A loyal dog.

"Hajime!"

Swipe, duck, sweep, block, duck, punch twice and jump back.

Duck to the right, block the punch, hold arm near the elbow and twist while kicking the inside of the leg with a bent knee....there!

"AAAH!"

"Ryu wins!"

"YES! Go Ryu-kun!"

"I told you he'd win!"

"That was so cool! I want to be like him!"

Fool. Only I can be ME!

*cough*

I went and stood next to my new "friend".....Kiba Inuzuka.

What a jittery little punk he was.

A pussy among dogs.

All bark and no bite.

Preposterous! A wolf and a Dragon being friends? This is not A Game of Thrones!

A Dragon is above all other beasts.

Yet, the cu*t could barely restrain himsel from jumping with joy when I punched Naruto in the face and knocked him out!

It seems that he truly believed I disliked Naruto. Not that I didn't. He was way too loud and brash.

An idiotic prick who sought for attention by acting like a clown. I had known a few people like him back on Earth.

And there was Sasuke.

He lost in a spar with me (Obviously) and trained like a maniac (More than before that is) and kept challenging me (And losing) and finally lost it and used Ninjutsu (And still lost)

They reprimanded him and asked us both to never spar as long as we were Academy students.

As if I wanted to give him a black-eye, a cut lip, a swollen arm, and multiple bruises in various places including but not limited to his family jewels and oh boy, he almost tried to kill me for ruining his plans for restarting his clan, which was what he was thinking. Thankfully, he did not say that out loud. Ino, Sakura and a few other girls already hated my guts. A few others shifted sides and became MY fangirls and usually fought with each other for my attention. That was really funny to watch.

"Ino wins!"

Then she looked at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes.

Ugh! Disgusting.

I sensed the real Sasuke on the tree. Pathetic. The real me is in Tetsu no kuni "learning" the art of Bukijutsu from Samurai. Beat that you emo ba****d!

And this way, the days passed quickly until it was March 1.

The Graduation Exams were fast approaching. It wasn't of great concern to myself, but seeing these little humans run around like it was the end of the world amused me to no end.

I was sure that the title of Rookie was mine. Which meant that either I would be put with Kakashi or taken into ANBU. I hoped the Hokage didn't directly make me join ANBU.

I was not afraid of Danzo and Root. They would not make a move unless it was discrete and not public.

My house was sealed to intruders, I was usually in the eyes of the public. The Hokage usually had me shadowed, which was nice cause I get free training and memories. So I was a difficult target and it would be very difficult to 'convince' to join their stupid organization.

I imagined a pair of Root Ninja knocking on my door...

"Hello sir! Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Savior Danzo Shimura?"

I think I scared the boy standing next to me when I suddenly started giggling like a madman.

I was walking back home when I heard someone shouting.

"Ryu! Ryu! Over here!"

"The f*** does he want now?" I grumbled as I turned to see Kiba waving his arm beckoning me.

"Good day to you, Inuzuka-san. May I know why I was called?"

"Maa maa, don't be so formal with me Ryu. Do you want to go to the Hot Springs?"

"I don't know, isn't that kinda far away. I don't think we are allowed to leave the village-"

"Not that Hot Springs BAKA! The Konoha Bathhouse!"

'OK, that's really weird....let's see what this is about.'

I scanned his mind slowly looking for information. Oh. Oooohhhh! Hmmm. Interesting. Not bad for a twelve-year old, really. I mean, come on man! Children in this place are trained to be assassins and murderers. What can you expect?*

"Sure. When do we go?"

"Why not now?"

"Fine. See you there."

"Bye!"

So he wanted to ask help.....

Well, they say a friend in need is a friend indeed.

They also say that there's nothing on earth that is more loyal than a dog.

I want a loyal dog.

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* Find out in the next episo-COUGH-sorry. Wrong fandom.

Kiba has a problem that he wants help with.

No, I'm not gonna pair them together!

I'm sorry for making you guys (and gals) wait yesterday.

Yeah. I came out at last. Sorry.

In my defense I was really scared! You must have noticed that from the number of cusses in the previous chapter.

I hope this calamity passes quickly. (No, I'm not infected. We checked.)

Lots of love. Stay safe guys!