Jiraiya cursed as he and Kakashi tried once more to replicate the jutsu Naruto used. Kakashi did get a good look at the seal he made with his foot the problem was he didn't have enough chakra or the activation seal.
He hated to admit it but he was nowhere near the seal master the his former student was. Minato was a certifiable genius. Cracking any seal made by him was difficult. Sadly...or maybe it was a good thing that naruto inherited some of that talent. He never would have suspected the brat to be this good. Then again that's how most people lost to him. They underestimated a boy with nothing to lose.
Immediately after Naruto escaped he had been working nonstop with Kakashi for months at a time to recreation the seal to find him.
He was well aware that Naruto was alive. If he was dead his name would be faded on the summoning contract. But that begged the question. Where on earth was he?
He sighed as he sat back in a chair. He had moved back into his "home" in konoha...well his home was actually Naruto's apartment.
When he brought the kid back he wanted to do things right tsunade was more than willing to sign at full pardon and with the backlash on the civilian council so great none would dare oppose that. If he brought The kid back, he wanted to be family do what he was supposed to do from the start and care for him.
And it wasn't like no one knew about the relationship they shared now.
The cat was out of the bag and hissing. Telling a bunch of preteen genin to keep their mouth shut was impossible and news of Naruto escape and heritage traveled across the nation's and the consequences were felt.
Suna new kazekage being a friend of Naruto raised the trade tax on konoha and allowed lest cooroprptove missions.
The land of wave also increased taxes on goods and only gave out low rank low paying missions.
Snow country cut off trade entirely and Queen Koyukie made a public statement that Naruto would be welcomed in her country.
Even the Daimyo was dealing out punishment since the Konoha government stripped a innocent child of their inheritance something that was illegal in his domain.
The list kept going though as Naruto friends and allies In the other villages and countries spoke out. Konoha was getting taxed to no end.
Granted no one out right cut them for completely snow country still allowed shared technological studies and medical training.
Jiraiya didn't really care much though. Well he did but it wasn't like the village was suffering. It was just getting taxed on goods they still had plenty of missions. And merchants and such still traveled through the village. In a few months things would lighten back up. In a year or two they might be able to salvage the relationship between their allies as well.
The backlash on the councils by the villagers though was enormous. And the osteoporosis fun to watch unfold. Many of them were forced to step down from the positions they've held for years. The shining council however was untouched but the elders faced hard criticism none more than Danzo.
Tsunade had made finding Naruto and sasuke a priority. If they found sasuke they could find Naruto. Assuming he was still looking for his former teammate.
So far every mission to find them both ended with failure.
Jiraiya was sure that if he could recreate the jutsu he could find Naruto. So he and Kakashi worked tirelessly. But so far all their results ended with nothing. They've gone through hundreds of different seal variations. And scoured the archives and libraries for anything that could help.
Sakura did what she could bringing the two veteran shinobi food and cleaning what she could but she was also busy with her new training regiment. She wanted to be there to bring Naruto back and she wanted to be strong enough to do so.
The fallout in the village wasn't so bad. In fact some of the village best tactician had to give Naruto props of utterly fucking them over with no casualties. No one was seriously injured. Although the Akimichi clan was looking at little thinner after that day.
Many of their prides where hurt that a genin known for wearing a hideous bright orange track suit brought them to their knees like child's play. And got away. One genin alone did that. It was the most embarrassing defeat the leaf has ever witnessed.
He tried to send messages by toad. But apparently naruto wasn't accepting any messages from him. He sighed as he attempted to send another message.
There were a lot of things he and Naruto needed to talk about. A lot of things the boy just didn't understand about why he was left alone. He was going to keep trying to get him back. At the very least tell him everything. The truth, why he was never around, how he thought he was being cared for. Why he was named Naruto.
He feared he would never get to do so though. Not unless he could crack this seal.
Present day.
Naruto stood on a rooftop a few blocks away from the museum. He was wearing a black Keller vest underneath a red and black Jacket with black pants and boots with Orange laces. Hey he had to have some orange on him. He also wore a slick black helmet with the face of a fox painted in white over a black glass visor, fingerless gloves. Four large pouches hung from his belt and four cases of kunai and shuriken where strapped to his thighs. As he waited catwoman landed on the roof. He threw his hood over his head and waved at Catwoman.
"Hey Foxy you ready?" catwoman asked and he nodded.
"Yup. With a score this big I plan on making this my last big heist. I'm just gonna relax from here on out." he said and catwoman paused.
"Really? You've got a real talent for this though why bother going clean?"
"Well I don't want the entire league after me. And I just want a nice quiet life. I'll make like at least 16 mil from this heist maybe more. I'll have more money than I'll even know what to do with."
Catwoman shrugged.
"shame i had another gig lined up for us that would have made this seem like pocket change." she smirked "But suit yourself foxy."
"...Alright I'm listening." he said sat on the ledge and catwoman smirked triumphantly.
"I'm talking about a heist so big we'll be walking away. Billionaires." Naruto's jaw dropped at this. Billions of dollars to get his life started.
"Keep talking."
"Vegas."
"...Risky. very Risky." he rubbed his chin vegas now that was a risk. See vegas was under control of the mexican cartels and he heard rummors that they hired meta humans to gaurd their investments. that much money was tempting...he supposed a few billion wouldn't hurt his odds at a new life. "I'll think about it but first the job at hand. Then we'll see."
she nodded as she knelt down showing the map of the building. They've raided the place a couple times in the past. Seems like this time they improved their security
"Security is pretty tight tonight. They must have learned they're lesson since the last time we hit this place. More gaurds, a better camera system motion sensors. But I figure we can get in and out within 5-6 minutes. There's no way we can get in without setting off an alarm. After that goes off it will be a timer until the cops or Batty shows up." she said standing up and leaning against a wall. He gave a whistle and looked over everything.
"It looks like everything is still connected to the main security office." he said and catwoman sighed. Idiots really should have some better safety measures.
"This should be fun." she gave him a cocky smile. And naruto stood up straight and gave a bow. "This might actually be a bit difficult."
"ah my feline friend you forget there's nowhere that I cannot get into. Especially not a place that I've already been." he held his hand out and catwoman grabbed it. In a instant they were standing in the security office behind a sleeping security guard. Naruto placed a seal on his forehead that should keep him asleep for a bit.
Catwoman put the cameras onto a continuous loop and she disabled the alarms in the building.
"Alright Foxy let's go our target is in sub level 3 archives." catwoman said strutting out of the security room. He followed shortly behind her and smirked under his mask.
"Man the two of us on a job together makes things way too easy." he said stretching lazily. They made it down to sub level three where several glass cases where lined up in a row. He looked around and spotted the books they were hired to steal. They were about 12 different books.
Catwoman began to pick the lock and naruto walked over time other display cases. He looked over a long and elegant looking Katana. He shrugged and picked the lock.
"find something you like foxy?" she asked picking up one of the books. "plan on pawning it?"
"Nah feel like keeping this one." he said giving the Katana a few test swings. He grabbed the sheath and strapped it to his back.
He grabbed six books and slid them into the pouches on his waist they glowed before they disappeared.
Cat woman kept an eye on the shadows.
She operated in Gotham long enough to know that if your going to be a criminal learn to watch the shadows. Batman was not a opponent to take lightly. Hell naruto could teleport, bend steel beams without a sweat, knew several different jutsu and he's never gained a solid victory against Batman. He's never lost either. But still. They knew what they were doing.
He spotted a vent open and he threw three shuriken as Robin dropped in boy wonder kicked the kunai away and catwoman handed naruto more books so he could seal them.
"sup Birdy nice to see that arm healed up fast." Naruto said waving lazily and his smirk dropped watching batman land next to his protogé.
"Hello Batty~" catwoman said gripping her whip "your late to the party this time."
The dark Knight said nothing as another person floated down from the vent.
Naruto cursed under his breath. Now batman and Robin where a challenge alone. But add in another league member was going to make things tough. Especially when this one was a magician.
" skoob nelots eht nruter" zatarra yelled and Naruto felt something wash over him before he shrugged.
"Foxy, we need to get out of here now." she said and he nodded pulling out several slips of paper.
"Well looks like I have to get serious now. Start heading to the exit." he said cracking his neck. And reaching into his pouch he pulled out a small scroll. He cracked it open and tossed it into the air and several of his clones appeared and landed on the floor.
Robin looked surprised and batman ran forward. His clones charged forward and he walked forward as golden chains slid out of his hands. Two of his clones rushed batman as the other two attacked robin. He himself went after Zattara and swung one of his chains at the flying magician.
" !Niahc eht pots" The Chains Shook A bit Before They Collided With His face.
he smirked and as zattara shot down to the ground crashing into a display case.
"well looks like your magic words don't work on me. Lucky me." he said running toward the two justice League members. One of his clones landed a punch on batman's face only for the dark Knight to slam his knee into his clones gut popping it.
Zattara pointed at some crates lying around they lifted into the air and were sent hurling towards him and a clone crushing it. He managed to jumping a crate and launch off it his chains wrapping around the crate and flinging back at zattara. The league's magician stopped the crate from touching him only for narut o to come crashing through to land a devastating right hook across his face sending him flying into a display case.
Batman grabbed a clones arms and broke it causing it to pop before he detonated several smoke pellets and destroyed several of his clones. Naruto landed a flying side kick into his side causing the bat to crash into a display case next to zattara who was using the shattered glass as a disk to float on. Naruto detonated several s!one pellets filling the area with smoke.
Zatarra floated above the smoke and with a wave of his wand wond and a flurry of backwards words several tiles where ripped from the floor and flew into the smoke at considerably fast through the smoke naruto jumped over a crate and punched another crate shattering it before another crate slammed into his side. He pushed off the crate and slide across the floor flopping back as batman tried to land a powerful punch not him. Naruto countered by wrapping a chain around his wrist pulling him towards him and landing a powerful elbow strike to the side of his head before he vanished avoiding getting hit by another crate. He appeared back in the same spot he was at the beginning of the fight and he cracked his neck. His chains swaying around him to block batman's signature weapons. He Jumped back Shielding his head As they Exploded around Where he Had previously been standing. Batman came flying through the smoke and landed a powerful punch to his stomach, and grabbed his head slamming his knee against his helmet rattling his head. Naruto staggered back and brought his arm up to block a blast of magical energy that dang him flying across the room. He skidded to a halt and his arms sizzles with red chakra.
"dang fighting you League members is a bother...great now I'm starting to sound like him of all people." he groaned and placed both hand on the Floor and four glowing chain erupted out of the ground wrapping around the flying magician and slamming him repeatedly against the floor before throwing him into batman who was trying to reach for a gadget.
He launched himself forward kicking trying to land a hit on Batman face only for the dark night to roll to the side and sweep his legs out from under him. He caught himself with one arm and flipped back avoiding a punch and then he ducked barely dodging a Batarang. He side stepped avoiding a wave of magical energy from zattara and He jumped back several feet giving a impressed whistle.
"Give it up foxy your not escaping this time." Batman said with narrowed eyes. Naruto snickered at that. Batman was so high strung but didn't know how to banter that well in his opinion.
"You said that the last ten times Batsy." He tilted his head keeping an eye on zattara the magician looked like He was muttering something under his breath.
"I brought along a friend this time." The dark knight stepped forward. "Stop now while your ahead if you get away this time the entire league will be after you."
naruto blinked at that. He didn't think he was so important that the entire justice league would be after him
"Dang what did I steal that got the entire leave so missed about?"
" these books are dangerous in the wrong innocent lives could be lost that isn't how you do business is it now. " Batman said dangerously.
"... If your telling the truth then I'll kick the buyers ass and return the books. But I've already taken the job would be bad for business if I doing see it through."
He jump onto a shelf and threw a Kunai with a explosive note attached to it. Batman hid behind his cape as the note detonated and tossed several of his Batarangs at him as the smoke cleared.
Zattara lifted several shards of glass into the air and sent them flying towards naruto he only smirked and vanished from sight.
He re appeared in front of batman landing a roundhouse kick before he disappeared and slammed a fist into zattara stomach.
He appeared behind Batman and placed a paralysis seal on his backs. Before he used the dark Knight as a spring bored and covers zatarra mouth slamming the old man into the floor and placing placing a paralysis seal over his mouth.
The two of them froze and Naruto casually walked in front of them the two JL members followed him with their eyes unable to move much else. He pulled out a black sharply. And started to shade in the skin that was exposed on batman's face. After that was done he walked over to Zattara and drew some whiskers and blacked his eyes.
"Your sloppy today Batty. I expected more from you. Oh and don't worry the paralysis will only last about 30 minutes. More than enough time for me to get away." he said patting the dark Knights heading the next second he vanished.
Batman struggled against the seal and zatarra tried to use his spells to tear the seal off.
Naruto appeared next to catwomen as she fought with Robin. He smirked and jumped over his partner and landed a roundhouse kick on Robins face. Catwoman followed up by wrapping her whip around his neck and pulling him toward them and Naruto slammed his fist into his face causing Robin to groan on the floor. The two of them stood over Robin as he looked up dazed.
"Sorry kid. Your just not on our level yet." he and cat woman stomped on his face knocking him out.
He gripped Catwoman shoulder and they teleport to the same rooftop several blocks away from the museum.
"Hehe that was too easy." he said and catwoman nodded
"let's go to the meeting spot." she said as they traversed the rooftops. After about ten minutes they slipped into the sewers and reached a larger reservoir.
They waited there's until naruto sensed people approaching.
Slowly walking into what little light there was in the rank sewers several men dressed in black they lined up and pasted making way for a tall woman with long brown hair she was wearing a tight black outfit that Hughes her curves.
"You must be the buyer." he said not moving.
"I don't see the books." she said with her hands behind her back. "I certainly hope you didn't come empty handed."
Naruto held his hand over his pouch and one of the books appeared.
"We got the job done." several duffle bags where tossed at they're feet. Catwoman checked each one and nodded to him. He tossed the books over to the masked men.
"A pleasure working with you. Just one more thing. We do not exist." the leader said as they slowly stepped into the shadows that woman's voice lingered though in the darkness. "oh and one more thing. We know who you are Foxy."
Naruto glared at the shadows and grabbed half of the duffle bags and sealed them up. Cat woman simply dropped the bags over her shoulders.
"well this is where we split. It was wonderful working with you again Foxy." she said and he nodded.
"Same take care of yourself ill let you know if i'm interested in the job but I'm gonna have to lay low for a bit.." he casually walked through the sewer. "Its a risky job though. Be careful"
" hehe I've got eight more lives left kid don't worry about me."
With that said Naruto disappeared. He returned to his home briefly to pack up his things storing everything into a very large scroll and he teleported through the city until he was on a desired road heading west. He changed his clothes into casual attire and walked down the empty freeway.
He marked a post once every few miles as he walked. And he smiled he was heading at a safe house he made. Well it was more of a bomb shelter but it's were he hid out when he did something big. He just needed to walk a few more miles and then….*zip*
He continued his pace now walking through a lavishly decorated bunker with a nice bed and a wide plasma screen TV with several game stations and a fridge full of food. The bunker held a bathroom a bedroom and a tv. It was fairly big and it was home away from home and it was well defendable with only one Avenue of entrance. Teleportation. He laid down in his bed and smirked unsealing the goods. And started counting with a smirk on his face. He already had 500 million dollars. Once he placed all that money away he paused….maybe it was time to quite while he was ahead? Did he really need a billion dollars? Granted with everything he needed to live a normal life papers, home, a "education" and land. That was going to be well into ten-twenty million. Not to mention any equipment he might need in the future and of course he wanted to start a family one day he was going to use this money to give them a life he never had...
Still...what Batman Said Bugged Him. Maybe He Should have Dropped the job then and there...if Innocent peaople Got hurt because Of his greed...
"*sigh* Damn It All." He Groaned Flashing Through The Markers He Placed Back to gotham. Until He Landed At His Destination
Meanwhile in the Batcave.
Batman and Zattara were going over what happened at the museum.
"So that was Foxy. I must say I didn't expect that." zattara said "he isn't like the rest of your rogue gallery."
"No he's not. Foxy is a elusive thief the best I've ever encountered. He's never even been ACCUSED of any crime. He doesn't leave evidence whenever he hits a location the only things he leaves behind are custom made weapons untraceable he leaves no concrete evidence." batman sighed adding another encounter to his data. "I've never seen him use those chains before. What was in those books he stole?"
"they were a collection of magical books written by a man you'd know as Merlin." Zattara said using a moist Towle to wipe away the marker on his face. " Truthfully these books can be dangerous in the wrong hands. But in a practiced hand it's like handing someone a nuke."
"This doesn't match up with foxy usual M.O he's always stolen items of value to sell on the black market and food." he said gaining a raised eyebrow from the magician. "He steals shipments of food on occasion. Usually only once every few months. But the bottom line Is he doesn't just steal magical or dangerous items. He doesn't deal with lunatics either. Actually helped me once to take down the joker a few times."
"A thief with morals? Well in this world anything's possible. I can try and track the books they have a unique magical presence when gathered in one place. Still if we can find Foxy we might find the buyer."
"Not that easy I'm afraid. I've tried to pinpoint his location before he teleports sporadically around the city even uses his clones to throw off the trail. I don't have a way to track him."
"Sadly neither do i. My magic doesn't affect him." Zattara said rubbing his chin. "It's possible he's carrying a magical item on him. Something that can negate my magic. But I'm not aware of any magicians powerful enough in gotham to make one."
"what about outside of gotham?" Batman sat back in his chair staring at the file with a great sense of Annoyance. He still had that maker covering his face.
Foxy was probably the least dangerous of his Rouge gallery. He never once seriously harmed anyone. Except robin. But even then it was only a broken arm.
But Foxy really irked the dark Knight
"Its not magic." Batman Leaped from His Chair Throwing A batarang Only For Naruto to Catch It casually "Not here to fight. I'm here to talk."
Batman glared at him before he stood up straight his cape covering most of his body.
"Talk."
"Tell me About the Books I stoke and what you know About A Woman That Looks Like this." He Transformed Into the Woman He saw In The Sewers.
"Her Names Thalia Al Ghul her Father Is The Leader Of The League Of Assasins." Batman Said Stepping Forward. "And You Just HAnded Them 12 Increadibly dangerous Books."
Naruto Sighed Looking around The Mythical Batcave. he Messed Up. He Let His greed Blind Him. Stop him from Asking Too many Questions. He Needed To Fix His Mistake.
"...Ill Help You Get the books back And take these guys down beefore they can do any damage."
"You'll be joining them in a cell before tonight's over.'"
"Look i won't deny that I'm a theif. But after tonight I just want to live my life. I'm done with it. I only became a thief because I literally had no other option."
" your a criminal. "
"Not yet. I haven't been caught now have i?" The two of them stated each other down for a long time before he sighed. " look we're wasting time arguing like this we can still catch them before they leave the city. You can either help or stay out of my way "
Zattara stepped forward handing Batman a towle. The dark knight cleaning his face.
"Your going to need to pay for your actions. One good deed will not wash away what you've done."
"clocks ticking you guys in or out? " He held his hand out and Batman grabbed it. "Magic man grab on and fair warning this is going to feel weird."
the three of them disappeared from the Batcave
Robin sighed walking into the empty batcave. " Oh yeah no prob I'll just watch the bat cave. Oh thank you robin your the best partner i ever had. " robin muttered under his breath sitting in Batmans chair.
*bleep bleep*
get out of my chair.
"...How does he do that?"
Alright everyone here's the next chapter i apologize for any mistakes im without a beta at the moment.
So Yeah next Chapter will be interesting. But It Wont Be Coming for a while.o
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Until next time.
~Later days
-Wiseotaku