The Shadow-Fox

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Justice League

A/N I have just decided to re-post two chapters of this story because I thought that having mystic in the title was unnecessary as Naruto does not gain magical powers.

the Chapter 1: The End

At one time they had been friends, but like a dream they fell into slumber. One of them, so caught up in his hatred for one man allowed himself to be seduced by the words of a traitor and betrayed his home for power. The other one, driven by a promise to bring his friend back home to prevent a terrible mistake, became the light so as to guide the other from his hatred.

In a place where the land was ripped asunder by a battle fought between the founders of their village, they fought and bled for the first time. The dark powers that were called upon in that battle were such that the land had nearly been torn apart again by the two children's final clash calling forth a massive explosion which signified the end of the battle. Even though the boy who tried to save his friend refused to admit it, the friendship they had forged together had ended that day but he refused to believe it and started a fruitless quest of salvation.

For years they trained, one to save his friend, the other to kill the man who had taken everything he held dear. They met again the second time, both more powerful than the last time they had met, and fought again. One fought for his continued vengeance that had turned its sights to the home he had betrayed, and the other one fought to reaffirm his desire to save his friend. The battle was intense with both warriors calling upon even greater powers than the last time, but once again the battle came to a draw.

Now three years after the last battle that was held there the two warriors stood atop the statues of the founders of their home ready to do battle once more.

In the Valley of the End stood two giant statues that faced each other holding up a hand-seal as they stood taller than the waterfall between them. The two statues depicted two middle aged men who both wore a form of samurai armor. Aside from the armor all similarities between the two statues ended and both became the total opposite of the other.

On the right side stood the statue of the Shodaime Hokage, and the first and last user of the Mokuton bloodline, Hashirama Senju. He was a handsome man with long straight hair and subtle age lines and a stoic look on his face. It was an imposing image that befitted the man he had been when he was alive and when he had died fighting for his village.

On the left stood the founder of the Uchiha clan, and the first recipient of the Mangekyo Sharingan, and the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Madara Uchiha. He too was a handsome man but in a slightly more feral way than his stone counterpart with his long spiky hair smooth face and his own stoic look as well. His image was intimidating which also befitted the man he was alive, but unlike the Senju, he died betraying the village that he helped to create.

On top of the statues of the two founders of Konohagakure no Sato stood two men. Both had the air of hardened war veterans who had taken up their weapons again just to face down their last enemy. These two men who stood on top of the co-founders of their village were none other than Sasuke Uchiha, the last true Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, son of the Yondaime Hokage and the last true heir to the Uzumaki.

Sasuke, who stood on top of the statue of Madara Uchiha, had not changed much since his and Naruto's last battle. He still wore his black Anbu pants, and robe like top which had the Uchiha's red and white fan symbol printed on the back with a purple rope wrapped around his waist and tied into a bow to act as a belt. On his waist he carried a chokutou in its black and white sheath and on his left wrist he wore a storage seal that carried the rest of his ninja supplies. The only real difference about him was that his hair was shoulder length and in a pony-tail to keep it from flying around in battle.

Naruto stood on top of Hashirama Senju had had a more drastic change than his former ally that stood across from him. His hair was still golden blonde and spiky but now had two bangs that fell past his tilted hitai-ate and framed his face, and his only visible eye was still a deep pure blue, and his right eye being covered by his hitai-ate similar to the way his sensei, Kakashi, used to cover his Sharingan. Instead of a black and orange jumpsuit he now wore a customized black and white skintight body armor that was normally worn by Anbu operatives, a red coat with black flames sewn into the hem and a white spot on the back with the Uzumaki spiral clan symbol, and hanging around his neck was a long, decorative, orange scarf that was wrapped around twice so that it could cover his lower face.

On his back, the black handle of a katana could be seen before it disappeared into his red coat, and within the coat there were hundreds of storage seals which held all of his ninja supplies. On his right leg there was a holster that held his kunai held there by bandages as the only form of weaponry or supplies, except the katana, that was not sealed into the coat. But the biggest change of all was his eye, instead of the warm eyes that were pleading for his friend come home and forget his hatred, these eyes were cold and unyielding, eyes that had seen death and accepted it. These were the eyes of a killer, not a savior.

"Here we are again dobe. Things have changed over the years, yet we still meet here. But this time we aren't stopping until there's only one of us left standing," Sasuke said to Naruto from across.

"Naruto... next time... kill him," Naruto heard in his head. These were the last words said to him from his dead teammate, Sakura, right before she died from the wound that was unmistakably received by a Chidori.

"Yeah, only one of us will walk away from this alive teme," Naruto said in response to Sasuke's statement.

"What? No begging me to come home, or telling me to let go of my hatred for the place that destroyed my clan?" Sasuke asked. In response to his query Sasuke felt a spike in killing intent that emanated from Naruto and in response started to see images of Naruto killing him in vicious and brutal ways, not unlike what Orochimaru did years ago in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams.

"For all the years that I've been looking for you, it wasn't until two years ago that I realized you weren't worth it," Naruto said in response to Sasuke's query, but at the sight of Sasuke's confused expression Naruto realized that Sasuke didn't remember. "You don't remember do you? Well two years ago you stuck a Chidori through Sakura, a girl who truly loved you, and left her to die."

When he was told this Sasuke shrugged off the killing intent that was rolling off of Naruto and started laughing, "So you're here to get revenge for the useless girl who you had a crush on for years, that's truly pathetic dobe," Sasuke taunted Naruto.

Naruto grit his teeth together so as to keep himself from charging Sasuke in a blind rage and wipe that insane superior smirk off his face then and there. "No, her death was the one that showed me that the only true way to save you was for me to end your miserable life and move on with my own. I was over my crush on her by the way, this is more akin to a brother avenging the death of a little sister," Naruto told him while reaching into his coat slowly so as not to draw attention to it, "It's because of her death that I won't show you anymore mercy, so goodbye," Naruto said before he suddenly hurled a handful of shuriken at Sasuke.

Sasuke saw this and dodged by jumping off of the statue of Madara, towards the waters below. Naruto predicted that this would happen and reached into his coat again, unsealed more shuriken, and proceeded to throw them at the still airborne Sasuke before jumping himself. The shuriken hit Sasuke but there was a puff of smoke and instead of Sasuke being impaled by multiple shuriken, there was only a rock.

"Damn it, Kawarimi," Naruto said. He landed on the water and looked around for his missing enemy before he heard "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire release: Fireball jutsu)," and jumped away from the massive fireball that was flying to where he had landed and found Sasuke with his Sharingan activated. They stared each other down for a moment, waiting for what would happen next, before they charged each other, drawing their swords, both moving at Anbu level speeds.

Without saying a word or making a hand-seal Naruto created a Shadow clone right before he and Sasuke clashed and had it dive low in front of him. Naruto then jumped onto the back of the clone and used it as a springboard and jumped over Sasuke, flipping over right behind Sasuke and slashing at Sasuke's back only for Sasuke to turn around and parry the strike at the last second. From there it became an intense kenjutsu battle and both were struggling against each other for whenever one of them gained the advantage it would almost instantly be taken away by the other and vice-versa.

Naruto eventually over-extended on one of his strikes and Sasuke took advantage of the deadly mistake by stabbing Naruto through the heart with his chokutou. Only for the Naruto he stabbed to explode into a puff of smoke before he heard Naruto say "Futon: Shikogyoku (Wind release: Vacuum Sphere)," and spun around just in time to see Naruto suck in a deep breath and spit out a barrage of high speed bullets made out of wind. Jumping out of the way he landed on the cliff face of the valley and stuck to it with his chakra.

He took a breath to steady himself and thought, 'Who would have thought the dobe would be this much trouble for an elite?' But that proved to be a mistake as he was instantly surrounded by several kunai. Sasuke almost blew them off as poorly aimed but he noticed, to his horror, that each and every kunai had an explosive tag wrapped around the handle, and turned towards Naruto, who held his hands in the snake hand-seal.

Before Sasuke could do anything, Naruto said the word that spelled his demise, "Boom!" and with that the tags exploded. Naruto waited for any sign that Sasuke had survived, and he didn't have to wait long, for out of the smoke came a barrage of shuriken. Naruto dodge the instruments of death only for the shuriken to curve around him and wrap him up tightly so that he couldn't move. When that was done Naruto saw the smoke clear and saw Sasuke standing there with the wires that were attached to the Shuriken in his hand with that damn superior smirk on his face.

"Whoops, almost forgot about that one," Naruto said, kicking himself for falling for such a simple trick.

"As good as you are dobe you still can't stand up to an elite like myself, so sorry to say but this is goodbye," Sasuke said and then put all the wires into his mouth starting up a sequence of hand-seals before declaring his jutsu, "Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu (Fire Release: Dragon Fire jutsu)," after which the wires he was holding in his mouth caught on fire and the flames started to travel down the wires towards Naruto.

The flames reached a struggling Naruto who was then engulfed in an intense inferno. The fires from the attack raged for almost thirty seconds before they finally died down so Sasuke could appreciate his work, only for there to be nothing, there should have at least been ashes, but there was nothing. Sasuke started to look for Naruto and turned just in time to receive a knee to the face.

Sasuke was too stunned to do anything to retaliate, Naruto landed in a crouch before springing back in to the air to perform a mid-air spinning kick, and declaring his attack. "Konoha Senpuu (Leaf Whirlwind)," and sending Sasuke flying into one of the walls of the valley.

Sasuke dug himself out of the cracked wall where he had been launched into. He was barely able to stand when he was forced to duck under the blade of a Fuma shuriken that stuck into the wall. Looking at it he then whirled around to see Naruto looking at him with his own superior smirk, albeit not insanely.

"What were you saying about being an elite Sasuke-chan?" Naruto said in a taunting voice. This riled Sasuke up badly as he was forced to make an assessment of the situation. Unlike their previous battles where they had taken about equal amounts of damage, and Sasuke had become blind because of his over-use of his Mangekyo Sharingan the last time they fought each other, this time he had barely done any damage to Naruto and he was left with a busted lip and possibly broken nose. It was really starting to piss the last Uchiha off.

'Damn you dobe, damn you…' were Sasuke's thoughts as he stared at the superior smirk on Naruto's face that was really pushing Sasuke to the edge. How dare this dead-last dobe look down on him, he was an Uchiha, an elite, he was supposed to be invincible. However, arrogance could not be translated into skill.

"Damn you, dobe," Sasuke said as went through a familiar set of hand-seals to the blond and called out his attack, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Fireball jutsu)," and sent another massive fireball towards Naruto. If he had not been so caught up in his own arrogance he would have seen Naruto going through a brief set of hand seals and not moving to dodge the attack.

Then, right after the Uchiha launched his attack he suddenly felt disoriented and heard Naruto cry out, "Futon: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)," and he was left wondering why the dobe would launch an attack that would only enhance his own. Was he crazy? Sasuke then looked up to see two Narutos who were standing near the wall that he was standing by only a second ago. He then realized what had happened. The Shuriken that he had dodged had actually been a henged Shadow clone that had lain in wait until the real Naruto had substituted himself with Sasuke to take his own attack.

Only to add insult to injury, the clone then launched a wind jutsu to enhance the fireball, turning it blue, that was coming faster than Sasuke could move so Sasuke had no chance in hell to dodge the attack. All this went through Sasuke's head before he was engulfed by his own fireball, which then proceeded to explode. After the fires had settled there was nothing to but smoke and ash, but then Sasuke flew out of the smoke covered in first degree burns.

"Damn you dobe, how? How did you become so powerful? Last time we were evenly matched, but now you're more powerful than ever. What changed that made you more powerful than before?" Sasuke demanded unable to comprehend how Naruto was able to completely outmaneuver him on whatever he did. It was infuriating to his ego.

Naruto looked coldly upon Sasuke before answering, "I've always been this strong. Whenever we battled I would hold back so as not to hurt you, but now… now the gloves come off. You killed one of my precious people and that is unforgiveable, so I will kill you so that I don't lose anymore to you," He told Sasuke, and when he said that something in Sasuke had broken.

The dobe, the dead-last in the academy had always been this strong? He had held back just to uphold a promise to some useless girl he had a crush on? Even if he said that, now that Sasuke looked back on the fight he could now tell that Naruto was still holding back and that thought was truly terrifying to the last Uchiha.

But, his pride overrided his sense of self-preservation that was telling him to run, and screamed, "You damn dobe," before weaving through three short hand-seals, and crouching down gripping his right arm with his left, and gathering lightning chakra in to his hand, with the sound of birds chirping from the electrified hand.

Naruto however, did not focus on the lightning in his former teammates hands and said, "Find another insult, you're like a misprinted copy of Icha-Icha," which only served to enrage Sasuke further causing him to charge blindly at Naruto.

Seeing Sasuke charge him, Naruto sighed, this was starting to get boring. At first playing with Sasuke had been fun but now it was just down-right humiliating. Deciding to get just a little serious, Naruto formed a Rasengan (Spiraling sphere) one handed and charged as well. Sasuke, seeing this charged even faster than before expecting a clash like the last time hoping to display his superiority.

Instead of a clash like before, just when the two shinobi were about to meet in the middle, Sasuke thrust out his lightning encased hand only for Naruto to duck under it and thrust his own attack into Sasuke's torso. "Rasengan (Spiraling Spere)," he cried out, as Sasuke felt the attack grinding into his body and did the only thing he could do… he screamed in pure agony before Naruto's attack expanded itself and exploded, launching him away.

Sasuke was sent back spinning at a high speed before he impacted another part of the valley and falling into the water below. When he lifted himself up he looked very much worse for wear. His clothes were pretty much destroyed with only his pants, rope belt, and the sleeve and collar of his top left over which was soot stained from the wind enhanced fireball he had been hit with. On his chest, was a prominent spiral burn where the Rasengan had impacted, and blood was running down from his mouth. His chokutou had long since been lost and the seal he carried that had his ninja supplies had been incinerated by his own attack.

In other words, he looked like hell, and he was screwed!

"I'm disappointed Sasuke. I expected more than this from the revered and elite Uchiha. What happened to all that confidence you had earlier, because right now all I'm seeing is a pathetic, and childish excuse of a shinobi," he said mockingly.

That was a low blow to Sasuke because ever since childhood he had been praised as a genius in the shinobi arts. But now, years later to have someone he considered being inferior to him, insult his skill and prowess was nothing less than a kick to the nuts. So in response to the insult he activated his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and spoke the one word that spelled the demise of anyone who looked him in the eye, "Tsukuyomi," only for it to not work, "What the… Tsukuyomi!" he tried again only for it to fail once more.

"Wondering why your little piece of hell won't work Sasuke-chan?" Naruto asked the perplexed Uchiha who was so confused he didn't notice that he nodded. "Well you see, after you killed Sakura I asked Hokage-sama for the key to the Uchiha library so that I could study the weaknesses of the Sharingan. He immediately refused. However, he accidentally dropped the key, which I proceeded to take. I spent several nights looking through your library until I came across a secret compartment that held a book that made a reference to your evil eye right there.

"In that book I found the only significant weakness of your little Genjutsu… it requires direct eye contact with both eyes!" Naruto finished, "and in case you're wondering I still have my eye so I didn't do anything wasteful like cut it out just to take care of your little mind rape toy. You're not worth it," he finished

Sasuke stood in shocked silence until, "Damn you dobe, how dare you think you're better than me, me, an Uchiha of the invincible Uchiha clan?" Sasuke raged as anger reached the boiling point, "Fine, I'll just destroy you and prove how superior to you that I am… Susanoo'o!" he cried before he was shrouded by a cold energy that just seemed to suck the warmth out of the air. The energy started to take shape forming an ancient shrouded warrior carrying what looked like and energy sword and a shield that seemed like it could double as a crossbow.

"Now die dobe," Sasuke screamed and the ancient warrior shroud swung its sword at Naruto who jumped out of the way and landed out of the swords range only to have to move immediately afterward because the shield did double as a crossbow and launched bolts of black fire at him. He kept this dance up for a while but despite his aloof attitude he was actually very nervous, Sasuke had the upper hand now and that was never a good thing.

Naruto was then hit with a surge of inspiration before he turned tail and ran away from Sasuke. Sasuke who was surprised by this action smiled maniacally thinking that the dobe was trying to escape from his vast power, and only launched more black fire at the retreating blonde. He never noticed the large chakra spike from Naruto, now using chakra to run up the wall, whom had slipped into Sage Mode, his eyelids now a bright orange and his eyes yellow with a bar like pupil to signify his transition.

With a combination of chakra enhancement and raw power, Naruto launched himself into the air, where he created a Rasenshuriken without clone assistance and threw it at Sasuke calling out, "Senjutsu:Futon: Rasenshuriken (Sage Art: Wind Release: Spiraling Shuriken)," the flying Rasengan variation flew towards the shrouded Uchiha only for him to bring up his crossbow/shield to hold it back.

The two forces struggled against each other briefly but the Uchiha was able to repel the attack and launched it away from him clear across the valley where it exploded against the statue of Madara Uchiha in a massive burst of millions of wind blades. Sasuke turned away from the failed attack to see Naruto still in the air only something was wrong. Naruto was up in the air above him covered in a golden flame-like chakra with seals covering his body and a similar seal covered trench coat and he seemed to be charging up a massive attack.

It had all been a distraction. Naruto had launched the Rasenshuriken at him hoping that he would block. That would allow him proper time to change into his kyuubi chakra shroud and charge up the only attack he knew that had any hope of taking down the deranged Sasuke… The Bijudama.

Sasuke, not one to be outdone charged up his crossbow/shield with as many black flames as he possibly could, and aimed his charged up weapon at Naruto. Meanwhile Naruto finished charging up his attack and transformed into his full Nine-Tailed state and swallowed the black orb of compressed chakra, the ground collapsing beneath him as he prepared to lanch his most powerful attack.

"Drop dead!" Sasuke yelled at the top of his lungs as he launched his Ameterasu bolt at the image of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

"Bijudama (Tailed-Beast Ball)," the nine-tailed Naruto cried as he launched the infamous power of the Biju.

The two attacks collided against each other, each one vying for dominance; however, both were totally equal to each other. The attacks were so powerful that they caused a massive shockwave to tear through the area and cause a small earthquake. However, both attacks took their toll on the users and it was now a battle of wills.

What neither of the two warriors noticed was that a large crack appeared in mid-air right above where the two attacks collided. Naruto reverted to his human form but continued to use the bijudama and Sasuke lost the Susanoo'o and was unable to continue his attack, which led to his last sight being him looking on in horror as Naruto's attack obliterated him. The last Uchiha had fallen; for once Naruto had done what was right for him to save his friend from the darkness and his own hatred: kill him.

It was then that Naruto noticed the crack in the air and studied it warily. He knew from experience that whenever something like a crack or hole appeared in mid-air it never ended well. That was his experience when he battled Kyuubi for control over its power. Well that was in an inter-dimensional space created so that a biju could do battle against its container for absolute control, so maybe the ominous hole that was starting to suck him in would be different… wait, suck?

Naruto then noticed that the crack was starting to suck him in, so he started to struggle but the combination of exhaustion from overusing the Bijudama and the sheer force that the hole was pulling him with made the struggle futile. Before long, he was pulled in to the inky blackness that lay within the crack and within moments passed out from exhaustion. After he disappeared into the crack it faded from existence, as if it had never been there at all.

In an unknown location crack appeared within an alley, it came so suddenly that it roused a homeless man who had decided to spend the cool night wrapped up in a tattered and scared him off. After a few moments the crack started to morph and something fell out and the crack was gone. The thing that had fallen out of the hole was a man with blonde hair in black and white skintight armor, a tattered red coat, and a ragged orange scarf; he also carried a sword on his back and a strange bandage-like material held several small knives around his thigh, and on his head was a damaged head band with a spiral leaf insignia.

In the alley laid out and exhausted he would lay and wake up to a grand, new destiny. He had no idea of the lives he would touch, the friends he would make, or the love that he would earn. For now he would sleep, and wake up to a new day, with his new life ahead of him.

Outside the entrance of the alley there was a sign that could be seen from there.

The sign read: Welcome to Las Vegas, Nevada.