Chapter 7


All there was for miles was death, Uzumakis dead, Amazonians dead. All for nothing, all for their pathetic pride. The stench of burnt flesh permeated the air and hung over the one living person like a cloak. The man's silhouette flapped in the air, dark flames flickered across his body.

He heard a booming a laugh, and then the heavy footsteps of Amazonian soldiers coming towards him. "What do you have left to fight for?"

The man stood there, patiently waiting with his sword drawn as he felt the speeding arrival of the world's mightiest warrior, Hippolyta. "Nothing." The man said. His purple eyes shifted into red eyes with concentric ripples and tomeos.

"Amazonian!" The man's fire spread away from him and he dashed towards them. His mind bloody with rage as he butchered everything in his way to get to Hippolyta. The woman stood above him, watching as her comrades were killed, as the young Uzumaki was injured from her battles.

An ethereal blue armour surrounded the man as he activated his Susanoo, Hippolyta flew into the air, her eyes glowed a divine white as she screamed, "For Olympus! For Thymescira." The skies crackled with lightning, the wind blew with ferocity and the water around them raged in anger. The Greek gods had given Hippolyta their blessing.

The young man could barely avoid Hippolyta's attack, her sword cutting his armour in half, leaving him exposed. She threw her lasso around him, containing him, "You have done enough damage, Uzumaki." She threw straight into a temple and returned him back to her feet. He struggled fruitlessly against the divine hold of her lasso. "This is the end! This war, 1000 years of bloodshed because of your clan."

The man chuckled, "It was you Amazonians who killed my mother, who butchered the elders of our clan. No, if you kill me here, it will only cause the war to escalate."

Hippolyta looked down at the young man with harsh eyes, her sword slashed down and cut across his neck cutting his carotid. His last words still haunted her to this day, "Amenomihashira." His body glowed an ethereal yellow, then blue, his scream of pain could be heard throughout the battlefield despite the blood in his mouth.

Then he exploded, a pillar of energy shot straight to the heavens and then expanded, scorching the earth and disintegrating everyone. Hippolyta's world turned white as she awoke to a decimated island.

That was the day that Themyscira fell, the day that the war ended.

Naruto and Hippolyta awoke with a gasp, despite being in different parts of the world. Hippolyta frowned in sadness, she had taken an afternoon nap, as she looked outside her window at the now flourishing island, it seemed so long ago, that war had brought the worst out of her. She remembered her daughter being brought by Superman, that seal made her shiver and she had the urge to hunt the Uzumaki down, but she realised that it had been modified to only knock her out.

Diana had talked about Uzumaki Naruto before, it reminded her far too much of the young man in her dream. He was a kind young man, who lost his family in the war, she killed his parents and sent them to Uzushiogakure in a brash manner. A vendetta was born and he became the leader of the clan whilst she became the leader of the Amazons. He killed everything in his way, with each kill, he became stronger as he sacrificed everything to his demonic alter ego, in an effort to kill her.

Uzumaki Naruto reminded her of that young man, the very embodiment of obsession and rage. He lost his clan and she could only guess what was going on in his mind but she knew that the Amazonians would be out for blood. They took his attack on their princess as a direct provocation of war.

Naruto awoke to a dream that felt so surreal, it reminded him of the other dreams that he had experienced over the past months. It was like he was that man, he felt what that man felt, his pain, his sorrow and his overwhelming anger to the Amazonians. He sighed as he wiped the sweat of his forehead, all of these memories that didn't belong to him were causing some serious damage to his mind. He was feeling fractured, like he was one personality in an ocean of others and he had no idea how to deal with it.

Right now, for example, he felt the incredible urge to fly over Themyscira and crush it. He breathed in slowly as he calmed his mind. He felt the urge subside and hoped that it would never return.

Batcave

Batman rubbed his eyes tiredly, he sighed as he looked at the massive computer screen. Another negative, his search to finding Naruto seemed to come to an unexpected halt. The world's greatest detective had only managed to confirm a few certain suspicions, the first being that Naruto was helped by an outside source. Naruto was new to this world, he didn't venture far enough or spend enough times understanding how to remain inconspicuous in the modern world. His second suspicion was confirmed when he and Superman scanned the entirety of the watchtower, it was clear that either a mole existed in the Justice League or that they were able to plant some sort of device in the league that no one was aware of.

Either circumstances scared him, this organisation or group were powerful enough to infiltrate the Justice League and had enough resources to hide a powerful meta-human.

"Should I go out patrolling without you?" Robin asked as he walked out of an elevator.

"There is no need to go out patrolling." Batman said gruffly. "Besides, crime seemed to have slowed down in Gotham..." His eyes narrowed, and he quickly began to research something on the computer.

Robin watched his ward look at GCPD records, particularly a report that involved the arrest of Poison Ivy. "What are you looking for?"

"Nothing." Batman stood up abruptly, his eyes still affixed to the screen before he marched off towards the Batmobile.

"Where are we going?" Robin asked.

"I'm going alone." He announced entering the vehicle. Robin sighed as he watched the sleek black care rise on a platform and speed out of the house. His eyes flickered to the screen, a cheeky idea formed in his mind. Batman must have been in a rush, if he didn't close what he was working on.

Arkahm Asylum

The Asylum was an isolated facility that existed solely to hold and rehabilitate the most dangerous criminals of Gotham City. Batman or rather Bruce Wayne funded a lot of the asylum, it allowed for him to keep track of the criminals whereabouts and make plans if they ever got out which was a very common occurrence.

Batman sneaked throughout the facility, the dark corridors shrouded his movements as he reached his target. Poison Ivy sat in a white padded room wearing a straitjacket and an inhibition collar. "Oh, it's you Bats…" She grinned.

Batman's eyes narrowed at her, he growled, "How were you captured."

"Why?" Ivy taunted.

Batman grabbed her from the hems of her jacket, "I know that there is no one in Gotham that is capable of withstanding your poison."

Ivy laughed, "As expected from the world's greatest detective." A smirk played on her lips, "Though you are few days later than expected." Batman threw Poison Ivy to the ground, surprise marred his face when her body disappeared in a plum of white smoke.

He muttered, "Bunshin." So, his suspicion was correct. Uzumaki Naruto was here, in Gotham of all places and he had Poison Ivy with him.

The alarm flared to life, Batman grunted as he heard the guards run towards the cell. He needed to ensure that there were no more clones in place of the prisoners, but the presence of the guards forced him to retreat.

A guard shouted, "Close the gates, Ivy has escaped." He looked around and found a small note on the floor, never noticing a silent shadow moving behind him and into the corridor. There would be chaos in the Asylum that night, but it would allow Batman to see how many clones there were in the Asylum.

League of Shadows headquarter

Naruto rubbed his head in pain as memories of his clone appeared in his head. Ra's Al Ghul looked at the teen with slight worry, "Uzumaki! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." He groused.

Ras sighed, "Luthor has warned you off the danger of using your clones, Uzumaki."

"I can handle one set of memories and it was necessary for the plan." Naruto replied. Truthfully, using clones for a long period of time wasn't a particularly good idea despite his incredible regenerative ability because of the massive feedback he received from them and since regenerative abilities didn't come hand in hand with the ability to fix a fractured mind, Naruto knew that it was risk that he shouldn't take.

"I take it that Batman has figured out that Ivy is in our possession." Ras said.

Naruto smirked, "Of course, Batman's the only one in the Justice League that poses a problem to our plan."

Ras nodded. "Then I shall tell Queen Bee and Luthor to proceed as you have instructed." He gave Naruto a pointed look, "For your sake, I hope that it goes well." He walked off to the comforts of his own chamber.

Naruto grunted, "Stupid old man." They had forced him to play mastermind, Savage had said that the inner circle never did anything that would bring suspicion among them. Since he was affiliated with nobody, he was the logical choice in this plan of action. They wanted him to play the role of the diversion whilst they stole something.

Naruto stood up and flew out of the window at mach 20. "I guess, it was time to show my face." He never noticed the red arrow that pierced the wall next to the window he just flew from. He would only be notified of the breach several hours later.

Gotham

Cape Carmine

Poison Ivy was sitting in her newly bought apartment, after she had been released by Naruto and his unknown associates. She had been told not to contact her friends or create any havoc until they contacted her.

"Ivy." A burst of air rushed into the apartment as Naruto sped in.

She grunted, "Can you not just knock."

Naruto shrugged, "I could but I chose not to." Ivy simply sighed at his pitiful excuse.

"I suppose it is time for us to act." She said, getting up and stretching her body. "So, what am I to do?"

Naruto grinned, "You are going to be the diversion for the bat."

Ivy groused, "Greaat! I can raise forests but instead you want me to play the pet for the Bat." He smirked at her, Ivy would have flipped him off but she knew the bastard didn't care for her feelings.

"Batman's first logical assumption would be that I broke you out, so if you start causing mayhem you'll be on his priority list for an interrogation." Ivy narrowed her eyes, she didn't like being thrown under a bus but Naruto soothed her worry's. "Don't you worry, I will have a clone ready for an extraction."

"And what will you be doing?" Ivy asked, somewhat curious what all this planning was for.

Naruto smiled, "I'm afraid that's above your pay grade." Mimicking a government official. Ivy rubbed her head, wondering what she did to deserve all of this headache.

"Gear up, I have a present that will help you." Ivy raised a smooth green eyebrow somewhat interested as to what this present would be.

Naruto threw a box towards her, she opened it and found a green bean in it. "What's this."

"It's filled with my yang energy, it will enhance your abilities." Naruto replied. Poison Ivy looked at the object with incredible skepticism.

"Why are you doing this? You can easily conjure up a clone to act as a diversion." She asked.

Naruto replied, his form vibrating, "Think of it as a test." With that, his body glowed a bright blow before it simply rippled out of existence.

Ivy sighed, "Great, another Riddler." She casually strutted out of her living room, making preparations to cover Gotham in a forest. She eyed the bean in her hands, she knew how much Naruto's life force affected Naruto. 'Perhaps I've found him.' With that, she too disappeared from her apartment.

Hours later

Naruto was angry, he had heard that Dr Roquette had been stolen from right underneath the league's noses. "The plan doesn't change." Naruto said to his other counterparts.

Savage groused, "And what if Dr Roquette manages to find a way to break the encryption."

The boy grinned ferally, "She'll be the distraction we need then. I have already instructed Ivy to attack Gotham, the Justice League will be helpless against her new control of nature and the young ones will be busy protecting the dear doctor. It should provide the window necessary to get what we want."

Queen Bee replied, "And what of the staff."

"That was only for my benefit, not yours." Naruto asked calmly. "I shall get the staff on my own. I believe it Ra's who is at fault if this mission goes awry." Ra's growled but remained silent. "Deal with the Doctor." Savage instructed the Master Assassin, before the feed was shut off.

Naruto's eye flashed red with anger, his plan had been disrupted because that idiotic assassin couldn't keep a doctor locked up. He bared his fangs and muttered, "Looks like I'll have to send a clone after the doctor, just in case."

Night fell and with it an uneasy silence befell the groups, the young heroes were holed up inside school guarding Doctor Roquette. Artemis, the newest addition of the group was set to stand guard the perimeter alongside Miss Martian whose telepathy was constantly scanning the area. The heroes were all trigger itchy, not knowing where or when the assassins would descend upon them.

Miss Martian felt something, she said, "I sense someone."

Aqualad ordered, "Everyone report!"

"I see nothing on my end." Artemis and Miss Martian replied.

Aqualad waited for a response from Kid Flash, all he heard was static. "Kid Flash!" Though he was snapped into to focus when a blade whirled forth from the shadows, aimed at the Doctor with lethal aim. He jumped, blocking the blade with his dense flesh.

The Assassin stepped out, "That looked like it hurt." She mockingly added.

Aqualad grimaced, drawing one of his water blade and getting ready to battle. "Artemis, Miss Martian. The enemy is here." He said through the com. She charged at him, easily moving under his inexperienced slashes and kicking him from under. Aqualad grabbed the water from his now un-materialised sword and used it to throw her across the room. The Assassin jumped onto the desk before she hit the wall, throwing one of her sai's at Aqualad's now heaved over body.

Clang

An arrow deflected the blade away.

The Assassin grinned, "Now this is interesting."

Artemis replied, "Two against one. "

She fired several volleys of arrows at the assassin, all aimed to maim her target. The assassin laughed, moving with incredible athleticism and flexibility she spun around deflecting each of Artemis's arrow onto the Doctor. "It's over."

"What's over." Kid Flash smirked. The arrows lay in his hands, he ran at her with the intention to knock her over. The Assassin jumped back but was thrown by Miss Martian's telekinesis. She grimaced. This was not a fight that could be won.

A cannister shot through the glass window, and a dark smoke filled up the room. The Assassin was unprepared to be grabbed by a blur. The figure stopped a second later in the woods. She pushed herself away from him, "Who are you?" Her vision still blurry from the high-speed movement.

"Boss. I got her." The figure said.

The Assassin muttered, "Naruto."

"Cheshire. Boss says hello." The clone replied. Her vision slowly returned back to normal, in that moment, Cheshire grabbed Naruto's clone and growled. "Why did you that? I would have escaped, I had reinforcements."

Naruto growled, "Boss says that Ra's is too idiotic to see how much value the Doctor truly has. He wants her mind for himself. Besides you wouldn't have been able to beat them anyway." His grin was far too sinister.

"I'm an assassin." She replied.

"And I am a unicorn." He said sarcastically. "Now instead of killing Roquette, get back there and distract them long enough for Boss to finish his plan." The clone puffed out of his existence, leaving an angry Cheshire walking back to the school.

Gotham

Batman dodged another tendril from Poison Ivy. The woman moved at incredible speed or was it that he had become slow.

She grinned, "Do you like my new pollen." Batman threw a grenade at a massive plant that was about to swallow him. The plant exploded, and Poison Ivy glowered, "My poor baby, you'll pay for that Batman." She grabbed the box and ate the bean. Power rushed through her, the likes that she had never felt before. She felt attuned to nature, like she could feel every plant in the entire state calling out to her and she was drawing energy from them. "Let's begin." Her eyes glowed a nefarious green, Batman would have been stabbed by a thorn that had erupted from the ground had it not been for the timely arrival of Wonder Woman.

Diana cut the vine in half and blocked several other vines shooting towards her with her shield. She said, "How is she so powerful." Ivy had never been so attuned to nature, she could feel it, it was almost like she was in the presence of Lady Artemis.

Batman growled, "She ate a bean. It enhanced her powers."

Wonder Woman was about to charge Ivy when Batman said, "No, we need a plan of action. We don't know how strong she is." Though it was far too late, trees sprouted out from the ground, vines crawled and twisted around the skyscrapers and in mere seconds, Gotham appeared to have been turned into Ivy's playground.

She laughed wickedly, "It won't help, I have the power of the green now." Her body melded into one of the plants and she disappeared. Batman and Wonder Woman stood anxiously, wondering where Ivy had gone. She sprouted behind Wonder Woman, the amazon blocked the blow with her shield but was launched straight into a building. Batman threw one of his fire grenades into the ground, vines burnt around him, forcing Ivy to retreat inside the plant life. He said, "Give up, Ivy. You cannot beat us, soon the Justice League will arrive."

Ivy's laughter echoed throughout the entirety of Gotham. "Then let's have some fun, bats. I've always wondered how many gadgets you have inside that belt of yours." Vines grew once more, sharp sticks of wood launching themselves towards the helpless detective. Batman grabbed his grapple and fired it in the air, the thrones missed him, and the spikes embedded themselves into the soil.

Batman landed into the cockpit of his plane, the Batwing dove downwards, firing volleys of missiles that lit up the plant life. Ivy screamed as her plants burned, she could feel them crying out in pain, it hurt so much. Vines shot forwards, ripping the machine apart into a fiery explosion. Batman flipped out, gliding towards Wonder Woman who was now cutting every vine in her way. He said, "We need to burn it."

"Erif nrub s'yvI stnalp! nrut meht otni hsa" Zatana's voice shouted as he descended down towards the central plaza to assist Batman alongside Captain Atom, Superman and Flash.

Ivy screamed further, the magic burned her plants before they disintegrated into piles of ash. She growled, her eyes glowing further. Energy pulsed out of her, she wouldn't let Naruto's gift surmount to nothing. Her body began to bulge, growing into the size of a giant. Vines surrounded her body, making her look more like a plant shaped humanoid then a human.

Captain Atom said, "I sense some sort of energy inside her. It feels similar to nature, like…"

"-Chakra!" Wonder Woman sword glowed with electricity, Zeus was asking for this woman's death.

Batman muttered, "I told you-"Though his words weren't heard by the group because Superman flew towards the giant Ivy in a fit of pure rage.

"Naruto!" The man steel roared. His punch snapped Ivy's chin back, forcing the giant to fall onto several buildings. Luckily for the man of steel's stupidity, Zatara had protected the buildings from damage with his magic.

Superman pummeled the Giant harder and harder, Ivy felt each of his blows crack the hard armour of her plants. She eventually had enough, several vines gripping the man of steel by his legs and throwing him to the side like a ragdoll.

Captain Atom said, "I'll eradicate her energy." He flew at a slow pace, deliberately trying to get Ivy to zero on to him with her vines so he could understand the molecular structure of her form.

Vines wrapped around him, Ivy cackled, she said, "How slow." Clasping her hands together, the vines squeezed against his form. Captain Atom's body leaked radiation, the plants began to wilt and whither. Soon the radiation reached Ivy's main body and Atom began to use some of his molecular manipulation to eradicate all traces of chakra inside her body. Ivy screamed, she could feel her power dwindling and radiation beginning to seep into her body.

Batman shouted, "Atom stop! She'll die." Captain Atom watched as Ivy's form exploded into a million pieces of wilted flowers and vines. She fell towards the ground, body raked in pain, Superman grabbed her and shoved her against the wall.

"Tell me where Naruto is." He cracked the wall with the force of his shove.

Poison Ivy coughed, "I don't know."

"Static. Bruce, it's Wayne Tech." Alfred said through his com.

Batman punched a wall. Superman looked towards his friend, somewhat in concern. Ivy grinned, "You fell for it. Hahaha the almighty detective was too slow to realise what was going on."

"Tell me what he was planning." Superman hollered.

Ivy smirked, "You'll have to beat it out me, boy scout." His arm was cocked, wanting to smash her through several buildings but he was held back by Diana.

"Don't." She said. "I'll be the one to get information out of her." Her lasso wrapped around Ivy's neck. She asked, "What was Naruto planning."

Ivy replied truthfully, "I don't know."

Batman continued, "Naruto is intelligent. He planned for her capture, he knew she would attract our attention, used her as a diversion and provided her with no information as to clue as into his whereabouts."

Ivy laughed, "There is one thing that you should know about Naruto. He would never leave an ally to bleed on the battlefield."

Diana smirked, "Then why are you here?" A mist began to settle throughout Gotham, it was barely noticeable at first, it began as soon as Ivy lost. Diana felt it, his presence was undeniable and her blood lurched for his blood. She drew her sword, "On guard! He is here." The mist grew until it was thick enough that not even Diana could see through it.

Atom, Superman and Batman used infrared vision to see through the mist but merely gasped. "That's impossible. I can't see." Superman said.

Atom commended the mist, "Interesting, his chakra is everywhere. I'll have to use that."

Wonder Woman removed her lasso from Ivy and began to spin it around, ready to capture any moving life form. She threw it and something was drawn towards them. "Hey! Hey! It's me." Zatara said.

Diana replied, "I'm sorry."

Batman said, "No! He's not Zatara."

Zatara laughed, "Of course I am, I just fought with you." They all looked on edge. "Why are you all on edge. It's not like Naruto can shapeshift."

Batman grimaced. And that made them even more on edge. Zatara sighed, "If we take Ivy, Naruto will have to follow. So let's take her to headquarters."

Wonder Woman smiled, "I agree. Naruto can't fight all of us."

Zatara grabbed Ivy, "I'll see you all there." A beam of radiation almost hit Zatara's chest.

"You're not Zatara." Captain Atom said.

Zatara grinned demonically, "Wanna see a magic trick." He laughed. A burst of gravity rippled and struck all of the Justice League members, sending them flying in opposite directions. "And that's how you make a grand entrance." Zatara tipped his hat.

He stared at Batman who had grappled onto a wall. "I thank you for playing Batman." With that Zatara vanished in a blue energy form.

Dark Room

"So, did we manage to get what we wanted." Savage asked.

Ra's al Ghul grimaced, "Thanks to Naruto we managed to procure the Star Lab data as well as some useful Wayne tech."

Naruto replied, "Even after all that help, you still couldn't breach the wayne tech database."

Savage supplied, "It doesn't matter. The young heroes have interfered once more in our plans, so it's fortunate that we have an operative... on the inside." Ra's smirked.

Naruto answered, "We have a new ally to cause, Poison Ivy."

Queen Bee chuckled, "After today's spectacle, none can argue that she was a worthy ally."

"So it begins." Luthor finished.

Outside Gotham

Several armoured figures landed gracefully on the roof of a sky-scraper. One of them said, "This is the last place, I felt his presence." Her eyes glowed an ethereal white as she stared at craters formed by Ivy.

"The Uzumaki was here." Another spoke with a growl.

"Sisters. We must remain calm. His time will come." The leader spoke. "Today is the day, Uzumaki Naruto dies." She said. Her spear struck the ground and magic surrounded the city.

Naruto felt it. He shivered at the hideous feeling. Unbeknownst to him, the gears of war had finally begun to turn and Naruto would realise very soon that he had fired the opening salvo.

A/N: I don't really know where to start besides firstly apologizing for not updating in so long. I had a really shitty year; my mother was in an accident. I had to juggle school, looking after my mother and my younger siblings. I never really had the time or the energy to write anything.

Anyway, I'm sorry it took me so long to update.

I'll try my best to get back into it and find some sort of rhythm. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review as to who you think should be in Naruto's team.

Oh and Harem. Wonder Woman is the only definite pairing, all the others are up for grabs so leave a review for which girl you think should be in the harem and I'll compile a poll for that.