So, over the weekend, I watched a movie type thing of Injustice: Gods Among Us. This got me thinking, okay, we've got this badass anti-hero Deathstroke. I remember he's called Slade in the original Teen Titans. I love Naruto and I actually like this guy enough for him to be in my top three in my favorite DC characters list, (Batman and Green Arrow being numbers one and two), so why not combine the two and see how it turns out. I thought about many different ways to portray the beginning of this story, and I chose the second option and here it is.
Chapter 1
He had been called many names: demon, scum, murderer, fox, brat, filth and many other MA rated names that we'll not get into. This was one time he was choosing to add a name to his list and it would be known to the world after this fateful night. This night, many things would go into play that would bring rise to an assassin that along with other well known assassins from the time of old banded together after what history called WWIV and created the shinobi system known today.
We find our hero, or rather he could be called an anti-hero, sitting on the roof of his apartment building, looking at the moon. It always seemed to calm him and he knew the cause was the Kyuubi. All jinchuuriki knew that the moon would calm them and their biju, the only one that it would enrage being the Shukaku.
"So kit," Kyuubi said. "What are you going to do about that mask of yours?"
"I don't know Kyuu-kaa-chan," the boy replied as he laid on his back. "We'll see if anything happens that requires me to drop it."
Just then, the boy sat up as he saw a black blur running across the rooftops. From the top of the Monument he heard Elder Koharu's voice.
"Someone has just tried to assassinate Sandaime-sama!" she cried, some emotion leaking into her voice. "All shinobi are ordered after him and to apprehend him before he escapes the village!" (1)
With that, the boy nodded and ran back into his house. Quickly, he pushed the furniture away from the center of his living room floor to the edges of the wall. He pressed his finger on a panel and an electronic writing pad sprang up from the floor. (2) The boy quickly wrote the kanji for death and fox down and the pad glowed green before the floor opened up and slowly, an armory sprang up. The fifteen year old ninja opened the gates and gazed at his armor and weapons.
The boots were midnight black with a rubber sole for soundless movement. The pants were also black with a lighter gray stripe running up the knee. There were gray knee pads made from kevlar vests. His undershirt was a chain mail fishnet shirt, made from kunai and chakra conductive metal. The undershirt was also covered by a black, long-sleeved shirt. The gloves were gray with two claw like protrusions running up the forearms. The mask was red on the right side and black on the left. The right side is the only side that had an eye hole and it was a white colored piece of plexi-glass. (3)
The boy slipped out of his civilian clothes and slipped into a black one piece that would prevent his armor from chafing his body and slowly assembled his armor and grabbed his weapons, slipping them into holsters and placing a bandolier across his chest. Then as he raced out of his window and jumped across the rooftops, he placed his mask on his head.
Using his superior sense of smell, he tracked the assailant all the way to Training Ground 44: the Forest of Death. His uniform allowed him to blend in to the night and he slowly crept to the clearing that he knew the assailant was at. As he made his way there, he heard voices so he decided to stop and listen. He recognized the voice as Elder Danzo (4) and he seemed to be berating the would-be assassin.
"You have failed me Nyssa," Danzo said. "You were to kill Hiruzen and get me elected as Hokage."
"I am sorry Danzo-sama," the girl said as she bowed her head. "Forgive me."
"Failure will not be tolerated," Danzo said as he drew his cane sword.
The boy decided to draw the Beretta M9 he had on his thigh and fired just before Danzo struck the girl down. Danzo and the girl both jumped back when the blade shattered, and the boy dropped down from the trees.
"Who are you?" Danzo growled.
"If you think you can use those stolen eyes of yours to see who I am, then you're mistaken Danzo-teme," the boy said, his voice deepened by his mask. "But I must kindly ask that you turn yourself in to the leaf."
"And why is that?" Danzo sneered. "I was just executing this traitor."
"Were you now?" the boy muttered.
"I was."
The boy nodded and walked off. Danzo smirked and drew a kunai he had in his sleeve and threw it at the boy. The boy turned, drawing the blade on his back and sliced the kunai in half. Danzo growled in frustration, but lost sight of his target in his attempt to order Nyssa to kill the man. The boy used his superior speed from years of training to cut off Danzo's right arm and shoot him in the eye in the process. Using his chakra, he cauterized the wounds and smacked him across the neck with the hilt of his blade, rendering the traitor unconscious.
Nyssa held up her hands as she put her wrists together. The boy slapped some cuffs on them and started dragging them through the village. Once he made his way through the gate, he was confronted by two ANBU squads, being led by a silver haired one..
"Halt and release Elder Shimura stranger," the silver haired dog masked ANBU said.
"I have information that must be given to the Hokage concerning the attempt on his lift earlier," the boy said.
"What does that have to do with these two?"
"Well the girl is the would-be assassin and Danzo is the orchestrator in all of this."
"Where is your proof?"
"Recorded. Ask the Hokage to assemble his shinobi in the meeting hall and I will gladly give it to him."
"All right," the ANBU said. "But just to be safe I'll have to take your weapons, no matter how foreign they are."
The boy shook his head and handed them over, but not before taking all the bullets from the guns and remotely activating the self-destruct should anyone try to fire them. The group went through the village, everyone looking at the boy in confusion and curiosity. Everyone muttered about the condition of Danzo, who was slung over one ANBU's shoulder.
They made it to the meeting hall, all the shinobi all ready assembled. Sarutobi Hiruzen, Third Hokage of Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves was sitting in a chair in front of all of the assembled shinobi who were standing at attention. The ANBU led the boy up to the Hokage and the ANBU carrying Danzo dropped him at the Hokage's feet.
"Dog," Hiruzen asked as he smoked his pipe. "Who are these two and why is Danzo at my feet missing an arm and an eye?"
"I believe it would be best to let the armored one explain sir," Dog said.
Hiruzen turned to him. "Who are you?"
"I have been called many things. Murderer, demon, scum and brat, but tonight I chose a new name for myself. For now you may call me Deathstroke."
"All right Deathstroke-san," Hiruzen said as he took a long drag to calm himself. "Why is Danzo at my feet."
The now named Deathstroke took out a tape recorded and replayed the conversation. As Hiruzen heard each word, his face grew more enraged. He ordered the ANBU to take Danzo away for the sentence of execution and Nyssa to be imprisoned until further notice.
"My I know the name of my savior?" Hiruzen asked as he looked at the boy. "And forgive me for asking, but how old are you?"
"You may know in due time Hokage," Deathstroke said as he threw a smoke bomb on the ground and disappeared, his weapons disappearing with him.
Everyone was left stunned and Hiruzen shook his head. He slowly breathed in, wisps of smoke leaving the edges of his mouth and pipe as he thought about the course of action to take.
"If he turns up again," Hiruzen said. "bring him to me. I want to thank him and possibly add him into the shinobi roster."
"Lord Hokage," Inu said.
"Remove your mask Kakashi because I'm approving your request to return to the normal shinobi force."
Inu nodded and removed his mask. "What if he has a bloodline limit?"
"Then we'll put him into the CRA. For now, you are dismissed."
All of the shinobi disappeared.
-The Next Day/0700- (5)
At the Shinobi Academy, Chunin Umino Iruka's class was composed of mostly clan heirs. Yamanaka Ino, Hyuuga Hinata, Uchiha Sasuke, Akimichi Choji, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Nara Shikamaru were in this class, being the heirs and heiress' of the most notable clans. Now granted as of right now, the Uchiha was down to one member, but that would be likely to change considering how the council gives the Uchiha everything he demands.
"Alright class," Iruka said. "Settle down."
No one listened and Iruka got mad.
Iruka activated his Demonic Head Jutsu. "SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE HELL UP MAGGOTS!"
Everyone quieted and looked at their teacher of eleven years. Iruka started his speech.
"I'm proud of all of you," he began. "Those of you that are here today have passed the genin exam and are now ninja of the Leaf. With those hitai-ates on your head, you're now seen as adults in this village and across the Elemental Nations (6) and possibly the world."
The Hokage appeared along with the jounin sensei. "I am sorry to interrupt your class Umino-san, but I would like to give out the team assignments."
Iruka nodded and Hiruzen continued. "Now then, in my hands I have the team rosters. I'll be telling you what teams you're on and your jounin senseis who will be coming to meet you after this.
"Team one is Hayagura Juko...Team 7 is Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto under Hatake. Team 8 is Aburame Shino, Hyuuga Hinata and Inuzuka Kiba under Yuuhi, Team 9 is still in circulation so Team Ten will be the Ino-Shika-Cho trio under Sarutobi Asuma."
With that, cries of joy and groans of frustration could be heard. But then everyone noticed something. "Wait Hokage-sama," Haruno Sakura, the resident howler monkey asked. "Where's Naruto-baka."
Hiruzen looked around. "I don't know Ms. Haruno, but I'm sure he'll turn up eventually. In the meantime, why don't you all come down here to meet your te-"
Thirteen ANBU wearing white masks with the symbol Ne on it appeared in a shunshin and raced at the Hokage. Before three of them even passed Nara Shikamaru Deathstroke ran in and killed them. His skill, his power. The resident emo thought. I must have it for myself. The remaining ten jumped onto desks and encircled our hero and Deathstroke just chuckled. He drew his sword (7) and calmly waited for their attack.
Attack they did because when Deathstroke didn't attack for two minutes, one Root who was probably an Inuzuka, attacked with a yell of rage. Deathstroke calmly struck his blade against the ninjato the Root ninja wielded and their blades ground together. White glass met brown eyes and the Inuzuka growled out a Gatsuga and started spinning, trying to attack Deathstroke. Deathstroke, using all of his secret training looked calmly in the middle of the tornado and threw a flash bomb inside, causing the ANBU to lose focus long enough for Deathstroke to kill him.
The next three seemed to be of the Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi clans. Deathstroke just shook his head because most of the Ino-Shika-Cho formations used the same tactics as the original version. Deathstroke jumped up and over the Nara, shooting him in the base of his spine as he did so. He jumped down and smacked the Akimichi across the face before he had the chance to activate his Bubun Baika no Jutsu. Deathstroke then proceeded to cut him down, before spinning and stabbing the Yamanaka in the stomach.
"Four down," Deathstroke said.
He pulled a grenade from his belt and all the Earth users got to work creating Doryuheki to block the blast and when it went off, three of the remaining six were alive. They came from skilled civilian families, one of them apparently being a Haruno. Deathstroke ran across one of the desks with the Haruno chasing him, braced his foot on the wall and backflipped, landing behind the Haruno and blasting him in the head, his brains splattering the wall. Deathstroke turned to one and stabbed him with a kunai he had hidden up his sleeve. He quickly cut the other one across the throat as he snuck up on him.
The class had their eyes open in awe and they were stunned at the skill of this man. One was wanting his power for himself.
"Deathstroke-san," Hiruzen said. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here for my team assignment Hokage."
"But you're not a ninja here," Haruno screeched.
"Whether I am or not is none of your concern Haruno," Deathstroke said.
"You have no right to talk to me that way! I'm the daughter of Councilwoman-"
"Mebuki Haruno, age 35, former rank: jounin, ANBU captain. Leader of the Women's Association of Konoha. At one point would have made Uzumaki Naruto's life miserable for reasons that can only be disclosed by him."
"She would've only done that because the baka deserved it."
"I have two questions for you. One, do you honestly think that I give a damn who your mother is? Two, so for the curse his father put on him he deserves the treatment he gets?"
Sakura nodded smugly.
The Uchiha spoke up. "Naruto is a clanless loser, the son of a drunk and a whore. Also, I don't care who you are, I demand that you give me your weapons."
Deathstroke growled. "No Uchiha. He is the son of two heroes of this village, one who also came from Whirlpool. And I will not give you my weapons. They are clan secrets."
"You are just probably some clanless loser. Now I demand you give them to me. They will help me with my ambitions."
Deathstroke smirked beneath his mask. "Fuck your ambitions. Wanting to kill your brother for destroying your clan. Maybe you should think about the reasons he did so.
Sasuke growled. "Itachi did it fo-
"Yes for power. I've been hearing that bullshit story for years. Don't believe everything you hear. By the way if you want my weapons, then take them from me and Haruno, why don't you help out your little crush?"
Sasuke smirked and ran at Deathstroke, thinking that Deathstroke had no skill. Deathstroke put his right hand forward, fingers spread like claws. His left foot was back, all the weight resting on that foot. His left hand was closed in a fist, close to his chest and his right foot was slightly raised on it's toes. Hiruzen gasped at the stance, recognizing that as the stance for the Hyaken (7) the stance the Fourth Hokage developed on his own.
Sasuke began to try and use the Interceptor style on him and Deathstroke quickly dodged all his strikes and ducked under his fist. Sasuke tried taunting Deathstroke, that is until he felt ten punches hit his stomach in rapid succession. Sasuke groaned as he flew into the wall and stood up from the crater he made. He had tested his affinity a few weeks ago and learned it was lightning. During the Uchiha Massacre, he gained his sharigan from all the shock and stress, but in those seven years since, hadn't progressed further than the first tomoe. But this didn't really matter as he saw a silver haired ANBU practicing a lightning technique and he stole it.
"Ox-Rabbit-Monkey," Sasuke muttered. Lightning sparked in his hand. "Chidori!"
Deathstroke raised an eyebrow under his mask and shook his head as Sasuke ran to him. Sasuke thrust his right hand forward and Deathstroke caught the wrist, snapping it and dispelling the technique. Sasuke screamed. Deathstroke dropped down and punched Sasuke in his stomach four times and knee him in the stomach. Sasuke gasped and Deathstroke jumped up and roundhouse kicked Sasuke in the head knocking him out.
Sakura tried punching Deathstroke and Deathstroke did a quick one two combo into her budding chest, making the girls of the class clutch themselves in phantom pain. Deathstroke jumped up and slammed a knee into her chin, snapping the girls head back. He grabbed her by the neck and slammed her into the ground, his left hand holding his sword above her neck.
The class was stunned. This man had just beaten the Rookie and Kunoichi of the year. No one had done that. Deathstroke shook his head.
"If this is the strength of the legendary Uchiha I am not impressed," Deathstroke said.
"Deathstroke-san," Hiruzen asked as he ran at Deathstroke.
Hiruzen grabbed Deathstroke and lifted him up by the throat. "How did you know so much about Naruto?"
"Take your hands off of me Hokage before I remove them," Deathstroke growled.
Hiruzen slammed Deathstroke into a wall, cracking it.
"The only way you could have so much information or know anything about that stance is if you're a spy."
Deathstroke kneed Hiruzen in the stomach and punched him in the face. The Hokage stumbled back and Deathstroke punched him five times in the stomach. The jounin moved to intervene and Deathstroke roundhouse kicked them all into a wall. Deathstroke retook the Hyaken stance and looked at Hiruzen. Hiruzen ran at Deathstroke and the two began a taijutsu battle. To say the class in awe of the display was like saying that Kakashi liked reading porn, a severe understatement.
Deathstroke punched Hiruzen in the face twice, busting his lip and smacked him across the face. Sarutobi jumped up, attempting to kick Deathstroke in the chest and Deathstroke spun out of the way, unleashing three punches to Hiruzen's ribs and kicking him in the base of his spine. Hiruzen fell, clutching his back and the elderly Hokage looked at Deathstroke. Deathstroke simply responded by kicking him in the face, breaking his nose.
Hiruzen quickly snapped it back into place after regaining his bearings and asked the question again. "How do you know so much about Naruto?"
Deathstroke growled. "Becuase Hiruzen," he removed his mask, showing a boy with an eye patch and a scar going across his left eye. He had crew cut blonde hair and cerulean eyes that had the look of someone who had killed before. The most prominent feature was his whiskered marked cheeks. The entire class gasped. (8)
"Naruto," the entire class said.
Deathstroke chuckled at their reaction. "Not anymore. For now on, I'm Slade Namikaze."
Chapter End
Koharu and Homura will not be against Hiruzen, nor will they be against Naruto. In this, they're actually activists of him being allowed to live and are usually the deciding votes on his fate.
Sort of like the Dark Knight Rises in that bunker thing Bruce had.
I'm trying to match Naruto's Deathstroke outfit with Deathstroke's in Injustice. I don't really know how close I was but I hope I was as close as can be. Also, I chose the black and gray because it blends in better with the environments Naruto could find himself in during his times when he is going around as Deathstroke.
Danzo will be a secondary antagonist in this story.
Graduation Day.
After World War IV, the planet was in near ruin. Most continents had been broken up into smaller ones, resulting in about 17 new continents being formed. Some kept their original names. Others changed them. The area consisting of the part of China closest to Japan, Japan and all of Australia (which merged due to the result of a nuclear blast that blew China apart and the three pieces together, with underwater volcanoes being the cause for them sticking together) formed the elemental nations. Eventually, some 15,000 years after World War IV, the shinobi clans were established: the Namikaze and Uzumaki came from Deathstroke. Uchiha came from the al Ghuls. The Senju came from the Waynes.
Hyaken: Fast Fist. A taijutsu style created by the Yondaime Hokage for the use of his clan once it was reestablished.
I tried to give Naruto a somewhat Slade-like look. Instead of missing his right eye, he's missing his left, mainly because he's ambidextrous and can shoot with either hand and though he prefers his right hand, he sometimes shoots or wields certain weapons with the left.
Also, this is a note concerning the title name. As of right now, I'm going to call it Slade Namikaze. I want someone to try and help me come up with a better name for it.