Naruto: Rise To The Top
old man

On the way home Ryuu, he meets an old man who seems to be around 70 years old, with long hair that reaches the waist, gray and white due to old age. He was wearing simple black clothes.

This old man appeared out of nowhere 4 months ago and always met and talked to Ryuu, who was the only one of them, somehow Ryuu feels that he has a bond with the old man and enjoys being with him and feels good to talk to him and consider him to be his grandfather.

At first Ryuu is suspicious of the old man who appears out of nowhere, but he does not feel anything evil or hostile from the old man. Ever since the sense of the Chakra had evolved into a GrandMaster, Ryuu began to feel the feelings of others for him, so he did not feel any hostility from the old man.

"Hello, Ryuu, you look in a bad mood today." The old man softly spoke to Ryuu as soon as Ryuu approached him.

"I'm amazed how you can know that this is me just by approaching you." Ryuu spoke in surprise, the old man was blind and always covered his eye area with a piece of cloth, but always when Ryuu approached him, he knew him and was able to find him precisely.

"Well, it's because I was a powerful ninja when I was young so I could do something like find you and know you without my eyes." The old man spoke with a smile on his face and seemed to recall the past and how powerful he was in his youth, then sighed at the human inability to resist time.

“Let's sit in the park near here, you can talk about what's bothering you to me, you know, I might give you some solution” said the old man as he started walking towards the park without anyone's help as if he could see even though he was blind .

Ryuu followed after the old man and they started walking together to the park and after 2 minutes and got there, Ryuu chose a place for him and the old man to sit down. "Okay, now talk to me, what's bothering you?"

"You already know what's bothering me. I told you before." Ryuu spoke while sighing.

"No, not that you already know what I mean." Ryuu said with a slight annoyance that the old man had just mocked him for not being able to spend time with Kushina and Mikoto since they were at the forefront of the war while he was sitting here not doing anything at all.

"Then you are upset that your boyfriend is at war while you are sitting and you are not allowed to leave Konoha, as if you are a caged bird who wants to get out but you are not allowed to do so." The old man smiled and spoke softly, equating Ryuu with the caged bird.

"Well, you're right, no matter what I ask Hokage to bring me back to war, he refuses." Ryuu spoke with a hint of depression. For some reason he felt comfortable with the old man so he talked to him about some of his problems and liked to take advice from the old man. "Although I've been very strong and can defeat most ninjas, he still refuses."

"It's normal. You are an important resource for the village and its future. The Hokage doesn't want to risk putting you in a war and then being targeted and killed. Although I heard that you are as strong as Kazekage or maybe even stronger. , this does not mean that someone at the Kage level is not in danger. Even people who were at the Kage level there was a chance that they would die in the war." The old man began to explain why Ryuu was not allowed to leave Konoha.

"There's actually another reason why you can't fight, you want to know?" The old man smiled as he asked if Ryuu wanted to know the other reason.

"What, is there another reason why I am not allowed to fight? I didn't know that he told me about it." Ryuu was curious for another reason.

"The other "reason is very clear but you don't realize it. I heard when you fought the Suna army you rushed into their army, even though you survived and achieved great achievements but your recklessness was what made the Hokage unwilling to send. You to fight. He thinks that you are an impulsive person and once you get your current achievements, he thinks that you will become more arrogant and reckless which can cause you to get killed." Upon hearing the old man, Ryuu was surprised that he had never thought of this before.

"You can solve this problem and you may be allowed to go back to war. Go and tell Hokage that you want to go back to war but this time tell him that you will not break the order and will stay with Konoha's forces, and you will not be rash by going to the enemy army again. Once the Hokage hears these words from you, he will probably think about it and let you go back to war." The old man provided a solution to Ryuu's problem and this problem was the real reason why he was not allowed to go to war..