Chapter 32
Arriving in Niamey, Naruto and the team surveyed the area before meeting with the officials.
They appeared to be nice people but really it wasn't hard to see how corrupt they were with handling the country.
It was a problem rampant across the globe, one or the other the people at all levels were corrupt.
It wasn't just the top; it was the whole ladder from the sweeper to the very top in most cases.
Naruto avoided acting on these things for now since he wasn't learned enough to make a proper change.
The right people were needed to change these countries and keep them in check so he was glad that Batman was willing to act on this and find solutions worldwide instead of one place.
But corruption wasn't the only thing that caught his attention it was the sense of fear around him when he walked the streets of the city.
Talking to any random citizen got them nothing as they didn't know much and just said that there were monsters and people were disappearing.
They couldn't explain these monsters at all.
"Impulse, do you have anything to say?"
"Yeah, this didn't happen." Impulse replied as he was now seeing how changing the past could have consequences
Naruto changing and walking at a different pace seems to have affected the world.
"Let's split up and find clues." Naruto said as Kara and Impulse nodded before moving in different directions
Walking through the city, Naruto injected nature into the ground and grew new trees giving the city a new life but the sense of fear made it dull.
The land was given new life and made fertile for vegetation but he found no traces of any enemy or monster.
There was just no clue at all. It seems he was dealing with a skilled predator.
'How do I deal with this?' Naruto thought as he sat on the river bank after making proper roads since the place seems to lack roads in many places
This was the first time he was handling an enemy that was actively hiding and doing the business carefully.
"Did you guys find anything?"
"Nothing"
"There is nothing."
'If there had been a camera recording everything then we wouldn't have to deal with this.' Naruto thought as he stood up and made his mind to talk to Batman about it
They could have satellites watching every place for danger so that such situations aren't repeated.
"Raven can you come to my location." Naruto asked and waited for a moment as he heard the water running
"One minute" Raven replied but the voice with the sound of water falling made him have an image of a naked Raven standing below shower
'I really am starting to lose control of my lust.' Naruto thought since he couldn't remember the last time he had relieved his urges and with all the training and physical work out those were becoming stronger.
'I need to get it over with before I have worse thoughts running through my head.'
It wasn't easy living with sexy women that wore such revealing clothes and were very touchy with him.
They were sparring and getting very close every day but the worst offenders were Kara and Veritas.
'I talk about love so much but I still haven't found love yet. More like I haven't put any thought on it.' Naruto thought as the mind slipped into that direction from lust addled visions
There was the confession by Hinata and Veritas that he hadn't handled completely since only Veritas got the answer.
But the answer wasn't complete until he chose someone as she could still be the one.
Really it just seems to happen but why not for him.
'I don't know about love and all this stomach churning stuff but what about Kara or Raven.' Kurama suggested as he opened his eyes lazily seeing his partner think about some useless things again
I mean why they couldn't ever be satisfied. They get one thing and they start asking for something else.
For now they should be focusing on power and fun battles to bring peace to the world. What was some love in front of this fun stuff?
As an immortal fox, Kurama had no idea why mortals died for such stupid things.
'Kara and Raven are friends, why would I think of them like that. I don't think of them like that.'
'Meh, then just keep on waiting. You will just come across the person one day so why hurry and make a mistake. You are still so young and even Clark was in his late twenties when he fell in love.'
'Hmm, guess you are right. There is no hurry but I just sometimes feel that it would be better if I did have someone like that after seeing lovers.'
'Some times?'
'I have good friends so I forget about it soon enough.'
Kurama nodded silently wondering if that meant he loved his friends more than a lover or these friends were like his lovers.
"I am here" Raven arrived behind him
"I need a barrier around the city that would inform us if any death happens." Naruto asked as she had already put this kind of barrier around Jump City making crime zones easy to find
"What happened?" Raven started working on the spell while talking with him
"There have been disappearances in the area and people have most likey died but I have found no clues at all." Naruto replied as he watched her work
Just like always it was a beautiful scene.
"The case seems to have been spread across the region. I just checked out the nearest cities and countries." Impulse said as he arrived and stopped to see Naruto watching Raven
'Does this mean, he is already in love or it's just pure respect for the craft?'
"I will go meet Batman for this problem and all of you stay in the area until we get some clue on our targets." Naruto looked back at them and commanded
"Aye Aye Captain."
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Naruto left the planet and arrived back on the watchtower to find Batman working on the plans to train local forces to handle crimes properly and even handle the lower ranger super power users so that the governments don't feel like the heroes are taking over.
It was kind of selfish on their side that they had never thought about it but with this plan the crime rates will fall like a waterfall.
The only problem was time and resources.
They couldn't train the whole force at once and could only train a small force that would then teach others.
Of course they were going to use androids for the purpose as well and share some of the lower end tech with the world.
Looking at the screen filled with so much, Naruto was impressed. Batman was really the smartest person he knew even though he was just human.
"You know, I always wonder why you don't just get a superpower. It's not even that hard." Naruto muttered as he walked inside the room and sat down
Batman looked back and blinked as his eyes hurt, "You are back early?"
"Got a problem that you need to know. There have been disappearances across Africa and I found nothing yet. I was wondering if you could consider sending out satellites to watch over different countries around the world so we will always have video proof of the event."
Batman thought for a moment, "Good suggestion, I will add that to the plan and as for the problem I will keep it mind. Do you need anything else?"
"Nah, I just wanted you to know and see if you got anything."
"Nothing yet but just in case I will check in our region."
"Okay, then take care and don't over work yourself. Oh yeah, your answer?"
"I feel like I will lose myself if I had power. I will lose what makes me special. With power comes a wider range of options but it also means you might not have the same force on you to adapt to anything and use everything around you."
Naruto nodded as he could see that a lot of the heroes limited themselves to their powers and think outside of them.
So he wasn't wrong but he wasn't right either.
"I think you should get some good abilities that you deem useful. You are the one person I believe that is very responsible and worth it."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence and I will think about this topic later."
"You do that." Naruto said as he teleported back to his team while Batman looked at the screen again
'Maybe I will need to consider it seriously sooner or later.' Batman thought as he looked at his training plan for the local forces
Once they become active then his part in the small crimes would become absolute. It would be better if he took in some useful abilities or just made one of his powerful armors the regular thing.
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