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 36

Earth 2

Tayuya sat opposite Shikamaru, the Shogi board set up on the table between them, considering her next move, after much thought she moved one of her pieces.

"Nice move," Shikamaru complimented her "looks like I was right that you'd be good at this."

"Thanks," Tayuya nodded "you're pretty good at it yourself Shikamaru."

"So," Shikamaru asked as he made his move "did they get all the pieces of the-what was it you got shot with? Bullet? Out of your shoulder?"

"Yeah," Tayuya confirmed "there were a couple of pieces of metal still in there but Shizune managed to get them out okay, then it was just a little healing Chakra to patch me up."

"So what kind of weapon fires projectiles like that anyhow?" Shikamaru asked as Tayuya considered her move.

"The same kind of weapon that Chloe and Lana were packin' on their first trip here," Tayuya supplied as she moved one of her knights "a firearm, more commonly known as a gun, oh by the way-check."

"Nice," Shikamaru noted as he regarded the move Tayuya had pulled "you are actually learning something, I couldn't see what you were up to until just now, but," Shikamaru moved his queen, taking out the knight in question and placing Tayuya's king in check "you still didn't guard your king properly-check."

"Or so it would appear," Tayuya replied smoothly, moving her one remaining rook "but as you can see your queen is now off the board."

"But my bishop isn't," Shikamaru reminded her as he moved the piece in question "check and mate."

Tayuya looked at the board in astonishment as she realized the ingenious strategy that Shikamaru had just pulled on her, she'd been tricked by him again; not that such a thing was surprising he was a tactical genius after all.

"Son of a bitch," Tayuya remarked with an astonished shake of her head.

Earth 1

A short while later the whole group transported back to Earth 1 and went their separate ways, the Kents, including the newest adopted member of the family were dropped back at the farm by Chloe who promised she would start working on Tayuya's identity papers immediately.

As the three walked up to the farmhouse they were greeted by a woman who was immediately familiar to Clark, his adoptive mother Martha Kent.

"Mom," Clark smiled widely "you managed to get some time away from the senate I see."

"When I heard you were missing I made time Clark," Martha replied with a smile, then a glance in Kara's direction "and meeting your long lost cousin is something that's long overdue, then when I heard there was yet another addition to the family I knew I had to meet her as well," Martha added as she looked in Tayuya's direction "you must be Tayuya."

"Hello Mrs. Kent," Tayuya greeted the older redhead with a smile "it's good to meet you, and yes-I am."

"No need to be so formal," Martha assured the young girl "you can just call me Martha if you want, you're pretty much family now."

"I thought you'd want me to call you Mom," Tayuya replied with a smile.

"Only if you're comfortable with calling me that," Martha told her gently "I wouldn't want to force you into anything you're not ready for, from what I hear it's about time you got to choose for yourself."

"Thank you Martha," Tayuya replied "after all the shit I've had in my life so far it's nice to finally have a choice."

"Language young lady," Martha told the younger redhead sternly, a ghost of a smile on her face "you'll make more friends if you can keep a civil tongue you know, it's all very well to curse when you're under stress but the rest of the time it creates a bad impression with others."

"Yeah Tayu can be a little-free and easy with her language," Clark told his mother nervously "this is actually quite well-mannered for her."

"Sorry, it's kinda habit," Tayuya replied, she'd only just met Martha Kent and the older woman was already the last person she'd ever want to disappoint "my old life was pretty stressful and frankly cursing was the only real freedom of expression I had, it's easy to cut loose and swear a blue streak in that situation."

"I heard about that from Chloe," Martha nodded "so I won't try and make you stop swearing, I'll just keep reminding you that you should probably try to cut down a bit."

"I'll try," Tayuya agreed "but I can't make any promises, oh and about me adopting the Kent surname, I think I will."

"Are you cooking something Aunt Martha?" Kara suddenly asked as she sniffed at the air for a moment.

"Wait I smell it too," Tayuya noted as she took a whiff "shit, that's good whatever it is."

Tayuya noticed the slightly admonishing look Martha was giving her.

"Sorry, I swore again didn't I?" Tayuya apologized.

Martha nodded in confirmation.

"I'll try and break the habit," Tayuya promised "but it's not gonna be easy."

"I smell it," Clark noted with a smile "I'd know that wonderful smell anywhere, apple pie."

"That's right Clark," Martha told her son "it should be just about done."

"I hope you made extra," Clark remarked with a smile "we have two extra people here and I daresay they'll want a piece."

"Well then, why don't we head inside," Martha suggested "Lana is watching it for me to make sure it doesn't burn but I wouldn't want to impose on her more than necessary."

"You two are in for a real treat," Clark told his cousin and sister as they all followed Martha inside "Mom's apple pie is the best you'll ever taste anywhere, I can attest to that."

As they approached the door of the house Tayuya hesitated in the doorway for a moment until she felt Clark's hand on her shoulder.

"It's okay," Clark assured her "come on in, this is your home now, you don't need to ask permission or anything."

Slowly, hesitantly Tayuya took a step over the threshold until she was standing just inside the house; she seemed to be as insecure as Clark had ever seen her until she was actually inside and the door closed behind her.

"I'm-home," Tayuya's nervousness gradually became a smile as it sunk in that she now had a place where she belonged "I have a home, and a family."

"Welcome home Tayuya," Clark told his sister gently.

Tayuya's reaction was immediate, she was so touched by Clark's kindness in that moment that in an uncharacteristic display of exuberance she threw her arms around her newfound brother and hugged him for all she was worth, what she whispered to Clark told him just how touched she was.

"Thank you-brother."

Author's note;

The next chapter will be the conclusion of this particular story, though not the conclusion of the Redeemer series, but I will be taking a break before I begin writing the next story.

Replies to Reviews;

jaelin910; yes, they definitely made a mistake by not having Clark or Kara heat vision the template receptacle on the cloning device however in the heat of the moment such things can happen, it will come back to haunt them however.

Hmm- Lex teaming up with Orochimaru or Akatsuki? Maybe in the future but not right away, there are plenty of other things that can go wrong because of this without Lex even having to leave Earth 1, I don't think I mentioned this yet but Tayuya's musical genjutsu is actually a Kekkei Genkai, the implications of that and Lex having a sample of her DNA should be pretty obvious.