With blood and rage of crimson red.
Chapter II.
Ysmault.
"Easy boy, slower, after all your successes, it would be a shame, if you fail in last and one of the most interesting aspects of Blood Magic because you took too much blood of guilty." Naruto was near a brutalized corpse of a murderer. "Don't worry master Atrocitus , I'm perfectly aware of everything, now I offer you the blood of the guilty, show me what should I do!" At first nothing happened but two minutes later the blood started to move and swirl "What the ARGHHRRD!" too much power put in to prophecy, implanted the images directly into Naruto's brain, instead of blood that he spilled."What have you seen?" asked Atrocitus. "What shall be done," Naruto turned his head to Atrocitus "Master I must visit a certain place…" Atrocitus sighed "Does that place even have a name." "Earth, but first I need to return to my homeworld." With those words Naruto flew into the air, looking into the small red spot in the skies Atrocitus whispered: "Yes my Reaper, complete your challenge, become a true Red Lantern."
Naruto's homeworld. Nin – Qwei.
Naruto looked upon the night sight of Konoha from his height. He returned for several simple things but first… "Ring, scan the local area for Minato Namikaze." After several minutes he received his answer: "Subject found do you wish to see him.?" "Yes, show me." Naruto looked and grinned at the image of his father gone was his arrogance and self-confidence, instead he saw only fear and uncertainty, this man was only a shadow of Minato Namikaze. "Okay ring show me Natsumi Uzumaki." Not found". "Made the area of search larger" After several moments… "Make it larger." "Attention, making search larger will make it planet scale, continue?" "Yes" "Not found" Naruto face palmed "Switch to Kushina Uzumaki , same parameters" "Not found." Naruto growled in anger "Found me a sample of Kushina's DNA, same parameters." "Target found. Location: Konoha Hospital." It took Naruto several minutes to find needed sample "Finally" he said "Yes, finally." A very familiar voice interrupted his moment of triumph. "Jiraya, I wanted to tell something like it's good to see you, but I'm not a liar." Jiraya growled. "Enough of this, I can't even understand how Minato and Kushina spawned such a monster: just look at you glowing eyes, flames on your head instead of hair you turned into real demon." Naruto's anger rose to a new level "Demon? Monster? At least I never sold little girls into slavery at least I never neglected a child of mine like you two, oh don't be surprised I know about Minato's parentage: about you and Tsunade, I despise you, this village, my father, to hell with it, I hate all fucking universe! But even I have morals, something that you lack" said Naruto while throwing a punch to Jiraya, at this moment sanin made his first mistake: he thought that no matter how powerful Naruto is his physical strength is still non comparable to his, soon he understood, after his ribs crushed from Naruto's punch that his strength rivals and even exceeds Tsunade's. Naruto left the keep leaving beaten and blooded form of Jiraya inside. "Ah good ol' beaten therapy always makes my day better. Let's return to my business and I must not forget to take a Forbidden Scroll of Sealing as bonus for my troubles."
Earth.
Naruto's next target lived in penthouse; well his salary was high enough for this, after all nearly all nearly all evil doctors who partake into illegal experiments have enough money for this. His target was none other than dr. Desmond, curator of project Kr. You ask how Naruto found it? A lot of angry and jealous colleagues, lot of blood of guilty and simple bribery, easy as steal a candy from a child. "Doctor Desmond?" He turned his head to me and stepped back in fear. "What are you?" Naruto smiled showing his impressive fangs "Your new boss."
Several minutes of brainwashing later.
"So, my little marionette what you must do?"
"I must switch the blood sample of Lex Luthor, with the one you gave me." Naruto smiled "yes, everything is right, now, go and do what I told you." Slowly like a robot Desmond stood up and went out from the room. Naruto smiled again "Always wanted a little brother, soon I will have one."
Back then I still had no clue how many Lanterns were on Earth, so because my presence supposed to be a secret I created a false identity: Red Cape, seriously I wore a cape with hood, many thought that I was some freakish ghost because under hood was only darkness , an unknown master of Dark Arts, clad in red cloak yet I still was a Red Lantern from time to time, when especially loud screams of victims returned me to merciful embrace of red. Everything was good, I founded a book shop, started to gather money and needed materials, when something put my plans into jeopardy. It all started when I found some interesting spells in old magic book, it was called blood bounds, I "upgraded" it a bit and decided to use it to summon a suitable familiar, it should had been perfect, yet I failed miserably. What was in pentagram resembled a warrior in black armor with whit spider symbol (imagine Flash Thompson's variant of Venom a.n.), imagine my surprise when his helmet morphed revealing his face, My FACE.
"So you are me from another universe, who served as super solder, super killer, super spy and as a lot of other super works for your country?" Naruto and agent Venom, that was a codename for his unwilling guest sat at the table in main hall of the living quarters of Naruto's shop. "Yes, the only difference is that my parents died, my father was an idealistic fool and not an egocentrically bastard, I don't have a girlfriend and married to a goddess." Naruto who was drinking a cup of tea started to cough valiantly. "Seriously? On whom?" His counterpart sighed "I will tell you later. Now, can you please tell me about your world?" After several hours of constant talking, Venom characterized the situation with few words: "So you have a organization of superheroes, world governments don't like them, and society may fall into the civil war, great another war only it will be world wide." That confused Naruto: "Another war?"
Venom waved his hand: "Don't bother with it bro, if they can't save themselves there are always two handsome blondes to do it." Naruto was silent from one hand his purpose was vengeance not justice, from the other side if there is no life what purpose is in vengeance? "I'm with you Menma." Venom raised a brow. "Menma?" Naruto smiled "since you are guest here my dear brother you will change you name for Menma Uzumaki, twin brother of Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto gave his brother his hand "Deal?" Menma smiled while taking his hand, "Yes, deal."
Our duet became a thorn in Justice League throat, the only reason why we weren't hunted down and exterminated was where we operate: in Gotham, and very grim, moody and dark knight, preferred to broke his enemies himself, but we were a bit too smart to pass the border, to gain his attention, we were too good in those shadow wars, after all he may be trained in shadows, but we rule over them. First month were like that watching over the magical activity, hiding from Batman and flirting with Batgirl, oh Red, one day I will see your pretty face without mask. Everything was fine until one day we met her, Raven, she came to us seeking me as master of demonic powers, I remember how it is when others despise you for something that isn't your fault. I hadn't any form of a doubt, I took her as my apprentice, Menma and his version of Kurama helped too. That wasn't an end, when two hot alien chicks crushed in the middle of the Jump City and were found by Venom where do you think he took them? Right to us, that's how Starfire and Blackfire became a part of our big happy chaos that we called our home, and finally there was Cadmus incident.
Chaos that's how I usually call our home seriously two super strong and super hot chicks, another hot in her own way Goth half – demon chick, a super killer and hero with a large anger problems. All started when I decided to watch TV, I started from news where I saw how Red Arrow broke up with his team , then several hours later, I received a signal from Desmond about a break into the labs.
"Hey Roots, asked Venom, where are you going?" Naruto turned to him " I need to go on a business trip take care about girls for me."
So I went there saw how they freed my "brother" I helped them defeat Desmond and after several days I watched them through various devices, which I out in their cave.
"Okay team" started Batman "Let me introduce to you several new members this is M'gan or Megan Morze, also known as Miss Martian, one more member of your team will soon arrive."
"I hope that would be another hot chick" muttered Kid Flash. Robin facepalmed at his words. Meanwhile portal activated and a red hhaired girl clad in black and blue outfit came into the room.
"This is Natsumi Uzumaki, she is Blue Lantern and final member of the team." Portal activated once again "You all know Captain Marvel, the woman with him is Kushina Uzumaki a new Green Lantern, she is Natsumi's mother."
"FUUUUUUUCCK!"
I can bet that my cry was heard in the space, yet it wasn't all
Knock, Kock
"I will open." Said Naruto. She floated in the air in very revealing outfit, covered by pink energy.
"It's been a while Narut n- kun." Said Hinata and smiled.
Hinata's return was only good thing that happened that day, from now on I should be more cautious then ever, with my mother being Green Lantern and my sister Blue Lantern, I was glad that wasn't alone as I planned before, still Kushina is official member of the League and alone against them.. my chance were next to nothing. That's why I helped several heroes, being on their good side may help me in our inevitable confrontation, doubts of my enemies is my power after all. While Young Justice bonded with each other I was checking several rumors and what I found, made me remember about several favors which certain amazon owed me.
Naruto sighed hacking Justice League connecting system wasn't easy. But after several hours…
"Diana?"
"Red? Where did you get this number?"
"No time for this, we need to talk, this is urgent, where you are?"
"Themyscira. In my chambers, with my mother. I don't think…
"I'm already behind you." Look on her face was priceless, you see when you rule over shadows, first thing you learn is Shadow Walking, very useful skill can sent you to any part of the world or any plane of existence through shadows, of course if you are powerful enough and of course if there are shadows. Fortunately there were several. So Naruto stepped from dark corner of Diana's chambers to met surprised princess and angry queen.
" It's an honor to meet you Queen Hippolyta and it's good to see you too, Diana. Sorry for breaking a lot of your laws, but it is really urgent news. First of all what do you know about the Goblin Market?"
Diana narrowed her eyes. "If I remember correctly it's magical black market?"
"Yes, everything like drugs, weapons, ingredients, potions and slaves are sold and bought there."
"Then why…" started Diana.
"Because, several days ago there was a rumor about new lot on slave auction, and yesterday it was confirmed, they had several amazons for sale."
Meanwhile in Atlants.
"And by that decree I hereby…"
"WHAAAAT?!" A loud cry nearly destroyed protective shield of Atlantis several hundreds of atlantians became deaf for a period of time, in Batcave shattered a new Batman's super computer, at watch tower broke several teleportation devices, in Marvel universe Thanos shivered, a nearly nonexistent part of him was sorry for a fool who invoke a wrath of such terrible creatures, he picked up a note and write up to meet his daughter, just to check several things, it was totally not because he was afraid that his daughter was slowly turning into such a creature, absolutely not! He is a fucking Thanos for God's sake, a Conqueror of the Worlds! But still need to check, just to be sure.
Back on Themyscira.
"Okay, let's start from the beginning." Diana was nervous, angry and excited on the same time, Her mother was cold an calculated, prepared for anything.
"Yes let's." Naruto paused for a minute and continued "First of all I managed to track them only because they used someone to organize everything." He pulled a photo from one of his pockets "This is Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, one of the crime lords of Gotham, better known as Penguin, he was paid to organize everything, what bothers me is him" he pulled another photo, one look on it was enough for Hippolyta to get as pale as dead will be "On market he is called Sin, but I found who he truly is. His name is Kain, First of the Souless, a first and most powerful vampire who ever walked on Earth. And for some reasons he is scarring all buyers from amazons, he need them for something that I'm certain in, but for what?" Hippolyta sighed "For what he failed to do: conquer the Themyscira, and using us as his army conquer this world."
Naruto sighed "In that case, Batman wouldn't be enough and Superman is busy with some business in Japan, fotunatly…" he pulled a mobile phone from his robes "I know somebody who can help us."
"Venom? Yes it's me bro, why I'm calling? We have a situation here. What kind of situation? Well it's where you usually say that "Christmas came early" . Yes – yes with a lot of explosions, blood and gore. What? No, no ninja and invading aliens, just a hordes of vampires and other mystical creatures. Yes, classical. So you are in. Okay … Wait you take what?! Since when do you have a gun that throwes exploding stakes? You were preparing for Zombie Apocalypses and made it just in case?! Forget about it just tell me how can they explode? Raven did what?! Wait a minute you played your "always prepared" card? How could you?! You know how she takes such news because of her father, you should be ashamed of yourself! Okay, okay we are waiting for you." He put his phone into his robes and sighed once again. "Troubles in paradise?" asked Diana. "No, just my troublesome brother who will be death of me someday."
Gotham. Building's roof near Cobblepot's Headquarters.
"So how would we know when to strike?" asked Diana who was trembling from desire to start a battle. "As I told you several rimes later, when everything starts to explode we will step in, and save the day, and I already told you to be a bit more patient like Artemis behind you." Yes one of the most powerful and blood thirsty amazons was sent with Diana. Naruto couldn't understand Queen's motives from one side she was one of the most loyal warriors of Diana and her mother from the other: she may had an order to try and kill him "accidently" after all he broke several laws of Themyscira men were killed for less.
"And while we are waiting for a signal, we need to talk." A low raspy voice shattered an uneasy silence.
"Bats? Seriously, you need to change your style. People soon will start looking at you as some sick freak,v if you don't stop doing that." Batman's eyes turned to him "Why is that?" "Maybe because of that rumors and demotivators that I put in Internet?" Batman sighed "That doesn't change the fact that we need a mystic in team and you are most suitable choice." Naruto's humor vanished like it didn't exist at all "I already told you until that wench and her daughter are there." Batman grinned "If I remember correctly you never stop until mission is complete?" "Yes Bats you are quite right, but why … They are here." "Yes they are, so if you can work with them on this you can do this on daily basis." At this moment large explosion destroyed Penguin's HQ' s roof. "Tell ne that they are not there." Said Naruto. "What was that?" asked Artemis "Our signal." replied Naruto. Ever thought what can happen if you take a building filled with criminals and add to it a homicidical anti – hero, who likes to spent his time killing those criminals in most horrible way? Lot of bloodshed, carnage, debochery and ultimate fub and don't forget long tongues it's said anti – hero trademark. "AHAHAHA, die vermins DIEEEEE!" While Penguin listened to the screams of his butchered men he saw how Young Justice group and Leaguers broke into his building, he saw a chance in it and decided that better be in jail alive that being butchered free man.
Meanwhile on meeting spot.
Naruto raised his hand and spoke into communicator: "Venom, can you hear me?" BOOM"Yes bro nice and clear, those idiots still didn't start talking, seriously after what I did to them they think they will be spared if they are not cooperating?" Naruto sigjhed "Try to get grenades out of their mouths." Everybody sweatdropped. "Oh sorry brother completely forget about this. SMACK. Can't you stop whining men are talking." "We are already on our way to Penguin so you can go home now" "What? Already? But, bro, I just started!" "Listen we need to regroup as fast as we can Batman isn't with us so I presume he is going to you." "I can take him." "I know that but you need to return so he couldn't track us." "Fuck, okay I'm going." Naruto sighed and looked at Diana "The joys of having maniacal brother, and if you tell somebody about it…" Diana smiled "Don't worry I know how it is to take care about relatives."
Underground level.
Robin slowly walked in shadows observing anything that can be a threat to his team. "Okay titanium door… Superboy could you please…" WHAM "Never mind." Robin suddenly stopped after making several steps through the door. "What happened" asked Kid Flash. Instead of answering Robin made two steps to the right so fallen part of the ceiling. "They are here." Batman , Artemis, Wonder Woman and Red Cape jumped through the hole. Combined group of sidekicks and heroes followed Batman and Robin to the large metal doors of the keep. "Looks like some sort of Arcane protection" muttered Robin "We need to…" Naruto just pushed him aside "Let professional do it boy." With this words he overpowered the spell which led to detonation. "All that you need is a push to the right direction." Said Naruto while stepping inside the room, inside he thought that even after so little time with Kushina and Natsumi, his control started to fail him. Inside the room there was only darkness. "Found a switch." ordered Batman. After several minutes of searching Robin found a switch. Light showed to them a large room in front of them there was a capsule with raven haired girl near it was silver haired man. " Ah, my dear heroes how good of you to come and greet our sleeping beauty, especially you.." he turned his head revealing his nearly perfect pale face with glowing red eyes. "Diana." Instead of her Naruto raised his voice : "Cain." Immortal smiled "Yes my dear Cursed Child, me looks like you are not so certain what to do, mmm?" "No, replied Naruto I know." He put his hand into his pocket and get strange black gem from it. Kain made something nobody would belief he can do: became paler. "It's … y - you wouldn't dare to use it." Naruto smiled "You called me Cursed Child that means that you collected information about me and therefore I tell you: try me." Cain started to change his form slowly fading from the room "You will pay for this Cursed Child remember my words." Naruto put a black gem in his pocket "Yeah, yeah classical evil speech be more modern next time Cain." He turned to his fellow heroes I think we need to search the room for valuable information, before we try to get the girl out of there." After several hours of searching Naruto found something valuable: Cain's diary. "Okay' thought Naruto "It's really something very.. illustrated indeed, wow, is that Cleopatra? Who thought, that she was such a gymnast? Let's see what is the… As fast as he could Naruto closed the diary and put it into his dimensional pocket. If any amazon ever find out that Cain had an habit of drawing very revealingimages of any woman who he met and I though it, I'm dea. Especially Hippolyta and Diana.
"Well" started Naruto "Batman will deal with other things and I must go." Then happened something that surprised everyone: Batman threw his Batarang at Naruto, eventually Naruto dodged but to lat he understood that it wasn't in Batman's intention to harm him but to get rid of his hood, which he did successfully. Revealing his face to Natsumi and Kushina.
"Sochi." Muttered Kushina. Naruto snarled at this "You lost all rights to call me this, years ago Kushina." She instead just smiled and asked "So that means that you wouldn't go with us?" She slowly get into a battle stance. " That mean I must use force." Naruto smiled "Mother please even though you are powerful you are in Minato's league and you remember what happened to him." Kushina replied "That was before I get this ring son, and before Natsumi get hers, she will empower me and with it I can crush anyone, so surrender youself peacefully let's be a family again." Naruto smile grew even wider "With blood and rage of crimson red, ripped from the bodies so freshly dead, together with my holy rage, I judje you all, this is my fate." With bright red flash Naruto turned into his Red Lantern's form "We never were family, and as you can see I too have the ring." Natsumi sighed and raised her hand. "It pains me to do this to you brother, but you are not thinking straight, and remember blue light always defeats red."
Then something that nobody was prepared to happened, Natsumi's light shattered like glass under the Naruto's touch. "ever heardabout Kyle Rayner? His green ring is immune to yellow light, le my red is immune to blue. So every rules are made to be broken, you are just unlucky to met this exception."
He raised his hands "Now prepare to…"
"…I stle desire from a demon. And power from the Lord above…"
Robin raised his brow: "Seriously dude Jorn Lande?"
Naruto growled "My phone – my rules, wait a minute I need to answer.
"We have an omega stuation brother, you're needed here."
"Looks like you will live another day." He stepped into the shadows and slowly vanished "I will see you two again very soon" his eyes started to glow with red unholy fire "But our meeting will be fast and painful"
Naruo house.
First thing he heard was laughter somebody was really popular with his girls and he was prepared to kill him. He slowly moved to the source of the sound. All girls were on the kitchen, as well as Venom and unknown young man with sword golden horned diadem and dressed into the leather green clothes. "Ah finally, brother this is my old pal Loki, remember I told you about him, he is here because he needs help with private matters. Do you remember what I told you about Deadpool?
"Naruto narrowed his eyes " The one who is so crazy that his insanity can turn into twisted reality, skilled enough to give Deathstroke a run on his money and nearly immortal, that Deadpool?"
"Yes, replied Loki instead of Venom, and he also stole an Asgardian artifact."
Naruto narrowed his eyes even more "I heard that they can give normal mortal a power of a god?"
Loki scrubbed his head "The problem is he kinda… stole Ragnarok. All – Father's Sword, it's most powerful artifact I had ever knew."