The dark path.

Naruto breaks into a sprint, the water clashing with his steps, spraying water everywhere. There goes the stealthy approach! If only he could use chakra here.

Naruto stops at a junction, but turns right as Ino's scream, not as strong as before, but distinctively coming from the left passage. He takes it.

Ino's screams are harder to hear, and are farther apart, after a few minutes of running, but Naruto pushes on, Ino's still alive, the Kyuubi's doing something, but as long as she's still screaming, he might be able to save her!

He runs for several miles, Ino's screams eventually dying down and intuition taking over. What can he do? He can only hope he's going the right way.

It was never this hard before.

Eventually, Naruto comes across a brightly-burning torch. Taking it in his hand, he breaks into a run again, following the tunnel for what seems, forever.

But then, he feels movement. There's a figure standing out against the darkness.

Umm...