A Nobody

by Jebest4781

Living a new life in another reality, Naruto now must handle a lot of complications of him interacting with various heroes, villains and anti-heroes. How will things go with them interacting with a Nobody. NarutoXHarem Rated M for language, violence and lemons. NarutoXDC ComicsXKingdom Hearts Please leave reviews. On Hiatus.

14. Secrets

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Naruto, Disney, Square Enix or Detective Comics. They rightfully belong to their respective owners.

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

Radio/TV

"Headset/Flashback"

-Scene Shift-

Chapter 14: Secrets

The morning rays started to shine through the bedroom, as the light started to creep towards the loft's resident. The brightness of the sunrise had landed upon Selina's sleeping face, causing her to groan in discomfort from her well rested sleep. She tried to seek comfort from her pillow to block out the rays of the sun and it felt just right when turning her head a bit more into it.

Selina had thought it was just a cruel dream when those moments from last night come to the forefront of her mind as she tried to go back to sleep. She wanted to stay in that dream and never wake up, but Isis had gotten into bed and started to wake her up with her normal morning kisses for her breakfast.

*Groan* "I'm getting up Isis, just be patient please."

She tried to move as per muscle memory when she felt her lower half really sore. Not only that, but when she tried to move her arm, it grazed against something warm and firm. This confused the thief in her morning haze that once she rubbed the grime out of her eyes, she looked upon the naked, sleeping form of her only male friend turned lover. She then realized what her 'pillow' was exactly that made her realize what occurred.

"I-It can't be…." She muttered as her eyes started to water up as a smile graced her beautiful face. "It happened. It really happened."

The sudden movements that were taking place started to stir Naruto from his slumber as he soon woke up to Selina looking up with him with unshed tears.

"Selina?..." He asked her in a concerned tone. "Are you alright? Did you have a bad dream?"

She shook her head before responding back to him while wiping her barely shed tears. "I'm better than alright and I didn't have bad dream. In fact it was a good dream….a great dream."

"What was it then?"

"You…. Telling me you love me."

She slided up a bit on his form and gave him a pleasant kiss on the lips that made him wrap an arm around her to hold her closer. Her breasts pressing on his muscular chest with their hearts quickening their pace to sync up like one organ. The publisher then broke the kiss as his unused hand went up to her face and held it in comfort.

"It wasn't a dream Selina." Naruto said to her with a small smile on his face. "It really happened and I'm glad for that."

"Meowr." Isis called out from the end of the bed. She then walked up towards the two while moving out of the way of the mess they made last night. Once the black cat came close, she started to lick Naruto's whiskered cheek and rubbed her head against it with a loud purr.

"Hey Isis. Good morning." He said petted her head a little before she kept licking said cheek. *Chuckles* "Cut it out girl. It tickles."

"Really.~" Selina smirked at hearing this and out of curiosity, she brought her hand up against his cheek and started to rub it .

"N-No, d-d-don't do tha…A-A-A-A-Ooooooooo…" He was cut off by her strokes on his cheek before she pulls her hand back with odd look and a little pinkish tint on her cheeks.

"Did you just purr?" Selina asked in wonder, finding it a little cute.

"N-N-No, I do-O-O-Ooooooo…"

She kept on stroking his whiskered cheek and couldn't stop herself from laughing. "N-No way! *Laugh* I can't believe it!"

"I-I-I don't purr at all!" Naruto cried out as he lightly pushed her hand away. Of course the moment he did, he felt a paw on his cheek and started to rub it. This caused him to purr once again with the rumbling sound coming from his throat and chest.

"Ah~ That's so cute!" Cooed the thief as she found the sight adorable. "Isis thinks you're a cat as well."

"It's not cute at all!" He said in denial with his red embarrassed face. 'I thought I grew out of that years ago!'

It was, unfortunately for him and fortunate to others, something he was either born with or that was left behind for being 'bunny ears' container.

He first came across this discovery back when he was a little boy. Naruto had just started to go to Ichiraku's and he didn't have any money with him at the time. Ayame had offered him a free bowl of ramen to him for a price of her petting his whiskered cheeks. It was out of mild curiosity for the young chef that she wanted to feel what they were like. He didn't mind at the time since he was hungry.

After devouring his meal in good manners, since Ayame smacked his head with a ladle on the head for bad table manners one time, she collected her payment. It felt really nice with her soft hands rubbing his cheeks and with him in content with a full belly, came a surprise to them both: he purred.

They thought it was just their imagination and she repeated her action to get the results. When realizing that he indeed purred, she squealed in joy on how cute it was and kept doing it for a while, much to his growing dismay.

So every now again, when he went by there, Ayame would hound him down to 'pet' him and he would refuse. Even would offer a free bowl for the chance. It was hard to refuse on those times and he had to suck it up on those moments.

But since he never came to this world, he never purred at all and thought he grew out of it.

Some people might end up asking: But wouldn't he purr when someone caressed his cheek or something similar?

Well caressing and petting are considered two different things. I'm not going into detail about them. So moving on.

After the little moment in bed, the two had gotten Isis' breakfast out before retreating to the bathroom and 'freshen' up. Practically spent an hour in there by cleaning themselves up, dirtying each other before cleaning each other again. By the time they got out of there, the newly made couple were pretty shiny….well Selina was extra shiny due to her satisfied glow.

Once all that was done, the two were in the kitchen with Naruto cooking up breakfast for the two of them. While she wore a fresh pair of clothing for the day, Naruto had resorted to wear the clothes he wore last night. Not that he minded really since those were entirely clean, but he'll probably change later.

"So how is this going to work out?" Selina asked while sitting at the kitchen counter.

"On what exactly?"

"With us being together." She said to bring up the subject from last night.

"Right….Well Pam told me that I have one hell of a big heart."

"That's for sure." She quickly added as she remembered how the two ended up falling asleep after their continuation of last nights activities. His heartbeat was so strong and so relaxing that she was able to drift off to sleep easily. Add to the fact that Naruto turned out to be a very nice pillow with those ribs of his.

"And said that 'they' can be fine of me being with others as long as I come back to 'them' and show the other women the equal amount of love I have for Pam in general. Add to the fact that Ivy keeps saying that since I'm her king that I need to have 'consorts'."

"That seems odd."

"I know, right?" He said towards her agreement on that little statement. "But I want to respect 'their' wish and possibly see if this can work."

"Yeah….." She didn't say much as she was starting to make plans on doing soon. One of them being her seeing Pam and ask on her opinion on all of this. Possibly might do that today while running errands from the bank and something else to kill her free time.

"But hey, it's okay. We've got all the time in the world. We can take things slow if we have to."

The thief smiled at his happy go lucky attitude as he served her the starting meal of the day. He was right though about having all the time in the world. No one knows what the future holds but one can be happy if they patiently work on things at a decent pace. Which is what the two plan on doing in their new relationship.

'Possibly should plan a date at one point since we're now a couple.' Selena thought as she took a bite out of her delicous breakfast. 'Need to actually have that happen to show that we're now dating.'

The two had some small talks while they ate and nothing much occurred there….. That was until Selina asked a simple question.

"So was there anything else Pam said to you?"

"Yeah there was."

"Which would be…" The thief said while dragging on the answer. She ended up taking a sip of her drink when he ended up answering.

"...That apparently Harley has feelings for me as well."

*Cue Spit take* "What?!"

Selina's response was pretty normal to say the least, given with the new shocking detail revealed to her. She had thought it was just her that fell in love with the publisher, but she didn't expect the asylum intern to have feelings as well.

"Are you sure that Pam's right on her?" She questionably said to him. "Not to offend her or anything, but it's pretty hard to tell with Harley during the few times I've hanged out with her."

"I was wondering the same thing actually. So while I had to think things over on both you and Harley, I've been wondering how Pam noticed that with her doctor."

The thief took some moments to think while chewing down her food before swallowing to respond to that. "For some odd reason, this is making me think of an odd soap opera thing of the doctor going after his/her patient's girlfriend/boyfriend or the other way around."

This got Naruto to think it over and came to the same realization. "I guess you're right on that."

"Even though I had been coming in terms to my feelings towards you, I think she might not know she has any towards you at all."

"What you mean?"

After taking a sip out of her drink to clean out her palate before explaining to him. "During the few times we hung out and during the moments being with the gal at Arkham, I could tell she has a secret. One that might've affected her deeply and could've buried any romantic feelings towards anybody. I don't know what it is exactly, but I've seen my fair share of variations to roughly guess that it deals with death on a loved one."

"...I see."

This... could make a bit of sense now he thought about it. Sure he knows that she has started to keep a neutral appearance at times while at work so she won't show that much of a reaction at all. Harley could've used that subconsciously when dealing with certain feelings and end up burying it down and not dwell into them.

"So my little advice for you is this: just keep doing what you're doing and don't try to date her too quickly. Just take things slow and things might go well." Selena said before taking a bite out of her meal. "I mean *Swallow* you're opening her up from her shy attitude and trying to get familiar with her. So just keep doing that."

"I'll take what I can get Selina and thanks."

"You're welcome."

The two ate in relative peace after that before finishing up their meals. They cleaned up the dishes and had to finish getting ready for the day before doing their own respective things. From Naruto heading to work and Selina doing her thing with her one dealer, the bank and now seeing Pam because of recent events.

-Later, Arkham Asylum-

"Hello, I'm here to see Pamela Isley."

The security guard then pulled out the patient's guest list and asked the usual question. "Name?"

"Selina Kyle."

"And may I see some identification?"

"Of course." The environmentalist complied as she pulled out her wallet and handed the guard her Driver's License. After a few moments, the guard of the asylum handed the item back to her before handing her the usual guest pass. From there, Selina navigated her way through the building and made her way to her destination.

Though along the way, she came across Harley's office and this made her come to a stop. She wanted to see if her friend was in or not like in her usual habit when she came on by alone the past several times. But after remembering what Naruto told her from what Pam told him, Selina hesitated in wanting to chat with her at the moment.

'I should probably tell her, she's my friend after all and should probably deserve to know.'

'And then what? Have things get complicated between you four or five, if you consider Pam counting as two?'

'Oh great, you again.' Selena thought with a sigh escaping her mouth. 'I thought you went away when I got together with Naruto.'

'It was only temporary really.' The inner Selina/Catwoman simply said. 'I am, after all, your inner instincts and subconsciousness. And I should tell you that telling Harley now instead of later will ruin the relationship in the group.'

'So what should I do then if I meet Harley next time?'

'To simply put it: just be her friend and act like what you normally do with her.'

Selina could only sigh in defeat with her inner self winning. 'Ok….I'll keep this secret a little longer.'

'Good girl. Now you have someone you had planned on seeing.' The inner Selina said before the voice receded to the back of her mind.

'Right.'

She made her way to the women's wing of the asylum and was able to see Pam in 'their' green house styled cell with 'them' lying on the bed reading 'their' copy of Loveless.

*Knock* *Knock* "Hey Pam. Hope I'm not interrupting."

The changed botanist looked up from the novel to see 'their' fellow ally towards nature and gave her a smile. "No... not at all. So what brings you here Selina?"

*Sigh* "I….I wanted to come clean and tell you 'two'…."

"Tell us what?"

"That me and Naruto made love last night." Selina finished off on what she wanted to say. She had somewhat expected Pam to go through a bit of a negative response of some kind. The only she got in return was a smirk upon the botanist's lips.

"And how was it?" Pam replied as she got up from her cot and walked towards the glass barrier.

"E-Excuse me?"

"How was the sex?" Pam replied with the ever growing smirk at 'their' friend's flustered face. "It's just a simple question Selena."

"Uh...I-It was good."

"Really? Just good?" Both Pam's respectively asked with a tilt to 'their' head.

"Wasn't it supposed to be great?"

"Mind blowing?"

"Heavenly?"

"Orgasmic?"

"Okay fine! It was amazing! It was perfect! It was the best sex I've had in my entire life! It was even in fact: the greatest experience of my life up till now! Happy?!" Selina yelled out at the slight taunt with her realizing she was being joked around a little.

"See." They said to her with a smile. "It wasn't that hard to answer."

The eyes of the dark haired beauty started to twitch before she pointedly accused the 'two' of 'them'. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"

"Guilty.~"

"So why do that?"

"Because 'we' were bored."

The response seemed a tad familiar to the cat burglar as she said a similar thing to Naruto.

"Mind explaining please."

"As you can tell Selina, things aren't all that exciting being here." Pamela started off the explanation.

"'We' do enjoy watering the plants around the asylum, interacting with 'our' favorite doctor Harley, along with 'our' king's novel. But after a while, things tend to get boring and one needs to find entertainment in anything really." Ivy jotted into the conversation.

"If you don't, you go mad."

"Sounds perfect if you're in here." The environmentalist said before quickly replying back to 'them'. "No offence."

"None taken." 'They' responded to 'their' environmental ally.

"I have a feeling there's something else you wanted to talk to 'us' about. Asides from you and Naruto joining in 'our' relationship."

"That's actually what I'm here for really. Why go through this with him and me as a supposed 'consort'? And don't say because you're the 'Queen of Nature' and all that stuff. Just….please tell me so I can have more sense on this asides from your odd excuse."

*Sigh* "She does have a point Ivy. Might as well tell her."

"Tell me what exactly?"

"Selina...What 'we' are about to tell you, you must promise 'us' to not tell 'our' king." Ivy said to the fellow environmentalist in a stern gaze. "If he finds out….'we' don't know if it will shatter him and unlove us."

Selina looked at Pam and saw how serious the gaze was to realize that 'they' are going to indeed gonna tell her something big. This made her wonder how bad of a secret this was going to be. But like any other person, there was one thing that came to mind in this situation."

"What do you mean exactly?"

-Few Days Later, Evening-

It was a pleasant night in Gotham, to say the least, with the sky ever so clear from the clouds to reveal the lunar rays upon the city. With the cold light casted upon Gotham, it seemed to make the setting right for what crimes are being committed in the moonlight hours. Various ones would be committed from robberies, murders, attempted rapes, you name it and it could be happening at the very moment.

Take for example in a random warehouse as the sounds of a man being electrocuted while writhing and screaming in pain. When coming closer to the source, we would see the man being strapped down to a chair with a contraption on his head with electrical sparks coming off of it, to reveal it being what's causing the pain and suffering for the man. Standing not too far away was the person that was doing this to the poor man.

"That's a good boy Joe." The person said with a small, sadistic smile. "Just a little longer."

Once the electrocution torture ended, the man passed out from the pain as he fell down onto the ground with a mild thud. Soon a pair of feminine hands came out from the barely lit room to pull the device off of the man's head. She then brought it closer to her face to marvel the glint of the moonlight reflecting off of the reflective surface.

"Shiny~ Shiny~." The woman said with wonder in her gaze.

With what bit of light that was shone in the room revealed her identified form. She has shoulder length white hair in a bob cut with black make-up around her eyes and on her supple lips. She wore a black leather outfit with feathery wing-like ornaments on her shoulders. With the leather portion of the outfit though was unique with it only consisting of arm length gloves, mid-thigh length boots, women's bloomers, a corset vest that uplifted her breasts and a fishnet material that covered the majority of her body asides from her mid-drift.

She placed the device into the pouch she had strapped around her shoulder before something glinted in her peripheral vision. Taking a closer look, she saw it was an oddly shiny stapler with it labeled 'Property of Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital' before she too placed it into her pouch. The woman then ran out of the room with her goal for the night already done. Before she could get any farther, she was kicked onto the side by surprise and seemed to fly a bit into the air. She quickly recovered and twisted herself upright to land onto several boxes up above.

"Hey!" She yelled out to whoever assaulted her. "You just hit a girl!"

"No. I just hit a criminal." The woman's assailant calmly said to her. When he stepped closer, the person was then revealed to be Batman.

"You know, you've given me quite the run." The Dark Knight said to her before coming to a complete stop. "Six warehouses and stolen technology that roughly estimate in the hundreds of thousands."

"Really?" She curiously asked on the new information. "I've only liked them for how they sparkled Mr…."

"Batman."

"Magpie." As she introduced herself, she caught her eye on something on his person. "Oh~ Nice belt. Shiny~ Shiny~. Can I have it?"

"Sorry, I'm using it right now. How about a shiny pair of handcuffs instead?" He told her as he pulled out a pair of batcuffs.

Magpie narrowed her eyes a bit and jumped off of her placement to try and land a kick at the Gotham hero. He rolled onto the side to evade the blow when Magpie landed onto the ground. She stood up and wiped her hands onto her sides to have her nails elongate into sharp weapons before diving towards him for her assault. She swiped and kicked towards the hero as he tried to dodge and evade her quickened blows. He soon had to block the claws with the bracers on his arms before being kicked onto the side.

When he recovered from the blow, Batman pulled out a few batarangs and threw them towards the bird themed criminal, who knocked them away with her claw like weapons. When she got closer, he pulled out the batcuffs and quickly placed them on one of her wrists and attempted to put them on the other. Magpie got angry at this and spun around to kick him at the head. It was successful and he landed onto the ground with a mild thud.

Not wanting to see him get back up, the white haired woman ran towards the dark themed hero before leaping towards him. He saw the attempt she was about to do and shot his feet out and kicked her belly into the air. It was good, at first, to get her away from him but he momentarily forgot about the support pillar nearby as she landed her feet on it and used it as a springboard to launch herself back at the hero.

Batman had to dodge yet again from her diving towards him, but this gave Magpie a clear path to a hanging rope that was behind him. She grabbed ahold of it and used it to swing around to land a powerful kick onto her assailant, which sent him straight to the support pillar that ended up knocking him out.

With her opponent out of the way, she swung towards her parcel that was lying on the ground and would've caught it if it wasn't for someone else snagging it before her.

"Sorry pretty bird, but you need to do better than that." The person said to her as she let go of the rope and glared at him.

"Who are you?" She questioned at the shadowy man.

"Moi? Alright, I'll tell you." He said as he stepped into the moonlight coming from the ceiling windows with the bag in hand. "The name's Vanitas. Got it memorized."

She inspected his form before her eyes were then drawn towards his dark glass like helmet. The moonlight gleamed off its surface and made it seem to glow and radiate in her eyes. When seeing this, her gaze then adopted a look of wonder and awe like before.

"Shiny~ Shiny~."

"Shiny? What's shiny?" He asked as he then remembered his reflective helmet with the moon out tonight. "Nevermind."

"I have to have it!" Magpie demanded as she came towards him in a surprising amount of speed.

She leapt off of the ground and wrapped her legs around his head and circled around him before throwing him off to the side. In the process, he dropped the parcel from his hands making it free for Magpie to take it back.

Once she landed onto the ground, she made her way towards her property before several daggers were thrown towards the bag to hold it in place. She glared at the black and white themed hero before attempting to hit him again with her claws this time. Vanitas moved out of the way before grabbing ahold of her arms and held her down.

This unsettled greatly as she hissed towards him before swinging her leg up to kick him from below. This knocked him back a bit before she came onto his back and attempted to stab him with her claws. Magpie's attack was blocked, however, with his arm before she kept swiping at him several times. She grew tired of this and wrapped her legs around his neck to render him unconscious. He surprised her by phasing himself out of the hold and attempted to take her out.

She got out of the way and in a last ditch effort, she went towards the ground and sent her legs towards Vanitas to send him flying. It was a successful hit with him flying towards a large stack of boxes that toppled all over him. Knowing he'll come back up soon, she went towards her parcel again before escaping. She had to pull out the daggers that held it in place and placed them into her bag before grabbing ahold of the rope and climbed her way towards her exit. By the time Vanitas got out of his toppled box holding, the bird themed criminal was long gone.

"Damn, she took me by surprise back there." Vanitas muttered as he had to pop a few kinks out of his shoulder. "Should've fought better against a female opponent. Then again... there is sparing against Selena, but she never done any of that in our 'fights'."

The masked publisher then heard Batman groan a bit as he tried to get up from his placement by the support pillar. He came up to the downed man and helped him up for support.

"You alright Bats?"

"I'll be fine." Batman told Vanitas as he held his head a bit. "Where's Magpie?"

"The bird girl? Well she's long gone Batsy. She's surprisingly agile though."

"I get that."

The two then heard a groan from the other room before making their way over to see what happened. When getting there, the one man was hunched over in a fetal position with the ground around him seemingly scorched due to the electrocution torture on him.

Placing his hand onto the man's shoulder, Batman spoke to the man. "Are you okay? What's your name?"

"I….I don't know." The man said as he looked around with uncertainty in his eyes. "Who am I? Where am I? What happened?"

This ended up leaving more questions than answers for the two before Batman placed his hand towards his ear and called for the GCPD on their current placements. Once that was done, he turned towards Vanitas to only see empty space to indicate the man already left. Batman could only sigh yet again on not getting the chance to talk to the mysterious man as he pulled another one on him. Once the police arrived, he informed them on what happened before he left for the night to do his own investigation on the matter.

-Hours Later, Naruto's Loft-

*Sigh* "Glad that I don't have to go to the office today." He said to himself as he was sitting at his desk, going over various documents he brought home yesterday.

Going over several revenues to see on what's up to date and if they seemed accurate or not. Looking over a few books that were waiting for approval before being sent to the editor. Going over various resumes of potential new employees for the Metropolis location and current ones who would be fine on transferring there.

Naruto was glad these were the only ones he had to deal with for the day. Especially on what he had to deal with for the past several ones.

It had been a few days since he and Selina had shared their very intimate moment together with them starting out their relationship. Both of them hope this can work since they truly care for each other after all the time the two had spent with one another. Things have been memorable in the early stages it's going through a decent start and they were fine with it.

While he was at work on that first day, he had gotten a call from Selina and asked if they should have dinner at either one of their places for just a dinner and whatever else they could do. He complied and told her to come by his place after he got off from work so he could cook dinner for just the two of them. The evening was pleasant and they decided to just cuddle up on the couch to watch a movie before falling asleep in each other's arms.

The next evening was relatively the same, but this time it was at her place with her wanting to cook dinner and afterwards having an evening romp to burn off the food. It was very enjoyable for the two of them, but the morning after wasn't all that great….

-Flashback-

Naruto was breathing in the morning air inside of Selina's bed and reached out to grab ahold of his 'second' girlfriend, only to grab empty space.

'Huh, wonder where she went.' He thought as he looked around to rub out the grime out of his eyes. He looked around the room to see how oddly messed up it was with their clothes thrown about and wondering how certain articles got stuck on certain places. Like how the hell did his boxer shorts stay hanging on the wall without any hooks or how her bra was swinging on the hanging fan away from the bed.

He heard the door open and looked over to see Selina, wearing his button up shirt that was too big for her, with two cups of hot coffee. Once again, she looked radiant in the morning after and had the pleasant smile on her face when she got closer to the bed.

"Hey. Made some morning coffee."

"Thanks." He told her as he grabbed his cup from her before they both took a sip out of them. Not too hot and not too cold, just right that they could just take more than just a sip.

"I was wondering….was last night a dream."

"Oh it was definitely real." She said with a small, growing smirk.

"Then you were right, about everything. I had no idea."

"So you liked it?"

"Yeah." He immediately responded to her on the question.

"Even with the part where-" "Especially that part, yeah"

She giggled on that bit as he brought his lips onto hers for a few moments before separating.

"You know… I don't have any plans for the day." The thief said as she unbuttoned the shirt a little.

"Really?~"

"Yeah." She replied with her biting her lower lip a little while unbuttoning a bit more.

"Well since I'm my own boss," Naruto told her as he pulled part of the shirt off of her shoulder, "I can probably call in sick for the day and no one can tell me otherwise."

"That would be nice having the day to ourselves."

"So what would you like to do for the day?" The publisher asked as he brushed his lips on her shoulder before biting slightly, much to her pleasure.

"W-We could cuddle up and r-read." She tried to muster as he nibbled onto a sweet spot between the shoulders and neck. "W-We could just ea-eat in."

Naruto kept on nibbling and kissing along the trail before reaching her ear and whispered towards it before nibbling. "Or….We can maybe spend the day doing nothing but work up a sweat before having fun in the bed."

"Y-Yeah...we can do that." Selina responded as she was breathing heavily and cursing herself on Naruto learning all of her sweat spots already.

They were about to get frisky with one another until the door opened and slammed with a voice calling out.

"Selina! I'm home!" Shizune called out to signal who came into the loft.

"Oh Shit!" Both of them cried out as they ended up falling off the bed. It wasn't long until both popped back up from the floor with wide eyed looks with both of them covering each other up with the blankets.

"Oh god!"

"I thought you said she was still in Russia for another day!" He whispered loudly to her as he tried to run around the room and snag his clothes.

"I thought so too, but I must've gotten the time wrong and she came back today!" She responded back in the same tone while getting her clothes as well.

"Hey Selina? If you're here, can we talk about something?" Shizune asked out loud into the loft.

"You need to hide."

"What?!"

"Hide."

"Are you serious?"

"You need to hide in my closet Naruto." She told him as she was pushing him towards the closet in her room.

"I am not hiding in your closet Selena!"

"Just hide!" She whispered back just as she pushed him in and closed the door by that time Shizune walked in.

"Oh hey~. How was the flight?" Selina asked her roommate as she tried to keep herself cool in the moment.

"It was alright and before you ask yes Russia was fine as well."

"That's good." Was the response as the thief awkwardly nodded her head.

"What were you doing?" Shizune skeptically said as she looked at her friend's behavior.

"Nothing really. Just got up and needed to make the bed."

"Naked."

"I was feeling rather hot last night and had to go stark nude." Selina said the excuse on the fly before her eyes caught sight of Naruto's boxers on the ground. She swore she saw him grab them, but he must've let go slightly out of his grasps when she pushed him into the closet.

"Okay…. Anyways I need to talk to you about a few things."

"That's fine, but can I at least change first? It would seem awkward if I was naked."

"Oh yeah right." Shizune said as she quickly got out of the room before calling out from the other side of the door. "I'll be by the kitchen counter when you're ready."

Once Shizune was some distance away, Selina quickly went to her closet and opened it to see Naruto holding a certain piece of lingerie.

"I didn't know you had these." He said as he felt that material. "Were you saving these for another occasion."

"What are you doing?! Don't touch those!" She responded back with her face starting to go red.

"Like I had no choice in the matter since you shoved me in here!"

"I'm not talking about this now. So get out of my closet and get changed."

"But what if I don't want to get out of the closet?" He said with a coy smile before she grabbed him by the ear and pulled him out. "Ow ow ow."

"Don't start with me on that and just do as I say." She responded back as the jokes weren't going to work at the moment.

Once things somewhat settled down, the two had to quickly change as fast as possible before Selina got out of her room first to distract Shizune long enough for Naruto to get out of the loft. It was….somewhat easy with Shizune kept turning slightly and Naruto had to quickly hide without being spotted. Luckily for him, he used his sound manipulation around him to keep himself quiet so he wouldn't give out any noise before reaching the door and bolted.

-Flashback End-

…..that both realized the harsh reality that they needed to keep their relationship a secret from Shizune. Sure they could tell Shizune that they were in a relationship, but they didn't want to reveal it to her too soon. Just only when things seemed comfortable.

So now both needed to try and fix their dating schedules around the roommate.

Like for example, they decided to go out and properly eat at a nice restaurant last night. It was nice, simple, quiet and pleasant that nothing really went wrong at all. Selina did apologize in shoving him into the closet that morning since she practically acted on instinct….like a sophmore in highschool. Her words, not his. It was just that the relationship was still new to her and she wanted to keep this between just the two of them, asides from Pam who is on the know, before they come out on the information.

Asides from all that, things were relatively normal. But there were two things that somewhat bugged him the past few days. One was Selina acting like she had something to hide. She did have secrets just like everyone else and he respected that since he had his own for that matter. But from what he saw was that the secret she had seemed uncomfortable and she wanted to tell someone about it. Naruto would've pressed onto it but decided to let it be and let her tell him when the time comes.

The second, however, was the fact that he ended up sleep writing those intercourse moments he had with Selina. It infuriated him that he ended up doing this ...again… and there was no way into stopping this at all. Seriously though….Is Jiraiya making him write these moments with both Selina and Pam and possibly any other person he does the deed with from beyond the grave. To make him want to write the continuations of his Icha Icha works?

Unknownst to him in the afterlife, Tsunade and Kushina were trying their very best in trying to maim and harm Jiraiya to the best of their abilities for what he has done to their precious Naruto. The deceased Toad Sage keeps denying that he is involved with that habit now, but the two women aren't buying it at all. They do not want Naruto to pick up on that trait from his godfather and will do whatever they can to make it not occur.

Asides from all that, he went out on patrols after seeing Selina off at her loft when they got back from dinner. He wanted to get rid of a lot of energy he had on him and both had in mind of them having sex in his loft. But they didn't want to have Shizune seem suspicious on her staying over at the other person's place after a date and there was no way in hell they were gonna try and do it in their loft. So both held it off for the time being, but not after giving each other a kiss good night.

For the patrol that evening, Naruto had stopped a few muggings and a robbery. He thought it was considered a slow night since he didn't know the whole standard thing on what Batman would've done on these kinds of nights...or on a busy one for that matter. The publisher was going to call it a night until he heard some screaming when he passed by the warehouse district and went to investigate. What he came across was Batman getting knocked out by that Magpie character and he needed to stop her and figure out what was going on. His attempt failed and she got away in the end.

After helping Batman up, they came across the man from the other room with his memories gone apparently. While the Dark Knight wasn't looking, Naruto saw a box on the nearby table with Blackgate Prison labeled on it and saw a file placed on top of it. He would've looked into it then and there but he didn't want to get questioned by Batman again. So he ended up grabbing the oddly placed file and phased himself through the floor to the basement level and waited till the coast was clear for him to head back home.

Naruto realized that it probably wasn't the smartest idea at the moment to take evidence from the scene of the crime. But he wanted to try to start investigating on his own without relying on Kurama too much. He already got the notice from his former tenant before that he now had a 'favor limit' that the hybrid will do for free, but will want to save those for a rainy day.

Now regarding the file, he had looked into it and saw that it belonged to a man named Lunkhead. From what Naruto got from his files, he was a tall, bald man that was roughly 7 ft or so in height and had some pain tolerance and super strength of sorts as his meta abilities. But the downside was that he was dimwitted. Odd trade off he supposed of 'all brawn and no brain' sort of thing along with the bit of excuse of being hit too much on the head. Would explain the large bump on his head though.

After he was done with his workload for the day, he was going to search for Lunkhead and see what he knows asides from what was in the file dealing with him in an experiment in Blackgate with mind control.

-Wayne Industries, R&D Division-

The elevator to the section of the building sounded off as the doors parted open to reveal Bruce Wayne with a case on hand before he walked out. Before coming here in the past, he always had to sneak in through his masked persona and take what he could get to supply his arsenal back in the Batcave. He had to do that the hard way since he didn't want to be caught stealing from his own company. The process was difficult but manageable.

That all changed when his friend and CEO of his company, Lucius Fox, was attacked by Matt Hagen/Clayface. It made Mr. Fox start losing his trust in his long time friend and that point was dug even deeper when Naruto sternly lectured him. After thinking long and hard into this, Bruce decided he needed to bring Lucius into the fold and revealed to him that he was Batman.

Suffice to say, Lucius was pretty shocked on the new information given to him. But after several moments thinking things over, it did make sense on all of the details that would've fitted things together. The CEO did ask why his friend was revealing such a big secret to him and he explained his reasonings with the Clayface event and what Naruto told him when he was in GCPD for his charges. Not only that but he also asked Lucius if he can have better access to the R&D division/Wayne Tech since Lucius was the previous head of the division before being made into the CEO of the company.

The man complied but if Bruce wanted better access to that part of the company, then he'll need to bring the current head of that division and his daughter into the fold as well. It was only fair with Lucius not wanting them to be left out. The disguised hero hesitantly complied but accepted it since they were pretty familiar with his alter ego.

"So Mr. Wayne….How'd the new gadget's work out so far?" A female voice called out as soon as Bruce came near the person's field of vision.

The person in question was an african american woman in her late 20's with poofish black hair that wore a standard mechanic's uniform with the Wayne logo on the cap and shirt. She had a well fit figure for her age, given the fact on what her previous occupation was with the heavy lifting and how hard she worked.

"They worked out well so far Marva." Bruce said to the woman before handing her the case with said gadgets. "Though I think they might need a bit of tweaking."

"Understandable with them still prototypes." The now identified Marva replied as she opened up the case to see what remains there were in there. "Most of them are still unstable and I'm trying to fix all 'em bugs. They work out well in the testing area, but…"

"They sometimes would work better to test in the field."

"Definitely." She replied with a smirk. "Sometimes one would need to consider all of the variables that we don't have here."

"True." Her boss told her before looking around a little. "Do you know where your father is exactly?"

Marva thought for a moment before shrugging her shoulders as she replied to him. "I'm guessing he might be by the garage again sir."

"Good to know. Hope the next batches turn out better."

"Same here and I know you've heard this several times already, but thanks again for taking us in." As she said that, she went back to doing her work load for the day as the billionaire walked off to find the woman's father, Earl Cooper.

One might be wondering how this Marva and Earl Cooper, a daughter/father pair, know that Mr. Wayne is the legendary Batman. For that, we must got back by several years.

Earl Cooper as a top-flight engineer for Global Motors till he predicted that their latest sports cars had serious safety defects. He protested it to the company board, but they refused to listen to him so he decided to quit right on the spot. The executives were afraid that Earl will reveal to the press on what is going on, so they sent thugs to take care of the engineer. Batman intervened and saved Earl's life, but it didn't come without consequences.

Before Global Motors closed down because of the scandal, they had blacklisted Mr. Cooper as a whistleblower and he wasn't able to find work in the auto industry afterwards even after 20 years in the business. The man was literally down to his last dime, no job, no supporting wife due to her dying some years prior. But Batman came in and saved his life yet again by offering the engineer the challenge of a lifetime: build him a new car.

Earl was paid upfront in cash to get things started from paying off his mortgage and all of his bills from past ones till the next six months on just the design specs alone. After that, Earl was hired yet again by the vigilante to actually build the car and yet again paid half now, half when it was done. It fitted everything that Batman could ever dream with all of his needs and expectations and both men were satisfied. Of course after the vehicle was finished, Earl was still out of a job.

So Batman suggested Earl talk to Mr. Wayne and get an interview from him personally for a position there. Mr. Cooper protested in thinking the man wouldn't help him due to his blacklisting. But the Dark Knight told the man that Mr. Wayne had hired wrongfully, blacklisted people before along with down on their luck people and there were no problems in the end.

Earl was hired into the company and later on in his new career, he was promoted to become the new head of the R&D division. Even Marva joined the company when she was old enough and she enjoyed working at Wayne Tech alongside her father.

When Bruce got closer to his destination, he heard the sounds of engines running with the gears grinding before hearing someone cuss out loud a few times as things settled. Bruce then saw a car leveled up as a man, who turned out to be Earl, working on the underbelly of one of the vehicles.

The R&D head was an african american male in his early fifties with him balding on the top of his head with the only remaining hair being on the sides. He had his mechanic's uniform he wore while working in the building as per habit over the years. Underneath the suit, he had a well built form after years of heavy lifting and working hard throughout his life.

"...Seems I'll need to get that fixed up as well." Earl said to himself before spotting the new arrival. "Oh Mr. Wayne, good to see you again."

"Having problems Earl?"

"Just some minor problems, that's all." Mr. Cooper said as he wiped his hands off with a spare rag. "So what can I do you for sir?"

"I came on by to not only drop off the latest prototypes to your daughter, but I needed to access the systems."

"I understand that Mr. Wayne." Earl said as he threw the rag onto the sides before ushering his boss to follow him. "Right this way."

On their way over, Bruce decided to ask a certain question he had while coming over here. "Don't mind me asking Mr. Cooper, but how's the progress coming along on the new suit."

"The suit….well it's doing alright on designs but it's going to take a while to properly figure out a proper way to blend things together to your specifications." The engineer turned division head said as he rubbed his chin in thought.

"It's alright. You can take your time just so you know." Bruce said as he didn't want his employee to feel rushed.

"I know that Mr. Wayne. Just wanted to make things as safe as possible for you. That's all."

"Earl….If you or your daughter are uncomfortable-"

"Mr. Wayne…. I know what my daughter and I signed up for when Lucius brought us into this. The risks we are taking in helping you out. We are committed to help you out for as long as possible and we won't take no for an answer. We take great pride in what we do." Earl said to the billionaire hero before he continued.

"We weren't stupid when you came to us in previous times to fix up your car. With all the parts that needed replacing or fixing weren't cheap at all and you paid up front when the repairs were done. We eventually realized who you were under that mask so please do us a kindness and don't consider us as idiots."

After hearing all of this, Bruce had let it all sink in and sighed deeply before giving the mechanic turned Wayne Employee a subtle nod as he spoke. "Fair enough."

The two then made it to their destination as Earl started typing into the keyboard to get into the better systems of the place.

"So Mr. Wayne, what do you need searching for anyways?"

"I need to look for everything there is to know of a man named Joe Braxton and his connection to Blackgate." Bruce said as Earl typed things down onto the computer.

"Okay."

As Earl started typing away, he decided to tell his boss an obvious suggestion in his mind. "You know Bruce, if you want, we can come on by your Bat Cave of yours and do a proper upgrade to your systems so that you can have better searches to whatever else you're doing. It would save you the trouble in coming here way too often."

"I would like that very much, thank you."

"Don't thank me yet. Thank Marva when the job is done. She was more of the tech wiz than I ever will. Pretty much got it from her mother." The man said with pride in his voice with hints of sorrow.

"You're wife must be very proud in what you two are doing."

"Oh we know, there's no doubt about that." The mechanic replied before the search was complete. "Bingo."

Bruce then looked onto the results on the screen to see what they were. Joe Braxton was apart of a research team at Blackgate Penitentiary, but it didn't say what they were researching in. Possibly the files where physical copies and not much were fully put on record. Might explain why Magpie was at the one warehouse, but for what reason. Asides from that, the only other person in the team is a woman named Bethanie Ravencroft and she currently has a practice here in Gotham.

"Thanks Earl. This is all I need."

"Glad to be of service Bruce."

"Hope you two have a good day." The billionaire said as he made his way towards the elevator to head back home and get ready for the stake out this evening.

-Meanwhile-

"Took a while but I think I found you." Naruto said as he stood near an alleyway with Lunkhead's file on one hand and a grocery bag of candy in the other. He was currently dressed in one of his usual attires of a leather jacket and a button up, but he also wore a hat to try and cover most of his features. Further down from the Uzumaki's position, he found the man he was looking for unloading packages from a freight company he was currently working for.

He had to go to a few shady bars to find Lunkhead's location, but none worked well so far. He almost gave up on his search until he decided to go to the Stacked Deck and ask Moxxi if she knew the man he was looking for. She was very willing to help out on his search. All that she asked for in payment was hearing from his mouth on how far he and Selina had gone to in their relationship. Suffice to say, the bar owner was very happy to hear the thief had gotten laid and was in a relationship with the publisher.

After getting his required information, Moxxi had asked why he needed to know where the man was at. It took some pressuring from the barkeep to make him tell her that he was helping out 'the new hero' in an investigation. It was complicated on the explanations but in the end she bought it and suggested to him if Vanitas needs any information, she would be willing to help the man on information depending on what it is exactly.

'Glad that I possibly have a new informant that I can get in touch with.' Naruto thought as he made his way to the large fellow.

From what Naruto read from the man's files, he was easily startled so he needed to be weary. Not only that, but he tends to willingly comply to various things if someone gives the man candy of any variety. So before attempting to confront the man, Naruto went to the nearest grocery store and bought several bags of candy just in case.

As he got closer to the large man, his cellular phone started to go off to end up alerting Lunkhead that someone is behind him.

"RAAAH!" Lunkhead yelled out as he swung a box towards the person behind him.

"Gah!" Naruto cried out as he narrowly dodged the large package before hiding behind the dumpster.

"Who the hell is trying to call me?" The publisher asked as he checked the caller ID. "Oh, it's Selina."

"Hey Selina. Sorry if I have to cut this short but I'll call you back. I promise." The silver haired male said into his phone before ending the call.

"What's the big idea sneaking up on Lunkhead like that?" The large man questioned in a broken speech.

Naruto held up his hands with his items on hand before coming out of his hiding spot to address the man in front of him. "Hey big guy. I don't mean any trouble at all. I just want to talk. I even brought candy."

To authenticate this, Naruto tossed the grocery bag of candy towards Lunkhead who caught it in his grasps and saw it was true once he opened it.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." Naruto said as he got closer to the man who was unwrapping a piece of sweets. "Now reason why I'm here is that I have a few questions to ask you."

"Which would *Gulp* be?" The man said while digging into the first piece of candy.

"I have a file on me about you while you were in Blackgate Penitentiary." The publisher stated as he waved the file a little. "It said that you were in an experiment dealing with mind control."

"Uh huh." Lunkhead simply said with a nod. "Wanted to help Lunkhead's brain….didn't work."

"Sorry to hear about that."

"Thanks." Was the response as he opened up another candy wrapper.

"Now just two more questions and I'll be out of your way."

"Okay."

"First off, were there any other people in the experiment with you? Second, what was the person's name who did the experiment?"

Lunkead scratched his head a bit before nodding towards the man who gave him the bag of sweets. "With first. This one lady. She was nice to Lunkhead. She was in cage next to me. They took her away."

"I'm sorry to hear that and what was her name for the first question?"

"Margaret *Gulp* Sorrow."

"Good and what about the second question?"

"What was that *Gulp* again?"

"What was the person's name who did the experiment?"

"Eh….something that dealt with bird." The man said as he tried to remember. "Lunkhead's brain hurt."

"Hey take it easy buddy. You don't have to rush."

Suddenly a lightbulb seemed to light up in his head and it made him feel happy to hear it. "Oh I remember, I think, it was a black bird."

"A black bird?" Naruto said in thought. "Was it like a crow or a raven?"

"That's it. Raven. Raven something."

"Thank you Lunkhead. You've been a big help." The publisher said in kindness as he walked away from the man. He would've used his memory manipulation to make the guy forget he was there, but with how badly damaged his mind was, the former shinobi didn't want to hurt him any further.

"You welcome." The man replied as he ate more candy before going back to his work.

-Evening-

Perched on a ledge outside of the building Bethanie Ravencroft currently performs her practice at, Batman was looking through a pair of goggles to view the office of his target for the evening. He was waiting for any clue whatsoever on what her connection with Magpie was and nothing has turned up so far. All that he has seen for quite a while was Dr. Ravencroft sitting by her desk and going over various documents before calling it a night.

Batman's concentration was suddenly broken when he heard some yelling from the street below and saw two kids tagging graffiti in an alley. Wanting to get the simple thing done, he pulled out a batarang and with precise aim, he threw it and it knocked the spray can out of the one punk's hand to end up scaring them off. When he returned his gaze back to the window, he saw Ravencroft heading out of her office.

In his slight distraction, he didn't notice someone right behind him until it was too late. As a pair of his batcuffs came into his field of vision to make him turn around to see Magpie right behind him with a grin on her face.

"Shiny~ Shiny~."

Once she said this, she punched Batman across the face with the batcuffs and made him fall onto the ground with a loud thud. The hero had to get back up from his place on the ground as he berated himself on not noticing the bird themed criminal behind him.

"You know, after we last met, I couldn't help but wonder: What makes a man wear a bat costume?" Magpie started to say as she gave him a curious smile. "Got something to hide?"

"Who says this is a costume?"

This made her hum pleasantly towards the response. "Oh~ I like that."

She jumped down from her placement above and started to walk towards the Dark Knight with a sway to her hips. "You and I should be friends. We have so much in common."

Once Magpie got close enough, she started to lean closer to the hero of Gotham with the intent of kissing his lips. All that she got in return was a shove away from him that made her glare at him a little.

"Not gonna happen."

"What's the matter Batman?" The white haired woman asked. "Too much bird for you to handle?"

"I believe he already has too much to handle from other matters in his life to deal with women." A voice called out from nearby to reveal Vanitas landing onto the rooftop with his grappling scarf going up in smoke.

"Oh~ And how would you know?"

"Lucky guess I think." Vanitas replied with a shrug.

"Hmm. Too bad. I wouldn't have minded to get my talons on your shiny shiny belt of yours." Magpie said to the Bat before directing her attention to the other man on the rooftop. "Or that shiny shiny helmet of yours. I would've settled a bit with those daggers I kept, but they went up in smoke."

On the last bit, she sent him a glare that made him chuckle a little. "Yeah….they tend to do that if they stay away from me too long. So no shiny shiny daggers for you birdy."

Without any warning, she kicked the Bat away as she tried to focus her attention on the black and white themed man to swipe her claws on him. Vanitas had to dodge her clawed swipes as she kept onto the assault before Batman came to land a strike on her. She was too agile for either men to land a blow on her as she kept maneuvering away from either of them.

'Don't tell me that she's becoming too unpredictable for me!' Naruto thought as he tried to evade and get a decent hit on her. 'That title is supposed to me dattebayo!'

Naruto kept on his dodging until he realized what he just thought. 'Wait. Did I just think dattebayo? I thought I got rid of that verbal tick unless its now a mental one.'

His thoughts ended up betraying him as he got himself distracted enough for Magpie to kick him off of the ledge of the building after she did the same towards the Bat.

"Goodbye my little bat and shiny man." The bird themed woman said as she skipped across the rooftop. If she would've looked down from the ledge, she would've seen the two heroes grabbing ahold of the building.

"So….how's it hangin?" asked the helmeted hero. All that he got in return was a blank stare before Batman pulled himself up. "What. I'm just trying to be punny here."

The two got back up to the rooftop through their means of travel, from grappling gun and scarf respectively, and dashed towards Magpie's current placement. Once they got close, both men had her surrounded from standing on either side of her.

"Why did you wipe away Joe Braxton's mind?" Batman asked as he walked towards her with Vanitas doing the same.

"The bastard stole something from me and he had it."

"Which would be what exactly?"

She looked back at Vanitas and gave him a smirk. "Catch me and maybe I'll tell you."

She ran and slipped underneath Vanitas' legs before taking a leap off of the building. This made the two men go after her as they raced across the rooftops to hopefully capture her. As this was going on, she kept on laughing the entire time like it was one big game for her to play.

"I wonder if either of you can fly!" Magpie yelled out as she started to get closer to a building without another one nearby.

"Don't tell me what I think she's doing." Vanitas growled out as he threw his arm out to get his scarf to latch onto her as she leapt off of the building. With the sudden pull from her legs, she ended up pulled back to leave her dangling hundreds of feet above the ground.

"A little help here." Naruto said as he used his other arm to keep the cloth in his grasp. Batman complied with the other's request and tried to pull Magpie up.

"No one, and I mean no one, will cage this bird EVER AGAIN!" She growled out as she swiped her clawed hands at the cloth a few times till the fabric finally ripped and plummeted her to the ground below.

"NO!" Vanitas yelled out in shock till he ended up hearing her body impact onto a car with a loud crash. "She killed herself instead of being captured."

The dark hero narrowed his eyes on the site before saying something to the other man with him. "I don't think so."

"What do you mean?"

"Keep looking."

The disguised Uzumaki did just that to see Magpie's body start to twitch fanatically before she lifted herself off from the wrecked vehicle. Once on stable ground, she moved her body a bit to pop several joints back into place before looking up and waved at them. After that, she ran to get the two men to lose track of her.

"...What the fuck." Naruto spoke out on the sight.

"Caged again?"

"Now why does that sound familiar?" The disguised Uzumaki asked outloud onto which the disguised Wayne picked up on.

"You know something, don't you?"

"And what if I did."

"Then tell me or I'll get it out of you one way or another."

"Sheesh~ You don't have to sound too angst all the time you know." Naruto said as he waved the guy off a bit.

"Then mind telling me what you know."

"Fine~" The disguised publisher said before getting into a serious posture. "From what I had gathered, Magpie used to be an inmate at Blackgate."

"There's more to that, isn't there?"

"Quite. Magpie's real name is Margaret Sorrow and it's all I know about this situation so far."

"Good to know." Batman said as he pulled out his grappling gun and fired at some random direction. "Thanks for the tip."

"Anytime batsy." Vanitas said as he got back into his joyful tone before jumping off of the ledge and summoned his grappling scarf to swing away.

"Then I'll need to figure out who this Margaret Sorrow is then." Batman said as he pressed the button on his gun to get zoomed towards the end of the line before gliding into the night's sky. "Saved me the trouble of searching for a name."

-Next Day-

From what Bruce was able to gather from the Bat Computer and the GCPD databanks, Margaret Sorrow was a kleptomaniac that was sentenced to ten years for her repeat offences. The odd thing that Bruce was able to find out was that Miss Sorrow only served two of those years before she disappeared. And that was roughly five years ago.

With him hitting a road block, he decided that he needed to possibly gather enough intel from the source: Dr. Ravencroft herself. He could possibly be able to find any clues to Magpie's whereabouts and the reason why she targeted Joe Braxton. He did know that the doctor took something from her, but what exactly it was he didn't know. For now, he had to improvise and be sure this all plays out well in the end of this meeting he had scheduled yesterday.

"Mr. Wayne, I just want to tell you how big of an honor it is to meet you. I admire all of the good your company does." The receptionist happily said as she lead Bruce to Dr. Ravencroft's office.

She was a shorter woman that appeared to be in her 20's with short cropped, dark brown hair. She had innocent grey eyes that seemed to fit with her sharply features. She wore a black sleeveless shirt and a beige, knee-length skirt to maintain her appearance as Ravencroft's receptionist.

"Thank you very much….uh…"

"Cassie. The name's Cassie."

"She's been fluttering about it all day." A voice said when the door opened up to reveal the good doctor. "After all, we hardly get any celebrities over here."

Dr. Bethanie Ravencroft appeared to be a woman in her mid-thirties with her shoulder length pale, blonde hair that framed her face with her supple lips. She had dark grey eyes hidden behind a pair of thin rimmed glasses. She also wore a light blue button up shirt with a light grey knee-length skirt that showed off her long legs.

Once entering the room, his eyes scanned every detail that he could gather to figure out more about the good doctor than she appeared to be. From her diploma hanging on the wall, a photo of her colleagues with Joe Braxton in it and several other items to pick up small forms of information.

"So tell me….Out of all of the therapists available in Gotham, why me?"

"Wanted to find someone out of the public eye is all." Bruce said with a slight chuckle. "With all of the tabloids out there, don't want to ruin the company image with going to well known ones."

"Fair enough." She responded as she took no offence to that bit of detail. It was quite common with some well known therapists these days to not really hold onto their doctor/patient confidentiality and just sell the information from sessions to newspapers to get some entertainment out of it.

As Bruce kept scanning the room until getting to some 'paintings' on the wall. "Huh...didn't realize you would have these."

The therapist looked towards the billionaire's direction to see what he was referring. "You mean my inkblot/rorschach tests? More of a curiosity really. Everyone would have their own interpretation on what they see."

He nodded at this before his eyes drifted to a particular inkblot that made his mind flash to his parent's dying on Crime Alley in front of him. He had to take a subtle breathe to hold down that particular memory until he looked towards the next one that looked like a bat.

"See anything interesting?"

"Nope, not really." He said to defuse his trains of thought. His eyes then caught onto something on the nearby table and couldn't help but comment on it. "Still playing with dolls doctor?"

She came up to him to see what he commented on to see what he had in his hand. It was a black and white doll with a circular head dress with feathers coming off from the bottom. "That's a Molatian dream warden. Some cultures believe that she can protect you from bad dreams."

He didn't say anything as he kept staring onto the object as he looked at the various details.

"Would you like to have one Mr. Wayne? To help ease your dreams?"

"No... not at all." Was his response as he placed the doll back into it's placement.

She then ushered him to the patient's chair to get the session started. As he made his way there, he pressed a certain button on his watch to get his plan further into motion.

-Meanwhile-

'Wonder if she's in right now.' Naruto thought as he exited out of the elevator of the building to the designated floor.

After what Lunkhead told him yesterday, Naruto had to go back to his loft and do some research online to find out what the former inmate told him. He had a guess that he wasn't going to find out who Margaret Sorrow is with a lot of details possibly locked up somewhere so no use trying to go through that route. So the publisher decided to look up people with the name 'Raven' in their names, to see if there were any connections at all.

There was a surprising large amount of people with 'raven' in the name. But after filtering everything down to the best of his knowledge, he was able to find the 'raven' he was looking for: Dr. Bethanie Ravencroft. It even helped out that the woman resided here in Gotham and used to work for Blackgate before opening up her private practice.

He had looked up her contact information, along with the address and office number, so that he can show up there, unannounced, and play off as a man that came on by to 'window shop'. Looking to see if he would be 'comfortable' into having Ravencroft as his doctor or not. Though in reality, he wanted to see if there were any available sessions opened any time soon so he can inspect her office when she was there. If not then he'll need to break in during the after hours.

'Well here it is.' He thought as he found the door to her practice. Once opening up, he was greeted with the sound of a door chime indicated with the bell attached to the top of the door along with the sight of a brown haired receptionist taking care of a few documents.

"Oh hello there." The woman said in a chipper tone as she looked up to see him at the doorway.

"Hello to you too." Greeted the silver haired publisher as he came towards the desk. "I was wondering if Dr. Ravencroft is in today."

"She's actually having a session right now in the other room."

"Good to know….er…"

"Cassie." She said while holding out her hand towards him.

"Naruto." He responded in kind. "Pretty name for a pretty girl."

*Giggle* "Thanks." Cassie said as she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"You're welcome."

"Don't mind me asking, but why have you come here personally instead of calling to set up an appointment?"

"For one: I was in the 'neighborhood' while running errands and I wanted to see what is so great about this doctor out of the various other ones in the city. Been wanting to get myself checked out with me having some problems as of late."

"I see. Well Miss Ravencroft takes her profession seriously and does her best to dwell into her clients to help understand them better." The receptionist said to the publisher.

"I can understand that, given the reputation she currently has."

"So are you wanting to set up an appointment with her?"

"Possibly. When's the next available one?"

When hearing this, she pulled out the planner and flipped through several pages until coming to an empty slot. "About a few weeks from now."

"I see." Naruto said while mentally sighing. Seems he might as well break in tonight to find some clues. "Then I'll call sometime later if I want to properly set one up instead of on the fly."

She would've said something of a response, but her desk phone started to go off. "Sorry."

"No worries, you got a job to do."

Picking up the phone, she answered. "Hello, Dr. Bethanie Ravencroft's office."

…..

"I'm sorry but mind repeating that to me again."

In the next few moments, Naruto saw Cassie's face seem to adopted an alarmed look as she tried to compose herself and put the caller on hold and dashed towards the office while in session.

"Cassie! What have I told-" A woman said in the other room with a raised voice before composing herself. "You know I'm with Mr. Wayne right now."

'Bruce is here?' Naruto thought with mild interest. 'Didn't know he would want to see a shrink.'

"I know but….." Cassie said before she lowered the tone of her voice that made Naruto guess the receptionist was whispering something into the doctor's ear.

'I think I should get going. Whatever came up in that call seemed urgent or something and I don't want to interrupt.' The publisher thought as he exited the office.

With the thoughts of therapists on the mind, Harley ended up at the forefront of his thoughts. Naruto hasn't seen her since he dropped off her copy of the first edition copy of Loveless and even with that last phone call with her. He tried to see her when he was at the asylum on his last visit, but she was out sick that day.

"Might as well check if she's better."

-Arkham Asylum-

*Groan* "Getting out of that stomach flu was a total pain in my butt." Harley said as she was drinking another water bottle in her office. This was the fifth one since she's gotten to work today. "Last time I ever eat sushi from that place."

It's been a little over a week since she had finished up Pam's evaluation report along with gaining her copy of Loveless directly from Naruto. To her, it was a successful day of completing a strenuous assignment and having a nice reward in the end with a new book. To celebrate on accomplishing her task, the intern decided to treat herself to sushi from this one restaurant she usually went to while reading some of her new book there. It did go well that night of finishing up several chapters, but the morning after was not that great to waking up feeling like she was going to die.

She already knew what she had because of a previous experience several years back and it was not fun at all. Luckily for her, it was her day off so she had to call work and let them know that she might not be able to come in for the next few days with what she got. They told her to come back in when she was in better condition, but they'll have some assignments for her when she gets back. So during the whole time she was stuck in her apartment; she did nothing but rest, eat, drink plenty of liquids, watch tv and movies along with reading the rest of her new book. It was odd for her to admit but she was glad to be sick for those days.

Being able to read the entire book from start, had to start over due to losing her placement on one...uneventful moment, to finish and it was a very excitable read. She hardly let the novel out her grasps, asides from having to empty her stomach a few times, since she felt like a little kid watching an epic saga unfold in front of her eyes and didn't want to stop the excitement. It felt so great that it made her read it again and again.

During one of the run throughs, she thought she heard Naruto tell this story to her while reading it's contents. Might've been the sickness hitting affecting her head, but she was hearing his voice while reading its pages. But for some reason, she didn't mind it at all and it made her feel happier. Even to the point that she started to imagine herself being one of the characters that was being romanced with another, that took on Naruto's appearance.

"Ugh...why would I even try to think of that now?" She mumbled as she uncapped a bottle of aspirin to get a few pills before washing it down for her headache.

*Knock Knock*

"It's opened." Harley said getting the person to open up the door to reveal one of Harley's supervisors: Dr. Serrano.

She is a woman of hispanic descent in her early forties with her shoulder length dark hair with them curling up on the ends. Even has signs of stress on her features as she constantly works on a day to day basis and hardly has any time off for herself. The doctor was currently wearing a cream colored sweater underneath her labcoat with a pair of women's business pants and shoes.

"Hello Ms. Quinzel." The arkham doctor in a blank tone. "Feeling better I hope."

"Yes I am ma'am. Just getting out of it at the moment."

"Good." She stated before going out for a quick moment before coming back in to drop a stack of files onto the intern's desk. "Then I hope you do well to take care of these."

"I-I'll do what I can doctor." The intern said as the doctor left the room. *Sigh* "This is going to fun."

*Knock Knock*

"Did you forget to give me something else Dr. Serrano?" Harley asked out loud before taking another swig out of her water bottle.

"Who's Dr. Serrano?"

Hearing the familiar voice from the door made Harley choke a bit with the water before she coughed to expel the liquid trying to enter the wrong pipe.

*Cough* *Cough* "Naruto! Don't do that!"

"Sorry Harley." He apologetically said as he entered the office. "Didn't know what you were currently doing."

"It's alright." The intern said as she grabbed a handkerchief to wipe away the water from her mouth and anywhere else the water landed.

"Are you feeling better Harley? I tried to call you several times, but you didn't answer."

"I am. Just getting out of my flu now." Harley said before waving him off a bit. "Also sorry on not responding. I've drifted in and out while in bed and on my couch, so I couldn't have answered at those times."

"Don't mind me asking, but who was Dr. Serrano?" He asked in mild curiosity. "Was it that woman that was walking away from your office like she had a stick up her butt?"

When hearing that, the blonde intern couldn't help but snort at this and gave out a laugh that made Naruto think it was cute.

"Yeah that was her."

"So what was her problem? Shouldn't she try to act better towards you?"

*Sigh* "She should but not entirely I think. It's probably because of me snagging Pam off of her hands on my first day that made the ending evaluations turned out really great."

"That doesn't really explain why she has so much beef on you."

"She's pretty much like that towards most of the staff on being hard on them. Some of the higher ups just ignore it with the train of thought being: 'Oh she'll just push them to be better doctors.' Or something." She replied with a mocking tone in the end. "It's more so with her reputation."

"How so?"

"She tends to target 'hard' cases so she can feel satisfied in the end. Especially with it looking good on her record." Harley said before taking a swig of her drink. "From what I have learned with some of the other workers here is that Serrano wants to have a better position here, like in the board or something, so she can have a lesser workload."

After her little explanation, Naruto was scratching his head to process what Harley "I think I get it. So asides from that doctor, how'd the evaluation report go in the results?"

Feeling better on the change of subject, she answered with a smile on her face. "It turned out better than I expected. The board were very pleased with it and have given me permission to take on a few other patients now."

When hearing that, Naruto gave her one of his infectious bright smiles as he spoke. "That's great Harley. We should go out to celebrate this. My treat."

"Thanks for the offer Naruto, but I don't know when I'll be available." She responded with an apologetic tone. "With getting new patients to take sessions with, it'll start to fill up the majority of my coming weeks."

"It's completely fine Harley and this is good for you to be on the next step of your internship. We can celebrate when you have the next day off if you want to."

"I'd like that."

"So until then, I wish you the best of luck on your coming trials." The publisher told her as he gave out a sigh in remembrance of his times as an intern. "I sure as hell needed it when I worked for the Planet."

"I'd bet." The intern responded back with a small smirk on her face before looking at the stack of files that made it droop into a frown. "Now if you'll excuse me, but I got some work to do here."

"That's fine. I'll leave it to you then." He said as he headed towards the door to her office while she opened up the first file.

"I hope your chat with Pam goes well like the other times."

This made him stop for a moment and look back towards her. "Actually…. I didn't come to visit her today."

Harley then looked up from the file with mild curiosity on his statement. "Then who? There's no one else on file that I'm aware of you visiting anyone else."

Naruto chuckled a little as he scratched the back of his head before responding. "Actually… I came on by to see you... Just you."

She felt happy on just hearing this. Even to the point of her blushing a little and had to try to hide her features from behind the file. He thought it was rather cute on her reaction to him saying that to her.

"Well got to get going now. Have a good one Harley."

Once the publisher left the room, Harley placed the file back onto the desk and looked back towards the door where her friend was last at. "Really? He came on by just to see...me?"

Her question was left unanswered as she tried to get her mind back onto her workload for the day. Keyword being 'tried'. For the rest of the work day, her mind would keep drifting off as her silver haired friend would keep plaguing her thoughts.

-Evening, Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital-

The sounds of the Batmobile roared as it sped towards an abandoned part of the city before it slowly came to a stop.

'This is the place.' Batman thought as he got out of the vehicle and made his way into the abandoned building.

The hospital used to be a joint operation with Blackgate penitentiary for several years so the prison would go up against Arkham in the mental medical field. It didn't last that long apparently with Arkham being the more well known and popular institution in Gotham and the surrounding areas. So it has just been sitting there, collecting dust, and having the occasional thug or punk come across the place and spray paint various areas.

Bruce was able to find out the place when he was searching through Ravencroft's desk after he had gotten Alfred to call the office to distract the good doctor. He was able to find a few items of interest in one of the drawers: a key with an "A" inscribed on it, a wristwatch, and a stapler with the hospital's name on it. When he had placed his eyes on the watch, he remembered seeing Braxton have a pale spot on his wrist that matched the outline of the watch from the drawer. This gave the detective the guess that Ravencroft is indeed associated with Magpie or, at the very least, being framed by the bird themed woman.

As he ventured further into the building, the Dark Knight missed the the darkened form watching his every move.

It took some time to explore some sections of the building until he came to a dead end. He was going to go back and search again for anything he might've missed when he heard something from up above. Batman was glad that he caught onto the sound as he had to move out of the way from Magpie's downward assault.

When she got back up from her fall, the criminal threw several punches at the hero before he caught both of her wrists. She twisted herself around to free herself while using that momentum to kick the man across the head. It missed it's target as the man ducked before kicking the woman to the far side of the room, where some medical equipment were stored.

Seeing the objects beside her, Magpie threw each of them at her opponent in hopes of distracting him. It was more of a nuisance as Batman blocked and dodged each of them with ease before punching her to the ground. She recovered quickly by placing her hands onto the floor to steady herself as she kicked the dark knight from below before wrapping her legs around his neck to toss him to the side. That was her mistake when he used that momentum to bounce off of the wall and knock Magpie onto the other side of the room.

"I have no interests in hurting you Magpie."

"Have you even figured it out?" She asked as she got up from some of the equipment that she landed on, even with a scalpel deep within her chest. "I can't feel pain." To emphasise the point, she pulled it out without even flinching to show that the blade was coated with her blood before tossing it to the side. "It is yet another thing they have stolen from me."

"Then let me help you get it back." Batman said to her as he started to walk towards her. "I know what it's like at times to fight against your nature and you're going to lose it if you don't get help."

When hearing this, she wrapped her arms around herself like she was cold before turning her back towards him. "But I'm afraid."

"Of what?"

"That I've already lost."

Without warning, she brought her hand out and stabbed her nails into his neck before quickly pulling them out. Batman grunted with pain as he stumbled back to hold onto his neck and cursed himself for letting his guard down on that moment. He soon started to feel drowsy and everything around him started to look foggy.

"What….did you….do?"

"Hush little bat. Let the curare do the work and go to sleep~."

And just like that, he was out like a light. She chuckled at the sight before her as she moved towards his body to unstrap his belt and placed it onto herself with joyful glee. She then started to move things around the room to her liking, while getting the Batman onto the operating bed. Though it wasn't long as the Dark Knight started to stir, it made her feel more excited for what's to come.

"Wakey Wakey, eggs and bakey." Magpie said as she saw the man slowly start to wake up with an audible groan. He started to fidget around as he tried to get himself free, but it was useless with him strapped down tight with the metallic locks in place. "Don't worry Batman, I didn't peak behind the mask. After all, a person's secrets are sacred."

"I meant what I said Magpie. I can help you." He said to hopefully convince her to possibly let him go. Though given the reaction she's about to give out….

"QUIET!" She yelled out as she kicked him across the face.

….wasn't all that great.

"Oh, sorry. That was rude." Magpie said as she quickly composed herself. "I do appreciate the offer, but I've already got it covered."

As she got closer to him, Magpie pulled out a device from a bag and waved it in front of the hero's face. "See this little gizmo? Braxton made it to remove memories, reformat the brain, and wipe it clean in the process." She then placed it onto Batman's head before settling her hands onto the sides of his face. "It took some time, but I figured out how to reverse the process. To put all of those back."

As she drew her face closer to claim his lips, a scream rang out in the building to halter the bird themed woman's action. "It seems that my other guest has finally awoken. It's time to reclaim what is mine. But before I go…" Magpie placed her lips onto his and moaned in the process before pulling away with his bottom lip in between her teeth. She then let go and let out a chuckle at his narrowed gaze. "I would say that it's been a pleasure, but you won't remember a thing."

When she walked towards the nearby panel, Batman moved his hand a little to get a little tool out of his glove and placed it at the ready to free himself.

"Tata for now Batman." Magpie then flipped the switch with a sadistic smile which then sent the thousands volts of electricity to surge through the table and the device. This caused the Batman to yell out in pain and let go of the tool in his hand onto the floor. Seeing this, Magpie gained a bigger smile as she ran out of the room towards her other captive.

'Need...to….focus!' Batman thought as he tried to get himself free, but it was hopeless.

….That was until the switch was flipped again to shut off the power.

"So….How was your brian's shiatsu massage?" A joyful said getting Batman to realize who saved him. "I would assume you enjoyed it, but then I would be lying."

"Mind getting me out of this Vanitas?"

"Yeah yeah. Don't get your bat panties in a twist." The black and white themed man said as he gripped Batman's shoulder and phased him out of his bindings. "You're welcome by the way."

Batman soon felt a burning sensation around his head and pulled off the device off in response. It started to spark off like crazy before smoke started to come off of it.

"Huh, must've been faulty." The disguised publisher said as he crouched down to inspect it without touching. "Wonder if Braxton had a warranty on this thing."

He then heard something drop onto the floor. In response, he looked towards the source and saw Batman run out of the room with a file by the room's entry way. With mild curiosity, Vanitas went towards the file and picked it up to inspect it before his eyes widened underneath the helmet.

Back with Batman, he was running through the hallways to hopefully get to the other kidnapped person in time. He was getting closer and closer as the screams grew louder. Before he knew it, he came to the targeted room and ram his way through. This sudden occurrence caused Magpie to pause her advancements towards a bounded Ravencroft before a batarang flew past her head and imbedded itself towards the nearby mirror.

It was then that Magpie saw Ravencroft's shocked face, making the bird themed woman tilt her head in confusion before looking at the mirror to see….

"What the hell is going on?!" She growled out as got off of Ravencroft and walked towards the mirror. "Who is that?! Who's face is that?!"

"You don't know? Did you?" Batman said as he walked towards her.

"Know what?! Tell me!"

"Two different personalities in one body. Totally unaware of the other's presence."

"What the hell are you going on about?!"

"Margaret Sorrow was in an experiment conducted by Ravencroft and Braxton. For your cooperation and participation, you were given early release." He said to Margaret as she looked back towards the mirror to see Cassie staring back at her. Apparently the white hair she had before was actually a wig.

"Lies! It can't be true! They took my memories! They stole them from me!" She yelled out as she kept staring back at her reflection.

"I'm sorry but you did this to yourself Margaret. You volunteered for the experiment." Batman said to her as she kept glaring furiously at the reflection. "The experiment was supposed to strip the 'bad' out of criminals and in your case it worked….for a while anyways"

When hearing this, her features softened before tilting her head downwards to not let anyone see her features. "They gave you a new identity, a new face, a new life; but it seemed that the bad was too strong to really let go. It came back different, something else….or rather someone else."

"LIES!" She yelled out as she slammed her hands onto the mirror, cracking it to end up making her hands bleed. "I want to know who I am and only she can give it back to me!"

Magpie then punched Batman out of the way, onto the ground, before running towards the bound Ravencroft and prepared to skewer the woman with her elongated nails. That was until a few playing cards came in contact with the sharp appendages and sliced through the nails in a clean cut.

"Sorry that I'm late." Vanitas said as he summoned a few daggers into his hand. "This place can be hard to navigate without you guys talking."

The bird themed woman looked down onto the ground and saw her 'clipped' nails to see them glisten from the mixture of their previous shine along with her blood coated on them. She then started to pick them up one by one with perverted wonder dancing through her eyes.

"Shiny~ Shiny~" Margaret said as she started to laugh a little before throwing her broken claws towards Vanitas. In this sudden move, he blocked the projectiles with his daggers. But this was all a ploy as she ran towards the masked publisher and kicked him out of the way to run through the hallway.

"Now that was rude." Vanitas said as he got up from the floor before he got pushed out of the way to end up back onto the floor. "Seriously!"

"Help the doctor! I'll stop Magpie!" Batman yelled out as he ran to catch up onto Magpie without getting a response.

He ran and ran as fast as his legs can go to catch up, but she was too far ahead of him. He then realized where she was going and what she was going to do. Briefly remembering what Vanitas said about the device being faulty made him push himself to the limits to reach to crazed woman in time.

"Come on! Come on!" She growled out as she tried to get the device to work. "What the hell is wrong with this thing?!"

"Stop!" Batman yelled out as he got closer to the room.

"You will not stop me from becoming whole again!" She yelled out as she stopped what she was doing and jumped kicked the Batman.

He blocked this and pushed her towards the other side of the room to get several oxygen tanks to get loose from their placements. She came towards him again and he dodged in response. Batman then threw several batarangs towards her, in which several were blocked but one strayed off of it's course and hit the nozzle of an oxygen tank. With the sudden release of oxygen, it propelled forward and slammed against Magpie and sent her towards the electrified operating bed before the container slammed against the control panel to activate it.

Soon thousands of volts of electricity soon sprang to life and traveled through the entire bed and reached the device on Magpie's head to activate it, despite it being damaged. With how damage things were for the control panel and the device, the power intensified to the point that it engulfed Margaret's entire being.

"AaAAAAaaAAARAHAHAhHAHHAaHAHAHHAH!" Her screeching started to intensify as the device overloaded and exploded, sending her off of the operating table and onto the floor to render her unconscious.

Batman got closer and crouched towards her downed form and checked for a pulse to see if she was alive. He then sighed in relief to feel one before eyeing his belt around her waist.

"No more shiny, shiny for you." He said as he unbuckled it and placed it back onto himself to feel the familiar weight of it around his waist.

"Is Magpie alright?" Vanitas called out as he came into the room. "I heard the loud screech."

"She's unconscious, but with the device overloading I don't know if she'll be mentally fine." Batman answered before speaking again. "What about the doctor?"

"She's pretty shaken up, but she's alright." The disguised publisher stated. "Ravencroft had no idea that her receptionist was Margaret Sorrow."

"Makes sense." The Dark Knight said as he adopted a thinking pose. "Different face, different memories. I'm guessing that Margaret subconsciously drove her into doing those acts for revenge against Braxton and Ravencroft."

"Now Margaret, Cassie, Magpie or whoever she now calls herself could go back to jail…"

"But it would only bring her back into her cage that created her." Batman said in a stern voice making Vanitas to hold up his hands up to calm things down.

"Hey I said could, could….go back to jail. But with her mental sickness, I'm suggesting she should be put into Arkham. It's the only place that could help remedy her of whatever she has now." The masked Uzumaki explained getting the masked billionaire to nod in agreement. "So while you go call GCPD to do whatever they need to do, I'll go take the little bird here to Arkham."

"No you're not." Batman growled out before black and white smoke appeared to reveal Vanitas' motorcycle with the owner on it with Magpie leaning towards his chest. Multiple scarfs then sprung around the two to tie Magpie closer to the black and white themed man. Soon the engine of the vehicle came to life as the rider revved its engines.

"I wasn't asking!" He said over the loud noise before moving his motorcycle and drove through the wall without breaking it to make the man head towards his destination. This made the Batman sigh in defeat on not having things done his way again from the masked individual as he ended up calling the GCPD for the heads up.

-Next Day, Arkham Asylum-

"...I still can't believe Vanitas was here and I didn't get the chance to meet him." Harley groaned out as she was sitting next to Naruto in her office. Both of them were eating something Naruto cooked for the two of them since Harley couldn't properly go out and eat something healthy with her new schedule. He already dropped off something for Pam to eat in her cell before coming into Harley's office so the two could at least bond a little.

It was sometime after Harley got off from work when Vanitas showed up to the asylum. Causing an uproar with him riding his motorcycle through the main doors of the building made security be on high alert and surround the black and white themed hero with their weapons towards him. He stated that he was only here to drop off a mentally ill criminal and be on his merry way. Of course Dr. LeLand came in to help defuse the situation and ask what was going on. From there, the new hero explained the situation of what occurred earlier making the good doctor to get security to get Margaret Sorrow into her new cell. It wasn't long until Vanitas kept onto his promise and left the building to god knows where.

"Don't feel too bad Harley. *Gulp* You might get another chance if you're lucky." Naruto told her in between bites from his home cooked meal.

"Yeah I guess you're right Naruto." The intern replied before taking another bite out of the delicious food in front of her. "Given the chances with him being a new hero and sometimes how frequent some inmates escape, I wouldn't be surprised he'll show up quite often."

"So what's this I hear about you having this Margaret/Magpie as your new patient?" He asked getting Harley to send him a curiously surprised look. "When I was coming back from Pam's cell, I heard some doctors say that the new inmate is now your patient."

"Dammit..." She cutely pouted as one of her feet kicked across the ground. "And here I wanted to tell you and now the surprise is ruined."

"Sorry on that."

"It's no problem really. I wanted to tell you on me having a new patient so soon." She happily said as slight joy came across her bright blue eyes. "I know it sounds odd to most people, but for me it's a big accomplishment in a way."

"That's great to hear Harley." Naruto said as he hugged her from the side, missing the blush that soon came across her features. "Don't mind me asking but who assigned her to you and when do you start?"

"In order: Dr. Bartholomew did since he was very impressed with my evaluation on Pam's split personality. That he wanted me to try and work through Margaret's case which could be similar. As for when I start, I'm guessing it might be later today." Harley explained as she kept digging into her food to savor each bite.

"I have an odd guess that Dr. Serrano was rather pissed when you snagged that case."

"Oh you have no idea."

"Then I wish you the best of luck with your new patient."

"Thanks. I'll need every bit of luck I can muster for this one since this will not be as easy like with Pam." The blonde intern stated as the two continued on with their meals and onto other topics before Naruto had to leave.

As this was going on in the women's wing, the newest inmate was staring into nothing behind the glass covered cell with metal bars added in. The addition to her cell was put in just in case if she had any bright ideas if she tried to cut her way out of the glass barrier with her extremely sharp nails that seemed to chip off and regrow at every other attempt.

"Shiny~ Shiny~"

Even with the straight jacket she had on wouldn't last long as it was torn to shreds because of her nails. So with every attempt she's done to try and escape, she would keep gathering her broken nails and place them onto a pile in her cell. The glistening of the sharp objects gave her eyes a nice spectacle to admire in placement of her broken mind.

"Shiny~ Shiny~"

Of course if one would to look from up above, the broken nails were rearranged to look like the shiny helm of a certain hero. With what she saw last night of the moon reflecting off of it's surface made her desire it even further before drifting back to unconsciousness with its image in her mind.

"Shiny~ Shiny~"

So look out Vanitas. Margaret Sorrow is gone. There's only Magpie now.

"Shiny~ Shiny~"

-End Chapter-

AN:

So how did you guys like the chapter? Fun right?

Anyways I need to explain a few things that are on the top of my head regarding specific details for the story.

First off is the stuff regarding Batman/Bruce and his equipment (Dick/Robin is included in this as well). In the DCAU showing for the 90's show, we can obviously tell that even though Bruce is the owner of the company and whatnot, he is very limited on access from R&D and whatever department is with the company. He had to slowly gather parts and equipment from his company to build his stuff that we would obviously see in not only that show adaptation, but in the various other series as well. If he tried to take parts and equipment too quickly then he'll be caught and he'll be in deep trouble.

So I decided to have the Clayface episode be brought in at an 'early' stage of the story. Reason being that this should give Bruce the final excuse to contact Lucius Fox and bring him into the fold, like of what other Batman adaptations have done in the past from the Nolan Trilogy, The Batman 2004 series, Arkham series, and even the TellTale game. With Mr. Fox being in the know, things would be a whole lot smoother for Bruce to get better equipment from his company and he'll get some better shit for you readers to enjoy.

But I also needed to explain one other thing on this bit of the subject. In the DCAU, Lucius wasn't that much of an R&D guy unlike of what his other incarnations are like from other Batman related sources. So I had to try and blend things on that with two not well remembered people from the 90's show: The Coopers. I had stated in the chapter that they helped make the Batmobile that we see in the show and I liked that idea very well so I decided to incorporate them into the story. If you want to see their only appearance in the show, check out the Mechanic episode.

I hope you guys don't get too rowdy in my decision here since I have stated before I'm trying to blend things to the best of my ability here for the story.

With the bit of Pam telling Selina her secret from Naruto….Well I'm not going to tell you readers. I want to have it be a surprise and it shall be revealed soon.

Anyways, be sure to review this story guys! Would like the criticisms. Please and thank you!

R&R