Young Justice: Kage

Chapter 8: Homerront

A car sailed through the air smashing down in the middle of the street a hundred feet away. People scream and run in terror at the resulting explosion. Gunshots fill the air as the Tokyo police try to put down the monster responsible. Bullets bounce harmlessly off the monster's skin. He picks up another car tossing it at the police causing them to scatter like roaches when the light is turned on. Another explosion fills the street. "Grundy not like being shot at. Grundy destroy everything!" roars the undead monster.

Naruto lands on a nearby roof watching the scene unfold. The attack started five minutes ago. Grundy randomly showed up and started to attack everything in sight like a mindless beast.
Naruto doesn't know much about the supervillain, but something tells him that this Grundy was sent here for other reasons than to cause random destruction. It looks like someone or a group of people are interested in learning more about his abilities.

Ever since the peace summit in Taipei when the world learned of a young hero with no identity, the crime rate that had been dropping in Tokyo had risen by at least 10 percent. Bank robberies and Yakuza attacks on random civilians have been rising. He has been working overtime for the past two weeks helping out the local police in trying to stop the crime. Naruto isn't an idiot. Already he deduced that the League of Shadows must have a hand in this.

No doubt the wannabe ninja league was upset that he turned down their offer and humiliated their assassins at the peace summit. This is some form of revenge. And now that the small fries have failed the big guns so to speak are stepping up to bat. On the plus side, he hasn't had a dull moment in a couple of weeks. All this crime has given him plenty of time to train and increase his skills. Experience is experience even if the battle only lasts a couple of seconds.

There is also the fact that the people of Tokyo are more grateful than ever for his presence even if he is indirectly the cause of some of this new crime wave.

'Super strength, invulnerability, all too familiar,' thinks Naruto. Grundy is a hulking giant at ten feet tall with pale white decaying skin, bloodshot red eyes, and a body that puts bodybuilders to shame. The supervillain is a walking mountain of muscle. Still, Naruto has experience dealing with super-powered individuals. His hands are already flashing through seals as he leaps from the roof.

"Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet," Naruto sucks in a deep breath making his stomach expand four times its size. Aiming, he punches his stomach spitting out a ball of concentrated wind about half his size. It flies at high speeds towards the giant. The ball of wind slams into Grundy's back drilling straight into the monster's dense skin. A roar of pain comes from Grundy as he smashes face-first into the street. The ball of wind continues to drill Grundy into the street causing a large crater as it explodes.

Naruto lands on top of the car. He waits patiently. "Grundy not like pain! Grundy kill you!" Out of the crater emerges Grundy. Grundy's entire back has been ripped to shreds. Slowly the skin is starting to knit back together.

'High level of regeneration that complicates matters.'

Grundy spins around to glare at Naruto. The supper villain leaps at Naruto. Naruto easily dodges the attack and is reminded of his battle with Mammoth. Mammoth was the super-powered individual that Cobra enhanced with a combination of Venom and Blockbuster formulas. He had used genjutsu to take down the monster to avoid a long battle that would tear up the island. A simple-minded beast like Mammoth that is all brawn and no brain was easy prey. Naruto ducks under a thrown car. Unfortunately, his level of genjutsu is too low to affect the undead.

Poisoned kunai and shuriken? Grundy throws a punch that strikes the air. Naruto reappears behind Grundy with a shake of the head. With such a high level of regeneration, poison will slow Grundy down, but only for a few seconds. Slowing down a tank doesn't make the metal any less strong. No, he needs to find a way to harm the beast that will take it out.