds." said Hanabi.
"Then I'm glad we have this coats" said Naruto "In any case let's get going to the dungeon I want to see what there is in those new floors."
"Right behind you Naruto-sama." said Hanabi cheerfully following Naruto towards the dungeon.
Konoha dungeon 12th floor
Naruto and Hanabi had made it pretty easily all the way to the 12th floor of the Konoha dungeon; they had even fought an orc and had easily defeated it thanks to Naruto's new level.
"This isn't as hard as I remember." said Naruto as they were walking towards the stairs to the 13th floor.
"Well you leveled up Naruto-sama and apart from that you had some great training in the suna dungeon" said Hanabi "What I'm surprised is that you haven't use that jutsu you got after all you were super excited to use it."
"I want it to matter, I was about to use it on the orc we found earlier but we defeated him easily." said Naruto.
"But then you won't know how it works when you really need it" said Hanabi "And we still don't know how much chakra it consumes you might end exhausted after using it."
"I'll be fine, somehow I can feel that I'll be able to use it multiple times before I fall exhausted." said Naruto.
"If you say so" said Hanabi although she wasn't that confident "Also we should be careful we are getting closer to the 13th floor and monsters will start being more aggressive"
"Even on this floor?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah they are affected somehow by the next floor, the closer you are to the stairs the more aggressive they get." said Hanabi.
Just then they turned a corner and saw something they hadn't seen before in the dungeon.
They saw a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a pretty hairy man. It was pretty muscular and it was holding a massive axe in its hands. It was probably almost twice as big as Naruto and it was looking directly at them.
"That's a Minotaur" said Hanabi taking a step back "This is one of the strongest creatures in the first 12 floors."
"Good, finally something I can try my rasengan with." said Naruto getting excited.
"We haven't fought one of this yet, we should be careful and observe it first." said Hanabi
Right then the Minotaur roared and charged towards Naruto. Differently from the Orc the minotaur was in fact pretty fast on his run closing the distance pretty quickly, once he was close enough the Minotaur swung his axe horizontally towards Naruto.
Naruto reacted quickly once the Minotaur started running taking his knife out and ducking under the axe and then swinging upwards trying to slash the Minotaur but his knife barely scratched the Minotaur's skin.
"Damn I need a better weapon my knife is not good enough." said Naruto avoiding the next swing of the Minotaur.
The Minotaur then swung vertically towards the ground, Naruto dodged the axe to the side but as soon as the axe slammed into the ground the Minotaur dropped it and punched Naruto directly in the stomach sending him flying across the corridor into the wall behind him.
"Naruto-sama are you ok!?" asked Hanabi running towards him "Quickly get up the Minotaur is coming!"
Just as Hanabi said the Minotaur was charging directly to Naruto with the intention of tackling him into the wall with his shoulder.
Naruto stood up and raised his right hand "I guess is time to try this!" said Naruto putting his left hand above his right one as a orb of spinning blue chakra was created "Rasengan!"
Naruto extended his arm forward and the ball of chakra slammed into the running Minotaur and exploded sending the Minotaur flying backwards in a spinning motion surprising both Hanabi and Naruto.
The Minotaur felt to the floor but quickly got up angrier than before. He picked up his axe and charged towards Naruto again.
"It wasn't enough Naruto-sama!" said Hanabi alerting Naruto of the Minotaur's attacks.
"In that case I'll do it again." said Naruto running forward with his hands in the same position as before as he created the orb of spinning chakra.
The Minotaur swung his axe once again but Naruto ducked to dodge the swing and as he came back up he slammed the Rasengan into the Minotaur's stomach sending him flying once again, while in the air the Minotaur let out one final roar as he exploded and left behind a crystal.
Naruto stood there looking at his hand with a smile in his face "That was awesome!" said Naruto "I love this jutsu."
"That was an incredible jutsu" said Hanabi "It defeated a Minotaur in two hits!"
Naruto suddenly felt really tired and sat down on the ground.
"Are you feeling alright Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi "Maybe that jutsu consumed a lot of your chakra."
"I'm fine I just need a little bit of rest and then we'll go to the next floor" said Naruto "This is a great time to put those coats on."
"You're right we are getting really close, we better put those coats on" said Hanabi taking off her backpack and checking in it for the coats, when she found them she handed one to Naruto "Here you go."
Naruto grabbed the coat Hanabi was handing him and put it on, it wasn't obstructing with his movement at all and he felt somewhat safer while wearing it.
"With this we'll have no troubles in the next floors" said Naruto looking forward "Let's keep going."
Konoha streets
Kurama was currently heading to see Gyuki to help him with the weapon for Naruto; she would go and see Matatabi later since she knew making a weapon normally took time so she needed to be early to help Gyuki with the weapon for Naruto.
It didn't take her long to arrive at Gyuki's office where he was expecting her.
"Good you finally arrived, now follow me we'll start making the weapon immediately" said Gyuki once he saw her walking to a door at the side of his office and indicating her to follow him.
Kurama did just that following Gyuki through the door. She had expected to have a little chat or something before moving to making the weapon but it seem Gyuki was going directly to the point.
"While we head there I should probably ask" said Gyuki "What kind of weapon would Naruto like?"
Kurama had actually not thought about that. From what she knew he needed something with better range than a knife since was having trouble with some stronger monsters and he also needed something light since he was more focused on speed and movement
"Something with good range and not heavy." said Kurama.
"A sword or a spear would do for those descriptions, maybe a light axe or tomahawk" said Gyuki "No an axe would be too clunky so a sword it is."
"You'll make him a sword?" asked Kurama to make sure.
"We'll make him a sword" said Gyuki as they arrived to another door that Gyuki opened and Kurama suddenly felt the heat coming out of the room beyond the door "This is my personal forge; in here I make special weapons and armors. I'm not great with armors but you won't find better weapons anywhere else."
"I already know that you make the greatest weapons, that's why you were the first on my list." said Kurama.
"And if I had said no who would you have asked?" asked Gyuki.
"I don't really know, the only other one on the list was Son Goku but I didn't want to travel so far away." said Kurama "So my plan was making sure you'd said yes."
"Typical Kurama" said Gyuki "Anyways let's get started with this weapon."
Konoha dungeon floor 13th floor
The difference in the floors was immediately apparent there were still tunnels and corridors that lead to different parts of the floor but the floor was more open with different paths to follow, different height levels and exits to other parts of the floor everywhere, there were also holes in the ground that lead to the next floor but it wasn't recommend to take those holes since they could be several floors deep or lead you straight to an area with a lot of monsters.
Speaking of monster that was also that was way different in the 13th floor from the floors before, there were still Orcs running around but they were more numerous and also had more armor as well as some completely new monster Naruto had never seen.
"Are those wolfs of some kind?" asked Naruto seeing some big dog like creatures in front of them, the wolves noticed them and then ran directly at them.
The wolves were larger than any dog like creature Naruto had seen and they had a deep black fur with glowing red eyes that made them look even more intimidating. They were also running faster than any dog Naruto had seen before so he figured they were faster and stronger than a normal wolf.
There were 5 wolves coming directly at them, one stopped and opened its mouth and let out a huge fiery breath that Naruto barely avoided, the flamethrower like breath crashed with a wall behind Naruto and started melting it.
"Now I see why Ino said the monsters in this floor forward have strong fire attacks!" said Naruto surprised that the wall had melted so much.
"If I remember correctly those are hellhounds, they have a strong fire breath and also are rarely alone and if they think you are a treat they might call more hellhounds to attack us" said Hanabi "We should deal with them swiftly before they have an opportunity to call for help."
Naruto took out his knife and ran forward towards the hellhounds meeting them half way and keeping them a safe distance from Hanabi. Naruto quickly ducked under another fire blast from one of the hounds and tried closing the gap to slash the one that was open to attack but another hound quickly tackled Naruto from the side and tried biting his neck.
Naruto managed to grabbed the hound and keep him away from his face, seeing that biting Naruto was being too much of a problem the hound opened his mouth and Naruto could see the fire start forming inside its mouth so he quickly threw it away from him and moved out of the way.
As soon as Naruto managed to get up he noticed that he was surrounded by the hellhounds.
"A little help Hanabi?" asked Naruto not seeing an easy approach.
"Already on it Naruto-sama" said Hanabi throwing several kunai towards the hellhounds managing to hit one in the surprise.
Taking the chance Naruto charged the one Hanabi managed to hit and quickly droved his knife through his head making the hellhound explode leaving a crystal behind.
"Four left" said Naruto.
"I'm … not so sure Naruto-sama." said Hanabi worried.
Naruto looked towards Hanabi and saw another group of 5 hellhounds charging them from behind.
"That's not good" said Naruto as he dodged the fire breath of another hound "We need to end this fast or else we'll be in trouble."
Naruto placed his hands in the position to create a Rasengan and charged one of the hounds slamming the rasengan into it killing it when he slammed into the wall.
Just then one of the other hounds jumped and tried biting Naruto on the arm, when he avoided it another hound was already leaping forward towards Naruto's neck, he managed to knocked it away with his fist but a third hound bit directly at his foot making Naruto scream in pain.
Hanabi managed to throw a kunai directly at the one that was biting Naruto killing it but she had to move out of the way as the new set of hounds arrived and one of them spew fire in her direction.
"We need to get out of here!" said Hanabi moving to a side corridor that let away from the fight "We'll be overwhelmed"
Naruto hated running away but Hanabi was right, this was more than what he bargained for, he might technically have the stats to complete this floor but he was missing the experience against these monsters to be able to defeat them in a timely matter.
"Make some distance I'm right behind you" said Naruto knocking another hound away from him and avoiding yet another fire breath.
Hanabi nodded throwing another kunai towards a hound that was behind Naruto and then running into the corridor.
Naruto ran towards the corridor with the hounds behind them turning around just for a brief second to strike a hellhound directly on the head killing it, only six left following them.
Naruto doubled his effort to run away from the hounds but with the injury on his foot it wasn't that easy, the only saving grace he had was that while the hounds were chasing him they couldn't use their breath since it seem they always stopped before spewing fire.
"This is bad Naruto-sama" said Hanabi from in front of Naruto.
Naruto looked forward towards Hanabi to see what she was referring to and he immediately saw what she meant, the corridor they had taken was a dead end another new thing from the 13th floor since in none of the other floor was there any dead end.
"We'll just have to fight them then" said Naruto stopping in his tracks and turning around to face the hounds "Some on which one of you small fries is next!?"
The six hounds stopped in their tracks and opened their mouth ready to release fire, in this closed corridor with a dead end behind them there was no way to avoid the fire this was going to hurt a lot.
"Water dragon jutsu!" screamed someone behind the hounds and then a huge dragon made out of water appeared and slammed into all the hounds killing them all in one hit.
"That was close" said a familiar voice coming closer to Naruto and Hanabi "We almost didn't make it in time to save you Naruto-san."
From beyond the corridor Haku and the finalist from the Suna tournament Zabuza Momochi appeared surprising Naruto and Hanabi.
"Haku I'm so glad to see you!" said Naruto.
"So this is the Naruto you and the other adventurers were talking about?" asked Zabuza seeing Naruto.
"Naruto-san this is my master Zabuza Momochi. He's also a finalist on the Sunagakure tournament." said Haku.
"I saw you at the tournament you're pretty strong, I'm nowhere near that level." said Naruto.
"Are this your friends Naruto-sama?" asked Hanabi walking closer to Naruto.
"This is my support and friend Hanabi Hyuga, you might have seen her back in Suna." said Naruto.
"A pleasure to meet you" said Haku.
"Hanabi this is my friend Haku I met him during the Suna tournament he was a participant in the exhibition match." explained Naruto.
"You met 'him'?" asked Hanabi with an emphasis on the 'him'.
"I get confused with a girl pretty often but I'm male" said Haku surprising Hanabi who was pretty sure Haku was a she "I really don't know why."
"What were you guys doing here?" asked Naruto "I didn't expect to see you here."
"As I told you back in Suna Zabuza-sama wanted to check the Konoha dungeon that's why we're here" said Haku.
"Nothing special so far" said Zabuza "I was expecting it to be different since this is one of the only dungeons that have not being fully explored yet."
"We saw you a while back when you started fighting the first group of hounds." said Haku.
"And when it got dangerous Haku insisted that we helped you." said Zabuza interrupting Haku.
"Well I'm glad you guys help us, I'm not sure if we would have been able to get out of that one." said Naruto.
"By the way I heard you earlier saying that other adventurers are talking about Naruto-sama, what are they talking about?" asked Hanabi being bother by that a little bit.
"Word spreads fast in this world, everyone has been talking about the level 1 adventurer that was covered in red that defeat a rock troll like it was nothing" explained Zabuza "Even I have some trouble with a rock troll from time to time if consumed too much chakra before fighting it, so the story of a level 1 adventurer defeating one is really impressive."
"And how do they know it was me that defeated the troll?" asked Naruto.
"It was your turn to fight during the tournament, everyone heard your name from the announcer and then troll appeared out of nowhere almost killing you. When the same adventurers that were watching that fight saw you again fighting the troll in the streets it was easy to put a name to the one that defeated the troll." said Zabuza.
"Awesome that means I have admirers now!" said Naruto.
"You shouldn't be too happy about that Naruto-san" said Haku "Some people think you just took the last hit and that the troll was already weak. They think you stole the glory from someone else and want to see you pay for it. Even if it wasn't them from whom you stole the glory."
"That sounds stupid!" said Naruto.
"It does but some people really believe you cheated somehow. I've even heard theories that you were the one that cause the troll to go into a rampage just to try to get more points for the tournament." said Haku.
"I almost died!" said Naruto angrily "My familia goddess almost died! Why would I do something like that!?"
"People are stupid" said Zabuza turning around as he started walking away "In any case Haku and I need to get going, I still haven't seen enough of this dungeon."
"It was nice talking to you again Naruto-san. But it seems Zabuza-sama is in hurry. I hope to see you again during our stay in Konoha." said Haku.
"Haku hurry!" said Zabuza as he went further away.
"See you later Naruto-san" said Haku turning around and running behind Zabuza.
"Naruto-sama are you ok?" asked Hanabi seeing that Naruto wasn't moving after Haku and Zabuza left.
Naruto took a deep breath before speaking "I'm fine Hanabi, I'm just angry that people really believe I caused the troll's rampage." said Naruto.
"It's just a dumb rumor I'm sure people will understand you didn't do anything like that soon enough" said Hanabi "There's no way you could have done something like that anyways, you told you were in the contestants area with all the others contestants all the time so there was no time for you to cause the accident."
"Of course I didn't have time to do it, because I didn't do it." said Naruto.
"Just forget about it for now" said Hanabi "In any case we should get out of here before we get in more troubles with the monsters."
"You're right again, we should get out of here before that happens again" said Naruto pointing to the crystals that had been left behind by the hounds that Zabuza had not pick up "I really need a better weapon."
"We could look for a new weapon tomorrow" said Hanabi "we don't have any real reason to hurry in our exploration of the dungeon."
"But I would really like to see more of the dungeon" said Naruto looking down a hole that was on the side of the corridor that went several floors down "I wonder what's down there."
"We'll find out some other day" said Hanabi "Come on let's get out before more hounds or something worse appears."
"Yeah let's get going" said Naruto walking through the corridor heading to the stairs back up.
Decided to end it there tell me what you thought, next chapter Naruto's new weapon and maybe his alias as well.