Breaking The Rules
Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto is the creator of the popular Naruto manga/anime series and all its official characters. DC Superheroes, Justice League, Teen Titans, Batman, Superman, and all others I'm likely forgetting such as official characters, background series stories, worldly plotlines, and miscellaneous belong to the super huge creators of the aptly collected DC Universe. I do not own anything that gets mentioned as cameo from other anime/manga, video games, music, and etcetera. All I own are Original Characters that may come into play.
Author's Note: Due to a surprisingly amount of popular demand, here's some add-on content.
It's been a month since Naruto had revealed to the world that he was the one who wore the fox-themed flying suit of armor. One full month of chaos, where super heroes and super villains alike were in their own social circles (if they had such) discussing about the world-breaking news of the hero of Los Angeles revealing he was Iron Fox (a name that the public had coined and he accepted). There were some stocks in the market that fell in that one month's time because of his revelation, but they returned to normal fairly quickly.
Right now though, Naruto had all future calls on hold or appointments redirected to another date. He was busy, having a half-eaten box of pizza, a Halloween candy bowl half-filled with seasoned curly fries, and about seven cans of Dr. Pepper littering his office desk. And switching out the office chair for a recliner, Naruto was lounging back in lazy comfort, his eyes glued to the fifty inch LCD TV mounted on the wall near the book shelves filled with manga.
Trevor lifted a small bit of stone in his hand, before he chucks it into the air, aiming at Michael's head. It connects. Michael turns around and stares at Trevor, who is sitting on the bench that is near the bus stop they're at.
"Come on man, knock it off," Michael tells Trevor.
"What?" he asks, acting innocent.
Michael rolled his eyes and faces the street again, waiting for any sign of the bus that had Lester on board. With his back turned, Trevor lifts up another small bit of stone, and throws it at Michael's head. It connects. Michael turns and faces Trevor once more, this time showing a bit of anger that reflects his tone.
"I'm going to break your fucking fingers, if you don't knock that shit off!" Michael warns his friend.
"Well, please, alright. You'd alleviate the boredom," Trevor replies.
Naruto chuckles, PS3 Controller in hand. Yeah, he's playing Grand Theft Auto V. As the cut scene continued, Naruto's fun is interrupted by a knocking at the door. The door opens and in pokes Rin's head.
"Yes, Rin?"
"Sorry Naruto, but Lex Luthor is here to see you."
"You told him I was having all appointments redirected to another day, yes?"
Rin sighs. "He insisted on meeting you, sir."
Naruto groans. "Where is he? I doubt the bald guy left the premises."
"He's waiting just outside the reception desk of my office."
"Fine. Have him escorted to my office. I'll see what the idiot wants. No doubt going to complain about Superman or something..."
"Or try and subtly convince you to spread your technology to him so he can create Anti-Superman weapons," Rin says, but she leaves without waiting for a witty retort from her boss.
It was no secret to Naruto Uzumaki and Rin Sterraford that Lex Luthor was not the "clean man" he portrayed himself as. The man has created some of the many problems when it comes to taking out Superman in permanent manners. Naruto being the smart guy he was ever since he ended up in this universe (an intelligence he never revealed in Konoha lest the villagers have more reasons to hate him), had done everything to build himself a reputation, soon taking on the business world when his larger-than-life smarts gave him that first breakthrough resulting in the creation of the Arc Reactor. And it's those same smarts he's hacked computers and databases to get as much dirt as he could on certain businessmen and businesswomen whom dealt in crime-related deals or terrorists.
"This time I'm going to make sure I don't lose more than twenty k in the Paleto Bay Score," Naruto says to himself.
Back to the memories... these same folks whom unseen criminal history he digs up would also attempt these same tactics on Naruto, but Naruto was not only smart enough to not leave even a single byte of fingerprints. And more than often, Naruto was always able to counter against some of the lies and accusations his enemies would try and throw to deface him in public. Like one of his former competitors trying to make him childish by revealing he was caught watching an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He embarrassed the man outright.
"So I watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Rin does, too. And her grandniece and grandnephew also watch the show. Nothing wrong with that..."
And there would be some light-hearted laughter from the audience as Naruto would smile and wave and his accuser would blush angrily and eventually leave. Yeah, that was a fun memory. After all, watching colorful talking magic ponies is just like watching soul reapers fighting hollows in a fictional world. Also, he was a fan of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.
Thoughts are interrupted when Rin opens the door and invites our favorite bald villain (idiot) into the room. Naruto paused the game.
"Mr. Luthor, sir."
"Thank you, Rin."
Rin closes the door behind her, leaving her boss all alone with the man.
"Hello Lex. I hear you're going to make an appearance at the Expo in two weeks," Naruto begins the conversation.
"Yes. I am interested in what my competition will be bringing to the table this year. I mean, there's nothing wrong with scoping out the competition."
Naruto chuckles; he's seen one of Lex's own company expos in Metropolis before. "Well, there's no crime in seeing your rival company's expo."
"So, I see you're certainly busy with work," he comments lightly, eyeing the junk food that littered the desk, and the TV in the room displaying the in-game pause menu, and the map of Los Santos.
"And I doubt this is a social visit, Lex. You're not the only one whose visited me regarding what the U.S. Government is calling my special toy," Naruto said, using quotation fingers on the mentioned "special toy".
"Yes, I have seen the discussions on CNN regarding you and the Iron Fox," Lex says in response, chuckling in mild humor.
Naruto smirked. The idiots on CNN would have the most fun of arguments regarding just about any topic that would be the definite "hot topic of the week". In this case, it's him, his company, and the Iron Fox armor.
"I had enough of all the phone calls today so I put all calls on redirect, and canceled the day's appointments citing a need for some alone time. You're lucky I'm feeling generous to meet you Lex. Pizza?"
"No thank you," Lex declines.
"Trust me, it's not just rival companies wanting to talk to me about my little thing I did a month ago. I even got a personal visit by Batman himself. Apparently owning a suit of mechanical armor that could be used in self defense counts as suspicious, since he put all the trouble to flying all the way from Gotham just to see me in my own house."
Said house was also the company's building: the very top floor of the building was also similar to presidential suites of expensive hotels. What Naruto did not voice was that having appeared literally out of thin air as a child, it is not just Batman whom wanted to know his real origins. And yes, Lex Luthor would be counted on the list of people who wanted to discover his true origins.
"Uzumaki Industries was once another name and a former weapons manufacturer, before your hostile takeover as a fifteen year old," Lex reminds the young man.
Naruto laughs. Yes, that WAS a fun day when he decided to enter the business world, took over a failing former company, and totally revamped it while scrapping all former projects and changing it into the business it is known as today. That very same movement into the business world brought forth the Arc Reactor.
"And many called me a cocky son of a bitch for entering the business world as a bratty teenager."
As Lex just stands and smiles politely and friendly-like, a tiny spider bot crawled from under the left pant leg and scurried under the desk.
"So, Lex... onto the real topics: You're here regarding the armor, yes?"
"Honestly, yes. We have seen shares of armored androids time and again-"
"Thanks to the craziness of the world," Naruto inserted his own line of commentary.
"And half the times, the armors created for destruction or some crazy with too much time on his or her hands are often stopped by our world's super heroes. You on the other hand, have created something in a similar way, but in the complete opposite direction."
"Would you believe it was merely on a touch of boredom with random internet distraction, anime, and music?" Naruto questions Lex.
Which was part-truth; the other part was regarding the scenario of his kidnapping by terrorists in the Middle East, the four months of his reported disappearance, and how apparently certain people he once trusted were trying to get rid of him because he was "too dangerous" for his own good, i.e. his intelligence.
Naruto decides to unpause and gets back to completing the current mission on his GTA V game: The Paleto Score Setup.
A sound effect chimes from his open laptop in the corner and Naruto briefly glances at it.
"Kushina, is it another e-mail from the government?" he asks the AI, crafted after his dead mother (and little memories he discovered of her from stolen books from the Hokage Tower as a child).
"Yes, Naruto. They are requesting another meeting at Washington regarding the Iron Fox suit."
"The last time I was in D.C., it didn't go so well after I revealed some of the military's less-than-stellar attempts of copying my Iron Fox armor, as well as military from the other countries and their failures."
While graphic in detail you can still see some of the videos of foreign countries trying to create the armor (resulting in horrifying injuries or brutal deaths when said failed recreations explode or buckle inward and squeeze the human like chunky mustard); Naruto's little "hack" of showing the government's attempt at securing armor they claim was for "safety of the country" didn't go so well for some who just wanted the armor to make super weapons to point and fire when you live in a world where you get aliens from other worlds visiting almost on a daily basis, meta humans with their genetic mutations, among other crap on the supernatural level.
"They're still in congress even after one of them told you to go fuck yourself," Kushina bluntly states.
"Tell them I'm busy," Naruto informs Kushina. The NetNavi-sized female AI hologram of a woman with vivid red hair at waist length, wearing clothing reminiscent of the outfits from TRON: Legacy disappears to relay the message.
Busy indeed playing video games.
Lex's cellphone rings, and he gives a polite smile as he takes out the phone and glances at the screen. Inside thought, Lex was chuckling that his scientists have a clear signal to the spybot he secretly had installed in the office. His bug was planted.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but business calls. Never a dull day in my life as a business man. I look forward to the Uzumaki Expo in two weeks."
Naruto waves him off. "Sure thing, Lex. Have a good day now."
Lex smiles once more, nods his head, and leaves the office, closing the door on his way out. When he was outside of the building, and soon driven away from the location heading to the airport, he takes out his iPhone and dials a number.
"Lex here, is the recording working?"
"Yes sir, it is. Mr. Uzumaki doesn't even know about it," said a voice on the other end of the call.
"Good. Continue monitoring the bug. When he goes to sleep tonight, have it hack his computers. I must find out how he built his suit of armor. It would be perfect to craft a weapon to defeat Superman and the Justice League."
"Sir, what about the others that have been trying to spy on Uzumaki?"
Lex just chuckles evilly. "Pay them no mind. We can certainly allow them to distract Naruto while I work my magic."
"Of course, sir."
Back at Uzumaki Industries, Naruto presses the up button on the controller to take out the ifruit phone and selects the quick-save option. He then pause the game after the save registers, and goes to the menu to play Los Santos Rock Radio. Grabbing his Android Tablet device, he turns that on to load up Ayakashi: Ghost Guild.
"Rin?"
She soon enters. "Yes, Naruto?"
He escorts her outside, and closes the door.
"Make sure the false data drives are up before you head off for the night, okay? I doubt Lex's little visit was a social one."
"Is it like those people who created that CADMUS Project?"
"Eeyup," he replies. "If Lexie wants to steal information, I'll give him some encrypted bullshit. Oh, and Kushina, track the bug that's no doubt in my office without Lex knowing we're onto him."
"Of course, sochi," Kushina responds.
Rin sighed. "Never a dull moment in my life."
"Hey, I told you that working for me will be somewhat filled with crazy days," Naruto tells Rin.
"And you telling the entire world you're Iron Fox counts as crazy. We've had super heroes subtly trying to get you to join the Justice League, to Batman breaking and entering your upstairs apartment for what he calls casual conversation, and even Cobblepot once made a visit."
"And let's not forget Riddler tried to hack my computers and I booted his green question marked ass out of my servers and ticking him off in response," Naruto reminded her of that last week incident.
"I helped too, sochi," Kushina reminds Naruto.
"Yes, mom, I know," he groaned.
Rin giggles, finding it funny that an AI designed after the memory of your mother can act so much like a mother in real life. Naruto's twenty-two years old and still gets scolded by Kushina once and awhile when he does something the girls would often call stupid stunts.
Naruto then gets that expression of a light bulb idea. "Oh yeah, another thing Rin; Tomorrow we're flying out to Italy. They got that race happening and I'm going to join."
"WHAT!?"
And the very next day (or next day in the time location of Italy), Naruto gets attacked during the race by a man wearing crude upper armor and wielding mechanical whips coursing with thousands of volts of electricity, slicing Grand Prix Indy cars like a hot knife through butter...
Naruto survived of course, and Italy was witness to Naruto donning the Iron Fox armor after Rin and her secretary, a man (ironically) named Ichigo (and no he does not have orange hair nor is he related to the fictional manga character Ichigo Kurosaki; Naruto makes jokes about it though), drove onto the course to deliver said armor suitcase. The Justice League arrived too late to help.
Naruto had it under control, of course.