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A/N: Sorry for these being late, I was sick the weekend before Christmas or these would have gone up last week. So I hope you had a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate and have a safe and Happy New Year.

So here's a mass update of all my stories for the end of the decade!

Beta: Jebest4781, Chaos-PSD, and Arkham Knight22.

Chapter XVI: Non Est Asylum.

Last Time.

Garfield woke up and sat up looking to the others.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm crash!"

"I can't believe that caught on!" Naruto groaned knowing the future lingo Bart used caught on with the other young heroes.

"I'm feeling more 'Aster then I have for a while," Garfield said as Naruto groaned.

"Don't start that!" He said as Garfield walked to the Goggles and explained that Gretchen Goode must be working with the Light as she would know about the goggles brainwashing meta-teens before being hugged by Marie.

"Mom!"

"Shut up! You're not too old to get hugged by your mother!"

Naruto smiled as he held Megan by the waist.

Happy Harbor October 15, 20:28 EDT.

In the apple trees, Brion and Violet share a kiss under the moonlight.

Now.

Atlanta, October 17, 20:20 EDT.

Kage dropped on a road seeing a Caucasian woman running away from an old cab and a hole in the street before walking to the hole. And jumped as a shadow flew out of it.

"What's on the way?!"

Blinking, Naruto walked to the hole and looked down to see a man looking up. "With your luck John, nothing good."

John is a Caucasian man with messy blonde hair, blue eyes and a 5 o'clock stubble. He's wearing a brown trench coat over a white button shirt, red tie tied loosely and black pants and shoes.

"Bloody hell, what are you doing here? This isn't for the Capes and Tights League." John said in a British accent.

"Got some reports on… Weird things happening the past couple of days and decided to check them out in case they're related to the Meta-Human trafficking. Had some family business to do otherwise I would have been here sooner." Naruto replied as John walked out as they heard sirens.

"(Sigh) Well, since you're here, I could use the extra help on this, an old friend asked me to protect his daughter."

"OK, John. Hopefully, I won't have to take up drinking and smoking this time." Naruto joked as they walked to the cab.

Atlanta, October 18, 07:46 EDT.

Naruto wearing a black shirt and jeans leaned against John's cab as John stood beside him wearing sunglasses playing with a gold Zippo lighter and looked at the car rental building they're parked at.

Suddenly, a police car pulled up and stopped by it having the woman from the previous night step out.

She is a Caucasian woman with long brown slightly curly hair wearing a black suit and a blue button shirt with a brown backpack.

"You always carpool with the cops?" John asked as he closed the lid on the lighter.

The woman walked up to them before speaking. "My friend was killed last night."

"Well, I'm sorry to hear that," John said pocketing the lighter and took off the sunglasses.

"You'll have to excuse my friend, he's not good at dealing with people," Naruto said as the woman brought her phone up and showed them what looked like an Egyptian symbol on a wood door.

"I found this on my door, what is it?"

"The Eye of Horus. It's an Egyptian symbol of protection. Or so they say." John explained as the woman looked to it.

"There was a man in my hallway last night. I think he killed Talia."

Naruto blinked at that. 'Didn't think Talia was a common name.' He thought as John banged against the windshield having a man get out of the driver's seat.

He's a Caucasian man with messy brown hair and a thin beard wearing a leather jacket over a plaid button shirt, a blue T-shirt and jeans.

"Liv, meat Chas, my oldest mate. He made the carving that kept you alive."

"I'm glad you're safe," Chas said before getting back in the car.

"Not much of a talker, that one," John said putting his hands in his pockets. "Now, down to business. If we don't get you somewhere safe, bodies will just keep piling up."

"Why would anybody want me dead? I' a nobody."

"No one's a nobody," Naruto said from his spot.

"In this case, he's right, Luv," John said as Naruto's eyebrow twitched. "I knew your father. Jasper Winters. I promised him I'd look after you."

"That's not possible, my father died before I was born," Liv said before turning to leave.

"Well, whoever told you that was lying. Jasper died just last year. He was a good man, too." John said getting Liv to stop and turn to him. "Here. (Sigh) Open this. It belonged to him. He wanted you to have it." John handed her a velvet bag and she pulled out a medallion necklace.

Suddenly, a black medical examiner van sped down the hill and into the building.

"Holy shit!" Naruto cursed as all four ran to help the people out as John walked to the van as Liv saw her desk was the last one hit.

"This is my spot, I was going to sit here."

"Whatever's after you must have a way to track you. Feel your energy. And won't give up until you're dead." John said before seeing a moving dead blonde-haired woman growling from the hood.

"Talia! She's alive!" Liv exclaimed as Naruto pulled out a kunai and walked over to John.

"No, she's dead. Something is just using her. Something's wrong. They never operate in the open like this." John said before leaning down. "Who are you? Who sent you?"

The lights blew in the building as the woman died having the two look to see Liv was gone as Chas walked over. "Brilliant," John said putting his glasses on.

POP!

And flinched as a light bulb popped.

An hour later, they stopped by a wooded neighborhood and stopped by a railroad crossing on their side. John then walked to the intersection and waiting at the stop line where a black car sped towards him and stopped. Liv then got out and yelled at John. "What's happening to me?!"

"You're waking up. You're seeing the world for what it really is. Just like your father could."

"Which means what?!"

"(Sigh) Impatience. The psychic disease of the 21st century." John sighed turning to walk on the tracks as Liv ran to him. "Where's the pendant?"

Liv then pulled the necklace out and had John grab both of her hands. Naruto, in the front passenger seat, saw her looking around in confusion and slight fear before noticing they were on the tracks and she tried to pull them off before John let them go.

Liv agrees to go with them and after dropping her car off at her mother's place, left with them, getting in the back with John.

As they drove, Chas turned on an old portable radio and Social Distortion version of Ring of Fire played as John slept.

"John was going to tell me about Jasper," Liv said to the two up front. "I want to know how he died."

"Bravely," Chas replied before looking forward.

"You were there?"

"That's enough of that," John said as he stirred.

"As I said earlier, You'll have to forgive John, he's not much of a people person. Or he's just an ass, you choose." Naruto said with his arm laying on the door.

"You knew my father?" Liv asked the ninja who glanced back.

"Not as well as these two but in passing when helping him and John out on something," Naruto replied just as the volume on the radio turned up.

I fell into a burning ring of fire.

"Turn it down," John said as Chas looked to the radio before Naruto picked it up.

"LOOK OUT!"

Chas looked to see the traffic lights at the oncoming intersection malfunction, hit the brakes and had to serve off the road as cars hit each other in the intersection and ran into a tree.

"(Groan!) Son of a bitch." Naruto cursed as he walked out and then broke the windows as his wounds healed and helped Liv out but had to go in and pull the seat up as her foot was trapped.

Suddenly, a transformer sparked as the line dropped down on the cab hood, and started moving like a snake. Naruto then looked over and saw John get out up. "John, you alright?"

"Right as rain. (Groan)" John replied as a little blood dripped down his forehead.

"Can you do something about this line?"

"The sacred cross commands you. The Star of David commands you. The okmar, the lotus, the shahada commands you. Flee this place. Disperges in ventum! Be not and be gone!" John chanted as he held his had up and repels the power line as Chas gets out of the cab, Naruto picked Liv up and ran back. "I think I got it, let's go!"

"Chas look out!" When Chas leaps over the hood, the power line impales him having Liv scream. "Don't look!" Naruto yelled as they jogged away.

A few miles down the dirt road, they came up to an old stone mill house with a 90s truck beside it. "There are millions of demons. We need to find out which one of them is after you." John said as they crossed a small stone bridge.

"Can't we call the Justice League?" Liv asked as Naruto walked past her.

"No, we need universal support from the U.N to do anything nowadays." She looked confused at that before Naruto reached under his shirt and pulled his half-mask up to cover the lower part of his face.

"Kage?!"

"Yeah," Naruto said as they walked in front of the house.

"How do you know someone like John? He's not a hero."

"As I said, I've helped John out from time to time."

"Doing what?" Liv asked as Naruto looked to her.

"Keeping the world clean."

"This house belonged to your father. If this day ever came, I promised him I would give these keys to you." John said giving Liv a large ring of keys.

She then opened the house and the trio walked inside. There, they saw the mill house is larger on the inside, with spacious, several stores high cellar, doors bookcases filled with books and artifacts strewn about.

"Jasper stayed here now and then to watch over you," John said as they walked down the stairs and into the parlor. "But he had to keep his distance for your safety naturally."

"There's nothing natural about this," Liv commented as John looked around, Naruto pulled his mask down and sat on a dusty couch having a cloud of dust fly up.

"(Cough!) Damn, I'm guessing he didn't come back for a while!" Naruto said waving his hand around.

The lights came on as Liv looked around the larger room and more artifacts. "This is insane! You could survive an apocalypse down here."

"Or start one," John said looking at books before pulling one large one out and opened it. "Jasper used this place for divination. No one could find trouble faster than your father… Literally."

Liv looked to see a map of Atlanta but with different names for several places. "This looks like a map of Atlanta. What's with these locations? Illusion Falls?"

"Jasper taught himself cartography," John replied looking through the pages of the book. "Started drawing his own maps based on what he saw."

"You said he could find trouble?"

"It's called scrying. Hold your pendant over this map, you'll see. Ah! Here it is!" He exclaimed seeing a name. "I found the demon that's been hunting you. It goes by the name of Fucifer. That bloody angel was right. The stakes are rising."

"Aah!" Liv screamed as blood dripped on the map and moved to a location as Jon read the demon uses electricity as its power and strength. "What is that?"

"Something bad will be happening there."

"Well, we have to do something!"

"We will! But first, we gotta protect you." John said looking up at her. "look, I got an idea to cut your attacker down to size but… It involves using you as bait."

Ivy University October 18, 13:16 EDT.

Rain poured down as John drove Naruto to the college and saw an elderly African-American guard under an umbrella at the gate.

"Can I help you, sir?"

John rolled the window down having the man turn into a younger man with a mustache goatee combo yellow eyes wearing a leather jacket and dress pants.

Naruto blinked at that as the man looked to him. "Keeping some strange company John?"

"Manny, Naruto. Naruto, Manny, he's an angel."

"Sup?" Naruto greeted with a wave.

"You're not surprised?"

"Seen some strange stuff in my life. Meeting an angel's not that far of a stretch." Naruto replied as Manny stared at the ninja.

"You'd be better off without John."

"Heh! I think your boss told me John is a responsibility for me. Besides, I'm not one to leave a friend. Even if they've… strayed far away from the path."

"I was right, wasn't I? It's heating up down here." Manny said turning to John.

"Can you open the gate, please? We've got time pressures."

Manny just closed his eyes, raised his hands and had time stop. Naruto leaned forward and saw the rain had stopped before John got out, waved his hand and had the rain that was falling up to the clouds fall. Naruto looked to the two as John tells Manny about the demon-hunting Liv. Manny then asks for John's help in stopping what's coming.

John gets angry at that knowing he's going to hell anyway before Manny smiles. "You are damned to hell… For the moment anyway."

"Are you suggesting it's not too late for me? To save my soul?"

Manny just smiled and pulled the umbrella over his face and rose it revealing the guard as the rain fell again.

They then went inside to an office where they saw a man with short black hair, glasses and bead reading papers. He's wearing a button shirt over a white T-shirt and jeans.

"Hello, Ritchie," John said startling Ritchie. "Long time, eh?"

"You get yourself out of my office right now! Go on, get out!"

"Is that any way to great a mate?"

"All right, you know what? Never mind. Never mind. You… You can stay. You can stay. I'll get out." Ritchie said putting things in a bag and got ready to leave.

"You still trolling the Internet?" John asked walking in front of the desk. "For things that go bump in the night? A celestial type said something big's on its way." He finished as they heard thunder in the distance.

"If I tell you, will you leave?" Ritchie asked fixing his glasses having John just stare at him. "All right, all right. Yes. Yes, I have been data-mining a whole lot of unexplained phenomenon, police reports, chat rooms, news wires, and I can… Ha-Ha! I can guarantee you, things... Things are crawling out of the shadows on a scale we've never seen before, John."

"That includes a demon from the inner circle that's terrorizing Jasper's daughter," John said, putting his hands in his pockets. "I need your help, old son. Can you hack a power grid?"

"Can I hack a power… Why yes, I can do that. And I believe I'll take a pass on that."

"I know that Newcastle was a bodge job," John said interrupting Ritchie.

"Newcastle was a nightmare, John! It was a nightmare! Everything that happened to that girl. And you know what? Now, I can't even make it through one day without Oxy to dull the pain, diazepam to make me sleep," Ritchie then reached for a large bottle of pills to show them before tossing it down. "And I will only get out of bed for my now dangerously good friend dextroamphetamine."

"We all learned our lessons, Ritchie." John said as Ritchie tried to leave, only for John to blackmail him by telling the police he was responsible for the girl's 'murder'.

"I wish it had been you, John. No, really. I really wish Nergal had just gone in and taken you instead."

"That makes the two of us, mate," John said before leaving as Naruto turned to follow.

"I don't know who you are… But you're better off without him in your life." Ritchie said having Naruto look over his shoulder.

"Believe it or not… I've been friends with worse."

Mill House October 18, 14:29 EDT.

Liv was warming her hands by the fireplace before looking up to the mirror that was on the mantel. "(GASP!)" And gasped as she saw a man standing beside her doing the same.

Looking over, she saw no one before looking up to see the man starting to leave.

"You hungry? We got groceries."

John and Naruto walked in with bags. "I saw a man in the mirror over the fireplace Is that…?"

"Yeah, that was Jasper."

"Was that his ghost?"

"No… Time's out of joint in that mirror. You were just watching the past. You'll find lots of dodgy businesses like that in this place. Here." John put a duffel bag on her hands. "I grabbed some clothes for you."

"You went through my place?"

"Liv."

She then turned to see a healthy Chas walking in having her scream.

"Whoa! You don't want to wake the dead! And that's a possibility here." Naruto said putting food in the kitchen.

"How are you not dead?!"

"Told you, Chas is my oldest mate for a reason. He has survival skills"

"No, no, nobody can survive what I saw."

"Excellent. If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. Now, time for your famous rack of lamb. Nobody should fight demons on an empty stomach." John said taking a drink from a bottle.

"Wait, we're going after that thing tonight?"

"Live in the now, I always say."

Atlanta October 18, 21:49 EDT.

On top of a parking garage, Naruto put his dark wear on as John finished painting a seal on the asphalt in white paint that'll trap the demon having them banish it back to hell.

Liv sat in the middle as John sat against the stair entrance and Naruto leaned beside him. After a while, Liv turned to John.

"Where do you come from, John?"

"The sordid affair of my parents," John replied playing with his lighter.

"I'm trusting you with my life here. The least you can do is to share one small personal detail."

"My mom died giving birth to me," John said closing the lid.

"Or one big detail."

"My dad said it was my fault. He had a nickname for me, I heard it every night. Hey there, 'Killer'. And after a night at the pub, which was every night, he'd punch my head and say 'That's for what you did to your mother, Killer'."

"Do you sometimes wonder what your mother was like?"

"No point in wondering… I'm going to find her." He then started to explain what he read and studied to get to where he is now and conjured a lot of things but has yet to bring his mother back.

The lights flickered as Naruto pulled his compound bow out and drew an arrow just as a security guard from the floor walked over.

"That's not the guard," John said as Liv stood while the guard walked in the seal and John pulled Liv out.

Naruto quickly shot the breaker box shorting out the power as John started chanting in Latin. Smoke covered the guard before he changed into John with black eyes. The demon taunted John about the people he's failed before hitting the breaker box and had the power, come back on.

"John!" Naruto yelled as John raised his hand.

Naruto then jumped back with Liv as wires tried to grab her before lightning covered the sky. John then shot a flare and had the power to go out in the building as well as the city. John then threw his lighter down after lighting it and had fire surround the demon as Naruto walked over, holding his bow at his side.

The demon tried to tempt John by showing him the girl he failed to save before Liv revealed it wasn't real as John finished the banishment spell having Fire shoot high in the sky.

"If it wasn't for my birthday… I'd really hate this month." Naruto said putting his bow back on his lower back.

John and the others went back down where Ritchie was waiting in a van and took Liv home.

Atlanta October 19, 13:16 EDT.

Naruto walked into a bar and saw John at the bar before walking over as Chas walked in behind him.

"Chas, Naruto. Just in time to settle a bet." John said putting a cigarette out in an ashtray. "Most influential band of all time. Barkeep here reckons it's the Ramones for the music, which is… Well, fair enough, but the Pistols, come on, man, the Pistols, they were dangerous."

"Liv stopped by the mill house. Got her bags. Said something about a cousin in California." Chas said dropping the pendant down. "She isn't coming back, John.

"Better off," Naruto said leaning on the bar. "She couldn't handle this or protect herself."

"I can put a cloaking spell on her," John said taking a drink from his glass.

Chas dropped a map of North America sand had red spots covering it. He explained she did scrying before leaving and showed a lot of things were going to happen and wants John to continue helping people. He then left before the Barkeep dropped another glass down, and changed into Manny.

"Cheers. Interesting coincidence Ritchie drove by Edgewood Avenue, and stumbled onto the crime scene."

"Mm. He made me pay for gas."

"You scared her away."

"Her life was more important than finding out when bad things happen," Naruto said from his spot. "Thought you were all for that."

"If she was gonna join our fight, she had the right to see the consequences. All I did was give her the choice." John said as Manny raised an eyebrow.

"You said 'Our' fight? That means you're going to help us?"

"That's what you wanted, isn't it?"

"And you?" Manny asked turning to the ninja.

"If John calls." Naruto relied stabbing a three-bladed kunai on the bar. It also has a thicker handle with kanji on it. "But I do have to help the kids that are being kidnapped," Naruto said as John put the kunai in his coat pocket that as draped over his seat.

"I don't think I'll use it," John said leaving as Naruto left with him.

"And why is that?" Naruto asked as Manny left the man he replaced.

"It's a path I gotta walk alone."

"You don't really have too," Naruto said as John smirked and turned down an alley.

"Who'd be crazy enough to walk it with me?"

Naruto stared for a moment before leaving himself.

To Be Continued.

A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.

Beta: Jebest4781, Chaos-PSD, and Arkham Knight22.

Sorry for this being mostly canon... Forgot that Ep was mainly talking but wanted to do a Halloween Ch and everything else I found used a villain not yet introduced.

We did think of the Justice League: Dark movie or the John Constantine animated movie/micro-series but they killed Jason Blood, Richie and erased Chas from his family's memories and John from his and I decided on not using those endings in case they come in here.

I know this is Fanfiction and you can change/save anyone but I feel that takes away the impact of the death/sacrificing themselves so the others could live.

Now, I know I said no bringing in characters but I did use John in the previous story and that'll be for anyone to be a main character. I have been asked to use some heroes in one of the Teams/League. So sorry I won't be using anyone outside of a one-off/cameo here and there.

Also sorry for these being late, I was sick the weekend before Christmas or these would have gone up last week. So I hope you had a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate and have a safe and Happy New Year.

So here's a mass update of all my stories for the end of the decade!

Nothing else to say.

Talk To You Later,

Lone Wolf Out.