Naruto: Rise To The Top
62-happiness

The one-tailed Jinchuriki created a huge wave of tsunami-like sand to block the advance of Susanoo, who tried to escape to Konoha's forces.

A tsunami-like sand wave pushed Susanoo back and brought him back to the center of Suna's army. Susanoo tried to fight the waves by holding on to the ground, but the waves lifted him off the ground.

When the wave ended, the fallen Susanoo stood up and tried to run again, but several iron sand spears surrounded Susanoo and prevented it from moving.

"It's over. You won't be able to escape and no one will come to help you." Kazekage sneered while looking at Ryuu who was inside Susanoo.

Ryuu looked towards the Konoha troops and saw that they had completely retreated and were not waiting for him to reach them, a shocked expression appeared on Ryuu's face as if he was surprised that Konoha's forces had abandoned him.

Ryuu took a deep breath and then looked at Kazekage and said arrogantly, "Even if no one comes to help me, I can escape whenever I want, he said, but I'll stay here to kill you."

"Hoo, is your loyalty to Konoha making you fight to the death, or is it your arrogance that makes you think that you're really going to kill me?" There was a mockery in Kazekage's voice.

“I will make two choices for you, the first one is if you become my subordinate and swear allegiance to Suna Village, I will let you live for it is in vain to let a talent like you die early. The second is that you can stay loyal to Konoha but you will die here" Kazekage spoke generously when he said the first option, but spoke threateningly when he said the second option.

"Then I will choose the third option," Ryuu said with a smile as he looked at Kazekage.

"There's no third choice for you"

"There's a third option, kill you here, then go back to Konoha." Ryuu spoke while raising his right hand and then clenching his fists as if he was holding something and then pulling his hand back.

When Kazbekage saw Ryuu's movements, he became alert and prepared for any possible attacks coming from Ryuu.

"Kazekage-sama is behind you."

"Avoid"

As soon as Kazekage heard the warning sound coming from the Suna ninja, his body moved at full speed to try to dodge the attack coming from behind him.

When she moved, she looked back and found a giant Susanoo weapon passing through where she had stood before and then back into Susanoo's hands. If Kazekage had not been warned by the Suna ninja, he would have been cut in half and died.

Susanoo broke away from the spear that was holding him and stood in front of Kazekage. When everyone started to think that this child was not easily defeated even with the cooperation of two Kage level ninjas, Susanoo who protected Ryuu was scattered which meant Ryuu impenetrable defense was lost.

Ryuu sighed sadly as he looked at his hand, "Unfortunately I can't kill you in the end, it would be funny if Kazekage died at the hands of the shadow clones."

After Ryuu finished his words, he exploded in white smoke which proved that he was really a shadow clone.

.....

While all this was happening, someone was watching everything. She has white skin, green hair, and yellow eyes. After the fight was over, she said to herself, "Madara-sama will be happy once she gets this news."

After he finished saying these words, he began to sink to the ground.

.....

"Tsunade-onee-san, why are we retreating? Ryuu is still fighting the enemy alone there. We have to go back to help her." Kushina was shocked after receiving the order to retreat, she tried to disobey the order and did not retreat with Konoha's forces so Tsunade personally pulled her away from the battlefield.

"I think I'm glad to hear you say that, Kushina." Kushina suddenly heard Ryuu's voice right behind her.

When she turned around, she saw Ryuu's smiling face, so she quickly hugged him and said, "Idiot, you made us worry about you."

Mikoto looked at Ryuu and did not say anything, just approached him and hugged him as well. Ryuu feels very happy because they did this, their actions show how much they love him.

Tsunade also approached Ryuu, making her think that she would get a hug from Tsunade, but what she got was not a hug but a hard blow to the head that made her scream in pain, "Why are you doing this?"

"Because you acted recklessly and left in the midst of the enemy forces, then you tricked us into thinking you were dead, promise me you won't act recklessly anymore" After Tsunade said this, she pulled Ryuu into a hug as well and her face settled among the gentle hills, and her nose entered Tsunade's feminine scent, which made her heartbeat increase.

She was single in her previous life and had no boyfriend so she had never gotten a hug from a mature girl before, so Ryuu enjoyed every moment she spent between these two hills.

But he suddenly felt a pain in his waist and instantly knew what was happening. The cause of her pain was two angry and jealous girls pinching her waist so hard that the pinched area flushed red. But he tried to ignore the pain as much as he could to keep feeling the happiness in the valley between the two hills.

'I must accept pain for happiness' Ryuu thought while feeling pain and happiness simultaneously..