All this time Naruto had probably been viewed as pretty silly. It made sense, since he often couldn't be taken very seriously. Nevertheless, he soon wised up quite a bit. Turning around toward Nightwing, he sneered. "No one makes fun of my friends, believe it!" After having said this, presumably to both Nightwing and Joker together, he faced the Joker with an entirely different look in his eyes.<br/><br/>Sure, Batman might have been strangling the Joker. Surely Batman didn't need any help doing that. It didn't mean, though, that Naruto didn't want to help out. He really couldn't stand people who were going to mock those he cared about.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, ninja training was a bit different than that of Batman's presumably. He simply offered a direct punch at the Joker's face, rather than using the finesse that the other had. "I can make copies of myself, so I don't think you want to try that again."<br/><br/>Ironically even the more demure Sakura nor the proper road-to-redemption Sasuke did anything to actually stop him from doing this at the moment.