A Shinobis Creed

Chapter 5

"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."

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Previously, on A Shinobis Creed:

"Naruto-"

"No." He said firmly and Susan looked at him in shock. "Just leave it."

Susan stood at the spot, staring up at his blue eyes before frowning angrily. "I'm not someone you can just brush away, Naruto. You may think that are world is different to yours and maybe you're right. But at the same time, are worlds aren't that different. People die and commit terrible acts every day, you think I don't know that's a natural part of life."

"Natural?!" Naruto barked out, accompanied with a short laugh. "You think it's natural for someone to arrive at an innocent village and slaughter everyone living there. Every man, woman and child simply to gain a strategic advantage. What's natural about that, Susan?"

Susan had no answer and stood their silently, her head slightly lowering as she tried to understand what Naruto had said. It was not difficult, to understand, but it was difficult to imagine Naruto doing just that. Killing men, women and even children, just to gain a strategic advantage? Who would do such a thing?

"That's exactly my point." Naruto continued, finally breaking the silence that had descended amongst them. "I'm not a hero, nor am I a good guy who killed simply because he was ordered too. I did things men like Ben wouldn't have thought of nor imagined doing because I'm not either of those things. I'm not a good guy nor a hero."

Silence descended amongst them both once more.

A few times Susan tried to speak, her mouth opening to say something only for her to second guess herself. Eventually, Naruto grew tired of waiting for her to speak and walked straight past her into the bathroom, leaving Susan alone to look at the door that had closed behind him.

Sighing, Susan left the room unsure of what to do or to say and so, decided to do nothing.

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Naruto could admit, the nightlife of Queens was certainly something to admire, it held a certain beauty to it that while strange was enjoying to watch. Tall buildings that reached out to the sky, the sight of numerous lights creating a similar sight to that of the stars in the sky, the moonlight shining down upon the city below and the sight and sound of the busy streets all mixed in perfect harmony.

He had grown to enjoy such sounds and sights, it reminded him that there was life here.

By the time his fight against Kaguya had drawn to a close, they had been the only two living beings left in the Elemental Nations. It was just a barren wasteland and he stood victoriously over the beaten Kaguya, yet at the same had been defeated himself. He had lost everything and therefore, victory meant nothing.

Here, there were people he cared for. Johnny, Ben, Peter, Mary and Susan, though considering he and Susan had not talked to one another for the last few days, he was not sure where they stood in that department.

His eyes scanned over the city once more from his position on the highest building, looking for signs of anything of interest. Despite his powers mostly being used for destruction purposes, Naruto had learned a way to enhance his eyesight even further with Chakra to the point he could make out far away objects clearly.

And like most nights, his eyes landed on the figure of the Spider-Man swinging from building to building with an ease that was shocking. Like most nights, Naruto found himself curious, who was Spider-Man? The man under the mask? Unlike most nights however, Naruto found himself more curious than before.

Perhaps it was the fact that he had not had much luck in finding Peters uncles killer or killers. Perhaps it was the fact that Naruto had allowed his professional curiosity to grow too great to the point that he could not stop himself from wanting to know more? Who knows.

All Naruto knew was, that one moment he was stood watching over the city looking for criminals to take his frustrations out upon and the next, he was chasing after Spider-Man.

Despite Spider-Man's great speed and his downright terrifying degree of dexterity, agility, strength and reflexes that would allow him to move at such speeds throughout the city, Naruto quickly caught up. His method of jumping from building to build was just far too energy efficient and effective for Spider-Man's swinging to keep up. Especially seen as though it seems the masked vigilante was not quite used to moving at such speeds. Every now and again, he would let go of the rope a little too early or a little too late and drastically reduce his speed or have to reduce his speed in order to survive the fall as a result.

Still, as he ran alongside Spider-Man, making sure to keep himself far enough away out of sight, Naruto wondered what exactly he was going to do. He was not a vigilante or a hero. He had ensured that no one knew he was behind the killings of the many criminal gangs. Many had tried to blame it on Spider-Man, the fact that the reports of gunfire from where the killings happened were on the opposite side of the city to where Spider-Man had been sighted had quietened those rumours.

Even then, that had not all of them as some were still claiming that Spider-Man was behind the deaths of the criminal gangs and many said that he was no better than the criminals themselves and wanted him put behind bars.

It was one of the reasons why Naruto had kept himself out of the media. Even then, many had started to talk about a second vigilante they called the Wraith that went around killing criminals. He was honestly torn on what he thought about the name they had given to the second mysterious vigilante that referred to him. On one end of the spectrum, he thought it was a cool code name if a little cringy. On the other end, he did not like being called a hero or a vigilante.

He was neither

Naruto did not kill those people to stop them from hurting people. At first, it had been about revenge, a need to find out who had killed Ben and then tying up loose ends, after all, if he had let them live they may go and try to hurt Peter or May in retaliation. Then, after he had started to grow annoyed at the lack of progress he made in finding information, Naruto instead started to take his frustrations out upon them.

It was not heroic what he was doing. Saving people was simply a result of his actions, not the main aim of them. A hero was someone who purposely went to save someone, he did not.

The sound of someone shouting for help caught his attention and he looked down at a small alley to see a woman getting cornered by a group of men. She was a relatively pretty thing, average in terms of overall look and figure, nowhere near on the level of Susan or MJ. But still pretty.

It was not difficult to figure out what the group of five thugs cornering her in the alley were planning to do. Even from this distance he could make out their lecherous expressions and from what he could sense of their emotions, they practically screamed their intentions.

His eyes than panned to Spider-Man to see what he would do and saw that the vigilante had already started swinging down in the direction of the scene.

Moving closer to get a better look at how Spider-Man fought, he positioned himself on the top of the building and watched from above as Spider-Man took out the thugs with ease. It was not due to superior fighting skill, oh no. In fact, from what he was seeing, Spider-Man was far from a skilled fighter, more of a novice. He threw a punch like someone who was still learning to do so.

He talked far too much as well, which while good for distracting your opponents and stalling for time, also left you slightly vulnerable as well. After all, there was always the risk of running into someone who could turn the tables against you in a battle of words just like in any other battles.

But he was winning due to two things.

The first was his superior physiology. Spider-Man, moved quicker and hit harder than anything of the thugs could hope to do. Hell, Naruto had the suspicion that Spider-Man was at least stronger than him when he was not using Chakra to enhance his strength. He would wager they were about equal in terms of speed, but once again, Spider-Man's agility, reflexes and awareness of his surroundings were off the charts.

The second was that Spider-Man was reacting to attacks that came from his blind spot, dodging them with ease and skill that should not be possible without years of experience. The fact that Spider-Man did not even know how to throw a punch properly told Naruto that experience was something Spider-Man did not have.

So that begged the question, how? He could be a mutant that had only recently discovered his powers, but then again he couldn't be sure. Not all powers were a result of the mutant gene. The Fantastic Four and the Hulk were examples of these.

Still, he would admit that Spider-Man had some serious potential, though if he continued to fight this way he would eventually meet his match.

Though that day would not be today it seems as he finished off the last thug and helped the woman out onto the streets where she waited for the police she had called while Spider-Man fought off the thugs to arrive. He even made it seem like he left the scene, while watching over her from above.

A smart move in all honesty.

The police of Queens had made it clear that Spider-Man was a vigilante that needed to be put behind bars. Many heroes were treated that way when they first started out so it was no surprise. Still, Spider-Man did not let that stop him from ensuring the young woman was safe, even if she did not know that he was watching her.

"You know, some people might think you were a stalker, the way you're watching over her from the shadows." His mouth moved before he could stop himself and Spider-Man jumped backwards to put some distance between him and Naruto while landing in a defensive crouch. "Good reflexes."

Spider-Man looked at the man across from him warily, his body coiled in preparation to either run or fight and Naruto approved of that, it showed the vigilante had talent. "Who are you?" Spider-Man asked and for the first time, Naruto had to wonder how young Spider-Man actually was.

His figure was slim and lean, though there was very clear muscle definition starting to form, no doubt due to swinging through the air like he did. Hell, Naruto would have wagered that he was in his early twenties at least, no older than Naruto himself. Yet, his voice, though muffled clearly showed signs of being someone younger.

Narrowing his eyes, Naruto channeled some chakra to his nose and started to sniff the air. It was a little technique that he and one of his Inazuka ANBU teammates had worked on as a way to make their team more effective. It was nowhere near as good as an Inazuka's, but it got the job done at least and it was safe to say that he was shocked at the results.

"Hey, mister. I asked who you-"

"Peter." It was but a whisper, no one would have been able to pick it up apart from the two on the rooftop and both heard it clearly. While Naruto was looking at his friend dressed as Spider-Man in shock, Peter meanwhile tensed up even further.

Naruto recognised the signs instantly and prepared himself for a chase.

"Nope, don't know who that is. Bye!" He said before firing off something from his wrists that Naruto moved to avoid. In most circumstances he would have avoided them quite easily, in fact he would have avoided them now if it had not been for one simple fact, they were webs. Not actual webs he was sure of that because he caught a glimpse of them being fired from some sort of device underneath Peters red and blue onesie costume, but they certainly acted like webs.

Right at the end, they unfurled like a net and caught Naruto's foot and wrapped around it before sticking it to the ground. The blonde himself was little shocked at how effective the webs were, but for someone like him, it was very easy to escape from.

A kunai appeared in his hand and with one swing that cut through the air brought it down upon the webs sliced through the webbing with ease. From what he had learned from being around Peter and Susan often was that ropes like what Peters webbing acted as had high tensile force, not shear force. And the two were very different, tensile force was how hard you can pull something before it breaks whereas shear force is how hard you can cut something before it breaks.

With his foot now free, Naruto channeled chakra to the bottom of his feet and took off, easily keeping Peter in his sights and even started to catch up with him when his friend started to use his webs to swing from building to building. In most cases, this would be where Naruto would be unable to keep up, but that was if one did not take into account Naruto's ability to defy gravity by sticking to walls with chakra.

And that's exactly what he did.

With a running jump, Naruto leapt from the building he was on and straight to the next building. It was much larger in size and leaping onto the top of it would be all but impossible for him as he was now, but he did not need to jump on top of the building, only to the side. As soon as he reached the side of the building and started his descent to the ground, Naruto stuck one leg out so it braced against the window and channeled chakra to it and to the shock of anyone watching, began running across the building, parallel to the ground.

Peter himself looked back to see Naruto keeping up with him and looked at him in shock. 'What the hell?! What kind of powers does he have? Is he similar to me?' Sticking to buildings like that was not out of Peters realm of ability or understanding. He himself could crawl up the building very quickly, yet running on it, that was completely different though it did get him wondering, could he do the same?

"Look out!" Naruto shouted and Peter turned around to see that he was about to swing straight into a building.

Reacting quickly, he fired a second web from his right hand and pulled himself in that direction while simultaneously letting go of the web he was originally holding onto. Even then, it was a close call as he ran across the windows of the building he nearly crashed into while holding onto the web for support.

Naruto released a sigh of relief at this, but none the less looked at Peters swinging form with narrowed eyes. Despite his friends great skill in swinging like he did, he made little mistakes like this that cost him speed. And it was for that reason, that Naruto was closing the gap, but even then, it was not quickly enough for his liking. He would wager that they'd be at this for a good ten to fifteen minutes before Naruto finally caught up and to be honest, he did not feel like doing that.

Seeing that Peter was about swing over a single storey building and would be a safe enough distance above it that a fall would not severely injure or kill him

With one single motion his eyes locked onto the rope while summoning a kunai from his storage seal tattoo on his arm and flung it straight at the rope. It was a serious of motions that would have taken a novice minutes too achieve, but from many years of practise Naruto made it seem like one seamless motion.

The kunai whistled through the air and as Peter swung at his lowest point, his feet a few metres above the building rooftop, the kunai cut through the web.

"Woah!" Peter looked at the cut web in surprise as his body crashed into the rooftop and rolled across it before coming to a stop. "Ow." He groaned out before looking to see the masked individual landing across from him. "What's the big idea, you could have killed me!"

Despite Peter not being able to see it, Naruto's lips twitched upwards slightly. "You wouldn't have, I timed it perfectly so that the fall would have only given you a few minor bruises at worse. Besides, you're Spider-Man, you should be able to take a few knocks like that." Peter said nothing and once again, Naruto watched his eyes flicker around. "There's no use trying to run, I'd just catch up to you again and pull the same trick. Besides, I just want to talk."

"Alright." Despite his words, Peter did not let his guard drop and warily watched the masked figure. "You can start by telling me how you knew who I was."

"That's obvious." Even with the mask on, Peter could tell the guy was finding this amusing. "I recognised your scent."

"My scent?" Peter questioned dubiously. "How do you know what I smell like?"

He tensed up when he saw the masked figure move and watched as he raised one arm up to his face and grasped the mask. Then he pulled it away revealing the face of his best friend. "No way." He gasped out in shock as he stared at Naruto's easygoing smile. "Naruto?"

"Yo." The blonde greeted with a wave of his hand. "Surprising, huh?"

"Yea." Peter whispered out, unable to believe that his best friend had powers. He had suspected, but he did not know if it was true, but that begged the question of what exactly his powers were, how long he had had them and why he was dressed up like a vigilante? "You're trying out this hero stuff too?"

Naruto chuckled. "Not exactly." He then shook his head. "But come on, Peter. Is that all you want to ask?" Peter still looked at Naruto in shock, still trying to process what he was seeing. "Huh, it's not that shocking, is it? I mean, you've been out fighting crime, is it so shocking that I've been doing the same in my own way?"

Shaking his head, Peter allowed his body to finally relax. "I guess not, it's just I haven't heard anything about another vigilante in Queens, except for rumours about that Wraith guy. How long have you been doing this for? Have you just started out and why the hell did you cut my web like that? It wasn't exactly a comfortable landing!" Towards the end, his voice rose in both pitch and volume, the shock of his friends revelation wearing off.

"Wow, way to go at getting your priorities straight." Naruto snarked and Peter mocked laugh.

"Ha ha, very funny." Smirking, Naruto shrugged his shoulders.

"Well you didn't stop even though I told you I just wanted to talk." Peter looked a little sheepish at that reminder. "Besides, I would still be chasing you for at least another ten minutes and to be honest, that's sound more troublesome than productive. So, I went for the easy option and just cut your preferred way of travelling in half, literally."

"And if you missed and hit me, or cut the web too late or too early and I ended up falling to my death or being badly injured, what then?" Peter asked and Naruto smirked.

It was only a brief instance and yet Peter saw what looked to be some sort of metal object appear in Naruto's hand before he flicked them in his direction. And they moved incredibly fast, the amount of force required to throw them that fast was insane and the suddenness of the movement meant that Peter could not react in time.

Then, he heard the repeated thunk of metal embedding into stone and looked behind him to see the stars embedded deep into the stone. From what his eyes could make out based on where his body was positioned, even if he had reacted in time he would not have escaped unharmed.

There was one above his head height, if he jumped he would have been hit.

There were three on his left at varying heights, head, chest and leg, if he moved in that direction he would have been hit.

Same for the right.

And then there was a final one, embedded around his thigh height and so, if he had tried to duck he would have been hit.

It was only after carefully looking at the bottom one a few more times and conjuring up a mental image of where it must have passed by that his face paled rapidly. "You could have hit my dick, you asshole!" This only served to make Naruto burst out into laughter. 'But why the hell didn't my spider senses react in time for me to dodge? I'm glad they didn't, but they've never not reacted, even when MJ was going to harmlessly hit me over the top of her head to wake me up, they didn't react. So why didn't they now?'

"I'm sorry, but that's too funny." Naruto said after finally calming down from his laughing fit. "Oh dear, I haven't laughed like that in a while." Wiping a tear from his eye, Naruto studied Peter's face and could see the confusion. "You're wondering as to why you didn't react, aren't you?"

Peter nodded his head silently, still trying to figure it out.

"Well it's actually very simple." This got Peters attention. "You see, your reaction time and reflexes as you know, are insanely refined to the point that even I'm envious of them. But one thing I noticed in school and when I watched you fight those thugs, especially after the incident with MJ is that you only react when someone's about to hit you. Even MJ, despite being your friend was going to hit you over the top of the head with her book to wake you up and you reacted to the threat without even realising." Naruto explained and Peter understood where he was going with this.

"Yea, I've noticed that when I'm awake, my Spidey senses don't react to my friends hitting me like you do when you punch me in the shoulder." The smaller boy shot Naruto a mock glare only to receive a cheeky smile in return. "But when I'm asleep, I react to all threats whether they be from my friends or not."

"Yea, I was going to say that when you're awake you can control the urge to react, but from what you're saying that's not the case and that's not a good thing. You're going to want to be able to deal with that." Naruto prompted getting a confused look from Peter, but he never went into more detail about it. "But still, your 'Spidey senses' didn't react to my Shuriken because they were never going to hit you. I've trained to gain pinpoint accuracy to the point that I can hit one shuriken into another midair to change its direction to strike a target hiding behind cover. So believe me, your dick was safe."

Flushing, Peter coughed uncomfortably and changed the subject away from the possible impalement of his private parts. "So, how long have you been a vigilante for?" He was curious about how Naruto trained, but right now it was not exactly the best place to be having the conversation. It was late and there was a crime about so he would rather save this conversation for another time.

"A week, give or take." Naruto looked at the moon before giving a shrug. "I'll see you around, Spider-Man." With a wave, Naruto turned around and leapt across the buildings, Peter himself watching with wide eyes. He knew that Naruto could move fast, after all his friend had managed to keep up with him as he swung through the buildings. Yet seeing just how fast he was moving was an entirely different matter.

"What a night." He mumbled before chuckling lightly. 'Who'd have thought that Naruto would be a vigilante?' Shaking his head in amusement, Peter shot his webs to a nearby building and began to swing through the cities once more. "Then again, the same could be said about me." He spoke out loud. 'Though I wonder, what Naruto's being up to as a vigilante as I haven't heard a thing about anyone else besides me and that Wraith guy. Could Naruto be the Wraith?'

That thought stuck with Peter for the rest of the night and even as he tried to convince himself that Naruto couldn't be a killer, it was always a nagging sensation at the back of his mind.

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"I'll see you tonight, yea?" MJ asked Naruto who was sat on his bike, the school having come to an end as the pupils left to carry on their lives.

"Who's going?" Naruto asked as he looked at MJ, who scrunched her eyes up as she recalled the list. It was a little party that had been organised by MJ for no reason other than the fact that her auntie was gone for the week and so, wanted to get drunk. Currently she was not at the legal age to go out and did not have a fake ID to sneak into night clubs, so instead she was hosting a party at her house.

"All of my friends, except Peter who didn't want to come and you who still hasn't given me an answer despite me asking all week." The redhead gave Naruto a stern look, not noticing Peter walking towards them.

Naruto himself let his eyes flicker to Peter who gave an awkward, apologetic smile in return as a way of saying sorry for avoiding him practically all day.

MJ noticed Naruto's gaze laying elsewhere and turned to look in the direction he was looking to see Peter walking towards them. "Oh, hey Peter." She greeted with a smile that Peter returned.

"Hey, MJ." Peter moved forward and avoided looking at the smirk given to him by Naruto. "You trying to get Naruto to agree to come to your party tonight?" He asked and MJ nodded her head with a frustrated look in her eyes.

"Yes, but this idiot," she pointed a thumb in Naruto's direction. "Is being purposefully irritating and enigmatic." The blonde gave MJ one of his signature cheek grins before standing up and wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

"MJ, I've told you, something might come up." He told her. "So, don't get your hopes up. I'll turn up if I can, but no promises." MJ gave him a light glare before relenting with a sign.

"Alright, but if you don't come you better make it up to me and I'm being serious this time. I won't forgive you just because you give me one of those apologetic smiles and sappy little speeches." She added to this point by crossing her arms and giving him a stern glare.

"Alright, I promise." Raising both hands up in a sign of surrender, Naruto sat down back on his bike.

MJ then turned to Peter. "You sure you don't want to come, I've extended the invite to a certain blonde." Her voice took a little sing song tune to it and Peter flushed a light pink, which only made both of his friends smiles widen. "You're too easy, Peter." MJ laughed.

"N-no, I'm good." Peter muttered and MJ gave them both a wave before leaving. After a few moments of silence, Peter turned to Naruto and noticed his gaze fixed on MJs posterior. "You didn't hear a word she said, did you?"

Chuckling, Naruto shook his head. "Nope. She's hot when she tries to be all stern and stuff, not that she isn't always hot, but you get the picture." Tearing his gaze away from the sight of MJs swinging hips, he turned to look at Peter and cocked his head to one side. "You gonna avoid me again, or you gonna follow me."

"Follow you where?" Peter asked.

"You'll find out." Pulling on his helmet the blonde shinobi revved his bike, enjoying the sound of the roar it gave as it came to life. "You've got those web shooter things with you, right?"

Peter nodded his head.

"Good, follow behind me and I'll start teaching you how to fight properly." He said and it took Peter a few moments to fully realise what Naruto said.

"W-wait, what?" Peter questioned in shock. He had thought for sure that they would be continuing their conversation from last night, not training. But Naruto did not hear him and instead turned to face Peter with a challenging gleam in his eyes.

"Best keep up Peter, otherwise I'm gonna make sure that your trainings not only gonna be painful, but a little humiliating as well." With one last smirk, Naruto drove out of the school gates while Peter looked at him with mouth agape in shock.

It took him a few seconds to register Naruto's words and he cursed. "Shit!" Quickly, he rummaged through his backpack for his web shooters while also rushing out of school and to a small alleyway. "I really hate you sometimes, Naruto."

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The drive from Midtown High to the Baxter building to many would be a long and arduous journey, especially at this time of day. The main streets would be packed with cars and buses as parents collected children from school to bring them home. So in most cases, this journey could have taken a normal person anywhere from half an hour to an hour to complete.

That was unless your name was Naruto Uzumaki.

A long journey like that, turned into a quick fifteen minute drive and this was all down to Naruto being an extremely skilled driver. Using his motorbikes narrow frame to drive in the middle of the road between stationary cars, expertly timing the lights so that he would already be driving through the green lights as soon as they changed and speeding up to pass through them just as they were changing.

To most, Naruto's skill as a motorcyclist would have left many in awe and even envious as they watched him drive past them easily, while they were stuck in traffic.

But for someone like, Peter who was being very careful as to not reveal himself due to not being dressed in his Spider-Man outfit was instead stuck to running along the tops of most buildings, it was tiring. Occasionally, he would have to use his webs to cover a gap that was too big, but even then, Naruto was constantly getting further and further away.

So he was extremely thankful when Naruto finally pulled into a small back alley near the Baxter Building.

Coming to a stop on the roof of a building overlooking the alleyway he allowed himself to bask in the glory of seeing the home of one of the greatest geniuses alive, Reed Richards. It had been a dream of his to see the inside and this was the closest he had gotten to ever seeing the building.

Unlike before, when his uncle had brought him here as a kid, he was not down in the huge pile of tourists taking photos. Being the home of the Fantastic Four, the Baxter building always had a constant large group of tourists just waiting to catch a glimpse of the famous superhero team.

"Peter! You coming down!" Naruto called and a unwillingly, Peter tore his gaze away from the window he was looking through and jumped down into the alleyway by Naruto's side. "What were you doing?"

"I was just looking in the Baxter building, it's amazing you live so close to it." Peter whispered, still in awe of the technology he had seen there. He could name every single bit of the equipment he had seen and what it was capable of and most of it was so expensive he would never be able to afford it. "Why didn't you tell me you lived near the Baxter building, do you know what some of the equipment they have in those windows are. It's amazing."

Smiling, Naruto shook his head before starting to move his bike towards a dumpster. "Hardly any of it works anymore and most of it is fake. It's all put there to act as bait so that any thief that successfully breaks into the Baxter buildings outer defences will only steal said equipment. It's a trick."

"How do you know that?" Peter asked, confused as to how Naruto could even know that information. "Don't tell me you tried to steal from them?"

Naruto's head whipped round and looked at Peter with wide eyes. "What? No! What made you think that?!" Naruto denied loudly and Peter raised his hands up in surrender.

"Hey, it was an honest question. You told me that the equipments fake and is only there to trick thieves, just got me curious as to how you knew that." Peter explained as Naruto finished pulling his bike up behind the dumpster. "I mean, it's not like you live with them so I just made an educated guess."

Naruto said nothing for a few moments making Peter wonder what he was thinking, before Naruto turned around flashing him a smile that Peter had grown to know all too well. A smile he gave when he was planning to obviously prank him.

"What? What did you do?" Peter started to pat down his body to make sure that the blonde had not planted anything on him. "Seriously, stopping smiling like that and tell me what you did."

"Oh nothing." Naruto sang happily, his smile only growing wider. "It's just what you said that I found very funny."

"Funny? Yeah right, I call bullshit on that. I know you Naruto and I know that smile means you've done something or you've got something plann…ed?" his voice trailed off when he saw Naruto place his hand upon the dumpster only to see the metal change shape to that of a biometric scanner. "No way."

With the smile still on his face, Naruto leaned forward slightly and closed his left eye, leaving his right open just as a small section opened up. A red light scanned over his eye, detailing every inch of it before Naruto pulled away once more once it was done

Then, to Peters shock the floor opened up allowing the dumpster to disappear into it revealing what looked to be a high tech elevator where the wall once was. With that, Naruto pushed his bike into the elevator and turned to face Peter. "You just gonna stand there and gape like an idiot or what?"

Blinking, Peter snapped out of his temporary state of delirium and looked at Naruto in confusion. "Huh, oh yeah." Eyes lighting up with understanding as to what this meant, Peter rushed into the elevator and watched as the wall closed, catching a quick glimpse of the dumpster once more rising up from the floor as well.

Naruto then pressed on a button and Peter felt the floor seamlessly start to move.

It was then, that Peter finally snapped out of his state of bewilderment and quickly punched Naruto in the arm as hard as he could. "Ow." Naruto responded, though Peter could tell from the tone of his voice that it did not hurt at all. "What was that for?"

"For keeping this secret, you asshat." Peter snapped. "Guys like Reed Richard and Tony Stark are my role models. Places like the Baxter building are like Disney Land to me. The advancements in technology and science they hold are, well know one knows what Reed and Susan work on. Sure there's the stuff they publish to the public, but everyone knows that for people like those, it's probably not their main project. And you're telling me that in the entire time I've known you, that you not once mentioned that you lived here?"

"Yea." Naruto replied slowly. "But I had a good reason."

"Ok, like what?" Peter did not let up and turned to look at Naruto with a glare in his eyes.

"Reed and Susan aren't just scientists, they're part of the Fantastic Four." Peter rolled his eyes at that obvious piece of information. "What do you think would happen if the media got a hold of the information that the Fantastic Four had a high school student living with them."

Peter winced at what Naruto was getting at. "They'd make a huge deal and let the whole world know." The blonde nodded his head at Peters words. "And that would mean that all of their enemies would come after you and anyone related to you, just to get to them."

"Exactly, it's why you wear a mask, so that people don't know you're Spider-Man." Naruto continued. "Hell, they built this entire elevator just for that very reason, so people like me and those that the Fantastic Four don't want to be publicly seen with for that very reason could get in and out without being seen by the public."

"Ah, I see." Peter replied dumbly. "Sorry."

Shaking his head, Naruto gave Peter a smile. "It's alright, I get why you're mad, but to be honest I didn't want to risk you revealing this information by accident." Peter nodded his head in understanding, knowing that he probably would have accidentally let it slip at one point due to pure excitement about it. "Besides, you're here now."

"That's true." Peter agreed with a large smile on his face.

Once the elevator came to a stop, Naruto pushed his bike forwards and parked it next to one of Johnny's car before directing Peter upstairs. It took a bit longer than usual, mostly because Peter wanted to stop and study every piece of equipment on their way, but none the less they got there eventually.

"So, like where are the Fantastic Four then?" Peter asked one of the question that had been on his mind since the moment they entered and began their little tour. "Because I haven't seen a single one yet."

Naruto took a few moments to think over that question before answering. "Johnny's probably out, same as Ben. Susan will be in her lab at this time and as for Reed, I don't have a clue. Probably in his lab as well, but I honestly couldn't tell you."

"How come?" Peter questioned curiously.

"Well, let's just say that me and Reed don't exactly get along." Peter gave Naruto a look that told him he would have liked to know more, but instead of pushing, Peter instead chose to accept what Naruto said. "So, here we are." Naruto declared, coming to a stop outside of what looked to be a very high tech gym.

"Okay." Peter responded slowly. "What are we doing here?"

"Here. Is where I will start to train you on how to fight properly." Naruto answered with a smile, once again placing his hand on a biometric scanner that once fully analysed, caused the door to slide open.

"Naruto, I'm not in any proper clothing to actually train." He indicated at his jeans and t-shirt.

"And, I'm pretty sure I heard about a certain Spider-Man making an appearance in time to stop a group of robbers before school started. Come to think of it, you also turned up late to first period." Sighing, Peter pulled out his costume out of his backpack and asked where he could get changed. "Just do it here, not like anyone's going to see you."

With another sigh and little embarrassment, Peter began to do so.

Once changed and ready, Peter walked up to Naruto who looked to be mulling over something. Peter did no have a clue what, but he guessed that it was something to do about his training and did not that thought terrifying him a little. If his theory on Naruto being the Wraith was true then that meant he was going to get his ass handed to him.

Peter was pretty confident in his powers and how they helped him in a fight. It allowed him to take on a number of thugs at a time. But from what he had heard, Wraith was taking on entire gangs. Breaking into their headquarters and killing everyone before disappearing. Compared to himself, Peter had only taken on a fraction of the total amount, preferring to stick to small groups as to limit the risk on himself.

While saving people was something he wanted to do, he could not save people if he was dead. Best to make sure he built up some experience first before going after the bigger fish so to speak.

But it seems, he was going to be getting the crash course soon.

"So, what exactly are you going to teach me?" Peter asked curiously and Naruto turned to look at him with a scrutinising gaze that quickly dissolved into a sinister grin that made a shiver run through Peters spine.

"First," Naruto help up one finger. "I need to know what I'm working with and the best way to do that, is through a fight."

Sighing, Peter let his head drop in defeat, the grin on Naruto's face promised a lot of pain. "Why did I know you were going to say that?" He asked rhetorically.

"Because you know me." Naruto answered with a shrug before directing Peter to a large open space. "After that, depending on whether you can walk or not, I'll teach you a fighting style based on what I think would suit you the best. You won't learn it straight away and it could take months to properly learn and then years to master, but seen as though you're deadset on going out there to fight, I'm just gonna have to beat it into you."

"So does that mean I can expect to get my ass handed to me a lot in the coming weeks?" Peter asked while cursing Naruto's existence mentally, already imaging the pain his body will be in. He did not know why, but Naruto had said his statement with an underlying message that told Peter with absolute certainty that not only was Peter going to lose, but it was also going to be humiliating.

"Weeks? Change that to months if not years." Naruto corrected making Peter choke on air in shock. "I train with Ben and Johnny whenever I get the chance, mostly Ben. But there fighting styles are different which is good, gives me more diversity in my opponents and allows me to keep my skills sharp. You on the other hand, I can already tell will have a different fighting style. Sure you have speed and strength, but your reaction time, senses, flexibility and other agility are not suited to either of their styles."

"Like?" Peter questioned, hoping to delay the coming doom he knew he was going to face.

"Ben's a brawler. He use his immense durability to absorb whatever punishment his opponents give him all in the aim of dealing one crushing blow that defeats his opponent in one blow. This works well against opponents weaker than him. Against opponents of equal or greater strength, Ben uses tactics as well as take downs to bring the fight to the floor." Naruto explained.

"Wouldn't that work against him? I mean if he's fighting someone stronger than him, surely grappling with him wouldn't work." Peter questioned and Naruto smiled, happy to see that while Peter was hesitant to fight him, he was definitely willing to learn.

"In most cases, yes. But it all depends on how you do it." Peter still looked confused and so, Naruto went into further detail. "If they grappled while on their feet, then you are right. Ben would be at the disadvantage and it would be entirely too stupid to grapple with them. But that's only if you haven't learned to use their weight to your advantage, which Ben has learned. So on their feet, Ben while at a disadvantage against someone stronger than him, he can still beat them in a straight up grappling contest by using their own weight against them and to bring them to the ground. No matter how strong you are, fighting on the ground is difficult and requires skill that most don't have. But Ben has learned at least a few things to level the playing field."

"Okay, what about the Human Torch? From the videos all it shows is him flying around and firing blasts of fire from his hands. Is that his style?" Peter was not taking anything away from Johnny due to his rudimentary way of fighting. It was effective, not many could withstand waves of fire on par with the sun and so there was no need to get up close and personal.

Naruto nodded his head. "You're right, that is Johnny's preferred way of fighting and to be completely honest, he is terrifyingly effective at it. The speed he can fly at, the overall destruction his powers give him make fighting in close quarters redundant for him. Is he hopeless, no. But his skills are basic at best, mostly to give him time to get away and put some distance between him and his opponent to allow him to get to his prefered range."

Just as Peter was about to ask something else, Naruto clapped his hands together loudly before rubbing them together.

"Enough talking, Peter." Cracking his neck, Naruto clenched his fists by his side, feeling his blood starting to pump faster around his body. "Let's see what you can do."

Gulping, Peter hesitantly nodded his head before dropping down into a basic stance he had copied off one of the YouTube videos he had watched. Despite his best efforts, his plans to stall had failed eventually failed and by the look in Naruto's eyes, Peter could tell that he was in for a world of pain.

A/N: Another chapter done! Took me a bit longer than I would have hoped or likes but due to Christmas being a few weeks away I've been doing a lot of shifts at work and so haven't had much free time. And when I have had free time I've just been too tired to actually write anything. So I apologise for that, life has gotten in the way but I have finally got it done. The next chapter will probably be sometime in January, but if I'm lucky I might be able to get another one out in December.

But anyway, it's out and I actually enjoyed writing this chapter. Not going to lie, the main bulk of this chapter was just the interaction between Naruto and Peter discovering who they are and Peter suspects that Naruto is the mysterious vigilante known as Wraith (not actually going to be his code name, it's just something the media have given they mysterious individual that has gone round killing criminal, someone we know is Naruto). So, that will change so don't worry if you don't like it.

Now, onto the questions:

Alex-Flyppy: The woman in the flashback isn't Anko or Kurenai, but it is a Konoha Kunoichi. I'm not going to tell you who because her name and her entire existence is key to Naruto's development. Right now, he has a lot of emotional baggage that as he said to Peter is just ignoring. He's not even trying to face it, in the Negative Zone he distracted himself by waging a one man war against Annihlus and now on earth, he spends his time partying and sleeping with various women on nights out with Johnny around New York and as of recently, killing criminals. He's not trying to work through his emotional baggage, but at the same time his newly formed friendships are forcing him to remember those he lost. The women in the flashback and the memories connected to her are the core of Naruto's emotional problems and therefore, her identity will be kept secret for a while.

Joe Lawyer: You're right about that and to be completely honest, I didn't think of that and you're right, I may not mention it, but I will probably elude to that being the case later on. Not showing Naruto specifically doing it or writing additional details into the scene, but instead, just dropping hints that Naruto has being stealing the funds left behind. So thank you for that, it's when people point out things like this that really help.

And yes, Naruto does know how to create storage seals. Unlike what has become a bit of a Fanfic troupe, Naruto isn't naturally gifted at seals. Instead, Naruto is pretty mediocre more suited to being a frontline fighter. However, Naruto does have more knowledge than most in part due to his father, mother and his late sensei, Jiraiya having passed on their knowledge to him. Though he is nowhere as skilled as them as he has focused most of his time on developing his Taijutsu and Ninjutsu.

As for Naruto, he hates himself, there's little hints and clues about this without me coming out and putting it in dialogue or exposition that he does. He regrets a lot of things and is sick of fighting. He spars with Ben an Johnny, yes, but he's sick of killing and fighting to defend something. He's not interested in that and while I haven't got round to saying it, Naruto is a little on the reckless, borderline suicide range.

Someone jumping in and taking on an entire warehouse filled with fully armed thugs isn't considered a sane move. Sure guys like Daredevil, Spider-Man and other heroes have done it, but if it wasn't for their skill sets and powers, they would died eventually. Naruto isn't interested in securing his safety because a part of him wants to die, even if he's not fully aware of it.

Xud10a: No, Naruto doesn't have the Sage of Six Paths mode or the Sun Mark. Naruto is capable of using the full power of Kurama's chakra and combining it with Sage Mode, but he doesn't have the Six Paths or Sun Mark. But even then, without this significant power boost, Naruto through years of hard work and training, has managed to fight Kaguya without said power boost through sheer trickery. However, the reason I say Naruto would lose against Thanos despite this is because Kaguya is pretty unaware of how to properly use her powers from what I inferred and was also, not a warrior. Thanos is, he's a conqueror, a tyrant with years of experience on the battlefield and for this reason, Naruto would lose. Naruto is weaker than Thanos, but he would use his broad range of techniques to trick and lure Thanos into traps, despite the Mad Tyrant being far stronger. Yet, Thanos is also insanely smart and would be able to use this to escape and defeat Naruto if this makes sense.

It's not all about brute strength in a battle. Tactics and strategy are just as important and Naruto has shown a skill for that in cannon. This Naruto is equally as tactically gifted, if not more so, yet Thanos isn't a dumb brute who doesn't understand his powers like Kaguya is.

SonicMax: Because I wanted to, yea I like MJ and Peter together but I was always more of a Peter and Gwen fan which is what I'm going for.

tamagat: Probably, but he won't go full on Iron Man or some shit like that. No, Naruto will probably have little gadgets that can only be used in certain tricky situations that can't be solved with Ninjutsu or his fists.

Sandman001: I'm not going to do that, it's a little cringe and cheesy. No, Naruto and Susan's relationship still has a long way to go and to be honest, Naruto's relationships for a while are going to be purely physical, with measures of affection, but not all out love for one another after they have sex. But no, Naruto and Susan won't have sexy in such a way.

Blaze1992: No, Naruto won't join anyone like S.H.I.E.L.D or the Avengers, but will be more like a partner and ally. While the media and whatnot, may consider him a part of this team or that, in actual fact it was more a matter of circumstance. For example, Naurto and the X-Men had the same enemy and ran into each other while hunting he/she/it down and decided to work together to get the problem solved, but once it's all over, they go seperated ways.

Probably, I've got a few things in mind, but they may be one off instances. Like the super OP weapons he will probably use to save the day and then seal them away to stop anyone else from using them. But he will probably use little gadgets to help solve a tricky situation that can't be solved with ninjutsu or his fists.

He will get involved with the mutant issue, though he probably won't create a third faction. He'll be more of a rogue element that tips the scales of whatever side he joins with.

Yes, Blade and Ghost Rider will be a part of the universe, though they won't take centre stage. More like a few scenes here and there over the course of the entire story, never being a part of the main group, but as outliers that have been mentioned in passing.

xSean: When I say that MJ will eventually get powers, I mean way in the future when Naruto is going up against guys like Thanos. Right now, Naruto is done adapting to the world and is starting to take on the role as Peters mentor. That means fighting low level thugs and Spider-Mans rogue gallery while also making waves in the sue ornery community. So there will be no overarching villains just yet. Therefore, yes, MJ will be Naruto's Achilles heel of a sort and will result in both going through some character development.

As for Naruto being there as a tag-along, think of him doing what Kakashi did to Team 7 in the Wave arc right at the start. The Demon Brothers attacked and Kakashi let himself get 'killed' as to let him see how his team would react and deal with the situation. Naruto will be teaching Peter how to fight, but when out fighting crime, Naruto will not interfere. Mainly he will be watching to see how Peter deals with the situation while making sure no one interferes, then if Peter really needs his help, like peters about to die kind of help, then Naruto will step in to stop things.

So yes, in a way he will kind of be a tag-along, but this next arc is about peters development in strength as a hero and Naruto's development as a teacher, which is a role he never had to step into before. He may act all confident in this chapter, but you'll notice that he wants to spar Peter. He doesn't know how to properly teach someone and so, did something he knows best, sparring. What Naruto would have done if he was a teacher, would be to actually teacher Peter a proper style, after all he's already seen Peter fight when he fought against those thugs. Sure he didn't see Peters full strength or speed, but there are easier ways to do that, than through a spar. This excuse of wanting to see what Peter can do is a ruse to cover up Naruto's own lack of knowledge on how to teach someone.

Deathjest: If you mean Sasuke's mother, Mikoto then no. She's long since dead by that point.

OgFrosty: No, not really. To be honest, I just submit a chapter once I've finished and edited it. I don't have a lot of free time, so it makes it really difficult to have a set schedule.

Guest: Yes, because in the Elemental Nations all the people Naruto knew where capable of defending themselves. And in the Marvel Universe, that's also the same. Having people like MJ in the harem is part of Naruto's development as a character. But yes, eventually they will get powers when we get to some of the more ridiculously overpowered villains.

Ezeakel: Because I want to show that Naruto's arrival has changed things. Reed and Susan were having a bit of a rough patch like most relationships do and if it wasn't for Naruto's arrival, they would have patched things up, gotten married and had a little reality warping baby known as Franklin. But Naruto's arrival changed that and Reed's jealousy is consuming him, he isn't perfect despite his genius and its that flaw that will result in him becoming a villain. Now, not full on supervillain with no moral, but more of someone who just wants revenge against Naruto and no one else.

Reed is the start of Naruto's very own rogues gallery and will be the Green Goblin to Naruto's Spider-Man, if you know what I mean.

Hope this clears up any questions you had and if not, please let me know in a review so that I can try and answer them as best as I can. So, once again just to let you know, the next chapter will probably be out sometime in January because Christmas is just around the corner, but it all depends on how much free time I get. Who knows, we may get lucky and get another chapter before Christmas. Either way, have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.