Welcome one and all, to the next installment of KitsuneX. This chapter will be a doozy, for both me to write, and you to read.

ATTENTION! APPOLOGIZING FOR MY MISTAKES! For those of you who reviewed telling me about my mistake with Catwoman, AKA freeing her at the end of one chapter and then freeing her in the beginning of the last one, yeah... I did NOT remember what I did that one chapter, thus why I had the beginning of last chapter have Catwoman freed... I WILL RECTIFY THAT AND EXPLAIN! SO PAY ATTENTION TO THE STORY!

Let us hope I still got it in me to pull a better chapter, shall we? ONWARD!

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"Alright... this is what we got so far..." Cyborg plugged in his cord to the computer and uploaded his new data, and started filing ti all away in it's appropriate spots. All the Titans were there to see the debriefing.

After sorting it, he pulled up the file for Sasuke. "This guy is one of the main characters of that group of ninja after KitsuneX and his friend. He's got special eyes, able to foretell a move, able to conjure many things, and as well as his skills to manifest fire and lightning into attacks. Seems he is a hot-head and leader." How wrong he was on that last title.

He pulled up Kakashi next. "This guy is cool-headed, and has decent skills." he pulled up the rest as well. "All of them are ninja with decent skills, and they each have different abilities but similar powers. This one-" He pulled Sakura's file. "-Was put into a coma, and if the news on Killer Frost is anything to say about it, she'll be in it for awhile."

He put up Kakashi, Neji and Sasuke only. "These three got hit hard by KitsuneX, The leader got his eye burst into nothing, the white eyed one got gashed open, and the other got a lightning hand to the lung. All three will be under stress. We don't know where they went, but if they don't get medical help soon, then those two are dead."

Donna hummed in thought. "So these guys are enemies of KitsuneX, but their from his dimension? Am I getting this right?"

Raven turned to her, nodding. "Yes. Although, KitsuneX is much more powerful, and seems I felt.. betrayal.. inside him. He feels they betrayed him, and that was why he was so angry."

Static sighed. "So you're telling me, KitsuneX was pissed off because these guys betrayed him?"

Raven nodded, but looked down in sympathy. "It was more then betrayal, it was hatred, a kind of hatred from a broken heart... it was aimed at three people, the one in the coma, and the two blonde girls."

Superboy crossed his arms over his chest. "So, he was pissed of because they broke his heart and betrayed him.. must have been some betrayal and some type of realistic bullshit they gave him to make him go off like he did."

Cyborg pulled up the updated KitsuneX profile. "KitsuneX though is missing, and he freed Catwoman before fleeing the scene with her, otherwise Batman wouldn't of begun to think on finding her too." Truthfully, Naruto put a clone to use Genjutsu with his Sharingan on the Titans, thus making it seem like he freed her in the labs, when in reality, he didn't. He took her back to base before freeing her.

He pulled up the file for Naruto. "KitsuneX.. For those of you who do not know yet, he is very strong. Here's the video recordings of him so far, and some previous footage of when he and Robin were RedX." He showed them everything, everything the suit and KitsuneX was capable of. This discouraged them a bit.

Donna hummed in thought though. "Ok, so who is fully with KitsuneX? You said he was with people from something called the Hive."

Cyborg nodded, bringing up a few pictures. "Here's what I think. The only reason he would help Catwoman was if Cheshire was with him. Back in the Hive, when I was infiltrating it, Cheshire and Jinx were always after him somehow. He was more friends with Jinx, Gizmo and Mammoth. Those four are the best possibles. Not to mention Cheshire had Private Hive with her, and then there was Kid Wykkyd helping Gizmo and Mammoth the other day."

It was a full debrief. All their powers, everything about them for the newest members to know and calculating what was going on. It wasn't until Wally spoke until Raven decided to elaborate. "So, what was with his fox thingy surrounding him, and his infatuation with foxes?"

Raven turned to him. "It's a dangerous S class demon, apparently, as he tells it, the Nine Tailed Demon Fox is sealed inside him. It's not unheard of, but still it does not bold well. The Nine Tailed Fox could cause earthquakes and Tsunami's with a swish of it's tails. For every tail of power he shows, he gains more power."

Cyborg hummed. "So nine tails is the maximum. He was super powerful with that shit. Didn't seem like master of hell kind of power, but still powerful."

Raven looked at Cyborg with a serious look. "He's holding it back. It's like he wants to use skill rather then power. Like he said, he was pissed off. That alone says as long as we don't piss him of, he doesn't even attempt to use that power."

Starfire flew up to Raven. "He says to not make him mad, but how do we not make him mad? The KitsuneX is ruthless as we have seen, and the idea of us wanting to take him to jail, most villains we face aren't very happy with that."

Wally crossed his arms over his chest. "You have a point, normally criminals are generally mad when they are locked up. Thing is, I think he isn't a normal criminal, just a thief."

Beast Boy thought a little bit on that. "True.. He's stolen property from some of the highest known enterprises, the RedX suit, the scanner for Xenothium, some Xenothium, the materials for the KitsuneX suit, some money from those two guys we seen him in KitsuneX uniform for the first time, and then there's the diamonds, otherwise he hasn't caused any ruckus."

Cyborg nodded. "And if that friend of his is anything to go by, KitsuneX had a rough childhood, having people steal from you till you have only the clothes on your back for years, I think it's safe to say he only wants what he wants and doesn't care if he has to steal."

Superboy looked to Starfire. "I got a question, how is it that he's so strong and living with villains?"

Cyborg sighed. "Cheshire I am unsure, but Jinx, Gizmo and Mammoth are mostly just thieves with super powers. Jinx has her unlucky magic, Gizmo is a smart kid even on my level, and Mammoth is super strong and resilient. Private Hive is more of a mercenary, and Kid is an unknown, but is friends with Private Hive."

Donna crossed her arms in front of her, looking down in thought... "Dick's been heavily outgunned here... And just as he gets the help to pull off catching this guy, he has to quit... Damn Batman. What does Diana even SEE in him if he is going to do this to people trying to be hero's? If I could, I think I would try to let go of my own persona... But I don't have to let it go until I have a new one set to take. Dick left me in charge, and I will do right by him."

She came up to the computer and started up a new file. "Listen, the way I see it, we need to be ready for this. Team drills everyday, we need to buff our teamwork, especially since some people here are new to the team. Cyborg, I will need help understanding what Robin was doing for your teamwork so far, think you can give me a hand?"

Cyborg smiled. "Seems you got the right idea. I guess I can give this a shot. First thing we need to do is see some skills. You're the leader now, so how do we see the skills of the new members?"

Donna smiled back. "I gotcha. Fine. Titans, outside. We're going to go free-form sparring. Battle royale style." She flew herself through the door and outside, everyone running and flying to meet with her outside. It was going to be one hell of a training session.

XxX With Naruto XxX

Gizmo grumbled as he looked at the black suit in front of him... he cursed. "Fired... Baked... Ruined... Seriously, how did the power core not blow up? Oh wait, the overload is fried, it shut the systems down and you just pumped more power that seeped through the suit. No wonder the dragon skin is bubbled up and the titanium turned brittle, hell even the damn steel plates are melted!"

He threw the thing off his desk and turned to Naruto. "Sadly this suit is totally fried, no way to salvage anything, the only things you can keep are the swords, they managed to survive. Otherwise, I need to make the suit again by scratch. Give me a week."

Naruto sighed, but grabbed the three swords. "Fine fine. I'll put these up for now. After that, do you need anything?"

Gizmo turned, grinning playfully. "Yeah, what did you and Jinx talk about earlier?"

Naruto stopped, stalling mid-step as he was at the doorway. He turned to Gizmo with a smile. "I have no idea what your talking about." Gizmo just snickered and he sweat-dropped before turning, grumbling as he left the young smartypants to his work.

Truthfully, he and Jinx talked a lot, and shit got heavy... real heavy, like hot heavy. He wondered what kind of an idiot he was to do what he did, and wondered if Jinx could ever forgive him. He wasn't very good with affections...

XxX Flashback, a few moments ago XxX

Jinx had pulled him to his room and twisted him around, pushing him onto the bed and siting by him. "Now, I know you held some info back there, gonna tell me what's on your mind? Or do I have to beat it from you."

It was a bluff, a good one too seeing as he was weak, and didn't really want to fight his friend, so she could give him a friendly pounding until he talked. Hell, she could tickle him mercilessly until he talked, either way she wanted to know, he was still stressed out.

Naruto sighed. "I have no idea what to do about it. All I know is they have more members. Whoever they are, they are pretty good on their own, but if they integrate and get with the team enough to fight better against us, we're gonna be in trouble."

Jinx pouted, punching his arm. "You already have us THAT information, what's really going on? Or should I use this? And don't think I won't keep it up till you pee your pants!" She had pulled out a rather BIG feather.

Naruto chuckled nervously. She had used that thing once on him already, and learned his tickle spots enough to try it effectively. He thought HE was good at torture, give Jinx a feather and you'll be a puddle on the floor giving her every single detail down to the freckles of who were there.

Naruto sighed. "Well, I thought I would trick the Titans, therefore Batman. I really don't want him finding our base. I tried to unfreeze her on the spot, but I couldn't get the controls... I set up a Clone to activate a Genjutsu so the Titans would see her fly off alone. I think it worked, but you know it wasn't easy sneaking out with five clones carrying a damn cryogenic container from the labs without ANYONE noticing."

Naruto looked up a bit. "Not to mention my old friends went missing, they escaped somehow, if the reports I got from my communications, which was a miracle were still online after all that, can attest to their missing. I severely wounded half of them, they wouldn't be able to move very much."

Jinx frowned at that. "So you tricked the Titans and your former friends go missing out of nowhere... sounds like you're thinking, 'This does not bold well', am I right? Well I doubt it would, seeing as it sounds like a way crazy coincidence... Still, you fought them all, helped the titans, I think they will just ignore you to look for the former friends of yours."

Naruto chuckled nervously. "You know me well enough I suppose. Still, it's got me worried. Who helped them escape? Neji has a gash in his belly, Kakashi has a popped lung, Sasuke has a major ass-whoppin', Sakura's in a coma from my torture of her, Ino and Temari should be passed out form the grinding of my Rasengan's to their heads, Lee is knocked out, and then there's Hinata who went MIA. I do not know what SHE has planned, but after telling me she wanted to break all ties to Konoha and the others of that team, I doubt she would actually help them escape."

Jinx hummed in thought from that, figuring only two ways for them to actually have. "I think either an enemy you made, the Titans made, or they got lucky and managed to escape, you didn't wound them all enough to force them to stay caught."

Naruto sighed as he slumped. "What kind of enemy would I have made anyway? Other then Gotham rouges, whom are put behind bars I think, since they escape so often they should be getting better at holding those rouges, the Ice Five I faced should know never to fuck with me again, and the Titans wouldn't do that. So either the Titans, or bad luck..."

Jinx smirked. "I know bad luck, and I say this is just not it. I say the Titans are in for a ride. Think they can fight them off?"

Naruto chuckled a little. "Given the time to rest, and the time between now and when my former friends are fully set to attack, they should have a plan and enough team training skills to manage their attacks and possible beat them. My former friends are not as powerful as I am, although one or two of them are more experienced. Won't help in the case between the hero's. Besides, why would they have laid low till now if they thought they could take them?"

Jinx hummed, thinking he got a good point there. "True, True. Although battling the Titans and trying to take over in order to find you would have brought the whole dam Justice League on their butts, that would be pretty crazy, they would definitely be down for the count then."

Naruto hummed in thought about that. "True... So they stayed in hiding to keep a low profile away from the Justice League, therefore the reason it took them a year to finally appear on the radar. Meaning I don;t know who would win. Still, who knows what will happen in the future.."

Jinx smiled, putting her hand on his and intertwining their fingers. "Whatever comes up, you know we are here for you. The team is safe and soon we will prosper and enjoy our lives how we want, and it will be thanks to you."

Naruto was still. A statue, looking as Jinx had grabbed his hand. Now, he was a ninja, he killed in his world as a job, he seen all sorts of bullshit, felt all sorts of bullshit, but affection and easy-going friendships weren't very common for him... either they betrayed his heart, his feelings, his friendship and hurt him physically to boot, or they just ignored him during moments of great distress he was in. He had a poker face, that was the point, but even with a poker face, people are different in their minds and hearts.

Naruto's mind and heart were overtime. He was wondering why she was getting closer to him, sliding up against him and squeezing his hand, and his heart was beating, not used to this kind of loving affection. Now, if it were a friendly encounter she was going for, she was aiming WAY to the left on this one, and thus why he was in distress now.

She got closer to him, blushing lightly as she smiled softly. "Especially me. I care very much for you. And I know, I used to try to harm you, but I changed. You want to give me a chance you said... may I have this chance to show you how much I care?"

He was losing to his inner feelings, his heart beating, his mind racking for ideas, and his eyes going slightly wide as she got closer, closing her eyes as she did. He only had one thought to this before it happened... "Why does she care so much for a fuck-up like me."

She then closed the distance, pressing her lips against his softly. He was still, processing the stimulating contact. She pulled back shortly after, blushing more. He was blushing now, his resolve to stay cool shattered. He relaxed a bit, sighing. She then wrapped an arm around his shoulder and kissed him again, this time deeper, pulling him to her and deepening the kiss.

Naruto groaned into the kiss, and then relaxed, melting to her lips as he put a hand to her side. She moaned lightly into the kiss as she deepened it further, her hand sliding down his arm to his waist, trying to slide against him for more contact.

Naruto finally snapped into reality and pulled back, huffing as he tried to regain his breath from the deep kiss. Jinx looked wide eyed as the kiss was suddenly broken. Naruto and her stayed there for about a moment or two before he slowly stood up, and gave her a nervous smile and chuckle. "I gotta go. Gizmo should be done with the suit's diagnostics for how ruined it is."

She nodded, unable to speak as he walked fast out the room. Thus, he was then thinking about how much of an idiot he was, making Jinx think he didn't enjoy it at all.. in fact, he did, but he never had that feeling before, never had that kind of affection before, it was hellishly confusing for him right this moment. He just needed to calm down and find out what to do about his feelings...

XxX Flashback End XxX

All in all, an awkward moment, and he wondered what it was all about. He never had a really good kiss, only a peck or small sweet kiss, nothing like the heavy make out Jinx just gave him out of the blue. He was trying to regain his breathing and heartbeat from that... He managed to, but he was still blushing from it and wondering what to do.

He went out of the base to clear his head, maybe robbing a few joints would do him some good... hell, he wished his rival Robin would come in so he could kick some butt and mess around. Well.. he got his wish.

Out of nowhere, and he did mean it because he was NOT paying attention to his surroundings until this happened, Dick, in his civilian clothes and everything, dropped on top of him in an alley, and landed swiftly before flipping back and cartwheeling a kick to Naruto's head.

Naruto stepped to the side and dodged it as Dick twisted and slammed a fist forward, Naruto dodging it to the right and Dick's fist cracked the wall behind Naruto before launching a quick and fierce Fore-arm tackle.

Naruto grabbed the arm and twisted it around, and then clamped his arm around Dick's neck, and holding his other hand at his side. "Nice moves. Not bad at all, you snuck up on me. Too bad I wasn't paying any attention, otherwise I would have known sooner. Congrats, you used stealth against me."

Dick smirked, relaxing. "I knew you'd dodge my first attack, but I had to keep trying anyway. I need more training. I need something to get my mind off what happened."

Naruto let Dick go, and hummed. "Robin without the costume... So, mind giving me a run-down?"

Dick frowned, looking down. "No. It's none of your concern." Dick looked around in the city, seeing the ice still there, but melting quick enough. "After all this, and after your friend helping make this happen, and then helping stop the attack. Where were you in all this?"

Naruto shrugged, deciding to just tell a lie here. "Frozen. I don't a special quality he does."

Dick hummed in thought, narrowing his eyes. "I see. Still, his 'special quality' is a demon, right? Why didn't you tell us that?"

Naruto shrugged more. "What can I say, he isn't a demon to me. He's just a person. It's because people thought of him as a demon that they stole form him, poisoned him, beat him up, and so on since he was able to walk. He just uses it as a way to help himself and his friends. By the way, he told me after he freed me, those fuckers who helped those ice guys REALLY pissed him off."

Dick nodded, huffing. "That's an understatement. He was all over the place. Why though? Why was he so pissed of?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Those guys tried to destroy the city he calls home, and threatens his friends, and takes a comrade from him and holds them hostage to draw him out? That doesn't seem like a good reason?"

Dick looked confused now. "Comrade? Catwoman was his comrade? I understand one of his team worked with Catwoman, but why would he consider her a comrade? Just because she was a thief?"

Naruto sighed deeply. "He finds her a comrade probably because she is a thief, not a villain, and because she might know how to play around, and probably isn't too serious. That's a big no no to him. He doesn't really enjoy people who take life seriously."

Dick nodded, but looked down in seriousness. "Not many people can play around, not when things like what happened here goes on... We have to be serious to get things done quickly, otherwise the world could end."

Naruto chuckled lightly. "Listen to yourself. You know what would happen, you know how to stop it. Instead of being serious all the time, which makes you tense up, thus slowing you down, relax more, play around and be faster, smoother, and be able to face anything, both physically and psychologically."

Dick looked at Naruto, a little scowl appearing. "If I play around too much, villains that would destroy lives like it's a damn fun house activity will be able to faster then you could blink."

Naruto sighed again. "I never said play around too much. I said play around more then you already do, and relax. Thus, if you want to be stronger under me, you will have to understand a few things... One, relax your mind, relax your body, and flow with the movements of others. React, whilst acting on your will to fight."

Dick narrowed his eyes on Naruto more... before sighing and relaxing. He hadn't anything better to do, and he needed to get stronger. He relaxed as much as he could. But he knew Naruto was going to attempt to take him, using his relaxing as a way to beat him down, showing more 'ninja skills'.

To his surprise, Naruto never did such a thing, and he was just watching. He was confused again. "Why are you standing there? I was expecting you to attack me while I relaxed."

Naruto smirked a bit. "True..." Suddenly Naruto was on him and slammed a fist into Dick's shoulder, forcing him backward a couple feet.

Dick grunted, getting up as he held his shoulder. "That was dangerous! If you hit any harder I'd have broken my shoulder... You're striking to disable though."

Naruto tsk'ed. "Think again. That was a good portion of my power and skill. If you had tensed and taken the hit, expecting it and trying to force my punch to deflect, what would have become of your arm?"

Dick blinked in confusion and looked at his shoulder. He wasn't very badly hurt, but it still stung. He gasped, realizing if he had tried what he normally did, it would have dislocated, and badly. He turned to Naruto who smiled. "That's it, you got it. See, your body is a natural elastic. If you tense up, you're a rock. What happens if you hit rubber? It bounced back into place, what happens if you hit rock? it crumbles."

Dick looked in confusion, but wonder. "If you built enough muscle and train it hard enough, it can deflect when tensed, if I had more muscle and tensed, your hand would have been hurt."

Naruto smirked. "True, but even Lead can bend... Listen, having more muscle slows you down. Instead of going for more strength, try gaining more speed. Instead of going for more speed, try gaining more strength. You have to build both, so you can strike with enough strength to deal damage, but not too much it slows you down, and be fast enough to strike faster opponents, but not being too weak to deal no damage. Combine both, and using my special training, I guarantee, even if you are hit by Superman, you'd hit him right back with no pain showing in a second flat..."

Dick looked at Naruto like he grew a second head. No one took a hit from Superman and came back that fast. And what Naruto was proposing since they met was all against what Batman told him, what he learned under Bruce... That struck him suddenly...

He looked hardened, smirking. "I think this will be good then. Teach me all you can, and don't hold back here..."

Naruto nodded, smirking more. "Then get ready to have some fun. That's lesson number one..." With that, he and Dick charged at each other, and started a light sparring session, which Dick was losing. He knew he would lose, but if he didn't then he came to the wrong man anyway, so he was glad to lose this one, since it would help him beat KitsuneX. Little did he know though, the one training him to beat KitsuneX, WAS KitsuneX.

To Naruto, this was a game, as well as a way to find solace. He seen in Dick the feelings of Betrayal. He was rebelling now, the only reason he would be against what he was saying, and then flip all of a sudden. Naruto knew the feeling from sight alone, knowing Dick was betrayed, and he wanted to help him, to give him enough training to realize he needs to be his own person, and thus a better one too.

It was going to be a long day for them, as Dick was going to learn how to have fun, even if it killed Naruto to do it. It wouldn't though, not a chance.

XxX Back at the HUH base XxX

Jinx was fuming, steam rising off her head as she was pretty upset... no, not at Naruto, she understood that, but at a couple things. One, HERSELF! Two, Shego's damn teasing, and then there was Cheshire who decided to make things worse!

She was mad at herself... Because she pushed the issue, and that was not the right way to go. "I look like his worst Ex, and I try to put myself on him and show him some affection, he must have had some sort of vision about her that made him suddenly think I was gonna hurt him. Otherwise why push me away and get nervous about it?"

She wanted to show him she truly cared and loved him, and she knew she had to go slow. Thing was, she tried to make out with him and put herself on him all in a single go, without realizing it because of her own lack of affection over the years she couldn't control herself, and he pushed her away for that.

Shego was training in the gym, working on her martial arts skills. Jinx came in to get on the treadmill, and Shego seen this, huffing as she grabbed a town. "So, how was your little rendezvous with Naruto? Any good action, sis?"

Jinx pouted as she ran at half speed. "Not really, I just tried to get him to relax after the harsh weather he had to endure and see why he was so tight-lipped. Though I did loosen those lips..." She blushed hard as she slapped her hands over her mouth, and this caused her to lose track of herself and slip, falling on the mattress behind the treadmill, placed there because of THAT specific reason.

Shego giggled as she bent over Jinx. "I see... So you got some kissing from the blonde hunk huh?"

Jinx grumbled getting up and started to walk off with a heavy red face blushing like crazy. Shego giggled, smirking more. "Hey, Jinx, just make sure when you two confess your feelings, you use protection!"

Jinx went totally rigid, and steam blew form her head, which was hot from the blushing and blood rushing up her body to give said blush it's dark red color. She ran off, hearing Shego laughing at the teasing she gave.

Cheshire was the least of the matters though, but was still crazy. Cheshire basically told her that she would have to buy sound canceling head-phones for everyone in case things got THAT heavy, and told Jinx not tom kill him, or if the stamina they all seen drew to that activity as well, Jinx should be worried about herself dying from the pleasure.

Jinx just ran off and locked herself in the Hologram room and just tried to walk around in a huff, trying to keep herself from exploding in embarrassment and frustration.

After all that though, she sighed, grumbling a little before going back to her room. "I hope he can forgive me... All I want is to finally find someone who I can love and not accidentally break with my powers... That so wrong to ask?"

She looked up as she laid back in her bed. "Wonder if I should talk to him later... Maybe it would do some good to clear things up and try again, otherwise we'll be awkward for weeks on end. That will not bold well for either of us and our friendship..."

With that, she silently fell asleep, dreaming of ways to fix their friendship and grow closer.

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Hey guys, hope you enjoyed that. To those wondering, Dick will be a HELL of a fighter,m and yes he will learn ways to face Naruto better, thanks to Naruto himself actually. Naruto in my story is easygoing until you piss him off, and when he thinks Dick is like him, and wants to help any way he can.

Trust me when I say Dick, and the Titans later on will all be VERY strong fighters, and Naruto will be training his own team, Pandora, and both teams will be heavily manned to fight each other.. the battles to come, will be REALLY good.. trust me. Till then, JA NE!