Sage of Young Injustice

by The First Kitsukage

Madara had known all along that Obito would never hold true to his ideal peace. The Moon Eye Plan was plan B but Obito wouldn't hear of it wanting Rin back so bad. So he needed someone that will hold onto his ideal peace. Sure it was ruling the world but the world would be safer then. Some would resist as some always do. However Madara found the one person he knew would hold true

2. Sage of Young… Injustice: Injustice for

2

Anti-Hero Naruto god like

Harem (Max 12)

Batgirl/Barbara

Supergirl/ Kara

Megan/M'gann/ Miss Martian

Artemis

Jade/Cheshire

Poison Ivy

2 more a secret

Maybe

Vicky Vale (Could use the good PR/ damage control)

Cassandra Cain

Asked for

Zantanna (It will be Young Justice Zantanna if I do put her in)

Donna Troy

Talia

Maxima

Raven

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Sage of Young… Injustice: Injustice for the Young

(8 Months after arrival)

Naruto had kept up his 3 personas for the last 8 months. His Naruto Uzumaki as school and Artemis' greatest, only, guy friend. Madara Uchiha most wanted man/Merc in the world. And Pain anti-hero and mass murder of organized crime, as well as Artemis' the heroine, partner. Although Artemis has no idea that Pain is Naruto but Naruto knows that Artemis, the heroine, is also Artemis Crook best friend at school.

"I'll end you!" Pain yelled as he threw 6 of his charka rods at a man nailing him to the wall, alive, but scared shitless.

Artemis then fired her arrow and it jammed the door so the mob underboss couldn't get out. "Now where did you think you were going?" Artemis asked playfully. She had paired up with pain about a month after they meant that day. She didn't want him as an enemy, but was an ally any better?

"Now, now. I'm sure we can work something out." He said fearfully. Although Artemis didn't kill anybody, she wouldn't stop Pain if he wanted to kill one of these mob assholes. "I got 600K in my safe. Let me go and it's yours." He tried to bribe them.

"You think you can bribe us!?" Artemis was pissed.

"I would have thought that you mob bosses and underbosses would have got the message by now. You cannot bribe Justice… or vengeance." Pain lowered his charka rod.

"No… please no...! I have a family!" He begged.

Pain fired his chakra rod. Artemis looked away, as always. She still couldn't handle seeing Pain kill, she could see a dead body no problem, if that itself wasn't a problem, but seeing the light in one's eyes she couldn't handle. "Did he really have a family?" She asked her partner.

"These men sometime do. It is sad that they must die for the greater good. As I said to you before Artemis, ones justice is another's injustice. Ones right is another's wrong. We can never make everyone happy but we can try. We cannot save everyone but we can try."

Artemis nodded. "It still doesn't get easy for me."

"It doesn't get easy for me either." They heard sirens in the distance. "Let us go somewhere else." Pain used his Kamui to get himself and Artemis out of the warehouse.

Sometime later the anti-hero pair was on a roof top near Artemis' home. Not the 'Pain' knew that. "Well… tonight was eventfully." Pain said.

"Yes, it was."

"Still thinking about it?"

"Yes… how can you bare that burden? If that guy did have a family, how could you bare the burden of that family no longer having a father!?" Artemis asked her friend. Even if nether said it, both thought of the other as a friend.

"How you ask? How I do it is easy, because someone must bear the burden, and that person is me. I can bare it knowing that all of the families that have been destroyed by that man have been avenged."

"But why does it have to be you!?" She asked him.

Pain looked at her with his lone eye. Her concern about him was , 'almost', a sign of love. "Because no one else will bare it for me or with me Artemis and I won't ask another to bare it with me." Artemis looked at him. She then looked down. Pain put a finger under her chin to raise her head. "Don't look so sad Artemis; it is my destiny to bare this burden. Not my fate. I will see you tomorrow. One more thing." Pain tossed Artemis a small wad of cash, around 5 grand. She gave a glare at him. "I know you don't like accepting cash from our raids, but you need the money Artemis. You need it to help your mother and yourself." He vanished within his vortex.

Artemis sighed. She made it her home with no incident, after she got changed out of her heroine uniform of course. Artemis walked into her home and past her mom.

"Artemis?" Her mother, Paula, was worried. Artemis seemed down about something on her night out with her friend.

"I'm fine mom." Artemis went to her room. She stashed the cash in a lock box that Pain gave her. In it was roughly 50 grand not including the 5 added just now. She hated taking the money after their raids. Sure it was from the mob bosses and they weren't going to use it anymore, but it still didn't feel right. She collapsed on her bad and wondered about Pain. "Could I bare it with him?" She asked herself.

Watch Tower

In the Watch Tower Batman was typing into his computer. On the screen was a symbol of a spiral.

"Any luck?" Green Arrow asked Batman.

"Nothing." Batman replied.

"Nothing? Really, I thought that you'd find something on these guys. What makes them have such a red flag anyways?" Green Arrow asked.

"Up until 6 months ago they didn't exist. Now all of the sudden they are the 4 most expert in technology? Something's not right about that." Batman said.

"Maybe they're just that good?" Green Arrow suggested.

"No one's just that good."

"They are it seems." Green Arrow added, only to receive a bat glare.

Gotham

Back in Gotham Naruto/Pain didn't turn in. He still had time to play and he had another errand to run. He then heard a small and short scream. It was not too far. He used his father's jutsu and flashed to the location. In the alley he found 3 known mob enforcers had a woman at knife point. He had seen her before but couldn't place it.

Down at the hold up. "The boss gave you a chance bitch!" He took out a Stiletto knife, if gave off its infamous click. "I hope your fans don't care about your looks." He then stabbed the knife in her check, but instead of metal stabbing into flesh sound, like he expected, he heard a thunk like he just stabbed wood. He then saw the woman turn to wood and shattered. "What the fuck!"

On the roof top the woman held her eyes tightly closed. Then opened when she felt the wind on her face. She then gasped when she saw she was 4 stories off the ground on the roof of a nearby building.

"You are safe miss. Stay here while I deal with the trash on the ground." The woman looked at her 'savior' and saw his mask. But he then vanished in a flash of black and red light. She then took out her camera phone and started recording the 3 second fight, she got the last 2 seconds. She was shocked when she blinked all 3 of her assailants was dead on the ground and her savior was next to her again.

"What? How?"

"I am unique miss, more so than others." He told her.

"But, the League doesn't kill anyone? Why have you?" She asked.

Pain tilted his head. "What makes you think I am part of the Justice League? They lack what is needed to do what is right. As for those 3, they are known for raping a murdering their victims. They've been on my hit list for some time now." Pain was about to leave.

"Wait!" She stopped him. "What is your name? Who are you, where are you from?" She asked a lot of questions.

"You asked a lot of questions miss…"

"I'm a reporter you might know as Vicky Vale for Gotham Now." She told her rescuer.

"Oh, really? Sorry I didn't recognize you." He told her, being honest.

"Damn she fine."

"Noted." "As for you questions, I will answer one right now as I am pressed for time. My name is Pain the Sage of the Six Paths." He told her. "Do you have a transport nearby to take you to safety?" He asked.

"Yes, those thugs grabbed me near my car on the way home at a stop light." She told Pain. Pain then placed a hand on her shoulder, next thing Vicky knew she was next to her car. "Huh?" She looked around. "How?" She asked.

"I told you, I am unique Ms. Vale." Again right before he left he was grabbed on the shoulder. "Yes?" He was already a few moments late.

Vicky handed him a card. "Call me, so I can set up an interview sometime." She told him with a smile.

He pocketed the card. "Should I ever really need to make my mask and name public, then you'll be the first one I call." This time he wasn't interrupted and left in a vortex.

Vicky smiled, so much for a slow week. She now had another story, and up and coming… Anti-hero.

Pain made his way to his next target. While Madara handled more of his more 'evil' deeds Pain handled just about everything else. Naruto, now Madara, had just warped into a building occupied by a group of scientists. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen of STAR labs. Do any of you know who I am?" He asked them. Not one of them answered. "I am a man with a mask and unauthorized to be in this lab."

One woman, who just walked in, noticed him and heard what he said. "Are you robbing us?" She asked.

"No." Everyone sighed. "Robbing indicates that I am taking something on your person by threat or force. I am stealing from STAR labs so this is theft. Please be kind enough to leave this lab and none of you will have an unpleasant night." He told all of them. The young woman was the first one to get out of the room. Soon the rest bolted out of the room. "And that's why I became a warrior. Scientists have no comment sense." Madara walked up to the main computer and placed his Flash Drive in the USB port. The computer alerted all of the other branches of STAR labs that one of their branches was being hacked. The flash drive was doing its job downloading flies by the Exabyte. He knew, however, that the Dark Knight would be there soon if not already outside the door.

Surprisingly no one had even come to stop him, well aside from the cops but they couldn't do anything about him anyway. He looked at the computer and he was almost done with his hack. A ding sound was heard and his hack was complete. "Done with no trouble. A nice clean job." He took the flash drive. "Well now that the building is empty I can trash the place, no need for Batman to find out what I've taken." Madara threw kunai with paper bombs attached to them to the walls, and a couple of clones on the lower levels to collapse the building and torch the hard drives of the computers.

"This is the GCPD! We have the building completely surrounded! Come out with your hands up!" A police officer, Gordon, ordered.

"Well… at least his straightforward… if not a little naïve…" Pain just left via vortex.

Outside Gordon was just about to send in his team when the building exploded.

(Next Day)

Naruto was walking to his friend's house. He walked up the stairs to the apartment of his friends place and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Asked a woman's voice.

"It's the knight here to pick up his dear princess."

"Come in Naruto." The woman told him. Naruto walked in to see Paula, Artemis' mother. "It's good to see you again Naruto." The woman smiled at the young man.

"And good to see you as well. You look as radiant as ever, did you do something with your hair?" He asked.

"Oh you charmer. Come here and give me a hug." She held out her hands for the young man. She had meant Naruto about a month after Artemis had meant him. He had walked Artemis home when Paula spotted him. She offered him to stay for dinner, only to embarrass her little girl even more so then the boy was already. Naruto came over almost every day after school as he walked Artemis home every day. It was nice to see her daughter with such a fine young man. At least he wasn't another one like her ex. "Artemis! Naruto is here!" Paula yelled at her daughter.

"I'm almost done!" She yelled back.

"Probably doing her hair, that girl." Paula commented.

"It's alright." Naruto smiled. "So, how've you been Mrs. Crock?" Naruto asked.

"I'm well Naruto, as well as I can ever be." Naruto nodded at her answer.

Naruto heard Artemis walk down the hall she was ready for school. "Let's get going, don't want to be late." Artemis dragged Naruto out of the door not wanting her mother to embarrass her. "Bye mom. Love you see you after school!"

"Bye dear, bye Naruto have a good day!" She waved them off.

On the way Naruto just smiled at Artemis. "What?" She asked almost creped out.

"It nothing… just… has anyone ever told your very beautiful?" He asked. Only to get punched in the arm. "Ow." He rubbed his arm.

Later that night.

Pain was waiting for Artemis. "Pain." Speaking of whom. "Sorry, mom was wondering who I was going to hang with."

"Who did you say you were hanging with?" Pain asked.

"A friend of mine, Naruto. I told him that I couldn't make it tonight." She told him.

"You deserve a life of your own Artemis. If you wish to spend time with your friend you can." Pain told her.

"I'm here aren't I? Besides, you need someone to watch your back." She smiled.

"Let's go, we have an hour at least before we have to go to work." Pain placed his hand on her shoulder and they were gone in a vortex.

(Unknown location)

Pain and Artemis appeared in a dark room. "Should I worry about what naughty things you might do to me Pain?" She asked playfully.

"Trust me… when I do naughty things with you Artemis, a dark place is not the setting." He countered. He turned on the lights. "Welcome to our base of operations." He showed her around their new base.

"Where did you get all of this stuff?" She asked.

"Our… 'anonymous' benefactor supplied us with all of this hardware, but not the location. The latest of Spiral Corp technology."

"Yeah… anonymous." Artemis knew it was from Spiral Corp, how or why the CEO would help them.

"I want to show you something. Something that might come in handy for you later." Pain walked Artemis over to a changing room that said Artemis. Inside, was new custom. "Meet Tigress."

"What? What is this?" She asked.

"A new uniform… if you wish to use it that is. I felt it necessary to make this should you ever need to be someone other than 'Artemis' on a mission. You only have to use it if I feel you need it."

"I… I don't know what to say…" She was shocked. "Thank you I guess. But… I like being 'Artemis'."

"Yes I figured as much. But should a situation is of need of Tigress I hope you're still next to me dealing with it." He told her.

"I still will, just as Artemis as always." She reassured him.

"I'll leave you to it then. This is your room while you're in the base. You're changing room and your own armory. Also I would advise you to bring anything that might tie you to your heroine ego here as well." Pain left and Artemis got her gear.

Artemis walked out with more arrows but nothing else. "What's on for tonight?" She asked.

"Just one thing really, there is going to be a meeting with Yakuza, Triad and Mafia, both Russian and Italian, mod bosses tonight in about 30 minutes. All of the major crime bosses around the world in one place trying to get ahead of the Justice League. If these talks became a success then organized crime with become an even greater threat to the common person than it already is. We're talking that every organized crime family will no longer fight over territory or profits just focused on the common person and the blood money they will make."

Artemis' eyes widened. "How do you know about this?"

"I have my sources." He was talking about his 'Villain' self Madara. "We have a little time before this, but this is why I made the Tigress outfit. When I go in I intend to leave no survivors Artemis. That means that Artemis' name will be covered in blood should someone see or we miss a camera."

"That is why you made it, to have a partner willing to kill with you?" She asked with a little hint of disgust.

"No I made it to protect my partner Artemis the Goddess of the Hunt. I don't want to complicate your life anymore than I already have Artemis. Just being near me will put you and your mother's life in danger."

"I'm a big girl."

"Not doubting that. But no one can protect everything they hold dear to them all the time. You don't have to come with me Artemis."

"We're partners Pain. I'll stick by you for as long as I can." She told him. "Give me a minute, I need to get something." She walked back to her changing room.

Pain nodded. "You care for her too much Naruto."

"I happen to like her, both Artemis the heroine and Artemis Crock her mask Kurama." Although they're friends and Naruto has gained Kurama's respect, some of it at least, Kurama can still be an ass at times.

"You need to either mate with her or let her go. She is a weakness if left as she is."

"Ready Pain."

Pain looked up and raised an eyebrow. "I take that back. You just need to mate with her, and soon. A girl like this doesn't stay single for long." Kurama was eye humping Artemis, or now, Tigress.

"You change fast." He commented.

"I still may not be ready to kill. But I guess protecting my heroine name is important. But just know that I won't put this on all the time Pain. Just this once." Artemis was now in her Tigress uniform.

"I don't expect you to. Just when the time calls for it such as now. You don't have to kill A… Tigress. I won't ask you to bare that burden. Not now, not ever."

'I might Pain… one day.'

The next day.

Gordon was outside a hospital room. Inside was the only survivor of what the media had called 'The Gotham Mafia Massacre'. Over 200 men dead in less than an hour. Witnesses outside the warehouse said they heard gun shots for about an hour before it all went silent. When they got there it was a slaughter house, 200 men butchered into pieces of meat. Some of the rookies puked, not that he blamed them, and some even his most seasoned men had to leave. He barely managed to make it inside the heart of the place where, he assumed, the bosses and underbosses of each of the crime families were. Not one of these men were killed by bullets either, they were all hacked up by what might have been a sword.

"Has he talked yet?" Gordon saw the Batman come from the shadows.

"Nothing. All he keeps mumbling about is pain and monsters. What that means I don't know."

"Pain?" Batman question.

"Yeah pain, no idea why? He's not in pain as he has enough morphine to keep him high for a while." Gordon commented.

"Not that. Didn't you see Gotham Now's broadcast this morning? Ms. Vale talked about a new 'hero' that saved her from a few mob enforces and killed her would be robbers. She said that his name was Pain."

Gordon raised an eyebrow. "Why Pain?" He asked about the weird name.

"Don't know. By Ms. Vale is problem the nest lead for this case."

"Alright, I'll head over there and…" Batman was gone, most likely on his way to meet Vicky. "I hate it when he does that." Gordon made his way to his car to get to Gotham Now headquarters.

(Gotham Now building)

Vicky was now in her office getting call after call all about the new hero/anti-hero Pain. Wanting to know more about him. She was expecting to get a visit by the Batman or Gordon. When she heard about the Gotham Mafia Massacre she had a hunch that Pain was involved. After all, he said that those enforcers were on his hit list, why not the entire origination.

"Vicky." Vicky looked up to see her boss and Commissioner Gordon. "The police want to talk to you about your story on Gotham's new hero Pain." He told her.

"Sure. No problem."

"Thank you Ms. Vale." Gordon sat across from her. "Now you encountered 'Pain' last night correct?"

"Yes."

"How did you meet?" Gordon asked. Nearby the Batman was listening to the conversation.

"I was in my car going home when 3 known mob enforcers grabbed me. They were going to kill about a story I was told to drop that I made public a few days ago."

"I remember."

"Well, when he pulled out his knife and was about to stab me, I was on the roof all of the sudden. Standing next to me was this new hero Pain."

"How?"

"I don't know. One moment I thought I was going to die, the next the wind is blowing in my hair and I'm overlooking the 3 men that almost killed me. The next moment they're all dead."

"Did this Pain kill them?"

"Yes he did." She answered. "Even though I didn't see him do it he admitted that he did." She finished.

"Wait, you didn't see him do it?"

"It happened so fast it was over faster than I could blink. He told him that they we're on his hit list for some time and that finding them when he did was luck on his part, and mine." She said to him.

"I see. Could you describe any fetchers? Or anything else about him?" Gordon asked.

"Only his mask really. He was wearing a hooded cloak black and red but his mask had a red eye hole but nothing else. His mask was Orange and it had a swirl designed to the eye hole. Oh, he has this ability where he leave by some sort of vortex" She told him.

Gordon wrote it down. "Thank you Ms. Vale. I'll call you again if I have any more questions."

"You know where to find me Commissioner Gordon." Vicky showed him out. When he left she looked behind. She thought she felt someone behind her. She shrugged, never seeing the fly just up and puff.

Watch Tower

Batman just got to the water tower after he got a little Intel on this Pain anti-hero. "Batman." J'onn greeted Batman.

"Is everyone here?" He asked.

"Yes. We we're waiting for you."

"Got held up. But might have a lead." He told him as J'onn followed Batman to the meeting room. Inside was the entire league the 30+ members of the league.

"I thought the Batman was never late." Green Arrow asked sarcastically.

"I might have a lead on Madara Uchiha." Batman placed a small disk in his slot and a 3D image form of Madara Uchiha. "As you all know, 8 months ago a giant tree appeared in Gotham. When Star lab and Wayne Tech scientists tried to take samples after many failures the tree protected itself by making a wood construct of a dragon. It kept regenerating itself no matter what Superman and I did to destroy it. Until a masked man, Madara Uchiha as he introduced himself as came from inside the tree." All of the members nodded. "After a small talk about his version of peace we fought. As you all know how that fight ended." Again everyone nodded and some even shivered. Many even saw the man of steel out cold when the 2 space rocks formed from nothing smashed into him. "However recently a new masked man calling himself 'Pain' has appeared in Gotham."

A second 3D image appeared next to Madara's.

"What does this 'Pain' have to do with Madara?" Wonder Woman asked.

"Maybe nothing, maybe everything. But this is an image of Pain from last night. Where he killed over 200 men in an hour. All known mafia." He showed them a small 1 minute clip of Pain killed 30 men. "Anyone noticed anything?"

"Not really." Superman said.

"Take a closer look." Batman zoomed in on his mask. Pressed play and slow mo.

When it played out everyone saw two things. "His eye!" Black Carney noticed that his eye was the same as Madara's eye.

"Also, the bullet went right through his head yet no blood." Green Arrow also noticed.

"Yes. Both his eye and his ability of becoming intangibly are the same as Madara Uchiha. It is possible that both Pain and Madara are the one and the same. He has set up in Gotham and now is the prime suspect in over 300 Mob killings related killings just in Gotham only in the last 8 months. He is also suspected in 1000 killings around the world with other known Mafia, Yakuza and other known crime originations."

Many of the members murmured. "How could he kill so many in only 8 months? I mean he would need to be as fast as me to do it or be able to be in two places at once." The Flash said.

"He also stole from the Gotham STAR labs branch last night."

That raised an eyebrow from Green Lantern. "What did he steal?" Hal asked.

"Unknown. All of the backups were zeroed out and the building destroyed." Superman cut in. "STAR Labs reports that it would take months before they can tell what was taken."

"So, he kills mobsters and steals from STAR labs. So he's an anti-hero it seems." Hawk Girl said.

"There is no such thing. Your either good or evil no middle ground." Superman said. Many members agreed.

"I have a copy of STAR labs recent files. I should be able to find what he took in a week or so." Batman said.

"Figures, always a step ahead of everyone else." Green Arrow said.

"It pays to be ahead of the villains Green Arrow." Wonder Woman told the archer.

"However there is another purpose other than an update on this Madara and the possibility of him being Pain." Superman reported.

"Yes, there seems to be more and more heroes popping up around the world." A 3D world image popped up with many blue dots. "And more and more super villains." A lot of red dots came out numbering the blue dots.

"It seems we're outnumbered about 3 or so to 1." Flash said.

"Maybe. That is why we are to talk about expanding upon the league. First we vote on extending membership. Then, if we vote yes, we need to find every caudate possible to extend membership to." Batman finished.

(Fox Den)

"Fox Den? Really?" Artemis asked.

"I happen to like foxes Artemis. Should I have called it the Fox Goddess Den?" He asked.

She blushed. "Maybe."

"Anyway… with this researched from STAR labs that I…."

"Stole…" Artemis didn't like it but didn't call him on it.

"Stole. This should help with your archery." He pressed a few more buttons. "And finished. Here, your new bow and quiver." He gave her new gear for her to use. "Go ahead, try it out."

"I don't like the thought of using stolen tech." Artemis said looking at her new gear.

"You don't have to. However this technology would have been used for war, not to save the lives of innocents Artemis. "

"Two wrongs don't make a right." She told him.

"Doing nothing about the first wrong makes you just as guilty as doing the wrong yourself." He countered. "That is why you became a heroine Artemis, is it not? You saw the wrong in this city and you wanted to do something about it. You couldn't stand by and watch you had to act. If I didn't take this technology the second I learned of it. It would have killed millions over time. The human race doesn't need any help killing themselves. They do that just fine."

Artemis couldn't dispute any of his points. "Sorry…"

"You have no need to be. What I did was wrong, I will not dispute that."

"Why burn the building?" She asked.

"Felt like it." He told her. She gave him… the look. "Joking."

"Oh you got jokes huh?" She elbowed him.

"Worth it." He was then slammed to the ground by Artemis boot of feminine fury.

"And that was for looking at my ass." She went to the range.

"Still totally worth it… great view." Then he got a boot to the face.

"Was that still totally worth it?" Kurama asked.

'Yup.'

"I'm so proud."

Naruto explained, after he got up, how Artemis' new bow and quiver worked. He got the idea from Marvel's the Avengers Hawk Eye. Her new bow and quiver was like his using all the different arrows. Flash bang, grabble, bomb and all other kinds of arrows.

"Nice, fires better than my old one." Artemis said.

"Yes but your old one is of nice make. Also it has some other fetchers. This button on your bow, when you press it, your quiver will be refilled with arrows."

"I like." She said littering a target with holes.

"I sure hope so. Now, let's get to work." Pain said.

(About 1 year after arrival)

"Now students, best behavior today." The teacher said to the class.

"Why do I have to be here again?" Artemis asked herself.

"Oh come on huntress." Artemis hates Naruto's new nick name for her.

"Naruto… stop calling me that. Before I hurt you even more." Artemis warned.

"You could use a vacation from all of the homework and stuff." Naruto said to her and ignored her warning.

The class was in Washington DC, as their geology class was looking at some ancient crystal that was found a few years ago and was in the museum. Artemis had, somehow, managed to pay to go because of an anonymous benefactor. Cough Pain cough. She didn't want to go but Pain insisted that she go. He said something would be waiting for her when she got back so she really didn't have a choice.

"And this is the pride and joy of the museum. The Jade crystal." A tour guide said trying to sell it like a piece of merchandise.

When Naruto looked at it he was the most shocked. "Kurama. Is that what I think it is?" He asked her furry friend.

"Who knows, it looks like it at least. But the one you had was destroyed. This one is most likely this world's crystal. It is emanating a chakra source similar to the one you destroyed."

"That settles it then. I guess I have to steal it. Can't let it fall in the wrong hands." Naruto said.

"You're starting to sound like a hero again Naruto."

"Only a little. I have no care for this world's heroes and heroines."

"Steal it now… or later?" Kurama asked.

BOOM!

The front door was blown open by someone big. "Now it seems." Naruto disappeared in the crowd of panicking people, leaving a clone of himself, he saw Artemis doing the same so he left a clone transformed as her as well.

From the dust a large metal man walked into the building, Metallo. He walked up to the case. "I have no idea why he wants this but as long as I get what I want it doesn't matter. And since the heroes are busy I'm golden." Metallo smashed the case for his prize. Only to find it gone. "WHAT!?"

"You should really mind your surroundings more Metallo." Pain said from over head.

Metallo looked up to see a new hero. A new hero he heard of, the mask had become infamous in the underground. "So, you must be Pain. What are you doing in Washington?" He asked targeting the new hero.

"Touring the place mostly. Looking for new marks as most of Gotham's crime families are 6 feet under."

"No wonder. Well… I have a score to get so you'll have to die now." Metallo opened up his chest plate to reveal his green heart. He fired a green blast at Pain destroying the area around him and the people gasped. "Ha. Not so tough after all."

"I told you to mind your surroundings." Metallo had enough time to be shocked before he was sent flying.

Metallo crashed into the wall and went right through it, rubble piled on top of him. Pain waited for him to come out of the rubble, he didn't wait long. Metallo blew the rocks away from him and if he could look pissed he would be. "No bad. I guess maybe I might have to work for this one." He said mockingly cracking his neck.

"Please… you don't rank in any type of threat to me Metallo. You're just another 'it' for me to destroy. You want to know why?" Pain asked the metal man.

"Oh please tell me Pain. I manage to go toe to toe with Superman." Metallo was getting annoyed by Pain.

"Because… you never learned to mind your surroundings." With that the both of them heard a string being released. Metallo looked where he heard the sound only to be rewarded with 2 arrows, one in each eye. He was then shocked by them. "Timber…" Pain kicked up some wind and Metallo fell over, being shorted out by Artemis' arrows.

"Wow… that was easy." Artemis said from above.

Pain was walking up to the downed body of Metallo. "His ego was his greatest weakness. He felt he could get me with his little rock heart. But he didn't know I had back up." The pair heard sirens as well as having many people take pictures of them. Pain used his power and Metallo was gone in a vortex. "Let us be off." Pain appeared next to Artemis. Then both vanished in a vortex.

Both appeared on a roof top far away. "I'm assuming that you left a clone of me with the tour group right?" She asked Pain.

"Of course."

"Then how in the hell did you find me? I was on vacation, remember?" She asked putting a finger in his chest.

"Like I said, I was touring the place while you we're on vacation. A good thing to, otherwise you and I might not be talking to each other right now." He told her.

"I'll accept that… for now. My superhero stalker." She joked.

"Oh… funny. But we have other things too take care of. Such as Cadmus." Pain told her.

"You found something on them?"

"No… not yet… but that fire is a good enough reason to investigate them. I can sense that there is a strong power source underground. Deep underground, that alone is reason enough to suspect them." Pain placed a hand on Artemis and both we're gone.

Inside the building the fire was under control by the Firefighters and the pair looked around. "We're on the top floor." Artemis said. "But should that be here?" She pointed at an elevator.

"Not to my knowledge. An elevator isn't suppose to be in a 2 story building." Pain said out loud.

"Well… let's find out why it's here shall we, and let's be quick about it, I'm supposed to be on vacation." Artemis whined. "First vacation ever already ruined." She mumbled. Pain opened the elevator door, to find it went down far, real far. "Well now we…" She stopped when she felt Pain's arms around her waist. "PAIN DON'T YOU DARE!" He jumped down with her with him. "ASSSSSHOOOOOOOOLE!" She cried on the way down.

It was around a minute until they reached the bottom. The landing wasn't as soft as it shattered the ground. Artemis hadn't loved the ground so much. "52 levels… give or take." Pain said.

"And 52 levels of me kicking your ass when this is over asshole, why couldn't you use your vortex thing!?" Artemis yelled at him.

"I need to know where I am going with it. Besides you know you love me." He said mockingly. Only to get an elbow to the gut. "Let us find something important and incriminating about this Cadmus operation and be done with this place."

The pair soon heard screams in the distance echo throughout the lower levels. "Does that count?" Artemis asked knowing the answer.

"Most defiantly."

The pair made it down the hall, passing some young girl with Superman's shield on her chest again Pain got elbowed by Artemis, to find 3 known sidekicks getting shocked. "Artemis fry the console." He told her.

"On it." She took out one of her blast tipped arrows. Shot the console, seeing as how the door was already opened for them, and hit the console dead on, and it blew up.

"WHAT!?" Yelled a man in a lab coat.

"May may. You don't see this every day." Pain walked into the room with Artemis by his side.

"You! Who are you!? How dare you interfere!?" Yelled the man in the lab coat.

Pain tilted his head. "I dare… because I am Pain… and you doctor… are dead." Pain drew several chakra rods. "I'll end you!" He threw them at speeds no one could follow; they were all just a black blur to everyone else.

The doctor was hit multiple times in the chest, combined they were fatal injuries.

"NO!" Robin yelled seeing the doctor die.

"You didn't need to kill him!" Kid Flash yelled.

"Didn't I? What would you have done hum? Imprison him until he sees the error of his ways? How has that worked for you so far?" He asked.

Then behind them the girl from before walked in.

"Alright, hey babe here to free us or fry us?" Kid Flash asked the Superboy.

Pain looked behind him to see Supergirl. Supergirl just stared at them for a moment. "It seems I desire to find my only living family over frying you… so freeing you is my only other option." She stated.

Then Robin got loose. "Finally, Batman would have my head if he knew I took so long."

"Dude… really?" KF didn't know what to think about that statement.

"The whole league will have our head after this." Aqualad said.

"Free Aqualad while I get Kid Flash. And as for you two, we're taking you in for murder." Robin told the pair.

"Don't you tell me what to do either!" Supergirl but did was she was asked.

"And don't lob Artemis in with me in terms of murder boy. She has yet to take a life… unlike you." Pain told him.

"I haven't taken a life!" He yelled freeing KF.

"Haven't you? You're short sighted, just like your mentor. But I have no time for a debate with you little leaguers. We have to leave this place and I don't intend to stay now that I have what I need from this place." Pain told them.

"And what might that be?" Aqualad asked.

"Evidence that Cadmus needs to be shut down… hard or permanently." He told them.

"What's the difference?" Aqualad asked.

"Hard means go to jail for 10 to 25 years. Permanently means a trip to the morgue. Because, unlike you, I have no problem about killing the scum of this world." He told them.

"How can you take a life so easily like its taking out the trash!" KF yelled.

Pain tilted his head. "Because to me it is like taking out the trash, nothing more." Artemis flinched when he said that. "But we have no time for this. We should leave, seeing as that doctor somehow managed to survive and is now alerting his little army."

"What Pain is saying, a temporary truce, until we get out of this dump." Artemis told them.

"Absolutely not! We will NOT work with murderers!" Robin yelled.

"Murderer, not plural boy." Pain corrected. "As I said, Artemis has yet to take a life."

"She works with you so she is just as guilty as you!" Robin countered.

"Very well… boy… you want to go there let's go there. You say you've never taken a life?" He asked, Robin nodded. "I call bull shit boy. You… your mentor, you sister side kick Batgirl and at least half of your Justice League has taken a life. You say you haven't then you are lying. That or you consider any non-human life below you. Take Poison Ivy's plants for example as it is the best example to go by. They are alive, they live, breath and have dreams of their own. Then you fight and kill them every time you fight Poison Ivy. You don't kill monsters like the Joker who kills 100s of people every time he gets out, yet kill plants who are only listening to the being they see as their mother." Pain tilted his head at them. "Some hero… boy blunder." Pain insulted him.

Robin had no real or good retort for Pain. "Let us focus on getting out of this lab. A truce for now." Aqualad said.

The trip out was eventful and entertaining. The group of 6 destroyed their way out of the lab and made it to the ground floor.

"That was fun." Pain said, somewhat impressed that the 6 of them made a good team, despite their ideal's being so different. He was, however, worried about Artemis. She wanted to be a hero so bad she might want to join their little team. But He would cross that bridge when it came.

"We're free!" KF yelled.

"No you're not!" The same doctor yelled.

"Oh goody… I get a second chance to kill you." Pain said.

"I will get you back in your cage! And as for the rest of you! I will clone and depose of you! All of you!" He yelled while drinking some blue looking vile.

"That can't be good." Artemis stated.

Demand then turned into a hulk-ish blue monster in front of them. However with their combined power the 3 young heroes, 1 anti-hero, 1 heroine and 1 somewhere in the middle heroine managed to beat the mad doctor by dropping the building on his head.

When it was over the group reappeared in a vortex. "I'll never get use to that." Artemis said with a shiver.

"That saved your life more times than years you've been alive." Pain stated.

"See… the moon." KF said to Supergirl. Then, as if from the moon, Superman decided upon them. "And Superman, see don't we keep our primroses?" He said excitedly.

Pain and Artemis watched as the JLA descended upon them. Pain smiled a bit, oh this was going to be fun. However he felt hope within Artemis. He could feel that she wanted to be like them. In every way. That was dangerous for him in many ways. He could have just left them with Artemis but he wanted to let Artemis make her own choice and he would still be there when she did. He noticed that the sidekicks were talking to Batman while Superman was happy to talk to Supergirl and she was happy to talk to family.

"I thought as much." Pain mumbled to himself.

"Results aside, we're not happy. Needless to say, you won't be doing this again." Batman ordered.

Pain smiled. 'He's testing them. Clever little Batman.' Pain thought.

"I'm sorry, but we will." Aqualad told them.

"Aqualad, stand-down." Aquaman ordered.

"I'm sorry my king but no. The 6 of us forged something powerful here today." Aqualad said to Batman.

'6? I know he doesn't mean me.'

"We're ready to use what we learned from you Batman, we even made 2 potential teammates along the way." Robin told Batman.

'Yep, there talking about me and Artemis. Artemis I can see being with them, however much that will suck, but not myself in their little band of little leaguers.'

"Why would we let them tell us what to do anyway. It's simple get on board or get out of our way." Supergirl said.

Pain looked at Artemis and she looked back. He could tell what that look was. It was begging him to join them and let her join them. 'She's not meant for this life it seems.' Pain thought depressed.

"How sad then. She was a great mate match-up for you Kit. All well, you'll find others. Or… she'll learn the error of her ways and re-join you… in time… in time…" Kurama said to Pain.

"This is your choice Artemis… I will not judge you or think of you any less as a friend if you do join them." He told her in a reassuring manner.

She nodded and walked, hoping that he would join her. "I wish to join as well… if you'll have me." Artemis said. She didn't want to sound as desperate as she was.

"Hey, the more the merrier. It's always nice to have another girl on the team." KF said.

"Smooth kid." Robin said.

"And what about you?" Black Carney asked the loner in the back. Everyone turned their head to Pain.

Pain saw the look in Artemis' eyes. The look that said 'Please Pain… join us…' "What about me? I have no intention of joining a team that is affiliated with the Justice League in any way, shape or form."

Batman narrowed his eyes. "I take it your Pain." He announced. That got every JLA member on guard.

"Indeed I am. I am… Pain." Pain said to him, putting a little more power into his voice for effect.

"And why not? This is a chance for you to be a part of something greater than yourself." Black Carney tried to reason with the young man.

"I was a part of something greater than myself. When that was taken from me I forged something that is greater than me. As for why I don't wish to join despite my partner joining is simple. The Justice League lacks what is needed to do what is right." Pain told her.

"And what might that be? What are we lacking that you have that is needed to do what is right?" Wonder Woman asked.

"It's simple… conviction and courage. You lack the conviction and the courage to do what is right, no matter how much blood stains your hands. To kill all that threaten this world and the people that live in it."

Batman's eyes narrowed. He sounded like his old Master Ra. "Justice covered in blood is revenge." Batman told him.

"Justice that allows blood to be shed cannot be called Justice." Pain countered. "I am here… to bear the burden of killing all who threaten this world. However, don't get me wrong, I do respect your choice never to kill. All of you, it is harder to not kill then it is to spare the life of a murderer. I did that myself once." Naruto thought of Pain, Nagato Pain, and some time ago. "And it worked out that time. But it won't work like that here. You no longer need to bear the weight of the people who lives have been ruined by the monsters in the dark." Pain told them.

"But what about you? This is your chance to be better. You no longer need to shoulder your burden." Artemis pleaded.

Pain looked at her. "This world is covered with monsters. Infested with beings of evil. In order for the people to be safe they need a monster willing to kill its own. I will be that monster. I will be what the people fear in order for them to be safe, I will kill all who threaten them and cover myself with their blood so no one else will have to do it." Pain said.

"Let's say you succeed. If you managed to kill all of the monsters in this world, then what happens to you when the people no longer see you as a protector but a monster?" Huntress asked.

"Then you Justice League will be there to put me in prison now won't you?" He told her. "It is something I already planned for, like how Batman is planning on the best way to take me down right now with everyone present and their powers." Pain said looking at Batman.

"Why does it have to be you!?" Artemis yelled. She knew how this was going to end, they've had this conversation before. "Why can't you have your own life!? Away from all this bloodshed."

Pain looked at her again. "I am glad that I've meant you Artemis. Meeting you gave my life some form or normalcy. But this path was set for me before I was born… as a Child of Prophecy …" Pain looked at all of them. "But I choose on how I will accomplish my Prophecy. No one, not fate, not gods, no one tells me what to do. We will meet again… I wish you luck with your new team Artemis. You're always welcome in the Fox Den…" Pain vanished in a vortex.

Batman didn't like him for a second. He wondered just how much Artemis knew about Pain, but he wouldn't push her now. Their bonds were strong than the bonds she has with his soon to be new team.

(1 week later)

Pain was in the Fox Den. He and Artemis hadn't talked for the last week and he knew why. He went up to his computer and type in a few commands and pressed enter. He smiled at the list before him.

Elsewhere

Alone in the dark a young man with a skull like mask with a red 'X' had just finished beating up some small time night watch guards and tied them up. "Come to daddy beautiful." He said to a Gem. Then his cell rang. "What now?" He looked at it. "Dammit! This better be what I think it is." He looks at the Gem. "Next time sweetness." He left, leaving 4 bewildered guards.

In another place all together a young woman was typing things into a computer. Downloading files at GB speeds. Her cell went off. She looked at it. She withdrew the flash drive left via window.

In the dark deeps another young woman had her cell go off. She looked at it and vanished in the darkness.

Fox Den

Pain waited for his new team to meet up. Seconds later 3 people came in with different means.

One looked around. "We're short half the team." He said.

"3 won't join us. 2 due to being under cover and 1 needs time to think. I know where the 4th one is I'll be back." Pain left in a vortex.

"I so got to learn how to do that." The only male left in the den said.

On a roof top Pain came to be. In front of him was someone he found not too long ago in this very spot. "Spying on your crush again…?" He asked. The person in question didn't attack him like she did last time. "Poison Ivy."

"What do you want Pain?" Poison Ivy asked.

"I've made the call. The team is to be assembled." Pain walked up next to Poison Ivy to look at the object of Poison Ivy's stare. "If you stare at her from here she'll never know your back to being you… for the most part."

(Flash back 4 months ago)

Pain had sensed strong life energy and followed it. What he found was not too surprising, he found Poison Ivy, what was surprising was who she was staring at. "You know, if you stare at her from afar she'll never know your back to being you."

Just then a branch came from nowhere and attacked Pain. But Pain just stopped it with his own power over nature. The young woman was shocked. "How…?" She asked.

"I'm a man of many talents. Like you I too have power over plant life. After all… my world tree is proof of that." He told her pointing at Gotham's World Tree.

"You… you created her?" Ivy asked looking at the marvel of life before not too far from her.

"Yes. It was hard as I was drained from battle. But the World Tree is my creation." He answered. He knew that he could win her over proving his powers of and compassion for nature.

Poison Ivy smiled. "Have you've ever thought about expanding?" She asked with some seduction in her voice.

"Yes I have… but not the way your thinking." Pain walked up next to her, not fearing what she might do to him. "I am thinking differently than you. But that is not why I am here." He told her. "I am here to see you honestly."

"See me? For what purpose?" She asked suspiciously.

"Would you believe me if I said I was here to help you?" He asked

"No. No one helps me out of the goodness of their heart. There is always strings attached." Ivy sneered at Pain.

"Yes most would. My only request is that you listen to what I have to say." Pain told her.

Ivy looked at the man before her. "Why should I even listen to anything you have to say?" She asked.

"Because I am the only one that cares for this world… as much as you do. I know a place where we can talk." He pointed at the World Tree in the distance.

(Present)

"I still remember that talk. How did it go again?" Pain said.

"So much for remembering." Ivy went back to watching the object of her affection.

Pain walked up beside her. "She'll never believe you've returned to your old self if you don't talk to her Ivy."

Ivy looked down, in fear. "How can I? After all she tried to do for me and I threw it right back in her face." Ivy hugged herself. "How can Barbara even think of forgiving me Pain."

Pain placed a hand on her shoulder. "She forgives murders Ivy. You are just an extremist in their eyes. If you go to her and talk to her, she'll forgive you."

"How can you be so sure?"

"After all you have done for her. Her letters kept you sane while in Arkham right? You were so relieved when she forgive you for trying to kill her father. You kept all of the letters that she sent right?"

"Of course I did!" She yelled back.

"You love her. While being a criminal you went easy on Batgirl. Wanting to help her the only way you could. By helping her hone her skills as Batgirl." Pain told her. "Like me you can sense natural energy in all living beings, and as no 2 beings have the same signature, you knew Batgirl was Barbara Gordon. Yet despite that you kept her secret. You could have sold her identity to the highest bidder to fund your goals but you didn't. You protected her out of love Ivy. Just tell her and explain to her." Pain told her.

"I…" Ivy turned around. "I can't. You sent the call right. I'll be waiting." Ivy left in a flower pod.

Pain nodded. And left in a vortex. Down below them Barbara was getting ready to turn in for the night after her patrol. She had just put on her night cloths when something fell out of her pocket. She was shocked, she didn't recall putting that in her pocket. It was a digital tape recorder. On it was a note, it read 'Play me Batgirl.' That shocked her. Someone knew her identity? She pressed play.

"Spying on your crush again…? Poison Ivy" Barbara's eyes widened.

(Fox Den)

Pain had entered and saw everyone that will attend to this little meeting of his. "Now that everyone who will attend is attending let us begin. A week ago a small team of sidekicks entered the Washington Branch of Cadmus and came out with a relative of Superman, Supergirl. They then went against their mentors and formed a team. Batman took this new team in and now this new… Young Justice, will take the field."

"Young Justice? Really, no originality?" Said one girl.

"Come on now Ravenger, they all can't be original." Red-X said to his sisters.

"Shut it X." The girl, now known as Ravenger, sneered at Red-X.

"Let us get back to the meeting." Said the other unidentified girl on the team.

"Thank you. Now Artemis joined this team with my blessings."

"Why?" X asked.

"I allowed her to join because it was what she wanted. She more than any of us wanted to be a hero. She will learn to love the life style or will see the error of her choice and join us like she should. Now as to why the other two are not here is that their undercover mission is not done yet. They are still sending good Intel one form the Justice League, the other just told me about a group calling themselves 'The Light'."

"The Light? Why?" Asked the dark girl.

"Well, Raven, they want to rule the world. Believing that they are the only ones that can bring peace to this world. They are now the enemy it seems. However I'm officially forging this team now." Pain told them.

Raven, Ravenger, Red-X and Poison Ivy all nodded. "What about a team name?" Ivy asked.

"And before you say anything X we are not calling ourselves the Avengers." Ravenger busted X's bubble. He went and sulked in a corner.

"No I already have a name for us. As Young Justice has been form I took the liberty of already choosing a name. From now on we will be known as…" He pressed a button and their name came to light. "Young Injustice."

"Why Young Injustice?" Raven asked.

"Two reasons. 1: We are still young hence the Young, on top of that Young Justice will most likely be our rival. And 2: while the Justice League and Young Justice will try to bring justice to the people that they fail to protect. We will fix the Injustice that the people have suffered in their lives. Hence the injustice. We will fix all of the Injustice in this world that we can and soon we will gain more members and more power then we can go to war with all of the villains in this world." Pain explained.

"Young Injustice eh?" Red-X smiled behind his mask. "I like it. Does that mean we will fight young Justice regularly?" He asked.

"Yes, most likely." Pain answered X.

"How will we go about this?" Raven asked.

"Kill all who cannot be redeemed like the Joker. Give a chance for those who can be redeemed like Poison Ivy here." Pain explained.

"And how do we judge them?"

"Based on past deeds and any form of soul they might still have. Do not worry so much about that part, I can sense a person's soul and see if they have any light left in them." Pain smiled.

"How far are we going to take this?" Ravenger asked.

Pain smiled. "The question is not 'how far' but 'do you possess the will… the heart and courage to as far that is needed'?" Pain answered her.

"I can go as far that is needed of me and farther." She answered back.

"Same here."

"Me too."

"As always."

Pain smiled as his team. "Make no mistake… we are not heroes to this world. We will be murdering and stealing. We will break the law time and time again, and so will be branded as criminals and put to jail in the deepest pit known to mankind for the rest of our lives. A couple of years ago the current members of the Justice League were branded as criminals by the very people they wanted to protect… and now their called heroes… and in time so shall we. I have watched people suffer in pain for too long! And today the pain STOPS!" Pain yelled. The new Young Injustice team smiled. "Lets get to work."

END

Yeah, Naruto is underhanded. Also Poison Ivy is still based off Arkham City Ivy just with the Ivy being Barbara's friend back story. So she's 16-17 years old.

*Edited 1/24/2014*