Chapter 02: Mr. Mafia Man

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AN: I do not own Bioshock, Naruto, or Ranma ½. They are owned by 2K Games, Masashi Kishimoto, and Rumiko Takahashi respectively. Please enjoy.

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The boys have been complaining about the Apollo Square orphanage shifts. Some nonsense about devil brats that I would have normally brushed off, but the news of two orphaned girls attempting to hijack a bathysphere leaves me thinking. I should pay the little kiddies a visit. Should be fun.

-Frank Fontaine

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Frank Fontaine stood off to the side of the orphanage, watching all the girls leaving the classroom were Tenenbaum, or as he called her, Mother Goose, taught the girls. While she did teach them how to read and write, along with basic math to keep up the image he wanted the orphanage to portray, it also served to begin brainwashing the little snot-nosed brats.

The mook next to him stiffened as a blond girl wearing some sort of Asian dress bounced out of the class room, backwards, happily chattering away at the sullen redhead dress in similar clothes. The blond was speaking a mix of English and whatever her native language was, and he vaguely remembered she was the one that the masked man had dumped out by his fishery. The other girl matched the description of the girl his boys had found in Pauper's Drop, so that meant the two 'devil brats' were the subjects for his little side project.

As he watched the redhead grab the blonde's hand and drag her away, he grinned, amused, as she shot a suspicious glance at him.

"Herr Fontaine, this is a surprise." the Mother Goose's voice called out from his right, "What brings you here? You usually send someone else on inspection runs."

"My boys are getting skittish when it comes to this orphanage, I wanted to know why." He said as he turned to the German scientist. As she clasped a hand over her eyes and let out a few choice words in her native tongue, he grinned. Today would be interesting.

As Tenenbaum ushered him into her office, they heard a crash and the slapping of bare feet running across the floor along with a child's giggling. Tenenbaum turned from him and stuck her head out the door to see what had happened, only barely catching Naru racing past her as two of the guards collided trying to catch her.

"Naru! Get back here and clean up whatever mess you made young lady or so help me you will be scrubbing the toilets!"

Fontaine had stood up and was watching the scene over the Mother Goose's shoulder, slightly amused that his boys were in a groaning heap on the floor. The girl in question was halfway through an open window, the horror of having to clean the bathroom was warring with her desire not to clean up whatever mess she had caused. Before she could decide, the mook who had accompanied him to the orphanage plucked the girl out of the window by the back of her dress and shut the window.

"Make sure she cleans it up, and someone go find Ranma! This may have been another escape attempt!" Tenenbaum barked as the remaining five or so guards scattered, "Honestly these girls are nightmares."

"They seem like a pair of active little brats." Fontaine said, trying to cause the Mother Goose to go off on a tangent. It worked better than he had hoped.

"Active? Active?! These little girls are wolves in sheep clothes. Ranma is always plotting and planning. She does not trust anyone here. I think she knows about the experiments and procedures as she is always trying to escape to the surface. What's worse is she gets Naru involved. Naru seemed like she was a bright and happy little girl at first, but then she started pranking everyone in sight. I don't know how many times I have had to clean something out of my hair or how many things I have sat on!"

Fontaine watched on as the German scientist continued on and on about the two girls. How they had defied physics as they ran along the walls, at how they managed to evade his men through some of the most unorthodox movements and coincidental timing. She complained that the girls had been hard to keep track of before she had introduced the two in hopes that Ranma could help Naru learn English, but now Ranma seemed to be doing her best to escape Rapture with Naru, using Naru's penchant for pranks to cause a distraction.

Tenenbaum suddenly stopped, apologizing for her outburst before claiming that the continued chaos caused by the two girls was wearing on her. Bidding him a good day, Tenenbaum turned to the door, "Let me know if you want any changes and if you wish to look at the files on any of the girls you will need to speak to Suchong. I moved all of the files to his clinic to keep them out of Naru's sights."

Watching her leave, Frank Fontaine was at a conundrum. He could leave now and get on with his life, or he could do an 'inspection' of the orphanage until he found the two brats and have a talk with them.

"Well, It's not like I have something important to do," the conman said to himself, shrugging his shoulders. Exiting the office, he began his 'tour' of the orphanage. The Apollo Square Orphanage was one of the two largest orphanages, easily able to accommodate the fifty or so girls currently living there. Even so, it didn't take him long to view most of the common areas and greet a few of the little brats through their open doors.

The rooms were arranged for four girls to a room, and with their names next to the door, it made it easy to locate the subjects for his little experiment. When he looked in the room he only saw the blond one, Naru, sulking on one of the beds. The name tags on the door said that the only two girls in the room were the 'devil brats' so he figured that his men were still looking for the redhead.

"Hey Kid, what's got ya so blue?" Fontaine asked leaning against the door frame. The blonde's head shot up when he spoke, her eyes wide in excitement.

"Hello! My Names Naru, I'm kinda in time out because I put a bucket of fish guts over one of the doors that only the adults can go through." The blond had started out bubbly and bouncy before relaying her prank in the subdued tone.

"Fish guts, huh? Who got hit?"

"Mister Tommy," Naru said with a nervous grin on her face.

"Well then, It looks like Tommy needs to pay more attention to his surroundings," Fontaine said, before noticing how nervous the girl was. Moving into the room, Fontaine crouched down to her eye level, "What's wrong kid, I ain't going to bite."

Before the blond could speak, another child's voice came from behind him, "It's because we're not supposed to talk to strangers, that's what the old lady told us that in class today. It doesn't help that you look like Yakuza."

Fontaine stood and turned to observe the other child. Ranma, if he remembered correctly, stared at him, meeting his gaze with an emotionless stare. As the Fontaine maintained the staring contest with the little redhead, he thought on her words. Apparently Tenenbaum was already working on the brainwashing for these two, but it only worked slightly on them. His little experiment would have him seeing these two often, once they became little sisters, so he needed them to get use to him.

"The name's Frank Fontaine, kid. I built these orphanages." He said, a grin spreading across his face, "I'll probably be coming around a lot more, so you better get used to seein' me."

"Sure Pops, but you do anything weird and I'll let Naru prank you." The red head said as she moved to her own bed, pulling as stuffed bear that looked like a panda out from under her pillow. Fontaine moved to the door and took one last look at the girls. They looked like normal children with both of them now on Ranma's bed as Naru attempted to badger the older girl to play something with her. While the older girl looked like she wanted to just sit there holding her bear, she allowed Naru to talk her into playing.

As he left, Fontaine only had two real thoughts on his mind. The first was that those two girls were anything but the innocent little angels they appeared to be, seeing as his men were still running around looking for the redhead. The second was more of a question.

"What the hell is a Yakuza?"

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Fontaine leaned back in his private suite with a glass of whiskey and a stack of files on several Little Sister candidates, including the 'devil brats'. After he had left the orphanage, he had gone by Suchong's Clinic to retrieve the files on the brats as well as the man's own opinions.

He was amused that Suchong humored the two girls that apparently grated on Tenenbaum's every nerve. The man was not known for his patience with little children. He did learn that the man was attempting to push the timeline to implant the slugs into the two up, if only because he could then truly start the experiments as well as implementing a better way to keep the duo under control.

Tenenbaum's notes mentioned the reasons on why she was insisting on keeping to the timeline, mainly because the two needed to be monitored at the same time as well as the issue of the blond one's age. She had noted it would be best to wait out the next four months to ensure the process was a success.

But he had to do something, the two girls were close to blowing open his entire operation with how Andrew Ryan was nosing around the incidents the two had caused. He decided to offer an ultimatum. If the brats cause another incident like the one with the bathysphere, he would override Tenenbaum's protests and have Suchong implant the slugs and begin the procedures. Now all he needed was the proper person to keep the two under control afterwords.

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Author's Note: All right people, this will be the last update for this one for a little while. My reasoning is that I have so many half written stories and several rewrites that are half-typed that I need to get finished and posted. I can't do that if I keep working on the new ideas I come up with. Most of My current stories either have several rewritten chapters that need to be posted or the next new chapter that's half written. Others are stories with multiple chapters that were rewritten but never posted. Hell, I have one story that's 8-9 chapters that need a final go over by me before I post them and I just got lazy.

So while I'll be working on other stories for the moment, I won't forget this one, even if Fontaine is a hard bastard to write.