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Taipei; September 8th; 7:20AM
The tension between the Northern and Southern Rhelasian had become nearly violent as a peace summit gathered in a large hotel, rented for the event, with a crowd of reporters and a sea of onlookers trying to get a glance at the two representatives of each nation.
A news reporter stood in front of her camera man with microphone in hand and a bright smile plastered across her face, she looked directly into the camera and motioned to the events behind her, "This is Cat Grant reporting from Taipei where the historic peace summit between South Rhelasia and North Rhelasia has completely broken down. As a last resort Prime Minister Tsang of South Rhelasia and General Sing Mon Li of North Rhelasia have agreed to bring in an independent arbitrator but, who could it be? Speculation has run from the Secretary General of the United Nations to Superman but, the man of steel seems unlikely as I'm told the arbitrator is due at any moment by car, not cape," she smiled until the red 'recording' light vanished as she took a breath while the camera was off, "This had better go well or we're looking at World War Three."
As the crowd of reporters and political figures as well as their body guards circled around the steps of the building, one ginger haired man in dark sunglasses and a suit similar to one of the body guard's stepped behind a support pillar out of sight and placed his finger to his ear, "Red Arrow to Mount Justice."
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Mount Justice; September 7th; 7:35PM
Naruto and Sasuke were completely alone in nothing but silence and dead air; Naruto sat with his legs crossed and his knuckles placed firmly together directly across from Sasuke whom was mirroring Naruto's position and breathing deeply. Naruto spoke up without opening his eyes and Sasuke listened without opening his own, "Feel the Natural Energy, feel it in the air around you and the ground beneath you; in buildings, in space, even underwater, Nature Energy flows through everything and absorbing it can give you access to powers you've never dreamed of."
Sasuke inhaled deeply and exhaled as his eye-lids began to show a slight-purple pigmentation until, "Red Arrow to Mount Justice."
Sasuke and Naruto fell flat on their backs as the disruption completely blew away any chance at Sasuke entering the Honored Sage Mode; Sasuke stood up, walking to the center of the holo-ring with a grim expression, "What?" he deadpanned as he pulled up the holographic computer connection.
"Where's Aqualad?" Roy spoke almost confused.
"This is Pain; I'm the leader of this Team."
There was a brief moment of silence before Roy cleared his throat, "Oh, well, I need access to the Justice League database."
Sasuke typed away accessing the computers data-files as Naruto stood up and stretched in the background, "What for?" Sasuke asked casually rolling his eyes at the effort he needed to expend to help this lowly solo-act drama-queen.
"I need the exact height and weight of the League of Shadows Assassin known as Cheshire."
Sasuke typed away for a moment or two longer, "Checking now."
He typed away swiping and tapping the screen as a holoscreen appeared and displayed the information the Justice League acquired on Cheshire along with her masked picture, "Cheshire is 1.67 meters tall and weighs 54.4 Kilograms."
"Uh," Roy muttered as he allowed the line to go silent.
Sasuke groaned, "Jeez, she's five-foot-six and weighs 120 pounds; She's very dangerous for someone like you. Should I send backup or something?"
"Please, the last thing I need is the junior Justice League," Red Arrow tapped the frame of his glasses and looked out into the crowd scanning them for the exact height and weight given to him moments ago.
"No, just our computer," Sasuke tapped a button on the screen severing the connection between the two as Naruto yawned obnoxiously behind him.
"How are your new weights feeling?" He asked as they approached one another.
Sasuke sighed lifting his wrists up with slight strain, "Like I never gave Lee enough credit for tugging these around all the time; ten tons is a lot of pressure to be carrying around like a wrist watch."
"Trust me, in a few weeks, you'll be stronger and faster than you ever thought you could be," Naruto turned back to face the rest of the ring, "So, back to training?"
"Actually," Sasuke unstrapped his wrist-weights and knelt down very gently placing them on the ground, "I have other plans."
Naruto nearly fell over from shock as he felt flabbergasted, "I told you not to take those off unless it was an emergency! The training won't work right otherwise!"
"You're lucky I'm not taking the ankle weights off too!"
"Recognized: Artemis, B07," Artemis stepped out of the teleporter in a green blouse cropping just above her belly-button, denim jeans, and a green-purse hanging at her hip-side.
Naruto looked back and forth between the two as the teleporters died down in the background humming to a stop, "Oh," he realized as he widened his eyes, "Oh!" he exclaimed getting the full picture as Artemis averted her gaze with a small blush.
"Carry on," Naruto turned on his heels awkwardly walking towards the hall that led to his room in the Cave, "Wear protection!" He shouted as he was down the hall.
"Shut up!" They shouted in unison before making eye contact and smirking.
Artemis approached him casually and looked him up and down, "Are you going shirtless… or?"
Sasuke looked down and realized he was still in his training uniform which consisted of tight-shorts that stop at the knees and nothing else, "Oh, sorry, our date slipped my mind," Artemis blushed and stomped her feet as Sasuke formed a hand-sign quickly slamming his palm on the ground.
"It's not a date!" She exclaimed as a plume of white smoke engulfed him, now wearing his purple hoodie paired with jeans of his own and dress-shoes.
"Whatever you say," he stated as he adjusted his clothing, "Should I get cologne or something; I don't know if I smell from training or-"
Artemis smirked coyly, "It's not a date so why should it matter to me?"
Sasuke kept his stoic expression, "Playing a dangerous game, Artemis… dangerous games…" he approached the teleporters leaving her to follow him as smiled himself facing away from her so she couldn't see.
Artemis ran to catch up with him as they both teleported away in a flash of golden light.
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Taipei; September 8th; 7:22AM
Roy scoffed at Pain's sarcasm and deactivated his communicator, he turned his around the pillar and scanned the area for the details he obtained from Mount Justice with his high-tech sunglasses until he spotted a barista at a coffee-stand with no mask dressed completely in civilian clothing handing out drinks with a smile. Roy turned back and opened his brief-case as it mechanically transformed itself into a crimson bow leaving the casing behind; the bow extended in his hands as the crowd began an uproar.
Several white cars and police vehicles escorted one single limousine through the cross way as spectators were moved aside for the limousine to park. Roy narrowed his eyes finding Jade Crock missing from the coffee-stand; he immediately readied his bow searching the area with an arrow pulled back on his bow string.
"The arbitrator has arrived," Cat Grant spoke towards her cameraman whom broadcasted the event nation-wide.
As the vehicles slowed to a stop, Roy ducked under a bush leaving his eyes visible to scan the area for the assassin he was looking for. Suddenly, a woman, obviously Cheshire, stood atop a fruit-stand and aimed an RPG at the arbitrator's vehicle; She aimed accurately at the car and placed her finger on the trigger but, just as she pulled on it and arrow flew from the distance and knocked her upwards firing the explosive into the sky.
Everyone spotted the explosion as body-guards pulled their guns out and protected the two political figures moving them inside as the crowd scattered in a panic; Cheshire sighed, "Ugh," she leapt from the stand and jumped on top of people's heads leaping into the middle of the crowd, disarming and dismantling the arbitrator's security in seconds as they fired at her she dodged the bullets without much effort. She sprinted across the road and towards the arbitrator's limo with her sai prepared to attack as Roy stepped out and fired a net-dispersing arrow but, was foiled when she jumped and slashed through it. Before she could land, Roy leapt at her and tackled her to the ground pinning her until she grabbed him by the torso with her legs and pulled him off. As she stood, over a dozen men pointed their automatic rifles at her point blank surrounding her.
She placed her hands in the air and behind her head, sitting on her knees and looking down as they screamed at her in a foreign language.
"We have just witnessed an assassination attempt live," Cat spoke excitedly, "No one seems to be hurt including our mystery arbitrator…" the man stepped out of his limo and straightened his suit and revealed himself to the world as, "Lex Luthor?" she questioned.
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Metropolis; September 7th; 7:35PM
Artemis and Sasuke weren't exactly social butterflies so, they both felt awkward tension as they entered the fancy Italian bistro with a suited-man standing out front at a podium, "Do you have a reservation?" he asked in a thick French accent.
"A what?" Sasuke raised his brow as the man stoically looked at his list, "I don't think I do."
The man scoffed and closed his eyes, "Than I'm afraid the wait time for a table is-"
Sasuke pulled a wad of 100-dollar bills from his hoodie-pocket and slapped it down on the podium, "Now," he stated firmly as Artemis curiously eyed the amount of money placed on the desk.
The host widened his eyes before looking back up at the stoically but, dangerously annoyed Sasuke whom raised a brow once again, "O-Of course; we have a seat available with a wonderful view!" He grabbed the wad and pocketed it before grabbing menus and escorting them passed the line of people waiting.
Once inside the restaurant, Artemis stepped up to Sasuke juxtaposed to him as they walked towards their table which led to a beautifully-lit patio with tables and candles decorating the area, "Where did you get all that cash?" She asked incredibly.
Sasuke didn't change his expression, "I didn't rob any banks if that's what you meant," he smirked down at her slightly, "My adoptive guardian is pretty loaded, I guess."
Artemis smiled coyly, "Well, this place certainly is fancy…" As they were seated with a view of the city and menus placed in front of them, another man came and poured glasses of water for them also placing a basket of bread sticks in the center of the table.
"Are there any drinks I should start you two off with? Soda?" The man's smile faded when Sasuke looked up with a serious expression.
"Your most expensive bottle of Champaign; whatever it is," Sasuke looked the menu over as the man simply wasn't used to the intensity of Sasuke's demeanor.
"May I, uhm, see some I.D?" He asked with a gulp.
Sasuke raised a brow and flashed his Sharingan quickly, "You've already seen our identification."
The man's eyes turned a crimson red as Artemis chuckled, "I've already seen your identification…"
"We are both of legal age."
"You two are both of legal age," The man shook his head as Sasuke closed his eyes and allowed his chakra to dissipate, "Of course, the finest bottle will be delivered to your table momentarily, while we attend to that you may read over your menu's!" He quickly walked away happily as Artemis slapped the table with her left hand and muffled her laughter with her right.
"I didn't even know you could do that!" She announced once the man was out of sight, "We're getting drunk tonight?"
Sasuke scoffed still looking over his menu, "Pff, I know I am…"
The bottle arrived and they popped the cork, pouring each of them a glass of the intoxicating liquid; after ordering and sipping from their glasses, they began casual small talk but, this didn't last very long.
Sasuke placed his glass down after downing a gulp of alcohol and stared Artemis dead in the eye, "So, what do we do now?"
Artemis chuckled, "Whaddya mean?" she said quickly taking another sip.
"I've never had any interest in romance; Robin told me to take you to a nice restaurant and treat you to dinner… so now what?"
Artemis kept her smile and placed her glass down propping her chin up on her palms, "We talk, talk about… stuff," she said evading his gaze.
"About how we almost kissed?"
Artemis choked on her own spit for a moment before chuckling and scratching her head, "Yea, about… that," she sighed before placing her hands on the table, "I get it, it was heat of the moment, we had just finished kicking Klarion's ass and we just-"
Sasuke cut her off as he lifted his glass and spun the wine in the glass, "What demons do you have, Artemis?" He laid back in his seat and took a long sip of the glass until it was empty placing it down and folding his arms.
"My, uh, my what?" She stuttered looking down at her own half-glass of liquid seeing her own reflection rippling in it.
"That night, you told me we could share our demons; that implies you have some of your own, doesn't it?"
Artemis sighed, "It does and I do."
"Well?" Sasuke stoically stated, "I told you mine you tell me yours…"
Artemis gulped down the last of her drink before putting down and taking a breath, "Fine, fair is fair," she inhaled and exhaled deeply, "Well, you already know my sister is an international assassin but, what you don't know is so is my father," she stopped for a moment as Sasuke raised a brow, "SportsMaster is my Daddy; yea, birthdays were really fun," her sarcasm wasn't lost on him but, he definitely saw the resemblance after meeting him on Santa Prisca but, he didn't stop her story, "My Mom was the same, a mercenary for hire known as Huntress and the two of them would dress up every-night and go out killing. Besides how my Dad beat my Mom by day and killed with her by night, there's more…"
She poured herself another full glass before continuing, sipping from it casually, "One night, I must've been like eleven, my parents went out but, I was so sick of the killing, so sick of the murder; my sister embraced it but, I couldn't stand it!" She calmed herself down as Sasuke reached across the table placing a hand on hers, "Sorry," she said slowly.
"Please, continue," Sasuke said retracting his hand.
"One night, I grabbed one of my Dads many, many, guns and followed them out as they went killing and collecting cash; I found them just as the cops were on their way to the scene and I aimed the nine-millimeter for my Dad but, I missed," she looked down at her reflection in the newly filled glass of alcohol, "I didn't hit my Dad but, I hit my Mom instead and he just left her there on the ground…bleeding and alone. I ran home, threw the gun out, and pretended like it didn't happen but, it did; My Mom was rushed to the hospital and upon recovery, arrested for her crimes but, because of her injury, she was hospitalized for most of her sentence. She healed, retired, did her time for what the cops thought was a robbery and now my Mom cooks me dinner in the wheelchair that I put her in."
Sasuke was silent as a tear slipped down the blonde-archers cheek, "I know that you had it way worse but, I just thought that…"
Sasuke chuckled for the first time that evening, "This isn't an 'who had the rougher childhood' contest; like you said, we're just sharing our demons," he reached out and placed a hand on hers as she looked up at him, his stoic expression still spoke of understanding regardless of its deadpanned appearance.
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Taipei; September 8th; 8:05AM.
Cheshire was arrested on sight and placed in a police vehicle with multiple escorts taking her away, meanwhile, Roy was being held by two men surrounded by five more even buffer men standing before Lex Luthor. Lex turned to his assistant, an attractive woman wearing a suit with shoulder length hair whom nodded to him.
Lex smiled with his hands behind his back, "We have confirmation; this one is Green Arrow's sidekick, Speedy," the men released their grip as Roy closed his eyes trying not to be upset about the use of the name Speedy or the use of the word Sidekick.
"It's Red Arrow, now," he said insistently.
One cop moved towards Luthor with haste, "He must be questioned!"
Lex kept his smile, "Lex Luthor vouches for him, please, release the sidekick."
Roy's handcuffs were undone by an officer on the scene, "Ex-sidekick," he said as he approached Luthor, "And I don't need any favors from you."
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you wanted to join the young lady behind bars?"
Roy turned and looked him dead in the eye, "You may have everyone here fooled but, I know what you are."
Lex chuckled, "Oh, I don't pretend to be an angle; it just so happens that this time I'm on the side of the angle's," Lex walked away leaving Roy with his thoughts as he followed and entered the building where the Peace Summit was about to take place.
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Metropolis; September 7th; 8:45PM.
After their meals had come and gone; they stayed sitting at the table for nearly an hour talking about their lives and different personal experiences, "He was literally caught holding the bucket of paint by three Junín level ninja minutes after he painted the mountain's faces… it was more annoying back then rather than funny but, hindsight is twenty-twenty."
Three bottles left on the table and they were both heavily intoxicated, "It's a good thing we have teleporters because I cant drive for shit, right now," Artemis stated still chuckling from Sasuke's story.
The alcohol had loosened him up a bit, but he wasn't incapable of controlling himself but, he certainly had a smile on his face which was rather unusual.
"Ya know," Artemis slurred with a blush across her face plopping her elbow down on the table, "You have a really cute smile, I wish you'd show it off more often…"
Sasuke snickered lightly, "For a long time I had nothing to smile about; but, as of recently," he looked the blonde-haired beauty up and down again, her piercing brown-eyes, her flawless skin, "I've been a bit happier."
The bus-boy approached and took away their empty plates, clearing the table of nothing but, candle-light and two people staring at each other; looking into each-others smiling each with a blush on their faces.
Sasuke was not used to this feeling of romance, he covered his face and chuckled lightly due to the intoxication, "What am I doing?"
"Hitting the jackpot, ninja-boy."
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Roy entered the massive Hotel lobby used as a center for the Peace Summit and wasn't surprised to find dozens of men surrounding both representatives of both countries arguing with one another and blaming the other for the assassination attempt in their native tongue.
Roy walked side-by-side with Lex and Mercy, his assistant, as reporters and news crews snapped photos with flashes of light covering their entrance; shouting from both sides of each nation completely attracted the rooms attention.
"Tensions are running high and troops are amassing on the borders between the two countries, right now; Lex Luthor seems to be the best or only hope at peace," Cat Grant spoke into the camera as Roy spoke quietly to Luthor in the back of the room.
"Why should either side trust you?" He asked as Luthor waved and smiled.
"Because, LexCorp is a company built around peaceful enterprise for all humanity."
"Cut the crap, Luthor; I've got intel that links LexCorp to the sale of military-grade weaponry in both Rhelasias," he narrowed his eyes on Lex, "You're profiting off this war, so; what's your angle?"
Lex smiled coyly, "War income is pocket change compared to the billions to be made in investing in a peaceful, united, Rhelasia; and sent it better to have peace… even if that scoundrel Lex Luthor profits off of it?"
Roy smiled back with the same coy grin, "That scoundrel may not survive to profit; Cheshire may have failed but, the Shadow's won't stop until the contract is fulfilled," Lex walked away from him and towards the arguing nations before turning back to him.
"Which begs the question, who hired them?" Lex asked as Roy looked up in thought.
"And were you the target? Or was your death just a convenient way to sabotage the Summit?"
Lex turned to him seriously, "Allow me to hire you to find out."
Roy nearly snarled, "Your money has blood on it and I'm not here to make a buck!" he shouted in a loud whisper.
Lex smiled putting a hand on Roy's shoulder, "Ha-ha, so, you'll provide your services but, for free? I can live with that, hero," He walked away and towards the arguing parties once more, "If you'll excuse me, I have a hemisphere to save."
Lex approached the bickering politician's with a smile as cameras snapped photos of him, "Gentlemen, gentlemen; may we attempt some smiles for the cameras?"
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Metropolis; September 7th; 9:00PM
Sasuke payed the bill with the credit card given to him personally by his adoptive father; the server approached with his card in hand and addressed him, "I hope you had a nice meal, Mr. Wayne."
Artemis' eyes shot open even though the haze of the alcohol, "Mister-what!?"
"He said Wayne," Sasuke repeated as he pocketed his wallet, "How drunk are you?" he deadpanned as they got up from the table and headed for the exit.
Artemis grabbed his arm and pulled him close as they walked whispering, "You didn't tell me your 'adoptive father' was the Bruce Wayne."
"Because he's not my father," he stated boldly as they exited the restaurant and started walking on the sidewalk towards the nearby disguised teleporter, "So, I didn't bring it up."
"Wait," She stopped for a moment continuing to walk using Sasuke's arm to support her drunken stumbling, "The Wayne Foundation accepted me to this random academy last week…" She trailed off and Sasuke looked towards her without stopping.
"Was that you?"
He smiled, "You're close," his stoic expression returned as her eyes lit-up like a Christmas tree completely catching her off guard.
"No," She looked up at him making the connection that Bruce Wayne was in fact Batman but, her suspicion was only confirmed when he flashed the slightest smirk continuing to walk with his hands tucked in the pockets of his purple hoodie. He could feel the warmth of Artemis' arm wrapped around his, hanging mostly for support but, also because she could feel the warmth too.
"This is insane," Artemis nearly tripped before gathering her composure once again, "Bruce Wayne is B-" Sasuke stopped and put a single finger to her lips, getting so close to her that she could feel his breath.
"He doesn't want people to know, so keep your mouth shut about it; if anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me," He whispered to her as she blushed deeply realizing their close proximity.
"R-Right," She stuttered and was quiet for a moment as Sasuke backed up looking around prepared to continue walking, "If you can make people think you're 21 can you get us beer?"
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Taipei Police Department; September 8th; 9:05AM
"Aren't you going to ask me anything?"
Cheshire stood in a Taipei jail cell doing tai-chi to pass the time; flexibly moving in different poses as Roy now dressed in his Red Arrow uniform stood directly on the other-side of the bars with his hands on his hips.
"I think you know what I'm after," he stated boldly.
She moved and flexed her curvature body, revealing her thin waist-line and midsection, "I do actually, do you?" she lifted her foot into the air until it nearly touched her nose, clearly distracting the would-be hero.
"Who hired you?" He didn't bead around the bush, he got straight to the point but, she continued to stretch and move in provocative, yet, technically perfect tai-chi positions.
"Shadows."
"Who hired them?"
"I don't ask," she flashed him a wide grin before moving back to her tai-chi.
"What's the end game?" he asked boldly a question she should know the answer to, "The Peace Summit? Or Luther himself?"
She flexed into the air and formed her hands into the shape of a pistol, pulling the trigger at him, "Two birds, one stone."
Silence rang through the room as Roy processed what she'd said before she broke the silence, "Hey, where are your little side-kick friends? They're always fun to play with especially the shinobi and ar-" she stopped herself, "-chery girl, the one with the arrows?"
"She… They, aren't in my League," Roy narrowed his eyes.
She approached the bars of the cell and grabbed Roy by his body-armor, "And you think you're in mine?" She got in his face so that he could feel her breath on his nose, talking coyly almost as if seducing him, "Where's Green Arrow when you really need him?"
"I don't."
"Sure about that?" She grabbed the back of his neck pulling him closer as their lips were inches apart but, seconds before they met she ducked down and gripped the bars tight closing her eyes, "Oh, no," he mumbled as he backed away slowly. An explosion consumed the room, flooding it with smoke and ash; as Roy stood up now on the other side of the room, the metal bars were in tact but, the wall behind it was not. Ropes flew down for her to escape by when a man shimmied down shouting at her, "Let's go, girl!"
"Ugh, it had to be you!" She shouted getting up from the ground and covering her mouth from the smoke.
"Beggars can't be choosers, little girl," SportsMaster chided sarcastically as he climbed back up to the helicopter that had brought him there to begin with.
Alarms began to sound as the ringing in Roy's ears didn't fade anytime soon, he pulled an arrow back on his bow but, missed completely from the disorientation. As Jade climbed into the helicopter and flew upwards, she witnessed Roy barging through the roof access door and aiming his bow up at her chopper.
They flew higher as he aimed and fired hitting the bulk of the chopper with a grappling line, he ran with it until it pulled him off of his feet and into the air several hundred feet above the ground, "I admire your persistence but, I have to cut this relationship of ours short!" She shouted over the sounds of the helicopter flying pulling a shuriken from her belt and slicing the bind between the arrow and the wire leaving just an arrow attached to the chopper. Roy fell hundreds of feet for several seconds, he quickly pulled two arrows out and fired them at the roof-top he was approaching landing on their explosion of some-sort of putty glue-like substance that broke his fall. He sat up in the goo and wiped it from his face, pulling out a device that tracked the arrow-head still dug into the chopper.
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Taipei; Southern Temple; September 8th; 9:30AM.
"Because I'm a professional," Jade started as SportsMaster passed her, "I won't kill you; at least not while we're on the job."
SportsMaster scoffed, "You wouldn't have this job if it weren't for me; grow up already," he chided confidently as he turned to a voice speaking from the center of the temple.
"The evenings agenda was to create strife between nations," Ra's Al Ghul; The Demons Head, The Leader to the League of Shadows stood forwards, "not my assassins," he stroked his 400-year-old beard as he stepped down towards them.
Cheshire immediately got to her knew and ducked her head down in respect whilst SportsMaster did nothing, "Master…" Jade started but, Ra's continued again.
"And client, so twice disappointed in your failures; Luthor has been a thorn in my side for quite some-time," He spoke and turned towards his temple as Red Arrow used binoculars and sound equipment to hear and see their conversation from roof-top hundreds of feet away.
"Ra's Al Ghul," Roy muttered as he looked back through the binoculars.
"And so, I expect less disappointment and less interference from that boy," he looked directly into the binoculars as Roy gulped for a moment.
Both Cheshire and SportsMaster were surprised turning around and spotting the little bird, "Perfect," Roy muttered as he stood and fired an arrow directly at Ra's who caught it mid-air and snapped it with his fingertips before dropping it completely.
"Take care of him," he said nonchalantly as he reentered his temple leaving the two assassins facing Red Arrow whom had the high ground and a long-ranged weapon giving him the advantage, however; he was out numbered and out classed. Roy leapt onto another side of the temples roof-top border, running and firing arrows which Cheshire managed to dodge long enough to get close to the wall. She jumped onto a Buddhist stature before back-flipping onto the wall and springing forwards on the roof sending shuriken towards Arrow as he narrowly dodged them.
She jumped and pulled out her sai coming down on him with nothing left to block with but his bow which served its purpose as he back flipped out of her range.
SportsMaster approached from behind cornering him with the temple on one side and the ocean on the other, "I hear you go by Red Arrow now, pff, more like Broken Arrow."
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Metropolis; September 7th; 10:05PM
After reaching the teleporters hidden behind a wooden fence in an abandoned ally-way covered in trash but, the fence hid them from the sidewalk view. Sasuke used his chakra to walk up the wall and placed half a dozen empty bottles atop window-panes several stories high before leaping back down.
They had three six-packs of beer and had already drank a full case worth, "Okay, okay, I got this," Artemis swigged a gulp of beer and turned around launching a shard of glass that shattered one of the bottles lined up on the window, "Booya!"
"Oh, please," Sasuke chided as he had cleared half a dozen beers himself; he activated his Sharingan as its crimson glow illuminated every aspect of every corner. He pulled a shuriken from his hoodie and aimed it upwards, "You carry shuriken around with you, like, all the time?"
"Do you not?"
He focused his senses as his three tomoe Sharingan spun and he spun with it launching the kunai in the direction juxtaposed to te window where it bounced off of an air-conditioning unit and shattered all five bottles at once.
"You know that is so cheating!" Artemis chuckled as she swigged more beer, she leaned on Sasuke for support and, while still drunk, he was obviously more capable of handling his liquor. She wrapped her arm around his neck to keep herself up, "I don't think I can finish all this, honestly," she held her head for a moment leaning into Sasuke's chest as he held her head.
Artemis looked up at him with a short smile that faded into one of lust as their lips approached one-another's; she grabbed him by the hoodie and pulled him in connecting their lips completely, he gripped her waist and she lifted her leg on-top of his thigh almost humping him. They kept their lips connected for several more seconds before separating and taking a breath, I'm… sorry; I'm just drunk and I wasn't thinking str-" this time Sasuke wrapped his arms around her slender-waist and pulled her in for a more passionate kiss, one where Artemis gently caressed his cheeks and she became so lost in the feeling she dropped her beer bottle letting it shatter on the concrete at their feet.
They separated as the glass shattered, "So, now what?" Sasuke asked as Artemis still had her hand on his cheek.
"Not sure, does this make us a couple?"
"I'd like that but, what would the team think?"
"Who cares about the team?" She pulled him in once more for passionate kiss that gave her goosebumps all down her back and legs.
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Mount Justice; September 9th: 1:42AM.
After several sessions of making out and releasing pent up romantic tension; the two finally decided to return to the Mountain where Sasuke currently resided, "Hey, I had a really nice time tonight."
Sasuke stoically pumped his fist, "That was my goal," he looked back at her as they walked next to each other, "Although; a lot of unexpected things did happen."
Sasuke and Artemis were met with Batman, Red Arrow, and Naruto standing in the center of the holo-ring, "What's all this?"
Red Arrow scoffed, "You don't even know? And you call yourself a leader," Roy folded his arms and brushed by them heading for the teleporters, "Next time I'm trying to prevent an international war; be available."
Sasuke scoffed catching Roy's attention, "Got something to say?"
"Yea," Sasuke turned around with both of his Mangekyou Sharingan activated intimidating even Roy, "You call us the 'junior Justice League', you degrade us, and then you ask for our help but, when I'm busy with my own life; you get prissy like a little bit-" Roy slammed his fist into Sasuke's cheek causing Artemis to back up slowly; Batman stepped forwards for a moment before Naruto shook his head at him.
Sasuke turned with Roy's fist still implanted in his right cheek completely uninjured, "You'd better make the next one count… because after that I'm going to tear you in half," He was dead serious as his Mangekyou began spinning rapidly.
Naruto appeared between the two, "The situation was handled, everyone is safe, let's drop this and everyone get some sleep," He negotiated as Roy retracted his fist feeling as though he'd sprained his wrist but, not showing it once so ever.
"Long night…" Artemis sighed, "Very long night…"
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