Chapter 45 : It's not Murder if they are Already Dead!(3)

But before she could think of a retort, the Mayor walked up onto the stage and got everyone's attention by tapping the microphone. When all eyes were on him the old politician cleared his throat and put his fake smile on.

"Welcome Ladies and Gentleman, and thank you all for taking time out of your busy lives to come here tonight. On behalf of the homeless of Gotham, I thank you all for your generous donations. The made reason I am making this announcement is to introduce a very special guest tonight, someone that is joining us all the way from Jump city, Mr Naruto Uzumaki."

Smiling at it finally being time, Naruto turned to the red headed crime fighter as he walked towards the stage.

"I'm sure we will talk again, Barbara-san, so until then have a good time, and enjoy the show."

The last part was little more then a whisper, but she was still able to hear it.

Quickly making his way forwards smiling at everyone as they applauded him for no actual reason, Naruto jumped up onto the stage and after shaking hands with the Mayor, sharing a small smirk with the man as he left the stage, Naruto turned to look out over the face and cameras that were pointing at him.

"Thank you all for the generous welcome, it means a lot to me that I was invited to this event. Not many people know this, but only a few years ago...I was homeless."

The room went completely silent at his words, a sea of shocked faces starring at him as if what he said was the most shocking thing in the world.

"I know what its like to huddle up in an alley with nothing but the clothes on your back and a cardboard box to protect you from the bitter cold at night. I know what its like to be so desperate for food that you need to dig through garbage for scraps just to survive, and to be ignored by the people around you that don't want to acknowledge your existence. I have seen people, good people, that have done nothing wrong in their lives, lose all hope and wait for death because its less painful then fighting on."

It was so quiet in the room that you could hear a pin drop, everyone seeming to be frozen in place as they listened.

"Look at yourselves right now, if we were to compare the total price of the clothes you are wearing to the amount that has been donated, what would we see. None of you care about helping others, your all just here to look good in front of the cameras and have 'fun'. But while you have fun dressing up and laughing, people are living on the streets, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, starving, cold, sick, dying! The mere sight of you makes me sick to my stomach."

At his words angry muttering could be heard throughout the room, though surprisingly several people could be seen with either regretful looks on their faces or actually nodding their heads in agreement with what he was saying.

"As of this afternoon, I am the legal owner of the East Gotham Slums, a place that has been abandoned and left to rot for over thirty years."

At his words the room felling into complete silence yet again, even the reporters being too shocked to comment. The East Gotham Slums was not a small place, it actually made up about 15% of the city, and apparently this mostly unknown teenager had just brought the whole thing.

"As we speak my people are gathering up everyone that is living there and taking them to temporary residents, where they will be given food, new clothes and warm beds, and tomorrow my people will start to level the entire East Slums. In its place I am building several homeless shelters, a free hospital, several hundred new homes, and more. The homeless people that are being moved as we speak will be offered jobs and training, along with any more that come from all over Gotham. And I am paying for all of it out of my own pocket. That is all I have to say."

For a moment nothing happened, everyone in the room in complete shock at his announcement. Then, slowly at first, an old man stood at the back of the room started to clap his hands. Then another and another until about a third of the people in the room, the ones that weren't angry at being insulted, were applauding the blonde teen as he stepped off the stage. The reporters crowded around him in seconds, practically jumping over each other in their desperation to ask questions, which were all ignored.

Without even looking around as he went, Naruto walked straight from the stage to the front doors, where he was met with cheering from the crowd that had stayed and were watching the whole fundraiser on a big screen that had been set up outside. Again without looking around, the blonde teen took his keys from the vela, put his helmet on and drove back to his hotel.

After Narutos announcement the fundraiser seemed to calm down pretty quickly, though Barbara did notice that several people had left checks before leaving.

She wasn't sure what to make of the whiskered teen, after what had happened when thy first met she was almost positive that he was a villain in the making, but now she didn't know what to think. The project he had just announced would cost millions of dollars and do more good for this city they anything that had been done in a long time, not to mention he wasn't going to tell anyone her identity. He even told her how he had done it and suggested that she fix it.

But the way he talked about staying out of his way put her on edge.

Whatever he was doing if it was for good then why not enlist the local hero's for help? Or better yet just let them handle it. From what Robin had told them he had no interest in being a hero, even though he was powerful, and could probably take them on with little problems. Yet for someone that didn't want to be a hero he was sure doing a bad job at it, after all what else would you call someone that was doing so much for the homeless of Gotham.

Then there was what he had said at the start, about how he used to be homeless, but he was only a teenager! If it was true then that would mean he was just a kid when he was living n the streets why wasn't he in an orphanage. Because of the many mentally unstable villains that they were forced to fight in Gotham Barbara had taken several Physiology classes in an attempt to better understand the people she was fighting, and it was because of this that she was so confused. Naruto Uzumaki was one big contradiction! Northing about him made any sense.

Though as she made her way to her car there was one thing Barbara was sure about, she was glade that Bruce had decided to go on patrol tonight instead of her, otherwise his cover would have been blown. Deciding to skip going home to change, the red headed vigilantly drove straight to the Batcave to tell him what had happened.

__________________________________

I have 2 news to you guys .

there is a happy one and a bad one :)

let's start with the happy one XD

the happy news is that I'm going to travel to Qatar for the World Cup 2022 🏆

I've been waiting for this opportunity from 2018

that's why I'm so happy to be there for my country

the bad news is I will be releasing just 1 chapter every 4 days instead of just 2 .

this schedule will start from this day to the last of December :(

I'm so sorry

but my other novel will continue as always because I have lot of chapters.

I hope this year my country will go to the semi-final at least .🙏🏻

___________________________________

there is 10 chapters ahead of the public release in p atreon for just 5$

my p atreon is :

https://www.p treon.com/sybife

________________________