Falling in Love with a Dragon
Disclaimer: If I owned all this stuff, I would make Ryuu a real character and get him with Sakura for real.
"But Obaa-chan…"
"No means no, Naruto." The Godaime massaged her temples in irritation at the young blonde. Sometimes, I think he's worse than Ryuu was at that age. A part of her scoffed at the thought, but she ignored it. "I'm not putting Sakura back on your team until her sensei says it's alright with him, and I'm not giving you harder missions until you're a three-man cell again." Tsunade didn't miss the hard look in Sasuke's eyes at the mention of her new sensei and resisted the urge to smirk.
Naruto pouted and crossed his arms, looking to the floor, but the Godaime could see the real hurt in his eyes and her own softened. "I'll talk to them later, okay?" He brightened up instantly and she smiled.
Kakashi looked relieved as well and Sasuke just continued to glare into space, though there was a spark of hope in his obsidian eyes. "I already asked him about that, Shishou."
Everyone jumped and turned to see Sakura crouched on the windowsill, smiling more happily than they had seen in months. "Sakura-chan!" Naruto dove at her and engulfed her in a hug, while Kakashi hung back, wondering why he couldn't sense her chakre. Sasuke strode forward a little, but didn't hug her like Naruto did.
Tsunade noticed the suspicious look in Kakashi's narrowed eye and smirked. "He taught you how to shield your chakre, ne, Sakura?"
The girl smiled even more brightly and nodded. "Hai, that along with some other things that I'm not allowed to tell you." She winked at Tsunade before sticking out her tongue a little. "He said something about getting in trouble and you beating his hide, or trying to anyway."
Tsunade's eyes narrowed before she threw her head back with a laugh. "He really hasn't changed at all." Once she had quieted, she looked back to her former student. "You said that you talked to him about something, Sakura?"
"Hai. You can give harder missions to Team 7 now, but he wants to come along." Tsunade smiled and nodded while Sakura turned to her team. "Well, who do you guys say to ramen. My treat since we haven't seen each other in a month."
Naruto grew starry-eyed and glomped her again. "Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!" Sakura just laughed and began walking out the door, with all the others following, Sasuke a little closer to her than he needed to be.
Tsunade watched them leave with a pensive look on her face. "Are you sure she's ready?"
Ryuu seemed to faze out of a shadow with a grin. "Don't worry about it. She improved at least tenfold in a month, and the only reason she seemed a little slow is because I upped her weights this morning." (Hitokiri Ryuu: Grin I'm a sadist.) The dragon jinchuuriki look after her with a fond smile that he reserved for only a few people… and his sword. "Besides, I promised to catch her whenever she fell, didn't I?"
The Godaime smiled faintly. "I was actually talking about Sasuke, but whatever; same rule applies." Ryuu grinned, showing off his fangs.
"I better get going; I still have to watch over her and find a good time to talk to Kakashi. Mendokusai…" (troublesome…) Tsunade nodded as he faded away.
Kakashi had left his students at the ramen stand and was headed back to his apartment where he knew Anko would eventually show up. "Hatake Kakashi, right?" The jounin whirled around with a kunai in his hand to face a grinning boy who looked only a little older than his students. He cursed himself silently for letting the boy sneak up on him.
The boy laughed quietly. "Relax; I mean no harm, Sakura would never forgive me I killed her first teacher." Kakashi slowly lowered the kunai but remained tense. "I probably should have given this to you sooner, but oh well." The black and blue-haired boy held out a good-sized scroll to him, still grinning, though this one looked a little more forced. "Arashi told me to give this to you when I saw you again, but I've been busy with Akatsuki after my head and training Sakura and all –"
"Arashi?" Shock was clearly heard in the Copy Ninja's voice and his visible eye was wide.
Ryuu blinked then smiled. "Aa. I came to visit the night of the Kyuubi attack." His eyes darkened in sadness. "I would have helped, hell, I would have released Shinn to fight the kitsune-teme, but Arashi told me to take some scrolls to keep away form the council and leave." A glazed look overshadowed his ice blue eyes. "I never forgave myself for than when I learned that he had died, and I had to have Obaa-chan restrain me from coming and getting Naruto when I heard how he was treated." A dark chuckle flowed of hi m, smooth as silk, as he looked up at the moon. "Now I wish she hadn't."
Kakashi's hand sagged at his side, his kunai having fallen to the ground, forgotten. "But… how do you look so young? You would have to be as old as me, at least!"
Ryuu laughed, covering up his darkened mood from only a moment ago. "Yeah, that's a bit weird. I'm kind of a half demon since I've bonded so well with Shinn, a dragon youkai sealed inside of me." He lifted the genjutsu from over his eyes and watched as Kakashi's eye widened a little before he simply nodded.
"Anyway, he said to give this to you." He tossed the scroll to him before turning to walk away, but he stopped after only a few steps. "There's… one for Naruto as well, about the Hiraishin." Kakashi noticed the hesitancy in his voice but made no comment. "I was thinking about giving it to him now." He turned half-way so he could watch the Hatake. "You know him better than I do."
Kakashi smiled, realizing that this was the closest the boy would come to asking for help. "I think he's ready; after all he has been through, whatever Sensei wanted him to know he can handle."
Ryuu nodded absently, looking at the ground. "He's his son, you know." Kakashi blinked in confusion. "Naruto is Arashi's son…" Kakashi just stood still in shock. His student… is the son of his sensei, how he had considered a father. "And he wanted me to be there like a brother…" A self-hating smirk made its way across Ryuu's face. "I don't think I've done that so far…"
Kakashi smiled faintly. "I wouldn't worry about it too much. Naruto will be happy to know someone else who knows what it is like to be a jinchuuriki." Ryuu grinned, again covering how he really felt and turned to walk away. "See you at the Hokage's office in the morning." Ryuu just lifted a hand in a lazy wave and seemed to fade away, leaving Kakashi to look at the scroll in his hand. I'm glad you didn't forget about me, Sensei.
AN: There's Chapter Three, and I hope you all enjoyed it. Aniki was a little iffy on this chappy, but I'm posting it anyway. I STILL need help on the fight scene, and it's only two chapters away! So PLEASE! If you want to help, contact me. I REALLY need to the help.
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