A Shinobi's Creed

Chapter 1: Free from the Negative Zone

"Normal Speech."

'Normal Thought.'

{Different Language} – Note that if someone speaks in a different language and the person of who's perspective it is doesn't understand what is being said, this will appear.

"Demon Speech."

'Demon Thought.'

"Sentient Blade Speech."

"Techniques/Spells."

-X- Line Break -X-

This alternate dimension was odd. Naruto really didn't know what to think of this place. It was neither hospitable nor welcoming. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Everything from the environment to the inhabitants of this dimension seemed to live for one purpose only, to kill the weak.

A dog eat dog world.

To Naruto, this was nothing new. His home world had been filled with a constant fight to survive against Shinobi of enemy villages and in his case a fight to survive against the villagers belonging to his home village. He had been fighting constantly since the day he was born and after fighting the goddess, Kaguya and her loyal 'son' who had orchestrated the entire Shinobi history, he had thought that he would be finally done.

However, that had not been the case.

Instead, he had found himself here, in this dimension fighting against hordes of strange creatures all commanded by the big, bad Alpha monster, Annihlus. He had met and fought against the creature on numerous occasions and it was safe to say it was like fighting against a smarter and more skilled Kaguya, who actually understood how to utilise the power at their fingertips. A very dangerous opponent that had been the cause of more near death experiences in these past few years in this dimension, than the whole seventeen years he spent in the Elemental Nations.

Sighing, Naruto leaned back onto the rock formation he was sat on, his hands locked behind his head as he looked up at the sky. His former ANBU outfit was ripped in numerous places and was only barely passable as clothing with numerous holes and tears in place. The armoured breastplate, vambraces and greaves where dented and the cloak he wore was barely hanging on by a thread. But despite that he ignored the harsh biting wind that nipped at his skin.

Beside him, what looked to be a bandaged blade was laid there, it's handle resting on his chest and a blue glow surrounding it that flowed slowly into Naruto as he looked up at the sky. One thing he had noticed while being here, besides the hostile environment and the murderous denizens, was that the sky was very odd.

Odd in the way that it was difficult to tell night from day, difficult as in it was impossible to tell from which one day blended into another.

As a trained Shinobi and one of the best, if not the single greatest Shinobi to live, period, was that he had created a very effective internal clock. In fact, he had spent well over a year spying on Demon Country, a place in which there was only a few short hours of daylight and for the rest, purely darkness. And despite that, Naruto had been able to keep track of the days due to his internal clock.

However, well into what was his third year here in this dimension, Naruto had found that he could no longer tell one day from the next and as a Shinobi, this was terrifying. Despite their profession relying on them being able to quickly adapt to certain situations, Shinobi were still creatures of habit, it was coping mechanism.

Kakashi Hatake, his former sensei and ANBU Commander would always be found reading porn in his free time and turn up three hours late to anything but the most important of things, for example: ANBU missions, briefings with the Hokage, etc.

Maito Gai, his former Taijutsu teacher could always be found training himself into the ground at the Team 10 Training Ground or challenging Kakashi to one of their many strange, but engaging challenges.

However, the one thing they all took for granted, was their ability to keep track of the days, even when their was no clock, no sun or moon to help them, their bodies had been trained, specifically ANBU to wake up at a certain time and to sleep at a certain time. Of course, they could ignore such urges that their body had been trained to crave with Soldiers Pills and Ration Bars, especially when fighting. But each ANBU Shinobi required at least three to four hours of sleep a day to function at maximum efficiency, to ignore such sleeping patterns was detrimental.

Luckily for Naruto, with his jailor he had been able to go for days on end without food or sleep to work at maximum efficiency. Yet afterwards, he would crash badly. It was something he had been trained to build up a resistance against said side affects, but now it was nothing more than a last resort. The human body, no matter how advanced was not built to perform at that high of a level for that long without proper sustenance.

That didn't change that he too had built up a sleeping pattern to help keep him at top shape. With Kurama and Samehada at his side, he had been able to completely ignore the lack of food, both providing him with Chakra and Samehada even providing him a number of her scales a day – edible and nutritious, but not very tasty or healthy – while Naruto provided her with enough Chakra to replace said scales. As well as not dying to ensure that Kurama didn't either, neither of them knowing what would happen to the giant fox in this world and not wanting to find out.

The three had a very symbiotic relationship and despite their differences at the start, all had come to rely on each other.

However, despite this companionship, Naruto had still been unable to fully recover his sleeping pattern. Whereas before he had required no more than one to two hours of sleep a day, now he needed more. The harsh environment of this dimension, coupled with the constant fights against Annihlus and his soldiers exhausted Naruto to the point that he needed more sleep. Not to recover physically, his healing factor took care of that, but mentally.

And it was starting to take its toll.

Well, starting was a kind way of putting it. This process of slowly turning Naruto insane had been starting the moment his internal clock had disappeared and his amount of sleep had took a nose dive to one to two hours of sleep a week, instead of a day. However, it did not change the fact that Naruto was going insane and probably would have done so already, had it not been for his own stubborn nature as well as having Kurama and Samehada at his side.

"Oi, Baka! You sensing this?" Grumbling, Naruto slowly opened his eyes which he had closed to catch up on some much needed sleep.

'What is it, Kurama?' Naruto asked while slowly reaching round to grip hold of Samehada's handle and cracked his neck. He looked around the nearby area, a safe zone he had found and was in fact the place he and Annihlus had fought for the first time. It seems that Annihlus first attempt at killing Naruto and failing had made him declare this zone off limits to his soldiers. Either that or, it was so out of the way that none of Annihlus's soldiers passed by this area. Whatever the reason, he didn't pass up on securing this place with as many Fuinjutsu barriers as he could.

Not much mind you, unlike his parents, his skills in Fuinjutsu was limited to only a few barrier techniques and the basics. He could have possibly gone further, but by that point he had been drafted into ANBU and his time was better spent learning more combat oriented skills.

Still, there was no denying that his was one of his safe havens, but even then, the main problem was getting to it which was the problem and Annihlus was dead set on ending his existence as soon as possible.

That and he could never spend more than a few hours in a certain place before having to move again. Otherwise, Annihlus's soldiers could and would surround him. They may not have much in the way of intelligence, but they could sniff out a person from a mile away and sadly, he had never learned how to suppress his scent with Fuinjutsu and there was nothing around that could actually mask his scent either.

"Stop being lazy and spread your senses out." Kurama snapped, and Naruto huffed at his grouchy jailor. Despite them being on more friendly terms, what with the recent events taking place in the last ten years, there was still some issues to sort out. Kurama wasn't too trusting of humans after what they had done to him and Naruto was just a little wary of Kurama's past reputation.

Despite most of Kurama's rampages being caused by humans doing something stupid, there were still times when Kurama would destroy villages and towns filled with civilians who had done nothing. Most of those weren't even Shinobi villages or part of a country where a Shinobi village was stationed and he still destroyed them.

Still, enemies could become allies when the situation called for it and it's safe to say that they had been forced to put aside their differences on more than one occasion.

'Bite me, you grouchy old fox!' Naruto shot back while slowly extending his senses out. One thing he had noticed was that the environment of this dimension was so hostile and harsh, that most of the life that could have existed was killed. In fact the only living things here were a part of Annihlus's regime and even then, some weren't even alive and seemed to be something similar to his clones.

Not alive, but sentient.

So sensing the life around him through Senjutsu and Senjutsu in general was completely off limits. This had meant that he had to learn how to pick out enemy signatures through different means and that's where Kurama's ability to sense negative emotions came in.

Whatever some of Annihlus's soldiers were, whether they were alive or not, they all exuded a great deal of anger and rage. Making it very easy to pick them out and in most cases, it was far more effective than Senjutsu. The latter picked up every bit of life, no matter how small in the nearby area, while the former only picked up those with sentient life such as humanoid creatures and animals. Making it very easy to tell which were hostile.

However, the downside was that it required a great deal of Chakra to use and for someone like Naruto, where Chakra demands were negligent, it was still a steep price. So for the most part, he allowed Kurama – the virtual ball of limitless Chakra – to sense for negative emotions while Naruto kept his other senses active.

"Naruto-kun, Kurama-kun, now is not the time for your usual antics." Samehada's rough, yet feminine voice sounded in Naruto's mind, stopping the two boys from arguing any further. While she was the weakest of the trio, there was no denying that in the years they had spent together, both Naruto and Kurama had a healthy amount of fear of angering Samehada. "Whatever is going on, is more important than your little dick measuring contest. Agreed?"

'Yea, Same-chan.' Naruto got to his feet, his eyes panning over the area as he gathered the required amount of chakra.

"Tch, whatever." Kurama huffed, while no doubt dropping his head into his paws as he sulked, though he would never describe it as sulking. "Just make sure to wake me if it's Annihlus, maybe I'll get to watch him kick your ass before deciding to come save you, again."

Gritting his teeth at the insult, while knowing that even with Samehada's help, Naruto was no match for Annihlus without Kurama. It was when all three worked together that they had managed to fight evenly against Annihlus in their previous battles. Individually, all three would lose quite easily, but together they were far stronger.

'I'm picking up, over a hundred of Annihlus's soldiers already engaged against four people.' He took a few moments to focus on the emotions of the four people. There was anger, annoyance, fear and sadness, but nothing like Annihlus's soldiers. Whoever those four were, they were not of this dimension or had been very well hidden. 'Wait, I'm picking up reinforcements moving in on that location.'

"How many?" Samehada, her form wriggling with interest.

'I'd wager between four hundred and five hundred.' He whistled at the number. 'Whoever they are, Annihlus isn't joking around.'

"Hmph, of course not." Kurama interjected with his own opinion. "After failing to kill to a weakling like you for the hundredth time, of course he'd treat every one else as a major threat."

Ignoring Kurama, Samehada tapped her handle against Naruto's head. "Will they survive?"

Naruto took a few moments to analyse what was going on before finally coming to an opinion. 'No, they won't. Whoever they are, they're good. What they lack in individual power they more than make up for in teamwork, but even that will not be enough to survive the incoming swarm.'

Opening his eyes, Naruto gathered chakra into his legs and pushed off, the ground cracking beneath his feet. "I thought you had stopped trying to play the hero, why are you rushing to help them?" Samehada asked.

'I'm not doing this to play the role of a hero.' Naruto replied calmly as he amplified his physical speed to its utmost limits with chakra. 'I'm doing this because it will make Annihlus look weak to his followers and the four fighting against him could prove to be good allies.'

"But-"

"Leave the ningen be, Samehada." Kurama cut off the sentient blade. "If he wants to risk his life playing the hero and is too dumb to admit it, then let him do it. It doesn't matter to me."

Samehada wriggled on Naruto's back who tried to ignore the angered movements of his sword. "It does matter!" She snarled and Naruto winced slightly, noticing the tell tale signs of his swords hidden anger rising to the surface.

'Same-chan, it's alright.' Naruto soothed as he jumped off a cliff. 'Lets just focus on the enemy coming up.'

-X- Line Break -X-

Susan Storm, also known throughout the world as the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four grunted as she strained to keep up the shield between her and her teammate, Reed Richards. The many denizens of the Negative Zone slammed and tore at the barrier with murderous intent, all for the single goal of tearing them apart, limb from limb.

She had long since grown used to such assaults and feelings of her enemies. Fighting and surviving the likes of Galactus had made her skin a little thicker than most. Unlike when she first started out the whole hero business with the rest of the Fantastic Four, she didn't shake in fear and struggle with the most simplest of battle tactics. She was no longer a wallflower like some testosterone filled guys would like to believe.

Now she was a hardened warrior, a hero to many and she no longer feared mad beasts such as those pounding on her shield.

Even so, that did not mean she couldn't struggle against them.

Oh no, she had and was still struggling in every battle she fought. Each time their old enemies came back stronger and better or new and stronger enemies appeared. Every battle was an uphill struggle that had caused her powers to grow exponentially in strength and they were still growing.

However, even with such strength at her fingertips, the number of creatures tearing and slamming into her shield was taking its toll as her beautiful face scrunched up in concentration. A bead of sweat falling down her cheek as she struggled to keep up the barrier.

Outside the barrier, she could hear the sounds of Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing charging his way through large swaths of soldiers. His great strength and physical durability no doubt proving to be an excellent counter against their numbers. She could even see his large, stone fists punching a large portion of the creatures pounding at her shield away.

Something she was extremely thankful for as it meant that the strain was no longer as great.

"Yahoo!" A male voice screamed out in the air, and she looked up to see her brother, Johnny Storm, also known as the Human Torch flying through the air, his form coated in fire as he released large swaths of brilliant orange flames upon the creatures on the ground.

And as the seconds ticked by, slowly the number of creatures dwindled down until none remained. The field that acted as their battleground, quiet and littered with the beaten and charred bodies of the denizens of the Negative Zone.

Releasing the shield with a sigh of relief, Susan stretched her arms above her head and turned to look at the two men walking towards her. The largest and burliest of the two was of course, Ben Grimm. His form compromising entirely of orange rock that was compacted and shaped into the form of a man, the only thing keeping his more 'private' parts hidden was a pair of, blue spandex shorts.

Next to him was what many women would call a handsome young man, with blonde hair, blue eyes and a cocksure grin on his face. His form covered in a similarly designed spandex suit to that of Ben. This was Johnny Storm, her playboy of a brother.

"Thanks for the help, Ben." She thanked her large friend who shrugged his shoulders with a grin on his face.

"Don't mention it, Susan." Ben replied while looking around attentively, ensuring there were no more enemies around. Johnny meanwhile, moved up and wrapped one arm around her shoulders, pulling her into a one-armed hug.

"What are teammates for, big sis?" The blonde replied with a smirk on his face. "We're always here to help pick up the slack of our teammates." He teased and Susan shot him a deadpan look that only made his smile widen.

"Last I checked, I was thanking Ben, not you." She shrugged off his arm and turned away, hearing the outraged cry from her brother and the rumbling laugh of Ben as they followed behind her towards the final member of their team and their leader, Reed Richards also known as Mr. Fantastic.

Much like the rest of them, he had been affected by the cosmic radiation that gave Ben his physical deformity, superhuman strength and durability, Johnny his pyrokinetic powers and her, her telekinetic ones. Reed however, had been given the ability to stretch his body beyond human norms and while many would look upon this ability and see it as unimpressive, Reed had coupled it with his vast intellect to become a truly dangerous individual to face.

However, none of that mattered right now.

"How long until you've fixed it, Reed?" Susan asked shortly, a frown on her face as she came to a stop before a relatively handsome man with short black hair and black eyes, wearing a blue spandex suit as he was currently working on a small metal contraption.

Without in sparing her a look, Reed replied. "Nearly done, Susan. Just got to add a few finishes touches and I'll be done. Whatever Annihlus attempted to do with this, he failed completely and I've have to practically make a full repair."

"Yea, well you might want to hurry up." Johnny spoke up from behind them, neither he nor Ben wanting to get involved in an argument between Reed and Susan. The two having had many in the past few weeks over their current relationship problems. "Because I think, Annihlus is losing patience."

Both Susan and Reed turned around and looked to where Johnny and Ben were looking.

And there they saw a huge swarm of creatures charging towards them. They could see hundreds flying through the sky and just as many rushing along the floor, kicking up a huge dust cloud as they did so.

"Shit!" Reed cursed. "Guys I need you to hold them off for as long as you can!"

"Hold them off!" Susan almost screamed as she turned to face her team leader. Whatever he expected of them, he couldn't possibly expect them to hold off that many. All four of them could fight off Annihlus and a number of his soldiers. Hell, her, Ben and Johnny by working together had managed to defeat well over a hundred single handedly. But that number paled in comparison to what was charging towards them.

"Susan, leave it." Ben called out as he placed one hand on her shoulder. "We'll let you shout at Reed all you want later, but right now, me, you and Johnny need to find a way to hold them off long enough for Reed to finish the repairs. Then we can get out of here."

"Yea, that's gonna be easy said than done, rocky." Johnny replied. "Flame on!" He shouted as his body was once again covered in flames. Meanwhile, Ben grunted in annoyance and got into a ready stance beside the flaming pretty boy, Susan taking up the rear behind them, her hands glowing blue in preparation.

'Reed, you better fix that machine because if I die, I'll kill you myself.' She snarled internally while getting ready to cast her most powerful barrier around the team. The plan was simple and one they had used before.

Susan would cast her most powerful barrier that would cause the enemy to exhaust themselves trying to break it. Then it was a matter of what happened first. Either Susan would tire, the barrier would break or the enemy would tire. Either way, it would give the Fantastic Four enough time to figure out some way to defeat their opponent. And it also had the added effect of allowing Ben and Johnny time to recover.

However, there was a downside.

Their greatest mind was currently preoccupied on fixing their ride home. While none of them were dumb, Susan herself been a very smart woman and a scientist with a brain that could go up against the best of them, Reed was just too smart. He was like many people said, a modern day Leonardo DaVinci. The sheer breadth of his talents knew no bounds, everything he put his mind too was easily achievable.

Now, with him preoccupied it was up to Susan to fill in the large gap left behind and she would do her absolute best to do so.

Yet, she had no need.

She much like everyone else seemed to have noticed the arrival of a new figure.

It was kind of hard not to considering the fact that he was glowing a deep red, almost like he was on fire. The figure, a man she could just make out from this distance jumped off the cliff and into the large swarm of creatures and released a large wave of thick, red liquid-like substance and it was when she watched that same liquid cause the creatures to burn and melt, she realised that it was not fire, but lava that covered the man.

"Who the hell is that?" Johnny asked, summing up Susan's thoughts perfectly.

-X- Line Break -X-

With a grin, Naruto formed the necessary hand seals and then puffed out his chest, taking in the necessary amount of Chakra. "Yōton: Yōkai no Jutsu (Lava Style: Melting Apparition Technique)." From his mouth he released a large flow of lava that fell down from the sky.

The amount of chakra put into the technique he just used was more than most Jonin could produce and it showed. Whereas the normal technique released a small amount of lava that would cover a small group of people. The amount of chakra he used released such great quantities of lava that it spread out over a 50 metre radius and fell down upon the soldiers of Annihlus like rain.

One thing he had learned in his time here, was that the denizens where vulnerable to lava. Their hardened skin couldn't cope with the heat lava produced and so, it melted through the outer shell quite quickly and then continued on to melt their internal organs.

It's why whenever fighting a battle against Annihlus and his soldiers, he used his Yōton: Chakra Modo (Lava Style: Chakra Mode) which coated his body in lava. It made every strike extremely dangerous as it packed the power of a normal lava technique in one. Perfect for dealing with creatures with a weakness to heat.

However, a downside to this technique was that he had to avoid touching Samehada as she too, could not cope with the heat this form produced. It meant that he would struggle to use her chakra replenishing abilities and would have to rely on his own reserves. Thankfully he had another source of chakra living inside him that could help deal with that problem.

Landing on the ground in a roll, he shot forwards straight into the thick of the army. His form a virtual whirlwind of destruction.

Every punch and kick caved in portions of their shell and left behind some lava to burn them. Each movement seamlessly and flawlessly flowed into the next as he tore through hundreds of soldiers in an instant.

Using one creatures face as a platform, Naruto jumped into the air while forming the ram seal. "Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku (Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation)." From his mouth a wave of flames were released and engulfed over a hundred creatures in an instant, burning them to ash before they could even mount a proper defence.

Landing, on the ground he had to dodge numerous creatures, their clawed hands swiping at the area his body once inhabited. From an outside perspective it almost looked like he was about to be overwhelmed, but that was far from the truth.

'Man, this is more boring than I remember.' Naruto moaned internally, as he parried numerous claws and lashed out with a powerful punch that killed the creature instantly.

"Indeed." Kurama grunted in agreement before released a yawn. "Finding the weakness of these creatures has made these fights almost laughably easy to win. Perhaps you should-"

'Not a chance.' Naruto reprimanded Kurama firmly as he performed spinning hock-kick that turned into a flawless flip that got him out of a dog pile. 'If I start doing that once, then I'll do it again and again. I can't afford that in this world, especially with Annihlus still out there.'

Kurama sniffed in disdain and closed his eyes. "It's not my problem anyway. As long as you don't die then you can do what you wish."

'Whatever you say, you grouchy old fox.' Naruto then completely seperated his mind from his body. It was a little trick that Kakashi had taught him upon entering ANBU. A Shinobi was most dangerous when their body could fight without the brain directing it. This meant that while their body instinctively kept them alive, they were also studying their opponent and figuring out all there little weaknesses.

The force that had once numbered over five hundred was just barely over three hundred now. A quarter where up in the sky – those few that had avoided his starting technique as well as his fire technique – and the rest where all foot troops.

Smirking, Naruto allowed one of the creatures to hit him. The creature was a big brute and carried a great deal of strength that was seen when Naruto was sent flying backwards through the air. However, this was all part of the plan.

While midair, he flawlessly backflipped so that he landed upon his feet, all the while running through a long series of hand seals. Eventually he came to a stop and his chest puffed out. "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu (Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique)." Normally water techniques would be useless in this dimension.

The harsh environment having wiped out nearly all water molecules in the air, hell appearing here it had taken both Kurama and Samehada to use their chakra to heal Naruto as he gradually adapted his body to this new dimensions air. Still it had left him poisoned and his blood stream held a level of toxicity that just wasn't healthy.

Still, without water molecules in the air and none on the ground, Naruto had to find the next best source of water.

Himself.

Normally this was very dangerous and a life threatening for any Shinobi. Most Suiton (Water Style) users drew in the water molecules from the air subconsciously and then mixed that with chakra to produce water. Only the Nidaime, Tobirama Senju had been able to outwardly manipulate the water molecules from the surrounding air without having to first draw them into his body.

With no water molecules in the air, this meant that Naruto had to draw the necessary water from his own body and then mix it with almost four times the necessary amount of chakra just to produce the amount of water he needed.

It was four times as costly and the gains were not enough, normally.

From Naruto's mouth burst a tidal wave of water that rushed over the area. It was cool and made some of the still boiling magma to turn to stone. And the creatures of Annihlus's soldiers did not escape unscathed.

Some where drowned in an instant, others had their bodies crushed just because of the sheer force of water and others found themselves knocked and then trapped into some of the boiling magma that soon turned to stone and then they drowned. It had been devastating, but compared to some of the things Naruto had once been able to do, it was nowhere near as great.

Still, it was but the start of his combination.

As those creatures still alive after the technique, wadded through the water, struggling to fight the current of water as they tried to kill the blonde. Those in the air continued unimpeded.

As one came rushing at Naruto, he grabbed hold of its wings, that burned under his lava hand and allowed it to carry him off into the air just as his other hand finished it second set of hand seals. "Raiton: Jibashi (Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder)."

Thrusting one hand out, lightning burst out jumping from flying creature to flying creature like a circuit. Each one screeching in pain as their hard shells only receiving scorch marks, but there insides rupturing under the lightning technique. Then as the bodies dropped from the sky, still crackling with electricity, the water acted as a perfect conductor.

More screeches echoed throughout the area as the wing Naruto was holding onto finally melted and the two individuals plummeted to the ground below.

-X- Line Break -X-

None of them could believe what they were seeing, it was hard to believe. If it wasn't for the fact that they were seeing it, they wouldn't even have thought if possible for a single man to wipe out a force numbering well over half a thousand soldiers with what looked to be relative ease.

Like he had done so before.

They of course knew that there were powerful individuals out in the universe. Having faced individuals like Annihlus and Galactus, it was something they were very aware of, more so than most.

However, it wasn't just that that shocked them into silence as they watched the brutal efficient display of skill they had ever seen from a single fighter ever.

It was his powers.

Lava manipulation, fire manipulation, water manipulation and lightning manipulation. Not to mention what looked to be enhanced strength, speed, agility, durability and stamina. It was safe to say they were a little shocked at the breadth of his powers and his control over them as well.

Then they saw him, walking towards them, a large sword strapped to his back. Having no longer been coated in lava and slowly walking towards them, they could actually make out some of his features.

Every inch of him seemed coated in dirt and grime, yet he stood tall. Walking towards them with shoulders set and a swagger to his step that belayed a great deal of confidence and self-assurance. A large sword was strapped to his back that looked to be even bigger than him in length and yet, there was no sign of struggling under its weight, giving credence to their belief of his enhanced strength.

However, the most striking features where his blonde hair, that despite matted with grease, grime and flakes of red that looked like dried blood – probably his own considering that soldiers of Annihlus didn't have red blood – it still shines brightly. He then had what looked to be three whisker like marks upon his angular and chiselled cheeks.

But the most striking, where his bright blue eyes that almost shined in what little light shined upon them. And those eyes told a story, every inch of him did.

They told a story of a life filled with sacrifice, hardship, loss, death and regret. Yet they also told the story of a man who had constantly faced a challenge with his head held high and risen stronger. They told the story a soldier.

It was Susan that came forwards first to meet the man, Ben and Johnny hesitantly following behind her, still unsure of the allegiance of the man that had so easily massacred hundreds in a matter of a few minutes.

As Susan drew closer, she took note of his apparel that did little to hide his muscled and well-toned figure, instead it seemed to enhance it. And he was handsome, not in the pretty boy way with her brother and not in the average, comely way of her former boyfriend, Reed. But he was handsome, wild and almost feral in a way that to her surprise, was very appealing to look at.

Drawing in closer, she came to a stop in front of her fellow blonde who did the same. "Hello." She greeted with a smile on her face, one she used to always put people at ease. "I'm Susan Storm, this is Ben Grimm'" she indicated to Ben who gave a similar smile, the blonde looked the rock man up and down and then gave a smirk.

Ben himself noted the look in the blondes eyes, a cautious, yet calculating look that had tried to deem whether he could win or not. Obviously, Ben had been deemed weaker and he simply returned the blondes smirk with one of his own, it seems like this guy actually might be interesting.

"This is my brother Johnny Storm." Then she indicated to Johnny who gave a little wave and a grin. The blonde himself tilted his head to one side and unsurely, gave a wave back as if unused to doing so.

"And that other there is our team leader, Reed Richards." Susan jabbed her thumb over her shoulder and the blonde looked over to see Reed bent over and still working on his machine. "And we're the Fantastic Four." Susan smiled once more and as the man tilted his head in what looked to be confusion, Ben noted that his sword hand was wriggling.

'I don't know what that says about me when what looks to be a living sword doesn't shock me anymore.' Ben sighed and crossed his arms, though was careful when he noted the blonde tense up at the sudden movement.

Susan stepped forward and the man turned to look at her once more and both Ben and Johnny took note of the way his eyes trailed up and down her body. It made them both a little wary as they knew that women, especially beautiful ones like Susan where pretty much non-existent in the Negative Zone and the spandex outfit she wore, did very little in hiding her figure.

"Can you tell us your name?"

The blonde narrowed his eyes slightly at her, but it was not out of anger or annoyance, but once again, confusion. {Eh, Storm-san, I don't understand what you're saying. All I got out of that was that you and the blonde share the same first name and the big guy is called Grimm. By the way, your parents must not have been very imaginative, either that or they were trying to be edgy.}

This time, the three members of the Fantastic Four were confused, having not got anything out of that besides two things. Susan and Johnny's last name as well as Bens.

"Eh, sis." Johnny got all three of their attentions as they looked to the pretty boy. "Pretty sure he doesn't speak our language. Know which one it could be?" He then fidgeted lightly on his feet as he avoided looking at the piercing gaze of his fellow blonde male.

Susan studied what the blonde had said and had barely understood but a few words. It was a mix of modern day Japanese, Chinese and a few other languages and to be honest, she had only been able to pick up a few things. Partly that he didn't understand and something about Ben's last name and his parents.

"No, my name is Susan." She tried to get the names of their groups down first as a starting point. "Johnny, Ben, Reed." She pointed to each person individually and the blonde took a few moments to try and figure out what she meant, she could tell when he did by the way his eyes creased in understanding and he embarrassedly scratched the back of his head with a weak chuckle.

{Ah, my bad.} He chuckled and pointed to each member as he said their names. {Sushan, Johnny, Ben, Red.} Ben and Johnny nodded their head.

"Su-san, Re-ed." Susan continued, pronouncing the names slower as to help the blonde understand what the proper pronunciation was.

{Su-san?} The only female of the Fantastic Four nodded her head with a smile and then he tried to pronounce the next name. {Re-ed. Susan, Reed, Johnny, Ben.} He pronounced the name a few more times as to get used to them before pointing to himself. {Uzumaki Naruto.}

"Uzumaki or Naruto?" Susan asked, sticking to short and simple sentences as to at least try to help both of them understand what was being said. And to also work out whether he was saying his last name first or last.

{Naruto.} By the smile on Naruto's face, he had understood what she was trying to do.

"Naruto." Susan tried once more and as Ben and Johnny looked as the newcomer and their only female member had a very basic conversation, they moved off towards Reed.

"So what'd you think about Naruto?" Johnny asked as he looked back at his sister who seemed to have a permanent smile upon her face, she seemed to be having fun with their little basic conversation.

"Physically? About seventeen I'd say, but he acts older. Unless he was a child soldier I'd say a war veteran and I'd reckon it was a nasty one." Ben thought over what he had picked up from Naruto. He actually was interested in learning where he had come from, especially considering he was definitely a soldier and a young one.

"How bad we talking, do you think?" Johnny asked. He may not have a reputation for being the smartest tool in the box, especially when compared to his sister and Reed, but he wasn't stupid. He knew that war changed people and sometimes for the worse. He was just looking out for his sister who he had noticed seemed to be at least slightly attracted to the newcomer despite how messy and dirty he looked, not to mention the smell.

"No idea." Ben shrugged. "Just enough to make him extremely wary of everyone and everything around him."

Johnny snorted and waved his arms around him at the barren wasteland of the Negative Zone. "Think that might just be this shithole." There was a few moments of silence before Johnny broke it. "And mentally?"

"Paranoid, calculating and I'd say he's probably been running on fight or flight instinct for however long he's been in the Negative Zone for." Nodding his head, Johnny quietened down as they came to a stop in front of Reed. "How long now, Reed? I don't really want to be here any longer than we have to."

"I'm in agreement here, Reed. Annihlus knows where here and he already sent out a large force to take us out." Reed didn't look up from his work as Ben informed him of this.

Shaking his hand slightly as it got zapped by some electricity, Reed finally looked up and took note of only his two male members. "Where's Susan? Did you guys manage to beat them?"

Ben shook his head. "Nah, that would be the new guy, Naruto. Susan's over there with him, he doesn't speak English so she's trying to get some measure of what he does speak. Some mix of modern Japanese and Chinese with other languages as well." Reed looked up and noticed Susan laughing as Naruto made some weird hand gestures as he tried to explain whatever it was he was explaining through a game of charades. He would admit to feeling jealous as he watched the smile on Susan's face.

"Yea, you should have seen it." Johnny spoke up, stealing Reed's attention. "He came out of nowhere covered head to toe in lava and just tore through Annihlus's soldiers like they were nothing."

Reed's eyes narrowed once more as he looked at the blonde speaking with Susan and then turned back to his work.

"Hey!" Susan called as she and Naruto pulled up to the group. "How long have we got until we can get out of here?" Reed called out one minute as Naruto looked over to see what it was exactly that he was working on.

"And done!" Reed exclaimed after a few more minutes, admittedly it took him a bit longer than it should have, but that was partly due to allowing his jealousy getting the better of him. While he and Susan broke up over a month ago due to him apparently spending more time in the lab than with her, he still loved Susan and he wasn't oblivious to her attraction to the newcomer. "Let's go home."

-X- Line Break -X-

{And this will be your room while you stay with us.} Susan opened the door to small room, nothing huge and quiet Spartan in layout. A simple cupboard, bed and desktop table. It had been one of the rooms they had commissioned built with building in case of times here they came across friendly individuals in the Negative Zone. However, sadly that number could be counted on one hand.

Naruto stepped forward into the room and looked around in wonder. It was no larger than his old bedroom, yet the style and appliances were more modern and seemed to be more high tech than what he was used.

Even the lighting was of a higher grade than the lighting of his world, which had been pretty basic. Then again, he wasn't exactly technologically savvy. Communication in ANBU had rarely been done through radio like it had for Genin, Chūnin and Jonin and had instead relied upon Hand Signals to convey orders and information. It was much more effective and far less likely for communications to be hacked.

{I hope you like it.} Naruto turned to look at Susan and while he still didn't understand what she was saying he got the basis of what she was trying to convey. Giving her a smile, he bowed as a sign of respect.

Susan smiled and after giving her goodbyes, a wave and one last smile, she left leaving Naruto alone in his new room.

Once the door had closed, his smile dropped and his eyes spanned over the room, scanning for hidden cameras. He didn't know how advanced this world was in terms to technology, but if he was to take the comparison between his world's lights and this new worlds one, then it was safe to say they had also developed cameras, which had started to hit the mainstream of the Shinobi world just after the Kyūbi attack when he was born.

"It seems like the rooms clean, I'm sensing no one watching us either." Naruto nodded his head at Samehada's words and moved across the second door of his room, the one that didn't lead out into the corridor he had just come from. He pushed it open and looked at the sparkling clean bathroom fit with a shower, bath, toilet and sink. Much like his bedroom, it lacked any personal flair or design, instead sticking to a plain design that would allow the resident to customise it however he wished.

'What'd you guys think?' Naruto asked his two partners curiously, quickly stripping himself out of his dirty and tattered clothes and stepping into the cold shower that was slowly heating up, filling the room with a thin layer of steam.

"Of what?" Kurama returned as Naruto simply stood under the shower, enjoying the feelings of years worth of dirt, grease, sweat, blood and grime washing off his body. Parts of it would take some serious scrubbing to be fully clean. Right now however, he simply wanted to enjoy the feeling of the warm water on his body.

'This world. The people that helped us.'

Samehada, who was currently lounging on the floor of the bathroom, enjoying the steamy air of the bathroom to the one in his bedroom, wriggled to life. "I think they're good people, not many would simply invite a person who massacred an entire army single-handedly to their home world like they did. As for the world, I think it's very different to our original one. No ones knows of who you are, what we are and most of all, what we can do? A perfect place to have a peaceful life, without having to fight anymore."

"Bah, no fighting, what kind of life would that be." Kurama spat out, always hating Naruto and Samehada's dream of living a peaceful life without having to fight for their lives anymore. Well, Samehada simply didn't want her favourite wielder to spend his entire life fighting to survive, when he should be enjoying a peaceful life. She was very maternal that way.

'A good one.' Naruto thought with a smile as he ran one hand through his hair. He had always wanted to give up fighting, ever since he had met the love of his life, sadly the Fourth Shinobi War came about and she was taken from him. Then when the war had finally ended, only he lived, everyone else having been killed in his fight against Kaguya and he had been stuck in that strange dimension, fighting against Annihlus for years straight after.

Kurama grunted with disdain. "You may want to enjoy a life of peace, but I don't. Where's my opinion and feelings in this little dream of yours? This is meant to be a partnership correct, that's how it works?"

Naruto and even Samehada stopped moving at that.

Kurama was right and they knew it. When Naruto had first fought Kurama for the right to use his chakra, he had won. However, Kurama had not been completely willing in this and it was only when fighting against both Madara and Sasuke that the two had to put aside their differences and worked together. And they did that by fighting one another once again, Kurama's idea of a test to prove that Naruto was worthy.

Thankfully, any chakra used in his mindscape did not relate to the outside world otherwise he would have been exhausted before the main fight had begun. Then there was the matter of time. A battle between Kurama and Naruto had lasted well over an hour in his mindscape. Luckily for the Shinobi Nations, time moved quicker in his mindscape so that barely an instant had gone by.

So, as to avoid constantly having to battle his jailor for their chakra, Naruto, Samehada and Kurama had come to an agreement. They would work together to survive and would not inhibit another persons desires unless it completely went against another's.

In return, chakra would be shared freely between the three without any tests to prove that they were worthy. This part was more aimed at Kurama than Samehada and Naruto, but if had served its purpose.

"Kurama, let Naruto have this." Samehada's voice was no different to usual, rough and grating, yet distinctly female as her tone almost gained a begging like tint to it. "He, above all else has proven himself time and time again in battle, through good times and bad, Naruto has always accommodated to you. Let him live the rest of his life in peace, he above all else deserves it."

There was silence from all three, before Kurama growled. "Fine, but don't expect me to like it." Naruto released a sigh, before a small, but more genuine smile came across his face.

'Thank you, Kurama.' His gratitude was sincere and honest.

Yet despite that, Kurama simply huffed and let all of his dissatisfaction to this deal show. "Whatever, ningen." The Kyūbi released a loud yawn. "Don't expect to hear anything from me for a while, I'll be sleeping until the moment you realise that no matter how much you try, you'll never be able to stop fighting. And then I'll be there to tell you 'I told you so.'"

Naruto and Samehada ignored the grouchy old fox as silence descended upon the trio with the only sound they were able to hear, being the sound of the water running through the shower.

-X- Line Break -X-

While Susan was taking up Naruto to see his room as well as to give him a basic tour of the essential rooms, the rest of the Fantastic Four moved to the kitchen. All of them hungry and intent on satisfying themselves on some good old food.

While one of Reed's many robot inventions worked on cooking the food they were so desperate for, the inventor himself turned to look at the door that led to the upstairs area of the Baxter Building. He couldn't hear Susan anymore and he would not lie, that worried him.

"Reed, you alright?" Ben asked as he sat down in the reinforced chair across from Reed, specifically designed to withstand Ben's increased body mass and weight.

"Yea." Reed replied unsurely, but then he took one more look up the stairs before shaking his head. "Actually, not really." He turned back to face Ben. "Are you sure we can trust this, Naruto? I mean what do we actually know about him? His name? Are we even sure Naruto is his name, all we have to go on is what he tells us and how can we be sure what he tells us is the truth?"

Ben face became grim as he looked at his long time friend. "How can we trust anything that anyone says?" Reed had no answer. "We can't, we just have to trust them and I admit, that you do have a point. We know nothing about Naruto, but you as well as I should know that you can't judge a guy just based off speculation."

"I know." Reed nodded his head in agreement. "I just don't trust a guy that comes out of nowhere and takes out hundreds of Annihlus's soldiers single handedly in the space of few minutes. It would take the combined might and genius of us all to repeat that feat and it would take us far longer than he did. Not to mention the powers you described him having, power like that just isn't gained without sacrifice."

Ben nodded his. "There's no denying that, but think about it. What if Naruto is a guy like me, a soldier who simply wants to do the right thing. With all that power, would that be such a bad thing?"

"Let's just face it, stretch." Johnny sat down at the table with a six pack of beer pulled from the fridge, each of the three men pulling out one separately. "While what you said may be part of the reason you don't trust, Naruto. The main thing you don't trust about him, is his intentions towards my sister and my sisters intentions towards him."

Reed said nothing and sat in silence, though his grip around his can did tighten.

"Look, I'm not gonna say that anything may come of those two, for all we know, Susan may simply just be doing this to get you jealous," what went unsaid was the fact that Susan would never stoop that low. "But maybe something does, you just have to face facts, you and Susan, that's done for now. Perhaps in the future you can get back together, but what I think my sister needs is space and time."

"He's right for once, Reed." Johnny glared at Ben for that little insult. "You and Susan had a lot in common and when your relationship started, you both would spend a lot of time in the lab together. You complimented each other, but eventually one of you wanted more and the other was content with how things were and so something had to eventually give up, it just so happened to be your relationship."

Johnny slurped his on his beer while leaning against the table. "He's right, I mean I remember going out with this girl once. We'd spend a lot of time in the bedroom just having sex, but when we tried to do anything outside of that, it just didn't work out. Our relationship only worked on a physical level."

Both Ben and Reed looked at Johnny incredulously who after a few moments took note of their expressions.

"What?"

"Nothing." Ben and Reed both said while Johnny looked between the two in confusion. Eventually he shrugged his shoulders and went back to sipping on his beer.

-X- Line Break -X-

With a yawn, Naruto stepped into the kitchen while massaging his temples. Say what you will about the benefits of being able to mass produce clones of one selves and gain their knowledge once they dispel, the headache that came as an after affect was not pleasant in the slightest.

Thankfully he had a grumpy fox living inside of him that actively enhanced his healing factor, thus allowing him to produce a hundred times the normal clones of an average Jonin and dispel them without causing his brain to fry. It was very useful in allowing him to speak the language this country he lived in, English. Or a version of English that was apparently called, American-English.

He hadn't delved much into the history of this world, but he had picked up on a few things here and there. Nothing concrete and nowhere near enough to put him at ease, but he would much rather be able to speak, read and write the language than no the history of the world.

Thankfully Susan and he - after a few minutes of trying to figure out what she was asking for on his part – managed to create two alphabets. One for his and one for hers. Once that had done, he had been able to make some headway on learning the language of this world.

Unluckily for him, there were numerous, but English seemed to be one of the more well-known and spoken languages in the world and it was the main language spoken in the country he was currently in, the United Stares of America. His clones, over a hundred had managed to learn how to read and write the language in the space of a seven hours, but he was limited in what he could speak.

Though he did reckon that if he continued the same tonight, then he would be able to fluently read and write in the language. However, speaking the language would simply take practise and familiarisation with the words and sentences.

"Morning, Naruto." He looked up from the plate of food he had slowly been eating – having been cooked and prepared for him by a robot of all things. 'The technology of this world is really advanced.' He thought as Susan entered the kitchen with a smile.

"Morning, Susan." He pronounced the world slowly and Susan looked at him in shock before she flashed him a smile. As she did so he took in her form that was currently clad in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Conservative, but did little to hide the killer figure she had and it was a figure he had took plenty of notice of yesterday. Thankfully Samehada was not around and still upstairs in his room asleep otherwise she'd be hitting him upside the head for perving on one of their hosts.

Susan sat down across from him and it was only then he realised that she had said something to him. "I sorry?" Outwardly he looked apologetic and he was, but inwardly he berated himself for getting lost in thought. He was a Shinobi dammit, he was supposed to be aware of everything and everyone around him.

"I was congratulating you on how quickly you've learned our language. It's a bit basic and broken, buts it a massive improvement." He smiled in thanks and nodded his head, just as Susan's own bowl of cereal was placed before her. "So how did you do it, I'm curious?"

"What?"

"How did you learn to speak our language so quickly?"

Naruto gained a look of understanding before a smirk appeared on his face, a smirk that told her he was going to do something mischievous. Then Susan let out a yelp as a hand landed on her shoulder having been caught unawares and off guard.

She spun around to see who it was, but when she that there was nothing there she turned around to ask Naruto if he had seen who it was, only to come face to face with two Naruto's. By the grin on his face, Naruto had done it on purpose and using her telekinetic abilities, smacked both upside the head. She was very limited in what shapes she could mould her abilities in to, but as long as it was circular or something similar she was capable of doing it quite easily. It was one of the reason she was limited to defensive roles, but she could be offensive as well.

However, as soon as both Naruto's heads jerked slightly, one disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"What that?" Naruto asked generally curious as he looked at Susan with an eager look in his eyes.

Susan smirked and around her hands what looked like a glowing blue shield appeared. And Naruto looked at it curiously and then prodded the shield, only for his finger to be unable to pass through.

"A shield?" He prodded it a few more times before Susan let it disappear.

"Sort of, yea." Naruto nodded his head and leaned back into his seat. "So you can also make clones of yourself? What else can you do with your powers because I've not met many people with such a wide range of abilities."

"With Chakra? A lot." Naruto grinned and Susan decided she quite liked the boyish look, though she really hoped he was older than he looked. Not that age was really much of a problem, but it would be a bit awkward for a twenty-four year old woman to be attracted to a seventeen year old man. Because there was no way she could describe Naruto as anything, but a man.

"Chakra?" Susan tested the word. "Is that your power? What is it?" She could remember some sort of Asian culture that believed in a internal source of energy called Chakra. Much like Chi or something like that.

Naruto nodded his head. "Yea. Chakra, mix of spiritual and physical energies. Allow me to control elements and other things. Everyone on my old world able to use it."

"Everyone?" She couldn't even begin to imagine a world where everyone could use powers similar to Naruto. Especially if they were as capable fighters as Naruto, just imagining what a world would be like, daily let alone the wars made goosebumps appear on her skin. "They could all use chakra like you did, fight like you?"

"No. Only Shinobi of village." Naruto stretched back into his seat and a another, more cocky smirk appeared on his face. "Me, unique. Trained from young age to defend village."

"You were a child soldier." Susan said sadly and Naruto gave her a nod, an understanding look upon his face. He didn't much of this world, but he did know that child soldiers in this world were pretty much non-existent and those that trained child soldiers were seen as scum and barbaric.

Susan herself could barely even begin to imagine the life Naruto must have lived. Child soldiers were looked down upon and those looking to train children from a young age were seen as criminals of the worst sort. Up there with murderers, simply because they were stripping the child of their innocence, taking away a child's ability to think for themselves and to make their own choices. After all, child soldiers were done for the simple purpose of making soldiers who would kill without question and die without complaint. Trained to be loyal to a single person or group and no one else.

"Why?" Both Susan and Naruto looked to see Ben stepping into the kitchen with a hard look upon his face. "Why were you trained from a young age to be a soldier? Surely if Shinobi had the ability to use powers like you then there must have been no need to train children from a young age. So why?"

"Ben-"

Ben shook his head. "I need to hear this Susan." He then looked back to Naruto, he did not hold Naruto accountable nor did he see him as the villain. But he knew what a child soldier represented, fighting and killing was all they knew. So he needed to make sure, make sure that Naruto was going to snap at any moment. "So why?"

Naruto sat quietly for a few moments as if not going to answer, before he released a sigh of defeat. "There nine beasts in my world. Bijū, Tailed Beasts." He translated for both Ben and Susan. "Nine creatures made of pure Chakra. Shukaku the Ichibi, One Tails." He raised one finger.

"Matabi the Nibi, Two Tails. Isobu the Sanbi, Three Tails. Son Gokū the Yonbi, Four Tails. Kokuō the Gobi, Five Tails. Saiken the Rokubi, Six Tails. Chōmei the Nanabi, Seven Tails. Gyūki the Hachibi, Eight Tails. And strongest of all Kurama the Kyūbi, Nine Tails." He listed off each of the Bijū and while doing so lifted an additional finger.

"Each had power to destroy armies alone." Naruto continued as Susan and Ben listened. "Shinobi learn to harness Bijū power by sealing in a baby called, Jinchūriki, Human Sacrifice." He pointed his finger at himself and neither knew what to say.

"When born, Kyūbi attacked village. Village leader, Yondaime Hokage, my father sealed Kyūbi in me and meant to be hero." His smile became sardonic and wistful. "Village lost many in fight against Kyūbi, so they turned hatred to next best thing."

"You." Ben finished and Naruto nodded.

There was silence that descended upon the three of them. Neither Susan or Ben able to say anything. Both feeling great pity for what Naruto had to go through, yet from the looks of things did not want it. Ben and even Susan to a lesser extent could sympathise with that. In their years of fighting, had suffered hardships that would make people pity them. However, they never wanted any, they had overcome their hardships and were in the past. No point pitying them for something that in the past.

"They took you to be trained to protect yourself didn't they?" Susan asked for clarification.

The look on Naruto's face told them that that was not the only reason. "Yes and no. Yes, I need protection from villagers because of Kyūbi. But Jinchūriki weapons for village. The best and strongest. One man armies."

"So you were taken out of your village not only for your protection, but also because you were being trained to be your villages ultimate weapon against your enemies?" Naruto nodded his head and Ben did the same, his face contemplating.

Naruto sat on his chair looking from both Susan to Ben. He could see that Susan was going to force him to leave, she actually seemed more dead set on keeping him here, which was fine by him. If it meant he got to look at her and be in her presence more often then he would take it. Ben on the other hand, Naruto didn't know what to expect from the walking, talking pile of rocks.

"Fancy a spar?" Ben finally asked with his face twisting into a challenging smirk and Naruto's face morphed into one also.

"Sure, big guy." Naruto stood up and followed Ben down to the training room while Susan looked at the two in confusion.

Eventually she just shook her head and followed after them. 'Boys will be boys I guess.' She thought exasperatedly. Honestly confused on how they had gotten to this point, but glad they had. She didn't really have the heart to send Naruto back to the Negative Zone, which they would have had to have done if it had been revealed he was a threat. She was glad to see that Ben was at least willing to let him stay.

A/N: So another story and it's a Marvel and Naruto one. Now I'm just going to say that Naruto's upbringing is very different than the canon Naruto, which you will have already gathered from the last part of the chapter and earlier hints throughout the chapter. This won't be the only difference as you'll see that neither Naruto nor Kurama have the greatest relationships with one another. They respect each other's strength, but like stated. Kurama hates that he is stuck inside another human and Naruto isn't a fan of Kurama's favourite past time, destroying villages and people inside them.

As a result, Samehada who is much like an older sister to Naruto in this story, does have to play mediator between the two as you've already probably figured out. However, that's not to say Naruto and Kurama hate each other. No, they've spent years fighting beside one another and years trapped in the Negative Zone so they have grown close. the best way to think of their relationship is as antagonistic brothers. They care for one another, they would just rather die than admit it.

Now for those of you who are reading my Authors Notes, Kurama will not be making much of an appearance in these early chapters, neither will Samehada. This is because Kurama is currently sulking and brooding about not getting his way and will only make an appearance when Naruto begins to start fighting again, which he will do. As for Samehada, she will pop up now and again but not majorly.

As for Naruto, he's going to be a bit of non-fighter for most of the early chapters until he starts to become a hero. This is because Naruto has been fighting his entire life and wants to have a period of peace, preferably not having to fight again on his part, but Naruto is a fighter and will eventually fight again so don't worry.

Then we get to the timeline of my story. I'll be tsking popular comic bok storylines and the MCU films and try to incorporate them into my story. Most of the films won't have Naruto personally taking part in, but will be mentioned in passing. But teams like the Avengers haven't been formed yet, so Naruto will be part of that founding team. Though eventually he will go out and form his own team.

As for the harem, so far I plan of having Naruto paired with:

Susan Storm (Invisible Woman) – Who has currently gone through a break up with Reed a month before my "canon" started. So expect Reed to be a bit of a no show when Naruto is around because of his jealousy.

Mary Jane Watson – She's a redhead and hot, I also have plans to change her character due to Naruto's influence on her as well as giving her some sort of ability, possibly the Witchblade which is part of its own comic universe, but has also made crossover appearances in both Marvel and DC.

Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) – Once again, her character will undergo some changes due to Naruto having an influence on her which will help to build up their relationship. Also I'll probably give her some sort of power boost, but much like MJ that won't be until later on in the story.

Jean Grey (Pheonix) – Redhead, I have a thing for redheads if you can't tell. Also I feel like in most of Jeans appearances in comics, she always gets fucked over by both the good and the bad guys. Seriously the marvel comic book authors have made a powerful woman character that they can't seem to pair with any person or join any team for a long period of time without unbalancing it. So I'll be definitely try to sort out that problem.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter because I had a lot of fun writing it. If you did, please leave a review and let me know what you thought as constructive criticism is always helpful to make this story better.