Chapter 2: A New Dark Knight Begins (Middle)
Gotham
Wayne Manor - Batcave
Underneath the Wayne Manor, pass the grandfather cloak and downwards towards the secret that the late owner had. We can see the Batcave - the hidden base of operations, home, and location that the Dark Knight used before his timely death. Now it was being used by the next one and we see him during work at the work table.
Naruto wore a white workout shirt and black pants while a pair of running shoes, after finishing up his workout and training routes. He also put great use of his Shadow Clones to study different things, train on different things, and work on the equipment to the very suit itself. He had been using the past two weeks to get training and familiar with the equipment before he heads on out, taking the path of becoming the symbol of fear and hope. There's a lot of weight on that symbol when the blonde first wears a suit to get the feel for it.
The blonde felt a big weight being brought onto him but push that aside and kept working. He doesn't use his charka abilities due to some people are not much friendly with metahumans or powers in general. He would have to be extra careful when going on patrol and mostly uses his body & mind but would use some of his powers for rare moments if push comes to show.
Naruto had the cave back online, operational, and later keep the manor going. He clean up the place, got food, and keep the outside that haunted feeling for the time being. He doesn't own the mansion or knows if anyone is coming back. So he wants to keep himself under the radar but close his chest at the same time.
The blonde was almost ready and would take his first patrol which he would start small, and work his way up. He would patrol around the streets of Gotham since there are a lot of people that mug others and a number of drugs get moved between different thugs on the streets.
Naruto also knows he would have to have a coverup during the day or rare times during the night before patrols. He hasn't thought of a good idea for a coverup quiet it, only that he would become the caretaker of Wayne Manor but needs a job and balance that double life. Of course, the school came across his mind but that's a story for another time.
Pushing that thought aside, it was time for his first patrol and the shinobi started to head over to where his suit & equipment was located. He saw all his hard work for the past week, and thank Kami for Shadow Clones to speed up the learning of new equipment & training progress. He saw that his own Bat Suit was completed and was pleased with himself for the hard work being put into that. He would have used one of the old suits but they don't match his body type and aren't a big-time on the exterior underwear design on the costume.
No thank you for the last one.
But anyway, we now see Naruto taking a real good look at his suit and the weight of the symbol coming down to him now. That symbol is meant to be the symbol of fear to those that corrupted & use crime and other parts, the symbol of hope for those that are lost in the darkness.
Using all of his resolves, Naruto took a deep breath and started to get change into his suit, his first night as the Dark Knight begins.
Time Skip
Elsewhere in Gotham, we see a bar, that was owned by Roman Sionis aka Black Mask, one of the crime lords who aims to be the Godfather of All Crime or the Kingpin of Crime. In that bar, we see the number of Black Mask's men talking among themselves, and the weakness of drinking too much made them very talkable.
Unknown to them, a shadow-like figure was on top of the building and a skylight glass window above the bar. The shadow figure then placed two fingers at the glass window and started to hear the talk between the thugs.
"I am telling man. Sionis must have the balls to go to war with the crime families, Penguin, Two-Face, and the Clowns," One thug say, sounding very surprised at what he just heard.
"Black Mask wants to remove the fishes and become the top shark among the sea in Gotham. From what I have been told. The crime families, I think boss might have a chance as those old bones are losing their touch. Penguin, I got no idea how that flightless bird would fall," The head thug informed.
"Two-Face?"
"As long he doesn't cross Black Mask, then the boss has no reason to rip those faces even more."
"And those damn clowns?"
"The remains of Joker's Gang? I have no. They have no leadership ever since Joker disappeared and that crazy bitch went her own ways."
This made the shadow figure hum in thought and eyes narrowed a bit, taking that information in. It seems Black Mask would most likely be the first rogue he would have to face and take down this rising criminal empire. It seems the crime familiars might take action against Black Mask, a gang war would arise. Penguin might check on that bird. Two-Face is a big unknown unless his chaos side starts gunning down the other gangs or his order side does it to balance, unknown for now. The clowns, are a rogue element and don't have leaders to lead them on the right path as Agents of Chaos like Clown Prince of Chaos was.
The shadow figure rose up from his knee position, showing the top of his head had two pointed ears and was covered in some kind of cloak.
This was just the beginning of a new Dark Knight coming forward.
