OniRudra presents:
A Death Dog
I do not own Naruto, Teen Titans, or anything else that appears in this fiction. So read this and enjoy.
Chapter 11,.
The black limo turned down the side street, heading away from the highway. It headed for central Manhattan. It made a large swerve as the traffic went from bearable to terrible. It finally rode to a stop in front of a very ornate and expensive office building.
Naruto got out from the car, his normal outfit gone. He thought due to the gravity of the situation he should come more formal, so after pulling off several small bank robberies he got his present outfit together.
He wore shined black loafers, the crease of his grey slacks breaking in place right over the edge of the shoes. He wore a black belt, with a tucked in white shirt. His gloves in place, as was his ring and his watch showing in his front pocket. The suit jacket covered his broad shoulders barely, but enough to let things work for easy maneuverability. He had his goggles replaced by a pair of black lensed sunglasses. His hair washed and tied back in its normal ponytail. All in all he thought he looked like some kind of accountant from Australia, and it annoyed the holy hell out of him.
He watched as two small men came up to him, one he knew. It was Mr. Togoshan, the other man had close cut red hair, and looked at Naruto as if he might be carrying a secret grenade or something. Naruto walked up to the man who smiled and clapped him on the shoulder.
"Young man you made it, I hope the ride wasn't to long for your comfort?" Naruto shook his head as they headed inside the building to its lobby.
Marble and gold dominated this room. The room's layout was simple. One large ornate desk at the back, waiting area to the side and the opposite wall dominated by a holo-projection screen that was apparently running on a loop, the screen showed a flashing image of the same insignia on the card, but the words are something that confused Naruto
"Here at Fisk Industries, we believe that to do something right in a situation, you must go to the very farthest to find people that have the experience and the ethic the job itself requires." Naruto stood there as he recognized the voice from the man on the phone, and for some confusing reason had the feeling that a very powerful man was here to meet him. He shook this out of his head and entered into elevator with Mr. Togoshan, the other man staying beside the elevator door.
Naruto leaned back against the wall, listening to the rapidly rising and falling crescendo of the Classical elevator music. He looked up at the black plate of glass that read he was now on the top floor, and he could feel sweat go down his neck. The blonde didn't like heights, that's why he chose a demonic form without wings, if people wanted to be this high up, it was usually so they could throw someone from it. Well that was the reasoning usually in his experience, having been thrown from several penthouses himself. The wind rushing through his face wasn't so bad; it was the landing that hurt like hell. He grimaced at the remembrance as the doors opened.
Naruto walked out and looked at the hallway, it was liked it was a clone of what they had just seen below. Except the screen was now showing images of places around the world. He walked up to the desk as Togoshan bowed and said he couldn't stay. He nodded and went to the receptionist.
"You are Mr. Fisk's nine o'clock; very good you're right on time. I will motion for you to go in please just take a seat." Naruto nodded as he sat down and crossed his left leg over his right as he pulled out his watch.
His watch didn't tell time to a level normal people could. As it flicked open he looked at the stars moving across the screen and the arcane symbols rotating slowly around the center and the outer rings, he sighed and looked out the large window to his right; Nicholas was perched on the stone and watching the room with an observant eye. It wasn't he didn't trust this Kingpin; he just had been killed too many times to warrant no defense from possible attacks.
"Mr. Fisk will see you now sir." Naruto nodded and walked over to the door as the young woman behind the desk pressed a button. Naruto took a deep breath and entered the room.
Naruto looked at the beautiful architecture of the room, more marble and gold obviously, but also with several raised pedestals that held a wide variety of objects. He thought he could see what looked like the mask of the god of wealth in southern India; he was about to further look at the collection when a voice boomed out.
"Ahh the young man is here, you have impeccable timing young man, and I admire that in a person." Naruto turned to face the voice and felt his gut drop.
The man was of titanic proportions, he was at least eight feet by how he dwarfed Naruto, and his body was rather large and as it looked heavy. Naruto wondered if this was the legendary kingpin or if this man was just making a joke, till he saw the man relaxed stance.
He knew by looking at the man that he wasn't fat, it was all muscle. His stance showed that he knew several martial arts by the way he had his upper body loosened but his legs were like chunks of steel. Even though Naruto had not used any of his ninja abilities in years, he had the inkling that if this man ever came after him, he would need every ounce of his power and knowledge to withstand the force this man held at his disposal.
He dressed much like someone with money would. He wore black shoes, burgundy slacks covering his legs. His white jacket seemed to cover a vest and a silk shirt. Naruto saw that the man had some sort of diamond pin on his jacket. He had a cane underneath his arm as he pulled out a cigar and lit it.
He was bald, his eyes were small, not beady but they noticed everything, which Naruto was sure of. His white skin was somewhat tanned, like he had done it once a long time ago, but then just lost track of it over the years.
Fisk looked at the boy. He was exceptionally young, but if what Togoshan said was true, the boy would perhaps have the physical strength to match him. 'This will take a test to determine it seems.' The man thought as Naruto headed over to him and sat down across from him.
"I was saying how you have excellent timing young man." Naruto nodded as he sank into the leather of the chair across the desk.
"I hope to find that you learn that I don't like to keep people waiting sir." The man nodded as he sat down on the corner of his desk, laying his cane on it beside him. The boy obviously didn't dress like this normally, he seemed too uptight.
"You said you were interested in a job young man?" Naruto nodded as he picked up a file and looked it over. He handed it to the boy who looked it over.
"I think that this will be an excellent test to see if you will be useful to me, this is a gym that I own, but it works under individual management. The owner is a man know as Hammer, and he owes me money for the basic utilities and such for this month. I would like you to go collect, I know he has it and he knows he has it. The simple fact now is to send someone who can take care of it. I would like to see if you can take care of it; your payment will be sent to a bank account of your choosing should you succeed. Is this alright?" Naruto nodded as he got up and noticed something before he left.
"Mr. Kingpin, I don't have a bank account. I have kept myself rather hidden for my life, and an account is a very easy way for someone to track another." Fisk looked at the young man, before nodding.
"We will have to fix that young man, I will see to it that you have one here in New York, and one for yourself in Jump City, they will be taken care of by my own accountants if you would prefer?"
Naruto nodded as he headed for the door, "Mr. Kingpin, you will have your money by the end of today, this is my given word." Naruto said as the elevator doors shut, and it lowered out of sight, the blonde never loosing eye contact with the giant.
"That is a most impressive young man Togoshan, perhaps if he proves useful you should get a percentage of his earnings as a finder's fee, hmm?" The Asian man nodded from the corner and bowed, off to complete his scheduled duties.
'This young man intrigues me greatly, let us see if he can deliver though, after all the best weapon is nothing if dulled.' The man thought as he sat in his chair and continued puffing on his cigar.
Jump City, California…
In the outskirts of the city, where the river met the desert, three figures emerged shade like out of the ground. The leading one was inhumanly tall, clothed in a black tattered and burned cloak, which covered everything except his pallid blue and gray arms. He looked at the city and hissed.
The other two were human looking, except for the ridiculously pale skin and hair. One was female the other was male. One was dressed in a miniskirt, knee pads, sandals, a zip up top, a knife on her lower back, and a pouch around her leg. She wore black gloves and elbow pads. She had green eyes mixed with red, her normally pink hair several shades lighter.
The male was dressed in a similar style of garb: sandals, shin pads, loose pants, and a sash, a purple bow wrapped around his waist holding a black flaming choukato. His chest covered with a white tunic like shirt that was also loose on him. His eyes were odd as they were red with spinning coma like marks, red cracks forming in the commas. His normally black hair was also a shade paler.
The two shared a feature; they had long canines, long enough to pass their bottom lips. They gazed at the city in a hunger, a hunger for its blood.
"Nowww myyy chiilderen, we must wait patiently for the sun to finish seting then we may begin our hunt, and you may feast." The figure said as the female groaned, and the male called back in retaliation.
"Why must we wait? The dobe isn't going to be able to stop us, he was the weakest when he was alive, and even if he had all this time to become powerful he still can't beat us!" The figure fell to the ground as the black wraith motioned and a ring of fire went around his neck. The girl growled at him as she tried to pry the fire off of the male.
"You will wait because I say! I was chosen for this, not you miserable corpses! I have a score to settle with this demon, and I will get the respect that I demand from my servants! Now go sulk in your corner till you are needed!" The two fledglings looked at the man in fury as they did what they were told. They would kill that miserable entity before their time was done.
At the tower…
Raven sat in the ops room reading a book from the set she had bought at the store. Naruto had been gone all day, and she had the darkest feeling that he would be getting into trouble about right now. She shrugged and went back to the book, a love story between a demon and a sorceress who enchanted him, and began to plot ideas.
In New York's slums…
Naruto looked up at the room as he saw large men beating punching bags all around him, he cringed his nose as he smelt it.
This place reeked of sweat, shallow pride and testosterone. He looked around until a large man punched a smaller one out of a ring with an uppercut.
'I'll bet my pocket watch that's my guy.' He thought as he saw the man walk over to a barrel and pull out bottle of water and threw the defeated man a towel.
"Clean yourself up Shark, your fight was pathetic. I have gotten better hits from my grandmother; she was a better grappler than you." The man known as shark lowered his head as the rest of the group laughed at him till everything went quiet and everyone noticed the blonde standing in the doorway. The man he thought was Hammer looked up with a smile, causing his already dark skin to flush to a pale brown.
"Hey kid, little tykes karate is down the street, take a left and you will find it." Hammer said as Naruto grinned.
"That's nice of you, but I am here to pick up the payment you owe Mr. Kingpin for this month, and I am kind of in a hurry." Hammer looked at the blonde in surprise as he snorted.
"Fisk sent you? Poor guys going a bit fuzzy in the head if he thinks I will give my money to you, Boys grab him and show him the Bronx way of exiting a room."
The driver of the limo was leaning against the hood, reading a magazine as Naruto was thrown headfirst out and into a group of trashcans.
Naruto pulled himself up; throwing away a destroyed trash can lid and looked to his right, an eighty year old man holding a garbage bag and looking at his trashcans with concern then the blonde who had demolished them.
"Sorry," Naruto said as he smacked the inside of them and made the metal return to its ordinary shape as the man put away his trash and walked on his porch to watch the show in his opinion.
Naruto walked up to the driver and looked at the man, "He knew that hammer wasn't going to pay was he." The man nodded as he flipped a page and continued reading. Naruto growled and threw his suit jacket on the car, and rolling up the sleeves of his shirt as he walked back into the gym.
"Boss he is back, want to make him fly again?" Hammer waved to them as he was refereeing a match till he heard two thuds and turned back to see two of his boys on the ground and the blonde popping his fingers.
"I think I said I was in a hurry, Mr. Hammer. Now pay up or you can join them." Hammer wondered where Kingpin got this kid as he snapped and the blonde was surrounded by a group of grapplers. He snapped again and the charged.
Naruto wasted no time and began punching with a fury, knocking each man out with a single punch. The flashiest dodged its punch but Naruto had grabbed him by his wife beater and tossed him into a group of ten, getting a strike.
Hammer looked at the kid in down right fear. Twenty two of the Bronx's toughest fighters and the kid had wiped the floor with all of them, Hammer pulled the money out of his leather jacket by the door and tossed the envelope to the kid who left hammer to clean up his mess.
Several city sectors away…
Fisk watched this with joy, the boy was remarkable. He pulled no punches, but stopped them just short of lethal power. He must have the blonde's services, or the other crime lords were bound to hear, or the villains in Gotham would come looking for him, and he would loose a piece that would be a rook in this chess game of power. He would talk to the blonde after he had some time to rest, and then they could come to some sort of agreement.
In a helicopter, flying southwest…
Naruto sat in one of the kingpin's very plush choppers. He hadn't been able to deliver the money in person, Togoshan had done that, he was too tired, not the fighting, he lived for that. It was the damn negotiating, it was fucking torture, it just wasn't worth it to talk business when one of the parties had the mindset to just be pointed in the right direction and cause general mayhem.
He looked at the receipt for his services that the secretary had given him, which was a lot of zeros. He would use it to buy something he had been thinking to getting around to but never had; now there was no reason not to. 'Raven will probably not be very happy with me when I tell her what I have planned for this, but it was going to happen sooner or later. At least I hoped she knew it would. Why the hell can't anything be peaceful? Oh well at least the flight is nice.' He thought as they were coming in to land where the airport was.
With the kill Naruto brigade…
"Sasuke-kun I smell him he is in that metal bird, now you just need to shoot it down and we can finally eat!" The Uchiha smirked as he made hand seals, their summoner watching from a cave a little higher up; giving them the excuse that there was something he needed before he fought the Death Dog, whoever the hell that was.
"Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu!" He said as a massive stream of fire shot towards where Naruto was walking towards a building the metal bird already departed.
Naruto stopped as he saw a flash of light in the distance. He pushed the thought out of his mind immediately.
'No way in hell that's what I think it is, I just need a nice long shower.' Naruto didn't finish his thought after that as the ground behind him exploded and he went skidding forwards, flipping to gain his balance and turn to the hill where he saw something that made him wish he had used bigger chains.
There stood Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Two of the most annoying pains in the asses he had ever the misfortune to deal with, and what's worse they were using ninja techniques when he lost that ability with his death. He gulped as they smiled and began a charge down to where he stood, the ground a fire all round him.
"Well that little job for kingpin did just kind of itch that scratch I needed to kill something, I just hope I can finish before Raven finds out I am back or her team comes to investigate." Naruto said as the two stopped at the edge of the ring of fire and smiled, both speaking to him.
"Hello Naruto how have you been since our death?" He frowned as he threw away the now ruined suit jacket, knowing raven was going to strangle him for it.
"I'll be a lot better when I put you two in a hole where even your fingers can't find your ignorant asses to scratch." Sakura's chilling smile faded as Sasuke anger seemed to be boiling over.
"Strong words dobe, but you haven't a chance against the pair of us. Hell I am surprised that they needed two of us to get rid of something as pitiful and weak as you. Kind of sickens me."
Naruto's smile disappeared as well as he looked around, and noticed no humans to get caught in the crossfire and sent a mental message to Nicholas to tell Raven to ignore this, that it was just a little disagreement. He watched as his bird flew off and turned to the newly created Nosferatu.
His eyes began to narrow as his head lengthened and sprouted moon looking symbols across his skin. He looked at the pair as claws shot from his hands, scaring Sakura and enraging Sasuke that the blonde ad new power as well.
"Now that the old teams all here, let me correct the mistake I made all those years ago, and make sure I kill you both and that you stay dead!" He then leapt forward as Sasuke and Sakura both lunged for his throat.