To reward MOST of your patience, here is chapter eleven of Kitsune: Son of Catwoman.
Question: One lump or two?
Disclaimer: Bonesboy15! This is the FBI, come out with the legal rights of the DC universe and Naruto in your hands, above your head! The door's opening, everyone take aim! Wait! What the hell is that thing? FIRE! FIRE! KILL IT-AHHH!
Episode 11: Growing Up
-Selena Kyle's Residence, 11:23AM-
"I am this close to cutting your favorite limb off!" Selena shouted at Naruto. The blonde flinched and sunk into his chair. Selena glared at him as she continued her rant, "Do you know how worried I've been about you? Gone for two days straight? Skipping school? For what? To discover that you've been sleeping with Supergirl! Of all the girls you could be with, you chose Supergirl?"
"And what's wrong with me?" Kara snapped back with her eyes flashing red, threatening to shoot lasers from them. Naruto placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Nothing is wrong with you, Kara," he reassured her before looking up at Selena, "Selena-"
"Don't you dare try and back out of this one, Naruto Kyle!" Selena snapped with a glare locked on the blonde. Naruto sunk back down into his chair again, losing most of the hope of this going smoother than it was.
"What's this about you calling out the Joker?" Selena yelled, "I know I raised you to be smarter than this!"
"Selena..."
"Killing the Ventriloquist and now all of Gotham's cops are after you!"
"Selena."
"Did I neglect to mention Batgirl and Artemis showing up at my doorstep looking for you, as in, they know who you are!"
"What?" Kara asked as her eyes narrowed in anger. Her two comrades needed a small wake up call, Kryptonian style.
"Selena!" Naruto kept trying to get her attention.
"And you expect me to let you move out? You're only seventeen, Naruto! Add those other problems and you'd be in jail by the end of the week! If I even thought for one second-"
"MOM!" Naruto shouted, making the house go dead quiet. Selena stopped in her rant and looked at him with wide eyes. The blonde looked down at the table, slightly ashamed of shouting, and continued softly, "I...I don't know what I was thinking when I killed Walter! I-I didn't want Joker to hurt any of my friends! So I sent him a message, ya know, like Croc would. And this thing with Kara...I don't know what the fuck is going on, Selena and I'm...I'm scared."
Selena sat down as Naruto buried his face in his hands, shaking with silent sobs. Kara wrapped her arms around Naruto's side and rested her head on his shoulder, whispering calming words to him. The black haired woman watched the two's interaction and smiled slightly. Seeing Naruto so vulnerable and scared brought the maternal feelings out and she placed her hands over Naruto's and pulled them away from his face.
Cupping one cheek and wiping a tear away with her thumb, Selena said softly, "I'm sorry, Naruto. I'm sorry I jumped the gun and bit your head off. Now...let's talk about this thing you and...Kara, was it?"
"Yes ma'am," Kara said softly as she rested her head on Naruto's shoulder. Selena smiled and released Naruto's face, allowing him to sit back and wrap an arm around Kara, his free hand clearing the tears from his eyes.
"Ok," Selena said with a nod, "This thing with you and Kara...where do you see it in six months?"
Naruto lazily traced a circle on Kara's shoulder as he scratched the back of his head before he spoke, "That's the thing, Selena...Remember what that STAR Labs lady said? My fox DNA...the allure pheromones?"
Selena's eyes widened and she asked, "Then is this even real? This relationship?"
Naruto sighed and rubbed his brow with one hand before speaking in an assured tone, "Yes. Kara and I fought back to back against Luthor's personal soldiers. Then we uh..."
At the beaming smile on Kara's face and the large blush on the whiskered blonde's, Selena's eye twitched and she said, "Moving on!"
"Well after that we saw the whole bank thing go down," Naruto said, leaving out just how long he and Kara went at it, "And after I basically called Joker out, Kara and I went to sleep so...then we came here!"
"How did you end up at that warehouse anyway?" Selena asked. Naruto chuckled nervously when Kara turned in his direction, also wondering just how he ended up in that scenario.
-Watch Tower, ET 11:25 AM-
"Do you have ANYTHING, J'onn?" Superman asked with slight irritation. He was very uneasy about not knowing where his cousin was. He glared at the screen before him as it showed Batman and Young Justice fighting Bane.
"I've found this small video," J'onn replied. Superman was glaring at him intensely and the Martian played the footage.
"By the gods..." Wonder Woman said in shock as she and Superman watched Kitsune kill the Ventriloquist on live television and then call Joker out. Superman's jaw was unhinged and he was wide eyed.
"What...why did he kill him?" Superman asked J'onn. The Martian Manhunter shrugged and fast forwarded the video to where Firebird becomes clear.
"Does she look familiar to you?" J'onn asked the Man of Steel. Superman's eye twitched as Firebird wrapped her arms around Kitsune's waist and kissed him before they vanished in a swirl of leaves.
"I'm going to kill Kitsune...and then, I'm going to kill Kara," Superman muttered as he walked away. Wonder Woman and J'onn exchanged a concerned glance before the Amazon followed the Kryptonian. J'onn looked back at the news footage and replayed the kill.
The Martian crossed his arms under his chest and said, "What are you playing at, Kitsune?"
-Unknown Location, 12:00-
"Hehehe, ha-ha-ha, la-la-la-la-laa," Joker hummed to himself as he danced around his hideout, replaying Kitsune's killing of Walter on three major screens, remixing it into a sick and twisted musical performance. He leapt onto a wall and grabbed some chemicals before jumping back to the floor and approaching his workbench.
"Let's see now," the green haired horror muttered as he poured a blue liquid into a vial, "A smigimes of this blue whatchamacallit, a dash of this red powder...Ah! And a single drip-drop of this green shit!"
"Oh, Mistah Jay!" A feminine voice called out, nearly causing the clown to pour the entire contents of a green beaker and making him fumble with it for a moment before facing the intruder and glaring at her. The deranged psychotic paused in his deed and turned to see a blonde woman with a large mallet resting on her shoulder. Harley Quinn, aka Dr. Harleen Quint, the Joker's former psychiatrist and a woman after his own heart. Literally. She was dressed in a, to be blunt, slutty clown/maid outfit in an attempt to woo the Clown Prince of Crime. The blouse she wore, while reflecting her normal black and red color scheme, revealed quite a lot of cleavage and her skirt barely covered anything. Her red steel toed boots also made quite the statement along with her black and white face paint.
"Harleen..." Joker groaned quietly before grinning as an idea came to him, "Harley! My sweet loveable Harley Quinn...Daddy has a job for you."
"Really, Mistah Jay?" Harley asked as the Clown leapt over to her side and threw his arm over her shoulders.
"Yup!" The deep voiced clown said, his insane smile returning full force, "I need you to entertain Batty and my newest friend, Kitsune!"
"I get to play with Kitsune? Goodie, goodie!" Harley cried before running off to 'prepare' for a night on the town. Joker grinned and went back to his work as the younger woman pranced around their (Joker's) base.
"And while you're keeping that little brat of a 'Hero' at bay, I'll be working on a little surprise for him!" Joker whispered to himself as he 'played' with his chemicals, "Ku-ku-ku-he-he...A-ha-ha-haha-ha! Haha-haha-ha!"
-Kyle Household, 12:10 PM-
"This is so wrong..." Naruto muttered as he sat next to Kara with Kage on their laps as he was forced to watch The Notebook. Selena thwacked the back of his head as she gave Kara a box of tissues. Selena sat on the loveseat next to Fang, who yawned before plopping his head on her lap, and readied her own box of tissues.
"It is not wrong for a boy to be forced to watch a romance movie with his girlfriend and mother, Naruto," Selena shot back with a smirk, "Besides, poor Kara has been forced to play hero all the time, she barely has a life outside of the Justice Friends."
"What is it with you two and that name?" Kara asked, resting her head on Naruto's shoulder and lightly petting Kage as he slept soundly on her and Naruto's laps. When she had first met the little fox, she squealed and doted over his adorable-ness. When Selena mentioned with a pout that Kage would have to move out with them because of his detachment issues, Kara squealed again and lightly glomped the small Kit, earning a happy yip from the fox before he licked her cheek.
"It's every villain ever having to deal with the League's inside joke, Kara," Selena said before whistling softly and having Sylvia leap up onto her seat, climbing atop Fang and resting on him, earning a happy grunt from the recreated cat.
"Oh...Now that I think about it, though, it is kinda funny," Kara said with a small smile. Naruto snickered and moved his right arm to rest around her shoulders before kissing her head. The Kryptonian smiled as Selena dimmed the lights and turned the movie on.
Unknown to the two teens and cat burglar extraordinaire, a Kryptonian was watching them from the roof of an apartment about a block away. He watched with crossed arms and a mixed feeling of approval as his younger cousin watched a romantic film with the anti-hero known as Kitsune. The blonde boy seemed like a good kid, but to quickly take the life of a person troubled by some mental disorder. On the other hand though, it seemed as though Joker was taking his vision off Bruce and placing it on the blonde holding his cousin as tears rolled down her cheeks and the small red fox in their lap worriedly licked her cheek.
Superman sighed and crossed his arms as he saw a glisten of tear residue on the blonde boy's cheek. There goes his whole beat the crap out of the punk that deflowered his cousin...And here came the mentality that thought he would make for a good league member. Of course, Batman would shoot the idea down instantly. He was quite upset upon hearing about Walter's death, having been the one to cause his mental disorder to rise from the back of his mind.
Think, Clark, Think...what do you do now? He asked himself.
-Three hours later-
"My god...that movie was so sad..." Kara sniffled out, resting the back of her head on Naruto's chest as they lied together on the couch, Kage resting on her stomach. The little fox had really taken a shine to the blonde girl, probably because of Naruto's scent being all over her.
"I love that movie..." Selena said as she dabbed at her eyes and pet Fang to reassure him she was fine. She loved that feature he had taken from her son when Fries made him, the Smilodon was loyal to a fault and cared for anyone she did. Unless he and Naruto were butting heads, a rare but funny thing to witness.
"I hate myself for saying this," Naruto muttered from his spot beneath Kara, "But that wasn't half bad..."
"See?" Selena said with a smirk, "You learn something new every day."
"I guess so..." Naruto muttered, yawning before he suddenly burst into an explosion of smoke. Kara and Kage yelped in surprise as they dropped to the couch. Selena blinked in confusion before recalling the bathroom break Naruto had taken halfway through the movie. Her eyes narrowed and she grit her teeth.
"I'm going to kill that boy," the woman said as she got to her feet and dashed to the blonde's room, Kara following behind her, confused and slightly worried. As expected, his modified Kitsune Outfit he received in the mail a few days ago before opening it today from a cured Dr. Victor Fries and Nora Fries, both now living happily in the Bahamas, was gone as was the usual pack he took with him when he was going to steal something.
"Kara, get your Flamebird suit on," Selena said to the girl she was slowly starting to get used to, "We've got a Foxhunt to participate in...Oh, Fa-ang..."
-Wayne Manor, 3:13 PM-
"Tell everyone my Mom's alternate identity, Mr. Wayne?" Kitsune growled as he rappelled down the side of the tallest tower on the site, "Bad move. It's time to take the fight to the bat's belfry."
Kitsune's new outfit looked similar to Batman's, only his ears were much more like a fox's and it attached at the base of his shirt, allowing him to pull it down like a hood if necessary. Fries had made the mask and rest of the suit out of a new prototype Kevlar armor that allowed more movement. Would it stop a bullet? No, but Naruto didn't care. It was badass. The sleeveless shirt was a remake of his original, only the fox on his chest being removed and the three horizontal stripes being traded out for a single vertical orange one. His gloves now had built in spikes sticking out over his knuckles. His boots, designed and made by Fries' wife (which surprised him), had steel soles and a steel tip made into them. His cargos now had built in kneepads that had to be SWAT issued, and overall...he looked fucking badass if he did say so himself.
Especially since his cowl looked more like a grinning fox than a shrieking bat. He swore to personally go down to visit the Fries and thank them...as well as offer them his services for when their child (They discovered Nora's pregnancy after Victor had successfully cured himself) was born.
Kitsune flipped off his rope and landed silently on a balcony, his new advanced goggles Victor had made for him with Gizmo's secret assistance, made B&Es much easier. The goggled thief grinned foxily as he expertly flipped over the trip lasers making up the first security system. The second was undoubtedly the security cameras that were easily found while the third were the hidden ones. God knows what else the paranoid hero had surrounding his mansion.
Carefully opening the doors to the balcony he was on, Kitsune kept an eye and ear out for the infamous butler he had overheard Selena talk about when she went to meet Bruce on a date. Rounding a corner, he found said butler talking to a slightly depressed Dick Grayson.
Kitsune narrowed his eyes behind his goggles and reached into his built in shuriken holster on his left leg, pulling two blunted shuriken out and carefully throwing one at the back of the butler's head, knocking him unconscious, and threw the other at Dick's throat, causing the boy to fall to his hands and knees holding his throat. Acting quickly, Kitsune rushed at the hacking pre-teen and chopped him in the neck, knocking him out. After checking Dick and Alfred for a pulse, he left to find something sentimental to the Wayne, but nothing too serious like a family photo.
Orphans had to stick together after all.
Kitsune ran across the ceilings to stay out of sight as he ran through the large manor. He looked for what had to be an hour in the display rooms before he saw it. A gem, about the size of his fist, that was an odd blue and seemed to call to him. The young thief tilted his head and grinned foxily.
"Hello precious gem," the boy whispered with anticipation. He grabbed a kunai from his holster and quickly wrapped strong wire around its handle before stabbing it into the ceiling. Tugging on the rope before he used it as a test, and now sure it was safe, Kitsune grinned again and slide down the rope carefully and expertly before dangling just above the glass surrounding the gem. Kitsune flicked his wrist and out came his new and improved trench knives that's blade was about five inches long while the handles were a variation of brass knuckles, fitting snugly around his gloved fingers.
Thank you Bats, for making this far too easy, Kitsune thought with a smirk as he carefully cut into the glass. His inferred setting on his goggles showed there were no lasers aside from the square setting on the ground, meaning this would either be a fake, or Wayne had no attachment to it.
"What are you doing?" a grave voice asked, causing Kitsune to lose his stillness and flail to regain control. Kitsune expertly regained control and spun his body around to see Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon, both dressed in sweats and a tank top with towels draped over their shoulders. Barbara was wide eyed at seeing Kitsune in mid theft while Bruce was clenching his fists.
Kitsune remained silent before glancing back at the glass he cut a circle in and frowned, "Pressure sensory glass...Damn, I forgot you're the owner of the company that developed that!"
"Who are you?" Bruce Wayne asked with narrowed eyes. Kitsune looked back at him incredulously.
"You're kidding me right?" he asked dumbfounded, "You're asking me 'Who I am?' Seriously?"
"What are you doing in my home?" Bruce asked again, taking a step forward with clenched fists.
Testy when you can't detect someone until the last minute, aren't you? Kitsune noted in his mind before dropping to the ground and bowing to the two in front of him.
"I am The Kitsune, thief extraordinaire," the teen thief said, a foxy grin crossing his face. Barbara's face flushed and Bruce Wayne developed a small tick in his eye, obviously annoyed.
"Get out of my house!" he said sternly. Kitsune playfully pouted and put his hands in his pockets.
"You're no fun..." he whined before a grin returned and he spun around, shattering the glass with a strong kick and grabbing the gem within. He tossed the gem into the air and caught it in his hand before sending a grin back to the shocked duo before him.
"Well, Bats, it's been a nice visit," he said, making Bruce's eyes widen, "But...I've got a very, very pissed off Cat to get back to as well as a possibly upset Bird to deal with. TTFN; Ta-Ta For Now!"
Before either of the two opposite of him could stop him, he threw a smoke bomb down, tossed a piece of paper to the former resting place of the gem he stole and ran towards the window at the end of the room. Sending chakra to cover his shoulders and head, Kitsune crashed through the steel guards outside of the window and fell towards the side of the cliff Wayne Manor rested on.
Not one of my better plans...Kitsune noted before flipping in the air and sending chakra to his feet, wincing at the sudden contact as he skidded down to rocky cliff side. Clutching the gem tightly in his right hand, Kitsune dug his trench knife into the cliff wall and grit his teeth as he started to slow down.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" Kitsune yelped as his trench knife fell out of the grove it made and he began falling again.
He landed after a fall equivalent to seven stories and felt something break from the impact.
"...FUCK..."
-Watchtower, 7:14 PM ET-
"He broke in to your home?" Flash said with wide eyes. Batman glared at the easygoing hero, who held his hands up in defense. Several of the original League members as well as Young Justice were standing around, Robin rubbing his throat and grumbling under his breath while Batgirl refused to look at an inquiring Artemis.
"Yes, Flash, he did," Batman said sternly before crossing his arms, "Which is why I suggest we don't bother with trying to get him to sign up for this."
"He broke into your house...and left you a note?" Black Canary asked with an arched brow. At Batman's nod, the blonde crime fighting knockout crossed her arms and said, "Well...he's obviously sending you a message."
Everyone looked at the woman with arched brows and confused faces, causing her to elaborate, "Think about it. Joker sent the Ventriloquist and Scarface after him and what happened? He killed them on live television and called Joker out. Smartest move he could have made? No, but it shows he won't be like you if Joker continues after him. He'll kill Joker. The crime against Bruce Wayne is probably because of Bruce Wayne's harsh separation and hurting Selena Kyle."
Batman blinked once, twice, and a third time before silently leaving the room everyone was gathered in. No sooner did he leave did a door on the opposite side of the room open and Supergirl walked in, her arms wrapped around a very nervous Kitsune. The whole room turned to face the two new entries and an eerie uncomfortable silence came over the room.
"...I'm here to join the League?" Kitsune nervously said with a grin in order to break the silence.
AN: Funny Ending, right? Very funny. Sorry about the wait. It's hectic here...my house is under construction...AGAIN. Please review. PEACE.
