"Okay let's see what we got" Naruto said scanning the area where the anomaly was place. He was nervous, Kyubey said about the intergalactic witches, but he never said what they were. He was getting nervous now. He stopped before looking around he spotted a robed figure with a slitted green eye and a blue claw.

"What is that?" Naruto asked

"Anomaly detected, scanning anomaly" the ring said shooting out a wide green light "Unknown creature detected!" it said

"Wait, WHAT!" Naruto shouted the creature attacked him forcing him to summon a construct sword and started to bat the monster away. 'SO this thing is strong against the will power of the Green Lantern corps.' Naruto thought. Suddenly a blur of red appeared and knocked back the monster.

"That was close" the blur said stopping next to Naruto to reveal a young man in a dark red uniform and helmet leaving his eyes and mouth visible. On his chest was a white circle surrounded by a ring of gold and a lightning bolt over top of it. "Nice to meet you, I'm the Flash!"

"Green Lantern" Naruto said "Please tell me you know what this thing is"

"That my green and black friend is a ghoul, a result of an accident involving a weird black thing and an accident at Kirijo Labs Inaba" the Flash said.

"So what do you call this thing" Naruto asked

"Ugly" the flash quipped. "But seriously this thing is called a ghoul by the Kirijo group" the red hero said

"Okay, so this is a ghoul, wait was this weird black thing an orb with two spikes on it?"

"Yeah, how do you know that?" Flash asked.

"That thing was called a Grief seed, and now your accident has created something from it. How did they even get their hands on one anyway?" Naruto asked.

"Who knows, but I can stop it if I attack it" Flash said speeding off to attack the ghoul, he used a rapid fire pinching styled before soon sparks of electricity arced over his body. Soon he gathered the electricity in his palm and gripped a fist around it.

"SPEEDFORCE RETURN!" he said punching the ghoul causing the golden electricity to dance around it dissolving it into nothing as the grief seed dropped from it, Naruto thinking fast grabbed the seed and placed it in his seed pouch.

"Not bad" Flash said smiling while munching on a candy bar. "But you know should full power be better?"

"How do you know about that?" Naruto asked concerned

"Oh I saw the storm when I came here for the first time, I had just gotten my powers and didn't know where I was going until suddenly I saw two glowing lights fighting a doll in the sky with broken buildings being flung around. So I stuck around for the end of the fight, once I had a better grip a few days later I check out the site a bit more" Flash admitted to

"Okay, thanks for the help, how many more Ghouls are there?"

"That my friend was the last one. I suppose you want these as well" Flash said holding out three other grief seeds. Naruto nodded opening the pouch allowing Flash to drop the seeds in.

"Nice to meet you Green Lantern, now if you excuse I have to run"

"Yeah, I know I have an appointment to keep" Naruto said flying off.

"You're lucky Mrs Kaname is running late" Homura said flicking her hair back.

"Well I had a run in with something" Naruto said "And met a guy with powers like us"

"Really, did he make a contract?" Mami asked concerned as Kyoko rang the Kaname household's doorbell.

"No he's powers was cause by something else. An accident of some kind involving some kind of lab in Inaba"

"The Kirijo group, they're an advance science research group, amongst other things. They have branches worldwide including: Glasgow, Rome, Paris, Beijing, Adelaide, Washington D.C., Havana and Hong Kong, each branch worked on different things, like the Adelaide branch worked on electrical appliances, Glasgow's division worked on alternate fuels. The brnaches in Japan worked on R&D for new technologies. The Inaba branch was working on getting a particle accelerator working so they could make a cleaner energy source" Kyoko said shocking the others.

"How do you know that?" Naruto asked

"I read okay, plus I kind of want to work for them since I toured one of the agriculture facilities near the coast okay" Kyoko said

"No problem" Naruto said as Tomohisa opened the door and invited them in.

Madoka was bringing down Tatsuya when her friends arrived, Naruto took Tatsuya, being something akin to an older brother. A role Naruto took to with ease.

"So Madoka, is your homework done for tonight?" Tomohisa asked sampling some of the broth he was making before adding something to it.

"Yep, all done. And tomorrow my grounding ends"

"Good job Madoka" Homura smiled regaining the emotions she locked away quicker

"Nice work Maddy" Naruto laughed.

"Maddie, Maddie" Tatsuya laughed as the front door opened "Mama" he cheered running over to her.

"Hey sweetie." Junko said entering the dining area. "Girls, Naruto I want you to meet a new client of our, Mr Slade Wilson" She said as Slade walked into the kitchen

"Nice to meet you all" Slade smiled shaking Tomohisa's hand and smiling at the girls. Naruto froze, that voice was one that haunted him for ages. One that wasn't going away anytime soon 'Sorry kid' Naruto's hand started shaking he needed to get out of there and quick. For before him was the man who killed his parents!

"Naruto are you okay?" Junko asked as she looked concerned.

"I'm fine...just remembered some outstanding homework is all, excuse me" Naruto said leaving

"Hope you get it done soon Naruto, I'll send your serving with Mami so you can have it later" Tomohisa said

"Thanks, sorry I couldn't stay, Mrs Kaname, Mr Wilson" Naruto said before leaving. This action made Kyoko and Mami look at each other and ask the silent question

'What homework?'

"After all these years, I thought I would finally be able to put it all behind me, the nightmares would be the only memory" Naruto said pacing around his apartment, "So why now, right when the nightmares returned does he have to show up as well!" the blonde was getting more and more agitated with his thinking as he collapsed on the couch before putting his head into his hands. He tried to calm down but there was something haunting his thoughts

'How long until I'm in his crosshairs?' he thought getting some dinner since he skipped out on the Kanames and his friends. 'How am I going to tell them about what I saw and who did it? he asked as he started to cook.

That night Mami came around to his house with the leftovers Tomohisa gave her. It was late so she would stay the night, she sighed knowing Naruto blatantly lied to his guardian and her husband. The girls joined in not knowing if Naruto was talking about something they hadn't finished or what. But she just placed the food on the counter and looked around confused, there were dishes everywhere indicating that Naruto didn't clean up which was odd for him.

'Naruto was is happening to you?' she mentally asked walking into the main bedroom before grabbing a nightgown, she removed her uniform revealing her soft yellow coloured underwear before pulling on the nightgown of the same colour. She sighed once again while she laid down next her boyfriend and kissed his cheek.

"When will you open up to us?" Mami asked worried.

Meanwhile out in the city a shadowy figure was walking out in the moonlight when they heard a scream. He glared in that direction before taking off for where he heard the scream from. When he arrived he saw a green haired girl surrounded by three older looking thugs, he jumped down landing silently grabbing the middle thug and throwing him into the wall gaining the attention of the other two. He smiled smashing the left thug into the right thug before leaping over them and kicking them into the first thug. He just kept smirking while duck and dodging the thugs when he finally beat them by throwing them into a dumpster.

The green girl looked on seeing a man dressed up like a bat kicking the crap out of the thugs who attacked her. She blinked when he looked around before spotting her and smiled

"Are you okay ma'am?" he asked

"Yes I'm fine" the girl said

"Good, now I better get going" he said deploying a pair of bright red bat wings as he used jets in his boots to go skyward with ease. The girl had to look away to avoid getting debris in her eyes as he flew up into the sky stopping momentarily in front of the moon miking his visage that of a bat in flight. She was mesmerised by it and uttered a single name she figured out from what she saw

"Batman!"