Ndasuunye: This is first chapter of this story I did all my own.

Chapter 6

The trees dropped their branches because of the severe beating they were taking from an all out war between two people. The young man of the two was running at top speed desperately trying to get away, slashing at whatever was nearby in order to slow down his pursuer, or the predator as the man would call himself. The boy jumped in the air slashing down his duel Dao swords, purple chakra shooting from them at the pale man creating a huge explosion as the attack hit the ground. Smoke and debris filled the air as the noises of trees cracking and snapping like twigs resonated throughout the forest. As he started to slow down in his rising through the air, his narrow eyes widened in seldom shock as the man's head popped out of the smoke riding on the ever extending neck with his face showing nothing but pure excitement. The man opened his mouth and out of it came a snake and from the mouth of the snake emitted the blade of an impossibly long double edged sword. A bit late, the boy couldn't dodge the attack and had to use his blades to block the headlong attack of the extended head of the man, successfully deflecting it. But that didn't stop the man though as he pushed his head downward, causing the boy to descend way too quickly towards the ground. The boy screamed loudly in pain from the impact of crashing to the ground while still blocking from getting stabbed. He ceased and removed the left blade from the defensive pose pushing the opposing sword off and slicing the man's head off in the process. The head lay on the boy's stomach for a moment the look of excitement never leaving his dead face before turning into brown mush.

'Humph, should have figured as much. That snake in the grass Orochimaru could never be killed that easily.'

'Hey, don't compare snakes to that lowlife human. I'm ashamed that you're having difficulty with such a poser in the first place,' snorted a darker more sinister voice in the boy's mind.

'I don't have time for your bullshit. I just need to get out here alive.'

Speaking no more on the matter with the dark voice, the boy soon jumped out of the way as a barrage of kunai came flying towards his way. He ran again, frantically throwing various weapons at Orochimaru, from shuriken to kunai to kunai with exploding tags, filled with fright and much anguish at the previous events that led to this. As he ran not caring where he went he thought over on what led to his dangers. Friendship, trust, love; all these things which he gave into. No more would he do such foolish things and carry such useless emotions. He'd thought all the betrayal he'd been through, all the pain; it's only now that he learns his lesson. Never again would he let people treat him like the dirt he never was. It was now back to the original mission, his only reason to live. And that was to defeat the king of the bijuu and let his master and sensei claim his rightful place on the throne. His thoughts were mused when he came across a cave and dashed a little too quickly into it hiding in the shadows as best as he could. He didn't see the crazed wanna-be Orochi anywhere, but as he shifted his eyes he noticed that this was a strange cave. It was filled with a weird aura, almost calming. The boy breathed in and out. As he looked deeper, he saw a large pair of stone leading up to something shining. He quickly climbed it and was surprised as it was an open scroll that was very illuminating. Heh, if it's a hidden scroll, then it must behold some very powerful secrets indeed which mean more knowledge.

As he was about to take the scroll from the stand it was on, he felt weird for a moment. In just seconds later, a powerful pain emitted from the scroll into his body as he held onto the scroll as it rolled itself up.

"AAARGHAA."

The pain was indescribable. It felt like his body was burning from the inside while the outside was cut open by many pointed objects. Yet he kept struggling to remove this scroll from its pedestal, the pain became more and more intense. It was like the more he struggled the more pain intensified. It started causing the boy's nails to lengthened to that of what could be claws on his hands and feet. The pupil in his eyes turned to slit green and his face became full of lines like cracks, but it wasn't. His hair was starting to frizzle and his canines were lengthening causing his mouth to trail a trickle of blood running down his chin. He let out a loud hissing sound which replaced his normal scream. It was something similar to that of a snake. Green chakra seemed to bubble behind the boy to what seemed like at tail. Yet it couldn't be determined as chakra was lashing so violently around the boy, right next to him in the middle of air, the force of so much chakra made the nothing rip showing blackness with a few twinkles. It was a small rip which made it hard for the boy to see it much less anything else around him as the green chakra was flaring too violently to let any other vision pass through the green haze. He kept trying for dear life, determined beyond all reason to grasp this scroll. Whatever it was it must really have some powerful secrets which driven him only more. It took him a moment to realize something was sucking. It felt small and he ignored it. Unfortunately the vacuum overly rapidly becoming way too strong for him to just ignore (AN/Nda: Let's be mature about this folks). The force was pulling him off of his feet. He was now kind of fortunate that this thing wouldn't budge, despite the pain he was feeling. Yet the pain finally took strain on him after so long and subconsciously let go, his eyes fully widened at what he just done. He tried to fight the force but he was over easily overpowered and his body was sucked towards the rip. It was as soon as his body touched the very small gap in the air, his body shone blinding white, and disappeared leaving a strong gust of wind in his wake.

The entire day was really weird for the Titans. Every moment when they were inside the alert signal went off. They would sprint give very quick overview of the mission and sprint off and for what? Every time they got to the scene of the crime, it would only be in misfortune as the enemy was nowhere to be found or just brutally beaten where the cops just handed them into their vehicles. Soon after they were too beat from running to even do the night crimes. They just let whatever handled the earlier crimes it handle it. Right now everyone was doing their own thing. Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg was playing a new video game system, Raven was locked in her room reading her books, naturally Naruto was busy training his body. As for Starfire, well she was just being her. Suddenly the alarm went off again and they all groaned.

"Again!? Can't we just ignore this one Robin? I'm sure it will be taken care of by the time we get there," asked Beast Boy as he continually stared into the giant screen of the TV still playing the game with Cyborg.

"He has a point for once Robin." Beast Boy smiled as he was seemingly complimented before scowling yelling at a nonresponsive Cyborg for the realized insult.

"That may be true but we are still Titans we need to go." Both green and metallic boys groaned as the screen switched from its game to a map of the city. "Alright Titans let's move."

"What about friend Naruto?"

"Since he obviously didn't hear it we don't have time to go get him. Besides I'm sure he will be fine here by himself. As for Terra, she was already outside so I'm sure she's holding off the enemy. Now let's go."

Nobody else disagreed after that. There really was no point. Unfortunately by the time they got there, it was too late. Terra was there as well trying to scope the area.

"Darn it." Robin smacked his fist against a building as the police truck carrying the said criminal rolled off. "Why is it that every time we get here the enemy is taken care of? I am glad there is someone else here to take care of the crime, but still…"

It was quiet for a moment. Nobody knew exactly what to do right now.

"Well one question we need to figure out is why are there so many crimes being committed today," Raven suddenly said making her presence known.

"Do you think this could be because of Slade?"

"I don't know Beast Boy, but I think Raven is right. We should find out what's up with all these attacks and why they seem to be resolving themselves so quickly. Cyborg, do you think you can find any traces of unknown DNA of any kind here."

"I'm on it Robin. Unfortunately, I only see peeled skin from Plasmus so it could be possible for this to be Slade's doing. Yet that's all I got as far as who was here."

"Hmm alright. Someone will have to stay out in the city for the night. Any volunteers. I need to be at the base to try to look for any clues on the big screen with Cyborg." At that Cyborg sighed in relief. And that gave him an idea.

"How about we let Naruto and Terra stay out her until nightfall." She was just about to interject but Cyborg cut him off. "Naruto because he could use something like this to get him familiar with the surroundings and Terra because that this could be her first official assignment as a new member to the team." He smirked at the oodles of torment he could see on Terra's face now.

"Well if you say it like that, how about me and Beast Boy instead." Beast Boy heavily nodded frantically at the suggestion.

"No Cyborg's right. His reasons are valid and I agree with them. Besides he is new to the group. You guys use the time to get acquainted so you guys can be comfortable working with each other in the future. Now we just need to tell him himself."

Naruto was finally bored. It's no fun when you're training alone for two hours straight. Now he sure wished he had Cyborg here to get him some super cool sparring equipment with his techno thingies. Or maybe he could dwell his little mind on the mechanics of said machinery. He quickly disregarded that option. That seemed like a real pain in the butt. He went in the fridge to get some nice refreshing milk. And boy did he get milk. If only he had sense enough to read the carton to realize what the expiration date was. And by which it was past due. Yet the only thing that came to mind when he opened the fridge and drunk the milk was they needed to go grocery shopping. The poor idiot. He decided to test his luck with the TV. As he sat there flipping through the channels aimlessly, he was bored. Everything on it sucked. Soon he happened upon the news as they were talking about world events. He was so engrossed as he was by the TV that he didn't realize that the Titans had returned from their adventure.

"I see the news channel is something you really take a liking to eh?" asked Cyborg grinning widely. That caused Naruto to jump a bit from the shock. He mumbled incoherent curses blaming the TV for not allowing him to sense them beforehand. Everyone heard him and laughed a bit except for Terra. She didn't understand what they were talking about. How could he sense them before they came? She decided to leave that question on her list of 'Questions to Ask'.

"Well Naruto I'm glad you're starting to understand our world a bit more but now it's time for your first assignment." Naruto only looked at Robin quizzically and the teen continued. "There has been massive amount of crime lately today and it's still only around 2-2:30pm. So I want you to just go to town and look around. Check for any crimes, whether they be big or or small. If the rest of us don't get to the site in time, try and mingle with the 'authority', would be the best word. They are dressed in blue and usually wear this roundish helmet on their head like my own only in blue and black. Anyway, try to find out what you can, ask about who was helping them catch criminals and what type of crimes does this helper go up against. You got all that?"

He nodded his head now officially excited. This would be his first mission or 'assignment' as Robin called it. He was just about to turn and leave but Robin seemingly unknowingly continued. The only person caught off guard of course was Naruto since he was still clueless at the moment.

"I want Terra to accompany you as well." Naruto looked at the girl for a moment before smiling widely. He didn't really care he was getting company. It was actually a good thing right now.

"Ok then Terra, let's get moving." She tried to stop him wanting to question how he was going to get through a large mass of water alone but he was too fast and took off. As she glided along her rock bypassing the water she was astound at what she saw. There was that weird boy Naruto effortlessly and quickly running across the water as if it were solid. The speed was incredible in itself. Her rock started to drop downward but she quickly regained her concentration. That was too close. This guy was certainly a weird one. Well, maybe weird wasn't the word as she realized that she could move earth and other people could do so much more. She finally caught up to him and sighed with relief. This guy certainly fast, causing her to lose him for a moment. She was certainly glad he stopped right where they entered the city from the forest.

"Naruto, don't go off in such a hurry. We got to stick together. I almost lost you for a moment. I can't move as fast as you can while I'm manipulating rocks you know," she said as sternly as possible.

"Oh sorry...err?"

"Terra."

"Yeah, Terra. Sorry about that. I guess I got a little excited." He scratched the back of his head as he smiled sheepishly. She had a feeling this was going to be a long day.

And so it was a long day to boot. This guy was so hyperactive. She mentally groaned as he continued to be awed and asked her questions.

'I'm going to kill that bucket of bolts for doing this.' She should have known this was brought up for a reason. Yet wasn't really that bad. Despite his over activeness, he was quite the person to hang around with. He was kind, funny (though not intentionally like Beast Boy), and considerate. She was sort of glad it was just them two on this assignment. She was starting to get to know this kid and she enjoyed it. They spent an hour walking around the city, Terra explaining what the other Titans didn't of the city, looking out for any crimes or villains. She even introduced him to new music as well which really fascinated him. He wondered how so many songs could be stored on something the size of his thumb. She laughed at this while he was still confused. She didn't know how it worked exactly but told him it was the technology they used to make it work. That made him definitely want to learn about this 'technology' now. They spent an hour palling around until they heard a loud noise. Terra levitated herself up to see electricity followed by many devices traveling towards the source of it. She dropped back down quickly and called out to Naruto."

"Naruto call Robin and let him know something's up. I'm going up ahead to hopefully catch up to the action."

He patted himself down only to look up at the retreating girl sheepishly smiling.

"Err, I think I left mine at home heh." He felt awkward now as Terra groaned. There was one thing she learned about him which was he could be a real pain at times.

"Alright you go, I'll stay here and wait for the rest of them."

He nodded and dashed off leaving Terra waiting impatiently. It wasn't too long after that they all arrived on the scene. Yet the area was empty leaving the team to wallow in failure.

"Darn it this guy must be a good one," spoke Robin trying to hide his frustration speaking in a calm voice. Everyone was silent for a moment. It wasn't too long of course since Naruto suddenly remembered the information he found.

"Oh yeah I found out something. The police said that they thought it was us who were taking care of the bad guys the entire time. They wondered why we finished so quick. Of course they said that whoever this person was obviously didn't show their face or identity of any sort. They couldn't tell me anything about who was doing this. We should be glad that we straightened this out."

"Why would this be a good thing that it wasn't us? We are totally getting stood up by some unknown hero or something," yelled Beast Boy excitedly. It was natural for him to be concerned about popularity of course.

"Well I would like to know this too Naruto. I don't see any real positive reason that the police realize that we aren't behind the heroics," interjected Robin.

"Well whoever was doing this was doing this like a blockheaded idiot. Every time the police would come, they would always find them all messed up. Like with this guy called Johnny Rancid, you know him?"

Everyone nodded and he continued.

"Well he was no threat really but he this person took him and thrashed on him very badly. He ruptured his rib cage, broken both his arms and his stomach was ripped open. He had to be rushed to the hospital immediately. The police, say that it was a wonder he survived with his right lung had a hole in it."

The gang just stared at Naruto with shock. It took Robin's strong voice to break everyone else out their muse.

"Alright then, Cyborg check for any remains of the battle. Then we need to find this mysterious dark hero and try to stop him before he winds up killing the criminals."

"Robin, I got nothing. Whoever this guy is sure seems to be trying to keep clean."

"Fine then, let's just head back to the tower everyone. It's getting late and I doubt there will be much more activity for the night."

Everyone then dispatched. Robin took off on his motorcycle, Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy took off in the T-Car. Beast Boy, not surprisingly though, offered Terra to take the T-Car with her, but she refused and decided to just take the nearest rock there. Naruto also rode the rock with her. He wanted to see how that was too. He never actually flew on a rock before. And boy did he like it. It was just like, he felt as though he was flying but without using any energy. But it also wasn't as cushiony as the T-Car either, where he could just relax while enjoying the ride either. Well he didn't know which one to choose from. So he thanked her as they flew and enjoyed the ride. Unfortunately though the milk caught up with him forcing him to jump off and run straight to the tower while holding his butt for dear life. She laughed at him along with everyone else but they were still confused with his actions until Cyborg remembered.

"Oh yeah, I remember seeing an empty carton of expired milk on the table. Too bad for Naruto." Beast Boy, Cyborg and Starfire, despite not wanting to, burst out laughing. Robin heard the story amazingly from his cycle and laughed along with them.

"What unfortunate guy!"

Suddenly Naruto's voice filled the air. "It's not funny,"

The next day was pretty slow as there weren't much of anything going on that day. To pass the time they each did something by themselves. Cyborg worked on the T-Car. Raven was doing what she did best, read, but in the dining area. Beast Boy was busy watching some kung fu movie. He would be out hanging with Terra but she insisted that she train on her abilities. She said she would hang out with him again once this whole mystery hero ordeal blew over. Naruto was training with Terra who was first reluctant to first train with him. But after constantly irritating her to no end, she gave in but with a warning of about this being dangerous, which for Naruto was nothing to him. He would have actually been watching TV right now but Beast Boy was hogging the TV and was persistent to watching that kung fu movie. He started to watch it with him, but he got fed up with how unrealistic it was. So seeing as there was no way for him to get the TV, he went and trained outside when he stumbled upon Terra training. He had a good time training with her, despite not learning much about her. But that was ok, because she was fun, determined and trustworthy as far as he had seen. They stood apart from each other at a distance. Well Naruto stood anyway, while Terra hovered over the earth on, well earth or a slab of it to be specific.

"Alright let's take a break Terra." She nodded and jumped off her rock as the slab flew somewhere safely.

"So Naruto what's the deal with the headband?"

"Huh," he replied confused by her question.

"Why do you wear that headband all the time for? Especially one that has a leaf on it?" she wasn't being rude and he knew that. It was just the fact that this was kind of shocking talking about his headband. He looked down for a moment before answering.

"This thing on the headband," he pointed with his thumb, "is a symbol of my homeland, Konohagakure. Back where I come from, every ninja village like my own, has a symbol on their headband to represent their ninja village. It shows our loyalty to our village. So I could never just throw this away. This constantly reminds me that I am always a Konoha Shinobi in which we must take pride in that." He looked up to her smirking for no real reason.

She didn't exactly know where this Konohagakure was but if he held his head high for it then it must be a good place.

"Oh ok. So you're a ninja huh? That's cool. Can you like hide in the shadows and use secret magic to kill people and have massive swords skills going pwah yah…" She then started acting out poorly accurate 'ninja moves' with a big joking smile. He only laughed at that. What kind of movies where these people watching. "…But like shouldn't you be like wearing all black never revealing your identity and stuff."

"Well no not really" Naruto answered "Usually ninja will wear just about anything they wanted to, before I wore this I used to wear a neon orange jumpsuit"

"But why would you do that!? You could get yourself killed if they saw you"

"I like orange" he said with a shrug right before the alarm went of in the open training field.

"Looks like we got to cut this conversation short Terra. Looks like there's trouble."

It was mere seconds later before everyone was in the living room.

"Alright team, we have the coordinates. Everyone just follow me and Cyborg."

Nobody wasted any time now. Robin hurriedly hopped on his R-Cycle and sped off with no thought of slowing down 'till he got there with everyone close behind. It was a good thing too, because the mystery hero was battling Plasmus. They all got off their respective modes of transportation or just landed on the ground as they watched this guy. He was breathing heavy as he was obviously very weak. His clothing was tearing in various places yet not a shred on the precious areas not so oddly enough. Despite Plasmus being a large ball of purple toxic goo, the hero was holding him up high in the air as if nothing.

"Now tell me disgusting being, where am I, and what kind of village is this? What are the neighboring villages ?" he spoke darkly. It wasn't demonic like but, for some reason though, Raven felt as though this guy could be associated. She must be imagining things. The titans were about to help out this person but Robin raised his hand signaling them not to.

"But why shouldn't we? If this person is fighting the enemy, shouldn't we be there to help not to mention not let him outshine us?" spoke Beast Boy impatiently.

"I understand but I want to see him do this. We need to find out how he handles things and why he has shown up in Jump City. Just jumping in helping him out won't do anything. Probably might lose him by doing that."

The green changeling groaned but complied nonetheless. Back on the battlefield, Plasmus only roared at its captor and attempted to swing at the hero with both arms one after the other. He let him go swatting both hands away easily. Once plasmus was about to hit the ground, he suddenly roared in pain as he was kicked right in the gut flying backwards. Yet he was giving no time for compliance as the hero was steady running in front of him. He reeled his left arm back with his hand pointing straight. Now Plasmus lost his breathe as he couldn't even sound his pain when the hero thrust his pointed palm straight through the purple goo monster. Everything was still now as he removed his arm from the monster's gut as it fell on its knees breathing heavily red fluid now dripping down its body which was hardly visible through all the purple goo.

"You should have told me what I wanted to hear instead of being defiant." The hero's facial features then changed to that of something maniacal and sinister.

"Now you die!" His voice was now demonic which shook both Raven and Naruto.

"Ok now we can step in since we know this guy is serious. Titans, GO!"

They leaped into action but were too slow. The boy had kicked the monster what could be interpreted as the chin forcing him to fly high upwards. Starfire was about to shoot a star bolt at the newly airborne boy, but was too slow as the boy grabbed Plasmus's head bringing it down in a high paced until it collided with the floor. Beast Boy was too slow and was splattered with goo when the boy brought down the monster's head on the floor. Raven quickly made a force field in front of her which thankfully for Cyborg and Robin, was behind. Starfire simply dodged the incoming slime. The boy risen himself up as he looked at a skinny white skinned man who was bleed profusely from his chest and his head. He was breathing heavily trying to get as much air as possible. He was kicked on his back which showed a deep hole in between his chest and stomach. His left side of his face was carved, not with permanent damage but enough to make a lot of blood cover that portion of face. He was dying nonetheless. Most of the Titans were too shocked by the condition of the man. Yet Naruto was not fazed by such a state because he himself had been through worse. That was nothing to him. The boy was just about to bring down his pointed hand towards the man heart to end his life but a kunai hit the hand causing it to bleed a bit. Everyone broke from their stupor as they turned to Naruto who was the one who threw it. The boy also turned to Naruto as well now angry as to why he did that.

"What the hell do you think you're doing? You defeated him, isn't that enough or are you not satisfied until you end his life?"

The boy looked shocked and angry continuing to glare at the boy as he stood up straight. If you took an approximate guess, you could say he was 5' 10" ft.

"Why did you stop me from killing this man? Is he not an enemy of this village?" the boy said not entirely responding to Naruto's question.

"Naruto's right. We are grateful that you defeated our enemy for us. But we don't go trying to kill the enemy. The enemy being defeated is enough. Ending the criminal's life only makes you a criminal yourself."

He wasn't paying any attention to Robin though at all. He only continued to stare at Naruto dully.

'Can you not smell it? Can you not sense it?' mentally spoke the demonic voice from back in the forest.

'Sense and smell what? I don't know what you're talking about,' spoke the boy mentally back.

'Off of the boy in the Shinobi outfit . He has it, he has the Kyuubi no Youkou inside him!'

'Really, are you sure?'

'Fool, do not doubt my words. I can smell the youkai off of that one for sure.'

'So, if I attack and kill him then-'

' I'll then become king. Go hurry. Even in your weakened state that you are in now, you should be able to defeat him.'

The boy spoke no more with his mental partner and smirked with amusement. Here it was the Kyuubi no Youkou, right in this weirdo village. It was a shame that it is in the body of a pathetic yellow haired boy. Yet he counted his blessings truly believing that he could kill this loud mouth brat regardless. He heavily charged and none of the Titans stopped him until it was too late. Naruto blocked the boy's hand with a kunai making the boy's hand now bleed profusely as it dug deeper into in his hand unintentionally.

"What are you doing!?"

"Killing the one who stands in my way to become king," he spat back at the blonde ninja with a certain yip in his voice.

Naruto was utterly confused by this boy's statement. Become king by killing him, what did that mean? Yet his thoughts were cut short as he was pushed back. Robin then came from above slamming down his staff which was blocked by a sudden kunai from the boy. He struggled for a bit but was able to push back Robin as well, quickly jumping to the side to avoid an incoming metal fist to the face. He wasn't fast enough as a large black hand enshrouded his entire body but his head. He was raised upward as he struggled trying to find the source of such ability unfortunately he wasn't able to find out as he was quickly smacked painfully to the side with a huge boulder. His body bounced on the ground. His head was bleeding but the cut was slowly healing itself, very, very slowly. He had little chakra left so he reached for his blades on his sides. They were gone and way over by some girl in a blue hood, her face barely visible. All six of the weirdly dressed people and the ninja surrounded him.

"Easy now kid, we don't want to hurt you. We just want to talk," Robin said slowly moving closer, with his staff in hand.

The boy jumped upwards lunging himself at the demon ninja but was smacked by something silver causing him to finally blackout. Normally he could have sustained that damage but he been up for now being three days straight. Plus not to mention the fact that transport took a lot chakra from his body.

"He sure wanted to hurt us," Beast Boy spoke finally letting out a long held sigh.

"Hmm, I'm not so sure he was attacking us specifically. He did try to attack Naruto twice, from what I've seen anyway. Yet, we'll figure it out later, right now we need to get him some medical attention."

Raven entered the T-Car and mused silently. All those emotions she felt when her energy held him. How could just a human hold so many negative emotions and not a shred of positive ones? It made her shiver which no one caught.

AN: Lately I've been noticing a sudden increase in number of favs/alerts/reviews and stuff lately for this story. Now could someone tell me, did something change about the site that made my story more seeable by the people or is it just luck. Anyways, hope you guys are loving it as much as I am! total pure unadulterated awesomesauce!! ready set REVIEW!!