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Hi Guys. Dark Knight here with a quick AN:

This story takes place primarily in the NARUTO UNIVERSE, although the first few chapters will be mainly in the ARROWVERSE universe. It is all encompassing. We want to use a touch of every show in the CW superhero lineup, but Supergirl seems to be giving us a bit of trouble in the storyboard. We won't force it if we can't find a way to seamlessly have have her make an appearance sometime later in the story. This is SageModeSasuke's brainchild. One of two stories he has wanted to do for years, but never got the right base for the storyboard. I helped out with it, and now we are good to go. Please enjoy chapter one of

The Fastest Man Alive.

By

Donning The Cowl of The Dark Knight

and

Sage Mode Sasuke

Chapter One: How?

Barry Allen's POV for now.

It was another day in the beautiful city that I call home. Central City. I took in what changes happened in my world over the recent years as my gaze ran across the cityscape as I took a rare moment to slow down. I thought my life would be that of a basic forensics scientist for the rest of my life, longing after the girl of my dream from afar. But one day a madman caused an explosion of a particle accelerator. I'll save you, my future readers from the boring details of what that is. But the long and the short of it is that I got caught in that hell storm of power, not to mention getting hit by a bolt of lightning. But the fact that I am here to write this in my memoirs for some future autobiography is a touch of the uncanny if you ask me. I became something far more than human that day. Physically a bit stronger. Extreme speeds beyond the realm of normal. My mental capacity even sped up to the point I could read and comprehend most books within seconds. Heck, I even found the courage I needed to chase after love. Who would have thought that getting hit by lightning would be the catalyst for getting the girl. 'Haha,' but I digress. I became someone others could look up to. I vowed to not only find the person who framed my father for killing my mother... but I would become a symbol of truth and justice. A little cliché, but it's just who I am. I worked hard for a few impossible years, but I not only managed to find my mother's killer, and exonerate my father, but I made friends who are now like family. My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. I am THE FLASH.

But something tells me you all already knew all of that. Well, that might be relatively well known to you as often as my secret identity gets out, but what you might not know is that shortly before the evil villain known as Savatar was defeated, a young blonde boy appeared.

Flashback, One year ago.

He couldn't have been any more than nine or so. I was terrified that I would not make it in time to save the love of my life from being impaled by the silver blade Savatar's armor had protruding like a trophy. The blonde boy appeared right in front of the weapon as it slid right into his stomach, blocking Iris by millimeters.

My love Iris West released a blood curdling scream. That tenth of a second was all I needed. My body moved at speeds that tore the very ground from it's foundation. I forced myself not to jump through time. This little boy gave me the edge I needed to give Savatar the full force of my power. I came around a small bend, barely able to control my speed. I jumped up and twisted my body into some kind of flying kick. I was going off of an adrenaline boost the likes of which I had never felt before. Upon reaching the surprised Savatar, I slammed my foot into his head with a force that would have toppled a building. I am sure my foot should be broken after that strike. But I was too enraged to slow down. Savatar had to be stopped. The blade in the boy vanished, but did not stop the bleeding. I still held just enough control to realize how much I owed that little boy, whoever he is. To my surprise, my foot was still whole, and I got back to Savatar before he could recover. I pummeled him with all of the power I could conjure. I took note that Iris was carrying the boy out of sight. That meant that might be able to end this battle with Savatar once and for all. This is it. "Savatar. You tormented my family long enough. This is the end for you!" I declared as I took off in the opposite direction as Savator fought to stand up. I raced across the very Earth itself in hopes of drawing on the might of the planet's electromagnetic field to devastate the beast known as Savatar. I traveled across the very oceans of the world, building up speed until I came back upon the city I love and slammed both my fist into Savatar's chest.

"Aaaahhh," Savatar's screams permeated the air as his armor started to crack. I pivoted into a right elbow thrust into his head for good measure before I simply said, "Checkmate. You're done!"

I did like MJ and beat it. I took off like a bat out of you know where. I searched for Iris and the little blonde kid who saved her life and managed to find them making their way to a parked EMT. The world went white after that. I couldn't tell you what happened next. The next thing I knew, I woke up in a very familiar lab. The medical lab of Dr. Caitlin Snow. I glanced around and took note of a certain beautiful pair of eyes on me. I smiled and slowly sat up. She walked over to me with a smile of her own and hugged me as if it were our last hug. It was filled with love.

"Hi," I greeted.

"Hi there," she greeted back sweetly. "I have some good news, and some rather interesting. I think I will leave the interesting to Cisco and Caitlin however."

"Somebody call us?" Cisco Ramon, the pop culture super geek, and tech super genius interceded as his colleague and long time friend, Caitlin Snow M.D. entered into the main medical lab.

"He guys. Iris was just telling me there's some news. I take it that it's about the little blonde super hero who saved the love of my life?

"Something like that. A powerful burst of speed force energy was released from you know who, and our little man absorbed a good chunk of it, saving most of the city. There is something very special about this boy. He also seems to have a few energy signatures, but none of which matches Savatar's evil mojo." Cisco confirmed.

I was a little taken aback by what I just learned. Not only had the kid saved Iris, but he possibly saved the city. "Is he okay? You don't just take a giant sword to the stomach and walk away from that."

Caitlin shook her head and said, "Apparently he does. Whatever those extra energy sources are, they started healing him. You got Iris and the kid here and passed out after telling us the kid took in all of that energy. He's in the next room over. His internal injuries are completely gone, and his external scar injuries that definitely leave scars are vanishing..."

An alarm went off indicating a patient was in danger. The group took to making their way to the other room and took note of the boy who's eyes were opened, and his IV's were out. He glanced around and said, "Kuso!"

I laughed slightly at that. I recognized the word. I started studying different languages over the years, but never really took to Japanese as I never saw a need to learn it. I am so going to regret that. The boy looked around, a panicked look on his face. Almost a look of fear. He had already grabbed his strange orange pants and black shirt with the red swirl. I knew where this was going. I decided to go for a tried and true start.

"Um... Ohayo gozaimashite. Um... My name," I pointed to myself. "Allen Barry-san."

Before everyone took to asking me about it, I said, "I think despite his looks, he is Japanese, or at least raised Japanese. They introduce using the family name first."

Iris knelt next and pointed to herself and despite feeling silly, "West Iris-san?" to which I nodded in the affirmative.

After a few more minutes of introductions, and a quick call to Star City to an old friend of Barry's a quick electronic translator was thrown together. Something slightly better than google's.

The boy still had not revealed his name, but his stomach grumbled to which his face reddened slightly. We all held back a small laugh as to not embarrass him. Caitlin had the brightest idea of the day it seemed. "Hey guys. How about some Sushi? Do you like Sushi?" She asked Naruto kindly. He tried not to turn his nose up, but the expression was priceless to which she did giggle a little. "Okay. No Sushi," she shook her head to let him know 'no sushi' for him. "How about Dango?" Iris suggested.

Cisco rolled his eyes and said, "You all want something fancy. It wouldn't surprise me if all he wanted was some oodles of noodles. Good ole ramen."

For the first time since he awoke, the boy seemed excited as he did a back flip and he cheered for Ramen. "Miso Ino Ramen!"

"I think I am going to like this kid. We need to find out where his parents are, but for the time being... we have a new house guest at Casa de Star L.A.B.S." Cisco joked.

"Uzumaki Naruto!" The boy shouted out in joy. That. My friends is how we came to meet the frantic ball of wonderful that was Uzumaki Naruto.

One Month Later-

"Have you both lost your mind?!" Joe West, Iris and Wally West's dad, and Barry's semi adopted dad due to taking him in as a kid nearly screamed in frustration. "You both are barely more than kids yourselves. Plus this is a child. Barry, you know how dangerous your life is. What happens if you die out there? What happens if some half cocked psycho finds out about him, or Iris, Or Wally? We've already been through this. If you want a family, you can NOT continue running around in the red leotard. I love you Barry, but you know as well as I do that as long as you wear that target on your chest... you can never adopt him."

Two Weeks Later- Central City National Park

Naruto took the time to run around the park with his new ninja turtle shirt while his foster mom keeps an eye on him from the bench. Naruto pushed himself and raced a touch harder than before, but tripped over his feet and and slammed into an older man who yelled out, "Come here you little brat!" Naruto having been startled slipped into his native language of an odd form of Japanese and nervously ran away as he said, "Go...gomen."

The man's eyes glazed over and he screamed out like a mad man. "Stinkin' Jap! I fought your kind in World War II. You don't fool me with your blond hair!"

Iris appeared before Naruto and placed her arms around him protectively. A beautiful relatively short haired woman kicked the older man in his stomach as he attempted to strike the milk chocolate complexioned woman. Iris glanced up in surprise at not being struck. Iris stood protectively around the boy. Naruto did not however miss the most gorgeous lady he'd ever seen save him from the space between his guardian's coat.

The man slowly stood up and shook his head and asked, "What happened? How did I get here? Is this Central City's main park?" But before he could answer, a few police officers who took note of the commotion took action and grabbed the man before he could cause anymore trouble. Having experience her own share of PTSD, the new arrival spoke to the closest cop.

"I'm Thea Queen, Chief of Staff of Oliver Queen, Mayor of Star City. Please have this gentleman tested for PTSD or the like. I am not a doctor, but I know a little about traumatic experiences, and he had that look in his eyes."

"Understood Ms. Queen. By the way, that was a wicked kick. Remind me not to get on your bad side." the officer said in good humor. Thea had the decency to blush a bit.

Thea then walked back over to Naruto and Iris, Iris smiled and gave Thea a quick hug, "Oh my gosh. I meet you less than six months ago and you are already doing the hero thing again," she said carefully. "Thank you so much Thea. I might have been able to fight him off, but my first instinct was to cover and protect him. What are you doing in Central City? Not that I am complaining. Your timing was awesome."

Thea nodded and replied in kind, "Visiting a friend to be honest. I was about to head home after I got back to my care, but decided to stop by and talk to you since I recognized you from d-day. I don't know what I would have done in your place to be honest. But how about you sweetie? Are you okay?" she asked Naruto who hid behind Iris's pant leg. Iris's jaw nearly fell through the ground. There had not been one time in the course of the time he had been with them he had shown even the slightest touch of shyness. His little cheeks started to even redden slightly."

"Kawaii," Iris squeaked, having learned a few things. Thea glanced at Iris and said, "Yeah, he is cute, but why Japanese?"

This caught Iris a little off guard and she relayed the events of Naruto's arrival. After all was said and done Thea surprised Naruto and spoke to him in a slightly broken version of his language, but it was far closer than anyone else he'd met thus far except the translator at the government place. He didn't say much to them as he didn't trust government people accept his jii-san. But this nice lady had saved him. Maybe he could trust her too.

In his own language, he fought down the blush he was sporting and spoke, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I am from the village hidden in the leaves; Konoha. I don't know how I got here. There were some weird symbols on the old man hokage's desk. I was drawn to them, and mixed a few of them up as I glanced at them while he took a quick break to go to the little hokage's room. Well, the old man opened the door and scared me. I remember cutting myself and then I was here. I miss my home... but I wasn't really treated the best their except by big sister Ayame, her dad Old man Teuchi, gramps Hiruzen, our hokage and Iruka-sensei. My ninja academy teacher. Oh yeah. And Dog and Cat ANBU special ops ninja. I don't know what ANBU means, but I just know they are the best of the best. Before I came here, I wanted to become Hokage so I could be recognized and protect my village... even if they don't like or respect me... because it's... I mean was my home.

Thea mentally took note of everything the little boy said and then replied in kind. "I am Thea Queen. I don't know how to get you home, but you are being taken care of by some amazing people. Did you say ninja?"

Naruto nodded quickly and placed his hands in a ram seal and performed the most basic academy jutsu which was the shoe color change jutsu. The precursor to the transformation jutsu. Naruto's close changed color. Thea quickly hid him behind her, and Iris did the same quickly. "Release that technique please Naruto. People here should not know you have special abilities like that this young. It's dangerous. Do you understand?" Thea asked as patiently as she could. He nodded and released it. Thea's shoulders loss some of their tenseness as Naruto's clothes quickly returned to normal.

Thea placed a hand on Iris's shoulder and sighed as she in English said, "You really need to get him into a training regiment. A martial arts regiment so he knows how to defend himself, as well as training to control these powers of his. You are acting as his foster mom, but if uncle Sam finds out about him, or some evil villain who sees a touch of potential, a lot of harm can arise very quickly. I know it's not my place to say, but I have seen things. I hope you will take this to Barry, and you both consider what I've said. Okay?"

Iris was stunned by what she heard, but did not want a little boy put in a situation where he would need to fight at all. That's what adults were for. But she would soon find out that Uzumaki Naruto was far from what 'destiny' considered normal.

Two weeks later

West household. Wally's room.

Naruto took to looking at Wally's engineering books. He didn't understand much as he was still learning English, but Naruto was turning out to be a prodigy in his own right, learning almost anything that was put in front of him, including English and Kanji as he requested to learn stuff he was more familiar with too so he wouldn't lose too much of his home. Naruto went to leave out of Wally's room, but saw a very cool looking picture of one of his new favorite Central City heroes in the newspaper on the stand behind the door. The door opened and closed with a speed that nearly sent Naruto flying from the backlash of the wind alone. Naruto regained his balance, but still out of sight of the newly arrived costumed individual. He removed his mask and turned.

"Wally ji-san? You're kid flash!"

"Shit," was the only thing that Naruto heard from Wally. He knew that term well enough from 'Joe-jiji.' Naruto smirked.

"Wally!" was heard from downstairs. It was one of those 'I don't care if you are grown, as long as you live under my roof, you are getting your ass down here now. You are so grounded!' tones.

Two hours later

West House, Living Room-

Thea was brought in by Barry after a quick 'run' to Star City to ensure there was little to nothing lost in explaining the importance of keeping secrets.

"...so it's one of the most important secrets you will ever know," Iris explained.

Naruto sighed and replied in Japanese as it was still primary language. "I get that Iris kaa-san. But I keep telling everyone I am from a shinobi village. Does no one understand that it means I know about secrets, and it was one of the first things we learned in the academy. How an enemy can use secrets to hurt the ones you love."

Joe was getting a little fed up with this so called 'hidden village and ninja' nonsense. "Naruto," he snapped slightly. "We don't have time for games. You don't understand how serious the situation is."

"I'm not lying!" Naruto snapped back, surprising everyone. He'd never snapped at anyone for any reason. His body in a posture that suggested he was ready to attack. "I never go back on my word. That's my nindo!"

Before Joe could reply, Iris wrapped Naruto in a loving hug and Thea placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. Thea took a serious look at Naruto and then pulled out her phone. It was a bit of a shock when she started dialing someone. "Hey Ollie, quick question for you. Your Japanese is a bit better than mine. A couple friends of mine are studying something about their heritage and came across a word. I think it was nindo, or something like that. Is it familiar to you?"

On the other end of the phone Thea's brother Oliver Queen heard something in his sister's voice, but decided not to ask about it for the time being. Should she need him... she would come around. He quickly answered, "Yeah. It has to do with a ninja's code of honor. Their very life blood. Their way of life. To dedicate life to one's nindo is like how the old Samurai dedicated their life to the sword. A ninja's nindo or belief system varied person to person, but it's base meaning is the same. Hope that helped."

"Thanks Ollie." she said as she disconnected the call.

Thea then turned to Naruto and said, "I believe you. I thought you might have been from a small Japanese settlement somewhere in the country of Japan, but even the most secret of ninja clans were wiped out save for very few here. You speak as if they are still alive and strong which tells me that you are from very far away from here. You started telling me about it again, but in more detail sweetie?"

Naruto fought hard to keep his glare up, but Thea's full acceptance of him softened his gaze. He glanced as his mom who held him tight. He shook his head and gently nudged himself free of Iris as he said, "No more secrets between us."

"No Naruto. You are too young to..." Barry started, but Naruto wasn't having it. "NO! I lived in a village where I was hated and scorned. No one would tell me. When the old man... I mean Hokage-sama would not tell me and said he didn't know why, I knew he was lying, but he was one of the few people who treated me with even the slightest bit of anything but hate. NO MORE SECRETS, or I will find my own way here in this world. I have come to care about you all a lot more than I probably should have... I even like that H.G. Wells guy a bit, though he seems a bit odd. But anyway, I am a kid, but I am not stupid. I just can't figure out why the secrecy in a world without shinobi. If you can't trust me then how can I trust you?"

Barry sat down and sighed deeply. Iris turned to him and said, "Oh no you don't lover boy. Suit up. I am not having my baby trying to run away because he is too smart for his own good. We tell him everything," Iris said in a commanding voice that brokered no arguments. Doesn't mean they didn't try.

Barry looked at Iris as if she had lost her mind. "Iris, you can't mean that," he asked slightly incredulously. Her narrowed eyes told him she was deadly serious.

"No Iris, you're not thinking clearly. Your maternal instincts are kicking in. We can't..."

"Zip it dad. I love you, but I will not say it again. He learns everything, now! We tried to keep this a secret, and he found out about Wally by accident. What happens when he gets older and starts actually searching for this stuff. He's just nine now, and he is already calling us out on our bull. How long before it's something we can no longer contain. I want him trained. If we are not near him for whatever reason, I want him trained well enough to run and hide, or escape whatever is chasing him. Smart enough to know when to fight or get to safety. We are West and Allen. And apparently Uzumaki are just as stubborn, and smart."

She turned to Thea who sighed and said, "I'm technically out of the game. Do I really have to..."

The look Iris gave was, 'I don't care if you can kick my ass six ways from Sunday, you will tell him or I will make you bleed.' The next words out of Thea's mouth as she looked at Naruto was, "Thea Queen, Formerly known as the Green Arrow's partner Speedy."

Naruto's steely gaze now completely gone as his eyes glazed over, "So cool!"

Thea nearly lost her balance, but didn't fall over. She smiled and thought, 'Maybe this won't be so bad after all.'

Three Months Later

Child Protective Services, Central City

"...and I understand your concern Mr. Allen, but you are not married. What happens if you two decide to break up. This boy has no known relatives, and has not been found in any international databases. He is a meta human of some kind as evidenced by his charging my phone in his hand. I am sorry, but I cannot allow you to adopt him right now despite you both making good money, and obviously care a great deal for the boy, but that's not enough. Not to mention the language barrier... to which I am a little surprised you both are picking up Japanese and teaching him English so fast. But that isn't enough to let you go beyond foster parents. Even that was a tough bit to sell to my superiors. A child as young as him should be studied' was the biggest thing on most people's mind. Fortunately you got a judge who believed in the child's welfare first and foremost."

Barry glanced back at the love of his life and said with a heavy heart, but a voice still filled with joy, "I always wanted to have children with you my love. I wanted to wait a little while to do this in a bit more of a romantic environment, but we both have learned that each day could be our last, and that we should seize the moment."

Iris's jaw dropped as she was considering hugging Barry, or hitting him if he was about to do what she thought he was about to. "Barry... If it's what I think it is... I am going to kill you after hugging you..."

Barry was already sweating bullets as he got out of the second seat in front of the social worker, walked to the outside aisle and took a knee. He pulled out a red velvet box and opened it. Iris's hands clasped over her mouth as tears started to fall.

"Iris Ann Russell West. With Joe AND Wally West's permission, I am terrified, but here goes," he said with a nervous smile. "Please grant me the greatest gift a man could have. The love of the woman who he has loved for most of his life. From childhood seeing you in your high tops to boxing gloves," to which Iris giggled a little. "You have made my heart leap at ever juncture. I want to raise our children together, including Naruto. And if that is an added bonus to this, who am I to complain about starting our family early? So what do you say love? Wanna become Iris West Allen?"

Before Barry could hope to react, Iris sprang like a coiled snake and wrapped herself around Barry. "Yes stupid! Yes. I love you so much Barry Allen!"

The supervisor walked out of her office, who's door was open for the whole thing. She walked over to the two newly engaged youngsters and smiled a slightly wicked smile and handed them a stack of papers and said, "Well played Mr. Allen. Well played indeed. Do not screw this up. Congratulations on the successful 'first step' of adopting a child of the state. We look forward to seeing you after you finish your nuptials."

The supervisor turned around and walked away leaving the new couple dumbfounded, but smiling even brighter.

S.T.A.R. Labs- Two Hours Later

A certain whiskered blonde was running around with a slightly annoyed Caitlin chasing him much to her chagrin, but his amusement. But in a moment of frustration Caitlin let our small yell, but it was enough to temporarily overpower special power dampening bracelets she wore to keep her own cryogenic powers under control. Sadly, it was just enough to nearly clip Naruto as he'd stopped to glance at his handy work. An orange lab coat for 'Doc' as he'd started calling her. But his instincts kicked in and he managed a small back flip, but slid across the room. The flip wasn't such a big deal, nor Naruto's impressive stamina as he was a child who obviously kept up some sort of exercise regiment. The problem here however was he nearly slammed into the nearest wall. Caitlin almost didn't move as she was in shock at what she just saw.

"Naruto!" she cried out worriedly. Naruto, having heard the urgency, the orange streak of lightning that suddenly appeared stopped. He ran back over to her in what appeared to be slow motion. It frustrated him as he came to a stop.

"Ba-chan!" he screamed out as he saw Caitlin on her knees. He ran over and hugged her from behind tightly. "You okay? I'm sowwy! I didn't mean it!" Not knowing why the look of terror was on Caitlin's face. Her inner maternal instincts kicked in at hearing the affectionate term for "Aunt Cat!" Caitlin's power back under her own control much to her surprise. Her frost tinted eyes returned to normal. She picked up Naruto in a hug and said, "It's okay sweetie. You just scared auntie cat a little bit. How about we go get you some ramen from that little shop around the corner."

Naruto's sniffles started to vanish at the word 'ramen,' Caitlin thanked whatever celestial higher power that possibly existed for whoever created ramen at that moment.

Caitlin double tapped the button on her headset, which was set to call Barry and Iris in case of something dealing Naruto came up. After a few seconds Barry answered the phone, concern immediately in his voice. "Caitlin, is everything alright?"

Caitlin sighed and explained, "What I feared could happen happened. He's engaged the... quantum protocols. Barry's jaw dropped.

Iris who saw Barry's expression placed his face in her hand, concern in her eyes. "What is it Barry, what's wrong?"

Barry took in a deep breath and stated as calmly as he could, "Naruto's a speedster."

I WILL START WORKING ON CHAPTER 5 AFTER THE REVIEW COUNT HITS 40. That way SageModeSasuke will have time to work on his portion after working on some of his solo stories.

To Be Continued? Let us know if you want more.

This was an idea SageModeSasuke thought up a long time ago, but could never come up with a story that has not been done the same way over and over. Naruto shows up in 'a' DC universe already overpowered and crushes all enemies. Or a hero, or heroes go right to Konoha, see Naruto getting treated like crap, and demand to take over his training to make him the best. This one will fall slightly under the second banner, but not without a few tweaks to the formula. Either way, if you want this continued, please drop us a line. PS. SageModeSasuke nearly broke the fourth wall over this one, but opted to not cause too much damage to my laptop at my suggestion of Hinata NOT being the love interest this time. We already decided who it is. So that is cut and dry. It will not be Sakura. While neither of us hates that paring per se, there is a reason