-2 months later-
It had already been 2 months since Ryu had turned 5 years old and had awakened the sharingan making him the youngest uchiha ever to awaken the the infamous uchiha dojutsu- the sharingan in the clans hundreds of years long history.
Ryu had also shown his sharingan to Kagami, Ria and Mikoto who were all shocked at his red blood eyes, since that he had felt that his training had become way more easier and faster than before especially the ninjutsu portion.
In the past 2 months while taking advices from Kagami he had trained his sharingan vigorously and now he just reached the two tomoe level in both of his eyes, except from the clan head family no one else knew about his sharingan as Kagami adviced that having a sharingan at such a young would gather unnecessary attention to him.
As for his ninjutsu powress, Ria had helped him find his chakra affinities using the chakra paper which turned it to be fire, lightning and wind which was quite a dangerous offensive combination according to the clan head Kagami.
So using his sharingan in the past two months Ryu had learned 2 C ranked jutsu of both lightning and wind style( lightning flash, lightning rat violent quake, great breakthrough and gale palm) and also 1 B rank of both styles(wind cutter and electromagnetic murder).
He had also mastered the fire style: spiralling wave he was learning earlier, along with the shadow clone jutsu which he could now make 3 of without draining his chakra and the shunshin jutsu which was really convenient to travel in his opinion.
His taijutsu had improved too but not significantly only a little bit since the last few months he had been focusing on his ninjutsu and kenjutsu techniques.
In the criteria of kenjutsu he had learned a lot from his mother's scrolls with a little help from Ria from time to time as Naori was considered a master swordsman in her prime.
In the past few months he had also gotten quite close to Mikoto and mostly spend his time with her when he wasn't training or sleeping, the uchiha heiress had also started her shinobi training and was mostly trained in taijutsu and shurikenjutsu by her mother although not too much.
In the last two months he had also been focusing on his physique and speed making his body way stronger and faster than before by doing some intense physical workout.
As of right now it was evening and after a long kenjutsu session with Ria he was sitting in the backyard of the clan head's house with his bokken at his side and sitting with him was Mikoto who was acting a little nervous for the past few days and it was bothering Ryu so he just straight forward asked the clan heiress,
"Mikoto has something been bothering you?"
It did kind of made Mikoto jump a little bit at the sudden question as she smiled slightly at him and asked,
"Ryu kun do you know that the academy selection and registration starts In a week right?"
Raising a eyebrow he replied,
"Yes, I know about it is something wrong?"
"No I'm just a little bit worried afterall I'm not as strong as you, I only started my training and ..."
Frowning at the tears droplets forming at base of her beautiful eyes which he really didn't like he softly sighed and placed his hand atop her head and slightly stroked her silky hair forcing her to stop talking and look towards him wiping her tears as he smiled affectionately at her and said,
"Dont worry about such things Mikoto afterall I'm going to be with you, and if you want I can always help you in your training, you don't lack talent afterall you're the daughter of Kagami and Ria uchiha"
Hearing his words Mikoto couldn't help but suddenly wrap her arms around him and cry in his chest which did suprised him but quickly reciprocated and stroked her silky hair hoping to calm her down.
Mikoto had never had true friends in the clan as every children just treated her as if she was fragile and made of glass and she couldn't share these thoughts with her parents no mare how loving they were she as knew they too had some expectations for her so hearing Ryu's words really did eased her heart while also making her a 'little' emotional.
After a couple minutes the two young uchihas seperated and mikoto quickly stood up in embarrassment and said with her face beet red,
"O..oh, I'm sorry Ryu kun I ruined ruined your shirt"
"Dont worry about it Mikoto it's alright, are you feeling alright now?"
"Hai! Thank you for your advice Ryu kun, if you don't mind can you help me improve my shurikenjutsu?"
As he just nodded and stood up guiding Mikoto through some of the advanced shurikenjutsu techniques. After training with mikoto for another hour the sun had started to go down and so he said his goodbyes to Ria and Mikoto while Kagami was busy at the uchiha police force office, Ryu sunshined to his home where he freshened up and got to cooking his dinner for the night as he was feeling quite hungry after the kenjutsu session.
-2 week later-
It had been two week since that day and now it was time for Ryu to enroll in the shinobi academy of the hidden leaf village, he had already easily passed the entrance test along with Mikoto and had filled and submitted his registration form with Mikoto on the very first day itself, speaking of the uchiha heiress who he had been training with for the past two weeks, she had improved her taijutsu and shurikenjutsu.
Mikoto could now hit the bullseye effortlessly and was starting to get the hang of the uchiha interceptor fist although her movements were a little different than his being more reliable on flexibility than strength, she had also just started on the concepts of chakra control.
As Ryu's alarm rang early in the morning at 6, the young uchiha got out of his bed without delay afterall he didn't wanted to be late for his first day at the academy which started at 7o clock he quickly freshened up and got into clean clothes after sending two of his shadow clones to make breakfast and to pack his lunch, after which he packed his books which he had recieved from the academy two days prior and then after putting on his sandals he locked his door before disappearing into thin air using the shunshin jutsu.
As Ryu appeared in front of the clan head's house he saw that Kagami and Ria were already saying their goodbyes to Mikoto who also was dressed neatly and had small dark blue coloured backpack on. Seeing him approach Ria's eyes brightened and she quickly palmed both his cheeks saying with a smile,
"Oh~ Ryu kun you look so cute all dressed up like that"
Making him frown slightly and think that if it was someone else right now touching him like that he would've put the guy in a sharingan genjutsu and roast him in a fireball. Thankfully Kagami came to his rescue seeing his misery and pulled his backed telling her,
"Ok ok let him go now Ria or else they'll be late on thier first day at the academy "
After saying thier goodbyes to the uchiha couple him and mikoto started walking towards the academy.
While walking to the academy he talked to Mikoto asking,
"So tell me Mikoto do you know anyone from the academy?"
"Hai, my cousin Yaru already studies there in the the 3rd year"
Hearing this he nodded he had already guessed that Kagami's younger brother's son Yaru must also be studying in the academy was known to be a talented yet not prodigious student of the uchiha clan.
As the duo arrived at the academy they saw that many shinobi and civilian parents had came to drop off thier children on thier first day at the academy, ignoring this him and mikoto went to where a instructor was leading the new students to infront of a small stage.
After 10 minutes every new enrolling student had been into rows by the chunin instructors and just then in a puff of smoke the third hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared on top of the stage with a kind look on his face shocking amost everyone in the crowd, while he was also suprised by sudden appearance of the third hokage he didn't let it show on his stoic face having read that 'hiding his emotions could be his greatest weapon as a shinobi' in a book.
After the a long boring (according to Ryu) lecture about something called the 'will of fire' from the hokage the students were guided to thier to new classrooms while Ryu just couldn't understand the concept of will of fire afterall he loved his village and naturally wanted to protect it, he didn't need any 'will of fire' to tell him to do so.
Fortunately both Mikoto and himself had been assigned to the same class much to Mikoto's relief and excitement, as both the uchihas entered the class 1-A he saw that both him and Mikoto were probably the last ones to enter, and all the children were looking curiously at them as the he saw many girls squeal and whispering among themselves about him earning him the jealous gazes of the boys in the room.
Mikoto also noticed the new uchiha Ryu fanclub and frowned feeling a knot tighten in her chest as she just suddenly grew bold and held his hand making the whispering grow louder as she smiled at him saying,
"Come on Ryu kun let's go and take the seat by the window "
As he just nodded amused at his friend's behaviour and followed her to the seat, after a couple of minutes the sensei came and introduced himself as Koji Sarutobi a chunin instructor and so began the introductions in which he learned he had 5 clan hiers in his class- Tsume inuzuka, Hiashi hyuga, Choza akimichi, Inoichi yamanaka and nara Shikaku.
After the introductions and Koji sensei finishing the basic classes, Koji sensei announced to the class to head to the training ground outside the academy for shurikenjutsu and taijutsu lessons which made most of the students jump in excitement and run off outside while Ryu and Mikoto walked outside calmy.
Upon reaching the open field where there were acouple of dummies with targets on them with a box of kunais and shurikens and a open space for sparring on the other side.
As the test for shurikenjutsu started he noticed Mikoto had the leading scores in both shuriken and kunai criteria which of course made the others look at her either admirably or jealousy until a civilian blonde and blue eyed kid named Minato namikaze in a white jumpsuit matched her scores much to his amusement.
Just then Koji sensei called out his name making the girls cheer for him which irritated him to no end as he went forward and took 5 kunais and shuffled them in his hand before throwing them towards the target, as the kunais made confusing arches in air before hitting every bullseye , however the noticable thing was that the kunais were stuck way deep in the wooden targets.
Ignoring the astonished looks of his classmates and Koji sensei he went and took out 5 shurikens before repeating the same, and then went back to stand besides Mikoto again who just shook her head with head with a amused smile on her face.
Coming back to his senses Koji sensei shook his head saying,
"Excellent work Ryu kun, next is...."
As the shurikenjutsu drill went on he could see the admiring, jealous and even some fearful gazes on him , after the exam was finished he was ranked first while Mikoto and Minato tied for the second place.
As Koji sensei guided everyone to the spar circle and started the taijutsu battle with the very first one being between Mikoto and a akimichi girl who at first attacked relentlessly which the uchiha heiress dodged gracefully before sending a strong kick which send the akimichi tumbling out of the arena.
As the matches started to go on until his name was called along with the hyuga heir who stared at him only to be ignored, as the two stood opposite to each other just then sensei said,
"Hajime"
Hearing this Hiashi burst towards him with byakugan active and slightly blue chakra in hands perhaps due to the fact that he hadn't taken off his hands out of his pockets as if to mock the hyuga, but for him it was too slow so he just side stepped the hyuga and grabbed Hiashi's wrist before tossing the hyuga towards the boundary who managed to use friction to stop at the the border of the ring but before Hiashi could do anything, in a burst of speed Ryu appeared right by Hiashi's side and kicked the hyuga heir in the jaw which sent hyuga tossing in the ground out of the ring before coming to a stop, seeing this Koji sensei announced,
"Winner: Ryu uchiha"
As the girls started cheering for thier imaginary boyfriend while he just walked towards a half unconscious and humiliated Hiashi and made the seal of confrontation and went back to sit besides Mikoto, who smiled at him and said,
"Congratulations Ryu kun"
"Thank you Mikoto"
Just then he saw Minato walk towards him with noticable curiosity and excitement in the blondes eyes and said to him,
"You are very fast Ryu I hope we can fight soon"
To which Ryu just nodded and replied ,
"I guess, Minato was it?"
As Minato just nodded and went back to his seat Ryu sighed feeling bored and rested his head on Mikoto's shoulder who blushed brightly while his fanclub glared at the uchiha heiress while he thought to himself,
'Its going to be a long couple years isn't it?'
before closing his eyes and thinking of what he should cook for his dinner tonight.