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.

17. Two Face

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 17: Two Face

The sounds of running could be heard in the darkness as a man was trying to get away from something…. Or someone. He didn't know how long he has been doing this with the indication of his sweated face and frantic eyes looking around if he lost the person following him. He eventually tripped on something, or moved his foot at a certain angle, causing him to fall onto the ground.

*Panting heavily* "I need to keep running. *Panting* I can't stop now." The man said he got back up to run again.

"Harvey…." A voice called out from the darkness. "Harvey Dent…."

"NO!" The now identified Harvey Dent yelled out. "Stay away from me! Just leave me alone!"

The DA kept on running as the sounds of demented laughter filled the darkness. Seeming to originate everywhere at once. He just needed to get away from him.

*Demented Chuckle* "Where do you think you're going Harvey?" The same voice called out once again in a taunting tone. "You can't get away from me that easily."

Harvey kept on running and some sweat had come into contact with his eyes, making him bring his sleeve onto his face to wipe some of it off. That seemed to cause him to lose focus for a brief moment in his run, as he bumped into someone and fell onto the darkened ground. When looking up, he saw the man he was running from.

"AAAHHH! Stay away!" The DA screamed out as he crawled backwards, away from the man towering over him.

"See what I mean Harvey." The man said as he drew closer to the downed DA.

"I don't want any part of you." Harvey said as he tried to regain his composure.

There was no vocal response, as the shadowed man reached into his pocket and pulled out…. A coin. He positioned it into his closed hand and flipped it into the air. The sounds of it coming down seemed to agitate the DA as he didn't want to hear more of it, making him cover his ears in the process. Once it landed, the shadowed man kept flipping into the air to repeat the process over and over again with the sounds of the coin getting louder and louder.

"STOP IT!"

Of course the other man didn't stop what he was doing for god knows how long, until….

"It's time Harvey…." The man said in an ominous tone that seemed to scare Harvey even more. "It's time…."

One more flick of the coin went into the air, but this time it was coming down towards Harvey. The coin seeming grew bigger and bigger by each passing moment to possibly flatten and kill the cowardly man. When it got much closer to his impending doom, he screamed.

"NOOOO!" Harvey yelled out as he woke up in a sweated mess. He brought his hand over his face to end up feeling the sweat coming off of him badly, but it didn't matter as he tried to calm himself down from the horrid nightmare he just had.

"Calm down Harvey….It was only just a dream." He said to himself as he got up from his couch to grab a glass of water from the other side of his office. His throat felt raw and in pain with how much he possibly could've screamed. So he needed the pure liquid to help moisten it up and help him feel a little better.

*Knock Knock*

"Ye- *Cough Yes. Who is it?" Harvey asked as his throat tried to adjust itself.

The door soon opened up as a voice called out. "Harvey, it's Carlos."

"Oh, Carlos. Good to see you." The DA said as he tried to compose himself a little more. "What do you need?"

"Harvey, it's time." Harvey's aide told him, getting the DA to shaken a little on that last bit.

"I-In time for what?"

His aide looked at him funny and decided to voice his thoughts. "Are you okay Harvey? You seem shakened up."

"I'm fine. Just a bad nightmare." Harvey said to get his aide to nod at this. "So I'm asking again, but in time for what exactly?"

"The raid sir." Carlos said getting the DA to perk up at this. "Gordon called and said that the raid is happening now."

"I see…. Then we better get going."

-Abandoned Apartment Building-

Police sirens filled the air as searchlights were hitting across the surface of the heavily defended building for any sign of any thugs present in the building. For what is going on exactly, men that work for criminal overlord Rupert Thorne had stolen weapons and supplies from Gotham's Army depots. Commissioner Gordon, with the help of Harvey Dent, had organized the raid to get the supplies back.

"This is Commissioner Gordon! We have the place surrounded! So come on out with your hands up and no one will get hurt!" The auburn haired male said inside of the loudspeaker.

"Fuck off Gordon!" A thug called out from one of the broken windows.

Soon, Harvey had rushed over to the scene where Gordon is currently standing. It took him a bit to get there because of the traffic, but it seemed that he didn't miss anything yet.

"Hey Jim, how's it going?" Harvey greeted before sounds of gunfire were present with several bullets hitting the police car in front of them. This caused the two law officials to duck behind the car while some officers returned fire.

"Could've been better Dent." James said before one of the officers came up to him.

"Sir, the SWAT team is ready. Just give the word and we'll enter the building."

"Good, but wait on my orders. I don't want anyone to jump the gun and risk their lives without my approval." The Commissioner ordered getting the one officer to nod and head back to repeat Gordon's order.

As this was going on, the thugs inside of the derelict building were opening up several crates of weapons to be ready for the oncoming onslaught headed their way.

*Chuckles* "Man this is going to blow a hole in their barricade." One of the thugs said as he pulled out a rocket launcher from the army crate. *Grunt* "Mind helping me out here? Need to get this by the window over there."

"Sure." The other thug said as he helped lift the weapon.

"Guys!" One of the thugs near the window called out, getting their attention. "They're ready to move!"

*Chuckle* "Let them try." The rocket launcher one cockily said. "There ain't nobody gonna get in here alive."

As one of the thugs was loading up the rocket, another thug pulled out his walkie talkie and spoke into it. "You guys down there ready?"

"Definitely man."

"Then be ready when the cops start coming up since you boys are our defense up here."

"You got it." The thug below spoke out before the call ended. Just as the radio thug put his device, he was grabbed from behind and was knocked out. Coming out from the shadows revealed the Dark Knight as he was going to punch the living day lights out of the thugs on this level.

Down on the floor below, all of the thugs were at the ready with their assault rifles for when the police start arriving from the doorway since the only way to get to the upper level is through them. Things were pretty tense with how quiet things were, asides from the noise coming from outside. Just as they were waiting for the boys upstairs to start things off, a blast emanated from the floor in the center of the room.

"GAH!" Several men cried out as most were sent away from the blast, while others fell down through the hole. In the middle of the confusion, Vanitas had jumped out of the hole and grabbed ahold of the rafter beam in the ceiling before throwing several explosive cards at the thugs' weapons. The moment they came in contact, they exploded and sent them either away from the thugs' hands or breaking them instantly.

One of the thugs thought the person responsible was still down in the hole and started firing into it, causing him to kill a few of his fellow thugs in the process by mistake. Said thug was then grabbed by Vanitas' scarf and pulled high into the air before smacking against the floor's ceiling and plummeted back down to knock him out. When the hero came back down from the ceiling, he grabbed ahold of one of the thugs and twisted his arm to get the man to let go of the weapon, but he wasn't budging as he started to open fire on reflex. The helmeted Uzumaki soon spun him around to empty the weapon's clip before flipping the man over his shoulder and throwing him into the hole.

Shots were soon fired upon the publisher as he dodged out of the line of fire before sliding on the floor and shot out his grappling scarf to latch onto one of the thugs. Once it was successful, Vanitas pulled hard sending the thug towards him and kicked him into another thug. They tried to get back up, but with the thug still attached to the scarf, he was sent flying back to the hero and was kicked again into the same thug to render both of them unconscious or not moving that much.

In the corner of his vision, Vanitas soon saw one of the thugs aiming his weapon at him. The black and white hero summoned a dagger and threw it at the man's hand to make him drop the weapon as he held his hand in extreme pain. The hero then turned his attention towards the thugs coming towards him as he ducked and blocked several blows on his person before returning the favor and kicked each of them in the process.

One of the thugs pulled a knife at him and attempted to stab him several times, but on the last thrust his arm was caught and he was sent flying towards the wall hard. Shots were fired once again as Vanitas had to weave right through them. He soon ran towards one thug and grabbed ahold of his shirt as he jumped over a crate and slammed the man down on it. Once on the other side of the box, he used his scarf to latch onto the box behind him and threw it towards a group of thugs huddled together to get them knocked out in the end.

Once that was done, Vanitas scanned the room to see if there was anyone else still standing. He then realized that there were none left since he had expected there to be more. Then again there were, but they were on the upper floor. There were a few thugs that tried to get back up, but for good measure the hero summoned a few daggers and threw them down to keep the thugs in place.

"Now you boys stay right where you are and don't go anywhere." The hero said as he saw them groan out in pain or attempting to pull the daggers out of their places. "It's not like you're going to leave or anything."

*BOOM*

"What the fuck?" The masked Uzumaki said out loud as he wondered what that was. He then went up the stairwell towards the upper level and saw a rocket launcher with a smoking barrel near him. From there, he saw other thugs lying on the ground either knocked out or groaning in pain with Batman standing in the middle.

"So…." Vanitas called out, gaining Batman's attention. "Did you have fun up here like I did down there?"

As that was said, a group of SWAT team members came into the room and aimed their weapons at the ready. Of course once they saw all of the downed thugs, they lowered their weapons, but kept them at the ready as one of them called it in that Batman and Vanitas took care of the problem. From there, a mixture of SWAT and cops were handcuffing and escorting all of the thugs out of the building and into police custody.

Several minutes had past as the last of Thorne's men were taken out of the building while being put into the various police vans that were arriving onto the scene. As this went on, a horde of reporters and photographers started to arrive and started to ask questions to the DA and Commissioner. None were answered so far until Harvey brought up his hands up to signal off that he was going to finally speak.

"As your district attorney, I would like to commend Commissioner Gordon and his men for their fine work." Harvey said with joy in his voice that the reporters ate up gleefully.

As this went on, Gordon looked up towards the roof of the ransacked building and saw Batman's figure in front of the moonlight before he went to parts unknown. "And thank you." The bespeckled man muttered before seeing a figure floating in the air on a stick of sorts and waved at the man before shooting off into the night's sky. "And you too."

"Excuse me Mr. Dent, but was it you that had planned this raid?" A reporter asked, getting the DA to nod at this.

"Why of course and I'm glad to say that one of Rupert Thorne's criminal rings has now been broken." Harvey said as various cameras went off making him temporarily blinded by the brightness. "As I've stated in my re-election campaign: 'I will not rest until Gotham City has been 'dethroned' once and for all.'"

Once that was stated, the various people in the area from reporters, varying officers and officials were clapping and cheering. Of course not everyone in the surrounding area was cheerful as one of the handcuffed thugs looked onward in disdain while being escorted into the van. He wrestled free from his hold before speaking out.

"You talk big pretty boy, but you ain't gonna be once Rupert Thorne gets through with you." The thug said before kicking a nearby, muddy puddle to send most of the gunk at Harvey's suit. "He's chews and spits out fuckers like you for breakfast!"

"Okay that's enough out of you." The one officer said as he tried to get the thug into the vehicle.

Things seemed to slow down to most of the world as Harvey started to get angrier by the second. Hearing the laughs of the detained thugs from the surrounding vans at the display. Then all of a sudden, the DA snapped.

"Why you little-!" He yelled out as he rushed towards the thug from earlier and grabbed ahold of his jacket and threw him across the pavement and into the muddy puddle. "I'm going to tear your measly little body apart!"

"Hey! What the fuck are you doing?!" The thug yelled out as he tried to get free from the DA's grasp. "Isn't someone going to help?!"

"Hey! Break it up sir!" One of the officers said as they tried to separate the two.

"Kicking mud in my face will ya?!" Harvey yelled out again as he was going to throw a punch at the thug's face before it was caught by Commissioner Gordon's grasp.

"Harvey that's enough!" He said to the DA. "Get ahold of yourself!"

And just like that, Harvey seemed to snap out of it and revert to his courteous, amiable self. But just the way his eyes darted around on the scene, Gordon saw that something was off about the DA. Like he was a different person from before as the man in front of him seemed truly scared on what he had just done.

"J-Jim…" Harvey tried to say as he saw the various people around him look at him in shock at what they just seen. "I...I..."

"Come on Harvey, we need to leave now." Gordon said as he pulled Harvey away from the reporters. "You can't afford a publicity like this."

"Hey! That guy should be sent to jail! Not me!" The assaulted thug cried out before being shoved into the van and the door slamming into his face to shut him up.

Once they were a good distance away, Gordon decided to voice his thoughts. "Harvey, what the hell were you thinking back there?"

"I-I don't know Jim." He nervously said. "I guess he hit just the right button."

"Then that's got to be one hell of a button." Gordon muttered as he saw the DA walk away from the scene and towards his car to head home for the night.

-Rupert Thorne's Office-

"Well it's been another wild night in East Gotham as police intercepted an arms shipment, which district attorney Harvey Dent is trying to connect to Rupert Thorne. Unfortunately 'Handsome Harvey' has earned a new nickname, 'Hot Head Harvey', when he attacked one of the suspects." Summer Gleeson said over the television before it got muted via remote.

"My oh my….that man is crazy." A shoulder length, black haired woman said off to the side of the room. She appeared to be in her late twenties, early thirties while wearing a red office business attire with a grey shirt and black tie around her neck.

"Yeah….Crazy like a fox." A man said as he placed the remote off to the side. He was a man in his mid to late fifties in a heavy set look wearing a dark suit with a green vest and black tie to oddly match his white hair. "That little tantrum might as well bought him another ten thousand votes."

"Then why don't we get him to swim in a cement soup boss." A thug suggested off to the side.

"And bring down even more heat on us? I don't think so." The man said as he paced around the room a little. "I want him in my pocket boys. I want you to find some dirt on our dashing DA. Something really juicy if possible."

"Then I'm afraid that's going to be a problem Mr. Thorne." The woman said getting her boss to look at her. "He's so clean he could practically squeak."

"Just stay on his tail Candice." Rupert Thorne said as he was staring at the TV monitor with the news still playing. "All men have something to hide. As most people say: The brighter the picture, the darker the negative."

"Of course sir." The now identified Candice said as she left the office to do as she has been ordered while dragging everyone out of the room to help plan things out for the coming times.

-Few Days Later, Wayne Manor-

The sounds of clapping and cheering filled the air as the current DA was walking up on the podium. Once things had settled down, he took several deep breaths, which resulted in him coughing for a brief moment or two. When that was settled, he spoke in a loud firm voice.

"Hello and thank you all for coming to this event today people. It means a lot to see many of Gotham's residents here to support my cause for a better Gotham with your votes. If we want this city safe again, then we'll have to come down hard on these criminals. I will not see the people of Gotham…."

"Bruce, it's so nice of you to sponsor this fundraiser for Harvey." Grace said as she stood by said 'playboy' along with Naruto and Selina in amidst of the crowd of people. Since this was mostly a public event, Naruto had decided to show up to support his friend and to properly donate the money he had promised Harvey back on New Years. Hell, he practically wrote out the check and handed it to Harvey himself. As for Selina, she tagged along after being convinced by her boyfriend that she could possibly gather money for any charities coming up or to at least give her a better image after the past incidents that involved around her.

"Well Harvey and I go way back." Bruce said with a smile. "He's a great DA and a better friend."

"I can tell." Selina said as she got into the conversation now. "You two work well together and your relationship is a good, strong one Bruce."

"Why thank you Selina. Though to tell you the truth… Something seems offly intense."

"You're not the only one Bruce." Naruto jotted in as he stared at Harvey with narrowed eyes. For the past several days, he had been feeling these negative emotions rolling off of him in waves. They are suppressed, but he could tell that something seemed off. Especially with the news report of Harvey attacking one of Thorne's men after the raid. "Are you sure nothing is wrong with him Grace?"

"I'm guessing it's just the stress of the campaign that gets to him at times. I do what I can to help relieve it, but it seems to come back at a later point."

"Fair point."

"Though he doesn't seem to be really himself." Bruce said his two cents before the sounds of clapping filled the air once again as Harvey stepped down from the stage and into the mass of people.

"Mr. Dent. Mr. Dent." An elderly woman said as she came up to the current DA. "I want to let you know that I have voted for you two times and I plan for a third."

"Then I hope that those were from separate elections." He responded with a joking tone that got others to laugh.

"Mr. Dent." Grace called out as she sauntered her way towards her future husband. "When are you finally going to marry that gorgeous fiance of your's?"

The only response she got out of that question was her fiance to wrap his arms around her and spun her around that made her giggle a little while the masses laughed at the display.

"I hope you do it fast Harvey. I might just steal her myself."

"Do that and I'll prosecute Bruce." Harvey responded as the engaged couple were walking further into the crowd.

"Harvey." The DA's assistant said as he moved closer towards him. "Harvey."

"Yes?" The DA asked as he acknowledged his assistant. "What is it?"

"I need to talk to you privately for a moment."

"Are you sure? You could tell me in front of everyone else."

"No sir, I really need to talk to you."

Hearing that tone of voice, Harvey excused himself and walked some distance away from the masses as everyone else started to get into their own conversations.

"What's wrong Carlos?"

"You're not going to like this, but the judge just threw out the case on Thorne's men." His aide said as he pulled out a slip of paper and handed it to his boss. Once reading more on this to see if it was a joke, the results were instant.

"W-What?" Harvey questioned in shock as he reread it again and again to see if there was anything wrong. "But why Carlos?"

"The warrant wasn't complete. The judge had no choice but to let them go."

"Had to?!" The DA yelled out as his breath started to grow harder and his dark eyes started to darken even more as his eyes seemed to dilate. But all that he could see was red. "But I planned three months on that raid! He can't overturn on that! He's blocked just like the rest!"

The man was going to throw his aide towards the serving table, but someone stopped him from the process. "That's enough Harvey!" Naruto said as he was able to separate the two. "This isn't going to look for you if you do this."

"Stay out of this!" The angered DA said as he was going to punch Naruto in the face. But the sudden appearance of his Grace came in front of the publisher to defend her friend.

"Harvey!"

Seeing her in the forefront of his vision seemed to snap him out of it. Everything went clear again as he then realized what he just did. "G-Grace…. Naruto. I-I'm sorry. I-I don't know what…. Excuse me, I need some time alone."

As he said that, he walked away from the masses whom were filling the airs with hushed murmurs. Naruto, Selina, Grace and Bruce looked on in worry as they soon followed the DA inside. Unbeknownst to either of them due to the confusion going on, a particular dark haired secretary smiled at the scene with what she can now inform her boss about.

As the group was getting further into the manor, Bruce was the one that called out to Harvey. But he wasn't responding at all as he kept on walking. Eventually they went followed him into one of the studies when Bruce decided to ask again, but using a bit of his Bat persona in the works.

"Harvey, what was that back there?" The 'playboy' said in a lower voice to finally get his friend to respond.

"I just blew off the handle, that's all. So don't worry, I got things under control."

"Harvey, you didn't just lose your temper out there. You were a completely other person."

"I said I was sorry." The DA said to try and push the situation aside, but no one else was having it.

"Tell that to that Carlos person back there along with the masses." Selina bluntly said getting her secret boyfriend to look at her.

"Selina." Naruto said in a slight warning tone.

"No, no it's alright Naruto." Harvey said as he came to look at them. "She practically said it and I do need to apologize to them, asides from you and Grace."

"Maybe you should get some help." Bruce suggested.

"He's already getting help." Grace said getting her fiance to look at her in surprise.

"Grace. You didn't need to-" "But Bruce and Naruto are your friends honey."

"Hey don't be embarrassed Harvey." The environmentalist said to possibly help out on the situation. "A lot of people see psychologists and therapists, whether they are important or not."

"But not when they are running for public office." The DA countered his former client. "You know how most voters feel about… shrinks."

"Well I, for one, am proud of you and relieved." The billionaire said in a lighter tone of mood. "It takes a strong man to admit that he has a problem."

"Yeah I can understand that, but please keep this under the hat will you."

"Don't worry Harvey, if there is one thing I know is to keep a secret." His dark haired friend defended while getting the others in the room to nod and promise the same thing.

When things were said and done, the group went back outside as Harvey had first apologized to his aid before telling the masses about his outburst. It was a moment of stress and things gotten out of hand. The people attending the event seemed to accept it, but seemed weary on what still occurred earlier. Overall, the rest of the fundraising event was practically normal before things ended.

-Night, Nora Crest's Office-

It was a rather stormy night so far as it was practically raining cats and dogs while the wind was howling. Most people would try to stay in their homes for the evening, but it seemed that there was some people still working. Especially one that was very suddenly scheduled earlier in the day.

"Now…. You are falling into a deep sleep." The doctor said as she swung back and forth her watch. "Can you hear me Mr. Dent?"

"Yes Dr. Crest." Harvey responded in a sleepy daze.

"Good." The doctor said as she placed her watch back into her jacket pocket. The woman in question is Nora Crest, a woman in her late fifties with her greyed out hair tied into a bun while wearing a blue suit. Harvey has been seeing her for years and she knows all about Harvey's condition. "Now Harvey, I would like to speak to your other personality. To speak with Big Bad Harv."

The man's breath seemed to labor a little as he struggled to hold him in. "I-I don't think it's a good idea. He doesn't want to talk."

"But we must in order to help you." Nora said making Harvey gulp and accept the fact.

He dwelled inside of himself before his body started to twitch and spasm a little before it went back to a relaxed state before the eyelids slowly opened. Once was a pair of good natured vision were now replaced with hate and malice as the rest of his features seemed to match with a ever present scowl. To finish things off, the man that replaced the DA reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a coin before he started to play with it.

"Big Bad Harv?"

Her response wasn't immediate as his scowl slowly went into a crooked smile before voicing the answer in a growl like tone. "Speaking."

With Nora getting the confirmation that the persona switch was successful, she had finally brought up the issue of the meeting. "It appears that you and Harvey are having trouble again."

*Chuckle* "The man is a complete wimp."

"Well Harvey has a lot of special problems." Dr. Crest simply stated before getting out of her chair and walked towards the window, with the rain hitting against it and flashes of lightning occasionally lit up the sky. "When he was young, he felt very guilty about his angry feelings. So guilty that he had buried them deep inside until it became something else…. Or rather someone else." She paused as she turned around and looked straight at the man in front of her. "You, Big Bad Harv, came out from these angry feelings. Everyone feels anger and it does no harm, as long as it doesn't end up as a bad behavior. Once Harvey understands this-"

"Then maybe I'll go away." He concluded as his fists started to clench with his coin leaving an imprint in his hand. "Right?"

Unsure on how to fully answer this with her knowing where this is going, she had to at least say something to Big Bad Harv. "W-Well…"

"Well I'm not going anywhere you bitch!" BB Harv yelled out as he kicked the nearby coffee table to the side. The man then picked up the nearby floor lamp and brought it closer to her face. Nora felt scared now with what he was going to do to her, but before she could do anything, he bellowed at her. "If anyone is going anywhere, then it's Mr. Goody Good!" To prove the point, he slammed the lamp towards the window to get it to break with the broken light fixture aimed right back towards her. "And maybe you along with him."

Once that was said, BB Harv plunged the broken office appliance at her. She barely dodged out of the way getting the broken appliance to leave a mark on the floor. Nora then ran towards her office door to get away from him, but BB Harv was quick enough to grab ahold of her arm before he started to twist it. She cried out in pain and before anything could escalate, she snapped her fingers with her free hand by his ear to get BB Harv to go away and the DA to return.

The results were instant as the body seized up as it twitched and spasmed like before while letting go of the coin in his hand to end up clattering on the ground. The man's hate filled eyes briefly dilate to end up back at it's normal, calm state. Once the man came around, he scanned the room and saw the damage that was caused.

"O-Oh god. D-Did I do this?" Harvey asked out loud as he then looked at his doctor to see her nurse her arm. "Dr. Crest, I'm so sorry. I-I didn't mean to, I swear."

"I know it wasn't your fault Harvey." The doctor said as she sat back down to try and relax herself. "It seems that your other personality is getting stronger than I suspected."

Hearing this, the DA clenched his head in frustration as he sat back down. "Oh god, what am I going to do? I've always been able to suppress him before."

"Harvey. *Sigh* I want you to admit yourself to the psychiatric ward at County General for a few days." Nora suggested, getting Harvey to look at her in shock.

"But I can't Nora. You know that I'm trying to get re-elected." He said while trying to defend himself. "If the people find out about this, then it'll be hard to keep my position. I can't save them if I'm not the DA."

"But what about saving yourself Harvey? If you can't at least do that, then you could possibly lose your position and other things in the process."

Once hearing this, several things came through his mind. His DA position, his friends, and even his sweet Grace. The doctor was right, he does need to save himself or else everything else will be ruined. *Sigh* "I understand, but isn't there any other way doctor?"

*Humming in thought.* "Maybe if you cut back on your campaigning and intensified our sessions. Then we might be able to-" "Perfect!" He interrupted as it seemed like the best idea there is. "I'll take that. You just set up the schedule and I'll work everything around them. Those are practically my main priority along with my campaigning. Just so long as this remains a secret."

Unbeknownst to either of them that right outside of the office door, Thorne's secretary was right there writing everything down on a little notepad of hers. As she wrote the last bit on her entry, she quietly left the hallway as fast as she could so no one would notice her.

-Days Later, Campaign Party-

The sounds of chatter were present in the room as everyone that helped support Harvey through this entire election was there. It was a very important evening as the votes were being tallied and it was practically a nail biting experience if Harvey gets to serve another term as DA or not.

"Excuse me. Excuse me. Can I have your attention please?" Carlos said into the microphone as everyone else in the room quieted down. "Thank you. Now ladies and gentlemen, I have gotten word that the latest count has shown that Harvey is receiving a mandate from the citizens of Gotham in a form of a landslide. If this keeps up then we'll be seeing another term of Harvey as our district attorney."

When that was announced, everyone present was cheering in excitement as it was probably time to celebrate now.

"Hey now everyone. Don't celebrate just yet." Harvey said out loud, but it was washed away with how loud everyone was cheering and clapping. With his fiance in his arm, the two of them walked down from the stage as they wanted to mingle with the guests.

"Congrats Harvey." Bruce said as he came up towards them with his hand extended. The DA took it in his grasps and shook it with glee. "I must say that you seem very calm and collected as of late."

"I told you that I can be able to handle myself."

"And it shows Harvey." Naruto said as he came up to the engaged couple. Selina wasn't with him this evening since she had some other things to take care of that evening for a possible charity. "Everything seems rather peaceful with you as of late."

Indeed it has, ever since Harvey had taken his doctor's advice by doing the various sessions with her and cut back on his campaigning. It helped him out immensely as things were turning out for the best and it showed. Not once has his other persona affected him in the slightest and it made things all the easier during the remaining days of his campaign.

"Glad to know that you have noticed." The DA said to the silver haired male. "I'm practically in such good spirits that I might just announce a certain wedding date this evening as apart of my acceptance speech."

When hearing this, Grace turned towards Harvey in shock as her face morphed into one out of joy. "Oh Harvey. Do you mean it?" She hopefully asked as tears welled up in her eyes. She had been hoping that the two could finally get married after so long. The blonde's prayers were practically answered as her beloved fiance had nodded at this, making her capture his lips with her own.

"Then congratulations are in order you two." Naruto said as he greatly smiled at them.

When the two separated from their joyful kiss, they smiled at their friend before Harvey responded to him. "I know. It's been a long time since both of us had been engaged and I kept on holding off our wedding date. But now with this win, things will finally be solidified."

"Glad to hear about that Harvey."

"And there has been something that I wanted to say to you Bruce."

"Which is?"

The DA took in a deep breath before addressing his long time friend. "For years you've helped me out as long as possible. Supported me when I was first campaigning for my first term as the district attorney. Helped Grace and I through our various challenges we had to deal with ever since we had first met. Nothing could ever repay you for what you've done."

The 'playboy' smiled at this and he was genuinely touched. "Thank you Harvey."

"Which is why I want to ask you one simple thing." Harvey said in dramatic effect. "Will you do me the honor and be my best man?"

Bruce was surprised to hear this while Naruto wasn't. The former shinobi had guessed on how this was going. The two of them have been friends for years so it wouldn't be hard to realize that Harvey planned Bruce to be his best man for the wedding.

Once regaining his composure, he chuckled a little and gave his answer. "Of course I will."

"Then I hope I get invited to the wedding." Naruto said getting Grace to nod at the publisher.

"You're definitely on the guest list Naruto."

"Thanks." The former shinobi said as he, along with Bruce, started to walk away from the couple.

They were going to kiss each other again when Carlos came up to them.

"Yes what is it?"

"You got a phone call Harvey." The aide said getting his boss to nod before turning back towards his fiance.

"Hold those lips for me till I get back." Harvey said as he walked off towards his office. After stopping a few times to thank a few voters and supporters, he finally made it. He saw the phone off of the receiver to show that the phone was still on hold. Once in his hand, he spoke into it. "Hello, Harvey Dent speaking."

"Hello Harvey." A seemingly familiar voice said on the other end. "This is Thorne. Rupert Thorne."

Once having the confirmation, Harvey's face turned into a scowl. "What do you want you slime?"

"Now, now. Is that anyway to talk to someone that wants to offer you a deal?"

"I'm not interested in any of your deals Thorne."

"Oh~ Well I think you will be. Unless you would be fine with me chatting with Big Bad Harv." The moment that name came through the man's lips, the DA went into a state of shock as he must've stolen his file from Dr. Crest's office. "Or perhaps would you like me to talk to the press first."

Steeling his nerves and taking a few slight breaths, he answered back. "What do you want?"

"There's a limo waiting in the alley outside of your office building. Take it while you still have a career ahead of you." Thorne said before he ended the call.

"Darling?" A voice called out from behind, making Harvey turn in surprise to see Grace at the door. "Is something wrong?"

"No, nothing is wrong dear. I just need to see someone." He said to her as he needed to get this meeting over with. "Would you mind seeing to our guests?"

"But the returns are just coming in."

"I'm sorry but I won't be long." He said as he made it around her to leave. This made her worried as she went to go after him, but he already made it back into the crowd of people.

'Harvey… What was in that phone call that made you this way?' She thought before someone pumped into her.

"Sorry about that Grace. Too many people around to make it hard to navigate through." Naruto said as he saw her worried face. "Grace, is something wrong?"

"Yes, it's Harvey. I-I think he's in trouble." She told him as she started to play with her necklace a little. Nervous habit with playing with a gift of hers from Harvey. "I barely heard that something about a limo taking him somewhere."

Hearing that from her made him drop everything he planned on doing for the evening. He excused himself while saying that he will find her fiance while also calling the police. Once he did that in another room, the publisher shifted into his Vanitas attire and phased himself out of the building. As he was falling towards the ground below, he summoned Kazekage (his lance) into his hand to keep him in place.

"Now where are you?" He muttered as he scanned the immediate area until his eyes saw Harvey exit out of the building and into the limo in question. "Gotcha."

WIth the vehicle in his sights, Vanitas willed his lance to rise higher into the air while he got his helmet to keep track of the limo. As it took off, so did the hero with going at moderate speeds so that he could stay within it's range. With the twists and turns of the streets, Vanitas had little to no problem with following it. But when it was reaching towards the underpass, the hero saw something peculiar show up in his vision.

"Is that Batman? Why is he here?" He curiously wondered as he saw the caped crusader jump ontop of various vehicles to get closer to the limo where Harvey is riding in. Things started to change a little as the car Batman was on was going to go somewhere else, so he pulled out something and fired at the limos bumper as it went through the underpass. "Is that some sort of tracker?" He asked to himself before shaking his head. "Nevermind that now, I need to keep focus on the limo."

With that, he made Kazekage go faster to catch up with the vehicle to find out some answers.

-Chemical Plant-

After following for about fifteen to twenty minutes of flying, Vanitas ended up seeing the limo drive into the grounds of a chemical plant. He didn't know who owned the place or what it's operating under, but he might learn soon enough. Once the vehicle parked, the occupants got out to see some thuggish looking people escort Harvey inside. When the coast was clear, the former shinobi landed on the ground with a mild thump as he ran close to the entrance before hugging it's wall. He phased right through to end up on the other side as he quietly navigated his way through the building.

He was rather surprised that no one was actually guarding the place, but he guessed that possibly the person behind all of this ordered all of his/her men to be wherever Harvey might end up in. Possibly to intimidate the DA if he could try to fight back or if the man refused in on what the person offered. It didn't matter now as Vanitas kept on moving forward while trying to stay in the shadows.

It eventually lead him to a room where large containers of chemicals were placed with a bridge sat in between them. He walked across it to see that on the other side of the room had an opened door to an office where the lights were turned on. As Vanitas got closer, he started to hear a conversation go on.

"...Stealing someone's psychiatric file is pretty low Thorne, even for a swine like you."

'Well that's Harvey, that's for sure. But Rupert Thorne is here?' The hero thought as he walked towards the wall and hugged it. 'And did Harvey say his psychiatric file?'

In the other room, Rupert was sitting on the edge of his desk with most of his goons present along with his secretary sitting on the other end of the desk. Not too far from either of them sat Harvey as he glared holes inside of the smug man with his file on hand.

"But it does make such a fascinating read." The criminal overlord said to the DA in a mocking tone.

"How in the hell did you acquire it? I doubt my doctor willingly gave it to you."

"Eh we practically stole it when that doc of yours wasn't there." One of the goons said before another one smacked him across the head.

"Shut up Mikey."

"Sorry."

Rupert just rolled his eyes at this and focused at the task at hand. "It was quite interesting on what is jotted down in here. Like this for example. It says that when Harvey was a little boy, he was bothered by a bully. Everyday the bully would bug him after school until one day, little Harvey got so mad he slugged him one."

"Oooooo~" Was the response the other goons gave out in a mocking tone. All the while Harvey was clenching his fists with his arms crossed.

"Of course the bully ran away after that incident, which made little Harvey very proud for the first time. That was until he found out the bully was in the hospital." Rupert said as he turned towards the DA with the ever present smile.

"Must've been one hell of a punch." Candice said as she filed her nails.

*Chuckles* "That's what Harvey thought at the time. Except it turned out that the bully was at the hospital for appendicitis." The crime overlord said as he let out some more chuckles. "But poor Harvey felt so guilty that he never showed his anger again. And that was the start of Big... Bad... Harv."

As this went on, Harvey was starting to lose control but he remained focus as he tried to control his breathing. "What the hell do you want Thorne?"

"Just a few favors from the DA's office, that's all."

"In your dreams." Was the immediate response.

"Then as a concerned citizen of this fair city that I feel compelled to turn this into the press. I mean, it should be fair for the people of Gotham to know what kind of person, or should I say persons, that they elected."

Once that was said, everyone else in the room started to mockingly laugh at him. Everyone staring at him like they practically have him by the ropes now, but in reality they were adding fuel to the fire of Harvey's inner turmoil. The DA was starting to lose control of his anger as his eyes started to dilate with his vision starting to turn red.

"So what do you say Harvey? Do we have a deal?" Thorne asked as he waited for the man's response.

"There seems to be one problem with that Rupert." The man said in an eerily calm voice.

"And what would that be?"

*Chuckles* "That you're talking to the wrong Harvey." BB Harv announced before grabbing the crime boss by his jacket and surprisingly threw him across the room and into a group of the man's thugs. "And now I'm going to fucking kill you, you son of a bitch." He growled out as he walked towards the downed man.

"Get him!" One of the thugs said to get the others to go in for the attack.

"And that's my cue." A voice called out as Vanitas ran inside of the room and punched a few of the thugs across their faces.

BB Harv grabbed Throne by the scruff of his shirt and was going to punch the living daylights out of the man, but Batman dropped down from the ceiling and grabbed the offending.

"No Dent! We need to get out of here!" The Bat said but he was shrugged off with the amount of strength the man before him has.

"Get away from me!" The darker persona stated as he clocked Batman a good one before focusing back on the crime lord. "Thorne is mine!"

The commotion was ever present as the two heroes and BB Harv were up against several of Thorne's goons at a time. Dodging and weaving through them to take care of things. Even though BB Harv had little to no fighting skill, his adrenaline fueled rage was able to help out in terms of strength. The darker persona had knocked the one last thug to the side as he saw Thorne run towards the file on the desk before retreating out of the room.

"Give me that file Thorne!" He growled out as he was on hot pursuit. The two men were running across the bridge that separated the many chemicals in the room. Of course, one thug came out of the room and aimed his assault rifle at the possessed DA.

"I'll get him." The thug said as he opened fired.

"Look out!" Batman cried out as he pushed the thug out of the way to get them to miss their mark, but the bullets still flew into the air. One of the bullets still hit the DA, but only on the leg to get him to stumble onto the ground and land onto his face. The other bullets hit the nearby voltage station, making it explode to end up disconnecting the wires connected to it. They soon fell down into the nearby vat of chemicals and things seemed to settle down. That was until….

*KABOOM!*

The blast propelled upwards to destroy part of the bridge where Harvey was at to send him high in the sky before slamming back down onto the stable part of the bridge.

"HARVEY!" Batman yelled out in shock as he ran towards his friend.

Vanitas heard the yell after he took care of the last thug in the room. He ran out to see what was going on and saw the DA on the ground with Batman hovering over him.

'No… No! No! No!' The masked Uzumaki thought as he ran to see his friend's condition. As he got there, we was there just in time to see Batman turn the man over to see….

'Oh dear god/kami.' Batman and Vanitas thought respectively as they saw their friend's condition.

"We need to get him to the hospital NOW!" Vanitas yelled out. Batman didn't need to be told that as he carefully picked up the injured DA and rushed him towards his batmobile as fast and safely as he could. As this happened, Vanitas covered him to see if any other thug was going to come their way.

-Gotham General Hospital-

"Doctor….W-Will he be alright?" Grace asked as she, Naruto and Bruce were in Harvey's hospital room.

The injured DA in question was lying in the bed asleep as bandages were wrapped around his head, part of his upper left torso and his entire left arm. There were several wires attached to Harvey to help monitor his heart. Luckily there were no tubes attached to the man to regulate his breathing and eating, but there was an IV drip attached to help out a little.

"He'll pull through." The doctor said as she checked on the man's charts. "He's damn lucky that Batman got him here quickly so we could help stabilize him."

"But what about his face and arm?" Naruto asked getting the doctor to place her attention towards him momentarily.

It seemed that similar to his world, Sakura would be a doctor in this one. She appeared to be in her late twenties to show her youthful appearance that could possibly turn heads. With her exotic looks made things eye catching from her green eyes and oddly pink hair. Most people would think the hair was dyed, but time and time again she keeps telling people that it's all natural due to her odd genes of her father having red hair and her mother being blonde that the two hair colors mixed to give her the pink hair. Hence why she was called 'Sakura' when she was born.

*Sigh* "That's a completely different matter I'm afraid." Dr. Haruno said getting the others to look at her oddly.

"What do you mean?" Bruce asked as he was generally curious on what the doctor has to say.

"The burns and scars had damaged the skin significantly. An odd combination of first, second and third degree burning. We'll be sure to get a good plastic surgeon within the next few days to help fix up what we can along with skin grafts on the rest of the damaged skin." Sakura stated getting the others to nod.

Of course the two heroes in the room basically had the same thought in mind….About the mental scars.

-Next Day-

It was another stormy day in Gotham as the doctors and nurses were working hard throughout the day. In one particular room with Harvey Dent residing in, Dr. Haruno and her nurse were there to check up on him. They were surprised to see him awake, but they took it in stride to see that he was a bit better.

After giving him a decent meal or two for the day, the doctor was ready to take off the bandages to see what they'll be dealing with. Especially since she needs to replace the dirty ones with clean ones.

"Now you understand Mr. Dent, that there will be a surgery to help repair most of the damage correct?"

"Yes." He simply growled out. *Cough* "Sorry. Yes ma'am."

When Sakura heard this voice, she seemed slightly startled but guessed that Harvey must've had his throat damaged in what accident he had and hasn't fully healed yet.

"Good since I already scheduled a surgeon." She calmly said as she had cut off the last bit of the bandages to get them to fall off of his face, along with the medical eye patch to cover up his eye.

The medical tray the nurse was carrying fell onto the ground as the nurse saw the gruesome sight before her before she let out a loud scream.

"Kaori! What did I just say earlier?!"

"What's wrong doctor?" Harvey asked as he was worried that something seemed wrong.

"There's nothing to worry about sir." Sakura tried to say to keep her patient calm, but it seemed he started to get suddenly frustrated.

"Then give me a mirror." He growled out.

"Mr. Dent I suggest you-" "Give me a fucking mirror NOW!"

Harvey seemed too impatient for a response as he pulled off the medical wires off of him and rushed towards the nearby mirror on the far side of the room.

Just outside of Harvey's room, Grace was currently wearing a raincoat with an umbrella in one hand while the other hand a bouquet of flowers along with their first edition copy of Naruto's Loveless. She had come by today after getting off of work to see her beloved fiance in the hospital. She didn't know if her Harvey was awake or not due to her dropping her cellular phone earlier into a puddle of water, making it no longer work. Either way, Grace was coming over to read some Loveless passages to him to see if he would wake up with the book that both of them loved dearly.

She was nearing his room when she heard a loud scream.

"RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Someone yelled out before the sounds of crashing and breaking could be heard.

Grace was wondering who that was until the door to Harvey's room was roughly opened as a man in a medical gown ran out of it. She then realized who it was and felt happy on seeing her fiance awake. But that happiness was quickly replaced by worry as she saw his state of duress with him hunched over and seemingly covering his face.

"Harvey?" She called out, making him flinch. "What's wrong honey?" There was no response, making the blonde come closer to her beloved fiance. "Please look at me Harvey."

He hesitantly complied to the request as he turned his face around. The moment that he did, a flash of lightning filled the darkened sky to reveal the horrid part of his left face to her.

"H-Harvey…" She said as she was in a state of complete shock at what she just saw. As a result, she fainted right on the spot.

The sounds of footsteps came closer to her unconscious form before a bandaged covered arm came towards her and caressed her face a little.

"I'm so sorry you had to see it." Harvey said to her as he got up and walked away from her before coming to a stop and looked back. "Goodbye Grace."

And just like that, Harvey went to the nearby window, opened it and climbed out of it. The sounds of the thunder covered his escape as doctors and security personnel came rushing to the hallway. They were soon greeted with the sight of Grace's unconscious body lying on the floor before checking Harvey's destroyed hospital room with the unconscious bodies of Dr. Sakura Haruno and her nurse Kaori.

-Three Weeks Later-

It was rather quiet in the darkened streets of Gotham with only very little sounds being present. The quiet atmosphere was soon broken as a car was driving through. It kept going on like this for a few more moments before it came to a complete stop once it pulled to the side of the road.

"This is it boss." The driver said as he looked into the rearview mirror. "Rupert Thorne's booking joint."

The shadowy figure just looked on ahead as the man contemplated on what to do next. The next thing the man did was reach into his coat pocket to pull out a double sided coin. It seemed different from the rest as one side seemed rather normal with it's normal face. But on the other side was rather charred and scratched out.

"Good heads…. We leave them alone. Bad heads…. We hit'em hard." Was all he said, getting the driver and the man riding shotgun to nod their heads in agreement. The man flipped the coin up in the confined space before it landed back down into the palm of his hand before bringing it down onto his other hand. Once opening it back up, the man saw the result. "Bad heads it is then."

Inside of the booking joint, things were pretty normal as to what one would see inside of an establishment like this. Seeing races or matches going on through the television screens, drinking and laughing at the various tables while on the far side of the room were people handling the bets and money. Everything seemed rather peaceful on what was going on until…

*KABOOM*

The front door to the business was blown wide open due to a small explosive attached to the door. The man guarding the door was knocked back with splinters of the door were all over the place. Anyone else that was nearby were coughing from the smoke and were ducked down for their own safety.

"Everybody down! And nobody move!" Two voices called out before firing their assault rifles into the air getting everyone to do what they said. As the smoke was cleared, everyone saw who was the cause of this being a pair of twins in light brown suits with one half seemingly darker than the other half. They were fair-skinned and straight, shoulder length grey hair with a light blue tint to them with long bangs covering each different eye of their bangs being polar opposite from the other. They both had dark markings around their eyes along with odd marks around their mouths, giving them an androgynous appearance.

Both of the twins looked around to see if there was anyone going to resist or any other form of security, but they found none.

"Coast is clear boss." "You can come in now." Both twins said after the other getting man of the hour to walk on into the establishment which caused several people to gasp at the sight of him.

He was a fairly tall man with combed black hair with light grey eyes. But that was what seemed normal with the man on the right side of his body until you would focus on the other. With the burnt red skin with his gaping eye without an eyelid making people wonder how it's still in there along with showing most of his teeth. His suit was custom tailored being white and pristine with the sleeve rolled up with the black button up shirt underneath on the right side. But when looking at the right showed that it was black with various parts of it scorched and the left sleeve seemed to be ripped off along the elbow to show the red skin of the arm.

"Don't bother to do anything at all people. So don't touch the dials or switches at all. For the next five minutes, Two Face is in control." The unidentified man announced with an assault rifle in his hand. "Now go get the money."

"Right boss." The twins said as they went towards the back of the room where the money was being kept. Once over there, one of the twins started emptying out the cash registers and drawers of anything of value as the other went towards the safe to crack it open. Then one of the twins noticed something at the corner of his eye.

"Hey boss. Look at this."

"Yes. What is it Ukon?" Two Face said as he got closer while keeping an eye on most of the people present.

Said twin lifted up a wooden tray and presented it to his boss. "There must be a couple hundred silver dollars here."

"Then bring it." The scarred man growled out getting the twin to nod and placed the tray to the side before he kept doing what he was doing before.

As this was going on, the other twin was finally able to crack the safe and opened it up before emptying its contents. That was until he spotted an expensive looking ring on one of the man's hands.

"Well lookie here." The twin said as he slipped it off of the man's finger. "I'll take that."

"Taking jewerly wasn't apart of the plan Sakon." Two Face said as he glared at said twin. "You got to flip for it if you want that ring." The scarred man pulled out his coin and flipped it into the air before catching it. Once opening up his palm, he saw that it was the good heads. "Leave the ring."

"But boss-" "I said leave it!" The man yelled out getting the twin to comply and place the ring on the ground by the man's body. It wasn't long until the three men got everything they came for and the twins ran out of the door to get the car started. Just as Two Face was leaving the establishment, he turned back around to announce something. "Now before I go, I want you all to give Rupert Thorne a message." He then brought his assault rifle up and started firing at the TV monitors to end up destroying them in the process.

"That I'm him taking him down." Two Face growled out before going to the getaway car and he and the twins drove off into the night.

-Rupert Thorne's Office-

*Bam* "God!" *Bam* "Fucking!" *Bam* "Dammit!" *Bam*

Those were the sounds present in the office as the crime overlord was cursing up a storm. He had gotten the latest reports of his establishments earlier that he had been hit again by Harvey Dent, or what he now calls himself Two Face.

"How much did he take this time?" Thorne growled out.

"Two hundred thousand sir." Candice simply stated.

"But I thought we got rid of this guy?" One of the thugs said getting the assistant to look at him with a slight glare.

"If you forgot, we actually created him that night three weeks back."

It has been indeed that long as Rupert was glaring at the newspaper with the headline 'Two Face's Wave of Armed Robbery'. He was completely pissed on what the former DA was doing to him as of late. From hitting his nightclubs and gambling rings, that it ended up costing him a fortune along with it being utterly humiliating.

Two Face Harvey kept on hitting various establishments he owned in this city and things were starting to come down hill for him. It got to the point that he decided to seek out help from his fellow crime lords in the city. But none of them would even budge a finger due to the man they work alongside with. The man who practically controls a lot of their actions as their allied group leader: Kurama Otsutsuki.

He came onto the scene a decade ago after killing off Gato and absorbing his group and assets over in the Asian territories before moving to Gotham a year or so later. At first he was not that noticeable, but things started to escalate as he changed things drastically towards his liking. In the end, Kurama had gained complete control of drug trafficking in Gotham and had eliminated human trafficking as a whole. This made him a threat towards several competitions trying to muscle their way in and had sought to eliminate him, but that was their downfall. The red haired drug lord had taken care of those problems personally just to make a statement: don't fuck with him.

Then one day, he had sought out the various crime lords in Gotham and offered them an alliance so that things could be easier to handle. The smaller ones had joined and were eventually absorbed into Kurama's network. Reason being was that those smaller groups couldn't handle too much pressure and it was easier for them to report to someone higher than them. Eventually he came and offered the deal to the major crime lords of Gotham: Rupert Thorne, Roman Sionis, Carmine Falcone, Sal Maroni and Oswald Cobblepot; that he won't absorb their groups but just have a good relationship with each of them. Thorne and Sionis had turned down the deal and the feral crime lord had left them be while Falcone and Cobblepot had joined in on the allied force.

As for Maroni, well he felt right out insulted and did an assassination attempt on his life along with his two snake themed girlfriends. Well that caused a bit of a problem and Kurama brought down his entire fury on the man and his followers. Suffice to say, he truly lived up to his statement. For good compensation, he had let the other major crime lords of Gotham take whatever they wanted from the late Maroni group. Everyone was fine with it and things went on with their separate ways since it was shown as a sign of good will.

Now one might wonder why bring up Kurama into the explanation? Well Thorne had contacted Kurama the previous week due to Two Face making things difficult for Rupert. He wanted to discuss the offer the crime lord offered back then so the redhead could help him out. But the feral man had said the offer went off the table the moment Thorne and Sionis had refused to join the group. He tried to get into the man's good graces, but the man refused especially with the heat coming down on the man as of late among other things. So with that, Rupert was practically on his own.

With the stress getting to him, Rupert rubbed his chest in remembrance of this event is just adding onto the pile of crap heap he had been dealing with ever since his brother Matthew left his employ. After his brother helped get rid of the tumor near his heart with the help of his old schoolmate Leslie Thompkins, the man left and was placed into protective custody with his newly registered medical license. Without his brother being the 'crime doctor', moral for his group dropped along with problems with health and medical were getting too risky in the end.

"Three weeks have been long enough." The crime lord said as he stabbed a knife into the newspaper a few times before settling down. "Spread the word that I'm putting out a contract. One million…." He said before pausing for a brief moment. "Actually make that two million dollars. One for each 'face' for the man who brings me Two Face."

-Unknown Location-

The sounds of running and panting could be heard in the darkness as Harvey started to weave through the streets of Gotham.

"Harvey!" A voice called out getting the DA to run faster before realizing he is now standing on a rickety bridge. He went back around to get off of the bridge until he saw a shadowy figure coming closer to him.

"NO! Stay back!" Harvey said in worry.

The figure kept on walking forward until it came under the nearby lamppost to reveal that it was Batman with a truly worried look on his face.

"Harvey, please. Let me help you." The masked hero pleaded only for the man on the bridge to scoff at him.

"You?! Help me?!" Harvey said as he walked closer with an accusing finger pointed straight at him. "You saw what was going on! You knew that something was terribly wrong with me! But I thought you were my friend, my closest ally here in Gotham! You should've helped me more! Yet you didn't!" He yelled out as he covered his face during most of the accusations before revealing his scarred face towards the hero. "NOW LOOK AT ME!"

"But I tried Harvey. I truly have. I-" Bruce said to his oldest friend. He then heard the sound of rope snapping, making the hero realize what's going to happen. He ran towards the rickety bridge but it seemed to be farther away than he realized or was kept in place. Bruce pushed himself to his limits to hopefully make it in time, but the bridge gave out letting his friend fall. "HARVEY!"

"WHY COULDN'T YOU SAVE MEEEE?!" The man cried out as he fell into the fiery pit below.

Once coming towards the ledge, Bruce peered down below to hopefully see his friend down there. The only thing he saw was something that truly scared him the most. Making him collapse onto his knees as he felt truly young and helpless like he was eight years old again.

"No…. No…." He said at the sight before him... Seeing his parents lying down on the ground with their eyes staring right back at him.

"Why couldn't you save us son?" His father, Thomas Wayne, said to him in disappointment.

"NO!" Bruce cried out as he woke up from his sleep in the batcave. With the intensity and volume of the yell echoed throughout the cave, making all of the bats wake up and flutter all about. He tried to control his breathing as he placed his hand on his sweaty brow.

"Get it together Bruce… It was just a dream." The 'playboy' said to himself before his eyes met the various documents laid out on the bat computer's desktop from various psychology newspapers, books and even copied reports of Dr. Harleen Quinzel that he acquired from Arkham. The last one was a little difficult with him breaking into her office and taking photos of her evaluations on Pamela Isley and Margaret Sorrow/Magpie from her locked cabinet, but it was something he has done before. He just needed to know everything he could about multiple personalities to try and understand his friend more.

"So... What are you dreaming about this time Harvey?" Bruce asked in slight curiosity, as he finally controlled his breathing to a good pace. "Peaceful dreams…. And nightmares all at once? Could be possible with his two personas. Especially with what Dr. Quinzel has stated in her notes…. But whatever the case may be, I hope you sleep well my friend. No matter what you have become, I will save you…. I swear."

He then gazed at the clock nearby and saw that it was time for him to get ready for the day and head to his morning 'job'. Getting up, he stretched about and made his way towards his bedroom with the previous thoughts still present in his mind. It was going to be one of those days he figured.

-Morning, Grace Lamont's Apartment-

The sounds of sobbing and moaning could be heard in the residence as Naruto was present to help console his friend. Ever since Harvey's disappearance from the hospital and his crime wave three weeks ago, the blonde lawyer has been a total wreck. Naruto, with some occasional visits from Selina, have checked up on her so that she wouldn't do anything rash.

"I know that this has been difficult Grace, but you shouldn't give up hope."

"H-How can I when Harvey hasn't bothered to see me o-or doing all of these things." She said as she continued to sop with her reddened eyes.

He didn't know what to say exactly since she was right. For all this time, Naruto had been wracking his brain over with everything, but nothing could work for a good response. He just sat there for her to have a good friend to hold onto. She didn't have that many social or work friends and her relatives lived on the other side of the country so it was hard for her to get better support.

"Just…. Just keep holding onto what you have Grace and things might pull through to the end." The publisher said as he broke the hug and grabbed her a few more tissues. "I need to get going now Grace. Like I asked before: If anything comes up, please let me know okay?"

*Sniff* "Okay." The blonde weakly said as Naruto gave her one last hug before exiting the apartment.

She got up on her feet to at least stretch her legs as she walked over to the far side of the room. There she picked up a framed photo of both her and Harvey on the day he proposed to her. It was practically one of the happiest days of her life with her being so much in love with him.

*Knock Knock*

'Who could that be?' Grace thought as she put down the picture frame back down and walked towards the door. Once opening it, she was greeted with the site of a redhead police officer with some dark haired woman in a detective looking attire with the trench coat and business suit and glasses. "Yes…. May I help you?"

"Grace Lamont. I'm detective Leopold." The identified detective stated. "It's about your fiance. I would like to talk more, but I would like to do so outside of prying ears."

*Sniff* "Right. Of course. Come on in." The lawyer gestured as she ushered the two to come in. "May I offer you some tea or some water?"

"As kind of an offer Miss Lamont, but we hopefully don't want to take up too much time." The female detective said as she sat down on the couch while the officer stood not too far away.

"So mind telling me what this is all about?"

"Of course…." The woman said as she through various details pertaining to the scarred man and Rupert Thorne. Most were a bit detailed while others quite simple, but Grace was getting the gist of it all. "...So we would like to get to Harvey before Thorne does since he won't have much of a chance."

"I wish I could help, but I haven't seen or heard from him since that terrible day at the hospital. So I don't know where he is."

"I understand that Miss Lamont, but it is possible that he might come around at some point and contact you." Detective Leopold said before pulling out a device from her pocket. "If he ever does, activate this beeper and we'll trace the signal wherever you are."

Grace didn't know what to do at this point, but what choice did she have in the matter at this point. Her response wasn't immediate but she hesitantly held out her hand and grabbed ahold of the device making the detective smile at the action.

"Then it's all in your hands Miss Lamont. So for now get some rest ma'am." The woman said as she and her partner left the grieving lawyer in her apartment.

Once outside of the building, the police officer and detective got into their car and slowly drove off. At that time, the officer pulled off his hat and partial disguise to reveal some scars present as the detective pulled down her hair and removed her glasses.

"So what makes you so sure that he'll show up Candice?" The thuggish looking man questioned as the now identified Candice gave him a smirk.

"Oh trust me, men tend to always come back to the ones they really care about."

-Unknown Location-

"Sixty-four eight… Sixty-four nine… Sixty-five thousand." Harvey 'Two Face' spoke out as he was organizing the money piles for both him and the twins. One of them, sometimes hard to tell for the scarred man with them switching outfits and parting their hair differently at times, reached out to grab a pile. To which the scarred man intercepted by grasping the hand before giving it a firm squeeze. "Don't touch anything until I tell you to."

"Sorry boss." The twin said as the man let go, making the grey haired twin rub his wrist to ease the pain.

*Sigh* "You two have always been greedy, haven't you Sakon and Ukon? Even when I prosecuted you two as DA." Harvey said as he remembered taking on their case a few years back.

Sakon and Ukon were trouble making kids that tended to steal off of the street and from various stores. The two were sent to juvenile hall for a year or so until they were released. When Harvey had gotten out of the hospital, he came across them as they were trying to find work. He offered them to work for him and explained the benefits of doing this. They agreed since they were a bit desperate for money and they wanted to get back at Thorne for screwing them over at a previous time.

Once Harvey pulled out his wallet to put most of his pile away, his eyes caught the glimpse of a photo with him and Grace. Just seeing her face, even from a photo, made his one good eye well up with tears while the other just dripped on down right away without an eyelid.

On the side, the twins looked at their boss with slight worry as they already guessed what was going through the scarred man's head.

Two Face broke out of his concentration as the corner of his eye caught onto them looking at him. He placed the wallet onto the table and gave them a dirty scowl. "What the hell are you looking at?"

"Sorry boss." "But if you miss her so much." "Why don't you go see her?" The twins spoke to finish each part of the sentence. The two of them nodded at this as they could see their boss at least be happy and get off their case at times. "We could even bring her over if you want."

Harvey contemplated on this as he looked back onto the photo before reaching into his jacket to pull out his coin. 'Good heads, she comes. Bat heads, we leave her be.' He thought as the coin was flipped into the air and landed onto the table with the bad heads up. "Forget it you two…. We got other matters to attend to."

Seeing this, both of them sighed before one of them spoke out. "What would that be boss?"

"I've decided that it's time to finish off Thorne once and for all."

"Really?" "How?" "You gonna finally kill the bastard?"

Their response was a shake of the head that it wasn't what he had thought. Even though it would've been a quicker solution. "No… Let's just say that I'll do to him what he did to me."

"Even the whole 'burn' thing boss?"

"Possibly. If I'm lucky."

-Naruto's Office-

*Sigh* "What a day. What a day." The publisher said while stretching his arms. It's been a decent so far with him going over the various documents for the day. From usual magazine workings, progress reports on remodeling the Metropolis branch location, to possible novels that need to be approved before sent to editing.

Nothing unusual or interesting has come up recently for work asides from one of his authors wanting to get his latest book out. What made it interesting was it being American McGee's rendition of Lewis Carol's 'Alice in Wonderland' novels. Naruto read the entire first book and he thought it was an interesting take in a darker tone than from the original works. Very much so that the former shinobi approved it and had it sent to the editor to have the book hit shelves within the next few months.

Another thing that came up was when one Masamune Shirow came from Japan to see him. Reason being was the writer was hoping to make a deal with the former shinobi for an english publication of several series of his. From Black Magic, Appleseed, to Ghost in the Shell. It was appealing on the idea with Naruto buying some of the original translations from overseas and he'll need to discuss the offer with some of his staff if they would like to work on the project.

Naruto looked towards the clock and noticed that it was near lunch time. He rubbed his stomach with slight anticipation as he pulled out his lunch box. Normally the Uzumaki wouldn't be that excited for a home cooked meal, even if it's one of his own home cooked ones, but this one was made by Selina this morning.

Before both of them left for work this morning, she gave him a boxed lunch she made without him noticing. Then again, it would explain why she wasn't in the shower with him this morning. It was rather cute to see the thief give it to him with a slight blush on her face. Saying that she wanted to pay him back for all of the home cooked lunches he made for her and wanted to start making him ones.

WIth the past dinners Selina made in their 'home dates', Naruto wondered what he'd get for a lunch. So before he could even open up the box, a voice called out from behind him. Scaring the living shit out of him.

"My oh my." A familiar voice said getting Naruto to fall out of his seat with a slight yelp. "A boxed lunch, from Selina no less. How cute."

Getting up from his placement on the floor, the former shinobi glared daggers into the bijuu hybrid. "What are you doing here Kurama? Wouldn't you normally make an 'unannounced appointment' with Jillian before coming on by for a chat of some sort."

"Oh I would but I wanted to have slight pleasure of scaring you." Kurama said with a cocky smirk that made Naruto's eyebrow start twitching. "As for me being here, wanted to discuss a few things."

"Which would be what exactly?"

"For one, congrats on getting back your wind element after a decade." The redhead stated as he sat down on the couch several away from the office desk. Once sitting down, he lifted up his hand and a small swirl of fire came about before it died down to reveal a bag of Big Belly Burger. He turned to the side and saw Naruto give him a quizzical look, making the hybrid roll his eyes. "What. I eat."

The publisher only threw his hands up in the air before replying to him. "I wasn't judging really."

"Yeah well it's one of the only places that gives me enough calories and is delicious to help me go through a third of the day." Kurama said as he took a bite out of a few fries. "Most of the time, I just three orders of the stuff and be fine for the day."

*Chuckles* "Seems that you found your 'ramen' Kurama."

"Shut up."

"Well getting back on topic, thanks." Naruto said as he popped open his box lunch to see the nice little spread. 'Mmmmm. Looks good.'

"Must not have been easy given what reports I saw on how you got that back."

The former blonde nodded as he took his first bite out of the meal and mentally sighed in bliss before speaking. *Gulp* "Falling several hundred feet in the air and getting desperate will do that. *Sigh* Reminded me of the time when Jiraiya threw me off of that cliff and had to summon Gamabunta in the end. *Groan* Not a fun experience."

*Gulp* *Cough* "No shit Sherlock."

"But I got this out of it." Naruto said as he held out his hand and summoned Kazekage into his grasp to get Kurama to look at quizzically.

"Huh… Interesting lance you got there." The hybrid said as he got up from the seat on the couch to come closer for an inspection. He didn't touch it, but his eyes looked through every detail and felt the power coming from it. "So how much training have you worked on this thing."

"Well asides from riding this puppy, I've been looking up bo staff and lance fighting styles and try to work from there. Obviously can't try to find someone to teach me or else things might seem suspicious. So have been going through instincts on how I should fight at least."

Nodding at this, Kurama ushered Naruto to continue with his explanation as he went back to his seat and eating his meal.

"As for the wind based stuff, had to go to the mountain ranges to see what I could do exactly. For my training so far I was able to find out that I could summon more of these, up to six in total to be exact. Don't know why that number, but not complaining. Been able to experiment on some wind based techniques that I remember from back in the home reality."

"I'm sensing a 'but'..."

*Sigh* "But I found out that when I tried using those powers when I don't have the weapon out, it doesn't show up at all. No matter how hard I tried. Even tried using what I know so far with my scythe without having it out and nothing came out at all."

Getting that bit of the explanation made Kurama hum in thought on the implications. "Possibly your 'toys' don't like you using their powers if you don't let them out to play. They could but it'll be a long road till you could maybe use them without having your 'toys' out."

Hearing this made Naruto scratch his head on this bit of realization that his former tenant might've hit it dead center on that one. If he does unlock other weapons, he'll need to start figuring out a better way on his fighting style when trying to switch them out during certain fights down the road. Even with all of the training he has been doing with his weapons and powers, he still has a long way to go.

"I guess you're right Kurama." The Uzumaki said as he dispersed his lance. "So asides from talking about my powers, what did you want to discuss?"

"About what's going on with Harvey 'Two Face' Dent." As the hybrid said this, Naruto tensed a little bit before getting back into a relaxed mood.

"Why do you want to talk about Harvey Kurama?"

"From what I have noticed is that he's targeting various fronts of Rupert Thorne's businesses." Kurama stated as he ate some more fries before holding out his hand to motion of counting things off. "Club 22, Gemini's Jewelers, Two's Company and several other places. Some people might speculate that Dent has a thing for robbing places with a relation of 'two' in the title like his next stop being the Second National Band, but he's only targeting Thorne specifically."

"Wanting to hurt the man hard where it hurts the most, his wallet." Naruto surmised getting the redhead to nod.

"Yup and I'm actually glad that Thorne is getting humiliated in such a way."

Naruto raised a brow at this and couldn't help but ask. "Why?"

"Well Rupert has been trying to slink his way into my businesses and thought I wouldn't notice. Even with him asking if I could help him out from one crime lord to another from what Two Face has been doing lately. But in fact I'm actually enjoying how this is turning out so far. *Chuckles* Harvey is practically doing me a favor of ruining Thorne in the way he is doing. So I thought I would want to owe the man a favor or two down the road. Especially since he's one of your friends Naruto."

"And he is still a friend of mine Kurama. Deep inside his scarred form is still the friend I've known since I moved here to Gotham."

Kurama didn't say anything right away as he finished the last of his meal before speaking. "Well you better keep your guard up since he might not be the man you know anymore. It'll make him more dangerous to you if you let it down." The crime lord simply stated as he got up from his seat. "Don't want him to end up like the duck butted asshole of an Uchiha we both despise and have him stab you through the chest."

As he said this, Kurama went up in a pillar of fire before disappearing from the room. Keeping his eyes on his former tenant's placement, Naruto kept on thinking about what was just spoken to him as he was eating the rest of his meal. He hoped that Kurama was wrong to keep his damaged friend at arm's length or more so that he won't be hurt again, but he is probably right.

But asides from that, Naruto realized from what the crime lord said that Thorne has been humiliated for a while now and his businesses have been hit hard. Sooner or later Harvey will run out of places to hit to the point that he'll want to get rid of Thorne for good. And as a trained man of the law, the only way to really get rid of a crime lord is through cold hard evidence.

So with nothing else to do for now, until Jillian comes in with more things for Naruto to take care of, he went onto his computer and started looking up details about Rupert Thorne on where Harvey will finish things off for good.

-Night, Office of Thorne's Attorney-

Small spots of light were shown through a broken office door late at night. When one would look inside, the lights were revealed to be a pair of individuals with flashlights in their hands. One would ask on what they are doing exactly and to simply put it, they were searching through the office for something as they were going through the attorney's desk and filing cabinets.

"Hey boss."

"Yes Ukon." A voice growled out to reveal Two Face, even as a flashlight was pointed towards his face on accident.

"Take a look at this. I think it's Rupert Thorne's confidential file." Ukon stated waving the file in his hand.

"Let me see that." Harvey said as he was handed the file. Once opening it up for confirmation, his eyes were scanning through the pages as he was growing an ever present smile. "For years I've been trying to subpoena all of this. Money laundering, payoffs, blackmail and it's all here. Two Face said as he started to laugh a bit in joy. "Now I'll destroy Thorne with his file like he destroyed mine."

"Well that's great and all boss, but we should probably get out of here." Ukon said as he made his way towards the door, only for it to be blocked by someone else. "Shit! It's Batman!"

The twin pulled out his gun and was ready to fire, but the hero of Gotham grabbed ahold of it and tossed it out of the way. Ukon then lunged at the Bat, but he dodged out of the way getting the grey haired man to hit the wall instead.

"You're coming with me Harvey." Batman said as he approached the scarred lawyer. "I just want to help you."

"Help me?!" The former DA surprisingly asked before growling out at the man. "But you don't even know me!"

"I know that you have friends Harvey. Friends that love and care about you."

"Well Harvey's friends are no friends of mine." Two Face said as he grabbed ahold of the table lamp and was ready to bash Batman's skull in.

"But what about Grace?" Batman asked getting Two Face to pause in his advancement.

"G-Grace." Harvey said as he placed the lamp back down on the table. "What do you know about Grace?"

"I know that she still loves you Harvey. She keeps your picture and everyday she waits and prays for you to come back to her." The disguised billionaire said to him. "There is so much that some of her closest friends can do to help, but only you can help put things at ease for her. All that she wants now is just wanting you back."

It seemed that things were pulling through for the Bat, that he might be able to get his friend to comply. But that came crashing down as someone came into the room.

"Hey what's taking you two so long?" Sakon asked as he peered inside and saw Batman standing in front of his boss.

Batman turned around on instinct to take care of the other twin, but was hit from behind by his scarred friend to get him to tumble onto the ground.

"Come on. Let's get out of here." Two Face said as he ran out of the office with the file on hand while the twins were ahead of him.

"Harvey! Come back here!" The Bat called out and grabbed ahold of his coat pocket.

Feeling the snag on his coat, Two Face turned around and snarled at him. "Let go of me!"

In response, he kicked the hero in the chest to send him into the nearby janitorial cart. Upon impact, Batman had been hit on the same spot as the kick to get him to get knocked out in the process. Seeing as the hero was down for the count, Harvey ran off to catch up towards the twins to make their getaway.

It's been about ten or so minutes later when Vanitas came down through the hallway when he came across the prone form of Batman on the ground. Along the way, he had seen the one attorney's office in shambles and realized that he came by too late to stop Harvey from what he was planning on doing. So once coming to the Bat's form, he tried to nudge him awake.

"Hey Bat's, you okay?" Vanitas asked as he hoped for a response, but didn't get one. "Come on Bat's you better wake up." He said as he tried to shake him a bit. "If you don't wake up then, I'll paint your batbike pink." No response as well on this.

"Okay then…. Seems that I'll have to do this the hard way. It's going to hurt me more than it hurts you." Vanitas said as he popped the knuckles in his hand. "So It's time to wake up Batsy!"

*Slap*

"Rise and shine!"

*Slap*

"Wake up!"

*Slap*

"Up and at 'em!"

*Slap*

"Fine then."

*Slap*

"Be a brooding asshole."

*Slap*

"See what I care."

*Slap*

"I'm not doing this to replace you for the fucking teme."

*Slap*

"I just feel like it."

*Slap*

"Not like you deserve it."

*Slap*

"SO!"

*Slap*

"WHY!"

*Slap*

"WON'T"

*Slap*

"YOU!"

*Slap*

"WAKE!"

*Slap*

"UP?!"

As one last bitch slap was about to come on down to the Bat's cheek, the appendage was grabbed by said man's hand as he scowled at the man hovering over him.

"Why are you slapping me?!" Batman yelled out making Vanitas phase his hand out of the hero's grip.

"I was just trying to wake you up."

"I was halfway through." The Bat growled out.

"Well why didn't you say anything?" Vanitas innocently asked.

"You kept on slapping me!"

"Geez... you don't need to shout you know."

Batman tried to get up but groaned out in response. He brought his hand to the side to feel for where the pain was coming from and found out that he possibly has a cracked rib or two.

"Hey you shouldn't get up with your injuries man." The masked Uzumaki said getting a dirty look in response. "What?"

"Like you have room to talk with you giving me slaps across the face."

"Oh will you just let that go already." The man said as he wanted to change the subject. "Seems I came in too late seeing as the office was wrecked."

Hearing this made Batman remember what happened earlier and quickly turn to Vanitas and spoke. "Have you seen Two Face?"

"No, I'm sorry on that Bats."

Batman respond well to that as he started walking down the hallway so that he could get back to his motorcycle to keep on searching for Harvey. On the way over there, he looked down into his hand and opened it up to see a matchcase with the 2 of Hearts printed on it. In a brief moment, Vanitas saw the case as well, making him guess that he got it from either of the twins or Harvey himself.

-On the Streets-

The getaway car containing Sakon, Ukon and 'Two Face' Dent was calmly going down the streets of Gotham so that nothing could be drawn towards them. Whether it being the police, citizens, Batman or Vanitas. Eventually the group stopped at a red light when the small silence was broken by one of the twins.

"Wait until the police get a load of this stuff." Sakon said as he rode shotgun while Ukon drove the vehicle. "It's even got his Cayman Island and Swiss Bank accounts in here."

"Nice."

As this little chatter was going on, Harvey was blankly looking around through the passenger window when his eyes glanced upon something. Something that made his eyes slowly widen and start to well up a little in tears with his left eye already shredded them: a wedding shop. He didn't know what was going on, but he saw himself and Grace replace the mannequins on display in a wedding ceremony scene. Envisioning himself and his beloved fiance saying their vows and placing their wedding bands into the other's hands before sealing things with a kiss.

The little scene playing through his head started to end as the car was starting to move forward to turn around the corner. Shaking out of his stupor, Harvey soon told Ukon to pull the car over. Following his boss' sudden order, the driver did so as the scarred lawyer pulled out his coin and flipped it into the air.

-Grace Lamont's Apartment-

*Ring Ring* *Ring Ring*

Grace was in the kitchen getting something to drink when the phone started to go off. She wasn't expecting any calls that she could think of and it's just been a tiresome day so far, or rather a tiresome few weeks. Crying throughout most days and nights, having her mind feel depleted after a long day at work with both her work tasks and worries plaguing it. She just wished that things could be over and her worries put to rest.

*Ring Ring* *Ring Ring*

"I'm coming." She said towards the phone as she walked over towards it before picking it up to answer the call. "Hello? Grace Lamont speaking."

There was no indefinite response on the line as the silence seemed to pass for several moments. With how exhausted and tired she was for the day Grace seemed to get a little upset at this and spoke out. "If this is a wrong number, then I'm sorry you dialed it wrong. But if this is a prank call, then I'm not happy on what you're doing." She said as she was going to hang up the phone when a voice spoke from the other end.

"Grace?"

This made her pause as the voice was really familiar to her. Her eyes started to well up in tears as her breath felt caught up in her throat along with her hands seemingly shook a little. The only thing that she could say didn't filter through her mind as it came out instinctively. "H-Harvey? I-Is that you?"

"Yes Grace. It's me."

Once getting the confirmation, her legs gave out as she fell onto the nearby couch for support. Just hearing his voice made her heart quake in joy. As a result, she started to sob a little as she couldn't contain it any longer with her tears starting to finally shed.

"Grace," he said in a sorrowed tone, "I'm sorry that I haven't seen you."

"Harvey…. Where are you?" Grace spoke out as she wanted to see him so badly. To at least have him hold her in comfort and for her to be with him again. "Please. I want to see you honey. I miss you so much."

"I want to see you too dear." Harvey said as Grace could hear it cracking a little making her know that was truly upset as well. "No. Not want. I need to see you."

"Yes! Yes of course!" She cried out in joy. "Where Harvey and I'll come on over as soon as I can."

"Look out of your window Grace." He said, getting her to comply on the slight request. Once pulling the curtain back a little, she saw a car parked on the empty street. "The men in the car will bring you to me. They won't lay a hand on you, but I swear if they do-"

"I-I understand what you're saying Harvey and I'm sure they won't." She spoke into the phone as her eyes soon landed upon the device detective Leopold gave to her earlier this morning. The blonde lawyer picked it up and didn't know what to do with it now, but she needed to say something. "Harvey…. No matter what happens, you know that I always love you right?"

"...I'll see you soon Grace." Was all that was said before the line went dead.

Once hanging up the phone she immediately grabbed her coat and went out of the door as she activated the device before placing it in her purse. With nothing else but seeing her beloved fiance, nothing else seemed to come to the forefront of her mind. But of course, she would end up forgetting the promise she had made to a certain publisher this morning for her to call him if anything came up.

-Meanwhile, Rupert Thorne's Office-

"HE DID WHAT?!" Rupert Thorne yelled out as he was starting to go red in the face in anger. Without anything else being spoken, the crime lord started pulling on the phone connection to the wall until it broke free and threw the device to the other side of the room. "DAMN THAT SON OF A BITCH!"

"Cool your jets boss." One of the thugs said as he tried to get his boss to calm down.

"I don't want to hear it!" Thorne said as he slammed his fists onto the table. "If he brings those files to the police, then I'm completely ruined! We need to stop him now!"

"But how boss, we don't even know where the guy is." Another thug said before a sound started to fill the air.

*Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

"What the hell is that?" A thug said as he pulled out his gun on instinct.

"That would be my insurance policy." Candice said as she pulled out her device from her purse.

"What insurance policy?" Her boss asked as she gave him an ever present smirk on her lips.

-Wild Deuce Club-

It was rather odd that it started to rain suddenly during the drive over to Harvey's residence, but it didn't matter to Grace as she kept her mind focused on seeing him after so long. Once pulling to the side of the road, the twins got out of the car and opened her door with an umbrella on hand.

"Thank you Ukon."

"I'm Sakon, he's Ukon." The twin said as his brother went to the door of the abandoned establishment and unlocked the door.

"I'm sorry." She apologized, but the twin waved her off.

"It's fine Miss Lamont. We do this all the time to confuse everyone so we're used to it." Sakon said as he helped get the blonde inside. "Right this way ma'am. Harvey's been waiting."

"Thank you two for bringing me here."

"You're welcome." They both said as they got inside, out of the rain. Once inside from the dry rain, Ukon had then locked the door behind them to be sure that no one would get in that easily.

"He's right in there ma'am." "We can take your belongings if you want." Both of them said to her which she started to take off her coat and handed it to one of the twins.

Once passing through the doors, she was greeted with an odd sight with one half of the large room being carefully groomed, neat and organized while the other is violently destroyed with the dark atmosphere of destroyed floorboards, carpet and tables. After scanning the room, she wondered where her beloved Harvey was located. It wasn't long as she saw the door at the far side of the room open up showing Harvey walking through it. Upon closer inspection, Grace saw that part of his face was covered up with a sheet with an eyehole cut out for him to see her.

"Hello Grace." He said to her with his kind, gentle voice.

"H-Harvey." She said as she slowly walked up to him with a growing smile on her face. She was going to hug him, but when she was within arm's length he stopped her. "W-What's wrong."

"I'm not Harvey anymore Grace. It's Two Face now." He said, getting her to shake off the odd growling voice coming from him.

"No Harvey, it's not. Your name is Harvey Dent, the man that I love. A man that is a big part of my world." Grace said to him. He shook his head towards her in response to this.

"I'm sorry to say this, but this is my world now." Two Face stated as he gestured her the oddly designed room. "A world of order and chaos. Just like me."

"Harvey," she said to him with a look that made her think he was crazy, "what happened to your mind? Your feelings? You used to listen to your feelings."

Nothing immediate was said as the man she still loves pulled out a coin from his pocket and started to flip it in the air. "This is what I listen to now: chance. Chance is everything I listen to now Grace. Whether you are born or not. Whether you live or die. Whether you're good or bad." He said to her before he stopped playing with his coin. "It's all obertrarie."

"That's complete and utter nonsense Harvey!" She said to him with a raised voice. "Was it chance that made you district attorney?! Was it chance that we had met?! Was it chance that made you fall in love with me and me with you?!"

"G-Grace I-" "Please. Just take control of your life Harvey. You don't need a coin." She interrupted him as she grabbed his scarred hand and brought it to her face. He trembled in the process but kept it in. "You don't need this mask either."

"Grace, don't." He said to her, making her stop from taking off the sheet. "I-I don't want you to see."

"Harvey…. You know you never had to hide anything from me." She told him as she brought her hand to the sheet and slowly took it off, to reveal his damaged face to her. "I love you Harvey Dent, no matter what has happened to you."

Just hearing all of that made him start to shed tears as he started to choke and sob a little. He even started to smile as he brought his hands around her face. "Grace. I… I…"

*Bang* "Boss!" One of the twins called out with the other following him into the room.

"What is it?!" Harvey yelled out as he was going to berate him for ruining this moment.

"You two need to go now!" The other twin said before he was shot from behind and stumbled onto the ground holding his leg with his brother doing the same.

"Fuck you, you son of a bitch." One of the twins said before a thug came on through the door and kicked both of the twin's heads to knock them out.

"Oh shut up." The man said before he ushered the other thugs to enter the room and surrounded the couple.

"So…. This is where you have been hiding Dent." Thorne said as he calmly walked into the room. "We finally meet at last. Face, to face, to face."

Grace didn't know what was going on and how Rupert Thorne found them. Her eyes went around in confusion before her eyes landed upon a familiar face. "You?!"

"Hello Miss Lamont." Candice said as she walked closer to the blonde.

"Grace? What's going on?" Two Face asked seeing his love's face drain of all color.

"You did well to lead us right to him Grace." The secretary said as she grabbed Grace's purse and pulled out the tracking device.

"Grace?!" Harvey questioned in shock as her eyes were welling up in tears with her shaking like a leaf.

"You should know that she thought she was leading the police here." Thorne said with a growing smile on his face. "She thought that she could save you."

"Harvey. I'm so sorry. You have to believe me." Grace said to him as she hugged him to try and make him know that she didn't mean it. In response, Two Face broke the embrace and turned her back to her, making her silently cry on the action.

"So much on control. Huh Grace." He said to her as Thorne actioned for his goons to search the place for what he came for. It took a while as each thug went through every nook and cranny to find the file, even went through the safe kept in the one large room, but it was nowhere in sight.

"Can't find that file of yours boss." One thug said as he placed the wooden tray of silver dollars onto the nearby table.

"Oh I know that file is here alright." Thorne said as he glared at the man that has ruined him these past weeks. "Now where is it?!"

"Not a chance asshole." The scarred man growled out. Thorne still glared at him before turning his attention towards the blonde woman in the room. "NO! DON'T YOU DARE!" He tried to reach her but the thugs came up from behind and grabbed the man by the arms to keep him in place. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!"

*Chuckles* "My oh my." Rupert said as he came up to the scared blonde as she tried to back away from the crime lord. "You've got a such a pretty face. Would hate to see it all messed up."

"GET YOUR DISGUSTING HANDS OFF OF HER!" Harvey yelled out as he tried to get free.

"Then give me the file Dent."

Nothing was said as Harvey 'Two Face' looked at the love of his life before hanging his head downwards and motioned that he'll comply. The thugs let go of him before the scarred man went to the roulette table and opened up a hidden compartment to retrieve the file in question.

"Here's your stinking file." Harvey said as he handed it towards the crime lord. The man opened it up and started to inspect it to see if it was the real deal or not.

"This is genuine. Even has my lawyer's handwriting. Hard to possibly copy that." Thorne stated as he closed the file. "Get rid of them."

"But you said-" Harvey growled out as several guns were quickly aimed towards him with Grace pushed towards the side.

*Chuckles* "You'd think that I would let you two live after all of the mess you caused me Dent. No, I'm going to have you both killed."

"I suggest the ugly boyfriend should die first." One of the thugs said as he came closer to the scarred man. He was going to fire, but a figure dropped from above and kicked him onto the ground to render him unconscious.

"Not today assholes." Vanitas said as he dashed towards the nearby thug. At this sudden action, several thugs aimed their weapons at the arrived hero only for smoke pellets to explode underneath them and a figure came from it to attack them.

"Shit it's Batman!" One thug said before he was punched by said man.

"This is the last time you messed with me Batman." Thorne said as he grabbed the fallen assault rifle and aimed it towards the hero. He was about to open fire, but Two Face came from behind and kicked his leg in to end up having the crime lord shoot the hanging chandelier. With the hanging support damaged, it came crashing down and collapsed onto the crime lord, capturing him in it's metal embrace.

With the downed Two Face, several thugs tried to dog pile the scarred man but Vanitas and Batman pulled them out of the way and threw them into the other thugs before making quick work with them. Once Harvey got up from his place on the floor, he decided to join in on the fighting to take care of Thorne's men for some displaced aggression. During the scuffle, Batman started to hold onto his injured side as his ribs were starting to get to him. That momentary distraction costed him with a thug knocking him onto the ground and was about to shoot him if it wasn't for Vanitas' intervention on knocking the weapon out of the man's hand before knocking him out.

"Thanks." The Bat said as Vanitas held out a hand for him to grab ahold of.

"No problem." The masked Uzumaki simply said before going to another one of the thugs.

As this was going on, Harvey was dodging and evading several punches and kicks from several thugs. Without him knowing, Candice was coming up from behind with a vase in her hands to knock the scarred man out. She would've succeeded if someone didn't pull her hair from behind.

"You fucking bitch!" Grace said as she pulled the dark haired woman to the side. "You tricked me by playing with my feelings!" Nothing else was said as Grace kicked the woman from behind to send her crashing to the nearby wall to drop the vase overhead. The piece of pottery crashed onto her head and with the impact, it ended up knocking her out. "Damn that felt good." She said before seeing Batman holding his side and went to him to help support the hero.

It didn't take much longer for the remaining thugs to be subdued. When everything had calmed down, Two Face grabbed ahold of one of the thugs' weapons and aimed it towards the trapped Thorne.

"N-No! Please don't!" The downed crime lord pleaded as he didn't want to die this way."

"Shut up!" The scarred man yelled out with the weapon still aimed towards him.

"Don't do this Harvey!" Pleaded the masked publisher as Grace and Batman looked onward to see what was going on.

"What are you doing?!" The blonde lawyer asked.

"Taking control of my life." Harvey said as he glared daggers at Rupert Thorne. "He took away my life, so I'm taking away his."

"Let the law handle this Harvey." Batman said getting Two Face to look at him with a snarl.

"The Law?!" He said as he pulled out his damaged coin. "This is the only law I follow. The law of averages. The great equalizer." As the scarred man said this, he flipped the coin into the air to do his next course of action on Thorne's fate.

When it came tumbling down, Batman saw the nearby wooden tray of silver dollars and threw the container to mix those coins with Two Face's.

"NOOOO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Two face cried out as the coins laid on the ground. "My coin! Where is my coin?! Where is it?! I can't decide without it!" He said as he was running his hands through the coins in hopes of finding it while screaming out in the process.

As this went on Grace had to turn her head away from the event happening before her as she didn't want to see her love be this way. Harvey was crying out in frustration during this whole process, thus getting Grace to let go of Batman to come towards her love. The hero stumbled a little but Vanitas came up and grabbed his side to help support him.

"It's alright now Harvey." Grace said to the scarred man as she brought him into a hug. "I'm here. I'm here."

It wasn't long until the police started to arrive due to Vanitas calling them ahead when he got to the building earlier. Thorne and his men were in handcuffs and were escorted into the police vans. The ambulances showed up as well to help take Sakon and Ukon to the hospital with their wrists handcuffed to the stretchers so they won't escape custody. Soon Harvey was escorted out of the building with Grace holding one of his arms with a doctor in an Arkham Asylum uniform to get him into another car to head towards the mental institution.

"Poor Harvey. So filled up with anger for all these years." Gordon said as he watched the scene before him. "Do you two think that there is any hope?"

"Where there's hope, there's love Commissioner." Vanitas said as Batman walked towards the nearby fountain and held out a coin in his hand. But not just any coin, Harvey's coin. The Dark Knight flipped it into the air before he spoke out.

"But a little bit of luck wouldn't hurt." The bat themed hero turned away as the coin landed face up in the water as both heroes silently prayed that their friend will be saved.

-Unknown Location-

Search lights were present in the sky as they moved across the various surfaces in the darkened night. Roaming around in spotting anything out of the ordinary asides from the various guards doing their patrols. After one of the search lights went past a certain point, a figure then ran out from the shadows to get to the next point of coverage.

It zipped through cover to cover in the open area before getting inside of the compound before knocking out one of the guards and taking his keys to get further into the building. Watching for any guard and security camera present, the mysterious figure kept on moving towards his objective.

The person eventually made it to the security room and looked for what he was looking for before typing several commands to turn off the security camera in front of one particular cell. Before leaving the room, he grabbed a device from the nearby table before going to his destination. Once left the room, he quickly made his way towards his destination to see the man in the cell loudly snoring.

"Seems that after you left, you let yourself go." The person outside of the cell said getting the snoring to stop.

"Oh I haven't let myself go. It's just a force of habit of snoring in front of guards checking up on me. Trying to pull a Ferris Bueler here without a mannequin to buy out the act." The person said as he got up from the cot before seeing the person he was speaking with. "Oh… It's you monkey butt."

"I'm not talking about the snoring habit you idiot. I'm talking about you breaking out of here." The now revealed monkey themed assassin stated making the person in the cell roll his eyes.

"No shit Sherlock. I knew what you were talking about."

"Then why haven't you broken out before."

"Well this collar on me for starters." The man said as he gestured the collar around his neck. "If you forgot, a lot of my skills were based around my powers."

"Then why not use your other skills acquired from the league?"

"This place is so tight that it could've rivaled a tight virgin asshole you prick." The man said with a slight growl towards Silver Monkey. "During the times I've been let out of the cell to do my 'recess time', there were guards everywhere with those fucking remotes of them just in case if I tried to escape. Even watching me and strip searching me whenever I get out of a certain room if I tried to smuggle something out."

This made the assassin to hum at this before chuckling a little bit. "Seems that this place is good enough to actually do that now."

*Sigh* "Tell me about it. Missed those days where most prisons didn't have the power dampening crap so that it'll make things easier to escape."

"Well tonight's your lucky night. I'm here to get you out." Silver Monkey said as he unlocked the cell getting the person inside to raise an eyebrow at him.

"Why the fuck would you want to do that? Since I left the league, no one has bothered to come and get me. Figured that Ra's didn't want to deal with me anymore and hoped I get killed off on my own."

"Oh trust me, he still has that mindset."

"Then why bust me out monkey nuts?"

Ignoring the usual jib against him, due to him being used to the man for several years, he opened up the cell before entering it. "I have a proposition for you."

"Which would be what exactly?"

"Have you heard about the new hero in Gotham?"

"That Vanitas character I heard on the news? Yeah I have." The person said before growing a cocky smirk. "You have the hots for him or something?"

"No. He's the reason why I'm getting you out and before you ask, no. Ra's or Shiva doesn't know I'm doing this."

"Okay. I'm confused."

"I want to get back at him for what he did on my last assignment. Both him and Batman. Normally I would be fine taking care of the Bat, but with that metahuman in Gotham will make things difficult. So I'm here to get you to help even out the playing field."

"And what would I get if I help you out on this?" The man asked getting Silver Monkey to chuckle a little.

"Why getting my help on killing the man that helped get you in here of course." Qarrad Alfidd said getting the man to flinch at the man before snarling a little. "He humiliated you on your attempt to kill him for glory and getting more contracts. A simple celebrity that somehow bested a trained meta-assassin of the league. So if you help me on getting rid of Batman and Vanitas, then I'll help you get rid of Naruto Uzumaki."

Hearing this, the man in question stepped closer to reveal himself as a familiar blonde haired assassin with months of facial growth on his face with a more shaggier hair. Silver Monkey then pulled out the device on his hand and aimed it towards the man to deactivate the power dampeners. Once they were fully deactivated, the man started to chuckle a little as his power coursed through his system after these past months.

"You got yourself a deal Silver Monkey." Minato 'Hiraishin' Namikaze said with a growing smirk coming from his lips and exited the cell so both would leave the prison.

If the blonde assassin had bothered to look back at the man who got him out, he would've seen a faint green glow coming from the mask's eye holes before they faded away in the darkness.

-End Chapter-

AN:

Well here is one of my favorite episodes in the Batman 90's series that brought in one of the most depressing of Batman's Rogues Gallery members into the villainous spotlight. What made this character and episode so good in the first place was actually transitioning well before the initial episode that made the person an actual villain since he was established some episodes prior to the one I'm basing the chapter on. He was engaged, helped out on several events here and there that got many of us viewers at the time to enjoy the guy. I mean I remember seeing the show back then and I did feel shocked as a child to see the demons Harvey was dealing with.

I mean I didn't read any of the comics back then and the animated series was the introduction to me into DC Comics as a whole. So I was going to enjoy writing this chapter when it got to it, especially other ones on the planned timeline I have so far.

Also someone asked me what kind of persona Harvey/Two Face will be for the story and I'm having the guy be mostly based off of the DCAU but his voice and appearance is taking part from Troy Baker's take from the Batman Arkham series.

You readers might've noticed I had brought in Sakon and Ukon from the Naruto series into the chapter as being Harvey's two henchmen. Well I thought they were perfect for the spot with them being two halves and whatnot. Even in the anime/manga that when they separated with their curse marks that half of their body goes all darkly armored and thought they could work well on the whole 'two halves' thing Harvey has going on. So expect seeing them to be brought in for future chapters when dealing with Two Face.

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

R&R