Diclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Young Justice
Chapter 2
"Is that right?" Alan asked hearing Naruto's proposal
"Yes. I was thinking… 500 million dollars? Ten percent deposit by the end of the week, balance within two years?" Naruto replied looking at him closely. Alan expression didn't change that much with his eyes only widening just a bit. After he didn't spoke for a few minutes Naruto asked "Look if the amount is insufficient-."
"It's not the amount, kid." He rubs his brow. "What..? What exactly do you intend to do with it?"
"Charging purposes, Although my ring does charge automatically its somewhat hectic when you want full charge and it isn't" Naruto replied
"How long do you have this ring?"Alan asked
"About two years now, a few months before I became CEO of tommorow industries," Naruto said "About the power though, Ring how mow much power is remaining"
"Sixty two percent power remaining."
Alan's eyes widens hearing that "Your ring can talk!"
"Yup… so wait a minute yours can't?" Naruto asked curious at this new development.
"No," Alan replied dryly his face resembling that of a boy whose puppy has been kicked by someone, long enough for Naruto to notice "So do you have any theories about why your ring is so special"
"Some"
"Lets hear them," Alan said "After all it isn't every day that you hear a talking ring"
"Yeah but first tell me about your ring first. When I scanned my ring told me that your ring is similar yet different from the other Green Lantern rings on the planet." Naruto pointed out.
Alan sighed "How much do you know about me Naruto.. you don't mind me calling you that do you? And please call me Alan, 'Mr. Scott' was my father"
"Nope and well I know basic details. Like you were born on May 1918 in Metropolis. After becoming a green lantern you married Rose Canton but she died on marriage night due to the fire which was caused by someone. Moreover you were a reporter and then a War soldier. After the JSA disbanded and wonder woman left you also retired and started focusing in your job at Gotham Broadcasting Station and soon became its head. You still hold a quarter of share of that company" Naruto replied
Alan didn't seem disturbed by Naruto' s apparent knowledge and even if he didn't show that. Sighing he said "It seems you only the basic details about me. Well you see Naruto over three and a half billion years ago a humanoid race from the world of Maltus sought to bring order to the stars. An offshoot of the race became known as the Guardians of the Universe who as you know are the head of the Green Lantern Core. The Guardians for some reason sought to remove magic from the universe, and laid siege to the necromantic forces of the cosmos. The war was costly on both sides. The war ended when the powerful Empire of Tears was finally subdued by the Guardians on the tomb world of Ysmault which ironically was the Throne world of the said empire. The magical residue was then collected and bound in the orb known as Starheart which somehow found its place on earth. My powers come from that source which instructed me how to create my own lantern. Somehow it was able to gather some of Guardian's knowledge of how to make the lantern and that's why your ring basically stated my lantern as Oan technology. Wait a moment I'll bring those here" and with that Alan went to his room to gather his gear leaving Naruto behind.
Meanwhile Naruto was thinking about the war which Alan mentioned "The Guardians decided to clean the universe of magic. Were they high or something? Magic is a sentient force of nature which is one of the oldest forces in the Universe alongside Phoenix and Odin Force. Destroy magic… Who knew that the Guardians were the first Hunters? But still this Starheart thing doesn't assure me much. Today is 3rd of March 2010, this means that Alan is going to be of 92 human years this May but his physical appearance is of a man around forty years. It seems that the Starheart rejuvenates him.I just hope it doesn't start to possess him though."
"Green Lantern detected in nearby proximity"
Naruto was brought out of his thoughts by the alert. Turning around he saw Alan in his traditional Green Lantern costume. Red shirt with a green lantern symbol on the chest, green pants and a green cloak. Naruto noticed that his ring was bigger than his but decided not to mention about that though. Afterall he wasn't in a measuring contest with him.
"Been a while since I have wore this back." Alan said
"So you didn't wear it after JSA was disbanded?" Naruto asked
"No I didn't need to but ever since the Justice League was formed I had to take the mantle on again and it felt good to be back again and seeing Diana again. Luckily there are three other lanterns on Earth so I am not thar required but enough about myself, now tell me about your corps or shall I say the White Lantern Corps"
"Well there is no corps there. Only me.. I am the torch bearer of sorts." Naruto replied
"If you do not have a corps, how come you have a ring?" Alan asked
"White light signifies 'life' and from what ring has informed me it is basically embodiment of life entity that is powering it." Naruto answered
"So your ring doesn't draw on bearer's will?"
"No, my ring works on my love for life as well as all the other emotions like Will, Fear etc in the spectrum." Naruto replied
"That sounds a little difficult. Well... why do you want to be a superhero?" Alan questioned
"I wasn't aware that one require a reason to help someone. I lost my parents long ago as a kid...I don't want anyone else to feel the same pain I suffered."
Alan stared at Naruto for a long time after hearing his answer. He kind of liked how much straight forward he really was. Sure he was keeping some secrets but Alan could respect that moreover this way he could have someone to talk to. It do get lonely living all alone.
"You know what kid I liked your thinking. Fine I'll give you my lantern but on a condition that you will have a Justice League member to mentor you" he said
"Superman" Naruto replied after thinking for a few minutes.
"Well I would ask him and most probably he would accept considering you both reside from metropolis." Alan said as he picked up his lantern and passed it on to Naruto "Okay here you go but know this that my lantern was created in such a way that it will register me as its owner until my death and thus I'll be able to call it back anytime. Don't worry though I'll only call it back once in a while so that I can recharge my ring." He didn't added that incase if Naruto gone rouge or something.
"I understand Alan" Naruto replied
"So aren't you going to recharge your ring?" Alan asked
"How do we do that?" Naruto questioned
Alan shook his head and sighed "You really don't know the basic etiquette of being a lantern. Put the lantern and see how it is done."
Following his instruction Naruto put down his lantern on the table. Alan stood before it andraised his hands so that his ring touched the lantern.
"And I shall shed my light over dark evil,
For the dark things cannot stand the light;
The light of...THE GREEN LANTERN!"
Naruto noticed that Alan's eyes shone bright when he spoke the oath and was in some kind of trance but for only when he spoke the oath. Alan then gestured Naruto to charge his ring.
Naruto stood infront of the lantern and suddenly words started to come in his mind. Noticing that they might be the oath he spoke
"Until it comes, that Blackest Night
I will guard all within my sight
Life will not end while I still fight
Behold My Power… WHITE LANTERN'S LIGHT!"
"So what do you plan to do next?" Alan asked to which Naruto just gave him one of those mysterious smiles.
4th March 2010
Watchtower
Alan looked at the core members who were looking kind of shocked at the news. It wasn't everyday Earth got a lantern especially one which they had no knowledge about. From left to right Alan could see that Superman, Diana and Flash were less concerned by this Dinah and J'onn were intrigued by this new development whereas Batman and Hal had frown on their face.
"I don't trust him." Batman said
"Well I do" Superman replied which resulted to a staring contest between both of them. A normal person receiving the bat glare would wet his pants but Superman had been receiving them for a long time and thus had became resistant towards it.
"He has done much for this world ever since he has came to the public radar but are you sure that it was wise to give him your lantern Alan?" Wonder Woman asked with concern on her face
"Yes Diana and before you say that I am too trusting Bruce, let me remind you that this is a guy who could create what no one could and his ring does recharge but on a slow rate. I couldn't just let him go away or someone else would have used him. Think of it Batman he is a powerful asset that we cannot go waste. "
"Fine. Superman he had asked for you to be his mentor and I don't agree with it considering the fact that you have no knowledge of using a power ring but since the lanterns are going back to Oa and won't be back until Independence Day... I agree with his request."
"Alan did he say anything about his power source" Hal asked
"Something about valuing life. Look Hal go back to Oa and ask the Guardians about it. There is a lot he isn't telling and I want to know why" Alan said
"Will do. So the sidekicks are going to Hall of Justice on Independence Day..."
5th March, 2010
Metropolis
Naruto was currently standing at the rooftop of his company. It was his turn to go out patrolling and he was positively excited about it. Superman for some reason was not in the city and it left the patrolling duty to him and Super girl who if he was correct was in same age as him. Before going out for the patrol he had decdied to customize his uniform. He had decided to have white anbu uniform in mordern fitting and for his identity wore a mask which exactly like Kakashi's sans the color.
Locking up the nearby radio frequencies he was waiting for something to happen while flying around the city so as to save people. Naruto didn't have to wait long as a hour into the patrol his ring informed him about the nearby bank robbery being done by Metallo, and Livewire. Looking at the coordinates of the said bank Naruto mentally frowned as it was too close to the newly created Konoha hospital.
"Ring teleport me at the said co-ordinate"
"Compliance"
VROOOOM
Naruto appeared infront of the bank and looked at the two people who were coming out of the said building.
Metallo was a big android who wasn't wearing any shirt but was wearing soldier pants with a belt having a big M for the buckle. At his chest was a compartment type structure which Naruto noticed was leaking a lot of Kryptonite radiation. Naruto deduced that this was probably the place where his power source i.e a good chunk of kryptonite was placed. He had created a file on that guy on what he could gather about him and needless to say that guy made Naruto sick. His obsession with Lois as well as hatred for Superman was on homicidal level and the guy himself was responsible for large amount of deaths. Livewire on other hand was someone that confused Naruto, from what he had learn Leslie Williams is bat shit crazy but now standing in her close proximity he could sense how her powers were basically controlling her rather than the other way round.
"Well it seems that we have a new hero in town, well I was hoping for Superman so that I could kill him but it seems that I would have to satisfy my urge by killing you" Metallo said
"Yeah well it seems that the Super bitch-" Leslie was cut off when a red blur smashed her giving Naruto a chance to engage with Corben. The guy was a former military add that to the android body of his and he became a very lethal weapon.
"But every weapon has a certain weakness and his is his power source" Naruto thought as dodged Metallo's punch while kicking him in the stomach which caused Metallo eyes to bulge at the pain he felt as he went flying into a nearby bus. Deciding to end the conflict Naruto created two rods using his ring and threw it with such that it teared both of Metallo's shoulder and made him stick to the bus surface.
Metallo as expected didn't accepted defeat. In desperation he used his power source as a beam and fired at Naruto. Naruto seeing the incoming attack knew that if he dodged it then there was a chance that it may hit the hospital and causing an untold amount of death and destruction. Naruto thus created a sheild which at first seemed that won't be able to block the attack but Naruto was able to reinforce the shield while berating himself for the mistake and started to move towards Metallo. As he moved passed to the half-way point he used his left hand and created a Rasengan from it. He channeled lightning chakra into it, and it soon became a swirling ball of lightning that crackled and shook with energy. When he was close enough to see the nozzle of the cannon he moved the shield aside and shoved it in.
"Lightning Style: Rasengan!" he shouted as he did this.
The impact was clear, Naruto's attack destroyed Corben's power source shutting down his brain while all his circuits were destroyed as well. Naruto also noticed that his attack had somehow disintegrated the kryptonite which Corben.
"Good riddance...Now where the hell is Kara" Naruto thought but before he could do anything he was sent flying courtesy of Livewire who had a deranged grin on her face. Kara went to Naruto's side to see if he was fine or not
"You Fine?" she asked
"No… It feels as if I went through Bee's lariat" Naruto muttered to himself
"What?" Supergirl asked
"Nothing. What happened?" Naruto asked as he stood up. Livewire seeing that both of her adversaries gathered a large amount of lightning at her hands and threw at them
"Watch out" Kara shouted as Naruto activated his rinnegan and focused on his yin chakra and channeled it to his eyes
"Kamui" he said as both of them got sucked into Naruto's personal dimension just moment before lightning struck forming a large crater.
Kamui Dimension
Naruto and Kara landed in Naruto's personal dimension with a thud.
"Ow" Kara said as she landed on her sore leg. Looking at her surroundings she saw herself in some kind island which seemed to be never ending.
"Where are we?" She asked
"Welcome to my personal Kamui dimension," Naruto said "my home away from home"
"You can create personal dimensions on your own! How is that even possible?" Kara shouted
"That Supergirl is a story for another day. Now tell me what happened back there?" Naruto asked
"Well Livewire was acting weirdly you know... More insane than ever. I was able to subdue her but soon she turned herself into lightning and started to behave like a deranged monster. Speaking of Livewire we have to stop her!"
"My dear Supergirl we are doing that"
Outside World
Unbeknownst to Kara, Naruto had left behind a reinforced clone who was currently engaging with Livewire.
"It seems boss was write about her powers. They are controlling her," the clone thought as he dodge while taking her away from city. If anyone would have seen the fight they would have seen flashes of white and blue clashing and leading towards the unpopulated location of Metropolis.
"Well her goes nothing" the clone thought as he dodged a kick from Livewire and kicked her instead by channeling some wind chakra in his legs. Since wind is stronger than lightning he was easily able to kick her. Knowing it was just the right moment the clone concentrated for a moment. The winds around him started to pick up space and soon formed a translucent armour of wind around him.
"Wind Style: Armour of God" he said as he unleashed a gale force which sent Livewire skidding to a large distance. Not giving her chance the clone vanished from her sight and kicked her from the back.
"Let's show the bitch who is in charge" clone thought as he decided to not to play with her anymore and with a burst of speed he disappeared. The next thing they saw was an invisible force slammed into Livewire's back, creating a small yet noticeable shockwave and sent her into the air. She could only cry out in pain as desperately trying to regain her body control but before she could do so, something suddenly smashed into her stomach and sent her away again but not a second later she was once again attacked by the clone. She could easily see the clone all this time but somehow her body wasn't able to dodge his attacks.
The clone continued to beat her like a rag doll. Noticing that the boss had exited the dimension he smashed her with a punch in her stomach sending her crashing into the ground creating a huge crater. Original Naruto meanwhile concentrated and shot her with a capturing net. The main quality about this net was it was imbuded with some of his Odin force as well as seals were inscribed on it. The net caught her target and Livewire let out an inhuman scream as she was drained of her excess energy which led to her eventual unconsciousness.
"Well that was one way to drain her," Kara said "But what about the damage they both did back at the bank."
"I'll look into it. Hopefully nothing bad had happened over there"
"I would say we did a great job back there," Kara said as she landed on Tommorow industries rooftop "Thanks for healing me though."
"All in day's work Supergirl," Naruto said as he extended his hand for a handshake "White Lantern sector 2814 but between the two of us it's Naruto Uzumaki."
Kara gripped his hand in a firm handshake "Kara Zor-El. It nice to finally meet a superhero other that Batgirl who is in my group age."
"Why? There are others you know like Spiderman or that magician in bellwood….Um um-"
"You mean Lucky Girl"
"Yeah. Hey if I created a team of our age group something akin to Justice League will you like to join?" Naruto asked
Kara was stunned for a moment, things haven't been easy for her ever since she crash landed on Earth after spending so many years just revolving around the sun and super charging her cells. She had a hard time adjusting to the technological underdeveloped planet while trying to cope up with emergence of new powers made her social life quite a mess, thus she was quite happy with this proposal and knowing the man who was making this proposal she was sure that he would make the team.
"Great," Naruto said he turned to see Superman hauling Metallo and Livewire in the police truck.
"So I guess you were able to hear our conversation." Naruto asked
"Yeah, I was. Your idea to form a team is quite good actually, tell you what I will talk to league about this while you go around and assemble them," Superman said as he saw smiles forming on their faces
6th March, 2010
Metropolis
"So what did you wanted to show me?" Kara asked as she sat in his office. Currently she was in her Kara Kent role and thus was wearing a glasses alongside regular jeans and top to hide her identity from.
"You know a grand tour of my company and well hanging out you know. Friends normally do that" Naruto said
"Oh… Well what are you waiting for Naruto lets move" Kara said as she and Naruto toured around his companies headquarter. Kara was impressed with what she was seeing. Being a Kryptonian her brain was far sharper than that of a normal human and thus she was easily able to understand most of the projects people were working on which was way higher than what other guys would be probably be working on.
After finishing the tour they both sat back in his office.
"So Kara what do you think?" Naruto asked
"Well it is certainly surprising to see the atmosphere around. The way I see it everyone pretty much enjoyed working here from the janitor to the head of various departments. It feels like as if you are in a home instead of a workplace. How do you do it? Even Wayne Industries doesn't have this kind of feeling." Kara asked as her mind went to the meeting she had had with Bruce over a few months ago regarding her training and the atmosphere over there was not as good as here.
"Well it took some time. Getting their trust was hard but after that it went on smooth and well Tomorrow Industries knows how to take care of its friends as well as those who work against it but enough of that tell me about Krypton, I mean from what my ring had scanned you are elder than your cousin aren't you? SO it is natural for you to know more than him about your home planet." Naruto asked
"Well you are sure that this room is secured right?" Kara asked as she looked around to see if there were some hidden listening devices
"The room is surrounded by an invisible force field created by my ring and I think I would notice if someone had listening devices in my office. There is no need to worry about eavesdroppers." Naruto said elevating Kara's worries.
"Krypton..." Kara sighed "Well Krypton was approximately one-and-a-half times larger than the Earth and orbited a red sun called Rao around two and a half million light-years away from our solar system. Krypton's primordial era produced some of the most dangerous organisms in the universe. Until its destruction, many dangerous animals, including ferrophage moles, still existed on Krypton. As you can pretty much see that Kryptonians are same as human with the only difference that the yellow sun supercharge Kryptonians cells giving them superhuman abilities. Krypton surpassed Earth on the basis of technology around two hundred thousand years ago and had a beautiful run, but during it end stage it was beginning to go in a state of stagnation. That's why my parents basically send me here when you know everything happened so that I could have an another chance at life. But why do you ask this question, your lantern database must have had all the knowledge about that."
"It is but it is quite huge" Naruto said. The ring was programmed in such a way that he had info about all the beings in the universe even though it wasn't his. Thank gods that his tenure as the hokage in his past life had accustomed him to reading or else he would have gone nuts reading about those files.
"I should assume that you know secret identities of most of the league members," Kara said
"Yup, power ring is a truly fascinating tool. The green lanterns do not use them to their full potential because of all the bullshit rules placed by them. Well in my case the rules are negligible and thus I could do many things for example asteroid mining." Naruto answered
"Really… Well that depends how you were able to make so many headquarters as well as buy out Royal Hotel in the first place." Kara said as she turned serious
"So have any ideas on potential teammates"
"Yup I got two Spider-man and Cyborg" Naruto answered
"Isn't Spider-man labeled as a menace?" Kara asked "Daily Bugle constantly writes bad things about him and the police isn't very keen on him as well."
"John Jonah Jameson has strong distrust towards the wall crawler due to being a costumed vigilante with no affiliation to law and to take the spotlight of "true" heroes like public servants and thus Spidey is constantly bad mouthed by him," Naruto snorted
"The NYPD on other hand mistrust him due to his status as a vigilante and well they are basically embarrassed that they need his help to catch super villains. You see Spidey has been doing this for past three to four years and well it didn't went down well with New York police that a teenager was catching crooks instead of them. Thankfully they have decreased their hostility lately due to the case of framing Spidey blowing up on NYPD face and earning them hatred of a lot of New Yorkers." He replied
"What about the people?" Kara asked
"The baddest if we have to see is neutral. Mostly he is loved by them and well they appreciate his handwork after all saving around ten thousand people directly and that is excluding the occasional team ups he have with other superheroes and all the bombs and other harmful devices he had deactivated is not well an easy thing."
"That's….WOW I mean its impressive." Kara said really impressed from what she heard. His numbers were just below that of league indicating that the wall crawler usually gives a lot of time in his superhero work.
"Yup. And I think you probably know who Cyborg is?" Naruto asked
"Yeah met him after he stopped that terrorist attack on UN. He is quite cool you know but he needs some friends." Kara replied "I also contacted Batgirl and Lucky girl and well they were interested in this team"
"Yeah well that makes six people and I think that's enough. We also need a hideout...will have to look into it and have necessary equipment for it" Naruto said
"Yeah well you have a lot of work on your head buster and by the way thank you" Kara said
"For what?" Naruto asked
"For being who you really are. I have been here on earth for past three years and on Metropolis for two and well I have seen my share of brilliant people coming and working in this city but none of them tried to work for the betterment of planet," Kara said as she stood up from her seat and stood beside the window watching Metropolis with a smile on her face "You on the other hand, have worked day and night to make a world for a better place. So thank you for being you." Kara said as she went for the door
"Then thank you as well Super girl, for accepting this world as your own and trying to keep it a better place" Naruto said as Kara closed the door exiting his office.
Naruto sighed as he returned back to his paperwork, he had a lot of work to do after all.
13th March 2010
New York
Peter Parker new the meaning of loss. His life taught that to him.
He lost his parents at an early age and had to move in with his uncle and aunt who became his surrogate parents and raised him as if he was their own son. Flash forward a few years later and he was bitten by a radio active spider giving him superpowers.
His uncle used to tell him 'That With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility'.
He learned that lesson after loosing him.
He was not trained enough and during one of his fights with Doctor Octopus he lost his biggest supporter in NYPD, Captain Stacy. Gwen sadly blamed him for his death and soon left to England to start a new life.
Heh that day he also lost the love of his life.
It took time to get in grip of himself but he was able to bounce back. With the help of Madam Webb and Wildcat, Peter trained to become the spectacular spider-man people call him now.
He was pretty much sure that he wouldn't feel that feeling of loosing someone ever again but it seems that his lessons weren't over yet.
Life taught him a lesson that he should have learned a long time ago.
A Hero cannot save everyone
He learned that lesson last week when Aunt May passed away in her sleep when he was patrolling. It was heart breaking when he realized that his Aunt isn't going to wake up in morning but he endured.
He had to. The city needed him and he couldn't let anyone else feel the same pain he felt.
Thus after the funeral he had sold all of the old possessions and turned his old home into an Old people home as per his Aunt's wishes. Mrs Watson insisted that he spent some time with her and MJ but he just wanted to be alone and after eating the dinner she made he left for his apartment in Manhattan.
While returning back to his apartment in Manhattan he couldn't help but feel somewhat unnerve. The week had already been bad, he didn't needed anything else to happen and making it worse.
It wasn't until he reached his door he felt that something was amiss. Quietly stepping inside he was quite shocked to see Naruto sitting on his chair comfortably.
"Naruto...Uzumaki," Peter said "What are you doing at my seat?"
"I am waiting for spider-man." Naruto replied
"Okaaay," Peter said "Listen Dude, I do take his photographs but that doesn't mean-"
Peter was cut from is rant when Naruto activated his ring and donning his uniform in a bright white light.
"Now can we talk business or are you going to blabber like you ususally do?" Naruto asked
"What do you want to talk about?"
"About a team know as TITANS"
For those of you who was asking Naruto reincarnated as the son of Hippolyta and Thor and then Dimension traveled.
I am also looking for a Beta so please feel free to contact me.
So Titans are going to be formed. Their missions will be different to that of young justice with some occasional crossovers.
Next chapter will take some time as I am going to update This Time as a Wayne next.
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