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Godly.

Chapter II.

Naruto sapped his green tea from a cup, given to him by careful butler. "Thanks for the tea, Al. Seriously, you need to teach Bruce how to be a bit more friendlier. Just look how bad our meeting turned out: I just dropped to say hi and he started to growl at me! I mean… he sometimes like more like a raging animal than human being… I mean, I know that he had lost his parents, but I had lost the only relative I had, my Grandfather, and I do not leash out on other people."

"I see, Master Naruto." said Alfred. "Do not worry I will properly scold Master Bruce for his inappropriate behavior."

"I'm glad that he has someone like you, guarding his back Al." said Naruto, finishing his cup of tea. "I will visit later to bring you that green tea that you like so much."

With those words Naruto left the Wayne Manor with leaving sparks of lightning and smell of ozone behind himself. Alfred, keeping his stoic face, went to the room with the ancient clock and placed the needed time. To his right opened the secret passage and he walked downstairs, where in medical room of the Batcave, Bruce Wayne was healing from the last ordeal.

After he entered the medical room Alfred scowled. Bruce wasn't here, without a doubt last member of the Wayne family was once again working and forsaking his own health.

He entered the main sector of the Batcave and saw Bruce Wayne, covered in bandages, sitting behind the Batcomputer. He observed the tapes from Naruto's and Alfred's talk.

"So… my assumption was true." said he. "Master Raiden is dead."

"Yes, Master Bruce." said Alfred. "However the way you have acquired a proof showed that you started to change… And I will not lie, these changes disturb me greatly."

"What?" raised his brow Bruce. "Why? What do you find so..."

"Disgusting?" said the needed word old butler. "It is simple: Master Naruto knew back when you learned under the tutelage of Lord Raiden. Moreover you suspected that he had lost his grandfather and still, despite your past relation, you decided to beat the information out of him like a common thug. Shame on you, Master Bruce. I thought that I raised you better than this."

"Naruto has changed much since our last meeting." countered Bruce. "Moreover, by the looks of it he has the same powers as Master Raiden… only darker in nature. He is a potential danger, moreover I can bet that he had somehow connected to the disappearance of Superman. Both he and Raiden disappeared at the same time, as Naruto acquired his powers."

"You believe… that Master Naruto killed his own Grandfather?"Alfred was shocked, sure, Bruce was rather paranoid and life in Gotham didn't make it any better, but to think that he believed that young Naruto killed his only relative, whom he dearly loved, who, by his own words 'saved his life' and 'gave him new purpose'. Alfred understood that placing trust in someone usually bite him in in the end. Looks like he didn't even consider that Naruto wasn't involved.

"As you say, Master Bruce." finally sighed Alfred. "However I must add that I do not agree with the fact of you condemning the boy before you even listen to his story, Master Bruce. With your inappropriate actions you may cause more harm than good."

Bruce didn't answer anything. Instead he once again drowned himself in work, that night.

When Naruto returned home he was greeted by sight of Sheeva impatiantly tapping her feet on her floor, with her hands crossed under her chest and on her belly, awaiting his return. Judging by her serious glare, he will not manage to evade the talk with her this time.

"Who is she?" Shokan woman never walked around the topic and always asked her questions directly. He admired this trait of hers. This honesty. He laved that in her, but sometimes… it irritated him to no end.

"Blackfire will become my apprentice. Her powers are impressive and her talents are noteworthy. She will become a fine student. I will teach her everything I know about the magic arts."

"She is hurt and scarred." told him Sheeva. "Both physically and mentally. She had a harsh life before and whatever happened where you have found her didn't make her health better."

"I see… How is she now?" asked Naruto.

"Mileena watches over her. Moreover, she wanted to spar… to see how far her skills worsened after being stuck in glass tank for Elder Gods knows how long." answered Sheeva. "You better be ready, looks like she and Mileena had quickly found common ground."

"Heh." smiled Naruto. "It's even better than I thought."

Blackfire's spin kick was blocked before it reached Mileena's head and Tamaranian princess made a salt backwards to evade fiting in uncomfortable position.

"Hm… not bad… for someone, who was slacking in the glass tank." said Mileena. "However I see a lot of room for improvement."

"Yeah..." Blackfire was tired. Her unwanted stay in the tank, when she was captured by the government agents and later experimented on, made her weaker… much weaker than she used to deal with. "Do you know why did your husband saved me?"

"Simple, because I need an apprentice." everyone turned to an entrence, where the dark god stood in all his glory. "And for this position, I need someone with your power and potential."

"Power? I'm cursed being, genetic fraud despised for weakness by my own family!" screamed Blackfire. Naruto didn't answer. He just poke her into her forehead. Blackfire saw the world from different point of view. She moved… differently, while staying in place. She was flying and falling, feeling herself filled with power which she had never sensed before… With a gasp she opened her eyes back in her body… but the feeling of sleeping power inside her remained.

"You remind me about myself much, Blackfire. Hated… Scorned… Lied to… all for the sins that were not your own and out of your control. I wish you to realize your true potential. Unreal magic might that made you so different from your fellow Tamaranians. You have power, yet you do not know how to unleash it. Let me teach you, I will not betray you like others."

Nobody… perhaps even Blackfire herself could tell why did she agreed with his proposal. Yet she did so.

Jiraya looked over the dark city of Gotham, hoping that this time his lead to Naruto will not be… Lightning struck into the roof behind his back and something, or rather someone powerful made his presence known.

"Jiraya..." sage slowly turned and with sorrow recognized his godson. Hateful glare and grimace of anger… He had changed, but was still recognizable. "You dare to appear in front of me, Toad Sage? Speak, before I will show you what happens with toads hit by lightning."

As if feeling his anger, thunder roared in the skies.

"Please Naruto… I know that your… departure from Konoha wasn't the best one, however I must ask you to return to Konoha again. We have lost our allies and our enemies united against us. We need you and your power."

"My power? Or might of Kyuubi?" asked Naruto narrowing his glowing eyes. "Jiraya, I could have unleashed the beast back in the village… Yet I haven't done anything of sorts. I just gave people what they desired: a life without a demon brat. They made their decision, so let them pay with the cards they choose."

"What about your parents? Do you not want to know whom they were?" asked Jiraya. "Do you even care that they were the greatest heroes of the Leaf? That they..."

"Jiraya… do you know that back in the Academy teachers asked us to right an essay… 'Letter to Fourth'. I used lot of crap in the second version. However do you know what I wrote in original?"

"No." answered Jiraya, fearing the words that wiould come from Naruto's lips.

"I do not not how, I do not know when, but even if I have to resurrect you, I will kill you." answered Naruto. "First letter to my father… Just think… all this time he was alive, living happily with Kushina, who had lost her memories about that night and their daughter, born later. He tries to not look back knowing that nothing good was in his past… Truth to be told he failed when he decided to sacrifice his son, me, in order to protect the ungrateful citizens of Konoha. Yet he feels that his path is catching up to him… maybe after dealing with you, I shall pay my relatives a visit?"

"You dare..." Jiraya didn't notice when Naruto closed the distance. One moment he was starting an angry tirade, the other his was in the air shaking his legs, with Naruto crushing his throat.

"Don't you dare play the role of a hero or righteous person in front of me, Jiraya. I know you… your perverted, lecherous and traitorous self. It's time to pay for your crimes! Feel the might of Thunder God!"

Lighting struck according to his will as thunder rolled in the skies. He felt how Jiraya's body burnt under power of lightning and suddenly, with a loud poof, he disappeared.

"Hm..." Thunder and lightning disappeared as suddenly as it started. "Looks like Jiraya once again manged to sneak away. Well… whatever, I will deal with him later."

Kushina Uzumaki rarely saw her husband. Since she had awakened after some sort of… terrifying battle, as Minato told her, she felt some sort of… emptiness inside. It was like something was ripped out from her… and worst of all, she had forgotten what it was.

Her relationship with her husband worsened over the years and when their daughter was in her late teens, they had finally divorced. To that time Kushina gathered enough money to start her own business and judicial system was on her side. Naruko stayed with her.

Right now she was in the backyard of her house, observing how her daughter trained. Kushina smiled, trying her best to ignore her bad thoughts.

"Beautiful sight..." said someone's voice to her right. "Are you two related?"

Kushina instantly jumped to her feet, but near her sat just a harmless old traveler. Old brown robes covered his form and large straw kasa, favored by monks. Kushina knew that looks could be deceiving, but something in that man forced her to relax.

"How did you get in here? It is a private property."

Old man just pointed to the fence, where, to Kushina's great surprise was a large hole.

"I think that you need to fix this thing, before it truly will become private… and I'm just an old man, who decided to rest a bit." answered her stranger. "You wouldn't chase away a harmless old beggar?"

"No… no I will not." answered Kushina. "Besides… maybe you are the sign I was waiting for… someone who doesn't know me… Someone with not biased opinion on the matter."

"On… what kind of mater?"

"During my life there was a period when I experienced a near death state. Because of it I lost a memories of entire year of my life. I returned to consciousness, but I felt like there was a gaping hole in my heart. Like there was something that was ripped from my being. When Naruko was born this feeling just intensified… Like there was supposed to be another child… but Minato told me that I wasn't pregnant… Did he lie to me? Could he?"

"What does your heart tell you?" asked stranger.

"He definitely hides something." answered Kushina. "He never speaks of it always tries to change a topic of discussion... How can I be sure in his words if isn't honest even with me, his own wife?"

"Here it is. You know that he had lied to you… You know I once heard that something from the past may trigger memories lost due to amnesia..." started old man.

"I highly doubt that I will find any remnant of my old life here and I cannot return back to my old home..." sighed red haired woman.

"Hmm… perhaps you will be glad to hear that some strange fella asked me give this to you… A tale of Gutsy Ninja if I am right."

"Thank you mister, it was my favorite book. Mister…?" however there already was no one in place of old stranger. As if he was never there, but book in Kushina's hands was very real.

"Ah yeas main hero's name is… Naruto… I wanted to name my son like this… my son… my son!" memories flooded her mind like water from a broken dam flooded a valley.

"MINATO!" Dark God heard her angry scream. Truly, Hell has no fury as woman scorned. Kushina will not stop until she will find his blonde bastard of a father. Good. When she will finally found him, he will be there. He waited many years, sometimes even completely giving up on it. He can wait several more moths.

All will be according to the plan.