Chapter 34

Knowing about the death of so many people, really affected him a lot. He had seen people die before and even knew that almost everyone had died in Konoha but in all these situations, Naruto wasn't there to act.

The numbers weren't even comparable and the gap was too big.

Before arriving in this world, Naruto hadn't even seen a city with million people.

It felt worse knowing that he could have handled this earlier if he had just been careful but he focused mostly on his training and missed these deaths under his gaze.

He knew it wasn't his fault and there were many other heroes better than him who also never noticed but the traitorous heart never listens.

Because there was now an if, if he had just looked for crime everywhere carefully then maybe this wouldn't have happened.

But everything was just part of life and he had to move on while facing all these difficulties. To never allow it to repeat again.

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With all the information shared with the league, everyone was perplexed as they were once again in a game of cat and mouse with the enemy. But this time the enemy was making his moves that were irreversible.

There were two problems.

The enemy was hidden and didn't seem to want the spot light so they had to find him quickly as he was moving fast.

They didn't have a cure for vampirism.

"The only thing we can do is increase security measures and hope we can find Crucifier." Cyborg commented

"He can transform." Flash reminded him

"There is nothing else left so we can only hope he gets caught. We have Raven and Zatanna's magic to inform us if something happens along with Naruto's senses that can also lead us to any problem happening in the region." Clark said as he clenched his fist at his inability to help in this case

The countless deaths were also not helping his mind either. He was just feeling so happy yesterday and now it was ruined.

"For now let's do what we can do instead of worrying pointlessly. Take some of the vampires to Veritas and see if she can cure the problem." Batman commanded and Naruto nodded to his words as he had put away 100's of vampires on the watchtower since they weren't criminals

Putting them inside the prison planet would lead to fighting and deaths inside since the vampires would try to drink their blood.

"Superman for now, we will use your fortress to imprison these vampires."

"Is there actually a way to undo genetic transformation?" Shazam asked in a glum tone, hearing about deaths was never good for children

"We can only keep trying since the other method is banishing them." Batman responded

Naruto didn't say a thing as he heard what they had to say but the last words really struck him.

He didn't like the idea.

Even if they couldn't undo it, did they have to banish them?

"Even if we can't cure them, why don't we find a way for them to live with his without hunting humans? We can try solving the issue of blood drinking somehow.��� Naruto hesitated for a moment but blurted it out

And with these words, the room went quiet for a moment before another discussion started as this wasn't easy thing to handle.

Even just finding a way to cure their blood dependency problem would take time but who could ensure they wouldn't try to hunt humans.

Could they be trusted?

They were predators to humans, could humans let them live?

Too many problems with allowing them to stay instead of banishing them, though banishment also had its problems.

Many people would be thrown away for no crimes.

Innocent people would be sacrificed.

Chaos as people from different positions are vacated at once.

Really if they couldn't cure the vampirism, the problem will be very serious and millions of death might just be considered an appetizer compared to the end result.

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Finishing up with meeting, Naruto delivered the vampires to Veritas and communicated the events so she could understand the situation.

Standing outside the lab, Naruto stared at the door lost in thought.

"I understand and I will support your mind." Raven appeared behind him as she had sensed his presence

"Thanks and I am sorry that you have to see me in pain." Naruto said as he knew this would hurt him

He had never used too many clones at once for any complex task but this time he was about to use 1000 clones for a proper job.

Just processing the large amount of data could cause him brain damage and problems to his memory.

Last time he had made a mistake of becoming over confident in his healing abilities forgetting about the memory issue and he had lost some of his memories of the past.

The childhood part had become vague when he could clearly remember those things before the incident and it was lucky Raven had been there because he might have healed wrong, turning him into an Idiot.

That was the biggest risk of multi shadow clone technique along with the obvious chakra exhaustion.

Normally Naruto has never used them for anything complex and only for simple tasks that didn't require much thinking.

Even taking them one by one was hard on the brain as even 10 minutes of memory could hold massive information for someone like Naruto who operated at speeds above normal people.

Really, he didn't want to end up losing his precious memories and lose himself. Personality was based up on our experiences and if he lost them than what will he become.

'Naruto don't worry this time, I am ready. I won't let anything happen to your mind and soul.' Kurama assured him as he didn't like the fact that the last time was like a surprise attack that had shaken the soul

'I know'

"I don't like it when you are not smiling." Raven put her hands on his cheeks and stared at him straight

"Ah…okay" Naruto didn't know what to say to that because nobody had ever said that to him and it felt like a line he was supposed to be saying to a girl

'Didn't I say that to Kara?'

'Everything always comes back home.'

"I am just thinking too much and making a mess of my head. Acting is my way of doing things." Naruto relaxed slightly as Raven's touch brought him some focus from his wild thoughts that were going haywire

With his head straightened up, Naruto sat down into a meditative pose while focusing on the space outside.

His hand flashed into a sign and thousand clones appeared above earth.

Looking down on the planet below, the clones spread across the globe with their senses at full power.

But the result was null, he found nothing this time even after checking the whole world more than 8 times.

Crucifer had made them all retreat so the vampires weren't hunting anymore but the cost for nothing was massive as Naruto's head was slowly breaking apart and only the regen kept it from exploding from the information overload.

By the end of the experience Naruto had bled from his eyes and nose, and became unconscious as Raven and Kurama helped him protect his mind.

The memories were slowly processed taking the whole day before Naruto woke up but waiting for him was the pained looks from his family.

"Never…do..this again or I will kill myself." Kushina slapped him hard hurting her delicate hand with tears in her eyes and he could see that she hadn't slept. She had been crying the whole time with worry that he would lose everything for strangers.

Hearing those words, Naruto was horrified and looked around the room.

Raven looked strong as usual except some fatigue but he could feel her emotions weren't stable either.

Kara was angry, disappointed and sad as she looked away from him.

Impulse was just sad and filled with worry from what was happening around them. Things were just not going well and even people in US had been abducted.

Robin and Black Canary got captured and no one had seen them.

Jaime and Lagoon boy were also worried about how things were becoming. They had been doing so well but their leader had been shut down for a day while things had become worse as villains and heroes were disappearing.

Finally Veritas seemed to have also cried for him, he could feel confusion in her mind as she must not have experienced such emotions before.

He had really hurt his family from this action. He should have stopped when he found nothing for the first time but the thought million more dying or changing forced him to act.

His clones had helped along the way as they noticed things forcing extra memories to be earned.

So many things happened in the few hours, his clones flew around the planet.

Holding Kushina's hand, Naruto didn't know what to say. His mouth opened and closed before he closed his eyes, "Never utter those words again or I will lock you up so that nothing wrong will happen to you.

I promise that I will never do something like this again. I am sorry for hurting every one of you. Please forgive me my selfishness." Naruto bowed his head to them as he felt ashamed of what he had done to his loved ones

This was the first time he had seen people get hurt from the pain brought to him and it touched him but hurt him at the same time.

Hearing his words, Kara flew into him and almost crushed him.

"You idiot, you blonde bastard, if you do this again, I will burn ramen all across the globe and punch your teeth out before locking you up into my fortress so don't even dream about escaping."

While she was complaining Veritas hugged him from behind and said nothing but her emotions said everything.

Adoration, care, happiness, worry and desire mixed into one big hug.

"I am sorry that I was unable to protect you." Raven said as she turned away but Naruto caught her with his chakra since his body wasn't reacting fast enough at the moment

"That's nonsense and you know it. I would have died without your assistance since Kurama is still learning about this field.

I was this close to having my brain explode. So it's not your fault, its mine because I did more than what we agreed on."

Raven nodded but he could tell she wasn't pacified.

'I will talk to you alone and I am not leaving until you stop taking responsibility for this blunder.'

Raven raised her eyes at him as she couldn't believe he just said that, 'I am closing my room today.'

'That has never stopped me before.'

"Keep him in bed today. His head still isn't operating normally." Raven told them as she walked away while Impulse and the other boys said their piece and left since they had work to do after the information Naruto gathered was shared to everyone by Raven

It had been given to the League as well but Naruto was unaware that Robin and Black Canary got captured.

The problem was that to the vampires this wasn't an evil intention and they had good intentions.

Wanting other to become like them was a gift, a good thing while hunting was just a normal thing. Would a human consider hunting for food an evil thing? So Naruto never sensed their evil because they didn't do anything that could be considered evil.

The women forced him to rest and he couldn't resist either as his mind was feeling extremely sluggish. As he hadn't been sleeping for the last two days while the previous day had been spent processing data and keeping himself alive.

'It would be wise to think of a way to cancel the connection with the clones.' Kurama muttered in a tired tone as Naruto closed his eyes and gave a silent agreement to his words

It would be better not to get everything from the clones.

It would be better if the clones could disappear without giving him any memories for some situations.

With Naruto asleep, Veritas calmed down and slept by his side along with Kushina.

Kara didn't say anything, though she disliked Veritas flirting with Naruto but this time she was okay with it as the older woman had shown true care for his well being.

She had shown clear weakness from Naruto collapsing.

Placing her right hand on her heart, Kara felt pain inside as she had almost lost Naruto.

'I really don't want him to leave me.' Kara thought as she stood up and looked at the trio on the bed before flying over Naruto and placing a kiss on his forehead

'Hope you have good dreams.' Kara said silently as she flew away to finish what Naruto had started

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