Falling in Love with a Dragon

Disclaimer: If I owned this I'd be a goddess among humans, am I? NO.

Sakura sighed as she watched Sasuke and Naruto spar again. She was happy they were both back, she really was, but she couldn't help but she could help but feel left out. They had surpassed her despite the training she had done with Tsunade. Sasuke barely looked at her anymore and Naruto had Temari.

"Hey, can I sit here?" She started a little and looked up to see a guy standing beside her, ice blue eyes smiling. She nodded and he sat on the bench beside her. He wore a black cloak with gold and blue trim and had long black hair that ended in blue tips that matched his eye pulled back in to a pony tail. (AN: Think of Kenshin, people, just with different colors.) She couldn't see much passed his cloak, but she could see a bump in the cloth caused by the hilt of a katana.

"I haven't seen you in Konoha before; did you just move here?" She couldn't help but try to talk to him since there was nothing else for her to do and since she couldn't sense anything from him at all.

He smiled at her again and nodded. "Yeah, my parents were from here so I asked 'Baa-chan if she could instate me as a shinobi. I take the test-thing tomorrow."

Sakura couldn't help but smile at him. "Maybe I'll see you tomorrow then; I'm Tsunade's assistant." The boy blinked then smiled.

"That'd be great! If you're her apprentice that means you're really strong, right?" Sakura blushed and looked to the side, not noticing that her teammates had paused in their sparring to look over at them.

"Not really…" She was cut off by the boy standing up.

"Nonsense! 'Baa-chan was bragging about you earlier come on; you can help me train!" He reached out a hand to help her up, still smiling. Sakura blushed but took his hand and smiled back. "By the way, I'm Ryuu."

"Sakura." She couldn't help but smile; he was a lot like Naruto, but had an air of mystery around him like Sasuke. She felt that they would get along well.

Sasuke and Naruto watched Sakura leave with the guy they didn't know through narrowed eyes. Naruto may be with Temari, but he was still protective of 'Sakura-nee-chan' as he privately called her, and he knew that Sasuke cared a lot more then he let on.

The jinchuuriki glanced at his best friend a little warily. If Sasuke depended too much on Sakura's feelings for him to keep her beside him, then he was going to lose her. He wasn't blind; he could see that the kunoichi was drifting farther away from both of them, and while he tried to bring her back, Sasuke didn't do anything.

'I hope you don't regret your actions when this is all over with, Teme.'

Sakura fell onto her bed with a groan but there was a smile on her face. Training with Ryuu had been a lot harder then she would have thought, but she didn't mind since he actually helped her more then she helped him. He gave her some tips on how to better condense her chakra in her attacks and how to better shield the amount of chakra in her attacks from her opponents.

Now that she thought about it, she had surprised him only once, causing him to let his guard on his chakra slip. The small portion she felt would have easily been high ANBU level. Later, she had asked why he hadn't taken out his sword yet. He had smiled fondly, rubbing the hilt of the katana and said one thing. "If I start using this, people will die."

The kunoichi shrugged and buried her head into her pillow. 'I can't wait to see him again; he makes me feel like I'm worth something again…' She fell asleep with a smile on her face, unaware of the ice blue eyes watching her before disappearing.

Tsunade took a drink of sake, taking advantage of the fact that Shizune was out of town. She looked to the couch where Jiraiya sat, writing away on his next perverted book. Then a strong chakra pulse from the window announced a visitor. The two Sannins turned their heads and smiled at the boy leaning casually against the wall. "Hey, Gaki."

Slitted ice blue eyes opened and Ryuu smiled, revealing two elongated fangs that had been covered by a genjustu earlier. "Yo, Ero-sensei, Obaa-chan." The boy walked over and took off his cloak, draping it over a chair and sitting down.

"So, what do you think of my student?" The Godaime smirked as she poured herself more sake.

Ryuu laughed slightly and looked out the window. "She's good, real good, but is being held back by what she thinks her teammates think of her: that she's not good enough." He looked to Tsunade and smirked. "That's where I come in; I don't mind training her, besides, Shinn-no-baka likes her."

The Sannin chuckled at the mention of the dragon sealed inside of the boy. Shinn was said to be more powerful than Kyuubi and had the ego for the part, only some of which had passed onto his jinchuuriki.

Tsunade smiled as the two males struck up a conversation, Jiraiya earning a few hits from Ryuu for perverted comments. She truly had missed the boy when he went training on his own, but that was where he found Jiraiya and made friends with him, learning about summoning and seals, so she wouldn't complain, but then he had disappeared on both of them, flitting about from one village to another. When he had casually marched into her office as if he hadn't been out of contact with her for nearly seven years, she had had to restrain herself from both strangling the boy and hugging him.

She had seen the steady decline that Sakura was going through and had asked Ryuu to help. A smirk crept onto her face. She had to send a note to Kakashi saying that Sakura wouldn't be coming to training with Team 7 for a while. The more time her student spent away from Team 7 and with the boy, the better.

AN: Okay, Ryuu is a character my brother and I made up, and the pairing is RyuuSakura and NarutoTemari, no ifs ands or buts.

I have the plot and everything figures out, but I need help with a scene for… Chapter 3, I think. It's a fight scene between Ryuu and Kisame. I know Kisame was one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist and everything, but Ryuu is also a master swordsmen, mostly with the katana, but he can use nearly every sword in existence. His affinities are Wind and Water, but he mostly uses Ice, if that helps anything. If you're interested, contact me via review or something and we'll work something out.

Please review and tell me and Hitokiri Ryuu what you think!