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One day with Naruto and Raven out of the picture, Crucifier managed to find Enchantress deep inside the ruins found in the Amazon forest.

It had been a difficult battle with his servants helping put but he finally managed to convince the crazy woman to work with him.

His servants had been greatly damaged that their bodies were barely hanging as the eldritch magic ate away at their immortal life.

Crucifier may not care for humans but his servants were his people and he was greatly hurt by their pain.

"Drink" Crucifier cut his arm and commanded the Great Ten to drink his blood that was shining with great power

"My lord…you can't…it will weaken you."Kong Kenan muttered as his right side was erased while the rest was dying down

Before becoming the vampire's servant he had been the Superman of China with all the powers of the original Superman at a lower scale as he was a product of genetic experimentation.

He used to be bully but now Kong had been doing his part as a hero. Even as a vampire, Kong followed that path as all of the Great Ten also retained their original personalities.

To them Crucifier was their master that they couldn't dislike but they could see the problem with the path he was taking.

So it would be the best thing if they died here now or more people would die at their hands.

Crucifier could feel the conflict of desires in his servants and sighed as he dropped his blood into their mouths to fight against the magic.

He didn't hate their thoughts about dying for the greater good since it was an admirable quality.

'They will learn with time and those feelings will belong to our side.'

"I didn't think you cared. Aren't you a failure as a being of darkness?" Enchantress's raspy sound entered his ears

Looking at the beautiful woman garbed in green robes, Crucifier shook his head as his ruby eyes glowed in the dark.

"My lord doesn't believe that darkness mean we have to hate each other and backstab. It just means we thrive in the darkness like the beings of light thrive in the light.

We continue to lose ground because of such a simple misconception. If we could just stand together than the light would have to make proper compromises, unable to just paint us as evil and unnatural." Crucifier muttered with an emotional tone while clenching his hand showing his passion for the subject

He had shown calm features throughout the whole ordeal, this was the first time any one of them had seen him so animated.

Really, if he wasn't a vampire they wouldn't think of him as a villain.

"Not a bad answer but changing people of this side his harder than the light. Power speaks and you are just a tiny little bug."

"I hold no such grand schemes in my mind. I am satisfied with this humble dream of mine." Crucifier smiled as his servants stood up with a stronger connection to him

It was a good result even if he had ended up losing 20% of his power.

With Enchantress by his side their weakness was covered up and the heroes would be too late by the time they come face to face.

Back with the league, Batman was busy with many things as he had been relentlessly trying to communicate his side with the government so they could see the bigger picture.

After countless hours of arguing, he finally got his point across as they realized that the threat of vampirism was spreading too fast and was uncontrollable unless they made the changes.

That was only good thing because he just lost his two strong supporters at his delicate time and they had been unable to find anything yet.

But with the security cameras updated to the highest level of tech around the country along with the super computer behind the system, the task should be effectively handled while members from the police and armed forces were chosen to be trained under the program created by Bruce.

The rest of the forces also had a change in their training regime and addition of new weapons.

If the pressure wasn't enough, Batman found that Robin and Black Canary got captured. His body shook from the shock and while his heart wanted to go and search for him, he knew that the world needed him most at this time.

Biting his tongue, Bruce chose to stay and continue his work with a heavy heart while letting Shazam handle the search.

With Naruto's awakening, the team's pressure was lightened a bit as Raven was able to cast some spells over some cities to help them out.

It was unfortunate these spells couldn't be casted over the planet because of other forces in the dark that would take this as an attempt to discredit them and take it as a challenge.

Bruce didn't want that headache so he didn't suggest such a drastic move.

The information provided from Naruto's memories was not very useful and it reinforced the thought that the boy had made a stupid decision, letting his emotions get the best of him.

They were all fighting for the same cause but anyone could see Naruto wasn't very experienced especially at seeing death.

Every one of them had seen death in huge numbers and were obviously horrified but didn't let their emotions take over anymore while Naruto ended up pushing and the choice ended up being wrong.

No one was always right so you shouldn't try to push through without facts backing you since luck can run out at the worst of times.

'Hope he learned from this experience because we can't handle any more mistakes.'

"What are we going to do about Robin? I really can't take this situation anymore. Why is this bastard vampire acting like a fucking rat?" Jaime raged as smashed his cup

The situation was messing with his head. Nothing seemed right anymore as his leader was incapacitated and his friend was taken, most likely a vampire by now.

Impulse didn't know what to say as he couldn't believe that Tim was taken. It wasn't even that long when he had seen Tim as New Batman's (Dick Grayson) partner but now that young but charming man was gone.

Everything was derailing so fast and he wasn't seeing a solution at all.

'I killed him. I killed Tim.' Impulse body was shaking from the guilt he felt at the thought of his loved one

The future was terrible but his loved one still existed but now he had just caused one of them to die.

"Impulse shake out of it, man." Jaime noticed Impulse acting weird and shook his shoulders

Seeing the tears from his eyes and the look, Jaime hugged him, "Bro calm down. We can't just give up like that. There must be a way. We are the Golden Dawn so think positive."

Jaime had been feeling pressured but seeing the broken expression of his friend forced him to act as the moral support with scarab guiding him.

'There is nothing impossible. You just haven't discovered it yet so never let such thoughts touch your heart and mind.'

Kara saw the duo but moved away as she didn't know what to say. She was good at everything but communication wasn't her skill.

Understanding other people and pulling them out of the darkness was his skill so she could only do what she was best at.

Flying to her sanctuary, Kara operated the computer and created nano cameras with the resources available.

Putting them in different areas in Africa, Kara activated them so they would fly in a pattern she programmed while she watched all of them to catch any clue.

These nano cameras flew around at fast speeds and captured everything perfectly.

This was the only way she could search anymore as flying around had proved completely useless with Naruto.

She didn't find the vampires but noticed something else.

'What is that?' Kara thought as she noticed that the forests were slowly expanding

Sending the cameras into the sky, she noticed that it was happening everywhere.

Using the cameras she tried to find the origin point but couldn't get any clue and decided to meet the clone.

Flying to Jump city, she looked at the clone laughing and talking to Mary in an engaging matter.

He seemed happy even with all that pressure on his shoulders.

'That's so like him. Shouldn't have expected anything less. Charming some girl where ever he goes with that smile of his and his pure personality.' Kara thought with a smile as she hesitated for a second

"Naruto, I need your help." Kara spoke at a different frequency so only he could hear

"Kara, you need to go back to the original. I can't help you. I have no powers at all."

Those words shocked her, "How?"

"I met Death and she decided that I will learn better by actually not having those powers instead of acting like I didn't have them. Did something happen to the real one?"

"Nah, its fine. He is just sleeping after training too much. I will be going now so take care and good night." Kara replied as she flew away before he would notice anything from her words

She didn't want to increase the clone's pressure. The real one was already under it.

"Naruto, wake up"

Hearing the voice calling out to him, Naruto slipped through the women sleeping with him and stood up feeling terribly slow.

The affect still hadn't washed away from his system as the head was just getting back into shape and needed more rest.

He usually slept five hours and he had slept for 3 hours now but sleep didn't matter since it was his regeneration and healing that mattered, and both were slowed down from the imbalance in the system.

His body wanted him to continue sleeping in that comfortable position but Kara's voice couldn't be denied.

He could feel the need.

He could feel the frustration in that voice.

She would have never asked him if it wasn't important and looking at her face, it wasn't hard to see that she didn't want to do this.

"Sorry"

"No problem, it must be something important and all this is my fault so don't apologize." Naruto said as he smiled and tapped her cheek

"Yeah, it is."

"The issue?"

"There is something wrong with the vegetation around the world. Its spreading and nothing can stop it." Kara replied as they walked out of the room

"Let me see, what I can find out." Naruto held her hand and both of them teleported to earth above the roof of a building in Metropolis as he had left a seal.

'Kurama I need your help' Naruto said as he they flew down to the park nearby and sat down on the grass

'I am here'

Closing his eyes, Naruto entered sage mode and let his senses interact with the vegetation around him.

He could feel the increase in nature energy around the planet as something was guiding it.

"Superman, Flash, Blue Beetle, Impulse, Wonder woman" Naruto muttered as he felt their seals and knew they weren't in anything important so summoned them

"Dreamer, what are you doing?" Clark asked as he saw Naruto out of bed and the same went for Impulse and Jaime

They were worried for their friend and even his face didn't hide the weakness that he was experiencing.

"I am here to guide you through this problem. Someone is trying to cover the planet with plants."

With his answer they noticed that the trees were moving.

"Did you find the culprit?" Diana asked as she stood beside Donna

Donna appeared here because she had been holding Diana's hand when the teleportation took place.

"Yes, follow me" Naruto wasn't in the mood to talk and he was having a hard time focusing so he needed to finish this as fast as possible

He didn't even have the ability to control flight properly and let Kurama handle it as he didn't want to crash into buildings.

Flying quietly the group arrived in a land that used to be a desert but now was filled with green.

It was enormous and without knowledge finding anything here would be too much but Naruto could see the giant glowing sign.

I am here.

They really weren't trying to hide.

The group flew through the vegetation and found themselves in a small clearing where they found a woman with red hair.

"Poison Ivy! How?" Kara asked as they saw that the woman already expected them as she sat casually on a throne made of wines

"I am blessed by nature to carry out its will." Pamela replied as she stood up and focused on Naruto

"Are you here to join me?"

"Why don't you stop? Just help out in place where it is needed and not spread it over things, and destroy life. Humans are part of nature." Naruto tried talking to her as she felt familiar somehow

"That is only a temporary solution. Humans will burn away my efforts and capitalize on it. It's their greedy nature that can never be cured."

"Greed, yes. Everyone is greedy at some point. Aren't you acting greedy now? Aren't you acting like the humans you despise?

At this time of difficulty you chose to capitalize on it and spread your influence instead of helping out. Do you think a world filled with vampires is better than this?" Naruto just felt so tired that his words felt aggressive

"I will handle them the same way. They won't be able to do anything once this process if finished."

"No need to talk with the crazy bitch, take her down." Kara was just feeling angry listening to this talk

With her words all of them exploded into action but Pamela was able to keep them away as this was her sanctuary where her powers were the strongest.

The plants were abnormally strong that even Kara got captured along with the rest of them.

"Won't you consider?"

"Why don't you consider joining me? We are the same, chosen of nature."

Naruto sighed, 'Is it ready?'

'Yes'

"Take her down" Naruto muttered as Kurama released the nature energy he had gathered and collided with Pamela's causing her to falter and lose control

They could have handled this without Naruto but that would cause massive destruction and burn down this greenery causing an increase in the world's problems.

"What do we do about her now?" Impulse asked as her powers were too strong now and they didn't know the limits

"We are taking her in. She will just escape because her powers work differently and won't be stopped by any seal in my list." Naruto said as he looked at the woman whose neck he was holding

It would be so easy to end her life.

Just twist the neck and all this trouble would go away.

Just one nice twist.

Naruto felt those thoughts appear in his weakened mind especially under the pressure from Crucifier and Pamela's complete disregard for human life.

Letting go as the teleportation seal and paralysis seal spread, Naruto stood up.

"Are you serious? Why not let the JL handle it?" Kara asked as she forced him to look her way

"I think you have done enough. Let us handle this and we will take care of her new powers." Clark intervened before a fight started between them

Looking at them both, 'Why is life so difficult some times?'

"I need her once I am feeling better. She has some connection to my case. I need to know what the connection is so you can keep her for now." Naruto replied

"I understood. We will see if we can find it for you." Clark said as he picked up Pamela and left with the team

"You are starting to get on my nerves. Why can't you ask for help without being reminded? Even now when you can barely do anything, your mind chose what you would do naturally. You need to stop thinking like that or you will burn out soon enough. Why can't you see how it affects us?"

"Come on Kara, it was an honest mistake. I am trying to change but nobody changes in a single night."

"I don't believe you. I wonder if you are even trying."

"What do you want me to do then?"

"I want you stop taking life threatening choices. Is it that hard to comprehend?"

"I never thought my life was in danger when I acted."

"Lier lier lier, your danger sense would have told you that it was dangerous."

Seeing her cry and hit him, Naruto realized that his obsession with the solution had caused him to completely ignore the feeling.

How did that happen?

Was he really so focused on something that he could end up dying without realizing?

Flying through the trees as Kara had crashed into him and punched his face, Naruto could only think of those problems while he barely felt the pain as Kara wasn't punching seriously.

"Stop, I will try harder. I will take any punishment if I act like this again." Naruto caught her arm and hugged her

"I will imprison you."

"I don't mind."

"Do you?"

"Actions tell more than words so let us see." Naruto replied as he wiped her tears

Really it was painful hurting your loved ones emotionally.

But things didn't get better from this day and became worse as Green arrow was killed. Nobody knew how it happened but his mansion exploded while he was inside.

There was no chance of survival as the explosion was powerful enough to destroy buildings from afar and killed thousands of people.

The death of a friend and the mounting pressure was getting to everyone's head while the forces in the darkness were moving towards their goal.

This death finally snapped Impulse as he decided to travel into the future to try and find a solution to the problem.

"Are we really doing this?" Jaime asked as he saw Impulse run around making a machine that was supposed to get them to the future

"We have no choice. People are dying and we have not found a lead. Only the future can unravel the mysteries and maybe give us a solution."

"What if we end up dying? The enemy could have taken over."

"It's a risk we have to take and I doubt the enemy can take over. The only problem is the mounting deaths." Impulse sounded calm and collected but inside he was feeling guilt and depression eating away at him

This was not part of the future and it was looking worse than what he had ever encountered in the future.

Wally was still alive but Impulse was feeling that he might end up dead sooner or later by the hero killer if they didn't find out what was hunting them.

"I told Kara."

"What?"

"I think we needed more help."

"Dude, it becomes worse with too many people. We could get stranded in the time stream or get purged by the natural order. There is also the Time freaking police, it could notice us."

"You could have explained that."

"Ugghhhhhh, Let's get this over with before she appears." Impulse sped up and finished up the machine

He never thought it would ever come to this but life was a cruel mistress.

Starting it up, impulse had designed it to explode once they passed through so no one else could use it.

"I am coming" Kara crashed into them when they were about to enter and all three of them passed through the portal

This was her chance to make things right.

Naruto was breaking down and everyone else was the same. Depression was spreading at the amounts of death around them.

Many of their friends got kidnapped and even killed while they had been unable to stop anything.

The only one that could help them was Dr. Fate but he seems to have disappeared at the beginning of this problem.

Clone Naruto side:

One week had passed by since Naruto's blunder with clones and many things had happened in this time for his clone.

He had learned a lot about Mary and she had become a good friend along with some of the other neighbors.

Even in this difficult time with limitations, Naruto lived freely following his desires as he connected with the people around him.

Helping them out in the smallest of things like moving items, letting them borrow some things, give them a conversation partner and giving them advice when needed.

In one week he had managed to connect neighbors that didn't even know each other. His positivity was contagious and people followed some of his steps as it became easier to interact with each other.

There depressing lives had found some light and they quite enjoyed their time with Naruto after work.

Especially when they could share their problems and burdens, letting out the painful memories to lighten the heart.

But not everything was sun shine as Naruto some time had to sleep on a hungry stomach as he couldn't properly support his physique.

His powerful body required a lot of nutrition and with his limited finances, it was a difficult step.

Even then he shared his resources with the less fortunate around him who had children to support.

They were having difficulty supporting themselves but children made it even worse for them.

Choices were important and sadly their choices had led them here but that didn't mean nobody could help them reach a better destination or they couldn't hit an opportunity.

Sadly not everyone could reach that state of achievement and Naruto saw it clearly, here and there.

His desire to change the negatives of the world only get reinforced the more pain he saw the people go through or the pain he had experienced.

He knew the pain of loneliness, pain of hatred, paid of loss, pain of powerlessness and so much more.

How could he want these things on others when he didn't want it himself?

Desire for others what you want for yourself was his way and Naruto fed the neighbor living with a little boy.

He had heard the cries of the little child about food and rushed with what he had.

The single dad had definitely not expected it and was expecting complains about noise but Naruto passed him the food while convincing him that he had enough so it was no problem to share some of his supplies.

It wasn't wrong because if he had a normal body than he wouldn't be going even a little bit hungry since he had made enough friends to share his burden with him but he never ate more than normal with them.

According to the data, more than 42 million people now suffer from hunger throughout the nation. The fact remains that nearly 1 in 7 Americans still goes to bed hungry each night.

That was a really painful reality and it hurt him deeply since he had experienced hunger for a time. Only the saving grace of kindness of the Ichiraku family saved him.

These kinds small kindness shown along the way showed him that only a little bit of kindness from people could do so much more than people think.

Some of the most evil men only needed some kindness in their life to lead them away but life was cruel and the people even worse.

Talking about people's negative emotions, Naruto was fired from his job accused of not doing his job properly.

One of the cleaners had left the premises without permission and missed a room so one of the officers took the chance to blame it on Naruto because of perceived arrogance and pride by the new cleaner.

Naruto was a smooth talker and got along with people. He stood out even when his job was in the background.

This led to many people liking him and some people disliking him.

They thought he was arrogant and prideful.

He didn't know his place and was ruining the reputation of their employees by conversing with them.

The employee who was the actual culprit learned about this but didn't step up because he really needed the job and Naruto knew about it so he didn't speak up.

"Everyone can make a mistake and I doubt you haven't made any. In my short time here I believe my work has been stellar. Could you not find any kindness in your heart to give me another chance?"

His tone and expression pretty much had the man the fuming so Naruto was thrown out but he went out with dignity.

Saying his farewells to everyone and even talking with the employee to not worry about it. He was just leaving the job, not breaking ties with the people.

They knew him and he knew them.

His positivity and style was unforgettable.

Regardless of the job loss, Naruto talked to his friends here and got one of his neighbors recommended for the morning shift while he moved on to another job he had looking at already.

He never planned to stay in one place so he had been searching for something better and Naruto found a good job.

A Japanese restaurant that needed someone that spoke Japanese to work in their kitchen.

Naruto wasn't some professional cook or anything but his cooking was above average since he had been cooking since many years.

He knew many of the dishes so it won't be a problem for him to adjust. Fortunately there wasn't any certificate requirement or he would have to choose another one.

Plans weren't always going to succeed and Naruto ended up getting a job as a door to door salesman because of his talking skills.

It was job introduced to him by the cook since he liked the way Naruto talked and Naruto agreed to try it out.

Following the random path, Naruto found himself dressed in a borrowed suit from his neighbor and knocking on doors selling house appliances for a new company.

Naruto had read all the details properly and made notes.

Talking with the interviewer with a proper method, Naruto had managed to show his worth. He was lacking some skills but his way of talking was very engaging and made people want to listen to him.

It felt like he was going to give out some wisdom.

For the job they told him the details and the area of interest but Naruto didn't really trust these things 100% since people made mistakes.

So he didn't go directly to the houses and dressed casually as he ended up talking to the people in the area with the finances and proper houses.

He utilized his talking skills to pull him through and find the people that might be interest and guide them to try out his products.

Obviously the first day was spent just gathering data and he didn't sell anything but he managed to impress the people with his step as they hadn't expected him to get a sale on the first day either since he was a noob.

Getting back from work, his neighbors had decided to join him for the night and drink while cracking some fun.

Mary would always join in and then he got together with some dudes called Clark, Ralph and Terry.

These were the closest to him in this week but he had managed to get close to others as well. They were now a group and even shared the costs for something's to make life easier for each other.

Naruto had even talked about making his room into the fun room where people could gather when they wanted while he could stay with one of them.

The idea was well received and Mary had no problem with it except the guys didn't like it since they were very much enamored with her personality.

Regardless of their lecherous personality the guys were nice and fun to hang out with so today they were doing a skit while drunk.

Terry was a fan of the old anime series Yugioh and he managed to convince them after some shots to act.

"Since I seem to have fully recovered from my life-threatening coma, I'm gonna challenge Clarko to a card game." Terry said with a funny accent

"Wasn't playing a card game what put you in a coma in the first place?" Naruto played along

"Yeah, but like my dad said right before he died of alcohol poisoning: "What doesn't kill ya only makes ya stronger." Hey, Clarko."

"My name is not "Clarko"." Clark muttered as he took a sip

" Since we both lost in the semi-finals, we should Duel to see which of us deserves to win the bronze medal."

" Win the bronze medal? Ohoho, that's cute. I like it. Hilarious. You're a funny guy, Terry." Naruto laughed

"Terry's right. There are no real losers in Duel Monsters." Mary said as she felt this experience was unique with the addition of Naruto in their lives

He was making them do things hidden deep inside their hearts without feeling ashamed.

Naruto: Ha!

Clark: Ha!

Ralph: Ha!

"Ralph, why are you laughing?"

"Your hair looks like a box."

"Look, all I wanna to know is whether I got what it takes to beat you after all this time."

"Pfft, I'd be surprised if you have what it takes to beat Jerry." Clark held up the can

"I would kick your ass, white boy!" Jerry spoke in a squeaky tone

"Play nice, Jerry."

" Poooooor Terry. Clark is going to slaughter him. I'd be surprised if he even broke a sweat."

"How would playing a card game make you sweat?" Mary asked and the answer got a chuckle from all of them

"Clearly you have never played the Dark Magician Girl."

"Don't go easy on me, Clark. Just 'cause I was in a coma and probably suffered extensive brain damage, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna give it my all."

" Trust me, Wheeler. Even if you did have brain damage, I'm sure none of us would treat you any differently."

"Good. Wait, what?"

"I summon Gearfried in Attack mode, ya sonofabitch!"

"I activate Enemy Controller, you assclown!"

"Rich boy!"

"Hecker-wuss!"

"Money-bags!"

Idiot with blond hair!

I hate you!

I hate you a slightly larger amount!

Finishing up the act and watching a movie to pass time, the gang slept while Mary and Naruto stood on the balcony looking down at the city.

"Your friend died."

"I know"

"I thought you would be down after knowing about it."

"Wallowing in tears isn't going to bring him back and I can just add him to the list of people I will bring back. I am worried about the dark atmosphere in the area. The news about vampires is spreading somehow and you can notice the fear in the people."

"What do you plan to do? Are you going to watch while the original does his job?"

"What are you implying?"

"What do you think?"

"You want me to act as a hero and join me as my partner."

"Bingo"

"You got too much time on your hand."

"Are you telling me your heart isn't asking for it? I thought your heart beat for justice and hope."

"I am already fighting for my goal in the regular way. I promised not to break laws in this form."

"Che so boring, enjoy your boring dreams than goldy locks." Mary slapped his back playfully and left the sausage fest

Naruto watched her go before focusing on the night sky.

He wasn't aware of the massive deaths but only knew about the deaths of some heroes so his mindset was still focused.

Looking at the night sky for a while, Naruto went to sleep since he had work to do and couldn't have his body hurting.

On the other hand, his original was looking for a way to solve this problem as the cure wasn't found yet nor were the vampires.

Even though he was stressed out Naruto wasn't doing anything stupid or letting negativity grow.

He made time for others since he knew it was affecting everyone very badly but sadly the clones couldn't be used for this job since talking like this required deep thoughts.

In these times of death and depression, Naruto stood out along with Clark as a beacon of hope as they both did their best to keep everything under control especially Clark since he felt useless in this time but didn't show his problem.

Naruto also noticed some other important things after the deaths of friends. He kinda cared more for Kara, Raven and Veritas like he did for his mother.

'I guess its love.' Naruto felt happy that he found love but this was too complicated.

'Why is everything so difficult these days?'

'Where has the fun gone? Everything is becoming so depressing. I feel like i need to overwhelm everyone with my chakra to get them to loosen up to avoid making mistakes.'

'Don't forget about yourself. In such times you might make a mistake. You aren't infallible.'

'I have you for that.'

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