Smallville/Naruto

Secrets

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 2

Cadmus Labs

Doctor Rathaway sat playing his favourite musical instrument while he waited for Mr Lex Luthor to arrive.

Since he had nothing else that he could do until then he figured he could pass the time by getting in a little practice, his instrument of choice was the clarinet.

As he heard the door to the lab open he put down the instrument and stood up to greet the visitor, none other than Alexander Luthor himself.

"Mr Luthor," Rathaway greeted the Luthor heir in a businesslike manner "I'm glad you saw fit to come here so quickly."

"I take it you found something useful doctor," Lex replied "obviously it must be good for you to feel secure enough to waste time playing music in work hours."

"There wasn't anything else I could do until you decide what to do with what I've discovered for you," Rathaway shrugged "I saw no harm in getting in some practice while I waited for you to arrive, it doesn't hurt to have an appreciation for good music after all."

"Perhaps not," Lex shrugged "as long as what you have discovered is as good as you say."

Rathaway found himself suppressing a shudder, for some reason Lex seemed much creepier today.

"I can assure you sir that this has quite a few potential uses," Rathaway replied with conviction "the girl that this blood sample comes from is quite obviously a metahuman of some kind."

"What abilities would she most likely have?" Lex asked.

"Superior speed and strength for starters," Rathaway replied "heightened intelligence also, and probably an ability to control others somehow via sound modulation."

"Such as the music of a flute," Lex realized "those who were at Black Creek reported that the only thing they could remember was some flute music, this has potential military applications, chiefly in espionage."

"I could extract the gene," Rathaway replied "after that it would be a simple matter to engineer a retrovirus to deliver that gene into a soldier's DNA, theoretically giving them that ability."

"Get to work on it immediately," Lex ordered "I want the serum ready for initial testing in one week or less."

"Yes Sir," Rathaway nodded.

Tayuya sat in her room brooding over what had happened earlier in the day.

She knew she should have been getting her homework done but her mind kept drifting back to the incident involving her, Bethany and Duncan and how she had lost it and beaten Duncan up quite severely for what he had done to Bethany.

At the time she had been consumed with rage and it hadn't registered that she was crossing the line, but now she was wracked with guilt.

Yes Duncan was a pervert and a bully and he probably deserved it when Tayuya had belted him one but it should have stopped there, instead she had seen red and hit him again several times breaking multiple bones.

Tayuya doubted that Duncan realized just how lucky he was to survive her wrath.

"Tayu," Clark's voice called from outside the door "are you in here?"

"Where else would I be Clark?" Tayuya responded in a clearly depressed tone.

"Can I come in?"

"Sure," Tayuya permitted "why not?"

The door opened and Clark walked in, sitting beside Tayuya on the bed, neither of the adoptive siblings spoke for a couple of minutes.

Eventually though Clark decided to break the silence.

"Sitting up here brooding isn't going to solve anything sis," he told her "why don't you come downstairs and talk to Lana and Kara, they're worried about you and so am I."

"I don't know if I can face them," Tayuya replied sadly "I fucked up bad Clark."

Tayuya held up her right hand, her thumb and forefinger less than a quarter inch apart.

"I came this close to killing someone today and staining my hands with even more blood."

"But you didn't kill him," Clark responded "you stopped yourself."

"You weren't fucking there Clark," Tayuya snapped "how the fuck would you know?"

"Because I know you," Clark replied "the only way someone like Duncan could have survived getting beaten up by you is if you let him survive, you realized what you were doing and stopped yourself it's the only reasonable explanation."

Clark paused for a moment before continuing.

"You know, I had a feeling that something like this was a possibility," he told the fiery teen "I'm actually surprised that it didn't happen sooner."

"But you still sent me there," Tayuya noted "why?"

"Because you deserve to have a normal childhood-what childhood you have left that is," Clark replied "and in the event that something like this happened I had faith that you'd stop yourself before you ended up doing anything too bad, of course I did think you'd stop yourself sooner than you did."

"I'll bet you never did anything like what I did today," Tayuya replied, her voice tinged with shame.

"You'd be surprised," Clark replied, drawing a raised eyebrow from Tayuya "back in high school Lana used to run a coffee shop called the Talon, which by the way is still open today, anyhow one night a couple of rednecks blow through town and stop in, when they get a look at Lana they both decide that they want more than just coffee."

"I get what you mean," Tayuya nodded with a slight frown "they were fucking perverts and they tried to get her into bed."

"Exactly," Clark replied with a nod "Lana of course made it plain that she wasn't interested, they wouldn't accept that, they pushed her around and then walked out, I came in just a half minute later and saw what had happened."

"I have a feeling I know what happened then," Tayuya replied.

"You probably do," Clark agreed "I followed them outside and delivered an ultimatum that they were not to set foot in the Talon again, being the idiots that they were they decided to be smart mouths about it, and then one of them made the mistake of calling Lana a bitch."

"Worst thing he could have done," Tayuya commented with a wince and a shake of her head "I take it that's when you beat the shit out of them."

"That would be about right," Clark nodded "one of them was lucky he didn't get his back busted after I threw him on the hood of that police car-and got arrested by Sheriff Adams. In any case they were both exaggerating their injuries in order to sue for compensation and take everything my folks owned until one of them made another pass at Lana-who had received some self-defence lessons in the meantime-and promptly got his ass handed to him."

"They backed off after another beating?" Tayuya asked in surprise "didn't they try to sue Lana as well?"

"Their macho pride was in tatters after that so no," Clark replied with a grin "guys like that don't seem to handle losing to a girl very well, kinda makes me wonder how Duncan is gonna handle getting beaten to a pulp by you. That might be the silver lining in this cloud."

"Anything happen else besides the lawsuit?" Tayuya asked.

"Well I ended up serving a week of community service as punishment," Clark replied with a shrug "all we can really do after we blow it like that is pick ourselves up and try to do better sis."