Gotham Nights
Chapter 3
I do not own Naruto or Batman (Or any other character in his story)
In this I'm going to use a few things from the game Far cry 2, which I don't own.
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Naruto stared at the man with unnerving eyes as he listened to him pitch some deal to him. He was some military general by the looks of it, with the green uniform and helmet with a single star on the front. Naruto could tell that despite coming off as a hard ass, General Vreeland was actually a big softy.
Naruto had been vary busy the past month, besides spending time in solitary confinement for beating the shit out of the Joker, Scarecrow, and Killer Croc, he had finally met the floral seductress, Poison Ivy and struck up an interesting alliance with each other to aid the other if needed. They normally talked about different kinds of plants and ways to better help their growth but seeing as she had a doctorates in botany he he had a masters, she usually had to explain some of the more complex things.
He had also gotten the chance to talk with Harley Quinn, even though she tried to knock him over the head for kicking one of her puddins teeth in at first.
Flashback
Naruto walked outside in the court yard whistling a small tune, he had just finished lunch and since he was such a good boy, they allowed him to roam outside with the others. Looking around he was surprised that no guards were around and began to feel that strange 'oh shirt, this isn't right' feeling down in the pit of his stomach.
A soft growl reached his ears and he spun around just in time to see a familiar blue-eyed blond girl raise a nightstick over her head, just about to bring it down.
"I'll get you for hurting my puddin," she seethed.
Naruto easily sidestepped swing after swing as the girl lunged at him time after time. The fact that she wasn't tired surprised him, almost as much as the fact that he could fill the wind coming off of the attacks.
"Stay still so I can hit you!" Harley nearly screamed.
THUNK
She blinked as the blonde male caught her weapon with one hand then grasped her neck with the other. He wasn't choking her or harming her in any way but it still scared her.
"You need to calm the fuck down." Naruto said cooly pushing her back lightly. "Your so called, 'Puddin' attacked me first, just like you are now so I kicked his teeth in. If you continue to attack me as well, I will do the same to your pretty face."
Harley looked at him with fear and awe in her eyes, even Mr. J couldn't sound as cool and evil as Naruto did just then.
Flashback end
In the end, Harley had gained a friend in her fellow blonde. Naruto had given her his number to call if she was ever in trouble and needed help when they got out. That touched Harley's heart since she really didn't have that many people to count on and she promised that she'd always back him up if he needed it, in a rather comical way too. When the guards finally came around, they saw Naruto holding Harley like a bride while she held onto his neck with a large smile on her face.
Besides that, Naruto had been hounded by letters from not only the newspaper woman wanting in interview, but some other TV reporter named Summer or something. Every time the people would deliver his mail they would tell him how many they had and walk off, already knowing to put them in a box with his personal stuff. Joan had also kept her word and had gotten him a few things for his room. The vary first thing he ordered was a shelf, armchair, and some books to pass the time.
The most recent thing to happen to him in prison, as weird as that sounded, was that the military had offered him a way out of Arkham, actually, that was still going on...
"You see Uzumaki, we believe that your skills would greatly benefit this already great nation and I wish to offer you a deal. We need a person that we could send into hostel areas and do jobs for us." the general said standing with his hands behind his back. "In return for doing these jobs, I'll have your record wiped clean."
Naruto didn't react right away, "Tell me... why would you so blindly trust an individual such as myself around other soldiers or near weapons that I could steal?"
The general wasn't even fazed. "I've read about what you claim to be, a Kitsune or sprit fox, so your word would be binding like a contract. Besides your a mercenary, being locked up in here isn't making you money."
Naruto smirked, "Ahh, aint that the truth." he stated.
"So are you interested?"
Naruto's eyes flashed, "Let me get this straight, you want me to work for the government and risk my own ass, just to get out of Arkham. No pay at all."
"What could be more valuable that freedom?" the general said with pride.
Naruto scowled, "A fucking stack of hundreds maybe. I'm a Mercenary if you haven't noticed, not a damn boy-scout. Besides, freedom could easily be fought for."
That made the general frown, "Fine... I can see that your no different from any other mercenary. I've been authorized to offer you 75,000 dollars and the weaponry to complete your job." he said unhappily.
"Fine, but before I sign any contract, you have to give me the information about what I'm doing and where I'm going." Naruto said, face void of any emotion.
The general called in one of his own men who brought a folder with him. "Captain, explain the situation."
"Our allies over in south Africa have gotten themselves in deep trouble. The government we've been aiding has been weakened and now rival fractions have been fighting for control. Sending soldiers over isn't possible due to the treaty and the UN peacekeepers aren't allowed to fire their weapons unless fired upon. We need a... discreet asset to go in and topple both fractions so our friends can rebuild their government."
"I assume that I'd basically be on my own once I arrive, correct?"
The two glanced at each other and nodded.
"Well since their fighting over there, airports wouldn't be operating for fear of being shot down..." Naruto continued.
The captain nodded, "Yes, we are aware of that so we've arranged plane to fly you over the target area to do a HALO jump, well above any radar."
"And my equipment?"
"You will be supplied with gear untraceable to the U.S. and will be allowed to choose from our armory, the hardware there haven't been registered yet so the possibility of tracing them are impossible."
"One last thing... is there any certain way you want me to do this or is it up to me?"
"As long as the job is done and none of the UN or government is harmed you are free to do as you see fit." the general said.
The grin on Naruto's face told it all, they had made a mistake.
Gotham Globe
Fox Released
Only over a month in Arkham, Naruto Uzumaki was released from Arkham only to once again disappear. When questioned, Doctors and staff said that he had been visited by an army general and was later released on government order. We were unable to get a statement from the mayor or any other government officials so little is known about the man.
A deeper investigation has found that Uzumaki's criminal record had been wiped clean. Commissioner Gordon made a statement to us that Uzumaki had struck a deal with the government but refused to explain.
Bruce frowned darkly as Barbara read the paper aloud to him while he worked on soldering wires together in his new tracking devise.
"Theirs justice for you," she muttered, "Who knows, maybe he'll stop now that he's spent time in Arkham,"
The sound of Bruce crushing the device in his hand made her flinch. "People just don't change," he said dropping the destroyed tracker.
"What's eating you?" she asked, "You didn't seem this upset about him before. Heck, you seemed to enjoy fighting him."
An alarm sounded. "Scarecrow's escaped Arkham." He stated fixing his costume.
Barbara sighed and followed him to the batmobile, annoyed at his rudeness.
The roar of the plane was all he could hear. Only two days ago he had been sitting in his cell reading a book on history and now he was sitting on a large transport plane somewhere over southern africa. His mission was easy, destroy two rebel bases. He had done harder things before considering he destroyed his old world.
He hadn't used all his power at once before and it was making him lazy to have all that power but no challenge. Everything came easy to him, he was insanely strong, controlled all the elements, Immortal, super healing... hell he probably had power that he didn't know about. But he still had his bad points, for one he was slightly greedy, a fact that was noticeable when he not only took all the weapons and ammo from the armory and sealed them all away, but took a shit load of explosives, RPG's, missile launchers, and even contemplated on stealing a tank. Something he would've done if it wasn't for his sealing scrolls being too small.
Naruto didn't expect this to take too long, maybe a day or two, a week at most. When he finished he would be forced to open a demon's gate to travel back to Gotham since the military wouldn't be bring him home.
"APPROACHING TARGET ZONE!" Screamed one of the airmen.
Standing up from his seat, Naruto walked out of the shadows dressed in a black army uniform without any patches or emblems. Over it all he had a equipment vest, parachute, and jump gear. Over his face was a helmet attached to a small oxygen tank since the air would be too thin while he was free falling and the force would snap his neck back from the force.
A small red light flashed next to him while the man opened the large rear door revealing the dark cloudy night sky below them.
"GET READY!" he called just before the light flashed green.
'Damn me and my fucking lust for money' Naruto thought before leaping out the plane.
He just could make out the sound of the wind rushing past his head as he shot through a cloud. A small light flickered below him on the ground, compared to the size of it and just how far he was up in the sky, he figured that it had to be some large bonfire.
Using his power over the air currents he slowed himself down and channeled chakra into his eyes so that he could see what was on the ground. There was multiple men wearing yellow bandanas dancing around and drinking, all armed with AKs and pistols. From the army files he had stolen, yellow bandanas were used to identify the UFLL, one of the fractions he was to destroy.
There were also makeshift cages a little ways from the fire, one had bloody and beaten men, obviously soldiers for the APR, the other group he had to kill. Another had children, probably belonging to the APR soldiers who had a family. Finally, the last cage held the women, from his viewpoint he could see that they were all nude and suffering from the signs of rape and abuse. Sure he had done the same to Kyuubi but that bitch deserved every fucking thing that happened to her.
Looking at these suffering women, female humans, huddled together in a cage, preying not to be taken and raped by these men who didn't care for their feelings. He felt his powers bubble inside him, hot liquid fire coursed through his veins as he then shot off towards the ground, faster than he had been before.
He didn't even bother with his parachute, the ground came closer and closer until he flipped around in the air and landed on his feet... right in the burning pile of wood, causing it to explode and leave a crater under his feet.
As the burning pile exploded outwards, many of the soldiers dropped what they were doing and pulled out their guns.
(I know it's in africa and the language barrier between Naruto and them is great, so I've decided that the whole world will speak a single language.)
"My god!" One said as a dark figure started walking out of the flames.
Naruto had ripped off his helmet and was now staring out at them with glowing crimson eyes, his anger and power rising with each secound.
One man open fired causing the rest to follow suit. Naruto's uniform was ripped to shreds and blood flew everywhere as the hot metal ripped through his flesh and bones. Soon enough clicks echoed all around as the weapons ran dry the shell casings covering the ground.
"Hehehe," Naruto laughed softly, "HAHAHAhahaha,"
Many dropped their weapons in absolute fear as the blood-soaked young man laughed darkly, throwing his head back and flexing his hands like claws. Shortly after, he started grunting in discomfort and to their morbid fascination, hundreds of small bulges started running across his skin, down his arms towards his closed fists.
Naruto held up both hands and opened them, allowing all the warm lead that burrowed inside his body to trickle out his hand and onto the ground
"What are you?" questioned one in fear and awe at the sickening sight of all their bullets cursing through his body.
Just before Naruto drew his own weapons, a custom burst-fire glock and a military machete, he's pupils silted and eye pulsed a deeper shade or red, "A demon,"
Streaks of black, yellow, and sliver filled the small grassland village, gunfire echoed around for all to hear. For the women and children able to watch, it was like seeing the men who tortured them get cut to pieces by a ghost, or have three holes appear in vital areas of their bodies. One by one they dropped like flies, both the UFLL soldiers and the mercenaries working for them. African, American, British, Scottish, it didn't matter, they all fell to the demons blade or bullets.
The dying flames glowed dimly, casting long shadows across the village, blood and bodies littered the roads, faces contorted into silent painful wails or cries. Naruto turned to the cages, making his glowing red eyes leave a faint after image. Walking towards them, he stabbed his blade into a wooden table and reloaded his pistol. The women started to panic as he raised the pistol towards the children and pleaded with him not to shoot.
BANG
The lock holding the gates closed fell to the ground, kicking up a small dust cloud. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they realized what was happening. Another shot blew the next lock off, freeing the women. Children ran towards their mothers who cried and sobbed in happiness and relief at being safe.
One of the older women turned to their savior, "How can we ever repay..." she stopped as she saw that the blonde foreigner was a long ways down the road, The only thing left behind was his blood covered blade stuck into a UFLL poster on the table.
Naruto spent five days in Africa, Three were spent preparing and the forth was when he destroyed both bases at the same time by setting a shit load of his stolen explosives in both buildings. The last day he spent gathering up shipments of uncut diamonds, once again thanks to his greed. He had missed a lot of them but it really didn't matter that much to him, Right now he had enough to fill a small briefcase which meant he could probably buy out a casino and everything in it.
His time was up in this great land full of rich culture and wonderful heritage... ah who was he kidding, the whole place sucked, it was hot as hell, people fought all over the place, bugs big enough to rob you swarmed around at night, and he couldn't even sleep without hearing a gun go off.
Dressed in a colorful Dashiki, Naruto opened a swirling white portal with his demon chakra and leapt through, glad to get the fuck back to Gotham
"Harlen Quinnzel, I'm proud to say that you are ready to reenter society," Doctor Leland said proudly.
"YEAH!!!" Harley screamed leaping into the air, "YIPPEE!"
She did a little jig and froze before turning back to the doctor with a nervous smile. "Hehehe, sorry,"
"It's quite all right," Joan said with a smile, "You should be vary proud of yourself, it's only natural to be excited."
Joan stood up and led Harley towards the door where screaming could be heard. steeping into the hall they found Batman and Batgirl carrying Scarecrow down the hallways.
"Put me down! I'm the patron of fear. I'm-"
Harley waved, "Hi Dr. Crane"
Crane instantly calmed down and smiled as he was grabbed by a pair of large orderlies, "Hello child." he greeted before returning to kicking and screaming, "I'm the scarecrow, put me down, I demand it."
The four watched for a secound until Batman broke the... silence. "I hear your getting out," he stated raising his hand.
Harley flinched, preparing to be hit but realized that he was waiting to shake her hand, "Yeah so what," she said taking his hand and shaking it.
She tried to pull away but Batman held strong, "Don't mess this chance up," he said, releasing her hand and turning away.
Harley massaged her wrist and stuck out her tongue at the masked man and said, "I'll show you, I can be a normal person" She smiled widely and put her hand on her hips. "After all, how hard could it be?"
Watching as Batman started to leave, Batgirl let her mind wonder and couldn't help but shudder at the strange thought of Harley acting... normal.
"Mr. Uzumaki! Mr. Uzumaki! A word please"
Naruto sighed and turned around. Behind him stood a woman with light red hair in a blue suit/dress followed by a camera man. 'Fuck,' he moaned inwardly, it was that reporter chick who wanted in interview back when he was in Arkham.
"Hi, I'm summer from Gotham news. Can I ask you some questions?" the woman asked, taking a secound to give him a once-over. Naruto was dressed in his jeans and hoodie as usual.
Naruto schooled his features and crossed his arms, "I'm sure you will anyway."
Undeterred by the statement, Summer started questioning him, "Now that you've been released from Arkham, what will you do?"
"Ill live day by day. I've been doing well like that so far," Naruto answered.
"What do you say to the people who think that you should be locked up for the rest of your life?"
Naruto's blank look turned dark,"I would say that everyone is entitled to their opinion just like they are entitled to freedom, if they think my freedom should be taken away because of my past mistakes then it's their right. The secound they try to take it into their own hands it when I'll fight for that right."
"Some are saying that you are planning on fighting with the police now, as a way to keep out of Arkham, Is this true?"
Naruto gave her a strange look, "I wouldn't hold my breath on that, I've never been the type to serve and protect for a pat on the head and,I was released from Arkham by the government under my now completed contract. Besides-" naruto said with a grin, " Gotham PD wouldn't be able to pay the fee it takes for me to work for them,"
Some people stopped to see what was going on and watched with both skeptical and interested looks.
Summer blinked for a secound before catching the full meaning of what he had said, "So you still plan on living a life of crime-"
Naruto stopped her, "No, not crime. I plan on continuing my life as a Mercenary."
"Why?"
Naruto looked her right in the eyes, "Because... war never changes," he quoted before turning around and walking away.
Summer stood frozen as he walked away, the things she saw in his eyes scared her. They were full of primal darkness, eyes that bore witness to so much pain and hate. Eyes that belonged to hardened war veterans. Eyes that shouldn't belong to a young man like him.
Harley hummed while she was pulled along by a pair of hyenas on leashes. She wore a pair of skates, a skirt, and a sleeveless white shirt tied up above her belly. Her hair was pulled in two pony tails that bounced and shook while she glided down the streets, making the 'normal' people leap out of the way. Chewing a large amount of gum and blowing large bubbles, her eyes brightened as she saw a cute pink dress in the window.
Snatching back on the leashes, Harley gazed through the window with stars in her eyes...
Dipping into an alley to avoid any more civilians, Naruto walked up the wall casually then situated himself on a ledge overlooking the city from ten stories up. Not a day back in Gotham and he was already annoyed by the press. All he had done was return to his hideout, get fussed over by a overprotective vine, change back into his regular clothes, and go for a walk. Once they aired his unexpected interview, he was sure that Bats and quite a few more people would look for him, either to try and bust his ass just as soon as he did one thing wrong or try to recruit him. He was hoping that Bats would understand the valid threat in his interview.
Bats wasn't dumb, when he said "The secound they try to take it into their own hands it when I'll fight for that right." he was talking about Batman and openly admitted that he fight if he tried to get his sent back to Arkham.
Dangling his legs over the edge of the building he looked down, 'Well if it isn't Bruce Wayne, wonder what he's doing... oh he's with a girl too... is it me or is there a lot of red heads around here?' Naruto wondered.
After a secound a overweight security guard flew through a large glass window with a pair of laughing hyenas biting at his clothes. Leaning closer Naruto watched in interest as the rich boy told his girl to wait while he tried to find out what happened.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
Naruto jumped in surprise as his cellphone started vibrating violently in his pocket. Fishing it out he flipped it open, "Yea-"
"Hi Foxy!"
Naruto sweat dropped, "Harley, what a... surprise." he said slowly. "Your able to make phone calls now?"
Harley laughed nervously on the other end, "No I was released yesterday."
Naruto hummed and watched as the two Hyenas ripped the poor mans clothing apart. "Really? That's great. Staying out of trouble?"
"Ah..."
Naruto's eye twitched, "Your in trouble aren't you." It was more of a statement than anything else.
"... How'd you know?" Harley asked softly, almost embarrassed that she was.
"Do you have a pair of Hyenas?"
"Yea..." She answered, confused at the sudden change of question
Naruto heard another voice over the line but the sounds of something breaking and a growl from Harley drowned it out, "Back up rich boy, I'm armed." A series of groans was heard before Harley returned, "So ah..."
"I'll be there soon."
After a secound of watching, the doors to the shopping center swung open and out ran Harley in her red and black costume. She pushed the redhead that was with Bruce into the back of Bruce's convertible and whistled to her babies that left their toy guard and leapt into the back seat while the redhead situated herself in the front passenger side.
Naruto sighed but let a small laugh escape him, "Two fucking days and your already in trouble," he said to himself, "I knew I liked you for some reason Harley."
Leaping from rooftop to rooftop Naruto pulled out his cellphone and hit redial. Waiting for her to pick up, he flipped over a billboard and nearly took out a pigeon that pecked at him as he passed.
"Hello?" He heard Harley say.
"Harley what ever you do do not swerve or slow down," Naruto ordered before growling and letting out a roar-like yell.
"What do you-" Harley started only to scream loudly as a familiar blonde landed heavenly on the hood, his hair waving wildly with the wind.
"Move over!" he yelled to the animals in the back seat.
Naruto stepped over the two females and sat between the two hyenas before leaning over the front, "Harley... what the fuck is going on? You just got out of Arkham and now your kidnapping someone, do you want to go back?" he asked.
"Hey I didn't mean to, it just happened, You gotta believe me!" Harley said.
Naruto went wide eyed as she started to turn around in her seat, "Hold up Harley. I believe you bu- OH SHIT!" he yelled jumping forward and jurking the wheel to the side, missing a large truck.
"Can't you just put me off here?" the redhead asked, face pale and full of fear.
Both Harley and Naruto turned to her, "NO" they both said at the same time making her flinch.
"Harley you need to stop running or-"
"NO!" She screamed, "I'm not going back to Arkham."
"Ok, Ok calm down spaz" Naruto said sitting back
"Oh dear," Harley said out of the blue making Naruto raise an eyebrow.
"What?" He asked turning around and raising an eyebrow, "So what, it's just a few cop cars no big deal,"
Both Harley, the hyenas, and the red head turned and stared at him, a few normally consisted of four to five, not ten.
"And who are you surpassed to be? Superman? Do you think you can beat all those police officers?" the red head asked.
"Oh I'm Naruto Uzumaki," he replied reaching out to shake her hand with a foxy smirk, "Who might you be?"
To her credit, the woman only gaped for a moment before closing her mouth, "I...I'm Veronica Vreeland."
A tense silence followed, not even the hyenas laughed. Only the sound of police sirens could be heard over the roar of the engine while they zoomed through traffic. Harley was breaking down inside, she only wanted to live a normal happy life and never go back to Arkham. But here she was, running from the police with an army generals daughter and Naruto in the back seat. She felt bad for dragging him into this but he was the only one she could really rely on besides that creep Bennett. Besides he did say that he would help her if she ever needed it.
"Harley." Naruto called.
"Yeah?"
"We need to get to the freeway, It would be easier for me to help you lose them from there. Do you know any shortcuts?"
The grin she gave him made him regret asking.
"I assure you general, we are trying our best to get your daughter back." Commissioner Gordon said to the enraged father.
He growled, "That not good enough!" then pounded his fist onto the desk, making a cup of coffee tip over.
Commissioner Gordon gave him a hard stare which made him shrink down, losing all his previous rage.
"I'm sorry Gordon, I just want my little Veronica back... could you give this old war dog a moment to compose himself?"
Gordon sighed, "Of course General."
Watching as he walked out, General Vreeland picked up the phone and dialed a number, "Hello... this is General Vreeland... I need a favor."
Both Naruto and the hyenas were buckled in as Harley drove like a madwoman, through bushes, fences, parks... it didn't matter. After many near death experiences, the beaten and banged car roared out on the freeway, followed by significantly less police cars. Veronica now sat in the rear of the car clutching onto the blonde man in fear who did the same thing to her. Demon or not, Harley's shortcuts scared him.
"Here we are Foxy," Harley proclaimed happily, a few twigs sticking to the puffballs on her suit.
Naruto scrambled to unbuckle his seat belt, "Keep driving, I'll be back soon." he told them before prying the woman's arms from around him.
"Hey where are you going?" Veronica asked loudly.
"Out" Naruto answered before jumping off the car and sliding down the road until a police car neared.
Pulling back, Naruto punched the middle of the hood, stopping it in it's tracks and bringing the rear up off the ground. Doing the same to another car, he disappeared as a few of the other cars braked hard and ended up rear-ending the wreaks.
A couple of the cars swerved around the wreaked vehicles and zoomed passed Naruto making him frown. Channeling wind aloud his arm he leapt into the air and made a slashing motion at the closest, making a fast moving distortion fly towards the police cars. A loud slicing sound echoed over all the confusion, the speeding car split down the middle, one side hitting the divider rails, the other hitting the wall.
Smirking at the destruction and chaos, Naruto rushed off towards the final car that was chasing after Harley.
Five minutes... FIVE MINUTES he had left Harley alone and she had already gotten into more shit.
Flying down the road at superhuman speed, Naruto caught up with the black convertible to find not only a police car giving chase, but a helicopter and the Batmobile.
His first move was to remove the weakest target. Teleporting in front of the cop car, he jumped onto the hood as it sped towards him and grinned as he saw the man and woman scream through the window. Channeling fire this time, he overheated the car, causing the engine to blow and melt under the intense heat before disappearing and reappearing back in the car next to Harley.
"Well... that leaves Bats," he said watching as Harley jumped.
"How... how did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"THAT"
"What did I do?"
Harley growled, "How did you... fall into the car, you jumped out at least a mile back."
Naruto started to answer but a loud clang cut him off. Suddenly the car jerked to a stop making Harley slam head first into the steering wheel, Veronica hit the front seat, at the two hyenas hit the back foot of the car. Naruto however got the worst of it, with nothing to hold him in, his whole body was propelled through the front glass where he rag dolled down the street leaving a trail of blood where ever he hit.
In the Batmobile, both Bruce and Barbara watched in horror and shock as they saw the blonde roll and tumble along the asphalt. Batman had fired a large hook into the back of the car and slammed on the brakes, which made the car stop suddenly. He hadn't expected that to happen though.
Naruto's body rolled into a concreate devider which budged slightly but stopped him from rolling into oncomming traffic.
"Oh my god!" Barbra gasped.
Naruto didn't move.
This was kind of a small filler. I'm sorry if it's not too good but with the Holidays being so close I wasn't able to write this like I wanted to, I planned on making this longer but I've been taking too long with it as it is.
Anyway, I'm thinking about a chapter with Babydoll (Maybe in the sixth chapter), the first one where she kidnapps her TV family for revenge. Any Ideas would be useful.