Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does, but I do own Ryu his friends...

talk: hello

jutsus and kyubi talk: hello

Thinking: Hello

A large steel gate was standing in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the gate was complete darkness, along with some clicking noises coming from behind the gate.

"I can't believe they did this to you, my children, and it was all because of that hanyo..." A man said as he stood in front of the gate "I'll make him pay for locking you all away behind this blasted gate…" the man said as he touch one of the bars of the gate, resulting in a huge spark sending the man back. Raising his left hand so that it was hovering over a red orb that was imbedded in his chest a dim light shined from it."But... (cough) I'll… need more… BLOOD…" the man let out as he slowly stood up and then faded away into the surrounding emptiness.

---Terra Earth 12:00 A.M. ---

The full moon was high in the night sky shining down into the window of a small cabin that at the moment housed a group of five, two 'teenage' men and three 'teenage' women.

"I can't believe that we don't have to worry about them anymore..." A blond woman, that was wearing a white tube top, blue jeans, and had tan skin, said as she was looking out the window at the full moon. "I mean after how many years we had have to hide when it was night because of them… and now we don't have to."

"You know what I can't believe, Keiko, is that Ryu didn't take the request to become the next king…" A man with shoulder length silver hair, a button down white shirt with a red tank top under it, and long blue jean, two small fangs at just barely peek out from behind his lips and crimson eyes, replied to the blond woman as he walked up behind her and snaked his arms around her to pull her into a loving hug. "I mean you could have been a great king, ototo, don't know why you did aspect it…"

"Hey, I feel like I won't be a good king, besides, I don't like giving orders…" A man with short black hair that hung to his left side of his face more, three sliver highlights equally space from each other, a blue T-shirt that was one size to big, and black jeans, replied after he took a drink from his water bottle that was in his hand. "Besides, you didn't take that request either, Marik-nii-san." Ryu said with a small grin as he saw a tick went off on Keiko's forehead.

"YOU WHAT!!!?" Keiko yelled out making both Ryu and Marik cover their ears, wishing that they did have as good of hearing as they did.

"Ow…Keiko…." Both Marik and Ryu muttered as they looked at her, Marik stepping away from her a little as he rubbed his ears and looked at a very pissed off Keiko.

"Don't Keiko me, I can understand why Ryu would turn down becoming king, but YOU! You are a great second chose for king, your kind, caring, understanding, powerful, wise, and good at making hard choices." Keiko said jabbing her index finger into the chest of her mate each time she told him one of his great qualities, making him step back each time she poked him.

"I know, I know, but I just feel like I won't be able be around Ryu and the others, and I just can't do that…" Marik said as he put his hands on his mate's shoulders to try and calm her down a little. Before Keiko could reply, Ryu let out a groan of pain, dropping to the ground and coughing up a little bit of blood before he black out.

- In Ryu's mind –

When Ryu opened his eyes he found himself in a chamber with both his limiters off and his grey angel like wings folded around his body. With a sigh Ryu sat down thinking that he was going to be waiting for a long time, but to his shock four figures appeared in front of him, clothed in long black cloaks that didn't show their faces of any flesh for that matter.

"Ok… so why did you summon me to this place?" Ryu asked knowing full well that something must be off if he didn't have to wait long for them. The figures looked at Ryu, one of them stepping forward before it spoke.

"It was wise not to became the king of your land…" hearing that Ryu groaned, hitting his forehead with the palm of his right hand, it was never a good thing when these people agreed with him, "For you have another destiny you most follow. One that leads you away from this world…"

"Oh no, I'm not going to a parallel world, you can't make me!" Ryu let out as he open his wings and crossed his forearms to make an "X" while he shook his head.

"To stop Lyon from regaining his power and freeing his 'children'." The figure continued as if Ryu didn't interrupt him at all, hearing that Ryu let out a groan and looked at the figure, rubbing the bridge of his nose, Ryu looked at the figure.

"Can I at least bring Mai with me?" he asked as he tried to figure out why it was so important for them to tell him this in his mind and not send one of their animals to tell him this. But then again Ryu was always out in the dark all the time when it came to them. Sighing Ryu listen to what the figures had to tell him, at some point Ryu felt like he was going to fall asleep in his own mind, until he felt something burn him on his right wrist, and held in a yelp that want to come out.

"Know remember Ryu, you cannot bring your mate with you until after you saw the boy that has the Kyubi no kitsune sealed away within him. He is half of the key to stop Lyon from reaching his goal."

"We can see that you and the boy will become like brothers once you two met, we want you to train the boy on how to use his yokai power...You will know what that means when you see him." One figure said as the air around Ryu went cold meaning that one or more of them were 'smiling'.

"I have one question….Why is it that even though we are in my mind, you all have control of everything that goes on in here?" Ryu asked, making it get colder as the tall figure just waved it's hand 'sending' Ryu out of his own mind.

- In the cabin –

Ryu woke to find himself laying down on one of the three coughes that were in the cabin, with a damp cloth on his forehead. With a sigh, he removed the cloth from his forehead, sat up and spit out the little bit of blood that was left in his mouth.

"I hate when the Wyrm call me.." he muttered out as he slowly stood up and let out a yawn. After the yawn Ryu looked at his right wrist to see a new tattoo there, in kanji it say "Ruler of earth and heaven." seeing that he let out a groan and went to look for Mai to tell her to pack some things for both of them and get ready to leave when he calls her from the other world.

---Valley of the end---

A 13 year old blond boy was standing on top of the river, wearing a beaten orange jumpsuit his blue eyes filled with hurt and betrayal at a raven colored hair teen that was wearing a dark blue shirt and cream color shorts, who looked at the blond as if he was better than him and that he didn't care about him.

"SASUKE!!! I'm going to bring you back even if I have to break both your arms and legs to do so!!!" The blond yelled out as he raised his left hand in a fist that the other teen, who just smirked and crossed his arms and just chuckled.

"Do you really think you can take me on dobe?" Sasuke said as he looked at the blond, "Please, you can't even burse my forehead." hearing what Sasuke said, pissed off the blond boy, making him slip in to a messy taijutsu stance and then charged at Sasuke making him smirk as he went into a Goken stance and his eyes turned from black to red with two tomoes in each eye. When the blond got close to Sasuke, he swung his left fist at his face, but with Sasuke's Sharingan, he dodges the punch and then gripped the blonds' wrist and flipped him over his shoulder like if he was nothing, landing right on his back into the water. Letting out a groan of pain, the blond quickly got back to his feet and sent a kick to Sasuke's legs which he easily dodged as well and flipped back a few yards. With a smirk Sasuke looked at the blond and turned his back. "Your not even worth my time, Naruto." As he said this he started to walk away from Naruto, which really pissed off Naruto.

Making a cross with his both his index and middle fingers on both hands and in a poof of smoke three Naruto appeared around the original Naruto, who held out his right hand with the palm open and the three other him started to spin their hands around the real one's hand, forming a blue ball of energy. Feeling chakra building up behind him, Sasuke turned to see Naruto readying an attack, which Sasuke just let out a small 'hmph' and after doing three hand seal, he put his left hand on his right wrist, with his right palm facing down and lighting started to form in his hand. When both attacks were finished charging up, both teens charged at each other ready to slam their attacks into each if they get the chance, but before they reached each other, a tower of black light appeared from under the water stopping but Naruto and Sasuke in their tracks. After a moment a dark figure stepped out of the black tower of light, looking at Sasuke, who was started to charge at the man with his right hand extended out aiming for the figure's chest. When Sasuke got close to the figure, a cold feeling came over Sasuke, right before he thrust his hand forward to impale the figure in the chest, but in a blink of an eye, the figure had grabbed hold of his wrist and was looking at the lighting.

"You have a strange power for a human." The figure said in a cold voice that sent a chill down Sasuke's back before the man twisted his wrist almost passed its breaking point, before Naruto slammed the ball of pure chakra into the figure's back, tearing at the cloth and flesh of the figure forcing the figure to let go of Sasuke's wrist before it started to spin as well.

"RASENGAN!"

Naruto yelled out as the figure as his attack sent the figure flying back some 20 meters before it hit the rock walls of the valley, coursing rock to fall on top of the figure. "Don't even think about hurting Sasuke." Naruto said as he looked at the rocks that covered the figure and then faced Sasuke. "I promised Sakura-chan that I'll bring you back no matter what." Naruto told him as he looked at Sasuke, but he wasn't paying attention to Naruto he was staring at himself in the water that they were standing on, but to him it wasn't his reflection that was staring back at him, it was Itachi staring back at him and that sickened him. Looking up at Naruto, Sasuke thought that if Naruto, 'the dead last' of all the Rookie 9, could beat a Hyuga then maybe if he trained harder he could kill his brother without having to give himself up to Orochimaru.

"Naruto…. Let's go back…" Sasuke says as he stares at Naruto with a very sad look on his face. Hearing and seeing Sasuke like this made Naruto confused, wasn't Sasuke always saying that he 'has to gain power no matter what' so why did he want to return now after, but then again Naruto was never one to over think things. Naruto smiled and held out his hand to help Sasuke up, but before Sasuke took take his hand, Naruto pushed him out of the way of a black energy blast that ripped right through the right side of Naruto's stomach making him fall into the water since he lost all of his control over his chakra with that wound.

"NARUTO!!!" Sasuke yelled out as he watched his best friend fall into the water, his rage rising believing that he just saw another precious person of his die, his turning from black to red and the third and last tomoes formed in his Sharingan. Looking at the rocks Sasuke was overcome with horror as he saw the figure's face and left arm both weren't human, its face was grey with black eyes that had no pupils, it had no nose or ears, the top of its head was covered with fine thin black hair and its lower jaw seemed to be overlapping itself with to pointy teeth on the top of where the jaw spilt. Its' arm was grey as well, it's elbow was long, about six feet long that had a thin line going down the middle of it making it look like a blade, his fingers thin with long sharp nail on the tip of each of the fingers.

"My, my, what a lovely sight…of course it would be better if both of your blood was spilled." It said as it looked at Sasuke with what seemed to be a grin, as his elbow 'blade' opened up with a fin like thing connecting both 'blades'. Before the figure could do anything a red glow came from under the water as the area where Naruto went in started to boil, and in a blink of an eye an enraged Naruto was in view, his whisker marking dark and bigger, his k-9's were longer, his eyes blood red with slits for pupils, his blond hair was now weirder and a duty blond instead of a golden blond like it normally is. Staring at the figure Naruto let out a growl as he lifted up his right hand and swung it making a huge wave from the pure power of the kyubis' chakra that he was using. Looking at Naruto, Sasuke could see that the wound was healing right before his eyes as an image of a fox appeared above Naruto.

"I WON'T LET YOU LAY A HAND ON SASUKE!!!!" He yelled out as he readied to attack the figure, before he saw a black light forming in its' now open mouth, which had its' slip jaw opened up showing that it had no skin connecting the jaws together, and its' tongue just hang there touching its' throat. Readying himself to take the attack, Naruto put both hands in front of him, but when the 'monster' fired its' attack, the wound that Naruto had gotten earlier slowly start to reopen, making him cough up more blood and fall to his knees. When the blast was about three feet away from both Naruto and Sasuke, a figure of light appeared in front of them, knocking the blast into the water and dispelling it.

"You know you shouldn't waste your energy like that Lyon." The figure of light said as he looked at Naruto, who was holding his side as blood started to slowly pour out of the wound.

"YOU!!" Lyon yelled out as he saw the figure of light and opened his elbow 'blade' again. "You won't be stopping me this time." With that said Lyon open his mouth one more time and aimed for the water below him and fired off another blast the raised the water over him, giving him a chance to escape into a portal of darkness, that the orb imbedded in his chest opened up behind him. With a sigh the figure of light closed its' eyes and the light that was surrounding him disappeared showing him to be a man that looked no older than 19, he walked over to Naruto and picked him up slowly as to not open the wound anymore that it already was and put him over his right shoulder and looked at the shocked Uchiha, who slowly regain himself.

"Who… are you?" Sasuke asked as he stared at the man with disbelieve in his eyes. "What are you?"

"As to who I am, the name is Ryu." Ryu said as faced the path back to Konoha, "And at the moment the man who saved your and your friends' life." With that said Ryu looked at the forest and sigh. "Listen, if you could, try to keep up with me, we don't have much time if you want to save this kid's life." With that being said, Ryu rubbed the top clip that was on his right ear with his left hand, and then started to glow again. Sasuke slowly standing up nodded at Ryu who grinned at him and then dashed off heading to Konoha, with Sasuke trying to keep up with him, which was hard for the fact that Ryu was able to run through any solid object, like say Kakashi, who stared wide eyed at the figure that just pasted right through him, before he saw Sasuke run right by him which made him shake his head and follow him to find out what the hell was going on.

A/N: Hello all.. this is my first fanfic so I think it's not that good so if anyone flames me I won't care, but anyway.. yeah hope someone out there likes it... I'm going to try and update as fast as possible for me but with my job and other stuff it won't be that fast...like two weeks or so once again I hope someone likes it. next chapter I will try to explain more about who and what Ryu is and why he was sent to Naruto's world...and sorry if Naruto or Sasuke were ooc..