Sorry for taking so long to update something but I'm still really busy with stuff and afterwards my USB device decided to start giving me problems and I had everything involving my stories in there and now it's gone.
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Gyuki's forge
"It's done" said Gyuki placing the sword in a sheath "Now all its left is to name it."
"How about Kurama sword?" suggested Kurama.
"Good enough" said Gyuki handing Kurama the sword "Here you go."
"With this Naruto will have no problem in the deeper floors" said Kurama looking at the sword in her hands.
"Has he already leveled up?" asked Gyuki.
"He did, I think that defeating that troll in suna counted as an adventure and he leveled up" said Kurama.
"So you can still level up while you have the red cloak on" said Gyuki to himself.
"The red cloak" repeated Kurama looking down "I have never seen it but you guys told me it has happened twice now."
"It's true you have been unconscious the two times it has happened" said Gyuki looking at Kurama.
"Can you tell me more about it, the red cloak?" asked Kurama "I haven't been able to see it so I want to know more."
"Ok then but let's return to my office staying in here is bad for one's health" said Gyuki.
"We don't get sick, you should know that" said Kurama.
"I know but still we can get pretty close" said Gyuki as he moved to his office followed by Kurama.
Once they were back at Gyuki's office he sat down in his chair and pointed to Kurama to do the same on the chair in front of his desk.
"Where to start" said Gyuki in a deep thought "Maybe I should begin with the first appearance of the cloak so many years ago."
"Ironically enough it was against a troll as well if I remember correctly" said Kurama.
"It was, an adventurer from Enma's familia had managed to anger a mountain troll inside the Uzushiogakure dungeon, this troll followed him all the way outside the dungeon" said Gyuki although it seem he knew something more "It's rare but it happens a monster might just get infuriated and just go wherever he wants even outside the dungeon in extreme cases."
"How many times has that happened?" asked Kurama curious since she knew it had at least happened twice, once back then and another time when Naruto lost his mother.
"We have received four reports of monsters outside their dungeons, strangely enough two of them were from the Uzu dungeon" said Gyuki "This of course does not count the monsters in the suna tournament and maybe some other times it happened and it wasn't recorded."
"So I just happened to be there one of the four times it happened" said Kurama "what are the chances?"
"I was there as well if you remember correctly and so was Shukaku" said Gyuki before he continued with his explanation of the red cloak "The first time the cloak appeared was when we had organized an expedition to explore the Uzushiogakure dungeon, the familias involved in that expedition were Shukaku's, Enma's, your's and mine."
Kurama sighted "I've told you before that can't be considered a familia." said Kurama.
"It was a familia. A familia is a familia it doesn't matter what you did. Even if I don't approve of what happened it was a familia for some time" said Gyuki.
"That red cloak if it had never happened back then." said Kurama looking into space.
"That red cloak saved you, if you had continued with what you were doing back then…" said Gyuki thinking but then stopping and looking at Kurama "You are not doing it with Naruto again?"
"I'm not doing that again! This time I'm doing it the right way" said Kurama a little hurt that Gyuki would think she would do something like that again.
"Sorry" said Gyuki "In any case if I remember correctly it went something like this….."
A long time ago - Uzushiogakure
"We finally arrive, I would have never accepted to aid in this expedition if I knew it would take this long to get here" said Shukaku
"We needed a familia that specialized themselves in fighting so we contacted you" said Gyuki.
"You already have Enma in Konoha why even ask me for help" said Shukaku a little annoyed.
"Enma is busy with another expedition, his familia is planning on going to floor 21 in Konoha, and if he succeeds his familia will be the first on getting that far. For that reason he stayed to see them off and wait for their return." said Gyuki "He lend us some members of his familia none the less so we should be thankful."
"Yeah Enma-sama is pretty busy right now" answer a young boy with dark eyes and black hair cut in sort of a bowl cut style.
"Hashirama don't interrupt Shukaku-sama and Gyuki-sama while they talk" said a faired skin boy with white shaggy hair.
"Oh you're right Tobirama, sorry Shukaku-sama, Gyuki-sama." said Hashirama bowing a little bit.
"Don't worry young boy" said Gyuki "You did nothing wrong this time."
"In any case why are you just getting to floor 21, back in suna we've already explored all the way to floor 30" said Shukaku angrily.
"We are taking it slowly after what happened in floor 18 we don't want to stumble into a boss monster unprepared. We don't want to repeat what happened in the suna dungeon." said Gyuki.
Shukaku grunted he didn't like getting reminded of that he had not expected something so strong on the Suna dungeon and he had told his familia to go as far as they could without looking back, they had fought a boss monster and many died trying to defeat him.
"Speaking of that have you found any more of them in the Suna dungeon?" asked Gyuki.
"Two more we were more careful and just studied them the first time we found them and then when we knew their patterns we engaged. It was still an arduous fight but the casualties were kept to a minimum." said Shukaku.
"Do you think there will be a boss monster in the Uzushiogakure dungeon?" asked Hashirama excitedly.
"Hashirama!" said Tobirama but before he could lecture his brother for interrupting again Gyuki spoke.
"Who knows? That's what we are here to find out" said Gyuki "There are no familias in Uzu so we have to come all the way from Konoha to explore this dungeon so that there are files on it on the guilds around the world for adventurers that want to explore it."
"That way they can come here a little bit more prepared, right?" said Hashirama.
"Exactly young boy, both the gods and the guilds worry about the adventurers so we make sure to sent exploration parties that explore as much of the dungeon as they can and also report it back to the guilds so that they can spread that information to the adventurers." said Gyuki.
"I get all that but why did we brought her?" asked Shukaku pointing behind him to and excited Kurama that was talking to a young girl with long bright red hair tied into two buns "She's probably only going to get in the way."
"She's excited she finally found a familia member and she wanted to participate in something important. She also wouldn't leave me alone so I had to concede and let her come with us" said Gyuki.
"How did Kurama found out about this anyways?" asked Shukaku "She normally doesn't go visit any of us unless she needs something."
"Oh I told Mito-san that we were heading on an expedition in her home country" said Hashirama answering Shukaku's question "She probably told her goddess about it."
After that Hashirama's attention got caught by a tree they were passing by and stopped to look at it.
"So her familia member is called Mito" said Gyuki not paying much attention to Hashirama that had stayed behind them "I wonder how she met her."
"You should stop worrying about that for now, we're almost there" said Shukaku pointing forward, from where they were they could see the small village where they would be staying while the expedition was going on.
Meanwhile further back an excited Kurama was still talking to Mito.
"I know I've asked like a thousand times now but are you sure it's fine a level 1 adventurer like me with only a few days of experience to go to an expedition like this one?" asked Mito to Kurama.
"I've told you is fine" said Kurama "You may only have like a week and a half of experience being an adventurer but from what we gathered in past expeditions the Uzu dungeon isn't that hard and if it gets too hard there will be a bunch of adventurers to help you. It'll be a great learning experience."
"If you say so" said Mito not looking that confident as they passed Hashirama's side. Seeing the look on worry on Mito's face Hashirama walked forward along sides her and spoke.
"Don't worry Mito, if it gets too difficult I'll protect you" said Hashirama walking along sides Mito.
"Hashirama" said Mito looking at the young man.
"Oh so you're young Hashirama Mito told me about." said Kurama seeing the young man.
"And you are Mito's goddess" said Hashirama "Kurama if I remember correctly, I'll have to say I had never heard that name before Mito told me about you."
"Don't worry, I'm not that famous" said Kurama "I was lucky to find Mito over here, well she actually found me."
"Oh yeah you never told me the story how did you two met?" asked Hashirama looking at Mito.
"Well after you joined a familia and told me how exploring the dungeon was I decided I wanted to join a familia as well so I went around Konoha searching for one" explained Mito "I don't know how it happened to be honest but I ended up finding Kurama-sama and I joined her familia."
"You don't remember?" asked Hashirama confused.
"It was a tiring day, I was walking all day. I was exhausted and when I arrived home that night I almost felt unconscious from the tiredness that must have made me forget a little bit of what happened" said Mito "But I still remember finding Kurama-sama and joining her familia."
"But still it's a little weird you don't remember much of that" said Hashirama "It was the moment you found your familia after all"
"It was busy day for Mito, I know she just needs to think a little bit about it and she will probably remember it all. If you want to know I'll tell you later" said Kurama not letting Mito answer "But for now shouldn't you be looking for the place where you will stay."
As soon as Kurama said that Hashirama noticed they were already on the small village they were going to stay, he had lost track of time while speaking with Mito and Kurama.
"Oh damn, where is Tobirama" said Hashirama looking around "He's the one that knows where exactly we're staying."
"Maybe he saw you were busy and went ahead with Izuna and Madara" said Mito.
"If that's the case I better hurry. Those three can kill each other if I'm not there!" said Hashirama going ahead to find his friends and brother.
"Pretty weird friend you have" said Kurama.
"He just worries too much, he wants everyone to get along so he normally ends up being the voice of reason, even if sometimes he says some pretty dumb things" said Mito "But if he doesn't know what do to he has Tobirama by his side to help him."
"In any case let's get moving we still have to find where we'll be staying" said Kurama moving behind the group of adventurers.
In total there were 17 adventurers, 2 from Enma's familia, 6 from Shukaku's familia, 6 from Gyuki's familia, 2 from the Yatagarasu familia that had come as volunteers and Mito from Kurama's familia. Since Enma could only send two adventurers he had also provided the supplies, plentiful healing potions and different kinds of weapons, armors and some magic items all of this was currently being carried inside a carriage pulled by two horses.
The trip to Uzushiogakure had not taken long they had managed to do it in under a day; they could have gone to the dungeon immediately and not waste any time. But they had decided that it was better to wait until the next day, that way they could go early in the morning and return before nightfall.
The expedition would last three days or until they had fully explored the Uzu dungeon, it was speculated that the Uzu dungeon wasn't that long a hint of this was rapidly increasing difficulty in the floor, but even with this increased difficulty all that was known of the dungeon to this day was considered possible for a group of level 1 adventurers, so it wasn't that hard.
A previous expedition had explored 9 floors of the dungeon, they were expecting to see another 11 to make it twenty floors but they had also said that the possibility of it only being 15 floors deep was really high, if that was the case floor 15 was probably a boss floor and they had to be careful.
"Will you two stay somewhere special here in Uzu?" asked Gyuki as saw Kurama and Mito approaching the group "I believe you lived here before, young Uzumaki."
"I did but not in this village, I lived in a village on the west side of the country" said Mito, the Uzu dungeon was conveniently enough in the middle of Uzushiogakure so all the villages in the country surrounded it. Right now they were in a village to the east of the dungeon.
"I see" said Gyuki "But still it must feel good to be back in your home country after some time."
"It does, I really like the air in Uzu it's really clean and pure" said Mito "Not that Konoha is bad but there is a lot more activity over there and a lot less open areas."
"I understand how you feel" said Gyuki "I'm normally pretty busy in Konoha, not that I'm not going to be busy here but it'll be less clustered here in Uzu."
"Thanks for accepting us on this expedition by the way" said Kurama "I never thought you would accept since you don't like me that much."
"Don't take me wrong, I didn't want you coming here" said Gyuki "but in the end I figured that since this was your first familia I wanted to see how you did, and maybe help you a little since being a familia god is not easy task."
"I don't know it hadn't been that hard" said Kurama.
"That's because you're just starting. In a few weeks or maybe even during this trip it'll get more complicated." said Gyuki.
"If it gets too complicated I'll call you then" said Kurama "but right now we need to hurry and see if we can get a room for ourselves."
"Could you wait just a second" said Gyuki before turning to Mito "You can go ahead if you want."
"Ok, I'll try to get us a room Kurama-sama" said Mito going on ahead leaving Kurama and Gyuki alone.
Gyuki's face turned serious as he looked at Kurama "Being a familia god is no joke and you should take it seriously. You need to take care of your familia members, listen to them, help them improve, make sure they are well equip and you should never encourage reckless behavior." said Gyuki with a stern voice that intimidated Kurama.
"I know that being a familia god is not easy, I've seen you and the others all this years after all." said Kurama a little nervously.
"Good never forget that" said Gyuki returning to his normal voice "Now go find Mito, we'll have a meeting in thirty minutes to discuss the plan of the expedition, make sure to be there with her."
"We'll be there" said Kurama going behind Mito.
"I really hope she doesn't ruin this, like all she ever does" said Gyuki to himself.
The next day Uzushiogakure dungeon entrance
"We've gone over the plan several times now, but I'll repeat it one last time" said Shukaku to the group of ensemble adventurers in front of the Uzu dungeon "You'll go in three groups taking different paths with the objective of getting to floor 10, try to map out your route that way in the future maybe other adventurers can decide which route is faster and take that one. once you reach floor 10 all the groups will reunite and continue the exploration together from there on, we still don't know what's after floor 9 so we are taking it slowly and as careful as we can. If for some reason you find a boss monster you are forbidden from engaging in combat with him."
"Today we plan the expedition to last 7 hours but if for some reason you find a boss monster or the end of the dungeon return here and we'll discuss what to do next. Getting to floor 10 should take around an hour so don't rush it you have enough time" said Gyuki.
"If there are no questions we should get this expedition started" said Shukaku looking around to see if anyone had a question, when he saw no one had any he continue "Well then, good let's start this expedition."
The adventurers let some exited shouts and cheering before all of them entered the dungeon, first the first group followed by the second group and finally the third group where Mito was.
"Good luck Mito!" said Kurama seeing her go into the dungeon.
"I'll try my best!" said Mito going behind her group.
The inside of the Uzu dungeon wasn't that different from the Konoha dungeon with cave like walls and corridors that connected with each other in a maze like structure with a set of stairs somewhere on the floor that lead to the next floor.
"We are to go right on the first turn and head to the stairs from there" said Tobirama that was leading the group "We'll reunite with the rest of the groups on floor 10."
"They just said that not five minutes ago Tobirama" said Hashirama walking besides him "You should just calm down for now, the first few floor should be easy."
"Fine, but she should plan a formation anyways for later floors" said Tobirama "This is what I think; Madara should go in front followed by Hashirama with Mito in the middle of the formation so that she's not in immediate trouble if it gets tougher further in the dungeon, I'll follow after her and Izuna will bring the rear to make sure we don't get surrounded."
"Sounds good with me, what about the rest of you?" asked Hashirama.
"I'm fine with it, I would probably be a bother in the front on later floors" said Mito.
"Why do I have to go on the rear?" asked Izuna.
"It's just the best formation; I could come up with" said Tobirama "You have the jutsus with the longest range in our team, so you can help with range support."
"Don't give it any mind Izuna" said Madara walking besides him "I also think this formation would be the best, with your jutsus on the back supporting us we should have no problem."
"Fine then" said Izuna although he didn't look that excited "Let's get going."
"Ok then for now we'll go at our own pace once we reach floor 6 we'll start using the formation." said Tobirama everyone nodded and continue on their way down the dungeon.
After some floors they had found a lot of common monsters that they had all faced before. Monsters from the Uzu dungeon were not that different from the ones at the Konoha dungeon, maybe it was because of their proximity; Uzushiogakure wasn't that far away from Konoha.
The only main difference was that you could find orcs and minotaur a few floors earlier than in the Konoha dungeon, but they weren't as strong as the ones in the Konoha dungeon. It was basically a miniature Konoha dungeon.
But even with all the similarities there were some key differences like the fact that there were no Fire lizards in the Uzu dungeon. Instead a new type of giant ant was present at the Uzu dungeon a flying ant, the flying ant wasn't that different from the one in Konoha it had the same strengths and weakness with the only difference being that it could fly thanks to some wings in its back and it still called other monsters if it felt it was threaten
Thanks to the help of Hashirama and the rest Mito had managed to defeat several of those monsters, they said that it was better if she killed them since she needed to get better stats quicker after all she was the only level 1 in the group the rest of them were level 2 or in the case of Madara level 3.
"I still want to know how you got level 3 before me Madara, we always go together to the dungeon but the only day I have something else to do and you go alone you get stronger than me." said Hashirama.
"I don't know. I didn't do anything different from other days" said Madara thinking back to the day he had gotten his second level up "The only difference was that Izuna was with me and he had just gotten his level 2 so I was showing him the level 2 floors."
"What happened that day Izuna?" asked Hashirama curiously as they continued down the stairs to the 8th floor of the Uzu dungeon.
Izuna shrugged his shoulders and then spoke "If my brother doesn't know I'm not sure I'll know what happened."
"I still remember the day Tobirama and I got our level up" said Hashirama as they continued "We went unto the deeper floors of the dungeon not knowing it was dangerous without being level 2, later we were surrounded by a some kind of wolves Tobirama was rambling about something.."
"I was screaming at you for convincing me to go to the deeper floors even when I knew they were dangerous!" screamed Tobirama "I thought we were death."
"In any case we fought with everything we got and eventually defeated the wolves, when we returned Enma-sama screamed at us about something and then told us we were level 2" finished Hashirama.
"Enma-sama was furious he almost threw us out but then he congratulated us while smiling" said Tobirama "It might have gotten us our level up but I'm still furious that you made me go down there with you."
"Hey it worked; maybe we should break some more rules and go against our better judgment more often. We might level up faster!" said Hashirama jokingly.
Tobirama didn't answer but if one could see him it would be obvious he was doing his best not to kill his brother.
"That was an adventure right?" asked Mito "That's what you need to do to level up?"
"Correct" said Tobirama who seem to be a little more calm now "No one knows what an adventure really is but some good examples are fighting a strong monster, going where no one has gone before or saving someone's life."
"Let's leave chit chat for later, there's another group up front" said Madara that was in front of the group raising his sword in front of him. Madara also had a gunbai in his back that he hadn't use at all since they entered the dungeon.
"Good I was getting bored" said Hashirama stepping besides Madara with a sword of his own.
"You should stay back in this one Mito; those two will probably make a competition out of this. Well mostly Hashirama will make this a competition but still." said Tobirama stepping besides Mito with a spear in hand.
"They shouldn't be so reckless." said Mito holding her beginner's knife in hand.
"Hey Madara I've been practicing and now I'm sure I'm better with the blade than you" said Hashirama.
"I've practice to perfection there's no way you are better" said Madara stoically.
"Let's see it then" said Hashirama going forward into the group of goblins.
Madara didn't answer but he followed behind him.
"They already broke my formation and we are not in floor 10 yet" said Tobirama sighting.
Decided to end it there, tell me what you thought. I know kind of a weird ending but I think this was a good place to cut it.
I decided to reveal that Kurama had a familia before, now instead of later (Although I had left some pretty obvious clues earlier) because of some thinking of my own and a video I saw that said that keeping a secret just for the sake of having a secret was not that good, unless the secret was essential you only end up making it feel weird instead of rewarding when you reveal it to the audience or readers in this case.
I had thought about making Mito Uzumaki the first familia member Kurama had in the past for a long time now, what happened while she was a member of the Kurama familia has changed a lot from what I originally had in mind, the original version didn't include any of the persons in the expedition (except for Gyuki and any other bijuu) but I think this version is a little better.
In any case next chapter: the continuation of the story of Kurama's first familia.