1 Ryu!

Kill, steal, flames, schemes- these are just another definition of the word 'War'.

Wooosh- -- Wooosh- Wooosh- Wooosh- ...

A shadow flickered inside a forest as a small ghostly figure dashed hurriedly from one branch to another. A second later, several other ghostly figure dashed after the first one. Clearly, they were chasing him.

The chase only lasted for several more minutes but the first figure was already surrounded.

"Huh?! Isn't he just a kid?!As expected of an Uchiha! You really gave us a hard time!" shouted a guy on a branch while looking down at the figure on the ground that was covered with blood. His tone was sarcastic but his face stiffened and a drop of sweat leaked from his pores as he looked at the shimmering pair of calm blood red eyes in the darkness.

Even the others who intended to laugh shut up. They seemed frightened by that eye that looked devilish and sends shivers down the spine. Especially that calmness behind it that didn't look like he was surrounded with many enemies. It seemed to add more chillness to the dark forest.

"Let's end him, we're wasting time here." said a man calmly, he was wearing headband of Sunagakure on his forehead. He seemed to be the leader of the group. He unsheathed the sword behind his back as the others also revealed their weapons.

"GO!" The leader shouted as he flickered towards the small figure on the ground followed by another two behind him. But the three did not seem enough to handle a single enemy that the others threw their kunai's and shurikens.

The small figure also reacted fast. The expressions on his eyes did not show any signs of being scared at all, in fact, it seemed to grow excited. His right hand which was carrying a kunai move swiftly as he blocked all of the flying objects. And instead of retreating, he dashed forward to meet the enemy head on.

"Hmm?!" the leader was surprised and he readied himself for the upcoming attack, but it did not come. The figure suddenly did a 180 degrees turn, and a grunt escaped the figures throat and it sounded like someone exerting his utmost strength.

Just as expected a 'creak' echoed from a tree nearby and two small branch suddenly shot out from it. But it wasn't just branches, it was branches attached with multiple Paper Bombs.

Although the leader realized that they were trapped, he could do nothing about it but wait for the Paper Bombs to explode in front of his face.

BOOOM. BOOOM. BOOOM.

The series of explosions lit up the surroundings finally illuminating the face of the figure. It was a young ma- no, a young boy. Although his face was covered in blood, you could still see the childish and crazy look on his face.

The adrenaline rush was still there as he young boy was sent flying by the huge blast. His body hit a large tree breaking many of his ribs and his arms. He spat a mouthful of blood before finally fainting. But what he did not know was that, when his blood made contact with the ground, it rapidly sunk in the ground. Moments later, the young boy's body suddenly magically disappeared. It was a good thing no one saw it, or they would have been shocked to the core.

As for the enemies, the leader who received most of the fire power and impact was mutilated beyond recognition. As for the other two behind him, they were at least spared, only some body parts were missing. But still, they were lifeless. Because the three covered most of the impact, the others from behind were somehow alive, albeit barely.

*Some minutes later...

Ghostly shadows flashed through this location. They wore animal designed masks and long black robes that covered their whole body. Some of them slashed the necks and pierced the hearts of those Sunagakure ninja's like nothing. They searched the perimeter but they did not seem to find what they were looking for, so they left.

From the beginning ill the end, no one talked. Such that is the nature of the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad or it could be called the 'Anbu'.

...

Paradise, it is the best word to describe this place. Trees, flowers, lake, butterflies, animals and many other species could be seen here living with harmony and peacefully. The only thing amiss was that there was a bloody young boy lying on the ground besides the lake, unconscious. But the bizarre thing is that, the wounds on his body healing very fast and cracking sounds keep echoing inside his body.

An unknown amount of time passed as the young boy finally opened his eyes. He stood up, looked around and the first thing that he thought of was, 'I must be in heaven! So, where is God?! There should be one, right?!'. So he looked around and spotted a small wooden house across the lake.

The young boy ran on top of the lake without sinking, well, nothing special for an accomplished ninja like him. Soon, he reached the door of the wooden house and pushed it open with great expectations.

With a creak, the door was opened and what came to his view caused him a great disappointment. The interior was empty except for the altar on the center. The young boy took a step forward, but just as he entered the small wooden house, a strong and terrifying aura filled with a terrifying killing intent suddenly filled the house out of nowhere. But, although it was terrifying, the young boy felt like being pulled into it and he had no way to resist. The pressure nearly made him kneel while sweat continued to ooze from his glands.

His eyed turned blood red with two weird tadpole-like dots on it as he prepared from any upcoming attacks. Even in the battle field, the boy never felt any killing intent stronger than this one. As if there was an invisible sharp blade pressed against his neck and hundreds of arrows was pointed at him. He was sure that he would be dead if he made any wrong moves.

He felt like his mental energy was being devoured in a very fast pace and if this goes on, he would surely lose consciousness. He gritted his teeth and tried to calm his emotions down while concentrating to enter meditation. But it was useless. He could only try to defend. His eyes turned hazy, the young boy was reaching his limits.

Contrary to his expectations, no attacks came and the terrifying aura seemed to withdraw. The invisible aura gathered in front of the altar. Seconds later, the original formless aura formed into an image of a muscular middle aged man wearing an awe inspiring armor made of materials unknown to the boy. Although transparent, the man exuded a heroic aura, he had an amused smile but there was an unusual glow in his eyes that made the young boy want to kneel and kowtow in front of the man.

The horrifying killing intent and aura disappeared as if nothing happened at all.

The young boy was still not able to recover from his shock when the man suddenly spoke, in a language the young boy did not understand or recognize at all. Even with his Sharingan activated, the boy was not able to read or memorize its movements which made him shocked and confused at the same time.

"Hlleo, yuong man! I am Tian Lou! The Egihth sccusesor of the Bolodilne of the Cletesial Drgoan Epmeror! Yuo hvae pssaed-" The man had not finished talking yet when he finally noticed the confusion in the boy's face. His face blushed a little before he waved his hand and an invisible energy made it's way to the boy's forehead without him noticing. Then the man spoke again. Oddly, he understood now.

"Ahemmm- Hello, young man! I am Tian Lou! The Eighth successor of the Bloodline of the Celestial Dragon Emperor! You have passed the test. I now declare you the Ninth Successor of the Bloodline of the Celestial Dragon Emperor!" The man who called himself Tian Lou said grandly.

"Um... What are you talking about? Wha- what?" The boy was shocked, again. He did not know what was going on. The language that he did not understand a while ago was actually solved with a simple wave of the man's hand. And then right now, he using the language itself. There was also that successor thing that he could not quite comprehend.

He just wanted to speak his mind since a while ago but there was just too many surprises he could barely keep up. Anymore and he was sure that he will go numb.

"Oh--" the man let out a troubled expression before it brightened up again and he continued talking. "So, uhh-- I don't have much time left so I'll make it short. My name is Tian Lou, I am a fallen Ancient Godly Emperor from the Mystic Divine Realm. I could not survive the Primordial Lightning Tribulation but as the Eighth successor of the Bloodline of the Celestial Dragon Emperor, I needed to leave a sliver of consciousness for the next successor.

"The Bloodline of the Celestial Dragon Emperor is one of the ruling Bloodline in the entire 4 realms! It is also one of the four bloodlines that has the highest probability of reaching Ancient Godly Monarch!

"So I forcefully ripped open a rift for this sliver of consciousness to enter the Mortal Realm. But something went wrong that caused this sliver of consciousness to lose half of it's Godly Energy. It took countless of years for me to recover just enough to complete the ceremony because of the lack of Godly Energy. So I would like to get started right away before I run out of time."

"Right, boy, what's your name?" after the Tian Lou finished talking, he suddenly remembered he did not know the boy's name.

"Uchiha Ryu..." the boy answered dazedly.

"I know you have many questions, but you should not worry about that. You'll eventually find answers if you ascend to higher realms, the key is for you to get stronger. And of course, don't die!" Tian Lou said. And before Ryu could open his mouth, he was already floating in the air and he could not move or talk.

"This is the ceremony every successor of the Bloodline of the Celestial Dragon Emperor needs to go through." Tian Lou murmured before making thousands of hand gestures in a split second. He waved his hand and Ryu's body was pulled towards him and pressed his finger on Ryu's forehead.

GraAaAaAaAwWwWrRRRRRRRR!!!

A terrifyingly loud roar of a dragon echoed in the room. But Tian Lou did not stop or release his finger. Ryu already lost consciousness, but if he was awake, he would notice that the image of the man was slowly fading every second while a glow of golden light was spreading from his heart all over his body.

Just as he was about to finish, Tian Lou noticed something, "Oh? Eye bloodline?! HAHAHA! I really am very lucky! To think that I would find the long lost Eye Bloodline from the Primordial time. My sacrifice was not in vain! HAHAHA!" He laughed madly.

Just as the golden light was about to cover Ryu's eyes, Tian Lou finally removed his finger. But he did not stop. He "fiercely" struck his hand towards the dantian region, just like that, the glow in Ryu's stomach grew brighter. But the color was different, the original golden glow was now mixed with an azure color.

The lower part of Tian Lou's body already vanished. After several more seconds, Tian Lou again stopped. But this time, the only thing remaining was his fist which again struck the back of Ryu's head. It was some information that he knew Ryu will need when he will wake up.