Then everything went dark and he had to use that candle-lighting jutsu again. He pulled down a lantern and tried to light it for several minutes before realizing that the fuel had likely evaporated.
Back to candles.
At which point he stuffed everything he could in the largest chest he could find and then put that in a storage seal.
"Old man Ichiraku is gonna have a GOOD year," vowed Naruto as he began stuffing his backpack with as much as he could.
(KLUNK-RATTLE!)
Naruto looked at the little statue he'd just moved. His eyes traced the chain that went into a little hole in the wall.
"Uh oh," summed up Naruto.
(Ptoo! clatter)
Naruto looked down at the javelin which had just barely managed to clear the launcher. "Oh. Right."
The door creaked open as Kotetsu threw his weight against it again.
"Nothing," said Kotetsu as he looked over the odd room. The sigils burned into the room's walls and ceilings and floors though - they looked oddly familiar.
Kotetsu walked around, looking at them and trying to place where he'd seen them before.
The big pit in the center he wasn't too sure about, other than it seemed to radiate cold.
Kotetsu was only a genin, but he HAD been in dangerous situations. When his instincts started screaming danger, he listened. Drawing his kunai, he began backing up. That he made it three steps before a faint glow appeared in that pit merely confirmed something BAD happening in his well-informed ninja opinion. The smell reaching him merely reinforced his professional opinion.
"Kotetsu's Rules Of Shinobi Conduct #4," said Kotetsu aloud but to himself. "When confronted by strange glows and the smell of rotting meat coming from a hole in the ground, the mission has gone south and it is time to run like hell."
Kotetsu closed the doors to the strange room and proceeded to run as if something very nasty and possibly infernal were in pursuit. Mainly because he was afraid that was exactly what was occurring.
He'd gotten down two corridors before he heard a sound he tentatively identified as those doors he'd just closed being ripped off their hinges. He discovered it was indeed possible to run a bit faster.
"Thissss isss very interesssting," hissed Kahliff. "Very interesssting indeed."
"How so?" asked Jiraiya, munching on a spider leg.
"How can you eat that stuff?" asked Anko.
"I've eaten worse," said Jiraiya. "So what's interesting?"
"Oh, thiss basse wasss not lossst, it was abandoned," said Kahliff. "Sssealed away hurriedly lessst that which wasss within esscaped."
"The Sage Of The Six Paths couldn't deal with something?" asked Anko.
"The Sssage was apparently not presssent at the end of thisss complex's life," said Kahliff. "Notice thisss here. The ssscholarsss were sssealing up thingsss preparing for the return of the Sssage."
"I can see why you are reluctant to summon this fellow, all that hissing gets on one's nerves," said Jiraiya.
"You want lessss hisssing, you ssshould have gotten ravensss for your sssummoningsss," hissed Kahliff, quite irritated.
"Then you'd have to put up with all the caws and croaks," said Jiraiya.
"Croaksss? Ssso sssays the TOAD sssage," countered Kahliff.
"Oh, go hypnotize some prey somewhere," said Anko, dismissing her summon in a puff of smoke.
"So he's one of your favorites?" asked Jiraiya.
"He can actually carry a conversation and has an attention span longer than a few minutes," said Anko with a shrug. "I just summon him as a meat-shield in order to irritate him."
"Whatever works," said Izumo.
(BOOM!)
"Okay, that didn't sound good," said Izumo, looking in the direction of the muffled explosion.
A bobbing light and the sound of running feet from one corridor gave them their second indication of a problem.
Kotetsu ran past them at high speed. "Bad day, bad day, REALLY bad day!"
"Oh hell, not again," said Izumo.
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