A/N: hey guys, whats up?! Hope these past couple of days have been treating you all well. I have a question for you all…if there are any ladies out there, can I get your number? Hahahaha, just kidding. On a serious note though, if there are any ladies out there reading this story, or had read my previous one, I've got a question for you: from a woman's perspective, am I depicting Mileena's behavior correctly? I'm asking this because I want to be as close to reality as possible. I just like making sure that everyone can clearly understand from each person's point of view, if that makes sense, it does to me. Anyways, just wanted to ask.

Also, I got one vote saying that the Naruto/Spawn idea would be cool. Someone else suggested a Naruto/D'Vorah pairing. Anyone else wanna come up with something for me to write about? I love hearing what you guys have to say, it keeps the creative juices flowing. Thank you very much, and continue reading my awesome story.

Again, just a quick reminder, Naruto in this story does NOT look like he does in the show or in the manga. His picture is in the story cover. I'm saying this because its easy to forget. I know, because I've done it several times during the course of this story's construction! Anyways, enjoy the story, and remember ladies, let me know if the point of view or whatever is portrayed correctly, or if it could be done better, I want everyone reading the story to be able t connect to it, to accurately imagine it!

A Broken Man

Chapter 16

Battle at the Sky Temple

Naruto ran up the side of the Sky Temple for only god knows how long. The structure wasn't called the 'Sky' temple for nothing after all, it was literally reaching up passed the clouds. He must have ran up the walls of the building for at least half an hour at his fastest speed.

When he finally reached the top, he could hear the sounds of fighting. He jumped over the side and landed on the large balcony and saw what looked like zombies fighting the Earthrealm team and his girlfriend.

One of the zombie-like women with white hair and a dark revealing outfit walked up to Cassie and said to her, "Come child. Be with us, and I will give you a proper upbringing."

He looked again and saw that Mileena, Takeda, Jin, and Jacqui were fighting Kung Lao, Stryker, and Kabal, although they were having a very hard time in even holding their own. It almost seemed as if in their zombie-like state they had become twice as powerful as they were in real life. Mileena took a hard hit in her stomach by Kung Lao and flew backwards then rolled on the balcony. Naruto picked her up, something the half Edenian was surprised of.

"Naruto!" Mileena said, surprised. "What-ah!-are you doing here?!" she said, holding her stomach.

"Obviously," Naruto said lovingly, "You could use my help."

"I don't need your help!" Mileena said pridefully.

"That blow that I just saw says differently," Naruto said to her. "don't worry, these guys look way stronger than normal. I've got this, you sit here and rest, I can tell you've probably got a broken rib or two."

"Who are you?" the zombie Kung Lao said as he walked forward. "My target is Mileena, not you, whoever you are. Leave, and you will not be harmed, this does not concern you."

Naruto stood up and said to the dead shaolin, "You attack my girlfriend, you are attacking me as well. I am Naruto Uzumaki. Remember it."

He suddenly disappeared from Kung Lao's view. He looked around frantically to search for his opponent but with no success.

"Show yourself!" Kung Lao ordered.

"As you wish," a voice said from behind him.

Kung Lao turned around quickly but was rewarded with an uppercut to the jaw. Kung Lao, even though dead, could not remember a time in which he had been hit harder. As he landed on the ground, the cement of the balcony underneath him cracked. He winced as he got up, holding his now cracked jaw.

"You are strong," Kung Lao said as he got up to his feet, "But you are no match for a shaolin!" Kung Lao swiped his hand across the blade of his hat and got into his White Lotus stance.

"I am the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku," Naruto countered, opening his eyes to reveal the yellow eyes with the toad-like iris, "You will die."

Kung Lao threw his hat towards the ninja, aiming on decapitating him. However, Naruto, in his Sage mode, simply grabbed the hat in midair and held it there for Kung Lao to see. "Without your weapons," Naruto stated, "You stand even less of a chance," and proceeded to toss the hat over the balcony and into the clouds.

Kung Lao simply smirked as his hat reappeared on his head. "I am never without my weapons!"

"Neat trick," Naruto said. "Beat this one."

Naruto retrieved two shuriken and threw them with unparalleled accuracy. He then performed his signature hand sign and yelled out, "Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!"

The two shuriken turned into fifty as they hurled towards their target, the zombie Kung Lao. Kung Lao's eyes widened as he removed his hat and held it in front of him like a shield. The act did prevent from any of them striking at any lethal points, however a few did manage to imbed themselves into his legs. Kung Lao grimaced in pain as he fell to his knees, no longer able to use his legs. In an act of desperation, he threw his hat in a wide arc that once again would ultimately head towards decapitating the ninja. Naruto ducked and rolled underneath the hat and ran towards the downed shaolin warrior. He jumped over the next hat toss after it had reappeared on his opponent's head and then, once he reached his target, Naruto threw a nasty right hook into the zombie's jaw, the breaking and shattering of his jaw clearly audible. As his head flew back from the blow, Naruto grabbed his collar and rose him to his feet and delivered several blows to the man's stomach and rib cage. He hit Kung Lao one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times in the ribcage. By this time, Kung Lao was coughing up blood.

Severely weakened from the Sage's blows as well as the shurikens almost completely embedded in his legs, Kung Lao didn't have much fight left in him. In his final act of defiance, he threw a large right hook at the blonde haired ninja wearing red and black armor. Naruto ducked and when he came up, delivered another brutal uppercut. Although this time, the blow had nature energy behind it, causing the defeated shaolin to fly up in the air about fifteen feet high. Naruto jumped to meet him in the air. Once he came face to face with the airborne zombie, everything seemed to move in slow motion. Naruto withdrew his sword from his back and, in an amazingly quick burst of speed that the naked eye couldn't see, Naruto cut off all limbs, decapitated him, and cleaved the limbless torso in half.

Naruto landed first. He turned to face his girlfriend and she watched as the bloody and severed body parts of the already dead Kung Lao rained on the balcony behind her lover. Naruto flicked the blood off of his blade and sheathed the death dealer onto his back.

"Dammit, woman!" he had heard Cassie yell out, "I need to get to my dad, he's in there! I can fight you afterwards you dumb bitch!"

Naruto turned around to find that Cassie was having a very difficult time holding her own against the white haired woman. Naruto created three clones that charged the woman's side and tackled her to the ground. Cassie was surprised at the sudden intrusion, but wasn't complaining. She saw Naruto run at her side as he said, "Go, I've got this."

"Are you sure?" Cassie said, wincing from the bruises she was sure to feel form later. "She's very powerful."

"So am I," Naruto said to her, still in Sage Mode. "Now go!"

Cassie didn't need to be told again as she nodded and headed inside. Jin yelled out, "Hey Cass, wait for me!" he turned to Stryker and said to him, "Sorry, gotta go!" and took off after his partner.

"Get back here!" Stryker said as he pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the archer's back. Before he could have pulled the trigger though he was tackled as well by two Naruto clones. The shot was fired, but fortunately it went right passed the newest of the shaolin warriors.

Naruto got into a low stance similar to the Gentle Fist as his claws at the end of his red armored gauntlets seem to shine in the moonlight and the rain. Sindel and Stryker looked a slight distance behind the ninja and saw the severed head and his body cut to ribbons, his blood being washed away by the rain. Sindel yelled out, "You killed Kung Lao!"

"He attacked my girlfriend," Naruto replied, his Sage eyes seemingly glowing in the rainy darkness. "Of course I killed him."

"You are a dead man!" Stryker yelled out.

"Indeed," Sindel said, "for the death of our comrade, you will pay with your own life."

"Sorry," Naruto said, "I'm not paying for anything today. You can join your friend in hell though. All you have to do is come on forward, I'll gladly send you to him."

Enraged, Stryker charged forward to his enemy, Naruto. This proved to be a foolish move because for one, even though he was somehow twice as strong as a zombie, he was still just a weak human in real life, so there was no real improvement. He threw several hard but predictable blows towards his target, the blonde haired ninja. Naruto was able to easily block each and every one without even trying very hard.

"If this is all you got," Naruto said, "Then I'm afraid that our fun has ended."

"Check this out!" Stryker yelled as he dodged back quickly and threw a grenade towards Naruto. Once he was back far enough, he drew his pistol and shot a bullet at the explosive.

Naruto kicked the grenade up high into the sky and dodged the bullet. Naruto threw a kunai that buried itself into Stryker's shoulder holding the gun. He gripped the handle of the kunai and grimaced loudly as he attempted to remove it from his body. However, Naruto was in front of him before he could succeed.

Naruto grabbed the blade and yanked it out of his opponent's shoulder none to gently, causing blood to openly spill from the wound. Stryker gasped in both shock and pain, but it didn't last long as Naruto used the same blade to create an open gash across the zombie's throat, making even more blood spew like a fountain. Stryker fell to his knees, blood just seemingly to continue to spray from the wound in his throat. Finally, he fell to the floor of the balcony face first, dead from his wounds and from blood loss.

Sindel glared at the ninja with hatred in her eyes. "You may have defeated that weak human," she stated, "But I am Sindel! I am the Queen of Edenia! None have ever defeated me!"

"Then how did you die?" Naruto asked.

"I killed myself, in order to protect my daughter from Shao Kahn," Sindel answered.

"Then you are weak," Naruto said simply. "Anyone who would kill themselves to escape pain is weak and useless. After all, that's what you are when you are dead, useless. If you wanted to save your daughter, you should have fought back."

"Who are you to judge!" Sindel screamed at the ninja. "You are not a mother! You are not even a parent! How would you ever come to understand the logic behind such a thing!"

"Regardless," Naruto continued, "Your own death accomplishes nothing."

"You will die for your disrespect!" Sindel screamed. "You are indeed powerful and could have been allies with Lord Shinnok, but you are far too arrogant for your own good! Killing you will be a mercy to you!"

Naruto popped his neck and said, "Show what you got, Highness."

Sindel replied with flying towards him, arms outstretched. Naruto ducked and raked his claws across her stomach. This simple moved was just that, simple, but it accomplished what Naruto was intending for it to. Sindel gasped in both surprise and pain and fell to the ground. She stumbled to her feet and faced him and said to him, "Why aren't you fighting me?!"

"I'm not trying to fight," Naruto replied, "I'm trying to kill you."

Sindel took in a deep breath and shouted at Naruto, using her vocal ability to create supersonic sound waves to blow him across the balcony. It worked, sending the young man stumbling to the ground and then rolling quickly towards the edge, as if he was being blown by the winds of a very powerful hurricane. When he came to the edge, he threw out his hand to latch onto the end of the balcony. He looked up to see Sindel slowly walk in front of him and stare down at him and laugh mockingly.

"You fight to kill, you say?" Sindel laughed. "You are doing a remarkable job at it," she finished sarcastically. "Unfortunately for you, young man, your killing days end here. It's a shame too, you could have been a wonderful, um, 'play mate'. Oh well, that's what you get for being disrespectful to the Queen of Edenia, now die!"

She raised her foot to stomp on the single hand holding onto the ledge of the balcony, but was surprised to see the man below her puff into smoke. She was shocked, and was then scared by the voice behind her saying, "You know what I love about bigshot rulers like you?" Sindel then heard the sound of metal being unsheathed as he said, "Even the simplest of tricks can fool you."

She then looked ahead with a blank stare. A second later, a very thin stream of blood appeared from the top of her head down in between her crotch. As she fell to her knees, her body split into two halves, and then fell into the sky over the edge of the balcony. Once again, Naruto flicked the blood off of his blade and re-sheathed it.

He turned around and walked back to his girlfriend, Mileena, who was looking a little better now that she had some time to recover slightly.

"Hey, are you ok?" Naruto had asked her.

"I'm fine," she told him. "Thank you, Love."

"Don't mention it," he told her. He held out his hand and she took it. He helped her up and gave her a loving hug and said in her ear, "Don't you ever scare me like that again, you understand?" he told her. "Pride can allow even the weakest to destroy the strongest. That blow you took from that shaolin guy really did some damage. You are out of this fight for good, you understand me?"

Mileena protested and said heatedly, "I am Mileena, Kahnum of Outworld! I do not need to be talked to-"

"Do you understand me?!" Naruto said to her sternly. Mileena had to admit, those yellow eyes with the toad-like irises were pretty intimidating. She knew he cared for her a lot, which she was glad for, but she hated how he sometimes acted like she needed to be protected like she was a dainty little princess.

"I…I understand," she conceded. She looked in his eyes and was surprised to find relief in them. he closed his eyes for moment and hugged her again as he once again spoke in her ear, "I love you, Mileena. I know you can fight for yourself, however, I will do all in my power to protect you."

"I…love you too, Naruto," Mileena said. Tears began to slowly form in her eyes as she could literally feel the love washing over her that was coming from the man holding her in his arms. She openly let the tears fall on his armored shoulder, glad that it was raining. She also hated that he could tell when she was emotional as he said to her, "Its okay baby, let it all out."

For the first time in her life, someone had told that they oved her, and they really meant it. That was what had gotten her to get emotional. She wrapped her arms tighter around her man as she quietly sobbed in the rain. Even though it was very high up in the sky and raining, the cold air swirling about them, she still felt warm. She then heard a new voice that said, "Aw, it looks like the creature who always claimed to be my sister has finally found a lover. I feel bad for the guy."

Naruto slowly let go of his woman as Mileena growled out, "Sister. You are an abomination!"

Liu Kang walked next to Kitana as he said to her, "You know, I think your 'sister' could use some punishment, what do you think Kitana?"

"She has been misbehaving as of late," Kitana agreed. "Maybe I will show her what her dear 'sister' can do to an abomination like her! Come, Mileena! Meet your death honorably! With what honor you may have left, anyway."

Mileena walked forward and pulling down her mask said, "come, sister, let us play!"

Kitana, readying her fans said to her, "Combat is not play!"

Donning her mask and preparing to fight, Mileena said, "Not if you lose."

With that said, Mileena and Kitana charged in, ready to tear each other's throats out. Liu Kang, meanwhile, launched a flying kick towards Naruto, which was easily ducked and, just as he did with Sindel, Naruto raked Liu Kang's under side of his thigh with his clawed gauntlet. Liu Kang stumbled as he tried to stand straight. He looked down at his leg that was bleeding profusely and said to the ninja, "You will die, ninja! I have fought and killed many like you before! You will be no different!"

"If you have fought one like me before," Naruto said, admiring the blood on his clawed gauntlet, "Then you wouldn't be alive today."

"Your arrogance is unforgivable!" Liu Kang shouted. "You are just like Raiden…so sure of himself that he would sacrifice his own men for his beliefs!"

"I would have to argue that point," Naruto said to the shaolin, "I may be arrogant, but its only because I know what I'm talking about, as I'm sure did Raiden. You were more than likely too blinded by pride or something else to even realize it."

"How dare you!" Liu Kang yelled out. He shot a fireball at Naruto who knocked it away as if it were a toy. "You were not there! He killed me in cold blood!" he launched yet another series of fireballs at the ninja, who dodged them all so easy that it was embarrassing for the undead shaolin.

"I'm sorry that happened," Naruto said, "But that's no excuse to serve someone who doesn't even care about you, much less the rest of the world."

"Lord Shinnok will rule over everything, its only a matter of time," Liu Kang said.

"Not if I can help it," Naruto said. He threw a few more shuriken at the shaolin warrior, and once again used the shadow shuriken jutsu. Liu Kang was much better than Kung Lao, proven by not allowing a single shuriken hit him either by dodging or hitting them with a fireball. Naruto charged at him and performed a roundhouse kick that missed, but was a faint because when he spun back around, the connected with Liu Kang's jaw with a Sage powered fist.

The blow caused Liu to fly back quite a ways. When Liu stood back up he saw Naruto charging at him, a giant rasengan in his hand. Liu Kang could only stare wide eyed as the Sage powered jutsu connected, sending the undead shaolin slamming directly into the wall behind him, the force from both the actual jutsu and hitting the wall behind him knocking him out.

Naruto looked at his handiwork for a second to make sure that Liu Kang was out of the fight. Once he was sure, he turned around to see that Mileena was absolutely dominating her sister. With a final uppercut-teleporting kick combo, she knocked Kitana out. Mileena stood up, proud of her victory, and yet winded at the same time. She looked at her lover and smiled underneath her mask. Naruto did the same to her. As they nodded to each other, they both headed inside the Sky Temple, towards the Jensei Chamber, where Cassie and Jin as well as the Fallen elder God, Shinnok, were currently at.

A/N: there you go guys! Another chapter done! I really hope you like it. Again, another reminder, REAL ninjas didn't fight to put on a show, their goal was to kill most of the time, so the faster the fight, the quicker they can get to the kill. I know, I'm an absolutely HUGE ninja fanatic! Anyways, you all know the drill, read, review, PM, whatever! Until next time, Roku out.