A Hero's Destined Path

Chapter 3

Infamous

It was a dark and stormy, but one geologist didn't care as he trudged through the mud, near a power plant in Smallville. This was no ordinary geologist. He was a rock fanatic and there were a few rocks that he had never got his hands on.

This geologist was a lanky man, about 5'8", had pure black hair that was very short and bordering on bald. He had on a pair of black shoes, black pants, a black shirt, and black trench coat.

The reason this man was near a power plant and on a stormy night no less, was because he heard about the green stones, kryptonite, turn black around here because of the natural heat this place gives off. It was one of the rarest rocks he needed for his collection and study. Of course these alien rocks were bad for people because it changed them but he did not care….he just wanted the stones!

Finally, after a lightning flash, he had found what he was looking for. Black Kryptonite! As he reached down to touched it, a bolt of lightning came down on him. He raised his head in a silent scream, although, he barely registered that it was not over. The bolt of lightning arced its way outward as it reacted with the other pieces of black kryptonite before it arced off into the power plant, super charging everything.

As the plant exploded in a large flash of light, no one ever heard his blood curling scream.

XXX

"Yeah Kal. Naruto is the pull I felt." Kara said while on the phone.

"It is still strange that he came to this world around the same time you did." Superman replied.

"It may seem strange, but I don't see anything bad about it and the Kyuubi was the one who took him to this world….even if it was by accident." Kara paused for a moment. "We have become great friends along with Nora and the only thing wrong with the guy is that he is a smart ass most of the time."

"I see. But please, just be careful. And I guess if you trust him so well, I am willing to give him a chance as well." Superman said with a sigh. "So, the training. When do you want to do that? Wonder Woman is getting edgy about that."

"What? Superman can't handle the champion Amazon?" Kara asked. "Don't worry Kal, I think I will start that in the summer, but if he wants to, could you help train him as well."

"We'll see. I am starting to wonder if he-" the phone connection was cut off as the power went out.

Kara glared at the lights. "Great. Hey Lana! You have any candles?"

"Yes! Don't wory!" came said woman's voice. "Though if the power is not on soon, we'll have to go to Naruto's"

"Oh that is right." Kara snapped her fingers. "Ninja boy told me last week that he found a generator in that mansion."

"My point!" Lana said at the door way with a smile and said candle.

XXX

"Kara?" Superman asked through the phone. "The call dropped?" He asked no one in particular. He was in the watchtower of the justice league, so it was a possibility. They were in space after all.

"You don't have to worry." Flash said as he worked on the Justice League's computer. The scanner just picked up a power outage and it is raining pretty hard over there, so I am not surprised."

"Though this outage is rather odd." The Martian Manhunter made himself known by phasing through the wall.

"What do you mean J'onn?" Superman asked.

"I find it odd that all the electricity seemed to be drained from the power plant." The Martian replied.

"I am sure that whatever it is, Kara and this Naruto will be able to take care of it. This is part of her training after all." Wonder Woman said from her seat. "And yes, I overheard your conversation."

"Kind of hard not to hear her with the phone's volume set on high." commented the Flash.

"My point." The Amazon stated and then smirked. "Seems you can't handle a lot of the women on Earth." She said referring to Lois Lane.

"So ya going to do it big guy?" asked the Flash.

"So what?" The Kryptonian asked back.

"Train this Naruto kid." Flash replied. "I am sure he could use it after what he has been through."

"How a kid can stay sane through having a demon put in him by his father no less and those experiments, I will never know." The Green Lantern stated.

"I guess I am or I'll never hear the end of it, John." Superman sighed.

Wonder Woman smirked. "Seems it is not just Earth women you can't handle."

"Oh ha ha." Superman replied, turning back the computer. "I guess whatever it is; they can take care of it."

XXX

Knock Knock

Naruto opened the door to see Kara and Lana at his door. "I thought you would be coming." was his reply. He was a set of blue pajamas and his dog cap.

"What? You have the power to read minds now?" Kara shot back.

"No, but that would be useful as I pal around with two girls that expect me read their minds most of the time." He said with a yawn as he let them in. "Besides, Nora is already here."

"Oh." Kara replied as she walked in and called over her shoulder. "And just so you know Ninja Boy, most girls are like that."

"Joy." came Naruto's tired reply before he turned back to Lana. "Um, you don't have to stand there Miss Lang. Make yourself at home, Kara already has."

"That is because she is here a lot." Lana smiled as she walked with him into the house.

Once in his common room, Naruto went to play pool with Kara while Lana and Nora chatted between the two of them. "So Nora, how big a chance do you think it is that those two will be together one of these days?"

Smirking, the brunette glanced at the two blondes playing their game of pool; with Naruto occasionally give Kara grief with a smile before she shot back her own retort. "Oh it is definite. They already treat each other like best friends should, but the question is, is how long will it take them to figure it out."

"I suppose you are right." Lana replied while watching the two before she turned back to Nora. "Say, where is your mom?"

"She got the late shift tonight, so I let her know where I was via cell phone." Nora got a smirk on her face at that. "Hey Naruto! Did you get that cell phone of yours to work?"

"Heh, yeah." Naruto said and he took a contemplative look before continuing. "I might as well tell you guys this before you find out tomorrow." He paused, seeing their off put looks. "Today I tried using the computers while you two were out getting stories."

"You sure you should have been messing with something that high tech ninja boy?" Kara quipped.

"Yeah, we usually have you getting the stories while we type them up." Nora commented.

"Yeah well, I guessed I learned that the hard way." Naruto scratched the back of his head. "the first computer I used set itself on fire and when I was on the other computer for a bit, it spontaneously combusted. Now don't worry, I bought three new computers to replace the two I…broke. Heck I even got one of the tech kids to teach me how to use it and after I got well adapted, he printed out a little instruction manual for me to learn with and few shadow clones later, I am pretty good at using a computer. And yes, I did recover the old computers' memory and put it into the new computers."

He turned his head back the three women before he gained a deadpanned expression because they looked at him like he had grown a second head. They then fell on the floor laughing their asses off. "Oh come on. It is not that funny!" He said red faced.

"Yes it is!" Kara laughed.

"You made a computer spontaneously combust!" Nora gasped out.

"You have to admit that is funny." Lana giggled.

"Well, like I said before, the only tech I have really encountered back home are those short wave radios and the hospital equipment. If there were mow stuff I never got to use it."

"Right well at least you are learning and quickly too." Nora stated as she regained her breath.

"Speaking of learning quickly." Kara said as she too recovered. "What all have you learned about your powers?"

"Let's see." Naruto said as he took a thinking pose. "I have adequate control over my white fire that i get from my Tameranian side, just getting into the flaming beams of white fire that come out of my eyes for the same side, the Ki energy of my Saiyan side, Flight, and Super speed and strength."

"That is good." Kara replied. "Now we could work on the senses. Superman did tell me we do have super senses as well."

"Sweet." Naruto stated. "What should we work on today?"

Kara smirked, "How about smell? Just take in a deep breath." Lana shook her head at that. It would seem that Naruto was going to learn the hard way of why not to test this in Smallville.

The blond ninja nodded as he calmed himself a down and took in a deep breath of air. Not a second later did he realize that it was a mistake. He held his nose as he eyes watered. "ARGH!"

Kara giggled. "Oh it is so fun messing with you." She said. "I had the same reaction the other day when I tried this."

"YOU KNEW?" growled Naruto. "You knew and you let me take in all of Smallville's worth of cow, horse, and other animal crap! Good god! I feel so sorry for Kiba now."

"Uh, who was Kiba again?" Nora asked.

"He was a ninja that worked with dogs, so they had senses like dogs. I fought him in the Prelims of the Chunin Exams and I over strained myself and farted in his face. He had the same reaction I just had." Naruto said while scratching the back of his head.

Silence was his answer before the girls fell on the floor again, laughing their asses off. However, that stopped as the lights flickered violently with black electricity. They stared at it like it was the weirdest thing in the world until it shot down in a black column, knocking them back. It was the geologist from the plant….not that they knew that. There were a few changes to him though. His black hair had grown and was now slicked back. The other change was his bloody red eyes.

He looked around and then at the four in the room. "Hmm? So this place still has power? Bah! It is weak generator power!"

"Hey! Who the hell do you think you are barging in on my place?" Naruto shouted.

"Hmm?" The man replied as he took a look at the blond ninja. "Ah the new local rich boy of Smallville I have been hearing about as of late. I must say, you are an improvement to Lex Luthor. Unlike that hairless fool, you seem to be the good guy, barely spending a dime!" He paused for a moment. "Oh that is right. You wanted my name. I am Drake Bryson."

"Ok….so what do you want?" The blond said with his arms crossed.

"Oh, I was just looking for black kryptonite near a power plant and well, things got shocking! I saw that I blew out the lights of the town but this place is still kicking!" He replied with an insane smile as he looked at the girls. "You know, you three are a very hot!" He said as he made his way to them.

"Don't touch them." demanded Naruto as he got in Drake's way.

Drake sneered at the blond ninja and held up a hand. "And what are you going to do about it?" he said before he sent a bolt of black lightning at Naruto, sending him through a wall. Turning his attention back on the girls, he smirked. "Now, let me give you girls a real jolt!" however, before he could make a move, a kunai lodged itself in his shoulder. "Argh!"

"Man….now I know how Pervy Sage feels every time Granny Tsunade punches him through a wall." groaned Naruto as he made his way back to the others. Looking at the hole in the wall he said, "Great, now I am going to have to fix that." He noticed that Drake was looking at him oddly.

"I pumped enough electricity into you that you should be dead and you are worried about that damn wall!" screamed Drake.

Naruto gave him a blank stare. "Um…yeah, what of it?"

Drake's eye twitched. "You are supposed to be dead damnit!"

"Maybe you didn't hear, but I am also a ninja. I can't be beaten that easily, you should have done your homework ya ninny." Naruto teased.

"You are annoying, but I will go for now. By tomorrow, the electricity should be running again and then the real fun will begin." He then reach for the kunai and held it with an evil smirk. "But I shall leave a present." Drake charged the kunai and then threw it into Lana's shoulder, making her scream in pain for not just the sharp object in her shoulder, but also because of the electricity running through her body. As she passed out, Drake gave them the one fingered salute and discharged out of the mansion.

Naruto shot toward Lana and picked her up bridal style. "Shit….I hate these super nut jobs."

"Worry about that later Naruto." Kara replied with Nora on her back. "We gotta get her to the hospital before she dies!"

The blond ninja noticed the tears in her eyes and nodded before they zipped over to the hospital.

XXX

A pair of yellow slitted eyes opened up in annoyance. Orochimaru was annoyed because Kabuto had come back from the old hideout the Konoha ninja had infiltrated and then helped destroy. The news he had gotten was less than expected. Naruto Uzumaki had not gone to Konoha to die, but simply vanished in to thin air….along with the whole freaking room!

"Kabuto, how is it possible that this has happened?"

"I found something….odd in that spot." Four eyes replied. "It is a rift in the very fabric of time and space."

"Oh?" now this peaked the snake man's interest. "So our blond experiment has gone to another world?"

"It is logical to think that for people have come to this world before….like you said before." Kabuto replied. When he noticed Orochimaru's calculating look, he asked, "What are you thinking Lord Orochimaru?"

"A new world that knows nothing about me. Ku Ku ku!" laughed the snake man. "I know that Konoha will fall apart without me….that man named Danzo will make sure of that."

"So….you want to leave this world?"

"Yes, seal up all potential experiments and those bodies you like to use." ordered Orochimaru. "And fetch these people from the other bases along with Sasuke-kun and meet me at the rift." He handed Kabuto a piece of paper with three names and then body flickered away.

"Well….might as well go now." Kabuto mumbled.

XXX

"It has been weeks, sir." A ROOT ANBU reported to Danzo. "Sai has either failed or is trapped in the other world."

Danzo closed his eye as he thought deep about what to do next. He had a plan for his ROOT to take over the Leaf when the time was right. They did not really need him to start that mission. "Assemble the five men I have preselected if I had to leave Konoha."

"Sir?"

"Yes, I am leaving for the rift…I must confirm that Kyuubi is destroyed."

"Yes sir." The ninja said before disappearing.

XXX

Later that day, we see two groups near the rift. One was Orochimaru's and the other was Danzo's. Said cripple only had five masked ninja and the Snake man had Kabuto, Sasuke, Suigetsu, Jugo, and Karin.

"Danzo? Well, it has been awhile." Orochimaru said with a mock bow.

"Yes it has Orochimaru. Now what are you doing here?"

"Right to the point like always huh?" smirked the snake sennin. "Well, I heard this is spot that has the rift. I want to go to that new world and mess with people's minds…including that of my experiment."

"The Kyuubi vessel? Very well, I will go as well. When you are done with him, I will have him killed, which was my reason for going." Danzo replied as they all made their way into the rift. The result of their entry, made the rift discharge a lot of energy, destroying what was left of Orochimaru's old base. It was just a large crater now.

Once on the other side, they landed in a corn field. Looking around, Orochimaru ordered, "Karin and Kabuto, I want you to find and observe the experiment, you have seen him before so it should not be too hard. Report back to Sasuke when you are done. He will bring you to me in our new base." He looked at Danzo. "Will you be joining us Danzo?"

"Not at the moment , no." Danzo replied before he and his ninja disappeared.

"Sir, you do know he will kill this Naruto whether you are done observing him or not." Karin replied.

"I know that and when they try without my help, they will die. Ku Ku Ku." laughed Orochimaru.

XXX

"Ok, we need to see who the hell this ass is!" growled Naruto as the three of them made their way to the Torch room the next day.

"I agree." Kara said, glaring at nothing. The doctors said that Lana would be fine, but if they had been slower to get her to the hospital, she would have been dead before they could do anything.

"WHOA!" Nora shouted as she entered the room. "When you said new computers, you really meant new computers! These are the newest ones out!"

"Why did you do that? You didn't have to." Kara said.

"Well, I had nothing better to do with the money I have." Naruto shrugged.

"And yet you don't know any alien languages nor did you know a lot about computers until yesterday." quipped Kara.

"Oh ha ha." deadpanned Naruto. "I was never taught those languages, so sue me."

"Ok quit bickering you two." Nora suddenly said while working on a computer. They moved over to Nora, looking over her shoulders. There was a picture of the man from last night, Drake Bryson. "Ok, I thought I heard that man's name before. Drake Bryson is a rather infamous geologist. It is said that he would even kill to get what he wanted, but the problem was that no one could ever prove it was him."

"Oh great. A guy who kills for rocks." deadpanned Naruto.

"And here is the kicker. He said that each rock has a power and that he was searching for some very rare Kryptonite….Black Kryptonite."

"Looks like he found it." Kara said as she glanced Naruto, who unconsciously rubbed his chest.

"Remind me what the black stuff does again." The blond ninja asked.

Sighing, Kara said, "It splits your good and bad sides apart, but if he was the cause of power plant explosion, then his good side might be gone."

Or this person is still alive. Thought a root anbu from the shadows of the room before he disappeared.

"Great, now we have to deal with his full blown bad side." Naruto said. "But what I want to know is how this happened."

"Well, I heard there was a fair amount of Kryptonite over by the plant and the heat and random bursts of lightning from storms, turn the rocks black.

"Great, now what do we do." The blond ninja asked before they heard an explosion. "He's back."

"Don't just stand there, we need to see if anyone is hurt!" Kara exclaimed before the two blonds super sped out of the room.

"I suppose I am going there on my own." Nora sighed. However, if the black stones gave him this power, what would happen if I used blue and green on the guy?

XXX

Black electricity arced from all the street lights before shooting off into a large ball of blackness in the middle of main street. People looked at it oddly before that turned to panic as the ball exploded, sending everything flying away.

"LET ME ECTROFY YOU ALL!" Drake shouted as electricity spread from his hands and blew up a few nearby car. However, that tirade was cut short as a kunai lodged itself in his shoulder again. He looked to the thrower and growled. "Argh! You again?"

Naruto glared at him. "You have power like this, so tell me, what is your reason for all the maythem?"

"Reason?" Drake replied, "What reason should I have. You see all these super powered freaks all around, doing good and bad. I was infamous as a human because I killed a few people, big whoop! Now watch me become truly infamous as I kill an entire town with my powers!"

"Ok….so your just insane." deadpanned Naruto.

"Oh please. I have been this way for a long time and no one but a mouthy ninja caught that." Drake complained before he charged a massive amount of black lightning in his hands. "Sadly, that mouthy ninja was the first to die! Try and survive this boy!" He shouted as he sent all that energy at the blond ninja, sending him down the street and through a building.

While the people were cowering, Kabuto and Karin were smirking at this guy's power. "You think Lord Orochimaru would like to use him for an experiment?" asked Karin.

"Eventually, but let's let the experiment beat him." Kabuto replied while the odd red head nodded.

Said blond ninja was lying in a crater of a building. He groaned, even if he was invulnerable and could barely feel that, it was still annoying to be thrown away like that. Creating a shadow clone to take his place, he quickly changed into his attire that he fought in with Sai, only instead of that visor, he wore romani sunglasses. I mean, why bother wear that visor when some super powered junkie could hit you in the face and break it. These sunglasses were a smaller target.

Kara, in a red hoody that covered her face, along with a pair sunglasses for just in case, rushed right up to Drake and bashed him into a nearby building. There were murmurs all around after that, like "That's the new Blur!", "Whoa! Did you see that.", and "Is she hear to save us."

Naruto jumped down right next to her and said. "So B, how we gunna do this?"

"How they hell am I supposed to know Na-I mean White Flame." Kara replied. Miss Blur and White Flame? We so need new super hero handles.

"I'll tell you what is going to happen! YOU DIE NEXT!" Drake shouted as he rushed toward them in a black blur, sparks flying everywhere. Naruto ducked under a punch to the face before he jumped and spin kicked the guy in the face a few feet away from him.

Drake growled as he got back up. He grimaced in pain before he took out the kunai that he had forgotten was in his shoulder and smirked. He shot multiple bolts of black lightning at the blond ninja, who pulled off a matrix. Drake took advantage of Naruto's position by jumping up high, charging the kunai, and plunging the kunai into Naruto's chest.

The blond ninja screamed in pain before it smirked at Drake weakly. "Boom!" in an explosion, Drake was blown away.

Out of the soot and dirt, drake shot up coughing. "The hell was that?"

"That is simple." Naruto said, floating on his back in the air, with a smirk "An explosion."

"I know what it was, I just don't understand how that could be possible!" Drake roared.

"With the use of Chakra, the same stuff that is all humans." And luckily I still have it. were Naruto's thoughts.

"Is that what protected that boy the first time I charged lightning through his body?" Drake managed to get out.

"Duh…" droned out the Naruto clone as he emerged from the hole in the building. "Though I gotta say, that was pretty painful." He said, rubbing his chest.

"I'll show you painful! I am going to blow you away!"

"That's what she said." Both Narutos commented.

Eye twitching madly as everyone laughed, Drake yelled, "I am so going to enjoy killing you fools!"

"Aren't you forgetting something?" The blond ninja asked.

"Like what?" was his snide remark.

"Like me!" Kara shouted from behind and punched him in the jaw as he turned around, sending him in the air, although, it was a bit high.

That was when Nora arrived on the scene. She saw that Drake was gathering the natural electricity in the atmosphere and was going to send it down on the town. "No!"

"It's lights out for all of you!" Drake shouted from above with a now giant ball of pure black lightning. With a grunt, Drake heaved the ball down on the town and to help, he shot a beam of electricity with it.

Nora saw that it was headed straight for a wide eyed Kara. So, she pushed the other girl out of the way and brought out two stones from her pockets. They were both Kryptonite, but one was green while the other was blue. I hope this works. She thought as she threw up her hands with the stones.

As soon as the giant ball of lightning hit her, sparks flew from all around as the Kryptonite absorbed all of it, but with all the electricity in the air and from Drake, it was too much as it over flowed, electrifying her.

All that energy flowed right into her through the Kryptonite and eventually knocked her out in a bright light. Naruto and Kara took that opportunity to run, but not before picking up Nora. When everything was semi normal again, people saw the Naruto clone just standing there. "Um…I'll get someone to help out with this stuff." He said before he disappeared in a poof of smoke, further emphasizing his low level ninja status. They also noticed that Drake was no where to be seen.

Up on the buildings, Kabuto was the one who swiped the idiotic geologist. Karin looked at him for a moment on Kabuto's shoulder and sighed. "So this nut job was able to use all that electricity….imagine what he could do for Orochimaru."

"Yes, that is why I took him before the authorities of this world could take him." Kabuto smirked.

"Are you two ready." came Sasuke's voice as he jumped down next to him.

"Yes Sasuke-kun. Though I have to say, if this man gets his powers back, he could give you a run for you money."

"I doubt it." brooded Sasuke as the three sound ninja jumped out of sight.

XXX

"Ow ow ow!" Nora screamed as she was gently put on a bed in Naruto's mansion. "That was so not a good idea."

"Really? Who knew." replied Naruto with his arms crossed.

"Other than being totally reckless, you did good." Kara stated. "but I was really afraid that you could have died."

"I felt like I was going to die because of all the pain. Now I feel like I am on pins and needles."

"You said you were holding Kryptonite in both hands….that must of protected you from all that electricity." Naruto deduced.

"Yeah, the normal green stuff you see a lot and on the rare colors, blue." Nora replied while she brushed her hair out of her face and since her fingers were pointing away from her, she did not suffer what happened next. A bolt of yellow lightning shot out of her finger tips and blew up a lamp. "oops" She said with a dumb struck look on her face.

"Awe….you broke my lamp." Naruto whined.

"Oh cry about it later, Nora has powers!" Kara shouted with a smile.

"Heh, it is great." Naruto said. "It is like we are creating out own super club!"

"If I can control my powers, I would gladly join you two in keeping this small town safe." Nora offered.

"Glad to hear it." smiled Naruto. "I guess having lightning powers means you can keep up with us now.

"Yep!" Nora cheered with her hands in the air before she grimaced in pain. "But rest right now sounds even better."

"Hey! Anybody home?" came Lana's voice.

"Lana! Should you be out of the hospital already?" asked a concern Kara.

"Yeah, they said I'll be fine." Lana said before handing Naruto the kunai that was in her. "They said it saved me. It absorbed a lot of the black lightning, so I only got minimal shock."

"Oh ok then. Thank God for Ninja weapons!" Naruto joked. He then noticed the box in her hand. "So who is that for?"

"Oh that is right!" Lana replied before turning to Kara, completely ignoring a Naruto with fake anime tears because it was not for him. "This is a present from Superman."

Kara took the box and looked inside. Inside was a red and blue suit. She read aloud the card that came with it. "Good job so far Kara. Please accept this super suit and with it comes the name….Supergirl."

"Whoa!" Naruto said.

"Yeah, are you going to take up that mantle?" Nora asked.

"I will. Taking up the super title…I will honor it if Superman wants this." smiled Kara.

Naruto smiled to himself. He liked that smile for some reason. Shaking his head as he brushed the odd feeling of, he walked past her, lightly tapping her stomach for fun. "I sure you'll do fine. I don't think even you could mess that up."

After recovering from the odd jab, Kara lightly smiled as she punched his shoulder. "And what are you going to be? White Flame does not suit you."

Naruto smirked. "I don't plan on staying the White Flame for very long." He picked up a notebook and flipped through a few pages of it. Kara looked over his shoulder and her eyes widened.

"I see….so that is it. Interesting." Kara stated as she took the book over to Nora and Lana.

Nora smiled. "Now you are getting a fashion sense! That old black shirt and orange pants has to go! You start wearing the clothes we got you!"

"Fine…" Naruto droned.

"And while we are on the subject of costumes. I would like one made." Nora stated as she took out a picture of what she wanted.

Arching an eyebrow, he shrugged. "Sure, why not. I'll get this made for ya, although, i have to say this a very cosplayish."

Hope you all like this one. Now i just gotta finish the 4 chapter.

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