Chapter 10: Reunion or Revenge…
(Opening A/N: Here it is guys, the climactic finale to the first arc. And as promised, I will be bringing in the first girl to Naruto's harem in my next chapter. Plus it's time to have the unhappy reunion. Plus for those who might be curious about Black Lagoon, which hands down is my alpha anime...check this site out on youtube, watch?v=dBz90Rp4I7c. So without further ado, here's the dramatic conclusion to the first arc.)
As soon as Red Hood captured the Joker, he began to chuckle about what the Red Hood had in store for the clown prince of crime.
"So, what do you want to do first since you invited me to this little slumber party, a game of charades, maybe a little truth or dare. Oh, I pick dare!" Joker said in an excited tone of voice, but when Red Hood unzips the duffel bag and pulls out a crowbar, that's when the Joker changed his tone again. "Or maybe I should stick with truth." Joker added.
Red Hood began to swing the blunt force object and struck the Joker a few times with it giving the clown a taste of his own medicine.
"How does that feel?" Red Hood asked, and the Joker was grunting about getting hit like that.
"You know, it kinda hurts when I laugh. Hehehehe-cough, cough!" The Joker was coughing up a small amount of blood. "So tell me, why do you remind me of someone so familiar, did we go to the school dance together?" Joker asked, and Red Hood shook his head no along with tapping the crowbar against his hand.
"Actually, I'm just something you helped make." Red Hood stated, and this just amused Joker.
"Very cryptic." Joker added, Red Hood then tossed the clown into a closet and had his focus on Batman.
[Batman makes the scene at crime alley…]
As soon as the Batwing got to crime alley, Batman got out and saw the spot where he first met Naruto. He could remember when Naruto tore the tires off the batmobile and Bruce was surprised about what happened, and that was when he first met a scared yet very street wise Naruto Uzumaki.
"Surprised Bruce, this was the first of your greatest failures now it's about to become two." Red Hood stated as he pulled out a handful of shurikens and tossed them at Batman luckily Bruce dodged them and he placed a pair of rocket thrusters on a nearby dumpster sending it to the Red masked vigilante. Red Hood then dodged the dumpster using a grappling hook and landed on a roof. Bruce also did the same thing with his grappling hook landing in front of Red Hood. Red Hood without warning, flew a series of punches and kicks. Bruce dodged and blocked them, and tried to connect some of his own. But Red Hood blocked one of his punches and he pulls out a knife then cuts off Batman's utility belt. Batman then grabbed his belt before it hit the ground.
"Look, we don't need to do this, I mean I knew what happened to you." Bruce said, and it turns out that Red Hood didn't want anything to do with Bruce anymore.
"Do you really think that you can talk your way back to me, you're just too blind to see the truth." Red Hood stated, and he tossed a bomb at Bruce causing him to go flying onto the church rooftop as Red Hood joins him then he grabs and removes the cowl from the Dark Knight.
"Now you see who I am." Bruce stated, and there was a moment of brief silence and Red Hood tosses the cowl back to Bruce.
"Maybe we should keep it fair." Red Hood said, and he pressed a button on top of the mask and removes it. The figure that was the Red Hood had spiky blonde hair, a domino mask hiding a pair of blue eyes, he also had a chubby complexion in his face along with having his signature three whisker marks on his cheeks. Bruce couldn't believe his eyes it was his old partner, Naruto Uzumaki.
"Naruto please, we can help you." Bruce insisted, but Naruto refused, he didn't want to put up with any more of Bruce's so called "lies."
Deep down, Naruto knew that Bruce was the only thing in the world that he needed, a father figure. And he had been a bit of a rebellious son, was it the Lazarus pit that made him who he is, or was it something else? There were so many questions needing to be answered, but Naruto chose to be who he is right now. A gun toting anti-heroic vigilante who is not afraid to kill in the name of justice.
"No, I can't this is my life now. I'm not the same from when you remembered me before." Naruto stated and Bruce threw a punch at Naruto and he blocked it. But Naruto knew that he was going to use one of his gadgets.
"Well looks like we're a couple of walking armories there Bruce." Naruto added, then Bruce pulls out an incendiary device and tosses it onto Naruto's leather jacket, the jacket began to burn and Naruto quickly took it off.
"Let's see if you can last without your toys." Bruce said, and he needed to have his mentor follow him to the spot where he hid the Joker. So Naruto fired a grappling line and Bruce grabbed onto him as the two landed onto a ledge where they exchanged fists and Bruce connects a punch with Naruto's face where he went flying into an abandoned apartment building. Bruce continued to beat up Naruto until he took Naruto's head and slammed it into the bathroom wall breaking tiles and Naruto took one of the broken tiles and cut Bruce's suit at the chest. He then tosses Naruto into the living room.
"It doesn't have to be like this." Bruce said, and that's when Naruto said this…
"You think that taking a dip in Ra's fountain of youth turned me into a rabid dog? Or was it something else? Look Bruce, I forgive you for not rescuing me, but why? Why on God's earth is he still alive?!" Naruto snapped as he kicked the door which contained the injured Joker and he began to cackle.
"Got to give the boy points, he came all the way back from the dead to make this shindig happen." Joker stated, "Oh, we should get pictures, how about one with me and the boy, one with all three of us, and one with me and the crowbar?" Joker asked, and Naruto points his gun at the clown.
"Quiet you, or I'll put one through your leg." Naruto said, and he was going to back up that promise.
"Party pooper, no cake for you." Joker replied, and Bruce didn't want anything bad to happen to either Naruto or the Joker.
"Look, I'm not talking about killing Penguin or Dent, just him. All the families he's ruined and all the graves he filled, if it was you, Kiba or Hinata, I'd hunt this son of a bitch down to the ends of the Earth." Naruto said, but Bruce refused to kill Joker.
"Look Naruto, if I did kill Joker, if I did go and break his neck...then I won't be able to come out of it. The same way you fell in and couldn't be able to come out." Bruce said, Naruto then tossed one of his pistols to Bruce but he drops it as a way of saying "I refuse to kill."
"You gotta make a choice Bruce, him or me. Him, or me!" Naruto stated, and he cocked the hammer on his pistol about to shoot the Dark Knight but he dodged the bullet at the last second and he tossed a well placed batarang at the barrel of the gun jamming it and when Naruto tried to shoot again but the gun exploded wounding poor Naruto.
"Well bats, you rootin' tootin' Goth loving eagle eyed Marksman." Joker said, but Naruto activated a bomb and Bruce tried to deactivate it but the Joker didn't want it to be defused. "Don't bats, this is much better, I'll be getting what he wants. BIG BANG BOOM!" Joker said and he grabs the Injured Naruto and before the bomb explodes, Naruto escapes and Bruce began to dig through the rubble for the Joker. The Joker was cackling about what had happened and he was sent back to Arkham Asylum. And it turns out that Black Mask made $1 million bail and got out of jail easily. Bruce then looked at Naruto's Robin suit and Alfred stood right behind him knowing that some things never changed.
"Should I take that down for you sir?" Alfred asked, and Bruce didn't want it taken down since it brought him good memories of when Naruto was Robin the boy wonder.
[Bruce's memory…]
Bruce was knowing that Naruto was lurking around and it was time for them to go out on patrol.
"Naruto, I'm not sure how you're going to handle out on the field, besides, I'm going to go out on patrol without you." Bruce said and young Naruto jumped out from behind the computers trying to get the drop on Bruce.
"Yeah, this is cool. Check me out, I'm Robin the boy wonder." Naruto said, and thus concludes the memory of Bruce.
[Meanwhile with Naruto/Red Hood…]
Naruto had a spare mask, jacket and his signature pistols as well and he was about to go onto a submarine which contained Russian terrorists willing to do harm to not only the US but to any allies willing to stand by their side, and Naruto has his work cut out for him.
[Thus ends Arc #1]
(A/N: Well guys, the first arc is complete and onto the second. And if I could use a meme right now, it'd be NAILED THE FIRST ARC, LIKE A BOSS! Be sure to drop a review, and let's make this interesting, I hope to get at least 100+ faves and/or follows or at least 50+ reviews to make this my alpha story. The reason why I added the Black Lagoon youtube site, it's for anyone who's a fan of action anime. Even though it's not everybody's cup of tea *Even though it's mine* So until the next chapter, this is the master of chaos, the commander of the legion of corpses BloodyDemon666 signing off!)