Chapter thirteen

On the border between the land of fire and the land of wind, a group of four people rushed through the forest towards the land of wind.

'They actually found us.' one of them breathed. 'I thought we covered our tracks well.'

'Now is not the time to think of that we have to hurry the Konoha Anbu are right behind us.' another warned.

Soon they heard the sound of something coming at them at high speed, before they had a chance to react a Laser put a hole through the chest of one.

'Shit they found us split up!' the leader yelled, another shot came killing again before they could move.

'Where are they? I can't even see them how are they attacking from that dista…' he was dead before he could finish.

'Shit!' the leader growled, increasing his speed. Soon the dreadful sound came once more, he managed to guard his chest, but it hit one of his arms instead, severing it from the elbow down. He continued to run despite the pain and blood loss but eventually slowed and fell. Crawling to lean on a tree, he watched as his Hunter approached.

He had on the standard Konoha Anbu uniform consisting of; black clothes, a grey flak jacket, metal arm guards and gloves, ninja sandals embedded with spikes for traveling mountainous regions, three ninja pouches clipped at the back of his waits, a signature spiral tattoo on his shoulder and a sword at his back.

He had on a crow mask, his reddish black hair tied in a ponytail.

'i…it's..you' the ninja trembled, holding his hand to his bleeding elbow. 'the flaming sword demon.' He cowered in fear.

Those were the last words he spoke, before his head rolled to the floor decapitated by the wicked blade of the Anbu.

Silence fell heavily and not too long after he was joined by two more ANbu.m

'Crow.' One enquired.

'Mission accomplished, all wanted Ninja have been terminated.'

'Good, get their heads and let's head back.''

'Yes sir'

They did as they were told and headed back to the village to give a report on their mission.

It had been four years since Ryu met Naruto, during that time a lot of things had happened.

Two years ago, Ryu and Itachi, to the surprise of none, took and passed the chunin exams with flying colours. Afterwards they were both enrolled in the Anbu by the Hokage making them the youngest to ever join the elite group. Everything they did they did it together and that too amazingly.

Ryu had been making a name for himself in the world and was called "the flaming sword demon", this was for his ability to sense chakra, making it exceptionally easy for him to track his targets and difficult for them to escape the fate of dying on his zanpaktou sword. He had grown the past few years, he had finally gotten his zanpaktou and the training technique after he turned ten years. They appeared besides him the morning of his birthday while the training had been something long residing in his head. He had also created and perfected the railgun technique. The idea born from the frustration of a long pursuit of one of his targets using swift release to move at a high speed. He got the smith to make him coin-like projectiles that he used to gather lightning in his arms to charge them and shoot them like the girl from a certain magical index. With this technique he became a deadly sniper that can shoot anything within a kilometre radius with perfect accuracy thanks to the potency of his sharingan. It took him six months to create and master it.

He would've never thought he would need physics again in his life.

Walking out of the anbu base, done with his report, he met with some familiar faces in his way back to his apartment.

'RYU MY YOUTHFUL FRIEND HOW ARE YOU.' exclaimed a man clad in a green body suit.

'Im fine guy senpai.' He smiled at Maito Guy and his long term friend Hatake Kakashi.

Ryu had known Kakashi since before he was reincarnated as he had been with Minato. So when Ryu joined the Anbu he was trained by him.

'Yo, Kakashi Senpai, how is the eye?'

'It's fine, it's working just as should, now I don't have to worry about Chakra, thanks.' Kakashi nodded.

'That's good to know.'

Ryu had created a seal for kakashi's sharingan so that he could turn the chakra supply to it on and off as needed.

'RYU LET US HAVE ANOTHER YOUTHFUL SPAR' Guy challenged.

'Sorry Senpai, I just got back from a mission maybe another time.' He passed.

Guy had been Ryu's constant sparring partner, with taijutsu being Guy's specialty, ever since they met when he was under Kakashi's tutelage. He had to admit Guy was a monster when it came to Taijutsu. His body strength higher than even Ryu's who had reached the stage of using the breathing technique constantly.

'NO PROBLEM WE HAVE IT TOMORROW' Guy said with his signature grin and thumbs up.

'Okay then, later.'

He walked to the Uchiha district, the atmosphere growing tenser with each step, the situation had deteriorated even further with the pressure that the people have been putting on the Uchiha. He wasn't sure how to prevent future events from happening, even if he talked to his uncle, he couldn't do anything about it due to the elders of the clan that are fanning the flames from within. Perhaps he would have to use that plan if it came to it.