Chapter 46: Young Love & Dirty Minds

Chapter 46: Young Love & Dirty Minds

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"Is there really such a thing? Real friends who last forever?"

– Kodaka Hasegawa, (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai)

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<(Bruce Wayne POV)>

"What do you mean you are going away, Bruce? We are still in school. You can't travel alone. That's not even legal. Also, don't you remember all the people who had tried to get inside the estate to hurt you or steal from you?" Selina asked hastily with her eyes already reddening due to the intense emotions she was feeling.Alll latest novels at novelhall.com

"Having money makes doing a lot of illegal things really simple kitty. I taught you that, remember? Also, I won't be going away for long. Maybe four to five years max. So you don't need to..."

"FOUR TO FIVE YEARS? Then take me with you as well. I'll train too. I am only a little less good at martial arts than you, so I should be able to accompany you and not hold you back. Alfred will be able to take care of everything here. He will have the company of Ace even if Deathstroke decides to leave." Selina tried to convince me.

"I can't Selina. Not here, not where I am going. And, that's not in for debate. Also, if you were to go away, even if Alfred and Ace could live alone, what about Vicki? Despite being an extrovert, she still only considers me, you, Helena, and Cortana as her true friends. And if you leave as well, she will be heartbroken." I reasoned.

"But, but..."

"Selina, do you think I want to go away from my own home, away from you guys just so that I can train myself? I don't, but I need to so that I'll never have to go away again. One needs power so that one can never get oppressed by it. That's the logic of the world. It's stupid but that's how it works. And I swear when I return from my trip, I won't just be stronger, no, in fact, I will be powerful enough to never go away again." I promised.

"... Bruce, may I ask you something?"

"Yeah sure go ahead kitty." I

"Why did you let me live with you that day? Why didn't you just send me back to the orphanage the next day? Why go through all the trouble?" She asked as she turned around and sat on the bed with a complicated expression.

"What do you think?"

"Some of the kids from the school said that a lot of rich people like to groom and train orphans from a young age to become their mistresses and stuff... I am not judging you or anything. I mean it doesn't matter why you did it. What matters is that you changed my life that day when you took me in. That's the only thing that matters. And I will gladly agree to be your mistress if that's what you want me to do. But you don't touch me even when I am the one who tries to you know court you. Hell, you haven't even kissed me on the lips yet everyone at school says that you banged Silver St Cloud in the locker room." She said in a single breath.

"*Sigh* First, you are watching too much Korean drama. Second, no, I didn't bang Silver in the locker room. It's a rumor she spread to get some attention from both me and other people after I rejected her. And third, really kitty? You will believe the words of complete strangers rather than those of the person you have known for years. Do you truly believe that I have been 'grooming you? That night, I took you in not because you were the most beautiful girl I had ever seen which you were by the way. No, I took you in because you were you.

You were Selina Kyle, this amazing girl who needed my help. And I gave you my help albeit in return for something precious from you. I made you my family, the only thing I was lacking at the time. So, yeah, I had ulterior motives I guess. Sue me. And yes, I also have feelings for you. I always did. Anyone who gets to live with someone as extraordinary as you will get them unless they are some sort of unemotional eunuch. And I am not ashamed of my feelings at all." I said, the intensity of my voice lessening by the second as I went towards her, my lips closing hers.

"And the only reason I have not claimed you despite the fact that you have made my life a living hell by teasing my life out of me is because I respect you and I wished t get your verbal consent before we do anything. After all, billionaires do get sued quite often by their pretty little assistants especially if they are a hot little minx like you." I said getting my full rizz mode on.

"You have no idea. And truthfully, it doesn't matter what I am doing as long as everyone involved doesn't suffer right? I'll make sure the people working for me never regret it including the orphans, especially the orphans. So, I won't exactly be a hypocrite like many other actually evil manipulating bastards that exist in this world." I tried to justify myself, probably because I wasn't sure if what I was planning was right or not.

Wow, I wasn't this confused even while killing those gang members back at Helena's house that night, was I? Morality is seriously a twisted little thing. You don't feel that bad while killing off adult male criminals but you hesitate when you even try to hurt little children, cute females, or innocent animals like puppies and kittens.

"Yeah, whatever let's you sleep at night pal. I don't judge stuff like this. There's plenty of other darker shit I have seen or have done to judge something as 'normal' as manipulating orphans, no offense by the way... Believe me, what you are doing can almost be considered 'pure' when compared to some of the things I saw back in Afghanistan during my military career." Deathstroke shrugged like he didn't care.

"By the way, how much are you going to pay me for this anyway? I mean I expect some hefty compensation under the new contract since I am required to train so many young blood and all as well as give so much protection and stuff." He asked while rubbing his hands reminding me of a famous money-loving shinobi from one of my favorite anime in my last world.

"A hundred and fifty million dollars for a five-year contract plus fifty million dollars more if you want to hire additional people. It's already written up. Just sign it after reading." I fished out the contract scroll from my pocket and tossed it to him."

"I thought you were in short of liquid cash. Did you sell your properties to pay me or something? Because don't believe for a second that I am going to give the money back." He quickly caught the contract and kept it away in his pocket.

"Nah, my cloud computing venture just took off. We had made a lot of investments in there and recently won a really big military contract to securely store their data and give them the services they require. Dozens of companies began to flock to us after that as they thought we were the best company in cloud computing since we were the first ever business to win a government contract in that sector." I explained lazily knowing that I had just completely ruined Amazon's and Microsoft's future cloud-computing businesses with our way ahead-of-time patented and black-boxed cloud technology.

"Anyways, are you in or not?" I asked.

"Hundred and fifty million? I am in Boss. I am definitely in. I am in as much as you want me to be. Hell, even you can be in for that much money. I'll even take Alfred in..."

"Okay, I get it. You loved the amount. Just stop making this awkward... Goddamn it, you ruined my gym time. Now, I can't even work out in peace in front of you without having a mental image of Alfred inside you. *Blegh*" I almost puked as I gathered my things and went towards the Batcave to delete that cursed memory forever from my mind using the NerveGear.

"Huh? What did I do? I was talking about teamwork and collaboration, of course! Getting Alfred involved in the project and stuff... Truly kids these days, they have such dirty minds." Deathstroke shook his head disappointed like he was dissatisfied with Bruce.

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(AN: Yep, finally going to the League in the next chapter. I told you guys it would happen by the time it's chapter 50 and look I kept my word although personally, I would have preferred to flesh out his relationship with Deathstroke and Vicki a bit more, well there's still plenty of time for that in the future after he returns. And yeah, by the way, Selina Kyle is a confirmed love interest along with Wonder Woman and Talia Al Ghul for now.)

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