"We could fight for it," suggested Sasuke.
"Draw straws?"
"Roll dice?"
"Kill points, most kills gets the scroll."
"Finders keeper," said Naruto, trying to put an end to it.
"Fine, we'll play rock-paper-scissors," said Sasuke, finding it to be the best chance for a fair distribution.
"Right then, on three," said Naruto, holding a closed fist on top of an open hand, a stance that was quickly mirrored by Sakura and Sasuke.
"One-two-three shoot," they all said at once.
"Yatta!" shouted Naruto, he had rock to both of their scissors.
"Che, it wasn't even that good of a technique," said Sasuke, turning his back and walking away. He froze a moment later when another set of howls broke the silence of the afternoon.
"This isn't over yet," said Naruto, putting the scroll away to learn later. He then pulled another pair of kunai and prepared to fight.
Sasuke jumped back to the group as soon as he heard the howl, also arming himself with his chokuto.
"I thought that was too easy," whined Sakura, also arming herself.
After waiting a bit no wolves came. It made Naruto think this wasn't like the other fields he ran normally where the mobs came to them. This was more like training field thirteen. They would have to actually search out the wolves
"I think we have to go to them," said Naruto, walking deeper into the training field area.
Sasuke nodded and followed not too far behind with Sakura following last.
It was exactly as Naruto suspected, as they traveled deeper into the field, more small packs of wolves showed up and of several varieties. It was kind of awesome in Naruto's opinion even if they were trying to kill him and his team.
After about an hour of killing their way through the field they found an entrance to a cave.
"What's in there?" asked Sakura, the expression on her face clearly said she really didn't want to find out.
"Pack leader most likely," said Sasuke.
Naruto and Sakura had both noticed that Sasuke was much more relaxed than he usually was. He was even somewhat friendly. The only question was how long would it last?
Naruto approached the entrance carefully, it was dark inside the cave, almost pitch black. It was suddenly interrupted by a spark of electricity before going black again. After another moment there was another spark. Naruto watched for a full minute to try and figure out what was causing the spark. Finally he saw the exposed electrical wires dangling from the ceiling.
"Sasuke, can you make us some torches?" asked Naruto. He knew that having one hand occupied with a torch was not going to be very advantageous in a fight but it would be a necessary evil in this case.
"Yeah," he answered, quickly grabbing a few thicker branches and wrapping one end of them with some of Sakura's medical bandage before blowing a small breath of fire on one before handing one to each of them.
Naruto took the offered torch in one hand and kunai in the other before entering the cave. The cave was maybe two meters tall and five or six meters wide so the trio fit easily enough but they wouldn't be jumping around much. The cave floor was mostly smooth yet littered with animal bones and even the occasional human skull.
The first twenty meters in was fairly straight before veering sharply left and down. It was fortunately not much of a maze so much as just winding and twisting.
They fought a hand full of 'Electric Pack Wolves', a weaker version of the electric wolf they fought earlier. Other than that the den was fairly empty and quite.
When they came to an area where the cave began to widen they heard the first rumbling of something much bigger. The cave widened out to a large cavern and laying in the center of it was a very large, white wolf.
Shiro Okami Lv 25
HP: 4000/4000 CP: 1800/1800
The 'White Wolf' is a beast of legend, said to be a servant of the great Okami Amaterasu. This beast is both cunning and powerful, a dangerous foe indeed. She will protect her territory even at the cost of her own life.
"Fuck," said Naruto succinctly. There really wasn't much else to say about it.
"Any ideas?" asked Sakura, shaking slightly at the sight of it.
"Don't die," suggested Naruto.
"She's sleeping, we need to sneak around her and place the torches on the ground to give us light to fight with," stated Sasuke. "Then we can get at least one free shot on her before she wakes. It will have to be fast and precise to do maximum damage."
Naruto and Sakura nodded and began trying to sneak left and right respectively around the sleeping beast. Once they formed a reasonable triangle around the beast they placed their torches. Naruto was able to prop his up with some rocks to give a little extra light.
Naruto looked at the way the wolf was lying, trying to figure out the best way to attack it and was coming up short. He didn't know how it would attack, what kind of attacks it used or just how fast and powerful it may have been. I was not a good situation.
Naruto then tried to take stock of their surroundings, the ceiling was a quite a bit higher than in the rest of the tunnel, it gave them space to maneuver. It also gave the wolf room to move. The ceiling itself was covered in stalactites, very sharp deadly looking stalactites that would make standing on the ceiling and attacking from range very difficult. On the other hand it did give him a wicked idea.
Naruto pulled an explosive tag and wrapped it around the handle of his kunai which he then hurled with as much strength and power as he could muster. The kunai struck true, burying itself an inch into the stalactites directly above the sleeping wolf.
Sasuke looked at Naruto with what Naruto could only guess was approval, he then held out a hand showing three fingers.
Naruto nodded and watched as Sasuke closed one finger at a time, when he had a fist Naruto charged his chakra into the note triggering an explosion.
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