Chapter 28: Grey Area(2)

After lunch, in which Naruto made more notes of what Mammoth eat, the blonde teen showed Gizmo his new workshop and told him to make a list of the things he would need for his projects. The moment the words left his lips the little genius was practically jumping off the walls in excitement and thinking out loud about all the things he would need and be able to make, he was talking so fast Naruto couldn't even understand most of what he was saying and in the end he left the boy in the workshop to make the list.

When he went to show Mammoth his training room both Gaara and Jinx came with them, interested to find out what the blond had made for the gigantic red head. After leading both spectators into the control room, making sure to tell them not to touch anything, Naruto had Mammoth stand in the middle of the room before walking to a wall and pressing a big green button that was next to the emergency stop, a large red one.

The seals around the room lit up, starting with the ones around the button and snaking their way to the others, filling the room with a bright blue light. The moment the last seal lit Mammoth fell to his keens with a grunt, his long red hair seeming to glue itself to his frame. Both Jinx and Gaara watched as Naruto slowly made his way over to the larger teen, seemingly unaffected by the gravity, before stopping in front of the kneeing boy.

"This is a gravity room, at this very moment the gravity in here is three times earth's natural gravity. I want you to spend at least one hour in here a day, using the weights while the gravity is higher and when you adjust to this level I will increase it."

Looking at the whiskered teen, though he seemed to have trouble doing it because of the increase in weight, Mammoth gave him a confused look.

"I thought you were going to help me control my strength, not increase it?"

"I am, but first I need to learn your limits, if I taught you to control your strength now it would be a problem later when it increases, the more I understand your power the more I can help. Plus until now your strength has come from your powers and unlike most people you haven't needed to work for it. By training in this room everything you do will put strain on your muscle and unlike your strength that you always have this will be natural which means it will be easier for you to understand and control."

"Is that what you did?"

Smiling, Naruto shook his head in the negative.

"No, my strength is the result of intense training; all of what I do is learned."

Turning his back to the boy, Naruto walked back to the wall and hit the red button, deactivating the seals and nodding to Gaara and Jinx to let them know it was ok to come out. They left Mammoth in the room after a quick explanation on how to use it, and the three teens moved to the main room again. Letting out a sigh, Naruto turned his attention to Jinx. She was going to be the hardest to help out of the three, her powers being an actually force of nature making it harder to understand.

Law magic was a lot like elemental magic, though depending on the Law they had the potential to be a lot stronger, the user was born with it and would be trained by family in how to use it from a young age, unfortunately it seemed Jinx had the same problem as Terra in that she didn't have any family that could teach her. This resulted in her powers being used completely by instinct and with next to no control, which assuming she didn't have a long lost twin meant that the first time she used her powers it was while she was feeling negative emotions such as fear or anger and it had manifested as bad luck. Again assuming that she was an only child this meant that if she had first used her powers while in a positive frame of mind they would have manifested as good luck instead.

Luckily this time Naruto didn't have the voice of a screaming girl that had been turned to stone inside his head which meant he was able to create a group of ten shadow clones last night and after everyone was asleep let them into his Vault, as he had started calling it. They did all research for him and when they were done he had them make a book similar to the one he had made for Terra.

After telling the two to wait for him, Naruto quickly went to his room and returned with a large, leather bound book in his hands that was more then twice the size of the book he made for Terra. Unlike the one he had made on Earth elementals the cover for this one was black, with the exception of an odd symbol imprinted on the cover in gold. It looked like a triangle with a straight line balanced on the end with two smaller triangles on both ends of the line. Handing the book to the pink haired girl, who just looked at it with a raised eyebrow, Naruto just smiled and pointed to the symbol on the cover.

"This is the symbol of Law magic, unwavering balance."

Her eyes widening at his words, Jinx quickly turned to the first page to see the same symbol with the words 'Law Magic' above it and Naruto's name under it proclaiming him the author, all of which was in gold. When she turned to the next page her eyes almost popped out if her head as she read the Index.

Chapter 1- The History of Law Magic

Chapter 2- What is Law Magic

Chapter 3- The Importance and Meaning of the 'Natural Balance'

Chapter 4- Why Does Law Magic Exist

Chapter 5- The Different Branches of Law Magic

Chapter 6- How to Channel Your Energy and What Effects Being a Twin has on Your Power

Chapter 7-How Your Emotions can Affect Your Control

Chapter 8- How Outside Influence can Affect Your Control

Chapter 9- The Importance of Understanding Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Chapter 10- An Introduction in the Manipulation of Law Magic

Chapter 11- Level 1 Manipulation

Chapter 12- Level 2 Manipulation

Chapter 13- Level 3 Manipulation

Chapter 14- Advanced Manipulation

Chapter 15- How to Discover the Most Effective Way to Fight With Your Law Magic

Chapter 16- How to Discover the Most Effective Way to Defend With Your Law Magic

Chapter 17- Personalising you Law Magic Style

Chapter 18- Other Facts You May Need to Know

After reading the index Jinx quickly flipped through several pages, taking note of the charcoal sketches and perfect handwriting. Everything about the book seemed perfect, even the paper that was used was expensive and of the highest quality. Looking up at the blonde, Jinx threw herself at him and pulled Naruto into a one armed hug, the other holing the book to her side, before running off toward the living room to start reading.

When the door was closed Gaara turned to look at Naruto with his usual blank expression on his face.

"You do realise that you just gave away a lot of valuable information that could be used against us in the future."

"Yeah, but she has a right to that information and I didn't want to withhold it from her, I guess because of all the things that were hidden from me, I don't like the idea of not giving people information that they have a right to."

After taking a moment to consider his friends words, Gaara nodded his head before walking to his hobby room and locking the door behind him. Not a minute late Gizmo came running out of his workshop with a long list of things he would need trailing on the floor behind him.

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Ever since they had returned to Titan Tower Raven had locked herself in her room, ignoring her friends when they came and knocked on her door several times throughout the day, and spent the entire time thinking about what Gaara had said, was Naruto really giving her clues? She thought about every conversation they had had and every word he had said but no matter how hard she tried it just didn't make any sense. The most she had learned about him was that he was Japanese, an orphan, he lived in a village call Konoha before moving to Jump city and that it was basically run by a dictatorship with a heavy military background. Did that mean Naruto was a trained solider? But that was impossible; he would have been only thirteen when he first moved to the city, which would mean he would have been trained since he was a kid. Then there was that word, Jinchuriki. 'The Power of Human Sacrifice', just the idea that sentence brought to mind sent a shiver down her spine. Was Naruto meant to be a human sacrifice only to run away before it happened? And if so what for? From the way he described his home she new he had no attachment to it, if anything he sounded like he hated it, especially when he was talking about the people that lived there.

Then there was Gaara, the quite red head with the scar seemingly carved into his forehead. What did he have to do with it all? He acted more like a robot at times then Cyborg, his face almost always completely lacking any and all emotion, and from what he had told them he had a bad past and had killed people before meeting Naruto. He had apparently even tried to kill Naruto, but failed. Gaara was strong, with his ability to control sand he could be a terrifying opponent, especially if he wasn't sane at the time. But Naruto had won, did that mean he was stronger then Gaara? Just how strong is he really?

She spent hour after hour thinking over all this, even spending time talking to her emotions in an attempt to make any sense out of it all. But in the end it came down to one thing, and she was a little upset that it had taken her so long to realise it. She didn't care. Of course Raven wanted to know, but more then anything she wanted Naruto to tell her himself, to trust her enough to tell her. But after spending time talking to her emotions all of which were in agreement about the blonde, a rare thing indeed, she realised that she really liked the whiskered idiot.

He was smart, charming, funny, hansom and so much more. He made her laugh, even if not on the outside, and they got along so well. It wasn't love, at least not yet, but she knew that given time it might lead to it and the thought both terrified and thrilled her to her very core.

Now the only problem was Robin.

Raven didn't blame him for the way he acted, he was just worried about them, but the fact was that he did have a tendency to go a little overbroad. If anything she blamed Batman for training him to be so paranoid. She knew that the next time Naruto and Robin met it would result in one of two things happening. Robin would apologise and try and talk to him, most likely try again to recruit him, or they would fight and from what she had seen of the way Naruto had dealt with Jinx, Mammoth and Gizmo, Robin might actually end up in the hospital.

Taking a deep breath the purple haired girl braced herself for what was to come before leaving her room and making her way to the common room to see her fiends watching the TV. All but Robin had a confused look on their face, the boy wonder having a small frown on his as they watched a video of Mammoth, Jinx and Gizmo clearing rubble from outside Narutos book store under the watchful eyes of Gaara.