Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
A room in Uzu after the end of the first day of the expedition – a long time ago
"So how did it go?" asked Kurama when Mito threw herself in the bed in their room.
"It went great!" said Mito sitting up with a smile on her face "I learned a lot while being with them and I think I gained a lot of stats because they let me kill a lot of monster that I could have never defeated on my own."
"Let's check it out then!" said Kurama walking towards Mito and indicating her to turn around. Mito did as asked wanting to find out her new stats as soon as possible.
Kurama updated Mito's stats as she did every time Mito returned from the dungeon.
"Are you done yet I want to check them." said Mito. Kurama was taking more time than often and she was getting really anxious to see her stats.
"Just a moment its taking some time since it seems like it is a big stats boost." said Kurama as she transcribed the stats to a paper which she handed over to Mito for her to check.
"This is amazing Mito!" said Kurama cheerfully almost childlike "You have gotten really strong you have some Bs now!"
Mito checked the paper a smile forming in her face, she knew she would grow a lot stronger thanks to the expedition today but this was something she hadn't expected getting a B this fast was almost unheard off. If it wasn't for Hashirama that had gotten a lot of really high stats in no time she would have thought she might have broken a record.
"This are higher than I thought!" said Mito "Not as high as what Hashirama had by this time but they're really high."
"You know a lot about Hashirama" said Kurama "Are you two that close?"
"When I first arrived at Konoha, Hashirama was the one that first talked to me openly" said Mito "when I met him he told me all about how he wanted to be an adventurer and his dream of having everyone get along in peace."
"Ever since the gods descended to form familias there hasn't been a major war or fights between states, I would say we're at peace" said Kurama.
"We are at peace but Hashirama's dream is bigger. Adventurers still fight each other for profit and even kill each other just as easily as they kill monsters" said Mito "Hashirama wants to stop this he wants to make the familias get closer and to have adventurers think of each other as brothers and sisters in the job of exploring the dungeons."
"That's a pretty ambitious dream" said Kurama surprised "But it would be really difficult to accomplish it, some people are just in this for the quick money and not for the adventurers and some gods are fine with that, he would have to make people change the way they think."
"I know it isn't an easy task, but I'm sure Hashirama can do it and I want to help on his dream for peace." said Mito "Not only for him but for you as well Kurama-sama I know that you are not on great footing with other gods and I want to change that. If Hashirama's dream becomes true not only adventurers will get closer but gods as well and that would help you in the end."
Kurama stood up and without looking directly at Mito walked towards the door of the room "In that case get stronger so that you can help in the future" said Kurama turning slightly towards her "I need to get going, Gyuki wanted to have a meeting with Shukaku and me to discuss what was learned today. I'll talk to you tomorrow Mito."
Kurama exited the room and closed the door behind her; after walking a little bit away from the room she leaned against a wall and slide down towards the floor, once she felt the cold ground she placed both her hands on her face.
Kurama sighted and took out a small flask from her pocket, swirling it a little as she saw it. Inside the flask there was a pink liquid that moved a little as Kurama move it, Kurama looked at the flask for a little while debating something she then shook her head and placed the flask back in the pocket before going outside to take some air.
The best way Kurama could describe the content of the flask - from what she had read in a book while making it – was that it was a kind of mind altering potion, it affected the person it was used on to want to find and stay with the person the potion was keyed to in this case Kurama was the person the potion was keyed to.
Kurama had been using this potion since she met Mito. She had actually used it on her to make her join her familia. The methods of using it were fairly simple all you had to do was open the flask and let the target smell the potion for a brief while.
She had used it just a little while ago while updating Mito's stats; that was the reason she took a little while longer to update her stats. She had opened the flask before updating her stats to let the smell of the potion fill the room. But while she closed the flask she accidentally poured a little bit of the potion on the back of Mito's shirt, she hoped Mito hadn't noticed.
What she hadn't expected while using it was the Mito would lose some of her memories.
Kurama had planned to stop using it after getting a familia member but thanks to the memory lost she got scared and had used it multiple times on Mito with fear that she might remember something she didn't liked and abandon her.
When Mito had said she wanted to help her all she could think was that it was probably part of the effects from the potion. But deep inside her she hoped it was true and Mito wanted to in fact help her get a better standing with her fellow gods.
Kurama stood up and walked outside thinking about what to do in the future. She couldn't use the potion forever, who knows the potion's effects could get worse and she could end up hurting Mito or something similar.
Maybe she could tell her the truth but if she did that she would probably hate her and never want to see her again.
Kurama stopped under a tree once she was outside and sat there for almost an hour just thinking about this.
"Being a familia god is not easy" Gyuki's words came back to Kurama's mind while she was thinking. She already knew that being a familia god was not easy but this was harder than what she expected. All she wanted was to feel the same that all the other gods felt, friendship, love and the feeling of being in a place where you belong. She knew that what she did was wrong but she had been attacked by humans in the past and she was certain everyone hated her once they knew who she was; there was no way she could have gotten a familia without this method.
Kurama stopped under a tree and sat down once again. She stayed under that tree for the rest of the night not being able to come up with a solution for her predicament.
The next day - the second day of the expedition
"Yesterday was a successful day, you all made it to floor 14 and today we expect to go way beyond that" said Gyuki "Of course we don't know where the dungeon ends so we may be closer than we expect and the dungeon might end before we even get to floor 20."
"In any case yesterday we took a safer approach by joining the groups on floor 10 but by doing that we slowed down the decent a lot. Today you will all go in the same groups as before all the way to floor 13 were you will reunite" explained Shukaku.
"Remember if you find a boss monster the priority is to observe it not to engage in combat" said Gyuki "Boss monsters are way stronger than floor monsters, a single boss monster might be stronger than anything you find in the following 10 floors in a dungeon. For that reason extreme caution must be taken when facing one."
"If you for manage to reach the end of the dungeon then its mission complete and you all return here to inform us." said Shukaku.
"We might even throw a small party if we still have time" added Gyuki.
"We probably won't" said Shukaku countering Gyuki's statement.
"Don't be like that, if we have time we'll see if we can do it" said Gyuki "In any case that's the plan of exploration, we gods don't go into the dungeon because it's dangerous for us so if anything unexpected happen forget the plan and follow whatever you think is right after all you know the dungeon better than we do."
"Any questions?" asked Shukaku.
When no one raised their hand or said something Shukaku continued.
"Ok then all groups prepare to leave, the first group goes into the dungeon in 5 minutes." said Shukaku.
While they were preparing to leave Gyuki approached the third group and separated Mito from the rest.
"I wanted to ask you if you knew where Kurama was I haven't seen her since yesterday" said Gyuki to Mito.
"She's still in our room, she said she wanted to rest a little bit more" said Mito.
"If that's the case it's ok, she'll probably come out later. She might not have told you but she doesn't like being around people she doesn't know, so being in the middle of this adventurers must be hard for her" said Gyuki "Sorry for holding you from your group, but I was curious. Now go get ready you're groups goes into the dungeon after the next one."
An hour later – floor 10 uzu dungeon
"Did you heard, apparently another group found a troll in this dungeon" said Hashirama after they defeated a group of armored goblins "No one had reported trolls in here before, and apparently it was way stronger than must known trolls, it had skin comparable to a rock troll."
"How strong is the skin of a rock troll?" asked Mito not having heard of rock trolls before. Well not having heard of trolls in general before since she wasn't even close to the floor they started appearing in the Konoha dungeon.
"Really strong" said Tobirama "it cannot be pierced by low level weapons and even a weapon made by Gyuki-sama would probably have a hard time with it. It also is really resistant to magic so rock trolls are one of the strongest monsters that you can find. Luckily they have only been found in the suna dungeon."
"For now at least, we are still exploring the other dungeons after all" added Madara.
"Yeah but now we know there might be one in this dungeon" said Hashirama "Or at least something similar, the other group was the suna group and they said it looked nothing like a rock troll so it might be a different kind of troll."
"In any case if we find it we should run from it" said Tobirama before Hashirama could get too excited "This group would have no chance if the suna group said it was difficult to defeat."
"Don't worry if we find it, we'll defeat it no problem." said Hashirama.
Tobirama sighted and shook his head but before he could respond and explain to Hashirama that the Suna team was the strongest team in the expedition and that they stood no chance against something they had trouble with.
"Can you two shut up, there's another group of monsters in front of us" said Izuna catching their attention and pointing forward.
When Hashirama and Tobirama turned to the group of monsters they were surprised to see that Madara was already between them fighting all the goblins at once.
Madara had both his sword and gunbai in his hands, he was using the gunbai to block the attacks from the goblins. For a fan, that gunbai was pretty resistant.
Before they could run to help him Madara had already killed all the goblins.
"That's the power of a level 3 adventurer" said Tobirama amazed that Madara had done it all on his own, he must had been holding back earlier.
"Just you wait Madara; I'll get stronger than you in no time" said Hashirama before he raised his hands and said to himself "Come on body level up!"
"You can't level up just by thinking about it" said Tobirama.
"You know if you were to kill that troll you were talking about, you might level up" said Madara sheathing his sword and returning to the formation.
"That actually might work!" said Hashirama "Let's look for that troll!"
"We are on an expedition here, and we might be running late to reconvene with the other groups" said Tobirama remembering Hashirama that they were in here for a reason.
"I also think we should focus on the expedition" said Mito "If we were to find the troll I would probably be of no help."
"Don't say something like that, you would be big help at least to me" said Hashirama "but you're right let's keep going we can't leave the other teams waiting. We'll leave the troll for later, let's go meet with the other teams."
Later that day after the expedition to the dungeon
"So it seems this dungeon has only 15 floors" said Gyuki going over the information gather from the expedition earlier that day "And floor 15 is indeed a boss floor."
"They gather a lot of information on the boss of the floor and also of the room, no stairs going further down or passageways going other ways were found" said Shukaku before he raised his head in annoyance as he turned to Kurama "Are you paying attention Kurama, this is an important part of being a familia god you should be more focused!"
Kurama that was sitting on the edge of the room not paying much attention, she stood up immediately when she heard Shukaku's voice and walked to the table "Of course I was paying attention, the dungeon has 15 floors. Right?" guessed Kurama not really sure of herself, luckily she had guessed the amount of floor correctly which only annoyed Shukaku even more.
"Correct" said Shukaku "In any case we should look at the information from the expedition and plan an attack against this boss, the adventurers can't really explore the room to full detail until the boss is defeated."
"I'm not sure we should attack this boss monster" said Gyuki "Yes it didn't give much trouble to the groups while they were there but I wouldn't like to have casualties thanks to something that can be avoided. You know that boss monsters are usually not that hard at the beginning but as soon as you show you are a threat they attack with all of their strength"
"Do you mind if I skip planning?" asked Kurama not really focused on the discussion "I'm not really that good of a stratagem and I also have little experience with this."
"Then staying and listening to the meeting would be helpful for you, it will give you experience" said Gyuki.
"Maybe. But we only have one more day of the expedition and I don't want to distract you while you plan the attack. This expedition is important and if it goes wrong because I was here and distracted you it would make me feel terrible." said Kurama when in reality she just didn't wanted to deal with this right now, she had a lot of things in her mind and she didn't wanted to add this to the list.
"Very well" said Gyuki although he sounded a little disappointed "You can go but we will have a meeting later tonight to tell you what was achieved in this meeting."
"I agree as well, I think I will work better if you are not here" said Shukaku going over some notes.
"Ok then see you later" said Kurama going outside.
Once outside she looked around and headed away from the village.
"I need a walk." said Kurama to herself as she walked with no direction not knowing she was going towards the dungeon.
When she was a little bit away she took the flask in her hands once again as she looked at it. Why did she had to make this in the first place, it had been a great idea back when she had it. Have a human that wants to be an adventurer fall for the effects of the potion and then make them part of your familia.
She deserved it right, she had lost most of her godly powers to descent to a level similar to the humans, to live amongst them and give them the gift of chakra as a familia god, but all she had gotten were people chasing her around and trying to kill her because of some stuff she did while she was a god with all her powers. Luckily she was still immortal.
So having a human in her familia by the effects of something similar to mind control wasn't that bad right. She had gone through worse anyways.
But no matter how many times Kurama said that to herself it didn't help with the feeling in her chest that told her that she was doing something wrong. That feeling that was ripping her apart. She couldn't stand that feeling anymore but the only thing that kept her from telling Mito was the feeling she would feel if Mito left her, that feeling would be ten times worse than the one she felt now.
"This is so difficult" said Kurama almost screaming as she headed even closer to the dungeon.
Meanwhile somewhere else in the village
"Do you know where Hashirama is?" asked Tobirama to Madara when he found him "I haven't seen him since we returned from the dungeon."
"He said something about reaching his next level and then he ran into the dungeon" said Madara stoically "If I had to guess he went to search for the troll he talked about."
"What! And you didn't stopped him?" asked Tobirama angrily grabbing Madara by the collar of his shirt "He could get himself killed, the Suna group was the one that found the troll and they had a hard time with it. The suna group is made of adventurers from level 2 to level 4; it's the strongest group in this expedition. He has no chance!"
"It was his choice to go there. If he dies it's his fault" said Madara.
"Nothing of that, go find Izuna and meet me at the dungeon. We'll go search for him" said Tobirama dropping him.
"Fine, I'll go look for Izuna" said Madara knowing that discussing with Tobirama only ended with Tobirama annoying him a lot and he wasn't in the mood right now.
"Good, meet you in the entrance of the dungeon in five minutes" said Tobirama going towards where he was staying to search for his weapon.
What Tobirama and Madara didn't know was that Mito was behind the corner of the building and had heard everything they had just said. She was worried about Hashirama and before she knew it she was running towards the dungeon.
Somewhere in the Uzu dungeon
Hashirama couldn't help but laugh as he ran from the troll that was following him, he had known it wasn't going to be an easy fight but he hadn't expected the troll to be this fierce. He had just barely escaped the troll's unstoppable barrage of attacks and now he was running back outside the dungeon.
What really intrigued him was why the troll was still following him after so many floors; it had been 4 floors now that the troll had followed him through. At least he was lucky that the troll seem to scare away other monsters since he had not found any while running from it.
If he kept this pace he would be out of the dungeon in about 10 more minutes but what he really was thinking about was if the troll would follow him outside. Nothing like that had ever happened before or at least he hadn't heard about it if it happened so he couldn't be sure. What was certain was that a troll - with the intend of killing him - was behind him and that he was not strong enough to defeat him by himself.
"These are the kinds of situations Tobirama talks me out of" said Hashirama to himself as he ran "Maybe I should listen to him more often. Things tend to go great when I listen to him."
The troll behind him roared and kept on his pursuit, it didn't seem he was going to stop anytime soon.
Hashirama quickly went up the next set of stairs as he ran from the troll, he was lucky that the stairs were not that wide and the troll had a hard time going up them or else he would have caught up to him by now.
Hashirama then took a left going directly for the next set of stairs but he saw someone he wasn't expecting as he turned.
"Mito!" said Hashirama surprised and worried that she was here "What are you doing here!?"
"It's a long story but basically I heard Madara and Tobirama talking and then…" said Mito but before she could finish another roar from the troll shook the dungeon and Hashirama took her hand as he dragged her towards the exit.
"Leave it for later, right now we need to get out of here" said Hashirama as he dragged her out "That troll was actually stronger than what I thought, but he will probably not follow us out… maybe he won't follow us out"
Mito didn't say anything as she tried to keep up with his pace so that she didn't ended up falling to the ground.
"In the case he follow us outside you need to run towards the village and ask for help, I'll distract him until help arrives." said Hashirama.
"But if you try to fight that…" said Mito worried.
"I'll be fine for a little while, but you will probably not have the same luck Mito" said Hashirama "I would blame myself if something happened to you so just get out of here and get help, ok?"
"Fine" said Mito a little reluctant "But promise me you won't die"
"I won't. I can't accomplish my dream if I'm dead after all" said Hashirama as they went up the steps to the first floor "Just a little more and we'll be outside. Go ahead I'll see if it's still following us"
Hashirama turned around after letting go of Mito and looked down the stairs only to see the troll below the stairs having trouble going up them but still following them.
"Won't you just give up?" asked Hashirama as he turned around and followed Mito.
As they got outside they were surprised by Tobirama, Madara and Izuna that were arriving at the dungeon.
"See I told you he was fine" said Izuna annoyed he had to put on his armor and walk all the way to the dungeon again.
"Hashirama what were you thinking!?" asked Tobirama angrily "That troll gave the suna group a hard time you have no chance in killing it."
"Guys there's no time for this, the troll is still following us" said Hashirama as he walked to them "He's been following me for around 7 floors. I didn't count them!"
"It followed you all the way here?" asked Madara curious that a monster would do that.
"No time to explain, just help me kill it" said Hashirama as he took out his sword and turned towards the dungeon, yet again a roar could be heard and the troll busted out of the entrance of the dungeon looking around until his eyes landed on Mito and Hashirama.
"It really followed you all the way here!" said Madara surprised that a monster would actually do something like that "Izuna get ready we'll be helping them defeat it."
"Mito get out of here, we'll take care of it" said Hashirama.
"I agree, go and call the other groups, we might need help" said Tobirama.
Mito looked thorn between staying and maybe helping in some way or going to safety but not knowing what would happen to the ones that stayed behind.
"What are you waiting for move now!" said Hashirama moving forward and jumping over the troll's fist as he tried punching him unfortunately the troll reacted to this and quickly grabbed him in the air with his other arm and threw him towards a tree that was not far away with which he impacted really hard with his back.
"Hashirama!" said Mito and Tobirama at the same time as they saw him flying.
On the other hand Madara quickly ran forward quickly catching the attention of the troll before he could continue to attack Hashirama. Madara dodged the attacks from the troll as he laid several slashes with his sword but it wasn't doing much damage it barely grazed the troll's skin.
Mito ran towards Hashirama worried kneeling besides him to check his injuries, surprisingly they weren't that bad the hit had looked worse than what it had been.
Hashirama looked at Mito with a mixture of anger and worry "I told you to run away…. what are you…. still doing here" said Hashirama slowly with a pained voiced.
"I don't know" said Mito not really having an answer.
Hashirama stood up slowly and then turned towards the troll "Then get out of here" said Hashirama, as he moved towards the troll he added smiling towards her "We'll take care of him, just stay safe."
Meanwhile Madara was still fighting the troll not having much luck with anything he tried.
"Izuna try a jutsu this troll's skin isn't rock he may be weak to jutsus" said Tobirama.
"Ok here goes nothing" said Izuna wanting to help his brother fight the troll, he quickly did some hand signs and said "Lighting bolt jutsu!"
A lightning bolt came out of Izuna's extended hand and flew towards the troll, Madara managed to move out of the way before it got too close and then the bolt impacted on the troll making it scream in pain.
"It's working!" said Tobirama with a smile but immediately his face changed to surprise as the troll charged forward faster than just a moment ago and before they knew it the troll sent Izuna flying backwards with a straight punch.
"Izuna!" said Madara and Tobirama in unison. Then Madara started running forward as he made hand signs "Fire ball Jutsu!"
This time a fire ball came out of Madara's mouth directly towards the troll catching it on fire and making a huge cloud of black smoke that went up in the air, the troll turned around and focused on Madara once again.
But the troll's focus didn't last long as he looked up in the air and started to smell around the area and then he turned around towards a new arrival.
A few moments earlier – not too far away
Kurama was walking with no real direction in mind it didn't took her long to figure out that she had walked close to the dungeon, and should maybe turn around and go towards the village.
But before she could turn around and go back to the village she heard a scream.
"Izuna!" was what she heard.
"Are they fighting out here?" said Kurama curious, monster don't go out of the dungeon so the only ones fighting could be adventurers "Who cares anyways, I'll just go back."
But then she saw smoke coming from the area where the fight was taking place. The smoke ball was probably big enough that it could be seen back in the village.
"Wait, are they using jutsus on each other" said Kurama and then Mito's words came to her mind.
"Adventurers still fight each other for profit and they kill each other just as easily as they kill monsters."
"I want to help in his dream for peace."
"I better go stop them before they kill each other" said Kurama running towards the area of the fight not knowing that there was a monster there.
As she got close she was surprised to see a troll outside the dungeon and then a quick scan told her that the team that was fighting the monster was Mito's team all of her team including her.
"Mito!" said Kurama in surprise when she saw her.
"Kurama-sama!?" said Mito in surprise that Kurama was here.
Just then the troll started ignoring Madara and turned directly to Kurama as he roared and charged towards her.
"Kurama-sama!" screamed Mito in terror as the troll slammed his fist in the area where Kurama had been standing just a second ago.
"Don't worry I got her" said Tobirama as he ran towards Mito with Kurama in his hands.
Tobirama had dropped his weapon to lessen the weight dragging him down and charged quickly immediately as he saw Kurama approach and even then he only barely made it in time before the troll smashed her to the ground.
Kurama was in a small shock as she was still processing all that was happening. She didn't spoke until Tobirama placed her besides Mito.
"What's a monster doing outside the dungeon!?" asked Kurama in panic.
"We don't know it followed Hashirama for several floors when I found him in the dungeon and then he followed both of us to the exit. He was relentless" explained Mito "In any case we can't stay here, we need to get you out of here."
While all this happened Hashirama charged the troll with the remaining strength he had, he managed to avoid several of the troll's attacks as he slashed at his skin with his sword but it was to no avail the sword seem to be good enough to cut the troll's flesh.
As Hashirama continued with his attack the troll's attack's turned more random and unpredictable. As Hashirama ducked under a hook from the troll the troll moved his other hand and sent a straight punch towards him that he couldn't evade.
"Damn this is bad" said Hashirama quickly as he braced for impact but the strike never came, he looked forward and saw Madara blocking the punch with his gunbai.
"That thing is resistant" said Hashirama amazed that fan could resist the strength of the troll.
"It won't hold forever" said Madara strained with the weight of the troll's punch on the gunbai. Just then the gunbai began to crack and then it broke completely sending Madara flying towards where Izuna was.
Then the troll picked Hashirama and threw him in the direction of Mito and Kurama, Hashirama impacted on Tobirama in the way and then they impacted in the same tree Hashirama had impacted before making them both fall unconscious.
Mito looked towards Madara and Izuna in search for help but she noticed they were unconscious as well.
"Get out of here Kurama-sama, I'll hold it off for as long as I can even if it's only a second." said Mito standing up and taking out her knife in front of her.
"You'll get killed!" said Kurama "Just get out of here and live you don't have to protect me."
"It's not only for you Kurama-sama if I were to run I would leave my friends behind as well and the troll could kill them" said Mito "I don't want to run and then think back and think that I might had been able to do something to save them. I won't let anyone die!"
Kurama looked around for anything that she could do but she found herself powerless but then hope came to her when she heard the sound of footsteps running towards them, probably the teams back at the village saw the smoke and decided to come check what was going on. But from what she could hear they wouldn't make it in time, Mito would probably die before they made it.
Kurama clenched her fist and looked down at the unconscious Hashirama before whispering to him so that Mito couldn't hear "You need her more than me and she needs you more than she needs me. I just tricked her after all."
Mito was focused as she stood in front of Kurama and the unconscious Hashirama and Tobirama. The troll slowly making his way towards them as it seem to be smelling something in the air, suddenly it looked like he had found what he was looking for and charged towards Kurama and Mito.
As the troll got closer Mito took a step forward, only to find herself going backwards as Kurama pulled her behind her.
"You got to live, for him right?" said Kurama as she pushed Mito behind her.
Mito looked in terror how the troll got just a few steps away from Kurama as she felt to the ground behind her.
And, in that moment time seem stopped for both Mito and Kurama as series of thoughts crossed their minds.
Kurama's thoughts spun around everything that had happened since she descended to become a familia god.
"So this how it ends for me. I was hated and attacked when I first descended to be with the human and to be honest I deserved it a little bit, I never did anything to help them when I was a full god with all my powers. All I did was have fun; I sent disasters towards them just to see what happened amongst other things." thought Kurama. "At the beginning I didn't wanted to descend it meant that I couldn't keep having fun but then everyone else did it and I felt alone. Seeing them starting to make familias and being close together made me want to have something like that as well but all I got were attacks and hatred. But now I'm here sacrificing myself for a human."
Mito's thoughts were more panicked as she grasp the situation and figured out what was going on.
"Why am I always getting rescued by people? Why can't I be stronger? Why!?" thought Mito "Come on I don't want Kurama-sama to die, come on body give the strength I need"
Right at that moment Mito felt a surge of strength enter her body as she got a hold of her footing and then stood in front of Kurama before she could react "I don't want to always get saved. Hashirama saves me all the time, even Tobirama and Madara have save me sometimes from trouble. This time I'll save them all, including you Kurama-sama!"
Before Kurama could speak again the troll's fist came flying directly at Mito.
"NO!" screamed Kurama and then a ray of light surged from both her body and Mito's body, the light combined and then enveloped Mito forming a red chakra-like cloak around her as Kurama felt unconscious.
Present time – Gyuki's office
"….. And then I arrived at the scene with the rest of the adventurers. Mito covered in this red cloak defeated the troll in seconds amazing all of us. When the cloak ran out she too felt unconscious, we stood there for a few minutes before anyone did anything we were all fully surprised by what we saw." said Gyuki finishing explaining the first appearance of the cloak.
"I don't know what really happened before I arrived but I know what happened afterwards." said Gyuki.
"When Mito woke up from her unconscious state I told both you and her everything. I told her that she was better off in another familia and left. She probably hated me." said Kurama.
"And then you disappeared for years, the next time I saw you was when you came to ask me for money maybe ten or so years ago" said Gyuki
"So did she hated me?" asked Kurama she hadn't really given Mito much of a choice when she told her she was better off with another familia, she had just ran off and never looked back. For her that familia had never existed, Naruto was her first familia and it was probably better that way, Mito would have been better forgetting about her and living her life peacefully.
"She did for a little while; she couldn't believe that you had used a potion like that on her. I hated you as well for what you did but some years later Mito came to visit me." said Gyuki.
"She did what!?" said Kurama surprised.
"Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, I kept it a secret all this time for a reason" said Gyuki.
"I need to know what she told you" said Kurama "If only to close that chapter of my life."
Gyuki sighted and scratched his head in a lost not knowing if telling Kurama would actually help her or just hurt her after all this time.
"Fine but don't tell me I didn't warned you" said Gyuki "She couldn't hate you for long, after a week or two she started researching something."
"Apparently she had been researching the potion you made, you kinda forgot the flask back then and she took it" said Gyuki "While researching it she discovered something. Apparently you messed up."
"Of course I did, I altered her mind to make her stay with me" said Kurama angry.
"No you messed up with the potion" said Gyuki.
Kurama looked at him with a confused face not knowing what he meant.
"The potion you made only worked on monsters, it had the same effect as monster bait only that it was keyed to you" explained Gyuki "It had no effects on humans except for the memory lost, but after not being affected by the potion for a month or so all the memories she lost came back."
"It seems the only reason that troll followed them outside the dungeon was that since Mito spent a lot of time with you, your smell was stuck to her and since she spent time with Hashirama it stuck to him as well and the troll followed the 'bait' all the way to the exit." said Gyuki "The troll had smelled the potion on Mito's shirt earlier that day when they went on the expedition in the morning, but hadn't caught the smell until Hashirama searched for him.
"So you're telling me I didn't actually mind controlled her to stay with me?" asked Kurama.
"No she stayed with you because she wanted to." said Gyuki "she tried finding you to tell you but you went into hiding for years after that."
"She forgave you, but after some time of searching she had to choose between finding you or following her dreams, so she followed her dreams and married Hashirama. She believed you would understand."
"I'm not saying that what you did was right because it was definitely wrong, but you actually never altered her mind in any way everything she said was genuine." added Gyuki.
Kurama lowered her head on to her hands and then surprised Gyuki as she started crying. Gyuki really didn't know how to deal with a crying person so he just sat there waiting for a response from Kurama.
After a minute or two Kurama looked up and spoke again with a smile between her tears "You know…. it seems I had a familia before Naruto." Finally accepting the familia she had made with Mito so long ago.
Decided to end it there, this was a long chapter maybe the longest chapter I have ever written for any story. I wanted to finish explaining everything in this chapter so that's why this chapter ended being so long. I wanted to explain the full story of what happened to Kurama's first familia and why she said that she had never had a familia before even though she had one before.
Next chapter I'll definitely return to Naruto, maybe his new weapon and maybe just maybe his alias for getting to level 2.