Sakura considered for a moment then tried what seemed the simplest approach. "Activate."
The figure just looked at them.
"Switch on. Click. Begin conversation?" tried Sakura.
Naruto scratched his head. "Hello?"
If you would stem this infectious darkness
from the destruction of all you hold dear,
you must venture to the heart of this temple
and defeat the enemy you find there.
Accept this Quest Y/N?
"Okay," said Sakura. "Seems straightforward. Yes, I think I understand."
"Sakura, did you just essentially lock us in here?" asked Kakashi, wanting to be clear on this point.
"Well, let's see where this goes then," said Zabuza. "Maybe I get to kill something. That's always good."
Shapes rounded a corner and came bounding down the corridor.
"Wait a minute, that's..." Zabuza's combat readiness abruptly collapsed.
"Zabuza-samaaaaa!" called out a group of young girls.
SLASH SLASH SLASH!
"Oooh," said one of the heads as it rolled to a stop. "You really know how to make an impression on a girl."
STOMP! SQUISH!
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" asked Zabuza.
"Overkill, I'd say," said Kakashi.
"According to this 'Undead Yandere x3'," said Naruto.
"Ick!" declared Sakura, looking at the greenish spatter.
"They were some of the Academy students, graduation day," said Zabuza, shuddering slightly as he watched the bits of student crawling towards each other.
"Ah, yes," said Kakashi, turning towards his students. "Kiri used to have this wonderful system in place. Students were encouraged to cooperate and make friends through the Academy. Then, at the graduation, the final test was for each of the shinobi to fight and kill a classmate. They always arranged those fights to be between the best friends or comrades among the students."
"The idea, as I understood it," said Zabuza, using his sword to sweep pieces of Yandere into the lava, "was to have no greater loyalty to anything beyond the village as a whole."
"That continued until Zabuza here, not even a graduate, killed an entire class of graduates," said Kakashi.
Zabuza shuddered. "The dead should remain dead, damnit."
"Well, I sort of disagree," said Rin. "Though I'll admit that one should be either alive OR dead and not both or neither."
"So, to answer your earlier question," said Sakura, looking up from Naruto's device. "This is a 'random dungeon' which apparently is titled 'Unholy Order of Fangirls'."
"Quit! Exit! Escape!" called out Sasuke. "Abort! Stop! Desist!"
"Apparently after Sakura accepted the dungeon, we can't do that," noted Kakashi.
"Well, at least they're coming after the big sword guy," said Naruto.
"Ladies do like a big sword," noted Kakashi.
"Really, Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto. "But Sasuke doesn't have a sword and he's really popular - OUCH!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes after Sakura belted Naruto. That had been entirely too predictable.
"Can we get going? I want to get out of here," rumbled Zabuza.
"What's this sparkly bit?" asked Naruto, reaching out and touching something where a body had been.
"We all got 'thirty seven s' - whatever 's' is supposed to mean," noted Kakashi as a little display had opened up before him with that message.
Zabuza checked his belt. "What the- I've got little coins in here."
"The 's' probably means 'silver'," noted Sakura, wiping a bit of greenish splatter off her arm.
Zabuza stared at her for a moment, then looked at Kakashi. "You mean, that in this weird cave thing, that when any of us kill something - we automatically get money out of it?"
"Actually, this is the first time we've done the 'random dungeon' function, but that does appear to be the case," noted Kakashi as he checked and found thirty-seven unfamiliar looking coins in his belt. "Probably have to melt them down for the metal."
"Not that," said Sasuke, pointing at something in midair. "It says here my portion of loot includes 'Sasuke's Speedo.'"
"Sounds like a rare item you can use to upgrade a monster like in the ranch game, or maybe a part for a ranch?" Sakura was momentarily unsure.
POP!
Sasuke held up what was clearly a pair of stretchy swimming trunks. "Okay, that's just wrong. It says here 'Sasuke's Speedo. +25% to swimming movement speed.'"
"You should wear it," suggested Sakura.
Sasuke and everyone else, including Rin, all stared at Sakura.
"What?" asked Sakura.
Sasuke rolled the thing up and put in away in a pack. He wasn't going to throw it away, but heck if he was going to wear it anywhere near a place with 'fangirl' in the name.
"SASUKE-KUNNNN!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
The flames washed over them, causing one to fall. The remainder continued charging.
"Uhm. 'Flaming Tsundere' - they're fire-resistant but..." Naruto's voice trailed off and he quickly looked from the device to the charging group.
Zabuza began slashing, following by cha-ching noises.
"I enabled auto-loot," said Naruto.
CLANG!
A single one of the tsundere pulled out a large sword and parried Zabuza's attack.
CLANG! CLANG! CRASH!
"Interesting," said Zabuza as the little girl with the twin-tail hairstyle tried to get through his defenses.
"Thundershock!"
"Pikachuuuuu!" KA-ZAP!
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