Welcome again, one and all, to another exciting chapter to... KITSUNEX!

Last time Blackfire joined the group. Like that did you? Well, here's starting from the end of last chapter.

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Naruto turned and opened the door. "Wanna meet the team? We'll also need to get to the tech room, seeing as your armor is there."

Blackfire looked confused and then down at herself, seeing she was in a t-shirt and jeans. She looked at him. "Alright, who changed me?"

Naruto chuckled. "Not me. We have a couple girls on the team who volunteered to help. Your armor was busted. That last blast Starfire used bent a bit of it against your rib cage, if we didn't get it off, you'd have been unable to breath and suffocate."

Blackfire nodded and smiled a bit. "Well, thanks. Guess you saved my life. My armor... It's specially designed for me. It... helps me."

Naruto looked at her with a puzzled look and she sighed heavily. "Fine. I'm not a normal Tamaranean. I'm deformed... I was born with a rare disorder on my planet. I'd Rather not tell the name. The illness I contracted at birth, it's lethal to Tamaranean's. Not by death of self, but death as part of the race. Without my armor... I'm as weak as a human being."

Naruto hummed. "So, you're armor gives you you're powers?"

Blackfire frowned. "No. It helps me become able to access them. We gain our powers by-" "I'll find out from Gizmo. Besides, I can tell you're uncomfortable speaking about your slight weakness like this. Let's go."

He smiled at her and left the room. She smiled and followed, figuring he understood a little about her apparently. She followed him and they came into the living area. "Guys, This is our newest member of the team. Blackfire."

She was a little tense. Meeting up with potential new allies was a bit much, she only had to threaten to gain someone to help her out... So having them willingly become allies, and to make things crazier, them asking her to be their ally, was a bit puzzling to begin with. "Um... Hey."

Shego smirked. "Well, finally, another girl here. Seriously, it's always the same everywhere I look, the majority of a team consists of males."

Naruto sighed. "Seriously? You're gonna talk about how girls are either superior or seem inferior? What is with you."

Jinx chuckled a bit. "She's just pissed that she's only seen male competition and team mates. She never did fight Raven."

Shego pouted. "Hey, can you blame me? I'm used to fighting a teenage girl with extraordinary martial arts skills and female pride and all that."

Blackfire chuckled a bit at that. "You'd love it on Tamaran. Male's are nearly died out there."

Naruto groaned and had a lopsided look. "Great... Now they're gonna gang up on me about this... Anyway. Guys, she's joining the team. Or at least until she chooses not to be around anymore, but I highly doubt that, considering her and Shego are connecting."

Getting glares, he decided a change of subject was in order. "Mammoth, I need you to clear out the storage room. Should be big enough for her needs, considering it's nearly the same size as the rest of our rooms. Private Hive, I heard about a job you might be interested in, you told me to keep a look out for any mercenary jobs for you. Here's the coordinates."

He gave a slip of paper to him and Private Hive saluted him before rushing off to get packed and off. He turned to Jinx and Shego. "Here's my share of the heist money, you three go shopping for clothes for her to wear." he gave them ten thousand bucks, that was only part of his share but enough for their needs... considering he knew Jinx loved to get high priced items. He looked to Kid. "Kid... You are their transport and bag man. Metropolis had gotten a few new fashion media stores lately, I thought you'd go check out the latest."

Kid sweat dropped but nodded. Jinx and Shego grinned and grabbed Blackfire, but Naruto stopped them. "In an hour... Blackfire and me need to go see Gizmo about her armor. After that, you can go. Jinx, Shego, I think it best, even when visiting another city, to get into civvies to conceal your identities. Just in case."

Shego nodded and went off, whilst Jinx kissed his cheek and smiled. "Be careful now. Gizmo is a little irritable... I heard him breaking shit a little while ago whilst you were checking on Blackfire's vitals... I also saw and heard electrical shocks that kind of reminded me what my black magic does to electronics when I really try."

Naruto chuckled nervously and sweat dropped. "Ah, no wonder the power was flickering for a few moments... I was kind of wondering about the status of our generators. Anyway, you get ready, Blackfire will be with you and Shego to go shopping soon."

Blackfire shivered a bit as Jinx went off. "To tell you the truth, I'm not really a shopper. I just get what I need to survive and go on my way. I doubt they would let me do that."

Naruto smiled. As he turned to go see Gizmo. "Yep, reminding me of me. I didn't go after toys or shit when I was a kid, I had to trick people just to get good food. Hell, they had me pay four times the actual price of an item and what they did give me for that price was rotten to begin with."

Blackfire blinked and then looked a little sick. "Yuck. Sounds like an awful childhood to be honest."

Naruto smiled brightly. "Yep, you could say I was a child outcast from birth to adulthood. It was pretty wild, actually, I learned that to survive and fight I need speed and cunning. Kind of obvious, really, but for a five year old to try outrunning people three times as fast as him on a daily basis, I guess I was a prodigy."

Blackfire scoffed. "Lucky you... I never had the ability to do most of the shit on my planet. I only had fighting skills, no power at all."

Naruto stopped and turned to her, looking sternly. "It's never easy, no matter what. The fact you even grew up learning anything that you shouldn't have grasped till later on in life makes you a prodigy in my book. Whether you had this illness or not. Hell, I was practically a prince. My father was the most powerful man in my dimension, able to take on whole armies by himself and not receive a scratch. They outcast me just because I was born with a curse... that my father gave me in the first place."

Blackfire looked surprised by this. "No way. This guy's life sounds like mine... How can it be possible me and him have so similar a life when we are so different in race."

Naruto smiled softly. "I'm over it though. Hell, I save that damn place a hundred times, they still want to turn me into their little scape goat. Thus, why I choose not to be a hero. But, because of the evil I did face, all the friends and family I lost to those same evil people, I won't become a villain. I'm fine just relaxing, getting a challenge here and there, and taking whatever I want that catches my eye."

Blackfire looked at Naruto with a confused but admiring look. She smiled a little and nodded. "Well, I understand that. Still, don't you wish you could get them back for that?"

Naruto smiled brightly, hell, Blackfire could have sworn it was her sister's old peppy happy smile she always used when she first seen her on this planet to visit, the whole jewel stealing case. Naruto spoke just as brightly too. "Oh, them? Yeah, I don't have the urge to wreck havoc on them at all... Considering I already set the damn village on fire and let it burn as I ran away, having stole what I wanted from them that was rightfully mine in the first place."

Blackfire sweat dropped and chuckled nervously. "Yeah... I can see you're pretty happy that you don't have any regrets about leaving anymore... Considering you demolished the place." "Maybe he is a bit crazy and unstable, but only with right reasons as far as I can tell... Note to self: Do not piss this man off."

They went into a medium sized room full of gear and gadgets. In the middle of it all was Gizmo. Naruto smiled. "Hey you damn midget, what do you got for me?"

Gizmo groaned and laid down a bit in frustration before turning in his seat. "I got bad news, worse news, and even WORSE news. Which ya want first? Should I go in order of worst to bad to from bad to worst?"

Naruto shrugged. "Same shit to me, but to make sure we slowly get down in spirit here, from bad to worst."

Gizmo nodded. "Bad news is, is alien... And by that I mean REALLY alien, It'll take me a few days to figure out every purpose it ever had in the first place. Worse news is, half of this shit I can't even replicate without some major key components."

Naruto sighed. "Let me guess... The worst news is, there's some key components missing."

Gizmo snorted in frustration. "Yeah, you got it ass-wipe. Key components missing for major functions. Hell, I even got zapped trying to access this damn suit's internal workings. LOOK AT THIS SHIT! I LOST FIVE GOOD TOOLS!"

Naruto and Blackfire looked to see two big tools, and three little ones, practically fused in a scrap pile. Naruto chuckled nervously. "Well, guess we need to get you more... Alright, what's the word?"

Gizmo sighed, turning to get back to work as he spoke. "The whole thing is built for a few things here. I managed to get the concept of the functions that was part of it's wiring. And one of them brings up the question. Hey, cutie, you related to any Kryptonian's?"

Blackfire looked confused. "Who?"

Gizmo sighed heavily. "Never mind. The reason I ask is because, apparently, your armor is designed to saturate your skin and cells in radiation to allow them to absorb ultraviolet rays. Kryptonian's are able to have all their powers from absorbing yellow sunlight.. Thus, why I asked."

Naruto turned to Blackfire as she asked her next question. "I don't know what a Kryptonian even is."

Naruto smirked. "You will. There are four on this planet. Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, and Powergirl. The first two and last one are in Metropolis, the third... Well, he's teaming up with the Titans, basically part of the team your sister is on. You'll meet him someday soon."

Gizmo scoffed. "Well, whatever the reason may be, I can at least duplicate some of these functions... After all, there have been a few suits made up to help adsorb sunlight. If I got the right gear, we'd be able to at least get that function and a few others into a new suit. Titanium is lighter and more durable than this thing."

Blackfire blinked but found a bit of hope. "You mean.. You can make a suit even stronger than that one, and still able to do what it did?"

Gizmo turned to her with a grin. "No prob. This pit-sniffer knows I'm the best damn techie on the planet! Hell, I made his suit and it's never needed to be fixed at all! All I really did was upgrade it once for his needs."

Naruto gave a thumbs up. "So true. I love this suit. Maybe next time we can forget the red though... Anyway, this brings up a few things I need to know... Why do you need to absorb sunlight?"

Blackfire sighed, crossing her arms. "Well.. We need them to absorb energy, and when we have that energy we can use it to power our star bolts, and also be able to fly. Remember my illness? My illness prevents me from absorbing sunlight and gaining that energy. Thus why I needed that armor."

Gizmo hummed. "If that's all you need, I can have a suit of armor ready for you... Hmm... By the end of the month if we can steal everything we need."

Blackfire looked at Gizmo with a smile that grew a bit more every second before rushing in and hugging him tight. "That's great! I can hardly wait!" "Wow. If what they say is true, and I can have an armor that is even stronger and able to give me my powers back, and all I have to do in return is give them a chance to be friends.. all I have to do is allow myself to let them in my heart and be friends with them if we allow it, and I can have better things. This is surreal."

Gizmo was blushing but managed to get out of her tight hold, which wasn't very strong actually. "Alright, alright... I'll be working all-nighter's for awhile, check in every now and again if you want, but try not to stall me too much, the more Information I get about this thing, the better suit I can make for you."

Naruto patted his shoulder. "You're the best Gizmo. Keep me up to date, and whatever we need you'll have to give me the list and we can go out and get the shit."

He and Blackfire left him to his work and Blackfire was smiling. Naruto smiled and chuckled. "Brightened your day I suppose. Good. Listen, enjoy it. If you're life's been as bad as you say it has been, for as long as you say, then good things haven't come to you without a price... This time, no price at all, the only price is to have good moments in your life, and often."

Blackfire nodded and sighed in relief. "When he listed the bad news off... I lost all hope. But, he had ways to bring it back. I'm glad."

Naruto nodded. "Good. Get glad often. Now, I do have to make sure you understand that he may ask, or you may have to tell him yourself, on the look of your armor. I could have had any look for mine, I chose this design. Whatever look you want it, I am sure he can comply and give you exactly what you need and want. But... Try not to bash him when he asks your measurements, trust me he will need to make sure the suit fits you perfectly."

Blackfire chuckled lightly but smiled. "If it's to help him give me a perfect fit suit so I don't move abnormally, I wouldn't give hitting him a single thought, it'll be thrown out and not be done."

Naruto smiled and nodded as her walked her back to the living area. "Now, as he gets your battle suit ready... You get some relaxation and home clothes. Shego and Jinx are pretty wild shoppers, Shego's already grabbed a lot of things for herself and Jinx got a few new dresses, and it's only been a day or two since we pulled out heist."

Jinx punched his shoulder. "Hey, no looking into our rooms! Besides, some of those things were for special occasions only."

Naruto rubbed his arm. "And the fact you two tried to sneak in late at night during my meditation in the living room with arms full and I notice cause you kept dropping shit has nothing to do with me knowing? But anyway. You three have fun. Blackfire, see you soon."

Shego and Jinx grabbed Blackfire and dragged her like a rag doll to Kid, whom sweat dropped before teleporting them to Metropolis. Naruto sighed. "Well... Hopefully she doesn't get ripped apart by those two having her try on shit. Now then..."

Naruto went back to Gizmo. "You gonna tell me the real news, or do I have to pry it from you the hard way?"

Gizmo scoffed. "I gave her hope, yeah yeah... Listen, the real news is this, even though everything I said was actually true, there's gonna be complications. Not only do we need a good amount of Titanium, we need to be able to weave the shit after we get it into threads or strands. Not very easy mind you. Remember it took nearly a month to get your first suit ready? That was when we had HIVE backing our budgets. We're on our own here as Pandora."

Naruto nodded. "Alright... and the other bad news you failed to speak of?"

Gizmo turned to him. "There are three major companies dealing with tech, major tech, tech so advanced that if you need anything regarding new technologies those three are the only place your gonna get the needed stuff. Wayne Enterprises, Star labs, and Lex Corp. Wayne Enterprises is not a good idea, they have more dealing with support and security, trying anything with them is bad news. Not to mention I checked up their softest target, Jump city, and seems what we need ain't there, it's in the main building in Gotham. Thus, batman would be on you in seconds."

Naruto shivered. "And even though I did beat him, he'll be ready this time, and I would rather not use my power techniques against him."

Gizmo sighed heavily. "Star labs is protected by the Metro City Science police in their main base in Metropolis... Which is the only place to get some key components, whilst our own has a few small things we need... Then... There's Lex Corp."

Naruto looked interested. "Huh... Lex Corp. The financial powerhouse that's run by Lex Luthor, one of the guys trying to bring Superman to his knees. What about it?"

Gizmo hummed. "Well, his business has everything I need to give her a right fine suit. Lex builds suits to fight Superman equally anyway. I can get the Titanium, the shit to build a solar suit, not to mention the Kryptonite."

Naruto had to do a retake... "Kryptonite?.. Why do you need that shit?"

Gizmo got back to work. "Kryptonite radiation was inside the fucking suit. It's hard to miss, considering the shit is a great power source. Heck, some power plants are permitted to use the shit by Superman himself."

Naruto groaned. "So.. Where can we easily get Kryptonite?"

Gizmo snorted. "Good luck. Easy ain't in the description. First of all, it's rare as hell, pretty much as rare as Kryptonian's are in the first place. Whatever came to our planet in meteorite form in the first place has since been recovered. Superman himself has his fucking robots or the police force gather it to be ether stored or destroyed in his fucking fortress of solitude, given to power plants, or somehow by Batman. Batman has been known to have a little bit stored, in case Superman ever gone rouge, which has happened once or twice. The only other place for it is Lex Corp."

Naruto hummed in thought. "Batman wouldn't be giving me any, and even if I beat him up for it, he'd never tell. I'd rather not face Superman unless there ain't any other choice... And stealing from a power plant would just blow shit up. So, Lex Corp it is."

Gizmo turned his head a bit. "Not easy..." Naruto slumped and he kept working. "Sorry, Lex has a huge stockpile, how else do you think he as a normal human being can even attempt to battle Superman, even with a giant suit? That doesn't mean it's the easy route though. It's the easiest, but nothing with Kryptonite is easy. Not to mention if I don't figure out a way to stop it's radiation from leaking we have a huge problem for using it as the power source."

Naruto groaned. "Fine, fine. We'll figure it out. When you do, tell me, and we'll get what we need. Besides that, good luck with the suit, and hopefully Jinx and Shego don't break Blackfire."

Gizmo snorted with a few chuckles. "That'll be the straw that broke the camel's back huh? The triplet shoppers. What a crazy day that'll be."

Naruto left so Gizmo could finish his work. Unbeknownst to him, the three he sent to go shopping, were about to be the reason for a fight that day...

XxX Titans Tower XxX

It was usual relaxation today. Until they needed to stop a thief or major villain, they had the day off. Raven was in her room in deep though, Beast Boy was playing his newest game, Donna was currently doing training plans for how to get them to beat KitsuneX next time, and Cyborg was in the garage with his car, trying to get it fixed up.

Starfire was in the training room, way in deep thought herself. She was only touching one of the bags gently. "Why... Why is it going so horribly wrong for me? First Robin leaves, then X and Pandora pull a heist and we fail to stop them, then my sister tries to hurt me again, and when I beat her this time she is captured by X."

She made her hand into a fist and yelled in frustration as she slammed a punch into the bag, blowing it off the chain and into the wall, making it rip apart and make a mess everywhere. "NO! I won't give up! I mustn't! For Dick, for my team! I can't stop now... I have to get stronger!"

She popped her knuckles and started punching and kicking the next bag, going easy on it and only using her skills, not letting her powers destroy the equipment as she trains. "X wants skill? I'm going to show him skill. I'm a Tamaranean! A Warrior Princess! I don't have magic tricks to put on a show, I have power, and skill, and will use them like the true warrior within me! Watch out X, next time we meet, I won't hold back a single attack!"

Static and KF were on patrol, KF speeding around rooftops and jumping from roof to roof. Hey, momentum from that speed is very useful when jumping. Static flew by Star labs and checked the communications. Humming he flew off. "Hey, KF, it's been pretty slow. Is the super hero gig with a team this easy going? Not including X of course."

KF just jumped ten storied up and ran to the top of the Wayne Inc. building. "Kind of. It's not exactly villain central in a place like this. The fact is, The Titans are even stronger now, making most solo villains rethink trying anything. Not to mention X already took the biggest payload awhile ago."

Static sighed heavily. "Well, not to rain on any parades here, but I'm trying to be a better hero. If the only good competition is X, I'd rather face him every week."

KF chuckled. "Trust me, I'm all for quick, but sometime it's better to slow down. Listen, X is gonna figure out we're a threat soon, and when villains think a Hero or team is a threat, and they are already part of a strong team themselves, usually they go in full force. We are supposed to be ready for when that happens, would you rather be tired and nearly out of energy there, sparky?"

Little humor between them was good, they were pretty good friends starting off. Both being scientific and all about the sciences. Static chuckles. "Hey, you're the one wearing thunderbolts on your ears there, Speedy. And yeah, I know that's the other guy, but seriously, call the archer Speedy and the guy breaking the sound barrier on foot the kid version of the big guy?"

KF chuckled as he landed and ran across the next rooftop. "Yeah, well, Kid Flash rolls of the tongue more, especially considering I admire the Flash a lot."

With the joking over, they started finishing patrol.

Superboy was walking through the halls of the tower but stopped at a big door. He sighed. "Dick, sorry I was getting a bit solitary there. You know me, both of us trying to prove something... me trying to be all for the mission, I forgot these are your friends too."

He entered and seen Cyborg under the T-car, getting the power lines all re-routed. Superboy seen a half built motor cycle in the back, and smiled. "That's a project I can work on later. First, I help him out."

Superboy went up and tapped Cyborg's leg. "Hey, need any help down there?"

Cyborg came from under the car in confusion. "Superboy? Uh.. I guess, you know anything about cars?"

Superboy shrugged. "I know my engines. I'm more of a bike person myself. But, anything you need? I'm more than capable of helping either way."

Cyborg chuckled a bit. "Sure. Give me one of those screwdrivers, and a pipe nut?"

Superboy nodded and grabbed the nut. "Flathead?"

Cyborg checked. "Philips." Superboy grabbed the Philips and brought em over. Cyborg grabbed em and started getting the final covering for the wires done. After that Cyborg sighed in relief. "Alright, try to start the car, I need to see if this thing holds."

Superboy went to the drivers seat and turned the key. It started right up with no trouble, and he whistled. "That a Hemi?"

Cyborg chuckled with a wide grin as he came from under the car. "Gotta give this baby some torque to get me around town without having to be carried like some puppet."

Superboy chuckled at that. "Yeah. Miss Martian would help me simulate flight by moving me through the air with her mind, kind of felt weird, and cheesy. I'd rather get something like a vehicle to get where I am going in a hurry."

Cyborg looked to the bike he had started, but never finished. He was pretty damn proud of his T-car, he didn't think he needed to get that thing finished. He smiled and looked to Superboy. "Wanna help me finish the bike? You get to name it, and it'll be yours."

Superboy smirked. "Sounds good to me."

Cyborg and him rolled it up a bit to start working, and Cyborg looked to him. "So, tell me. What brought you down here to begin with?"

Superboy shrugged. "I figured Dick wouldn't want his old friends and his new ones to be so distant to each other. He'd want us to get along and form the team right. Don't you think? I thought I'd take the initiative and find something to do together with one of you. Seeing as I am a decent mechanic, I'd help you."

Cyborg smiled at that. "Yeah, Robin was always about keeping the team together... Hey, thanks. Guess we weren't very warm company for awhile either. Starfire's a little unstable though right now..."

Superboy chuckled softly. "Well, I figure she's got a crush on the guy. But seriously, losing him, failing him by letting X beat us? She's feeling the weight of this all by herself, and no matter what we say, I am pretty sure she will keep blaming herself. We have to try harder, and she will too. When she softens up a bit, I can guarantee it'll be a great thing."

Cyborg nodded and grabbed the power cell. "I guess. So, want this like a classic chopper look, or a speeder?"

Superboy grinned wildly. "Speeder, please." With that, they began getting it fixed up.

XxX Underground Base XxX

Ravager sighed and stretched, feeling better and able to move. "Well, no time like the present, right father? I'll show you I am the rightful apprentice to your teachings, and be just as amazing as you."

She walked to the glass room and smirked. "So, everyone rested?"

Kakashi, Neji, and Rock Lee looked at her passively, whilst Sakura and Sasuke were looking determined and snarling. Ino and Temari were just meek about this whole thing.

She hummed. "Well, it's time. Remember the deal. You fight and catch the Titans, and I will catch Naruto for you. But, to make sure Naruto comes to see me alone, I think I need your help. What do you say?"

Kakashi looked to Neji and he sighed. "Well, guys? Shall we? Sooner we get Naruto, sooner we leave."

Sasuke smirked evilly. "Finally, No more slacking around. Just make sure you don't rough up Naruto too much, I want the pleasure of ripping his body to pieces before we get back home."

Ino and Temari looked to each other and shivered. "We got a bad feeling about this.. But what choice do we have... We're in."

Ravager nodded. "Meet me a few rooms over in an hour, stretch your legs and get ready cause you will need to be when you fight the Titans..."

She left and smirked. "And soon, Father... The Titans will pay for your murder..." She grabbed her sword. It was something given to her when her father left. She pulled it out to look at. "After all, you taught me the sacred rule... An eye, for an eye..." She sheathed it hard and strapped it to her back. "Winston!"

The butler came out. "Yes, madam?"

She walked to the other room. "Get the transmitter equipment ready, and one of the quality cameras. We're gonna put on a small show.."

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Well, now this is a strange turn of events! Ravager's on the offensive as everyone else is resting on the defensive! How will this turn out? Is Blackfire gonna turn into a shopaholic? What will Superboy call his new bike? FIND OUT NEXT TIME! ON KITSUNEX!

Today, the 17th, is my BIRTHDAY! YAY! Special chapters for this day, as you can see. I hope you enjoyed! Have a wonderful day, and wish me a good 22nd year!