"BREAKING NEWS! The Gang-Leader, known as "The Schemer" has been reported dead, apparently accidentally caused in a fight between two other super-heroes. New York's Favorite Hero Spider-Man, and the new "Child-Ninja" Kuron. The authorities are still trying to find out the story, and it has been reported that the two heroes were seen fleeing the scene. This is Sam Spar-" The television was turned off in the large conference room where a meeting was being held. The remote was found in the hand of The Rose, the new Leader of the Akatsuki. Around the table were all his... subordinates. So far they had made exponential progress in amassing followers and now were debating new recruits to fill the remaining General positions that were left.

"I say that we talk to the Vulture! He could be a vital asset to our organization!"

"That bird would only be a hindrance to our plans! We need someone more sophisticated! I've heard that Mysterio is around these parts he could be a grea-"

A single rap of knuckles on wood, from the head of the table made the conversation lull, immediately. The Rose stood from his chair and walked around the table and stopped at the other end. He stared at the rose in his hands for a short while before he started to talk.

" We will contact...The Rhino, Tombstone, The Spot, Mysterio, The Juggernaut, and...Deadpool" There was silence. The Rose looked around to find that Otto and Flint were barely suppressing their smirks, Norman was grinning, Dmitri kept his face neutrally reserved, but Kraven...

'The boss needs to do something about Kraven...Hmmm...' The Rose thought of a plan that he could suggest as he made his way back to his seat.

"Meeting adjourned. You will all receive your individual assignments later. You are all...dismissed." All the villains rose and left the room. As the door closed behind them, Venom's form shimmered and materialized into view, in the opposite chair of The Rose.

"Deadpool? I have yet to hear of him. Exactly what does he do?" The Rose chuckled and spoke calmly,

"Whatever he wants."

Deadpool was making his way down the roa-

"Stop. I don't like narrators"

..He was making his way down the road thinki-

"LALALALALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

...He was mocking the "imaginary author" whe-

"I KNOW YOU AREN'T IMAGINARY! COME ON OUT YOU ASSHOLE!" As Deadpool continued to rant and rave from his posititon in the middle of a busy street in New York City, two figures in black cloaks with red clouds embroidered on them, observed him with grimaces on their faces. As the mercenary was honked at by an angry driver the two made their move. They moved very quickly and almost blurred to either side of him. They then simultaneously, launched punches at him. Deadpool leant back and was caught by surprise when they both kicked as well. He was hit and launched into an alley.

He skidded before he was stopped by a garbage bin. He quickly stood and unsheathed his swords when he felt a package flying at him. He caught it with his arms and was surprised to see... three bags of TACOS! He happily sat down on the wet and grimy alley floor and proceeded to eat only taking his mask off of his mouth. He looked up at his two new friends, for only friends brought tacos, and invited them to sit down with him. One did, but the other stood warily a ways away. Good thing he did or he to would of been slashed at.

"AHHHH! WHAT THE FUCK!" The cloaked one sitting by Deadpool shrieked as his arm was cut off. Deadpool said nothing until he swallowed his taco.

"That's what you get for kicking me!" Otto watched the clearly insane man and debated whether he should interfere.

"You knew his arm would regrow then?" Deadpool looked at his victim, only to see his arm reform from sand. He looked at his sword, back to the arm, and at his sword one more time, before he slashed again. Already wary Flint leapt back, and shouted to Otto, "I'M OUT OF HERE!"

Deadpool sniffled as the bad man flew away as sand. He felt a hand on his shoulder and saw the other caped-crusader.

"If you join our team, you get a cloak...and you can attempt to dismember the Sandman again."

Deadpool's eyes flared with determination. He would cut that man's arm off...AND use it as litter for a litter box. He quickly pulled out a gun and shot high into the heavens aiming for the "narrator" he believed to be just out of sigh-

"DAMN YOU NARRATOR!"

Norman smiled, it felt good to be back in his old outfit. It was such a nice feeling, and what made it better was flying on his old glider. Of course fleeing from an enraged psychopath in a Rhino get-up didn't exactly make it a Sunday stroll. Norman instinctively dove lower as a large bus flew over his head. Turning his head behind him, he yelled at Kraven, who was holding onto the back of his glider,

"FIGHT! You're a hunter, aren't you?" Kraven glared up at the green super villain, and started to form a comeback until a dose of webbing hit him in his face. He was pulled down sharply from a tug on the opposite end of the web. As he went down his grip on the glider brought it down with him causing the Green Goblin to ram into a building. As Kraven stood up and the Goblin got out of the rubble, Spiderman flipped down onto the street and tried to get a grip on the situation.

'Kraven and the Green Goblin working together? Shit, it can't get much worse than tha-' His thoughts were cut off as he quickly back-flipped to dodge a punch from an enraged Rhino.

"What's this? You three have a doomed-to-fail-love-triangle? Awww, I'm so sorry you are all angsty with each other." Spiderman wasn't surprised when Kraven and Rhino growled in anger, but what really got to him was when the Goblin cuffed Kraven on the head and shook his head. Kraven growled, but grudgingly stepped up beside his apparent partner. Then Spiderman noticed it, both super villains had a strange armband on. It was a black cloth with red clouds.

"What is this? You guys going culting now? I thought that went out of style in villains years ago!" Spiderman lunged to the side as a rocket fired at his side. Glancing to the rubble from earlier, he saw the unmanned glider slowly rise from the rubble and make it's way towards the duo. As the Green Goblin got on, Spiderman leapt and punched Kraven straight on the nose as the hunter tried to grip onto the glider when it moved to escape. Spiderman tried to bring the retreating glider back down only to get blindsided by an enraged Rhino and thrown into Kraven. The glider started to circle in the air as Kraven wiped the blood from his nose and glared at his adversaries.

Rhino was the first to break ranks and charged at Kraven. Leaping into action Kraven lunged to the right and rolled only to lose his footing as Spidey attempted to web him. He barely dodged the web and managed to throw some smoke-bombs but was side-swipped by a tackle from the Rhino. He was thrown into a building and almost loss consciousness. His honed senses allowed him to barely escape a stomp from the Rhino before all the fighters froze. A small, seemingly paper-thin disk was making its way through the air. Amazingly it split into three equally sized disks and made its way to each fighter. The Rhino was staring at it in confusion, but Spider-man quickly recognized the portal for what it was.

Suddenly, bleach white spotted appendages flew out from the spots in front of the Rhino and Spidey knocking them back on their asses. Thanks to his spider-sense Spidey was able to roll with the punch, but the Rhino's ears were still ringing. Looking at the portal, Spider-man saw the Spot step out of his portal wearing a black cloak with red clouds as Kraven and the Green Goblin calmly walked into it.

"Sorry Spider-man! I can't let you hurt those that work for my liberator! This time my friends won't be so weak! I'll be anticipating our next meeting! Farewell!" The Spot turned and walked through the portal.

Spidey sighed, and stood, only to quickly follow a fleeing Rhino.

Kraven grunted as another punch drove all the wind from his lungs. He fell onto his knees and glared up angrily at Rose, as Doc Ock's tentacles held his arms up. He spat out some blood when the Rose hit him a last time.

"It is disappointing to see such... poor results from the 'World's Greatest Hunter'... Kraven what are we going to do with you?"

He ignored Kraven's silent glare and turned to face the outside window. His eyes narrowed as he saw in the reflection, a form flicker into sight for the briefest of moments in the corner farthest from the window. He slowly brought his hand up, with a piece of paper that wasn't there previously, and scanned it over.

"Hm...yes this will do. Know Kraven that I am a merciful leader, and will give you one more chance... You must prove that you are worthy of your position... Your new target is an annoying enemy..." The Rose met Kraven's eyes with a monotonous stare.

"I hope you can bring down a steel man Kraven, alive that is..."

Kraven's eyes narrowed, and he shook off Ock's helping hands and stormed out of the room. After nodding to Rose, Ock left and headed to his own quarters. The room was silent for a while, until Venom phased into sight in the corner, and crossed his arms.

"Good job Rose...That was a mean right hook." Ignoring his boss' comment, Rose turned and looked back to the landscape.

"You do know that Kraven will fail correct? His pride won't let him see it, but he will lose." Venom chuckled and made his way back into the shadows...

"I plan on it."

Naruto walked the streets of New York in his true form. He had slightly modified it though with a henge. He lacked any distinctive traits; he didn't have his "whiskers" and his hair was a much commoner shade of blonde. He also aged himself ten years, to appear to play the part of the young and upcoming businessman Naruto Uzumaki. The brand new owner of the multi-billion dollar enterprise Qwest Aerospace. Of course, it was a pain gathering all the necessary materials; mostly a birth certificate and a "past".

But now that he had it, his life was very...easy. At least, his life as Naruto Uzumaki. Living as both the teen hero Kuron, that the city was beginning to adore, and as Venom...who actually didn't see much action...

Yet...

Anyways, he was on his way to take another step on his path to getting back home... As he walked up to the quaint little university, he smiled as he headed into the science department.

He walked through rows of chemicals and microscopes and finally found the man he wanted to see. The scientist stood up, and turned and greeted his guest with a smile.

"Hello, I'm Doctor Connors...How can I help you?"