Arcane: Crime Always Pays

(WARNING Potentially dark WARNING)

Meaningless! huh? What do you know of meaningless. I was snatched from my mother's arms and sold into slavery. From since I learnt to walk all I've known is hell, circus freak, monster, beast I played the role, became their entertainment, but then the kindness of a little blue haired human incidentally reminded me of who I was… I am Uzumaki Naruto, I am Naruto of the Vesani and I will never be caged again!

001: Don't Play With Misfit Toys

The Last Drop, a club filled with drunk patrons, rage and malignant ambition simmered under burning desire for payback against the Topsiders, the so-called City of Progress. In the back rooms away from the discontent stood a man in a blue uniform with a woman standing behind him nearer to the only safe exit.

"I know you wouldn't risk being here without bringing something good to my attention." A smooth voice came out from behind the desk were the man in charge sat.

"… Silco this ain't an easy fix…" the man in blue flinched when he noticed movement behind him as he heard the footsteps of the boss's number two goon. 'Sevika,' stepped forward still her metallic arm bumped shoulders with the Chief Inspector.

"I am in no mood for excuses…. My people will go to war over this so now I need a name or a body."

The topsider began to shale and sweat as his heart raced. "L-Li-Lionel Ho-Hoskel." He finally stammered out.

The boss's eyes widened slightly at the last name. "Sevika remind me again Hoskel, that's the name of a good Ol' councilman."

"Lionel is the nephew. He a frequent flier at Babette's place." Sevika grunted a response before stepping away from the corrupt cop.

"Ahhh that certainly explains your apprehension, Sevika make sure that Sheriff Marcus gets back to Topside in one piece."

"Got it boss."

"Silco," Marcus said as he was expecting some kind of reward as normal.

"Oh, don't worry I have donated this month's bribe to the family's those daughters belong too."

"You can't kill a council members family that will bring too much heat, let the law handle it." Marcus tried to explain.

"Our business is concluded for today." Silco said simple before turning in his chair to face out of the massive window behind.

Marcus huffed before turning on his feet and leaving before being followed by Sevika.

Silco now somewhat alone pulled out a cigar and set of matches.

A couple of scratches later smoke began to fill the air of the office.

"You got the name…" Silco spoke after a few drags on the cigar. "I want you two to handle it."

"We got it." A younger more teenage voice spoke from the rafters.

Silco looked up to see a blue haired girl, not the same girl he found outside of his wrecked old base the night Vander died. "Jinx.." Silco addressed as he glanced at the beam across from the girl lay a large orange fox with a singular tail drooping off the side. "Naruto."

"With the Hexgates going online a few months back, and the Hoskel's trading with Noxian's there is no telling if that punk will see the inside of any type of cell."

The fox leapt from the beam and began to glow orange before its form shifted and transformed into a humanoid with tan-skin blonde hair with cerulean eyes. there is whisker like marks on his cheeks as he stood at 5'10 with a singular swishing slowly behind him.

Jinx landed shortly after crouching on the desk before their father figure and boss.

"You want him brought here?" Naruto asked as he closed his eyes. his mind flashed to the kids that tried selling scrap metal to business in the undercity.

"They were 11 and 10…" Silco began before pausing and staring at both Jinx and Naruto. "I want a corpse."

Jinx giggled to herself before glancing at her partner. A shiver went up her spine as she felt the murderous intent flowing off her foxy companion.

'Mine…' was the only thing that crossed her mind whenever she looked at him even if he didn't know it yet.

A shared single thought passed through their minds.

'For Nessie and Rachel.'

The moon was full, and the stars shone brightly through a cloudless veil.

On this cloudless night a drunk man stumbled home away from his guards and peers. He needed to cool his head before he went home to his wife. 'Uncle is sending me to trade with those damn Noxians again.' He thought bitterly. "So, what those Undercity plebs are in uproar they should be grateful they had any remains to even bury." He muttered to himself in a twisted drunken spiel to himself. "They are just toys for my amusement, bunch of misfits the lot of them." He spat as he stumbled around another corner.

As he walked pasted a dark alley there was a crash down into the darkness causing the drunk man to halt his journey and turn towards the dark alley.

'Gah probably nothing.' He thought to himself as he continued his way.

What he missed as he turned were two smouldering crimson eyes, before an orange paw stepped out the darkness.

The man began to walk a bit further before he glanced behind only to see nothing. His eyes scanned the path he had just walked before continuing his way.

'Something is following me.' He thought as he just had an ominous feeling draping over him like a cold sweat.

The man began to pick up the pace, but the feeling got worse. Overwhelmingly so to the point the noble began to jog before breaking into a full-fledged panic run. And in his bid to lose whatever was coming for him he took several wrong turns and ended up in a dead-end.

A dead-end covered in graffiti a green fox and orange monkey covered the walls along a beautiful pink tribute to those Undercity girls.

'No! what the hell is this!" He shouted in panic a flash of colour from behind him caught his attention as two people stood their blocking his escape.

A short girl with long braided blue hair and in contrast her partner was around his height both looked young and poor.

"What games are you, undercity trash playing!" he snarled with false bravado.

Jinx snickered to herself as she could the see the man's knees shaking from the steady level of killing intent Naruto was leaking. 'Keep em edgy and under pressure, Silco taught us that one.'

Naruto took a step forward so that he was standing next to Jinx in the light his blue narrowed and focused, his blonde hair revealed.

The noble took one look at the pair and drew a sword like he was a knight of old. Drunkenly struggling to draw his blade from its scabbard.

"This kinda sad." Naruto muttered to which Jinx nodded as they watched as their prey finally drew his weapon.

"You got this or should I?" Jinx asked simply as she span a pistol in one hand and played catch with a grenade in the other.

"Chem, tech, mutant?" Naruto offered because he really wanted to kill this guy.

Jinx thought for a moment before nodding and aimed her pistol at the overeager man from charging them as he just tried to do.

"Wait your turn, can't you see we're busy." Jinx snapped as she holstered the grenade and made a fist matching the blondes.

"Chem, tech, mutant." They said together.

Both looked down at each other's fist.

Jinx pouted while Naruto smirked.

"Mutant absorbs chem." Naruto said with smile as he returned his focus to their prey. "Oh, he fancies himself a swordsman does?"

"You mock but the royal house of Hoskel, trained formally by some of the best sword master's since the age of 13." Lionel boasted. "Now then why don't you two run along, I'm not into boys and you girly are just too old for my tastes.

The gross leer that followed was the final signature on Lionel's death warrant.

"Naru…."

"Yeah…"

"Make it hurt."

"You say that like I wasn't going to before." Naruto said as he reached for a handle poking over his shoulder drawing rusty single edged greatsword with a homemade guard which included some kind of lever sticking slightly off the handle.

Glancing from the tailed boys trash heap weapon compared to his own steel made the drunkard feel powerful.

What Lionel didn't notice was the light bolts of harmless purple electricity coming off the blade. Jinx did though.

'Being born with magic must be neat.' She idly thought.

"If that's the best you got you street rats should never tried this stunt." He shouted as he began charging at the blonde. "And maybe when I'm through with your freaky boyfriend I'll send you back to the fissures in pieces."

Jinx didn't even move as blood splattered the surroundings including herself.

The clang of metal followed by Lionel Hoskel dropping to his knees between the bluenette and the blonde.

Naruto swung his sword flinging the nobles blood across the alley.

Lionel tried to speak but nothing, but a bloody gurgle came out as he tried to reach for his throat to stop the blood flow. In his panic he looked for his sword and reached out with his free hand only to realise a horrible truth.

'Is that my hand…' he thought as he spotted his right hand clutching the sword before he looked towards his bloody stump of a wrist. 'I can't stand either, but I didn't even see him move.'

Jinx whistled. "Three slashes, you're not getting slow are ya?" she taunted, as she looked the bisected sword arm, the sliced Achilles and the slashed across the throat.

"You said make it hurt… this makes it hurt." Naruto argued back as they prey simultaneously bled out and choked on his own blood. "We taking the head back?"

"Nah this is a big enough name he will just have to take our word for it."

Naruto shrugged before holstering his rusty and chipped sword, hearing the familiar sound of static of his blade magnetising to his jacket and sticking.

"What did call Nessa and Rachel… misfit toys made to be broken, well maybe this is a lesson, don't fuck with Misfit Toys from Zaun." Jinx said as she squatted before Lionel and smirked an evil grin his way. "Your kind would never even make it our world." She paid before planting a chattering wind-up toy with several explosives rigged to it and placed before the man.

Naruto turned and scooped Jinx into his arms before he used his powerful legs to leap to a nearby roof top.

And began their return to the Undercity before the alley way erupted in ball of smoke and fire.

"I bet you its going to be some sort of gas explosion." Jinx suggested as she looked over the blonde's shoulder as her arms were draped loosely around his neck as Naruto held her in a bridal carry as she looked at the flames they had left in their wake.

"Nah it will be suicide. Especially if the art show survived."

As the pair made they return to the Fissures Naruto with Jinx in his arms as she refused to let go and just cackled and kicked her legs wildly as he flipped onto a set of power lines and began skidding along his feet discharging the electricity that would have killed him and Jinx if not for his innate magic.

The sparks that trailed behind the blonde lit up the streets below before he hopped off and landed in another alley before he saw an old flier on display. 'They are still in business?'

The display was of Drumstand Circus and the emblem a man stamping on a bull's head pinning it beneath his heel.

A flaming whip cracked.

A small orange kit yipped hopped to the side and snarled at the owner of the flaming whip.

"You will obey!' and the whip cracked even faster than before.

Naruto shook his head free of the memory but still sneered at the poster before continuing on his journey back to the slums.

'But then again if it weren't for them I would have never met you…' he thought aloud as he glanced at the girl in his arms.

"You say something foxy?"

'shit did I say that out loud.' Naruto thought before looking down at Jinx. "Not a thing just muttering to myself, you know I hate coming topside."

"Ain't that the truth." Jinx said before yawning obnoxiously and tightening her grip around the blonde "Wake me when we reach."

"Got it." Naruto responded as he leapt off the last building his one tail shifted to nine and as he got closer to the ground they reached out and grabbed on to several railings with his tails to steady himself and ease the landing.

As he landed his tails immediately shifted back to one bushy tail he was off once more towards their own route between the Fissures and Piltover

His ears twitched to the sirens in the distance. 'Those are from the fire department which means we in the clear..' Naruto thought as he continued his descent back home.

Five days had passed the Topsiders didn't want retribution, so no more threats were made by either side.

Stillwater Hold erupted in cheers from many of the prisoners who originated from Zaun. When they heard the news of a closed casket funeral for a noble, they put two and two together. A near-riot had broken out when they learned of the deaths of the two girls, but peace had been placed back on the table. And when peace returned, so did the money.

Smoke and polluted air filled the shack of a den. Alcohol and the stench of unwashed patrons permeated the gambling hall, a place that had survived two Piltover purges. Inside the rotting shack of the Chemist's Gambit, Naruto sat surrounded by other players. They all sat around a table piled high with jewels, gems, cash, and various pieces of tech others were willing to wager.

He glanced down at a small piece made up of several gears. 'Apparently Jinx needs that for one of her projects,' he thought. The blonde looked at everyone one last time before slamming his cards down. The table erupted in a mix of sighs and groans as the other players either cursed their luck or stared on in defeat. Smirking, Naruto reached over to collect his winnings from the middle of the table.

A knife suddenly drove into the table right by his hand.

"Well, that's just uncalled for," Naruto said calmly.

"You're a cheater," the man accused.

Naruto's gaze hardened. "I've got no idea what you're on about, friend." Behind his smile, he began leaking killing intent, making the patrons around him shift uncomfortably.

The whispers grew louder as Naruto prepared to stand. Before he could rise, however, another hand grasped the taller man's shoulder, forcing him back into his seat.

Naruto's eyes caught the gleam of metal, and he smirked. The owner of the arm stepped forward and slammed the accuser's face against the table.

"Sevika?! Why ain't you with the Old Man?" Naruto asked.

"Looking for you. The Boss has a matter he wants to discuss," she replied.

"Got it." Naruto swept his winnings into a mid-sized sack before leaving the table, walking away from the stunned patrons, the accuser, and Silco's next favourite after Jinx and himself.

The accuser tried to rise, but Sevika scowled and gripped his shoulders again, this time smashing his entire face through the cheap poker table.

"But that brat ain't a liar." She snarked before stepping over the smashed table and body.

As Sevika exited the building she saw the blonde in the distance, and she remembered to when they found the furball and the Jinx on that night. "Bastard nearly bit Silco's hand off for getting too close to the bluenettes." She muttered with a grin as her eyes never left the blondes back.

The End

Next chapter:

Tortured Souls or Kindred Spirits

A.N.

Thoughts ?

Naruto had a very different upbringing than most but so many also.

Now i i have another arcane story in the LOL xover section... but things have changed back then i watched the first two episodes and then something bad happened irl and I hadn't returned to it till this week so just finished S1 now looking to start s2 real soon.

Naruto cannot generate electricity thought I should let you know

he has natural mana but his magic has kinda adapted to his environment... In a city metal who is KING...

Naruto will have limitations in his magic mainly because he has no 1 to teach/guide him (Thats for balance especially during season 1 at least)

Lionel Hoskel is an OC made up for the chapter, and is literally a throw away villain.

Timeline wise its around this chapter is around 4 years after Vi gets locked up so that makes Jinx 15 and Naruto has just turned 17

Next chapter we will be having the meeting between Powder and Naruto for the first time.

Also Naruto may have some anger management to work out while not a volatile as Jinx he can be explosive in similar self destructive and straight destructive ways.

Anyways hope y'all enjoy and

Stay Chilling Y'all