Hello again. University has started and I have less time than usual to write so I apologize for the late chapter. I actually have a few scenes planned out for this story, but I honestly have no idea if its too soon to implement them. Anyways, Robin will not be extremely paranoid as Slade is dead and all the Titans had to deal with for the past two years were small time villains, allowing him some much needed rest.

I don't own anything in this story other than my own ideas.

Naruto was, Raven decided, infuriating. It had been months since their first conversation in the library and Raven had honestly enjoyed it. Since then she had struck up a sort of uneasy friendship with the man, but he completely avoided telling her about how he met a dead man. While Raven knew that in her mind she was being unreasonable, obviously Naruto had to had some sort of reason to not tell her, it didn't change the fact that not knowing something so big was lost to her. Maybe if she knew how he did it… she could finally…

A knock on the door brought the empath out of her thoughts. She uncrossed her legs and landed on the floor, previously floating and meditating. Naruto was on the other side, holding a small book that she hadn't seen before.

"…yes?" She finally asked the smiling blonde after a moments hesitation. He held out the book to her. While he did so Raven noticed that the book had a rough leather cover and was hand-stitched together. Had the blonde made something for her or was it just an old book? The thought brought a slight curve to Raven's lips.

"Here, for you." The blonde stated happily. "It's a book on what I know about where I'm from."

So he did make it. Raven moved to the side by an inch, inviting Naruto into her room. The ex-jinchuuriki widened his eyes at the action. He had heard stories about Raven's room and how it was banned to everyone except for the most extenuating of problems. A grateful smile appeared on his face and he accepted the invitation.

He walked into the room while raising his hands and crossing them behind his head as he did so. Raven closed the door with her black and white energy without a word. She had lost the need to use magic words to focus her powers better awhile ago.

"Nice room you got here." Naruto said. Honestly, it was a tad bit dark for his tastes, but it wasn't all bad. Raven's room was a deep purple. She had a simple gothic styled desk, drawers, and bed. At the end of her room she had a big window that encompassed the entire wall. Beside the window was a doorway that was open. He was able to see a couple bookshelves filled with books.

"…thanks." Raven said in her usual monotone.

"Can I ask a personal question?" Naruto asked the seventeen-year-old. She nodded at his request.

"Why does it seem like you're always trying to cut off your emotions?" Raven could only flinch at the slightly accusatory look he was giving her. She could understand though, it wasn't something people who had no problems did. Unfortunately, Raven had many problems, this one being her split personalities inside her.

"It's alright if you don't answer, I under…"

"I have split personalities." Raven cut Naruto off. He glanced at her in surprise.

"My demonic heritage split my personality into different pieces. I have a total of eight, Happiness, Timidity, Bravery, Rage, Laziness, Knowledge, Passion and Sloth. If I feel any sort of emotion they take over me." Raven told the blonde. Naruto honestly didn't expect the raven-haired girl to tell him what he was looking for. It must've taken a lot of courage to tell him.

Naruto surprised Raven by smiling. "How would you feel if I said I could help you with your split personalities?"

"I'd ask you what the catch was."

A couple hours later found Naruto in the company of the entire team of Teen Titans plus Gaara. They were in the training room and had been in there for the past half-hour. Robin had asked him to train with them. The blonde accepted without hesitation. Robin had wanted to use his 'Slade-bots' to train the team, but Naruto insisted it was everyone against him. Gaara just wanted to see how badly Naruto would kick their butts.

Robin charged the blonde with a collapsible bo-staff. The blonde only ducked the wide swing and jabbed a hand into his gut.

Starfire sent a few starbolts at him while Beast-Boy charged him from behind in the form of a gorilla. The ex-ninja jumped over the gorilla, kicking it in the back of the head as the starbolts bounced off of the walls.

Raven summoned a black and white barrier to trap Naruto from all sides, but he vanished from trace like he did so many times before.

"Star! Behind you!" Cyborg called out, charging his blaster. Naruto appeared without warning behind Starfire and engaged her in hand-to-hand combat. She was durable enough to take Naruto's strikes, but not durable enough to defend against them completely. Naruto landed a punch on Starfire's left shoulder, causing her to spin out of control of her flying abilities.

Cyborg launched his blaster as soon as it finished charging. A huge white beam enveloped the blonde, causing the entire team to cheer and congratulate Cyborg.

"He's not finished." Gaara stated with a bland tone.

"Damn right I'm not." Naruto stated from behind a white cloud of smoke.

The blonde man vanished, leaving behind leaves, and reappeared in-between the group of Titans. He spun on his hands, landing a kick on each of the Titans and effectively ending the battle.

"You almost got me though!" Naruto said brightly, only to falter as he realized that the entire team was unconscious due to kicking them too hard.

Naruto turned towards Gaara as Gaara uncrossed his arms. "You up for a spar while they're out of it?"

Gaara could only let loose a murderous grin as sand rose from the ground. "The only rule is no killing."

"Agreed."

As Raven slowly gained consciousness, she could see a yellow blur dodging thick streams of sand attempting to spear him. She looked around to see Gaara with a crazed look on his face as his fingers twitched. Every twitch seemed to make the sand respond in a different way.

The yellow blur flashed in front of Gaara and engaged him in a fist fight. At this point she realized the yellow blur was indeed Naruto. Gaara was slow in his retaliation against Naruto, but managed to knock him back with a giant sand fist that followed his punch. Every punch, kick, head-butt was followed through with sand in the form of a fist, foot, or forehead.

As Naruto faced the sand Jinchuuriki who attempted to put him down in any way he could, he smiled. He had missed the fights back in his time. The fights against villains here could barely sate his lust for battle. A wicked grin crossed his face as an idea as to how to deal with Gaara came to mind.

Naruto threw a weirdly shaped kunai at Gaara, who took no notice of the odd design of the projectile. The kunai landed at Gaara's feet. Suddenly Naruto was within arm reach of Gaara, behind his automated sand defense. He unleashed a wicked punch into Gaara's jaw, almost breaking it as he flew backwards into the wall.

As Gaara was getting up, Naruto flashed towards the sand user one more time and held a kunai at his throat. Gaara's murderous smile was replaced with a small one.

"I surrender."

Raven was astounded. The fight she just witnessed was on a level far beyond anything she or her friends have ever witnessed. She completely lost sight of Naruto at times, and Gaara's hand-to-hand ability, while a lot slower than Naruto's, was faster than even Slade's when he was still alive. A shudder ran through her as her demonic side imagined the destruction that the two super humans could create.

After the training exercise, Naruto kept true to his word and helped Raven with her personalities. It had been a trying time for both of them and Naruto had seen more of Raven than she wanted anyone to.

"Raven?" Naruto called while knocking on her door. He was carrying ink in his hands that was meant for the process in dealing with Raven's problem.

"Yes?" Her flat monotone rang out from behind the steel door.

"I'm ready to help you."

At his words the door opened by themselves and closed when he entered. The dark room was the same as the last time, except that the window at the end was covered with a dark purple curtain.

"So what now?" She asked the blonde. Naruto gave an awkward grin in response.

"Y-you have to strip to your underwear…." He told her. A furious blush crossed Raven's face and Naruto expected to be brutally butchered for even suggesting such a thing. What surprised him was when Raven took off her cloak and removed her leotard. When she was standing in nothing but her underwear, Naruto lost focus on what he was planning on doing. She was beautiful.

"Are you going to fix me or what?" Raven spat out feeling embarrassed. Her words shook Naruto from his admiration.

"Alright. Sit down and I'll start painting the seals."

It took Naruto five hours to paint the seals on Raven. They covered almost every inch of her body and it was starting to annoy Raven.

"They won't be visible forever will they?" She asked as Naruto started painting seals on her forehead.

"They should disappear once I activate the seals." He replied calmly, trying to avoid setting Raven off and getting his ass kicked.

Another hour later saw Naruto finally sitting down and washing his fingers of the ink on them. After another minute, Naruto activated the seals.

Raven bit her lip in pain as the seals seemed to crawl over her body. They heated up and she was surprised that her skin wasn't turning black under the heat the seals seemed to be giving off. The seals continued to crawl to a specific point on Raven's back and began to form an image that took the resemblance of a bird.

When the seals had finished and the heat had died off, Raven took a look at her back in her bedroom mirror.

"A raven? Really?" She questioned the blonde man who only shrugged in response.

"It seemed fitting."

She sighed and clenched her fists in annoyance. Nothing blew up. She unclenched her fists. Shock crossed her features and Naruto grinned as he realized what Raven was thinking.

A bright grin appeared on Raven's face as she jumped and embraced the blonde half-demon in a hug.

"Thank you." She thanked him.

"Anytime Raven."

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