The Dragon of Konoha

A Boy's honor

Sakura:... Okay.

Running off, she goes searching for Kiryu. She finds him, not too far from Majima.

From a distance she watched him stand on the side of a tree with a serious expression.

At first, she believed him to have already mastered the technique until she took notice of the trees around him.

The nearby trees all had multiple holes in them from Kiryu walking on them.

Whereas Majima was using too little chakra and slowly adding more to find the sweet spot of efficiency.

Kiryu was starting with too much Chakra and trying to go down.

However, the Dragon within made that difficult.

Sakura watched as Kiryu took one step up the tree, with careful and gentle precision.

(BAM)

Only to snap the tree in half.

Kiryu: Eh?

He falls with the tree on top of him.

Sakura:!!

Rolling it off of himself, Kiryu stands up injured, only for his skin to sizzle as his wounds heal quickly.

A positive of his uncontrollable chakra.

Sakura, leaves, to tell Majima the news. As Kiryu soldiers on to learn this technique so he may have better control of his Chakra.

(Hours later...)

The young genin of team 7 return to the bridge builders home after a long day's work of training.

Upon arriving, they saw the builder's family eating dinner. The builder himself, his daughter, and grandson, a boy with black hair, and glasses.

Kiryu:?

Tasunami: Come sit and enjoy.

The three began eating, Majima and Kiryu like starving animals.

Sakura: Come guys... Could you not take your time?

Tasunami: A growing boy's hunger is insatiable.

Eating until there was nothing left, both Majima and Kiryu began training their bodies with physical exercise, as Sakura was left with helping Kakashi.

Sakura:(grumbles)

She glares at Kiryu is approached by the grandson, Inari.

Inari: Hey... I heard you all got ambushed.

Kiryu: We did. What of it.

Inari: Was it that Kuze guy?

Kiryu:(nods)

Inari: Grrrr... What's that's guys' deal?

Kiryu: How should I know.

Inari: Wish I was strong like you guys... I could go fight him.

Kiryu: You don't need strength to fight.

Inari:?

Kiryu: Fighting, shows you have strength. And if you fight enough times, your strength may even become power.

Inari:...

Kiryu: Does that make sense?

Inari: I think so...

Walking away from Kiryu, Inari saw Sakura approach him.

Sakura: I swear if you were trying to pick a fight with another child...

Ignoring their conversation, Inari snuck into the basement, where he dug through the boxes to find a blade.

A blade that once belonged to his father according to his mother.

Inari: If I don't need strength to fight, then what have I been waiting for...?

Waiting for everyone to fall asleep, Inari took the blade with illustrations on the sheath and made his way to Kuze's base of operations.

Kiryu: Oi.

Inari:!!

Finding Kiryu with a cigarette in his mouth, after sneaking out to satisfy an unnatural urge, Inari froze.

Inari: I-I'm going to go fight that old man! And put an end to this.

Kiryu:(takes a puff of smoke)

Kiryu: Alright. Let's go.

Inari: Huh?

Kiryu: I'll help.

Inari: You're not going to stop me?

Kiryu: Why should I?

Majima: Maybe because he's six?

The last Uchiha made his presence known.

Kiryu: What are you doing here, Majima?

Majima: Saw you sneak out, Kiryu-chan. What a naughty boy you are, coming out to smoke.

Majima: I was hoping we could spar, but then this happened.

Majima: So come on, let's go.

Inari: Wait, you're not going to stop me either?

Majima: Well... Someone needs to show us the way the building we should be scouting.

Majima: But if a stupid brat so happens to rush in that building, I would have no choice but to follow and stop them.

Kiryu: Hm. Okay, let's go-

Sakura: NOT SO FAST!

(Smack)

Kicking Kiryu across the face, making him drop his cigarette, Sakura makes her presence known.

Majima: Shhhh! Not so loud Sakura!

Sakura: What are you two doing?!

Majima: Following a kid in the dark- that did not come out, right.

Kiryu: Why did you hit me?

Sakura: Because you were smoking and doing something stupid.

Kiryu:...... Smoking? But you already sai-

Sakura: No. Not stopping the kid!

Kiryu: Why would I stop him?

Sakura: Because he's going to get himself killed!

Kiryu: Stopping him wouldn't stop the anger in his heart.

Majima: I can kinda relate to the kid too... Age doesn't matter, injustice is injustice.

Sakura:(blushes) Stop being so cool Majima! Let's think this through before we get in over our heads!

Kiryu:... Tell that to the kid.

Sakura: Hm?

Inari, during Sakura's scolding, had run off to fight Kuze.

Sakura:...... That little...

Sakura: Fine! Let's go save him! Nothing else.

Majima: I knew you'd come over.

Sakura:(blushes)

Kiryu: Follow me.

Team 7 rushes off after Inari.

Kakashi: Ah-choo!

Kakashi:... Why does it feel like my students are doing something stupid?

TO BE CONTINUED....