Naruto: Rise To The Top

Author: Please if you find the name Ethan instead of the name Ryuu, let me know. Ethan is the MC name for my other Fanfic (One Piece: The Ship of Lust). Sometimes I make a mistake and write Ethan's name in this Fanfic.

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"konan, you look a lot better now. That mud and dirt was hiding your cute appearance." Ryuu said with a smile as he looked at Konan's new look after she finished taking a shower.

konan smiled happily when she heard Ryuu's praise, but after a moment her expression changed to sad and tears started to fall from her eyes.

Ryuu quickly advanced and gently hugged her while saying, "konan are you okay?".

konan hugged Ryuu tightly as she rested her head on his chest and cried hard while saying "Ka-san, to-san."

konan cried for a long time until she fell asleep due to exhaustion, Ryuu gently carried her and went to one of the rooms in this house and slowly put her on the bed so as not to wake her.

Ryuu sighed as he saw the dry tears on konan's face, Ryuu could feel the sadness inside her erupting like a flood as soon as she felt a little safe.

"So what are we going to do now? Have you decided what to do with konan?" Nawaki said in a low voice so as not to wake konan.

"We'll wait for Konan to wake up and then we'll start moving towards Konoha's camp," Ryuu said as he walked out of the room.

Nawaki walked behind Ryuu while saying in shock, "You're not planning to take her with us to Konoha camp, are you?"

"I'll take konan with us," Ryuu said while looking for a clean piece of cloth.

"Are you kidding me? We are at war and the Konoha camp might be attacked at any time, you are putting her in danger by making her go there." Nawaki grabs Ryuu by the shoulder tightly as he says seriously.

"So what are you suggesting? Do you want me to send Konan to Konoha?" Ryuu said while removing Nawaki's hand from his shoulder. Then he kept searching until he found a clean piece of cloth.

"Yes, it's the best place you can get Conan to go to." Ryuu listens to what Nawaki says as he walks back to Conan's room, holding a piece of cloth and a bowl of water.

"Listen carefully Nawaki, it's not safe for konan to go to Konoha now, as I said we are at war so the Hokage's advisors will start suspecting that she is a spy and I don't know what they might do, and also no one will protect her and I'm not there." Ryuu had previously thought of sending her to Konoha and putting her under Souta's care, but he remembered that Souta would soon participate in the war so he canceled the thought.

"What? She's a child. It's impossible for them to think like that." Nawaki denounced Ryuu's words as soon as he heard her. He would never believe something like this would happen.

"I don't care whether they do it or not as long as there is a 1% chance they will. I wouldn't let her go to Konoha if I wasn't around." Ryuu said as he approached the bed where konan was sleeping, then he wet the cloth and started wiping her face to remove the dry tears on her face.

"You're totally irrational. It doesn't matter, you can do whatever you want," Nawaki despaired at persuading Ryuu to change his mind.

Ryuu also doesn't want her to be in the Konoha camp, but he doesn't want to send her to Konoha, and he can't send her to the Fox World because only the summoner is allowed to enter. So he had no other choice but to take it with him.

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Hours later, Konan woke up and was a little confused and tried to remember where she was. Moments later, she remembered that she was helped by Ryuu, so she looked around, but she didn't find him in the room, so she ran out of the room thinking while tears were almost coming out of her eyes. 'Where is he? Did he abandon me?'

While konan was looking for Ryuu in the house, a voice came from behind her, "Are you looking for something konan?"

konan looked at the person speaking and was happy when she saw that it was Ryuu, so she ran towards him and hugged him while feeling relieved that he didn't abandon her.

Ryuu smiled when he sensed that konan's feelings had changed and she became happy, he said while rubbing her hair, "So what were you looking for?"

"I was looking for you because I didn't see you in the room," Konan said with a smile.

"Okay. Let's go to the kitchen. I've prepared some food for us to eat before we start leaving the town." Ryuu said while holding Konan's hand and they started walking towards the kitchen together.

After they had eaten, Ryuu carried Konan on his back and began to move quickly out of the city and head towards the Konoha camp while Nawaki followed him.