A Warrior's Path

The last match was announced,

" Choji Vs Kinota "

Choji wanted to quit at first but Asuma baited him with food. He promised to let him eat as much as he wants if he win.

Kinota was from the sound village, which means he is part of Orochimaru"s team. Ryu remembered Kinota using sound waves to attack.

Hayate commenced the start.

Choji used his clans unique ability to increase their body size to cover his ears. He turned into a huge round ball.

Kinota dodged the incoming attacks. He caused Choji to be stuck on a wall as he dodged Choji"s attacks, then used the water content in Choji"s body to transmit sound waves.

Like this the preliminaries were finished. The finals will be held one month later.

Naruto and Sasuke celebrated their victory. Ryu had already disappeared after Lee"s match. The next step would be the briefing about the final phase and that"s boring.

Ryu strolled around the village. His training was progressing but compared to the speed when he first started... its way too slow.

His Swordsmanship is same like his cultivation, it"s progress is too slow. All he could do now was to complete missions to earn WP, then increase the purity of his Bloodline.

As he was walking he saw a peculiar sight.

A man stood on top of a building, he was practically pasted to the roof as he peered inside. He had spiky white hair that reached below his waist.

A scroll on his back, wore wooden sandals. He had a red line running from the corner of his eyes to his neck. Most importantly, he had disgusting face as he peeked through the roof. Ryu identified this person.

" Jiraiya."

Ryu was curious about Jiraiya. In the anime he was Mentor to Minato, G.o.dfather and mentor to Naruto. This man maybe lecherous but he wished for peace more than anyone.

Jiraiya didn"t notice Ryu. He was having a great time peeping inside the women"s bath or gathering novel material as he would say.

Ryu had an evil smile on his face as he got close to Jiraiya.

Without giving any warning, he stomped Jiraiya straight down into the bath house. Jiraiya didn"t expect someone would attack him all of a sudden.

The women inside screamed when the roof fell down. But their distress turned to anger when they saw a man fall down with the roof.

Jiraiya looked scared when he saw the girls look at him menacingly, he raised his hands in in surrender as he said " Ladies..... calm down, it"s not what it looks like. I am a writer, I was searching for inspiration!! So plea..."

Jiraiya didn"t get a chance to finish before the girls pummeled him to the ground. After they were done, Jiraiya was hung on a tree upside down with bruises all over his body.

Ryu was rolling on the ground holding his stomach, laughing. He was laughing his heart out.

Jiraiya was irritated seeing a kid laugh at him " Kid, the heck are you laughing at? Do you know who I am? I am the Toad sage!! One of the Sannin!!.

Show some respect!."

Ryu wiped away the tear from his eyes from all that laughing, he looked at Jiraiya and said " What Sage? pufff...hahaha...You are a pervert through and through."

Jiraiya was annoyed " What would you know, I was looking for inspiration. Anyway get me down."

Ryu threw a kunai towards Jiraiya, it cut through the rope freeing him.

Jiraiya got down, did his pose before formally introducing himself.

Ryu returned the courtesy " Ryu Uzumaki."

Jiraiya knew who Ryu was, Sarutobi informed him about how a wood user popped up in Konoha.

Ryu " So, what are you doing in Konoha?"

Jiraiya " Tch, what would you know? A writer needs to experience many things to create his art!."

Ryu smirked " So you peeping inside a bath house and getting trashed by those ladies were all part of that experience??."

Jiraiya shouted " That wouldn"t have happened if you didn"t kick me."

Ryu just laughed " Hahaha..... That was hilarious. Anyway I should be going.

See ya pervert Sage."

Jiraiya was shouting curses at Ryu as he left.

After he couldn"t see him anymore, Jiraiya got serious " I didn"t even sense him when was near me until he kicked me. He is absolutely a monster.

There is not many people who can sneak upon me. And his chakra..... when I tried to sense him, all I could feel was nothing.

it"s like he blended with the surroundings, becoming a part of it. Even Minato was not a Genius like him."

Ryu was strolling around as he thought about the plotline this time.

Hayate dies, Sound Genin dies, Sand"s attack, Sarutobi"s death, Orochimaru....

There are few things he will change but for now he decided to visit Hinata. She would be Naruto"s wife in the future, she will be family in the future.

Ryu held his family dear, they were his reverse scale. If anyone ever tried to do anything to them, well..... may G.o.d have mercy on their soul.

He liked Hinata, the girl had talent but lacked the courage to push on. But Naruto will take care of that. All Ryu have to do is make her strong.

Hinata"s fighting style is the same as any Hyuuga"s. But she isn"t suited for that style or more precisely speaking, that style is cruel for a kind girl like Hinata.

In the anime, she is regarded as the Hyuuga princess, her Byakugan is on a whole another level compared to the others. Moreover Ryu had already wished to increase her eyes purity.

He sensed where Hinata was. she was currently inside Konoha hospital, sleeping. Ryu decided to wait until she woke up.

He was outside the village hospital when he sensed someone familiar nearby. Ryu looked towards a certain direction to see a civilian walk inside the hospital.

Ryu " Well.... that"s interesting. what"s he doing here?."