Chapter 29

Three days later, Ryu spent most of his time studying Orochimaru's curse seal as he used his Sharingan to copy his seal. It was really hard to decipher the seal as it was made from the body of jugo. It was made by using the special fluid from jugo's body that can absorb natural energy.

"Seem I have to get directly from the curse seal or jugo himself but it will be hard to deal with the consciousness of Orochimaru"

It was already night by the time he left his lab. Ryu went out for his nightly patrol as he wanted to stop the death of Gekkō hayate. While it might not look like it, but he and hayate were good friends who normally talk about kenjutsu together.

He continued to patrol till the middle of the night where he could feel kabuto and Baki who meet up together. He could also feel hayate that was hiding while watched them.

Ryu stood 20m away as he confident in his stealth skills. Ever since his body became a sage body, he has been more Intune with nature. so, unless he wants a person to know it is almost next to impossible to find him.

They two continued talking for some time till kabuto said "since we are allies why don't I take care of the trash"

"No let me do it" Baki replied as he charges at hayate.

Ryu doesn't immediately go to help. He was here to save him from dying but he wants him to be injured before he does it. if possible, for him to be in a coma.

Why is he doing this? That because as long as hayate reports to the hokage about what he heard, Ryu can't be sure how it will change the plot. Although the plot has already change Ryu like to keep what he can the same if he can.

the fight was intense but hayate's sword style was no match for Baki. Hayate was gravely injured, as Baki was about to land the finishing blow Ryu release his charka make himself know.

"Damn I have to leave here quickly" Baki said as kabuto had already left "he got lucky"

He quickly left the place leaving a dying hayate. Ryu walks up to hayate checking his condition he use his medical jutsu to heal him removing him from a life threating situation. Not long after a group of anbu arrive but Ryu had already left as he didn't want to deal with the situation.

The new of the attack on hayate was not told to the public but the Jonins were told about it but because hayate wasn't conscious he wasn't able to tell them what.

Ryu knew that he will eventually wake up but it won't really matter by then

Like that the rest of the month passed Ryu had made some progress in his sage mode as he was using the {shadow clone jutsu} to help him. With the help of his breathing technique he was able to feel the natural energy around him. But his breathing technique only supplies the energy to his body. He is still having problem mixing it with his chakra.

"I really need to make my own curse seal" Ryu said as he finished another training session.

It will be much easier if he could make a variant of the curse seal so the it can gather the natural energy for him.

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It was finally the day for the finals. A lot of people gather in the arena. All the genin have gathered except for sasuke. Ryu stood at his position as they were on guard against the sand village. Hayate hasn't woken up from his coma so the situation was still the same as the anime

The kazekage (Orochimaru) had already arrive the whole place was tensed. The match starts with Neij vs Naruto as sasuke hasn't arrived. The started with a brawl of taijutsu Naruto wasn't able to get an advantage on Neij.

Naruto uses {wind release; great break through} a huge wind charges at Neij. The attack didn't have much effect on Neij as he moved out of the affected area.

Seeing this Naruto make a lot of shadow clones and had them attack him, the real Naruto remains standing watching wait to take advantage at anytime

Neij uses the {revolving heaven}, blocking the attack. The Hyugas were surprised by this as he was never taught this technique.

He moves forward to attack Naruto. Being a strong headed that he is, Naruto decided to face him head on.

Neij then uses the {sixty-four palms} on Naruto blocking all his chakra. Naruto manages to move away from him with great difficulty.

"You should give up your chakra points are seal" Neij said

"Hehe I'm never going to give up cus that's my ninja way" Naruto said with a grin.

Naruto starts gathering chakra but it wasn't any chakra, it was the Nine tails chakra.

After spending some time with the nine tails Naruto has already become good friends with the nine tails. But because Naruto's body isn't able to handle the whole of the nine tails chakra, he can only use the Version 1  stage.

As the nine tails chakra help him unblock his chakra Naruto tries to overpower Neij with brute force. Neij was shocked by the ferocity of the nine tails chakra but he quickly uses his {revolving heaven} blocking Naruto's blow. This flings both of them back. When the dust cleared Neij was the only one standing.

Seeing Naruto was down Neij let him guard down then suddenly another Naruto pops out from the ground giving him an upper cut send him flying. He finishes him up with an Uzumaki combo.

Ryu watches as Naruto defeat Neij. he wasn't surprised as Naruto was already stronger than his anime counterpart.

Sasuke still hasn't shown up so his match with gaara was moved to the last match of the day.

As the next match was about to start an anbu appeared next to Ryu.

"Ryu you are been assigned by the hokage to investigate some suspicious move around the village wall" the anbu said

Ryu looks towards the hokage who gave him an approving nod.

"Okay I will get on to it" Ryu said

He was a bit suspicious about the task given to him as he can't remember any like that happening in the canon. But he wasn't too worried about anything happening to him there is hardly anyone that can match him.

Ryu quickly moved towards the wall. When he reached, he didn't see anything in the vicinity.

Ryu suddenly frowned as a five-seal-barrier was erected around him. After it erect a lager group of root ninjas appeared in Ryu's vision.

"Why I'm not surprised" Ryu said as he expected Danzo to do something like this.

"might as well use this chance to get rid of him as well" Ryu said as he drew his sword

"DESCEND TO THE EARTH; JĪNWŪ"