Kapitel 42: Chapter 40 : Don't Purr!(4)
It took four more mugging that night before Naruto was able to get any kind of lead on the owner of the book, then again the fact that he didn't have either a name or description of the owner made things a lot more complicated and had lad him into several drug dens. Apparently there were quite a few people in Gotham with erratic personalities, who knew?
But finally, after using enough KI to almost give a gang of teens that had been trying to show off to each other by attacking him heart attacks, he was directed to one of the many empty warehouses that belonged to Gotham. Apparently some crazy guy with powers had been collecting followers over the last few weeks, for what they didn't know, and had set up a sort of church inside.
This didn't surprise Naruto, several time in the past when he had collected class 2 and 1 books he would have to deal with some kind of cult. When a book latched itself onto a person they tended to attracted people that weren't very stable, the powers the books grated its user making them almost seem like a god to their followers. Needless to say it was a giant pain in the ass to deal with.
After using a few clones, transformed to look like random homeless people so as not to be noticed, to check the area the blonde teen decided to return to his hotel room for the rest of the night. He would spend a few days watching, memorising the people that he saw going in and out of the 'church' and their routine, before finally making his move.
The other reason he was taking his time was that he needed to keep up appearances while in the city. Which was why, after spending time going around Gotham to se the sights like a good little tourist, he was going to a ball later in the day too meet with the rich and important of Gotham. It was supposed to be a fundraiser to help 'The Homeless of Gotham'. The fact that he had now been revealed as being rich meaning that an invitation had been left on his pillow of the hotel room when he had first arrived.
The fact was that although he was know for collecting rear books, Naruto didn't want people to know about certain books that he collected, which meant he needed a cover story as to why he was in Gotham. The ball had been an unexpected advantage in this sense. He had been planning to arrange a meeting with the Mayor in order to buy several plots of land, namely in the old part of the city that had been left to rot, for several reasons. Now he would have the chance to talk to the man himself at the fundraiser.
So after returning to his room, showering and getting a goodnight's sleep, Naruto did exactly what he had planned. He spent several hours wandering around the city, visiting all the touristy spots and even a few book stores, Naruto found himself wondering around the Gotham Zoo.
He never like zoos, he understood that they served a purpose in protecting animals from going extinct and other things along those lines, and that it was necessary to charge people to come and gawk at the animals to keep them going, but the look in the animals eyes was not something he enjoyed. Animals were meant to be free, not locked away in a cage, and he could never get use to the almost dead look that a lot of them developed after being in a zoo for several years.
It was while he reading a sign that proclaimed a group of foxes inside the cage it was attached to as being a rear breed that was all but extinct in the wild, that the sound of something banging against metal reached his ears. Turning towards the sound, Naruto was met with a strange sight.
At the hyena exhibit a few cages down was a woman dressed in a skin tight black and red leotard, with a matching jester hat. Her faces was painted white, with the exception of her black lipstick and the black painted around her eyes to look like a mask, and had bright blue eyes and the largest grin he had ever seen stretched across her lips. In her hands was an oversized sledgehammer, which the woman was using to bash the cage in front of her into pieces.
He recognised her immediately, as did the other people around them that had started to run away, as Harley-Quinn.
It didn't take the deranged woman long to break though the metal bars that surround the pen, creating a bridge with the twisted metal for the two hyenas to run out of the pen. The moment they were out the to deadly animals started rubbing themselves against Harley in affection, making a giggling like sound that was matched perfectly by the insane clown girl. It took her about two minutes before she realised hat all but one of the people that had been walking around the zoo had fled. Grinning, Harley skipped towards that blonde teen with the bucket hat on his head that seemed to be ignoring her in favour of reading the sign with information on foxes and coming up behind him, leaned over his shoulder as if reading the sign herself.
"What-cha yah reading?"
"I was just reading about how only 57 of this particular breed of fox are left in the wild and the rest are bread in captivity."
Frowning for a moment when he didn't even turn to look at her, Harley quickly returned her usual grin to its rightful place before draping one of her arms over the teens shoulder and resting her head on the other.
"That sounds boring, why the hell would-yah wants to read something like that when the world is full of cartoons?"
"I like reading"
Pouting, the clown like girl decided to get to the point.
"Yah do know who I am, right?"
"Harley-Quinn, what's you're point"
Giggling into her hand, Harley leaned in closer so that she was only an inch away from the teen's ear, before talking in a sexy voice that had made more then a few men fly back with a nose bleed, right into his ear.
"Aren't yah scared of little old me?"
Finally turning to look her in the face, his expression one of complete and total neutrality, Naruto raised an eyebrow at the now wide eyes clown girl.
"Should I be?"
For a moment nothing happened, Harley seeming frozen in place as her wide blue eyes wondered his face, lingering on his checks a little longer then the rest. Then, without any warning, she let out a high pitched squeal, throwing her arms around his neck and pressing her cheek against his own.
"CUTE!"
After a few minutes of her strangling Naruto, whose face had started to turn purple, before letting him go and started rubbing his checks instead. At this point there was only one thing going through the blondes head.
'In the name of the Sage, don't purr!'
Unfortunately for Naruto his body wasn't listening to his brain and a small pure escaped his lips, making the over excited clown girl squeal and pull him into another hug, smothering his face into her breasts.
"You're so cute; I think I'll keep you! From now on I'll call you foxy, cuz of your whiskers and the fact you were looking at the foxes!"
He couldn't help but the sweat drop that formed on the back of his head at Harley's words, what were the bloody chances of her picking that name! Finally having enough, Naruto pulled himself out of her surprisingly strong grip, and after taking a few deep breaths after almost being suffocated straightened his clothes.
"You're a very strange woman, you know that, right?"
Putting on a large, innocent smile Harley just nodded her head happily.
"If I try and run your just going to chance me, aren't you?"
Again she nodded.
Letting out a deep sigh, Naruto rubbed the back of his head in exasperation, taking a moment to think before nodding to himself.
"Then it's a good thing that the guy dressed as a bat behind you is about to tie you up."
Getting a confused look on her face, Harley had just enough time to turn her head before it was met with a black glove fist. She fell to the ground, unconscious, which left him an unobserved view of the man behind her. He was tall, almost a full head taller them him, with a grey body suit, yellow belt, and a mask covering the top half of his face from view with a long black cap, with a bat symbol on his chest. He could smell the same dampness that had clung to Batgirl on the man, along with the scent of sweat and metal.
They looked at each other for a moment, neither saying a word as they sized the other up, before Naruto put a small smile on his face and pointed to something behind the dark crime fighter.
"Thanks, but you forgot about the hyenas."
Eyes widening behind his mask, Batman was suddenly hit in the back by one of the giggling hyenas. They rolled around on the ground, the hyena trying to latch its jaws into the man's body as they went. Naruto just stood to one side, watching was the dark night wrested with a hyena, wondering what the hell was going on, before the sound of giggling brought his attention to the second hyena on his left.
They stared at each other for about a minute before Naruto let out a small amount of KI, making the hyena let out a small whine before running off towards the downed form of Harley, picking her up by the back of her collar, before disappearing out of the front gate, the other hyena not a second behind.
Turning back to Batman, who was just laying on the ground, Naruto casually walked towards him before nudging him with his foot.
"You're not dead, right?"
Groaning, Batman slowly got to his feet before looking around with a small frown on his face. Seeing this, Naruto let a small smile cross his face before pointing towards the gate.
"The hyenas ran off that way with the crazy clown girl."
Nodding, Batman took a moment to look at the strange blonde teen, before running off in the direction he was pointing.
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