"Now as to your friends. Tell me something, what are you going to do if they are ever in danger and you're out of chakra? Sure, its life threatening and you might accidentally draw on the Kyuubi's chakra but what if you don't. Wouldn't it be better if you could call on its chakra any time you want?"
"Yeah, it would. Thanks, Ero-Sennin."
And there it was, he was able to put away all the stray thoughts that were previously clouding his mind. He was focused on the Kyuubi, specifically it's chakra and just like that his thoughts turned inward.
"Uh, bro, where are we?" asked Kichi.
Naruto opened his eyes to find he was indeed somewhere else. "What the hell?"
"That's what I'm saying."
Naruto looked around, he was in steam tunnel. There pipes running down the corridor ahead of him while the corridor itself was poorly lit with flickering yellow-orange lights. The tile floor was barely visible through the standing murky water covering it. The most unusually thing to him was the lack of [Observe] messages, it had become such a part of his life that to not see any was just strange.
He looked down at his goggles to see if they were picking up anything, they showed the map was centered on the training field where he was sitting only moments before.
"I think this is an illusion," said Gamakichi.
"I don't know, I think this might be something else, something to do with the Kyuubi," he said, looking toward the tunnel leading out of the room he was currently in.
"So, we follow the path?" asked Kichi.
"Yeah, I guess so," said Naruto, starting to slog through the watery tunnel.
"This place is really creepy, bro. I keep expecting shit to jump out at us," said Kichi.
"Like what, giant oozes or something?" asked Naruto with a chuckle.
"First, what's an ooze? And is that thing an ooze?" he asked pointing just ahead of them.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," said Naruto, pulling out his new chakra-to from the small holster on the back of his belt.
Mind Sludge Lv 29
HP: 2500/2500
CP: 500/500
This sludge pollutes your mindscape with doubt and fear, don't let it make you doubt yourself or you may just have to relive your worst fear.
"Okay, so this place is your mind," said Kichi. "And that thing is polluting your mind. So we're going to kill it right?"
"That's the plan," said Naruto, moving on it quickly, slicing off large bit of its body with extreme ease. He wasn't prepared for the chunks he cut off to explode and burn him like acid when some of the gunk landed on him.
"Ow, bro, that stuff burns," complained Kichi, his little webbed hand pawing at some sludge that landed on him.
"I noticed," said Naruto, backing away from the sludge. He adapted though, he always did. Making a switch to hit and run tactics seemed to work better. He used [Chakra Speed] to get in close, slice into it and get back out before the sliced off bit exploded in a rain of acid.
It died eventually, bubbling and oozing even in death.
"Hey, I gained like, five levels, what's that about?"
"You gained experience for being with me while I killed it."
"But I didn't do anything?"
"Did you learn anything? And you took a little damage didn't you?"
"Well yeah, but does that really count?"
"Sure it does," said Naruto. "For now, you're probably safer hanging out up there until your level gets closer to my own."
"What about those skills or whatever? Do you think I have anything there that can help?
"I don't know, want to look now or wait until we get out of this place. You're probably going to gain a few more levels if there are any more of those slimes in here."
"What do you think?"
"I think we should wait but that's just me," said Naruto.
"So we wait," agreed Kichi.
After that the pair continued down the hall, running into a few more of the Mind Sludges and killing them and as just as Naruto predicted, Kichi did gain a more levels.
Naruto could see up ahead that the tunnel would be opening into a giant room with cage bars in the background. He was cautious as he entered to room. If this was the end then there would like be a boss. He just hoped the boss wasn't actually the Kyuubi. Turned out he was right to be cautious. As soon as he entered the room the water seemed to coalesce into a giant ooze.
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