I know that it wasn't long since I posted the last chapter, but I gotta post this. Just so somethings can be cleared up.
Ch2 (Cats, Dogs and Bullets)
"Tomorrow give him his clothes and send him on his way" said Bruce sitting at the Bat computer with his mask off.
"Sir, I don't think that was the right way to have handled that situation" said Alfred stopping behind Bruce's seat.
"I'm not trying to make friends Alfred. He's an anomaly something we cannot understand fully" the vigilantly of the night hit some more keys which brought up police scanners and reports.
"Master Bruce" the tone Alfred used was one he used when he was extremely serious "I don't think you should let this young man go out into Gotham with little to no knowledge of both his surroundings and the language"
"I'll give him some money and a book to learn English, he'll be fine" the main reason he wanted the boy gone was because he reminded the man of how he was before his parents were shot.
"No sir" Alfred walked closer and turned the computer off with a press of a button "he has potential. I can see it"
"And what make you say that?" asked Bruce not turning his chair around and watching Alfred in the black monitor with his hands clasped in front of his face.
"Because he reminds me of another young boy who used to run these halls. In fact he reminds me of each of them" Bruce frowned deeper, it was obvious Alfred was talking about him and the previous Robins that roamed the halls.
"So what? It isn't like you approved of me taking on apprentices" true, the butler had always voiced his dislike of how Bruce had brought many young boys into the superhero business.
"I know what I have said in the past and I stand by it by some degree, but I have seen what you have done for each person who filled the role of Robin. All of them have become enforcers of good and have become stronger with your help" Alfred turned around to look at the room where Naruto was located "All I'm saying is I'd much rather see Naruto as an enforcer of good than one of evil"
"…" Bruce didn't say anything and also stared at the room where Naruto was located.
"Also, I see the emptiness of loneliness in his eyes when I look into his eyes. I know you see it too" the man in the chair couldn't deny that, so he wouldn't voice his opinion "Not only that, but he was also able to see read you just by looking you in the eye" that got Bruce's attention.
"Why are you hell bent on me taking him in?" he asked turning in his chair to look at Alfred, who kept watch of the medical room.
"As I said, I'd rather he end up as a hero than a villain. This world has more than enough super villains and not many are stepping up to the hero plate" the old man walked towards the elevator "Think on that before you toss him out" and he left the caped crusader to his thoughts.
"Get up" Naruto stirred slightly before opening his eyes to the sight of a black haired man, who was giving him a familiar glare.
"Batto... Hito? (Bat…person?)" Naruto asked in confusion as he sat up "Anata no fuku wa dokodesu ka? (Where's your outfit?)"
"Sore wa burūsudashi, watashitachiha kunren o ukete (It's Bruce and get up we got training to do)" the man walked towards the exit.
"Nani?(What?)" was Naruto's answer to that, blinking like an owl.
"Kokode wa torihiki ga arimasu. Anata ga watashinojikan no kachi ga aru koto o shōmei suru to, watashi wa anata ga kakugo suru chikara ni naru yō ni kunren shimasu. Anata ga nani mo shite inai koto o watashi ni oshietekudasai. Sonotoki, watashi wa anata o mekakushi shite keisatsu ni o makase shimasu. (Here's the deal. Prove that you're worth my time and I'll train you to become a force to be reckoned with. Show me that you're nothing but a waste of said time then I'll blindfold you and leave you at the police department, then you're their problem)" the man walked out the room and left a confused Naruto in his wake, who proceeded to get dressed ad follow him.
'What the hell is going on?' the boy thought to himself.
(2 ½ years later)
"Gah!" Naruto covered his eyes with his hands as sunlight shone onto his face "Turn off the sun!" he shouted in fluent English.
"It's time to get up Master Naruto" said Alfred tying the curtains up to keep them from falling close again.
"How many times have I told you to stop calling me that?" a 14 year old Naruto groaned as he sat up. He had grown out of his short stature and now was the right size for someone his age. He had also put on some serious muscles, not as big as Bruce's but good for his age.
All that was thanks to the training regime of Bruce and the healthy diet Alfred had forced on him, which had cut his ramen intake by more than half (which was once a day and two at the end of each month).
"Counting now? About a hundred and ninety eight" said Alfred walking towards the door.
"I don't know which is more insane, the fact that you remember how many times I said the same thing or the fact that I keep saying it hoping for a difference" Naruto stood up and stretched his arms "speaking of insane, where's Bruce?"
"Master Bruce had to leave early to deal with something over at Wayne Enterprisers" answered Alfred opening the door.
"Am I gonna have an awkward conversation this morning with one of his hook ups?" every time Naruto had been seen by women that Bruce had slept with the night before said man had to pay them off to keep quiet. Luckily the mansion was so big that it was rare to run into these women at all.
"Not to my knowledge" said Alfred walking out of the door "and your breakfast is at the table"
"Morning Tim" said our blonde hero as he sipped his coffee and walking into the Bat Cave.
Tim Drake was typing on the Bat computer busy with some kind of decoding program. The man with a shaved head glanced over his shoulder well he continued typing.
"Morning sleepy head" was Tim's reply turning back to the computer in front of him "Your back still sore from your beat down by Bruce?"
"Nah. You should know that my healing factor is next to awesome…maybe leaning more towards being awesome, since it's me after all" that made the current Robin laugh.
"What are you busy with?" Naruto asked as he walked up to the back of the chair and watched all the numbers being typed and decoded.
"A jewellery store (a relatively new one) was hit the other night and one of the guards didn't even remember what happened that night. From what I heard, he went in, sat down and then there was just a blank part in his memories" said Tim "so I'm hacking into the security cameras and every kind of security system the place had"
"So what do you think? Mad Hatter?" asked the blond boy placing his empty cup on the desk.
"The crime was to perfect, no finger prints, and no proof of forced entrance" Tim explained opening up a window that displayed a camera "It's almost like no one was there. Like a ghost robbed the place"
"Catwoman?" now the blond was interested. Tim shook his head and pressed some more buttons to show more cameras.
"Unless the two teamed up" Naruto saw the security guard walking down the hall as if in a daze "he says that he doesn't remember even opening the safe, which only he and the owner can do. The safe has a thumb and eye scanner"
"Wait, rewind the video" said the blond leaning on the desk. Tim did as told and rewound the video to 5 minutes before the man appeared "Ok now press play and pause it when I tell you too"
The Robin played the video and when he got to 2 minutes and 45 seconds Naruto told him to stop.
"There" the blond said pointing at the corner of the camera "zoom in" Tim did as told, also seeing what Naruto saw. After the camera zoomed in they were treated to black blur making its way across the hall. They could only see it by the reflection in the window.
"Can you enhance it?" he asked making Tim nod his head and type on the keyboard. After enhancing the video a few times they were treated to the sight of a person dressed in black running across the screen.
"Is that Catwoman?" was the question Tim asked squinting at the screen. It definitely looked like the cat burglar but something was off.
"No. Catwoman's taller than that and if you look closer you can see a trace of blond hair poking out of the…wait a moment…I know her" Naruto leaned closer to the screen "is that…INO?!" he stepped back in shock.
"Who's Ino?" Tim turned around in his chair as Alfred exited the elevator of the cave "is she someone from your world?"
"Oh yeah" said Naruto getting over his shock that there was someone else from the Shinobi Nations in this world "and I have an idea about how she was able to pull this off" the blond boy frowned.
"Well it seems that she has allied herself with Miss Kyle" said Alfred, picking up the empty mug and putting it on a tray that held another mug, which he gave to Tim "and if I were to guess she has some kind of mind controlling ability?"
"Big time" said Naruto, he scratched his chin in thought "although, from what I heard the clan that Ino comes from maybe prominent at mind Justus but there's a down side to it" the blond pointed at the screen which showed a dazed guard and a sprinting Ino "when Yamanaka's use this Justu their bodies are left like an empty vessel"
"Come again. Did you just say that she should be soulless at the moment?" asked a freaked out Tim Drake.
"Basically" was Naruto's reply with a shrug "You see Yamanaka's have the ability to take over other peoples bodies by forcing their spirits into their target's body"
"Creepy" the guy in the seat shivered.
"Which explain how Miss Yamanaka was able to get into the safe without breaking into it" said Alfred.
"I need to go somewhere" said the blond heading to the garage where all the vehicles were parked.
Naruto pulled up to a tower that was shaped in a huge T. He gazed up at it behind the visor of his helmet with a frown on his sound of a blow torch hitting steel made its way to his ears. Making his way to the garage well pushing the bike, the blond was treated to the sight of a pair of legs poking out from underneath a car.
"Oi" the blond said tapping a boot covered foot with one of his own, which made a clanging sound. The sound of the blowtorch died down till it was gone. The person rolled out from underneath the car.
The first thing that caught his eye was the pink hair and goggles over the person's eyes. The next thing that he noticed was the red sleeveless top, which had a few grease stains on it. Around her waist was a utility belt with a pair of baggy denim pants.
"Morning Sakura" the blond grinned at her "you're very busy at this God forsaken hour" the pinkette smirked back well removing her goggles. Her mismatched eyes, which were both green back in their old world, held a look of playfulness.
"Why are you wake at this God forsaken hour anyway" she looked at her wrist watch "even though it's bloody 1oclock in the afternoon"
"If we're talking about people sleeping in, may I direct your attention to the bitch upstairs?" both looked towards the door, which was thrown open by a fuming brown haired girl.
"Who you calling a bitch dobe!" shouted Kihana with a bigger Akamaru barking his agreement to his mistress's anger.
The Inuzuka heiress had on a black leather sports bra which should how MUCH she had grown in the years gone by. She had on a leather pair of pants that hugged her hips and finally to top off her outfit she wore a pair of combat boots.
"I call 'em like I see 'em" was Naruto's answer. He had to dodge a bull rush from the brown haired girl.
Kihana landed on her hands and feet, her sharp nails digging into the ground and leaving scratch marks in her wake. She growled at the blond boy, who dusted off his leather jacket as if she left dirt on him.
Pouncing again, the Inuzuka heiress tried to tackle Naruto and finally show him who was better, but she saw the blond duck low at the last second. With her momentum, the canine featured girl would have slammed head first into the wall but felt someone grab her around the waist.
Naruto used the same momentum Kihana had to flip them both over, by placing his one hand on the floor and gently placing her on the floor. This meant that Naruto had to take the brunt of the force on his knees and hands when he landed.
Kihana opened her eyes and blushed crimson. Not only was Naruto on top of her, but his face was invading her personal space. The blush was intensified, by her anger when she laid eyes on that infuriating smirk of the boy on top of her.
"That's what? 20 to 1?" Naruto smirked wider at Kihana's anger filled glare.
"Get off me!" she shouted about to bring her knee up to get the boy where it hurt, but Naruto jumped away at the last second.
"As always, it's good to see you Kihana-chan, but I need to talk to Sakura about a few things" Kihana grumbled about 'annoying blondes' and walked over to Akamaru.
After mounting the white furred dog the two were off into Jump City.
Sakura sat in the kitchen in the T tower with Naruto sitting across from her. A silence had fallen over the two, it wasn't an awkward or a comfortable one, it was somewhere inbetween.
"Sakura…" the pinkette hummed a reply that showed she was listening to the boy "I want you to be honest with me"
"About what exactly?" she asked.
"Have you been in contact with Ino?" the genuine confusion in Sakura's green eye told Naruto all he needed to know, but he didn't say anything about the other emotions behind that one.
"Ino's here?!" she almost shouted well Naruto sipped on his cola "Where is she?"
"I was hoping you could shed some light on that regard actually" the tone in which he spoke and the look he gave her suggested that he was implying she already knew about Ino's appearance in Gotham, before he brought it up with her
"How could I know? This is the first time I even heard about Ino's presence here!" Sakura slammed her hands on the table, her metal arm cracking the table top "what are you implying?!"
"Nothing…yet" the blond finished his drink and got up from the table "just know, I'm always watching"
"Did you hack our camera system again?!" Sakura shouted after a retreating Naruto.
"Maaaaaybe" he sung walking through the door "Oh! And you might wanna get a matching tattoo on your other breast, ya know, to make it even"
"PERVERT!" Sakura shouted hitting the table with her fists again, this time breaking it in half.
"I still don't like that insignia…or the colour" said Bruce glaring at Naruto's costume.
The boy's costume was a top like everybody in the Bat family, it was bullet proof and moulded so it won't hang loosely, pants that were slightly different (in which it was more casual) and a utility belt around his waist. His foot wear was a pair of combat boots.
The insignia that Bruce was talking about was the spiral fox on the chest. The other thing Bruce had a problem with was the orange colour of the fox.
"And I keep telling you, it doesn't bother me" said Naruto grabbing his cloak and half face mask. With the hood on, the blond was actually very terrifying…for a teenager.
"I'm more concerned if he should be going out on his own" said Oracle, or Barbra Gordon. The girl rolled her wheelchair over to Naruto and fixed his hood, much to the blonde's embarrassment "shouldn't Tim at least go with him?"
"Barb" Tim said with a sigh "he's a big boy now and, might add, he informed us of his previous adventures and they seemed more dangerous" the current Robin patted her shoulder "besides he knows who this person is and if push comes to shove, Bruce and I are on standby"
"Yeah Barb" Naruto grabbed her hands "I'll be fine. Stop being such a worry wart" the orange haired girl gave him a worried frown, but his disarming grin set her mind slightly at ease.
"Alright" Barbra sighed in defeat "but, the minute things go south call us, please, we don't need another Bruce"
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Bruce's gruff Batman voice made the former Batgirl start to sweat in fear.
"Aaaaand that's my cue to leave" said Naruto walking over to his bike.
"From my assumptions, Ino will hit the next jewellery store a couple blocks over" Naruto listened to Oracle through his ear piece. Turning a corner with decked out Power Cruiser the blond swerved to avoid cars.
"Knowing that girl, she's probably making it obvious…either that or she's just very bad at this" said Naruto dodging slow moving cars "If my training has taught me anything, it's that anybody can become great with a little help"
"And a good ass kicking" chimed Tim, which got him a shoulder punch from Barbra "well he gave as good as he got"
"Shut up Tim" Naruto chuckled at Barbra scolding the boy's friend.
"All of you, stop fooling around" Batman's stern voice cut into their talk bringing a resounding silence "and Naruto focus on the task at hand. If you so much as hesitate the enemy will take full advantage of that moment"
"Alright mister grouchy" mumbled Naruto which got him a clearing of the throat from Batman.
"Come again?" was the reply that almost made the boy miss the place he was supposed to be at.
"I'm here, gotta go!" Naruto quickly turned off his communicator by pressing his ear set.
'If I was a former ninja now turned criminal jewel thief…where would I enter?' the boy thought staring at the jewellery store, looking for anything out of the ordinary.
'Wait…is that Kihana?' Naruto blinked in shock, at seeing the wild girl trying to pry open a window…she was failing horribly.
'Great' the boy thought to himself 'complications' with that he vanished into the shadow the moon and building behind him created.
"Why won't this stupid thing open!" grunted Kihana. Akamaru sweat dropped at his mistress's actions and wished the girl would use her head for once. Why couldn't she be like Naruto? At least he had become smarting during his stay here. Speaking of him…
"Need some help?" Kihana would have screamed in shock, but she felt someone place their hand over her mouth. She wanted to shout at the person who came into her vision but the person's scent made her pause.
"Mauwto" she said behind the hand. Those eyes, which she remembered being blue, were now staring at her. The redness in the darkness, with the slit down the middle of it, made her shiver. It gave off a feeling of…power.
"What are you doing here?" Naruto said in a voice that sounded NOTHING like his normal voice it was deep and intimidating "of and it's Fox"
Kihana would have moved the hand, but she was captivated by the sight before her. When did Naruto become so much like an alpha?!
"Oi" the blond boy took his hand off her mouth and placed it next to Kihana's head, which woke her from her daze "I asked you a question"
"Wh-What's it to y-you?" Kihana stuttered out. She cleared her throat and tried again "What's it to you?" she asked again in a more agitated tone, which wasn't as intimidating as she thought with her crimson blush on her face.
"I'd say it's everything, since this is my turf" the blond stepped back and crossed his arms. Kihana frowned at that and stomped her foot.
"You can't own a damn city baka!" the girl whisper yelled at the caped crusader.
"True, I can't…" Kihana would have said/bragged how she was right, but Naruto beat her to the punch "but my mentor is this city's protector, so it's mine as well, by default"
"Y-You c-can't-" Kihana tried to deny that logic but she was interrupted, again, by someone above them.
"Actually" the two lookes up to see the person both of them were looking for sitting on one of the window ledges "he can. It's a unwritten rule" Ino shrugged her shoulders.
"I-HMMM!" Kihana's eyes widened when Naruto put hisbhand over her mouth, again.
"For a cat burglar, you leave a lot of evidence behind ya know" said Fox gazing up at the blonde thief.
"Maybe I wnated to be caught. Ever think of that smarty pants?" Ino dropped from the ledge and landed in front of the two. The girl looked Kihana up and down with a smirk "My my, just look how you've grown Kihana"
"Hmuck hmu (Fuck you)" Kihana growled behind Naruto's hand. Akamaru growled at Ino and would have lunged at her, but the girl pulled out a chew toy and threw it at the big dog.
"Twaiter! (Traitor!)" Kihana shouted as she watched her partner chew on a toy from the enemy.
"Enough of this crap" Fox said in a stern voice "why have you been robbing jewelry stores?" he didn't let Kihana go. The girl could have sworn she felt him pull her closer, an action that made the Inuzuka heiress blush.
"Maybe I'm looking for the Bat" Ino looked the boy up and down "but you will do. What's your name anyway?"
"Fox" was Fox's answer narrowing his eyes "I'll know if your lying and you don't want to do that" that made Ino give him a flirtious/playful smirk.
"Oooh! The dark bad boy act" the girl walked past Fox and ran a finger over his shoulder. Something that made Kihana growl louder "I like it. I would have preferred the Bat" the girl got behind Fox and wrapped her arms around his neck "but you seem more my type. You know, strong, gives off a bad boy vibe and, not to mention you're more around my age" the girl would have taken off his hood but Fox reached up and caught her hand.
"Don't"was his stern warning. Which made Ino laugh.
"Oh yes. You're making me weak at the knees" she whispered into his ear. Fox would have retorted but a red dot on the side of Ino's head caught his attention.
Springing into action the new caped crusader grabbed Ino and backed all three up into the shadow that the wall, they were now pressed up against,
casted over the alleyway.
"Well...this place is dangerous" said Ino grinning at the situation they were in at the moment "I like it"
"You missed" the sniper growled at the voice in her ear piece. She was a red head, with a black beret on top of her head. Her outfit was a medieval cowl around her neck, black baggy pants with many pockets which was held up by a utility belt, on the belt were two holstered handguns and a red leather crop top. On her right eye was a steampunk styled scanner and fingerless gloves.
The red head pulled a lever on her sniper making the empty shell vacate the weapon. She took aim again and narrowed her eyes.
"Shut the fuck up" Tayuya hissed into the earpiece "maybe if you stopped giving me orders I wouldn't have missed" she scanned for any sign of the three.
"If you fail this mission you're gonna be training non-stop for 5 days, only stopping sleep" Deadshot said making a tick mark appear on Tayuya's head.
"I said shut the fuck up!" the girl pressed a button on the earpiece and turned it off "I've got more than one way to skin cat" she gave a evil chuckle.
So Tayuya is being trained under Deadshot, Ino's been taken under Catwoman's wing, Sakura's a half cyborg and Kihana was trained by someone, but was it Beast Boy or Raven?
Find out in the next chapter: Cats, Dogs and Bullets
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