Chapter 5

Naruto was looking for such beings for two reasons. One, they could act as his servants.

Two, they would have more knowledge than normal people.

It didn't long for Naruto to see the signals. There weren't many and the difference wasn't huge, as the signal could be compared to a genin.

That was expected since it was Gotham and not another city. He would have increased his cautiousness if there had been a strong signal.

Everything in the current world was unknown so he could get caught in things he didn't know.

Magic was one of those things and the others was the advanced technology that wasn't available to the normal people.

With the targets in mind, Naruto made clones.

There were four targets he could sense at the moment, so he made four.

Naruto didn't intend to go in to the field with his body at this stage. He was going to manipulate everything from the shadows.

His clones were as strong as him. They just didn't have his chakra levels since he divided it.

He made the clones using only 10 percent of his chakra and that was divided by four.

The clones had his personality and everything, it was perfect but it would have been better if he didn't have to risk his memories getting caught. Some people could capture his clones and absorb them to get some of his memories; it was the risk that came from the clones.

To counter this problem, Naruto utilized his mental technique to have a mental barrier and could control the clones like robots. He could make empty clones while controlling them with his original body using his original skill called Parallel minds.

He could focus hundred percent on 10 subjects, meaning he had ten minds in one head. It meant that through his clones, he could be in ten places at once.

Naruto's real body sat on the sofa while the clones moved toward the targets.

Naruto flew through the air while invisible towards Gotham Cemetery. It was a creepy place that had history of attracting ghosts and other paranormal species.

In this place there was an old building and Naruto felt the signal from inside. It seemed to be asleep from the feeling he got.

Naruto didn't stop and went directly for it.

Entering the building that was extremely old and falling apart, Naruto came upon the being, sleeping upside down in a dark room.

Looking at the monstrous thing, he could feel that the animalistic desires were overpowering the human side.

Yes, human side because it was human. He couldn't understand much without getting in contact, so Naruto flew to the target and tapped its head.

Using the Gentle fist style, Naruto could block their pressure points and make targets immobile. With the hit on the back of the head, the creature couldn't make any movement.

From reading the memories he could tell that it was human and the longer he stayed in the form, the less human it became.

The Man-Bat was Kirk. Dr. Kirk Langstrom was the inventor of the infamous Man-Bat Serum, a special formula that had the ability to turn the user into a hideous bat monster, the Man-Bat. Though he originally created it to help the deaf and blind, because of its temporary side effects, multiple people had taken advantage of it, including Langstrom himself, often in the name of vigilantism.

The League of Shadows had also almost used it to form a Man-Bat army.

Kirk used it for good intention but the transformation also affected his mind, meaning he also acted as a criminal at times.

He had fought beside Batman and against him.

He wasn't so bad and he hadn't done any vile acts, but his addiction was harmful to everyone. He was useful for his intelligence and power.

Naruto placed his hand on the monsters head as it glared at him and utilized the true transformation jutsu.

He transformed the monster into a buff version of the doctor and reinforced his human side using his mental powers.

Kirk opened his eyes to the sight of the room with shock clear in his eyes. He was completely aware of what happened when he was transformed.

He was captured like he was just a tiny bug and there was no resistance that he could form.

He had transformed to steal from a jewellery store as he needed some money and had escaped to this place. It took some time for the serum to wear off.

He was lucky that could keep it away from killing people but he sometimes ended up committing other crimes so it was troublesome.

He had cured it once but used it again as he realized it was better to be a monster in this dark world. Living powerless meant that your life was in the hands of others as such he created a stronger version of the serum and drank it.

It was supposed to give more control as well but it made him lose control instead while the monster became stronger.

It could lift 5 tonnes and move almost touching mach 1. It could endure gun fire and only some strong weapons could pierce its body.

He was addicted to the serum. It was one of the side effects and it was what mainly led him to making a permanent version since the normal one was temporary.

Once he lost control he thought it was over until Batman found him and helped him but someone else found him.

It was more surprising than getting cured because his monster body was transformed into a human form and he could still feel all his monstrous powers.

'Who is he? Why is he doing this?' Kirk thought as he couldn't muster resistance against the unknown man who stared at him with that dark gaze that sent chills down his spine.

"Thank you kind sir for helping me, do you have anything I can help with?" Kirk decided to act courteously instead of panicking and getting killed.

Naruto stared at him in a completely different form. He was covered in his dark armor that could change size according to his will. It was armor that boosted his combat abilities and durability. It was made by experts, an armor for the future leader.

The armor covered him up completely and made people look small against him. To go with the armor, he had a battle axe that was made from the Sage Weapons. It could change shape on command, so he wasn't always using the axe form.

He either used the axe or the lance.

It was called EA and he had the golden chains called Enkidu for support, these chains could further be reinforced by his Adamantine Chains from the Uzumaki bloodline.

He intended to keep everyone in line. They were not his friends that they needed to know his looks and name.

He found Kirk useful since the man knew ways of genetics and he needed such expertise on his side since he didn't have Tsunade now.

"Kirk, I want you to serve under me. For genetic research and hero business, in return I will pay you for your services and won't put you in prison for putting the city in danger because of your addiction." Naruto answered in a neutral tone as he looked at him while the doctor avoided his gaze.

Kirk was surprised the man knew about his problem and felt that the man might have read his memories. His words were very appealing since he did want to help people and also make money for research.

Seeing his abyss like gaze, Kirk knew he didn't mean putting him in human prison.

'I don't want to go to hell. I still have a wife waiting back home and so much left in life.'

"I will do it." Kirk replied as he saw no other option.

"Good, now I am going to increase your powers and put a sign that you work for me. Remember, never try to cross me. I am very nice most of the time but I hate scum and traitors." Naruto held his hand and stared into his eyes causing him to shudder as he felt the killing intent. It was monstrous that he almost shat his pants.

Naruto poured his chakra into him and enhanced his body. The process was usually time consuming and couldn't be done within minutes. It took weeks for an affect to show for outsiders but Naruto's chakra was very potent and he was leaving tiny amounts into the body.

The chakra would disperse slowly while giving their body the required push. This was just some starter package and if they proved useful he intended to fully train them into his elite killer squad. He would enhance them every day so their physical capabilities would continue increasing until they were at least 10% of his power.

Naruto also placed a mental barrier on their minds as he didn't want people reading their minds and knowing anything about the group.

He also placed a seal that would shut Kirk down with a command from him. It was the Caged Bird seal.

He didn't put the explosion seal on his body since Kirk wasn't a real villain. Finally, he also gave Kirk the power of wind.

It wasn't much but it gave him another advantage.

The others got a dose of reality while Kirk was exempted from it since he didn't have such problems. He took some time to get used to the new power. It didn't take too long because Naruto gave him basic fighting skills and body control.

He was always walking around and living in a world that was fragile. He could literally put the air on flame and cause massive destruction with the movement of his hand.

One stomp from his foot would cause an earthquake. It was a similar experience to Superman on a lower scale.

But, Naruto liked it and didn't find it troublesome. It was the speed advantage that gave him such a long life in a short time.

His speed increased very fast and he participated in countless things in a single hour. One hour for him was vastly different to one hour for a normal human, since he could move much faster than sound casually and his mind operated on that scale.

Getting back to Kirk, he understood that Naruto wanted to take over the world and make it better. He had a lot to say about that but he was afraid and didn't question it. He didn't know Naruto and could only see how it went before he could try something to stop it.

He agreed that the world was corrupt and needed a change. The Heroes had stagnated and wouldn't bring the change.

After a shot conversation, Kirk left towards home a happy man with new purpose. He could now fully control his power and could transform in to the bat when he wanted.

Naruto saw him off and had informed him that he would summon him when needed, summon using the seal.

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Naruto locked onto the person giving him the feeling of nature and knew it was Poison Ivy. He moved towards her, invisible from view and found her in some abandoned factory. She had created a garden in one of the buildings filled with her killer plants.

The moment he landed, she had sensed his presence as he also gave off the nature feeling and she was surprised. She had never seen such a thing and was pleasantly surprised as she thought it was a comrade.

The feeling was new since she saw everyone as a pawn except Harley, a close friend. To her only plants deserved her love and care.

She would kill people for flowers.

She had zero empathy for human life.

Pam found that her guest was an armored individual and the red demonic eyes did not give a friendly vibe.

But she ignored such cosmetics as she wanted to know about him.

"Welcome to my humble abode, love. How can I help you?" Pam decided to check things out in a friendly manner. Her body language and tone was seductive like always as she was used to manipulating others.

The air was also filled with an aphrodisiac.

Naruto didn't speak and he took her into his arms. Pamela couldn't react before Naruto had broken through her mental defense and taken what he needed. She couldn't move in his grasp as seals crawled on her body.

Before talking to someone like Pamela, Naruto always liked to have data on hand.

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Poison Ivy was a scientist that worked on increasing the rate of vegetation in nature to counteract the problems caused by humans as she loved nature more than humans.

Pamela Isley was born with a skin condition - an aversion to sunlight. Though the doctor had prescribed her a lotion to protect her, little Pamela's abusive father had forbidden her from going outside at all. On one occasion, when her mother allowed her to play outside, he had angrily punched her in the face, giving her a black eye. As if nothing had happened, Pamela's mother stepped outside and began gardening. Seeing her daughter there, she explained that she liked gardening because the flowers listen to her, and sometimes, if she stays very quiet, they speak back to her.

When Pamela had asked about the black eye, her mother had assured her it was nothing to worry about. The abuse continued. Every time he hit her, Pamela's father bought his wife's forgiveness with flowers, and her garden would grow. That was how Pamela learned that flowers could manipulate people. However, she also learned of human cruelty when her father murdered her mother in cold blood, having had enough of her disobedience to him. He buried his now ex-wife under her own garden—her flesh decaying and now feeding the very flowers she planted—before being arrested by the police. At the trial, he was found guilty of domestic violence and murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Pamela was then sent to live with a relative.

In college, Pamela created designer drugs, doling pheromone pills out in order to study their effects. The University learned of her activities, and she was expelled and put in jail pending a criminal indictment. However, she had already used her pills to get the Dean under her thumb. Charges were dropped, and she graduated Summa Cum Laude. After graduating, Pamela visited her father in prison for the first time since the murder of her mother. He had stubbornly sat in silence, just staring at her and waiting for her to make the first move. After a time, she decided to do what made the most sense. She leapt up out of her seat and kissed him on the lips. By the next morning, he was dead, and the toxin used to kill him was untraceable.

The Dean secured Pamela an internship at Wayne Enterprises straight out of College at their R&D site just after the merger with Kane Chemical. She helped to develop pharmaceuticals and cosmetic applications, but she had greater aspirations towards the environment as a whole as she considered the modern world ugly and disgusting.

She was another soul corrupted by their surroundings. She had killed people for her goals and used others as tools. She was one of the biggest criminals in Gotham.

But over time she had actually changed a bit from fighting against Batman and stopped acting in a dangerous manner, though she aimed to making forest sprout up and she needed money for the research.

She hadn't given up trying to make Gotham green and the people in to green lovers.

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"I am here for you. I want you to serve me from now on and make up for your sins." Naruto replied as he finished checking her memories. She had a tragic past, but he didn't give two hoots about it. None of that gave her the reason to become a monster.

He had seen better tragic stories than the woman and he had killed those people with his hands.

These people would tell him that he didn't understand and he could never understand because he lived a privileged life.

Naruto did live an ideal life. He was loved by everyone. He had luxury. He had the best of everything. His dead parents were in his head for a time and they taught him everything they knew.

He got memories of experience from others to make him better.

All in all, it was an ideal life even if he had such a big responsibility to carry.

But, he did understand them. One of the things that the trainers made sure was that Naruto didn't stop and hesitate because of tragic back stories.

He was taught to be a kind person and that could mean he might stop when he saw such things. So, they had him experience the memories and not just read them.

He had gone through lives of many criminals and the good people with tragic lives. It made him mentally and emotionally strong. With that, there was no chance he was ever going to even shed a tear from their stories.

Getting back, Pamela was an attractive woman. One of best looking woman he had ever seen in his life and he had seen a lot of woman.

She had long red hair and green eyes, and she wore a green dress made from plants. But, it wasn't her beauty that made him feel she was important. It was the fact that she was highly compatible with his Wood style and nature, along with her brilliant mind. He could read and take all they had inside the brain, but he wouldn't get their way of thinking and have the same opinions or thoughts.

"Why should I do that?" Pam stared at him without flinching as he caught her by the waist.

"I will kill you, if you dare to say no. This is not a choice, you will do it and you will repay the debt to the world." Naruto replied with a dose of his killing intent that showered Pam, causing her to freeze up and see visions of doom.

"Give me another reason. I am not afraid of death." Pam gritted her teeth and stared defiantly.

"I know what you want. I know everything about you. I will make this world much better from now on and increase the vegetation around the globe. I will give new life to this planet. Look at me, what do you feel?" Naruto replied as he spoke in an enchanting tone to build a desire inside Pamela to follow him. Fear could only last for long and it wouldn't change the person if he continued to treat her like a bug. He gave them fear and then gave them the ideal world.

"I don't deal in empty words." Pam muttered as she controlled the plants to capture her assailant, to bite him and tear him up. Just because she was trying to change didn't mean she was a pushover. She hated it when others treated her like a weakling. She did get a strong feeling from him and felt attraction towards him because of it, but she didn't like being controlled.

Naruto stared in to her eyes. He knew the woman had killed innocents in her childish acts. She was a narrow minded woman that didn't have the brains to realize that she could have just moved out of Gotham and done her thing in so many other places. There were literally ghost towns and miles of land that were completely barren.

She was stronger than others. She had good abilities and she gave him the same feeling of the world. It seems the world didn't want her to die.

She could be useful with her knowledge and abilities. He could give her a boost that was more potent than others.

She could become his left hand.

Friendship and such depended on how things went, but she was going to serve him and it was not her choice.

Naruto waved his hand in front of her eyes and snapped his fingers.

Pam was shocked as she saw her children abandon her for the intruder. She couldn't control them anymore.

Naruto hit the ground with his foot and flowers sprouted from the asphalt ground.

Pam felt like she had no other choice anymore. With that he had proved that it wasn't just a mind game. It was reality. He was connected to the world. Nature loved him, her plants loved him. She was jealous of that. She wanted such power.

"I accept." Pam trusted the feeling of nature from him and accepted the offer. She liked his presence and he seemed to be a man of action. She obviously didn't have any loyalty to him. She wanted to see what he would do and if she could control him.

She had complete confidence in her looks. She was a succubus that enchanted everyone, not even the Bat Family could resist her looks.

"Good, I will leave my sign on you and we will talk about this relationship." Naruto said as he kissed Pam on the lips surprising her, this was to prove his dominance over her and show her he was the boss.

He could tell she was a woman who thought she could control men and trusted her abilities very much. Her lips were laced with the strongest poisons and he easily handled them since his body had been subjected to poisons from a young age.

He had build up immunity to all kinds of poisons and diseases.

Holding her tightly, he poured in his nature clad chakra in a controlled manner and boosted her powers to a new level. She was compatible with his powers so the boost was large and her physical strength was boosted but her plant ability went through the roof.

It was a kiss that went for 5 minutes and Pam was a complete mess by the time he was done. She was completely full from this power and the pleasure had blanked her mind. Naruto was an experienced person in the matters of pleasure. He could increase it with his chakra. He could further increase it by manipulating the nerves and the emotional aspect with his chakra.

Naruto placed her on the grass and carved the seals on her body, betray him and she goes boom.

With this action, he had destroyed the two things she had confidence in.

Obviously, it didn't end there. Naruto stood in silence as Pamela started to shake. She was going through a nightmare.

She didn't have empathy for humans, Naruto brought it back. He healed her broken mind. He forced her to see her deeds again in clarity and gave her the view point of the victims. He compared those lives to the plants, and her love for the plants to the love of those people for each other.

She had thought he was going to take her like a lover, but this really destroyed that delusion. He had given her a chance and he intended for her to change, or she would die instead of getting freedom.

Naruto appreciated beauty but he was immune to seduction. He had gotten training for it and his purpose always took priority.

The process went on for 10 minutes before Pamela finally managed to wake up, her whole body was covered in sweat.

She turned towards him and glared with ferocity, though it felt weak now because of her condition. She actually felt guilt and pain from her actions.

The only thing she had felt about her actions was that she could have done better, nothing about the collateral damage.

She now saw that he was serious about reformation and he wasn't going to be nice about it.

"Don't stare so much, your eyes might fall out. Pamela, Pamela, you will change or you will die. I gave you the dream of a good world and that is the reality I intend to achieve. You will be part of it or you will not, that is your decision." Naruto said in a calm tone as he had Pamela rise with the help of the grass.

She felt a lot better now. Her powers had grown by multiple levels but she felt mentally tired after that ordeal.

Follow me or die was Naruto's meaning and she understood that.

Seeing his great power, she knew he would take the others as well. He was gathering an army under his control. He was intending to take over the world unlike the other heroes.

She didn't how he would do it, but that was his intention.

It was crazy, but she liked it.

"Hehehe, I will follow along my Lord." Pamela muttered as she hugged him. She really liked his presence because of the Sage mode.

She had given in and decided to follow him. To see where it went while taking the main seat, she still intended to have his attention.

The kiss was also very nice. She had never felt such enhanced pleasure before. It had always been just a means to an end.

Naruto had transferred the information about his goal and him being the Emperor. This was basic thing that all his subordinates would know. How he went about it, only he would know and they would know when it took place.

He had to be careful about people catching his subordinates with too much information.