Alrighty, I think this is more than past due for an update, though don't expect this to be very long. I hope you all enjoy, and don't review unless you have an actual review. Update soon is a demand, and it does nobody any good.
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Naruto was taking a run around the city, granted he was running on rooftops, jumping over gaps and streets. He thought that he was already in the public's eye; he may as well go around in the day too. When he was fighting Spidey, some Parker guy at the Bugle took pictures of his fight with the Web-head. Trouble is, he only sensed one other person, and that was revealed to be Hammerhead. Apparently though, the Editor of the Daily Bugle spun the story as if he and Spider were working together. So Naruto was on a mission to meet this "J. Jonah Jameson" and set him straight, maybe get him to squeal about Peter Parker.
Naruto made a rather large leap, before landing on the roof of the Daily Bugle main office. Taking out a few low power exploding notes, he quickly placed them outside Jameson's office. He waited until the room was clear except for the egotistical bastard and detonated, knocking Jameson to the other side of his office. Shooting his tails into the room, he grabbed Jameson and brought him outside with him. Needless to say, the man was a little freaked out.
"Jameson, you little creep" said Naruto, squeezing the man a little harder. "I read your paper, and I must say I am shocked at all the lies in it."
"I have no idea what you're talking about" said Jameson, trying desperately to escape.
"Don't lie to me, Jameson" replied Naruto. "You wrote that Spidey and I were working together. That is a vile and odious lie. However, something in the paper caught my eye. This photographer, Peter Parker…what do you know about him?"
"Parker? He takes pictures of Spiderman for me. He works freelance, but I don't know much more than that!" shouted Jameson.
"Do you know where to find him?" asked Naruto casually.
"No, I have no id-" Jameson was suddenly feeling the squeeze increase, threatening to crush bones.
"Now what did I just say? Don't lie to me Jameson, I have little patience for those who do…" said Naruto, leaving the threat hanging.
"All right" said Jameson. "He's a student at Midtown Manhattan Magnet High School. You can find him there. Now please let me go…" pleaded Jameson.
"Ohh, very poor choice of words" said Naruto, smirking, before releasing Jameson from his grip, letting the man plummet. Jameson screamed as he fell to the ground below. As he neared the ground, he shut his eyes, preparing for impact, before he hit…his office floor. He looked around, before running to the gaping hole in his wall, seeing Fox dropping to the ground, before vanishing. Several people quickly dashed into his office, losing their fear now that Fox was gone.
"Somebody get me Parker" said Jameson. "NOW!" he shouted when nobody moved.
School was just getting out, Peter walking to his locker with his friend Harry Osborn. Suddenly though, Peter's cell phone rang, forcing him to cut his conversation short. On the other end of the line, Peter instantly recognized the voice of him employer.
"Parker! I suggest you get out of that school now" said Jameson.
"What? School's just getting out. You have a job for me or something?" asked Peter.
"No, I don't have a job for you. But if you don't leave that school, you'll never work again…at least not in this life!" the man shouted.
"Whoa whoa, what are you talking about?" asked Peter.
"The freak Fox was here, he was looking for you, and he knows where you go to school" said Jameson, making Peter's eyes widen.
"What? How did he find out?" said Peter.
"I have no idea" replied Jameson, before Peter heard Jameson mutter obscenities and a rather audible "OUCH".
"Alright, alright" he said. "I may have told him. The guy had me dangling out the new window he created in my office. The point is that you need to get out of there, because he could be there at any time."
"Wow Mr. Jameson, I didn't know you cared" said Peter.
"Parker, just shut up and get out of the building!" shouted Jameson, before Peter's spider-sense fired and the door at the end of the hallway blew off its hinges, flying down the hall at high speeds. It was a miracle nobody was severely injured. Peter looked over to the end of the hall to see Fox walk in casually, before chatting up the student.
"Hello all!" he said. "I don't mean to be rude, but I need to find someone. Is Peter Parker here? You know, takes the pictures of Spiderman for the Daily Bugle. Anyone know where he is? Anyone? Don't be shy now."
Naruto suddenly felt something break over his back. Turning around, he saw a group of what looked to be Jocks, all armed with makeshift weapons. The one he had felt was a baseball bat, which was now broken on the floor. Using one of his tails, he slammed all four in the group against a row of lockers, keeping them pinned.
"Now then, back to business. Peter Parker!" Can Peter come out to play with me?" he shouted in a bored voice.
"Who…what are you?" Naruto turned to see a red-haired boy, backed up against the lockers, next to a brown-haired boy. There was something about the brown-haired, but Naruto couldn't place it. Reaching with another of his tails, he wrapped it around the Red-head's throat. Not enough to choke him, but tight enough to hoist him in the air without dropping him.
"I'm the one who may turn murderer if Peter Parker doesn't show himself" replied Naruto. "And who might you be?" The boy grabbed his tail and tried to pry it off. Surprisingly, he actually got close to freeing himself. The kid was strong for lacking visible muscles.
"Ha-Harry Osborn" replied the boy, and Naruto seemed to brighten.
"Well well, you're Norman Osborn's kid. When you get home later, tell your father he may want to tighten security around the research and development department. I like a challenge" said Naruto, releasing him from his grip. He then turned back to the boy with brown hair.
"You know…there is something about you that strikes me as very familiar…Have I threatened you before?" he asked, getting a head shake in the negative. "I ever steal from you?" he asked, once more getting a negative head shake in response. "You're Peter Parker aren't you?" This time Naruto got no response, indicating he had more or less just hit the nail on the head. "Yes" he said, grabbing Peter, "We have a winner." In the time it took most people to blink, both had vanished.
Both Naruto and Peter appeared on top of one of the many skyscrapers that filled New York. While Peter appeared frightened beyond belief, Naruto could tell he was acting. Reading people was what he did, he could tell if a person was sincere or not.
"You can cut the crap kid, I know you're not scared of me" said Naruto.
"What are you talking about?" asked Peter, and Naruto finally realized why he was so familiar. It was the voice that gave it away.
"Well well, so the Spectacular Spiderman and his paparazzi are one in the same. I must say, I'm impressed that nobody has figured it out yet. So…you like your new web shooters?" asked Naruto.
Peter sighed; he knew his cover was blown. "What are you going to do to me? For that matter, what have you done to me?" he asked.
"Simple" replied Naruto. Whatever mutation you possess has merely been increased. Hence your new organic web shooters. I'm more interested in how you managed to snap those pictures while fighting me. What do you do, set these things up beforehand? Are you psychic or something?"
"Why so glum, chum?" asked Naruto after seeing Peter freaking out about him knowing his identity. "What, you think I'm gonna shout it to the heavens? Go after your friends and family, no. Listen, I'm not even in this city for you…I'm here for two reasons."
"And I'm guessing one of them is in the Oscorp R&D department" said Peter.
"Oh, very good Spider, very good" replied Naruto. "You never did answer my question on how you liked your wrist-webs."
"You know, they actually work great. But I can't help but feel like there's something off with me now" replied Peter.
"Well, that's to be expected" said Naruto.
"Why do you play the thief?" asked Peter, catching Naruto off guard.
"Why? Why not?" shot back Naruto.
"You have a power that could be used to help people, yet you use it for fun and for thievery. I want to know why" replied Peter.
"Look kid. You and I are not so different. There is however one major difference between us" replied Naruto.
"And what's that?" asked Peter.
"After so long playing the hero…" sighed Naruto, "I came to my senses. Maybe you should too. No matter what you do, in spite of everything you've done for people, eventually, it always ends the same, they dislike you, and you get no gratification."
"So what's the other reason?" asked Peter.
"Hmm, what?" asked Naruto.
"You said you were here for two reasons. What's the other?" he asked.
"Oh, now you see that one's a secret. You'll find out eventually" said Naruto, going to the edge of the building. When he was about to hop off, he stopped.
"So, did you ever check out the Xavier Institute?" he asked.
"I looked into it, but it doesn't seem so special. I was going to ask one of the ESU professors if they knew anything about it" replied Peter.
"Good. While I'm not too popular there, I can put in a good word for you if you want to check it out" said Naruto, hopping off the building. Peter watched as Naruto waved before disappearing in the way that he does.
Peter merely sighed, before shooting a web line and swinging back to school, before getting home. It was probably all over the gossip grape vine that he had been taken, which means that parents probably knew, which means that if she hadn't heard, his Aunt May would be terrified at his being kidnapped.
"Oh man, things just keep getting better and better" he said to himself.
Phoenix looked up from her magazine to see Naruto enter the Hotel room, carrying a bag of some sort. He walked into the bathroom and she could hear the water running.
"Hey Naruto, you OK?" she called, only for him to come out of the bathroom, once more carrying the bag.
"Yeah I'm fine" said Naruto casually, slinging the bag over his shoulder.
"Well, you should have been back here about an hour ago. What took you so long? You have any trouble finding Parker?" she asked.
"Nope, and babe, you are not gonna believe what I have to tell you. Parker doesn't just take pictures of Spidey, he is Spidey" said Naruto.
"Oh that is too good" said Phoenix. "But I'm gonna guess that's not the reason you're late."
"Correct. I was actually relaxing, when some freak named Mesmero tried to get me to free something called Apocalypse" said Naruto.
"And?" asked Phoenix, looking for more.
"This is his head" said Naruto, pulling the severed head of the man out of his bag. "You mind?" he asked, getting a nod from Phoenix before the head was destroyed, dissolving into millions of pieces before evaporating into the air.
"So, your first kill…my little mate is growing up" said Phoenix, getting a chuckle.
"Yeah well, you have to start somewhere that isn't yourself" replied Naruto.
"Plus if you're going to hunt down the HYDRA members, it would be beneficial if you knew how to kill them. You know though, I never saw you as a decapitation kind of guy" said Phoenix, lying down on their hotel bed.
"Oh really? What kind of killer did you see me as?" asked Naruto.
"I don't know. You always struck me as someone who would prefer impaling people on large, sharp objects" she replied.
"Well, that's oddly specific" said Naruto, hopping into bed with her.
"Yeah well, you'd be surprised" she said, rolling on top of him, locking lips.
"Really? Well, surprise me" said Naruto as she once more challenged him to a battle of the tongues.
"Aunt May, I'm fine, and it's good money!" said Peter. Once his Aunt had heard about his day, she spent the rest of hers attempting to get him to stop taking photos for the Bugle.
"I don't care if the money is that good. It's you that I'm worried about Peter" she said. "Now, it's your choice, but I at least want you to think about it" said May.
"Ok, I'll think about it" sighed Peter. He knew that May Parker was not about to give up so easily, but at least this would be a nice reprieve.
"Thank you. Now, would you like something to eat?" she asked, walking toward the kitchen.
"No thanks Aunt May, I'm not really hungry" said Peter, heading up to his room.
"Well, alright. I'm going out tonight with Anna Watson. If you get hungry at all, there are leftovers in the fridge" said May, before getting her coat, heading toward the door.
"Alright Aunt May, I'll see you later!" called Peter, already in his room, throwing on his costume.
"Ok, good-bye Peter" he heard before the door closed. Pulling his mask on, he got to his window, and when the coast was clear he launched into the night. He wasn't expecting anything to happen, as things had been extremely quite lately. He hadn't even heard anything from the Green Goblin in a few weeks. But he really needed to clear his head, get his mind around everything that had happened since the night before.
He had indeed asked Dr. Connors about Charles Xavier. Apparently the man was one of the greatest experts on genetics and human mutation in the world. So why would a man like that set up an institute for the gifted, unless of course "gifted" meant something more than intelligent. That had to be it. Whatever Xavier was doing, he was doing it in secret and his students were like himself. He had to see if he could get in touch with the man.
And Fox seemed to know a lot about the place. Was he a student there at some point? It was all so confusing. As he swung, he heard an alarm go off further away. Looking around, he found it was some normal, every-day bank robbers. Easy enough. Throughout the night, that was about all he got was just normal criminals. With all the super-criminals running around those days, Peter was a little relieved.
Until of course his Spider-sense flared and he quickly moved, just in time to avoid a pumpkin bomb, courtesy of the Green Goblin.
"Well Darn. I missed" said Goblin in an almost playful tone.
"You know, I'm really not in the mood Gobby, why don't you find a Halloween festival or something" said Peter, slightly irritated that his for the most part peaceful night was now ruined.
"Well, I would love to be the newspaper to your bug tonight Spidey, I have other business" replied Gobby. "Word through the grapevine is that Fox is robbing Oscorp. This, I've got to see." With that, he laughed as he soared through the sky on his glider, heading for the Oscorp R&D building. Peter suddenly remembered what Fox had told Harry about, and quickly spun a web to try and stop Fox. Whatever he wanted in there, it meant trouble for everyone else.
Chapter end.
Ok, I've downgraded to a short chapter, but I came up with a new idea, and it gave me writer's block for this, so now I have to work on that. Hope you enjoyed.
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