Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the DC properties.
Prologue
Walking through alleyways one can learn all sorts of things if they're willing to open their ears.
Take for example the fact that the Bat and his associates have been on a war-path of sorts. Everyone that has ears in places has been hit for information on a man wearing a white grinning fox mask with thin, slanted eye-holes and a orange wavy design over the mouth, a etching of a stylized leaf with a scratch through it on the forehead. Black full-bodysuit with grey flak-jacket, metal shoulder and arm guards, three small equipment pouches on his back-waist, two medium sized ones strapped to each leg, and a sword strapped to his back under a bright orange hooded cloak. Word was he almost killed Robin and Batgirl in their first meeting.
After one month, the only information they had on him was that he preferred to use kunai and shuriken for distance, his sword, a jian, use for groups of enemies, and a hand-to-hand fighting style used to maim or kill his opponents. He was also recorded all over the city at the same time. Glimpses of orange streaking along rooftops from shootouts ended in bloodbaths.
Month two saw rumours of a new gang starting up called The Whirling Tide. It started small enough. Home invasions, muggings, small-time drug trafficking, and car-jacking. Mostly made up of orphan children and teens that roam Old Gotham and the East End. Few confirmed sighting of the man are made in the city during that period and the next few months.
Months three to eight saw a slow increase of The Whirling Tide's notoriety, making a name for themselves as reliable drug and gunrunners for all the small-time gangs. Expanding into Robinson Park and absorbing all street gangs in the way cemented their place in the underworld.
In month nine the masked man was revealed to be in charge of The Whirling Tide. Calling himself Kyuubi, but known by his men respectfully as Hokage, he leads The Whirling Tide against the Black Mask's gun and drug trade. Over the past few months, he had developed personal and business relationships with people outside of the city that had no ties to The Whirling Tide. The month ends in a near successful assassination attempt of Black Mask by Kyuubi himself that left Black Mask in a coma.
The Whirling Tide soon took over all weapon and drug running in Gotham from the Penguin in month ten.
The next two months are spent shoring up their territory and clientele with Kyuubi earning a reputation of fighting and winning over the Bat-family. Assassinations and exterminations became the norm for their dealings with rivals trying to get in on their business.
So it was little wonder the Bat would be out looking for information on Kyuubi. The only problem was that by the time the Bat knew to look for him, no one with useful information had been able to talk because of strange markings found on their tongues.
They would talk, just nothing not already well known about The Whirling Tide or Kyuubi.
So it was with a smile a totally anonymous blonde, whisker marked, twenty-three year old walked, slight spring to his step, thinking about his past year.
A.N: When I had lost the memory stick that I saved all the information for the story on, I had only the finished chapters on my computers harddrive and what was posted to the site. After reading through the story, I had made a new outline before starting on what will be the fourth chapter and was nearly done when I noticed that the pacing of the story was off compared to the earlier chapters. I went back over the finished chapters to edit them to correct the mistakes and add more information on the formation of The Whirling Tide gang aside of the small scrapes I have there now so that their skills make sense. I will be deleting that version of the story when I post part 2 of Month Two on this one.
The over all information will still be the same since I just fixed minor things and added new scenes in some places. Some things from this Naruto's past will be explained in the next chapter, but as I'm still fully fleshing that out, he will still have amnesia and might not fully recover his memories during the events of the story. Doing that for a possible prequel of that time period. The events in the manga with still have happened with some of the filler added, only modified to fit with this Naruto's past experiences since I have never watched past the Chunin Invasion Arc of the anime when it first aired on YTV. Stopped watching to read the manga instead after some of the fillers.
Anyways, so far this and Day One are set. My schedule willing, the rest will be done soon. Most of the stuff about his past in the next few chapters has also already been decided on by me. Anyone willing to beta, either say in a review or PM me.
If you have jutsu suggestions, futon and doton are preferable for high rankings. The other elements are fine as long as you have them being low level ones able to be overloaded to a higher ranking. Having both English and Japanese name will help me pick any suggestions. Just leave a review or PM me.
As stated before, I will be making this an AU for both Naruto and the DC Universe.
I will be using the manga, some episodes of filler, and a movie or two to form most of the background of the Naruto universe.
The DC Animated Universe, Young Justice, Teen Titans, The Batman, the DC Animated Original Movies Universe(mostly for future chapters and to tie it together somehow), and the DC wiki will provide some of that background.