A/N: Listen y'all, I get it, Naruto should be just as strong as Homelander if not more so, but I really don't care because that wouldn't make for a good story now would it? If Naruto could just kill Homelander, why write the story? Think of Homelander like Frieza, he never bothered to train because he was naturally so strong but when he did start training, he was wiping the floor with Ultra Instinct Goku and Ultra Ego Vegeta with a one shot.
Think of my version Homelander as closer to a Superboy level of strength where he can lift planes and throw cars and lift bridges, but he also very clearly has a cap on his strength, we just don't ever really get there because he's never really challenged.
This Naruto never got the Sage of Six Path boost, can no longer access Sage Mode like he did in his home world. He's closer to peek Batman without any chakra enhancement, which if you don't know is 2000 pound bench presses and 2500 pound leg presses. Naruto is super human by himself, adding in chakra is like a 100 time multiplier, then Kurama is like a 10000000000 times multiplier.
Also, I don't know how to break it to you guys, but Naruto has and always will be kind of stupid, bro was a sped kid in remedial classes for like 6 years. He's overly trusting, naive, and while can be serious is generally not that serious, especially when you consider that he never became Hokage other than his superhero name, he never had kids, he never got married. Naruto has no reason to grow up mentally outside of personal desire and my bro went on a 3 year training trip and came back with no new skills, he kind of an idiot.
"North Korea has launched a series of missiles at the coast of California" was the news report
Naruto was unsure of what to do, he charged up his Rasenshuriken and launched it at the series of missiles while they were still several miles high, destroying them in the process, missing the US Flag caped figure in the middle of the lot, pushing the missiles away from hitting America.
The compounding explosion was enough to shake the world as the sky was lit up with an array of orange and red, massive clouds of angry gray clouds filling the air as heat washed over Naruto, reminding him of when Madara had breathed fire against him.
The hair on his hands stood on end and dropping down from the sky was a naked Homelander, his eyes locked in on Naruto and his hands over his junk
"You gotta be a little more careful buddy, someone could have gotten hurt" said Homelander before he flew off.
The photo of his ass cheeks would make the front page of basically every newspaper the next morning.
But Naruto was more in awe that he had survived one of his strongest attacks with ease, his clothes were gone but Naruto didn't see a scratch on the man.
A full year had passed since the last Christmas party and Naruto had managed to find himself back at another one. But this type is wasn't as the leader of the Young Americans hero group, but as the permanent Alternate of the 7.
Naruto had managed to pick up quite a few things over the past year, these so called 'heroes' were way more human than they ever managed to let one.
A-Train was the fastest man in the world, but he was also lazy and selfish. He looked out for himself more than anyone else, which was not the leading trait you wanted for a hero.
The Deep was someone that Naruto hated with a burning passion, the man used his fame, reasonable good looks, and influence to pressure women into sleeping with him against their will. It was fucking pathetic and Naruto knew that he was the first one that had to go.
Translucent was another one, a drug using selfish asshole who liked to be invisible and eavesdrop on other people's conversations. But Naruto could get the general feel of his presence ever time without his Sharingan and with his Sharingan, he could just see him.
Black Noir was interesting because his name meant Black Black but nobody ever brought it up despite it being kind of stupid. But he was the silent and deadly type of guy. He was stealthy and efficient, he reminded Naruto of the Anbu back in his home world. He was probably the best of the 7, because he just did his job and then went home.
Queen Maeve as she was called was very somber a lot of the time, she was quite the drinker and Naruto had taken her up on several of her offers to go out for drinks together. She reminded him of Tsunade a bit, she was a sad miserable lady trying to drown her problems with alcohol. She was a fairly passionate hero, doing her best and things tended to work out for her when Homelander wasn't around.
Lamplighter was an okay guy if you liked a guy who really liked to burn things. Naruto didn't hang out with him all that much, the man seemed like he was just one bad day from ending it all.
Lastly was the leader of the 7, Homelander. He was stronger than Naruto had originally thought. He had survived the missiles exploding and the Rasenshuriken without much worry. He was fast, had excellent hearing, laser vision. He was a complete package of heroism, if it wasn't a shallow wall made to cover up the control freak banging against the glass from the inside. Whenever they worked together, Naruto got the feeling that Homelander didn't like him, but respected his power set. His clones, his speed, his strength, his Sharingan on the rare occasion he used it.
Homelander liked what he could do, he openly praised it, but he didn't seem to like Naruto all that much. Was it because they both fit the same profile? Blond haired blue eyed men with impressive bodies. Women loved them, men wanted to be them.
Naruto wasn't scared of Homelander physically, he's was absolutely sure that if he were to power up to his max, he could take him. But then the thing was Homelander was seemingly always as strong as he needed to be. What if Naruto powered up and Homelander just rose to the occasion?
Pushing those thoughts to the side, Naruto looked over at the Vought employee he spent the most time with, walking over to stand by her at the base of the stairs.
Rebecca Butcher was an angel as far as Naruto was concerned. She was really the entire reason that he was in the position that he was.
"You need to smile more" she said softly out of the corner and Naruto immediately plastered a sloppy grin on his face.
"Just like that" she said as the flash of the cameras washed over them.
"Aye love, the line for the drinks was longer than the line to see the Queen" said a handsome man with a cleanly shaved face, wind swept haired, a classic black suit.
"Naruto, this is my husband, Billy Butcher" said Rebecca introducing Naruto to this newcomer.
"Oh nice to meet you man" said Naruto as he extended his hand and shook Billy's hand.
"You don't seem nearly as uptight as half of these Gits" said Billy
"Huh?" said Naruto as he mentally tried to piece together what Billy had just said.
"Ignore him, he's tragically British" said Rebecca
"Oh come off it, the birds love the accent" said Billy with a chuckle
"Birds? I am a little lost" admitted Naruto and Rebecca just sighed as she buried her face into her hands.
"You seem like an okay bloke, are you part of the 7?" asked Billy
"Something like that, whenever they need an extra hand or just want to see what different groupings work together, they send me out" answered Naruto
"But not for long" said Becca with a wide smile
"Oh you know something that I don't?" asked Naruto
"A lot of things, like how to work a cellphone" retorted Becca, "But on January 1st, 2012, Lamplight is stepping down to make room for The Hokage to ascend to take his place as one of the 7"
It was only the fact that they were in public that kept Naruto from cheering loudly in excitement
"Are you kidding me?" asked Naruto
"No, I would never joke about this" said Becca, "We've already starting working on the whole campaign about you joining the 7 behind the scenes and are working on how to begin the roll out with your own Vought Docu-Series on Teen Vought"
Billy was taken back by how excited his wife was about her job, but then again, he didn't work with superheroes. That had to be why he was missing the joy that Becca was feeling for this blond man before them.
But then he saw him, dressed in his costume like fucking twat, but if what Billy had heard about the bloke was true, then it was probably due to his less than proper upbringing.
Homelander walked over and Billy noticed the smile was quick to leave Naruto's face. He didn't like the man all that much and he seemed alright, but then again they could both be tossers.
"Rebecca Butcher, congrats on getting the bump up to the Senior Director of Digital Marketing position" greeted Homelander, the large lip stretching smile that never reached his eyes appearing on his face.
He shook her hand, pulling her into a brief hug before he looked at Naruto and said "Hokage, it's good to see you again. Word through the grape vine is that you're getting that bump up to the 7 soon. Don't start fucking slacking off now, you wouldn't want to rest on your reputation"
Both Billy and Naruto had heard the sharp edge of which he had said the first part of his last line, it was a sly sneaky wording and it was probably greatly helped by the fact that if you weren't used to combat situations, you didn't know a casual threat when you heard one.
"And you must be the lucky man to which Mrs. Butcher goes home to" said Homelander as he turned to Billy
"Correct, name is William Butcher mate" said Billy as he extended his hand and shook Homelander's gloved hands.
That is so fucking stupid, why on God's green Earth would this cunt wear gloves all of the time.
Billy couldn't help himself from thinking those words, but Homelander just shook his hands before releasing his hand and turning back to his wife. The fucking wanker of self build ego.
"I love what you did with Hokage's social media. He started off with basically nothing and over the last 3 to 4 months, you've gotten him up to the same level as the rest of us and if I remember correctly, you did some good work on my twitter page the other day as well" complimented Homelander, "If you ever happen to have any free time in the next coming days, I would love to schedule a meeting and go over some ideas with you"
"Oh yeah that would be great, I think we have been getting some questions about your cape from fans and I would like to help launch the campaign for the line of children capes that we hope to launch in the summer" replied Becca
"Great ... I gotta go, Maeve is waving me over" said Homelander as he pointed at the girl that was stuck in a public relationship with him.
"Don't worry, you wouldn't see too much of him around, Billy" said Naruto
"Why do you say that?" asked Billy
"Because he's Homelander, he's in every commercial, he's on every show, he's in every city. He's the face of Vought, he's hardily ever free to do anything like hang out" said Becca as she answered for Naruto
"Tell me Billy, do you like to drink?" asked Naruto, "I have invested in a bar and would like someone other than myself to give it whirl before we open"
"You're speaking my language now mate, you might be aight after all" said Billy as the two of them exchanged numbers.
January 2nd, 2012: Naruto's bar - Konoha
"This is a nice spot ya got, might have to come back once you open the joint up mate" said Billy as he looked around the stylish Brooklyn based bar.
"I'm glad that you like it, you're the first one to ever come here. Believe it or not, being a hero plays a shit ton more than I ever thought that it would" said Naruto, "That's how I managed to buy this place. 1.6 million for the building and another 600k for the licenses and permits. Not even counting payroll or hiring people either"
"Bugger" commented Billy as he grabbed the mug of beer and sipped it. All beer tasted like piss to him, so this one being not nasty and rather smooth was a surprise.
"What the fuck is this mate?" asked Billy
"Oh, that's something I learned how to make back home" said Naruto as Billy drank the watered down version of the Toad Sake that he learned how to make when he was learning Sage Mode. It felt nice to bring a piece of his home here.
Oi what am I?
I've been with you since before you were even born
"Yeah but neither of you are physical things that I can touch" thought Naruto
I will turn a city into a fucking glass floor right now, it would be so easy to do it as well
Naruto cut the connection to the voices in his head and focused on his new friend Billy.
"Okay, so I gotta ask, is that Homelander guy all there?" asked Billy
"Eh, he's eccentric and he has a lot of responsibility and media pressure on his shoulders. So he has to be perfect every second of every day, but I think he's good at being a hero and for the most part, is a decent guy" answered Naruto
"Then why don't you like him?" asked Billy
"What makes you think that I don't like him?" asked Naruto
"That smile left your face faster than the Queen's when you ask her about Diana" said Billy
"I get the feeling that he doesn't like me" admitted Naruto, "We both have the same target audience and I wounder if he thinks that I want to step in on his demographic. That is how we keep things going around here, you have to play your part and play it well, it's part of being a team"
"Oh look at you mate, all in and drinking the kool-aid like some kind of superhero puppet" said Billy, "You've been in the 7 for one day, don't go all corporate on me already"
"Being a team is actually really big for me, if you don't care about your team, then what are you doing?" asked Naruto
"Getting the job done mate, the Royal Marines don't give two squirts of piss about each other, the most important thing is the mission. Always has been and always will be, that's how business is taken care of" replied Billy
"Then why did you leave them? If you didn't care about your fellow marines, you wouldn't have left" challenged Naruto
"You got it all wrong mate, I loved the danger and thrill of the job, but the pay was absolute piss" joked Billy
"To jobs being too much work" said Naruto as they clicked beer mugs and downed the liquid
February 1st, 2012: Rebecca Butcher's funeral at the funeral home
Naruto stood there in his all black suit, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the picture of Rebecca Butcher that they had used for her service. There was no body to bury, there was nothing saying that she was dead. She was simply gone, she had disappeared off the face of the world and nobody knew anything.
Per Billy, she had simply gone in to work one day and then had never made it to work, had never returned home. Nobody knows where she went, nobody knows what happened to her.
And it hurt, Naruto had come to care for the lady that he worked with basically every day of his life. It hurt him this much and he wasn't the one that loved her to the level of Billy.
Speaking of Billy, he was absent and Naruto knew it was because this simply hurt too much for him to bare.
His phone vibrated in his pocket and he fished it out of his pocket to see that it was in fact Billy calling him. Naruto immediately swiped across the screen to answer the phone and put it up to his right ear.
"Where the fuck are you?" hissed Naruto as he made his way to the back of the room to take the call.
"I ... I had questions about why ... why my Becca would kill herself as they keep trying to say" admitted Billy, "And I managed to uncover some things that tell a different story"
"What?" asked Naruto, "What did you find?"
"I can't share it with you right now because I don't believe this line is secure" said Billy, "but meet me at the place where we shared drinks"
Later that day:
Naruto opened his bar door and Butcher was sitting there at the counter and he looked at Naruto before sipping on his beer slowly, "Took ya bloody long enough"
"I had to stay for the service, you know the place that you should have been" retorted Naruto
Butcher slapped the counter, pointing at the files that Naruto hadn't noticed before. Was this why he didn't show up to the service.
"What did you find Billy?" asked Naruto
"I found an account of one of the older heroes that publicly went against Vought and was given the shaft" said Billy as he handed Naruto the files, "This was back in the 1980's, the teenager's journal"
"I decided to go for a walk, the cool weather something that deserved to be enjoyed. Leaving my bookbag on the hook by the door, I walked back outside and enjoyed the cool wind blowing on my face.
I started walking aimlessly, but quickly redirected myself to walk to the park several blocks over.
I walked in silence, nothing but my own anger and thoughts. Mago was fucking prick for mastering my branch of magic so easily. I have never once thought about stepping on his feet and learning any of the family battle magic.
I rounded the corner and was able to walk through the grass when I heard a faint noise, a baby crying or a woman screaming. I couldn't make it out from this distance so I crossed the street and walked towards the lone alleyway on the block.
"HELP ME!" screamed a woman, no a young adult maybe even a teenager. The voice belonged to someone who sounded closer to my age than twenty.
I sped walked closer to the opening of the alley and saw two men and a long female. Pumping magic through my eyes I was able to see through the darkness that covered them. One of them had his pants lowered, his briefs also lowered exposing his tan member to the alley and the world. The other was holding the girl's hands above her head, her legs being forced open by the man between them. The girl wore one of the skirts from my school, meaning she was somewhere from fourteen to eighteen max. Her skirt was pulled up and her underwear was ripped off of her, it was on the ground not too far from them.
The man started to push forward and the girl cried out and I realized what I was about to witness if I didn't do something.
"HEY!" I shouted before I had a plan or anything "What the fuck are y'all doing over here?"
"What's it look like kid, having a bit of fun" chuckled one of the men
"It doesn't look all that fun for her" I said
"She's a whore, her opinion doesn't matter. Tell you what kid, I'll let you go first" said the second man
I pretended to muse it over "Sure"
I thought back to what my dad always said, think cold and fast.
"Alright kid" cheered on the first man "But hurry up"
"Alright" I said before I lifted my right hand up and shot out a massive hand of ice that slammed into the first man, wrapping around his lower half. Making sure to freeze his exposed genitals, I tightened the grip on him before I point my left hand at the other man and another hand of ice shot out smash his head into the wall.
Allowed the knocked out man to fall to the ground, I focused on the would be rapist. Not many things in this world disgust me, but this man certainly did for his most vile actions and intentions.
"Give me one reason that I don't just kill you" I hissed as my eyes took on the same icy light blue as the hand made of ice that was coming out of my hand.
"P ... please ... have ... mercy" pleaded the man
"I will show you the same amount of mercy that you showed this woman" I replied before released him from the ice hand onto the ground.
But before he could smile in relief, I used the ice hand to grab his softened member and rip it off, the blood squirting out into the alleyway.
Flicking the man backwards, I allowed the ice hands to fade from existence and turned back to the woman.
"You are free to leave" I said as I softened my expression as I realized the girl was probably horrified from what almost happened to her and what she just saw.
"Who are you?" asked the young lady as she straightened her skirt and re-buttoned her shirt.
I paused, this was really my best chance to pick my own nickname. I didn't want to stuck a shitty one like Mom or Dad.
"You can call me Chaos the Wiz" I said before i turn and walk out the alley, making sure that the young lady left as well.
The day ruined, I decided to head back home. The walk back home takes longer, as I drag my feet. I arrive back home nearly forty-five minutes later. Apparently, just in time for the 5 PM news.
"Today marks the start of a new generation of potentials heroes and villains. Just today, a teenager by the name of The Chaos Boy or something similar raped a young lady and killed two men in cold blood. He was seen using ice based abilities and is thought of to be extremely dangerous." said the News Anchor
I couldn't believe my eyes, I saved a young lady and here I am the villain. Actually, here I am the villain. I love it"
Naruto frowned as he read the personal account of the cover up job of Vought and then Billy pulled out his phone and clicked play on the video on the phone.
Naruto felt his blood chill as he watched Homelander usher Rebecca into a room and then hours later, she stumbled out with sloppily put on clothes.
"Billy, she would never cheat on you" started Naruto, "She loved you s-"
"I know mate, it wasn't her that is the concern in the video, it was Homelander" replied Billy
The light bulb went off in Naruto head and he growled "I'm going to fucking kill him"
"And i'm going to be right by your side mate" said Billy
Naruto nodded, John Homelander was a fucking dead man, his days were numbered and limited, he just didn't know about them yet.
A/N: Ok that's all i got for yall today.
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