2 Days Later
After finding out that Naruto was Kitsune the girls began to treat him like a king even though he told them to keep their relationships how it was before they knew. They tried but Naruto could tell it wasn't truly the same, but at least they knew the importance of keeping his secret.
When the hammer came Naruto no longer dreamed about the memories of the chakra practitioners now it was like the knowledge was just readily available and he could recall learning something he never knew he could do.
Sif had been recalled suddenly as apparently Thor has caused tensions to boil over with the Frost Giants so Naruto didn't know if he should go looking for Thor or if he was supposed to stay away from him. Naruto didn't care as he had other things to worry about,
Currently, Naruto was on patrol, when he saw someone running into the subway with a crew behind him before they pushed him down the stairs he he narrowed his eyes, and as they were going to enter the subway entrance he dropped behind them with a thud cracking the ground causing them to turn around
"This guy." Man1 said walking forward with a machete before he swung it but Kitsune caught his wrist and punched him in the jaw and backhanded him before he released his wrist and locked his arm around man1's before with a tense he snapped the arm in two causing him to yell in pain before 3 jabs broke his nose and swole his eye as man1 fell and 2 more blows sent him into unconsciousness,
The gang watched shocked before Kitsune looked up and clapped his hands in the Tori seal before gripping his wrist as his arm was extended and palm was facing the gang before an orb of wind surrounded them robbing them of oxygen, one by one they collapsed unconscious and he released them,
Naruto sighed before he looked up seeing Yuri trying to get his attention,
"What the hell?" Naruto asked before he flew off
Construction Site
Yuri stood beside the spotlight designed with the eye Naruto showed her and when he had on the back of his Kitsune suit when he dropped behind her, "Phone not working?" He asked
"You like it?" Yuri asked
Naruto walked up, "This can be used by just anyone."
"True, but this will give New York a symbol of hope and criminals a symbol of fear to let them know that you're out here." Yuri said
Naruto nodded looking at it before he looked to Yuri, "I need you to come with me."
"Not gonna like this. Am I?"
"The mayor was murdered in his own home, tonight." Yuri said causing Naruto to frown,
The two left soon after,
Manhattan, NY
Naruto walked behind Yuri through a crowd of cops, all of them giving him dirty looks. Police effectiveness had been called into question due to his actions and more then half the precinct hated his guts and some blamed him for the death of George Stacy,
As Yuri entered the condo, one of the cops with a glare stepped forward, "Woah, woah, woah." He said, placing a hand against Kitsune's chest, "Police only."
"He's with me, officer." Yuri said
"You kidding me mam, you're gonna let him in here?" The cop asked
"Martinez, let him through." Yuri ordered
Martinez frowned before he removed his hand from Kitsune's chest and stepped aside, Naruto followed Yuri into the home, as Martinez glared at his back, "God damn freak." He said when he thought Kitsune was out of earshot
The cops around nodded, as Naruto ignored the cop and his hud came to life scanning and recording the entire crime scene,
The mayor was in his chair with tape on his face with a paper bag on his hand, "What do we know?" Yuri asked the detective examining the corpse
The cop looked up before he noticed Kitsune who read the writing on the tape, 'No More Lies!"
"Detective." Yuri called causing the cop to flinch,
"Ah yea, we got blunt force trauma. Lacerations. He got hit a lotta of times." The detective said, shining his flashlight on the corpse's head, "And hard."
Yuri walked around with her own flashlight, looking at a puddle of blood, "All this blood is from his head?"
"No." The detective said while walking around glancing at Kitsune who watched, "Most of it is from his hand." The detective removed the paperbag on the corpse's wrist, and held it up, "Thumb was severed. Killer may have taken it as a trophy."
"He was alive when it was cut off." Kitsune said, causing the two to look at him, "Ecchymosis, around the wound."
Kitsune walked away looking around as Yuri looked at the newspapers taped to the window. CSI looked at him as he walked, Kitsune looked down at a bloody indent in the ground and the photographer behind him took a picture as soon as he walked away, "Kitsune."
Kitsine walked over to Yuri who opened an envelope and pulled out a Greetings card, "Your secret friend." She read, before opening the card, "Who? Haven't a clue? Let's play a game, just me and you…" Yuri looked at the handwriting under the poem before looking to the other side of the card, "What does a liar do when it's dead?"
"There's a cipher too." The detective said holding up a full length page of writing to help decode the hidden message,
"Any of this mean anything to you?" Yuri asked
"What's going on?" A man said walking up
Yuri and the detective looked over as Kitsune looked at the cipher and had his hud take a photo of it, "I asked him to come, Pete."
"This is a crime scene. It's Mitchell for christ sake." Pete said storming forward to Yuri, "I got the press downstairs. You know, I cut you a lot of slack, cause I got history with your father but this is too far."
Yuri held up the envelope and Pete looked to see 'To Kitsune.'
"Wait, he's involved in this?"
"No, he's not involved." Yuri said
"How do you know?! He's a goddamn vigilante! He could be a suspect! What're you doing, Yuri?" Pete asked as Naruto looked at the corpse again
"I'm just tryna find the connection."
"He lies still." Kitsune said causing the two to look at him,
"Excuse me?" Pete asked
"The riddle." Yuri said, giving Pete the card, "What does a liar do when it's dead? He lies still."
Pete walked over and looked at Mitchell's corpse, "Ah Jesus." Pete looked at Kitsune, "This must be-
Kitsune vanished in a yellow flash before Pete could continue talking causing him to growl.
Garage
Kitsune appeared in the garage, after having his hud run through the riddles and the cipher, as he walked through the line of cars he stopped seeing a pair of trauma sears stabbed into the front tire of the DB9 Aston Martin, opening the car Kitsune began to look through it before finding a drive with the Mayor's severed thumb attached
Sighing Kitsune called Yuri, "Hello?"
"Found the thumb." Naruto said
"Where?"
"Garage." Naruto said
"On my way." Yuri said
Kitsune waited for a moment before Yuri walked in and he watched as she hooked the drive to the laptop in the glove compartment, "It's encrypted." Yuri said
"Try the thumb." Naruto said sliding back a compartment on the drive and Yuri groaned before she grabbed the thumb and placed it on the scanner,
Soon dozens of pictures of Mayor Mitchell with a woman were seen leaving a club, "Well, well, well. So much for family values." Yuri said
"I can't get a match on facial rec. So she doesn't have a record or a US ID." Kitsune said
"I'll put an APB out for her, but I do see someone." Yuri said pointing to the edge of the picture
"Penguin." Naruto frowned
Suddenly windows began opening showing the pictures being sent to every news outlets
"Shit." Yuri cursed
Slamming the laptop shut, "I'll catch you tomorrow, Detective." Kitsune said seeing the sun peeking through the windows
Naruto vanished returning home,
Naruto's Base
Naruto appeared in his base ignoring Mjolnir as it sat on a desk, as he took off his cowl he began to type at the computer, bringing up the crime scene and the photos,
Rotating his neck, Naruto teleported up to his place and saw that June had set the table, "Thank you." He smiled sitting down, June smiled sitting beside him and staring as he ate, "You're staring again."
"I'm sorry." June said before clearing her throat, "We want to help you."
"Too dangerous. I told you guys that already."
"Yes, but there are other ways we can be useful." June said, placing her hand on Naruto's arm, "Please."
"If you and the others can come up with a way to help and not be in danger then I'm all for it."
"Okay." June said before kissing his temple and leaving, causing Naruto to look after her before he shrugged and continued to eat his pancakes.
Meanwhile
A van pulled up to a Bodega and Thor got out with his new friends, Erik Selvig, Jane Foster, and Darcy Lewis watched him, "Okay so we made it to New York, where's your brother?"
"Do you have a picture?" Darcy asked
Thor saw a photo of Kitsune on a newspaper and picked it up, showing it to them, "Here he is."
The three scientists looked at Thor in shock before he walked away but Jane rushed after him, "Where are you going?"
"To find him." Thor said
"We promised to help you." Jane said, causing Thor to look at her, "We still haven't found him."
Thor and Jane looked into one another eyes for a moment
Later, Iceberg Lounge
Kitsune knocked on the door before a man answered, "I want to see the Penguin." He said
"I don't know what you're talking about, pal." The man said before slamming the door
Kitsune sighed before the door reopened and the man went and got his twin as they both stepped out before Kitsune, "What's the problem?"
'Says he wants to see the Penguin."
"Penguin? Good luck with that."
"What I tried to tell him."
"Get outta here freak, or that suits gonna get full of blood."
"His or yours?" Kitsune asked
Twin1 swung but Kitsune leaned back and a right hook struck cleaning followed by a left uppercut knocked him out, Twin2 swung as his brother collapsed and Kitsune grabbed his fist and he swung him forward grabbing the back of his head and slamming his face into the wall,
Kitsune walked into the club leaving the two unconscious. Pushing his way through the crowd, Kitsune walked down the stairs before his shoulder was grabbed and he turned punching guard1 in the face before he swung him into guard2 who was rushing up the stairs before a spartan kick to guard1 back sent them tumbling down the stairs.
Guard3 dove for Kitsune who flipped sideways and landed on guard3's backdating him into the ground. Guard4 wrapped his arms around Kitsune who kneed him in the chest and tossed him over the rail to the dance floor below.
Kitsune walked down when guard5 with a bat swung but Naruto grabbed it and pushed it so the but of the bat slammed into gaurd5's ribs before he took the bat swung it around and hit the man in the jaw with it,
"Hey! Put the bat down or I'll blow your head off!" A man yelled aiming a gun at Kitsune who tossed the bat into his face causing the gun to go off,
Shotgun shells struck his back causing Kitsune to growl and turn to see the twins on a rail before Kitsune pulled two kunai and spun them off his fingers before he raised his arm aiming at Penguin, "Woah, woah, woah, take it easy sweetheart. You looking for me?" Penguin asked as Kitsune growled, "I see you met the twins."
"..."
"Let's talk." Penguin said
Moments Later
Naruto leaned back on the bar as Penguin looked at the pictures of the dead Mayor and his mistress, "Who is she?"
"I really don't know, chief." Penguin said looking up at Kitsune, "I might have been coming up at the same time but I wasn't rolling with him."
Footsteps caused them to look up and Kitsune looked to see boots and up long legs and came face to face with a beautiful woman chewing gum that stopped and stared at him,
Naruto's hud scanned her face, giving him her name, "It's okay baby, Kitsune here don't bite." Penguin said
Selina walked by and Kitsune watched her give Penguin money and he gave her a pack of drops, some new designer drug that was applied by the user like a simple eye drop, the drug displayed symptoms of hyperactivity and paranoia. Cops didn't know what to do and it wasn't illegal yet so Kitsune didn't stop the deal before him,
However, Kitsune did catch how Selina froze for a split second looking at the picture of the woman and the Mayor. Selina looked at Kitsune before she smiled at Penguin and left,
Penguin and Kitsune watch each other, "I don't know who she is. I'm just a proprietor. What people do here, ain't got nothing to do with me."
"You better make it your business. Cause if I get led here again. You won't like the results." Kitsune said before he vanished,
30 Minutes Later
Selina ran out of the club and hailed a taxi, Kitsune watched standing on a light post, he listened to the phone call as he followed the taxi, "Hey its me…Baby what's wrong?...Woah woah woah, slow down, I can't….On the news?...No, no, look stay there. Wait for me, I'm on my way home…Listen, baby, we're gonna get the hell out of here, okay? I promise." Selina hung up, "Goddammit."
Kitsune watched Selina leave the cab before making her way upstairs to her apartment where the girl from the photos was distraught as the news played with pictures of her and the mayor being seen for everyone,
Kitsune watched Selina calm her friend down before she walked into the bedroom and stripped to her underwear before grabbing a box from the closet and he watched her go out the window in black latex before in a show of advanced acrobatics she scaled down the fire escape to the ground before walking into a garage,
Kitsune watched as soon Selina on a motorcycle pulled onto the street and drove away,
Moments Later, Mayor Mitchell's Apartment
The apartment was surrounded by yellow tape as Selina scaled down from the sunroof, she quickly walked over to a picture and felt around it before finding a button that she pressed and the photo moved down revealing a safe that pushed out,
Kitsune landed behind Selina silently and he walked up behind her watching her hook up her equipment to the safe and crack the combination before opening it and grabbing the passport inside,
"Impressive." Kitsune said
Selina gasped and turned before she kicked Kitsune but a chakra chain snagged her ankle and suspended her in the air upside down, as Kitsune held the passport, "Hey! Give me that." Selina said trying to take it back, but Kitsune moved out of her reach and opened it
"Annika Kosolov. He hurt her?" Kitsune asked looking at Selina who frowned at him, "That's why you killed him?"
"What? I di-"
Kitsune in a blur collected her equipment and closed the safe before taking her to the roof as a cop entered with a flashlight and began to look around,
Selina and Kitsune watched him before he motioned for her to follow and she did since he still had the passport, "Listen honey, you got the wrong idea, okay. I didn't kill anybody, I'm here for my friend. She's trying to get the hell outta here and this son of a bitch stole her passport"
"I know you didn't kill anyone." Kitsune said, tossing the passport to her. "What does she know?"
"Whatever it is, it's got her so spooked that she won't even tell me."
"Let's go talk to her."
Selina frowned before she and Kitsune went to her apartment,
Selina's Apartment
The two walked up to see her door ajar and the place trashed, "Annie?!" Selina yelled rushing into the place,
Kitsune walked in, as Selina went into her room looking for her friend, Naruto paused and looked at the news as they spoke, "A second high profile murder in as many nights. This time the killer has come forward to claim credit online."
'She's gone.' Selina said before seeing Kitsune focused on the television as she watched beside him,
"The victim is the Commissioner of the NYPD Peter Savage was found dead earlier tonight. The killer posted the following message on social media, and we have to warn you it is very disturbing."
A question mark was seen while heavy breathing was heard, "Hello people of New York City. This is the Riddler speaking."
Kitsune frowned, back during the Christmas eve debacle he had only thought Enigma was some just hacker and was content to let the NYPD handle it but now he was killing. Why the change?
"Now, I killed your mayor because he wasn't who he pretended to be, but I am not done." Riddler said before turning the camera to Pete who was duct tape with a contraption attached to him, with rats in it and ways for them to move about to his face, "Here's another. Who lies. It's about time that the truth of our city FINALLY be unmasked. Goodbye."
The video ended with the horrified expression of Pete being seen.
Commissioner Savage served an extinguished 30-year career in the NYPD."
"Holy shit I saw that guy, too." Selina said
"Where?"
"At the club." Selina said
"Iceberg lounge?"
"44 Below. It's the club within the club." Selina said opening her fridge and getting some milk, "The real club. It's a mob hangout."
"Is that where you really work?"
"I just work the bar upstairs. But I see 'em come in."
"Who?" Kitsune asked
"Lots of guys that shouldn't be there, I can tell you that. Upstanding citizen types."
"I see." Naruto said before turning away, "You're not safe here."
"I can take care of myself." Selina said before Kitsune vanished
Morgue
Yuri pulled Pete's corpse out of its box and showed his mangled face to Kitsune, "He waited for him at the gym." Yuri said frowning, "Pete liked to work out at the gym at night when no one else was there."
"The needle mark on his neck." Naruto said
"Injected him with rat poison." Yuri replied walking to the device that had been on Pete in the video, "That seems to be his theme here. Look at this thing."
"Maze." Naruo said picking up the blacklist by the contraption before shining it and seeing the invisible writing
"What kinda demented sonovabitch does this to a person."
Naruto found more symbols and another cipher,
"He blasted these out after the video." Yuri said, showing him pictures of Pete taking a payoff, "Guy kills you and your reputation."
"That guy pushes drops in Brooklyn." Naruto said
"I don't get why he would get involved in something like this." Yuri frowned
"Looks like he got greedy." Naruto said
"You make it sound like he had it coming." Yuri frowned
"He's a cop who crossed a line." Naruto said before he found a secret compartment and another card addressed to Kitsune,
"I'm mad about you! Want to know my name? Just look inside and see." Naruto read before opening the card and frowning, "But wait…I cannot tell you it might spoil the Chemistry!!!"
Naruto looked at the handwriting below, "Follow the maze until you find the rat and bring him into the light, and you'll find where I'm at."
"Mayor Mitchell and Pete Savage's biggest case was Salvatore Maroni. Are there any informants on file?"
"I'll look into it discreetly." Yuri said getting a nod from Kitsune
"I know how he was like family and for that I'm sorry." Naruto said
Yuri nodded before Kitsune vanished
Next Night, 44 Below
Naruto infiltrated the club under a henge to look like Madara Uchiha, as he walked his contacts recorded and ran facial recognition on everyone he saw outside to Yuri who was in his car parked in the alleyway,
The man that threatened to shoot him opened the elevator for him, "Detective Kenzie he's NYPD." Yuri said frowning into the earbud as Madara watched the man as the elevator closed,
Madara saw Selina and frowned before he walked over and grabbed her arm causing her to turn to him, "I thought you didn't work down here?" He asked his eyes shifting to the Rinne Sharingan and back
"Kitsune?" Selina asked in a whisper, "This is what you look like?"
"No, it's a disguise. What're you doing down here?"
"I'm looking for Annika." Selina said before a man walked over
"Is there a problem?"
The two looked over to see the District Attorney Gil Colson."
"No. This is my boyfriend, we're fine." Selina said hugging herself up against Madara
"Boyfriend?" Gil asked
"Yea, boyfriend." Madara said
Gil put his hands up before they left, "I recorded something very interesting." She said to Madara who nodding
Gil watching them get on the elevator before he frowned watching Selina pull Madara into a kiss before the door close
Madara and Selina left walking away to his car where he released the henge and was back in Kitsune gear, Yuri got out the car, "What you get?"
Selina pulled her spare phone up and played the recording, "Hope you don't mind. I got alot on my shoulders with that psycho running around. I mean this Riddler is going after the most powerful people in the city and it's so-"
"He doesn't know shit, man!"
"Yea what about that rat?" Gil asked
"The rat?" Selina asked
"There was a rat in…we had an informant that had bug time information on Salvatore Maroni and that's how we got him off the streets." Gil said
Naruto and Yuri look at each other, "But if this guy knows, it's gonna come out and when it does this whole city is gonna come apart."
"Okay, I don't want to hear this. This is the kinda talk that made that Russian girl disappear." A woman said
"What do you know about that?" Selina asked
Selina ended the recording, "That's it?' Kitsune asked
Selina nodded before he sat in the car and watched the club, "Let's wait for-" Kitsune stood up and looked at Gil's car and saw someone inside remove the headrest,
"Someone is in Gibson's car." Kitsune said
"What?" Selina and Yuri asked looking over to the car and saw it shaking as someone moved around inside before the moving subsided,
Kitsune and Yuri walked across the street while Selina went to follow but stopped seeing Penguin and the twins leaving and she walked to her bike and reached into the side and pulled her latex suit out,
Yuri pulled her gun as Kitsune motioned for her to hang back a bit and he walked to the driver side and stopped at the backdoor, watching the Riddler in the back began to assemble a collar before he paused and looked up to see Kitsune watching him
The Riddler jumped and Kitsune punched through the window grabbing the riddler by his mask and pulling him out of the car and slamming him on the ground, "No!" The Riddler screamed as Yuri ran up her with her gun cocked
"Freeze!" Yuri ordered
The Riddler struggled, screaming and crying before Naruto placed a paralysis seal on him, Yuri called for backup as Naruto looked toward a window where he could smell the Riddler at,
Kitsune picked him up and grabbed Riddler across the street with Yuri behind him before they stopped at the Riddler's apartment and entered
Police began to file in as Kitsune and Yuri looked around at the psychopaths nest before Naruto tried to call Selina but her phone went straight to voice-mail and with a frown he vanished as the cops had the situation under control,
New York Harbor
Penguin and his crew arrived at their drug warehouse. Selina on her bike entered from another side and she walked around with her whip and stealthily she wrapped her whip around Twin2 legs and he looked down before his feet was pulled back and his face slammed into the concrete knocking him out,
"Aye, what happened?" Twin1 asked walking around before he heard someone step behind him and he looked to see a heel slam into his face knocking him out as well,
Selina walked around and saw Kitsune standing at the back of the van, "Seriously?"
"You got your man, I need to find Annika and get her outta town." Selina said
Naruto sighed before he opened the trunk and the back was filled with 5 large duffles, Selina opened one and found it full of money, and she began to check each one before he pulled them out of the truck,
"Are you helping me?"
"Bad people you're stealing from. I have no problem with that." Kitsune said
Selina smirked before she opened another and froze seeing Annika's corpse,
The duffles vanished in puffs of smoke as Kitsune saw the door to the warehouse open and he shot across the distance and kicked Penguin in the face before chakra chains appeared and bound them to the ground,
"Explain the body in the truck?"
"What body?" Penguin asked
Selina entered with her gun but Naruto grabbed her hand and moved it up as the trigger was pulled causing her to shoot in the air,
Naruto looked to Detective Kenzie as the man growled struggling before a phone fell from his pocket and Selina saw it, "That's my phone." She said walking over and getting it,
Selina saw she had a voice message from Annika and played it,
Annika could be heard pleading for her life before a male was heard, "Don't be scared. I just want you to answer a question. What did the late Mayor Mitchell say to you?"
"Nothing." Annika said
"He liked to talk. Especially to beautiful women like you. That's why I had him take your passport."
"Please don't hurt me, I'll leave and you'll never hear from me again, nobody will."
"I'm trying to get you out of here, I promise. But first you have to tell me, what did he tell you?"
"He just said Mr. Falcone made a deal with him to get Salvatore off the street"
"He told you about that, huh?" The man said
"He said Falcone gave him some information on some drug deal, and that's how he became Mayor. He said he was a very important man."
"Okay. Thank you for your cooperation, my friend Detective Kenzie will help you." The man said
The sound of Annika being grabbed was heard before she was heard screaming but the scream was cut off and struggling was heard,
Naruto hit the pause button, as Seline looked at him with tears leaving her mask, "Penguin, whose voice was that?" Kitsune asked
"Wilson Fisk." Penguin said before the chains holding him down vanished
"Leave." Kitsune said
Penguin stood up and looked at Detective Kenzie and scoffed, "Damn turncoat." He said before leaving
Kitsune handed Selina the gun, and she looked at him, "What do you want to do?" He asked
Selina took the gun and unloaded the entire clip into Detective Kenzie's head, she sobbed as the gun clicked empty before Naruto pulled her into a hug and he had one of the black orbs materialize and touch the corpse before they left the warehouse and a paper bomb was slapped on the threshold and sparked as Naruto vanished with Selina and her bike as the building exploded,
Naruto's Building
Selina blinked, looking around before she turned to see Narito out of costume, "Oh, you're…not scarred." She said surprised at how handsome he was,
Naruto smiled before he dropped the duffles of money, "You'll be safe here. I'm In the penthouse so if you need anything don't hesitate to ask."
Selina nodded smiling before Naruto left and she went back to crying for her friend.
With Naruto
Sighing Naruto was about to make his way to his suite when his phone buzzed and he looked at it and saw Thor banging on the door, "Brother! Let me and my friends in!" He yelled
"Shit." Naruto cursed before he pushed the button for ground and frowned as the elevator doors closed.