Maelstroms Mask

(KY zip lines into the picture) Hey all you lovely readers, it's K.Y. here with another story and it's a story inspired from playing you guessed it Arkham Knight turning it into a crossover. How it is well, you know the drill. Read and find out why, also big old top hat off to Jebest4781 for his insight and idea of the story. Without him I wouldn't have been able to get this little gem off the piece of paper, so I thank you man.

(Jebest waves) Why thank you and glad to be of help.

KY: Now a little warning this isn't going to be a conventional Naruto, oh no. He's going to be different just like all my other stories so if you are just starting this and have seen how I write my stories and don't like a non-canon Naruto then please exit this story cause your just going to find a Naruto completely different from the creators version. (Points to the exit)

J: Also with what we are doing here for the story we will try to blend things as much as possible with what source materials we will plan on using to blend certain series and whatnot. So bear with us with most things not following entirely with certain events. Any altercations will be for our doing to be sure that this story goes well.

KY: Now, lets get going shall we? On with the feud... Err, I mean story! (Throws smoke bomb onto the ground but realizes it's a dud.)

J: Dude just...just go. (KY walks off with his head hanged low with J following shortly after)

Disclaimer: We don't own Naruto or Batman.

Chapter 1: Just a Regular Guard Shift

12:00 A.M., Monday, January 11, 1987

There was always a time of mourning, a time of loss around the world. When the heavens cry, flooding the earth with its endless sorrow as loved ones perish before their precious ones. The skies dark and bleak, chilling all occupants drawn under its shadow.

The procession under this dark day were dressed as one would expect for such an occasion, wearing all black holding umbrellas overhead to protect them from the world's tears. All mourners were gathered around two tombstones.

"Here lies Minato and Kushina Namikaze, beloved friends and parents." A child read in a shuddering whisper, tears falling as he looked upon their graves. Their caskets slowly being lowered into their graves. The ten year-old blonde could only close his eyes as more tears threatened to fall as he witnessed the two most important people of his little world disappear under the cold, cold earth.

He couldn't breathe, a pocket of raw emotion clogging his airways as all he could do was fold his legs into his chest and wrap his arms around them. Blue tear filled eyes could not look away from the graves as the priest ended the sermon, just as lightning struck illuminating the faces of all the mourners.

The young blonde closed his eyes and sobbed, sobbed for his loss.

For his sadness... Was insurmountable at that moment..

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7:00 P.M., Tuesday, December 24, 2000

Snow fell in large flakes, covering all under its cold embrace. Gotham was a regular gaggle of activity as cars honked and screeched across the roads, citizens cursed and yelled at one another.

A regular snowy evening for the locals.

Yet, we set our sights on a not so normal sight. The sight, of Blackgate Penitentiary and its occupants...

Boots clacked down the hall as inmates looked upon the uniformed man, leering and hollering from their cells as they reached out to strangle the blonde. The Gotham Police Department body armor further enraging them as they hollered and snarled at the man. The man cut a rather impressive figure standing at an impressive 5'11, his form filled with muscles streamlined for speed and strength, and piercing blue eyes that made every inmate flinch and look away from his gaze as he held the AR-15 in his hands threateningly. Dressed in all black from his jacket, to his pants to his boots the man cut an intimidating picture indeed.

Walking across the hall of inmate cells Naruto could only smile slightly as he got to the break room, seeing his friend waiting for him.

"Heeeeeyyy Naru~ Where have yah been? I was getting a little worried." Said friend spoke as she was digging into her meal.

"I was just held up by Mathews, Harl, don't get so upset." Naruto chuckled at his friends pout. Harleen Quinzel, a rising star in the psychological world, and his childhood friend could only be described as the antithesis of the typical blonde. Graduating at the top of her class in highschool as well as her college with a Master's degree in Psychology the blonde woman was quite the intellectual individual. For the most part she was a good natured woman, excitable at times but serious when it came to her job. And somehow she was able to land a job as the head Psychologist of Blackgate, just as Naruto was assigned to the Penitentiary for guard duty.

Taking a seat across from her Naruto couldn't help but look over his friend. At 5'7 the twenty three year old blonde woman was quite the looker, golden hair tied into a short ponytail framing her beautiful face, blue eyes shined with warmth as ruby red lips grew into a friendly smile. Following down her slim neck a white jacket wrapped around her C-cup breasts, a small break in the middle exposed her black shirt underneath. Finally to her lower half was a short black skirt covering firm rear and going down her long, luscious, lightly tanned legs a pair of red high heels covered her feet.

"Well I won't be to upset if you eat the lunch I made for you. And put the gun away, I would feel a little better if it wasn't almost in my general direction." Naruto shrugged, putting his weapon over his shoulder and onto his back as he took the brown bag offered by Harley.

"Tuna again, huh?" He muttered, munching into the sandwich as Harley smiled seeing her friend enjoy her meal especially made for him. While it wasn't ramen like he would of liked tuna was much more healthy for the man.

"Mhm, you need to eat a bit more healthy Naru. You're supposed to be a big, strong police officer. You can't protect people on ramen and coffee you know." She pointed to him with a fork, dipping it into a plastic container of spaghetti.

He rolled his eyes, "Harl, I don't only eat ramen and drink coffe. Just on occasion is all."

"By occasion, do you mean breakfast and lunch but not dinner?" She smirked as she playfully jabbed at him with her words.

"Like your one to talk with your little sweets addiction." She blushed lightly at that and huffed, taking a large bite out of her spaghetti.

"Hmph, it's not... My fault that they are so tasty... and delicious. I can't help it." She said between swallows of food.

"It's funny that a Psychologist can't help a behavioral anomaly such as addiction. Aren't you supposed to be able to cure that?" She just glared at him and flicked a meatball at him, to which he promptly ducked the meaty projectile.

"I can cure my own affliction, thank you very much. I just... choose not to." She finished lamely, looking away from him as he smiled.

"I'll be sure to tell Pam to hide the sweets next time you visit then since you can't control yourself when it comes such things." Harley seemed to grow a little guarded once he mentioned his girlfriend, not that he noticed unfortunately. Our male blonde wasn't that good with reading women sadly, hence missing the slight tensing from the blonde woman.

"Whatever, lets just forget about our little guilty pleasures for a sec, m'kay?" He nodded, letting it go for now.

"Alright, alright. What do you want to talk about then?" She hummed, stirring up her pasta in thought.

"Well... How are you and Ms. Isley doing? You've been dating for a year now..." She asked, a slight edge in her voice when she talked about Pamela Isley. A hint of jealousy perhaps, even if she was friends with the redheaded Botanical Scientist.

Naruto smiled, "We're doing pretty good. Been spending a lot more time together and she's really been opening up lately. You know how hard that is for her given her track record. Anyway she told me a bit of her time growing up in Seattle and all the plants she used to raise, compared to the plants that she raises now in her greenhouse." He recounted, not seeing Harley stab a bit too forcefully into her spaghetti as he recounted how close him and Pamela were getting.

"Right, her dad's abuse and her mother's death would leave a bit of psychological trauma that would induce a dash of paranoia and trust issues with such a situation." The doctor sighed, blinking as she noticed that she made her meal into mush from her furious stabs and just played it off as Naruto looked to her slightly. Completely masking her mistake and gesturing for him to continue.

"Yeah, that was-"

"Heh, the rookies taking an early break. That's a shocker." A snide, nasally voice quipped. Looking slightly over his shoulder Naruto couldn't hold back a glare that came over his eyes as two guards passed him and Harley.

"What do you expect? The guy is straight out of the Academy at the top of his class, course he's a little arrogant. Think he's hot shit, when in reality he ain't. Can't believe the Commissioner even allowed this guy to be trusted with any duty let alone guard duty. They should've just stuck him at a desk." The other guard chuckled with his friend as they left the break area. Naruto grit his teeth, slowly starting to get up only to be pulled down by a smaller hand on his. Following the appendage he saw Harley looking to him and shaking her head in disapproval.

"Harl.." He started only to be silenced with a look.

"No, Naru. Don't even think about it. They're not worth it." He sighed and nodded his head, knowing she was right but didn't like it one bit. They finished their meal in silence with Naruto's thoughts shifting back to the two guards comments. It's been like that since he has gotten the guard position a few months ago. The people seemed to think that just because he got out of the Academy with top marks he would be an arrogant cop, which he wasn't. Did he know that he had a high set of skills? Yes, but he didn't lord it over the others. Yet, that seemed to not make him humble but make him stand out as a prick to others with his usual silence. People seemed to be stupid when they didn't understand someone.

"I'll see you later Harl, gotta call Paula soon. If she doesn't get at least three calls of me making sure I'm coming for the holidays she'll have my head." Harley giggled at that, knowing how the woman could get when her adopted brother didn't come for the holidays. A family friend to the Namikaze's, Paula Nguyen adopted Naruto as soon as she was able too. The woman was a caring individual, just the type of person Naruto needed to get past the departure of his parents from the land of the living. Naruto thought of Paula as the older sister he never had and loved her to bits.

"Heehee~ I swear your sister is such a doting mother hen when it comes to you." Naruto just smiled at that, since it was pretty much true. She did worry about him, even if he wasn't really doing anything inherently dangerous at the moment.

"Yeah she is, doesn't mean I don't love her any less for it." He waved goodbye to Harley and walked out of the break room. Walking through the corridors of the prison he found a quiet spot, a window overlooking Gotham with no one in sight down the corridor. Pulling out his phone he dialed his sister and waited for her to pick up.

"Hello?" A feminine, slightly tired voice rang from his phone.

"Hey Nee-san, It's me." An intake of breathe came from the end of the line.

"Naruto?.." He chuckled, seems he caught her when she was asleep.

"Hai, Nee-san"

"Otou.. Why didn't you call earlier?! It's Christmas Eve for Kami's sake!" He cringed, yeah he seemed to catch her when she was asleep. Now granted he did put off this call for two weeks but calling the woman when she was previously asleep as well? Yeah, that didn't help his case at all.

"Eeeehh, I was… Busy you know." He answered hesitantly, getting a huff on the other end of the line.

"To busy to call your Onee-san? To busy to miss Christmas with your Godchildren, again?" Oh, now that hurt him. He really loved his little nieces, he really did but when he had to juggle a love life, work, a social life, and family…. He got a little scattered.

"Nee-san, of course not. It's just… The thing is… I lost track of time is all. I am coming back home for Christmas though, I promise. So don't tell Arty and Jade that I'm not coming."

"You mean it this time?" He sighed .

"Yeah, I really mean it Nee-san. I'll see you soon, love you."

"I love you to Otou, see you soon." He ended the call and dialed his girl. After all he had plans to take her out tonight, he went through great lengths to book a rather exclusive restaurant for their date.

"This is Dr. Isley, speak." A breathy, seductive voice sounded from his phone making his heart skip a beat and a half.

"Hey Pam, how are you doing?"

"I'm doing better now that you called, hon~"

"That's great to hear, you ready for tonight at nine? I got it all set up, Mon Shiri's, a ride through the park, the whole nine yards."

"Mmm, that sounds great~ I've been looking forward to this for weeks. I may just give you a reward if you play your cards right tonight hon~" The blonde smiled at that, a bit of excitement going through him at her whisper through the phone.

"Then I'll make sure tonight is the best night of your life Pam. See you then, love you."

"Love you to hon~" Ending the call Naruto couldn't keep the smile on his face from growing as he whistled down the corridor, now in high spirits. Nothing could ruin this night, nothing at all.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Whipping his head around he could see the flashing lights of the red alarms of the prison. Explosions went off in the distance as screams of inmates rang out from their cells, shaking the bars of their cells in excitement as the alarms could only mean one thing.

Someone was breaking out of prison.

"Shit." He cursed, just as the main doors of the prison blew apart from an explosive. Multiple people in masks came running through the smoke with guns hoisted as he dove into cover of the side corridor to the main corridor where the men were coming from.

Pulling his AR-15 from his back he loaded a clip and locked the bolt of his weapon just as the intruders came into range.

"Just another regular guard shift…" He grunted. Well, tonight he was screwed.

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KY: Done and done. Let it be known that I thoroughly enjoy making such works of fiction, that being new things never done before. After all what's fun about making the same thing someone else has already done when you can make something truly innovative.

So, yeah Naruto is a cop at the beginning of the story. Didn't see that coming did you?

(Dodges a potato from the audience) Hey wow, wow calm down! I told you that he would be different!

J: Yeah it is, both me and KY put a lot of thought into this so be patient since this will be a very, very long process people.

KY: That's right, we have a lot of material that we have planned for the story so it's going to be long. But trust us, it's going to be awesome!

J: Research will kill us all man! There is so much research to go through! (looks around the audience of readers) What its true, research will be a pain but we will pull through.

KY: (Pats J's shoulder) That's right man, we will pull through. Because we will face the challenge and create something the readers will enjoy! (Points to the audience) Guaranteed people!

J: Now have a good one and please leave a review. It will fuel us greatly. Of course any flames at all will just be tossed into the fire to fuel the machinery and vehicles in the story.

KY: Mhm, that or my mother-in-laws insatiable love for steaks. May she keel over from the flame steaks!

J: That too. Anyways later people. (Pulls out a grappling hook and points it randomly into the sky and flies off)

KY: Later people, until next time. (Jumps into the Batmobile and leaves in a flash)