Here's the next one hope everyone enjoys it and loved the cliffhanger from the last chapter, also I figured that I couldn't really leave this as a cliffhanger just yet. lol

A Maelstrom's Venture

Chapter 30

Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel

Venture Compound

Brock POV

Right now everything was confusing, the last thing I saw was the car exploding, now everyone is running around, what's going on? Wait, wasn't Naruto, the soldier was in my face, shouting for a medic, why what was happening, I could see Hank was in shock looking at me, no, wait, the boy was looking next to me.

So I turned my head and before I could fully blackout, laying next to me was Naruto, I could tell it was him due to his blond spiky hair, though something wasn't right, the skin to his lower jaw was missing, the only thing that I could see was his bone, his jaw bone to be accurate. (A.N. Look up Headpool for a more accurate description.)

Though as my eyes closed, I noticed something, Naruto wasn't breathing, but how can that be, he has a healing factor, but just as my eyes fully closed, I saw below Naruto's head, his body was gone, but then that would mean-

Third Person

Brock's eyes closed by then, the only time he regained consciousness was when the doctors were performing surgery on him to remove the shrapnel in him, though he blacked out again.

Few Weeks Later

Brock suddenly woke up, grasping his chest in pain, "Wait, wait, what happened." Though before he could think he made his way out of his chamber, managing to grab a doctor and questioned him about what had happened to himself, with the man answering the best he can.

Suddenly a sharp pain ran through his head, "N-Naruto, what happened to Naruto!?" He questioned, causing the doctor to wince, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SON!?" He yelled, becoming both terrified and enraged at what was happening.

"Oh Samson, I-I am sorry, I'm so very sorry." Brock lets the doctor go in horror, "H-He was caught in that blast that nearly ended your life, a-all that was left of him was a head, even that was missing half its skin." The doctor explained, with the man falling to his knees.

"And, his head, what happened to it." He needed to know, since he didn't want these jackals trying to clone or copy Naruto's healing to someone else.

The doctor held his hands up, "The Ventures have him, they gave him a proper burial and a decent send off, a lot of people were there, mostly women, hell, even the Monarch's wife was there in tears, she blamed herself for the whole thing, it was a pretty upsetting sight." The doctor explained, with Brock smiling that Naruto was as much of a "player" as he was, but by the sounds of it, the women really did care about him to visit his funeral.

Suddenly Brock's chest exploded in pain, ripping the bandages off only for the shrapnel to be Helper's head, with it being embedded in the man's chest due to the explosion, with that, he jumped out of the O.S.I. helicarrier and landed on a jetpack, escaping from the area with Helper in his chest.

Venture Compound

Brock soon made his move after watching the O.S.I. grunts leaving the area, though he complained about Helper's non stop "chattering" as he exited his hiding place, though before he entered the compound for one last thing, he saw something close by, though he suddenly knew what it was.

Helper began to chat again, wanting to return home, "Huh, yeah, yeah I know, before we send you back we just gotta do a few things first, this being one of them."

Brock makes his way to the sight, there, before his eyes was something he thought he'd never see, "H-Hey Naruto, it's good to s-see you." He states, for standing before him was Naruto's grave, with Brock, and Helper, paying their respects to him, with tears escaping the father's eyes.

"(Snap!)"

Only for a twig to catch his attention, though as he turns around to attack, he noticed that it was Brok, with the blue skinned dwarf coming out of hiding, "I'm gonna miss that little shit, he was always fun to banter with." Brok simply stated, upset that his friend had died, "(Chuckle!) I can still remember the little asshole calling me an old bastard for interrupting his time with Triana."

Hearing this caused Brock to smile, knowing such a thing was amusing, "H-How did Triana take it." Brock couldn't help but ask.

"(Sigh!) S-She took it as bad as anyone else would Brock, took a while for Freya to get her out of her funk, with permission for Orpheus of course, the lass started her training hard in Freya's lessons, with the woman taking the girl on a trip through the Realms, both for training and, well, you know..." Brok replied, having no need to fully answered the question.

With Brock nodding his head in understanding, "We also took the axe to our house, wouldn't want some idiot trying anything with it, hell didn't want your boys trying to play with it either." Brok finishes, getting an understanding nod from the man.

"No one is worthy to use THAT weapon but my son, if anything I'd want it to be buried with him, to help him in his next life." Brock states, with the dwarf nodding in agreement, but both know better than to tempt someone from trying to steal the weapon for themselves.

With that Brock left, having made his peace with his son, with the dwarf saying one final farewell, though made a silent promise to look after both the axe and Triana for Naruto, the axe having fallen silent due to the loss of its owner, as for Triana, both dwarven brother and Freya would make sure the girl doesn't hurt herself during her training trip, seeing how serious she had become due to her loss.

"I promise Naruto, we'll keep an eye on her, (huff!) but ONLY Triana, we ain't gonna look after ALL the women ya had "fun" with." "STUBBORN OLD GOAT!" The dwarf could've sworn he'd hear Naruto saying that to him, but knew it was in his head, giving one last smile, while a tear trickled down his cheek, "Cheeky brat, insulting me beyond your grave no doubt, (chuckle!) yeah, I can certainly see ya doing that." Brok finished as he left himself.

5 Months Later

It took some time but Brock had managed to get Helper out of his chest, though he then hid away with the Billion dollar man and his sasquatch friend, though there was a slight problem, Brock had gained some serious weight, in other words, he became a fat man, along with his hair having grown back, but also his facial hair as well.

So now, after so many months, he was in a vent, planning to take revenge on both Molotov and Hunter for their deceit, because if it wasn't for them Naruto would possibly still be alive due to the whole "Monarch arching Venture again" thing, since Helper wouldn't have been caught by The Monarch and have the high-end explosives attached to it's back.

All the while it was "business as usual" for both Molotov and Hunter, while Brock crawls around in the vent, wanting to get a good vantage point to take them out, only to bump into someone else in the vent, though as Molotov talked about a mole in their organisation, Brock and the unknown person crashed through the ceiling, knocking Molotov out for a few minutes.

Where as Hunter had him at gunpoint, though became shocked at finding out that the guy was Brock, since he really let himself go, but Hunter blames the weight-gain from the man losing his son.

With Brock giving an ultimatum about shooting him, only for Hunter to simply point towards Molotov, who shot Brock out of the window, where a tree caught him making him land down a bit easier, but still made him land with a thud, along with a bunch of people wearing the same outfit as the stranger, picked Brock up and carried him away.

With Molotov

The woman got up, stretching her joints out and cracking them back into place, "Are you alright boss." Hunter asked, getting back to business.

With Molotov nodding, "Yes, I cannot believe that Brock had let himself get that way, I miss the fit man he once was." She states, moving to the window.

Hunter had a moreosed look on his/her face, "That's what happens when you lose a family member, you become depressed and obsessed to the point that you let yourself go due to your loss, but only end up with hatred of those that had caused the loss." Hunter had stated, which was why O.S.I. had that whole "no family" policy, so the agent in question doesn't get attached or soft in their mission.

Here Molotov nods her head, understanding what Hunter was talking about, "Yes, but that's only if the thing you loss stays lost." She states, gaining the other's attention, as she moves to the wall behind her now broken desk.

Pressing a button next to her engrave, the wall splits open, where lights soon turned on, though what he saw shocked Hunter, for suspended in a tube of liquid was a near-fully healed Naruto, only Naruto's size became more closer to resembling his father's physic, his spiky hair had grown out due to how long he's been inside the container, though he doesn't have any facial hair, but that's possibly because the skin from his jaw was blown off, only living behind his jaw bone, but thankfully his handsome face was fully healed, along with his cute whiskermarks on his cheeks, where the only thing left to heal were the tips of his fingers, where Hunter could see the bones of his fingers slowly re-growing along with muscle and skin back.

Molotov smiled at Hunter's shocked look, "Seems everyone doesn't truly know how my son's healing factor really works." She states, looking towards her son in the glass container, "Soon he will be fully healed, when he awakens, whether or not he'll want to take his revenge on me for all of this will be his choice, and I will welcome his anger with open arms."

This shocked Hunter even more, "Wait, you mean that if Naruto targets you for duping his father into killing the competition, then...!"

Molotov nods her head, "Yes, I will let him kill me, after all, what kind of mother am I for getting my son killed in such a way." She answered Hunter's enquiry.

"Before I go, why do you keep him in that container behind your wall." Hunter couldn't help but ask.

Molotov looked towards the person, "By having him in this container, it will allow him to heal completely, since the liquid is like, um, what's word, from the old movie, with the laser swords?" "Star wars!?" Hunter supplied, making the woman nod.

"Yes, the liquid is like the same liquid from the healing tank scene, you know what I mean, yes." With Hunter nodding in agreement.

"As for the wall, well, it's to stop my Black Hearts Agents from gawking at him, considering he is naked in that tank and everything." She simply answered, since it would be extremely awkward for a mother to have her naked healing son on display.

This caused Hunter to inadvertently look down, "GOOD GOD THAT BOY IS HUNG! NO WONDER ALL THOSE WOMEN WERE UPSET AT HIS DEATH!" Hunter couldn't help but yell out, making the woman chuckle at his expression, glad that her boy had no "problems" in THAT area, but right now she's focusing more on her child's face, traveling down her memory lane, remembering all the fun times she had during their travels and missions together, as well as Naruto's training.

With that Hunter left the two alone, knowing that the mother truly cared for her boy if she was willing to let herself be killed by him.

The woman just looks at her submerged son with caring love, "I am truly sorry Naruto that explosive should have never happened, but in the end the whole thing was my fault, and whether or not you forgive me for deceiving both you and your father, know that I will always love you.

With Brock

Right now Brock was tied to a chair getting questioned about his involvement with Molotov, only for Brock to find out that Hunter was behind him, though Brock began to slowly realise that Hunter was still with O.I.S.

"Boyo, you don't know DICK!" Hunter stated, showing that he didn't have a sex change by grabbing his own dick in the process, shocking Brock some more.

After that, Hunter walked up to Brock, patted him on the shoulder, though thankfully it wasn't the one that he used to grab his dick with, "Also Brock, there's more that you should know as well."

Making Brock confused about what the man was talking about.

Outside

"HE'S WHAT!?" Brock's voice yelled out in extreme shock at the news he just received.

After that Brock got back into shape, joining the O.S.i. instated sphinx, for a deeper secret agency, even managing to kill the Hitler-dog that some nazis wanted to be cloned into and other stuff.

Where Hank ended up seeing him, noticing the slight twinkle in the man's eye but didn't say anything about it, where Brock asked Hank to keep quiet about seeing him, which the boy did.

With Naruto

Right now, Naruto was just floating in the container, his brain-waves not changing for the past 4 months or so, though as he's floating, one of his fingers twitched, where he was now practically fully healed, all that was left was for him to wake up.

Though his eye then twitched as well.

Seeing as he was naked in his container as well, Molotov closed the wall back up, since she didn't want her agents to get "tempted" in letting Naruto out too early, seeing as he was in the container with every high-tech equipment known to man safeguarding him and his vitals.

"See you soon, my sweet little fishcakes." The mother quietly says to herself, just as the wall closes on Naruto, for now.

The End.

I figured a lot of people would be gripping about me having Naruto killed, so I went ahead and wrote this one, just to show everyone's reaction to Naruto's death and his funeral, along with Brock's own reaction as well.

Whether he wakes up at some point, you best wait and see. lol

I Do Not Own Naruto Or The Venture Bros.