Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Justice League, or Justice League Unlimited.
A/N: Here's a belated Christmas gift an update for three of my stories minus Shinobi on Board as my beta for that one and I have been working on Betaing Naruto on Board.
Beta: Jebest4781, and Chaos-PSD.
Chapter XIX: Shadow Dance.
Last Time.
"It wasn't their fault." Naruto replied as Rachel turned around, and 'accidently' dropped the thermometer. "Oops~" She bent down, and flashed him her white panty clad ass before walking away with a sway in her hips. As she left, Jean and Kitty walked in, both wearing bathrobes. "How are you feeling?" they both asked, with a bit of angst in their voices.
"Come on, you two. You both know I've survived worse." he answers with a grin. Kitty looks down. "Half of which seem to involve saving my life." She's surprised when Naruto suddenly grabs both Kitty's and Jean's hands. "Hey. Don't ever think that. Either of you. You're both stronger than you give yourselves credit."
'"All that Mesmero guy did was catch you off guard. I know that won't happen again, because next time, one or both of you will take him down before he has the chance." he tells them, looking directly into their eyes. Both girls look at him, tears of joy forming in their eyes. They quickly rub them off and stand at both sides of Naruto's bed.
"Naruto. Thank you." Kitty tells him, kissing him on the cheek. Jean follows suit on his other cheek. They both look down at him, seductive smiles forming on their faces. "We know you can't put your midsection through too much stress, so..." Jean trails off by removing her bathrobe, as does Kitty. They fall to the floor, revealing their naked bodies to a surprised Naruto.
"You'll just have to lie there and enjoy our, 'gratitude'." Kitty finishes, inching lower to Naruto's waistline as Jean grabs his head and proceeds to indulge in an open-mouth kiss.
Now.
Xavier's School For The Gifted; Early Morning.
A shirtless Naruto, wearing gray sweatpants, walked under the doorframe of his connected bathroom. Looking up, he saw a metal exercise bar at the top before jumping up, grabbed it, and started doing chin-ups. After a few minutes he heard a sigh, and looked to his bed. He saw Kitty, in a lilac bra, and panties looking up from her romance novel.
She quickly looked back down, having Naruto continue his workout. Kitty looked back up, and followed a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead, and fall on his chest. She continued following it, and smiled looking at his abs, unconsciously licking her lips; until Lockheed flew up and blocked her view.
"Lockheed!" She said under her breath so Naruto wouldn't hear. "Move! You're blocking the view." She grabbed Lockheed, and put him on her head. She picked her book back up, and continued enjoying the view.
A few hours later, Rogue, in her uniform watched Shadowcat phase out of Naruto's room, yawning. "Late night? Most of us left Naruto's room at ten. You two were up until one-thirty." Rogue said as Shadowcat fixed her hair as Lockheed flew after her. "Let's just say that I discovered another one of Naruto's training regiments. I'll tell you and the others about it later."
Rogue raised an eyebrow at that. She then asked, "So, did you ask him yet?" Shadowcat shook her head. "No. Jean's going with him.. I still can't really think of a way for Naruto to be with all of us at the da..."
She trailed off as she saw two of Naruto's clone walk past them. Kitty smiled at that before Rogue hit the down button on the elevator. When it reached them, they walked in. "Hold the door!" Kitty hit the open doors button, and had the doors open as Jean, in her costume, and Emma ran in.
"Thanks guys.. Forgot to set my alarm clock." As they started going down, Shadowcat spoke up. "Like, why do we need to be up this early anyway? It's only a test for Kurt." Jean looked back at her before speaking. "We're the X-Men, so we work as a team. It's important to know everything we can about each of our strengths and our weaknesses."
The doors opened up in the underground area. Jean, and Rogue walked out as Shadowcat looked to Emma. "So, like, are you asking Duncan out to the dance, Emma?" Emma rolled her eyes at that. "He seems think so.. He even bought the tickets when Jean went on that Amazon phase a few months back."
They walked to see everyone in their costumes with Forge wearing a red shirt with a couple of pens in the pocket, beaded necklace, and black cargo pants. "I got so excited when I dreamt this up!" Forge said excitedly using his tool hand to weld a device together. "Soon, Kurt, you'll be popping everywhere in the World."
"But two miles is my limit; plus I need to see, or at least know where I'm going." Nightcrawler said with a gas mask, and straps on over his costume. Jean looked to see the others work on a console, or set lights up. "Yeah, but this baby is going to change all that." Forge replied finishing up the device.
"What... Does it do exactly?" Nightcrawler asked worriedly before Charles spoke up. "Forge believes that when you teleport.. You go through another dimension. This device will slow you down while you're there, and give us information." Forge nodded as he picked up his device. "And with that data.. We can improve your abilities."
Forge strapped the device to Nightcrawler's chest as Naruto tightened his gas mask. "Alright; ready to boogie?" Forge asked as Nightcrawler raised an eyebrow. "Boogie?" Forge nodded before speaking again. "Yeah. Trip the rift. Boldly go where no man as gone before." Nightcrawler chuckled nervously before speaking up. "I guess.. How long will I be in there?"
"Just a few seconds." Forge replied pressing a button on the device. "I can set your speed with this speedometer." Forge finished before Charles spoke up. "Naruto, make sure his mask is secure.. The sulfur smell Kurt makes when he teleports indicates that the air is toxic in the other dimension." Naruto nodded as he tightened the other straps on Nightcrawler.
"Aim for my old lab at the school." Forge said while walking towards the console, and typed on it. "It's further than you've gone before and there should be no one there to see you." Nightcrawler teleported, and talked to them over his earpiece before speaking that he made it to the lab, before teleporting back.
Later; Bayville High.
Naruto and Jean walked with Kurt and Scott as Kurt explained about the dimension. "It was so weird. And talk about fire, and brimstone with all the lava there. It definitely wasn't a vacation spot, but I can't wait to go back." Naruto walked ahead with Jean passing Emma. Later, Naruto saw Kurt talking to Amanda.
Amanda is a half-African-American, half-Romani girl with long brown hair, wearing a black shirt, orange pants and dark-brown sandals. She's also wearing an assortment of silver/gold jewelry, most prominently her silver necklace.
Naruto smiled before walking out to lunch where he sat with Scott, Evan, and Kurt who ran over to them. "What should I wear? I mean is it formal, semi-formal? Oh man, the Professor needs to recalibrate my watch!" Evan blinked as he took a sip from his juice. "That's right, bro.. She's going to feel two furry fingers."
"Oh man! I forgot about that!" Kurt yelled hitting his forehead. "What am I going to do?! Oh, I've got to call this off!" Naruto raised his hands before speaking to Kurt. "Take it easy, Kurt! Just wear gloves." Kurt looked at his hands, and closed his fingers. "Gloves? Won't she think that's weird?" Naruto shook his head at that.
"No. A lot of suits come with gloves. Just say it's your father's old suit, and you didn't want to turn it down." Before anything else could be said, Evan pointed behind Scott. "Heads up, Scott. Here comes Emma." Scott looked back to see Emma before Taryn sat down beside him. "Hey Scott.. Will you go to the dance with me?"
Naruto looked back to see Emma quickly leave as Scott reluctantly said yes. He smacked his hand to his forehead in irritation. After that, Naruto looked ahead, and saw Rogue talking to Risty before a clone of his with short red hair, and no whisker marks walked up to them. Naruto added chakra to his ears as he listened to their conversation. "You ready for the dance, Rogue?"
She reluctantly nodded before looking to Naruto for a second. "Yeah, definitely... Arashi." She relied using one of Naruto's fake names. Naruto looked to see the other girls, minus Jean, talking to a clone with different colored hair before standing and left.
Later, Xavier's School For The Gifted.
"Holy shit!" Kage cursed before Storm slapped him upside the head. "Language, Naruto!" Naruto rubbed his head before turning back to the T.V., and to the picture of the red raptor-like creature in the dimension Kurt goes through when teleporting.
(For a better picture of the creatures look at Shadow Dance.)
"Look at the size of those teeth! No way am I going back there!" Nightcrawler yelled pointing at the large teeth the raptor had. "Look Kurt; you've been teleporting all your life. And nothing bad happened to you.. We only saw this because my gizmo slowed you down." Nightcrawler raised his hands at that. "Yeah.. Thanks for the nightmares."
"Look Elf.. I'll go with you this time. Just in case." Wolverine said wrapping his arm around Nightcrawler's shoulder. Later, Forge typed on his device to slow Nightcrawler down more as Wolverine fixed his mask. "Look I'm just going to slow you down a little more to get the data." Nightcrawler looked uneasy at that.
"OK, but not too much!" Wolverine hooked a cable to him, and Nightcrawler as Forge looked to them. "Just keep an eye out for them and point the camera at their directions as long as you can so we can get as much data as possible." Wolverine nodded before tugging on the cable.
"And this line will keep us from getting separated from each other while we're in there." They teleported, and after a moment, they heard Wolverine speak through their earpieces. "Chuck.. Send a ride to pick us up.. I don't think returning back is an option."
Later.
"Good God, woman!" Naruto in a black suit with a red undershirt, and matching red pinstriped tie yelled out after looking at Tabitha's dress. She had her hair up with a black tiara with red hearts on it. A dress that's black on top with pink straps pulled down, and a pink skirt. She's also wearing black fingerless gloves, stockings with pink polka dots, and knee-high boots.
"What!?" Tabitha asked turning around as the others left as a clone with black hair walked to her. "That's the tackiest dress I've ever seen." Naruto yelled out before Jean in a gold dress pulled him away.
Sadie Hawkins's Dance.
Naruto slowed danced with Jean who rested her head against his chest, eyes closed with a smile. Naruto smiled before speaking. "I love you." Opening her eyes, she looked up at him with a smile before noticing several of the other girls look on in a little shock. She smiled as she assumed the clones said the same to them.
"AAAHHH!" Naruto looked behind him, and saw a red portal open up, and several of the raptors creatures came out. Kitty discreetly phased through them, and ran over as Naruto pulled his staff out of his suit, and attacked the ones that jumped at him. The others, forgetting their weapons, secretly used their powers to stop the creatures.
Two of them jumped at him, forcing him to kick one away before the other knocked his staff out of his hands. "Shit!" Naruto cursed as it jumped on him. Naruto held it's snapping jaws away as he pushed on its throat before it was hit with a beam, and disappeared. Naruto looked up, and saw Forge with a new teleporter.
"Let's go! The last portal should be in my old lab!" They ran, and caught more raptor creatures before closing the last portal.
Kurt and Amanda, A Few Miles Away.
Kurt walked beside Amanda who explained she knows his true form. "I saw you a few months ago.. You were arguing with your friend in the hallway at school... I already liked you then. But I don't think you even knew who I was. Anyway; when you suddenly changed into... Into something else."
"And then disappeared. I couldn't believe it! At first I thought it was some kind of trick or something. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. I... I haven't told anyone else, I mean who would believe me? All I knew... Was that I had to get to know you." Kurt just blinked for a moment before he spoke up.
"I... I don't know what to say." Amanda looked at him before speaking. "Will you show me? Please?" Kurt sighed at that before looking to her. "You won't like what you see." Amanda smiled softly at him. "Let me decide that." Kurt sighed again before turning his watch off. She took a couple of steps back before walking to him, and placed a hand on his cheek.
"Did you know that blue is my favorite color?" He chuckled, grabbing her hand in his. "So... I know a shortcut to the ice cream shop.. You up for it?" She smiled before speaking. "I'm buying." Kurt smiled before teleporting them. "An offer you'll soon regret."
Xavier's School For The Gifted; Early Morning.
Naruto was doing his chin-ups before getting the feeling that he was being watched. He stopped before looking to see that all of his girls were watching him in their pajamas. "Uhh.. Don't you all need to get ready?" He asked as they shook their heads. "Nope~" Sighing Naruto continued his workouts as they stared.
They all smiled as they followed a bead of sweat rolling down his head, and continued down his chest, and stomach. "Now this is something I can DEFINITELY enjoy waking up to." the girls unknowingly thought simultaneously.
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading ad let me know of any mistakes
Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD
Here's a belated Christmas gift an update for three of my stories minus Shinobi on Board as my beta for that one and I have been working on Betaing Naruto on Board
Next to be updated will be this story as I'm finishing up season 2
I hope you had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and Kwanza. Have a safe and Happy New Year
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.