(WARNING: Mistakes with grammar and spelling are made, grammar Nazis viewers discretion is advised.)
"I... I choose..." Kit didn't know what to say. It was like being frozen in time, except in this time, hehad a time limit. He looked down before he looked up again and before he could answer he was stopped.
"A person who abandons a mission is garbage," Kit turned a bit shocked from the statement. Inu turned his head to Speedy, "But a person who abandons his comrades... is worst than garbage." Inu put a hand on Kit's shoulder, "Whatever you decide I will support you one hundred percent."
"Inu!"
"Look Batman," Inu said turning to the other leaguers, "I don't think of Kit as my sidekick or even a little kid anymore. We've had our share of bad times, times some of these kids," he said mentioning to the other four, "Wouldn't be able to handle. Plus he's my responsibility, so if he does choose to leave with Speedy well... I'd say good luck."
"You've got to be joking?" Flash said only to receive a blank stare from the masked man. By the serious silence he gave made the speedsters eyes widen, "Oh your serious..."
"Inu."
"Batman."
"You see Kit!" Speedy said pointing at the adults, "They are acting like you're not even apart of the team. They are just arguing not taking your feelings into consideration!" Kit just stared at the older leaguers who all looked down except Inu and Batman, who were in a very intense staring contest.
"It's alright," Kit said interrupting everyone, "Sorry Batman, but I came here to tell you that... I don't care about joining the League." Everyone looked in shock, even Batman had a shocked expression a very, very, VERY small shocked face. "My job is to save people for the fun and to protect them, not to gain some status that people will forget later on. So, I'm sorry, but find someone else to join the league-"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING!?" Kid Flash yelled as he appeared in front of Kit, not fazing the boy. Kit just tilted his head, "Not become apart of the League!? That's what every hero dreams of!"
"I just want world peace," Kit said brushing off Kids hands off, "Sorry, but the League isn't as important to me as it is to you guys."
"So you're going with me?" Speedy asked looking at the masked blonde. Kit turned his attention to Speedy before raising a hand. Speedy smiled as the other watched in shock as they shook hands before Kit pulled in Speedy and patted his back.
"I hope we can still be friends..."
"The position is open at anytime." Speedy whispered as he let go to walk away, "But they were right about you guys Kit..." Kit only stood there staring at Speedy as he left, "Your not ready." Kit just sighed as the door closed and over at Inu who patted his back.
"You did good," Kit nodded as the others still looked at the two of them, "You guys look like you've seen a ghost."
"I've never heard of a hero who didn't want to be in the Justice League," Flash said on his hips.
"What have you been teaching him?" Batman directed towards Inu who shrugged it off. Before the two could go into a full on argument the alarm sounded alarming them. Something came up and the fave of the man of steel came up as the adults went towards the computer.
"Superman to Justice League," Naruto's eyes began to sparkle as he saw Superman's face on the computer. He let out a small 'cool' in Japanese getting much weird looks from the others, "There's been an explosion at Project Cadmus. It's on fire."
"I've had my suspicions about Cadmus..." Batman got in a before looking up, "This may present the perfect opportunity to-"
"Zatana to Justice League," Inu and Kit looked before chuckling as the Dark Knight was interrupted before composing themselves when they got a glare from him, "The sorcerer Wotan is using the amulet of attan to block out the sun, requesting full league response."
"Superman," Inu spoke before Batman, making the dark clad male angry.
"It's a small fire," Superman said as he had to hold back a sigh, "Local authorities have it under control."
"Cadmus can wait then," Batman said before clicking a button on the keyboard, "All leaguers report to Zatara's location, batman out." All the older members began to head to the tube except for Inu and Batman who looked towards the younger members, "Stay put."
"What? Why!?"
"This is a league mission," Aquaman said as he put his hands on his hips.
"You're not trained-"
"What!?" Kidd asked a bit mad, "Since when!?"
"I meant your not trained to work apart of this team."
"There will be other missions," Aquaman started, "When your ready."
"For now," Batman stated as he narrowed his eyes, "Stay. Put." They began to head for the tube as Inu and Kit looked before turning to look at each other.
"Don't worry," Inu said patting his team mate, and suppose brother, on the shoulder, "Next time we can handle crime back in Japan. Until then can you please just do what the bat says and stay here?"
"That's what you said last time," Kit said a bit sadly as he looked down, "We don't ever get to fight crime together anymore since you joined the League. I always had Speedy there at times, but when he left it would get really lonely and now that he's not here... I'm starting to overthink my decision."
"Hey don't say that," Inu said before ruffling his hair, "Don't worry! I'll make sure to be early this time so we can go eat some ramen too." Kit lightened up as he looked up at his partner making the older male chuckle, "But be a good fox and stay here. You here me Ku-"
"Leave me alone will you!" A deep voice growled from within Kit causing the two to sweat drop and laugh.
"Well," Inu said as he stood, "I'm leaving!"
"Have a nice trip," Kit responded as Inu turned following behind Flash before they all disappeared behind the door with the 'Justice League Members Only' sign. The four of them stood there before Kid scoffed catching the attention of the other so-called sidekicks.
"When we're ready?" He spoke causing uneasiness to coarse through Kit, "How are we suppose to be ready when they treat us like... like... sidekicks!"
"My mentor... my King, I thought he trusted me..."
"Trust? They don't even trust us with the basics!" Kid Flash yelled as he became frustrated, "They got a secret HQ... in space!"
"What else aren't they telling us?" Aquaman asked with suspicion.
"I got a better question," Kit turned his attention to the computer as they spoke, "Why didn't we leave with Speedy?" The three of them looked down before Kid looked up towards Kit who's attention was towards the computer.
"More importantly," he ran in front of the masked boy who didn't even flinch, "I wan to know why you didn't go with Speedy or want to be a member of the team!?"
"It's irrelevant to me," Kit said turning his attention to him, "What's the point on becoming a member? I can fight crime without being in the League and can even capture superhuman villains without any of the League's power. I work for the people that can't defend themselves not bossy superheroes," Kit said still shocking them, "Although I do think that... Inu is a part of them as a team member so they are also my team members. Abandoning a member would be very cruel and selfish of me," Kit said as he thought back to his memories, "I don't ever want to see that again..." They became quiet as the air around them became more gloomy. Kit looked up frightening the speedster, "Anyways! I'm a little curious about that fire."
"Me too," Aqualad said looking up, "What is project Cadmus?"
"Don't know," Robin said before a mischievous smile came onto his lips, "But I can find out."
"Oh help us kami," Kit mumbled as they followed Robin to the computer where he began to type somethings out. Kit fell bored as he began to look around blinking before he found himself inside his subconscious where a dark red fox was laying down.
"I'm bored..." the fox said causing Kit to laugh as he notice he wasn't wearing his usual attire inside his subconscious. Instead he had a white t-shirt with a red symbol in the front and black pants along with black shoes that almost resembled sandals. Without the mask you could perfectly see his tanned face with azure eyes that sparkled along with a bright smile and three whisker marks on each cheek. He held a big toothy smile as he saw the fox, "Naruto... when are we going to fight? I've been itching for one since that fight with Goku the Samurai in Japan?"
"Your as impatient as always," Naruto, the real identity of Kit, said as he jumped up onto the fox's head, "I've been itching for one too. But it's those darn itches that always got me in trouble 'ttebayo! I can't believe we've freed so many villains just to get a good fight."
"Well it had to be done so I could get rid of my boredom," the fox said as he laid there with a bored expression. He then opened his eyes slightly, "If only those damn leaguers played with us and let us use our full power-"
"Don't even go there Kurama," Naruto cut the fox making the big reynard be quiet, "Last time we did that with Hawk Girl and she could barely move for three days. If it were anyone else under her they would've died the second we went into Kyuubi Mode."
"But if it were the man of steel himself..." Naruto became quiet serious as the smirk upon Kyuubi's lips darkened, "Than it wouldn't have been a problem."
"Are you done?" the furry animal just nodded, "If you are I'm going back to the world outside... I'll be back later to fight you myself!" Naruto cheerfully said as he jumped off the fox's head. Kurama just looked at him before pulling out a fist as the blonde kid just gave a chuckle and pounded it. He blinked and before he knew it he was outside again and barely dodged and incoming punch. He grabbed the arm twisting it before grabbing the person's upper body and going back slamming the person's head against the ground while probably braking his back.
"UNCLE!" Kit blinked as he saw a clad of red and yellow before gasping as he let go.
"I-I'm sorry!"
"That was awesome!" Robin cheered as Aqualad seemed concerned, but amused for his friends.
"Sorry KF, I didn't mean to do that..."
"No problem!" KF said as he popped his back into place, "Didn't Inu do the same to Flash though?"
"You could say that," Kit said as he chuckled, "So, what did you guys find out?"
"Lots of things," Robin said as he held a amusing smile, "Also we're going on a mission." Kit had a bad feeling as he looked over at the other two, "Just a little fire that need to be stopped is all."
"Wait," Kit said as he remembered, "We're not going to cadmus, are we? I thought we were-"
"I already asked that question," Aqualad said, "They found a loophole."
"... So just like that?" Kit asked as they all nodded in unison making him sigh, "So where is this cadmus anyways?"
Cadmus
By the time the four males had gotten there the place was full of firetrucks and ambulances as they tried to put out the fire in the building. Luckily two men were still in the building yelling for help as the fire kept spreading. Suddenly there was an explosion, causing the two men to be sent flying out of the window as they began to scream. The firemen gasped as they saw them falling before a light of red and yellow passed by them grabbing the two men and throwing them up on the ceiling before he fell and grabbed the window.
"So smooth," Robin said as the three stopped in a nearby place.
"Does he always have to run ahead?" Aqualad asked as he looked over at the other two, "We need a plan, we need-"
"Uh... Aqualad," Aqualad turned to Kit as he pointed towards the building, "He's already gone." Aqualad looked to see Robin making his way towards the building.
"You've got to be-"
"Also," Kit said as he scratched his cheek, "I'm just a clone. The boss is already waiting over there eating some ramen... don't ask." Aqualad just sighed as he began to also make his way as the clone just followed. The clone ran passed Aqualad and the fireman as he began to run up the building and jumped inside the window seeing his boss and the other two. "Boss! I told Aqualad like you had told me to!"
"Good job! You can go now," the clone dispersed as Aqualad landed inside the room.
"Thank you for informing me with your... clone?"
"Shadow clone to be exact," Kit said as he moved his mask up a bit to eat, "Beside I knew they were going to do something like that."
"But how are you here!? I didn't see you come in!"
"A magician never revels his secrets," Kit said with a finger up.
"But you're not a magician!" Kit only laughed which drove KF insane before he just sighed. Kit looked over at Aqualad as he stood up and followed the young atlantean. He looked over his shoulder as the elevator closed making him look in confusion.
"I don't think the elevators suppose to be working," Kit said as they all agreed. He walked towards the elevator with the rest following as Robin clicked on down arrow key.
"This is wrong," he spoke as he popped up his gadget while Kit felt around the elevator for a second. Kit raised an eyebrow as he didn't hear the elevator just stop on the floor below. "Thought so! This is a high-speed express elevator. This doesn't belong in a two-story building..."
"Neither does what I saw," Kit stepped back as the atlantean opened the door. The four all looked down to see how far it went. Robin made a small comment before Kit jumped to the other side of the wall as he made chakra flow through his feet. "What are you doing? You'll fall if-"
"Don't worry," he said as he stood straight, or horizontal, depends how you were looking at it. He then jumped below the door, "I hope Robin can help the two of you down, but I'm going on ahead to check for safety." He then began to run down the wall as the three looked at him go. Robin shook his head as he shot a hook before jumping down creating a rope for them. The two followed shortly as the slid down the black rope. Robin looked down, losing sight of Kit, before his rope just stopped all in all.
"Damn," he said, "I'm at the end of my rope." He began to swing before landing on the ledge of an elevator door. He began to hack as the other two arrived before Aqualad jumped and helped KF over to the edge. The two looked down to see if they could find their other comrade and were confused when they didn't see him, "Don't worry. He will somehow figure out when we stopped being behind him, so for now let's go on ahead here." They nodded before he successfully hacked the door for Aqualad to open without triggering any alarms. They were surprised at what they found inside the small door before looking around, "Welcome to project Cadmus..."
"Wait!" Aqualad said as KF ran ahead before they began to chase him. They were worried when he ran in front of big animal things before being relieved he didn't get stomped to death. They watched as they walked by with these other small things riding on top of them. "No," Aqualad started as they watched, "Nothing wrong going on in here..." The three began to walk more into the building, unlocking doors and watching for danger a they did. After Robin unlocked one more door his eyes widened, "Okay, I am officially whelmed."
"This is how they hide this massive facility from the world," KF said as they looked at the tubes. Inside were insect like beings with electricity going in or around them. "The real Cadmus isn't even on the grid! It generates it's own power with these... things. That must be what they are breed for!"
"'Course, even the name is a clue," Aqualad said as he began to explain it. They conversed for another while as Robin hacked into the system to look for more information on them. They were stopped by a hero with a Gnome showing up and calling them out.
"Wait a minute," the mysterious hero said, "Robin? Aqualad? Kid Flash? What are you three doing here?"
"Least he got your name right," Robin joked.
"Wait," Aqualad spoke as he looked closer at the hero, "I know you... Guardian, you're a hero."
"I do my best."
"Then what are you doing here?!"
"I think that's my question boy." Guardian said as he looked at the three of them, "I'm Chief of Security, you are trespassing. But we can call the Justice League, and figure this out."
"You think the League is going to approve of you breeding weapons!?" Kid Flash yelled angrily at Guardian, confusing the older man.
"Weapons? What are you-" Sudden realization came to him as the small Gnome on his shoulders ears began to glow. "What have I-" he suddenly grabbed his head in pain, "my head... Take 'em down hard!" He suddenly said angrily, "No mercy!" The Gnome in front of him suddenly leapt towards them in an attacking manner.
"Watch out!" A voice said as the room became filled with smoke as the Gnome still leapt into the smoke. Robin escaped with his graveling hook gun while the other two were left to fight. As Aqualad was fighting on of the Gnomes had gone from behind to attack him.
"Rasengan!" A blue orb made contact with the alien thing before it was thrown away. Naruto got behind the atlantean as he had kicked one away, "Seems you guys are doing fine here."
"Kit!" Aqualad said as the blonde boy kicked another one away, "Where did you go!?"
"I took a detour," Kit said before they were both thrown back, Aqualad hit a pole as Kit was thrown against a wall. Kit groaned as he got up before dodging a Gnome, "You really need to work on your aim you minikui eirian." He punched the Gnome away before being pulled by KF as they ran away behind Aqualad. They found Robin hacking a door as they looked back to see more Gnomes. KF went towards Robin as Kit began to make hand signs and put his hands down, "Kōri no kabe no geijutsu!" A wall of ice appeared as the Gnomes began to bang on it.
"Can you hold them for long?" Aqualad asked as Kit stayed on the ground.
"No," he answered, "I can only keep them away for so long. You three need to at least get away from here."
"We're not leaving without you," Aqualad said as the door opened. KF and Robin quickly got inside as they turned to Aqualad and Kit. "I'll go in first, but you better be right behind."
"Heh, fine." Aqualad ran inside where Robin and KF were before they looked at the blonde boy. Kit struggled before he let go and began to run towards the opened door. The ice behind him shattered as the Gnome quickly began to follow him. He made a jump as he landed inside before the doors closed as he stood up, out of breath. They then looked up at the numbers that seemed to be going higher and higher each second, "Why are the numbers getting higher?"
"Because we're going down," Kid Flash then turned to the boy wonder, "dude out is up!"
"Excuse me? Project Kr is down on sub-level fifty-two-"
"Wow!" Kit stopped him as he looked at him, "Project Kr? Level fifty-two!? I got to forty-eight before I noticed you guys were missing. Beside, what kind of place is this place anyways? There are normal people walking around with these weird alien things!"
"Long story short," Robin said to Kit with a blank look, "this happens to be the real Cadmus. One that seems to be breeding weapons and off the radar with this weird things."
"Wait till Inu hears about this..." Naruto said as he looked over at Aqualad before at the other two. "This was suppose to be a simple put out a fire mission, not a discover a secret laboratory breeding weapons! No wonder the dark knight was so suspicious over this place... we need to contact them immediately." The three looked down as the elevator ding showing they were already at sub-level fifty-two.
"We are already here," KF said after Robin left the elevator to inspect. Kit shook his head as he slowly and cautiously walked out of the elevator. He followed the atlantean before they all crouched down somewhere to talk.
"Which way?" Aqualad asked as Kit's stomach suddenly began to feel a bit weird. He grabbed it with a pained noise as he crouched down more. What the hell? he thought clutching it why the hell am I getting this weird feeling... could it be...
"Hold!" Another weird alien said as his horn began to glow a bright red. He threw boxes at them with telekinesis powers as they all scattered. Kit felt that weird feeling again as he fell face first into the ground with a groan escaping his lips.
"What the hell... calm down..." he said as he felt himself gaining more chakra. Kurama! he yelled in his mind as the fox tried to come out. He was helped up by Kid Flash as they all began to run away from the creepy thing. He ran ahead of the other two with Kit before they fell from him trying to avoid hitting a women. He groaned as he stood up, feeling a bit better, before looking over to his side. The words on the door caught his attention the most.
Project Kr
"Kr..." he said as his eyes widened, "it can't be!"
"Hurry!" KF said as he blocked the door open for them to be able to enter. Robin ran in first before he followed in pursuit with Aqualad entering last. Aqualad kicked away the thing that was propping open the door before it closed quickly on everything else. Robin quickly went to hacking the door so that no one could open it as the other two walked over to their exhausted comrade.
"Sorry," Kit said panting as he held his stomach, "I won't be of any use to you for a little while."
"It's okay," Aqualad said with a concerned smile, "as long as you're not hurt and can still move. But I am curious to know why you just suddenly collapse like that."
"Don't worry, I just exhausted my energy is all. I should be okay if I don't use it for awhile," they all nodded before turning to Robin. Kit, although seeming to be okay, had a confused face as he began to talk to Kurama in his mind. What was that Kurama? Why the sudden charge of energy and anger!?
I suddenly felt a very familiar energy... one that I despise so much...
An energy you despise? But that would be... impossible!
Nothing is impossible Kit...
"Yo guys," KF called bringing Kit back from his conversation with Kurama. He looked up before he suddenly became at loss of words. A light began to brighten up the project Kr that Cadmus has been making lately.
"It can't be..."
"Big k little r," Kid Flash said in shock, "the atomic symbol for Krypton. Clone?"
"Robin, hack," Aqualad said as Robin went into hacking. Kit examined all around the capsule as he looked over at the clone. He was quite amazed at how the clone was made as the others talked while he listened.
"Now we contact the League," Aqualad finally said as Kit went back to the three. He suddenly got the weird feeling in his stomach again as the transmission fell. He felt sick form the weird feeling in his stomach, like that time he fought with Menma.
"We can't leave him like this," Robin said as Aqualad was in thought. He then looked at the three of them with an answer.
"Set him free," he said with a serious tone, "do it." Robin instantly went into the system and began to set free the clone. They watched as the walls around him opened up so that Super Boy could be free. The teen suddenly clenched his knuckles giving Aqualad a bad feeling. He then opened his eyes and in a blink of an eye he had tackled Aqualad.
"Aqualad!" Naruto said as the other two went to his help. It suddenly became a three-vs-one battle. Until Super Boy attack Kid Flash and Robin. When the clone began to step on Robin that's when Kit decided to jump in by kicking him away. He looked to see that Robin was knocked out before he was tackled away. It became a wrestling match between the two as they battled to be the top.
"Why won't you listen to us?" Kit asked as he dodged a punch from him before he pulled out a kunai. Super Boy saw this and jumped back before Kit slashed it through the air. He got up as he held the weapon in front of him. Aqualad charged him as Kit's eyes widened, "Wait Aqualad don't-"
"Gah!" Aqualad yelled as he hit the male with a water hammer as the two engaged in battle. Long battle short, Aqualad lost and was knocked unconscious. Kit ran to him and checked him out.
"He's only unconscious... I'm glad." He then turned towards the suspect and lifted his kunai, "I don't want to hurt you, but if I must then I will." They charged at each other throwing punch after punch, kick after kick, and yet no one seem to falter. Kit began to throw shurikens as the clone managed to take all of them with out a single injury. "Damn! If he is like him than normal attacks won't work, but..."
Kit began to go into deep thought about it. He didn't want to risk using his chakra in case Kurama did decide to lend some help. Although he had come to agreements with the fox, he had only come to agree with one side of him. And the one inside of him wasn't the half of the fox he had come to befriend quite yet. He didn't care he still cared for the fox, but sometimes he could go a little over board with his powers.
"Ugh!" He grunted out as he was thrown back by the Super Boy. He moaned in pain as he fell off from the indent in the wall. He tried standing back up as the fox began to heal him. "Why you... teme..." he suddenly fell unconscious as the red aura that was beginning to surround him vanish. Super Boy looked up to see a shadow there smile before it disappeared.
"I wouldn't take that one so lightly, boy. He could've easily killed you... if it weren't for my interference though." Super Boy didn't pay attention to the words one bit as he went to open the door. The scientist walked in with a smirk as he saw the four side kicks down on the floor. He then turned to his prized experiment with a proud look.
"Atta boy," he said as he got Gnomes to pick up the four side kick. He looked at the masked one before blinking and turning away to give instructions.
Somewhere in the Shadows
"Are you sure you shouldn't have taken the by then? I thought he was important to you?" A women with a cat mask asked an older male. The older male only chuckled as he was covered by the shadow of the building.
"Don't worry," he said in his deep voice, "I will see him again. Only then will I have a fair fight with him and get back what was mine."
"That's very noble of you," the women said, "but I wonder if he'll beat you again. I mean, if he's even at the level he was back then..."
"That's what's exciting about this time," the man said with a chuckle, "he's not the same. In face, he's at the strength of a newborn baby. He won't even last a minute in a battle with me."
"Oh?"
"Beside," the man said standing, "I think it's about time I began to exact my plan for revenge."
"You go ahead with that," the women said with a wave, "I don't want any part in that. I think I already paid my debt to you old man."
"Than hurry up and leave! No one asked you to be here in the first place." The women giggled before disappearing as the man gave a sigh. "Finally, the time has come for me to show my true face. I shall exact my revenge and get back what was truly mine! Just you wait, Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, Uzumaki Naruto..."
You know... I remember writing this during the first chapter because I was curious to see if it was good enough. Although the first chapter was a sort of test chapter to see if anyone would like this sort of idea... it turned out to be a great hit.
Sorry for the long awaited second chapter! Although it's sucky... especially then ending... I probably will take it out if no one likes that part... it's really sucky...
Anyways! I'm only updating this after so long because of you guys comments! I probably won't update as soon as possible, but I will also try not to keep you guys waiting. I have a lot on my plate right now so I hope you guys can understand a bit on my lateness.
Also, you guys have been asking for Naruto/Kit to go with Speedy a lot and the reason I am not doing that is because of how it will go later in the plot. I also wanted to thank all of you guys that were trying to help me with the plot! I actually got some great idea for future reference.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy it! :3