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Author's Note: Hello everyone, here we are with the next chapter. Please read and review generously. I hope you all enjoy it. I thank all who have favorite the story, who are following the story, and those who have taken time out of their busy lives to review; it all helps.
In this chapter, we get our first appearance of Naruto. And now, the story will focus more heavily on Naruto as things are about to pick up quite heavily. I apologize to the reviewers who have wanted to see Naruto now, and here he is. This chapter is dedicated to Adventreader221, who contributed heavily to this chapter.
Without further ado, let us begin.
Chapter Four- Our Newest Reluctant Hero
Somewhere within Russian Waters
Moving though the waters, a small vessel that oddly looks like a manta ray is in view as it makes towards a much larger vessel. It's clear that the larger submersible vessel doesn't realize the danger it is in as the smaller vessel places itself on top of the Submarine.
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A loud popping noise sounds from a large weapon, as it is being held by a man in black suit that's made for underwear swims and military combat as the man stops firing it.
Around him are computers as well bodies of the men who work on the submarine, all dead and or dying. Brass littered the ground and the barrel of the M-4 Carbine rifle smoked from the heat it emitted. Attached to the guard-rail was a 40mm single round grenade Launcher, unused as of yet. Sparks flew through the air as consoles released heavy smoke that filled the air of their prize.
Men in wet suits and large aquatic helmets walk in and stop short of the attacker. Pulling the hoses off, one man reveals himself as he lifts the helmet up off his head to show similar features as the one who had fired off the M-4 rifle.
"Come on, let's go." a voice sounded down the hall before a door opened and a man in military uniform stepped through the door at gunpoint, "Move it." the gunman commanded, "Come on. Hurry up." he said, jabbing the man in the back roughly.
Coming to a stop one of the gunmen looks to the original attacker, "Sir, we've secured the captain." he tells his leader.
"Distress signal's disabled. We're running dark again." the man next to him stated.
"But they heard it. You can count on it." the captain stated.
The man who took off his helmet snorts in amusement, "I'll make you a deal. I won't tell you how to captain... And you don't tell me how to pirate." he stated before he clenched a fist and a large blade popped out from behind his wrist and was soon stabbed into the horrified captains stomach killing him, "Where's the rest of the crew?" the man demanded.
"Decided discretion was the better part of valor and sealed themselves up in the torpedo bay." the man who killed the crew stated.
"Our reputation precedes us." the man said.
"Your reputation. This is your win." he tells the captains murderer before he pulls out something from his vest; a long underwater combat knife, "Here."
The man snorts in amusement, "Can't take that piece of junk. It's the love of your life." he says as the man who held it out shook his head.
"I never told you the story behind it. This was your grandfather's. He was one of the Navy's first frogmen during World War II. He was so stealthy in the water, his unit nicknamed him Manta. But after the war, his country forgot about him. So, he went back to the sea, scavenging and surviving with his wit... And this knife. He gave it to me when I was your age. And now it's yours, son." he said, revealing their relationship as his son took the knife and pulled it out to look at the blade before replacing it. However, that's when something struck the bottom of the submarine causing the pirates to stumble.
"Did we just hit something?" the gunner asked.
"No. Something hit us." his son grunted as the sub was hit again.
"Sir, there's something out there." a member of the pirate crew stated as he looked at the underwater radar screen.
"Another submarine?" the older man asked.
"Uh... No. I think it's a man." the pirate said in confusion before the sub was suddenly shoved up towards the surface of the ocean they were trying to take from.
"That's not a man." the son said as the sub finally burst through the surface of the ocean. The breaching of the ocean surface caused the entire pirate crew to fall to the ground with cries of shock and panic before the ship finally settled in the water.
"Alpha, to the right. Bravo team, sweep the passageway." his father commanded into the communication line. The gunners rushed through the halls to the portholes and aimed at the entrances as heavy footsteps sounded on the submarine. However, they weren't prepared for the door to crash inwards and slam into them causing them to cry out and fall back to the ground as a large form jumped down into the vessel.
Several gunmen ran down the hall as they watched the man stand up to reveal large muscles covered in tattoos from the tip of his fingers to the full broad muscles of his back. He had ling shaggy dirty blond hair that was just past his shoulders in length. As he turned around he was revealed to have deep blue eyes that matched the color of the sea and a beard that covered his cheeks. He slightly turned and smirked at them as he spoke with a deep voice, "Permission to come aboard?" he questioned.
His response was heavy gunfire, but he didn't let it deter him as he simply continued to walk forward and rushed his attackers and slammed into them before he bashed one into the wall and kicked the other away from him. Stopping their assault, he grabbed one of the gunman and used him as a projectile, launching him down the hall into a third and forth gunner team. One hit the deck as another was struck, and as he fell the man who ducked pulled out a pistol and fired it at the man, only for him to feel shock as the bullet bounced off his skin.
The next team came from behind and he grabbed one by the face and bashed him back and forth between the two walls before he kicked him away and grabbed another and lifted him up and dropped to a knee and slammed his attacker down in the old fashioned backbreaker maneuver he had loved watching on wrestling. One of the attackers was shaking as he hid behind the door, breathing heavily. It was no surprise when the unknown assailant to the pirate crew simply snorted before he hit the door and knocked the man out without having to beat the shit out of him.
With the pirates out of the way for the time being, he left to find the crew; which wasn't all that hard. Reaching the barricaded door, he simply grabbed and turned the knob. Inside the locked room, the remaining crew watched in horror as the gigantic monkey wrench they used to seal the room bent and twisted before slowly falling off before the door slowly opened and revealed the man who had pushed them to the surface where they visibly relaxed.
"A-Aquaman!" one of the crew said elated and happy to see him.
"Hurry up and let's go. I'm missing happy hour for this shit." he told them in their native tongue as he led them to a hatch. The life rafts were quickly being deployed as the crew scrambled up and out of their vessel and into the boats to safety. However, the happy ending was so easily taken as gunfire filled the corridor once more, shooting one of the sailors in the arm and bounced off the man called Aquaman.
The unknown attacker shouted in anger as he ran down the hall firing lead and flame before Aquaman casually moved the sailor away from further harm and casually dropped down to a lower sub floor.
"Aquaman! I've waited a long time for this." his attacker said as he jumped down to reveal the pirate crew's leader's son grinning at him.
Aquaman looked confused as he sighed. "Am I supposed to know who you are?" he asked him. With a sigh, Aquaman evaded and blocked swipes of the man's swords before he stepped back and the pirate stabbed at him, only for the steel to hit his nigh impenetrable skin where it didn't even budge his flesh. With a grunt, Aquaman batted the man's hand out of the way and grabbed him and hurled him down the hall, "Or all pirates just eager to meet me?" he asked curiously.
The pirate laughed eagerly, "I scavenge the high seas. You're the man people call Aquaman. We were bound to meet at some point." he stated arrogantly.
Aquaman snorted and cringed, "Let's not make it a habit." he responded.
And then the attack was on again, swipe, parry, evade, grasp. Aquaman looked bored at this point as he toyed with his prey. He shattered the steel in his hand and then elbowed the pirate into a torpedo that knocked him on his ass.
Grabbing the pirate, Aquaman ripped him up off the floor and smashed him into the ceiling and then dropped him hard to the ground and repeated three times for extra before he stepped back. As he went to grab the man again he heard a cocking sound from behind and turned to see the man's father aiming his grenade launcher at him and pulling the trigger which released the explosive round and it impacted with enough force to cause the man to fly back and crash into the wall as the explosion enveloped him where he fell to the floor after a moment. Father and son looked between each other and the metahuman and grinned as they looked back at one another.
However, their celebration ended when the Aquaman looked up, "Pathetic", he grunted. He got up and wiped the dust from his body and began fixing his hair with his fingers. The shock for the two pirates was unequal as they watched the man stand up with no physical marking to his flesh other than the last flecks of soot covering him.
The father rushed to reload his launcher, but the Aquaman was already on his feet marching towards the elder man. He reached out and grabbed a pole and snorted as he said, "Hey ugly, catch!" and hurled the pipe into the man where it stabbed him in the shoulder causing him to cry out as he was pinned to the wall behind him.
"DAD!" the pirate he had previously beaten cried out.
"Dad?" the Aquaman asked in curiosity as pieces clicked together, "That's your son?" he asked, "You are the Shame of the Year." he told the pirate as he kicked the younger man in the head, stunning him before walking up to the older pirate and shook his head as he ripped the pipe out of the man's shoulder. The old man cried out as he fell to the floor and grabbed his injured arm with visible tears of pain, "You got yourselves into this mess, get out of it yourselves." he said as he made his way to the ladder.
"You bastard!" the dad called out in anger and pain as he fired his grenade at the Aquaman once again, only to miss and strike a wall that exploded and allowed copious amounts of water into the vessel. Unfortunately this also fucked the pirate over due to the fact that the water snapped a cable holding a torpedo up where it fell onto the man's leg crushing them under its weight.
"Well now you're just being stupid. Shooting a grenade at the wall of a submarine while a torpedo hangs in the air feet away, it's true, you can't fix stupid." Aquaman muttered.
The pirate's son looked on in horror, "Dad!" he cried out as he got up and ran over to the man and began to try and pick the weapon up, "Dad!" he cried out in panic and then looked to the metahuman, "Wait! Help me! He's trapped! You can't leave him like this! Please!" he pleaded.
Aquaman was angry as he spoke, "And what about the people you killed in this sub? They had families as well! Go and ask the sea for mercy." he said as he continued to climb the ladder. Standing on the sinking steel hull, he pushed the sailor into a boat and then leapt into the water and grabbed the buoys and sped off at incredible speeds "NO!" the pirate roared out in anger before turning to his father, "W-We can do this, we can save you!" he told his father.
"No, it's too late for me, you need to get out of here!" he told his son as he raised a device-a detonator switch.
"No, I'm not leaving you!" he told his father, the water now up to their waists.
"I won't be able to make it, find that sonuvabitch, and make him pay! Go!" he told his son, now neck deep in the water as he pushed his son towards the ladder, now submerged, his arm holding the device up in the air.
The pirate climbed up the ladder and jumped into the water and closed the hatch to his vessel and as the vessel finally left the surface world for the vast abyss beneath it, he swore his revenge. Soon after, a detonation sounded through the water.
Flash Forward to hours later, morning with the sun rising-
Seagulls cried as they circled the air, waves gently crashing against the shoreline. He stood at the end of the pier, as he swore to do every day until his wife's return. The sun had risen, and it was time for him to head back inside. The sound of feet landing on the wood caused him to pause as he went to turn around, "You know, you need to work better at being silent as you fly. I heard you for miles." he said.
Laughter filled the air, "Well, it's not as fun when you act all ninja and stuff." a male voice said as the man turned around, "I always know where to find you." the man known as Aquaman stated softly as he embraced his father, Minato Namikaze or Thor (Depending on his mood) but he simply knew him as dad.
"It's an old habit." he said before looking at his boy, "Have you been eating, you look a little thin?" he asked him.
His son laughed, "Yes, I have been eating, thank you. Come on, I'll buy some breakfast and you can tell me how things have been." his son said.
"That's my boy, come on let's drink till we drop!" he grinned at him.
"Come on! We are burning the morning light!" shouted Naruto as he had hopped in the truck behind the wheel to do the driving.
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A heavy mug of Guinness hit the bar as father and son ate breakfast. Aquaman gasped for air and sighed happily, "Ah, nothing like a good breakfast with some Guinness on the side." he said happily.
Minato laughed, "You definitely get that from your old man, I always did enjoy Guinness with morning meals whenever Happy Hour came around." he said.
"Of course I did, you taught me how to drink." he said grinning.
The television was showing the news, Russian soldiers explaining how they were saved and brought to shore, "A Russian submarine was hijacked late last night by high-tech pirates. The same pirates who are suspected in connection with the disappearance of the Navy's highly classified prototype stealth submarine. The culprits have not been captured and still remain at large. And a further development is that we now have unconfirmed reports that the metahuman dubbed by social media as "The Aquaman"was responsible for this daring rescue."
Minato, seeing that smirked as he turned to his son who responds with, "That's not me." he tells his dad.
"I am proud of you. You are using your gifts to help people, protect people." Minato spoke as he looks at his son with pride as he knows that his son is doing more than just sitting around and doing nothing.
"Huh?" is what he answered as he thought a whole different reaction from his father as he looked at his drink.
"You know what I mean, child. Vulko and I taught you well. Personally, I wish you would just choose to live a normal life, but that was never in the cards for you. You are using your abilities for all the right reasons."
His son gained a small frown, "Don't even start." he told his dad. Naruto pulled out some cash and placed it on the table as he walked outside.
"Son, wait."
"Dad, I don't need to hear it. I am not a hero, I am a warrior. Yes, I helped people. However, that's not my aim in my life. I don't know what I want from my life, but right now, I don't want to follow in your footsteps, nor my mother's."
"Besides, I would never want anything to do with her, not after what she did to us…"
"Naruto…"
"It's the truth, father. You and mom could have fought the world together, you both could have built out your own place in the world where you would never be bothered. Instead, Atlanna gave into fear, and got herself killed. Atlantis killed her."
"We don't know that…"
"Well, I do. They killed her because she loved you and had me. In the end, I hate her. She abandoned us to have another man's child and got herself killed…"
The clouds began to rumble as the ground began to shake slightly. Naruto could see lightning dance in the sky as his father was angry. And then, his father closed his eyes as he shook his head.
"Son, I am upset with your mother, and I have not forgotten her mistakes at all. Yet, she loved you with all her being. She sacrificed much to give birth to you. She returned to stop a war from happening. Would you have liked it if innocent people got caught in a bloody war?"
Naruto turned his head away. Even though he was a grown adult who could fly, manipulate lightning, and swim in the deepest, crushing pressures of the ocean, he could still not handle his father's scolding.
"And besides, I did not raise you to loathe your mother. She loved you and she loved me. She was one of the best things that ever happened to me, and if you have any respect for me at all, you will not disrespect her ever again, is that clear?"
"Yeah, whatever old man."
Minato approached his son and placed a hand on his head. Even though his son was taller than him in this form, he always could get through to him.
"Kid, one day, you must forgive yourself and stop blaming yourself for everything. You are the best part of me and your mother. If she were alive today, she would be very proud of you."
"I would like to think so too." Naruto spoke quietly.
Minato chuckled softly. If there was anything that was true, a man loved and respected his mother greatly.
"Now, since you have greatly decided to not be a superhero… for now… what is the plan?"
"Well, I do want to go out and see the world a little bit. Maybe I will go visit Mr. Kent and his family, maybe go to Gotham, or visit Wonder Woman, hell maybe find a publisher for the Icha Icha Series and get a cinematic universe started."
"Naruto…"
"Yeah, I know. First, get The Gutsy Ninja published and get that cinematic universe up and running first."
"Son, both those things are hard to do. Plus… I am not sure the Gutsy Ninja would ever sell well…"
"Nah, it will. Everyone needs that feel good story every now and then. Besides, Marvel and DC made cinematic universes, I am sure we can. All though, to be fair, DC is rebooting again after the previous management' disastrous attempt to do a cinematic universe, and fucking with Zack Snyder and his vision. Say what you will dad, but at least he had a story; a flawed story, but still a story. I am hoping James Gunn does a better job, but we will see."
"Son, I have no idea what you just said."
"Right, you are an old timer."
"I am not that old."
"Yeah, whatever you say, old man."
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"Hey, buddy. You that pool boy from the TV?"
"Oh, great." Their discussion was interrupted by a group of bikers.
"It's 'Aquaman.' What do you want?" he asked kindly, he may have been a dick, but he wasn't a total asshole.
"I'll tell you what I want." the leader of the small group said as he reached into his jacket pocket, and suddenly smiled as he pulled out his phone, "Could we get a picture with you?" he asked as the others nodded.
"You're like our local hero, man." another said grinning.
"It would mean a lot." a third man stated.
Aquaman sighed, "Just a quick... Whatever." he said, shaking his head.
"All right. Let's do this." the leader said, trying to wrap an arm around his shoulders.
"Don't touch me." Aquaman stated seriously.
"Right, that's exactly right. I'm gonna go down here. There we go. Everybody smile." the man said and snapped a series of pictures, though one could see that Aquaman was clearly uncomfortable by the situation. However, that soon changed when beers and Guinness were being exchanged and the pictures got a lot happier and hilarious as the Metahuman began drinking with the men.
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Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
David sat upon his sub on top of the ocean, holding his father's knife, a tear in his eye as he focused on the happy memories of his father. And now, he was filled with rage and anger. He had a new target, the Aquaman.
Unfortunately, he was too weak to fight him. He could not defeat him, not the way he was right now. He turned his head to see the ocean parting slightly in front of him, as a large vessel appeared. A holographic image appeared, as soldiers emerged from the vessel.
David then saw the image formed into the face of the man who hired him, an Atlantean Prince of royal blood named Orm Marius.
"I have to admit, you did a good job. Your small attacks that I have asked you to orchestrate near my borders are starting to have an impact. The people of Atlantis are starting to listen. Very soon, I will have what I have always wanted."
"I don't care about any of that. One of your kind intervened…"
David noticed the man's face twist in cold, silent fury; it was a fury they both unwittingly shared. And then the man simply composed himself.
"He… is not one of us."
"He murdered my father! I want blood."
"My condolences for your loss. However, that is none of my concern. Here is our payment. I will call on you when I need you."
"Wait… I don't want this gold, I want the Aquaman."
The holographic image disappeared as the soldiers went back into their vessel and disappeared beneath the sea. As for David, the fires of vengeance were burning in his body. He would have his revenge, one way or the other.
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Chapter End
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