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 13,.

Naruto appeared in a burst of fire several miles from the place that he had slaughtered the Hydra and Nosferatu. He looked in the direction of Jump City, before turning to head in the opposite direction.

"I have been held at bay too long, and I am going to enjoy myself before I am stuffed back into that weak human shell."

The eight foot hulking monster looked to the northeast; he would find some strong prey there. His blood boiled in return to tell him that he was making a wise choice, despite whatever his human side was trying to persuade him to let go and release control back, he just ignored it as he took off on all fours, running for the state line, his destination: the Canadian Wilderness.

At the tower…

Nicholas stood as he turned back into the form of a blackbird. Raven looked up in astonishment. "Is he coming home now Nicholas?" She asked as the bird closed its eyes and didn't move.

The bird was looking through the souls that inhabited the land around where his master was running, he was heading further away, and he was not coming back to this city.

Raven realized what the bird meant was going on before it told her, he wasn't back to normal yet, and he wasn't heading home. She stood and went to her window before looking out of it. She didn't want to do this but it seemed that it was her only chance: she would have to capture him herself.

Nicholas flew from the room and sat on her shoulder, nodding his head in agreement with her thoughts. She smiled, gladly thanking whatever god was on her side to allow the bird to help her in capturing the blonde.

At the U.S. border to Canada…

Naruto stood on the edge of the U.S. looking at the great trees that filled the horizon, and the warm feeling that accompanied him with them. As a Lycan he was always close to the wilderness, and the natural order of nature. He smelled a fire to his left, about two miles away. He growled as he tore a gap in the steel fencing separating the two countries. He then went on the hunt for truly strong prey.

He appeared outside the camp to see that it was deserted, no prey in the immediate area. He batted away a fallen tree as he loafed off with a lazy gait, looking for any prey to fight.

He went running through the forests finding nothing wilder than rabbits and foxes, nothing to sate his hunger for a worthy prey. He was about to give up as he came across two massive grizzlies fighting in a clearing. His gaping jaw turned to a reminiscent of a smile as he leapt in between the fighting creatures.

Both bears stopped as they were sent flying back by a missile of pure muscle and fur. They rolled back up in a lazy way as they faced the new attacker.

Their attacker was large, equal to their size, perhaps a little bigger. He did not smell of the surrounding forests, which meant he was just passing through when he came across the pair of fighting bears. He looked like one of those wolves that ran the plains to the north except far larger, and much stronger. The bear closest to the Lycan reared up on its back legs and roared.

Naruto didn't respond with a roar, instead he tackled the monster grizzly to the ground and tore into its defenseless neck, before turning to the other as it bled out on to the snow below him. The other bear backed up, as Naruto leapt at this one, only to be hit by its great paw and sent flying into the forest to the left. The bear looked off into the direction it had gone flying off into, waiting for it to come charging back out of the trees.

It was not disappointed as it came flying out of the trees, except for the fact it appeared behind it and crushed its heart in the paw that impaled the bear; it fell to the ground and began to eat the now lifeless animal.

Naruto was there for an indefinite period of time as it finished both of the bears, and looked for a source of water to clear the blood from its mouth. He was leaving the clearing as he heard something and his ears turned on his head.

Two men, weighed down with thermal gear, were pointing guns at the Lycan It turned to look at the creatures as they gaped at the size of the wolf like creature. One smiled and pointed its gun at Naruto; Naruto stared back at the barrel unafraid. His instincts that would normally tell a creature to flee missing, replaced by a highly advanced hunting instinct. The man pulled the trigger, and a rocketing boom exploded throughout the silence of the forest.

Four hundred yards east…

Raven looked up as she heard the gunfire; Nicholas looked in the direction as well before she took off in search of the sounds.

She found the clearing momentarily, and froze. There was a monster of a beast standing over two unconscious hunters, their guns lying to the side, equivalent to scrap metal. He was about to bite into their throats as Nicholas cawed.

Naruto's lycan form turned and faced the girl and the bird; recognizing them even in its haze of injury of being shot several times by the hunters. It took a second to recognize Raven in her cold weather gear, and the creature backed away into the forest, letting the now increasing snowfall blanket his descent into darkness of the trees.

Raven just stared at the site, completely afraid of what was just seen. That was Naruto's demon form; it resonated the same way he did. She looked at the skeletons of the bears and the unconscious hunters in the snow, before she summoned up a mass of shadows and transported away with them to the nearest town.

Naruto was running during this, he had let her see him in his form. She was in danger if his defensive instincts took over, so he ran for the forest and stopped at a wide river, not far from the border to the where the lakes sat.

He looked into the rushing water at his reflection: a great grey, white, and black wolf gazed back at him, looking completely like a merciless killer except for its eyes, his eyes.

They were filled with love and understanding, respect and forgiveness, fairness and a burning desire to help. The wolf looked at the water, before whimpering and curling up, a transformation finally beginning.

As he lay there his fur began to pull back into his skin, his head shortening, his ears and eyes resuming their normal shape as well as his mouth. He looked at his hands as they shrank, the claws receding and the pads on his paws giving way to his normal gloves.

"HHHaaaaaawwwwwwooooooohhhhhhhh!!!" the creature called as its call turned to the bleeding crying of a demon. Naruto sank to his knees in the snow and hugged himself. His blood pouring from his eyes and hitting the snow below him, burning straight through the snow to the ground where it laid smoking.

This was the scene Raven and Nicholas came upon as they found him. He was bleeding from his chest; and his eyes where the tears remained, even if the sobs had passed. He pounded the ground's thick coating of ice as he struck it without mercy, as if it was the cause of all his pain. Raven walked up behind him, but stopped as she heard his voice.

"Raven I would like to go back to the tower; it has been a very long day, so please can we go?"

Raven nodded as a dark raven shadow encased them all as they disappeared from the snowy landscape.

Jump City, California…

The three appeared in Raven's bedroom a few seconds later, Naruto collapsing on his pallet, facing the wall and not speaking. He didn't reply when Nicholas cawed at him.

Raven walked up behind him and nudged him with her foot. He looked up at her, and said something that was not what she was expecting.

"Raven-hime I am moving out of the tower, I am going to get a apartment in the city with the money I made from my job. After all I have stayed here long enough, and I think it would be best if I found a place of my own, at least for the time being."

Raven frowned at him as he lay there facing her ceiling, she nudged him again. He looked up and she replied with a nod.

"That is fine, you do what you think you need to. After all I just realized something you still haven't done yet." Naruto sat up and looked at the girl with an edged surprise.

"What have I not done?"

She frowned as she told him something that caused him to wince, "You still haven't met my friends." Naruto became silent as she watched him, before nodding.

"That sounds reasonable; you are going to the tea shop tomorrow?" She nodded as he sat on his heels. He picked himself up as he walked over to the bookshelf.

"Then you can introduce me tomorrow, providing that you make a cover story, I am tired of lying to people about myself." Raven nodded as the blonde pulled a book on classic architecture from her bookshelf and lay on his pallet as she went to use the shower.

'It has been overdue that I haven't met her friends, they will probably react with suspicion after all I did run from them, oh well I can do this for her, anything for her…'

The next day, around noon…

Beastboy walked to the door as he heard someone ring the bell. He wondered if it was the pizza delivery guy, after all thirty minutes and its free. He opened the door to find Raven, glum usually angry Raven, standing next to the blonde boy that he thought he remembered.

"Hey Raven, who is the new guy?" he asked as he looked up at the blonde, taking in the look he wore.

Naruto had forgone his leather jacket and slacks, as a way not to jump start any memories. He wore another pair of sunglasses like he had during meeting the kingpin, along with the ever present gloves. The rest of the outfit was new however.

His feet were clad in boots with metal accents; much to Raven's dismay when he said it was in case he had to fight his way out. He wore tan cargo pants, with a metal chain wrapped around his waist several times as a belt. His shirt was grey, with images of spiraling clouds and lightning decorating the front of the chest. Over that he wore a canvas jacket, with dual breast pockets on the front. His ring from Raven in place, his watch was hidden away from the view of others by the back pockets.

He wore his dog tags outside his shirt. His glasses hid his eyes. His hair was out of its normal ponytail, and was now hanging free to his shoulders. He had a leather band on his arm, with a black turtle stamped on it. He stretched out his shoulders and yawned as Raven spoke.

"Beastboy this is an old friend of mine from when before I met any of you, I sensed his presence earlier this morning and went out to meet him." The green one nodded as Naruto loomed over him, his muscles barely hidden by his shirt.

"Why did you bring him here Raven?" Raven looked at him as if he was a little clueless.

"I brought him for you all to meet him." Beastboy's mouth slid off and broke like glass against the floor. He was interrupted by the appearance of Cyborg who looked at the group in confusion.

"Hey BB is that the pizza guy? Raven what are you doing here; I thought you were in town?"

Raven sighed as she explained who Naruto was again to Cyborg who treated Naruto a little more warmly, but also somewhere along the lines that he was made of molten lava. The group then escorted him to the elevator where it took them to the top floor and the ops room.

The doors opened to a hallway that Naruto already knew but acted as if was interested and asked a few questions which Cyborg answered.

Raven was amazed at the blonde's skill in acting, he seemed like he really never had been here before. She smirked inwardly as Starfire was the first to greet them through the doors, Robin sitting at the computers looking over the present escape of the Hive Five.

"Friends who is the person that has been brought to the tower, and why is he here." She said as she embraced all of them in a death hug.

Cyborg answered as Raven let out a sigh. "Starfire this is an old friend of Raven's he was in town and she brought him here to meet us."

Starfire squealed in this happy news and embraced the blonde in a death hug.

Cyborg, Beastboy, and Raven winced as the blonde was enshrouded in a hug that he pretended to be in pain as Raven asked her to stop and Starfire grabbed his arm and dragged him over to meet Robin.

"Friend Robin, Friend Raven has brought a friend from her past to meet us, do you wish to say hello?" She asked the masked teen who just slumped at this new predicament meaning that he would never get to finish his new network of criminals now.

Robin turned and faced the blonde, the two stopped as they made eye contact. He had the feeling in his gut that he had seen that figure somewhere. It pounded at his memory like a sledgehammer, where was it from?

Naruto held his hand out, the ring on his finger shining due to its polished state. Robin was but from his mental inquisition by the blonde's voice.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Naruto Uzumaki." Robin shook the blonde's hand, wincing slightly at the vice grip that was put on his fingers.

The group sat down as Raven brought her and Naruto some tea. Robin started off the conversation simply.

"So where did you meet Raven Naruto?" Naruto turned to raven who nodded and began to speak.

"I met Naruto in Northern Russia; he was in the military stationed there, we met after seeing the castles on the same day." Robin nodded as he filed away the information that had been told to him as Beastboy asked the next question.

"So whys is it you came here?" Naruto shrugged as he pushed some strands of hair out of his face.

"Raven said that she had found some friends she wanted to meet, and I was on my way to the U.S. anyway."

The metal titan took this time to ask the question that had seemed to bother him since the blonde got here.

"You said you were in the military, how old are you exactly?" Naruto nodded as he drank some of his tea.

"I am eighteen by my military records, but I enlisted two years earlier than allowed as to get away from my home, so I am sixteen."

Starfire could not wait to ask her question as she blurted it out.

"Friend Naruto why would you join an army to get away from your home?"

Raven stopped him from answering as she spoke out first, "Starfire I don't think that that is a very fair question to ask, people's pasts are their own for specific reasons." The alien girl nodded as Naruto thanked Raven.

Robin asked another question as Starfire was hanging her head, "So Naruto, you've been in the Russian military for a while right? Why leave now?"

Naruto frowned as he looked to raven who nodded. He shook his head and pulled down the corner of his shirt to show where the hunter's bullets had blasted him yesterday night.

"I was discharged due to my injuries, mother Russia could no longer use me, and she sent me away with full honors. So I came here to see Raven before I started on another trek to see the world." Robin grimaced at asking and tried to apologize as Naruto waved him away.

Raven then stood and shook her head, saying that she forgot introductions due to Beastboy stopping them.

"The green one is Beastboy, Cyborg is the large half metal one, Starfire is the girl who almost crushed you in a hug when you came in and Robin is the team's leader." Naruto nodded to all of them in turn before they stopped, the computer behind them beeping.

Robin flashed through the air to the screen, and then slumped. No danger, just the Titan's east making their normal posted clock in. He turned back to see the group was gone, except for Naruto who was sitting on the couch looking around in confusion.

"So Naruto, you said that you were in the Russian military, what did you do?" Naruto rubbed his nose as he lay back on the couch.

"I was in the special task force, we worked with extraction of people from hostile areas, and I was my group's combat expert." Robin looked up surprised at this before he asked.

"So you were their fighter, do you still spar after your injury? Maybe if you are going to stick around we can have a practice fight later."

Naruto nodded as he stood, he saluted Robin as he headed for the door.

"I will leave you to your work; maybe I can go help the other Titans with something." Robin nodded as the computer beeped and he brought up his file of criminals, and began to update their system.

Naruto walked through the hallway to where he could here the sign of telltale arguing and entered the room and saw the green one arguing with Cyborg.

"Cy why won't you let me ask the new guy questions, if he is friends with raven there is no way I am going to scare him off!" The green one argued as they worked on the T-car.

"Because we have never met any of raven's friends before and we don't want to go prying into his past BB, it isn't cool." The metal teen said from underneath the car.

Naruto continued walking up on the pair as Beastboy leaned against the car and caused it to fall of its jack and on top of the metal titan.

Cyborg dropped his wrench as he tried to stop his car from crushing him, only to feel it stop on its descent by another person.

"Thanks BB, that could have been a problem if I wasn't ready." Beastboy didn't reply as he just looked at the blonde who was walking around the car. Cyborg was confused as Beastboy said something that surprised him.

"Dude wasn't me, Naruto did it. I tried to catch it but boom, he was already there. He grabbed the bumper, lifted it, and kicked the jack back up with his foot and laid it down." Cyborg went bug eyed as he looked at the blonde who just nodded from the other side of the room, looking at the blue prints for the T-car rolling across the screen.

"Hey man, thanks. Though how did you lift it, the T-car's body armor makes it pretty heavy, even for me." Naruto nodded as he answered in a light tone, showing he wasn't really paying attention.

"I am very strong for my figure; it serves with being in military for so long. I couldn't hold your car for long, but gratefully I didn't have to." Cyborg nodded and was about to ask if the blonde played any sports, except he left out the doors, saying he needed to find Raven.

Naruto sat in the exercise room, looking at the various equipment the titans utilized. He was looking for Raven, but she didn't seem to think that he should talk to her too often on his first visit and had retired to her room under the reasoning that she was behind in her meditation.

Naruto shrugged this off as the door opened and Starfire walked in. She waved to the blonde who was sitting on a bench thinking. He saw her and waved back, which she flew over and grabbed him in a monster hug again, only for him to hug back and cause her back to pop.

"Friend do you wish to help me make a shining example of the tower for the people who will wish to see it clean?"

Naruto looked at the girl in confusion, was she asking if he wanted to help her clean? He shrugged and got up following after her. He didn't realize that she just meant cleaning the entire tower, which he was pulled into doing against his will, or to everyone's thoughts he was. He actually set the pace for Starfire.

Several hours later, outside the tower…

Naruto stood outside the tower, his bag over his shoulder. It had all the stuff he had kept here except a change of clothes in case of emergency. He waved as the titans headed back inside saying he was welcome to come back when he had time.

He waited for them to leave till he sighed and looked to the shadows on his left. He shifted his bag as he spoke.

"There not here Raven-hime, they all went back inside." The shadows then moved from the wall and pooled next to him, Raven rising out of them as he stood looking out at the city.

"You will call me when you find a place to stay right?" She asked, not able to get the feeling in her gut that he was going to run off and not come back out of it. She was about to ask him when he nodded and kissed her cheek before leaving, heading for the city.

Raven watched as he disappeared and then went back into the tower. She would see him tomorrow; after all he had asked her something that had gotten her attention as he asked it earlier.

Flashback (small)

Naruto sat next to Raven on the top of the tower, having spent most of the day getting to know the titans as a whole, after all he had to have her friends blessing if they were ever going to trust the two to be alone like they are now.

"Raven-hime, I have noticed something as well." She looked at him with a question on her face as he picked a metal shuriken to appear in his hands.

"What is it?" She asked wondering what could have her lover thinking so hard.

"We have yet to go on a date, and we have already been together for about six months." She felt her mouth make an "O" shape as he threw the shuriken into the distance, watching it soar over the echoing blackness that was the night.

"Would you like to go on a date Raven-hime, I promise to treat you like a princess if you do; besides it will help me feel as if our relationship is going somewhere."

She nodded as she kissed his cheek, he smiled as he got up and led her back into the tower, and they had to appear as if they weren't anything but friends after all, for now anyway.

'Hopefully that will change in the future; after all I am not going to do something she doesn't want to, I have lived enough that her patience will give out before mine.'

Ending Flashback…

Naruto walked down the street to where the abandoned factory district was, he didn't tell Raven that he was going to live here and just clean one up with the money. After all she wouldn't admit it but she was kind of protective of him, if the heat she was giving off when Starfire hugged him was any indication.

He stopped outside a smaller one and nodded, this was the place. He would find plenty of use for this one, and it looked like the electricity and water would be an easy fix by the way the factories to the west were running so smoothly.

'Home, sweet muddy dirty home. This place is most definitely going to need some repairs before I bring her here.'