Smallville/Naruto

Redeemer

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 4

Earth 1

Kara Zor El, or Kara Kent as she was known here on Earth was waiting impatiently at the Daily Planet for Chloe and Kal to return, having been convinced to wait there until they got back by Kal

Kal had argued that it was best for her to remain here ready to go if another crisis should pop up while they were investigating the blackout.

Kara suspected that Kal was just being overprotective as usual.

She found herself fighting the urge to start pacing, or drumming her fingers on the desktop, or tapping her foot on the floor, or any one of hundreds of signs that she was reaching the end of her patience.

For Rao's sake Kara thought impatiently what the Sheol is keeping Chloe and Kal, it's not like them to be gone this long.

If she had to wait much longer, Kara decided, then she was going to fly down to S.T.A.R. Labs herself and find out just what was going on, and if anybody had hurt her cousin Rao help them.

Just as Kara was about to fly down to S.T.A.R. Labs in full rescue mode Chloe walked back in and made her way back over to the desk Kara was waiting at, Chloe-but no Kal.

Okay, now she was really worried.

"Chloe? Where's Clark?" Clark Kara reminded herself she had to remember to call him that and not Kal El.

"Umm- I don't think I want to discuss that here Kara," Chloe told the young Kryptonian gravely; clearly this was not a good sign "can we go somewhere private and talk?"

"Sure," Kara replied, her face taking on an expression of concern, or greater concern rather.

Kara wondered if Kryptonians could still get grey hairs under a yellow sun.

In any case this did not bode well.

Earth 2

The Hokage Tower in Konoha.

Tsunade, the fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf village had been in the middle of some paperwork that she had been putting off for far too long (and had been nagged into making a start on by Shizune) not that Tsunade could blame her she privately admitted.

Now all that was forgotten as she sensed the presence of something powerful and unlike anything she had ever sensed before;

The sheer amount of Chakra radiated by this-whatever was unbelievable and the Chakra itself felt strange-otherworldly.

Where is it coming from? Tsunade wondered as she tried to trace the strange Chakra back to its source, until she finally got a fix on it near the Valley of the End, all that distance and it could still be sensed.

Tsunade remembered what had taken place there less than a day ago, hopefully what she was sensing was not connected to that but she needed to be certain.

"Shizune," Tsunade called loudly, Shizune didn't take long to answer.

"I felt it too Lady Tsunade," Shizune informed the Hokage as she entered "and smoke is rising from the location that it's coming from."

"We need to know if this is a threat or not," Tsunade surmised, all business "and if it is, just what exactly we are dealing with, I'm going to send a team there to scout the area and find out what this is, gather the following shinobi; Aburame Shino and Hyuuga Hinata for scouting purposes also Yui Kurenai to lead the team and provide genjutsu support if a quick escape under fire is needed."

"I'll do so immediately."

"Good," Tsunade replied, her brow creasing, but with puzzlement rather than worry "don't be long; time may not be on our side here."

As Shizune left Tsunade found herself musing over just what this was, it was powerful to be sure, frighteningly so, however she couldn't sense anything evil from whatever this was, whilst this was reassuring it was also puzzling.

Just what are you? Tsunade wondered.

Clark gave Tayuya a look of sympathy as she related to him the way she had been used and then cast aside, his heart went out to her as she told him the story.

"Betrayal," Clark finally replied, nodding solemnly "it's an ugly thing."

"You sound like you're speaking from experience Clark," Tayuya observed, damn that girl was perceptive, but then she was a ninja as far as he could figure.

"I am," Clark replied sadly.

"So who was the bastard that betrayed you?"

"A man who I thought for many years was my friend, he suspected that I had-abilities, and you must understand that super powers of any kind aren't common in the world I call home, my whole life I've kept my powers secret because I worried what people might think of me if they knew I was different, and I worried that they might be afraid of me."

"Understandable when you put it in that perspective," Tayuya noted "I take it the fucker wouldn't respect your privacy though?"

"No," Clark agreed "Lex always was too pushy for his own good, he kept having me investigated behind my back even after he'd promised to stop, put me through tests to try and confirm his suspicions and in doing so put my life and those of my friends in danger and made me less and less willing to trust him."

"Good instincts Clark," Tayuya replied seriously "he was probably trying to figure out how to exploit your power for his own ends, bastard sounds just like Orochimaru."

"Later on he probably was and still is, he certainly tried to brainwash my cousin against me," Clark agreed "so-Orochimaru, is that-?"

"The asshole I was working for?" Tayuya asked rhetorically "yeah, and since my legs are fucked up I can't kick his ass myself, even if I had enough power to do it, so the next best thing is going to the Leaf Village and telling them everything I know about him so they can fuck him up, and if I'm lucky they'll agree to heal me in exchange, unless you want to fuck him up for me."

"My priority right now is making sure you get the medical attention you need," Clark vowed "and I'll make damn sure that you get it."

"I appreciate it," Tayuya replied "if you're lucky you may even find someone who can help you get home, if nothing else you should be able to find a place to live while you're here in this world."

"Well let's get going then," Clark decided as he knelt down to pick the girl up bridal style, pausing as he saw something cylindrical and metallic sticking out between two logs, cloven in half, he leant over and fished it out.

"What's this?" Clark asked no one in particular as he picked it up for a closer look and saw what it was "A flute?"

Clark noticed the way Tayuya was looking sadly at the two halves of what had once been a musical instrument, he had a feeling he knew why.

"Is it yours?" he asked, indicating the flute as he passed it to her.

"Yes, it is," Tayuya replied solemnly as she took the sliced in half flute from him "it used to be my mother's."

"I'm sorry," Clark told Tayuya sympathetically as he picked her up and waited for her to give directions while she sadly examined the sliced halves of her treasured flute "all I have left of my father is a wristwatch, I know how upset I'd be if anything happened to that."

Finally Tayuya pointed out a direction for him.

"That way Clark."