Ryu looks around his new home in the light of day and wakes Seiya up. The leader of the Starlights groans, " Need help getting ready, Ryu?
Ryu nods, so far he only spoke to Serena, however that was understandable as she was the only one that had ever shown him kindness that he could remember meeting. Seiya grabs the outfit the kid had and takes him to the bathroom to clean him up and get him dressed. Then he heads downstairs with him in time to answer the door, " Hello, we're team five, we're here to paint a room to look like it's on fire. "
" Everything is already in there, upstairs, the door to his future room will be open, there will be drop cloths on the floor, and everything you need to paint his new room. " Seiya says.
" We understand, why did you hire out for this job? "
" Because we want it to look good and we all suck at painting. " Seiya freely admits.
The genin team and their sensei head up the stairs and set to work painting Ryu's room. Ryu had grabbed the practice katanas that Hotaru had gotten for him and was playing with them, pretending to slay demons. Serena would be able to teach him to wield the twin katanas, easily. The Tsukino family would be known for kenjutsu if they had anything to say about it. Serena was already up and using two bokens to practice her swordsmanship with twin katanas. If the clan heads would see exactly what she could do in armed combat they may decide to leave her alone. The girl was still asleep but with Hotaru's healing and Taiki's medical knowledge she was in good hands.
Duo was still hanging around, as he wanted to spend some time with Serena, apparently he needed a vacation from his friends. " Hey, little guy, Ryu, right? " Duo says, coming up to him.
" Hai. " Ryu says, surprising Seiya, the kid hadn't spoken to anyone other than Serena yesterday.
" Would you like to learn a basic kata for the twin katanas? " Duo asks him.
Ryu nods eagerly at this question from Duo and the Prince of Pluto grins at him, " I can teach you a basic one, as Serena taught me. You'll have to practice it every day in order to get better at using the twin katanas. You do want to be a master of them, right? "
" Hai, I do. I 'member my daddy used them. "
Duo blinks at this information, " Who was your daddy? "
" I get my eyes from him. " Ryu says.
Duo curses internally at this as he teaches Ryu a basic twin katana kata, then once he's sure Ryu remembers it he goes to the Ronin dimension, seeking out Ryo Sanada, the bearer of the Wildfire Armor. Ryo's eyes widen when he sees Duo approaching him and he slips away from his friends, and heads for the roof of a nearby building. Duo joins him, " I've met your son, Ryo. Serena adopted him after the atrocious way he was treated at the orphanage he was at. "
Ryo curses at this information, " I'll train him, I just can't have him here yet. I don't even know how I ended up there to begin with. "
" He only speaks to me and Serena. I've taught him a basic kata for twin katanas. Ryo that is your kid, the little guy loves the color red, and wanted his room to be painted as though it were on fire. "
Ryo's tiger blue eyes slam shut, " He was barely two when I last saw him, how old is he now? "
" He's three. " Duo says.
" Do you have any idea what happened to his mother? " Ryo asks.
" No, I don't. I haven't been there long enough to get a read on that. When he told me his father used the twin katanas and that he had his father's eyes, well, I knew he had to be your son. Time must move faster there than here. "
" It does, I was barely gone an hour here, either that or I was sent back in time. " Ryo says.
Duo pauses a moment, " Sent back. You know Serena will take good care of him, I'll set up a dream link so you can train him while you both sleep. "
" Thank you for that, Duo, I hate that I can't be there for him. The guys can't understand why I seem preoccupied. His mother and I we didn't really love each other, we were both at all-time lows and well… we ended up with Ryu nine months later. "
" Was his mother a ninja? "
" No, she wasn't, she was a civilian that ran a bakery. "
Naruto Uzumaki pauses in his morning training, which resulted in him using shadow clones to work out how to do different jutsu. He could sense something was off in the area, but he didn't know what. Of course there was the light silver cat that was following him around, but that wasn't strange to him. The crescent moon on her forehead told him she was probably associated with the Tsukino clan and was just following him to see what he was capable of. His orange and black ninja clothes suited his personality and he had finally worked out how to use his father's jutsu, the one that let him be known as the yellow flash of Konoha. The rasengan was his dad's as well.
Naruto leaps back instinctively as an arrow whizzes past him and he flings a kunai in the direction that the arrow had come from. " Nicely done, Uzumaki. "
" Who the hell are you? " Naruto demands.
" I'm here to give a message to the Tsukino Clan head, and I'm sure Tsuki there will be able to deliver it. "
Tsuki arches her back and hisses at the female with raven colored hair, claws out and ready, " Speak, Martian traitor and I may decide to let you live. "
Naruto shrugs at a talking cat as the one who had shot the arrow at him steps out into the light, his blue eyes widen at this, " Sailor Mars, so, you're a traitor, huh. Tried to kill my twin sister, huh? "
Mars' eyes widen in shock, " Oh, shit, you're that Naruto. The container of the nine tailed fox. "
Naruto smirks ferally and was on her in an instant, delivering a fatal blow, " Go back to the other traitors, you're my message. Tell them that if they want to mess with my sister, they mess with me. "
She disappears and Naruto scoops Tsuki up, after using fuuinjutsu to seal the breach that Pluto had most likely created to get her here. He sprints off to the Tsukino compound and heads in, dropping down in front of Serena, " I just sent Mars packing, sis. "
" How'd you remember? " Serena asks.
" Tsuki calling her a Martian traitor. " Naruto says.
" She shot an arrow at him. " Tsuki says.
" Oh, Naruto, how would you like to be a part of the Tsukino Clan? "
" Why? " Naruto asks.
" The Clan Restoration Act. "
Naruto winces, " You can do that? I mean, I still want to keep my name. "
" You'll be Naruto Uzumaki-Tsukino, the last name will be hyphenated. " Serena says.
" I can live with that. How many members does the clan have? "
" Well, I'm the head, then there's Hotaru, Seiya, Yaten, Taiki, and Ryu Rekka, a recent adoption into the clan. He was being treated like dirt at that orphanage. " Serena says.
" I get it, you're going to gain numbers through adoption. " Naruto says.
" Correct, let's go visit Tsunade and get your adoption into my clan taken care of. " Serena says.
" All right, does this mean I can move in? "
" It does. Taiki, watch Ryu, I'm going to Tsunade's to get Naruto adopted into the clan. "
" Got it, Serena. See if she's found anything out about our guest. " Taiki says.
" Will do, you can move your stuff yourself, right. "
" Yeah, all I have to do is create a bunch of shadow clones. " Naruto says.
" All right, I'll let you pick out your own room, though if you want it painted you can put your stuff in another room and we can hire a genin team to do the painting. " Serena states.
Neji looks at Hotaru, " What do I do first? "
" Hold the pen up and call out Jupiter Power! "
" Seriously, that's all? " Neji asks.
" That's just transforming, which takes a lot out of you until you get used to it. We'll just be working on that until you get to the point where transforming doesn't drain you. Then we'll work on your powers. " Hotaru says.
Neji sighs and holds the pen up, " Jupiter Power! "
The uniform was mostly the same, except instead of a skirt he had shorts and everything was more masculine in appearance, his hair shrunk and turned brown, his eyes changed color too. There was no pink in this uniform, the pink had been replaced by mauve. " Get used to moving in that form. You'll have to train in this form so you can use all of your jutsu in your scout form. Then we'll get you using your magical attacks. "
As she has Neji go through several kata, increasing his speed with each one, the jonin was starting to feel the strain. Hotaru was right, transforming took a lot out of a person until they got used to it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Naruto, or Ryo Sanada, whom I borrowed to be Ryu's father.