"…In recent news, the mystery thief, Biju, has stolen over one million dollars from the Thirty-fourth street bank. Local authorities are baffled as to how the thief is capable of leaving the scene of a crime without being captured on dozens of occasions…"
"Hey, Jack… Turn that off." said a large man wearing a ski mask.
"What if I don't want to?" asked a skinnier man in equal attire wearing another ski mask.
"Then the police will hear us!" shouted the large man.
"It's not just the police who can hear you!" hissed a voice in the darkness.
"W-Who's there?!" shouted the skinny one into the shadows.
The larger one picked up a nearby pole.
"Yeah, show yourself!" he yelled.
A phantom like creature came from the ground behind them.
The skinny one turned and screamed before he was punched unconscious. The larger one turned and ran forward, striking with his pole. The pole went through the phantom and he was swiftly struck in the back of the head.
"That was easy." Said the phantom-like figure before something on its chest started to flash red.
After a few seconds there was a massive burst of crimson light and a boy stood in the phantom's place. He turned and looked under the desk that the TV was on.
"What the…" he started.
He could have sworn that the jewels were under there…
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"Well, well… this is quite a haul." said a tall figure.
He held a large bag filled with jewels. He had already snatched it from the thieves who had robbed the nearby jewelry store and ran off. It was too easy. He smirked and turned, but, a flash of red caught his eye. He felt his eyes narrow.
He looked through a window and saw something… a head of brown hair.
It was a boy, no older than ten. He was wearing a white shirt with black lines and had brown hair and green eyes. His pants were a dark green.
"Now that's interesting…" said the figure as he watched the boy look for the jewels.
He frowned and quickly took out a card and a paperclip. Attaching the card to the bag, he removed all the pieces of jewelry and pocketed them.
"I'll humor him."
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The boy turned and started to walk out when he heard a crash. He quickly turned around and saw that the window behind the TV had been shattered and the TV and been knocked onto the ground on its side. There was static on the TV and it kept on replaying one word… Biju.
The boy ran up and saw what hit the TV. A bag filled with rocks with a small card on the side. He opened the card.
"Just call me Biju.
"I'm the greatest thief ever.
"No, the jewels are gone." read the boy.
All was silent.
"Now that's just creepy." said the boy before grabbing the note and running out.
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"Oi, Charm! I'm home!" called the figure.
From the shadows stepped out an attractive, young woman wearing purple. She had long, white hair and three earrings on her right ear.
"Naruto? Did you get anything good?" she asked.
"A whole bag of jewels some thugs snatched last night. They'd been keeping it for too long, in my opinion." replied the figure before he walked into the light, revealing himself.
He was wearing a bright, 'Kill-me' orange hoodie with a black kanji for nine on his back. He was wearing a pair of loose blue jeans that were held up by a sash-belt combo. He had a nodachi on his back. He was wearing a strange pair of blue sandals and had something tied around his forehead with a metal plate. The metal plate had an arrow-like leaf on it and had a long slash. He had a pair of black, fingerless gloves with metal plates on the back. Around his left was a stone wristband of some type.
"What bothered me was the fact that I wasn't the one who had to fight them. Some kid did it for me." spoke Naruto.
"Kid?" asked 'Charm'.
"Hai, Charmcaster, a kid. He looked like some kind of fifth grader, but… I'm surprised as to how he was capable of tracking down and knocking out those numbskulls." replied Naruto.
"Maybe he was trained." she suggested.
"He didn't look or act like a warrior in any way, shape, or form… then again; he certainly wasn't an amateur, so that's definitely a possibility."
"So where did he come from? He had to have gotten that training somewhere, right?"
"Of course… and that's what bothers me." said Naruto before he leaned against a wall.
"Are we going to destroy him or something?" asked Charmcaster, "If we don't, he could pose a huge threat to us…"
"Nah, not destroy him… follow and steal from him, maybe. But destroy? No." said Naruto shaking his head, "Whoever this Gaki is he's already significantly dented the city crime rate. Let's let him have his fun… But when he tries to stop us, we beat him down."
Charmcaster frowned at that, "We should just get rid of him now. That way, he won't cause us any problems in the future at all."
"If we get rid of him now, there will be more criminals and, thus, more competition… and that's something that we don't need. Furthermore, if we're ever caught, which I doubt is going to happen any time soon, then our sentence in jail will simply include theft rather than murder." explained Naruto, "Last I checked, you get death for murder and only a few years for robbery and theft."
"So we don't kill him. We just make him back down and stay away from us." spoke Charmcaster with a shrug.
"Not happening. He'll just keep coming until he beats us. I know his kind… He'll do everything he can to beat us if not for justice, then simply for pride."
"You just met him…" said Charmcaster as she gave him a dull stare.
"I can tell by looking in his eyes."
"That's what you said about my uncle when you claimed he was just an innocent bystander."
"…"
"The eye thing… it sounds philosophical and all, but you really can't tell, can you?"
"…So what if I can't?"
Charmcaster felt her eye twitch at the comment.
"Besides… I'm right… about fifty percent of the time." said Naruto with a simple shrug.
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"Haiku."
Ben stared at his female cousin for a minute after that.
"A what?" he finally asked.
Gwen, the red-head, sighed, "Ugh, you're such a dweeb."
"A Haiku is a Japanese poem that uses Syllables to get the message across. It usually goes in five, then seven, then five again." explained Grandpa Max, as Ben came to know him by, "But I still can't believe you actually found Biju, though. I didn't think he stole jewels from other thieves too."
"You seem pretty hung up on this, Grandpa." said Ben.
"We all should be. Biju has stolen millions of dollars worth of jewelry no matter how good the security is. They're calling him the Night Ninja, the Fazing Phantom, but the best and simplest is what he calls himself: Biju. And that's a pretty weird name to have for a thief." replied Gwen.
"Haven't they tried to stop him?" asked Ben, "I mean, have they ever tried to follow him or at least get him at the scene?"
"Oh, they've tried. The guy's really arrogant too; he always sends letters written in blood to his next target. When they do the DNA test, it always comes out negative due to contamination. He shows up, sometimes makes a bid scene about it, then he steals what he came for and miraculously escapes." she answered.
"Where's he headed to now?" questioned Ben.
"The museum, he's going to steal a large Sapphire that was recently discovered somewhere in Arizona." Gwen returned.
"Ben, what are you planning?" trailed Grandpa Max, he knew that look in Ben's eyes.
It was the hero look…
"We're going to catch the Night Ninja." he said with a smirk.
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End Prologue:
This is my very first Ben 10/Naruto crossover and I'm actually quite pleased with myself. I'll allow you all to mull over this for now and I'll update it then continue it as a story on 10/10/10. The story will end on 11/11/11 and I'll feature an epilogue on 12/12/12.
I have other stories to look after at the moment, so consider this story… a Time capsule of the future. I'll continue it, just in a year.
Until then, Sayonara…
Forever Signed in Blood,
Slayer End
