A.N.: This will be a new story depicting Batman finding himself in the Naruto world. Now for those of you who care, this will not be the same universe my other Naruto story is set in but rather the Shippuden canon universe (with a few modifications). For my Batman universe, this could simply be considered an adventure set in the near future. I will be doing these to showcase Batman's adventures and exploits so look forward to that. Anyway, I don't know if I'll make this into a full-fledged story but I had the idea in my head so I decided to try it out. If you guys like it and want me to continue, lemme know and we'll see how far it goes.

Heavy breaths. Chest expanding, heart pounding. Body aching, struggling to even blink. The air was tense with killer intent. Batman struggled to comprehend where he was. That was difficult to do while being hunted by ninjas. These 'ninjas' however, were not like any that Batman has encountered. They were fast, and they knew how to use the trees to their advantage. Kunai and shuriken flew by the hundreds, a maneuver that was obviously intended to draw him out. He couldn't remember anything. One moment, he was fighting Clayface, the next... He couldn't process the next thought as a ninja suddenly ran up from behind him and attempted to stab him in the neck. Batman was no slouch however and managed to kick him in the stomach before he could strike, knocking the man out cold. This action was apparently loud enough to give away his position as six ninjas wearing headbands and green vests with blue sweaters and pants jumped out. One of them began moving their hands at speeds too fast to see before raising his fingers to his mouth. Batman nearly got incinerated from the fiery dragon that flew at him from the ninja's mouth. Batman landed on a clearing with all the remaining shinobi surrounding him. He was outnumbered, he was tired, and he was running out of gadgets. But he still wasn't about to lose.

"Give it up! You're not defeating six of us!" One of the taunted.

"Don't underestimate Konoha Shinobi, you bastard!" Another one shouted.

This only added to the confusion. Part of his mind focused on formulating an attack plan while the other was putting together where he was. He couldn't still be on his Earth. He knew every secret technique a ninja could use and flying fiery dragons were only told in legends. Batman narrowed his eyes as two of them charged forward. Batman jumped back, leaving smoke bombs where he was. The bombs exploded in their face, blanketing the enemies with smoke. One of them jumped high into the air and yelled, "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"

The ninja blew a burst of strong wind from his mouth, clearing the smoke. When it cleared, it revealed that Batman had managed to take out two shinobi. Enraged, the three whom were still on the ground threw explosive kunai at him. Taking evasive action, Batman dove out of the way. The shinobi in the air threw a kunai with a string around it, wrapping it around the Dark Knight's large frame. He reacted quickly by grabbing the wire and leaving a small black, blinking cylinder shaped device that emitted electricity and took out the ninja. Behind him, a shinobi threw a shuriken in the air before moving his hands in that strange, speedy motion.

"Shadow Shuriken Technique!" The flying projectiles went from three to twelve. Batman dive rolled out of the way while the other two began to rush him. They attempted to engage him in close quarters, but despite having difficulty controlling his breathing, Batman had them pegged. He took them out while the final shinobi looked on nervously. This... thing, whatever it was, managed to defeat his whole platoon without summoning a single jutsu. He was dangerous. He needed to retreat, now. He turned on his heel and began running off.

"Not so fast." Batman managed to shoot a tracer onto the fleeing foe before he disappeared in the tree lines. Glancing at the mini-computer on his arm, he followed the ninja back to wherever he was going. After an hour of trekking through the forest, the Caped Crusader rested his eyes on a rather large village, with a wall surrounding it and a huge gate that was now closed. Crouching down behind a tree, Batman used the binocular functions in his cowl to scout out the sentries and look for any possible openings. He spied that the sentry on the left was having trouble staying awake. He waited until the one on the right turned around before using his grappling launcher to ascend up the left tower, sneaking past the snoring guard and landing in a nearby alley. Batman was lucky there were no people near the gate. At the other end of the alley, people were walking about, dressed in kimonos and modern clothes. Hiding behind a garbage dumpster, he took a moment to process the situation. He was in a strange version of what seemed to be Japan, with modern and traditional themes running throughout. Ninjas, cell phones, kimonos, skinny jeans... Trying to process exactly what happened before he woke up here proved more difficult than he thought. He remembered dodging a hammer strike from Clayface and then... nothing.

"The fight probably isn't what caused it... It's more likely that I was brought here by someone or... something." Batman didn't have long to think as he suddenly felt a shift in the air behind him. Before he could even react, he felt a kunai pressed to his neck.

"Move... and you're dead." Batman recognized that the pressure of the blade on his neck was probably strong enough to rip through his cowl and kill him. This meant that whoever was holding was strong. Too strong for him to fight outright. Having no other options, Batman raised his heads in defeat.

"Stand up and walk." The voice commanded. He began walking where directed until his eye caught sight of something. Standing atop a building overlooking the village was a boy. At least fifteen or sixteen, blond hair, blue eyes and orange and black clothes. For a ninja, that seemed like a poor choice of clothing. "Keep moving." Batman continued walking, drawing a few stares.

"Did Kakashi-san catch an enemy shinobi?"

"That guy seems weird..."

"What's going on?"

Batman continued walking until he came to a building that read "Konohagakure Intelligence Division". Batman had an idea what that meant. Awaiting outside in the yard was a man with an impressively imposing figure. He wore a bandana that covered his head and a black trench coat. He wore a navy blue uniform underneath and had two scars running across his face.

"Kakashi." The man greeted.

Batman still couldn't see the man but heard his reply. "Ibiki... Hokage-sama wants this man interrogated. He was sensed entering the village. See what you can find out."

Stoically, Ibiki nodded before having some of his subordinates bring Batman inside the building. Before they allowed him , Ibiki had him blindfolded. A smart maneuver, as it prevented Batman from being able to memorize the way out, should he somehow escape.

"Of course..." Ibiki thought. "It's not like he will be able to escape."

Batman was brought to a room, and was put in a chair. They removed the blindfold as Ibiki walked in, his hands in his coat. His subordinates left the room, leaving Batman, Ibiki and a table full of sharp weapons alone in the room.

"I have no idea who you are. If you're merely a rogue ninja from another village or a clumsy spy sent to infiltrate us but I promise you... I will find out."

Then, something strange happened. Something odd, phenomenal, rare in its showings. Batman smiled, darkly. A cocky smile of gutsiness and bravado. "Give me your best shot."

Ibiki grinned at this as he pulled out a nail.

After hours of torture, Batman held up without so much as grunting. He was thrown into a cell to wait until the next session of interrogation. Lying in the damp cell, Batman stood up on his wobbly legs. The ninja that had apprehended him, Kakashi, managed to remove his belt and withstood the shock that ensued. He's either that strong or can control electricity. It's hard to determine which. While his belt had been removed, he still had emergency lockpicks stored in his gauntlets. He can't take them on head-on, as this ninja village is too strong. His only choice is to use stealth but he couldn't do it now. Somehow, they managed to find out where he was and that he had gotten into their village. For all he knows, they could be monitoring his every movement. He needed to bide his time, find out more about this world then escape. There was nothing else to do then but wait. He sat down near a wall and rested. If he were to survive the next torture session then he'd need it.

Bruce's eyes opened. He was now somewhere else, somewhere... strange, to say the least. He was standing on an ocean of red blood and above him was an upside down black city. Somehow, blood was raining from the ocean onto the city and the sky around him was orange with black clouds.

"My inner mind..."

"Quite perceptive, other-worlder." A dignified voice from behind him spoke out. Bruce turned around to see a floating old man staring at him. He was tall and pale skinned, with deep wrinkles all over his face. He had spiky, shoulder length grey hair, with a chin-length braid hanging in front of his left ear. He also sported a goatee, which tapered down to his waist. The old man had a pair of horn-like protrusions extending from either side of his forehead, and no eyebrows. His eyes were purple and had a spiral pattern. A marking of this same pattern was in the center of his forehead. He wore a white, full-length kimono with a pattern of six magatama around a high collar, beneath which he wore a necklace with the same number of magatama. On the back of his kimono was a larger, black spiral circle marking with a pattern of nine magatama arranged in three rows of three beneath it. In his hand was a black dual-headed staff, with a ringed hoop at one end and at the other possessed a crescent shaped curve.

"Are you the one who's brought me here? To this world?"

"Ho... impressive. You've sense that you have been brought here. As have I. However, I am not the one who has summoned you here."

"Who are you?"

"My name is Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of the Six Paths."

"Sage?"

Hagoromo raised his staff, creating a ball of blue that projected images. "The world you have come to is the World of Shinobi, governed by the Five Great Nations. The people of these nations are tense allies and some are outright enemies with each other." The ball showed Bruce the landscape, the villages and the people. "Humans have mastered the energy of chakra, a force of nature that all life is contingent on."

"Chakra..."

"You have heard of it?"

"There is a concept by the same name on my world but... it's a bit different from yours. Through the use of chakra, is that how the shinobi I encountered earlier used their attacks?"

"Indeed. By molding physical energy with spiritual energy, shinobi of today can use techniques with immense destructive power..."

"You don't sound too pleased about that."

"I am not. Ninjutsu, as it is called now, was not created for destruction. It started as the way of Ninshuu, a manner of understanding the body, the self and others. I had created it to establish peaceful relations between the people but..."

"The desire for power took over and here we are today."

"Yes. I know not why you reside in this realm but I do know that the people do not trust you and may kill you."

"I'm not as helpless as I look."

"Indeed. But if you are to survive in this world, you will require the ability to mold chakra yourself." With the speed of light, Hagoromo placed his palm on Bruce's stomach. "I will grant you a chakra network that will allow the chakra to flow through you. Please bear with it."

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The process was excruciatingly painful. He felt like his entire nervous system was being morphed and shifted. It lasted for a few minutes but if felt like years and by the end of it, Bruce was panting and sweating profusely. However, he felt different. He felt something inside of him. It was strange, new but powerful.

"So this is the sensation of chakra?"

"Yes. Though you are not of this world, I believe you will find your way home. Until then, I will aid you in whatever manner possible. Now... awaken!"

Batman's eyes flew open to see someone yelling at him from outside the cell.

"Hey! Wake up already!" A woman stood outside of his cell. She had light brown, pupil-less eyes with violet hair in a short, spiky fanned-ponytail. She wore a tan overcoat with a purple in-seam, which had a pocket on both sides. She also wore a body fit mesh body suit that stretched from her neck to her mid-thighs. She wore a dark orange mini skirt and around her neck was a small pendant that looked like a snake fang on thick cord, a watch around her wrist and pale grey shin guards. She also wore a dark blue belt around her waist that connected to her skirt that had an appendage-like sash. On her forehead was the headband that the rest of shinobi wore. She licked her lips in a somewhat sadistic manner. "It's time for round 2."