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Introduction

I was sitting in front of a computer monitor. After the murder of Joe Simons, the old man had started looking for traces of the organization for which he worked. He didn't find much. Joe had a Bank account from which he withdrew money. After Kurama cracked it, we were able to find that deposits were being made from an account owned by a laboratory. The laboratory was called Cadmus.

The Justice League was already involved. Cadmus was suspected of creating some new, dangerous creatures. Because of the League I couldn't get into it. Batman had the place under surveillance. But the old man had a plan. He wants to introduce me to the newest team of the justice League for covert operations. Kurama had noticed it while routinely looking through the cameras in Cadmus, but he didn't say how I'll do it. So now I'm waiting for him to figure something out.

"Kurama did you find any information on these new members in the League" I asked.

"Yes, something, " Kurama replied, "they had a run-in with Bain and I was able to get photos."

On the screen the photographs appeared, Kid Flash, Robin, Aqualad and two unknowns.

"Kurama, who are these two with the letter S on their chest and a green girl?" I asked.

"The one with the letter S on his chest is a clone of Superman. He was created in Cadmus. And the girl, I don't know. There is no information on her. I'm trying to hack into the League, but their security is good, this will take time," said Kurama.

The old man entered the room as I watched the videos. When I saw him I could tell by the look in his eyes something was up.

"Get your things, you are leaving," said Marcus.

I looked surprised at Marcus and asked, "Where am I going?"

"The Stars City. You have to find Wild Cat and get him to train you." replied Marcus

"Why, you are my teacher?" I asked blankly.

Marcus sighed. I know sometimes he thought I acted like a fool, even though he knew I was good and smart.

"Wild Cat taught Black Canary. Through him, you will be able to meet her and then sneak into the team."

"And how am I going to be gone?" I asked.

"A month, maybe longer," said Marcus. "Don't worry about school, I agree and you need to go. The police and Batman are investigating Joe's murder. They can get to you."

I saw the logic in Marcus' words. I had to leave.

"When?" I asked.

"In three days. You can say goodbye to that girl," said Marcus, "I know you like her." He smiled.

Barbara. What was I going to I tell her? And Jim. But first I needed to go somewhere.

"Well, I have to go. There is much to do before I leave," I told him and departed.

After leaving the café, I went into a flower shop. Having bought two bouquets, I took a taxi and went to the place in which I had only been one other time in my life; the cemetery of Gotham. After the death of my parents, I didn't visit their graves. But now, after I avenged their murders, I could come back. After paying the taxi driver, I got out of the car. I don't know how long I walked before the two graves were in front of me.

"Minato Namikaze; good cop and husband."

"Kushina Namikaze; loving wife and mother."

I remembered my parents, but sometimes only bits and pieces; their voices, laughter, sometimes smiles. Slowly, but surely, I was forgetting them and it scared me. I don't want to forget them. Putting two bouquets on their graves, I decided to talk to them.

"Hi, Mom and Dad," I said. "I haven't been here since the day of the funeral. I didn't want to remember how you died. Well, let me tell you what happened to me since then."

Words poured out as I broke down; even though I knew they were dead and could not hear it. I couldn't stop myself from telling them everything, the feelings and my plans even though I knew if they were alive they wouldn't approve of a lot of it. But I had chosen this path.

"I love you and I always will, but it's time to let you go. This chapter of my life is over. Goodbye. I will not come here again." I said and turned my back to the graves. To my surprise, Barbara was there.

"Hi, Barbara," I said, "How are you?"

"Well. Didn't expect to see you here," she said.

I grinned, "Me either. We need to talk. I wanted to get together with you and Jim tomorrow, but since you're here…"

"About what?" asked Barbara.

"I'm leaving Gotham, and I don't know when I'll be back."

She looked at me in shock, "You are Leaving? But where and why?"

"I need to find my way, far away from Gotham."

She didn't know what to say. Her eyes were full of tears. I leaned closer and wiped them away gently, with the pads of my thumbs. I looked into her green eyes. Leaning in more, I kissed her on the lips and to my joy, she responded. But the kiss didn't last long. Backing from her slowly, regretfully, I turned away.

"Goodbye, Barbara. Take care of yourself. Tell Jim that I went out of town." I said after a long moment's pause as I thought of all that could have been.

Three days passed quickly and I sat in the train watching Gotham slowly disappear. I looked at my new hidden blade; it was a gift from the old man before leaving. The hook-blade used to belong to one of the assassins in Constantinople. Used both for combat and parkour. Unfortunately, I couldn't use guns because heroes do not particularly like firearms. Wild Cat was my contact. Many of the current heroes trained at his place for their workouts or were just familiar with it.

His real name was Theodore Grant, a former boxer, who even now continues his heroic career. To hunt him down in the big city would be hard.

Marcus found me an apartment and equipped it for my needs. Luckily, the brotherhood wasn't short on money. Before leaving, Marcus told me the creed of the brotherhood, but its meaning, I have not yet understood. "Nothing is true everything is permitted." When I asked what it meant, he said that I should understand. Maybe in the future, I will.

After I arrived, my heroic career began. Hiding behind a mask and performing astounding feats in order to draw attention from my new mentor to be. A week later, I was able to find Wild Cat.

I stood on the roof and watched as Wild Cat dealt with criminals. For an old man, he was very good. The criminals never had a chance. Although one had a gun and Wild Cat probably never saw him coming. I had to intervene. I took running jump off the roof straight at the guy with the gun. Since I couldn't kill him, I did not use my secret assassination techniques. I just landed on top of him to give him quite a few injuries. He immediately lost consciousness. Together we quickly took care of the others.

"Ha, you saved my ass buddy. You can call me Wild Cat," he said holding out his hand.

"A Ghost. Very pleased to meet you," I introduced myself.

"You're new in this business. If you want, I can teach a few tricks," he said.

But it was too easy. I thought becoming his disciple would take more time.

"I want to train with you," I said.

Ted had his gym where he taught martial arts. He immediately noticed that I was not a novice. I told him that I had traveled, studying different fighting schools and learned a couple of techniques. Fortunately, he believed me. In the mornings, we practiced. At night, we were heroes. For two weeks, I trained with Wild Cat and he taught me a lot. Today's training went as scheduled until someone arrived. It was Black Canary. Kurama sent me her picture and many other heroes so I would know who was who.

"You wanted to see me, Ted?" asked Black Canary.

"Yes! Diana this is Naruto, my new protégé. I told you about him on the phone," said Theodore.

"Hmm... Ted can you tell me what is going on and who she is?" asked Naruto.

"I've thought about it. Naruto, you're a good guy and I would love to teach you the ropes, but you would be better served with Diana's group," he said, "the Justice League is a team where your peers help each other to fight the criminals. Diana thinks you could join them."

"Yes, but first I would like to spend a while sparring with you," she said.

"But we're partners. Who will cover for you? When are you going to be a hero again?" asked Naruto.

Theodore looked at me sadly. "The fact of the matter is that I've decided to give up being a hero. That night when you saved me, I realized I'm too old for these things."

I looked at Theodore surprised. For two weeks, I had become attached to this rough sadist. But he had a mission, so sooner or later he had to leave. Everything just happened too fast.

I sighed. "Well, let's dance," I said to Black Canary with a little sad smile.

She took off her leather jacket and climbed into the ring. From what I knew, Black Canary was good at martial arts. Therefore, defense would not work, I would have to attack. As soon as Diana took a fighting stance, I rushed at her. But no matter how I tried I could not land a blow. She either shied away or blocked it. Apparently she was tired of defense and she made a right hook. I was able to block it and tried to counter with an uppercut. She caught my fist and head butted me hard. I was surprised from this blow. Seeing that I hesitated, she hit me with a roundhouse kick. I was able to dodge. When I was about to rush to her, she raised her hand.

"He taught you well. We will make you a formidable fighter," she said and gave me a piece of paper with the address. "Meet me here tomorrow. Don't be late."

I watched her go. Apparently, joining the league was going to be easier than I thought. Wild Cat came up to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Diana is a good teacher and don't worry about me. It's high time for me to retire. But first, let's go celebrate your acceptance into the league, I'm paying for dinner."

"You know, I have a better idea," I said, "Maybe this will be the last time we work together?"

"Hehe, I like that idea," said wildcat.

And so, all night long, we found criminals and beat the shit out of them.

I was fast asleep after the night of adventure. Opening one eye, I looked at the time. I had ten minutes before the meeting with Black Canary. I closed my eye again and suddenly opened them both and jumped to attention.

"The hell? I'm gonna be late! She'll kill me." I said and began to dress. Once dressed, I checked the time. Five minutes.

"Kurama, I need a short cut to this address," I said jumping out the window.

"A couple of minutes," said Kurama

"I HAVEN'T A COUPLE OF MINUTES!" I yelled.

"Here, run with the lines you see through the mask." said Kurama.

I ran as fast as possible. Fortunately, I had the hook-blade so that it was possible to jump over long distances. When they reached the meeting place, Black Canary was already waiting for me.

"You're late," she said.

I first caught my breath. Panting I said, "I had a rough night," in an attempt to make excuses for myself.

"Come on, we have no time," she said.

She walked over to the nearest wall and tapped on one of the bricks. The wall slid to the side. "This Zeta-pipe. It teleports you to the base, " she said.

We went into the Zeta-pipe and we were surrounded by light. Suddenly, we were in a different place. I was surprised. Coming out of the Zeta-tube, I saw a lot of heroes; Batman, Red Tornado, and Arrow. I had a dossier on each of them, although, I didn't recognize the girl in a green suit with a bow and arrow. Apparently, I'm not the only new member on the team.

"You're late," said Batman. "Is he your new assistant?"

"Hey, Batman. You're still cheerful as always," said the Canary.

"Another new team member?" asked a dude in a spandex suit with a lightning bolt on the chest. From the description I had been given, it looked like Kid Flash.

I guess I should introduce myself. "Hi my name is Naruto." I said and took off the mask. I was approached by Aqualad, who held out his hand.

"Nice to meet you. You can call me Kaldur" he said, "This is Megan , Robin , Superboy , Wally and Artemis." he introduced them.

"I will be happy to work with you," I smiled.

"Okay we have to go on a mission now. I'll explain on the way" said Kaldur

My first mission and it turns out I have to face the League of Assassins. League of Assassins kidnapped a scientist who they then forced to create nanorobots for them. These nanorobots gave them the opportunity to steal any information they want from any location. And now we need to stall them until a computer virus that can stop them could be created. We were at school. I was on the roof and looked out over the territory. Megan was an alien and could connect our minds telepathically. It was very unusual to hear people's thoughts in my head. Kaldur sent Superboy and Robin in search of nanorobot samples to make an antivirus from. I heard Megan and Artemis began to mentally argue.

"Kurama can you do something to block them?" I asked.

"Your mask is able to protect your mind from this form of attack. If you want I can activate it and close your channel but Megan will know at once," said Kurama.

"And there isn't a way to keep it secret?"

"No," he simply replied.

"Then don't." Suddenly, I thought I sensed someone climb through the window.

"Guys, I think someone saw us," I told them through the telalink.

"Who?" asked Calder.

"I don't know, but be wary. I'll go check."

After jumping from the roof and clinging to the window by means of a hook, I climbed inside. Using eagle vision, I began to look around. The eagle vision is an assassin's skill that gives me the ability to spot and tell friends from enemies as well as a password or a hiding place. I saw there were footprints on the floor. I began tracking the foot prints but then someone attacked Kaldur and I ran to his aid. Bursting into the classroom I saw the killer bash Kaldur on the head and he lost consciousness. I quickly jumped on the table she was on and stood on it. She did a somersault and dodged.

"Who are you?" she asked

"It is not polite to ask my name without introducing yourself first," I said, stalling for time.

"You're still a dead man," she said, and rushed at me. She had edged weapons and so I had to get a tanto.

We exchanged blows. She was good, it was difficult to disagree. Fortunately Kaldur came to.

"Kaldur get out of here, go see to your wounds, I'll deal with her" I said and knocked a sai from her hands. She took a sword and was about to attack me when in whizzed an arrow of Artemis.

"Interesting" she said.

"Will you tell me your name, or not?" I asked.

Megan and kid Flash showed up then and we began to surround her. "

You can call me Cheshire, handsome" she said, and threw a smoke bomb. Kid flash tried to catch her but was confused by the smoke and returned empty handed.

"This is all your fault!" said Kid Flash and pointed at Artemis, "You were supposed to make sure that no one would have gotten in here."

"That's not fair, kid Flash," said Megan as she stepped forward, "I was outside too. I was able to feel it with my telepathy."

"Well I can't be mad at you" said Kid Flash "But after what you did to me, the artificial respiration thing." he thought.

"We've all heard" thoughts, answered from everyone.

"Well" said Kid Flash and went inside.

Megan walked over to Artemis and said "don't worry. Those two did worse on their first mission."

Kaldur stepped forward "I gather the League of Assassins was not stopped?" He wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by a message from Robin.

"Kaldur, they attacked Star Labs," he said. "It's ... It's destroyed. Completely destroyed. I've never seen anything like it. Star Labs' advanced technology is now in the hands of the enemy. What's our next move?"

"Look for the cloud, while we hide Dr. Rocket."

The plan was simple. Megan was to turn into Dr. Rocket and distract the League of Assassins while I defend to the real doctor. I asked Kurama to look for the information on Cheshire. She has a good track record. Kurama also analyzed the virus that creates a nanobot. It can be used for the virus and when it starts, it can download information that was stored on the cloud. I agreed. A lot of information does not happen.

I looked at Dr. Rocket. She was very afraid and was barely able to focus. Approaching her, I took off the mask and smiled.

"Do not be afraid. I promise you nothing will happen" I said. I hope it is at least something to cheer her up.

"Naruto, they're here. Be ready" said Kaldur. "I'll go help the rest and you stay with the doctor."

"Well," I replied.

I don't know how much time had passed when someone threw a smoke grenade. Apparently, my cohorts were not able to hold them back. Suddenly my instincts told me to turn around. I saw three darts hurtling towards me. Two I was able to dodge, but the third was hit me in the chest.

"It's tipped with jellyfish poison. How long will you last?" asked Cheshire.

I felt the poison slowly spreading. Things were getting fuzzy. "I'll be okay long enough," I said, and rushed at her

We exchanged blows but I felt like I was getting weaker and weaker. Our blades clashed. I wouldn't last long. Then I had a very bad idea. Releasing my tanto, I let her pierce my shoulder. Using the opening, I stabbed her shoulder with my hidden blade. We both cried out in pain. Pushing her away, I stood between her and the doctor.

"Get out of here, I can hold her off!" I said

"But..." she tried to argue but I wouldn't let her.

"Run! Now!" I shouted

I looked at Cheshire, she was holding her left shoulder, which I had stabbed. And at my right shoulder, which she had stabbed. The irony. I fell to one knee. The poison had already started to affect me. Cheshire wanted to run for doctor Rocket, when the computer issued the signal. The virus was completed.

You're too late. She finished virus," I said.

She approached me and leaned over. She probably wanted to kill me. But instead, she took off my mask and kissed me. I was shocked. Although if , I die it's my last kiss. So I responded.

"Well handsome." she said. I looked at her face. She was beautiful. "Here it is the kiss of death," I said.

"If you survive, maybe we should get together sometime," she said. Wearing my mask she left.

I leaned on the table, holding my shoulder. The main thing was not to lose consciousness.

"Naruto I've got it" said Kurama.

"Well done, Kurama. Tell the old man, or just use it as you see fit."

Dr. Rocket fled the scene. I needed help. She burst into the cafe where Kaldur, Kid Flash, and Megan were. "Ghost is wounded. He needs help quickly!" she said. They quickly ran to the Internet cafe. Upon entering the café, they saw Artemis dressing my wounds.

"Kaldur, we need urgent medical attention," she said "Ghost is wounded"

I watched all of them run around with concern. I felt someone pick me up. I felt my consciousness slipping away and the darkness overcame me.

I opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was a white ceiling. Looks like I'm not dead. I sat up with difficulty. Suddenly, the door opened and I saw Batman along with Black Canary and the rest of the team enter the room. I tried to get up and they immediately pounced on me.

"Naruto! You should be in bed," said Megan. The others agreed.

"I'm glad you survived. But next time try not to risk your life" said Kaldur.

"Well, you had us all scared," said Kid Flash.

I felt a warm feeling in my chest. It's nice when someone cares about you. But I was puzzled by the question.

"How long was I out?" I asked.

Batman decided to answer me "You were out for a week while your body fought the poision. The chance that you'd survive was 40 percent. You are very lucky."

A week! Damn, I need to contact the old man and tell that I managed to get into the team.

"Well, I feel better now. I can go" I said and tried to get up. But Black Canary stopped me.

"You just came to. In a few days, you will fine. Stay in bed and don't argue," she said firmly.

I began to pout which caused the whole team to laugh. Damn, it's not fair.

"You may leave us alone," Batman stated.

All wished me a speedy recovery and left. Left alone with Batman, I looked at him. What did he want to talk to me about?

"When we thought that you could die, I looked for your loved ones," he said, "But you were an orphan and the only one I could contact was Jim Gordon"

I gasped. Did Batman talk to Jim? "Did you tell him?" I asked.

"No and Barbara too, in case you're wondering," he said.

I sighed with relief. It was best they didn't know. "Batman don't tell Barbara who I am. She'll worry, let it remain a mystery." I said.

"If you say so," he said and turned around.

I lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. And then I remembered the kiss Cheshire gave me. "Heh heh well next time, Cheshire." I thought and closed his eyes.