After watching and reading Watchmen, I couldn't help myself, and started thinking of crossover ideas for Watchmen and Naruto. A single thought occurred to me. Wouldn't the characters of Watchmen, particularly Rorschach and the Comedian, have been better off for being rewarded for their work? Where wearing masks is commonplace and fights are expected? Where bad tempers are trained to constructive purposes and children can leave their families and be considered adults at the age of twelve if they become ninja?
These are short glimpses of such a world.
Be warned, lots of spoilers for both Naruto and Watchmen.
In this crossover, the characters from Watchmen have been born in the Village Hidden in the Leaves. They will retain their Western names, and all Japanese names will be organized western style, Kakashi Hatake rather than Hatake Kakashi.
I hope you enjoy.
I do not own Naruto, nor Watchmen.
Who Watches the Ninja?
by Author of Doom: Rin
Part One: Minutemen
This may just be the best day of Eddie Blake's life.
The worst so far was a year ago, eye blackened by a paternal fist, finding out that the pale raven-haired beauty in the other class he's been crushing on for weeks was really a boy.
Yesterday had been bad too; finding out his best friend – Jiraiya - won't be on the same genin team.
But right now he's far from that, body and face bruised but triumphant, adrenaline still coursing through his veins.
Top of the class Sakumo Hatake is sulking and tied to a post.
Shido Inuzuka-sensei's mouth is a little bloody – hell yeah his genin fist did that – but one corner quirks up a little.
"Not bad." The jounin says, to all of them. "Not bad at all."
They made it. Eddie is going to be a ninja. He's going to kick butt and take names. He's gonna have girls all over him, make a name for himself. He's going to make enough money to move him and his mother out of his asshole father's house.
But best, best of all is Sally Jupiter in her yellow dress, grinning and eying him speculatively.
It starts here.