Smallville/Naruto

Seizing the Future

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 21

Chloe paused for a moment outside the Hokage's office, taking a few deep breaths to calm her nervousness before entering.

Finally she pushed the door open and hesitantly took a step inside.

"You wanted to see me Lady Hokage?" Chloe greeted the older woman politely.

"Yes Chloe, please come in," Tsunade nodded "I'm glad you managed to find time in amongst the construction of the Dimensional Transport device, I assume that Shizune mentioned that I wanted to see you regarding something I sensed about your Chakra?"

"She mentioned that," Chloe confirmed "Chakra, that's life energy isn't it?"

"It's a combination of physical and spiritual energy," Tsunade told her "the energy of the body and the energy of the spirit combine to become life, so yes I suppose you could call it that."

"So-what you sensed about my Chakra," Chloe decided to hazard a guess "it has to do with my kryptonite infection doesn't it; my healing ability?"

"What I sensed is healing Chakra," Tsunade confirmed "it has definitely been altered by the kryptonite in your body, but the mineral in your blood didn't create this ability Chloe, it just woke it up."

"Which is why I haven't suffered from any of the mental instability that those of the Krypto powered persuasion all too often suffer from," Chloe realized.

"And," Tsunade added "the reason you can access this ability without any training-."

"-Is because the kryptonite is turbo charging it," Chloe noted as all the pieces began to fall into place "problem is I can't use this power without killing myself, the first time I used it I brought my cousin back from near death after she had been stabbed, next thing I knew I woke up in a morgue freezer, that was not fun I can tell you, thank god for friends from Krypton."

"Clark definitely has a knack for being there when people need him," Tsunade observed "the reason why this ability has such an ill effect on you Chloe is that you don't know how to control it properly, the death like state that you went into is a form of hibernation that natural healers such as yourself will sometimes go into as a result of Chakra exhaustion, in any case Shizune and I can teach you how to control this power if you want, however it's going to take longer than the time we have until you head home."
"I'd like to gain control over this ability," Chloe told Tsunade honestly "so what do you suggest?"

"Well one option is for you to stay a little longer than your friends," Tsunade suggested "there is a Transporter on this end to send you home, or there will be once you're done constructing it, but with everything going on in your home reality I'm guessing that option won't really work for you."

"Hmm, probably not," Chloe admitted "my friends depend on me to be the eyes and ears of the team, so what are our other options?"

"Well, since there is going to be a transporter on both ends I suppose it would be possible for someone to spend a couple of days on Earth 1 every week or so helping you gain control of your abilities," Tsunade suggested "Shizune and I have become quite curious about the world you come from by the way; I can't do it because of my responsibilities here but Shizune should be able to."

"You'd be willing to do that?"Chloe asked.

"In return for one favor," Tsunade clarified.

"What favor is that?" Chloe asked.

"If this village ever finds itself with its back figuratively to the wall, facing imminent destruction with no other way out we can call upon your team of heroes to come to our aid."

"I can't see a problem with that personally," Chloe replied "given what Clark's like I can't imagine that he'd have an issue with it either, of course we'd need to check with all the members of the team to see if they will agree to this, maybe I should see if I can convince the whole team to come when we return here with Tayuya's clone."

"That might help," Tsunade suggested "then we can discuss this face to face."

Clark and Tayuya were walking back to the apartment at the end of the day's flight training; they were both strangely content with how the day had gone considering that Clark wasn't flying yet.

This was partially due to the fact that toward the end of the day of Clark jumping off the cliff he had finally conquered his fear of heights, and had gotten to the point where he could actually slow the fall as he descended, that was one issue he had put behind him.

And speaking of issues;

"Tayuya," Clark asked his adopted sister "I've been meaning to ask; why do you hate being called cute so much, are you worried that you won't be taken seriously?"

"It's not that," Tayuya replied dismissively "back when I was with the Sound I was one of only a few girls in the Sound Village, and there were a lot of guys mostly teenage and oversexed, and of the few girls there I got the most ogling by far, I had horny guys all over me and I wasn't actually interested in a fucking one of them."

"That sounds-uncomfortable," Clark noted.

"You don't know the half of it," Tayuya snorted "suckers for a redhead the lot of em, there were even a couple of guys like that in the Sound Four, or Sound Five depending if you count Kimimaro or not. Anyway, the two, well really three since one was two brothers in one body, Sakon and Ukon and a six armed spider freak named Kidoumaru, were always showing what utter perverts they were."

"You had to work with those lechers?" Clark arched an eyebrow at this.

"Yeah and it sucked," Tayuya remarked "Sakon at least restricted it to lewd remarks and Ukon was asleep most of the time, but Kidoumaru-."

"What'd he do?" Clark asked gently, trying not to cause Tayuya any additional pain.

"Well first he'd call me cute," Tayuya replied "back then I was 'meh' about it, didn't know the bastard was planning to try and feel me up after, not the first time anyway."

"I take it you beat the crap out of him putting his mitts all over you," Clark noted in assumption.

"Fuck yeah," Tayuya replied "the sick bastard had it coming, didn't stop him from trying again though."

"Didn't learn his lesson did he," Clark commented dryly.

"Nope," Tayuya confirmed "and each time he'd lead by calling me cute, one time I was just minding my own business when I heard that voice behind me say 'hey there cutie' next thing I know I feel his hand on my ass."

"You break his arm?" Clark asked, feeling he already knew the answer to that question.

"In three places," Tayuya nodded grinning wickedly "damn that was fun, he still came back for more though, it got to the point where I didn't wait for him to try and feel me up anymore, I just beat the shit out of him as soon as he called me cute, and anyone else who called me cute too."

"Hmm, I see," Clark nodded thoughtfully "but you know, not everybody is like Kidoumaru."

"I know," Tayuya replied with a heavy sigh "it's just old habits die hard, and there's the fact that people callin' me cute brings back bad memories, that's why I hate it."