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With that in mind, the only thing left to say is that I don't own Naruto or Justice League this in only a story I can up with and hope that people like it.
The prologue was pretty short. I'll make the chapters longer but not to the point where it suddenly gets boring.
The chapter has been proofchecked by my betareade SithMaster56a, and update by myself. I hope you enjoy the updated version.
Chapter 1: Origins
-Metropolis space observatory-
In the woods, Naruto continued to follow Superman until Superman reached what looked like a hidden communications post, the young man thought that it was very high-tech, judging by the dish on top, although he couldn't understand why for all it's technology and obvious value, that it had little to no security staff.
'That is a pretty big TV antenna…' he mused, looking at the base from the ground. 'For such a big base you'd expect to have some defences, like electric fences or some patrols… why isn't there anyone around?'
His thoughts were interrupted when he spotted something on top of the building. There was Batman fighting a very large woman and two others that looked like scientist. When he got a better look, it looked like Batman was losing to his adversaries.
'Maybe he's weaker then I thought…'
"Or he is holding back or was taken by surprise…"
'Yeah, there's that too… maybe I should go there and give him a hand…' but the thought trailed off when he saw Superman beat him to it.
"I guess there goes that thought…" but the sense of relief quickly left him when he saw the supposed scientists retreating and Superman falling on the ground holding his head.
"…that was unexpected"
"BOOM!" the antenna and the whole base itself blew up but Batman managed to get Superman on his side and used his grappling hock to escape the explosion, before skidding to a stop on the ground.
'Better stay out of sight and hide in the woods, I don't know what the hell is going on yet' relieved that he didn't have to blow his cover just yet and since the two heroes were safe, his attention quickly went to the terrorists. But his face turned to shock upon seeing them disfigured in ways that clearly said DEATH on them. I mean someone had an arm through the body of another, HOW IS THAT HUMAN?
The terrorists, or 'monsters', suddenly started to reassemble themselves, a minute later they looked like they had never suffered the injuries. They then headed into the woods, while one of them made a hand sign to the heroes that anyone could figure meant 'got you'.
The heroes themselves continued to watch them leave before talking among themselves, at the end Superman seemed to give something to Batman and flew off. Said object looked like a watch and Batman quickly put it in his utility belt before he turned around and left.
'Either he's injured or he can't track very well... but I can and I have a few questions for those guys.'
Turning around Naruto quickly followed after the monster scientists as they made their escape through the woods.
After a few minutes he found them but decided to stay hidden and cut them off.
The three were walking calmly through the forest when they saw a person in front of them standing in the shadows of a tree.
"Sorry, but end of the road." Spoke the figure in a calm and controlled voice.
"Out of the way." Spoke the woman, clearly not interested.
"That ain't happening, Batman might have finished with you but I'm just getting started."
"We will answer none of your questions, you are just wasting our time…" this time it was the old man that spoke, with the same monotone, lifeless voice as the woman.
"Oh, I don't think so, you can find that I am… very persuasive." spoke Naruto the last part being a hiss hoping to intimidate them, he wasn't bothered by their lack of reaction.
"This is your last warning, leave or die." This time it was the Chinese looking one of the group that spoke, still not impressed with the figure, but getting annoyed at his refusal to leave.
"I will leave as soon as one of you tells me who are you and why you just blew that facility up…" replied the ninja, now starting to tense and prepare for battle.
"That is none of your concern and since you didn't leave yet, you have just forfeit your life…" spoke the old man again this time with a smirk on his face. The other two were putting some distance between them and preparing to attack their 'interrogator'.
"Well… I haven't had some fun in a while, and I'm not one to refuse a challenge… so let the games begin…" replied the blond with a grin on his face, getting in a taijutsu stance that he learned in his ninja days.
No sooner had he said that then the three attacked, the old man going for a right hook while the woman prepared to jump and give him an upper kick while the Chinese looking one went for a kick from the ground.
Naruto acting quickly dodged the punch that was coming at him and used his left fist to hit the old man in the stomach before bringing his right fist into his chin in an uppercut, followed by a knee to his gut and a right hook to his face.
Seeing the others coming at him, he quickly put a little distance between himself and the old man, and gave him a hard kick that flew him backwards knocking his younger male partner down with him.
However the woman was coming right at him and it was only thanks to his reflexes that he was able to dodge the attack that left a small crater where he was previously. Unfazed, the woman went on a rampage with fists flying putting the ninja in defense.
But Naruto quickly went on the offense and gave the woman a few quick punches to her face and sides before kneeing her in the face followed by a roundhouse kick that made her fall on her face.
"I guess the bigger they are harder they fall…" But his thoughts were knocked out of him when the old man got himself up and ran at Naruto and used his female partner as a ramp to plant a kick in the ninja's face knocking him a few feet back. The woman followed by somehow jumping all the way to him and punched the ninja in the gut and chest followed by a falcon punch to his face and made the ninja spin and stumble back.
"Of course they also say that they bigger they are… the harder they hit…" he continued whipping away blood from a bleeding lip. Quickly regaining his footing he saw the old man was coming at him again. Naruto managed to evade his attempts at punches and tripped him, then smashed his fist into the man's chest knocking him to the ground hard.
The woman followed by charging at the ninja like a bull to catch him but the young ninja jumped over her and planted a hard kick to her butt sending her in a tree. He was rewarded with a crunching sound and the tree breaking apart. "... and that's kicking your ass."
"Aahhhh" he quickly realized that he had forgotten about their other partner who tried to hit the blond with a few high kicks.
Although he was caught by surprise, his reflexes allowed him dodge the kicks before he managed to catch one in air and planted his own kick to the man's face sending him spinning.
"We can't waste any more time on him…" stated the woman getting on her feet but sporting a flattened head that would have made the blond laugh if this was a movie, cartoon or anime.
"Finally we agree on something… then just answer my questions and maybe I'll let you go…" he lied, after all you can't let them just walk away now that they showed traits that were beyond human possibility.
"Get to the city, I'll stay and cover you. If nothing else, at least I could delay him." Said the Chinese one he then managed to lift himself off the ground.
The other two nodded their heads and were preparing to run when Naruto spoke again:
"You really think I'm going to let you get away?" he said in a dark voice.
"I am your opponent! AAAHHHhhh" replied Chinese one who quickly ran towards him jumping and aiming to kick him.
Naruto just used his arm guards to protect himself from the kick but was pushed back a few feet.
The two other scientists used this opportunity to run through the woods at high speeds and were soon out of sight.
'Perfect… now lead me to your nest' thought the blond with a smirk.
"Why are you smiling? Do you really want to die?" asked the curious scientist
"No reason… but now we can take this fight more serious, because I really want those answers." A sly smile made itself on his face. "I've been taking it easy, but now you're going to spill everything or I'm going to spill you everywhere..."
"You're bluffing, and you can forget about your questions, you won't need them when you die." He charged at his opponent with as much speed as possible.
Naruto quickly responded to this and grabbed the man's fist with his left hand while his right quickly planted a fist hard in the man's face knocking him to the ground several feet away. Pushing himself back up the man jumped trying to give his opponent a hard kick to his head.
The shinobi just stepped aside then gave the man a few punches to the face and midsection before planting a fast roundhouse kick his head making him spin around before landing on his back. His face was disfigured by the force of the kick itself.
Walking slowly and calmly to the strange creature, the young man retrieved a kunai from his pocket and held it in front of its face.
"Sorry, I have to catch up to your friends, so I guess play time is over." Lifting the man off the ground by his collar and looking in his eyes. "Now tell me what the hell is going on."
"Even if you get your answers, you're too late to stop us... hahahahaaahaaa" answered the disfigured scientist laughing while his appearance changed gradually into some kind of organic humanoid creature with a mix of white, black and gray skin, with red eyes.
Naruto was shocked at this new change but managed to keep his cool, swallowing his fear and shock.
"Now DIE!" screamed the now transformed creature that shape-shifted its arms into bladed weapons.
Having no choice, the ninja dropped the creature after gaining a cut on his arm and was now dodging attack after attack.
Finally finding an opening, he flew a high kick to his opponent's head that pushed him against tree. Quickly pulling out two of his shuriken with ninja wire tied to them, he threw it at the creature and managed to tie him to the tree.
"Got you."
"Heh, not quite..." a smirk was on the former scientist's face, not that Naruto could tell, but his tone said it all.
With little effort the creature seemed to just let the string pass through him very slowly before he was free.
'Wow, I guess our conversation is over…' slowly pulling out a kunai from his pouch.
"It's useless… your tricks can't help you…" it said, sounding full of itself as it prepared his own arm that looked like a huge cutting knife.
"I guess I won't get any information out of you… oh well, it's time to end this…" said the ninja with a frown but was quickly replaced with hard eyes.
"Bring it on, you filthy human!"
Channeling wind chakra into his special kunai while he stared back at his opponent before they charged at the same time.
"BZSSGGG!" a cutting sound could be heard from the forest, it sounded like a sharp object cut flesh.
Naruto and the alien stood back to back for a few seconds with their weapons extended until the ninja broke the silences and released his stance and started to walk away, while the alien collapsed on the ground cut in two from its left shoulder to its right midsection.
Looking back, he caught a glimpse of the creature melting into some liquid goo. The ninja looked back at his kunai and saw no blood or bone, he bent down and started pocking on the milky substance with his kunai curiously, and checking that the creature was definitively dead.
Looking back at the tree, the young ninja proceeded to recover his shuriken and string. After which he waited for a while with his eyes closed until he finally got the information he needed from one of his clones.
-Flashback – Forrest 30 minutes ago-
"Kage Bunshin!" said the blond ninja doing his all too familiar cross sign.
Two clones suddenly appeared.
"Alright, here's the plan: I will go and confront them. They will most likely attack me. I'm sure that at some point they will try to split up. If and when that does happen I want you two to follow them and when they finally stop, one of you releases so I can follow, while the other continues to watch them for any moves they might make. Understood?"
"Hai!" both replied.
"Now hide and enjoy the show, and be ready…"
All three nodded and Naruto jumped from tree to tree in front of the scientists while his clones hid themselves in the trees, watched and waited.
"Sorry, but end of the road."
-End of Flashback-
"Time for a field trip to Metropolis" said the blond with a smirk on his face.
Feeling the fox making the connection to his mind, he jumped into the trees and leaped from tree branch to tree branch to his destination.
'That felt good… didn't it?'asked the fox, its voice filled with amusement.
'You mean fighting to the death with some weird creatures, poking my nose in someone else's business, exchanging hits and almost getting killed?' asked Naruto with a blank face and a nearly annoyed tone of voice.
'Yeah…' said the fox, its tone never changing.
'You bet your ass it did! Hehehe!' replied the blond with an evil grin and a smile on his face that said "I enjoyed every second of it".
'I can see that you're not going to give this up.'
'At first I just thought that I could ignore this because I couldn't get even a decent fight out of it, but now I've realized something…' replied the boy with a smirk on his face.
'What's that?' asked his tenant.
'I just realized that Batman and Superman are basically magnets for danger and trouble and the most of their enemies are pretty strong, if that's the case then maybe sticking with them, I'll meet even stronger opponents and... I might...' The smirk never left his face but left the rest unspoken, no reason to get his hopes up.
'I knew something would come of this, though I'm a little surprised that you would want to fight stronger opponents.' Said the fox with its smirk despite being curious.
'I live a life of a ninja, a fighter, thus I want to test my power and skill against what this world has to offer…' answered the boy with a determined smile. 'Besides do you really want to spend the rest of your life in the woods watching animals breed and trees grow?'
'…good point…' ending the conversation 'I'll go to sleep now… have fun…' said the fox as it broke the telepathic connection.
'Lazy fur ball, but it looks like I've reached my destination. Metropolis'
His search ended at a closed building named "Star Labs". Reaching the shadow clone that hung on a building. "What's the situation?"
"They took one of those 'cars' and arrived here in this building, since then I haven't really noticed any change. That was 15 minutes ago." Said the clone looking to its master.
"Understood, good work. That's all for now."
"Hai!" returned the clone releasing the jutsu.
'I can't just jump in there now, they might be expecting me, for now I will follow their movements, hide in the public and stakeout this place.'
Deciding that he should keep a close watch on them, the ninja decided that he should choose his hiding place making sure it was as close as possible to their hideout but still far enough away to be able to follow them without suspicion. Luck seemed to be on Naruto's side as he found an apartment that was directly facing their hideout and it was empty.
The reason he didn't call for Batman was that he didn't know how to contact him. Superman, let's just say that he was all over the place and couldn't be contacted without risking them escaping. But all the same he wanted to follow them himself, besides, they let them get away.
For the next few months Naruto used Henge and Kage Bunshin every day. Firstly he made a clone then used Henge to transform said clone into a woman thus giving the impression that he was married if anyone ever mentioned to ask or look at him. The clone would pretend that it was either his wife or child or grandparent and look at their apartment everyday, pretending that they were looking at something else. He didn't interact with his neighbors or the populace, it was a fragile process of adapting to the people, to the change, and attention was something he tried to avoid.
Naruto at used seals and genjutsu, he'd learnt, to trick the landlord into thinking that the apartment belonged to him (Naruto) and that he was ok to live there.
Every day Naruto would go into the city around the streets in a disguise, sometime following the suspects, other times taking odd jobs and earning money to pay his food and other necessities, while at the same time helping the city by taking down robbers and street thugs.
All went well, and he discovered that Superman had agreed with this political figure, Carter, to disable weapons of mass destruction to obtain lasting peace and agreed to watch over Earth. "What a stupid idea, what happens when you have to be in two or more places at the time?"
'He's too confident in his ability. No one can protect the whole planet all the time.'
Then he saw the report with a new superhero that sort of got his interest on how carefree he was, that was the Flash.
"…I'm the fastest man alive and even I can't be in 5 places at once…" he heard the Flash say on TV.
'He's got a point.'
-6 months later-
It looked like it could be a very boring night again.
'Seriously how long do I have to wait? If something doesn't happen soon, someone's going to die...' he thought looking frustrated.
His hopes were quickly restored when he saw a person on the roof. Focusing his eyes, Naruto clearly saw Batman.
"Guess they heard me. Showtime…!" was his response, with a smile.
Quickly returning his gear to its place and strapping his armor and weapons on, he leaped out the window and headed towards the not-so-abandoned-anymore building.
Meanwhile Batman was sneaking in the plant when he noticed two of the three scientists that he had confronted 6 months back; they were talking in a strange language before they left the building after one last glance.
Opportunity in place, he decided to look around.
While looking in the office that the two had left, he found three cocoons with people inside, who looked awfully similar to the ones that had just left.
Taking one of his batarangs, he sliced one of the cocoons open only to have the man inside fall on his shoulder. Putting the man down, he checked his pulse, and determined that he was alive.
"Grrrrr" the growl of a dog suddenly broke the silence.
Turning around, Batman found himself charged by the dog, fangs bared, ready to rip him to ribbons.
This is the sight which Naruto found but being on the roof there was no way to reach Batman in time. Seeing the hero jump on the top of one of the walls brought some form of relief to the young ninja, but that was quickly lost when he saw the dog slowly climb its way up, each step it was using its claws to grip the surface. But that was not all, the dog started to transform into some form of beast.
'It looks like the one I fought in the woods that night.'
His chain of thoughts was suddenly interrupted when he saw Batman being pushed through a window before hitting a shelf causing it to fall on him.
Noticing the creature getting closer to the hero, Naruto jumped down between Batman and the beast.
"Sorry dogie, but I'm afraid I have to put you to sleep." Said Naruto with a smirk under his mask.
Said dog merely jumped on him trying to take a bite out of him. The key word is "tried" because it soon found itself hit in the side of the head by a hard kick that sent it flying into a metal shelf.
After regaining its senses the dog monster attacked again only for Naruto to dodge and stick his kunai deep in its head killing it instantly. "Play dead... "
The dog just melted into the same form of liquid, covering the floor.
"Good boy..."
Turning around quickly he lifted the shelf off Batman and checked his pulse. Then relieved when he saw that the dark knight was just bruised and unconscious.
"(Sigh) Great, now what do I do with him. I can't take him to the hospital; they might try to take his mask off and will reveal his identity. I could take him to my place but then what do I say when he wakes up?" But his worries were stopped when he noticed the watch on the floor.
"Hey, this is the watch that Superman gave him. Maybe, if I can activate it, he'll come and know what to do." He spoke out loud.
Looking over the object for a few seconds before pressing the button on it, the watch suddenly started to beep.
'Oh oh, I better hide or he might think that I knocked him out.'
He quickly hid himself on the floor above in the darkness and waited for the hero.
It didn't take long and Superman was already at the door making his way to Batman.
"Oh no, Batman…"
But both Superman and Naruto were interrupted when a light suddenly filled the room. The light itself was from a meteor that suddenly hit Metropolis Park, skidding to a halt it came to rest in the middle of a busy street, making a crater while stopping.
Superman took to the skies with Batman in his hands while Naruto jumped from building to building and stopped on one seeing that emergency teams were already present.
What followed shocked everyone. From the meteor three legs came out and an organic looking six floor walker suddenly erupted.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Was the ninja's only response.
The creature or robot suddenly started to attack, with a laser like cannon, destroying a few police cars easily.
Superman attacked, heading directly at its main cannon when it suddenly fired hitting him with a lot of force and pushing him through a building and into the street.
"Damn it!" said Naruto as he watched the police's efforts to destroy it with standard weapons.
The creature turned its attention to the armed police.
He decided that now was the time to intervene, jumping down between the walker and the people.
"GET OUT OF HERE! Your weapons aren't doing any damage. GO!"
The police quickly agreed after seeing that it was no use, which was well placed, because the creature started to advance and proceeded to destroy the remaining cars. Naruto, himself, jumping to the side, at the same time seeing Batman use his grappling hock to reach his jet.
Missiles were fired from the jet but to no avail. But they did manage to get its attention. Superman used the distraction knocking it down before he tried to ripe it apart but the walker shot him again sending him through the wall again though the wall unlike Superman couldn't take as much damage and collapsed burring the hero in rubble.
Naruto, looking back at the damage before noticing that the wall was slowly being lifted up, followed by Superman holding his head as though in pain. After a few seconds of blanking out, he started to fly away from the battle.
"Where's he going?" asked Naruto. Seeing the bat jet above himself, followed by other aircraft, he took out a special three pointed kunai and threw it at the tail of the bat jet just luckily hitting it. 'Wherever Superman went, I'm sure Batman will follow.'
True to his word Batman, having dismissed the contact of the kunai hitting his jet as debris from the buildings, went after Superman at full speed.
'Great, now all I have to do is wait until it lands… might as well try to hold them off.'
"Come on!" Naruto shouted as he jumped off the building already charging a Rasengan as he fell.
Pushing more chakra through him increasing his speed and aiming at its feet he managed to push the ball of energy into its foot however he didn't manage to blow its foot off. Yet it still managed to stay on its three feet.
"If you liked it once, you'll like it a second time." Charging a second Rasengan, he hit the leg instead of the foot, breaking it and managing to bring it down.
But looking at the other two that had come out of the meteor, he thought about his next course of action.
'Damn it, now they know I'll come after them, and they will kill a lot of people if I spend so much time fighting them. I also don't know anything about them. It would be best to perform 'population control' for now.' He thought as he moved off.
Soon the city was filled with at least 300 Naruto clones all bringing people to safety, effectively saving a lot of lives.
2 Hours later
'At last they stopped.' sighed the ninja looking back at all the people that he had gathered away from the 'war' zone which consisted mostly of families. They were shaking and worried.
"Alright everyone stay here. I have to go!" he said loud enough for the others to hear.
The people just nodded, being grateful and at the same time sad because this new hero had to leave. Until one little boy stepped in front expressing the others' thoughts.
"Will you come back sir?" He asked with a worried look. The ninja had pulled the boy and his family out of a car that had crashed from almost being hit by the creature's cannon.
Naruto just looked at him and put a hand on the boy's head. "Don't worry kid, I promise that I'll be back and that we'll stop these things. And I don't go back on my word..." smiling under his mask and closing his eyes as he reassured the boy and people that he would return.
The boy smiled back and jumped forward hugging the hero's leg, this brought a smile to everyone's faces and erased most of their fear.
Turning around, he made a series of hand seals before he disappeared in a flash of yellow shocking the people.
-Somewhere in a mountains, at a hidden military base-
A flash of light illuminated the surroundings before Naruto found himself in a nearly destroyed military base.
Looking at the bat jet he concluded: 'They are definitely here, but why?'
His answer wasn't what he expected as over a dozen soldiers appeared with strange weapons following a trail of destruction.
'Best choice is to hide for now' and so he did, leaping up the mountain and hiding in the darkness.
Shortly after Superman, Batman and a green skinned person appeared.
After watching Superman's fruitless attempts to reason with the soldier. He watched in shock as the said soldier transformed into another of those aliens.
"I guess it's time to make my presence known." He said with a smirk as he watched the aliens approach the heroes.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I tried to make Naruto part of the episode without making him appear godlike. I hope you enjoyed it and please leave reviews.