Naruto: Rise to the top

Madara was gone as soon as he heard about Nagato's disappearance from Ryuu.     

After that, Ryuu's life continued normally for a week, all he did was train himself and Konan and then go out on a date with Kushina, Mikoto and Tsunade and then spend the night with Tsunade.     

This week, Ryuu enrolled Konan into the Ninja Academy, but he's still training her as usual. His goal in enrolling her in the academy is not to teach her ninja skills, but only in order to become an official ninja of Konoha.     

During this entire week he did not meet Hikari once, it seems that since her return from the war she has not left the Hyuga clan.     

Ryuu tried to go to the Hyuga clan's apartment complex to meet Hikari, but the Hyuga clan members wouldn't let him in.     

However, Ryuu mentioned her name to the Hokage to allow her to join them in the mission, and the Hyuga clan could not refuse a mission offered by the Hokage.     

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The week period that the Hokage gave Ryuu and Tsunade to rest is over and it's time to do the mission.     

The people going with Ryuu and Tsunade are Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Kushina, Mikoto, Hikari, Minato, and Nawaki.     

Ryuu suggested Kushina, Mikoto, and Hikari to come with them on the mission.     

The reason for Jiraiya and Orochimaru's existence is that the Hokage ordered them to participate in this mission.     

The reason why Minato and Nawaki are on this mission is because they are disciples of Jiraiya and Orochimaru.     

When Ryuu finds out that these guys are bad with them, he gets a little upset because he thought this would be a fun trip for him and his girls only.     

Anyway, all nine of them were ready to sprint towards the Land of the Sky location they were told.     

"Everyone hold on to my body. I will move everyone to a location closer to the Land of the Sky." Ryuu asked everyone to gather and hold him.     

It would take a week to get there if they went normally, but Ryuu has the formula in a location a day away from the Land of the Sky so he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport everyone on the spot.     

After that, the nine of them sped off at full speed and headed towards the location of the Land of the Sky.     

While they were kneeling toward the Land of the Sky, Ryuu approached Hikari and smiled at her, "I haven't seen you for a week, I went to your clan to see you but they wouldn't let me in."     

"I'm really sorry about that, my clan doesn't want me to meet you." Hikari sighed and then spoke bitterly.     

"Why does your clan not want you to meet Ryuu." Kushina spoke curiously, she and Mikoto know that Hikari loves Ryuu, and know that she has a close relationship with Ryuu because she became his aide during the war.     

Although they were upset that Ryuu always attracted women, they couldn't stop women and girls from liking or loving Ryuu.     

They also can't stop Ryuu from loving other women and girls.     

"Kushina, the Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan have hostility, which is why they prevent Ryuu from entering their clan." Mikoto begins to explain to Kushina the reason for the animosity between the two clans.     

"Mikoto is right, but there is another reason for this. If Ryuu tries to meet another girl from the clan, they might let him because he is a famous person and a war hero." Everyone noticed the sadness in Hikari's voice, and Ryuu noticed some tears falling from her eyes but she quickly wiped them away.     

"Then what is the reason they prevent you from meeting him?" Tsunade pushed Ryuu away and started running next to Hikari and asked her this question.     

Hikari hesitated a bit and then decided to tell them, she doesn't want to hide this matter. "My marriage to the son of the head of the clan was determined as soon as I was born, they won't let me meet Ryuu because they don't want us to fall in love with each other."     

Hikari stopped running and tears started to flow from her eyes. No matter how much she wiped them, the tears continued to flow, "But I really love Ryuu, I don't want to marry the son of the head of the clan."     

"Why can't I marry the person I love, that's unfair." Hikari started to sob as she said those words.     

Tsunade hugged Hikari tightly while patting her back to make her calm down a bit.     

'Shouldn't I be the one to hug her? I'm the one she loves, not you.' Ryuu looked at Tsunade with a frown, before he moved, Tsunade gave her a hug.     

Ryuu sighed and then tried to hug Tsunade and Hikari together, but Kushina and Mikoto pushed him away and then hugged Hikari while comforting her.     

'You know this is disrespectful to your boyfriend, right?' Ryuu was really annoyed by this, and when he wanted to participate in Hikari's consolation she was pulled by the girls away from Ryuu and made her sit down and started talking to her and comforting her.     

"Hahahaha, you have been completely ignored by your girlfriends, boy." Jiraiya laughed out loud while pointing at Ryuu.     

Previously when he saw Ryuu surrounded by all the girls he was envious of him, and even more envious when Hikari confessed her love to Ryuu.     

But when he saw the girls behaving like this with Ryuu, he felt relieved and could no longer help himself from laughing at Ryuu.     

Ryuu wasn't bothered by Jiraiya's words, he just looked at him and smiled. "Old idiot, you don't even have one girlfriend, and I bet you won't have a girlfriend your whole life."     

"I'm not old. Also, I'll definitely have a girlfriend in the future. After all, I'm the great Jiraiya-sama." Jiraiya spoke in a very loud voice, which disturbed everyone around him.     

After Jiraiya finished saying that, Tsunade punched his face hard and was sent away.     

"Don't laugh and talk out loud, can't you see that the girl is crying, if I hear your voice again I will break all your bones." After hearing Tsunade everyone fell silent and no one dared to speak out again.     

Tsunade patted Ryuu's shoulder and smiled, "Don't worry about Hikari, let me and the girls take care of everything."     

After Tsunade said this, she returned to Hikari's side.