Naruto: Rise To The Top - Chapter 17

Mikoto and Kushina were worried after witnessing the recent collision between Tsunade and Ryuu. So once the fight was over they went to check on Tsunade and Ryuu.

But what shocked them was that Ryuu was fine and Tsunade was sitting on the ground treating her injury.

“Tsunade-onee-san, are you okay?” Kushina asked worriedly.

Kushina and Mikoto did not expect that Ryuu could injure Tsunade, because Tsunade was a disciple of the Third Hokage and possessed a strength close to the level of a Kage.

“I’m fine, I will finish the treatment soon. You can wait with Ryuu until I finish.” Tsunade said, happy because her students were worried about her. But she is ashamed that she was injured by a 9-year-old boy.

Tsunade didn’t use her full force in the last punch, because she was worried about hurting Ryuu. If she used her full force in the punch, she could seriously injure Ryuu.

Also, she didn’t expect Ryuu to have such a strong offensive ninjutsu. The strength of this ninjutsu is more than rank A and close to rank S, which caused her to be injured.

But Ryuu’s strength really shocked her, the strength he displayed was no less than Jonin’s. She was shocked by his use of ninjutsu without hand seals.

‘I should have checked his strength first before fighting him, Hiruzen-sensei must have had a report on Ryuu’s strength I should have asked him first’ Tsunade sighed while thinking.

Five minutes later, Tsunade’s arm was treated.

After treating her arm, Tsunade stood up and walked towards Ryuu.

“Can you show me your right arm?” Tsunade said to Ryuu, who was talking with Mikoto and Kushina. She was worried that Ryuu had injured his arm as well.

Ryuu smiled bitterly, showing her his right arm. Tsunade grabbed him by the hand, and removed the bandages that wrapped his arm up to the elbow. Once the bandages were removed, Ryuu’s arm appeared, which had become swollen and turned blue.

Ryuu was embarrassed because Tsunade found out that he had also been injured.

“Ryuu, listen carefully. If you go on a mission in the future and get injured, do not hide your injuries from your comrades and pretend that you are fine, because if the injury is not treated in time, it will leave a hidden injury, and if these injuries accumulate, it will affect your strength in the future and may become weaker when you become older and may Cause early death”

Tsunade said with a serious expression while treating Ryuu’s injury.

“Okay, Tsunade-sensei, I won’t hide my injuries in the future.” Ryuu said with some embarrassment. Tsunade was so close to him that he could smell the scent of perfume on her body, causing his heart to beat even faster.

His eyes began to wander over the curves of Tsunade’s body, and his eyes stopped on her lips and he wanted to kiss her, but he managed to stop himself.

He had never felt this feeling before, Kushina and Mikoto were young so he didn’t feel a strong desire for them, but the closer he got to Tsunade he felt a strong urge to hug and kiss her. If he wasn’t afraid to break his bones, he would have already kissed her.

Tsunade noticed Ryuu’s heart rate increased and his face turned red. But she thought Ryuu was embarrassed because he had hidden his injuries.

But that doesn’t mean that Mikoto and Kushina who were by Ryuu’s side didn’t notice where he was looking.

Kushina was angry because Ryuu stared for a long time at Tsunade’s chest, so she silently extended her hand to his waist so as not to notice Tsunade and twisted it 180 degrees.

Suddenly Ryuu felt an excruciating pain at his waist and turned to find Kushina and Mikoto’s angry gazes, as if cold water had been poured on him and the urge he was feeling had gone away.

Ryuu sent an apologetic smile to Kushina and Mikoto, then closed his eyes.When Ryuu closed his eyes he thought ‘Damn when will my body become mature’.

Three minutes later, Tsunade finished treating Ryuu’s arm.

When Tsunade finished treating Ryuu’s arm, she saw him closing his eyes, “Why are you closing your eyes, Ryuu?”

“My eyes felt tired so I closed them.” Ryuu said with a reddened face of embarrassment.

‘Idiot you can’t even say a good excuse’ Kushina’s eyelids twitched at the obvious lie Ryuu gave.

When Tsunade saw that Ryuu made an excuse with a red face, she thought he was embarrassed by a pretty girl approaching him, because of that he closed his eyes. So she wanted to harass Ryuu.

“I wonder why your face is red . It looks like Kushina’s hair color ” Tsunade said as she brought her face close to Ryuu’s.

As soon as Ryuu heard Tsunade’s words and saw her teased face, his face turned back to its normal state, he said looking into Tsunade’s eyes and bringing his face closer to hers”What are you talking about, I don’t understand what you mean.”

Ryuu’s face was very close to Tsunade’s. Tsunade’s face turned red and she took a few steps back and when she saw him smiling, she punched Ryuu in the head.”What are you doing, you little pervert?”

“You’re the one who started this, why did you punch me?” Ryuu exclaimed in pain as he rubbed the place of the blow.

“No reason,” Tsunade said with a smile when she saw Ryuu screaming in pain.

“Kushina, didn’t you notice that Tsunade-nee-san seems happier when you talk to Ryuu, and their relationship seems so good,” Mikoto whispered to Kushina.

“Yeah, as if she had known him for a long time, I had never seen her this close to anyone except for her little brother, and I kind of feel that she is more close to Ryuu.” Kushina whispered.

“Why are you whispering?” Suddenly Tsunade appeared behind them.

“Nothing,” both Kushina and Mikoto answered at the same time.

Tsunade was suspicious when she heard the answer, but she didn’t think about it much. “Anyway, Kushina is just you who hasn’t graduated yet, you can apply for graduation, after you graduate I will gather the four of us into one team.”

“Finally I can graduate” Kushina said happily, she always wanted to graduate early but Tsunade wouldn’t let her.

“Tsunade-nee-san, I’m in a team already so I can’t join your team.” Mikoto felt sad that she couldn’t join the same team as Ryuu and Kushina.

“Don’t worry, I can ask the Hokage to be on the same team, I’ll tell him that I accepted you as a student, so I want you on the same team,”

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