Chapter Two: Settling Down.

(Six Months Later: Jump City)

(High Vantage Point)

"Sooooo…. any idea when the boss man's going to show up?" Beast Boy asked. "I'm starting to get really hungry." He whined.

Cyborg slapped the back of Beast Boy's head. "Dude, we just ate Pizza five minutes ago…" He told the changeling. "…and we've been here in under three, learn to be patient bro after all patience is a virtue and all that crap."

Since the Gordanian invasion, a few months had passed in Jump City and the heroes of the night had gone through with their agreement and remained in City since that day, as one team, saving said City from the various criminals that showed up either on a daily or weekly basis; because they all had lacked a base of operations, their saving of the city was usually done individually or in team pairs – usually consisting of either Beastboy and Cyborg, Robin and Cyborg, or Beast Boy and of course Raven – and through this, however, each of the individual Titans had all made names for themselves, names which the citizens of Jump City were all familiar with by now: Arsenal, Starfire, Robin, Cyborg, Beastboy, and Raven, and even though some of the Titans were more liked than the rest, with Arsenal being in the lead for the popularity poll – if there was indeed one – their deeds had left a positive review on them both individually as heroes and as a unit.

As for personal lives though, the Titans had decided to get to know one another to improve themselves as a unit: Beastboy and Cyborg found out that they had a lot in common and became best friends almost in an instant, both Raven and Robin had become something of a sibling to each other as they both make each other smile and happy, and because Starfire didn't have a place to stay until the tower was built (and she was of course still technically his responsibility) Naruto and Starfire had hung out a lot; in fact those seeing them would often mistake the two for a couple, much to the ire of some and the amusement of others, but at the moment, this never really bothered their teamwork.

"I don't care about patience and all that nonsense." Beast Boy muttered, crossing his hands over his chest with a pout on his face.

Cyborg looked at his green animal buddy and sighed, it was always like this with him. "Well I'm staying, and if you want to go home and play video games on your own, then go, I'm not the one telling Arsenal you decided to ditch on his orders…" He had a lot of respect for the armored hero, especially more after several of his systems were upgraded; if it weren't for Arsenal he was sure that he wouldn't be stronger and faster than he once was – sure then he was a tank, but that was then and if anything, his systems were as slow as a turtle, compared to now – he could not only interface with systems faster now than before, his upgrades also included new abilities for him: Camouflage Mode (both civilian and stealth), EMP Emission, Flight via Rocket Thrusters and so on… he liked his upgrades, and unlike Beastboy and some others, he knew why Arsenal asked for the team to be here. "…trust me bro, I've been working with him from time to time since we met each other, and I can tell that he wouldn't ask us all to be here if whatever he was going to say wasn't at all important."

"Cyborg's right Beast Boy, you have to be patient." Robin's voice had said, suddenly appearing from nowhere and startling Beast Boy and Cyborg a bit. "Despite being absent most of the time when Jump City needs saving, he's proven that he can be trusted."

"It's not his fault that he's not been around saving the city as much as he should have," Raven's voice had coolly said, defending Arsenal's absence. "He's just been really busy these past few months, and I'm sure it has something to do with the sudden disappearance of the small island which the invaders had used to transmit their message over the city."

Beastboy and Cyborg turned to see that Robin and Raven had arrived at literally the same time; both, like them (Beastboy and Cyborg) hadn't changed their outfits since joining the team, in all they pretty much looked the same, but that's not really important right now.

"Yeah, I still don't understand how that happened." Beastboy had grumbled. "I mean how does an Island suddenly disappear like that?" He was confused as to how it happened and why no one was even bothering to comment on that; not even the mayor of Jump City had reported foul play.

"Don't think too much into it BB, I'm sure it'll turn up." Cyborg said before looking around. "But where's Starfire? Isn't she usually the first to these things?" He asked.

"She's been spending most of her time with Arsenal since she arrived, have you forgotten?" Robin had said, his voice and expression did well to hide the jealousy he felt towards the armored hero for having Starfire's attention. His crush on her wasn't obvious to all, but to those smart enough to notice it, it was there, and beside him, Raven likewise fell a spark of jealousy towards the alien girl in question as Robin mentioned that.

"Whatever, let's just wait for them, but they better show up quickly. I have important books to get back to." She said, knowing it was the jealousy speaking, and ignoring as light bulbs exploded below her because of said jealousy. She missed as the others threw her a confused glance before looking back at each other. She was lamenting at her numerous lost opportunities she had as she tried to speak with Naruto, opportunities lost because of Starfire… she disliked how the alien girl was always by Naruto's side near 24/7 and when she wasn't by his side, Naruto would be busy working on one thing or the other with Cyborg thus pulling her, Raven, further and further away from him.

'Ugh, this is pointless.' She thought, feeling that at this rate, she'd never be able to get to Naruto before he showed up on that day; she knew that Starfire meant well and didn't have no idea of what she was doing, but that's what made it even worse in her opinion. 'Just take a few deep breaths… meditate, calm your mind.'

Cyborg, Robin and Beastboy all looked at Raven with a worried glance.

"Okay seriously, what's eating her?" Cyborg whispered to Robin.

Robin pulled closer to Cyborg and whispered back, "She's been trying really hard to talk to Arsenal but he's either with you or Starfire to give her the time she needs." He frowned. "It's been messing with her mind for some time, upsetting her, and she's been getting gloomier and gloomier because of it."

"Why doesn't Arsenal just talk to her?" Beast Boy asked in a whisper, scratching his head in confusion. "Why's he being such a jerk about it?"

"Raven knows why but she refuses to tell me each time I ask." Robin had answered, looking at Raven with a worried glance. "We should do something; I don't like seeing her upset like this."

"Us? Why do we have to do anything?!" Cyborg furiously whispered. "It has nothing to do with us." he protested not wanting to get into someone else's personal life.

"It has everything to do with us Cyborg." Robin had said to the upgraded half man/half machine. "She's our friend, we owe it to each other to help ourselves out."

Cyborg was silent for a moment before he crossed his hands over his chest and huffed. "Fine." He muttered.

"But how are we going to get those two together?" Beast Boy thought out loud. "With the way things are, it'd be nearly impossible."

Robin was pondering for a moment before Cyborg smirked.

"Leave that to me." He stated, before stopping short as the voice of Starfire had popped up from above them at that particular moment.

"Friends, how wonderful it is to see all of you together in this gathering!" She had said enthusiastically. "I must apologize for being so late."

"It's okay Star, we all just got here a few minutes ago." Cyborg said, before looking around and asking, "But where's Arsenal?"

"Right here."

Arsenal had approached the group roughly the same time Starfire had, the roar of his thrusters alerted all to which direction he had arrived from, before he had landed on the roof they all stood garbed in his Mark VII Armor (official name for the Black and Gold Absorbing Armor).

"Sorry I'm late; I can assure you, there's a really good reason for that." He had said, before his faceplate retracted, revealing his blue eyes and whiskered face – which had of course worn a sheepish look.

"Dude, forget about it." Beast Boy groaned in pain, holding his stomach as his stomach grumbled. "Just get on to why you asked us all to be here."

Naruto pulled out something from his armor and once revealed to the group of five, and as they all saw what he held on his hand, it turned out to be six ID cards, which held each of their pictures, at least that's what it looked like.

"Dude, you interrupted my Pizza time for some ID cards?" Beast Boy asked.

Naruto smirked, a smug look accompanied that expression on his face. "Oh, but they're not just any ordinary ID cards BB, that's what they're made to look like." He stated.

Robin eyed the ID card in his hand, observing it with a curious look on his face. "I don't know, they look just like ordinary ID cards with me." He said, while inwardly admiring the design of the cards, as they sort of looked cool (think Avengers ID card except with the words 'Titans' instead of 'Avengers'), but he did notice something a few moments later. "Hey, what the… d-did my picture just… move?"

"Oh that? That's because it's not just any ordinary picture." Naruto had told Robin, holding out his ID card to the team. "Think of it as a Video Communicator, the pictures are just there to show the default owner of the communicator in question. If I do this…" His hand hovered over the picture before his finger swiped it to the left. "…I can freely switch the image on display to the image of anyone I want, as long as they're within our Titan's Data Base." He explained, as the images of one of the Titans fell over the current image after each quick finger swipe. "With this function, I can communicate with any Titan I wish, no need to worry about any long distance charges and roaming fees, I already took care of that."

"Sweet!" Beast Boy cheered, bringing up the card closer to his face with an excited grin, before he frowned and looks at Naruto. "But please tell me you didn't tell us to come here all because of that." He added, with some of the Titan's agreeing with him.

"Yeah I mean we already have a communicator, so what difference does this make?" Robin asked, looking up at Naruto expectantly. "I mean you've been distracted for so long, this… ID card should be able to do more than that."

Naruto had a knowing grin on his face, which revealed to the Titans looking at him that there was more to the card than just that. He brought his card towards his face and continued with his explanation. "Of course it can, what do you take me for? A lazy ass, like Beast Boy?"

"Hey!"

Naruto and the others ignored the indignant yell knowing that that part was true. "Just do what I do…" He brought the ID card up to his face and spoke to it. "…Titan's Tower." He said, and a few moments after he did, he was shot by a laser, startling the group a bit, before he suddenly started to disappear from the ground up.

This brought a round of panic to the group, but Naruto – before he was completely gone – had explained them that he was alright and they didn't need to worry, that he was being teleported to their new home base, the Titan's Tower, so they should all do what he did and meet him there; shortly after contemplating, they did just that, with Starfire being the first to experience the teleportation, and when they had all arrived their new home based via teleportation, they were greeted by a smirking Naruto.

"Welcome… to the Titan's Tower."

To say they all were completely stumped with awe and amazement would be nothing short of an understatement.

The tower was equipped with everything imaginable. It was a geek's paradise with the latest tech available designed and made by the blond superhero. Everything was automated and run by one of Naruto's A.I's, starting with the living room: it had a large leather couch, and in front of it was a large circular platform - it had a map of Jump City which would then blink red whenever a crime was in progress - which also worked as a holographic screen to either chill and play videogames, call someone, or act as what it was, a Super Computer... that was just the living room.

There was the kitchen with a marble counter, and a futuristic looking refrigerator that would tell you its content and what you could make with them. The whole kitchen was stocked with enough food to feed a small village, and the kitchen had a pair of arms that would come out of its side to make the food in the Titans were too lazy to do it themselves.

The tower also had a training simulation room that could turn into any location they wished it to be, it also had special impact Life Model Decoys (LMD) which could transform into anyone they wanted it to transform it to: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash… surprisingly, it could retain the abilities of anyone they picked… literally, it was the perfect training room that could recreate whichever dangerous situation they wished without the real danger, if desired, they could literally recreate the same alien invasion that occurred months ago; the LMD's acted as the enemy would, and adapt to whatever they did making their training sessions harder.

Then there was also the teleportation room which was a room on its own. It was a big hole on the side of a wall that would breakdown the person it was teleporting and reassembled them back in the tower; the room was under the tower and was heavily protected.

Their quarters were as magnificent as the other rooms. Of course they were pretty basic with a bed and some drawers, but they could literally decorate and make it their own. Naruto had designed a machine that could make anything that wasn't too complex, like furnitures, fabric and so on; they could create their own paradise with in their rooms.

Lastly, it was the tower itself which was located in the outskirts of the city with a high vantage point, and was completely invisible. The whole tower was hidden from everyone and it could only be access through the teleportation platform which the I.D cards were needed for.

Being stumped with awe and amazement at just seeing the meeting room was nothing compared to how the remaining five Titans had felt once they all had a 'complete' tour of the Titan's tower – even Starfire and Cyborg (the two who were supposed to have known more about this due to their proximity with Naruto) were both filled to the brim with awe, wonder and excitement, as they experienced the tour which had showed them places that they weren't even aware off – they had no idea that Naruto had been holding this much info out of them.

It had everything they could ever want in a base: a meeting room, a dining area (equipped with a kitchen - which included a wood burning oven), an entertainment room, a highly advanced training and simulation room (complete with special LMD's), a monitor room, a teleportation room (teleports them to any mission vantage point if needed) and finally, their sleeping areas… the best part about everything was the fact that they had their own personal AI who performed most of the work for them if they hadn't any idea how one or two devices worked…

"This place is awesome! It has everything!" Beast boy cheered in excitement.

Robin agreed with Beast Boy's comment. "And best part of this base is that we're hiding in plain sight! No villains would be able to track us back here since the entire base is under a cloaking field, along with the island." He said, looking out to Jump City from their reflective two-way mirror-like wall. "Just how did you manage this on your own? Where on Earth did you get the money to pay for all of this?" His question was directed at Naruto as he and the rest of the team stood in the kitchen.

The first place they had arrived to see which, was a room similar to the living room, was the command center.

The Supercomputer in the living room could be called a baby when compared to that the amazing computer that was in the meeting room: it had the same circular platform only much more bigger, it had the same holographic screen, it could be used to hack anything on the planet, including a certain station that orbited the Earth - his tower was the much better and cooler than theirs, the blond was not about to settle for second place - the room also had a set of comfortable chairs which basically adjusted to the sitter preference.

Of course, that was just in the center of the room, there were several other screens on the wall that tracked everything around the world: Natural disasters, kidnappings, and villains about to commits atrocious crimes, (Naruto knew that the league wouldn't be able to handle everything that happens around the world so why not broaden their horizon to other places).

"I told you, I'm rich, this kind of thing really isn't a problem for me." Naruto said, shrugging carelessly as he walked over to the kitchen and flipped a switch on the wall which then opened up into a bar with a large assortment of drinks. Naruto walked behind the counter to pour himself a drink he picked up. "Besides, I have the right powers that allow me to do this sort of thing easily." He added, sipping a drink via wine glass.

"I got a question: what's up with the bar? Didn't see that in the schematics." Cyborg pointed out, remembering the blueprints he was given. He certainly did not see any label which had matched 'bar' when he had examined it first hand, and he sure as hell did not recall helping Naruto build one.

"Oh, well I added it in at the last minute." Naruto casually answered. "Thought it could be fun to have this added in; you know, to make the place have a little more class." He added while looking at Cyborg with a smirk as he took a sip of wine from his glass.

"Bro, I'm sure you're underage, in fact, all of us are underage." Cyborg said.

"Correction, you and the others are underage, I however am not." Naruto said. "And besides Cyborg, don't worry too much; these drinks are mostly non-alcoholic, I pretty much have the alcoholic ones just for show but I never partake." He paused to take another sip of his drink from his glass before he continued, "And there is no way in hell I'm letting that stuff kill off my brain cells… so since this is already opened, what would you guys like to have?"

Beast Boy walked on up and saw there was a touch screen to help select his options. He soon spotted a category for vegan drinks and since he was a vegetarian he considered that option. After looking through for a bit he found something that seemed interesting which was a Vegan Caesar Cocktail, a mixture of a Caesar and a Bloody Mary without the alcohol and after he selected his desired drink, he soon heard some noise coming from the bar counter which lasted for a few more seconds, before a panel opened up in front of him with his drink.

Hesitantly, he took it off its holder and he was a contemplating trying it out or not, but after a few moments, he had taken a bit of a bit of a gulp in his mouth and swished it around before swallowing it. "Huh… not that bad." He commented, before he pulled out the celery and munched on it before drinking more of the non-alcoholic, vegan drink.

This got some of the others to come on up and do their own selections. Starfire decided to have a Forest fruit and banana smoothie, Cyborg decided to have some soda while Robin just had homemade lemonade since both weren't really in the mood for odd, exotic drinks for the time being.

Raven was about to reach out for her selected drink, however an arm had stopped her, while it had grabbed onto his shoulder. She knew it was Naruto's instantly. "Hey, Raven? Can… I talk to you?"

She heard him hesitantly ask. "Why?" She answered, turning back to look at the blonde with a frown on her face. "I've been trying to do that with you for months but you turn me down at each attempt, or you're busy with either Starfire or Cyborg… so tell me: why should I just let you talk to me now after all that?"

Her outburst caught the attention of her teammates, and Naruto winced as he'd heard all of what she'd said. He sighed, "Look, Raven, I know I've been a jackass to you lately and I have no reason for that, but if I'm going to tell you anything, then it's going to have to be done, you know... privately." He whispered the last part while his head discreetly tilted to the others behind her.

Raven glanced at those behind her and understood what he meant. "Fine, let's talk, but not here." She said, pulling up her hood, and then grabbing Naruto's hand, while ignoring as the others watched as she and Naruto had left their room via Shadow Teleportation.

Cyborg had shrugged as the two had disappeared.

"Looks like we don't have to go with my idea after all." He said.

Robin looked at Cyborg. "How did you plan on getting them alone?" He asked.

Cyborg smirked. He didn't answer the boy wonder, instead he just took a slurp of his drink while walking away with a hum in his tone. He ignored the look sent at his retreating back.

(Justice League Watchtower)

In the familiar environment of the Watchtower, the Martian Manhunter calmly stood behind the Tower's control panel, while he had quickly observed the events on the screen before him, and to say he was worried would be the best way to describe how he felt right now. He looked to his left and hand flipped one of the many switches.

"Calling all available members of the Justice League, this is J'onn J'onzz." He had said. "I've spotted something that requires all of our attention, I will be waiting in the main lobby till you all arrive." He ended the transmission shortly after that while his eyes were still viewing what was on the screen... until he suddenly heard a whooshing noise.

He knew who had arrived.

"Hello Barry, as usual, I can see you're the first to arrive."

"Of course I am J'onn, I'm the fastest man alive." Barry Allen, aka the Flash, had said, with his trademark grin. "Besides, I never really left, I've been here since we all arrived from our last time travel adventure." He added, zipping all the way to his sit. "Both Bats and Supes left to Gotham and Metropolis - of course you know how Bats is about Gotham - and I think John went back to O'oa…"

"...Which leaves Diana, Hawk woman, and the two of us then." J'onn said, as he had hummed in conclusion.

"Pretty much, yeah." Barry shrugged, before blitzing over to J'onn and looking at the monitor said Martian was looking at. "So what did you want to tell us?"

"I believe it would be best for me to reveal the information when all of us are available Barry, that way I won't have to repeat myself." Martian Manhunter had said, while switching off the monitor before he hovered over to his respective position behind the round table. "So remaining patient will be the best course of action."

"...Yeah, me and patience don't really go hand in hand, you remember the last time I tried doing that don't you? I do: it ended up with me putting a large dent in the floor with how fast and hard I was tapping my foot, and don't forget about the hole I put into the table thanks to me drumming my fingers too quickly." Flash said, as he clearly had remembered all those situations perfectly. He also remembered his issue with Super speed pacing… yeah, he and patience didn't go hand in hand...

"You're indeed correct Barry, but like I said, I will not repeat myself if you happen to miss out on what I have to say to the rest of the team." J'onn said, "But you are free to do whatever it is you want to do, however, in order to keep yourself preoccupied." He finished, before he'd watched as the Flash didn't waste a moment and ran off to who knows where.

Wonder Woman and Hawk Woman soon showed off just after Barry had left.

"Well, Barry seems to be in a hurry today." Shayera commented, walking to her sit by her position on the round table with Diana beside her. "Hello J'onn, we got your message and got here as quick as we could."

"What seems to be the problem?" Diana had asked, as she took her seat beside Shayera. "I could hear the worry in your tone."

"Indeed what I have is concerning, however I need at least Superman or Batman to be here before I can relate what I have." J'onn told Diana. "And I believe either one of them should be arriving any moment now."

He was right, as a few moments later, via teleporter, one of the two heroes had arrived, and it was Superman; the expression on his face looked to be one of concern.

"Guys, I think we have a problem." Superman said, quickly walking down from the teleporter platform and onto the round table.

J'onn looked at Superman with knowing expression clearly formed on his face.

"I believe I know just what you're about to say Superman, but Flash needs to be here first before we discuss anything." He said, and not soon after he did, the Flash had zipped into the room via Super Speed.

"So, it looks like Bats and GL aren't showing up." Flash said, zipping to his seat.

"We can start without them." Superman had said. "Batman probably already knows the problem and will inform Zatanna about it since they're both in Gotham, and I think the Guardians of the Green Lantern corps would speak with John on a similar issue."

"Understood." Martian Manhunter stated. "Then I believe it is time we discuss the main point of our meeting."

"Which is?" Hawk Woman asked.

"Time."

(Naruto and Raven)

The two had appeared in one of the empty bedrooms of the tower, via shadow travel, and after they did, Raven immediately had erupted a spell which cancelled out all sound to any third party listener who'd decide to listen in on to their private conversation. The blond had also taken some measures to ensure their privacy by activating one of the many features the tower possessed.

Taking his armour off was not as hard as it look. Each piece could actually place itself in their respective places through small thrusters embedded into them. It made it much easier to summon his armour whenever danger struck. It would have been pretty stupid to have the armour and not have it handy at all times.

After putting away he turned back to see Raven sitting stiffly on his bed. Her hood casting a shadow over the top part of her face. He could see how nervous she was. Her hands were balled into fists and were shaking ever so slightly, she was biting her quivering lip, and she seemed to be taking long and deep breath, those associated with meditation.

It was a testament of how this meant to her, and how much she feared what was about to happen; of course, Raven wasn't the only one that feared this moment.

Naruto knew he might have seemed calm on the outside, but in reality, he was just as nervous as Raven was as he looked at her realising that his was the first girl he had trusted with his secret outside his family – there were few who knew about his Kryptonian bloodline, now including the Titans, but she had been the very first he had trusted with that secret – and when she left him without so much as a goodbye it had hurt him deeply… even more so after he was bold enough to confess how he felt about her…

He could still remember the rage, the betrayal, the hatred, and how upset he felt at her at that time, and he could still remember the disappointment he felt with himself not shortly after; he was glad that he had his Obaa-chan to help him get through that, because after Raven had left, he had become quite resentful to those that wronged him in the slightest. To his memory, he had fired at least 40 of his company employees for no reason (despite not being able to technically do that).

He had been very spiteful at that time.

Luckily Tsunade had knocked some sense into him – quite literally – and had taught him to let his rage and hatred go. He had taken that lesson to heart; if he hadn't he would have destroyed half the city he lived on after what she had done to him with him.

He swallowed the lump he had no idea he held in his throat as he walked towards her.

He was only five steps away from her, but it felt like he was walking a mile just to reach her. He feared that his shaky knees would give out before he made it towards her. This might have been the first time he had actually confronted someone who he felt had wronged him. He usually just fired them, or run away from them like he had done with his ex. He knew it was cowardly, but it wasn't something he could help.

Raven meanwhile wasn't faring too well. She had almost let out an involuntary squeak the one second he sat next to her, and it had taken all of her control to not teleport out. All the courage she had showed previously when she had torn him a new one seemed suddenly to have left her.

She remained silent as he did, the atmosphere around them was one of silence, until Naruto had decided to be the one to speak up first breaking up said silence.

"So?"

"So?"

The tension in the room could be cut with a knife.

They had so much to talk about yet both of them couldn't summon up the courage needed to say something, anything; it was like they were playing a game of chicken, and neither out of the two wanted to chicken out.

"Why did you leave?"

Naruto had asked that question looking at her through the corner of his eye. He decided that all the stalling was enough, and as he spoke, there was no accusation in his voice, only curiosity, as to him, there was no reason to be angry anymore since more than a month had passed since the invasion. He had learned to let his anger go before it consumed him… something he did long ago seeing her during the invasion, and at such a bad time, all that forgotten anger just bubbled back up; now he was back to his old self.

"It was not my intention to leave. I never wanted to leave you, but I had too."

Naruto stayed quiet for a moment taking it in. He didn't know how to feel about that. He had always thought it was her that decided to leave, but finding out she might not have had a choice made him feel slightly better.

"Then what was the reason?"

Raven flinched; it was something she didn't want to divulge yet.

In the days following her mistake of telling the Monks of Azarath her budding feelings for the blond beside her, she had pondered for days whether to tell him her secret or not after he had told her his… at that time, she had face so much ostrication over being half demon; back then, she was still a naive little girl, but that girl grew up – even within the Monks there were plenty who treated her like the daughter of a whore who had slept with a demon. They weren't kind to either her or her mother, and her mother had protected her all throughout it telling her it was not her fault and she was perfect the way she was – however, even a girl like her wasn't immune to the emotional scars left by her child hood.

Raven sighed. She glanced at Naruto through the corner of her eyes. "Are you sure you want to know?" She softly asked. "Because if I tell you, you might look at me differently for the rest of your life. You might even hate me more than you already do." She hadn't told Naruto her secret despite him doing so to her on his part, she felt if she did, then he would reject her like everyone else and retract his love for her.

Raven tried her best to keep her emotions in check. She knew that was only one theory based on her fears, rationally, she knew that Naruto might be the only one to accept her for what she was, but there was still a lingering fear for being rejected… she still remembered how even the Justice League had turned their back on her once that witch, Zatanna, had revealed her bloodline; even till now, she was still reeling in shock at that. She had heard so much about the team but to have been discriminated based on who she was related to from those that claimed to be heroes…

"Let me be the judge of that."

She heard Naruto's firm reply while she'd felt her hand slip into his like he had done when were they were children; she smiled softly, realizing that she was with Naruto. She had no reason to be worried. She shouldn't have thought about him like that. Unlike most others he was one she could unconditionally trust.

She took a deep breath and began her tale.

"I am p-part demon. My mother was human, and my… father-" She spat out that last word with venom. "-is a demon name Trigon; my mother was tricked through a series of events that led her into taking part of a cult meeting, and she… she was…"

Naruto squeeze her hand, "It's okay you don't have to say it. I already have a basic idea of what you are trying to say." He said softly.

Raven nodded and smiled a bit despite on bringing up a very dark subject. She continued with her story.

"Several Monks from Azarath had come to Earth and found my mother as she attempted suicide while she was pregnant with me." She had told him. "They managed to convince her against that motion, and after that incident, then they took her to Azarath for a new life; as I was growing up under them, I learnt that their main belief is to leave all forms of attachment behind to find true strength. When their leader died, I was handed to my mother who raised me and brought me to Earth for a time; shortly after that, I met you…" She smiled at this, with Naruto smiling softly at her side.

She remembered those joyful times ever since meeting Naruto at the park and the two of them played on hours on end. She never had the chance on playing with children her own age due to being ostracized and ignored, but with Naruto it was euphoric.

"…Before meeting you I was never allowed to experience any type of emotion and I was always forced to bottle it all up. The monks left a warning that my father could find me when I showed any type of emotion but I didn't care at all when I'd realize I was forming an attachment since I didn't want to lose you at all." Her mood started turning sour at this point. "Through one action I truly regret to this day, the reason as to why I had to leave you without a proper 'goodbye' was that I had accidentally slipped of how I was reacting with me being around you… all monks had seen this and immediately they forced me to sever my ties with you or else Trigon would literally be at our doorsteps and the end would come quicker…"

"I see." Naruto had replied with gears turning in his head on who to kill first. It was a tie with the Monks who separated them and of course Trigon, who indirectly or directly kept her from living her life as she saw fit.

"…You have to believe me Naruto, I never wanted to leave you at all. I wanted to keep spending time with you; you're the main reason I could feel like a normal girl and truly be happy." Raven quietly said. "Back then, you were my best friend… my only friend… I never wanted to give you up at all, the monks forced me into doing it and had roped my mother into agreeing with them despite her knowing how much I felt about you..."

Raven felt tears well up in her eyes and tried wiping them away, but they were no use as they kept on coming through (as this was going on some of her magic was slipping away from her control as some objects in the room were broken and moved around suddenly).

Naruto noted this, and using his energy sensing – a technique he'd picked up from Raven when she'd taught him a few magic tricks when they were children (even his Telekinesis was based on magic) – he realised this was all linked to Raven, as he was able to pick up traces of her familiar energy wildly leaking everywhere due to her current state of distress.

"Heh, looks like I'm going to have to invest into some way to protect my precious babies from your magic." He joked, but in truth he knew that at this moment, it wasn't possible as most of the current metal in this house was of Vibrainum origin, (meaning rather than nullifying magic, amplify the energy in which magic is derived from).

Raven smiled and let out a small giggle. He was able to brighten her up with that sentence, even though she had known the impossibility of the implied goal, at least at the moment.

"I guess you do." Her mood dulled as she grabbed the edge of her caped cloak. "D-do you forgive me?" She had meekly asked.

"Only if you forgive me for being a hard headed idiot." He had replied, bringing her in for a tight embrace.

"Always." Raven had replied with a muffled voice, with her face snuggling into his chest.

Naruto gave a small smile on his own, while he'd felt the 'figurative' weight, which was once his chest, lifted after so long as he knew now on what happened with Raven. He didn't blame her at all, he did however blame the Monks and Raven's mother (somewhat) on forcing her to do what she didn't want to in the first place – sure it was supposed to be for good reasons but the road to Hell is always paved with good intentions; they had approached all of this in the wrong way and should've thought better on settling things – he had thought, but for now it didn't matter.

It was all in the past and they need to focus on the future.

'…A future that was now worth fighting for more than before.' He realised, with a look of what one would note to be determination look on his face -

CRACK!

POP!

SMASH!

'-…note to self, remember to replace broken items in room.'

(Meanwhile...)

In a local café that seemed to be near devoid of customers, one man, who had most of his face covered while he had been reading newspaper in his hands, sat comfortably, while a typically garbed waiter walked towards him with a tray filled up with a serving of tea.

"Here is your order sir, I hope you pleasantly enjoy your meal."

"Yes, thank you; just leave it on the table, I'll take care of the rest."

The waiter had bowed in acceptance before walking away, while the man pulled back his paper to help himself to what was offered… as he did, from his basic appearance, the man looked to be in his late fifties or sixty's, as small hints of grey hair were seen amongst his spiky (waist length) dark locks: he had a pair of dark purple eyes which shone with wisdom and something… sinister.

On his person, he currently wore a dark blue high-collared long sleeve mantle which split down at the lower half and a simple, light-brown obi with a belt wrapped around his waist along with a pair of dark blue fingerless gloves and 'toeless' sandals.

He looked to be a simple man to most people, however the very familiar pair of rings he wore on his index and ring finger on both his left and right hand showed that this man was anything but simple.

"The 'Invincible Arsenal' saves day… interesting." He murmured, reading out the headlines on the paper as his eyes roamed over to the picture of said hero easily lifting a school bus filled of nothing but cheering kids and the designated driver. Reading a bit more on the article, he had noted that the bus seemed to have been saved from tipping over a bridge due to an accident which seemed to be caused by terrible driving, and the terrible driver in question was arrested later… it was interesting and yet pointless at the same time.

Such potential, to use it for menial tasks… it displeased him to see such an opportunity wasted by the likes of the so called 'heroes' and 'villains'. He knew exactly how power was meant to be used, and he sure as hell wasn't one to callously waste it, however, he also knew that there were going to be some times when such a waste was needed to make a point and casually get things done should other means fail, he wasn't ignorant enough to dismiss that. He also wasn't one to be ignorant enough to casually dismiss that sometimes, certain power usages usually come at a deadly cost that would eventually endanger his life if nothing was done to work around it… that was his current dilemma.

His goal was to find a way around his dilemma, and he knew that in order to do that, he needed to first find someone… someone who held the key to his solution dangling in his face… a person he had managed to track to this very planet…

His eyes dangerously flashed orange.

'What a foolish man you are… Minato.'

He was as foolish and ignorant as the house that adopted him. He was more foolish to think that he could successfully hide his prised possession.

"It's a shame you had to die as you did."

He was more useful alive than dead.

It was all in the past however, and he had to look forward to the future, a future he'd planned on utilizing to its fullest with the power he had, and nothing would stop his efforts… not even those pesky Green Lantern Corps.

He was Madara Uchiha, leader of the Uchiha Clan, and soon to be the most powerful man in the universe with none second to him. He just needed to find what he was looking for, and his goal would be realised; nothing would stand in his way… not the Green Lantern, not those pesky heroes and villains, and definitely not annoyances like the Justice League or these new teenager heroes.

He will become a God.

He will reign supreme.

"Waiter, could you please send me the bill? I believe I'm done."

To Be Continued.

Authors Note: Well then, I believe that's the end of that! Now to clear up some things before you all get confused.

Titans Tower: In its design, one part of it is the Avengers Tower and the other part joint with it is an exact duplicate of the Avengers tower only in inverse, making it look somewhat like a T and a Triangle 'joined together' and where the vertical line of the T splits down from the top of the 'triangle' down to the bottom, the words 'I' 'T' 'A' 'N' 'S' are boldly presented, and the words 'O' 'W' 'E' 'R' 'S' are presented 'resting' on the Horizontal line of the 'T' (sort of like with the 'towers' resting on the horizontal line of the 'A' of the Avengers Towers). Hope this gives you all a main gist of how it looks.

As for its features however, like the Avengers Tower, the Titan's Tower is shamelessly laced Vibranium, and not only that, the Tower and the island it's built on is under an advanced cloaking field which hides both locations from normal maps, radars and so on and so forth. This way, at least the location of the Titan's base won't be as obvious as it was in the Comics and the T.V shows, and as you can see, the only way a person can enter the tower is if they're added to the Data Base and have access to their ID card which then teleports them from wherever they are into the Tower's Teleportation Platform, it doesn't work for outsiders and that way the Titans won't have to be obvious if they want to enter the Tower.

I'm literally making it into the 'Secret Base' it was supposed to be in the first place.

Naruto and Magic: Naruto is a 'Dr. Doom Type' Scientist, meaning he's not above mixing science and magic to suit his needs, and how he knew about magic in the first place? Well as stated, Raven taught him some tricks, some which he chose to explore and expand on his own after a basis of trial and error… until he got the hang of doing it, without having to chant the necessary words 'Azarath Metrion Zinthos', it's where is magic is based from since he learnt it from Raven.

Magic Type: Tactile Telekinesis, Energy Sensing.

Shout Out: I'd like to thank my friends 'Mystery Joker' and 'JeBest4781' for providing me with the necessary tools to make this chapter come out as awesome as it looked, give a shout out to them for me guys and gals!

Peace!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or DC.

PS: Madara Uchiha, Uchiha Clan and Green Lantern Corps… it could only mean one thing… try to find out!