Naruto: Rise To The Top
"I want to beat him myself."

Bomb ~

Jiraiya quickly used the Jizo Needle to protect herself.

Boom boom~

The exploding Explosive Tag roar continued, and the entire terrain was destroyed by the explosion.

Jiraiya also hardened her long silver hair into a thorn shape that looked like a porcupine and stretched it, enveloping the entire body, defending against Hanzo of Salamander, but she looked very bad. There was a burn scar on his hand.

Jiraiya looked at the location where Tsunade was and felt unparalleled anxiety, she was in the middle of an explosion so she would definitely receive great damage if she did not die.

As soon as he looked at the center of the explosion, he saw within the smoke and dust the silhouette of a giant skeleton with horns on its head and its eye sockets shining.

"What is this thing?" Hanzo saw this and a frown appeared on his face.

"Uchiha Ryuu." Orochimaru looked at the giant skeleton and knew firsthand who had arrived on the battlefield, although he had never seen Ryuu using Susanoo (Because Ryuu rarely used Susanoo in fights. Also, their fight was in a different arena, so he did not see it personally. .), he had heard of it and had researched everything about Ryuu, so he recognized it just by looking.

The skeleton came out from the blast area and revealed its full shape.

But the skeleton disappeared after a while, after all, it served to protect Tsunade.

"Damn it, I'm the one who's supposed to do this, not him." Jiraiya looked at the three people in front of her and felt extremely envious of Ryuu.

Ryuu hugged Tsunade from the waist with his right hand. As his left hand held the hand of a beautiful girl, signs of astonishment appeared on his face as if he was saying how he got here.

"Are you okay, Tsunade?" Ryuu smiled as he asked gently.

She had not summoned Tsunade like Tsunade-sensei for a long time so Tsunade was not surprised by the way she called out to him.

"I'm fine." Tsunade felt a little embarrassed to see Ryuu's face that was close to hers, Ryuu is currently the same height as Tsunade so their faces are facing each other.

'When did this boy become this handsome?' Tsunade turned her face as her heart rate increased.

Tsunade knew that Ryuu wanted her, and previously because of their relationship as a teacher and disciple, she could not accept it.

However, Ryuu tries many ways to bring their relationship closer, and slowly and within two years is able to make Tsunade see him as a man rather than as a child or former student.

"Ryuu-sama, how did we get here." The beautiful girl holding Ryuu's hand spoke causing Tsunade to notice him.

"Hikari, you're here too." Tsunade quickly turned around from Ryuu's embrace when she noticed Hikari's presence.

"Right, how did you get here so fast." Tsunade wondered after thinking carefully.

Ryuu wanted to answer the question but the purple mist shot towards them very quickly, Ryuu grabbed onto Tsunade and Hikari's waist and then jumped away from the poisonous mist.

'This boy, he carries us every chance.' Tsunade sighed, but had no grudges or anger at Ryuu's actions.

"Son, you shouldn't talk too much while on the battlefield." Hanzo looked at Ryuu unhappily, this was the first time his presence had been ignored.

Ryuu coldly looked at Hanzo and was about to move to attack him, but Tsunade held back her arm, "I want to defeat her myself, give me time to use my trump."

He knows that Ryuu is very powerful and can defeat Hanzo, as he fought Ryuu a month ago and was easily defeated by Ryuu even without his Sharingan.

He only wanted to defeat Hanzo himself, he felt humiliated as he fought against him with three people but he almost lost.

"I plan to defeat him myself, but since you want to do that, it's fine for me." Ryuu doesn't care if Hanzo is defeated by him or Tsunade, but he feels regret at not being able to fight Hanzo.

"I'll hold it for you, when you're done with your trump, you can fight it." Ryuu smiled, and at the same time four people moved around Hanzo and the salamander.

"Formation of Four Violet Flames"

Before Hanzo did anything, a barrier was formed around him and the barrier was made of purple flames. Hanzo could no longer escape and also could not break out of the barrier.

These four people were Ryuu shadow clones, he used his shadow clone technique as soon as he arrived here but no one noticed as he used the explosion as cover for his actions.

Ryuu looked at Jiraiya and Orochimaru while pointing at the Konoha ninja who was still fighting against the Ame Ninja, "You can go and help the Konoha troops, don't worry I can control Hanzo."

"You boys, don't give us orders, we're the leaders here." Jiraiya is jealous of Ryuu and when Ryuu starts giving them orders, she becomes annoyed.

Jiraiya tried to get into a fight with Ryuu but only one angry look from Tsunade made her silent. Orochimaru approached him and pulled his collar into the battlefield between Konoha and Ame.

After Jiraiya and Orochimaru left, Tsunade sat on the ground and started meditating.

Ryuu saw this and was surprised, "Did Tsunade study the ascetic Mode?"

When Tsunade fought Ryuu a month ago, she did not use the Hermit Mode against her so she did not know that she had learned it.

Ryuu's presence affects Tsunade and makes her want to become stronger, so she asks Katsuyu to teach her the Custody Mode.