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Toad Sage of the Holy Mountain of the Exquisite Tree

or

A Way to do Cross-overs

followed by

Some Cross-overs

It wasn't every day Naruto got summoned by the Great Toad Sage. Naruto had actually lost out on the position of Hokage, much to his supporters surprise. And no one was more surprised than Sasuke, who had become the offical Sixth Hokage.

Something about Naruto being too valuable on the battlefield.

Whatever.

Sasuke had kept Naruto on a very short leash, constantly checking in with him concerning anything that was a bit more exciting than D-ranked missions. The Uchiha knew that the deep seated corruption of his Clan was strong in him, and so he used Naruto as an anchor.

People would joke that they had two Sixth Hokages.

Eventually, though, Sasuke had need of the unique wisdom of a Sage. A not a partially trained one. Naruto may have mastered the balancing of Natural Energies, but he wasn't a true sage yet. And so, Sasuke sent Naruto to go finish his training. Even if they communicated constantly via summons.

A long two years physically away from Konoha and Naruto was on the cusp of completing his training and becoming a full-fledged Sage. Pa had said so, with a rather smug look on his face.

Ma whacked Pa on the head with a ladel for that comment.

Anyways, back to the present. Meeting with the Great Toad Sage. What was most surprising to Naruto was how the old geezer looked surprisingly awake, and followed his movements with clear, yet blind eyes.

"Mmmm, Naruto-chan, I can hear the world sing your praises. Congratulations."

The human blushed and scratched the back of his neck.

"Its nothing, Geezer-toad. I've been doing my best."

A small smile graced the giant toad's 'lips.'

"On the contrary... it is quite the accomplishment. But we now come to the crux of the problem."

Naruto's eyes went wide.

"Problem? What kind of problem?!"

The smile on the toad's lips became sad.

"A sage has no alliegence, except that to the worlds."

A moment and all was silent. The information processed through Naruto's mind and he whispered his next words.

"I can't be a Konoha-nin?"

"Your training must stop here, or you must revoke your human alliances and take the final step."

"Can I think on it?"

The geezer smiled widely, his blind eyes closing.

"Of course, but I would have your answer within the week. Why don't you return to Konoha while you think?"

Naruto nodded absently as he left.

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Truthfully, Naruto had made his choice before even setting foot in Konoha. A day had been spent arguing with Sasuke. It had come to blows and the Valley of the End had grown tremendously in size.

Sasuke finally relented. A higher calling. The Uchiha understood that. And he had a wife and a child (on the way) to keep him grounded now.

Sakura's pregnancy was a bit of a surprise. She wasn't showing yet, which is what the Uchiha couple had been waiting for, so they could send pictures to Naruto when they broke the news.

Hinata had gotten tired of waiting, it seemed. She was currently dating Kiba.

Tenten had gotten over Neji's death and was engaged to a forever stoic Shino. But Naruto saw the subtle glances he sent her, and the softening of his face.

Ino had apparently decided she was a lesbian (for the moment, she flip-flopped alot) and was trying to woo Anko, of all people, into a committed relationship. Lee was trying to woo Ino. It was a vicious cycle.

Shikamaru had taken his father's position and been forced by Gaara to marry Temari. Because that Nara would drag his feet forever if he could.

Chouji found a nice civillian girl. She was pleasent and very mothering. Naruto liked her and was glad for Chouji.

And Sai? Well... He was being Sai. But his art was selling very well. Not as well as Kakashi's Icha Icha series, though. That was selling like hotcakes to men and women alike. Kakashi signed a whole illustrated first edition set, to go with Naruto's illustrated first edition set that had been given to him by Jiraiya.

Tearful goodbyes are what Naruto left to.

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"Alright, Geezer-toad. I want to be a Sage."

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The next few months were spent training in how to tap into the visions of the world. Every true sage had a different 'prophetic' vision. The Great Toad Sage was a prophet of the future. Naruto was a prophet of the past. Something about the winds carrying news to the young man, while the toad peered into the mists trying to spot something.

And finally Naruto and the Great Toad Sage prepared for a non-harmful extraction of Kurama.

It was as simple as a sage powered substitution. The Great Sage would take Kurama's place inside the seal, allowing the Kyuubi to roam free once again, and for Fukusaku to take his place as the new Great Toad Sage.

While in the seal the Great Toad Sage would act like a beacon for Natural Energies, letting (and forcing) Naruto permantly stay in Sage Mode. Even after the Great Sage died and faded into the seal, the benefits would stay.

Kurama was slightly apprensive about the whole thing. He and Naruto had become partners, friends... And yet again, the similarities between the Sage of Sixth Paths and Naruto... Kurama relented when the Toads offered Kurama protection on Myobokuzan, and would allow Naruto to summon Kurama.

Today, he was clad in his red sage coat over a black and orange version of his late sensei's outfit, complete with giant scroll full of awesome and horned forehead protector. Today was the day they would do the switch and Naruto would 'drown' in the natural energies of the Toad Oil Well.

The switch was made with no issues. A few farewells were made, and Naruto stepped into the pool of toad oil, whipping him away to where he was needed.

Sages had some weird powers.

XXXXX All cross overs are seperate and not linked.

PJO

With a splash and a pop Naruto reappeared. About ten feet off the ground. His landing was less than graceful, and he did it on a person. There was much cursing from both parties as they sought to disentangle themselves. When Naruto was fully free of whoever, he looked around and found his face suddenly full of nocked, ready to go, arrows. Every single archer was a girl ranging form the ages of eight to mid teens.

"Uh, hi?"

"What IS this gunk?!"

His golden eyes slid over to the person, he assumed he landed on, that was covered in toad oil. He was also covered in toad oil, but he had been there and done that.

"Toad oil, what else would it be?"

The oil was very thick and was dripping off the young teenage girl in an obscene way. Her stare was furious. She drew and nocked her bow as well.

"I would like to point out before you all make me a pincushion, that I have no idea I where I am, who you all are, why I'm here, or that my exit would be like that. And I'm very sorry that this happened."

The feminine rage was very palapable. It was like standing in the presence of a dozen Tsunades backed up by a dozen Sakuras. Naruto was naturally sweating bullets, and the Old Geezer snored loudly inside the seal, oblivious.

"Thalia, girls, stand down."

A girl, about twelve with auburn hair, approached and the rest of the girls slowly stood down, though 'Thalia' took far longer to do so, and her glare remained.

"Does that mean I can stand up?"

The instant the words tumbled from his mouth, he felt like slapping himself. The face of the auburn girl twisted slightly in amusement. She nodded but not without relaying a warning.

"If you try anything untoward, it will be the last thing you do."

As he stood and brushed his pants off and ran his hands through his hair, wringing out the toad oil, Naruto muttered something about Nadeshiko.

"Nadeshiko? What is that, traveller?"

"Um, a village full of warrior women near my homeland. This kinda seems like that, but younger."

He paused and then paniced slightly.

"Please tell me, I didn't just marry her!"

Naruto pointed at Thalia with a shaking finger.

"I don't know her, and I sure as hell didn't defeat her in single combat, I just fell on her!"

Thalia snarled with barely kept rage, moving forward only to be stopped by the auburn haired girl.

"These women of Nadeshiko marry the men who defeat them in combat?"

Naruto nodded.

"We do not do that. We don't like boys."

Naruto's world came to a screeching halt.

"So, you like girls? Cause that's cool, my friend Ino likes girls. For the moment anyways, she kinda decides on a weekly basis."

He was babbling and he knew it. Something here was different. He was racking his brain while his mouth kept on running.

"Its not like that. I offer these girls refuge from men in my service... You have strange eyes, traveller."

To the girl, his eyes were indeed strange. Golden, with horizontal bars like an amphibian's, and the red pigment near them seemed to be in his skin, like a tattoo or even natural.

"Oh, I didn't introduce myself?"

Golden oppurtunity! He began to hop on one foot, hands and arms extended. Tribute to Jiraiya, all day, every day. Sages unite!

"I am the man from afar who makes men weep, women cry, and children shout with joy! From the East to the West, I am!"

He slammed a hand into the ground and in a great poof of smoke he was now standing on this generation's Gama. The Toad with no name. The one who was the contract Toad. He relinquished his name when he became the paragon of everything Toads were, short of being a sage.

"Naruto of the Uzumaki Clan! Sage of the Toad Spirits of the Holy Mountain of the Exquisite Tree!"

Epic intro. Now he knew why his sensei did it all the time. At least until the first giggle caused a cascade of giggles and all the girls were laughing at him.

"Mou."

He sat on Gama's head and patted it while he pouted.

"Tough crowd, Aniki. I thought it was awesome. Jiraiya-sama couldn't have done better."

"I know, Gama, I know..."

The giggling stopped abruptly.

"Did that frog just talk?!" one girl squealed out.

Almost in perfect synchronization Gama and Naruto made indignant squawks and pointed at the girl who had spoke.

"Toad, moron! Toad! Don't compare me to those inferior creatures!"

"Toad! Weren't you listening?!"

And the girls all broke out into giggles again. Man or not, this guy was a riot. Even Thalia had to stifle a giggle.

"Traveller."

All the giggling stopped and everyone's attention turned to the auburn haired girl. Naruto took a moment to get a better look at her. She had silver-yellow eyes. And she thought he had strange eyes? And now that his attention was focused on her, he realized what was weird.

"You're not human."

She shook her head.

"No, I am not. I am Artemis, Goddess of the Moon, maidens, chastity, childbirth, and the Hunt."

Naruto stared for a moment.

"Chastity and childbirth? How does that work?"

Artemis just shrugged.

"I wanted to help women, who were once the maidens I watched over, through the pain of it, and I became the goddess of it."

"That seems... convienent."

"Divinity is convienent."

"I guess, I wouldn't know. I've only ever fought demons before."

A hand gesture and a hardening of her eyes and the arrows were back. Gama took a moment to say 'bye, Aniki' before leaving.

"Demons?"

Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, I fought and killed the no-tail. Learned the names of the one through nine tails, and used their help to fight and re-seal the ten-tails. Which brings me to my next point."

Naruto pointed to the moon.

"Is the Dead Demon Statue up there in this world? It's the ten-tails' body."

"There are no demons like that here," Artemis said her voice still hard.

Naruto struck up a thinking pose, ignoring the arrows. Not like he couldn't substitue and leap away or simply be impervious because of Sage Mode. But then again, one of his possible advisaries was a goddess.

"Then why am I here? Sages fight demons, amongst other things," he mused aloud. He couldn't think of a reason. He shrugged and returned his attention to Artemis, who had been talking to him.

"-re you even listening to me?"

"I heard you. But the babbling of a brook means nothing to the roar of a river."

Artemis felt the urge to facepalm. Not another poet. Apollo was bad enough.

"Are you saying you weren't listening?"

"Yup."

Artemis drew a knife and fingered it. Men. Always so... ARGH!

"Well, I'm off to explore and travel somemore! Bye girls, bye Tsukiko-chan!"

And he poofed before even the first arrow hit him, leaving behind a... log?

"I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN NARUTO UZUMAKI!"

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A/N: If I were to write this I would have a scene where Artemis explains what demons are in the PJO universe. Essentially malevolent monsters of great power, similar to the gods. Intelligent, blah, blah, blah. No one knows where they come from, and they like to live in the deep places of the world, so Hades usually deals with them, but they do escape occasionally.

The time frame for this would be before they went all Roman. But after the battle with Kronos. At least for Naruto's entry. Percy would not be the main person form PJO Naruto interacts with for a while. The Hunters and the House of Hades would be. The hunters because Artemis feels Naruto is a threat(and is strangely attracted to him, much to her displeasure. He is a sage and she is a goddess of wild things, catch my drift? Nature, yo.) because he is obviously versed in some sort of demonology, and Nico because Hades sends his boy to deal with some disturbances in the Deep Places (not Tartarus, but the deep places at the edges of the Kingdom of the Dead) where Nico finds out that something has escaped. Nico and Naruto become friends.

Naruto ends up getting introduced to Hades(Who feels the residue of the Shinigami from the seal. Since Naruto is touched by death, Hades feels an initial trust which spirals into essentially employing Naruto), who eventually introduces him to the Olympians at large during the fight with the Giants.

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DC

Next thing Naruto knew he was falling. From a very high place. It was like that one time he was playing around with the Toad Leap and he leaped way high into the clouds. Which mean he had a long way to fall, because those were clouds below him.

So he rolled over on his back and pulled out a book to read while he fell.

Eventually he righted himself and prepared for a soft landing.

His landing wasn't soft. It was crunchy and clangy. He looked down from his book at what he had landed on. It seemed to be some sort of metal person.

"Ouch, sorry about that."

He stepped off the metal person and closed his book, tucking it away. Looking aroundhe spied... Another metal man, a man in a blue outfit with red underwear on the outside, and a very attractive blonde girl wearing a... slutty version of what the man in blue was wearing.

"Hi! Hope I'm not interupting anything!"

He turned and looked around, some of these buildings were so tall! Even taller than the towers in Kumo!

"Who are you?" the man in blue demanded.

"Uzumaki Naruto, Toad Sage of the Holy Mountain of the Exqusite Tree," he remarked off handedly, still craning his head up at these impossibly tall buildings, "Where am I?"

"Metropolis. Why are you here?"

"Dunno yet. Haven't had a chance to meditate on it."

With that Naruto began to wander away.

"Supergirl, deal with the new guy, we got Brainiac."

And now the very attractive blonde was in front of him. Did she just move faster than Lee with three gates open? Impressive.

"I'm sorry, can't just let you go. We gotta keep tabs on any new supers. Now, we can do this one of two wa- hey!"

Naruto began to wander off again. There was a huge natural signature, off to the north east. Many miles away. Supergirl, he thought her name was, tried to grab his arm and spin him to face her, but Naruto just danced out of her reach.

"I guess you chose the hard way."

She reared back and went to deliver a powerful punch to the back of his head, hoping to knock him out. Naruto ducked, span inside her guard and stood, his face inches from hers. His toad eyes bored into hers.

"Have I commited any crimes?"

Dropping from the sky and landing on Brainiac wasn't a crime.

"N-no."

"Then piss off before I get angry, I have better things to do than play with some untrained kid."

With that he began to wander off, yet again.

"Kid?!" Kara screeched indignantly, "You're not much older than I am!"

Naruto stopped and turned to face her.

"The first time I killed someone I was four. I was then drafted into my nation's military. Since then I have killed hundreds if not thousands. I have saved nations, destroyed innocence, saved the world, killed demons, and brought peace. To me, you, who obviously hasn't been stained yet, are nothing more than a child. Now, I have Sage things to do."

And Naruto leapt away, high above the citiy, off towards the natural signature. Supergirl shot after him after a moment. Right as she caught up to him, he threw something, and disappeared in a flash.

"Clark isn't going to like this. Neither is Batman."

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As he got closer to the signature he noticed a few things about it. It was female, and unbalanced. Almost like someone had been dipped in Toad Oil and was fighting the transformation to stone. Given his last run in with the native peoples of this world, Naruto opted to take the stealthy route around this... Gotham City.

The world here screamed in pain, like someone was rubbing salt in an open wound. This whole world seemed to be far more industrialized than back home and the world was suffering for it. This particular place seemed to be one of the worst places, judging from what the winds told him.

He found the source of the signature in a place called 'Arkham Asylum.' Their security was terrible. He ghosted around the place with out a care. He had seen cameras before and so was able to avoid them, and creative use of his sensei's invisiblity jutsu and surface walking kept him out of sight of all the inmates.

Eventually he found her, in a great big bubble cell. There was something reddish floating inside the air in there. He frowned and prepared himself for a stakeout.

A few days later, he went a little further and pilfered her records. Pamela Isley, aka Poison Ivy. A bio-chemical accident that resulted in her mutation into a plant-person-thing. She was an eco-terrorist, and had serious issues with men. Her accident had been caused by a man, and it had also rendered her unable to have children. Also after her transformation she released pheremones that had nearly caused a few sexual assualts (recorded inside of the asylum). And finally she said she could 'talk' with her 'babies.'

Definitely a case of terribly unbalanced chakras. The influx of not natural information coupled with her lack of training was probably driving her insane. He could fix that. Now he just had to wait.

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Batman was rather frustrated. After getting a call from Superman, he had been working almost full time to find this Naruto Uzumaki. It was either an alias, or, if what he said to Supergirl was true, he was a warrior/soldier from another world. He needed to find and take this man in.

"So, you're the 'Batman?'"

As Batman spun around, he heard the loud crunch of an apple being bitten into. There was a blonde man lounging on a few crates.

"And you are?"

Batman began to subtly move to activate the Batcave's security. How the cave had been breached, he had no idea.

"Uzumaki Naruto. Sage. And me, specifically, clone. And don't bother with the security, I'm not the boss. He's off somewhere waiting for the go."

"A clone? And who's your boss?"

"Yeah, a clone. And Uzumaki Naruto is. Don't you guys have clones here? Jeez. Anyways. The boss needs to spring Pamela Isley from Arkham. He thinks he can solve a lot of her problems. She needs sage training. The overflow of natural energies is part of the reason she's crazy."

"Ivy? She's staying right where she is. And eve-"

"Yeah, well, apparently you don't get it. Sage. Higher calling. People like you, Bruce Wayne, have your calling as Batman, people like the Boss, and soon, Pamela, go higher than that. You don't get a choice. I was just letting you know, so you could relax. She won't be committing any crimes on his watch."

"No, Ivy stays in Arkham."

The 'clone' just shook his head.

"You know, Bruce. You are a moron. World's greatest detective, my ass. How the world doesn't know who you are, I'll never know. Bye."

Batman hurled himself forward only to grasp smoke. The plop of the bitten apple and its chewed remains hit the floor. What in the...

Batman frowned. This 'sage' had infiltrated the Batcave, knew his identity, and even left evidence. He quickly collected it, before rushing off to Arkham.

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"Would you like to be normal again?"

The voice cut through her cell and startled Pamela.

"You have an imbalance of chakras, which is why you are so plant-like. I can teach you to fix that. You could be mostly normal again."

As she looked for the source of the voice and pumped out more pheremones, Pamela answered him.

"Mostly normal? Do explain."

"Stop with the pollen, just makes me sneeze. And mostly normal... You can't be normal again after what you've been through. But if you acheive balance, you'll be far more human, as well as more than human, than you are. You could live a normal life, get married, have children."

Pamela's voice hitched and she grew angry.

"I can never have children!"

"Not as you are. You are too much plant not enough woman. And if the situation isn't fixed you will eventually be nothing but a very smart plant. You are out of balance. If you can balance yourself, you will be human but with plant characteristics, just like me."

"You? You've had this?!" she gestured to her body, "happen to you?"

"Not become a plant, no. My price for failure was to turn into a toad statue. I have a contract with the Toad Spirits, so I have toad characteristics."

Then the man stepped out into her line of sight, from nothing. He looked normal, until she saw his eyes. They were captivating. He... he was captivating. He felt right. He felt natural. Like he belonged in nature.

"We don't have much time, Batman didn't take too kindly to me telling him to let me take you. I need your answer now."

Pamela thought very hard for a second. If this man was telling the truth, she could have children! She could be an eco-activist and not a terrorist. She hated quite a few men, but even she knew they were nessecary for procreation...

But she would be a fugitive again. On the run from the Bat.

"Ivy! Stay where you are!" she heard Batman roar as he broke into the cell and moved to take down the man with strange eyes. The man with toad's eyes just smiled and held out his hand. She took it and they were gone, leaving Batman grasping at air.

The Bat stood tall and left quietly as the guards flooded the detention block, responding to the cell comprimization. He smiled behind his breathing apparatus. He had managed to tag the man with a tracking device.

He dropped into the Batmobile's seat only to spot a note on his dash. On it was the small trackign device he had planted, minutes ago.

It read: Nice try, Bruce. But I was a jonin before I became a full Sage. To me, you're nothing but a genin.

It was signed with the Kanji for shinobi and the kanji for sage. Batman crumpled the note. How did this guy repetitively break through his security?

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A/N: I know it looks like a setup for NarutoXIvy but that isn't the setup in my head. I would get Naruto and Kara together. That's because Ivy is much older than Naruto and Naruto really hammered the 'you are my student' thing into her head. She's grateful and would love to get into it with him, but respects his choice. Very flirty. Causes problems when Kara decides to like Naruto. I'm not sure how I would get that to work, but I would try at least. If I couldn't NarutoXIvy it is.

Batman is good, no doubt. But he rarely fights against someone who has a similar skill set and is a 'meta-human.' He's used to overconfident crazies. To Naruto, who is the apprentice of a spy-master, a sage, and by the time in the naruto timeline he takes the plunge, a jonin. Naruto is very skilled at stealth and subterfuge, he just prefers to beat people's faces in.

Whenever I look at Superman/Supergirl I just feel that they're like Heracles. Lots of brawn. So much strength they brutalize everything in their path. Not a lot of technique. They know how to throw punches and stuff but compared to Naruto who has fought in a war, and been a ninja for most of his life... Well, they are untrained. Like super strong, flying, lazer eyeball civilians. Naruto has seen all of that before and can counter it. He has his own invulnerability, regeneration, and slight precognition, plus a huge bag of tricks. Then wind jutsu are straight unfair. A rasenshuriken to the face of Superman would put him out of commission for a long time.

Lets face it. Naruto is just brokenly powerful in every world but his own. You have to introduce him when he's young, with no sage mode, and no kyuubi in order for him to be just another face in the crowd who is a spotlight hog.