Rikudo Incarnate

Chapter 3

Dust to Dust

Naruto stood frozen as the body of his surrogate brother fell to the ground. For some reason he didn't feel sorrow or rage and hate, he felt empty. Completely shattered. He also felt an intense pain in his eyes, as if they were being ripped out and replaced with hot coals. He was broken out of his trance when Sai screamed in rage and charged forward. Ryu had noticed him and he picked up Shin's ninjato and swung it and severed Sai's right arm.

"Fools. You were fools for challenging me and you are fools for being shinobi. I should kill you both just to show you mercy. But I think I'll make you suffer." Ryu said and he stabbed Sai in his left shoulder and leaving the ninjato firmly resting in his flesh and began taking slow strides towards Naruto.

Naruto only stood there with a hollow expression and Ryu saw his eyes for the first time.

"So you must be an Uchiha if you have the Sharingan. And I heard the Mangekyo Sharingan is hard to unlock. Did it only take me killing your friend?" Ryu asked and still continued taking slow steps towards Naruto. Yet Naruto still stood there but now with a surprised expression.

In the instant that Naruto saw Shin die his eyes had bled red and the three tomoe were spinning rapidly until they merged into two stars overlapping each other. But unbeknownst to both of them Naruto had awoken something else.

Naruto was slowly accepting his fate until a force within him compelled him not to and his Sharingan spun wildly and when it stopped the red was now a very deep purple.

Naruto held his hand out and what looked like string shot out of his fingertips and wrapped themselves around Ryu's limbs.

"What the hell? These aren't chakra strings but more like wire." Ryu stated aloud as Naruto slowly made his way over to the nuke-nin.

"Well Ryu all I have to say now is that you're dead." Naruto said coldly as he clenched his hand into a fist and Ryu's limbs were all cut off.

Ryu was now on his back in a pool of his own blood and worst of all Naruto now had a wire wrapped around his torso and he was tightening the wire around him every few seconds and it was slowly sinking into his flesh.

Naruto was enjoying the fact that the man who killed his friend and probably killed Sai was feeling at least a tiny bit of his pain as he made him suffer. He was still in this state when he was suddenly surrounded on all sides and as if that wasn't bad enough the person who appeared to be the leader was also a nuke-nin.

"Hyakuya Tetsuya A-rank nuke-nin from Iwagakure and the only person alive besides the current Tsuchikage that knows how to use Dust Release." Naruto said as he ripped through Ryu's organs.

"Well it seems that my reputation precedes me. And it seems you are Namikaze Naruto the son of Namikaze Minato and one of the last Uzumaki. Oh how I will enjoy the feeling of your blood splattering on me." Tetsuya said as he motioned for the group of bandits to attack.

They charged the boy with their weapons drawn and was about a few seconds from reaching him when the boy drew his own sword. Naruto jumped up and rammed his blade through the first bandit and he withdrew the sword bisected the second bandit and ran the third one through. This continued for a few more minutes till there were roughly twenty bodies strewn on the ground and a blood soaked Naruto in the middle. Tetsuya just stood there and waited.

"It seems your stronger than I anticipated. Well no matter it's not like you can take me on and live." Tetsuya said with arrogance evident in his tone. He was soon going through hand signs.

"Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no-" Tetsuya was cut off as Naruto was suddenly in front of him and his sword was dripping with blood. His blood.

"Unfortunately that is all you have. You a subpar in Taijutsu and Genjutsu. All you have is Ninjutsu. That is the only reason you are an A-rank threat." Naruto stated as Tetsuya screamed in agony. Naruto had severed his arms up to his elbows and subsequently canceled out his jutsu. And in a flash his head was falling to the ground.

Catching the head Naruto sealed it in a scroll and looked over the body and found a storage seal and unsealed a scroll. Taking a look at the contents within Naruto put it in his pocket and made his way back to Sai and picked up his severed arm and sealed it in a scroll to preserve the arm.

"What happened here Naruto?" a voice asked behind him.

"Shin was careless in his attack and didn't have time to dodge the attack Ryu sent. Sai was also careless when he let his emotions take control. We can still save Sai and maybe Tsunade will be able to reattach his arm." Naruto said as he turned and faced Torune who had the dead body of Yuchiro slung over his shoulder. Torune dropped the body and launched his fist at Naruto who simply sidestepped and knocked him to the ground.

"Who the hell are you?" Torune all but screamed at him. Naruto had deactivated his eyes and the iris was still the deep purple but his pupil was a four pointed star.

"Who am I? I have asked myself that too many times over the years yet I still come to the same answer. I am... the origin. I am the base. I am the progenitor of the ninja world. I am revered as a god yet I am nothing more than a humble sage looking to rest." Naruto said in a tone that made Torune shake in fear.

'His voice spoke power and commanded respect. Maybe it's the Kyuubi? ... No. From what I know both Mito-sama and Kushina-sama had red slitted eyes when channeling it's chakra. I'll ask Danzo-sama about it later.' Torune thought as he stood up and severed Yuchiro's head from his body.

"I'll believe you for now. But I want Naruto in control when we near the village." Torune said as he picked up Sai.

"Fine." Naruto said as his Mangekyo spun into existence. Turning to face Shin Naruto gazed at the body of his friend.

"Amaterasu" he whispered and lit Shin's body ablaze. The black flames danced on his body until nothing but ash remained.

"From dust we came" Torune whispered sorrowfully.

"To dust we shall go." Naruto said.

They were like that for a moment, mourning the loss of a good friend and a good soldier. They then left the site to return home.

(Six hours later)

When the walls of Konoha came into view Naruto's eyes reverted back to his cerulean blue eyes. He then stopped Torune who looked at him questionably. Naruto motioned for Sai's unconscious body and Torune nodded and handed him his friend. Naruto smiled and disappeared in a flash of black.

Appearing in the hospital and in front of a door Naruto just walked in and was greeted by the sight of some of the best doctors in Konoha. Being swarmed by them he handed the body of his friend to Shizune who put him on a gurney and took off toward the surgery room. Being approached by Tsunade Naruto just handed her the scroll that contained Sai's arm and again disappeared in a flash of black

(Training Ground 7)

Appearing at the entrance to his team's training grounds Naruto started walking towards the sound of fighting. As he arrived in the center he saw Kakashi sparring with Hinata and Itachi sparring with Sasuke. Naruto just went over to a nearby tree and sat down. It was like that for a while. Just sitting and watching his friends train.

'Maybe this is what I'm meant to do. Just sit on the sidelines while they fight. Maybe I'm nothing more than a useless bag of flesh meant to just rot away. Maybe I should just fade away. Die a disgraceful death. Maybe-' he was cut off from his thoughts of self doubt when a pebble hit him on the head. Looking up Naruto was greeted with sight of Hinata and Sasuke both offering their hands.

"You're back." Hinata said with a smile.

"We didn't know you left. You should tell us next time you leave. We were worried." Sasuke said.

Naruto smiled and took their hands 'That's right' he thought as he stood up.

'I did promise her that we would meet again.' Naruto thought as he left the training grounds with his friends.

(Flashback)

A seven year old Naruto sat at the edge of a frozen pond. He had been taken from Konoha to a small village near the border of Mizu no Kuni on a relief mission to help the people that were affected by the Bloodline Rebellions. Kakashi and Itachi had a meeting with the leaders of the village and they told him occupy himself until they were done. He decided that he would train in his Suiton. But that hope was crushed when he arrived. He now just sat amongst the snow.

"What are you doing?" a voice asked from behind him. Naruto jumped up and faced the person. It was a girl that looked to be around his age with black hair and chocolate brown eyes. She wore a simple brown dress even though it was below freezing.

"Just thinking. And aren't you cold out here?" Naruto asked her.

"No. My mother and I like the cold. It's not even cold to us but more like a slight chill on a autumn day." the girl said and she took a seat next to Naruto.

And they were like that for the longest time. Just sitting and talking. But it soon came to an end when a voice rung out among the clearing. Itachi's voice.

"Well I gotta go now. " Naruto said as he stood up.

"Before you go I want to do something." the girl said as she took his hands. And all Naruto felt was a freezing sensation, it felt as though it could turn any lake or any ocean into a sheet of ice.

"Hyoton: Twin Dragon Soul Binding Jutsu" the girl whispered and two small dragons emerged from the frozen pond and one went over to the girl while the other one hovered over Naruto's shoulder.

"These ice dragons won't melt. They will only shatter when the person whose soul is bonded with it dies or loses their will to live completely. That's what my mother told me when she taught me this. So my dragon is bonded to you and yours is bonded to me. And it's meant to symbolize a promise to meet again. And we will, won't we?" she asked him as she let go of his hands.

"Yeah we will. I promise. Wait we never told each other our names. Well I'm Naruto." he said with a bright smile.

"And I'm Haku."

(A/N) My god I took longer than I had thought. This was a tough chapter to write with the fight and flashback. I hope everyone enjoys it. The fight scene might suck but I tried my best. By the way if anyone has seen Hellsing think of Naruto's wires as Walter's. Oh and I'm using wiki/User:Omnibender/Elemental_recomposition_table. I already have a few ideas but if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to PM me. Anyways enjoy the chapter.