"Naruto, I swear if we get out of here alive I'm going to kill you!" shouted Sakura as she ran from a giant crab.
"Put it in a genjutsu," he shouted back. He then quickly ducked two pincers from two different giant crabs.
"It's immune now, I've used it on it too many times," shouted back, running and dodging again.
"So why didn't you jam a kunai in its eye while it was dazed," retorted Naruto, doing just that to one of the two he was fighting. He kicked the kunai butt deeper into the crabs eye-socket then leaped away just in time for the explosive tag that was wrapped around the handle to detonate instantly killing the crab.
"I didn't think about it," she shouted back.
"Then genjutsu this one and I'll get the other one," he said, dropping a smoke bomb to hopefully confuse the crab.
"Hurry then," she yelled, frustration leaking through in her voice.
Naruto chakra sprinted toward the crab chasing Sakura, when he got close he slid on his back under the pissed off crab and kicked with as much strength as he could muster flipping the crab onto it's back. Then he leaped on top of it and jammed a kunai into one its eyes and hammered it down then primed the explosive tag and leaped away.
A pair of detonations resounded echoing off the glowing cave walls signaling the death of both crabs.
Naruto turned to make sure Sakura's opponent was dead. He saw her on her knees breathing heavily and the crab nearby, dead and fading away.
"That wasn't so bad, was it?"
"Naruto, you're a dead man," she growled, but didn't really move to act on her threat.
"Fair enough, they were a bit tougher than the other things we've fought in here. Still, now that we know the way to kill them it won't be a problem," said Naruto, trying to both placate and encourage the girl to continue.
Sakura huffed a few times as she tried to make up her mind. "Fine, let's keep going but it had better be worth it."
"Anyway, heal up, charge up and then let's get moving," said Naruto, sitting down to do his own chakra charging.
"What about the stuff those big guys left behind?" asked Sakura, pointing to where the bodies previously laid.
"They left stuff?" asked Naruto, standing up and walking over to check it out.
Crustacean Chitin – A hard light-weight shell. Crafting Material.
Naruto collected the stuff and put it in his inventory.
"What did you do with it?" Sakura asked, having just watched the shells disappear.
"I put it in my inventory, we can divide it up when we get back to Tazuna's or even Konoha. The shell pieces they left behind are crafting material. We can take them to Higurashi's in Konoha and see if he can make anything with them," explained Naruto.
"Okay, how many pieces did we get?"
"Six, each of them dropped two."
"So now where?" asked Sakura, motioning to the tunnel ahead of them which now split in two different paths.
"Both," said Naruto, forming a few clones and send them down the two tunnels.
"That is still like cheating you know," she chided him.
"Yeah, so? What's your point? Cheating is what ninja and gamers do best," he retorted with a chuckle.
Naruto paused in his laugh only to look toward the left hand tunnel. "Okay, so you're about to be really angry with me but I swear, I didn't mean to pull so many."
"What did you do?" asked Sakura, retreating quickly to stand in support behind Naruto.
"Found some of the big crabs."
"How many?"
"Um . . . nine," he said hesitantly.
"Nine!" Sakura shouted, anger very clearly apparent.
"It wasn't my fault, it was a damned trap, I got to a dead end and when I turned around the wall on either side broke away revealing the crabs," he tried to explain to his very unhappy friend.
Sakura chose not to reply, her head moved around looking at the cave area they were in quickly trying to formulate a plan.
"Okay, I have a plan," she said confidently.
"I'm all ears."
"Use your clones to bottle up the crabs, let them into this larger area one at a time where I can kill them quickly if that attack pattern keeps working," she said, her confidence fading toward the end of her statement.
"I can do that," said Naruto, quickly spawning dozens of clones. The clones quickly ran into the left hand tunnel and then up to the ceiling of it, the idea being that they could drop down and let just one through while they tried to slow the rest down.
"It's working," said Naruto, getting the memory of the first clone to die. "But it won't last long, the clones are getting destroyed."
"Right then, let's kill them fast then," said Sakura, already preparing handseals for her genjutsu.
The first crab emerged and was dead within seconds.
"This could work," said Naruto, spawning a few dozen more clones and sending them into the tunnel.
It did work. Sakura's plan allowed them to take out all nine crabs in a manner of minutes without taking any damage in the endeavor.
"That's eighteen more pieces of chitin," said Naruto coming out of the now empty left tunnel. "And, this," said Naruto, holding out a scroll.
"A jutsu? What is it?"
"[Dokugiri no Jutsu], a poison mist technique. You want it?"
Sakura quickly snatched the scroll and tapped the 'Confirm (Y)'. Then she realized what she'd just done. "I'm sorry, I should have asked if you wanted it?"
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