Naruto: Rise To The Top

A week later, while Ryuu, Hikari, and Konoha's ninja were returning to the intoxicating after another battle, Ryuu noticed an eagle approaching him very quickly, recognizing him as the eagle that brings them information about other battle locations.

The eagle landed on Ryuu's shoulder, and Ryuu removed the paper on the eagle's leg and opened it to read its contents.

Then a big smile appeared on Ryuu's face, making Hikari curious about the contents of the paper, "Ryuu-sama, what information on the paper made you so happy."

Ryuu didn't say a word. He just handed the paper to Hikari for her to read. Hikari grabbed the paper and read aloud, "Hanzō finally showed himself, he's attacking the camp where the three Hokage's disciples are."

"Isn't that bad news? Why are you smiling?" Hikari was baffled by Ryuu's happiness.

"Sure I'm happy, if I can kill Hanzō this war will end faster." Ryuu looked at the last words written on the paper, 'Is it destiny that the Hokage's disciples fight with Hanzo.'

according to this progress, the three of them is about to fight Hanzo and then Hanzo will give them the name of Sannin! After that, Jiraiya also encountered Nagato, Yahiko and Konan...

But now that Konan is adopted by Ryuu, the plot has changed a little and he don't know what will happen now.

"Even if you want to fight him, you cannot. The battlefield is very far from our current position. Even if we set out at full speed, we will arrive in a few hours, and in this period the battle must be over."

Even if they manage to arrive in time and participate in the battle, Hikari doesn't think they can kill Hanzo so easily. She thinks Ryuu is stronger than Hanzo and can defeat him, but she doesn't think killing Hanzo is easy.

Hanzō of the Salamander is a ninja with the title of "demigod" and is also a ninja with super strength. Ame's absolute leader, absolute hero and a person with wild ambition.

For a long time, Hikari had only heard of Hanzo's name, but she hadn't seen Hanzo's actions but heard about his strength.

"Are you betting on whether or not I can reach the battlefield in less than a minute?" Ryuu smiled while looking at Hikari intently.

Hikari hesitated when she heard it, but after thinking about it more, I noticed that it was impossible to do it, even the fastest person in the ninja world right now wouldn't be able to do it. "Okay, I'll bet with you. You can't do that, and if you can, you can ask me anything and I'll do it for you."

Ryuu looked at Hikari with a teased smile. "Will you do anything I ask?"

Hearing Ryuu's words and seeing his smile, her face quickly turned red.

"Why is your face turning red, are you thinking something perverted?" Ryuu started teasing Hikari even more, causing her to feel indescribably shy and her face turning redder than before.

"Ryuu-sama, stop teasing me." Hikari spoke in a very low voice, and Ryuu could barely hear her words.

"Don't worry, I won't ask you perverted things." Ryuu stopped teasing her.

'Why is he talking like he can do it? Wait, can Ryuu-sama really move that fast?' Hikari heard the words that indicated Ryuu's confidence in his victory, which made her think that she might really lose the bet.

"Hikari, can you hold my hand." Ryuu extended his hand to Hikari.

Hikari felt ashamed as she didn't understand why Ryuu asked her to do this, after a period of hesitation she grabbed Ryuu's hand, when she did so her heartbeat started to increase. 'It's the first time I've held a boy's hand like this, Ryuu-sama's hand is so warm.'

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Hanzo suddenly ambushed the Konoha ninja after the Konoha ninja had just finished a fight with the Iwa Ninja.

Fortunately, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru were with the troops, otherwise Hanzo would have destroyed them easily and quickly.

But Hanzō of the Salamander strength is too great, even though the three of them are fighting him, one they can't keep up with.

Orochimaru and Jiraiya's strength is at the semi-Kage level, but Tsunade has already reached the low Kage level, and that's because she's been training hard recently because she saw that Ryuu has become stronger than her.

During these two years, even though they were at war, Tsunade trained hard to become stronger, unlike others who were only focused on war.

With this force they were able to stop Hanzo from destroying Konoha troops, but they could not defeat him.

"I have a trump card that we can defeat if I use it, but it will take some time." Tsunade looked at Hanzo coldly as she passed this information on to Jiraiya and Orochimaru.

Hanzo did not give them a chance to make any plans, he gave orders to summon him to attack the three. "Ibuse, attack them"

Ibuse is a giant brown salamander with a lighter colored underside, and seemingly no eyes.

The salamander quickly moved to attack the three, but Tsunade stepped forward and sent a punch in the face.

Tsunade used all her power in this punch, which uses a technique Chakra Enhanced Strength.

"You're too annoying. Get out of here."

The salamander flew away in the air due to Tsunade's punch.

"detonate the flames."

Hanzo's hand slapped to the ground, and there were countless Explosive Tag lit up on the ground, especially around Tsunade. It was especially obvious that the Explosive Tag would explode.

"Tsunade, be careful."

Jeriya shouted at the top of his voice to warn Tsunade.