As Ryu and the other genins who have passed the 1st part of the chunin exams followed the suna jounin who hade taken then to a large desert outside the village and said with a vicious smile,
"Welcome to the one the most dangerous desert in the wind country, here sandstorms are a common occurance, in this desert there are 6 green flags and 6 red flags hidden somewhere, the teams to bring a pair of green and red flags back here within 5 days would be allowed to continue to the 3rd part to the chunin exams"
Hearing this Ryu was now getting kind of excited as the suna jounin distributed a death clause for everyone to sign so that sunagakure can't be held responsible if they die in the chunin exams, this made some of the already scared genins quickly refuse to sign the contract and forfeited the chunin exams which was really pathetic in Ryu's eyes.
As Ryu calmly signed the contract before the horns were sounded marking the start of the 2nd part of the chunin exams as the genins rushed into the desert while he just held a ram sign and then disappeared in thin air using the shunshin.
-1 hour later -
It had been an hour since Ryu had started to search for the green or red flag but just couldn't find it anywhere, and now he was in the middle of an desert on a lovely evening, so as he sighed disappointingly at his failure before activating his sharingan as a latch ditch effort to look for the flag by making his eyesight sharper. Just then Ryu felt something crumple beneath his foot and so he quickly removed a layer of sand to find a bright green coloured flag, as Ryu picked the flag up and placed it in his pockets before thinking to himself with a frown on his face,
'Now to find the red flag, but I think it'll be better if I hunt down some teams I just can't wander in this heat for any longer'
So making the decision to hunt down teams rather than to aimlessly search for flags knowing that the probability of him finding a red flag randomly is very negligible. As Ryu looked at the already darkening sky he frowned and thought,
'I don't have much time left I should find a shelter for myself to spend the night in after I get that red scroll'
And with this Ryu quickly started to look for signs of a nearby team. While Ryu was looking for the red flag, had came across the corpses of three dead mist genins, probably because many others had came to the same conclusion as him.
After 15 minutes of using his tracking skills he had finally located a team of 3 suna genins who from his viewpoint looked pretty exhausted and so deciding to make his move his facial expression hardened and he said making handseals,
"Futon: Wind Spear"
And from the genins could do anything his wind spear pierced right through one the suna genin's head making the two freeze in shock before one of them took out a large fan and unfurled it while the other took out a katana from the waist and upon noticing him standing there calmly their anger boiled due to the fact that a child had managed to kill their friend before one of the suna genin ruched at him screaming,
"Take this you bastard! Futon: Sickle Weasel Technique"
And swung his fan in his direction making sharp revolving winds rush at him with high speeds, making him use the shunshin and in a blink of a eye Ryu disappeared and appeared right beside the suna genin who now had a kunai stuck in his throat and was making gurgling sounds coughing blood before falling head straight into the sand, eyes now lifeless.
Seeing his teammate who was the strongest on the team fall into the sand with lifeless eyes, the katana wielding suna genin was trembling in fear looking at Ryu as if the uchiha was the reaper himself before pulling out a red flag from his pocket surprising Ryu and said in a shahky voice,
"P..please take my flag and let live, I don't want to die!!"
As Ryu looked at the suna genin who now kneeling in front of him and crying making Ryu scoff as he found it pathetic for a shinobi to be showing such behaviour as he just took the red flag from the suna genin's hand who started to gain some hope of making out alive and staying as far away as possible from the 'demon' in front of him only for Ryu's eyes to bleed red activating the sharingan as the suna genin looked dazed before taking a kunai from his pocket and slitting his own throat meeting the same date as his teammates.
Ryu had used the genjutsu sharingan on the suna genin and as he looked down at the corpse lying at his feet he couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment before he quickly pocketed the red flag he had obtained and looked at the setting sun on the horizon.
Initially Ryu had expected that he would have to go through at least two to three genin squads before he could get his hands on the red flag, but his luck had shown up and now he had enough time to get back to the starting point with both the flags in hand.
So keeping this in in mind Ryu just started to run back towards the starting point at low chunin level speeds in order to conserve some energy in case of an ambush in between. After Ryu had ran for towards his destination for an hour he finally reached the starting point and noticed two suna jounins sitting there talking among themselves and also noticed it was starting to get dark.
Upon noticing a small figure walking towards them both jounins stood up, as Ryu walked and stood in front of jounins one of whom asked noticing the leaf hiate on his left bicep,
"Did you get both the flags?"
As Ryu just nodded and handed over both the flags to amazed suna jounin who just checked it and nodded before saying,
"Alright you have passed the second part of chunin exams, in a month's time the finals of the chunin exams will take place so be there in the main stadium on time you can now go back to your sensei, but state your name first"
"My name is Ryu uchiha"
As Ryu said that he simply started walking off back to the the hotel while the two jounins looked at the uchiha fan on his back with narrowed gazes and kept in mind to inform the third kazekage about this uchiha prodigy.
As Ryu walked the streets of suna he saw many different shops and restaurants lined up with many people walking around and then thought to himself,
'Hmm perhaps I should buy some gift for Kiyomi and Mikoto from here but what do girls like?'
Even after racking his brain he couldn't come up with an answer and just then he saw a shop there with a beautiful white kimono with light blue linings on the edges setted on display and that really did catch his eye since he knew Kiyomi didnt have any formal clothes and knew she would like this one.
As Ryu went into the store he bought the white kimono which fortunately they had in Kiyomi's size and while looking through the clothes he also found a beautiful dark blue kimono with black linings and bought it in Mikoto's size, and from what the shopkeeper had told him the style and the fabric of the kimono is only produced in suna and that's what made it special.
After buying the gifts for his two friends, he went to a nearby restaurant and packed some dinner for himself and Sakumo and then continued on his way to the hotel.
As Ryu reached the hotel and knocked on the door, which opened to reveal Sakumo in casual clothing who raised one his eyebrows in suprise on seeing him and said with a smile,
"Oh Ryu you're here early I was told the chunin exams would go on for another five days"
"Its nothing, I just happened to get lucky and completed it early"
As Ryu walked inside and placed the dinner on the table as he was joined by Sakumo who was quite hungry himself.
As the the teacher student duo were eating Sakumo informed him that for the next month it will be better to go train in the land of rivers instead of suna since he didn't want any incidents to happen that could increase the hostility between the two villages and Ryu had agreed with his teacher.
After getting fresh and changing into fresher clothes, him and Sakumo went to the main gates of the sunagakure before showing the permit to leave the village that Sakumo had got from the kazekage while he was freshening up and packing, and as the gaurd allowed for the duo to leave they ran at low jonin speeds towards the borders of land of rivers wanting to start the training for the chunin exams finals as soon as possible.