Chapter Two

A week passed following the Mister Twister fiasco and right now, five of the six heroes who helped take out the android, currently stood in a meeting room with Batman and of course, Red Tornado, aka their den mother.

"His name," the Dark Knight started. "Is Naruto Uzumaki."

"Seriously?" Wally snorted, whispering to those who could hear him. "We were saved by a guy named fish cake?"

"Really?" Robin quirked an eyebrow, speaking in a whisper. "You're one talk Wally."

And right now, the main topic of conversation between the group was none other than the whisker faced hooded blond who helped them out with Mister Twister; why? Well, that's 'cuz as promised, Aqualad reported to Red Tornado that they weren't the only ones who faced Mister Twister the day the android attacked and when Red Tornado reported this to Batman, Gotham's Dark Knight promised to do some researching on the (then) unknown male and get back to them and well… this was him getting back to them with the information he found.

"Up until two years ago, roughly no data about this man existed." Batman, as he continued speaking, ignored the bickering between Kid Flash and Robin; though, he did send the pair a warning look. "The earliest info we could find on him was a footage of him saving the lives of people caught within a burning building, an incident that, coincidentally, seemed to take place a few blocks away from the shattered remains of what was once a research centre that happened to be near a hotspot of the massive energy surge that myself and members of the Justice League months prior to his going public."

"What about the building collapse?" Megan frowned. "Surely you must have had a chance to investigate then."

"Local authorities seemed to have the case handled so we didn't bother investigating." Batman stated. "Another mistake on our part, which we had rectified by tracking his movements which, surprisingly, turned out to be difficult, because somehow, he was able to evade our best tracking technologies and trackers, and we noticed that he doesn't stay in one place for too long… until recently at least."

"Hn," Superboy scoffed, crossing his arms over his chest. "I find it hard to believe that some guy was able to evade the Justice League for so long."

"Maybe he has Super Invisibility or something?" Robin suggested. "I mean, when he fought Mister Twister, aside from Super Strength and Flight, he did show that he could manipulate some aspect of light energy. Maybe he could bend the lights around him to become invisible?"

"An ability like that could be useful in a team like ours." Aqualad observed.

"That is why I'm sending you five to his home address." Batman stated, "His ward, Kent Nelson, a former member of the predecessor to the Justice League, has been made aware of your arrival and thus have given us rare access to the Tower of Fate for this mission."

"The Tower of Fate…" Aqualad frowned. "Why does that sound familiar?"

"It's the Sanctum Sanctorum of the entity known as Dr. Fate," Batman stated as a hologram of the said being in question popped up on the display podium after the one decepting the Tower of Fate disappeared. "The alter ego of Kent Nelson or anyone that puts on the Helmet of Fate."

"Pfft." Wally quietly snorted to Robin. "More like Doctor Fake, guy knows a little advanced science and Dumbledore's it up to scare the bad guys and impress the babes."

"He's like the great sorcerer-priests and priestesses of Mars," M'gann stated, smiling, unknowingly causing someone to perk up . "I would be honored to meet him."

"Me too." Everyone turns in, surprised to Wally who suddenly sounded sheepish as he realized the attention was focused on him. "So honored, in fact, that I can barely stand it. Magic rocks."

"Take this: the key to the Tower of Fate." Batman says, offering up an old brass key which Aqualad takes as they both ignored Wally's shenanigans. "You'll need it to bypass whatever magical security you might encounter as you step in."

"So M'gann," as Batman left the room, Wally sped up to Miss Martian. "What are the chances we both admire the mystic arts?"

And at that, the people remaining couldn't help but roll their eyes as they left the briefing area to begin their mission.

(Time Skip…)

Inside the Bioship, with M'gann at the helm, Robin directly in front of her, Wally to Robin's right, and Kaldur and Superboy (in that order) on her left, the boy wonder turned to his red headed friend with a smirk on his face.

"So, Wally,," he started knowingly with a slight mocking tone in his words. "When did you realize your honest affinity for sorcery? I mean… this is the first time I've heard about it and I've known you for… quite some time."

"Well, I-I don't like to brag," silently glaring Robin, Wally stumbles over his words, though his attention is fully out of the corner of his eye right at M'gann. "But, uh, before I became Kid Flash, I seriously considered becoming a wizard myself."

And seeing that he caught M'gann's attention, he visibly relaxed and placed his hand behind his head. Kaldur, meanwhile, looked away from Wally after rolling his eyes at the antics of his friends.

"Indeed the thought of meeting Earth's Sorcerer Supreme is indeed exciting," he, Aqualad, stated. "As I would like to exchange notes in our various mythical arts, I am more interested in this... Naruto, like who he really is, why he made it seem like he didn't want to be found, what his personality is like, and how it could affect the Team if he were to join."

"Well I say he's okay in my books." Robin stated. "I mean he did help us out with that Mr. Twister fiasco a week ago… and yeah, sure we may not know about his personality, but look at Superboy. We didn't know anything about him aside from the fact that he was… well, made to take out Superman in the worst case scenario and we like him."

Superboy smiled softly at Robin's words.

"I won't mind getting to know him too," M'gann stated, remembering how nice the blond was to her when, at the time, the others were upset because of what happened earlier. "I know he isn't an android but I was unable to get a presence from him and I'm curious as to why."

"Maybe it's 'cuz he might have Telepathy?" Wally suggested. "I mean we barely know anything about this guy, aside from the fact that he's living with Dr. Fate, he's disappeared a few times a year, and he's got Super Strength, Flight, and Energy Manipulation… personally though, I don't really see what the big deal is about him."

"I'm sure you'll sing a different tune when we meet him," Aqualad stated. "Speaking of which, Miss Martian, how far are we from our destination?"

"Well," M'gann frowned as she brought the Bioship down in between the streets of Salem - a street where, on its right side, an open field stood and on its left side, an old theatre that looked shutdown was built - while it, the Bioship, was fully cloaked. "We've reached the Coordinates Batman gave us, but-"

"-there's nothing," Superboy frowned, finishing M'gann's sentence. "Nothing's there."

"Take us down." Aqualad commanded and M'gann did as requested, and once it was parked on the field, Wally sped out ran all around the empty field before skidding to a halt in front of his friends as they all came out of the ship. "They're right: there's nothing here."

"Odd," Robin frowned as Wally sped to stand next to him. "What do you think, KF? Adaptive micro-opto-electronics combined with... shapeshifting?"

"Oh, absolutely-" Wally starts, but as M'gann appears in his line of sight, the slight smile drops from his face. "Not. Clearly Mystic Powers are at work here Robin, I'm sure if we believe hard enough, the Tower will reveal itself to us."

He ignored Robins laughter and Superboys apathy as he spoke and Kaldur ignored all three of them as he stepped forward with a frown on his face as he looked at the golden key in his hand and read the writings engraved in it.

"A test of faith," he looked up at the empty space and walked forward, stepping passed between Superboy and M'gann as he felt himself being drawn to a particular spot. "Get behind me."

And as he stopped, he raised the key and inserted into an empty space where, surprisingly, it disappeared, and before the Team of five gathered could ponder on what happened, the sounds of knots and bolts echoed before a click was heard and then, a massive stone tower comes into sight which, again, surprises the team of Teens.

(Meanwhile…)

Naruto, hovering in the sky, easily and effortlessly dodged the slab of rocks thrown at him by his opponent whose ashen colored hands were covered in a sphere of black glowing light while, from the motion seen, they controlled the stones that were also in the same colours as the said hands in question.

"Come on Rae, Rocks?" he punched the next one that appeared in his face, shattering it completely into a pile of nothing, before repeating the same actions over and over to the ones that came after the one he destroyed. "Don't tell me that's the best you've got."

"Not even close." his opponent - an ashen colored female standing a few inches shorter than him garbed in a deep purple cloak with a hood, a pair of purple gloves extending past her elbows, a pair of purple thigh high boots with one-inch heels, and finally, a matching one piece leotard hugging her body tightly, and showing that despite her young appearance, she possessed womanly curves - said this as she clasped her hands together and watched as, in response, what seemed to be a pair of giant rock arms (covered in what seemed to look like a pair of black energy gloves) emerged from the ground and wrapped around the whisker faced blond who smirked, before giving a mighty explosive yell just as a dome of orange light formed around him and shattered the constraints that once bound him. "I was just testing the waters, this is me being serious."

"Oh?" the whisker faced blond, meanwhile, quirked an eyebrow at that before he watched as his opponent created an army of clones that surrounded him in a circle while wearing the same look as their creator - who he was easily able to identify thanks to his experience with the technique - as she was gathering energy in the space created by her hands, that were cupped in front of her chest. "Fine then, I'll humor you."

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" And in a flash of golden light, a dome of orange light energy wisped into life and around the blond the instant beams of dark energy fired out of the hands of Raven and her Clones just as she, the original, chanted out those words. "Don't lay out all your cards on the table. Isn't that what you told me?"

"Well, you're following my advice, that's good to hear." and at that, Naruto dropped to the ground and released his dome in a golden energy shockwave that destroyed the clones and forced Raven to the ground before he, along with four clones of himself, appeared above the ashen colored girl in a flash of orange light while he - and his clones - were charging an energy attack of wind, water, fire, earth and lightning, in the cupped space of their hands. "But it's gonna take a lot more than Clones to take me out: Elemental Barrage!"

"Friends!" the fighters paused, however, at the new and familiar voice. "I hope I am not interrupting."

And as they both turned to the source, they found themselves staring at a very familiar strawberry red headed female with long hair that reached passed her shoulders, a pair of bright green eyes with light-green scarelas, a dark orange skin which owned a very 'gifted' figure, and an outfit that consists of neck corn collars, a sleeveless purple form fitting top that was open in the stomach, metallic purple vambracers,that were fastened on each of her arms, a purple mini-skirt, and finally, a pair of purple thigh high boots that tied her whole outfit together.

"Hey, Kori/Starfitre," Naruto and Raven greeted with the blond smiling especially, just as the blonds clones disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "Nah, we were just about finished with training. What's up?"

"As we are about to be making new friends," an excited Starfire/Koriand'r grinned while she flew up to meet the two. "I have attempted to make us a grand lunch but unfortunately…" a frown formed on her face. "It did not come out as I had hoped."

"Um…" Raven and Naruto glanced at each other, remembering the last time Starfire was in the kitchen alone; they'd thought she had learnt from that but it seemed like that wasn't the case. "It's okay Kori, a lot of people make mistakes… some more than others. I'm sure you'll get it eventually."

"But… I," Kori frowned sadly. "I wanted us to make a good impression."

"Yeah," Raven deadpanned. "I'm sure there are lots of other ways to make good impressions Star. You don't need to always start big."

"Speaking of… how big of a mess do we have?" Starfire looked away from the blond, earning a sigh and head scratch from the said male. "So that big huh? Don't worry, its something we can take care off. Afterwards we can all go out for Pizza and I happen to know the best Pizza place on Earth."

"Pizza, and not Ramen?" the indigo haired female quirked an eyebrow at Naruto. "That's rare."

"Hey!" offended, the said blond yelled. "I'll have you know my diet doesn't just consist of Ramen!"

Raven and Starfire gave Naruto a drawn out look that had the blond pout and cross his hands over his chest childishly though just as the trio were about to leave the training room, a hologram of Kent Nelson suddenly blinked in front of them.

"My apologies for interfering your commute children," it, the hologram stated. "But it would seem that we have guests here to see you."

"Guests?" Naruto frowned, not at all surprised about the hologram's appearance. "I don't seem to recall making any plans to meet with someone. Who are they?"

"Young heroes, an unknown, and a female Martian." the Hologram stated, bringing up a 3-D image of the said group in question, which caused Naruto's eyes to widen slightly in what seemed to be recognition. "They arrived with the Key to the Tower and I would have activated the Security Systems if they did not truly answer the question on why they have arrived. Should I lead them to you?"

"The opposite would be fine actually, thanks Tower." the blond stated, earning a look from Raven and Starfire though before the hologram could disappear, Naruto called out to it. "Hey Tower, by the way, could you do us a favor and clean up the mess Starfire made in the kitchen? We were planning on doing it ourselves before heading out but well…"

"So," the ashen colored girl was the one who broke the silence which generated after the hologram rolled its eyes and disappeared from the trio. "I guess that means no Pizza?"

"I never said that," Naruto replied, just as an orange door shaped portal blinked into existence. "We can still have Pizza, we're just gonna have to make room for our guests that's all."

"Joy!" Kori squealed, excitedly hovering around the pair. "Then I may still have a chance to make a good first impression! Quickly, let us go and meet our new friends!"

And with that, the trio walked through the portal leaving nothing behind them but an empty room.

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To Be Continued

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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or DC.

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Authors Note: So, Part One of Chapter Two of the Naruto/Young Justice Story. Sorry for how short it is but you guys were so receptive of the First Chapter that I had no choice but to put this one out as soon as I felt it was right to do so. Tell me what you think in the review, especially for the part reveal of Naruto's past, a bit more of his powers, and of course Raven and Starfire's introduction.