-4 months later-
It had been 4 months since Ryu had graduated from the academy and became a genin for the hidden leaf village, making him the youngest genin ever to graduate from the academy since the foundation of the village, and due to this apparently almost everyone in the village was talking about him as he was told by Ria.
Moreover from somewhere the news of his matured sharingan had been leaked to the public further igniting the fire especially among the uchiha clan where many were shocked at the aspect of a 5 years old having a matured sharingan when most of the uchiha fail to even awaken the legendary dojutsu in thier entire lifetime.
All in all everyone in the village knew that if things were going to continue like this then Ryu uchiha would definitely become one the big players in the shinobi world' and many had already started calling him a 'generational talent'.
Getting all the fame was quite a hassle for Ryu if he was being honest since he couldn't even eat his dinner at the takoyaki shop without others whispering behind his back and had to resort to take his takoyaki back home to eat it peacefully.
From what the uchiha clan head Kagami had told him the hokage was very impressed with him and had high expectations from him but he didn't care what the hokage expected of him afterall he wasn't training for the hokage was he?
In the last five months under the guidance of Sakumo he had learned many new things but most importantly he had managed to convince Sakumo to start his elmental training a month ago which was proving to be much more complex than he thought it would've been and was making slow but steady progress in that area.
He had also learned many new jutsus of all three elements from Sakumo who was apparently quite proficient in water, earth and lighting elements but still knew some wind and fire jutsu's so Sakumo helped him a lot in taming his lightning better.
He had largely increased his chakra reserves since his fighting style largely depended on ninjutsu and shunshin jutsu which were both quite chakra consuming, and had also been training his body quite a lot and had grown a little bit taller than before afterall he was 6 years old now after his birthday two months ago.
Ryu hadn't been practicing all that much of genjutsu as it was just not his preference of fighting style although Kagami being a vivid admirer and master of genjutsu had forced him to learn a B ranked genjustu which was the Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death and an high level sharingan genjutsu the Demonic illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth change which was basically a genjutsu reversal technique was quite handy when battling non uchiha genjutsu masters.
In these past five months he had also been practicing a little bit of fuinjutsu and he guessed that perhaps in two or three months he would be able unlock the blood seal in his mother's library to see what's really in there but he didn't want to rush the process since fuinjutsu was really a dangerous art.
Moreover the new thing was that Sakumo had started to train him in his tactical abilities and given him a lots of books to read about some of the most famous battles that happened in the history to improve his battle tactics which of course Ryu soaked in like water.
Also in the past months the area he had most improved in was his kenjutsu, with the help of a kenjutsu master like Sakumo his kenjutsu aptitude has skyrocketed and he had learned various new moves from his sensei and his sharingan only provided him with a advantage although there was a major problem in his kenjutsu training which was that his tanto kept on breaking whenever it clashed with Sakumo's white fang and over five months he had already bought 6 tantos and now he really wanted a sword which could go hand to hand with the white fang.
Over the past few months him and Sakumo had done 10 C ranks, 5 B ranks and even a single A rank mission, fortunately he didn't have to do any annoying D rankers since according to what Sakumo had informed him the tensions between the hidden villages were boiling higher than ever and perhaps another shinobi war was around the corner which only motivated Ryu to train harder in order to protect his family and the village he loved in the possibly upcoming war.
Also on his very first C ranked mission which was a simple bandit cleaning mission, he had gotten his first kill which did freeze him for a moment before him and Sakumo went out to kill another two dozen of the bandits, after the mission ended Sakumo had sat him down and given him a heart to heart talk about the working of the shinobi world' and the meaning of being a shinobi which Ryu really did appreciated.
In the last few months he had been keeping tabs on Mikoto and although he was busy most of the time doing missions and training, he had managed to take some of his time out to check on Mikoto and sometimes even help her in her training.
From what Mikoto had told him in the academy Minato had solidified himself as the top student in the class and had shown immense growth in the past five months, which did somewhat suprise Ryu considering Minato was a civilian and there were rarely any civilian prodigies, but he has seen Minato's progress for himself since Minato had requested him for a spar a couple times which he hadn't declined since he did consider Minato somewhat of a friend.
As of right now Ryu was sitting atop Hashirama senju's head on the hokage monument with a plate of hot takoyaki and a glass of fine lemon juice, along with the soft winds blowing in the orangish yellow evening sky, it was like heaven to Ryu, just then the young genin felt a chakra fluctuation behind him making Ryu glance back slightly with a frown on his face only to see a uchiha rookie police force member appear and looked at saying,
"Ryu Kagami sama has summouned you to his office"
And disappeared without waiting, while Ryu was just irritated that someone had interrupted this perfect evening but he knew if Kagami had called him then it must be something important so he quickly devoured the takoyaki and gulped down his juice afterall he can't let this delicious food go to waste before vanishing in thin air.
As Ryu now appeared at the uchiha police force headquarters he simply walked inside calmy while seeing many uchihas bringing people arrested to be transferred to jail.
As he knocked on Kagami's office door he heard,
"Come in Ryu"
As he just opened the door and walked inside where he found Kagami sitting on a chair in front of a desk filled with documents as Kagami motioned him to take a seat which he did as the clan head said,
"Ryu did you just came back from a mission?"
"Hai Kagami oji-san I returned just yesterday evening"
As Kagami nodded and turned serious and said,
"Ryu now that you are officially a capable genin I've decided you to be allowed entry into the uchiha clan library"
Hearing this Ryu was suprised since the uchiha clan library was one the oldest and most resourceful libraries in the shinobi world, as he just nodded and said,
"Thank you Kagami oji-san I'll make sure to keep the clan secrets safe"
Since he knew that the library did contain some of the clan's secret jutsus, as Kagami just nodded and smiled before getting up and kept a hand on his shoulder saying,
"Come on let's go then I'll give you a tour of the place"
And then both vanished in thin air , only to appear in outskirts of the uchiha territory in front of door which led to an underground pathway and was guarded by two jounin level uchihas and perhaps more hidden in the trees.
Seeing the clan head the gaurds gave a bow and cleared the way opening the door through which Ryu and Kagami walked down. After they reached the first level which Kagami told were basically for the genins and chunins with 100s of scrolls in shelves which were promptly blank to to the naked eye but on activating the sharingan Ryu could see their contents.
As Ryu was led to the second level further down which was meant for the jounin level uchihas and afterwards Kagami said seriously,
"Ryu the next floor under this is restricted for everyone except the clan head but I'll make an exception just don't touch anything down there"
Ryu understanding the severity of the situation nodded and followed Kagami to the last level which was looked by barrier seal and after Kagami unlocked him and Ryu walked inside to see many old dusted scrolls of various sizes and colours on shelves.
Just as Ryu was following Kagami around his eyes fell on a big scroll which was hanging separately on one the walls binded by chains, it was fully black in colour with strange red symbols on it with insignia of a red dragon head in middle.
Ryu couldn't help be fascinated and curiosity got the better of him as he walked towards the scroll and stood in front of it, seeing this Kagami too went and stood beside him and said in a solemn tone ,
"This Ryu is the dragon clan summouning contract, from what I know it was acquired by one of our early ancestors however since then not a single uchiha had been able to sign the contract and only returned either dead or sometimes never returned"
Hearing this only fuelled Ryu's curiosity and his sharingan came to life while his hand grazed the beautifully carved symbols on scroll afterall he knew that Kagami had crow contract while Sakumo had dog contract before he turned to Kagami with a determined gaze and the tomoes in his sharingan rotating and said,
"Let me try and sign it"
Kagami's eyes widened hearing this before narrowing and said,
"Absolutely not Ryu you don't understand the dangers of signing this contract"
"If I die I die simple as that but I feel like it's calling out to me and if not today then in future I'll definitely sign it"
Making Kagami frown and was already regretting the decision to bring him to this floor and seeing Ryu was not going to back off it was better the young uchiha tried it under his supervision than in the future alone,
"Ryu you need to work on that attitude of yours but fine go ahead if anything happens wrong just quickly reverse summon yourself okay?"
As Ryu nodded, Kagami unchained the scroll before handing it to Ryu who quickly unfurled it to see it completely blank indicating that no one had ever signed the dragon clan contract before, as Kagami showed the handsigns to Ryu who using his sharingan copied them before signing his name on the contract with his blood and said performing handsigns,
"Summouning Justu!"
Only to vanish in a puff of smoke which did not ease Kagami's worries.
-Somewhere in the world-
As Ryu observed his surroundings to find himself in a forested mountain regions accompanied by high winds and checked his surroundings with sharingan before moving towards always on alert. After 3-5 minutes of exploring and not finding anything although he could see some wierd chakra in the area around him , suddenly he heard a loud ferocious roaring sound above his head making Ryu pocket a kunai and look above and his eyes widened seeing a humongous dark red dragon with yellow slitted eyes bigger than anything he has ever seen rushing at him before opening it's wide jaws showing its sharp long teeths before spitting a fast and large stream of hot red fire at him, seeing he had no chance to escape the fastly approaching fire he created a shadow clone and both said in unison,
"Katon: Fire Release Stream"
"Futon: Beast Tearing Gale Palm"
And barely managed to counter the the dragon's fire with his own, he couldn't help but frown on his chakra reserves going down as he had used a lot of chakra in his last move.
Just as he was thinking of ways to escape knowing he had no chance against this fire breathing dragon his sharingan barely managed to see a sharp nail coming towards time as he quickly shunshin a little distance away and quick dispelled his shadow clone and said,
"Raiton: Powerful Breath"
As huge amounts of lightning buzzed in his palms before shooting towards the dragon who simply swatted them and slashed at him again, this time faster than before and Ryu quickly moved through handseals saying,
"Futon: Wind Wall"
As huge thick winds revolved around him and managed to somewhat halt the dragon's nail who suddenly roared and exerted more pressure effectively piercing the wind wall and slashing him in the chest sending Ryu flying through two trees before he rolled on the ground before coming to a halt.
Ryu was burned in some places and mostly his chest was slashed diagonally and was bleeding from the mouth, as Ryu stood up slowly shaking slightly gaining the curiosity of the dragon who looked at him with a tilted head before Ryu just smirked slightly thinking,
'Perhaps it was a bad idea coming here'
And just made a ram sign saying softly,
"Kai"
Before falling on his back due to chakra exhaustion and blood loss, as the dragon felt something creeping on its legs and looked to see hundreds of sizzling explosion tags covering it's legs which went of creating a large boom in the forest. Ryu as a last ditch effort had used the 'Katon: Exploding Flame Formation' which he had only recently learned from one of his mother's scrolls fully exhausting his chakra.
-A few hours later-
As Ryu slowly but surely felt his consciousness come back to him Ryu fluttered his eyes open and looked at his body which was fully bandaged on the chest and he seemed to be in a luxurious cave, just then he heard a deep booming voice,
"So you have waken up child you sure do heal fast"
Making him turn his head and look impassively at a white dragon with slitted red eyes lying on a golden throne even larger than the red dragon he had fought while on the inside he was shocked at the dragon's size and aura of power.
Seeing his impassive face the white dragon grinned showing its large pointed teeths and said impressed,
"You are quite different from the others, you being a child managed to survive Zoki's attack Hmmm"
Hearing this Ryu only scoffed at the dragon and he said narrowing his eyes at the dragon and said,
"Dont bother me with such praises I lost and I accept it now kill me and be done with it!"
Making the the dragon grin even more widely at him and reply,
"Quite a ferocious one you are and tell me why would I want to kill the dragon clan first summouner"
Making Ryu mouth go dry and his eyes widening.